Next!Albian Years SciKit Genetics tab looks in wrong place..

"fuzzie" <fuzzie.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in news:1123875533.396350.235520
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> I don't think there's a fix for this yet, frustratingly .. the last
> mention on the Gameware forums was earlier this month, with Lisa saying
> she'd pass the message onto whoever was responsible for the remastered
> editions, so hopefully there might be a patch.. certainly Don's fix
> doesn't make it work.

Guess I'd better get on over there to the forums and add my voice to the
call for changes. =}


> (Also, hi.)

Hiya! Haven't seen you here since... ummm... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
back. =)
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xOtix wrote:
> The kind folks who made The Albian Years (C1 and C2 for XP) moved the
> genetics folder (among others) to C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\My
> Documents\Creatures\Creatures2\Genetics.
>
> Unfortunately they forgot to tell the Science Kit that. So, all I get when
> I try to open the Genetics Tab is an error message saying the genome [XXXX]
> could not be found.
>
> It shows that it is looking for it in the main C2 Directory instead of
> where it has now been located.
>
> Any help would be appreciated here.

So copy it from *<Username>* to *Program Files*? Or just install the
whole game to the *<Username>* folder?

Thomas
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"Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam DeleteThis @hccnet.nl> wrote in
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> xOtix wrote:
>> The kind folks who made The Albian Years (C1 and C2 for XP)
moved the
>> genetics folder (among others) to C:\Documents and
>> Settings\<Username>\My Documents\Creatures\Creatures2
\Genetics.
>>
>> Unfortunately they forgot to tell the Science Kit that. So,
all I get
>> when I try to open the Genetics Tab is an error message
saying the
>> genome [XXXX] could not be found.
>>
>> It shows that it is looking for it in the main C2 Directory
instead of
>> where it has now been located.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated here.
>
> So copy it from *<Username>* to *Program Files*? Or just
install the
> whole game to the *<Username>* folder?
>
> Thomas

Not that simple, Thomas, as the game is constantly creating new
genome files and putting them in the wrong place.

Anyway, Don promises me she is working on a fix that will be
"soon" and not "soon(TM)". =`)

--
x0tix: "x0tix xtrmly oogh! Eat toy!"
Malveka: "I'm convinced now that they used YOUR genome as a
basis for the norns. 8^)"
..
....and still there after all these years, an historical glimpse
of Creatures nostalgia (most external links broken):
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/agc-toc.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c1faq.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c2faq.htm >
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xOtix wrote:
<s>
> Not that simple, Thomas, as the game is constantly creating new
> genome files and putting them in the wrong place.
>
> Anyway, Don promises me she is working on a fix that will be
> "soon" and not "soon(TM)". =`)

You need <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
,URL=file://localhost/c:/*<Username>*"> in your C2 folder.

lol.

On *nix it would be trivial however. But I forgot how to link
directories (probably just with the mount command).

In MS-DOS you would have the join and the subst command, and now you see
what happens if MS no longer deems them useful!

Thomas
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"Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam.RemoveThis@hccnet.nl> wrote in news:4307289a$0
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> xOtix wrote:
> <s>
>> Not that simple, Thomas, as the game is constantly creating
new
>> genome files and putting them in the wrong place.
>>
>> Anyway, Don promises me she is working on a fix that will be
>> "soon" and not "soon(TM)". =`)
>
> You need <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
> ,URL=file://localhost/c:/*<Username>*"> in your C2 folder.
>
> lol.
>
> On *nix it would be trivial however. But I forgot how to link
> directories (probably just with the mount command).
>
> In MS-DOS you would have the join and the subst command,

In what? a *.txt file in the place where it is looking for the
Genetics files that tells it where to look for the new folder?

Or are you bibbling? =`}


and now you see
> what happens if MS no longer deems them useful!

Oh my yes!


--
x0tix: "x0tix xtrmly oogh! Eat toy!"
Malveka: "I'm convinced now that they used YOUR genome as a
basis for the norns. 8^)"
..
....and still there after all these years, an historical glimpse
of Creatures nostalgia (most external links broken):
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/agc-toc.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c1faq.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c2faq.htm >
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xOtix wrote:
> "Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam DeleteThis @hccnet.nl> wrote in news:4307289a$0
> $11070$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:
>
>>xOtix wrote:
>><s>
>>
>>>Not that simple, Thomas, as the game is constantly creating
>
> new
>
>>>genome files and putting them in the wrong place.
>>>
>>>Anyway, Don promises me she is working on a fix that will be
>>>"soon" and not "soon(TM)". =`)
>>
>>You need <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
>>,URL=file://localhost/c:/*<Username>*"> in your C2 folder.
>>
>>lol.
>>
>>On *nix it would be trivial however. But I forgot how to link
>>directories (probably just with the mount command).
>>
>>In MS-DOS you would have the join and the subst command,
>
>
> In what? a *.txt file in the place where it is looking for the
> Genetics files that tells it where to look for the new folder?

With Join you could 'mount' an entire drive onto a directory. With Subst
you could do the opposite. It doesn't work in 98SE that I have however..
I doubt that it will in XP. You would have to do it (join e:
c:\docs\gens), before you started C2 from the same prompt.

And .bat ~would~ work better than .txt

> Or are you bibbling? =`}

Yeah, that too.

<smiles>
Thomas
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And when it was 2005-08-20, illusion
<4307289a$0$11070$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> was created,
stating that Thomas J. Boschloo <nospam DeleteThis @hccnet.nl>
uttered in alt.games.creatures:

>
> xOtix wrote:
><s>
>> Not that simple, Thomas, as the game is constantly creating new
>> genome files and putting them in the wrong place.
>>
>> Anyway, Don promises me she is working on a fix that will be
>> "soon" and not "soon(TM)". =`)
>
> You need <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
> ,URL=file://localhost/c:/*<Username>*"> in your C2 folder.
>
> lol.
>
> On *nix it would be trivial however. But I forgot how to link
> directories (probably just with the mount command).

ln -s <what> <where>
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Thomas J. Boschloo wrote:

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> xOtix wrote:
> <s>
>> Not that simple, Thomas, as the game is constantly creating new
>> genome files and putting them in the wrong place.
>>
>> Anyway, Don promises me she is working on a fix that will be
>> "soon" and not "soon(TM)". =`)
>
> You need <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
> ,URL=file://localhost/c:/*<Username>*"> in your C2 folder.
>
> lol.
>
> On *nix it would be trivial however. But I forgot how to link
> directories (probably just with the mount command).

ln -s full-path-to-olddir newdir

You can also do relative paths, but they'll be evaluated from the parent dir
of newdir, not the cwd when you run ln.

> In MS-DOS you would have the join and the subst command, and now you see
> what happens if MS no longer deems them useful!

NTFS has something to replace them, I think. Junctions or something.
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Bryan Donlan <bdonlan DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in news:htcpt2-i1e.ln1
@bd.beginyourfear.com:

> Thomas J. Boschloo wrote:
>
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>>
>> xOtix wrote:
>> <s>
>>> Not that simple, Thomas, as the game is constantly creating new
>>> genome files and putting them in the wrong place.
>>>
>>> Anyway, Don promises me she is working on a fix that will be
>>> "soon" and not "soon(TM)". =`)
>>
>> You need <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;
>> ,URL=file://localhost/c:/*<Username>*"> in your C2 folder.
>>
>> lol.
>>
>> On *nix it would be trivial however. But I forgot how to link
>> directories (probably just with the mount command).
>
> ln -s full-path-to-olddir newdir
>
> You can also do relative paths, but they'll be evaluated from the parent
dir
> of newdir, not the cwd when you run ln.
>
>> In MS-DOS you would have the join and the subst command, and now you see
>> what happens if MS no longer deems them useful!
>
> NTFS has something to replace them, I think. Junctions or something.
>

and how would you do that? In the registry or something?

--
x0tix: "x0tix xtrmly oogh! Eat toy!"
Malveka: "I'm convinced now that they used YOUR genome as a basis for the
norns. 8^)"
..
....and still there after all these years, an historical glimpse of Creatures
nostalgia (most external links broken):
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/agc-toc.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c1faq.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c2faq.htm >
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xOtix wrote:

> Bryan Donlan <bdonlan DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in news:htcpt2-i1e.ln1
> @bd.beginyourfear.com:
>
>> Thomas J. Boschloo wrote:
>>
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>>> xOtix wrote:
[snip]
>>> On *nix it would be trivial however. But I forgot how to link
>>> directories (probably just with the mount command).
>>
>> ln -s full-path-to-olddir newdir
>>
>> You can also do relative paths, but they'll be evaluated from the parent
> dir
>> of newdir, not the cwd when you run ln.
>>
>>> In MS-DOS you would have the join and the subst command, and now you see
>>> what happens if MS no longer deems them useful!
>>
>> NTFS has something to replace them, I think. Junctions or something.
>>
>
> and how would you do that? In the registry or something?
>

It's some poorly documented command-line thing. linkd.exe, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
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Bryan Donlan <bdonlan.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in news:t2a4u2-tti.ln1
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

Well...

Just..

Awesome!

kthx!

*hugs* =`}

--
x0tix: "x0tix xtrmly oogh! Eat toy!"
Malveka: "I'm convinced now that they used YOUR genome as a basis for the
norns. 8^)"
..
....and still there after all these years, an historical glimpse of Creatures
nostalgia (most external links broken):
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/agc-toc.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c1faq.htm >
< http://www.bconnex.net/~quix0tix/c2faq.htm >
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xOtix wrote:
> Bryan Donlan <bdonlan DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in news:t2a4u2-tti.ln1
> @bd.beginyourfear.com:
>
>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
>
>
> Well...
>
> Just..
>
> Awesome!
>
> kthx!
>
> *hugs* =`}

I want a hug too for bringing it up (

<http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html>
I have used programs from sysinternals before and they are cool (e.g.
NTFSDOS).

Thomas
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"Thomas J. Boschloo" <nospam RemoveThis @hccnet.nl> wrote in message
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> xOtix wrote:

<snip>

> >
> > kthx!
> >
> > *hugs* =`}
>
> I want a hug too for bringing it up (
>

*hands Thomas a hug of sorts*
hm... I wonder if the carpet just needs a hug?

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