BGonaSTICK
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Just a note to all on my findings with the latest releases of this once-great .dll
Spent several painful hours playing and researching this yesterday and have come to the conclusions below. They are just my opinions. If you have evidence to the contrary, then I'd very much like to test YOUR findings.
Firstly, I should say that I can't test CABO ATM.
The last version of the program that I can find which still opens S2 D+ on 19.2E and S2 $ky Italia on 13E is the 'official' V1.1.2.
AFAIK, any version subsequent to that is not released by the original author, rather they are hacked or patched versions amounting to very poor quality code cobbled together by a noob. There are numerous 'V1.1.3' .dll's out there - each different, and all not working properly. Some versions are even reported as V1.1.4. I believe all these to be 'fake' even though many do what they say e.g. CABO fix or TP$ fix or Polsat fix. They might do those things, but they don't do much else! Many are very unstable. The total lack of version-control is a real givaway for me.
I believe that the lack of a 'proper' fix from the author indicates that this program is now dead (interms of development), and that we should move on with either CAPI or Emunation etc.
I'll be completing my research on this topic in the near future, and I'll post my findings here.
In the mean time, be careful if you try any of these 'fixes'. I have corrupt many program files in my testing. My advice is to take a backup of your WORKING viewer directory before you start.
The original S2 files from the V1.1.2 release and of course the latest mach1 s*ftcam file are still good-to-go.
STICK
Spent several painful hours playing and researching this yesterday and have come to the conclusions below. They are just my opinions. If you have evidence to the contrary, then I'd very much like to test YOUR findings.
Firstly, I should say that I can't test CABO ATM.
The last version of the program that I can find which still opens S2 D+ on 19.2E and S2 $ky Italia on 13E is the 'official' V1.1.2.
AFAIK, any version subsequent to that is not released by the original author, rather they are hacked or patched versions amounting to very poor quality code cobbled together by a noob. There are numerous 'V1.1.3' .dll's out there - each different, and all not working properly. Some versions are even reported as V1.1.4. I believe all these to be 'fake' even though many do what they say e.g. CABO fix or TP$ fix or Polsat fix. They might do those things, but they don't do much else! Many are very unstable. The total lack of version-control is a real givaway for me.
I believe that the lack of a 'proper' fix from the author indicates that this program is now dead (interms of development), and that we should move on with either CAPI or Emunation etc.
I'll be completing my research on this topic in the near future, and I'll post my findings here.
In the mean time, be careful if you try any of these 'fixes'. I have corrupt many program files in my testing. My advice is to take a backup of your WORKING viewer directory before you start.
The original S2 files from the V1.1.2 release and of course the latest mach1 s*ftcam file are still good-to-go.
STICK