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knappskirata
Posted: Saturday, March 2, 2013 2:06:25 PM
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Okay, I successfully downloaded VASSAL, but for some reason, it won't let me do anything but the Vassal tour. so i tried to do the tour and just found alll of these weird boards and didn't know what to do. Please help, trying ot set up my brother(DeltaSquadron) to be MiniTank's opponent
swinefeld
Posted: Saturday, March 2, 2013 4:45:59 PM
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knappskirata wrote:
Okay, I successfully downloaded VASSAL, but for some reason, it won't let me do anything but the Vassal tour. so i tried to do the tour and just found alll of these weird boards and didn't know what to do. Please help, trying ot set up my brother(DeltaSquadron) to be MiniTank's opponent


Sounds like you don't have any game modules installed.

Have you gone (carefully) through the how-to instructions posted over at www.swmresources.com ?

Those should get you where you want to be.
If they don't, post again. BlooMilk
knappskirata
Posted: Saturday, March 2, 2013 5:20:31 PM
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when i looked at it, it looks like i didnt install the shortcut, but i downloaded on my MAC. All is appears on it is downloads at the bottom right.
knappskirata
Posted: Sunday, March 3, 2013 9:04:23 AM
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Need help please
knappskirata
Posted: Monday, March 11, 2013 3:17:12 PM
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Still need help, read above, cant figure out how to install game modules
501 Trooper
Posted: Monday, March 11, 2013 3:58:56 PM
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I have had a similar problem too. I can get into what the lobies supposed to look like, but I can't start a game (or don't know how)
swinefeld
Posted: Monday, March 11, 2013 4:41:25 PM
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knappskirata wrote:
when i looked at it, it looks like i didnt install the shortcut, but i downloaded on my MAC. All is appears on it is downloads at the bottom right.


I'm not a Mac user, so I'm winging it here based on a Windows install.

You need 3 separate downloads: Vassal program, SWM game module, V-Sets extension (the v-set pieces)

- Launch the Vassal download to install the program. If you did that and don't have a shortcut, make one.

The game module and v-set extensions are in a compressed format (.rar I believe)

- You need to extract the game module from that download into the folder that Vassal was installed into.

- Then you need to extract the Virtual Sets.mdx from that download into a subfolder named SWMinis_ext that you have to create in the Vassal folder.

Run Vassal. If the game module isn't listed in the module library window, use the File menu to find and open it. The extension should load automatically, but if it doesn't, right-click the game module in the list and choose 'add extension'.



knappskirata
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:26:52 PM
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I went online and searched for a swm module and downloaded it, but when I open that module, it just comes up with the module library as Vassal Tour
knappskirata
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013 1:53:35 PM
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Okay, i dowloaded it on my laptop, and I got stuck when it said move the Star wars.rar into my desktop because i couldnt find it in my computer
swinefeld
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:02:29 PM
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Is there a specific place that downloads go to? If so, it should be there.

This is the latest available.

http://www.swmresources.com/downloads/VASSAL/SWMinis.rar
knappskirata
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:09:30 PM
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I tried opening it, but it gave me a bunch of ways to open it and I randomly choose word and I don't know how to change it. Downloading you link now
knappskirata
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:12:02 PM
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same thing happened, it opened with word and i dont know how to change how it opens
swinefeld
Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013 4:43:07 PM
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OK, you need a tool to extract the file then.

http://www.stuffit.com/mac-expander.html

This will open/extract .rar files (just download the free version)
knappskirata
Posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:11:19 AM
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I decided to download on my windows lap top instead, so this isn't working
swinefeld
Posted: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:55:07 AM
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Try 7-Zip, WinRar, or WinZip.
knappskirata
Posted: Sunday, March 24, 2013 9:52:00 AM
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I got 7-zip but i dont know what to do with it
SignerJ
Posted: Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:43:23 AM
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Don't use 7-zip. It's extremely difficult to work with. Use WinRar. It's free for the first month, and it works indefinitely.
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