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   On 09 Mar 21  07:19:31, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
   NA> I wrote my own Tic processor but theres nooooooooooooo way I'm going to co   
   NA> tossing for several different Renegade filebase formats.   
   TM>    
   TM> The records.pas I gave you with the 1.22 source code should be the latest .   
   TM> minus the ver # didn' get changed.   
      
   Speaking as a both the #1 fan and a 3rd-party developer you should really be   
   aware of how absolutely frustrating it is to write anything for Renegade.   
      
   Things were perfectly "fine" up until structures, menufiles and datafiles were   
   screwed around with. We lost every single 3rd-party utility over the years for   
   Renegade because of structure changes. Including Allfix which worked amazing.   
      
   Its one thing to change structures in the 90's when everyone and their mother    
   was writing BBS stuff but not in the 2000's, 2010's when most utils are   
   abandonware. The nail in the coffin was Nuclear's changes to structures *yet    
   again*.   
      
   If I'm correct - first everything was perfectly fine with 5-line descriptions.   
   Nobody screamed murder over that for a long time. Then came 10-line, structure   
   change. Then more lines, another structure change? Now seperate Ext files?   
      
   You have my system on Y2ka2 which will never change, PB I think runs 1.18,   
   yours on 1.22... how does one write a Tic processor to support this exactly?   
      
   If someone put back all the structures to what they were in Y2kA2 or earlier   
   even, we could use all those many cool utils from the 90's and get Allfix   
   working with it again.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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