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Originally posted by geoschmo:
I suppose it's possible someone could design a method of doing this involving somehow capturing the current contents of the PC memory and saving that to be reopened later. I am not sure how that would be done though other than just a basic theoretical idea. It might be kind of close to hacking the game though.

Geoschmo

Well you can dump the content of your memory to your hard disk, then restore it later. The laptop PCs do that when you 'emergency close' the screen. Now I dont know if a utility can do the same thing for a specific task, eg SE IV, and not the entire system.
My point is that, even if I'm totally far from being able to code such an utility, it is surely feasible, and that it dont involve hacking, as you dont have to understand the memory structure of a task/process to dump it to hard disk.

Well, my rant is all theorical, seems that no one here master enough the windows environment do to such a wonderful tool

Anyway, back to topic, and I will speak again of my stars! experience: stars! which fitted on a single floppy, enabled you to save and continue a simul turn. A shame that Malfador never did that. I climb to 3 hours a turn in big PBEM games (stars, dominions), and I'm now unsure that I will PBEM/PBW SE IV because this feature lack.