[Killer Whale]

It's to hard to get FS Open. So far i have only got a few from this sight.

So

GTSD Paladin
GTF Ultra Hercules (basicaly, a modded hercules)
Several modifications of the broadacia
ASF Olympia
GTCv Nike
GTDn Thatanos
GTCa Warlock
GTC Gryphon
GTC Hyperion
ASD Omega
Omega Base

[General Battuta]

It's not too hard! Someone link him to Turey's installer? I'm writing a paper and much too lazy to find it. [oh, the irony]

You'll be set up and running in no time.

Also, we really need to make it easier to get FSOpen. I think we need a link in the HLP navigation bar.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Well, just go to the Wiki (the link is at the top of this page, in case anyone doesn't know) and search for FSOpen. You'll get to the installer in no time. It may be practical to take a look at the walkthrough here. I didn't and I can't get FSO to work now

[Jeff Vader]

Turey's Installer is good, but maybe there should also be a Turey's Installer for Dummies that would do the following things:

- Install FSO, when the Installer is run and the Next button is clicked twice. No fuss, no muss.
- Create Start menu entries and a desktop icon for the Launcher.
- Repeatedly remind about OpenAL.
- Hide all the retail executables so that they would never get run.
- Have an extensive manual that explains why OpenGL is good, Enable jpg/tga textures is important and the reason why the player can't see purdy graphiks once he's switched to a mod and back.

[WMCoolmon]

It's not too hard! Someone link him to Turey's installer? I'm writing a paper and much too lazy to find it. [oh, the irony]

You'll be set up and running in no time.

Also, we really need to make it easier to get FSOpen. I think we need a link in the HLP navigation bar.

http://www.fsoinstaller.com

[jdjtcagle]

It's not too hard! Someone link him to Turey's installer? I'm writing a paper and much too lazy to find it. [oh, the irony]

You'll be set up and running in no time.

Also, we really need to make it easier to get FSOpen. I think we need a link in the HLP navigation bar.

The installer is awesome but my stu and spark2 was a bad file, I had to get it from my original disk.

might be worth checking

[Topgun]

or, if you don't have internet on your computer but can transfer small files with a thumb drive from a friends computer, download the exe's.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44291.0.html

[Snail]

GTSD Paladin

Is that the reskinned Hecate from Incursion?

[Jeff Vader]

or, if you don't have internet on your computer but can transfer small files with a thumb drive from a friends computer, download the exe's.[/tt][/size][/color]
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44291.0.html

That's what we've tried to say to him. But no. He might have the necessary files but he persistently uses the retail exes, which doesn't help a bit. Then again, I was sceptic too. It took me several months before I dared to try to install FSO. Manually, I might add. No sissy installers for me.

Killer Whale, my man, trust me. Get the executables behind the link Topgun posted and then use Launcher.exe. That's how you play FSO.

[Killer Whale]

GTSD Paladin

Is that the reskinned Hecate from Incursion?

Yep, it's the first ship i ever got apart from the Retail ones. I thought it was great, but apparently you've seen enough to be picky.


I've only got a couple of hundred MB on my playing PC left. I only had about 9 gigs to start with by the way, i don't have 3 million programs on there (apparently the salesman said that more than i'd ever need, but no, programs had to get more numerous and bigger).

So i click on the link that guy got me (that um, what is name, oh Topgun, that's it) i click on the first link, oh, i need internet conection on that one, okay, i click on the second and save that to my thumbdrive and when i go on my other computer i open it with winzip (?)

Whaaa? I don't think i did it right, if i did, what do i do next?

[ssmit132]

You need WinRAR (http://www.rarlab.com/) or WinAce (http://www.winace.com/) to extract it.

[Killer Whale]

Why didn't anyone say that on the downloady thingy's 

unless i didn't see it 

[Jeff Vader]

Dude, get 7-Zip (link in my signature) for the following reasons:

1. It's free. Really. No registrations or anything. It's open source, after all.
2. It'll open most archives so you don't need separate programs for every archive types
3. It's small and resource-friendly.

[Hellstryker]

GTSD Paladin

Is that the reskinned Hecate from Incursion?

Yep, it's the first ship i ever got apart from the Retail ones. I thought it was great, but apparently you've seen enough to be picky.


I've only got a couple of hundred MB on my playing PC left. I only had about 9 gigs to start with by the way, i don't have 3 million programs on there (apparently the salesman said that more than i'd ever need, but no, programs had to get more numerous and bigger).

So i click on the link that guy got me (that um, what is name, oh Topgun, that's it) i click on the first link, oh, i need internet conection on that one, okay, i click on the second and save that to my thumbdrive and when i go on my other computer i open it with winzip (?)

Whaaa? I don't think i did it right, if i did, what do i do next?

.........and you bought this computer when? im skeptical somthing that old will even run FSO

[colecampbell666]

How can you tell how old his PC is? The age of the programs?

[Jeff Vader]

How can you tell how old his PC is? The age of the programs?

I've only got a couple of hundred MB on my playing PC left. I only had about 9 gigs to start with by the way

I interpret this so that his rig has a roughly 10 gig hard drive. No self-respecting, semi-modern gaming computer came with a 10 gig hard drive these days. Conclusion: his rig is, like, so old.

[colecampbell666]

Forgot about that. I was concentrating on the screenshot, which also has pretty old software, another giveaway.

[Killer Whale]

To quote from my dad, about, say, "9 years ago" is that old? (notice about, means give or take a year or two)

[Topgun]

that is extremely old for a computer.

[haloboy100]

Well my computer is older then me. But it's a good rig because it has the latest parts. Perhaps killer whale's rig is the same?