very sad news, half-life fans are gonna be disapointed

[dark heart]

hello, you may have seen me around the forums in the past asking for help and a resources. well i was working on a half-life clone/conversion for the quake2 engine to run with McZonk's quake 2 port.
i with the alot of help from paril [Q2 coder] got pretty far in filling in the fine details, well we were going to release half-life death match, because he was concerned about copy right issues. so it was a pretty good effort, we worked on the game a while, and got half way through finishing it when paril told me it wasn't really worth following up until McZonk released a stable quake 2 port, and at that point he went back to other projects and i decided it was time to upgrade my computer and was looking forward to it since mine was pre 2000

so we took it to a friend to fixes computers and i left my dad to talk the technical details over with him, so i find out he's wiped my hardrive because apparently he told me to back it up, well thats 5 years of hard work down the drain on that decision because i tried to avoid backing up my computer. not only am i angry at my dad, but angry at my self for my laziness. backing up my slave drive; it just never occurred to me.

not only that but i was kinda oblivious to some minor complications windows can throw at me.


so I'm really sorry, i was looking forward to releasing this but, well, i don't have the patients or the will to start from scratch.

you can have a look at my site (in my sig) to see a fews screens, but it was only 1% of what i got up to before i got the chance to back up my computer.

I'm going to take a break from making games for the time being, i need some time, but I'm not giving up until i create a descent game for my favorite console.

oh well, future people in psp devopment, learn from my mistake and back everything up.

cya around the forums

[JKKDARK]

That's terrible news

[Wally]

You can recover the contents of your computer regardless if you formatted it or not.

There are various recovery programs that work well, I think Handy Recovery or File Recovery something.

Just dont use it too much otherwise, bye bye data.

Oh i should mention Time Machine works well for backing up, oops.. Its Mac only :P

[dark heart]

thanks wal really helpful

[No_one_in_particular]

I was looking forward to it as well Hope you can recover it...

[dark heart]

if i could i would, it's about 5 years of work, programs and other things, besides, i don't have any back-ups.

[Wally]

Well try that recovery program already.

[dark heart]

the drive was formatted, so it's not recoverable

[Axelius]

Even if a drive is formatted, this is in fact not so bad. Some recovery programs can still restore a lot of data from a formatted drive.

Good luck.

[dark heart]

hmm? if you know a good program for that please don't hesitate to tell me