Well, TheBoy was sick *again* yesterday. Actually, Sunday night he had a fever and complained about his ear again. We took him to the doctor's and she said has this cold that won't go away, causing pressure on his ears. So more antibiotics and I got to say home with him yesterday.
That's how I came to be messing with my Space Empires installs. See, I have it installed twice. Once from the original CD I bought in 2000 and another one from the SE:V Bonus Pack CD (I'm not sure if you can still get it that way or not). I've kept one "clean" and the other I've added mods to. Which should have been fine. SEIV lets you add mods without destroying the original install easily. Only if you know what you're doing. So I accidentally installed the FyronQuadrantMod over the main game. I should have k
Anyway, I got messed up in what I had installed and where. So I uninstall my modded SEIV folders. Then I reinstalled from my original CD, which is version 1.06 or something. So I went to patch it up to 1.94 Deluxe, only I had copied the patch into the SEIV folder and I think that's where things started to horribly wrong.
Executing the patch *seemed* to work. Only when I launched the game it was still the old version. So I tried to re-execute the patch and I got an error saying I now had the wrong version. I then figured it was messed up and uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Now, thinking that I shouldn't have had the patch in the same folder, I moved it out to the desktop and ran it. Only now it gave me the same error.
Now I'm thinking it must be the SEIV part of the SE Compilation that the patch is trying to read. I try to uninstall that, but you have to uninstall both of them, which is a royal pain. So with all games uninstalled, I try to reinstall from my original CD and then patch.
The patch coughs up the same error. WTF? Then I start wondering about why you might not patch from the same directory and search my hard drive for "Space" and "Empires"
Sure enough, there's an SEIV install under the whole default C:/Program Files/Strategy First/...
So, uninstall that, reinstall original CD. Patch. Reinstall Compilation. Patch.
And it works.
Somewhere during all this, I deleted all the folders for fear of installing on top of something that might be causing it to mess up. So I've lost just about *everything*. All shipsets, all empires, all saved games. Now I have to start downloading the shipsets for the games I've been playing. The only silver lining is that it cleared out the 2 billion saved games I've started and then stopped playing.
Now, wasn't that fascinating?
posted by Evil Wayne @ 1:30 PM
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