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- Greetings.
-
- Instead of a weekly digest this week, I only saw one topic worthy of
- any mention that caught my attention (nice wording, eh?)
-
- It's on the Craft extension. What he said is partially true. So, to
- clear up any misunderstandings, heres the deal:
-
- I recieved a coverdisk from Chris (Evans) several months ago that
- contained the Craft extension on it. Thought I would try it. So, when
- I un .dms'ed the Craft file and put it on a disk, I ran the
- installer. Come to find out, after it asked for my name and gave me a
- registration code, it said "hang on. Lemme write something to disk".
- After that, it told me to reboot. I did, and, since the installer
- program was the only command in the startup-sequence, it ran the
- installer again, only THIS time, it popped up with the Craft logo and
- then quit.
-
- Well, at this point I was thoroughly confused, as it said that it
- would, ahem, "install" the Craft extension. It did not do this
- however. It, instead, wrote my name and registration info to a file
- in the "data/" directory which contains 8 files in all, all named
- "Data" + 0-7. It wrote this information to the first file, "Data0",
- which appeared to be the extension itself, as it was reasonably the
- size of an extension (29k, Amcaf is much larger), so I assumed this
- might be the extension.
-
- I tried installing it, guessing through all of the slots on the
- Extension list, but no avail. I am still unable to get it to install
- and I have arrived at the conclusion that this file either IS NOT the
- extension, or IT IS and the installer program was supporse to do
- something to this file and it didn't (install it is what I mean! :)
-
- Several conclusions have been suggested, as the file needs to be
- split, it needs to be uncompressed (I don't agree with this one) and
- so on. As far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to mess with it unless
- someone can give me a solution.
-
- Oh, btw, in case you're wondering about those other 7 data files, I
- have no idea what they are and can't do anything with them either,
- although they appear to be pointer or data files for the Extension.
- Again, I'm not sure.
-
- Be sure to check on my website in the next copule of days for the
- finishing of the other half of my website! The About, Info, and News
- areas should be finished within that time, and, some updated
- information on the Cafe engine and Eventuator (the game I'm writing
- that will use the Cafe engine) will be updated, as well as the Cafe
- engine specs (and a slot for it on the products page as well) will be
- posted up on, like I said, the Products area.
-
- Again, thanks for reading this.
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- Adam Parrott
- General Manager and Lead Programmer
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- http://www.parrottsoft.base.org
- http://www.parrottsoft.home.ml.org
- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/6116
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- mailto: parrottsoft@geocities.com
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- At Parrottsoft, we specialize in Amiga software,
- using Amos and the latest Graphics and Sound software.
-
- Our current project: A 3D gaming engine similar to
- Build and leaner than Quake. Check out the Parrottsoft
- website for more details!
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- Cafe Engine completion: #####--------------- 25%
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- Now there's an idea. (r)
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