FR alpha 2.0 - Coming Soon....

bargepower · Post by **bargepower** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:32 pm

Garthion,

The link has been emailed to you

Ian

Garthion · Post by **Garthion** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:43 pm

Thank you, downloading now, and once again Thank You with more than a capital T.

Tonysmedley · Post by **Tonysmedley** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:54 am

I obtained a CD of the routes ( 1.1, update, consists and stock ) and everything went in easily, unlike the problems I had had from downloading the info.
I eagerly await the final (!) version.

Garthion · Post by **Garthion** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:43 pm

Quick question, How do you intall the upgrade? there appears to be no readme!

bargepower · Post by **bargepower** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:22 pm

Unzip the files - the read me is in the FR Alpha 2.0 Patch folder!

Garthion · Post by **Garthion** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:05 pm

I found it, Did'nt think to look for exclamation marks instead of the letter "R"!!!. Installed successfully, will do a full line run Tommorow, behind the blue brick! I can see that I'm going to have some fun with this route, cheers guys.

kevmt · Post by **kevmt** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:47 pm

Garthion wrote:I found it, Did'nt think to look for exclamation marks instead of the letter "R"!!!. Installed successfully, will do a full line run Tommorow, behind the blue brick! I can see that I'm going to have some fun with this route, cheers guys.

Glad you have the route working now, Dale.

Hope you enjoy it.

Cheers
Kevin

iampaulh · Post by **iampaulh** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 6:50 pm

could someone tell me how you actually get the download link to FR Alpha v2.0?
i was a previous customer of v1.1 on cd, and have twice followed the instructions to email festrail for the download link, with no reply.
so what's up? do i have to buy another cd, or what? or is it just holiday time and they're inundated with requests?
i think FR is great, especially in real life and also on traimsim, and would really like to get this update.
so what has to happen? what am i not doing right?
thanks for any guidance, guys

bargepower · Post by **bargepower** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 7:05 pm

iampaulh, your messages have not been received on the FR Website servers, which is why you haven't had a reply - please mail me at ian.butters@festrail.co.uk with which isp you are using so we can find where your messages are going - meanwhile, the link is being PM'd to you now.

Cheers
Ian

Christopher125 · Post by **Christopher125** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:43 am

Hi Mate

I haven't had a reply either, I'm with BT.

Chris

Rfairlie · Post by **Rfairlie** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:34 am

Hi Ian,

I also haven't had a reply yet im on AOL if it's any help.

Cheers
Tim

lateagain · Post by **lateagain** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:04 pm

Hi Guy's,

I just watched Countryfile on BBC 1 and John Craven did quite a long item on the Railway.

I've been a fan for years and have watched the dowloads of stock grow but have been waiting for the route.

Just read about the V2.0 beta here and looked at the screenshots. Looks great.

What exactly is still to do before a finished version?

I've learned to be patient with this hobby

,so this isn't a dig!

I'm not sure on the technicalities but I understood that signalling was crucial to activity writing? Is this a problem as at V2.0 beta?

Sorry if I missed something obvious

but thought that as there have been nearly 4000 hits on the route page of the FR web site I wouldn't be alone in appreciating an update.

Geoff.

kevmt · Post by **kevmt** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 2:24 pm

lateagain wrote:Hi Guy's,

I just watched Countryfile on BBC 1 and John Craven did quite a long item on the Railway.

I've been a fan for years and have watched the dowloads of stock grow but have been waiting for the route.

Just read about the V2.0 beta here and looked at the screenshots. Looks great.

What exactly is still to do before a finished version?

I've learned to be patient with this hobby ,so this isn't a dig!

I'm not sure on the technicalities but I understood that signalling was crucial to activity writing? Is this a problem as at V2.0 beta?

Sorry if I missed something obvious but thought that as there have been nearly 4000 hits on the route page of the FR web site I wouldn't be alone in appreciating an update.

Geoff.

Hi Geof,

As far as I understand, all the trackwork and signalling are now in place and fully working (could really do with Colin Tucker to confirm this).

The main task now is to finish off the Scenery.
From Porthmadog to Tanygrisau it is almost complete. However, the Blaenau area is a bit bare and needs a fair few building planted to finish things off.

Cheers
Kevin

lateagain · Post by **lateagain** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 5:53 pm

Excellent News!

I'll get downloading the stock.

I thought Blaenau was excellent in Bala Hub and although the railways have changed a lot the town is instantly recognisable to a first time visitor from the wfforts in that route.

Thanks for the swift response.

Geoff

batroost · Post by **batroost** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:02 pm

Hi Geoff,

As Kevin says, the track and signalling is all-but complete; though the signs on the railway keep changing so there are a few 'fixed' signals (ladybirds) that now need to be added.

The big gaps in the scenery are around Penrhyn and Blaenau. I too liked what the Bala Hub team had done for Blaenau very much. I've yet to start but I hope I'll get a similar effect (eventually).

I've done very little on the route since getting back from holiday (on the FR!) in August; my real work has left me feeling nothing like computing in teh evening as well. It's settled down a bit now so I'll try to get a bit more done over the next few months.

(And I'm very grateful to Kevin for keeping an eye on the forums and answering any questions that come up).

Best wishes,

Colin

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