#4240486 - 03/16/16 03:37 PM
A consideration for Moggy
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It has taken ages, and it not finished, but it is working. As you were trying to get later code into 1.28c I decided to go backwards, and have a 1.28E running in 640x480 in my 1.2c folder. So it is a 1.28c with real planesets I can fly instant and single missions. The next glitch I need to look at is to stop it using "pnames.str" when individual folders are loaded.
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#4240540 - 03/16/16 05:40 PM
Re: A consideration for Moggy
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No. All the new versions have the latest Glide 3 compatibility Progress update: It is going very well. The Text_Eng.CDF in the 1.28e/1.29 installation does not have a pnames.str in it. It has the split files instead. So with this new 640x480 version of 1.28E I can fly The ETO with planesets 1-5 and see the correct names. I can also fly 1.28c theatres like SWOTL which has no planesets, but has its own "pnames.str" and see the correct names.
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#4240561 - 03/16/16 06:41 PM
Re: A consideration for Moggy
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#4240800 - 03/17/16 11:19 AM
Re: A consideration for Moggy
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Moggy
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Hello Jel,
Have set up a new 128E-2016 installation and given this a run.
I set up planeset6 from DSP. It was good to see that "programme loading %" screen again.
Mainscreen loaded from planeset6,
Aircraft selection screens loaded okay with correct aircraft names, so plainly reading unsplit pnames.str. The aircraft I chose was a Wellington bomber, and hangar screen loaded from planeset6.
Two matters:
(1) it's not using separate slot specific subfolders to save and load single missions. I could not load a saved single mission from slot00 folder. This was part of the single mission stuff that we worked out for 128F. I have retrofitted it to 128C. Can we put this in?
(2) The ordnance loading screen was out of kilter - is it still trying to load the larger screen?
However, ordnance options appeared to be okay, so plainly reading unsplit loadout.dat
Took the plane off the bomb Ostend. All appeared okay. Encounter with Bf109 and Bf110.
I have not yet tried out the p.dir and fm.dir setup. Will do that later.
What's the situation with the extra plane 3dz files? Using unsplit planes.dat it could use D.3dz. Using split planesXX.dat files it could additionally use the I, J, K, O and Q.
This 128E version could very well be a happy compromise, and EAW exe that looks back and can use all that material created since 2000, and yet looks forward and uses useful enhancements.
Can I suggest we call it 128EJ - J for Jel, and also J for Janus, the god who looked back into the old year and forward into the new. Many thanks for this.
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#4241039 - 03/18/16 12:38 PM
Re: A consideration for Moggy
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The 1.29 conversion is being very troublesome However, I have a 1.28F conversion working extremely well. To support it I have a new dirset picker. If a planeset is selected and there is a "PSInfo.txt" file in the selected planeset folder the utility displays the first line of the text at the bottom of the screen. I have two for midway, PS0 has the default terrain and PS1 has the azure terrain: If necessary I could make it display multiple lines of text Planeset0: Planeset1: Additionally the exe needs the split "planeset.dat" files, so I have made a simple splitter which splits the "planes.dat" file into "PLANE00.DAT" ...... "PLANE29.DAT" files. As it is 1.28F it needs the "EAWTM2" folder, and the "eaw32.tm" file for the theatre. Again I have a simple converter which reads the "eaw.tm" file and makes a "eaw32.tm" file. As they are not "real" planeset folders with PDir a,d FMDir.set files in them, there is no "savedata" folder. However, the last missions were saved in slot folders in the main "Midway128c" folder: The loadout screen is working properly
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#4242253 - 03/22/16 04:02 PM
Re: A consideration for Moggy
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It is a big single download: 640480 Folder ....... but it is my 640x480 working folder with a variety of exes which use 640x480 screens, and some old versions of theatres- warts and all The DSPicker is the one you want- I note a couple of typos in the Dir.set names- easily fixed by the user ETO01 needs the 129640V8a exe, and I cannot get this exe to display the split minipics. I have tried to get it to do that for a day and a half, so I have given up on that aspect. However, it has most of the features of 1.29, except the display of the national names. These are the single "N00NAME.STR" .... "N29NAME.STR" files which did not exist for the early theatres, but cause a CTD with the 1024x768 1.29 versions if they are missing. Jel
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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