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What happens when you install DROD-JtRH twice?
I want a DROD for KDD2 and all SS holds, and a DROD with all other holds.
But is it possible without a crash of the game?
I could test it ofcourse, but I don't want to lose anything.
So does any of the programmers know if it safe?

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02-20-2006 at 02:09 PM
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As far as I know, DROD doesn't actually do much "install" as "copy all the files to the directory and add a few reigistry keys telling Windows DROD exists". In other words, in runs straight from a directory without installation, so as many DRODs as you want should be safe.
02-20-2006 at 03:28 PM
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Unless something changed that I missed, everytime you use the different installation you will need to request a new CaravelNet key. This, as I can attest to when switching between Linux and Windows versions, can be a big pain in the rear.

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gamer_extreme_101 wrote:
This, as I can attest to when switching between Linux and Windows versions, can be a big pain in the rear.
Why not just use the same installation from both OSes. That's whatI do, and it works great.

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Note that it's not possible to have the same game* installed in two different locations as the same user in Linux** (different games are of course ok). This is because the location of the data files are stored in ~/.caravel/[game]/DataPath.txt -- so, all installations would end up using the same data files.

.. okay, so it is possible, but you'll have to do a little bit of scripting. For example, you can delete ~/.caravel/drod-2_0/DataPath.txt before launching DROD:JtRH in a different location to force it to search for its data again. If the data is located in a subdirectory of the executable's location, this should work.

- Gerry

* DROD:JtRH demo, DROD:JtRH full, DROD:KDD demo, DROD:KDD full and DROD:AE are all considered different games.

** This is actually a lie, read on.
02-21-2006 at 06:39 PM
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Stefan wrote:
gamer_extreme_101 wrote:
This, as I can attest to when switching between Linux and Windows versions, can be a big pain in the rear.
Why not just use the same installation from both OSes. That's whatI do, and it works great.
Great idea, but I'd need a bit of help with it - at the moment, all of my hard drives have been partitioned, so I'd need to know:

1) A free program that allows me to resize partitions.
2) The files I need to edit.

Edit: This, oddly, is my 2000th post. I'm trying my hardest not to use an emoticon for the occasion.

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