• Windows show on the taskbar that shouldn't. This may be because their owner was the desktop before Explorer closed, but it didn't do this before.
  
• Some items are missing from the system tray.
  
• My sound system is messed up. The volume control on the keyboard (even Mute) does nothing, and when I try to open the volume control, it says I have no sound card. This is very interesting because there is a song playing in Winamp RIGHT NOW. This happened once before too, and I had to reboot, which I'll have to do again now.

• Support WinXP, even better if it takes advantage of XP-only features
  
• Use less resources (CPU/memory) than Explorer
  
• Retain most of the useful features, like Quick Launch and the ability to put your taskbar on the right side of the screen
  
• Not be full of bugs
  
• Be compatible with programs that manipulate the desktop window (API functions GetShellWindow(), GetDC() applied to this window, and PaintDesktop() need to work)
  
• Support the Win+R, Win+D and Win+M shortcuts that I use the crap out of

• Ability to not have a clock on the taskbar
  
• Support for making the taskbar and Start menu translucent (Explorer's wig out when you do this)
  
• A 'quick search' box like lololol's search box (I think Mac's shell has this) where you can search for files in the current folder, and they get selected as the're found
  
• Customizeable shortcut keys
  
• Not costing money
  
• Work on Win98, or have a Win98 version without any XP-only features (my brother's computer is sloooooow, a nice replacement shell would probably do wonders)
  
• Ability to close the shell without having to terminate the process (I know it should have the same effect, but it's so hacky)
  
• Plugins
  
• Ability to run without closing Explorer (or able to close Explorer itself) or requiring admin access, so I can use it at school (from a memory stick); doesn't matter if it changes settings, as they use Deep Freeze. I could write my own close-Explorer-and-run-something-else app if I need to, but it has to work in a limited account as I don't feel like getting in a lot of shit just to use an alternate shell.

Originally posted by FreeDOS

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Well Google Video makes you download the .avi file before you can play it, no?

At least it does that for me :/

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Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish

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Originally posted by Hyper LOL

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I get it, but this seems completely incorrect. 000-7FF are positive, and 800-FFF are negative. FFF is -1, FFE is -2, etc. At least in every signed integer implementation I've ever heard of.

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And 12-bit implementations themselves, on the other hand, are quite common, right?

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Originally posted by Ran-chan

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Iīm not going to mess with my games like this because I donīt want thet savefiles to screw up.

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Bah. Winamp canīt play it.

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Originally posted by Legault

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But yeah if someone were to actually get all of the numbers of pi it would probably fill up a room. Because you know that somewhere they round it off.

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Originally posted by BGNG

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Originally posted by Hyper LOL

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• Source > Documentation. Some people just suck at documentation. It also takes longer to write it after you've already written the code. Well-commented code is documentation. Also, you can't possibly document everything. Your own FZX editor is a great example. Since it's a 3D editor I can assume it does things like translate up/down/left/right/forward/backward camera movements into axis movements. I've never managed to get this working and there doesn't seem to be one single piece of documentation on Google (it's all about doing similar things that work totally different). If your program does indeed do this, and I have its source, I can just look at how you did it to get an idea of how it works. On the other hand, if you just release documentation, I think it's a safe bet that if I'd never said this, the documentation wouldn't contain any such information, because it's not information about FZX.

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If people suck at documentation, then their documentation is not good. Good documentation is better than source code, as I don't know about you, but I would rather look at a file format specification than look at some source code that implements it. File formats, unless they are copied as comments, are never documented in source code.

Relative transformations for camera movement in 3D space is a rudimentary programming principle, so I'm certainly not going to document that for F-Zero X. According to you, I should explain my theory for file I/O as well as setting up an OpenGL rendering context. If you would like, however, I will write an article explaining how to do trigonometric relative transformations in 3D.

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Originally posted by Xkeeper

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Originally posted by Hyper LOL

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Sweet! I didn't even know there was an SML2 editor.

Now you just need an ASM hack to make the timer start at 420.

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That's a data, not ASM, hack.

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