Recent content by sanmadjack

"Civilization IV makes my life complete by..." ...making possible a world where Communism doesn't necessarily end in horrifying economic collapse.

It came to my attention earlier today a pattern between using MASGAU in All Users mode and my brother's account logging in with a temp account. Turns out MASGAU hasn't been releasing each user's registry hive after scanning them for path information, resulting in the system being unable to log...

It might be, but I figured since it has to do with a lot more games than just Civ it should be in a more general area. I'm curious as to what you mean.

0.7! Released! Loads of interface polishing! Ability to back up G4W user data (necessary for restoring saves for Arkham)! So many crash fixes it boggles the mind! Superficial Windows 7 integration! 42 new games! Feature wise there's not much new. This release is mostly focusing on interface...

That's actually pretty close to the 7-zip command MASGAU uses internally. I always found the aspect of the UNIX philosophy to design programs that do single tasks and then just have them chain with each other to perform more complicated tasks to be quite cool. My program handles finding games...

0.6 kicked the me in the face yesterday, so I threw it out into the wild. New relative path! %SAVEDGAMES%! Games that don't keep their saves in the install folder no longer require detection! MASGAU no longer uses the archive's name to determine what game it is for, so you can name and...

0.5 today. The rundown: New MASGAU Analyzer for generating reports on save games that can then be submitted by e-mail. NSIS-based installer instead of MSI installer. Makes everyone's life easier. Installer can now install .NET and 7-zip if necessary (after asking, of course). 5 more supported...

Release time! Today brings with it the release of version 0.4! HIGHLIGHTS! A real-time monitor that watches for new and updated saves AS THEY ARE MADE! The ability to create custom archives that only contain files you specify! Perfect for sending just one save to a friend or uploading saves to...

MASGAU essentially works the same but automated, along with providing an easy restore. The backups it makes are even easy to open 7-zip files.

People saving over each other's games. System wipes. Uninstalling a game but not wanting to lose your progress. A save getting corrupted. E-mailing a save to a friend. Your mentioned hard drive crash. It has come up enough in my personal life for me to see the value in spending all these hours...

I'm of the mind that if enough people suggest something, I should at least give it a shot. On Monday night I put together a hasty monitoring program for watching detected save paths for activity. Tonight I finished a few thread-safety tests and I'm fairly certain I have a fully functional...

MASGAU backs up when you hit the backup button, or when a scheduled task is run. It has been suggested that it back up saves when they are made, but I'd imagine monitoring the entire system for every possible save would be a bit resource intensive. Beyond that, the little stutter when an...

I've been working on a program that can automatically back up and restore save games and settings called MASGAU. All the Civ 3 & 4 and all their addons are supported, as well as Civ 4: Colonization. More information is available at http://masga.sourceforge.net/ and I would greatly appreciate...

The Civilization IIs that are included with Civilization Chronicles don't quite play well with the official Test of Time 1.1 and Multiplayer Gold 1.3 patches. To help remedy this I have created this patch installer which installs both of the aforementioned patches. It should see where the games...

My findings do reflect only the US release.