tom does this mean the private beta server is updated?
Thanks
At 03:26 p.m. 9/03/2006, you wrote:
>USA Games
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>Update
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>3/8/2006
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>Hello fellow gamers,
>We have some very good news. As of today March 8, 2006 we have finally
>come in to possession of the Alchemy game source code and account
>records. This means probably tomorrow we can begin work on Raceway,
>Montezuma's Revenge, and start to get the account records in to our own
>order system which wasn't ready for this level of use quite yet.
>Although, we now have the source in hand it will take some time to get
>up-to-speed with the way Montezuma's Revenge and raceway were written.
> For starts Monty is written in Visual Basic 6 which is a language I
>once used quite allot, but haven't used in about 3 years. A time when I
>began using C# and Visual Basic .NET instead. So obviously it may take
>some getting use to using the older VB language again, and DirectX 8
>instead of 9. That doesn't include just reading all the notes, figure
>out how to use the engine tools, etc... In other words learn how he
>wrote the game, and go from there.
>As for Raceway it appears to be between two different writes. Some of
>the game is in Visual Basic 6, but James let me know he was converting
>it all over to VB .NET so he could take advantage of DirectX 9 and
>better joystick and game controller support with force feedback. It will
>take some time to complete the work James started with the convert let
>alone debug, and make a demo of it.
>We do have all of Alchemy's and ESP's sales records for Raceway and
>Montezuma's Revenge, but we are having some problems on our end. Tonight
>when attempting to install Office 2000 I found out that the disk either
>has a finger print is scratched. In either case I am not able to get MS
>Access 2000 on my main computer, and until I figure out how to handle
>this I can't do much with the records Although, James did supply us with
>text copies as well, but will be much harder to sort for someones info.
>Finally, we would like to let everyone know that STFC 1.0 public beta
>has been packaged, and uploaded to the web server. The only thing that
>needs to be done is finish updating the USA Games site, and get a
>downloads page up for it. We hope to have that up by the end of the
>week, but I am not saying for sure it will be there. Just that I hope to.
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