1.49 Woes (tech tales from the great white north)

Cipher7071 · #1 January 7th, 2006, 06:08 PM

Gadzooks! Can this be true? Thank's for the link. I'll download it.

You know, I once had a similar utility. It was a Netscape product, and I lost it during a software crash several years ago. When I went looking around for it this week, my search began turning up info on how Netscape installed spyware on the very thing I was looking for. I don't like companies who install spyware, so I decided not use their stuff.

Baron Munchausen · #2 January 7th, 2006, 06:52 PM

Yep, that's how I managed to get the 'Deluxe' patch downloaded on my own dialup connection. Not only is it dialup, but being a 'budget' ISP they have a 2 hour time limit per connection! (Ok, 4 hours on weekends...) But Bittorrent can resume partial downloads, so I was able to get around even that obstacle and have long since burned my copy of the patch to a games CD along with a bunch of other goodies.

Cipher7071 · #3 January 7th, 2006, 07:00 PM

Okay. I got the download while fixing supper. I'll let you know how it works out- hopefully in a game forum. Thanks again.

Slick · #4 January 7th, 2006, 08:20 PM

Word O' The Day: "Gadzooks"

(also spoken as "Great Horny Toads" in certain parts of the country)

Cipher7071 · #5 January 8th, 2006, 09:37 PM

UPDATE: Bit Torrent works great!

I downloaded the patch last night. After squirreling away my version 1.49 files into a new directory, I installed it.
In my experimental run I ran across numerous "can't find" or "don't recognize" errors, but everything seems to work just fine during play. I'm goofing around a bit with the drones now, and I should be into a version 1.94 game soon.

I suppose it would be a good thing to look in the latest bug reports to see what's new there too.

Suicide Junkie · #6 January 8th, 2006, 09:51 PM

Those would be your AIs. They don't know about drones, or a number of other new features.

Cipher7071 · #7 January 8th, 2006, 10:01 PM

I was operating under that assumption. I guess I can download the newer versions as I need them.

capnq · #8 January 9th, 2006, 07:17 PM

Quote:

In my experimental run I ran across numerous "can't find" or "don't recognize" errors, but everything seems to work just fine during play.

Instructions for patching out those errors are linked in my sig.

Cipher7071 · #9 January 30th, 2006, 07:43 PM

Thanks. S.J. Guess I've been a while getting back here. (Windoze froze on me last time). Incidentally, I've found my way into a couple of new games and am eagerly awaiting their start. Looks like a good time to see what I do about those AIs.