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AFLobby Glest lobby development Spring

AFLobby Beta 4.1 & Glest

Aside from a few minor aesthetic tweaks to make her and there such as glest logos on glest battles to make them easier to pick out, AFLobby is pretty much ready to go. With the new Glest 3.1.1 supporting command line parameters, what a better time to go?

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Blog lobby development Spring

File Hosting

With the recent mess up at Unknown Files and the absence of iamacup, UF has remained down for the last week. In its place has risen 2 new hosts ran by sefidel and JJ, however these are not the best solution and have their own problems.

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AFLobby lobby development Spring

AFLobby Beta 4

A long overdue release with a lot of fixes, and new additions, including support for lua and map options. AFLobby beta 4 Installer AFLobby beta 4 zip

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AI Spring

My Official Stance on the Music AI

A while ago I wrote a proof of concept group AI. It used the windows MCI APIs to play MP3 files based on what was happening in the game, thus generating dynamic music playback.

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AFLobby lobby development

AFLobby Progress

I have been implementing the new protocol specifications, and correcting GUI issues since my last post. Sadly I have not been paying spring as much attention as usual but thats due to University, and impending coursework deadline monopolizing my time among other things.

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NTai Realtime Strategy Spring

NTai and 0.76B1

For a brief window after the release of 0.76b2 there was a compatible NTai being built by buildbot that everyone could have used. Despite the window lasting 4-5 days nobody bothered except me, and it is now too late to find svn versions of NTai that still work with the current release of spring. But […]

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Springs Christmas week In Pictures (Part I)

Here is the week leading up to Christmas in picture form! First off, fnordia popped in and updated phpbb to version 3. A discussion has since broke out over broken BB tags and font sizes. I personally believe they’re non-issues. Suffice to say phpbb 3 is far better:

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AFLobby Glest lobby development Spring

AFLobby 3.9.9+ Progress & Glest

Recently I’ve had a little more time than usual with aflobby. Of note are a slew of bug fixes and glest support. I’ve corrected numerous aesthetic issues, including icons that stretch tabs, and windows that are still undecorated such as the warning window. The bundled Substance has been updated to 4.1 stable, and I’ve made […]

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Artwork Realtime Strategy Spring

P.U.R.E

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Argh has fallen on bad times. He has started a thread on the spring forums explaining his troubles and asking for advice. Since he now needs to find a new job he has temporarily stopped working on P.U.R.E and has released his current version for all to see! In conjunction with […]

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lobby development Spring

The new spring mod tags, what they do, and howto use them

All the mods in the installer should have these tags, and as of 0.76b1 the lobbies will have access to them. I personally want to change the list/drop down box mod selector into a much prettier and more useful tool using this, and any old mod not implementing the tags correctly will look plain weird, […]