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<p>Conversions of my breedz to Petz 5.</p>
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<p>07 september 2003</p>
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It has recently come to my attention that there is a problem with breedz
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of mine that someone else has been converting. Specifically, the problem
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is with breedz that have been converted to Petz 5 at Nicky's Petzfriends
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site. Quite a few of my breedz are up there under the "converted"
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sections, and some that look like mine are under the "created" sections.
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It turned out that things were in a bit of chaos with them. ID numbers
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have been changed, furfiles are missing, and in some cases the names have
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been changed. Also there was no acknowledgement of my work on the
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originals, but that is really a minor issue. The main thing is that these
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breedz will have been causing distress to many downloaders because they
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will have crashed the game under certain circumstances.
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There is too much hate in the world, without allowing it to interfere with
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our gentle hobbies of hexing, breeding and playing with petz! So let's not
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get all screwed up with complaints or accusations; let's just tackle the
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definite problem here, a problem which needed to be sorted out so that
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people could enjoy the breedz.
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The real problem was <b>not</b> that Nicky had converted my breedz to petz
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5; although I would have liked it if she had checked my site first to see
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if I had Petz 5 versions, I am willing to accept her explanation that she
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did not know that they were mine. I'm still amazed that people were silly
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enough to send her breedz to convert such as my monkeys and ratz, which
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the downloaders <b>must</b> have known I had Petz 5 versions of up at my
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site!! I released all the versions at once for those breedz. It's
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particularly silly of them because the ones here are carefully made so
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that they will speak "monkey" or "rat".
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(A note here for anyone who's interested -- I prefer to convert my own
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breedz, because I have a lot of complicated things in many of my
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breedfiles, not simply the .lnz sections. If anyone wants a breed of mine
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converted to another version of the game, please contact me in future; if
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it's mine and I've not already converted it, I shall do it.)
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The problem was also <b>not</b> that she had renamed some of them; I don't
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like to see my breedz masquerading under different names of course, but
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that's a personal matter.
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The <b>real</b> problem was that her conversions all have a different ID
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number from the ones that I gave the originals, also some of them were
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missing essential furfile bitmaps, which means that people who like to
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import pets from earlier versions of the game and breed them will see the
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game crashing just as a "happy event" is about to be announced. So, this
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means that the existence of two different conversions of any given
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breedfile causes difficulties in the Petz Community, and I keep getting
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emails from people who want to know how to fix their pets.
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Aaaaargh!! That kind of interruption I do not need; my computer-time is
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already too limited these days.
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So a solution has been found that will keep breeders happy and my mailbox
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less overflowing :-)
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Nicky still has the files up at her site, except for a couple which really
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<b>had</b> to be removed, so that people who swap pets which were
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originally adopted from her files are not left unable to breed them. She
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has a link to my site under any of the breedz which are obviously mine, so
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that people who have adopted a pet from one of my older versions of the
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game or have downloaded one from the Internet can find a
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<b>proper</b> conversion that will work at my site. Finally, she has a
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warning "agreement" at her site about possible difficulties using her
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conversions of other people's breedz.
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Note that if you want my various species or fantasy pets (particularly for
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instance the Horse) to have the correct sounds, you should really download
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my proper conversions of my breedz. You can download the sounds for my
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breedz at this site, "Carolyn's Creations", of course.
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Note also that you will not be able to breed a pet from one of the
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conversions from Nicky's site with one adopted from an original same-name
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breedfile at my site unless you do a clever trick to fool Windows. For
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instance, take the Monkey. If you want to have a pet adopted from the
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version downloaded from Nicky's site in your game and you want to breed it
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with one adopted from my proper one, rename the breedfile from her site to
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this:
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<p>Monkey.catNicky</p>
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(You can rename it by right-clicking on it in My Computer or Windows
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Explorer and choosing "Rename". No need to open it in a hex editor or
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anything -- just rename the file.)<br />
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Then you can run my Monkey.cat in the game as well as Monkey.catNicky. The
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pets will both come out with no problems, and will breed -- at least, they
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do on my Windows 95 system; if they don't on any different operating
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system you have, then I cannot help you.
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Finally, about the cat breedz which look like mine under Nicky's "created"
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section. I am happy to accept her explanation regarding the Angora cat.
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The Himalayan -- people, forget it. There are a lot of Himalayans on the
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Internet; I agree that one of the ones at Nicky's site looks very like
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mine, but mine is based on a Siamese and the ones at her site are not.
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I hope this sorts things out and that we can all co-exist in peace,
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helping each other out where necessary and having a good time.
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<p>Enjoy!</p>
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<p>Carolyn Horn</p>
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