Is Tron going to continue development of Stracciatella?

If not, is anyone else willing to pick-up the torch to carry-on Tron's work?
(I'm just curious).

Are there plans for the introductory cinematic sequences for Jagged Alliance 2 to be played in Stracciatella?

If not... Why?

I also read that you can't play the Jagged Alliance 2 music in Stracciatella. Is that true, and if so, why isn't it played by default?

This would be an awesome thing to have available for Windows (.exe), and a similar thing could be done for both Mac OS X (.dmg), and Ubuntu (.deb), if I'm not mistaken.
If Tron would be willing to do this/these, that'd be amazing, but I believe we all know that it would be extremely time-consuming, and prolly very annoying too, for just one person to do (especially when that same person is the one who does all of the coding), so I don't expect Tron to.

However, if several people still wanted one, and Tron would be willing to post it on the Website, I would be willing to create at-least a Windows installation application (I'd consider an Ubuntu one, but the requests for it would have to be many, because I don't currently have the knowledge to do so, and unfortunately don't have access to a Mac to create the Mac OS X one).

Speaking of data files, exactly which files are required for Stracciatella (I'm actually asking for a list containing each file needed, because I believe I copied quite a few more than I needed to)? In fact, it might be easier to just tell me exactly what files I need to have, and where I need to have them (including the ones that Stracciatella provides).

As a final note (and a possible found bug):
In the current release of Stracciatella civilians (at-least in the Rebel Hideout) are not visible for some reason...

If anything, I'd love to set-up a Subversion to somewhat fork from the current revision in Tron's Subversion; people could add bugfixes, continue to add patches to make it able to be run on even more platforms than it already does (which is very impressive already), and continue Tron's work to make a stable platform for mod development.

It's rather hard to contribute to stracciatella nowadays: only a third to half of my bug fixes have been included since version 7059 of november 2009. Tron didn't reply to any of my emails since october 2009.

... I would answer no (and no).

Someone claimed to have done it on the previous forum of stracciatella. I think Tron didn't reply to the post, and it was not included in the code. A reason could be that the cinematics depend on a third party library and Tron did a lot of work to make stracciatella depend on SDL only.

I can hear the music and it's turned on by default...

It's another major problem of stracciatella: contributors vanish.

It's boring and time-consuming to build the code form every platform where it can run. It takes disk space and requires maintenance too. It's more a job for packagers than for coders: people who don't contribute to the code itself but are able to build it on a number of platforms.

... they are banned or vanish.

... you need the data folder installed (extracted) by the game on Windows.

I didn't look at that. They were there the last time I went to recruit Miguel and Carlos in my game.

... It's the problem of disappearing contributors again: as far as I know, bbun and I are the only ones who have ever released bug fixes on the Bear's Pit forum.

I'd say we would be wise to create a new svn repository, simply for bugfixes.

Forking into another project is a completely different discussion, and not in the spirit of Stracciatella.

Personally, I love to play the game on OSX and am very grateful for Tron's work. His idea of platform independency for vanilla JA2 was perfect.

Where is this Forum located? Also, do you have any idea how difficult it'd be to re-enable the cinematics, and what library/libraries would be needed?

Why are they banned?! I don't want to be banned for trying to help!

Maybe this has something to do with my using the Tribsoft port, or maybe it's only when you first visit the hideout at the beginning of the game?

I think the forum doesn't exist anymore. It was a link to a german forum on the ja2-homepage of that time, which seems to not exist anymore either. "ja2.dragonsrider.de" ?

The intro was originally played through calls to the SMK or Smack (or whatever its name) library on Windows (the file "smack32.dll" in the ja2 package). I don't know for Linux. SMK is certainly a proprietary lib available on Windows only.

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Someone who would want to make the intro playable would have to either convert it to a free format if it's possible and or find out how to decode SMK streams. It looks like a very painful task and will probaly never be done.

What version do you play, svn r7065 or Mythrell's mod...?

Although I understand that it isn't legally possible to create a proper all-in-one installation application for Windows (including data files), I was wondering if Stracciatella would gain more support if there was one that was amazingly straightforward, but didn't actually include the necessary data files?...

For example, could an installation application be created that would automagically create the install the files for Jagged Alliance 2: Stracciatella to the appropriate directory (allowing the user the option to specify a directory, have it ask the user where the necessary data files are located, have the user select the appropriate location (such as their install and/or play CDs), and then have it copy the data files from the user-specified source to the directory specified for Jagged Alliance 2: Stracciatella (or, at least automagically display a ReadMe.txt containing detailed instructions for the user on how to copy the files themselves)?

If so, I think that would be the best option for new users (while, existing users can simply be given a new JA2.exe with each new release). It could easily be explained as, "New users, download JA2Setup.exe and have your Jagged Alliance 2 CD(s) handy!"
Of course, this is just my two cents, and I do realise it may take quite a bit of time; I was just hoping...

This would be an awesome thing to have available for Windows (.exe), and a similar thing could be done for both Mac OS X (.dmg), and Ubuntu (.deb), if I'm not mistaken.
If Tron would be willing to do this/these, that'd be amazing, but I believe we all know that it would be extremely time-consuming, and prolly very annoying too, for just one person to do (especially when that same person is the one who does all of the coding), so I don't expect Tron to.

However, if several people still wanted one, and Tron would be willing to post it on the Website, I would be willing to create at-least a Windows installation application (I'd consider an Ubuntu one, but the requests for it would have to be many, because I don't currently have the knowledge to do so, and unfortunately don't have access to a Mac to create the Mac OS X one).

Dear Geoffrey,

sorry for the late response.

We keep it as it is. Means the devs are allowed to compile their own installers for the modifications/campaigns, etc., as complete games for non-commercial purposes.

It would be great if you can keep us updated on future mods.

Best,
Stephan

bitComposer Games is the license owner since XYZ. We fully support the modding community and approve of the distribution of the game's source and data files for non-commercial purposes.

I've told Mr. Barnickel about your request for an official statement, and/or a license amendment, and I've also requested that he agree to allow me to publish our e-mail correspondence on these Forums.

Because it's still being brought up to an alpha stage. Once we have some of the externalisations and new features integrated for testing we will release Public Alpha build 1.

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