TheMarkusGuy

This is just a simple post to promote my Twitter profile. You can find it under the handle @markustegelane. It is different from my blog. On my Twitter profile, I occasionally make little random posts that you won't find on my blog. These range from random interesting things to video announcements and premiere reminders. I also retweet some posts I find cool and you may want to see. I also plan to open polls On the other hand, this blog is mainly for major updates about new videos, the website, developments or anything that doesn't fit on Twitter's character limit. On another note, starting from July, e-mail subscription feature will be removed from Blogger, which means I'll post links to new blog posts on my Twitter profile (starting from July). This doesn't include Estonian posts tough, so you'll have to check my blog manually to see those (once again, starting from July).

Starting from yesterday, you can now download a batch game called "Jump batch". The game uses ASCII graphics and is written 100% in batch. Feature showcase in the following video: video "[Batch game] Jump Batch"

 My channel's website is broken again. The reason this time is related to 000webhost's servers, that no longer accept SQL commands through PHP. This is related to COVID-19 pandemic. This is a critical issue, that makes majority of the website unusable (i.e. all features that are related to databases, don't work). The only wait to fix the problem is to wait until 000webhost fixes the problem. If you try to visit the website, you'll still be able to accept (or decline) the use of cookies, but no other feature is available for a normal user. Direct download links and download center batch file are still functional. Download center batch file:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/10ISvjiaQRyCkTGIAx20Y529zmg2JCkLR/view?usp=sharing If you want to visit the website in the unstable state, you need to manually add a cookie with name "cookie_ok" and value "dev". Do the latter only if you know what you're doing. Second topic, which I want to talk about, is the ...

 Due to an update related to DNS records, the website is inaccessible through the normal domain ( https://markustegelane.ml ). This can take up to 2 hours. Identical copy of the website can be accessed at https://web-markustegelane.000webhostapp.com during the outage.

Because of this, on February 27th 2021, the website will be temporarly closed. If you try to visit the website during the outage, you'll see this screen: New website update screen

In order to make this website accessible for people, who don't have the latest web browser or who just have a slow internet connection, I wrote a download center batch file. Just download it once and extract the ZIP archive in a folder. Make sure that store.bat, bg.exe, and wget.exe are in the same folder. Then double click the batch file (store.bat) and enjoy the new way of downloading. Features of the current version You can download and open files directly within the batch file Files are autochecked with checksums. If there is a problem, the user will be notified Downloads are categorized Automatic update check and optionally updating directly within the batch file Loading once, which means metadata about the downloads are downloaded at once. This lets you browse downloads and categories without waiting time Only usable with a mouse at the moment. Keyboard support will come in a future version Available in English only You can download the batch file here

A day has arrived, where my website has gotten a large update. This update was neccassary for the following reasons: Design of my YouTube channels have completely changed and they don't fit with the previous version. Updating the website content has been quite annoying for the administrator Moderation of comments is required to deal with spam comments To integrate the new channel database with the main web site To simplify the translation process To simplify the URLs To offer better user experience, especially when it comes to the navigation bar The website may at first seem to work similar to previous version, but the PHP code and file structure is completely different as compared to previous version. One of the biggest changes is that the website owner can change the content by logging in with a special username and password. This lets me update the website no matter where I am currently at. Different from the last version, where I had to log in using my desktop computer, ...