Your only option at present is to buy a used copy. I can't speak to the legality of that but I hope it is legal in your area.

Matrix Games will stop publishing Computer Harpoon no later than April 30, 2025.

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generally, what updates/advances were made with CE engine since then? I remember efforts of @TonyE and @CV32 to revamp Electronic Warfare, database values, etc. Have, for example, the issue of infinite air weapon magazines on carriers and airfields been rectified?


In gory detail rather than ...

Also, there are two updates, v3.11.1 from 2013 and v2022.027 from 2023. Must both be applied in turn or simply apply the newest one?

Thank you gentlemen.

Oops, didn't see this! The updates are for different parts of the product. v3.11.1 is for the Harpoon 2/3/ANW side of the package and v2022 ...

Thanks for the report, the Matrix installer and serial number checker like to write to HKLM which requires administrative access. The game itself doesn't need that ability but the serial number check results in many players running the game as admin on their computers.

Well, I must say I'm having fun playing "Bungle v5". I'm almost six game time hours into the scenario and despite taking a huge risk with group AAC that hasn't come back to bite me yet, it is great fun and I seem to have been gifted more than the average allotment of F-22s and B-2s.

TonyE wrote: Tue Jun 11, 2024 3:30 am With the formation air patrols falling out of the sky, perhaps you had started that game in 2022.027?

btw, confirmed that the planes fall out of the sky with empty tanks in your save (starting with 6 x F-14 unit AA029

With the formation air patrols falling out of the sky, perhaps you had started that game in 2022.027? If that is the case, later code changes could have fixed it for a new start of the scenario. I haven't taken a look at the ships failing to hold their formation sectors. I thought that was fixed as ...

Thank you Jeff, I'll have a look in the next 24 hours.

Thank you for the extra detail, I never use the launcher Matrix distributes so I'll have to get that back in a test environment <g>.

1. Is your user an administrator or a regular user on the machine?

2. Can you zip up a ge.log file and a saved game file and attach it here? The saved game being ...

I would also say the current version manual for the most part applies, most of the buttons in the last DOS version are still present in the current version.

There are also the files in <game directory>\HC20\WH200316\Manual\ and if you happen to still be able to view .hlp files, check out <game ...

Jeff, sorry for dropping off the radar there. Are you still around? Any progress? Someone joined us on Discord last week and this week who may have a similar issue and was wondering if it is you, and if not, please come join us.

Hi, I am having the same issues as dbdurchfield had and yet I downloaded the files into HUCE root. Getting either same error messages him "GetMemAnnexA error" or error that my dbase version is to old but I have ver 2022.xxx newest as of last week?Can you help?


Hi Dramlore, let us know which ...

Sorry for the delay, still youth hockey season here!

There is nothing in particular since 2022.027 that I would point a finger at and say it will remedy your crashes but it will bring you up to current which will make further debugging easier.

https://harpgamer.com/harpforum/topic/29035-current ...

More to come another day but in traditional fashion I'm not able to replicate your crashes yet. Here is your provided scenario with a new submarine group added (the active one, French SSBN) and scenario saved as v6. I did get the GE to crash once when I saved the game and then tried to load the save ...

Jeff, thank you for posting and I'm really glad you are engaging in this process. Troubleshooting and then debugging is hard. I've only taken the quickest run through so far, looked at the logs and opened the provided scenario on a computer here (successfully fortunately/unfortunately). I should be ...

Hmm, very strange. After a crash, please zip and post the ge.log file, se.log file, and the scenario in question and I'll take a look. The .log files will indicate the database in play, the scenario file will indicate file format version (in case there is some issue in the conversion process) and ...

The first piece is letting the game go into that random scenario. Once in there, go to File\New, answer Yes to quit the current game. The Select Battleset dialog should come up next, there uncheck the "Enable Instant Action" checkbox then proceed to start any scenario. Once the scenario loads, exit ...

Thanks @pavlos76, I finally have a Mac newer than 2011 vintage (which worked great with WineBottler) but haven't taken HC for a spin there yet.

Good deal