SECOND ENTRY 22/04/09Oh lordy mordy me.... Umm were do i begin??.. Ah yes.. somewere near the "start" might do... lets see here...
About 3 weeks ago my PC started acting "funny".. restarting programs.. loosing .NET functionality.. and more fun stuff..
This obviously made me very unhappy and i went looking for the magic "answer" to my problems from MS and other sites then,
having found a "fix" of sorts from MS i did as they told me .. clicked restart... and then all Hell broke loose!...
Upon restart.. She wouldn't boot into windows no more.. loaded up till just before the passscreen then hung.. and hung... even after
many restarts still... black!... AHHHHHHH... i screamed!, but then i got a "fantastic" idea... (rotfl) and used the restore (inbuilt into vista) console
and set my OS back to a few backups ago... well.... that made things all the much better...
Now she wouldn't boot Passed the Bios NVRAM test... OMG!.. wha!.. I was stuck in eternal bootloop hell... with a seriously dead PC..
Lucky.. i have a backup PC.. just a little old XP machine i call AZRIEL.. so i got online on it.. found a "quickkey" for my PC's inbuilt (imaged) Vista
disk.. that gave me only 1 good option... and it sucked!!..
Erase my C: drive to factory install...
after some kicking and screaming... i decided to go with it and reinstalled Vista (yes i did try to install XP first! as a dual boot but my PC wont hear of it.. lol) now here's why your reading all this garble...
Due to all the above... I lost XLR!... & ALL THE CONVERTED MODELS!!... I have 2 drives.. but the "LAB" was all on C: lucky i keep all the zips & stuff on D: but had never moved the mod on there as it was always being worked on and constantly altered.. ME BAD... ME REAL BAD!!..
At the same time.. Filefront decided for some reason to delete the MOD & patches 4,5&6 (no..this wasn't me folks!) Leaving me pretty much
modless..
(lol) But.. as always... there be light at the end of the tunnel..
Were this might have foretold doom in other realms.. all is Bright and sunny here.. I just needed to explain to you all why there has been no real work or updates done in the past few weeks.. kinda been busy crouched in the corner crying "make the bad OS stop".. ROTFL...
I'll have the mod all back in a few days
Models are all in a vault.. unconverted and zipped.. but there all there.. (2 fresh OS to use Ms3d on.. hmm) this time i'll spend even more time on the textures before converting.. but am going to seriously RETHINK the number of ships... Id rather have a "believable" universe then a bloated one... still gonna be a fair lot.. just more ranged i think (ie: cut back federation ships and add more rom/kln ect)
This has however pushed the "BETA" release back a few weeks.. I was planning on having it ready now.. for upload to the FTP but .. yeah.. sory..lol
It is coming though folks
trust me.. and the patches will be back up soon.. with a 7th (and final) to come not long after. That will conclude the ALPHA and We'll hang there for a month or 2 .. unless anything "critical" is needed then they'll be a patch 8, Whilst i build the "BETAMAX" version (yes thats what its called hehe).. So thats were it all stands ATM ppl.. Huge thanks to Grey for the help Rebuilding
and a Big Thanks to everyone one else for still being here and part of the team
I'll try and catch up with everyone soon.
-Xar.
