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 agree with most of your assessment. I hope you are right Dennis that we will pick up more momentum this year. I agree completely with the fact we are a very niche community. What frustrates me the most though is the lack of participation from the “small player population”.

I don’t know if I would exactly call it small with over 85,000…[Read more]

Interesting. Thanks for the update. Jan is even more quirkey and eccentric than myself and from personal experience much harder to get along with. If he doesn’t like how something is going he will throw up his hands and give up – and then blame you. I think this is one of the reasons his community has become so small and lost key members. He had a…[Read more]

This is awesome Dennis! More please. Now I guess I will have to start and share a log also LOL.

MK

Jeffrey, I am still on the road. I expect to get to where I am going by the 2nd. If you need me to send you any hardware let me know. This is very much on the level. As Dennis eluded to and remembers…. Many of the old PA! modders can tell you I sent them all manner of different hardware over several years time, (even overseas) to keep them up…[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]

Yeah, we get a lot of spamming attempts here. Its been worse lately because our little website is picking up steam with more and more visitors every week. Our filter gets most of them but every now and then one gets through. The only way they succeed is actually commenting in the forums, and I agree, this last one was more creative than the usual.…[Read more]

Yeah, we get a lot of spamming attempts here. Its been worse lately because our little website is picking up steam with more and more visitors every week. Our filter gets most of them but every now and then one gets through. The only way they succeed is actually commenting in the forums, and I agree, this last one was more creative than the usual.…[Read more]

AWESOME on the flags! That sounds excellent. We will probably need to collaborate via phone to get all of that worked out. Yes I was trying to get white flags going but was happy with the flag striking. The way I accomplished that is with an alpha mapping solution which eliminates the first flag from the texture making it blank in gameplay. I…[Read more]