Turns of AXT029 game in Apolyton PBEM Tournament

[Alinestra Covelia]

Yep - there's no way I can change my address to be Amazonian_Mage@yahoo.com since the Yahoo address is banned.

[RedFred]

[RedFred, grovelling, crawls into the thread on his knees with hands tightly clasped]

Well, I couldn't see delivering yet another 'lack of progress' report, so I've waited until I have something more positive to say.

I have learned a bit about zip utilities. And there are hundreds of them out there. In the end two different programs did the job. As of a couple of days ago I had consistant 'unzip' capability by using a product by ArkoSoft. As of today I have 30 days of 'zip' capability using another fairly arcane trial product. If I can't find a free download of a zip utility that actually zips and does't mess with my system in 30 days time I am prepared to purchase the $20 permanent version.

All this trial unzipping and playing and zipping may result in a tampering message. If so, my apologies; no cheat was intended. My other option was to wipe my PC clean and start reinstalling everything to see if that would cure it of my zip woes. That would be a huge and somewhat rash step which I am reluctant to take.

I have forwarded the file onto AC mere moments ago. Misotu, please go ahead and zip when it gets to be my turn again. I am confident that half of the process (unzipping) will work.

[Alinestra Covelia]

Just wanted to say that I received RedFred's zipped file yesterday evening, but it was very late so I didn't have time to play, zip, and send.

Today for various reasons I won't be near a PC with SMAX on it, but when I get back to the house sometime on Saturday 25th early morning, the game will be the first thing I'll do.

Hope that explains away this further slight delay...

RedFred - I've got a version of Winzip which does measure the number of days I've used it, but doesn't act on that, either to demand I buy it or anything. Would you be interested in having the exe file that comes with it? That is, if your experiments indicate that installing WinZip would *not* be a waste of time...

[Alinestra Covelia]

Amazing! Not two hours later, I find two good pieces of news.

1. I am back at home and have sent the zip on to Googlie.

2. I am now allowed to use enixine@enixine.dabsol.co.uk! (For multiplayer zip file exchange only, though.)

This means that I can download and open zips much faster, as well as having unlimited memory for them. Note that I still have to use Amazonian_Mage@yahoo.com for conversations, etc, but at least this will make posting zips much more convenient.

So, please post your zips to my standard big email address, enixine@enixine.dabsol.co.uk - Thanks!

[RedFred]

Allie, thanks but no thanks on that WinZip offer. A couple of versions of WinZip were among the first zip utilities I tried. They seem to interact with my PC about as well as matter interacts with antimatter.

It would be an understatement to say that I had less problems this turn, however hotmail seemed to crash just after I sent the file on. If there is a problem let me know ASAP and I'll resend. I went with the new e-dress.

[Googlie]

2103 played and sent to Misotu

and AC, I know Apolyton can be a pain - they won't accept @civgaming either as an e-mail addy

[Misotu]

2103 sent on to RedFred ...

Yeah, I have the same problem since I use hotmail for gaming. I've had to set my profile so that the email addy I registered with isn't displayed, because I hardly ever check that inbox.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I got the zip okay and it turned out fine. I'm sending it zipped to Googlie.

[Rynn:]

and on to Misotu

[Misotu]

and 2104 is back to RedFred ...

[RedFred]

Off to Alinestra.

My zip utility zipped up the file but also left an unzipped copy. I am having trouble deleting the unzipped copy as I get an error message telling me that it is somehow protected from deleting.

Unless I hear that someone has somehow protected the file in 2104 I will assume that I am continuing to have minor zip problems.

[Misotu]

Definitely didn't do anything at all unusual to the file Red Fred, so it sounds like you still have zip problems

[Alinestra Covelia]

RedFred, the file you zipped had a few problems, but probably not due to the zipping process. Check your email for further details...

[Alinestra Covelia]

Okay - problems ironed out! I've sent the turn 2105 to Googlie.

[Googlie]

played, and sent on to Misotu

(sheesh, 19 minutes - I must be slipping!)


[This message has been edited by Googlie (edited November 28, 2000).]