Sad announcement

[Case]

Originally posted by our_man
But if it's any consolation, there's no shortage of designers in the SLeague who have suffered the same fate. People that design scenarios have far more unstable computers than average.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Apolyton and CFC should set up a fund to buy new computers for their members

[Ramsses]

I'm very sorry Jim .


I hope you survive this sad moment in your life .

[SlowThinker]

Originally posted by Catfish
With all the hours that are put into scenario design, you should backup your work. Certainly, always backup before upgrading an OS.

Originally posted by Case
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Apolyton and CFC should set up a fund to buy new computers for their members

I don't think it is about oldness of a computer. In fact the most faulty comp is a new one - first month of work of a computer stands for a testing period.
Not to make periodical backups is a crime . Not everybody is caught, but punishment is usually very severe.

[Boco]

I once read an adage about comments and computer code. It's like religion - everyone says it should be done, everyone says one way is the best, and very few actually do what they profess. I suspect the same is true about backups. I just realized my only off-site backup of El Aurens is several versions old.

[Ecthy]

Civ2 doesn't run under Linux now does it?

[Catfish]

Originally posted by Boco
It's like religion - everyone says it should be done, everyone says one way is the best, and very few actually do what they profess. I suspect the same is true about backups.

Not a truer word spoken. Only this morning I suffered from the same type of device driver problem that I mentioned earlier - the first time since early in the year. Of all the thousands of files that exist on my HD, ten or so were corrupted - and guess what - three were Civ2 bmps with units I'd made during the last couple of weeks. No backup during this time. Aarrgh! Fortunately I posted some in the Showcase forums - so I do in fact have a few backed up here at Apolyton.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
Civ2 doesn't run under Linux now does it?

Actually it does, but you need to run it through WINE ( sort of an 'emulator' you can use to run windows app under Linux) to run it.

http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=444&versionId=628