You are truly awesome Jeffrey. The game just keeps playing better and better all the time.

MK

Ha! I did it…finally found a lingering memory leak that had been plaguing me forever: Leak: ‘xiutil.cpp’ line 79, size 11

Tough to find the culprit because that refers to a generic DuplicateString function that is called in several places that might have been neglecting to clean their own objects up when no longer needed. But through a…[Read more]

LOL, I’m not the only one with the dlmalloc idea that got bit by Win7. Starcraft problem: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/sc2/topic/2416202019

…windows xp 32 bit to windows 7 64 bit… This problem is not causing my system to crash, just the game…

Memory Usage Startup Error Current

CRT malloc
Bytes 0 0 0
Peak 0 0 0

MemAlloc
Allocated…

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Close…it’s Win7 (my new computer’s OS) and Doug Lea’s malloc within the CRT: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4090971/dlmalloc-crash-on-win7

So, I can’t try to minimize the memory fragmentation like I wanted. Reverting back to vanilla malloc has stopped the new instances of memory violations I was getting on the new machine. But I now…[Read more]

Ugh! VS2012 compiled version is slightly unstable. A few random crashes due to memory free problems inside the DX render. I think it may be due to crossing CRT boundaries: http://siomsystems.com/mixing-visual-studio-versions/

Went back to VS2010 and so far more stable.

You’ve got to be kidding? Drive fail? Don’t follow my lead, it’s expensive! LOL The good news is those specialists know what they’re doing. You’ll undoubtedly get most everything back, recovered.

Ha! During my wait for the drive, I too took a ‘break’ and finished Assassin’s Creed III. I’m a ‘completionist’ I guess, so had to attain 100%. Then, of course, move my profile up the worldwide leaderboard stats in some of the category measurements, lol.

I’ve continued with the new compile testing and so far, they appear to function as well…[Read more]

Good catch Orazio. I incorporated that location change into my files and yes the boat sways now, as do the ships in the harbor if you watch them closely, relative to a town building (being further out in the harbor makes the movement very slight, but it is there).

I still want to test my new compiles a bit more, but they so far appear to be…[Read more]

Indeed it is great news. Unfortunately for me my external has died and most of my stuff was on it. SO I am going to have it recovered. I have 3 ships that were outside the external that I have managed to find again that were loaded other places. I will have to get a new mega account because I have lost the password/key for the old one. The data I…[Read more]

Update:

Haven’t had a ton of time to look at this, but was able to test the new VS2012 compilations a little bit and there was a slight difference in how the ‘free memory’ worked and it sometimes produced an error upon game exit (this wasn’t the case before, in the VS2010 version of the same source). I identified and rectified this one error.…[Read more]

Back in business! Restored my source, compiled under a newer Visual Studio 2012 and everything runs well. Gonna do some preliminary testing to be sure, but anticipate no problems since it’s the same code, just a slightly different compiler version.

So at this point, I’m exactly where I was prior to drive crash and ready to continue moving forward.

Ha! Got my old data back the other day. Data Recovery team did the job. I’ll be able to restore all the lost source from the month between last backup and when the drive crashed.

More screenshots from me. I’m all alone in the universe…[Read more]

Keymaster issue looks to be my fault. I see in reaction_functions.c I had accidentally mismatched number of parenthesis in the function for the soldier count. I fixed it and uploaded.

ERAS, GOF & AoP COAS files here: https://mega.nz/#F!WtMDgRxK!hbeUg86kGLlQAqvWRNwTqg

Good news Jeffrey,

I myself have a whole bunch of new stuff ready to go up including new historical articles I’ve written. I have been working on the mod a little and trying to batch up stuff to hang on line for you guys to play with, but my internet connection up here is wireless and very sketchy at best.

I am going to put an set drop dead…[Read more]

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]

Sorry been REALLY busy with family over the holiday. Lots of family get togethers and people on vacation. We are going up to Yellowstone Park this week. Only about an hour from my home.

SO don’t know about the F1 issue, but I can tell you that the invisible guards issue in the Kill the Beggars quest is all my fault. SORRY!!! However, thanks for…[Read more]

Looks like an interesting game. I may have to give it a try. Too busy to enter the contest right now but thanks for the info. However, others might???

I have a topic somewhere I’ve been meaning to populate with tons of other pirate game information. When I finish that, I will certainly add this game along with all the others.

MK