From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5468 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2004 22:52:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5442 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2004 22:51:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) (216.148.227.85) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 13 Nov 2004 22:51:57 -0000 Received: from [192.168.181.128] (unknown[67.176.41.158](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004111322515601400pl2i3e>; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:51:56 +0000 Message-ID: <41969003.7050903@phy.cmich.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 23:23:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Elijah Meeks CC: xconq7@sources.redhat.com Subject: New Source Tarball and Windows Installer (was Re: Publicity Test Run) References: <20041105213752.45701.qmail@web13123.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041105213752.45701.qmail@web13123.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg01408.txt.bz2 Hello Xconquerors, (Release announcement at end of this message.) Elijah Meeks wrote: > After Eric's next release, I'm going to see how much > attention I can get for XConq from a gaming > perspective. Nothing big, no slashdotting or anything > (I agree with Coop that this should wait until 7.5), > but just a few messages on a few boards about XConq > and the various games one can play. Go for it. > To that end, I > think we should tidy up the In Progress/Release list > of games that show up when you start a new game, so > that it puts the engine's best foot forward. My > initial votes go for the Standard Game, the various > Advanced Games, my own AWLS, Opal and Star Fleet > Battles, the Civ port and Galaxy 2. Sounds reasonable. Did you ever get a chance to finish the graphics update you were doing for the Wizards game? >I'm not too > familiar with the rest, but I think it'd be good to > stabilize Bellum Aeternum I have meaning to take BA off the "finished" list for months now. In the new prerelease that I am about to announce, that has finally been done. Maybe some day (some day far, far away from now), I will be able to sit down with BA II and release that instead. The original BA was simply my GDL teething experience; it was never intended to be release quality; the version string only indicated it was alpha or beta. >and Wreckreation, because Wreckreation was only a testbed. I was working on another version for a while that would have been a real game. I don't believe that Wreckreation even shows up in the "finished" games list in the Tcl/Tk interface. Anyway, Release Announcement: A new source tarball and Windows installer is available at the usual location: http://xconq_hacker.home.comcast.net A feature request and a bug report by "ryuuguu" have been addressed since the 11/10 release of the Windows installer. Also, a new image file that I may have forgotten to include in the previous prerelease is now in this one. The new images are by "gPETERsz", a talented artist who hangs out in the Xconq.org fora. Enjoy, Eric