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Serial number questions

Tue, 03 August 2010 14:07

gigarob

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If I donate for a serial number does that serial number work with the stand alone game or only with the autohost? Though I am interested in online play I like playing stand alone as well.

Also, although I have purchased this game several times already (once for myself back in the day, once for a friend as a present and once when they had the multi player pack (which came with several serial numbers)) I do not have any of the original disks anymore. I probably disposed of them when I got really busy and realized that Stars! was being too distracting or when the disks got separated from the S/N's.

Do I need an original disk or can I "patch up" from the the shareware version I downloaded last night (stars26b.zip)?

If so, does the donation come with instructions on getting the full game up and running?

I bought GalCiv2 last week and find it kinda boring. So now I wanna go old school and start playing Stars! again!

thanks in advance for all your help.

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Re: Serial number questions

Tue, 03 August 2010 14:47

mlaub

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gigarob wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 13:07

If I donate for a serial number does that serial number work with the stand alone game or only with the autohost?

Both.

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I do not have any of the original disks anymore. I probably disposed of them when I got really busy and realized that Stars! was being too distracting or when the disks got separated from the S/N's.

If you can find your SN's, you can use those with the files on AH downloads section.

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Do I need an original disk or can I "patch up" from the the shareware version I downloaded last night (stars26b.zip)?

I believe you can download the latest from the downloads area. Here is the one for the multiplay pack I think you mean.

http://starsautohost.org/files/stars26jrc4.zip

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If so, does the donation come with instructions on getting the full game up and running?

I think you just unzip it to a directory, fire up the exe (download the help files to) and enter your SN when the splash screen comes up.

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I bought GalCiv2 last week and find it kinda boring. So now I wanna go old school and start playing Stars! again!

Playing against AI's is usually boring. Wink

-Matt

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Re: Serial number questions

Tue, 03 August 2010 15:06

gigarob

Crewman 3rd Class

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Registered: August 2010

thanks for the quick reply! donating in just a few minutes..

thanks, and I hope to be either kicking your butt or getting my butt kicked soon!

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Re: Serial number questions

Tue, 03 August 2010 15:49

Micha

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Welcome to the forum!

gigarob wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 21:06

thanks for the quick reply! donating in just a few minutes..

thanks, and I hope to be either kicking your butt or getting my butt kicked soon!

Don't get too impatient, it may take Ron a while to get you the serial.

The link Matt has given you indeed holds the entire game, just unzip, launch the .exe and enter the serial.

Have fun! Stars! is a great game! But it's at its best when playing against other humans.

mch

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