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New Windows Installer
- From: Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>
- To: xconq7 <xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:29:07 -0600
- Subject: New Windows Installer
Hello Xconquerors,
A new Xconq installer for Windows is now available at:
http://xconq_hacker.home.comcast.net/
It is the 2004/09/12 installer.
There have been a number of improvements:
(1) The AI should now do a better job at researching advances. (Thanks
to Lincoln Peters for taking the first step in this direction.) More can
still be done on this subject, but if you want to see what the AI is
capable of now, then play the Advances game. You may find that at least
one AI-controlled side has War Chariots (powerful units) by turn 22 or
23, and that several will likely have Elephants (very powerful units) by
turn 30.
(2) If you use the graphical setup windows in the Tcl/Tk interface, you
will notice that most of the games now have screenshots filling in the
game picture in the upper righthand corner of the game selection window.
This is because Elijah Meeks has been quite diligent and has taken the
time to play each game to a point where he felt he could get a good
screenshot. We should all give him a big round of applause for his efforts.
(3) The Galaxy and Galaxy II games have better-looking images now.
Thanks to Elijah for this as well.
(4) Elijah has also provided an update to his A World Lost Slowly game.
(5) I have made numerous improvements (I think) to the SDL interface.
Many of these were mentioned in an email I sent to the list last Tuesday
or Wednesday, IIRC. The ability to select research topics for side
research is among the new capabilities. In addition to being able to
select a new topic to research, there is also an "Auto R&D" button,
which tells the computer to select the next research topic for you, if
clicked. (This is a good way for testing improvements in the research
picking code, among other things.) If folks find the automatic R&D stuff
to be useful, I can make it the first research button instead of the last.
As always, bug reports and other forms of feedback are welcome.
Regards,
Eric