WEBLOGS :: Tucan Entertainment Developers Team

Now it's official! EXCELSIOR Game-Development has been put on ice (for a long, long time) until further notice (maybe forever!)...

The Black Book Edition of EXCELSIOR will be published on EXCELSIOR **online** from time to time, so if you are still interested in the fantastic epic story of the EXCELSIOR Saga, you should bookmark this Site.

Tucan Entertainment will focus its resources on the further development of fMail, the High-Tech AntiSpam-Solution and on another not-yet-announced Game-Project ;-) for which we 'll assemble a new professional team.

This Site will be closed, completely redesigned and relaunched in the next weeks.

THANK YOU to our fans, who have followed us so truly in the past decade. Maybe, we'll receive the vaporware award for the EXCELSIOR Game ;-) ..?

Posted at 3:32 AM

Our first coding tests on Smartphones were very successful, so we are planning to develop a new Mobile Edition of our famous fMail Tools... - to be released in late Q4 this year (ETA).

First we have to finish development on fMail Server v1.7 to get it out of the door on 09/30/2010. After that we are on to develop v2 of our fMail Tools and to improve the management area (including fMail Server account management) of registered fMail Customers via fMail's WebSite.

Carry on!

Posted at 12:25 AM

As I started to work on this project, I have been so sure that it'll be possible...

Okay, here is the to-do list:

1. Disable Minimize, Maximize and Close Buttons in the upper right corner of the Console window.
2. Remove/Delete: Minimize, Maximize and Close from the Console's system-menu.
3. Intercept CTRL+C and CTRL-Break.
4. Handle/Intercept User Logoff and System Shutdown.
5. Disable Close from Taskbar (Window Close).
6. Launch/Terminate the Console Application from another App. (Windows Forms-App.), but the Console App. needs to be closed by TYPING 'quit' and hitting the Return-Key ;-) ...

Is this possible..?

1. successfully achieved!
2. successfully achieved!
3. partially achieved!
4. FAILED!
5. FAILED!
6. successfully achieved!

So I learned it the hard way: Console Applications (Windows) are DIFFERENT from normal Apps. (Windows).

If anyone is interested in my Code (how 1, 2, 3 and 6 were coded in C#), just drop me a Mail and I will make another Blog-Post, showing my nice WinAPI hacks...

Posted at 8:30 PM