michael Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 Yo! A friend and I are trying to play the Last Def scen in the Demo and are having some probs. Started on the Mac OK (Axis setup), rec'd on PC OK, but arrives back at Mac as a .txt file which CM doesn't recog. I just want to check to see if mult-platorm e:mail play is possible before I start ripping my and his machines apart. 'Can't wait for the release. Got my visa on stand-by. T(h)anks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howitzer Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 Michael, I have a Mac, and have played several games PBEM -- all against peecee types -- with no problems. The file CM creates on the Mac doesn't have a filename extension (like .txt), but it is still a text file. As a general rule, I rename my "PBEM File" with a different name, and I always include the .txt extension so PC guys won't have any problems (just in case). Verify the file you are getting is indeed a text file by trying to open it in SimpleText or the word processor of your choise. It should have a line at the top reading... <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> ----------------- Play-By-Email Data Follows This Line ----------------- <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ...and one at the end reading... <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> ---------------------- End of Play-By-Email Data ----------------------- <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ...and a bunch of gibberish in between. If you cannot open the file, then something is wrong. Verify with your opponent that he isn't compressing it in an unworkable way, either externally or internally to his e-mail program. Hope something above helps! Regards, Steve C. [This message has been edited by Howitzer (edited 03-19-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 One problem you may encounter is when you send the files to a PC user. PCs cannot decode Binhex files. Make sure your e-mail program is set to encode Base64... its no where near as good as Binhex, but you won't have any compatability problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>I have a Mac, and have played several games PBEM -- all against peecee types -- with no problems.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> How did you manage that? There are a lot of Mac players (a surprising amount actually). I think I'm running about 50/50 PC/Mac opponents. [This message has been edited by Berlichtingen (edited 03-20-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borgiax Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 No, Berlicht, it's not surprising… First, there aren't so many wargames on Mac; second, CM is not published by a big game publisher with a lot of advertising so PC gamers, i think, don't know much about it, whereas Mac users tell everyone "hey, look, there's a new game for us !" Last, CM is not a game for stupid people. There are probably more stupid guys in the PC crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 Them's is fighting words Borgiax . Care to back them up with Shermans sometime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Last, CM is not a game for stupid people. There are probably more stupid guys in the PC crowd.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Oh, well said, very well said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 Hi Michael, You can try sending the files zipped up instead of straight. Some people have trouble receiving the file properly if it's embedded in an e-mail as text. Just another possibility to check out. Also before you send the file, check the exact length and mention it to your opponent. That way he can tell if his file got mangled a little in transmission. I find a lot of times when a file fails to load, the size that was received is different than the size of file sent. Hope this sort of helps. p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelancal Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 micheal, Try using Zip It to compress the file first before sending. It is a free or shareware utility. If you can access the file with simple text, open it, find the line that reads - ----------------- Play-By-Email Data Follows This Line ----------------- and deleat everything above that line and resave it out as a text file withe the name of PBEM File. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisPick Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 Basic Statistics: Given the far larger (many orders of magnitude...) population of PC owners, there are of course more stupid PC owners. And more intelligent PC owners, and more genius PC owners (like me...) Chris ------------------ Chris Pick chris@chris-and-donna.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howitzer Posted March 20, 2000 Share Posted March 20, 2000 Chris says: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>...more genius PC owners (like me...)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah, right! But, then again, there's a first for everything... Let's see now, if your statement is true, that would make the score: PeeCee "Geniuses" -- 1 PeeCee "Lemmings" -- 1 billion and growing Wait here, I'll go look for the nearest cliff and report back! Steve C. [This message has been edited by Howitzer (edited 03-20-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 Not if I creep up behind you and push you off while you're looking . Let's see Steve Jobs save you from THAT ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 Fionn, The difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: 1. Bill Gates could have you PUSHED for a large sum of money and probably a good deal of bullying. 2. Steve Jobs could convince someone that to push you off the cliff is the right thing to do and over you go. That is the difference between money and charisma Back on topic... Michael, you can also send and receive files using uuEncode. For a text file this is no problemo and doesn't really make file transfers that much longer as modems have built in text compression hardware. For example, a ZIPed file goes though my modem at about 2.6kbs, but a text file usually averages twice that. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Steve Jobs could convince someone that to push you off the cliff is the right thing to do and over you go.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I have experience the famous "Reality Distortion Field" live. Steve Jobs could convince you that it would be a good idea to jump and over you go Hearing him speak in person, is a truly memorable experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fionn Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 Oh NO Steve and Dan are now POD PEOPLE ! . <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> Steve Jobs could convince you that it would be a good idea to jump and over you go <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hmm, so the same man who CONVINCED you to buy a Mac could convince anyone to jump off a cliff. Hmm could there be a relationship between buying a Mac and suggestibility/suicidal tendencies? I feel a Master Thesis Dissertation coming on . P.s. I'm neutral in the platform wars so I'm just poking a bit of light fun here (please don't take any of my Mac-bashing too seriously ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 We are POD PEOPLE with STYLE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 That's it Fionn! You're gonna get it now!!! Just kidding of course. ------------------ Visit my webpage! http://cm4mac.tripod.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guachi Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 Trumpy, you can do stupid things!! It stinks! This has been a drive-by MST3K reference... Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 I'll see your Trumpy and raise you one Mitchel Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kettle Black Posted March 21, 2000 Share Posted March 21, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Berlichtingen: We are POD PEOPLE with STYLE <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Grape POD, Lime POD... Hmm, I'm sorry but you're not really PEOPLE, not even in the widest sense I still like to refer to Mac users as "Modern Jesuits" hehe. "PC-Heathens! Burn at the stake you evil spawn of Gates!" Let's face it, all OS suck. Just in different areas and some more than others. The really stable one is too hard to use, the easiest, most intuitive is yadda yadda the most popular is blaha blaha. I hate em all so it doesn't matter which I use. I'm gonna buy myself a new stupid PC soon and my wife will buy a new stupid (but cute) iMac. ------------------ Kettle Black "The End? With practically everyone still on their feet? Over my dead body!" The Player, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Big Time Software Posted March 22, 2000 Share Posted March 22, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Let's face it, all OS suck.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If you developed for different OSes you would realize that some suck WAY more than others To play a QuickTime movie in CM on the Mac it took a couple of lines of code and not one dime out of our pockets. On the PC it takes either an $800 SDK from MS or a $3000 one that works from RAD Technologies (or whatever they renamed themselves) called Smacker. In the latter two cases the coding ain't simple, though it is easier for Smacker from what I remember. Yeah, we just LOVE writing code for Billy's hack of an OS Many PCers think the Mac guys are lucky that we made a Mac version of CM. The truth is it is really the other way around Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted March 22, 2000 Share Posted March 22, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>"PC-Heathens! Burn at the stake you evil spawn of Gates!"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I now have a new sig file for my e-mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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