A Related Problem

[NCEL]

Hello everyone.

As you can probably see, I'm very new to these forums, so please be gentle

The problem that I have is AGS related, but (as far as I can tell) not actually the fault of the program.
You see, although I have a PC at home which is quite capable of running AGS, it is not connected to the internet and so I cannot download the program files directly to my computer.
I am typing this from a highly annoying and largely uncooperative library computer with a passion for logging me off for no reason whatsoever.
Despite the efforts of this machine to foil my plans, I have not only downloaded the files but also, since there is a noticeable lack of CD burning facilities, I have tranferred the appropriate files to a spanned .zip file over three floppy disks, which I proceeded to take home with me.

Can you guess at what happened when I got there?
There was some kind of I/O Error with one of the files in the spanned .zip, (although Winzip was able to skip the file and continue with the extraction) and when I opened the file folder to which I had extracted the program files, I found myself unable to click on AGSEDIT.exe as I had previously been able to do on this library computer. The main reason for this, I discovered after a short while, was that the file didn't exist. It wasn't there.

So I tried another .exe and I was told that I needed a saved game file to run it, and it couldn't find ac2game.dat, or something similar.

Is there any way of finding out what went wrong with this, or do I need to find myself someone who can be bribed into letting me use his CD Rewriter to use your wonderful software?

Any help would be appreciated, and if this is in the wrong forum then I really do apologise.
Sorry for the long-winded post, by the way, it's just the way I write

[scotch]

The error was probably just caused by damaging the disk a bit, it happens..
Actually if you take out the help file you can fit ags on to one floppy, although the help file is very useful and worth getting too.

I could make a one floppy size version if you want.. or you could try the spanned archive thig again.  It just sounds like bad luck really.

And no internet at home?! I feel for you :'(

[ThunderStorm]

Oh boy, I know that problem. We have two computers at home, the family comp that is connected to the Internet, but ancient and slow, and my own computer. When we didn't have a CD writer, I had to do that spanned-disk thing too, once I transferred RPM Maker 2000 on 12 disks, and you could be sure that there is some kind of error on disk 9 and you had to start again from scratch.

I also recommend taking new disks and run scandisk to make sure they're okay and then trying the whole procedure again.

Good luck!

[NCEL]

Oh there was an internet at home thing going on once upon a time, but it seems that BT prefer sending bills to actually providing a service and one day, for no apparent reason the phone line went dead and that was the end of that.

I have tried another selection of three disks, all previousely used but in perfect physical condition - same problem.
I didn't realise that it was the help file that made it so large!

I think you may have solved my problem - from previous attempts at transferring the AGS files to my computer, I now actually have two copies of the help file already So thanks alot for your responses!

I'll try it again on Tuesday, because not only do I hazve to use library computers, I have to use computers from different libraries (the town library and the old school down the road's library). I can only download files, as far as I've been able to see, onto school computers which are oonly available on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

sigh.

p.s. ThunderStorm? I've done the RPG2000 thing too! What a coincidence. Except back then I had the net at home and a friend of mine didn't, so I was giving the 12 disks to him.

[Scorpiorus]

Remembering those days when I had occasions to transfer games like Alone in the Dark 3 (about 30  3'25 diskettes ) I'd like to advice to mark what file is corrupt and the next time copy only this one but not the whole program again.

-Cheers

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

When I'm transferring files from one of my PCs to another, I always split the file into 1.44MB (or 720k ) pieces on my hard disk, then transfer those by floppy. That way, if a floppy is corrupted, I can just retransfer the broken file.