Slortibort

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by Slortibort 1y ago
A day on from hearing the news, I find myself particularly grieving his passing. We haven't spoken in a few years and, indeed, I poached one of his employees more recently than we spoke, but I'd like to share an anecdote. Maybe to
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by Slortibort 1y ago
I used to know him quite well, though not much in a technical context. He used to wind up taking home every single girl I introduced him to. He and I met when he pulled my FWB at a club and our friendship long outlasted either of ours with
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by Slortibort 5y ago
I hope so too. I could only imagine that they didn't know why this happened and/or didn't have the budget to investigate the problem. They kind of don't have any excuses now. If they've still got the original source
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by Slortibort 5y ago
I don't actually think it's malice. I think it's just a matter of unforeseen consequences combined with an inability to take corporate responsibility for their own products. The reg key they've changed in the base game d
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by Slortibort 5y ago
Hi. I'm the author. I'm not embarrassed. What I've done is written up my learning experience from near-nought in the hopes that others find it either informative or enjoyable. Why should I be embarrassed of that?
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by Slortibort 5y ago
I played a lot of Installshield games as a kid - I definitely recognised their sail-like logo, but was too young to ever poke around in the installer back then. I started poking around in hex maybe in 2008 and then it was just installed gam
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by Slortibort 5y ago
My partner spoke to some who did and from what I understand there was no resolution. We could maybe have pushed for a refund but I had a bit of time pressure of her leaving for a trip (and I wanted her to have this game for it). I'm go
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by Slortibort 5y ago
Hi there, author here. It was more than due to a 32-bit game running on 64-bit Windows and compatability mode didn't work. Ubisoft changed the reg key of the base game from it's retail key to "Uplay Install 87" and the e
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by Slortibort 5y ago
Hi, author here. Unfortunately not. Ubisoft changed the reg key of the base game from it's retail key to "Uplay Install 87" and the expansion had no idea to look for that key at all. If you used the Ubisoft copy of both games
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by Slortibort 5y ago
> I also think that if the author here used that in the first place they would have arrived at the registry problems much sooner. You're absolutely correct. Doing this again, I'd probably get to start from the middle. I went th
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by Slortibort 5y ago
Hi, I'm the author. I write a lot of technical software docs for a living so I'm no stranger to writing, but this was my first attempt at such an informal writeup. I started trying to fix it on a Friday evening and gave up after I
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by Slortibort 5y ago
Hi, author here. On one hand I wholly agree with you. Ubisoft has absolutely no right to go around selling products that don't work - it's abysmal. In my other "how to fix it" post, my first suggestion is to just buy it