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[Drackir]

Hello everyone! Well, as I've mentioned previously, I have been working on the game again and I'm happy to say that we are almost ready for some pre-testing. There is still a lot to do (we need to add some basic quests/NPC's/etc. and finish off some houses but we are hoping to have it out soon. That said, I don't think I'm really prepared to release it to everyone just yet. I would like to keep it to a small group of people (mainly the people in this forum) for now. I know as well, that quite a few of you have linux boxes and unfortunately, I don't think this will work with it. (you can try it with Wine but I can't give a detailed install guide because Wine won't install on my AMD64 build of Ubuntu.) Please keep checking up as I will post more info on the "demo test" as it comes along.

Have a good week guys and gals,
~Drack

[Moose]

hoora! *throws a chicken nugget to dracky* love to hear this! keep up da goodie work!

[Kinewa]

Awesome! Fortunately I have two computers at my disposal: one with Linux and one with Windows.

[Mizukage]

heh, I love the smell of progress in the morning.

[Faselei]

Well done draky! (and that other guy... erm i forgot his name )

[Caseyweederman]

Excellent. Looking forward to it.
My Wine success rate has me feeling confident. Except for Starcraft... It hangs when even thinking about loading the third Terran level...

[Faselei]

Ah yeah, i heard Wine was getting better. But isn't this all VB... surely a VB app won't work on Linux.

I was this close to getting rid of XP and runnin glinux as my machine is too old run any decent games anyway, and now this announcement comes =D

[Drackir]

Ah yeah, i heard Wine was getting better. But isn't this all VB... surely a VB app won't work on Linux.

Not true at all. With the correct options there is a chance that it will work. I'm installing 32 bit Ubuntu tonight I'll see if I can't get it to work. Hehe. Casey is also going to try to do it as well.

[Faselei]

Oh good news! My pc is so old i cant play decent games anyway, and thats the one thing stopping me from turning from the darkside.

Good luck with that.

[rickoshay818]

Woooooooooooooooot!!!
*throws drack a cookie* Still, the beta version (if i test it) will probaly be very very laggy and filled to the brim with bugs and glitches. (Unless dracky was a good boy and fixed most of them)
although i do have a couple questions to ask and ill post them on one thread.

[Faselei]

Okay i just found out my wireless, nor my graphics hard will have driver for Linux... i think theirs an international conspiricy against it or somthing.

*cough* so wheres this demi?

[Drackir]

I'm almost finished re-re-rewriting the quest system which means I can get people scripting quests and NPC's into the game. BUT even while people are doing that (or while I hope people will do that) I am revamping all the old systems (Bank is done, Shops, Trading, etc.) so it will still be a bit of time before we get the demo out.