sNeaksieGarrett on 27/9/2012 at 22:28
I've wondered that myself. I think it's safe to say that the project has been canned, no significant news as of late... I'll try to ping Tos and see if I can get a response from him. That said, in terms of running v1.19 with the MP patch, I've no idea since I haven't tested it.
demagogue on 28/9/2012 at 04:47
Even if it's not getting maintained, it's still in good working condition as it is.
I'm curious to see if it's compatible with 1.19 as well.
Edit: Well of course the first issue is that MP and 1.19 each have their own executable. So I guess if we wanted 1.19 MP, Tos would have to at least integrate the 1.19 stuff into his executable, or at least make it compatible, right?
sNeaksieGarrett on 28/9/2012 at 15:14
Hmm, so yeah it's not going to work unless it is possible to use the old exe with the new 1.19 install of the game. In the meanwhile, those of us that still want to use the MP patch will need to keep a separate install of thief 2. At least there's ddfix which works with the MP patch.
Yep, that was wishful thinking. Tried the old MP patch exe which made thief into a window and clicking on stuff in the options menu caused the game to crash.
sNeaksieGarrett on 28/9/2012 at 17:48
Tos hasn't gotten on AIM in quite a while and I don't see him much on Steam. I sent him a message through his Steam profile, hopefully he'll see it next time he's online. I'm afraid my knowledge in programming isn't good enough to really know what to do or I'd look into it myself. I don't know what he's done to thief2.exe to make the patch work.
demagogue on 29/9/2012 at 05:32
Yeah I'm crossing my fingers it wouldn't actually be very much work, and Tos could be tempted to do just enough to get it compatible. Coop is one of the most fun ways to play some OMs & FMs.
Edit: I wish there were a way to send a message to the 1.19 guy(s) too. Maybe, in the other direction, they could be tempted to integrate Tos's work in a future update.
sNeaksieGarrett on 29/9/2012 at 15:11
Hey guys, I spoke with Tos last night and asked him about the patch. He said he'd see about fixing it for 1.19 but he said he had no idea when he'd get to it. Not his exact words, but I don't recall his exact words, so that will have to do. So, looks like he hasn't canned it after all.
Also, demagogue, I saw your post in that other thread. Well, they'd need Tos' source code if they wanted to implement his stuff into the new exe unless they rewrite mp from scratch I guess. I asked him about the exe, and he said in order to patch they need his source code and reroute the memory addresses for the new exe, or something like that.
Giskard on 29/9/2012 at 21:05
Good news, I hope he will make a new version, not just an 1.19 compatible MP-Patch :)
demagogue on 30/9/2012 at 04:57
Quote Posted by sNeaksieGarrett
Hey guys, I spoke with Tos last night and asked him about the patch. He said he'd see about fixing it for 1.19 but he said he had no idea when he'd get to it. Not his exact words, but I don't recall his exact words, so that will have to do. So, looks like he hasn't canned it after all.
Also, demagogue, I saw your post in that other thread. Well, they'd need Tos' source code if they wanted to implement his stuff into the new exe unless they rewrite mp from scratch I guess. I asked him about the exe, and he said in order to patch they need his source code and reroute the memory addresses for the new exe, or something like that.
Cool, thanks for that SG. Yeah I figured as much about needing Tos's source code. I think my hope was that the patch team might contact Tos behind the scenes and invite him to work with them on it, so it's a combined operation. And if Tos gets busy in the future there's still that team to help tweak little things over time. But whatever works... I hope for the best.
sNeaksieGarrett on 4/10/2012 at 21:01
Yeah, except the stripper is delayed until further notice. (In other words, we don't know when Tos is actually going to get around to updating the patch for 1.19.)
