Warning |
Scenarios and plug-ins for the Escape Velocity series are stored in the old Macintosh resource fork format. While it was highly capable and forward-looking when it was designed in the 1980s, it has both a 16 MB upper limit and limitations on the number of resources, which can interfere with modern development. This applies to any editor, not just to MissionComputer. To avoid the risk of file corruption or loss of data, it is best to divide your plug-ins into multiple files, as Ambrosia have done with the games' scenarios; try not to exceed a few megabytes in each file, and err on the side of more files rather than fewer. Corruption caused by neglecting this precaution has afflicted the development many major plug-ins, as well as EV Override and EV Nova themselves, and can easily affect your own work if you are incautious. |
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