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Software News : The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Posted by afxgroup on 2010/7/17 16:58:49 (1948 reads) News by the same author
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The Battle for Wesnoth update is now available to download. This new release brings it up to version 1.8.3.

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What is Battle for Wesnoth?

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.
Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a force with the right strengths to fight well on different terrains against all manner of opposition.
Wesnoth has many different sagas waiting to be played out. Fight to regain the throne of Wesnoth, of which you are the legitimate heir... step into the boots of a young officer sent to guard a not-so-sleepy frontier outpost... vanquish a horde of undead warriors unleashed by a foul necromancer, who also happens to have taken your brother hostage... guide a band of elvish survivors in an epic quest to find a new home.
200+ unit types. 16 races. 6 major factions. Hundreds of years of history. The world of Wesnoth is absolutely huge and limited only by your creativity - make your own custom units, compose your own maps, and write your own scenarios or even full-blown campaigns. You can also challenge up to 8 friends - or strangers - and fight in epic multi-player fantasy battles.

Features

* Build up a formidable fighting force, starting from a single leader and a small amount of gold.
* Over 200 unit types in six major factions, all with distinctive abilities, weapons and spells.
* Experienced units gain powerful new abilities as they advance.
* Several multi-player options available, including internet play.
* Scores of different custom-designed maps, and unlimited random maps.
* Hundreds of campaign scenarios available for download via a simple in-game procedure.
* 'Fog of war' feature available for a true test of generalship.
* Sophisticated mark-up language lets advanced users make their own maps, factions or campaigns.
* Excellent language support. 35 different languages currently available.
* Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, RISC OS, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, AmigaOS4, OS/2 & eComStation compatible.

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kas1e
Published: 2010/7/17 17:08  Updated: 2010/7/17 17:12
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Yeah !:) 1.8.3 are the last one , awesome !

Btw, if i remember right, it uses Boost libs ? If so, looks like now time for Heroes3 ! ?:) As i see on Happypenguin.org, new version of Heroes3 was released today.
afxgroup
Published: 2010/7/17 17:12  Updated: 2010/7/17 17:12
Amigans Defender
Joined: 12/02/2006
From: Taranto, Italy
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
you mean VCMI?
kas1e
Published: 2010/7/17 17:15  Updated: 2010/7/17 17:15
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Yes :) I remember that 2 years ago you already works on it, then, they introduce new boost, and you stop to follow to it. But if you have new boost compiled for Wesnoth, then maybe it make sense to try VCMI too. That will be really cool. The one of not so many games today in which i still play from time to time (and i think not only i :) )
afxgroup
Published: 2010/7/17 17:20  Updated: 2010/7/17 17:20
Amigans Defender
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
i've worked in the past on VCMI and indeed there are some amigaos4 patches into. But VCMI now needs wchar implementation.. and we haven't..
kas1e
Published: 2010/7/17 17:28  Updated: 2010/7/17 18:34
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Are you sure about wchar ? As far as i remember i already build something with wchar. If i remember right, there was some mess in SDK includes about that, and i add declarations manually or kind..
kas1e
Published: 2010/7/17 18:47  Updated: 2010/7/17 18:47
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
@AfxGroup
300 mb of datafile was pretty slow from your server, but, it very worth of it ! Game just awesome. Plays in it right now in other window. Thanks a lot.
samo79
Published: 2010/7/17 19:20  Updated: 2010/7/17 19:20
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
@afxgroup

Does italian language works in this release ?
kas1e
Published: 2010/7/17 19:26  Updated: 2010/7/17 19:26
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@Samo79
Yep. Tested russian and italian for now - works.
samo79
Published: 2010/7/17 19:53  Updated: 2010/7/17 19:53
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328gts
Published: 2010/7/18 4:07  Updated: 2010/7/18 4:07
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
many thanks as I loved the old version that was on OS4depot so will definitely try this one out
samo79
Published: 2010/7/18 7:32  Updated: 2010/7/18 7:32
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Wow finally italian works, for the first time we can enjoy Wesnoth in our own language !

... It would have been strange if an italian didn't works in fixing an italian language issue

Thanks Andrea !
cha05e90
Published: 2010/7/19 12:21  Updated: 2010/7/19 12:21
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
What am I doing wrong? BOW doesn't start here and complains about
"returning file "/Work/Games/Strategic/Wesnoth-1.8.3//fonts"
and "could not initialize fonts". And it generates some funny files in FONTS:fontconfig/fontconfig_cache. What should I do?
afxgroup
Published: 2010/7/19 14:29  Updated: 2010/7/19 14:29
Amigans Defender
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
uhm.. that's strange. which FS are you using for your SYS and for the game?
cha05e90
Published: 2010/7/19 19:44  Updated: 2010/7/19 19:44
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
This is the error message I get here:
---
Battle for Wesnoth v1.8.3
Started on Mon Jul 19 20:35:35 2010

returning file "/Work/Games/Strategic/Wesnoth-1.8.3//fonts"

Data directory:
User configuration directory: /progdir/.wesnoth1.8

20100719 20:35:35 error filesystem: Trying to open file with empty name.
20100719 20:35:35 error config: Could not open file
could not initialize fonts
---

Afterwards the sytem becomes *very* unstable. Even Ranger crashes with an GrimReaper. Snoopy shows, that BOW opens files in FONTS:fontconfig/conf.d and *sometimes* (not always) writes a new cache file to FONTS:fontconfig/fontconfig_cache.
afxgroup
Published: 2010/7/19 23:39  Updated: 2010/7/19 23:39
Amigans Defender
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
ok, buth which file systems are you using for your Sys: and for the game partitions?
cha05e90
Published: 2010/7/20 1:12  Updated: 2010/7/20 1:12
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
My partitions are both with prepped with SFS/0.
afxgroup
Published: 2010/7/20 8:20  Updated: 2010/7/20 8:20
Amigans Defender
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
why you use SFS/0 and not SFS/2?
SFS/0 is old. you can also use JXFS that is a good and fast filesystem as well

This should cure the problem
cha05e90
Published: 2010/7/20 10:22  Updated: 2010/7/20 10:22
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Why? Half lazyness, half security reasons. Both machines (SAM440ep and PegasosII) came pre-build with SFS/0 system partitions. SFS/0 is still accessable by MorphOS and OS3.9 machines - so in hazard situations it might be useful ...

I'm no Amiga coder nor a specialist regarding file systems, but shouldn't the underlying fs be "abstracted" enough for any application and behave the same whatever software runs?

Is there somebody out there who has BoW running with a SFS/0 partition (SYS: and/or game partiton) also?
lazi
Published: 2010/7/20 19:39  Updated: 2010/7/20 19:43
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Quote:
Is there somebody out there who has BoW running with a SFS/0 partition (SYS: and/or game partiton) also?


Yes, it is working here with SFS/0 sys: and game: partition.

And of course thanks Andreas! The old versions stopped working with the new multiplayer servers, so this was a very honorable effort.
afxgroup
Published: 2010/7/20 22:03  Updated: 2010/7/20 22:03
Amigans Defender
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
@cha05e90
can you put somewhere the snoopy log?
cha05e90
Published: 2010/7/21 0:04  Updated: 2010/7/21 0:04
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Yep, I'll will put together a Snoopy log tomorrow and maybe I can fetch the debug from Ranger - which might give a clue, also.

I'll send you a PM here at Amigans with a link.
cha05e90
Published: 2010/7/21 10:14  Updated: 2010/7/21 10:14
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Outputs uploaded, PM with download link send.
afxgroup
Published: 2010/7/21 14:11  Updated: 2010/7/21 14:11
Amigans Defender
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
check your PM
cha05e90
Published: 2010/7/21 20:13  Updated: 2010/7/21 20:13
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Solved!

The data archive download was incomplete the first time. Re-downloaded and installed, now it works...

Thank for this game port!

(strange, indeed, no error warnings from lha while dearchiving the first corrupt file...)
328gts
Published: 2010/7/22 20:39  Updated: 2010/7/22 20:39
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
@ afxgroup

this new version crashes now that I updated the new SDL libraries..was working fine before..anyone else have this issue
Cap
Published: 2010/8/1 20:05  Updated: 2010/8/1 20:05
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
I updated my sdl and tested multiplayer which crashed.
Changed sdl back and it still crashes trying to login.
Singleplayer works fine.
328gts
Published: 2010/11/6 23:01  Updated: 2010/11/6 23:01
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 Re: The Battle for Wesnot 1.8.3 available for AmigaOS4
Andrea, please check your pm
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