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information for new forum - users: your very first post will show up with a little delay after manual administrator approval.
i will do that and check the forum on a daily basis.
this minor annoyance sadly is necessary to avoid any further spamming of the forum by those annoying spambots.

hey subsense, if you had the feeling that you could predict the next block in the classic blockout then they might have used a special random number generator ? does anyone knows about this ? would be an interesting gameplay element to let "hardcore" gamers "see the matrix" ;-) r...

Dear Beta-Tester's , there might be some problems regarding saving of configuration and replay files under windows7 and up. the solution for now is to execute blockout 2.5beta with admin rights - to do so, press right mouse button on the blockout icon in the startmenue and select "execute as ad...

Yean-Luc released a new Blockout Version ! Version history =============== 2.5: -64bits support -OpenGL is now used both on Linux and Windows -Little graphics improvements -Pratice mode improvements -Improved the demo mode (Bot player plays better) You can test and download it here: http://sourcefor...

after quite some struggeling, i managed to convert the old and outdated fireboard to the widely used phpBB. This will in the future hopefully enable a long lived forum with frequent security updates and little to no spamming.

Hey JeanLuc, thats true - its important to keep the humble user base. I will try an update of the website using a local copy. Hopefully it will not be too much trouble. the Wiki probbably has to move, because as i remember it was not developed further. will try this the next few day, will report res...

dear humble long time blockout fans and forum users, it is time to update the website. the base system is an outdated joomla installation, that is probably to much effort to update. my idea would be to move to separate components for the forum, wiki and keep a simple website based on the template us...

fixed! should work again - was just an issue of no more diskspace.
though that means that in some time soon, there must be some sort of pruning to remove some of the very low scores to save some space.

you are right, its fake. will delete it later.

please, try to find an expert programmer for macOS. blockoutII should be very easy to port, you just need to find someone who does the porting.

sorry, people, i have no time currently, i will try to fix stuff on the weekend.

@scblockout: i have it on my todo list, a simple script that will deliver you all scores in readonly mode, probably encoded into xml. maybe i will start on the weekend, too. it should not be too hard.

amit,
please tell me wich highscores are not from you (specify the date, for example 07-Nov-2009 12:42:16) and i will delete them from the database.
the registered highscore feature is planned, but we have to wait for jean luc to implement it.

finally, there is a blockout version for android phones available:

http://www.blockout.net/android/



please test it if you have an android phone and give feedback to the developer!

thank you very much for this information. i have fixed this, i hope all of you can now login again.

for all of you tetris & blockout fans, who also like more puzzle oriented tetris games i want to point you to http://sites.google.com/site/nyettetris these are games from around 1993 running under DOS, but i have made a nice zip file with dosbox so you can run them very easily under microsoft wi...