Problem W/ sandbox

Hi, the last two times that i loaded a park (SFGADV) in the scenerio creater mode and i loaded it up as a landscape and then changed all the rides i wanted etc etc, i finish it after two hours and i go to save it and it WONT save, this happened to me again last week! Does anyone know why it wont save, i was enraged after spending 2 hours picking everythin out to be completly wasted...

Dont know why, but try savin as soon as you get into it to make sure you dont lose your work, and save every few minutes. (Maybe every 10?)

RCT Master is right. . . save every couple minutes if it lets you. That's something they taught us in computer classes in school people. . . well most of you are probably too old to have had computers in school so yeah! Just do that.

I have nothing against old people, don't take me wrong. :-D

I'm 31 and used computers in school (occasionally, special circumstances mostly) starting around second grade - that would have been 1981-ish.

It wasn't a regular thing and they weren't in each classroom like many schools have now (I think my elementary school had one or two in the library for special projects, not regular use), but believe it or not us "old folks" used computers in school long before you 'kiddies' were born.

I got my first computer when I turned 12. Heck, I've been a somewhat regular computer user for longer than anyone still in high school has been alive.

Sorry, nostalgia got the best of me there (a symptom of getting old ;) )

Just for the record, if you check the profiles of the other two posters in this thread, they're 16 & 17 years old. Hardly, "old people" material. :)

Ah, the days of the TRS-80. What a pile of crap that was.

Just the fact that Radio Shack was at the forefront of technology should have told us something.

I had TRS-80's up until 9th grade when they updated to IBM's. Using a modem required taking the actual handset of the phone and hooking it up to an input set on the computer.

Senior year brought in the Macs.

I'm 34. MY first exposure to computers was in the mid 70's (I want to say 1975, but I might be misremembering), when my dad took me to work and sat me down in front of an IBM 3270 terminal connected to an IBM mainframe running MVS. I was BBS'ing my way around in the early 80's, and I've been on the Internet since 1988.

So don't go assuming that us "older folks" don't know how to use computers :)

Oh come on guys I was joking. . . no need to make me feel stupid or bad. Oh well you guys had to use boxes with wires on them. . . but at least you didn't have AOL.

We're kidding, too -- note my :)

And yeah, I would rather still use a 3270 than AOL.

Actually Coheed AOL has been around since the 1980's.

When you bought a PC from Sears you got AOL. It was an upstart that tried to steal business from Prodigy.

I remember when someone at my first real job got an actual hard disk drive. It cost about $5k and held 10 megabytes, yes 10 megabytes.

My first actual "PC" of sorts was a Commodore 64.

I learned on a TRS80 and a VAX 11-720. There was no Windows and Microsoft made a DOS knock off.

Of course at 40, I am too old to be using computers. ;-)

On the actual post topic, try saving to a different location. It helps when the file is too large or possible corrupt. If you used a trainer, all bets are off.

Yeah, Coheed, the smileys mean we're keeping it all in good fun.

Sometimes its fun for us old people to reminisce.

Wow. My first PC was the Commodore Vic-20. But in High school I programmed on an old system I can't even recall the name on. The newest media the darn thing would take was 8 inch florry discs, and was the size of a washing machine, as was the printer. We had to take the discs over to another terminal and key in data on machines that weren't even up to par for calculators in the eighties.

Craziness. :)

Man, and I though the computers we had early on in elementary school were old. (They were Apples, and used the floppy floppy disks in an external drive, anyone know what ones they were?)

Man how can you guys remember this stuff? I'm 23, and can barely remember playing Oregon Trail in 4th grade. And the hardest drug I've ever done is caffiene...:P

Anyway, back to the problem, what kind of error do you get when you try to save? I can think of plenty of times when I edited a workbench, saved it, and then couldn't open it, but I have never had a problem saving. One thing I would advise you to check though is your scenery groups. If you have been editing the available scenery through the "advanced" tabs, make sure that you haven't deleted all of the pieces in any of the selected scenery groups.

For example, if you choose to include the abstract scenery group, then go into the advanced settings and remove all of the abstract scenery piece by piece, it can cause problems with the file if you don't go back to the "secenery group" tab and deselect abstract themeing. Hope this helps. :)

Hehe, back then, floppy disks were actually floppy. I've seen one before, funny stuff. Heh.

Edit- Ahhh...I see posts still get cut in half.

And Andy, I hated oregon trail when I was 7 (I'm 14 lol). I could never seem to get to that damned island. It was in my sites...but I'd never reach it. :( *** Edited 6/27/2004 7:45:39 AM UTC by Omar***

Also, it might not save if you use characters like this in your save file.

!@#$%^&*()/<>

etc.

Coasterwiz! Stop cursing on CoasterBuzz. This is a family site! ;)

I remember Oregon Trail. I also remember working with paint programs on Apple Computers. We thought the ability to make shapes was incredible. :)