Hultenius Skrivet 31 juli, 2002 Rapportera Share Skrivet 31 juli, 2002 Detta är ett tillägg till nyheten: Respons från skaparen (31/07/02) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Här är det långa mailet från skaparen av GTA3 Admin Console: Hello fellow programmers and GTA3 players. Sorry for the 3 weeks delay and for the mass-mail reply and thanks for your interest on the console. Many of you have sent more than one feedback, mostly about the source code. The source code was on the internet the whole time, ready for the downloads since 05.07.2002. The only thing missing was the link for the download. I wasn't able to update the downloads page as my health situation suddenly got worse and I ended up in hospital for another 3 weeks. As you know, I have developed this program as I was lying in bed after a major operation. The lack of feedback from my side was due to the same reason. My health got worse and I was in hospital for three weeks. I came back home today and have downloaded 203 feedback e-mails about the console. I have still no access on the forums. Please post this e-mail adress (gta3feedback@estetiksoft.de) on the forums so that the people can reach me. I am not hiding information on my person or contact information. My name is Alper Saracoglu, I am a veteran hard-core visual basic programmer with over 10 years of VB and over 15 years of programming experience in several languages from fortran to java. I am the webmaster/admin/owner of the estetiksoft.de and also the owner of the "estetiksoft" software company in berlin - germany. I would also very much appreciate if one of you could post this e-mail on the forums so that other people would have a feedback from me. I have also sent an e-mail to the forum-master to send me a copy of the comments so that i can at least read the comments for once. I have feedback from people complaining that I have not placed any feedback on the forums, and gave no contact information. It is very depressing that I have never got access to the forums, and have still no idea what the console users say about the console, or what kind of problems they experienced. 1. For the players: A quick help/faq thing: -The v1.1 of the console is 708608 bytes long. If your copy is smaller, download the last version. -The console does not write to the registry for its settings. If you have used the full download (full-install) the windows itself writes the install location to the HKey Local Machine, under the uninstall locations. -You do not need to uninstall - and - re-install the console everytime you experience problems (ie. it stops working). This is mainly because the ini file is messed up. Just delete the ini file, it will be regenerated. You can also make a backup of the ini file (ie. backup your settings) when you get the console working. And if it stops working due to any reason, just copy the backup back, overwriting the non-working configuration (ini file) -The console was tested only by Win98SE users, because I have only the Win98SE as development environment. I cannot reproduce any of the problems with other Operating Systems. I must regret that the installation routine was not extensively tested. The developers will find the source-code for download on the downloads page of my server. I hope there will very soon be support for other operating systems like Win2k, WinXP etc. -The v1.0 of the console does not work with the v1.1 version of the GTA3. If you read [Player in ](without the car name) on the console title, you will need to download the v1.1, and select the GTA3 version as v1.1 from the combo box on the lower-right corner of keyboard shortcuts page. -If the console says it cannot find the GTA3.exe, just copy the gta3_console.exe to where the gta3.exe is, and delete the gta3.ini file (it will be regenerated) or, open the ini file in a text editor, and delete the "GTA3Path=" line from the ini file. The carcols.dat file is located in the \Data subdirectory of the gta3.exe install directory. This file is needed and parsed for the car color definitions. If you get this error, copy the gta3_console.exe where the gta3.exe is. -The console is mainly developed for the 1.0 version of the GTA3. I have experienced problems (mainly crash of GTA3 or full computer-crash) while using the console with the v1.1 of GTA3. This problem is not directly from the console. Because the only difference between console v1.0 and v1.1 is the start memory locations (selectable using the combo-box). The GTA3 v1.1 is much more vulnerable to trainers. Rockstar has declared that the difference between v1.0 and v1.1 is mosly reducing the security-checks in order to achieve more performance on slow computers. So if you have a fast computer, go back to the v1.0 -The flight assistance levels the car and automatically sends Z (upwards) speed command if the car is falling. It is not yet very intelligent and its performance is highly computer speed relevant. -There is no pre-defined list for the keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts are freely definable. If you define same shortcut for ie. two commands, both commands will be run. In order to activate the selected and defined shortcut, doubleclick the line on the list, so that the line (or the shortcut) has a checkmark on the left. -The downloads are on a server with traffic limit. If you experience problems with the downloads, please use download assistance like getright. 2. For the developers - It has not yet been possible to upload it on the planet-source-code.com due to the size of the program and its documentation. The full source code including the documentation and comments are now available on http://www.estetiksoft.de/gta3console/getg...gta3console.htm -I have heard that the console install routine overwrites the MSVBVM60.DLL file on Win2k and WinXP, causing version conflicts. Copying back the original MSVBVM60.DLL from the installation CD would resolve this problem and let the console work. Any ideas on this? -I speak english, german and turkish. You can send your comments and ideas in any of these languages. -I can simply not spare some time for the internet pages. If any of you fellow programmers have time for setting-up some fancy homepage for the console, I would very much appreciate. You are fully free for the design of the home page. You can set up your own links as well. You will be the web-master for the console section. Anybody interested? (PS. My server does not accept the Håller med till 100%! "download", it is my personal web-space, on one of the german web-space providers. So there is only one ftp password. Please send your design to me, and I will upload it on the server. Just zip the complete homepage with the sub-directories and images. Please also do not use heavy graphics and animations, as my server has a traffic limit. Please inform me if you are interested, before you finish your design. somebody else could have already finished his/her design) -My visual studio is in german. So I do not have access to an english install routine. Any ideas? -Some feedback states that the console works under XP when the internet explorer is running as well. Can it be due to shared dlls? -The console overwrites its ini file everytime you change any of the settings. This may cause corrupted ini file when the computer crashes. Any ideas about a better way to keep the settings? -The location of the gta3.exe is only needed for the parsing of the carcols.dat file, for the car colors. Do you think it is better to forget about parsing the carcols.dat and use the factory settings for the car colors? This may resolve installation problems as well. Because the console will then be location independent. -The console is simply a memory hack programm. Therefore it is heavily dependant on the memory locations. Is it a good idea to split it to, say 5 independant programs so that every sub-program will perform a combination/part of tasks/functions and even if not all 5 sub-programs work, the working ones do not interfere with the memory locations of the non-working ones, thus reducing the crash risk? cheers, Alper Saracoglu Länk till kommentar Dela på andra sidor More sharing options...
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