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Originally posted by P-Psycho:
**Just so you know, when I try to use your TC, Nova crashes every single time I try to create or load a pilot. I can't play it. I am using Nova 1.0.4 and I have it installed as suggested above. I have tried everything to get it to work (including digging through the resources and deleting redundancies), and it still refuses to do so. My computer is an iMac DV 400Mhz with 128MB RAM running Mac OS X 10.2.4. Any help would be appreciated.

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I have the same probelm. I have Nova 1.0.3 and when I press, "New Pilot" I fill in the fields and then chrash. It does create the pilot , so when I launch Nova again, with the created pilot in the pilot folder, Nova tries to load it but it chrashes.

Max Os X 10.2.4 , 512MB RAM.

Entarus,

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That's really, really odd. I have 9.1, and haven't had any problems with it. Entaurus, could you try to fill in the empty strings in the Default Names STR# to something besides nothing at all, and see if that makes any difference?

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That goes the same for the EVO Port. WHat they said is what I had.

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**That's really strange... Do other plugs work? The only thing I think you could do is to download Nova again, delete the last pilot, and make sure you have no other plug-ins. When does the crash occur?

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I can't just re-download Nova. I have a dialup connection. I tried all that, and nothing works. It crashes as it tries to load the pilot (just after creation). I am not using any plugins, but other plugins work very well.

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Have you tried filling the empty strings like I asked above? I am thoroughly confused by this, as it hasn't happened on any of my computers running OS 9, though it does crash X.

Does anyone running this in OS 9 have this problem?

I have been unable to get it to work, and have tried everything I could think would make the error. I have redone the chär resource, double checked the shuttle and levo, the character defaults, and have redone the default names. If anyone has ever had a similar problem, and fixed it, please give whatever help you may. If nothing works, it may be a bug in the engine...

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After some 20mins of debugging I have found and FIXED the error.

-Go to the EV basics file ---> chär resource--->EV Trader---->"Locations" field---> Fill in an ID higer then 128, (129 works just fine).---> Save

- I also revamped the str# resource. There are no longer any blank fields in the resource.
But I think the bug lies in the chär resource.

Good luck, tell me if this fixes it for you too P-Psycho.

Entarus,

Edit : After editing the files, delete all pilots from your pilot folder and start a new one.
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(This message has been edited by Entarus (edited 03-23-2003).)

Thanks, Entarus! That seems to have done the trick. That's really annoying how the chär doesn't work at s˙st 128, and you'd've thought Matt would've gotten it. I'll upload a "fix" soon, and email ASW about the bug. Strangely enough, though, this only seems to happen in OSX.

Thanks again!

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(This message has been edited by SpacePirate (edited 03-23-2003).)

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Originally posted by SpacePirate:
**Yes, but that is only true for the file types. The type of those files was still NP(umlaut-i)f, so it would work. The update will have the correct creator and have a valid file type.

The next version, which includes a scaled status bar, the classic startup screen (no Nova sliders), classic EV windows, and many bug fixes, will be released later today, once I get home. The files are stuffed, and ready to be uploaded. I spent a good deal of hours making it look exactly like EV, except for the status bar, which couldn't be helped. I still couldn't find a way to convert the SND 30000 into a quicktime sound, so unfortunately there is no startup music.

There is the transition music, when you start a new pilot, that was apparently left over from the previous EV's. ('SND '# 30003)

It should be up by 3:00 PM EST.
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Are you wanting the orriginal music converted? I can do that for you if you like...

ewan

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I was going to, but SoundEffects wouldn't let me copy the snd resource into the file. I would love it if you'd do it for me.

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Originally posted by Entarus:
**After some 20mins of debugging I have found and FIXED the error.:)

-Go to the EV basics file ---> chär resource--->EV Trader---->"Locations" field---> Fill in an ID higer then 128, (129 works just fine).---> Save

- I also revamped the str# resource. There are no longer any blank fields in the resource.
But I think the bug lies in the chär resource.

Good luck, tell me if this fixes it for you too P-Psycho.

Entarus,

Edit : After editing the files, delete all pilots from your pilot folder and start a new one.**

Ah, okay, thanks. I'll try that. And yes, I am using OS X and I haven't tried on OS 9.

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Ok, finished it. The NOVA music file is just an mp3, so I converted the EV Music to mp3 and called it Nova Music. Im not sure how you will implement it.

I put it in a folder and compressed it, you can download it here:
(url="http://"http://homepage.mac.com/ewanc/EVTheme.sit")http://homepage.mac....anc/EVTheme.sit(/url)

-edit-
Its 331k by the way
-edit-

Hope this works for you
ewan

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(This message has been edited by Jules (edited 03-23-2003).)

gah, double post

ewan

(This message has been edited by Jules (edited 03-23-2003).)

Okay, after following Entarus' suggestion, I got it running. However, Nova now crashes everytime I enter the Procyon system (it crashes right after the flashpoint of entering the system). I have tried to enter it from all sides, on different days, and it still crashes.

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Allright, thanks a ton, Jules. What program did you use for that?

Procyon? I'll look into that. Does anyone else have this problem?

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I used (url="http://"http://www.felttip.com/products/soundstudio/")Felt Tip Sound Studio(/url) to create a 1 second long system 7 sound with just silence in it. I then used Res-Edit to copy the intro music from the EV Music file into the system 7 sound and replaced the resource for the 1 second long silence with the intro music and (ie I deleted the silence and gave the intro music its resource number and resource name). I saved the changes to the system 7 sound in res-edit and opened the file in Sound Effects. I exported it to aiff using Sound Effects then converted it to mp3 using iTunes

Phew, it looks like quite a lot but really just takes a few minutes

ewan

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Here are some graphics I had done last summer (right after Nova came out) but didn't have a plug-in to go with them. They're 3D versions of original EV's ships. (Beware, the outfitts suck) (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/cgi-bin/vftp/dl-redirect.pl/EV4Ngrfx.hqx?path=evn/plugins&file;=EV4Ngrfx.hqx")http://www.ambrosias...le=EV4Ngrfx.hqx(/url)

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Alrighty now. The EV/EVO ports have now been uploaded, updated, etc. The best thing is, I managed to fix the OS X crashing error! Asteroids, of all things... :rolleyes: Lo, and behold, it now works. Perfectly, if all goes well. Not to mention, afterburners use up fuel now (an improvement everyone will love :p), and I fixed the problem with granting outfits.

You should not need to restart your pilots UNLESS you have already completed the missions which are supposed to grant you the Particle Beam or Tractor Beam. Otherwise, the same pilot will work great.

Download Escape Velocity from (url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/ept/")http://www.evula.org...rnostudios/ept/(/url) , and Escape Velocity Override from (url="http://"http://www.northernswamp.com/members/infernostudios/")http://www.northerns...infernostudios/(/url) . All you need is the ev105beta3.sit for EV, or evo102beta2.sit for EVO. MAGMA, Meowx's plugin that updates the graphics is still up there, feel free to drop that in the plug-ins folder. RAID is also there, though it serves no real purpose, and thus isn't necessary.

I changed the format back to .sit, mainly because many people did not have stuffit 7.0.1, and it took too long in .sitx to stuff, for such a small size decrease.

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Installation Instructions:

• Download either ev105beta3.sit or evo102beta2.sit

• Rename your current 'Nova Files' folder. (or if you have an old version of the port, delete it)

• Rename 'Nova Files (EV/EVO)' to 'Nova Files'.

• Delete 'Last Pilot' from your Pilots folder.

• Start a new pilot if required.

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Enjoy the files! Here's hoping this is the last beta!
~SpacePirate

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(This message has been edited by SpacePirate (edited 03-30-2003).)

Wow. Great it works splendid now.

Keep up the good work !

Entarus,

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Hi,

Note : This is for the EVO port ONLY.

There is a bug in the first UE mission. In the OnAccept field.
This bug makes the first UE mission repeat over and over. So its impossible to continue the UE string. Therefore I have made a fix for this.

Download it here :

(url="http://"http://www.evula.org/max/fix.sit")http://www.evula.org/max/fix.sit(/url)

Just drop the plug-in into your plug-in folder.

Have fun ,

Entarus,

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(This message has been edited by Entarus (edited 03-30-2003).)

Thanks, Entaurus. I was already past the first mission, so that's why I didn't catch it... :redface: Thanks for that fix!

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(This message has been edited by SpacePirate (edited 03-30-2003).)