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I should go ahead and do my Basic Version. Its easier to install.

EDIT: I forgot. the Last release lets it compile to a standalone exe now. Hmmm I wonder if that would be trusted enough for download. I guess I could do both if there was an interest.

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That woudl be great for the computer illiterate here.
Mark me down as interested!

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OMG the insult http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif

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Nice to see you here .. how do I make it un-zip the archived files?

Btw., your link to Domsaver0.7 isn't working ..

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There are 11 of them ...

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Ok I just whipped up a little program to save your games.

It does the following:

1. Watches the specified directory for changes
2. Check the file that changed and opens it up to see what turn it is for.
3. Creates a new directory for that turn if it does not exist
4. Copies the file to that directory.

Step 2 is a touch flaky ( you should never see a problem though ) it seems like the files are open by Dom2.exe without the sharing bit set so sometimes I can not open them. So I ( yuck ) sleep a a few milliseconds before attempting to open a file I detect has changed. You may have to tweak this paramater ( but I don't think you will have to ) it defaults to 100 ms.

How to use it:

open a command prompt and type something like:

dom2save.exe c:\dominions2\testgame

Anyway, it probably will not erase your hard drive, but I'm a software guy not a QA guy so no guarnatees.

I suppose I should add some type of disclaimer. Go to this link for the disclaimer.

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OK, here's my own small, quick & dirty backup utility. It runs in the background and check your game folders periodically, so you don't have to remember about clicking on an icon each time you submit a turn.

It's written in Java (thus you need a Java VM to run it) and is Linux and Windows-friendly (and should probably run on other OSes as well).

Basically it manages subfolders named 000, 001, 002, etc. in your game folders, and reuses the oldest entry when the maximum # of backups is reached. A new backup folder is created/overwritten when a new .trn is generated, otherwise the most recent backup folder is updated when a .2h is generated or updated.

You can specify the # of backups, and dom2 location in a property file. There's also a property that lets you specify which games you don't want to save, and one that lets you specify the delay (in seconds) between checks.

It's a bit crude - no GUI, no restore function, and it may throw an exception if you manually delete a game folder it's tracking. That's mainly because I didn't want to spend too much of my free time on it. However it works, and what's nice is that once it's started you can forget about it.

Zipfile contents:

DomIIBackup.java - the source
DomIIBackup.jar - the executable JAR file
domIIbackup.props - the property file

Just unzip in your Dominions directory, or any directory of your choice. If the latter, you'll need to update the d2backup.d2home property in the property file to point to your Dominions directory. Eg, for Linux:

d2backup.d2home=//mylinux/home/Users/myself/dom2

and for Windows:

d2backup.d2home=C:/games/illwinter/dom2

or

d2backup.d2home=C:\\games\\illwinter\\dom2

The other options should be self-explanatory. If you want to tell DomIIBackup to NOT track the games 'mayhem', 'bloodfest' and 'armageddon', use the d2backup.exclude property:

d2backup.exclude=mayhem:bloodfest:armageddon

While running, DomIIBackup will automatically start tracking every new game you create, unless the game name is listed in the d2backup.exclude property.

To run, use the command:

java -cp DomIIBackup.jar DomIIBackup

in the unzip directory. Of course you can put that command in a shell script or batch file.

This Version was compiled/tested with Sun Microsystems' J2SDK 1.4.2_04, which is available for download on Sun's website. Although you only need the JRE component to run the utility.

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Ooops, forgot the attachment.

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You have to set the turn number you want to unzip and just press load.