Author Topic: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?  (Read 1643 times)

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Offline Kirov

Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« 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:

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Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2013, 04:45:30 PM »
Seconded.  As a modder, I have four copies of the game installed.

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Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2013, 05:11:31 PM »
Seconded.  As a modder, I have four copies of the game installed.

Darn! Bested!  :(

Offline Droom

Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2013, 05:14:56 PM »
Yes.

Offline Droom

Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2013, 05:20:04 PM »
going to work. Will submit it tonight.

Offline Kirov

Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2013, 08:44:40 PM »
Droom, any chance for that tool or are you still at work? Man, that's exploitation. ;)

Offline Nexii

Re: Any chance for a tool to switch between patches?
« Reply #7 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

 

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