Cannot install forge

[Amdoravel]

I recently had to uninstall forge because i was fooling around with my layouts and accidentally changed my game layout to the deck editor layout causing a crash every time i entered a game... Unfort after unzipping the Forge Beta: 03-27-2013 ver 1.3.11 file it turns into a .out file which i have no way of running on my windows machine... apparently this is a linux based file... how can i get forge working on my machine again... my Internets iffy 90% of the time so i need to fix it fast as forge is the only thing i have to do during the down times LOL

[Amdoravel]

forge-1.3.11.tar.bz2.tar.out is the complete file name with extension

[Chris H.]

 
The archive format used for the Forge distribution is ".tar.bz2". There are utilities for Windows, Mac OS and the various *nix's that can be used to extract/decompress these ".tar.bz2" archives. We recommend that you extract/decompress the Forge archive into a new and unused folder.

Some people use the Windows application 7zip. This utility can be found at http://www.7-zip.org/download.html.

[Amdoravel]

Unless 7zip extracts files differently then my winzip then im pretty sure that not the problem but ill try it

[Amdoravel]

LOL that is so annoying first i had to use 7zip to extract to a proper zip file then i needed to use winzip to extract to the unzipped files XD

reminds me of the times i had to extract then combine parts with zip files XD

app the help

[timmermac]

Download and install winRAR. It uses a single step to extract Forge. I've been using it for many months. After 45 days, you'll get nagged about paying for it, but you can ignore the nag screen.

[Amdoravel]

im sry i do use winrar not winzip but when i extracted it the file was an out file

[timmermac]

You might want to delete that file, then redownload the archive. That is not supposed to happen.

[Max mtg]

You might want to delete that file, then redownload the archive. That is not supposed to happen.

As I remember when I had problems extracting those tarballs two years ago, use of latest winRar helped. Also renamed tar.bz2 to plain tar - but don't remember if it worked.

I sincerelly hope that the next release will be shipped in zip archives for windows users.

[timmermac]

I'm using version 4.2 (64-bit). There's no need to rename the file. Just double-click it, hit the extract button, and it extracts just fine.