I am at least back to where my project stood a month before my disk failure. I have also converted to VS 2012. I had to make a couple config changes in my VS compiler options after the upgrade, but it’s all good and compiles/runs once again. However, I would still like to recover the work I did in the month since that backup copy, so I’m still…[Read more]

Oh, Devoidbrah, my new drive is solid-state, so yeah, I’m digging that. Super fast bootup and undoubtedly will prove better longevity without all those frail moving parts.

I too have been a little slow in responding trying to transition to a brand new PC. For what it’s worth, I’ve got a new PC now, but still working on installing/configuring my ‘personal’ stuff (such as AoP projects). I am also reluctant to accept my last backup of that source (from about a month prior to the HD crash), so am still awaiting news…[Read more]

OK, I think I understand what you’re getting at. You are using F11 to launch that debug screen with all the F1-FXX buttons that you click to do different things?

If so, yes, I was using the F1 to test/change some things. I think in the patch it re-inits items/ships. That program is Programs/Interface/debuger.c. Right now, since my primary…[Read more]

I am unfamiliar with the unzipping problems in later OS, that Devoidbrah mentions, but my kids have Win 8.1 and the easiest thing that seems to eliminate many problems is to run the game outside of Program Files. Put the game in its own directory, directly under C:. This has worked the best for my kids’ computers running this game.

Later…[Read more]

This is a good idea. Though I use a similar tool at work, I’ve not actually used SVN, but it’s open, so if the learning curve to its use is not too steep, might be able to implement.

You are correct. The machine is 4 years old. Even I know that laptop HDD are fragile and prone to damaging heat that will eventually break them. I do occasionally backup stuff that I’d like to keep, but am not diligent about it because anything I work on locally is usually more personal. All my work stuff is kept on remote servers and those…[Read more]

You are correct. The machine is 4 years old. Even I know that laptop HDD are fragile and prone to damaging heat will eventually break them. I do occasionally backup stuff that I’d like to keep, but am not diligent about it because anything I work on locally is usually more personal. All my work stuff is kept on remote servers and those are…[Read more]

I appreciate the offers, but shouldn’t be necessary. While I’m sure it’s frowned upon by my employer, they supply me with a machine (though relatively weak considering my computing needs are mostly for a something akin to a thin client and my ‘real’ development is on a remote server-class machine. I remote desktop to them, so I don’t have much…[Read more]

I must be tired…I didn’t actually try to look. Sure, I can see the drive pretending to be mounted in /media, but nothing underneath. I’m going to bed LOL Hopefully if I take the drive out and plug it into something, it will still be useful. Ugh.

Well, this sucks…my motherboard died. I had to dust off an ancient Dell D620 laptop to post this.

I was scheduled to upgrade my PC in the next week or so anyway, so I’ll just do that. However, it will take me awhile to configure and install everything I want, port my files over, etc.

My hard drive on the dead machine is intact. I booted…[Read more]

I had no involvement with KK’s new release. Looking back, when he kind of dropped off working on the source I eventually got, it looks like he had inadvertently mucked the stars while not directly or deliberately altering any of the stars source. Given his recent description of known issues with his new dev, it would appear that remains a…[Read more]

A little OT, but I’m glad Devoidbrah is back and looking to post some more. I like your style and being a fellow IT geek (with some of the others here) I like company!

Not yet uploaded. I finally encountered the boarding bug I was looking for. Funny stuff…

I know I got it because I found the same errors I have been waiting for. They are ugly:

User Rised Exception
memory_service.cpp line 137
_X_NO_MEM
Invalid model: C:Program…[Read more]

LOL, I admit I laughed a little about the spammer. Oh hey, that’s a nice piece of graphic work for your video game. What kind of doors are you rendering in those pixels? Oh, by the way, I work at a door place, so come look at our web site.

Ridiculous logic that made me laugh.

Well I looked, but ‘promotions’ is pretty general. I believe you were attempting to get language-specific titles? Save me some time and give me the code files you’ve worked and tell what part is not going as planned.

Back to bugs…one of the things I was able to consistently crash the game with is to ram full speed, head-on into another ship…[Read more]

Well I looked, but ‘promotions’ is pretty general. I believe you were attempting to get language-specific titles? Save me some time and give me the code files you’ve worked and tell what part is not going as planned.

Back to bugs…one of the things I was able to consistently crash the game with is to ram full speed, head-on into another ship…[Read more]

I think some more flexibility can be built into the flag system. It’s a bit of work, but changes need to be made on both sides of the .c and the source. In other words, I can only find a way to make it work with a change to the source code and would have to run the new compilations. Here’s what I would try:

1. Use only one texture file, but…[Read more]