| Massive tpclient-pywx 0.2.0 released |
Tue, 12 December 2006 10:21  |
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 mithro |
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Messages: 7
Registered: October 2004
Location: Australia | |
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Hope it's not inapporiate to mention this release here. I thought with all you being fans of Stars! it would intrest you.
After a massive amount of work, Thousand Parsec is proud to announce that the next version (0.2.0) of its primary client is now available.
There have been massive changes to the client's back end code and quite a few UI improvements. Some off the highlights are:
- Request Pipelineing. Faster downloads on fast connections and on connections with high ping times.
- Automatic Media Downloading. The client will now download the required media of the web.
- Animated Planet Graphics. There are now cool animated planet graphics and other graphics displayed in the information screen.
- Account Creation Support. You can now create an account on servers straight from the client.
- Design Support. You can now create ships, torpedoes or any other object that the server supports. Properties and requirements of designs are calculated locally using a Scheme based language called tpcl.
- Message Reference Support. Servers can now say that messages refer to certain objects and the GOTO button will take you to them.
- Better Caching. Better support for universe caching and only downloading what has changed.
This release also includes binaries for windows and binaries for Mac OS X ( http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/downloads.php#tpclient-pywx ). The binaries have the following requirements:
Windows
- Windows 98 or greater
- 50mb disk space
- 1024x768 screen or greater
Mac OS X
- Mac OS X 10.3.8 or higher, 10.4.1 or higher is preferred
- 200mb disk space
- 1024x768 screen or greater
There are also two permanent demonstration servers. The servers have the following properties:
demo1.thousandparsec.net
- 5 minute turns
- Restarted every day
- MiniSec rule set
demo2.thousandparsec.net
- 6 hour turns
- Restarted when somebody takes over 80% of the universe
- Partial MTSec rule set
Hope you all enjoy the new release!
Tim Ansell aka Mithro
tpclient-pywx lead developer.
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| Re: Massive tpclient-pywx 0.2.0 released |
Sun, 17 December 2006 16:23  |
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| Kotk | 
 | Commander |
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Registered: May 2003 | |
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| LEit wrote on Tue, 12 December 2006 19:43 |
Hmm, I wonder if I could borrow some of the code for a FreeStars client...
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The client is Python WxWidgets scripts.
Features implemented ... most describing is (probably):
http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/documents/matrix.php
The base ideology seems similar to stars in sense that there are orders and turns. It is made currently to do most work in server and plan is to make it offline too.
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