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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: PyroStock on January 27, 2015, 12:39:14 AM
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I am looking for a full version of Total Chaos AGA. Many links I've found on the internet are either these turn limit demos or the links don't work at all. The one on Aminet is also only a 20turn limit demo requesting to email Chaos Lord for the full version, except it's been weeks since I emailed him with no response. Apparently he didn't respond to someone else for months because of medical problems so that may be the case again. Perhaps someone on Team Chaos can help?
I don't necessarily need the latest Total Chaos AGA with all the bells & whistles, just the latest Total Chaos that doesn't end at turn 20. If everyone I play with enjoys it enough then we may get the full version - if that's even possible anymore.
Finally, I am not talking about & looking for Chaos Engine. That's a different game.
Thanks.
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I'll make a mention of your problem on the developers' list. Maybe Joar can help if James can't.
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How do you pay for it these days? Wasn't Chaoslord seriously messed about by Paypal?
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Joar here.
If I could tell you about all the times i've been dreaming about the full version of the latest archive... Oh My Gawd!!... :)
I have an older version registered to me, but I am not about to do anything that James is not ok with, because I regard him as a close brother.
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Joar here.
If I could tell you about all the times i've been dreaming about the full version of the latest archive... Oh My Gawd!!... :)
I have an older version registered to me, but I am not about to do anything that James is not ok with, because I regard him as a close brother.
How is TCL doing? I take it that typing is bothering him more? I could see that he had logged into some of his accounts but he hasn't posted anything in a year or more.
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I hope TCL is ok.:( TCA has become one of my favorite games. Damn fun party game with the right people, too.
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How is TCL doing? I take it that typing is bothering him more? I could see that he had logged into some of his accounts but he hasn't posted anything in a year or more.
The new health system under Obamacare is giving him fits so he can't get the medicine that actually helps him enough to do any good. Recently he started posting back to the developer mailing list so all hope is not completely lost yet. It just hurts his hands to type more than a few paragraphs at a time.
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How is TCL doing? I take it that typing is bothering him more? I could see that he had logged into some of his accounts but he hasn't posted anything in a year or more.
I have informed myself about everything in the world, all the lies and hoaxes and scams and all. What is and isnt. And artificial chemicals that has never been in nature before isnt any way to good health. And just like so many other people, James does not want to listen to me.
Artificial chemicals are ruining lives everywhere. This is just one example.
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I tend to agree with that. A lot of the natural remedies out there end up becoming illegal because of pharmaceuticals being greedy bastards.
slaapliedje
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How do you pay for it these days? Wasn't Chaoslord seriously messed about by Paypal?
You have a good memory! You must have cast a BrainBoost spell on yourself! :D
Paypal stole all $1000.00 of donations from me. So I banished them to the 666th level of hell.
Forever.
and ever.
I have written the whole story many times before.
The only good thing is that PayPal is to stupid to realize that the Team Chaos International Strategy Game Consortium(tm) has members all over the world, some of whom have unrobbed PayPal accounts.
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I hope TCL is ok.:(
+ I am alive. :)
- I am running out of Raise Dead spells, no thanks to idiot evil doctors.
- If you met me you would be thinking "HOLY **** what have the docs been doing to this guy!?!??!?"
TCA has become one of my favorite games. Damn fun party game with the right people, too.
I am fairly sure that you just wrote a better review of TotalChaosAGA than any of the reviews in any of the magazines!
None of the magazine reviewers was able to figure out that its a great party game*. That is like half the reason I made the game.
*Unless I have forgotten things over the years. The fansite that had all the magazine reviews shut down 1 year after I was forced to stop answering emails. I think the webmaster got depressed. I guess all those reviews are lost now :(
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@PyroStock
Do you live close to me?
Are you a doctor?
Or a member of Congress?
Or a Federal Judge?
Or do you have any superpowers that could help me out?
My current situation:
+ I am still alive.
- I nearly died 3 times around 6-8 weeks ago.
The docs have been forcing me to take certain medication that makes a lot of people sick.
The docs won't even let me TRY the other medication that never makes anyone sick. For 10 YEARS.
Ok so there is a trick I could do where if I had some Motion Sickness medicine that worked in the right way then I could take that and work around the problem that way. This idea always makes pharmacists VERY ANGRY and they say "the DAMN DOCTOR SHOULD GIVE YOU A DIFFERENT MEDICINE NOT GIVE YOU DRUG B TO CANCEL OUT SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUG A"
But the docs would not let me have any motion sickness drugs for 10 FREAKING YEARS.
One day they went crazy and assigned me 3 different doctors for every appointment. Somehow I ended up with a green newbie doctor who hadn't been brainwashed into being mean and evil yet. I asked him for the motion sickness drugs and he was "well if you have motion sickness why don't you just take some prescription motion sickness drugs. On the House!" I guess his boss got mad at him or something because this doctor was taken away from me and I was never allowed to see him again.
+ The good news is I can now take my primary meds twice on the same day! waoh! (A normal person would be taking it 3 times a day).
So my typing ability has theoretically been increased probably like 3x. I was at 0. So now I am at 000! A much bigger number! :D
I have not actually tested to see if I can really type more in real life until today. I was planning to wait several months and let the drugs "soak in" for some months before I go and kill myself with typing. (Yes I nearly died from typing several times in 2008.)
Before I had my health stolen from me I used to make updates every week or 2 weeks or so.
That last update I issued was an "easy" (for me) update since it was all just stuff other people made for the game. new gfx, new translations, new soundfx, more new gfx, new anims and more new gfx.
For the last 3 years I have most of the time had a lot of mental energy but no abilty to write so I am a dolphin. A super genius brain with no hands so not able to build anything. So I got my nurse to set me a superfancy super special computer that is easy on my eyeballs, hands, feet, arms, shoulders, sciatic nerve, median nerve and ulnar nerve. The result is that I have been reading like a maniac.
I have been constantly watching science documentaries and reading science news and just study study study study study. Its like being 5 years old all over again!
I used to study computer science stuff but it got depressing so I stopped.
For me just being able to watch documentaries and read is a major achievment. I spent the 3 previous years unable to read jack. Unable to watch documentaries. I was just totally unable to accomplish anything. Nowadays I can at least study and be happy :)
Where I am trying to go with all this is that I will try to resume back on TC to at least get that last version out the door to all the fans.
I will give it a go and try. I will probably fail completely. But at least I will try, which is more than I have attempted for years.
If you don't hear anything posted in this thread over the next 2-4 weeks then it means I have failed and you can write me off as a useless piece of garbage. Handicapped ppl are handicapped.
The best I could POSSIBLY do is a little bit each day.
When I had my health, I used to work on it 24 hours a day. For months on end. Assuming I can now do something for 2 hours a day that would be 12x slower than I used to be. So something I used to do in 1 day will now take 12 days. That is the absolute most I could possibly achieve now. In real life I have been 40x to 300x slower at achieving real results of anything for the last 12 years straight.
Please remember that if I had my way, the game would be many quintillions of times better than it currently is. The current game is a trifle. A mockup. An experiment. Just something to shake the bugs out. It is really nothing compared to how it is supposed to be. If I had not had my life RUINED the game would be so ridiculously fantabulously better. I have soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many ideas how to make the game better. Its just totally crazy.
The docs told me I would die in 0-5 years. That I was waaaaay past the point of no return. That there was nothing they could do for me. That I should go out and party and have fun with my remaining time. They told me this in 2006. Everyone else with my condition did, in fact die. Every single day death comes for me and every single day I must cheat death. The things I must do every single day and every single night are completely absurdly ridiculous and extreme (which is why normal ppl just go ahead and die).
I had to stay alive so I could resume Total Chaos and because all my Total Chaos friends said they would be mad at me if I kicked the bucket on them :)
I was in a zone in around 2005-2006 where I could putt-putt do things to improve Total Chaos. I could use my hands 4 hours a day in a really gentle way with taking breaks ALL THE TIME. So I spent 12 hours a day inventing algorithms in my head and then 4 hours typing them in. So I had a wonderful hobby going. I was very extremely happy. :) If I could get back into that zone again them I would be happy and so would all the Total Chaos fans. I will give it a go.
Now where did I put that Hippocrates spell? :D
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Your obvious refusal to give up reminds me of the famous dylan poem
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
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Your obvious refusal to give up reminds me of the famous dylan poem
Somebody's watched Interstellar one too many times. ;)
Although I shouldn't talk, I've seen it five times in the theater already, have the posters hanging on my wall, and my Facebook profile pic is one of me with one of the Ranger spacecraft. It was a *big deal* when it came out at the air & space museum right down the street from my house. ;)
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Somebody's watched Interstellar one too many times. ;)
Although I shouldn't talk, I've seen it five times in the theater already, have the posters hanging on my wall, and my Facebook profile pic is one of me with one of the Ranger spacecraft. It was a *big deal* when it came out at the air & space museum right down the street from my house. ;)
Not seen that. Is that poem in the film ? Its a pretty famous poem by a pretty famous poet dylan thomas. Especially if your welsh :)
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Not seen that. Is that poem in the film ? Its a pretty famous poem by a pretty famous poet dylan thomas. Especially if your welsh :)
Yes, they quote the poem three times in the movie. If you're into sci-fi at all, it's a must-see. :)
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+ I am alive. :)
- I am running out of Raise Dead spells, no thanks to idiot evil doctors.
- If you met me you would be thinking "HOLY **** what have the docs been doing to this guy!?!??!?"
I'd stay away from those raise dead spells as they lower your constituition. It's ressurection spells if you have to die but healing and restoration magic and potions are generally preffered. One of my non-weapon proficiencies is as an herbalist which my master grandma trained me in. For inflamation and pain, try sour cherry juice, ginger root and tumeric. You need concentrated forms and with as little sugar as possible. Sugar itself can add to inflation. For rejuvenation and restoration you need green vegetables, especially spinach which will also restore strength. Vitamin C will cure many problems but you need constant and high dosses of it. Also don't always rely on your magic abilities or you will end up with 3d6 strength and constitution. You need to train your fighter abilities also. This consists of getting outside in the sun where you will get Vitamin D (it's amazing how many people are deficient and how many health problems deficiency causes). You need to walk to gain constitution and strength and then plenty of rest to recuperate. This will do you wonders over sitting indoors. I can see that your willpower is high (maybe you get a wisdom bonus) and that you have the right attitude ;).
Glad to see you back online. Take it easy :).
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I'm sorry to hear the tough time Chaos Lord is having. Unfortunately, I'm not a medicine man, or a law man or a rich man or such.
Is this where Total Chaos AGA ends too? If the only version for people to get is a 20turn demo with no access to the full game or even an older version full game then I guess I/we will have to move on. I will occasionally watch this thread over the next few months in hopes for the best.
Edit: Perhaps this is an older version that's not a demo = TotalChaosAGA-NewExe.lha?
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Why doesn't Chaos Lord simply release the source code to aminet.net (with it's resources)? Also release the latest up to date binary version in aminet.net too that is not a demo, that is not restrictive to 20 turns and that it have no issues with graphical issue in the menu system.
The advantage of that is that is someone can take over where Chaos Lord stopped and can in turn release new versions with more features such as:
1) RTG support
2) 2.5D isometric drop down graphics (detailed terrains, large map exploration)
3) Maybe even 3D graphics with larger map exploration and detailed terrains
4) Could add a story with campaign, in-game video, in-game video ending, cut scenes, etc
5) Add online support for multiplayer playing..where people can browse different servers and join that server with many people playing online (giving the person to put rules in his server, such as how many people can play, password required to join in, etc, etc)
6) THIS GAME IS ONLY FOR THE AMIGA COMPUTER SYSTEM (regardless if it is 68k, PPC) ONLY. Not x86 AROS or MorphOS.
THIS WAY THIS GAME will become like Super Mario/Zelda for Nintendo but for the Amiga. If you guys know what I mean. ChaosLord you could open a huge door and opportunity and make Total Chaos a legacy game that will not die with you and can move on with your name on it until end of time if you do release the source code and of course compile the latest binary.
Think of it as a well as will. You can make a rule that if anyone sells the game your family gets loyalty profit and you put the number of percentage how much it is. Chaos Lord think about it.
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TCL popped up on the forums a couple months ago. Made some interesting comments on a programming thread then went off on some "crazy" rant about how every Amiga required 4GB (GB, not MB) of memory to play his game or do basic things like use Ibrowse, then disappeared again. Maybe he'd respond to a PM? Dunno, don't care, good luck! :lol:
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@ChaosLord
I am not a medical person, but I do happen to know some pretty serious alternative medicine men. I might not fully understand what they talk when they go deep enough, but I do grab this and that bit of information, plus I have had some general interest to alternative medicination.
That said, I am giving you couple of suggestions that you could try out. Notice, that as far as i have seen, there is nothing that would work for everyone, but it seems to be that something works for one, while something else works for someone else.
But to start with the one that seems to be most "works for all" type of thing. I would suggest you try drinking some Noni Juice. You can get them from natural shops, but there is difference between their quality, hence I suggest to make sure you get good stuff, to find some multilevel marketer selling Noni juice. Theres quite plenty of those, but I have noticed that pretty much all the Noni juices marketed through multilevel marketing have been good stuff.
When you take Noni Juice, there is one thing to remember: drink a lot of water, especially if you happen to take on of the noni juice products that is not in juice form.
Idea is that Noni cleans your body on cell level. To be able to do that, it needs water. It uses water to clean your cells. If there is no water to use, then you just get that noni stuck in your cells in addition to all the rest of the stuff you already have, and will feel even worse.
I have no medical condition, but I myself buy roughly twice a year ten 1 liter bottles of Noni Juice and drink them in 3 weeks. it makes me more energetic etc. and it does get rid of some minor issues i might have at that time.
Even if that Noni juice wouldnt help your exact medical condition at all, it will probably anyway make you feel better. I can send you better detailed instructions on how much Noni i would recommend you to take through pm if you wish.
Next recommendation, or perhaps even first one is to get your blood tested. I am not sure what exactly this blood test is called, I just know it is not available in Finland where i live at all, but they keep sending that blood to be tested to germany to really get the results they are looking for. That Finnish versions are not as thorough but they skip some parts.
Anyway, the idea with that blood test is, that it will give result of how much of all the stuff like vitamin-C, Zinc etc. you have in your body.
One possiblity is that if you are very low on any ingredient, it can cause some very strange medical conditions, and in best case all you need to do is take for example Zinc and all your problems go away (That have happened).
Which gets me to Zinc. If you dont take any Zinc pills, I would suggest you to try out taking some. Maybe 1 mg for each 2 kilograms of your weight per day. Actually, When i have a flu, i take 1 mg for each kilogram of my wight per day, and i get rid of the flu much faster and suffer from it much less than the rest.
My suggestion of trying Zinc is based simply on random chance. Probably it wont really do anything, but it seems that when someones having some strange disease which is curable by taking just some single ingredient, it often seems to be Zinc. This might not in fact be so, but might just seem to me so due to having seen these kind of people.
And then, my latest finding that grabbed my attention that I am thinking of trying myself at some point. I havent talked about this with any experts, I have simply seen the documentary, so you could watch it as well: "Fat, Sick, and nearly dead".
The idea in that documentary is that they are not eating anything, but are only drinking fresh squeezed juice mostly made from vegetables, especially green ones.
And not only do they lose weight, but they also seem to get rid of some medical conditions. The fatties it is no wonder they get rid of medical conditions, but there is also this woman who gets rid of migraine, which i found interesting, and i was wondering if there was some truth to the guys thought at beginning when he was thinking that perhaps our body has ability to heal itself even from more serious diseases as long as it is treated right. Documentary is quite convincing because of showing examples, but unfortunately it lacks any scientific research, and it is also missing in giving some important information like what exactly did they put to their juices etc. Hence it is bit hard to evaluate the idea without first digging somewhere else about the method, as documentary itself doesnt tell much, it is only showing the result mainly.
As last, I would recommend another "cure for all". The oxygen water. I have heard quite amazing stories of how this have worked. Like the guy who my friend knows. He had been car accident and basically Doctors didnt give much hope for him to survive, but then friend, family member or something (dont remember exactly) brought him oxygen water and he walked out of the hospital 3 days later and doctors didnt think that was possible at all of having recovered so fast from the injuries, not to mention that they thought it was more than likely he could have even died for his injuries.
here is one oxygen water from amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxylift--Oxygen-Drops-water-drops/dp/B003SI2WNE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429045101&sr=8-1&keywords=oxygen+water
I have no idea of any of those brands, or if there is much difference between different products (usually there is) and I have never tried myself, only been planning to buy some, but just havent got done that yet. Hence also i linked to this product, it was just the first search result i got from Amazon with "oxygen water". So it is not my recommendation in any way, just example.
If you want, you can pm me the name of your medical condition, and next time i see one of the more experts (I do see/call them every now and then), I could mention your medical condition and ask some specific instructions if they have.
Especially this one guy is specialised in doing research with natural products on how to treat different medical conditions, so he might have some idea. He for example did 5 year study that they still seem to keep quoting in Finnish papers sometimes of how much difference does Omega-3 make in different states of Rheuma and in what doses.
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So this game is pretty much officially lost to anyone wanting to play the full version at this point? I've been trying for years including contacting the author and though I did get a reply or two nothing has come of it ultimately.
I guess since the author is incapable or unwilling to permit any further registrations then the full game is officially lost to history unless someone shares it. That's really a shame.
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So this game is pretty much officially lost to anyone wanting to play the full version at this point? I've been trying for years including contacting the author and though I did get a reply or two nothing has come of it ultimately.
I guess since the author is incapable or unwilling to permit any further registrations then the full game is officially lost to history unless someone shares it. That's really a shame.
Yup! It is lost!
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Considering that author replied to this thread only 3 months ago showing he still had interest and intention to make it further, i wouldnt say it is lost yet, although there is great difficulty in obtaining the full version.
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Your health is much more important than the game! I wish you much improved health James for 2015 and beyond.
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I realize this is likely in vain, but has there been any update to any possibility of getting a full Total Chaos anywhere?
Let's put it this way - I've waited so long that I actually have an FPGA Arcade board before this game... :)
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Hey guys!!!!!!!
I somehow made it back as an undead zombie spirit thingamajig (hafta check the latest spell-forges to figure it all out).
Here's the deal:
From April 27 2003 thru 2015 I had horrible nerve pain in my hands any time I tried to type. So I consulted the instructruction books and they all said all I needed were some Fentanyl Patches and I'd be right as rain. The patches would also resume allowing me to wear clothes too. Especially socks, underwear, pants etc. etc. etc.
But my Islamic Crime Syndicate doctors thought it was soooooooooooo funny to make me come into the Doc's office with no pants twice a month.
No matter how much I begged for my medicine they meaner they got and the crazier the excuses they made up.
This went on year after year.....
Then one day I developed HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIBLE PAIN IN MY STOMACH LIKE THERE WAS A HOLE eaten away in my stomach.
I SCREAMED AND CRIED AND MOANED AN THRASHAED AROUND AND CUSSED A LOT AND KEPT HITTING MYSELF IN THE HEAD,, ETC...... ALLL NIGHT LONG.
The nurses kept criticizing me for being a bad bad person for using bad words that the the whole entire emergency floor could hear.
I kept begging them for medicine! Please I don't want to live like this!!!!!!! Please just knock me the hell out or give me a painkiller or something. But they gave me no meds alll night long to help me.
At one point the nurse threatened to throw me out of the hospital!!!!! What a bitch! Luckily the Doc stepped in and stopped her and prescribed some meds. FINALLY!
They gave me some kind of MorphOne (something or other) and I was instantly cured!!!!!!!!!!! They didn't give me the meds for me, they did it for themselves. You see, hospitals make tons of money from running tests on people but they couldn't do thier $$$$$ PROFIT-MAKING CAT Scan on me while I was was writhing around twisting around uncontrollably.
This all happened around a year ago? I Guess? It is toooo time-consuming and painful to try to find exact dates now.
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I kept begging them for medicine! Please I don't want to live like this!!!!!!! Please just knock me the hell out or give me a painkiller or something. But they gave me no meds alll night long to help me.
At one point the nurse threatened to throw me out of the hospital!!!!! What a bitch! Luckily the Doc stepped in and stopped her and prescribed some meds. FINALLY!
They gave me some kind of MorphOne (something or other) and I was instantly cured!!!!!!!!!!! They didn't give me the meds for me, they did it for themselves. You see, hospitals make tons of money from running tests on people but they couldn't do thier $$$$$ PROFIT-MAKING CAT Scan on me while I was was writhing around twisting around uncontrollably.
This all happened around a year ago? I Guess? It is toooo time-consuming and painful to try to find exact dates now.
Become vegan like me and your health will become greatly much better...
:)
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I have always wondered what **ll is problem with US doctors.
US citizens pays healt care cost 8500$ per capita and that doesn't even cover whole nation.
Typical European coyntry has organized that with goverment payed systems, wich is 2x-2.5x cheaper and covers whole nation. Offering same level help for everynone, no matter is he rich or poor.
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...What the hell is going on here?
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Good to hear you're up and about again ChaosLord.
Any chance of obtaining a registered version of Total Chaos at this point? :)
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@ChaosLord. Good too hear the full story. Wishing you all the best.