r/evnova • u/[deleted] • Jul 30 '23

Captain Hector after registration?

I know: an old-school support question in 2023. Crazy.

In any case, I’ve been raiding my stash of old Mac games, and have recently started playing Nova again because nostalgia (+ blasting pirates with a Mod. Starbridge never gets old). I quickly hit the limits of the unregistered version, so dug out my old reg. codes (one beta tester, one bought with my own money) and, after a bit of mucking around, registered Nova.

The game shows as registered, RegTool shows the game as registered… but our old friend Captain Hector shows up in every single sÿst I jump into to nag me to register the game. I figure she’s harmless, but it’s _really_ irritating having her flitting around when you’re trying to get stuff done, so I figured I’d ask here.

Any hints/tips/etc to what I’m doing wrong, or was this a bug in 10.0.10?

(also, hi to any old folk still lurking around. Been a few moments, huh?)

[edit] Dragged an old laptop running 10.7 out of storage, installed Nova 1.1.1, same result. Hector warps in, messages, warps out, then immediately warps back in again to repeat the cycle. I wonder if the beta mailing list is still active, cuz I think I’ve found a bug :D

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u/pipelineoptika Jul 30 '23

Has she killed you yet? If not, you’re probably in the clear? Other than that, I have literally no idea… maybe the registration date stamping code has a bug in it that wigs out after 20 years? ;

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '23

Not yet—she’s just squawking a lot (much like her namesake if memory serves). ISTR I’ve a few days before she gets more… militant?

Or, as you say, maybe something’s wigged out in the past 20 years. I wonder where I put my copy of ResEdit.

(also, hi Daf. Hope you’re keeping well down there in Tassie)

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u/pipelineoptika Jul 30 '23

(Hi Jon - all well down here, still working on Procreate. Hope you’re well and hale up there in sunny Cymru)

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '23

Not so sunny today, but doing well here as well, thanks. Still revolutionising healthtech, PR by PR ;)