Yesterday the UFO: AI team released version 2.2.1 of their free game. This version is a bugfix release - but some nice little features were added, too. To get the full changelog, head over to their wiki.
Today we released version 2.2.1 which is a bugfix release for 2.2 + some little new features. Have fun with it PS. A newspost would be nice - to not get the same bugreports over and over again
The people over at JA2-Stracciatella did it again - they released a new version of their JA2-project. There main goal is to bring JA2 on a lot of different plattforms and fix a lot of the Vanilla bugs. It would be nice if you could support this project with a small newspost, too. http://ja2.dragonriders.de/
You just need the ufai-2.2-win32.exe if you are using windows - this is the installer and you don't need anything else. the rest is the linux version, single data archives for packagers and so on.
Today we released version 2.2 of ufo:ai a lot of new features made it into 2.2. you can find more information on http://ufoai.sourceforge.net it would be nice if someone could post a news entry about this. thanks and best regards martin
There is also a free implementation of the C&C engine. It uses SDL to it should also work on every windows plattform out there. But i'm not sure about the status of this project: http://www.freecnc.org/
problems with copyright still remain, remember projects like stratagus. they had to remove the support for warcraft 2 and change the name. but it all depends on the copyright holder, even scummvm once got into touch with lucas arts about those issues. and abandoned ware is mostly not copyright free. in most cases the copyright holder just doesn't care - but they are still somewhat "illegal". let's hope the best, because it looks very cool - but i would really like to know under which license they release their work. i can't find anything about it on their page
version 0.5 with the following changelog was released: * Fixed Russian translation, ja2-stracciatella is playable with Russian data-files now. * Fixed Polish translation, ja2-stracciatella is playable with Polish data-files now. * Fixed incorrectly encoded cyrillic texts in non-Russian versions (Ivan!). * Repair and add some more blitters. * Fixed a vanilla bug which put some large items in small slots when doctoring. * As usual code cleanups and minor fixes.
we have implemented destruction for some tiles - but it's up to the mapmakers to use this feature - not everything will be destroyable (remember, we are using the quake2 engine)
There is a little hotfix update available: if you encountered savegame problems (not being able to load your game after some time) - you should download the hotfix: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ufoai/ufo...hotfix2.tar.bz2