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Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:31 am**

s4ur0n27 wrote:
Jimmyjay86 wrote:everyone send John several emails a day
PnP?

No, John De Margheriti.

Posted: **Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:47 am**

I just sent off the first one. If it isn't answered by the end of the business day in Australia, he's getting a barrage to welcome him on Monday morning.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:40 am**

I have just completed making the fourth mission. I now need to complete the final mission, and it's going to take awhile because of all the scripting that will be done to make it work correctly.

I then need to finish up some voice acting, add a couple new graphics for "atmosphere" items, and figure out how to make the game play the speech file for a mission briefing.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:09 pm**

Retlaw83 wrote:and figure out how to make the game play the speech file for a mission briefing.

Just make sure the sound file name begins mission, and ends in brief. Or something to that effect, just check out the exisiting speech files. Same for displaying the text, if you've used mission_brief = {} it should automatically play/display.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:19 pm**

Well, it doesn't. There's something weird about how to get the brief to play; it doesn't seem to follow the name convetions all the other MP3s for speech do.

I even tried naming it like in the original game, which resulted in the game loading General Barnaky's briefing and not mine.

Posted: **Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:00 pm**

Oh, jeez, Requiem! I misunderstood what you were saying. I gotta use the mission name as its imported into the campaign!

Thanks for the help!

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:46 am**

Shouldn't this thread be moved to Fallout Tactics Mapping, Modding and Map Reviews, anyway?

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:03 am**

I emailed everyone I could find on their website

contact@microforte.com
joemc@microforte.com
stevew@syd.microforte.com.au

They're diffenitely going to get sick of us

*EDIT*

In the intersts of spaming it would appear that their email convention is the first name plus the first letter of the second name @microforte.com, so by looking at the people section of their webpage we can deduce that the following are other likely email addresses:

Roger Buckeridge - Chairman
rogerb@microforte.com

John De Margheriti - President and CEO (thanks to Jimmyjay86)
johndem@microforte.com

Vicki De Margheriti - Vice President and Director
vickidem@microforte.com

And lets not forget this one
webmaster@microforte.com

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:30 am**

Ausir wrote:Shouldn't this thread be moved to Fallout Tactics Mapping, Modding and Map Reviews, anyway?

I assumed this was the place, because it was its just generally discussing the mod. I've always thought of the Mapping, Modding and Reviews section as a place for technical discussion.

Good work, Wild_Qwerty. The offensive will grow in intensity...

Posted: **Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:46 pm**

I got a reply back from Microforte today. Looks like yet another reason to blame Interplay for all lifes problems

Steve Wang wrote:Thanks for your email. I'm very happy you enjoyed FO Tactics.
Unfortunately Interplay own the rights to all the source code, and it
would be up to them (we are contractually bound) to decide to release
it.

Posted: **Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:08 am**

That's more than I got from anybody.

Let's start e-mailing Herve, then.

Posted: **Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:43 am**

I really dont understand why some companies hold on to obsolete tools like they are made out of gold. I mean you could put condition of use in the license agreement to use the program that "these editors can not be used for comercial gain etc..."

Posted: **Tue Aug 03, 2004 2:53 am**

I think they just get hang-up on the fact that they own it, and makes it them feel better that no one else can have it.

Posted: **Fri Aug 06, 2004 4:04 am**

I just finished creating the missions for the mod. Some tweaking and balancing needs to be done, and a couple details added before the mod is complete. It'll be around 15mb to download and should be out by the end of next week.

Posted: **Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:16 am**

THE MOD IS DONE.

I have PMed a couple admins here about getting the 14.5mb file hosted on DaC, and have yet to hear a reply. I refuse to host it on NMA, because all the support and suggestions I recieved came from the DaC community, so it should be a Duck and Cover exclusive.

If anyone wants it in a bad way, I have it in my Kazaa shared folder. You can try finding it by using "Chrome Warriors" as a search term, but since using "Fallout Tactics" as one produces nothing that should get similar results. If you do find it, it will be a 14.5mb file called "eagleclaw.zip".

Duck and Cover

Chrome Warriors: Team Eagle Claw