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Somewhere on teh intarweb "Greg Vilardi" typed:


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> I am glad that I could help. Having read through this all twice now,
> I'm still not entirely sure that you've got everything working
> satisfactorily, but I think you do.

I do indeed. Sorry to be so cryptic but I was working on the problem as I 
wrote, and ideas came to me. I'm still not sure WTF is going on exactly 
w/r/t the save files going to a different directory but it seems that I can 
live with it. (I'll just have to make sure I don't try to open them in 1.11b 
install!)

> I do know that D2 and in fact
> many Windows apps will clean up their registry configuration if they
> find themselves installed differently than they expected to be. I
> don't play around with my machines too much, because they are shared
> by less technical people. (I've been a professional programmer and
> sysadmin for 24 years now.)

I play wit computers a little as, although I don't have written 
qualifications, I have 10+ years of hands-on experience and am usually the 
first port of call for friends with PC problems. <sigh> I've also been 
building my own and friends machines since last century.

> And since I actually have 2 engineering
> degrees, I am actually capable of using screwdrivers and soldering
> irons. :-D

LOL. Once again, no recognised quals here bit I have replaced capacitors on 
some of my montherboards and, once when I was doing a 'pin mod' in the old 
days, I broke the wrong pin off a Coppermine Socket 370 CPU. I was told that 
was it, CPU ruined. I refused to accept that (being poor and all) and 
proceeded to solder a pin back onto the CPU. I was legendary (for about 15 
minutes) in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking. ;-)

> But I digress... I know that I have transplanted the disk
> with my d2 install across several machines and configurations, since
> it used to boot my NT4 Workstation at home before becoming the
> secondary drive on my XP box, and the install happily cleaned up
> after itself and went on working.

Yes, it seems good that way.

> I've never done 2 versions of D2 on 1 machine yet, since I never
> upgraded to
> 1.10+ because of gemstone.

I hear you. I stuck with Gemstone for a long time after 1.10 came out but 
finally succumbed to the lure of playing with folks from the newsgroup which 
I'd been reading daily once I had broadband installed. Seems things are 
going full circle, Gemstone, being without lag, is lots of fun to play.

> I'll have to see how that goes once our
> illustrious colleague ports Gemstone to 1.11.

Yes. That would be great if it's achievable. I'm looking forward to it to. 
(Like I said, no pressure EvilBill. <g>)

> I'd really love to see
> what you've all been talking about for these years.

You're a stronger man than I, to have resisted trying 1.10/1.11 whilst 
reading this group for so long.

> I'm also glad that I found a way to give something back to the group
> after all this time.

Indeed. You input has helped greatly. I'm really enjoying my time playing 
Gemstone again and the whole PlugY stash thing is awesome! Overcoming the 
limited stash problem back in the day lead to me running another computer to 
mule onto. The bad habits I picked up then re: extra hardware have become an 
addiction with me now. I have seven (at last count) working computers, all 
with D2 installs, and four and a half D2/LoD keysets. One good thing to come 
out of it; I taught myself Windows networking and how to set up a LAN. ;-)

With the seeming demise, or at least diminishment, of the US West playing 
group it seems that, once I've muled over all my goodies from my backup from 
my Gemstone playing days I'll only need the one computer. PlugY rocks! I'm 
yet to try the new runewords as I haven't found a suitable base weapon for 
any that I want to make and, although I have quite a few runes, it's not 
like I have a bottomless supply.

Thanks for all your help.
-- 
Shaun.