http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/ en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:53:12 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/ http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190730-coding-games-like-out-park.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:33:03 GMT What would somebody need to have at their disposal to code a text-based sports sim like Out of the Park for a different sport? Is it the kind of thing that takes extensive education or start-up materials or could an amateur with patience make any headway? What would somebody need to have at their disposal to code a text-based sports sim like Out of the Park for a different sport? Is it the kind of thing that takes extensive education or start-up materials or could an amateur with patience make any headway? ]]> General Discussions CuriousGeorge http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190730-coding-games-like-out-park.html http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190648-cant-attach-files.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:50:05 GMT I am sure this has been a huge pain in the a**, but I haven't been able to post any attachments. They have all been under 100kb for .png files. If you haven't noticed I just wanted to throw it out there. Thanks guys. ]]> General Discussions Athletics17 http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190648-cant-attach-files.html http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190643-server-down-restored-backup.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:58:47 GMT I'm sorry, but due to a strange disk drive and/or RAID controller failure we had to restore the server from the backup made on Sunday at noon MEZ.

We're still working on restoring everything, so there are still some sites and databases unavailable (for example OOTP development databases). Please be patient.

At the same time, we moved ootpdevelopments.com to another server which is much more powerful than the old one. And hopefully the RAID works as it should on the new one. ]]> General Discussions Andreas Raht http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190643-server-down-restored-backup.html http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190642-how-long-were-threads-down.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:37:37 GMT I'm assuming it just wasn't me? ]]> General Discussions jyanksmsu http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190642-how-long-were-threads-down.html http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190640-so-where-have-posts-last-couple-days-gone.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:16:57 GMT :confused::confused::confused: :confused::confused::confused: ]]> General Discussions kenyan_cheena http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190640-so-where-have-posts-last-couple-days-gone.html http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190133-thanks-webmaster.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:02:31 GMT I had a password issue and thanks to the webmaster of this site I am back on, Hoo rah !!! I had a password issue and thanks to the webmaster of this site I am back on, Hoo rah !!! ]]> General Discussions ACESFAN 1 http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/190133-thanks-webmaster.html http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/189917-ahhh-its-nice-unbanned.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:27:59 GMT That was a lengthy interruption. That was a lengthy interruption. ]]> General Discussions kq76 http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/189917-ahhh-its-nice-unbanned.html http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/189479-object-lesson-learned-again.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:08:58 GMT I'm posting this here because it is a general object lesson that I learned (again) and wish to share for the benefit of other members. That the game is OOTP X is incidental; this is a lesson with many applications.

Lesson: Watch what programs you download and install. Do you really need it? Is it worth the risk? Did you create a System Restore point before you installed it? Because, if the new program creates a conflict in your system, you'll wish you had.

I noticed tonight that I had this problem (I found these threads by advanced search; ironically, I pontificated in the earliest one):

http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...r-reports.html
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...nctioning.html
http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...l-browser.html

Ok, what changed about my system? I uninstalled and reinstalled OOTP and IE7; no luck. Then I methodically went backwards in time, uninstalling programs until I found the culprit (stupid Lifehacker - I unsubscribed from that RSS feed):

Copy Path Shell Extension Windows Explorer - Lifehacker

Don't ask, I will instead. Why the heck did I download that piece of garbage? Anyway, that was it; I tested by reinstalling it, encountering the problem again, and uninstalling it, thereby resolving the problem again.

Another lesson: This was MY problem. I created it. I never expected OOTP to fix it for me because it not widespread. Many members do not realize how difficult (impossible?) it is to design a program that will avoid all minor system conflict problems. When I have such a problem and I see that only a few people have posted about it, or none, I know the score.

This is why the poor posters in these threads never received a satisfactory reply; their problem was not common enough for OOTP to devote resources to research and resolve. I hope these members ultimately found their answers like I did; I was lucky. ]]> General Discussions Déjà Bru http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/general-discussions/189479-object-lesson-learned-again.html