Skomer

Deleting the save folders seems to have done the job for me; thank you. Micawber, I don't think we're having the same problem. I'm assuming Windows Live Mesh is a Windows 7 thing - certainly I'm not running that. Also for me when Avadon crashed during quicksave, most often the save didn't succeed.

Originally Posted By: Tyranicus I was once a mod, and my post count is reasonably meager. But you've posted in more than one account, haven't you. At least three, if I'm not mistaken.

Avadon keeps quitting on me, always just after I've pressed F3 to quicksave. I have tried the steps below, and while this isn't a game stopper for me it is rather tiresome, so I wonder if anyone has any other suggestions? Already tried: Restarting computer Uninstalling, redownloading, reinstalling Playing with most minimalistic graphics settings Playing with no other programs running Updating sound driver (Realtek HD Audio, updated to 6.0.1.6392) Can't seem to find a video driver; in any case it's not listed in device manager... My computer: Acer Apsire 5315 running Windows Vista SP2 Intel Celeron Processor 1.86 GHz, 1GB RAM PS: It's Avadon v1.0 since there aren't any other versions yet.

13. I'm sure the Kama Sutra was up there at some point

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Congratulations on a kilo of spam. I do like the idea that 1 post = 1 gram of spam

Originally Posted By: Artemis~ Japan has technology that we won't hope to see for years here in America, yet they're small. Umm, Japan's not that small. Their population is 128 million.

Don't get me started on this wretched referendum! The Tories have completely shafted us by grudgingly allowing a vote on electoral reform, but only allowing a vote between the system that they want (FPTP) and the system that nobody wants (AV). One year ago, before the general election, AV was broadly slated during campaigning on electoral reform. The preferred system of most parties who'd like to see reform is the single transferable vote, but of course we can't have a referendum on that because it might actually get voted in. (Parties preferring STV: Greens, Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru, SNP, some Labour.) So we're stuck with a referendum where a 'no to AV' vote will in effect be counted as a 'no to electoral reform' vote, and a 'yes to AV' vote means we will get AV, not the reform that was previously campaigned for. I hear people saying that a move to AV could pave the way to further reform, but as far as I know this hasn't ever happened anywhere else in the world. If we vote in AV, we'll have AV for the next generation at least.

Originally Posted By: Nikki. 5000 Congrats, Nikki. Not to hijack the thread, I've just reread The Outsider, and before that a novel somewhere in the middle of the Aubrey-Maturin series. I lost track of which one I'm on round about book 5, and now I just leave a gap in the bookshelf so that I know which one to read next.

You won this thread

The Guardian's website (UK newspaper) has a superbowl article on its front page this morning. It's weird, since there is little to no interest in American football here. I couldn't have told you which sport the Superbowl was, other than being one of those American ones (football, baseball, basketball). The Simpsons are the only reason I've ever heard of it. There must not be enough going on in Egypt.

The Silver Darlings, by Neil M. Gunn. The wonderful story of herring fishers in the 19th century Scottish Highlands. I've not managed to read any author's entire oeuvre, but this guy makes me want to read every word.

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Originally Posted By: Skomer Wasn't it Captain Haddock? (In English translation.) To be precise: it was Captain Haddock. Oh, ee sez zees een ze Franche also? Ah waz nut aware...

Wasn't it Captain Haddock? (In English translation.)

Not having to carry arrows which weigh a pound each.

Originally Posted By: Lilith It's one of the seven Millennium Prize problems I read that wikipedia article and thought "hang on a minute". Last night I started reading a book about prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis. The first few pages are the story of the physicist who finally cracked it in 1997, and the mathematician Bombieri who publicised it. Surprising, then, to see it on the list of Millennium problems. But today I reached page 12, where it turns out that Bombieri made up the whole thing.

Well, good to know Jeff is broadly in agreement about the explored vs unexplored areas. I wish I understood the technomological side of it so that I could come up with a magical solution. Failing that I suppose I could offer to draw by hand every area at every possible stage of exploration. Shouldn't take too long?

Some version of C / C+ / C++ I think.

Hoo sez it can't look polished and have a little more detail?

I heartily agree. I'll gladly join a campaign requesting a return to the older maps. The mini-map opening up as you travel across an area is one of the things which gives the game beauty, and a bit of detail and colour is so much more enjoyable.

(she) Mac, yes. I mean doing the same thing as alt-tab on Windows. Truth is I don't know the name of the key so I probably got it wrong. The one with the apple and funny squiggle on it. Could be option, command, apple-key. Dunno. "A key by any other name..."

For the record, I'm having the same problem. Most recently started when I option-tabbed away from G5 and started Firefox. I never run Mail or Quicken. The problem isn't fixed by restarting G5, but quitting G5, then quitting Firefox, then restarting G5 then Firefox did it. Mac OS 10.5.8

Looks fab. As an easy to please gamer, you have my complete trust. My one request: Please bring back the Avernum 4-5 automap, with gentler, thinner lines for walls and a different colour for actual ground and the spaces between bits of ground. Pretty please.

Boggle, what are you talking about? Scots are still holding a grudge about being shafted by the Thatcher government? Give people some credit - Scottish voters didn't go into this election completely hung up on 20 year old events and ignoring the present. And the Scots hate the English? Puhlease. Of course there are differences in ideas and culture, but arguably no more than between say northern and southern England.

I was wondering if someone would bring up this topic. Here in Scotland, not one seat has changed hands. We might as well have not had an election. The Tories have only one seat here and yet they're the party most likely to form some sort of government. And frustratingly, the Lib Dems got only around 6% less of the popular vote than Labour, but this somehow translates into around 31% less in terms of seats in parliament. On the one hand I'm hoping with all my might that Clegg doesn't cave to Cameron and allow him to form a minority government. Cameron won't offer any substantial concessions to the Lib Dems. On the other hand, the next government is going to have to make some very unpopular choices in terms of Britain's finances, so why not let it be the Tories? It might scupper their chances of any kind of popularity in the next two or three general elections. I'd like to think that the British public doesn't have such a short and selective memory as to make purely popular decision-making an issue, except that I know it does.

Yum, IPA.