Crossfire 0.95.6 has been released. There are a lot of bug fixes as well as some improvements/new features. An abreviated list of changes is at the end of this file. Note - the mailing lists for crossfire have changed. This is the last announcement message that will be sent via crossfire-announce@ifi.uio.no address. Future announcement messages will be sent through the real-time address. To get on the subscription list for that, go to: https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-announce https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-list https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/crossfire-devel Or you should be able to go to: http://crossfire.real-time.com/Website_Index/Mailing_Lists/mailing_lists.jhtml It should be set up shortly to allow subscription to all the lists. NOTE TO MIRROR SITES: The primary site (ftp.scruz.net) has limited download bandwidth per day. If this poses a problem, you want a more reliable method, or you just want a backup method. please drop me a mail message - I have set up a secondary server off my ADSL link, but being that only has 128 kb upstream bandwidth and is also used for other interactive purposes, I don't want to make it available to all. Files released for this version: sums (bsd) filename 60650 1400 crossfire-0.95.6.arch.tar.bz2 08844 1677 crossfire-0.95.6.arch.tar.gz 15457 2285 crossfire-0.95.6.maps.tar.bz2 23886 3275 crossfire-0.95.6.maps.tar.gz 54982 2523 crossfire-0.95.6.tar.bz2 36272 2837 crossfire-0.95.6.tar.gz 51144 224 crossfire-client-0.95.6.tar.gz Sums (md5) f00dd5787230a8b302afc2bf7807cd8b crossfire-0.95.6.arch.tar.bz2 86da5b52e15e228baae7cc0db0888f72 crossfire-0.95.6.arch.tar.gz 71266e1300773981d6f923f362ad375f crossfire-0.95.6.maps.tar.bz2 619e9d69292b2e24001474a8be05816b crossfire-0.95.6.maps.tar.gz 9eaabea6f8a11b225731c0cdbc2372b6 crossfire-0.95.6.tar.bz2 29272624080cd7e42f85c77e98fdaa07 crossfire-0.95.6.tar.gz b7f2ebd8525a8fb2716deac9592621b4 crossfire-client-0.95.6.tar.gz crossfire-client-0.95.6 is the client (X11) distribution - standard X11 and gtk interfaces are provided. crossfire-0.95.6.tar.{gz/bz2} contains the server code with prebuilt archetype and image files. crossfire-0.95.6.arch.{gz/bz2} contains the unpacked archetype changes. This is not needed if you only want to compile the server and play the game. crossfire-0.95.6-maps.tgz contains the maps. This is needed with the server distribution. No doc archive at this time - I don't believe anything in it should have changed much. FOR FIRST TIME USERS: You will only need the appropriate server, map and client file. You do not need the arch file. If you are a first time user, you may want the doc file unless you are using a web based player referance. If you just want to play the game at some remote server, you need the client and perhaps some version of the doc file. If you are looking for a windows/NT client, look at: ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/crossfire/incoming (129.240.64.44) for a file called cfcXXXX.zip (XXXX are numbers representing the version - get the latest) Crossfire is avaible on the following ftp sites Primary: ftp://ftp.scruz.net:/users/mwedel/public (165.227.192.254) ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no:/pub/crossfire (129.240.64.44) *** NOTE *** primary server has changed to pyrsonal, and this will likely be the primary for quite a while to come. Secondary: ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/games/crossfire (206.10.252.12) ftp://ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:/pub/games/crossfire/ ftp://ftp.sunet.se:/pub/unix/games/crossfire (130.238.127.3) ftp://ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp:/pub/games/crossfire ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/games/roguelike/crossfire/ I uploaded this version to just ftp.scruz.net - it should be on the other ftp sites in a short time. Mark Wedel mwedel@scruz.net 06/22/2000 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Changes: Note - I only include the more substantial/noticable changes here - in fact, there are hundreds of bug fixes and including all of them would probably make this list longer than most people would want to read. client: Support of png image format, support for sun audio output, improved keybinding/keycode handling, numerous bugfixes. maps: Many fixes, with several new maps added There are many patches/improvements, many the result of changes to the server code. If you update to the new server, you should also update your maps. arch: Addition of png images. Many more objects made mergable. Note that I have removed the 'dev' directory from distribution. server: Support for supplying png images. Many improvements to reliability of random map code. It is not an exaggeration when I say hundreds of bug fixes have been put in place. Many areas of the code have been cleaned up/redone to improve reliability.