Alpha Centauri 2

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri & Alien Crossfire => The Theory of Everything => Topic started by: Kirov on September 10, 2013, 11:33:23 AM

Title: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Kirov on September 10, 2013, 11:33:23 AM

I mean something like Iniswap: you click an icon and you choose the .exe you want to use from a list. Execs are in separate folders along with respective text/pcx files, so you can also use it for modding.

I remember a tool called ModMan, but I'm not sure if it'd work right now and it didn't deal with execs, only txt.

Right now I have 3 copies of SMAC, 2 of them prone to crashes, and I need a fourth one for scenario building purposes in case I want to change any txt. And it would be great to choose between terran and terranx as well.

Is it a hard thing to do and can I ask someone to at least take a look at it? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would find it useful. :help:

Title: Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 10, 2013, 04:45:30 PM

Seconded.  As a modder, I have four copies of the game installed.

Title: Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Geo on September 10, 2013, 05:11:31 PM

Quote from: BUncle on September 10, 2013, 04:45:30 PM

Seconded.  As a modder, I have four copies of the game installed.

Darn! Bested!  :(

Title: Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Droom on September 10, 2013, 05:13:54 PM

Last year, I wrote a dos batch file which moves out the current patch files and copies in the new ones. Took about 10 minutes to write. I can submit it if anyone's interested.

Title: Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 10, 2013, 05:14:56 PM

Yes.

Title: Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Droom on September 10, 2013, 05:20:04 PM

going to work. Will submit it tonight.

Title: Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Kirov on September 17, 2013, 08:44:40 PM

Droom, any chance for that tool or are you still at work? Man, that's exploitation. ;)

Title: Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
Post by: Nexii on September 19, 2013, 03:19:04 AM

It'd be really nice to include faction swapping and alphax.txt swapping in such a tool