Hello!
I am trying to make a portable launcher for the wonderful game Age of Empires Gold.
But there is one slight problem that i would need some help with.
Because i get this error message when the launcher tries to start age of empires.
You know shortcuts, when you choose properties on them they have a field called Start in, in the "start in" field there is the path to the directory where the target file is located. The thing is that my age of empires launcher gets the same error message that you would get if you would have messed up the "start in" field in a shortcut to age of empires.
So can you in someway use something similar to "Start in" in NSIS?
Thankyou very much!
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I don't think so. $EXEDIR is the folder that the installer executable is running in.
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I solved the problem.
In the launcher PStart you can choose Home directory wich is the same as Start in.
So i just choosed the directory where the original Age of Empires exe wa located and now it works perfectly
Now i need some betatesters. But if you want to be a beta tester you must own age of empires gold edition.
//D4vid
Superstick 1Gb
Without the Age of Empires files.
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R McCue
PortaBlog Home and My Website
And before anyone complains about the grammar, I'm so jetlagged that my
hands aren't even in the same time zone...
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
Yes i will only give you the launcher.
You have to aquire the Age of empires files yourself.
If you have age of empires you just have to install it and then copy the files to a directory.
Contact me if you're interested.
//D4vid
Superstick 1Gb
I would like it but i have Age of Empires 2 and 3. what version is it? You can send me it at cavedeamon@gmail.com if it is for 2.
I'm sorry but this is for the original Age of Empires and its expansion pack.
A age of empires 2 launcher is on my list though.
//D4vid
Superstick 1Gb
Hi,
I love all the Age of Empire games and have gold two and three. I would love to beta test your portable launcer for AoE. You can e-mail it to cylitch@gmail.com
Can you send it to me too at james.hoffman7@gmail.com
you be able to send it to me at taneth111@gmail.com?
I will test it with expansion, without expansion and the demo.
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake,
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
Hello...
I really like the idea of make AoE portable... And i made a launcher for this...
First I made a batch file with this content:
run.cmd
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And on folder "settings" another 2 files
add.reg
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REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DirectPlay\Applications\Age Of Empires] "Guid"="{3422E982-1A89-11d1-B093-00A024C74776}" "File"="Empires.Exe" "CommandLine"="lobby Limit=200" "Path"="" "CurrentDirectory"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Games\Age of Empires\1.00] "Music Volume"=dword:00000000 "Sound Volume"=dword:00000000 "Screen Size"=dword:00000320 "Rollover Text"=dword:00000001 "Mouse Style"=dword:00000002 "Game Speed"=dword:00000014 "Difficulty"=dword:00000004 "Scroll Speed"=dword:00000036 "Default Age Of Empires Player Name"="King Phantom" "Default Age Of Empires Multiplayer Service"="Conexão TCP/IP Internet para o DirectPlay" "Default Age Of Empires MP Gamename"="_" "Path Finding"=dword:00000001 "MP Path Finding"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Games\Age of Empires\1.00] "CDPath"="" "PID"="55468-442-0831934-14051" "InstallType"="1" "InstallationDirectory"="" "Zone"="http://www.zone.com/asp/aoferedir.asp" "Launched"="1" "VersionType"="RetailVersion" "Custom Mouse"=dword:00000000 "Game File Number"=dword:00000000 "Version"="1.0c"------------------------------------------
delete.reg
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I hope I have helped...
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Nice. Can you send a copy of it to me? bensawsome2(at)gmail(dot).com
Thanks
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Here are: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6B5W01TS