Atomic Systems

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all keeping well, wherever you are in the world, during these unexpectedly challenging times. Apologies in advance to Steve P for borrowing this thread...

Some of you will know that I am the author of the original NWNGR route of the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, which Steve Pontin and Xavier Guerra provided the wonderful rolling stock for, and as per this thread Steve is currently enhancing the route to a much higher standard with bespoke custom assets. The project came about to showcase the lines for those who could not visit for whatever reason – and never before has the need to support the railway remotely been so important for supporters of such a wonderful railway.

So forgive me but I am writing with a polite request ~ Admin, please feel welcome to split this into a separate thread if you feel appropriate, or delete altogether if not.

The railways in the real world now currently have almost no income. They will survive, I am sure, as that is the nature of them. But they need help. Which is why I am writing.
All the files we produced for this project are currently available on this site for free – so I would like to ask everyone who has downloaded and hopefully enjoyed any single one of the available freeware, to please please please consider making a charitable donation to the railway that inspired the works. Every little will help, and I wouldn’t dare set any sort of price or target, but if you could consider making any form of donation at all in this time of need, then please do so.

I know there are many other railways in the same situation – but this is the one that I put my heart and soul into and I’d be glad if you could consider doing something to help too.

Thankyou all for your kind words and support, please keep enjoying the routes, and keep safe. And please, throw a few quid to the Top Left Corner of North Wales if you can.

https://www.festrail.co.uk/news_and_eve ... 19-appeal/

Diolch yn fawr.

Thank you for sharing. I've gotten so much joy out of learning about and simulating the Ffestinog Railway. Happily made a donation.

hillman wrote:HI just tried to install "Penrhyn Ladies" and it said "only works on windows 8,8.1 and 10" is there any way to make it work for us poor mortals still running windows7. thanks

I thought Windows 7 was dead & buried so I changed the installer to support Windows 8 as the earliest op system.
I have no problem with making it install-able on lower systems so give me a while & I will update the installer to all any version of Windows,
I will update the post when its available

Hi many thanks. Yours N

In my own case I'm still running 2 pc's with W7 and two with W10
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-many- ... s-7-today/
Extract: If my estimates are accurate -- 1.2 billion Windows PCs worldwide, with 1 billion running Windows 10 -- then Microsoft will have successfully migrated more than 80% of its active customers to Windows 10 by the middle of 2020. Roughly 200 million PCs worldwide will still be running older Windows versions, mostly Windows 7.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3 ... ve-on.html

I know of two major oil companies still on W7 and quiet a few engineering companies
Mainly because of the insecurity of W10 tell M$ what you are doing and mainly because the cost of re-writing software would be so much, One company I know who designs and builds ships and oil rigs said the cost of upgrading AutoCad alone would be £21million and then the extra cost of renewing licences.
Cheers John

Thank you.....

Actually I am sure there are a lot of us here still running Windows 7 and quite happy with it. My self built Windows 7 PC currently does everything I require of it and I am comfortable with it. Don't laugh but my Microsoft Office is 2003 and in my view a lot better and easier to use for general office type work than the current versions.

I will no doubt go to Windows 10 at some point but with everything else I am trying to cope with at the moment an upgrade to Windows 10 is the last thing I wish to be involved with at the present time!

Peter

Ok, I have replaced the "Penrhyn Ladies" download file with a new Install that should allow installation all the way back to XP, I believe.
Please download again and let me know if this solves the problem.

spontin wrote:I have no problem with making it install-able on lower systems

Dead easy...simply stick it in a .zip archive then it's just a drag and drop into the game, regardless of operating system, directory structure etc

Gary, I know you can do that but it scares me to death thinking if I put it in the wrong folder it will unpack all over the place, so I always unzip and copy into the game

Exactly which folder do you put the zip file into to get the unzipped directories line up with the game ?

Hope your keeping well up 'orth.

John

I meant the route, reskin, whatever is being distributed John, not any fancy installer itself. Nobody should go wrong with a plain .zip archive containing a Content folder, which contains a Routes folder which then contains a folder holding the route's GUID folder structure. You'd just stick the .zip on the desktop, open it, then open another instance of Windows/File Explorer to your Railworks directory and drag and drop the Content folder from the archive into your game's Railworks folder--just as you'd do with anything else that comes in a .zip archive.
Simple, basic, file management/manipulation.

Many thanks for posting the amended installation file which appears to have installed correctly on my Windows 7 system.

Looking forward to giving the ladies a run - keep up the good work!

Regards

Peter

Hello all,

Hope everyone is keeping safe and finding lots of time to run this amazing route .
Quick question for trainmad. I hope you don't mind me asking, but just wondering if 104/116 are still in the pipeline to be released as I haven't seen any update on them. More stock is never a bad thing . I''m not trying to be annoying and demand more stock but I just wondered as they looked good. Thanks!

I agree it would be nice to see them. It's also like to see the service cars at some point. They may be 104/116 but I don't think they are.

I've not had chance to finish them off, but rest assured I will.

Steve has just done an update actually, available from his website which does include service car 125.

trainmad wrote:I've not had chance to finish them off, but rest assured I will.

Steve has just done an update actually, available from his website which does include service car 125.

Just to say not only the Service cars but also the saloons are auto numbered so you can have a greater range of stock which also gets rid of the “duplicate vehicles” messages in the Editor.

Steve