Re: Simultaneous game issue
 

Yes, thanks Grandpa Kim http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

I am Irish, and a little slow http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ May 06, 2003, 22:06: Message edited by: JLS ]

Re: Simultaneous game issue
 

Gee, I thought I was dense, Geo; You have some space yard on Tarus IVA, stuck on repeat build of old obsolete ship designs http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ May 09, 2003, 00:05: Message edited by: JLS ]

Re: Simultaneous game issue
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Excuse me? What kind of nonsense is that?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Excuse me? What kind of nonsense is that?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">When Saint Patrick was converting Ireland, he was baptizing a Chieftain, when Patrick began the ceremony, he jammed his staff in the ground, accidentally spearing it through the foot of the Chieftain, at the conclusion of the ceremony, Patrick realized what had happened and asked the Chieftain, who was in extreme pain, why he had not said something, the chieftain replied, "I thought it was part of the ceremony."

No point in being Irish; unless you're thick http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

EDIT: Gaelic: Thick.
Has meaning of being substantial
This is a good thing.
Also could be intrepid as obdurate (stuborn and/or Persistent)
This could be a good thing.

[ May 09, 2003, 15:47: Message edited by: JLS ]

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What happens in Windows XP if you "Change User" while SE IV is up and running?
Can you password protect a profile in XP?

Can you make the system near kid proof from being turned off?

Just speculating.

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Is MM aware that many user want this "simultaneous game turn save" possibility?
Otherwise I would e-mail it to them, altough I am pessimistic that there will be any further patch for SE IV.

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Gryphin : If I remember well, you can close a profil with applications still running (and you can pwd a profile). But a kid will always be able to shut down your PC. He will gets a warning that some profiles are still loaded, but I doubt he will care http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

After some querying to more geeky persons than me, it seems a harduous task to have an utility able to save and restore a program to the HD. One of the issue is that he wont be able to restore the application to the same memory segment that it occupied.

Altough a possibility exists to save the whole operating system (any OS). You have to use a virtual machine like the software VMWare, which allows you to create a virtual PC in to you PC (you can even have a virtual PC with XP inside a windows 98). With this utility, you can suspend and save to disk your virtual machine, and restore it and your will (along with SE IV running).

The problem is not that VMWare is difficult to use, it can be set to function in 5 minutes (you will have to spend an hour to install a windows in your virtual machine though). The problem is that VMWare is not freeware. If you want to meddle with the dark side, you can find serial keys, but we are far from having an honest and not cumbersome solution to save a simultaneous turn.

But theorically, if you pay your VMWare licence, you can. Or if you have some hundred dollars, buy a laptop with the system save feature http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

nb : I'm not encouraging anyone to do illegal things, I'm just saying a fact. Like the fact that most peer to peer Users are pirating things. Telling a thing is not encouraging to do it.

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I don't know if this helps, but WIN 2000 (and I believe XP) has "hibernate mode" next to the shutdown options which will put your computer to sleep. When you turn the computer on again, all programs restored will be at the exact point in time you gave the hibernate command.

I do this when I'm working on a big turn and need to leave.

Unfortunately, if someone else needs to use the computer, you need to brief them not to close SEIV, and leave it minimized while working, etc, and especially to hibernate it again, as opposed to shutting down.

Re: Simultaneous game issue
 

You can set the option for a password entree, when coming off hibernate or sleep.

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JLS:
I will ask you not to post any racist jokes in the future. They are always offensive.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Which eliminates the possibility of others being able to use the PC, which is wholely counter-productive.