Privateer: Ascii Sector v0.3.2 for Win32
Christian Knudsen
compiled for Win32 and has music and sound effects.
Christian Knudsen
www.asciisector.net/download.html
- Fixed bug with asteroid fields.
- Fixed a couple of bugs with movie recording.
- Fixed bug with options being reset when entering the Movie Player
menu.
- Added a sound effect when jumping.
- ALT+ENTER will now also switch between fullscreen and window mode.
- The player's health (and equipment in the left and right hands) will
now be shown all the time. Combat Mode is instead indicated by red
borders.
Maxy-B
wrote:
> v0.3.3 released!
I really like the direction these releases are going in, but I'm a
little disappointed -- when will those of us who've been using DOSBox
get in on all the new goodness?
--
Max
Paul Donnelly
Christian Knudsen
I'm afraid I've discontinued the DOS version when I switched to Win32.
There's just too many coding differences between the two versions,
which would require too much fiddling about to get both versions to
work with every new release. Instead, I'm going to compile Linux and
(in time) Mac versions in addition to the Win32 version. This
shouldn't be too hard, as I'm using FreePascal with SDL for both
screen, input, music and sounds. I don't think I'm using any system
dependent functions at all. Anyway, which OS are you running on? If
you're on Linux, I believe you can just use WINE to run the game.
Christian Knudsen
> Cool, this version doesn't crash for me.- Skjul tekst i anførselstegn -
>
> - Vis tekst i anførselstegn -
Excellent! When did the previous version crash for you? When you were
flying in space through asteroid fields?
Maxy-B
wrote:
I'm on OSX -- I'll take a stab at running Ascii Sector in WINE. Also,
I'm happy to help in any way I can with porting it to the Mac. I know
very little about FreePascal, but I have lots of experience with SDL
in other languages. At the very least, I can serve as some sort of
guinea pig :)
--
Max
Christian Knudsen
> I'm on OSX -- I'll take a stab at running Ascii Sector in WINE. Also,
> I'm happy to help in any way I can with porting it to the Mac. I know
> very little about FreePascal, but I have lots of experience with SDL
> in other languages. At the very least, I can serve as some sort of
> guinea pig :)
>
> --
> Max
Great. Let me know if you're successful!
It will be a while before I start working on the Mac version. I want
to get a Linux version working first, which should be a lot easier as
I've got Xubuntu installed on my laptop along with XP, but haven't got
a Mac. I might buy a cheap Mac for compiling the Mac version. Anyway,
it would be great to use you as a guinea pig when I get that far. :)
Paul Donnelly
On take-off. It was a while ago, running the DOS version in DOSbox. I
see you've discontinued that version, but whatever DOS version is most
recent is the one that does not crash on me immediately. I'll keep an
eye out for your first Linux release. It seems pretty fun (although I
may still be Privateered-out).
I Own The Letter O
Kudos for taking our genre in such a new direction. I can't wait for
V1!. I only recently discovered the Privateer game so it's still quite
new for me. I love the display and how it resembles the original game
and yet is still identifiable as a Roguelike in many ways. I'm going
to stop now before this post gets to crawly.
Christian Knudsen
> On take-off. It was a while ago, running the DOS version in DOSbox. I
> see you've discontinued that version, but whatever DOS version is most
> recent is the one that does not crash on me immediately. I'll keep an
> eye out for your first Linux release. It seems pretty fun (although I
> may still be Privateered-out).
Did you run the game with LOADHIGH in DOSBox?
Christian Knudsen
> Kudos for taking our genre in such a new direction. I can't wait for
> V1!. I only recently discovered the Privateer game so it's still quite
> new for me. I love the display and how it resembles the original game
> and yet is still identifiable as a Roguelike in many ways. I'm going
> to stop now before this post gets to crawly.
Wow. Thanks for all the kind word. I'm glad you like it!
Paul Donnelly
Christian Knudsen
That seems to avoid most of the crashes. It runs a bit slower, though.
(This is in the manual as well as on the "How to run the game in
DOSBox" section of the website.)
Paul Donnelly
I guess I should have done more background research.
Christian Knudsen
www.asciisector.net/download.html
- Fixed bug with critical wounds not decreasing health.
- Fixed bug with the sound of static on your target display
"sticking".
- Fixed bug with displaying hidden/unhidden contraband.
- Fixed bug with long movie filenames.
- Fixed bug that wouldn't create your contact when trying to collect
payment for an on-ground assassination mission.
- Fixed bug that made typing the letter 'q' impossible.
- Fixed seven other bugs that potentially caused crashes.
- Increased the time it takes to land on a base or planet.
- Killing Retros and Kilrathi will now also increase your standing
with Hunters.
- Added more detailed messages when scooping cargo.
- If scooping cargo, but you haven't enough space for all of it, the
remaining cargo won't be destroyed anymore.
- Added targeting of cargo containers and ejected pilots (SHIFT+T).
- Cargo containers and ejected pilots will now also show up on the
radar.
- For missions where you have to collect the payment, your Quine will
now tell you whether or not you've collected it.
- You will no longer get fined for assaults and murders on pirate
bases (you'll still be banned, though).
- You won't always be scanned for contraband anymore (there's a 50%
chance).
- You can now move the viewable area when targeting.
- Lowered the price of hidden compartments to 2000 credits.
- Added a window icon.
Christian Knudsen
www.asciisector.net/download.html
- Fixed bug that crashed the game when entering autopilot with the
autopilot speed set to 9.
- Fixed bug with shield upgrading that sometimes made shields too
strong.
- Fixed bug that sometimes froze the game when sleeping.
- Decreased the amount of damage asteroids can withstand.
- Added equipment descriptions to the shipyard computer terminal.
- The Guild computers will now tell you how many missions you need to
complete to advance to the next level.
- Attempting to dock with a ship that's engaged in combat will now
have the ship tell you that it's busy, instead of telling you to
prepare for docking.
- Making a mission ship hostile (for example by shooting at it) will
fail the mission, if you need to escort or dock with that ship.
- You can now engage the autopilot while escorting a ship without the
ship disappearing (or actually staying at the spot where you entered
autopilot).
- When entering autopilot, you will now fly at the current set speed,
so if you want to fly at max speed during autopilot, be sure to set
your speed to max before engaging the autopilot.
- If an NPC ship is attacking another ship, but is then attacked
itself, there's now a chance of the NPC ship changing targets to the
ship that attacked it.
- A completely blinded character will now always miss when shooting at
you.
- Decreased all fines to 1/10th.