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Yuptar
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Could someone produce a mod that puts back the dialog missing from the PC version in the 3DO version? I imagine they don't want to just put it back in the default version because they don't have voice files for it, and so they'd have to completely re-do the voices with new actors for the races that have restored dialog. But for those of us who just play with the text (and rarely even listen to the music...) it would be nice to have the full dialogs restored with important missing information. It's fun to find out things in the game for yourself (even knowing where to find it) rather than relying on a walkthrough.
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Yuptar
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Actually, I'll do this myself if someone will point me to the instructions for modding?
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Yuptar
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Yikes... I hope I don't have to alter the source code and recompile something to make a mod work? 
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Yuptar
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Sigh...
Ok, I've avoided programming since Wind'ohs became the default OS of most desktops. I used to be a Turbo Pascal programmer but have only done interpreted stuff like LISP (specifically MUSH code) and HTML/Javascript since 92 or 93.
What compiler do you need to build UQM under Windows? And what libraries? I'm sure I need more than just the source code offered on the site?
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Yuptar
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Yech... MS Visual C++
I don't want to give Microsoft any more money. Why couldn't it use the ported GCC?
Ah well. Maybe I can get an older copy on the Visual Studio on closeout somehwere for some small amount of money.
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The packages labelled MinGW-<version>.exe are the main installers; try the "proposed" version as there doesn't seem to be a "current" one. You may want to install MSys additionally (again, use the latest, non-snapshot, .exe installer). This should give you everything you need.
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goemaat
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It does support compilation from MinGW.
Interesting, but confusing. There are many files on this site, but it claims there is a 'unified package' for everything. MSYS is the 'complete' package? So I can download only msysDTK-1.0.1.exe and have everything I need to compile UQM? It looks like it's only the same size as the gcc package, but I'd also need make and the Windows API files, right? Is gdb included? Or would I have to download that separately?
It is quite confusing. The actual development tools, libraries, and include files you need are all in four mingw packages (gdb is separate also), explained their download page. MSys is a replacement shell for the windows command line that gives you a Linux-like build environment. You need this too I think to run the configuration scripts in the UQM source code. I created a web page (http://www.goemaat.com/uqm/) explaining it in detail. If you can, get the individual files from the mingw download page (http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml), I don't have a lot of bandwidth.
If you don't want to give money to Microsoft, I think the express version (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/) of visual studio is free. You'll have to upgrade the VC6 project and download all the win32 versions of the libraries used (openal, ogg/vorbis, SDL, SDL_image), and add the include and lib directories of those to the project settings.
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Yuptar
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It is quite confusing. The actual development tools, libraries, and include files you need are all in four mingw packages (gdb is separate also), explained their download page. MSys is a replacement shell for the windows command line that gives you a Linux-like build environment. You need this too I think to run the configuration scripts in the UQM source code. I created a web page ( http://www.goemaat.com/uqm/) explaining it in detail. If you can, get the individual files from the mingw download page ( http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml), I don't have a lot of bandwidth.
This looks very helpful. I'm on a dialup connection, though, so finding that I have to download 25 megabytes or more to compile a ~1 megabyte executable it a bit annoying.  Ah well, no hurry. Maybe I'll wait for UQM 0.6 before I put any major effort into a mod.
If you don't want to give money to Microsoft, I think the express version ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/) of visual studio is free. You'll have to upgrade the VC6 project and download all the win32 versions of the libraries used (openal, ogg/vorbis, SDL, SDL_image), and add the include and lib directories of those to the project settings.
Hey, I didn't know MS offered any version of their compilers for free. I'll have to investigate this.
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