• On the mac powerbook: I can't really install it since the powerpc port that was made was for amiga. As much sense as that makes since if you compare the number of users of amiga and os x you will clearly see you wil get more players on the mac side (not to mention they are starving or games) I'd even say there are more mac than linux users but that would probably angry the developers.
  
  
  
• On the netbook: You can install it but playing it is close to impossible since the 640x480 screen resolution is like 60% of the netbook screen so you have to strain your eyes quite a bit. A 800x600 resolution should fix that. Also I should mention that music/speech files won't be popular with netbook players since ssd drive space comes at a premium and the straciatella should be able to run without them just like ja2 gold did.
  
  
  
• On the HP compaq (where I have: JA2 1.13, UB, JA Wildfire installed) I can finally compare straciatella to all the other versions and the stand alone wildfire.
  
  Straciatella is clearly the superior version, by far... It's plain to see that the people who worked with the code did a superb job.
  
  To give you an idea on my 3ghz laptop 1.13 would constantly be at 99% cpu usage, made no sense I know. Straciatella jumps around 20%-60%... what's impressive about this is that it translates to the game itself it's so fucking smooth and responsive it's absoutely amazing. The gameplay itself seems so much more fluid and better than all the other ja's I've tried... so yes the code was clearly well written and cleaned up I can't stress how much better this version 'feels' compared to others.
  
  ...But then you get completely idiotic stuff that makes you go 'puta mierda, porque?' like the decision to have your enemies bodies just vanish seconds after you shoot them 'WHY?' this is so completely unrealistic and stupid ... y'know what's funny having the crows beak an invisible body lol. The other stuff I've mention having to have a folder in my documents with JA2.INI irritates me, that is where I keep all my german beastility porn. The fact that you have to have the music and speech slf's also is kinda stupid...
  
  ... and again the biggest beef, the 640x480 resolution, yes I bet for people with desktop computers it doesn't reall matter much but for people with laptops you eiher have a playing area of a stamp or you stretch it and it looks HORRIBLE... even the geekiest linux ja2 player would agree 800x600 would be the perfect resolution for this game, there's a 800x600 mod for straciatellabut it's ony for version 0.10.
  
  
  That said in 10 years since it was released straciatella is the most significant/important step ja2 took.
  
  Straciatella is what 1.13 should have been had it not turn into a thousand monkeys throwing stuff at it to see what sticks.
  
  Before someone miscontrudes me, I am a fan of 1.13 but it is clearly broken from the pathing to weird game crashing bugs like opening up old B.Ray's emails, just editing all the options in the *.ini before you play is a chore and you are left with the feeling 'damn this has been fucked wih more than $2 thai whore' at some point common sense should take over and you shuld think twice 'is it broken? no? then I shall not fuck with it', the 25 AP system is a clear example, ja2 was designed from the ground up to use 25 ap, why change it to 100 ap? it's the same fucking thing it just makes it more confusing.
  
  Same can be said about adding 3288293892388389 guns that differ 1 or 2 points in this or that, why add the fucking XM8??? It's a fucking prototype that was CANCELLED, you might as well add a laser gun since you would have as much chance of buying it as you would have a XM8.
  
  I kinda fear smp will turn straciatella into another 1.13 since that are already releasing 'gun packs' for it and asking it to merg with 1.13
  
  What it needs is for some code geeks to clean up the code and delete bugs, a 800x600 res would be quite nice since I'm playing it windowed now ... the externalization/allthat shit is not really important and should be put on hold...

3- the 640 x 480 is a killer on displays that are designed to use higher and more exotic res... at least AT LEAST the 800x600 should be made available as it's essential for lots and lots of ppl

Changelog of JA2 Stracciatella 800x600 Mod



v0.03 Beta
------------------------------------------
Strategic:
- Resized strategic map to fill empty space for 800x600 res.
- Resized strategic map inventory to fill whole new map area.
- Resized most of the startegic map graphics to fit new map size.

General:
- Merged with Stracciatella code r4823 (the final version at this point)

I'd even say there are more mac than linux users but that would probably angry the developers.

...But then you get completely idiotic stuff that makes you go 'puta mierda, porque?' like the decision to have your enemies bodies just vanish seconds after you shoot them 'WHY?' this is so completely unrealistic and stupid ...

The other stuff I've mention having to have a folder in my documents with JA2.INI irritates me

1- "ERROR: Failed to open "C:\Program Files\Jagged Alliance 2 Gold/Data/music.slf"
ERROR: caught unhandled exception:
Initialising libraries failed"



this is I find extremely stupid: 1.13, wildfire, gold 1.12 all can run without speech, music and intro

some people are not using desktop computers to play this game and ssd disk space can't be wasted on some z grade voice actor trying to do 5 different voices.

2- having to have a JA2 folder in my documents is idiotic at best.

Would be easier to put the *.ini in the zip and say 'dump this in your JA2 dir'

3- the 640 x 480 is a killer on displays that are designed to use higher and more exotic res... at least AT LEAST the 800x600 should be made available as it's essential for lots and lots of ppl

...But then you get completely idiotic stuff that makes you go 'puta mierda, porque?' like the decision to have your enemies bodies just vanish seconds after you shoot them 'WHY?' this is so completely unrealistic and stupid ... y'know what's funny having the crows beak an invisible body lol. The other stuff I've mention having to have a folder in my documents with JA2.INI irritates me, that is where I keep all my german beastility porn. The fact that you have to have the music and speech slf's also is kinda stupid...

Is it really just 1 person working on the straciatella project?????? I was under the impression it was a bunch of linux people... that certainly explains the slow development and quietness in this boards.

It would serve you better to be more cordial since I seem to be the only one offering input (even if unrequested/irritating)

Schein I've tried the 800x600 mod but it's a straciatella 0.10 executable and it installs in a stand alone folder, hardly what I call optimal.

I think I figured the missing bodies issue, something must have changed between the original and the gold file structure because it simply doesn't work with 1.11 or 1.12

Centurion

I think I figured the missing bodies issue, something must have changed between the original and the gold file structure because it simply doesn't work with 1.11 or 1.12

Again: You are just missing the .jsd files or you misspelled them (case is important).

ok an update, I've downloaded the original 1999 JA2 the american 2 cd version.

Installed and installed straciatella 0.12.1 and still got the missing bodies.

The files are identical to ja2 gold and some are C_dead1.JSD others W_DEAD1_np.jsd so I tried changing them to all lowercase

didn't work, next I try to change them to uppercase and that also didn't work... I'm giving up now I wish there were more people playing straciatella to tell me what they've done to get the bodies to not dissapear...

until this is fixed I can't play since I'm in a sector with 4 bounties and would like to get their heads

hope I've helped.

How did you obtain the version of JA2-Stracciatella, which you are using? What does "ls -R $data_dir" show (of course substitute $data_dir by the path you use in ja2.ini).

simply there are not that many people playing Straciatella on windows, I guess they prefer 1.13

You lie! I have yet to encounter Fred Flintstone in 20-30 h+ gameplay

One of my mercs fired at Maddog by mistake in Cambria. Maddog instantly turned against the team and lost him camouflage !?

The militia managed to make him lose consciousness and killed him. Then an orange message appeared in the message box saying something like the game couldn't blit from unconscious to dead because surface 16 was not loaded, and Maddog's body disappeared.

It happened to me as often as I saw enemies climb roofs in stracciatella: once.

- Fixing the missing bodies windows bug (I think this should be fast since strac v0.10 doesn't have this bug, if you want I'll see if 0.11 works like 0.10 or if if it makes the bodies dissapear like 0.12)

mgl

The militia managed to make him lose consciousness and killed him. Then an orange message appeared in the message box saying something like the game couldn't blit from unconscious to dead because surface 16 was not loaded, and Maddog's body disappeared.

This seems like an error with a different cause and is not related to the problem Centurion encounters. I have to investigate this further.

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Soldier Ani: unconscious hit sequence needed for animation 66

Enemies climbing onto roofs is really normal. Here's the fastest way to reproduce it: Start a new game, hire a merc, right after the heli drop climb onto the roof of the house right next to the drop zone, lay down and hide up there. Wait for the enemies to reach the drop zone. Now make yourself seen shortly (e.g. fire at one enemy on the ground) and duck again. Now just wait for them to climb onto the roof.
As far as I understand, enemies climbing onto roofs was broken by some change in JA2-1.13 and only repaired recently. I am not aware of such a problem in JA2-Stracciatella.

Tron

Enemies climbing onto roofs is really normal. Here's the fastest way to reproduce it: Start a new game, hire a merc, right after the heli drop climb onto the roof of the house right next to the drop zone, lay down and hide up there. Wait for the enemies to reach the drop zone. Now make yourself seen shortly (e.g. fire at one enemy on the ground) and duck again. Now just wait for them to climb onto the roof.
As far as I understand, enemies climbing onto roofs was broken by some change in JA2-1.13 and only repaired recently. I am not aware of such a problem in JA2-Stracciatella.

I tried 12 times with different mercs from AIM and it was 100% failure.

Then I tried with a binary built with the BETAVERSION and TESTVERSION compile-time options on and it was a success for all my 4 tries.
All the enemies climbed each time.

Then I tried again the no BETAVERSION and no TESTVERSION program and it was 100% failure (2 tries).

Then with the BETAVERSION and TESTVERSION program and it was 100% success (2 tries).

And finally:
The BETAVERSION only option gave me one failure for one try
The TESTVERSION only option gave me one success for one try

As far as I understand, enemies climbing onto roofs was broken by some change in JA2-1.13 and only repaired recently. I am not aware of such a problem in JA2-Stracciatella.

BTW, I never saw enemies climb onto roofs in vanilla JA2.

A piece of code, which initialises information about buildings, was not run, if JA2TESTVERSION is not set. This is a vanilla bug, I corrected the problem in r7056.

TileEngene\WolrdDef.c

BOOLEAN LoadWorld( UINT8 *puiFilename )
{

...

#ifdef JA2TESTVERSION

// ATE: Not while updating maps!
if ( guiCurrentScreen != MAPUTILITY_SCREEN )
{
GenerateBuildings(); // NEED RESTORE THIS LINE !!!
}

#endif

RenderProgressBar( 0, 100 );


DequeueAllKeyBoardEvents();


return( TRUE );
}