Crypto on 2/4/2002 at 16:19
[SPOILER]That thing is a way cool device used to get past an alarm system that is an objective on expert. You'll love it when you see it in action.[/SPOILER]
Purah on 2/4/2002 at 16:26
[SPOILER]yes, but that's not the device's ONLY use :)[/SPOILER]
Crypto on 2/4/2002 at 16:36
Now that the dust from yesterday has settled, an explanation and an apology is in order.
A couple of days ago, Purah and I did a transfer of what was at that time the final zip, which I was going to split and upload to Epithumia (Jason). I booted up Thief II for a final walk-through and found a serious bug in one mission that would crash Thief II under the wrong set of circumstances. Purah fixed it and sent me an updated mission file rather than the whole zip, since we had done 2 transfers already at 25KB/s on a 330 meg file. I refreshed the zip, and checked it with DarkLoader. Everything appeared fine at this point, but what I didn't know was that DarkLoader does not check CRCs from the zip, and the refresh caused one large movie file to change. Strangely enough, it played and looked fine on my system. So I split the file and uploaded to Jason.
At Jason's end, he reconstructed the zip and unzipped it with winzip, which showed a corrupt file inside the zip at his end. He confirmed that DarkLoader would not complain about this and would unpack the mission, so at that point we felt it was an internal zip error in the file compression table. He set to work on rebuilding the zip using the files that DarkLoader had unpacked. After further examination of the movie it was discovered that the avi was actually corrupted, so KoMaG sent him a good copy (120 meg at 12KB/s) from his official release. Jason then rebuilt the zip, split it, and put it up on his site.
I then downloaded the zip, expanded it and did an MD5 comparison with the very first (pre-modified) zip that Purah sent me, and also with the updated mission file. All checksums are the same. When unzipped, the download files match exactly the distribution that KoMaG has, so everything is as it should be.
I'd like to apologize to everyone for the delay that was caused by me not checking the CRC on the refreshed zip. I'd also like to thank Jason and KoMaG for the work they did last night, if it wasn't for their efforts this thing would have been delayed a couple more days.
I'd also like to apologize to Lurox and others, whom I didn't respond to last night, since we decided to keep quiet about what we were doing until the problem was properly fixed.
Crypto
Thumper on 2/4/2002 at 17:59
Quote Posted by Purah
There are 5 ways into Murkbell from the Lampfire Hills side. In order of difficulty from easiest to most difficult they are:
1) Climb a vine near Murkbell Gate
2) Traverse the Sewers
3) Crawl through a bathroom to an attic
4) Navigate Arkhyn's Tomb
5) A bonus route discovered (I think) by either Crypto or Peter Smith....
Hehe. I forgot about 3 and 5. :)
Darkwarrior_II on 2/4/2002 at 20:40
BIG Thumbs up to Team Calendra! :) I'm D/Ling now, I'm so pumped for this shit...sorry. I desperately need something to tide me over till ARX and Morrowind are in my hands, and this will do nicely. I'm definitely reviewing this FM after I play it ;). I will of course, not be prejudiced against it (which would be positive prejudice anyway).
And so it begins...the big Thief projects are coming:
Thievery UT
The Circle of Stone and Shadow
Thief 2X
and...eventually...
The Fall of Varanok: Radindale (this winter or autumn, Northern Hemisphere time) :cheeky:
Well, TFV is not 100% Thief but it will certainly play like it (we hope to add light gems for the Stealth skill in Morrowind...we'll have to wait and see what we can do with the editor...er, I better stop rambling...).
CoSaS, TUT and T2X better be here soon...:thumb:
In summary: CL is going to rock your world, taffer.
Footpad on 2/4/2002 at 22:01
I just finished the download, I guess I won't do much posting for a while, been waiting anxiously for this one. I will surely be back if I need a little push. Bye all and good hunting to all.
"There Is No Honor Among Theives!!"
Quote from old Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeon Master's Guide
Footpad::cool: :D ;) :cheeky: :ebil: :sly: :thumb: :)
Lurox on 2/4/2002 at 22:21
I run the file I downloaded (Calendra v1a.exe) and I think there's a problem...
I use winrar.
The status bar is as follows -
extracting calendras_legacy_v1a.ZIP
! the required volume is absent.
CRC failed in calendras_legacy_v1a.ZIP
Is that the download?
Crypto on 2/4/2002 at 22:52
How many files have you downloaded?
There's 18 in total... and they're labeled CL_v1a.exe, CL_v1a.r00, CL_v1a.r01,... CL_v1a.r16
You need all of them, the filenames should be as they are when you download them, and they all have to be in the same subdirectory. If you have all of these, then just double-click on the exe instead of opening them up with winrar.
If you have a corrupted file or if you don't have all of them the exe will complain at that spot in the dialog box.
If you're getting that message right at the start, it's probably CL_v1a.exe that its complaining about.
Also, if you've downloaded and are using the 3 files that were available prior to this thing being official, then you have to get rid of those 3 and download the new ones since the archive was changed.
Lurox on 2/4/2002 at 22:54
I corrected this problem now...
I am on darkloader, I click on install I wait for 2 minutes.
Then, considering what could be wrong, I pressed the usual ctrl-alt-delete.
It says "no response".
I reboot.
I try again. "No response" again.
What could be wrong now? I have latest darkloader, 1.08 I think. Please help!
Crypto on 2/4/2002 at 23:04
DarkLoader is VERY sluggish with this thing... it takes quite some time before anything happens at all. This file is huge! Reboot, try again (click Install Only instead of Play) and give it a few minutes. It takes about a minute or two on my P3 750 with 640 megs of ram.
Purah recommends a fresh reboot once you have done this, as this thing pushes the limits of Thief II.
