[Jump]

This just sent in by GM_Istvan

Early next week, the old patch server will be taken down. For everyone who has already patched to 1.0112, this is irrelevant.

For anyone who has not patched up their local copy of Jumpgate, the transfer of patch functions will result in extra work. The old patch software written for Jumpgate in 2001 or before does not provide for dynamic changes to the target patch server.

The easiest thing for anyone to do if you possess an installation of Jumpgate - even if you do not have an active account right now - is to simply patch up your copy by running the game in the next few days (before the 29th). You do not have to log in to patch up, so your account doesn't have to be active.

I ask everyone in the community who might know someone who had an account but isn't playing right now to direct your erstwhile squadmates, friends, or acquaintances to this announcement, and encourage them to just take a few minutes to automatically patch up now and save themselves a little trouble later.

Once the old patch server is gone and cannot hand players off to the new hardware, anyone who hasn't patched must either manually download and copy a small data file that will point their patcher at the new server, or must uninstall and then reinstall the game from a new installer (which already exists with links in the usual places on JOSSH). I'll add links in this thread to the data file by the time the old patcher is decommissioned.

Again, the easy thing to do is just run the game to patch up to the current version now.

[ND_Istvan]

Jump was kind enough to alert me that the manual patching instructions aren't in a section of the Official Forum that's visible to inactive accounts. At his invitation, I've replicated the information and links below.

The file needed to point your client at the new patch server is here. You may need to patch manually (instructions below).

Alternatively, you can just uninstall and reinstall using one of the new installers, available from the front page of JOSSH or the support page.

--manual patching, from the JOSSH tech support area:
ftp.netdevil.com is where the manual patches and utils are located. Login using anonymous FTP (anonymous as ID, your email as the pass).

For the benefit of anyone obtaining patch files for manual application:

(1) Obtain the PATCH.RTP and PATCH.RTD from the patch directory with the first patch number you need. If you have 1.0095 and can't patch automatically, you need the 1.0096 patch files first.
(2) Obtain the program patchdos.exe from the FTP site root.
(3) Place patchdos.exe and the two patch files in your Jumpgate program directory.
(4) Run patchdos.exe
(5) Check the output in the DOS window, and verify the version.txt file is now correct. You can also run the game offline and make sure the version number seen at the login screen is the one you want.
(6) Get the next set of two patch files, and then follow (3)-(6) until you have the current version.
(7) Login and play!

Good luck.

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Thanks, Jump!

[Jump]

Thanks Istvan. I have no doubt someone will need this info.