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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on June 28, 2003, 11:07:51 pm

Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 28, 2003, 11:07:51 pm
this guy's been emailing me for the last few weeks, and i've been keeping him on a string, which i hate doing, but anyway, the story is something about how he can't access files on his CD (i'm guessing it's because it's damaged or something) and to play Freespace 1 he needs the following files:

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the files that i need are

  name                      size in bytes

freesp~1.ex_           1937408
FreeSpaceAutoRun.exe   91136
FreeSpaceAutoRun.ico   3310
setup.exe              59904
setup.ini              75
_inst32i.ex_           320133
_isdel.exe             8192
_setup.dll             11264
_sys1.cab              210528
_user1.cab             255758
data1.cab              6120
fred.ex_               2741760
freespace.ex_          1936896
fs.ex_                 2184704
lang.dat               4557
layout.bin             353
setup.bmp              74400
setup.ins              59663

folders that i could not access-




i'm thinking this is legit, and not warez, because you can't play the game with just those files, so it's not like he's asking me to send him the whole CD or something.  now i was expecting to get my DSL back, but it hasn't happened yet, and i feel sorry for the guy, so if anyone would like to help me (and ultimately him) out here, and upload some stuff to a folder (via FTP), i'd appreciate it and he'd appreciate it even more :)

anyone?
Title: need a favor
Post by: Sandwich on June 29, 2003, 05:36:02 am
First of all, point him here.

Second of all, point him to the HOTU page.
Title: need a favor
Post by: kasperl on June 29, 2003, 05:40:29 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Second of all, point him to the HOTU page.

FS1

HOTU doesn't have that.
Title: need a favor
Post by: Hippo on June 29, 2003, 10:08:00 am
why is it that whenever someone specifically says FS1, smeone doesn't notice and refernces to FS2? Just read the first line in my sig...
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2003, 11:03:25 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich
First of all, point him here.

Second of all, point him to the HOTU page.


first of all, the way he got in contact with me was through here.  but because you guys crack down on anything remotely illegal/warez, he was too scared to post anything... so he contacted me.  i don't know why, but i intend to help him.

second, he already has FS2.
Title: need a favor
Post by: karajorma on June 29, 2003, 11:05:30 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Second of all, point him to the HOTU page.


Actually that is a valid comment even though the problem is with FS1.
 As far as I know none of those files are ones you need for the FSPort which suggests for some reason he doesn't want to play the port or can't. Which also suggests the guy might not have FS2 either.
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 29, 2003, 11:07:22 am
You've got the webspace, I've got the broadband and CD. Password me up, baby.
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2003, 11:07:57 am
Stryke did what i'd expected most of you to do... offer to help without probing with questions and "other ways" of doing it.

Thanks a lot Stryke, you've just been raised on my level of expectations :yes:

check your PMs
Title: need a favor
Post by: DragonClaw on June 29, 2003, 01:57:52 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
check your PMs


(S)He's a girl? :eek2:   I knew it all along! ;7
Title: need a favor
Post by: Nico on June 29, 2003, 02:11:17 pm
that was gross, DC :p
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stryke 9 on June 29, 2003, 02:14:23 pm
No, just lame. I thought of that one a long time ago, and rejected it.
Title: need a favor
Post by: DragonClaw on June 29, 2003, 02:24:51 pm
Bah :blah:
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2003, 03:18:51 pm
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Originally posted by DragonClaw


(S)He's a girl? :eek2:   I knew it all along! ;7


you're the one that every quote in your signiture has something to do with being gay.

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Gay people are rejects who can't get girls. Period. ~ DragonClaw

I do support gay rights. ~ Unknown Target

I know if I were a girl, I'd be bisexual. ~ Knight Templar

Gay activists all over the country are celebrating. ~ Su-tehp


don't even get me started :D
Title: need a favor
Post by: Sandwich on June 29, 2003, 04:00:34 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth


you're the one that every quote in your signiture has something to do with being gay.



don't even get me started :D


"Rising"! You forgot the "rising"!! :p :lol:

EDIT: Oh, and my bad, I _did_ read it as FS2... comes from forumatizing at 3am. ;)
Title: need a favor
Post by: an0n on June 29, 2003, 04:08:09 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
EDIT: Oh, and my bad, I _did_ read it as FS2... comes from forumatizing at 3am. ;)
Bah! Amateur. I've cruised the boards at like 2pm before, having been awake since 10am the previous day.
Title: need a favor
Post by: DragonClaw on June 29, 2003, 04:11:35 pm
ph33r the gheyness! :nervous:


But yeah. you forgot the Rising.

:p
Title: need a favor
Post by: Sandwich on June 29, 2003, 04:20:52 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Bah! Amateur. I've cruised the boards at like 2pm before, having been awake since 10am the previous day.


Yes, but that's why I'm an admin, and you're a peon. ;)
Title: need a favor
Post by: an0n on June 29, 2003, 04:28:42 pm
It's also why I have 24hr security and armed guards defending my house....err....forget I said that.

*goes back to hacking the Pentagon*

*decides to 'play' with any government spiders that may be watching*

HACK THE PENTAGON, JIHAD, ALAH, KILL, BUSH, HATE, ASSASINATE, SINGLE MOTHERS, LIBERALS, SADAM, OSAMA, COMMUNISM!!!!!!!
Title: need a favor
Post by: Sandwich on June 29, 2003, 04:47:29 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
It's also why I have 24hr security and armed guards defending my house....err....forget I said that.

*goes back to hacking the Pentagon*

*decides to 'play' with any government spiders that may be watching*

HACK THE PENTAGON, JIHAD, ALAH, KILL, BUSH, HATE, ASSASINATE, SINGLE MOTHERS, LIBERALS, SADAM, OSAMA, COMMUNISM!!!!!!!


ROFL!

*submits thread to Google*

:drevil:
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2003, 06:24:44 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich


Yes, but that's why I'm an admin, and you're a peon. ;)


no one used the word "peon" since Swooh :D
Title: need a favor
Post by: Sandwich on June 29, 2003, 06:29:09 pm
"until Swooh", you mean.
Title: need a favor
Post by: DragonClaw on June 29, 2003, 06:53:00 pm
Actually, I used the word peon before Swooh. Mostly when I was referring to my fellow classmates at school. Things like that.

:D
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2003, 06:59:52 pm
yeah Sandwich, i meant to say "since Swooh" :)
Title: need a favor
Post by: Knight Templar on June 29, 2003, 08:00:26 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth


no one used the word "peon" since Swooh :D


By Swooh, you mean Feudal China, or at least Warcraft, right?
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 29, 2003, 11:20:44 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar


By Swooh, you mean Feudal China, or at least Warcraft, right?


:wtf:
by Swooh i mean the word that refers only to Swooh.com, the private and personal webserver of four Houston high-school kids.

no one else uses the word "Swooh" because... well... it doesn't exist, it was a made up word by one of the admins.
Title: need a favor
Post by: Sandwich on June 30, 2003, 04:40:24 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
yeah Sandwich, i meant to say "since Swooh" :)


Until Swooh, you mean..... again. :-/ :lol:
Title: need a favor
Post by: an0n on June 30, 2003, 05:23:56 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
no one else uses the word "Swooh" because... well... it doesn't exist, it was a made up word by one of the admins.
What about the Q3W tards when they're describing a blade-swipe sound?


God, I was stretching with that one.
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on June 30, 2003, 05:33:21 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich


Until Swooh, you mean..... again. :-/ :lol:


uhh... yeah :D  sorry about that ;) :lol: :)


an0n:  actually, if you search for "Swooh" on Google, Yahoo, etc. like 95% of the stuff is related to Swooh.com, the other 5% or so, are kids describing sounds in the game, like:

"It made a swooh sound"

it's like they spell "swoosh" wrong, and say "swooh" instead by mistake :D
Title: need a favor
Post by: vyper on June 30, 2003, 05:39:58 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth


uhh... yeah :D  sorry about that ;) :lol: :)


an0n:  actually, if you search for "Swooh" on Google, Yahoo, etc. like 95% of the stuff is related to Swooh.com, the other 5% or so, are kids describing sounds in the game, like:

"It made a swooh sound"

it's like they spell "swoosh" wrong, and say "swooh" instead by mistake :D


Maybe it did go "swooh" tho, kinda swoosh without the sh!. ?
:nervous:

aye, anyway, get ur arse over to the swooh forum :p
Title: need a favor
Post by: Stealth on July 08, 2003, 11:27:55 pm
your PM box is full Stryke.

the guy who wants the CD stuff says:

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u gave me the 32bit installer version of fs1, well my cds use 16bit installer.
it is ok. it will work out coz the files being installed are the same none the less.
what i need from u is to insert your cd1 and cd2. open the cd using my computer... and take a screenshot and send them to me. in this way i will know the layout of the cds especially cd2.
(when i try to install using cd1 after it finishes it asks for cd2 and i insert my cd2 it says wrong cd.. so if i see the layout of your second cd then i can make such a cd from the files of the second cd that i already have)


also

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at last i got the files, thank you so much...
well, the files u gave me were all ok, although the files fred.ex_ (i got fred.exe instead)
and freesp~1.ex_ were missing. i also need the folders ereg and directx from cd1.
i found another problem, the file hallfight.mve on my cd2 does not seem to play.
i tried to play it with an mve player and still it did not play, so could u find a way to send that file also.
it is 75mb but i thought since u have so much webspace and all u could help me...

and hey, thanx a lot again man, can't wait to get these files soon and start playing the game again.
(by th way does freespace 1 work on winXP)


could i give you his email addres so he could talk to you :)