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found it - but i think i fucked it up - the preview has shown the pictures in correct order - but the news side doesn't display them correctly.

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.

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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

blame ati try to reinstall older drivers - the newer ones are b0rked - afaik version 7.9 works. our forums have more information about this issue.

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.

hey, thanks for posting this we need all your votes :-)

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

you should also try the multiplayer features

UFO:ALIEN INVASION 2.1 RELEASED The UFO:AI development team is proud to announce the release of <b>UFO:Alien Invasion Version 2.1</b>. This version features many great improvements over 2.0 and tons of new content, such as new aliens, new weapons, new maps, new base facilities, new research options and better multiplayer support. Many of the bugs that plagued version 2.0 have been eliminated. As the main task in 2.1, the UFOpaedia has been filled and expanded with hundreds of new and detailed texts containing full equipment descriptions, the history of the world since 2007, more information about the start of the invasion, and tons of other background flavour. The research system and UFOpaedia display have been overhauled to take full advantage of the new texts. UFO:AI 2.1 also gives players the first glimpses of the upcoming campaign storyline which we will be implementing fully over the next few versions. 2.1 Changelog: * First significant steps towards implementing the storyline. * Dozens of new, in-depth UFOpedia texts and descriptions. * New maps o industrial, estate, bridge, oriental * New weapons o Micro Shotgun, Machine Pistol, Heavy Laser Rifle * New alien race (Shevaar) * Many new and updated models, sounds and music tracks * Multiplayer o Heavily improved multiplayer support o Master server * Improved the engine to make it more stable and portable * Base management o Implemented alien containment o Base transfers partially implemented o Finally implemented the hospital * Combat o New popup menu when firing/using a gun. o Weapons can now have more than 2 firemodes. * Lots of bugfixes UFO:AI Homepage UFO:AI Gallery UFO:AI Changelog UFO:AI Downloads

there will be a new release this weekend - there is already a changelog at http://ufoai.sf.net - sunday will be the day of the new release. there are already some testinstaller online at http://mattn.ninex.info (windows and linux) - if you encounter any problems with them, please let us know. ps. the download mirrors of the final version will be faster ;-)

hi the links are broken again mattn

thanks Slaughter - but i think the time for a news post is not here. first we have to fix some bugs and finish some features. but i'll come back to this offer - thanks again

no, currently we don't have a release date for 2.1, because it's still a little unstable - btw did i mention that we are searching betatester :-D.... ?! (did i even repeat me - oh what a shame) but i would bet that some of you will really love the new multiplayer modes and even some of the new singleplayer features. i don't think that we will need another year to finish 2.1 - but as i said - no date yet - can be next week - next month... John Carmack: "It's done when it's done" :-D and feedback is always welcome (and very important to make some devs happy - in the time where everyone seams to only play fps-games )

we are currently heading towards a new release - a release of the 2.1 code tree - you can find latest beta versions here: http://mattn.ninex.info (currently uploading a new version). if you encounter bugs (be sure you will) - which is most likely due to a lot of new features - please let us know in our irc channel ( irc.freenode.org #ufo:ai ) or via our bugtracker at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufoai/ . I also would like to let you know, that we have greatly improved multiplayer gaming - coop, deathmatch and team deathmatch are implemented and working very nice now. We also have a masterserver set up to let the in-game server browser be alive. If you want to play a multiplayer round, just enter the above given irc channel and let us know. It would be us a pleasure to do some "gametesting" :-D best regards martin

all the links in this news post are broken. there are quotes around the links and the base uri from strategycore.co.uk is not removed - they all end in 404

you are fast...:-) you can find more infos here: UFO:AI Homepage It would be cool if someone could make a newspost thanks martin

the irc-channel moved over to irc.freenode.org - channelname is still #ufo:ai btw. we need some windows-coders to make the game in its new version available on windows, too. interested? join mailinglist and/or irc and help us. mac users are welcome, too. we are willing to port it to mac - but noone of us owns a mac... someone around here? btw. the faster we gets a windows-build, the faster the new version will come. we have plans to release a new techdemo to show the progress and eliminate bugs in the "real" next new version. best regards martin

Hi We are three programmers right now - but we are still searching for modellers, skinners, artist (sound and graphics) and mappers. Oh, not to forget the betatesters. If you have the chance, grab the cvs and give the game a try. There is some really great progress on the codebase. But there are still a few bugs that needs to be fixed before we can release the next version. The basemanagement, random-maps, research and stuff like this maybe will be included in the next version (depends on how fast we can fix the bugs). if you don't know how to model, skin, map and so on, there are a few basic tutorials on http://ufoai.sf.net and a mailinglist as well as an irc-channel on quakenet (named #ufo:ai ) where you can ask your questions. Hope to see you Martin