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GalCiv II coding

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So I’m on a sabbatical which was planned a long while ago.  Basically, it’s an opportunity for me to get back to my roots.

One of the things I’m working on during sabbatical is GalCiv II (Twilight of the Arnor).  It’ll be lots of little tweaks and improvements (AI, gameplay, balance, bug fixing).  But this is the kind of thing I enjoy but can only justify on vacation.

It seems like for the last couple of years my role has been less CEO and more fire fighter anyway. While the company I work at has grown tremendously since GalCiv II’s release, my ability to work on the things I enjoy has diminished.  Ironically, what I’m best at is running a business which, if you think about it, is a lot like playing a strategy game. Perhaps I owe everything to Sid Meijer after all. 

I’m going through the posts I made previously to see which things I can nail the easiest.  Stay tuned.

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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 25
I'd be happy to get some fan help on GalCiv II stuff.

What kind of help are you looking for?

Quoting Frogboy, reply 25
BTW, do people know for a fact that Visual Studio 2003 won't function on Windows 7 64-bit?

There are links in prior posts to Microsoft pages that say that VS2003 is not supported on Win7/Vista.  It might still work, kind of, mostly...but I certainly wouldn't use an unsupported compiler configuration to build a commercial product.

Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 25
I'd be happy to get some fan help on GalCiv II stuff.  

Glad to hear that.  Like Elestan said, what kind of help would you need?  This is where open sourcing previous codebases for fans to modify shows its benefits. First stuff that's done with source releases from the fans is adapt the code to run on modern compilers and windows releases,   Or maybe everything we can work with to help is in the SDK?


BTW, do people know for a fact that Visual Studio 2003 won't function on Windows 7 64-bit?

Right now, I'm working on Elemental AI so I haven't had a chance to install VS 2003.

 

It may or it may not work. It's unsupported on win7 64bit.  It may run and compile GalCiv II, but the resulting output may have errors, as you know.

 

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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 25
BTW, do people know for a fact that Visual Studio 2003 won't function on Windows 7 64-bit?

Ya, a lot of our legacy applications need to be fixed because of all the changes between vs2003 and vs2005. 

So, instead of doing that we built XP VMs....

Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top

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Quoting coreimpulse, reply 27


Frogboyreply 25I'd be happy to get some fan help on GalCiv II stuff.  

Glad to hear that.  Like Elestan said, what kind of help would you need?  This is where open sourcing previous codebases for fans to modify shows its benefits. First stuff that's done with source releases from the fans is adapt the code to run on modern compilers and windows releases,   Or maybe everything we can work with to help is in the SDK?

BTW, do people know for a fact that Visual Studio 2003 won't function on Windows 7 64-bit?Right now, I'm working on Elemental AI so I haven't had a chance to install VS 2003.

 
It may or it may not work. It's unsupported on win7 64bit.  It may run and compile GalCiv II, but the resulting output may have errors, as you know.
 

I don't think that is likely, IMO.

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

I liked my GalCivII.  Diplomacy was a lot better than sid meyer's stuff.  I can't wait until it's an RTS. :)

Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

hi i am new to all of this....

i am akrmer... if it is not apparent...

i mistakenly loaded the demo and it seems to have locked me out of my game....

i have previously registered and i cannot load the galciv2 dreadloards this is difficult to deal with... i lost my original login data apparently... and i can only play the demo and that quit me after about 2hours...

 

i lost months of ships and developement... i had high scores that were never posted... so i when i attempted to load the demo i got my whole galciv history screwed and destroyed...

 

that is okay ... i just want my game back ... i dont seem to have it registered and i cant seem to ditch the demo...

can you help ...

 

as i say i am not used to forms or this method of gaming... and as a result all of my stuff is destroyed and i supposed i have contacted the wrong person for help too... so please at least lead me in the proper direction so i can re register my already purchased game ... and get this demo wiped out...

 

any help would be appreciated... thanks

akrmer