I don’t know if it’s happened to everyone yet but does anybody recognise the feeling when your computer has just died/wiped/blowup/doesn’t turn on and you have an almost finished game/midi or anything that has taken hours of time?
Well I’m writing this because I just visited circy.cjb.net and relised it’s happened to him. It reminded me of the time when my bro tried to install an operating program on our PC and windows was gone, so was all my work but more importantly my games!!! I had a bit backed up on CD but that was months in the past. I guess it is good to back up stuff regularly.
Anyways, you can post here about your loss of almost finished games, whether you let them go or made them all over again. Tell us how many hours of work you lost and how you restrained yourself, after the second of relisation, from putting your fist through the monitor.
Heh, I know the feeling well. Especially after doing hours and hours of work with TGF only to have it crash on you.
One example was something I was doing in 2000, I wanted to see if I could make a huge game that would fit on a CD. I put hours and hours into it and it was closed to being finished until THE GAME FILE CORRUPTED THANKS TO A FAILED SAVE DUE TO A BLACKOUT.
my old pcs used to crash and need windows reinstalled on a regular basis (every 4 months or so) by new pc has been ok since ive had it! (well it turns itself off when playing counter strike source sometimes)
but i backup my games every now and then but probably not often enough.
At the moment I have 10 different backups of Zombies Now. Early on, about a year ago, I fell pray to the 'Bad Object' bug of MMF, meaning I lost a lot of work on one build of the game. It was a blessing in disguise though, seeing as the new build is much better.
There was a bug in KNP if anyone ever noticed, sometimes, seemingly randomly, the files would just corrupt for no reason. I think the same also happened sometimes in TGF.
Since I usually do a whole bunch of work on a game then get bored with it, I have a folder with hundreds of megs of games at least 50% finished that I'll probably get around to finishing... one day. If I lost all that I'd be extremely upset. Fortunately, since I don't work on anything but my current project at any given time, my last three backups are more or less identical apart from some of the newer things, which all have a dozen or so backup files on disk, so I'd still lose them in the event of a cataclysm. But I take extra-good care of my machine so I feel pretty safe.
I've installed Windows XP once in three years, the first time I installed XP was the last. When I had 98 I had to reinstall that at least once a month, and ME was just shite.
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(and amazing that someones visiting the site in the appalling state that its currently in 
