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GavJ

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Way to save semi-frozen game?
« on: March 25, 2012, 04:13:36 am »
Since there doesn't seem to be a support forum, I will ask here:

I just have been playing a new fortress for many hours, and did not save it, which is dumb, but there you have it.  Anyway, upon typing a note (in game, the shift-N type), I hit something wrong I guess, and now the cursor is blinking for me to type in the name of the note, but it won't accept any keyboard input as part of the name.

However, every other command on the keyboard works... I can still save macros and Tab to change my menu viewing mode, etc.  Music still plays, blah blah.

Either:

A) Does anybody know what I might have hit so I can just unfreeze it? or
B) Is there a way to save the current game in progress with a keyboard shortcut, or a 3rd party program?
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Re: Way to save semi-frozen game?
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 05:50:33 am »
A) Wait. It's your best bet. I'm assuming massive temperature shifts, if it doesn't unfreeze after, well, a significant amount of time, it's  8) frozen.
B) I think DF hack has a "force pause" feature, that does what is says on the box. Though not much help if you didn't already install it.
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Re: Way to save semi-frozen game?
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 05:52:18 am »
If everything else still works, cant you just esc away?
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