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[Gilgamesh]

Well, I have now played through SoA/RoT and although I´ll still try to fix one thing, it´s time to start the work on an installer. I have some other things currently but I should be able to use friday and saturday on this. With luck the upload can begin on saturday, which reminds me, where can I upload this? I´d need a place where the installer could only be downloaded by the beta-testers (password protected or something). After a couple of weeks of testing (depending on how it goes), the mod would be released to public.

With that famous luck, the release date is 1.12.2004. It will most likely be moved. Maybe 1.5.2005 would be realistic...No, seriously, it is finally going to be released.

Well, anyway, I´ll probably need some help with that installer so prepare for questions in this post. I´ll go to do those other things now and return on friday.


P.S. Beta-testers, please report that you are still in business. :thumb:

[Eon Blue Apocalypse]

Thta's great! :thumb:

[TheWizard]

How big will the mod be once it is compressed? I could provide a password protected account for the betatesters on my personal FTP site; maximum downstream bandwidth is 60KB/s. If you need more speed, maybe Neil does something like this with other betatesters here at FW, so you may want to query him. There are other people that have web/FTP space too, just look for some download links in the Completed IE Mods section of the forums to get an idea of who has their own space.

[Gilgamesh]

I have no idea of the size. Probably something like 200-300 mb. I have a 56K modem which moves stuff with 4,5KB/s speed so I don´t think I´ll be needing more than 60KB/s...

Anyway, I´d be happy to upload to your FTP site but be prepared that the upload will take time. Is it OK?

[TheWizard]

I'm a patient guy, trust me. I sent you a PM with the specifics.

[Gilgamesh]

OK, that exe - building looks quite complicated. Actually I haven´t got a clue what to do now. So, could somebody help me? First of all, what do I do with the files now (which are mostly in the override)? I was thinking that I 'prepare' the mod - files, send them to Wizard´s FTP and then somebody could download the files and make the installer. Hopefully this wouldn´t be too big of a job as I really wouldn´t have time for studying exe - making.

Other option would be that I just send the files to the FTP site with a manual which tells where they must be put and let people download.

So, could anyone do this installer? I´ll let this be here a week and if no-one is willing, I´ll do that other option.


Thanks!

[Gilgamesh]

OK, I´ll just do that other option. I really need to get this out of my "list of things to do". I´ll put the files in biffs (+ some into .zip´s), write a short manual where to put the files, upload everything to Wizard´s FTP and let people download. We´ll just skip the beta-testing part. There are not enough people waiting for the release for it to really matter. The first who´ll play the mod will be the beta-testers.

I´ll contact teh Wizard as soon as I have everything ready and the upload can begin. After every file has been uploaded, the forum can be moved to Released Mods.

[hlidskialf]

Let us know. Perhaps someone will repackage it down the road...