Behind the Lines

Behind the Lines

[Bill Macon]

Jim Cobb wrote in his latest "Behind the Lines" column at Wargamer.com:

>>The possibility of playing Xconq almost made be become even more of a 
>>geek. The game is similar to the Empire series but is much more flexible. 
>>Views can be changed and the number of games and maps in the library, 
>>ranging from ancient to future combat, is incredible. The trouble was it 
>>required operating systems like Linux and Macintosh. Fortunately for us 
>>chained to Windows, Eric MacDonald has posted a Windows version available 
>>here. Install and join the party!

That's some good press and hopefully a few new folks will check out the 
game.  Now, it would be really nice if y'all can quit yer bickering and get 
v7.5 out the door.  All the chatter and fussing about revamping the code to 
C++ or Python can wait for later.  Transforming the code to 00 can be a goal 
for v7.6 or a new version v8.0.  Xconq is what it is for the time being.  
Hans Ronne has done a lot of hard work finding and fixing bugs.  Eric 
McDonald has provided a great service by making a Windows install package 
available.  These guys and everyone else who have contributed improvements 
need a big Thank You!  Clean up a few remaining things, update the 
documentation, and get it released already.

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Re: Behind the Lines

[Hans Ronne]

>Jim Cobb wrote in his latest "Behind the Lines" column at Wargamer.com:
>
>>>The possibility of playing Xconq almost made be become even more of a
>>>geek. The game is similar to the Empire series but is much more flexible.
>>>Views can be changed and the number of games and maps in the library,
>>>ranging from ancient to future combat, is incredible. The trouble was it
>>>required operating systems like Linux and Macintosh. Fortunately for us
>>>chained to Windows, Eric MacDonald has posted a Windows version available
>>>here. Install and join the party!

Great news. I had some problems finding the page, but here is the link:

http://www.wargamer.com/articles/behind_the_lines_13/page2.asp

>That's some good press and hopefully a few new folks will check out the
>game.  Now, it would be really nice if y'all can quit yer bickering and get
>v7.5 out the door.  All the chatter and fussing about revamping the code to
>C++ or Python can wait for later.  Transforming the code to 00 can be a goal
>for v7.6 or a new version v8.0.  Xconq is what it is for the time being.
>Hans Ronne has done a lot of hard work finding and fixing bugs.  Eric
>McDonald has provided a great service by making a Windows install package
>available.  These guys and everyone else who have contributed improvements
>need a big Thank You!  Clean up a few remaining things, update the
>documentation, and get it released already.

Thank you for your kind words. We will try to get 7.5 out as soon as
possible, but there are still some bugs that have to be fixed, apart from
updating the docs and game modules. I will make complete MacOS packages
available soon, so that a wider range of Mac users also can test pre-7.5,
similar to the Windows users.

Hans

Re: Behind the Lines

[Eric McDonald]

Hi Bill, others,

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Bill Macon wrote:

> That's some good press and hopefully a few new folks will check out the 
> game.  

Thanks for being a good press agent.

> Hans Ronne has done a lot of hard work finding and fixing bugs.  

Yes, a big round of applause for Hans. He's been plugging away at 
this for, what, about 3 years now, sometimes without any 
indication that Xconq had any players. If he hadn't got it to the 
state that I rediscovered it in a little over 5 months ago, I very 
much doubt that I would have joined the project....

> Clean up a few remaining things, update the 
> documentation, and get it released already.

We're working on it. I've done 4 CVS checkins in the past 24 
hours, and plan on a few more for today. Hans has also done a few. 
Jim did some documentation additions last week (aside from the 
one he mentioned to the list). I think Peter is also out there, 
perhaps brewing up something big....

I too want to see 7.5 get released soon (but not before it is 
ready), so that I can work on more glamorous aspects of the game 
system.

  Regards,
   Eric