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Re: Don't Let the Stars Fade Away Sat, 05 January 2008 08:12 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Well, sad person that I am, I've adopted the Microsoft approach. E-mail and other resources are cheap, generating one file is cheaper in code than generating and distributing - oh, let's say say 5 separate files. Besides, the turn files are small - currently 26KB in the test game I'm running. It only includes updates to data stored locally on player's PCs.

The world has changed. Internet connectivity is cheap. People's time is expensive - not only in money (which does not apply to my Nova hobby) but in terms of time - I've lots of other things to do. I grab time to play with Nova when I can.

I'm implementing missile accuracy at the moment.

As I keep saying, this is just a learning project for me. The fact that we now have a very playable (open source) Stars! v1 is a very unexpected bonus Smile

One other point. I've now switched to the 2008 version of the (free) VS Express tools. They are nice but not compatible with earlier versions (but you just need to make a few tweaks to a few files so that they can be). Nova will also need version 3 of the .Net framework (also a free download).

I have one problem, I have VS 2005 which I was using for binary releases. This no longer works with the new 2008 VS Express versions.

I've added to my "list of things to do" a new binary release mechanism. I don't think that will happen before february. Sad (I've a divorce to sort out,find a new place to live and set up a new ISP, etc.)

The test game is going well. Everything pretty much works. Lots of stuff still to do (minefields for example). But, I've learned a lot (which was my intention) and I'm still learning (which is great).

All the latest stable stuff is in SourceForge. Including the Nova homepage, source code and latest binaries.



[Updated on: Sat, 05 January 2008 08:20]




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