Cowpod 1.0.3

Reads your game's own pod limit

Intro

Basic Info

At its core, Cowpod is a pod mounting utility just like many others that have come before it. Place it in your mtm2 folder, double click it (or put a shortcut on the desktop) and you can easily add and remove track and truck pods from your game.

Download
Cowpod v1.0.3 (zip)

Note. If you do not know how to mount addons, then please see the beginners help page which you can find here.

Cowpod differs from other pod mounting programs in many ways. Here are some of them.

Features

1. Easy to use interface
• Two viewing and selection modes (F8)
• Side by side
• Checked list
• Both views can be refreshed (F5)
• Both views can be sorted
• Toolbar (toggle it with F4)
• Remembers its size and position between runs
• Menu
• Command buttons
• Launch the game right from Cowpod
2. Sorting Options
• Unsorted
• Alphabetically
• Leave user specified number of pods at the top of the list
3. Smart restore
• Reset the default mtm2 pods
• Reset the minimal mtm2 pods only
• Both will put fixmore4 on top
• Both will check a "fixes" and a "stock" subdirectory (if they exist) for the stock pods.
4. Extra path options
• Keep Cowpod anywhere and point it at the game folder
• Place pods anywhere on your computer
• Read subfolders many levels deep
• Flags two pods that share a filename, since the game loads only the first
5. INI File options
• Normal Save (as pod.ini)
• Save as... any file name you want
• Open a previously saved list
• Send the list to notepad for direct editing
• Error checking and cross referencing
• Never write a bad ini file
6. List swapping
• Save lists without hassle
• Open any list directly into cowpod
• Use Open
• Right click in windows explorer
• Install any list without opening cowpod
• Use special shortcuts
• Right click in windows explorer
• Create a quick-change shortcut on the desktop
• Right click in windows explorer
• Drag icon from desktop to 'quick launch' taskbar
7. Monster.ini Editor
• Change the game fonts
• Includes 6 presets
• Or use any fonts on your computer
• Turn on extra horns
• Turn off Torture Pit
• Use digital latency display
8. Registry Editor
• MTM2
• Reset
• Fix
• Repair
• Traxx 1.4
• Delete traxx registration key
• Reset it without typing
• C-pod
• Remove startup location problem
• Or reset it to a viewable location
9. Lots of extras
• Create shortcuts right from cowpod
• on the desktop
• on the startmenu
• Copy to clipboard
• Pod.ini list
• Unused pod list
• Selected check list
• Unselected check list
• Automatic game version detection
• Displayed in the title bar
• Pod limit read from monster.ini, so a new patch raises it without a new Cowpod
• Minimal nags
• Does many things automatically
• Ultimately leaves choices to the user
10. Open Source
• Contribute to the project
• Learn for your own projects

What you need

Version 1.0.3 is a .NET program, where every version up to 1.0.1 was Visual Basic 6. That is the one thing about this release that can stop it running.

• Windows 7 SP1 or newer — 7, 8.1, 10 or 11.
• .NET Framework 4.8. Already part of Windows 10 (May 2019 update) and Windows 11. On anything older it is a free download from Microsoft.
• Runs as 64 bit on 64 bit Windows and 32 bit on 32 bit Windows, from the same download.

Still on Windows XP? 1.0.3 will not run on 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP or Vista. Cowpod 1.0.1 is the last version that will, and it is unchanged and still here.

Extra

Offline version of these pages provided by SLO_Papa

• CowpodHelp.pdf (894k)

A big thanks to him for putting all that together for us. It describes 1.0.1, so the newer parts of these pages are not in it.