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[Toady One]

Well, the movie archive looks good, but for some reason the email didn't make it.  I got lots of spam though.  I sent you a forum message (I think you look at your profile to read them) with another email that you can try...

[Captain_Action]

Woah, I just spent 4+ hours watch those movies. Nice Toady! Not the one that jumped out of the river. Why was that one injured?

I noticed that you spent alot of time getting bags, barrels, and beds made. Why can't the dwarves ask the makers for these objects?

Daralez could've gone to the leatherworker/tailoer ask for some shoes made from his favorite materials decorated with his(her?) favorite animals. The tailor depending on skill and materials availible try to make something as close as possible.

[Toady One]

I guess making more things automatic gives you less to do, although those aren't bad ideas.  I wonder where the line should be drawn.  That said, there is a manager that comes later, and you can then set quotas for certain objects, which helps somewhat.

The toad jumping out of the river was injured to make it easier.  The first few large animals that attack will be of that variety...  kind of cornered injured beasts on their last legs.  If the toad had been healthy, it might have killed 5 or 6 dwarves.  I think it is about as big as a bear, though I don't remember what I set the size at.

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

Well I just finished movie 25... Damn I want this game.

And I will forever loathe you for killing Norndarnòrn... *sniffle* I loved that dwarf. Oh well, Aloraliz or whatever the name was replaced Norny. The names could use some work though, half of the time I wondered "is it a female or a male?".

Also, when digging at that speed... damn... And just at the end you got that extreme pile of Malachite(?), wasn't that ore for silver?

[Toady One]

I'm using galena for silver right now (although it's really a lead ore with common silver impurities).  Malachite is the copper ore.

Since when can you tell a dwarves gender?

[Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei]

It's easy for those with trained eyes. Look at the root of the beards. For centuries, dwarf woman have fooled their male counterparts by actually gluing fake beards on their faces. This was done due to some sort of gender inequality battle in which the male dwarves said they were better because their beard gave them sampson like powers... yep yep...

[Toady One]

If you look at the root of my beard, you'd see that my computer has fucking died.  No more healthy hard drive partition.  No more data.  I have some backups on CD, but I can't put them on the computer if it doesn't work.  I guess I'll attempt to afford another computer today.  We'll see if that works.

[Harlander]

Oh, hell's bollocks. How much of the computer is broken?

[Toady One]

I had to leave for work before I could fully diagnose it, but it's a laptop, and it seems like the hard drive has becoming corrupted in some way.  I'm not sure if it is a hardware or software issue at this point, so I'm going to try to repartition it and see if it starts working.  If not, then I guess it is pretty dead, or at least I have no idea how to fix it from there.

[Gezol]

Damn. I was worried about something like this happening. I remember the premise of Corin's Mystery Massacre... Was any progress lost?

If you can't figure out how to fix it, it might be worth describing exactly what the problem seems to be on the boards before you buy a new computer. Someone here might have some ideas. Probably not me, alas, as I'm far from a PC expert...

If you have to get a new computer, I assume you don't need a fancy new screamer of a laptop, so you probably could get an old one fairly cheap. Or if you want to go the desktop route, you can go even cheaper, though then again you'd probably have to buy a monitor(I assume you don't have one) so it might actually end up being more expensive.

I suppose you could set up a Paypal fund or something, too. I'd certainly chip in. I mean, if Dwarf Fortress were a commercial game available in stores, I'd pay top retail price for it, so I'd definitely be willing to pay at least that much to help get it done...

[Harlander]

If the hard drive has died, replacing it is possible. (I've never replaced a laptop HD myself, but this site details the process: http://www.fonerbooks.com/laptop_1.htm)

That'd most likely be significantly cheaper than buying a new laptop.

I had a HD die on my desktop PC once, just when I was trying to finish a long assignment. So I feel your pain.

[Toady One]

The hard drive was physically damaged.  Being a public employee, I can't accept donations, but being an employee, I had a bit of money, and now have a new friend.  This seems to be working.  I spent way too much probably, but I can't go for a day without a computer, like a crack head.