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I’m writing this from the fire station

December 26, 2013 3:15:06 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

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Just for kicks, I tried to compile the GalCiv II project (written for Visual Studio 2003) with Visual Studio 2012.

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Reply #1 December 26, 2013 3:56:56 PM
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fire station?

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Reply #2 December 26, 2013 4:25:34 PM
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Quoting satoru1,
reply 1

fire station?

Clearly his computer combusted.

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Reply #3 December 26, 2013 5:35:50 PM
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They're letting you compile a video game in a fire station? 

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Reply #4 December 26, 2013 5:39:50 PM
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  Firestaion? Please tell me you did not try to burn Down Stardock just for more time to develop a game?"

 

PS: I know that's an ambulance and not a Fire truck

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Reply #5 December 26, 2013 7:20:21 PM
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Well being Stardock is on holiday, maybe he fried is computer at home, now he's at the fire station

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Reply #6 December 26, 2013 7:54:22 PM
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Captain did everyone make it?- 

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Reply #7 December 26, 2013 9:24:59 PM
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There were no survivors.

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Reply #8 December 26, 2013 9:58:28 PM
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Was the recompilation any better on the game.

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Reply #9 December 27, 2013 3:01:25 AM
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Its nice to see you are still trying to get GalCiv 2 to compile on something more modern. I recall you considered it a pain to have to use a Windows XP emulation to compile the game. It would be nice if you got things compiling and we got new updates for it.

That said, how are you trying to go about making it compile? Are you trying to modify the code so it compiles on a modern compiler? Have you tried to modify the compiler instructions so the compiler tries to compile the code as Visual Studio 2003? For the later, I recall compiling code by including code in the make file to compile programs using a certain standard of C code.

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Reply #10 December 27, 2013 11:00:15 AM
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OOOH! How cool!  Being a software developer (ASP.NET, MVC, C#, HTML, JS) it would be so totally cool to peruse through the source for GalCiv2!

When I was in college back in the 80's I always dreamed of being a game writer.   Later in my career I hired people who came from the game developing world in Dallas and Austin and heard the horror stories which painted a more bleak picture.

Having said that, I am sure Stardock is not as bad as working for Carmack or Romero.  It might be the place where one could say they are "living the dream!".

 

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Reply #11 December 28, 2013 4:21:59 AM
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Word "Fucntions" probably caused short circuit...

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Reply #12 December 28, 2013 9:52:03 AM
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Any chance this code will ever be released to the public? 

Seeing "Fucntion" in there makes me cringe.

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Reply #13 December 28, 2013 2:34:10 PM
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TIL Firestations don't have fire exits.

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Reply #14 December 28, 2013 3:53:29 PM
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I see the problem. He is using MS Visual Studio, which can see everything, including misspellings in comments, which it decided to comment about by lancing the comment, but hit his home instead due to a bug in Visual Studio caused by someone at MS misspelling "function" as "fucntion" in a comment of their own (MS loves to include bugs in its products).  

(MS) -> <- (but why did the ambulance take a singed frogboy to the fire station?)

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Reply #15 December 28, 2013 4:03:33 PM
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If you have VS 2003 on the same machine, can VS 2012 be configured to use that Platform Toolset?

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Reply #16 December 29, 2013 8:33:29 AM
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Quoting antibor,
reply 15
If you have VS 2003 on the same machine, can VS 2012

2012 requires Windows 7+, but 2003 is not supported on anything above XP.

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Reply #17 December 29, 2013 1:37:10 PM
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See?  Now we have names to put to those AI personalities.  Including Drengin, because Drengin is a personality aaaall of its own.

Hope you're doing well over the holidays Brad.  You know, aside from compiling stuff just to see what happens, which is both fun and scary.

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Reply #18 December 29, 2013 1:43:11 PM
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Captain Kirk is on planet Gideon

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Reply #19 December 29, 2013 2:16:03 PM
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I just hope the Drengin, Korx, Arceans, Yor, and the Korath will be better this time around. Hopefully that doesn't cause other Ai's to be weaker. For some reason Stardock keeps doing that.

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Reply #20 December 31, 2013 12:07:37 PM
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Quoting kryo,
reply 16


Quoting antibor, reply 15If you have VS 2003 on the same machine, can VS 2012

2012 requires Windows 7+, but 2003 is not supported on anything above XP.

 

That is why the God invented virtual machines.

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Reply #21 December 31, 2013 3:07:32 PM
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Quoting Stringer2,
reply 20


Quoting kryo, reply 16

Quoting antibor, reply 15If you have VS 2003 on the same machine, can VS 2012

2012 requires Windows 7+, but 2003 is not supported on anything above XP.

 

That is why the God invented virtual machines.

And that is why another God (MS) keeps deleting VMs from their OS.

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Reply #22 December 31, 2013 4:35:47 PM
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Quoting Lucky Jack,
reply 21

That is why the God invented virtual machines.

And that is why another God (MS) keeps deleting VMs from their OS.

 

That is why a true believer worships VMWare. He/she should probably also find volume version of the Windows license (without activation).

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