About fairness... Why not put an option on clients to allow the server to watch them. So you would have more options and still be fair ... about ... real time,...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
10. Décembre 1999 12:43
... Well, why not. If such an option was present, though, it would be _very_ easy to hack the code to have an unfair server whithout anybody else can notice...
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Philipp Müller
philipp.mueller@...
10. Décembre 1999 16:00
Thomas, I assume you are under heavily time presure and the code needs more time to prepare than you expected, but can you please say a few words to the...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
10. Décembre 1999 23:22
... Yes i'm under heavy_ pressure. and no, the code don't needs more time, juste 'some' time :-) Usually free software is made during spare time, say: late...
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Sukru Tikves
stikves@...
12. Décembre 1999 23:54
Ok you're right. But you may still hack the server to include a minimap (If the server keeps the game map). If the server does not keep the map at all then you...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
13. Décembre 1999 10:15
... Boson is a very server-centric game. All is in the server (almost) so that he is the real 'master' of the game. He knows exactly everything : all the map,...
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Philipp Müller
philipp.mueller@...
14. Décembre 1999 8:33
It's looking great !!! Congratulations...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
14. Décembre 1999 16:42
As some have already noticed, ben has upgraded the boson homepage, thanks ben :-) ... Thomas -- Thomas Capricelli...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
17. Décembre 1999 13:12
... 0.3 is here, ready to be out :-). I'm waiting for ben's last graphism and I'll put on ftp/web and so on. Probably tomorrow morning, sorry to be that late.....
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
17. Décembre 1999 22:49
Check the web site, 0.3 is out :-) Thomas -- Thomas Capricelli...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
18. Décembre 1999 15:41
Hi, Boson 0.3 is out. The next release is planned for february and will be the first "almost playable" release. To say that this one is not yet intended for...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
20. Décembre 1999 14:37
Is there anybody here that could help me to do some RPMs for 0.3 ? You need the program 'rpm', a working compilation environment.. I already know the...
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Gert Steenssens
gert@...
21. Décembre 1999 9:19
Hi all, I've stumbled onto boson yesterday thanks to it's announcement on linuxgames and was immediately impressed by how well it looks, and what it already...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
21. Décembre 1999 15:58
... Great, even I have never tried it over a real network yet :-) ... I would be very interested in a description of those problems. ... I'm the only developer...
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Gert Steenssens
gert@...
21. Décembre 1999 22:39
Hi, The problems I reported earlier was mainly that client and server had some difficulty connecting and staying alive during our little network test, and died...
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Pascal Audoux
pascal@...
22. Décembre 1999 10:58
Hi! Well, the next release (0.4) should be "playable"... so I think that there should be somewhere a list of known bugs (and something to easily report bugs)...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
22. Décembre 1999 14:29
... I know about this problem. .o DO have the debugging symbols, but during the final linkage, ld is given the option '-s', which meand "strip". I don't know...
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Gert Steenssens
gert@...
23. Décembre 1999 9:19
... Strange, what you should try is this: create a few extra units (10 or so) and have them fire upon an enemy unit, then while it is under fire, select the...
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Ricardo R. Massaro
massaro@...
24. Décembre 1999 19:15
... Hello, I have written (for another free game) a simple sound server that reads any number of WAV files and plays up to N (configured at compile-time) of...
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Jim Dabell
jim.dabell@...
29. Décembre 1999 19:25
... is ... That would be me. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, but I haven't really had the time. I've attached the latest linuxdoc sgml file for the...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
31. Décembre 1999 16:51
Ho.. I think i got to say that : have a happy new year ! let's see what we should have in 2000 : * Kde 2 * koffice * Xfree 4 with opengl, truetype and so on *...
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Jim Dabell
jim.dabell@...
2. Janvier 2000 16:42
... Damn, I didn't attach it :). You can get it at: http://www.penguinpowered.com/~james/boson/bosonai.sgml Jim jim.dabell@......
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
10. Janvier 2000 17:58
Hi everybody, and a happy new year. what's new ? I've settled a jitterbug database, please submit bugs to boson-fb@... (boson-feedback) or check the...
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Benjamin Adler
BenAdler@...
18. Janvier 2000 20:55
Hi! First of all, I want to introduce you to each other: Thomas Capricelli is from France. He is the one who initiated the Boson-project. He's living in Paris,...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
18. Janvier 2000 22:15
Yes, one month since 0.3 has been out.. .sorry. I've put RPMs for src, linuxppc, suse6.0 and 6.3 on the website.. Thomas -- Thomas Capricelli...
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Philipp Müller
philipp.mueller@...
19. Janvier 2000 10:20
Hi Benni, thanks for the information. It has been quite on this list for a longer time. Just for the correction. My private email adress is ...
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Benjamin Adler
BenAdler@...
20. Janvier 2000 22:05
... I just like the name infineon. Sounds cool! ... I know you asked Thomas, but I (think I) know whats going on with all that. A pretty long time ago, we...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
20. Janvier 2000 22:26
... Uho.. sounds really interesting, does anybody has any info about this ? name of the journal or anything ? Thomas -- Thomas Capricelli <capricel@...> ...
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Thomas Capricelli
capricel@...
20. Janvier 2000 22:37
... Oh.. really ? :-))))))))) ... in france, we would say 'better late than never".... ... I would be happy to have those samples. ... What about midi ? KDE2...
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Philipp Müller
philipp.mueller@...
21. Janvier 2000 11:40
Boson should be mentioned in the Linux-Journal, January issue. Info on Linux Game Tome of 22nd December 99: http://www.happypenguin.org/ (search for "boson") ...
