USA Games News 8/6/2006
What's Ahead for USA Games Hello everyone, Allot has been going on this summer with the USA Games list being up and down, upgrades to Montezuma's Revenge, getting ready for fall development, and more. In this news release I hope to announce our plans for the rest of 2006, and where we are going with all our pending projects. Mailing List In July USA Games moved it's mailing list from smartgroups.com to shaned.net. Over all, the switch from Smartgroups to Shaned.net went well for a while. However, in late July Shaned.net moved USA Games to a new server/service and the list was up and down for several days as we debugged the problem. Thankfully, it seams the server is now running well, and the USA Games list should be fully up and running now. To sign up for USA Games mailing discussion list go to http://www.usagames.us go to the mailing list link in the side frame, and then click on the subscribe link in the right frame. Dotnet Framework 2.0 Attention all Montezuma's Revenge and Final Conflict players. We at USA Games have received numerous problems with those of you already running Microsoft's Dotnet 2.0 framework which is the latest version of the framework. As a result we will be migrating all of our games from the older 1.1 framework to Dotnet Framework 2 in the next few weeks. When USA Games began writing games Dotnet Framework 2.0 was just beginning development. So we at USA Games decided to use the stable 1.1 framework as most developers did at that time. However, now that Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 is out and Dotnet Framework 2.0 is becoming the Dotnet platform of choice we feel it is in everyones best interests to upgrade all our projects to VS 2005, and Dotnet Framework 2.0. In addition we are dropping support for Microsoft's Setup Installer, (MSI,) and have decided to switch to Inno Setup 5. Many reasons went in to this decision, but the main one is flexibility of the installer, cost to use and deploy, and it comes well recommended by developers. Montezuma's Revenge Alpha 2 As most of you know I am working on Montezuma's Revenge Alpha 2. Major high lites of Alpha 2 are support for the DotnetFramework 2.0, updated support for DirectX 9, a patch for jumping through doors, and temple 2. It's hard to say exactly when Alpha 2 will hit the servers, but hopefully it won't be to long. Final Conflict Beta 2 At long last Final conflict is do for a major upgrade. In Beta 2 gamers will be able to save and restore saved games, support for Dotnet Framework 2.0, updated support for DirectX 9, and other miner updates. USA Games Web Site In addition to all our other news USA Games will be completely rewriting our web site from the ground up. We will be removing all the frames and will instead do allot more php scripting for items such as a navigation bar, page counters, technical support forms, and allot more new features. We are Aiming for an entirely new look and feel. So stay tuned. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
