Slater Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 ok ok this isnt really important to any of you here but I need somewhere to moan. I just had crash on my pc two weeks ago ( First ever on this PC) and so I 've lost close to 700mb of mods maps patches for both CMBO and CMBB which I've been collecting since CMBO on a very poor and very very slow 56k modem and gotter admit Iam a mod addict, If only they had help lines for such things . oh well thats ma moan i just had to get out, I'am of shopping now for some of those bran spanking new mods I've missed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpkr Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Ouch! Maybe someone with a hi-speed modem and a CD-Write drive will take pity on you. I would, but I have the one, and not the other. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted March 14, 2003 Author Share Posted March 14, 2003 I would of asked but i've just recently emergrated to New Zealand from england and I only now of one other CM player in NZ but hes just recently moved to aussie ( god knows why ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whizbang Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 The move to NZ explains everything. If you had stayed in good ol' blighty you wouldn't have the problem. Your hard-disc has to go in reverse once you cross the equator, just like water flowing down a plughole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Ryan Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 crashes dont lose u saved work or files, my Pc crashe several times and i lost nothing. I just turn it off if i cant do a controled restart whiole its crashed then reboot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Ryan Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 'Your hard-disc has to go in reverse once you cross the equator' thats a joke right? Iam just askin as iam doing a course in college about PC's 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Captain Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Originally posted by Jack Ryan: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> 'Your hard-disc has to go in reverse once you cross the equator' thats a joke right? Iam just askin as iam doing a course in college about PC's </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Ryan Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Well it would have given me an advantage over the teachers lol. Well i sort of gavered it was false but hey it was worth asking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hub Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Slater: I have all the .bmp files, and an additional 4000 mod .bmps burned to disk. However, ALL the files have the colour values reduced and many have also been downsampled in order to get the game to run better on my old PC. Some of the stuff doesn't look quite as good as before, but 98% of it looks just fine (to me). If you want, I can mail you a copy. Don't ask me what mods- there are hoardes of them- I chose what I wanted and have been using them. Which ones were which have long been forgotten by me. [ March 14, 2003, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: Hub ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Reminds me how Matt had TWO 60 gig hard drives die on him during the making of CMBB. You think you've got trouble!!!!! I bet there's stuff he's still never recovered. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauCoupDinkyDau Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 Check your e-mail Slater_SS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agua Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 700 MB e-mail coming your way! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Carrot Posted March 14, 2003 Share Posted March 14, 2003 LOL. I know on my 56k that would be around 35 hours download time. My ISP would have fits 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whizbang Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 Sorry about the joke - but then I beleived Dimbleby when on April 1sr he ran a TV program showing Italian girls harvesting spagetti from the trees. However I do have good news for you. Apparently even if you format your hard-disc the police wih their right technicians can recover virually all the info tha was originally there. I know this to be true because we have had some fraud cases here in Chile where people have not just deleted but formatted their discs and the police have succesfully recovered all the incriminating emails. So take it round to your local Station and ask for their help. THIS IS NOT A JOKE I PROMISE 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bergerbitz Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 I've got every mod, patch and a ton of info for CMBB crammed onto two cd's. I could make copies and snail-mail 'em to you, if you'd like. Let me know. I'll be lurking around here somewhere. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracer Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 live and learn, a CD-writer is always a real good investment, I have all my mods and others burnt to CD-Rs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted March 15, 2003 Author Share Posted March 15, 2003 Its truly great this community eh , thanks to all you guys that offered to send cds and help me out my E-mails down for a couple of hours ( damn hotmails useless ) but I'll be checking my mail soon as its back up and I'am sure I can sort something out with one of you, again thanks to all I wasnt purposely asking for all this great help I just needed to moan and then to Receive all the offers was a great surprise its like Xmas all over again, anyway sorry to go on just had to say big thanks to all this is a great weight of my shoulders 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted March 15, 2003 Author Share Posted March 15, 2003 I've just checked my E-mail and found a NZ player willing to send the Mods etc which is great cause hes only 60 odd k's down the highway, now i can get my life back, iam quiting the drinking and after a QB see if the Girlfreind wants to come back ( they just dont understand what its like ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanachai Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 Wow, that's tough. A hard row to hoe, as it were. Of course, given your screenname, I don't really give a toss. Never had much use for teens from Allied countries who were all swoony over the SS. Good luck, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vyrdolak Posted March 22, 2003 Share Posted March 22, 2003 Originally posted by Slater_SS: ok ok this isnt really important to any of you here but I need somewhere to moan. I just had crash on my pc two weeks ago ( First ever on this PC) and so I 've lost close to 700mb of mods maps patches for both CMBO and CMBBI had a crash (disk became non-bootable, although it had been f'ing up for about a month beforehand), and have firsthand knowledge of two other people at work this happened to, plus anecdotes of others. I think it is a new virus, although I can't find anything recent at Symantec or Kaspersky specifically about this. I lost two years' worth of files in 1997 despite having a tape backup installed (too little capacity, too much trouble); since then, I am religious about backing up. I didn't lose any files this time, I slaved the old drive and copied everyting off of it (including the virus, presumably...) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitz Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Sorry to hear about your system crash. I lost about the same in Mbs when some BASTARDS broke into my house and nicked my computor! I have to start from scratch om cmbo & cmbb all over again! :mad: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitting Duck Posted March 23, 2003 Share Posted March 23, 2003 Probably should get some backup software...it's saved my life more than once! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vyrdolak Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Originally posted by Sitting Duck: Probably should get some backup software...it's saved my life more than once! Microsoft Backup comes with Windows, but you will have to save up to a file on the HD unless you have a second drive or a zip, CDR/CDRW or tape drive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuerte Posted March 24, 2003 Share Posted March 24, 2003 Originally posted by Hub: I have all the .bmp files, and an additional 4000 mod .bmps burned to disk. However, ALL the files have the colour values reduced and many have also been downsampled in order to get the game to run better on my old PC. Some of the stuff doesn't look quite as good as before, but 98% of it looks just fine (to me). If you want, I can mail you a copy. Don't ask me what mods- there are hoardes of them- I chose what I wanted and have been using them. Which ones were which have long been forgotten by me. Good idea. CMBB loads much slower than CMBO, it takes maybe four times as long to load 3D graphics. I wonder how you did this? With Paint Shop Pro 7? What settings? Because loading the black small bmps when skipping the other player's turn takes just about one second. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fitz Posted March 25, 2003 Share Posted March 25, 2003 Life does'nt get any easier does it? My new Isp will only allow for 2hrs online before cutting out. No way I can download the huge Cdv patches. Any kind person out ther fancy sending me the patches on a CD, Please? Pretty Please? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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