18-01-2005 12:54									#331
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	20-01-2005 21:58									#332
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Gareth!! Just giving you a heads up that I e-mailed you over a slightly touched up version of the title.gif.

	23-01-2005 20:48									#333
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Got it thanks Chris - it's excellent as ever

I've e-mailed you back.

Unfortunately I have lost all my RF graphics files in a computer crash......

	23-01-2005 20:57									#334
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quote: Originally posted by fairline Unfortunately I have lost all my RF graphics files in a computer crash......

You do of course have it all backed up?

	23-01-2005 21:03									#335
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Several people have copies of the RF stuff fortunately. I've lost all my other graphics though, which is a bit disheartening. There was a huge amount I didn't post here or at CDG, and I can't even get hold of the CDG stuff anymore. The shitty CD it was backed up on is a dud and won't read on my computer. Kinda makes me want to give up

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	23-01-2005 21:59									#336
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My god, Gareth this is a setback.

As for the will to carry on.... well I have all the unit graphics that you recently sent to me. What else are you missing exactly? The Cities.gif? I believe I have a draft of that as well and some terrains.

	23-01-2005 22:09									#337
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what exactly did you loose

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	23-01-2005 22:23									#338
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Fear not, Gareth, check your PM box in the new CDG

The RF stuff I can't help you with though, as I don't have the files

	23-01-2005 22:47									#339
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Gareth, do you need the emailed files sent back to you?

	23-01-2005 23:03									#340
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here's my t-44 ,made from your JS-2 and T-34/85,but it is in mge format,

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	23-01-2005 23:34									#341
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Damn - That is a bitter news, Gareth!

But please do not give up, as I have most of your older
and perhaps most of the CDG unit stuff in some shape or form.

(being a dedicated fan, I have been busy saving all I can find!)

Dude:
I would go as far as to burn as many files as I
have onto CDs and post them too if you wish it.
As a fellow civ man, I will do as much as it takes to get
your all published graphics (up till xmas) back to you.

Say the word and it will be done, mate!

I still have all the items you sent me for RF too.

Basically, your retirement would be a terrible blow to the community.

Between us all, I am confident we can salvage at least some of the situation!

	24-01-2005 00:10									#342
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i have ALL of your CDG stuff

	24-01-2005 01:26									#343
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Then get emailing it!

	24-01-2005 02:30									#344
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Four words: "Big Bag of Suck"

Kind of uncanny how these things happen. About a month ago my own hard drive crashed. Fortunately I wasn't working on a masterpiece such as youself and I had all my necessary files saved on a 20 gb hard drive just in case. I hope that enough can be salvaged to rekindle your spirits.

	24-01-2005 09:00									#345
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There is a fair bit on the Web about recovering damaged/unreadable CD's.

I did a quick Mamma search using

"recover damaged CD download free"

and got some interesting hits. There is freeware and trial software available.

There is also advice available. One of the points they make is to use the burner to try to read the CD. It may be worth a try.

Don't give up hope yet.

	24-01-2005 12:22									#346
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I'm sorry to hear that, Fairline. I have the units you made for Warlords. I'll send them along when you're ready.

	24-01-2005 15:38									#347
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Damn gareth, I'm sorry that that had to happen. Its quite a regular occurance for me too. I once lost not only my work of several months but the disc I backed it up on had a scratch in it...

I've ammassed quite a large horde of your units these past 3 years. Anything you need, I'll send them over right away.

And please, for the love of Manchester United's absurdedly large trophy room, don't quit!

	24-01-2005 22:41									#348
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quote: Originally posted by Kobra Fear not, Gareth, check your PM box in the new CDG The RF stuff I can't help you with though, as I don't have the files

Thanks a lot Eivind - I've got the CDG stuff now. Top work fella

quote: As for the will to carry on.... well I have all the unit graphics that you recently sent to me. What else are you missing exactly? The Cities.gif? I believe I have a draft of that as well and some terrains

quote: Gareth, do you need the emailed files sent back to you?

Thanks for the offer guys but fortunately Agricola had the most recent set of gfx files and I'm up and running with RF again

quote: There is a fair bit on the Web about recovering damaged/unreadable CD's.

Thanks John, I'll do a Google search and check it out.

@Curt: Thanks again for the kind offer mate, but I think I have now got all the stuff I posted. If you wouldn't mind e-mailing me the Dictator ToT unit set again that would be a real help.

quote: Four words: "Big Bag of Suck"

That sums it up nicely Jimmy

@Tech: Thanks B. - send the Warlords stuff whenever you're ready.

quote: And please, for the love of Manchester United's absurdedly large trophy room, don't quit!

Thanks again for your help guys

	27-01-2005 10:45									#349
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I think it speaks testiments to how important this game is that the entire community practically rallied around this thread to help out in the data recovery in whatever way they could.

I'm glad to see you at least seem to have found the insperation to finish this again Gareth!!

	27-01-2005 17:42									#350
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That is what teamwork and community is all about, chaps!

On that note - Now I better get posting Jimmywax's P-40 Warhawk!

	27-01-2005 19:41									#351
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Curt is right, that´s the spirit

	28-01-2005 20:41									#352
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Its the right spirit indeed!! This is by far the most anticiapated scenario on this or any Civ II forum I believe in my opinion.

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	30-01-2005 13:51									#353
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Brrrr... , losing all your work can be a demoralizing showstopper. I know that when i lost my entire collection of music files (wav´s and MP3´s made from my CD collection). I never got it back.

Also, unlike normal CD-roms CD-r´s are actually very vulnerable to scratches so they have to be handled with care. For that i usually do double backups. One on a spare HD in my pc for long/medium term storage and one on CDr´s for archival purposes. Another (extra) solution is a large external HD with USB 2.0 or firewire.


Gareth,
In the past few months I´ve also made a collection of your graphics (CDG, Civfanatics, Poly). Is there anything you´re still missing?

	30-01-2005 22:39									#354
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memory sticks and zip drives seem to be a very reliable means of backing up data, they don't hold as much data as a cd-r or dvd-r, but they are much harder to damage, personally, i have 3 partitions on my hard drive, one 60gb partition for music, videos and my civ2 graphics collection, one 50gb partition for games and one 4gb partition for my operating system, that way if a virus infects my operating system, i can format it without losing anything, (although xp pro takes like 2 gigs for a full install ) anyways i find this to be the best way to set a system up

	06-02-2005 20:15									#355
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Fairline,
Since you said you had lost some of your stuff
I am trying to isolate the units in the screenshots that are have posted,
where should i put the units?

	07-02-2005 22:39									#356
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I think he has most of the RF content back now, Erika!

But that is a good gesture, to cut out and reduce the units froms screenies is tough work!

	07-02-2005 23:22									#357
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well, here are the ones i ripped, in case you are missing any of them
it contains 2 versions of a soviet artillery, 2 russian troops, 2 german troops, a t-28, a panther, a dsoviet firghter and 2 german tank destroyers,

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	13-02-2005 05:14									#358
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I hope you wont give up, fairline! This great project should be finished!

	13-02-2005 05:56									#359
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Give the man some time - We know he is on the task!

Quality takes time!

	13-02-2005 06:42									#360
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quote: Originally posted by curtsibling Give the man some time - We know he is on the task! Quality takes time!

he's right, this is not something that should be rushed