Dholcrist Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 Whatever happened to the "Spacer's Toolkit" (or whatever it was called, I forget) that was in the free section that had an assortment of technology/ships for Star Hero? Or am I dreaming things up? Sorry to make a thread on something so minor, but can't think of what it was called, so searches are coming up fruitless. And many apologies if I'm just being an idiot and missing the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroooo Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit I'm pretty sure you got the name right. Personally, I don't know what happened to it or the online Super Powers Database - I was pretty much away from the boards when that change took place. So, while I'm of little help here, I too would like to know what happened to it. Aroooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Both the online toolkits were eliminated in the recent site update. The Online USPD isn't such a big deal since it's been published as USPD2, and the only person making any significant contributions to the STKO was myself so it was apparently not bringing in that much interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit STKO? Online USPD? I don't remeber these. Must be old age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dholcrist Posted March 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Both the online toolkits were eliminated in the recent site update. The Online USPD isn't such a big deal since it's been published as USPD2' date=' and the only person making any significant contributions to the STKO was myself so it was apparently not bringing in that much interest.[/quote'] I was afraid of that. I completely understand the elimination of the USPD, but STKO had some useful stuff in it that I haven't seen posted elsewhere. Ah well, thanks for the answers everyone, glad to know that I'm not just crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Thanks to the marvelous Internet Archive Wayback Machine, most of the Spacer's Toolkit Online can still be accessed: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.herogames.com/StarHero/SpacersToolkit/thetoolkit.htm Note that the page I've linked to displays multiple links to the Toolkit, because individual archived entries don't contain all the submissions to it; but between them you'll be able to find almost everything that was on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroooo Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit repped! However, I'm having trouble pulling up all the site's graphics. Don't know if it just my office connection (too many folks surfing you tube?) or the archive site. Will try later tonight. If I (or anyone else) can get that info - of Bob if you have HD files - I'll add that to the starherofandom site. Aroooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit repped! However, I'm having trouble pulling up all the site's graphics. Don't know if it just my office connection (too many folks surfing you tube?) or the archive site. Will try later tonight. If I (or anyone else) can get that info - of Bob if you have HD files - I'll add that to the starherofandom site. Aroooo I've found that some graphics from many websites don't reproduce from Internet Archive entries, no matter when or how they're accessed. My guess would be that they were loaded from other sources on their servers which weren't archived as part of those web pages. However, I have discovered that an archived link which returns a "page not found" result at one time, may connect successfully on another occasion; so if there's a Toolkit entry you're interested in that you couldn't call up on the first go, it's worth trying again at another time or date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigel Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit the only person making any significant contributions to the STKO was myself Ouch, man. My Imperial Marine dagger was significant. *pout* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Ouch' date=' man. My Imperial Marine dagger was significant. *pout*[/quote'] I thought about it,,,,does that count Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Ouch' date=' man. My Imperial Marine dagger was significant. *pout*[/quote']Sorry. I should have said, any significant amount of contribution. All individual contributions, even if only one item, should be counted as significant in their own right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dholcrist Posted March 27, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Sorry. I should have said' date=' any significant [i']amount[/i] of contribution. All individual contributions, even if only one item, should be counted as significant in their own right. That's sweet. But anyways, thanks a great deal Liaden, this helps a lot. Rep! Scratch that, gotta spread some around first. IOU Rep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Should I put it on the wiki? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Should I put it on the wiki? Hmm... my concern would be confusion over how to use it. People unfamiliar with the Internet Archive might not understand getting a page with multiple links that doesn't look anything like the STOL. And since no one link has all the entries, linking to just one of those pages won't net you everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dholcrist Posted March 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Hmm... my concern would be confusion over how to use it. People unfamiliar with the Internet Archive might not understand getting a page with multiple links that doesn't look anything like the STOL. And since no one link has all the entries' date=' linking to just one of those pages won't net you everything.[/quote'] Is there any way everything could just be copied over to the Wiki (with author's permission, of course) so a new OST could be started? In my view, even if nobody really contributes, it's a valuable resource. Especially considering how little actual equipment the actual printed ST has. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroooo Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Is there any way everything could just be copied over to the Wiki (with author's permission' date=' of course) so a new OST could be started? In my view, even if nobody really contributes, it's a valuable resource. Especially considering how little actual equipment the actual printed ST has. Just a thought.[/quote'] Thats what I want to do by putting it up on starherofandom... Aroooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dholcrist Posted March 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Thats what I want to do by putting it up on starherofandom... Aroooo Touche. I'm very much looking forward to the future of the SHFandom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit I wonder if Steve and crew would consider putting them up in a .pdf, probably with limited graphics and layout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aroooo Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit More to the point, is this data something Ben or Dan can pull out of the original database as text? If so, that would be even better. Aroooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit More to the point, is this data something Ben or Dan can pull out of the original database as text? If so, that would be even better. Aroooo If you get permission from Hero Games to post these game stats somewhere, turning the web page entries into text is pretty easy IME. Just drag your cursor across the field containing the printing to highlight it, Copy, then Paste into whatever text program you prefer. I've done this lots of times, often preserving the original format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dholcrist Posted April 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit If you get permission from Hero Games to post these game stats somewhere' date=' turning the web page entries into text is pretty easy IME. Just drag your cursor across the field containing the printing to highlight it, Copy, then Paste into whatever text program you prefer. I've done this lots of times, often preserving the original format.[/quote'] Wait wait wait, what?? I'm not following. You just highlight the text, then say "Copy!"? Or does it just know? I've never heard of this, but certainly is appropriate for the Star Hero forums! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Wait wait wait' date=' what?? I'm not following. You just highlight the text, then say "Copy!"? Or does it just know? I've never heard of this, but certainly is appropriate for the Star Hero forums![/quote'] Well, I'm not certain how all other web-browsers work, but my Internet Explorer window toolbar has a clipboard icon, as well as an "Edit" command which drops down a menu including "Copy". When I click on either the icon or the command, any text that I've highlighted will be temporarily stored in RAM and can be Pasted (another icon or Edit command) into any compatible word-processing program, like Windows Wordpad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Well' date=' I'm not certain how all other web-browsers work, but my Internet Explorer window toolbar has a clipboard icon, as well as an "Edit" command which drops down a menu including "Copy". When I click on either the icon or the command, any text that I've highlighted will be temporarily stored in RAM and can be Pasted (another icon or Edit command) into any compatible word-processing program, like Windows Wordpad.[/quote'] Or just right click and copy, or ctrl+c or..... Firefox works much the same..... *crawls back under rock* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dholcrist Posted April 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Well' date=' I'm not certain how all other web-browsers work, but my Internet Explorer window toolbar has a clipboard icon, as well as an "Edit" command which drops down a menu including "Copy". When I click on either the icon or the command, any text that I've highlighted will be temporarily stored in RAM and can be Pasted (another icon or Edit command) into any compatible word-processing program, like Windows Wordpad.[/quote'] Oh, I thought we were being sarcastic. ...are we still? I'm confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Re: Online Spacer's Toolkit Oh, I thought we were being sarcastic. ...are we still? I'm confused. Me, too. Was that not an honest question? I was treating it as such. I don't make assumptions about what anyone happens to know about how their OS functions. Lord knows I have plenty of gaps in my knowledge. If I gave anyone the impression that I was being sarcastic or talking down to them, that wasn't my intention, and I apologise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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