DISCLAIMER: As always be careful with files downloaded from the internet. Also, keep in mind that it’s against Blizzard’s Terms and Conditions to use 3rd party modifications to their game code and they may revoke your beta access and the usual crap bla bla bla. Use at your own risk.

DISCLAIMER: As always be careful with files downloaded from the internet. Also, keep in mind that it’s against Blizzard’s Terms and Conditions to use 3rd party modifications to their game code and they may revoke your beta access and the usual crap bla bla bla.

1. Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120650/MoP_beta/exe/WoW_15640_CrashFix_Addon.rar
2. Unpack it in the World of Warcraft Beta folder
3. Start the game using WoW_CrashFix_Addon.exe, NOT with the Launcher or with the original WoW.exe

If you’re experiencing issues while patching your game on the next beta build (whenever that will be), remove the WoW_CrashFix_Addon.exe file from the game directory.

I take no credit in this .exe, it’s merely a personal mirror of the CrashFix file found on OwnedCore.com by TOM_RUS, modified by myself, according to his instructions, for Addon support.

Keep in mind that A LOT of addons will be broken and will not function without a bit of patching up. And remember to tick the “Load Out of Date addons” checkbox.

A few addons will work like on live if you install this “sLegacy” addon that fixes some renamed/removed functions from Live:

• sLegacy: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120650/MoP_beta/sLegacy-20120420.zip by sezz@OwnedCore.com

Other fixed addons:

• Skada fixed by TOM_RUS: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120650/MoP_beta/Skada_50001_3.zip
• TidyPlates: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120650/MoP_beta/TidyPlates.rar
• Quartz: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120650/MoP_beta/Quartz.rar

Other fixed and Work-in-Progress addons can be found at the OwnedCore.com thread.

DISCLAIMER: As always be careful with files downloaded from the internet. Also, keep in mind that it’s against Blizzard’s Terms and Conditions to use 3rd party modifications to their game code and they may revoke your beta access and the usual crap bla bla bla.

1. Download http://dl.dropbox.com/u/120650/MoP_beta/exe/WoW_15640_CrashFix.rar
2. Unpack it in the World of Warcraft Beta folder
3. Start the game using WoW_CrashFix.exe, NOT with the Launcher or with the original WoW.exe

If you’re experiencing issues while patching your game on the next beta build (whenever that will be), remove the WoW_CrashFix.exe file from the game directory.

I take no credit in this .exe, it’s merely a personal mirror of the file found on OwnedCore.com by TOM_RUS.

Those little arrows with numbers are called “ANSI Escape Sequences“, which under Linux (and whatever UNIX flavors) are pretty common and are used for a bunch of stuff, which you can read on the Wiki page I linked because I’m too lazy to do it for you, and for color output!

We all know cmd.exe is a bunch of steaming pile of shit if you ever tried to use a terminal on Windows for other stuff than pinging an IP address. Amongst cmd.exe’s technical limitations, I’m pissed off by:

So, in my searches I’ve stumbled upon Console which is a console window enhancement for Windows.

By itself fixes a number of things I really hated, but still has one issue – it’s still using cmd.exe “in the background” thus it doesn’t support ANSI properly.

Here’s where I found another “little helper”: ANSICON. From the author’s page: “ANSICON provides ANSI escape sequence recognition for Windows console programs (both 32- (x86) and 64-bit (x64)). It is basically the Windows equivalent of ANSI.SYS.”.

So, what I did to “marry” these 2 great “programs” in a perfect harmony under Windows (because I like to do WinKey + R -> console ) was to extract BOTH Console and ANSICON under the C:\Windows directory (because I’m lazy like that, and I don’t like to edit the PATH in Windows), then in Console I set up the default terminal to be ansicon.exe:

The result?

Oh, and before I forget, a free tip: to copy/select something, press Shift and drag the mouse cursor.

So I remembered about Upside-Down-Ternet and I extended it a bit with 23 more annoyances:

• In addition of Flipping the images, I also grey-scaled them
• I replaced ALL .swf files on webpages with a kitten meow sound that you can see (or hear) here: Kitten Meow Sound (right click to save as).
• I redirect ALL YouTube (mobile and desktop) video requests to a video called “Dramatic Cat” 

For the initial set-up I followed the fine How-To at the Ubuntu Community Website. And here is my modified script:

UPDATE: I added YouTube video redirection, too!

#!/usr/bin/perl
$|=1;
$count = 0;
$pid = $$;
while (<>) {
        chomp $_;
        if (/(.*\.jpg)/i) {
                $url = $1;
                system("/usr/bin/wget", "-q", "-O","/var/www/images/$pid-$count.jpg", $url);
                system("/usr/bin/mogrify", "-flip", "-modulate", "100,0", "/var/www/images/$pid-$count.jpg");
                print "http://127.0.0.1/images/$pid-$count.jpg\n";
        }
        elsif (/(.*\.gif)/i) {
                $url = $1;
                system("/usr/bin/wget", "-q", "-O","/var/www/images/$pid-$count.gif", $url);
                system("/usr/bin/mogrify", "-flip", "-modulate", "100,0", "/var/www/images/$pid-$count.gif");
                print "http://127.0.0.1/images/$pid-$count.gif\n";
 
        }
        elsif (/(.*\.png)/i) {
                $url = $1;
                system("/usr/bin/wget", "-q", "-O","/var/www/images/$pid-$count.png", $url);
                system("/usr/bin/mogrify", "-flip", "-modulate", "100,0", "/var/www/images/$pid-$count.png");
                print "http://127.0.0.1/images/$pid-$count.png\n";
 
        }
        elsif (/(.*\.swf)/i) {
               print "http://127.0.0.1/meow.swf\n";
        }
        elsif (/^http:\/\/([0-9.]{4}|.*\.youtube\.com|.*\.googlevideo\.com|.*\.video\.google\.com).*?videoplayback.*id=/i) {
               print "http://127.0.0.1/dramatic_cat.mp4\n";
        }
        else {
                print "$_\n";;
        }
        $count++;
}

Here is how it looks on an Android phone:

Also, one more thing:

I’ve redirected all websites trough rotateme.org:

 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use URI::Escape;
use IO::Handle;
use POSIX strftime;
$|=1;
$count = 0;
$pid = $$;
open (DEBUG, '>>/tmp/asciiImages_debug.log');
autoflush DEBUG 1;
 
print DEBUG "########################################################################\n";
 
while (<>) {
        chomp $_;
        if (/(.*\.jpg)/i) {
                $url = $1;
                system("/usr/bin/wget", "-q", "-O","/var/www/images/$pid-$count.jpg", $url);
                system("/usr/bin/mogrify", "-flip", "-modulate", "100,0", "/var/www/images/$pid-$count.jpg");
                print "http://127.0.0.1/images/$pid-$count.jpg\n";
        }
        elsif (/(.*\.gif)/i) {
                $url = $1;
                system("/usr/bin/wget", "-q", "-O","/var/www/images/$pid-$count.gif", $url);
                system("/usr/bin/mogrify", "-flip", "-modulate", "100,0", "/var/www/images/$pid-$count.gif");
                print "http://127.0.0.1/images/$pid-$count.gif\n";
 
        }
        elsif (/(.*\.png)/i) {
                $url = $1;
                system("/usr/bin/wget", "-q", "-O","/var/www/images/$pid-$count.png", $url);
                system("/usr/bin/mogrify", "-flip", "-modulate", "100,0", "/var/www/images/$pid-$count.png");
                print "http://127.0.0.1/images/$pid-$count.png\n";
 
        }
        elsif (/(.*\.swf)/i) {
               print "http://127.0.0.1/meow.swf\n";
        }
        elsif (/^http:\/\/([0-9.]{4}|.*\.youtube\.com|.*\.googlevideo\.com|.*\.video\.google\.com).*?videoplayback.*id=/i) {
               print "http://127.0.0.1/dramatic_cat.mp4\n";
        }
        elsif (m/.google\.*/) {
               $url = $_;
               $url =~ s/(q=.+?)&/$1+in+pula+mea&/;
               print "$url\n";
        }
        elsif (m/nosquid/) {
              print DEBUG "Input NOSQUID: $url\n";
              print "$_\n";
              print DEBUG "Output NOSQUID: $_\n";
        }
        elsif (m/^http:\/\/.*\/\ /) {
               $url = $_;
               print DEBUG "Input: $url\n";
               my @url = split(" ",$url);
               #print @url[0];
               print "http://rotateme.org/?r=l&u=$url[0]?nosquid\n";
               print DEBUG "Output: http://rotateme.org/?r=l&u=$url[0]?nosquid\n";
        }
 
        else {
               print "$_\n";
        }
        $count++;
}

The “?nosquid” part is added to stop an infinite loop with rotateme.org. Couldn’t be arsed to figure out a more elegant way, feel free to correct me on that