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Further random blatherings prompted by investigations from no dialogue from the courtesan in the NW section of East Baldur’s Gate. It turns out her message was the single utterance of a carriage return!
- After a lengthy and somewhat painful Google-ude (Google interlude), found that
Debug Mode=1doesn’t work for console access in this game edition, rather:
[Game Options]
Cheats=1 - The baldur.lua file popular with the EE is non-existent on this install, as is the existence of any
My Documents\Baldur's Gatefolder and the lesser known similarly named subdirectory which may show up in AppData\Local\VirtualStore. - There’s quite a variety of ini settings, many are explained as at Beamdog or Reddit, not yet found a meaning for:
Memory Level=1
Know that
Memory Access=100sets the blood & gore to that level. 😛 - For EE, Github hosts an ini config app for Infinity engine here and here, no mention of the base game, so use at own risk.
- The save file editor parses the contents well enough, haven’t tested it by writing yet.
- One option for improved rendering in the game is the WineD3D patch, upside: nice program, downside: extra files.
Thanks for checking!
Is that the new Notepad? How strange, was Notepad closed before the Back to PrgLnch button was clicked?
Yes, there’s a bunch of weird stuff going on with it, will update when back on W11. 🙂Down deep in dungeons, the un-pausing of the game while in inventory gets one’s goat after a while, mainly due to the fiddly nature of full inventories. Fortunately, it can be paused, by copying over the saves to the multiplayer save directory, and setting up a solo MP game, as it were.
Fine, save for a couple of hiccups mentioned over at GOG. 😛Has happened here on the odd occasion as well, usually turns out to be something awry with the switches.
The stain is odd, rust should generally rinse out – always rinse in cold here. For the existence of rust in the HWS or even the pipes, no issue with water for the bath or shower? How old is the hot water tank btw?As well as the Frigidaire, this establishment sports a fine and trusty Simpson Delta 402 washing machine.
The top image is how it looks now, the bottom, way back. Acquired in 1990, it has to date accommodated many a load without so much as a sneeze, notwithstanding the horrendous number of dirty hankies it has suffered unto. The only issue to date was the replacement of the broken lint catcher some years ago. Now, the drain pipe having caught the morning sun for many years, has developed small splits, so consequently it is held together by a few winds of handy gaffer tape. 🙂
In toying with the idea of peeping under the hood re the caching system used, typed in a block of text as a reply to some topic without posting it. To determine if it was cached, found no updates at all when filtering Stearn in ChromeCacheView (sorting LastAccessed). If the test was not setup correctly, might be a question for the WP or SO forums.
Nice, there’s a nice scene in Apocalypse Now with that playing.
Heard of Sam Sklair? Plays the flute, clarinet, and a host of other instruments. Here’s a nice one:
He also created some synth-y stuff in the eighties like Touch Tone Keyboard in The MicroChip Revolution. That’s the playlist, where the track names are instantly recognizable.
Also contributed to a combo album made with Claude Larson, where can be heard things like Computer Toys.Rereleasing this old-timer is a blast from the past. Don’t remember playing the original, (certainly do recall the amazing sound effects in Bane of the Cosmic Forge.)
Seen a bit of scoffing at QT on SO threads and others, it’s not all that bad is it?
Unity is introducing a surcharge on distribution of their runtime libraries on end-user machines. Without any sweeteners, no doubt comes across like a kick in the guts first and foremost to their pro and enterprise clients.Yep! Does Teams come up at all on the laptop over there? We also want the Jokes and Disney, among the other quaint rantings.
Apart from the purple spider webs mentioned on today’s Science Show, all you need to know about consciousness is this Maximum Cause Effect Structure:
I tend to go more for front of brain (FOB) there’s another nice piccy to summarise it:
Very interesting! Are the English DBZK episodes dubbed or subtitled – info not often easy to get via Googling or even on Wikipedia.
The Descent is rather depressing, saying that is actually a spoiler if you intend to watch it, so belated spoiler alert!
Streaming Noughts + Crosses at the moment – nicely put together and presented with a nicely paced plot, you won’t be bowled over by the superfluity of incisive dialogue though.
Started to really getting into The Control Room, when it ended all of a sudden after three episodes. Funny these days how we are all getting acclimatised to 6 or more episodes in a said series. 😛
Oh, the dialogue in Boiling Point is very much in the idiom of the theatre of the stage, and therefore quite something else, even if I didn’t quite get all of it. Blame the lack of subtitles, my hearing, sound recording, restaurant hubbub, and the poor acoustics – after all, it was a real restaurant. Recommended.Edited the OP, turns out the vanilla Override folder in the New directory was pointed to, and the extra files in the original Override folder caused the resolution exception. Must have contained some
widescreen modfiles that somehow got misconfigured or mangled – who knows? Edit: The extra files are viewable here, and all date from around 2001, so must be have been from a re-issue of part of another earlier official patch most likely 1.3.5521.
The nasty error occurred after the physical removal of the “baldur’s gate New”, upon which the initial reaction was: 😲How about devising a new game based on an old one – like a game of “Prong”, involving the wielding of a pointed implement capable of popping balls bouncing of walls. Well- er, if the mechanics of such a game will not inspire, the name is catchy enough, no?
No candy store in the immediate locale, one which boasts of being “environmentally focussed” might do well though.
Yes, he likes it there, it’s a thoroughfare section though, so being tripped over and trodden on would come with the territory. Alternately, a nice, cosy spot nearby is one he will take to quite willingly. 🙂
Ah yes, do allow this confession coming on strong, the first line in the article for Rin Tin Tin is “not to be confused with …”. Well, it turns out an irrefutable fact that the confusion did once exist, even to the point of imagining Snowy as some kind of international version Rin Tin Tin. 🥴
We’re not in a technical drought yet, rather, drought affected. 🙁Cripes, a mummy with the mummy ability, or something worse, and did the title of the book happen to be “1001 Ways to Avoid Being Harassed By Masses of Murderous Mummies”?
As a matter of interest, can PrgLnch run Notepad or Calculator or anything else on W11 over there?Yikes! Got sandblasted again when AFKing, so much so that the wire brush and gougers had no effect. It actually wanted a large crowbar or pick! ⛏
Probably not, for no other good reason than the other squillion games waiting on the to-do pile. 😛
Yeah, seems that way looking at this post at GOG, but things have changed somewhat since then. Reading from the general consensus from this thread at Reddit, if you were to acquire the game now, get the EE. In purchasing the game around 2007, the choice was not available, as Beamdog was not even embryonic. 😛Thanks. It happened at least once going back some time ago now. Not easy to pin down, so a different browser is a good idea. 🙂
Reported the diffed files as follows, the
mage.chris also different, so could have installed a character mod back then.Compare I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override with I:\games\baldur’s gate New\Override
10/09/2023 9:44:05 PM
Filename Folder Comparison result Left Date Right Date Extension ALBERT.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 1/07/2001 3:58:56 PM DLG ALDETH.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 2/07/2001 2:22:40 AM DLG ALIGNMNT.2DA Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 9/06/2001 1:41:30 PM 2DA AR0116.ARE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 1/07/2001 10:43:50 AM ARE Ar0116.bcs Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 1/07/2001 10:34:08 AM bcs Ar0128.bcs Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 2/07/2001 12:12:14 AM bcs AR0717.ARE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 13/06/2001 7:40:48 PM ARE Ar1100.bcs Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 1/07/2001 11:36:12 PM bcs ARGHAI.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:20:44 PM CRE Arow05.itm Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 29/06/2001 8:16:26 PM itm AROW12.ITM Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 1/07/2001 9:13:32 AM ITM AROW14.ITM Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 1/07/2001 9:12:58 AM ITM BANDCAP.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:50:12 PM CRE BANDCR.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:49:50 PM CRE BANDIC.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:49:28 PM CRE BANDIT.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:49:14 PM CRE BANDIT2.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:46:28 PM CRE BANDIT3.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:45:34 PM CRE BANDITA.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:45:10 PM CRE BANDITC.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:43:22 PM CRE BANDITCY.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:42:50 PM CRE BILLY.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:42:24 PM CRE BRAC06.ITM Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 13/06/2001 9:08:18 PM ITM CANTO.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:41:34 PM CRE CULT3.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 29/06/2001 6:53:06 PM CRE DRIBBE.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:41:02 PM CRE Flamal.bcs Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 2/07/2001 3:33:30 AM bcs Flamal.cre Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 2/07/2001 12:21:10 AM cre GORPEL.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 1/07/2001 12:17:18 PM DLG HOBGOBC.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 7:39:48 PM CRE JALANT.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 30/06/2001 6:11:16 PM CRE JEMBY.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:39:22 PM CRE KNOTT.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:38:18 PM CRE MARL.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 15/06/2001 11:53:54 PM DLG NEVILL.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:37:58 PM CRE NOBW8.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 14/06/2001 9:52:34 PM DLG ORDULI.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 7/07/2001 9:09:44 AM DLG OUBLEK.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 30/06/2001 9:13:00 PM DLG RAEMON.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:32:16 PM CRE RAMAZI.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 16/06/2001 9:04:24 AM CRE REPMAN.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:24:10 PM CRE SPWI003.SPL Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 7/07/2001 8:50:46 AM SPL SPWI112.SPL Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 7/07/2001 8:52:32 AM SPL sw1h20.itm Binary files are different * 17/06/2001 11:52:44 AM 10/05/1999 11:18:18 AM itm SW1H22.itm Binary files are different * 17/06/2001 11:53:34 AM 14/04/1999 1:56:52 PM itm sw1h23.itm Binary files are different * 17/06/2001 11:53:30 AM 27/05/1999 2:37:08 PM itm TAEROM.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 30/06/2001 10:18:10 AM DLG TEYNGA.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:23:36 PM CRE THUG.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:22:34 PM CRE TRAPDIS.bcs Text files are different * 29/06/2001 10:53:30 PM 16/04/1999 3:32:28 PM bcs TREMAI.DLG Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 27/06/2001 11:54:00 PM DLG ZEKAR.CRE Left only: I:\games\Baldur’s Gate\Override * 28/06/2001 6:21:52 PM CRE - After a lengthy and somewhat painful Google-ude (Google interlude), found that
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