Pulled the HDD from my Dev. Box.

[cab1020]

Well I Would Donate And Stuff And I Guess I Should Be A Little More Patient, But When A Beta That May Possibly Be Playable Is Talked About I Just Get Really Hyped Up. But Like I Said He'll Probably Want Some Insane Amount Of Money For It But If This Is True And Releases It Into The Public For A Reasonable Price Then I Will Apologize.

Also, Someone Should Try To Pm Him,I Will Right Now And I'll Post Back If I Get An Answer.

[Dihnekis]

This is strange, ripping and uploading the data shouldn't take more than an hour or two's time. Or am I way off?

[MikeStutzzzz]

i agree its not happening

[game_player_s]

1.
I find your lack of faith disturbing. </vader voice>
Serious negativity and doubt going on here concerning my very ownership of a dev kit. Now I ask, what good could possibly come from lying? Well obviously none whatsoever. So to the Doubting Thomas's amoungst us here, you need to dispell the doubt and negativity from your minds at once.

2.
The general lack of paitence in this thread, and elsewhere, is beginning to spill over into my e-mail account.

3.
It would take 126 continuous hours for me to upload System Shock 2. I'm on dial-up here people, and I've never seen an internet connection stable enough to allow myself or anyone else here at home to remain online longer than six hours without something causing a disconnect. That said, I have broadband access at work, and when necessary I do use it for personal matters.

4.
This is not the only side project I have ongoing. And right at this moment in time there are two other projects being worked on that are pre-empting this one. Again I shall re-itterate that it, the dev kit, has sat in the bottom of my closet for a period exceeding two years and the curiousity has not, I repeat, has not killed me. Ergo, find something to do to take your mind off of this for a while, like by playing some PSO.

5.
Did I ask for money? Have I ever asked for money? Have I at some point since having revealed the existence of these betas ever said anything about holding these betas hostage for monetary gain? Do I honeslty come across as being so stupid as to seek to collect money for software which is clearly going to be getting distributed not only illegally, but also more than likely against the will of whomever owns the copyright? No, I have not.


As far as actual progress towards this project goes:
- Have SDK software which someone either here or elsewhere thankfully provided a download link for. Not installed yet.
- Have a spare XP Pro running PC I've started on preparing for the sole purpose of uniting with the Dev Kit for the intent of validating the state of the Beta's. And if anyone knows a valid reason why I shouldn't use XP to do this now is a really good time to speak up.
- Have the SCSI cable. Whoopee!


What I still don't have and will need to buy and install is a compatible SCSI card. The card at work that was used to pull the data frrom the HDD has only a 50-pin internal SCSI connector. Obviously though the Dev Kit requires a 50-Pin External connector. Having priced both cards and connection adapters I found that a used card goes for as little as $20 on Ebay, but the connection adapters (internal to external) are selling for insanely more than a good used card itself is.
Right now though, one of those other ongoing projects has consumed every last cent of all of the spending money from my last three paychecks. And I'm sure you'lll be interested to know that that money pit project is something I'll be talking about on this forum in due time.

[Gary_b]

good to hear from you game_player_s . i don't think people would have assumed such silly things if you had given them an update sooner. in any case it is good to see you clearing up some of the speculations that people have had.


any hints on this latest project that is taking up so much money and time

[mazonemayu]

indeed this is a public board, sin; therefor you don't go herassing people over something like this (& keep doing it even when they give a good explenation).

this is what gets threads closed. I really don't see your problem; I've had (& still have) games (& stuff in general) in the cupboard for years without touching em. I got tons of sutff that I haven't even played or tested (yet); its called having a life outside of your hobby.

besides, owning a devkit isn't illegal, coz its abandonware & therefor obsolete.
on the other hand since this seems to be an issue for you; I assume you never played any copies (unfortunatly this also means unreleased games)

I normally don't react to this sort of thing, but its getting tiresome; you only have negative comments on (almost) posted here; not bad since you only seem to have 12 posts.

leave the guy alone, it'll happen when it happens.

case closed

[50inchDLP]

game player , if you need money PM me or something. this is very interesting and i would like to see something come from it!!!

[spinksy]

As said - it's not all cause we are impatient! It's cause this (for some of us) is real exciting news - and, as said you don't seem to bothered.

It's great to hear from you and I'm still going to be following this VERY closely but as sin said- if your not after profit or anything why not just burn it all to disc and send it to someone with the time, skill, internet speed(broadband) etc that can get it to work without any bother!

I don't want to annoy you as I really want to hear on progress but your attitude is abit selfish if you mean what you say - there are coders out there that would help you/us in an instant!

[Favrenation]

I know we should all be patient but here is a suggestion:

If he has a laptop or something he could just go to the local library/coffee shop which has free wifi and upload it. If his library is anything like mine it also has computers for you so if you don't have a laptop just burn a DVD and put it on the library computer to upload it. Of course that's me though.

Again if your busy take your time.

[MikeStutzzzz]

oh god dial up... i remember those days waiting half an hour on youtube to watch a 5 minute clip. clicking play before leaving for school just so somthing is buffed when i come home. getting bitched at by grandma for taking up the only phone line. i dident know people still live under these harsh conditions.