Fledgling Fyora Dig314 Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Can you change the Save Game folder location ( Windows XP )? I know where it is located, I just want to try to move it. Dig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 No, you cannot. —Alorael, who misses the save system from earlier Spiderweb games. He's not entirely sure why games have decided to reject the use of the basic OS save/load system, but that system works just fine and usually gives you more flexibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 I sympathize with you Alorael. But these times they be a changin'. I still miss the days of thee 80-column punch cards. Well, no, not really. It's just that is when I first discovered computers and found my affinity for programming. Super Star Trek on a text-only console was also a big hit. Finding a job that you love to do is like having a life's paid vacation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Originally Posted By: How I fish in mine? —Alorael, who misses the save system from earlier Spiderweb games. I miss those too; I had everything right where I wanted it, and the system changed. Originally Posted By: Harehunter 80-column punch cards My father used to work with those, back in the day. I think he still has a few of them somewhere in the basement. Quote: Super Star Trek on a text-only console was also a big hit. I found that game in a book with some BASIC games. I could never get it to work, though, despite having typed it verbatim into my Apple ][e. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Actually I still have a print out of the source code we used on the university mainframe. Do you speak FORTRAN? "WATT IV?", he asked. "Oh I don't know, just because." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Originally Posted By: Harehunter Actually I still have a print out of the source code we used on the university mainframe. Do you speak FORTRAN? FORTRAN, no. However, I was fairly decent at coding in Applesoft BASIC once upon a time (though nowadays I'm very rusty), and I have an Apple ][e emulated on my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 You have to be careful because not all dialects of a programming language work the same. The most common difference is the number of bytes in a word for representing numbers. This can cause overflow, negative complement of the value (exceeding the gold cap in Spiderweb Games because Jeff didn't want to use a larger integer), or the game places the wrong information in the variable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer You have to be careful because not all dialects of a programming language work the same. Yeah, I discovered this when I tried to run it. I had to use a command-line GOTO in order to run the program without crashing (I never could find the actual error); and I also had to do a bit of a rewrite so it would display better on the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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