SAUpgrade was a small program written by Jim.... errr, it's been so long I've forgotten his surname, which is bad as it's proven a most useful utility.
It reads a text file that tells it what tables to copy over from your old database to the new one and has options for ignoring old fields, adding new ones and so on.
When Jim dropped of the Starfire list I started writing update scripts so I could keep my game up to date. I released these via the Starfire mailing list so others could too. You can get SAUpgrade and the update scripts (the SAUpgrade zip has them all to save you downloading it and all the scripts separately) from my old website
http://www.stephen.cooke.dsl.pipex.com/starfire.htmI haven't maintained this site for over a year and a half, because I switched ISP. I just looked and it appears to still be there though.
There's also some tech, optional rules and the Haggi Confederation game info on there.
There was no detailed readme by Jim so I had to work out what to do by looking at old scripts Jim had put out. I think the util is actually quite a bit more powerful than what I've managed, but what I have produced usually works.
As all it does is read and copy Access tables, it may work to upgrade Aurora's DB too. Have to give it a try sometime.
Being the nice (I expect that word to be on my grave marker) person that people tell me I am, I've sorted out upgrade issues for various fellow gamers. It's usually fairly simple, just deleting rogue entries from some tables in the dB. SA is sometimes a bit messy with what it leaves around from previous games.
Steve has never publically released the dB password and requested long ago that noone who knew do so either. A number of people know what it is, in my case from using a password cracker so I could get in and fix my dB to run an upgrade. I've never seen anyone publically state what it is.
Stephen
