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Re: Test Drive Stracciatella for Windows[message #235680] Thu, 22 October 2009 17:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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 I don't know... perhaps the straciatella project's purpose is more about tron developing his coding skills and trying to port the game to multiple platforms than it is about players etc... I don't think he cares if there's just 1 or a 1 million people playing it.


I prefer straciatella... I have my reasons. Working with hundreds of netbooks and low-end laptops made me appreciate the beauty of well written 'clean' code.

You should see my systems they are so small and optimized with boot times so fast people are impressed. By default windows is so bloated with so many services that you don't need and stuff you will never need that I guarantee you will see night and day difference from a optimized to a default windows install ... and that's kinda like how I view 1.13 and straciatella, and don't get me wrong I played the hell out of 1.13 (27xx to 30xx) at one point I was spending more time editing ini's and reading about features and trying to balance the game than playing the game itself.

Sometimes less is more, and in 1.13 case it's just more and more and more and it's too bloated and broken for me.


No point in prolonging this thread with unconsequential discussions.


Tron I have requests for straciatella:

- 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)

- Like in the Vanilla Ja2 make music.slf and speech.slf and npc_speech.slf not critical (the only thing that keeps me from installing ja2 on every netbook I work with is that some people might get mad at a 800meg game... for a 300 meg game they would probably enjoy it)


I know this is pushing it but since Mythrell already released a 800x600 straciatella 0.10 and the files are already there... do you think it would be possible for you to release a STAND ALONE patch for the next version?

Like you have the normal straciatella 0.13 that is just a ja2.exe and a sdl.dll but then if you want 800x600 resolution you apply the '0.13 800x600' patch. I think this would take like 2 minutes to make since all the 800x600 *.pcx and *.sti are already made.

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