Birth of the Federation

mmobley1 has started working on the MPR++ extentions. I've been helping him out by prototyping an API (Application Programming Interface) for Trek.exe. See I already have many of the game's data structures coded up for the BotF clone and other tools. The tricks I've outlined above just make the inte...

This is an advanced article for programmers. I discovered this info while working on a new API for Trek.exe. Direct Access to Trek.exe's Variable and Structures If you are interfacing code with Trek.exe (e.g. using DLL injection), accessing Trek.exe's data can be a real pain-in-the-butt. However, th...

Okay, you're in the right place. Now you need to know what hexadecimal is. As you know, counting in decimal is like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11... Counting in hexadecimal (hex) is like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10, 11... 19, 1A, 1B... All the numbers you see in the hex edito...

Anyone else here still playing Theme Hospital? :grin: My top favorites are (in no particular order): Minecraft (PC), Theme Hospital (PC), DOOM (PC), Tetris (NES), Mario 64 (N64), Super Mario Bros 3 (NES), Wizards & Warriors 3 (NES), and I like a lot of old point-and-click adventures too. And of ...

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Lol, that was a game for the Apple II. Somehow, I don't think it's on sale anymore

You just need to extract it all to a folder. So you have "bof_patcher.exe" and a separate "patches" folder, stored together. Then it should just work as-is. To be clear: you must leave the patch files in the "patches" folder. The EXE is stored outside of the "patch...

Gotta love those old 610's. I was using a C610 as my main system until last year. The speakers were lame, and the graphics memory was a bit of a hindrance for gaming (16 MB), but good enough for BotF. And as with all laptops, once they get old, the batteries die, and the backlight in the screen star...

cleverwise wrote: Bought it from a friend?

Nah, I stole it.

Joking. I got it as gift. I think they got sick of looking at my 12 year old Dell. It looked like it might have crawled out of Dr. Frankenstein's lab. Let's just say I made a few "modifications" over the years.

MacBook Pro 8,1 running Slackware Linux with FVWM windowing system (customized of course). I run BotF via wine.

@cleverwise: you may also be interested in the old Post your Desktop and Post your Face threads

Question: why is the patcher not in the standard download section? I dunno. It's just not :grin: I checked out the sourceforge link and see two files to lownload - one zip and another with a strange suffix and also very large. Do I need both files or just the zip file? Just the ZIP file. The other ...

They used to say you could tell a lot about a man by the shoes he wears. I guess this is a more modern analog.

Nokia 1600 (Ultrabasic), screen slightly cracked.


Does the job

Welcome, Jourin! Always good to see people still playing BotF, even if it is a buggy piece of crap. :eek: You can't really merge or stack mods as with some other games. But ECM is mostly just patches and fixes to the game, so you may be in luck. I actually have a program for installing Trek.exe patc...

Well, if you include the hollowed-out white squares inside the blue ones (counting full squares only), I count another 16. That's 40 + 16 = 56.

Or 57 if you include the image itself.

41 you forgot the image is a square. lol spot on tc that made me laugh Oh, c'mon. What a gib. It clearly says how many are in the picture. Anyway, I've checked the dimensions of the image, it' 1024px × 857px -- clearly not a square :razz: And I can see a lot more than 92% of people failing this -- ...

Ahhh. Sick. I forgot the 2x2 in the middle. Well spotted.