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Is StarsEd editor still available?

Sat, 20 April 2024 09:20

iztok

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Registered: April 2003
Location: Slovenia, Europe

Hi!

After many years of hiatus I've started again a game of Stars! Thumbs Up

Alas, very soon it became clear (again) that AIs are very broken and need some help. I vaguely remember changing AIs' Race Wizard settings with StarsEd editor, but I can't find it neither in my archives nor on the web. Can anyone help me please?

BR, Iztok

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Re: Is StarsEd editor still available?

Tue, 23 April 2024 12:36

iztok

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Messages: 1206
Registered: April 2003
Location: Slovenia, Europe

Hi!

> Can anyone help me please?

Nevermind. Found StarsEd v1.2 in an old ghost archive from 2012.

Funny thing, how searching for it reminded me on quests in a computer game. Smile

As first I had to find archives, that were moved through several computers and disks.
Then I had to find programs to open archives. I had enough bad experience with archieving to save programs with archives, but they were on an external disk I keep at work (different location than home).
Then I've found out some programs are outdated and couldn't open my archives.
So I had to search the web to find them. OFC many sites that search has found, don't exist anymore, don't have the right files or are simply dead ends.
After many false positives I finally managed to get the proper GhostExplorer that found a "rich" Stars! folder in the archive.

There was even my mod I mentiond previously. Smile

BR, Iztok

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Re: Is StarsEd editor still available?

Wed, 24 April 2024 09:35

iztok

Commander

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Registered: April 2003
Location: Slovenia, Europe

OFC it would be too easy to finish the quest so quickly. Twisted Evil

When I copied the found folder with StarsEd to the comp with working Stars! and tried to run StarsEd, it failed to run with the message that the component Msflxgrd.ocx or one of its dependencies is not correctly registered or missing.
Let's ask google... It's a file from Visual Basic 6 development studio. I didn't want to get it from strange sources, so I downloaded it from MS site in a cumulative update for VB6.
OFC the update failed to install, because I didn't have VB6 installed.
But the update could be opened with 7zip, and I finally extracted the file to System32 folder and ran its registration.
OFC the registration failed, regsvr32 claiming it's missing dependent DLL files.
Thinking "Heck it!" I started my ancient portable from around year 2000 running Win XP, hoping I could install StarsEd there.
The comp booted and I saw BIOS settings for about 2 seconds (the battery for BIOS died long ago, so it's a SOP) . Then its LCD blanked and stayed blank, despite the comp rebooted afterwards and loaded OS correctly.
Connecting an external LCD didn't help. The signal it got from comp wasn't recognized as a valid one.

So the saga ...err... my quest for making Stars!'s AIs less crippled continues. Thumbs Up

BR, Iztok

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Re: Is StarsEd editor still available?

Fri, 26 April 2024 13:31

iztok

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Messages: 1206
Registered: April 2003
Location: Slovenia, Europe

After more checking with google I've finally found a solution to make StarsEd work on win10 comp: the file Msflxgrd.ocx should be copied and registered in SysWOW64 folder.
So after running StarsEd for the first time in 12 years I found out it can't edit AI races. My memory is really getting old.

I'm back to the starting square. Eh... Sad

BR, Iztok

[Updated on: Fri, 26 April 2024 13:32]

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Re: Is StarsEd editor still available?

Sat, 27 April 2024 01:48

Braindead

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Registered: April 2005
Location: Ohio

Sounds like an adventure. Why are you playing against AI anyway?

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