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Brad and / or Tony ... I am just curious if there are any plans to upgrade the Harpoon Commander's Edition to a 64-bit platform in the near-future. I have just downloaded Harpoon Ultimate Edition, and have found out - to my dismay - that I cannot access the Scenario Editor. Using a Toshiba Satellite laptop (brand new) with WIN 7 Home Premium Edition, 2.2 GhZ Core I3 CPU ... I may have to shell out an aditional $90 for the WIN 7 Pro operating system upgrade. Being a veteran 'Pooner, I also like to 'tweak' the scenarios with the Editor provided ... BTW, I click on the HCE Scenario Editor, and all I get is a 'click' ... thanks in advance for any assistance ... Ken King. BTW - a computer 'dummy/ ... and a definite WIN 7 O/S dummy!

ORIGINAL: hoggrken
I am just curious if there are any plans to upgrade the Harpoon Commander's Edition to a 64-bit platform in the near-future.

Hi Ken,

There are no plans in the near future to make even a 32-bit SE (Scenario Editor), let alone a 64-bit one. There are two main reasons:

1) The virtualization approach has become quite manageable both in difficulty and price. I don't know how many copies of HC have been sold of late but it would take a lot of $90s to pay someone to create a 32-bit SE. Speaking of which, I finally wrote some instructions on the configuration of Windows XP Mode in Windows 7, find them at http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.ph ... owfile=718 .

2) You probably know this is a hobby for those of us working on the game. Those of us working on the game would rather have many other capabilities before a 32-bit SE especially with 1) holding true. Our main reason for making a 32-bit SE is to help break out of the database limitations. Also, being a hobby I cannot devote a ton of time to the project unless it somehow became a paid gig and there is zero sign of that happening.

I should mention a different approach players can take that I have to be reminded of now and again. You can use an old computer to run the SE, may be cheaper even than the Win 7 Pro upgrade. It would be good to use at least a Windows 2000 machine but I have a hunch the SE will still work even on Windows 95. Copy your HUCE/HC/... directory to the old machine and double-click WSCENEDT.EXE, off you go. An old boat anchor laptop would do nicely.

The old rig trick does it best and cheapest IMO Using my old Laptop for it. Better than being the Win 7 upgrade.

Hi Tony, and thank you for the quick reply. I fully understand that this is a 'hobby pursuit' for you and the rest of the Harpoon programming team. No worries - merely curious! If I had it in my power, I would compensate you fellows to cook up a 32-bti game package ... but I can't - so I digress!

I think I will upgrade this laptop O/S to Win 7 Pro, and follow the instructions in the great .pdf document that you posted. (I only found thya on HarpGamer, just after I posted my first query...D'OH!! ).

You programming guys at the Heart of Harpoon, are still the most helpful dudes ... and I go back to the 360 Pacific 'Harppon' versions, running on Win 95 machines. Hope you keep up the great work!

Best regards,

Ken King ... AKA 'hoggrken' - St. Albert Alberta Canada.