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I have an OLD copy of Stars (2.5!) on floppy and am just getting back into the game. I'd like to move my 2.5 up to the current 2.6, but I cannot find a clean copy of the zip file to take me from 2.5a to 2.6b.

Any recommendations? The files at http://library.southern.edu/stars/stars.htm and the mirror are both corrupt according to every unzip program I could find.

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Fri, 30 July 2004 15:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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TimeStopper wrote on Fri, 30 July 2004 21:11

I have an OLD copy of Stars (2.5!) on floppy and am just getting back into the game. I'd like to move my 2.5 up to the current 2.6, but I cannot find a clean copy of the zip file to take me from 2.5a to 2.6b.

Any recommendations? The files at http://library.southern.edu/stars/stars.htm and the mirror are both corrupt according to every unzip program I could find.


The current 2.6 is *j*, you do not need to patch all the way, the 2.6jRC3 exe is the complete game.
Unless you want the *b* version ... that patch seems to be corrupt indeed ...

mch

[Updated on: Fri, 30 July 2004 15:52]

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Fri, 30 July 2004 18:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Did 2.6 stop the registration process, or will the new executable be able to detect my registration key from 2.5?

Thanks again for the answers!

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Fri, 30 July 2004 18:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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TimeStopper wrote on Sat, 31 July 2004 00:05

Did 2.6 stop the registration process, or will the new executable be able to detect my registration key from 2.5?


I don't know if your registration key will work with the latest version. Also at some point illegal keys were banned from the game and if I understood correctly some legal keys were banned as well ...

To be sure, you need stars26jrc3 if you want to play in AutoHost games.

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Thanks again for the answers!

You're welcome,

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Sat, 31 July 2004 01:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Micha wrote on Sat, 31 July 2004 00:47

... at some point illegal keys were banned from the game and if I understood correctly some legal keys were banned as well ...

IIRC, the legal keys that were banned by mistake in one patch (I do not rememeber which) will work in the JRC3 patch.

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Sun, 01 August 2004 01:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Micha wrote on Fri, 30 July 2004 15:52

Unless you want the *b* version ... that patch seems to be corrupt indeed ...

mch


How odd... is that the only one corrupted? I wonder if I accidently used ascii mode instead of binary when transfering it years ago? Never heard of any problems until now though.

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Sun, 01 August 2004 01:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ron wrote on Sat, 31 July 2004 22:09

How odd... is that the only one corrupted? I wonder if I accidently used ascii mode instead of binary when transfering it years ago? Never heard of any problems until now though.


Probably because no one had needed it... Smile

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Ron wrote on Sun, 01 August 2004 07:09

I wonder if I accidently used ascii mode instead of binary when transfering it years ago?

No, that does not seem to be the problem, it is in 8 bit format.

The tail end of the file does not look correct, though, so the transmission must have been cut off when you uploaded it, or a HD problem on the server caused part of the file to disappear.

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Tue, 03 August 2004 23:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 Perhaps someone can give me a URL to download a good copy.

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Wed, 04 August 2004 03:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ron wrote on Wed, 04 August 2004 05:43

Perhaps someone can give me a URL to download a good copy.

Did a search a few days ago, apart from AH only one other URL turned up, a Finnish site but the link to the download was dead ... well at least I think it was, my Finnish is not that good. Grin Hm ... or mabye you had to log in or something ... Confused

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Wed, 04 August 2004 17:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ron wrote on Tue, 03 August 2004 22:43

Perhaps someone can give me a URL to download a good copy.


I'll check my old hard drive tonight...I might still have a crisium copy.

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Nope. I must of deleted it after I moved my stars stuff off the old drive.

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Thu, 05 August 2004 02:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 Um.. I've got a copy of the 2.7j patch on my HD. Is that the one you guys are looking for? I could mail it to you Ron

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ForceUser wrote on Wed, 04 August 2004 23:43

Um.. I've got a copy of the 2.7j patch on my HD. Is that the one you guys are looking for? I could mail it to you Ron


No, they're looking for the 2.5a->2.6b patch.

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Re: st25a26b.zip corrupted? Sun, 08 August 2004 02:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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 I did a little searching. Altavista found a site with a copy that may be intact, the site is here: http://www.hibbard.force9.co.uk/freeware/patch/

It is a self extracting file build with pkzip, and it unpacks without errors. Zipping the contents with WinZip set to zero compression results in a 814 KB zip file, so the size looks to be OK, too.

I don't have a Stars! version 2.5a or older, so I cannot check if the patch actually works.

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 Thanks craebild! I've downloaded it and replaced the corrupted file.

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