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[King Mir]

64 bit will allow larger worlds and larger embarks. However, because DF is memory bound, I expect the 64 bit version will run slower in most cases, because pointers use more memory. I'm sure Toady will keep the 32 bit version working though.

[Rose]

There might also be some small speedup from using a more modern compiler.

[LordBaal]

Basically it is future proofing. Sure it will eat more memory and having more stuff could make the game slower. But memory speed is constantly improving as well as it's quantities. A 64bit version would be useless for someone with 2, 4 or even I dare to say someone with 8 gb of ram. But what of having 16, 64, 128? Its becoming increasingly common to have more and more memory.

Now what we need are quantum processors to really speed up the game :p

[Putnam]

it would not be useless to someone with 8 GB of RAM; the game crashes pretty regularly when you get too big

[Scoops Novel]

so how big could embarks get? The players on supercomputers could actually do something to scale now?

[Shonai_Dweller]

Are there any changes to the tileset in the new version, or can we just plug in our favourite (basic tileset) from day one?

[Dirst]

Will it be restricted exclusively to books?

Soon enough we'll have dwarf children stuffing smaller dwarf children into lockers.

[cochramd]

Will it be restricted exclusively to books?

Soon enough we'll have dwarf children stuffing smaller dwarf children into lockers.

I think you mean "coffers".

[Pidgeot]

In the hope that I can do a bit of early prep work for PyLNP:

Have you decided how you will distribute the 64-bit builds (once they're ready)? Will it be a single ZIP per OS, containing both 32 and 64-bit executables, or one ZIP for OS/bitness combination?

[FearfulJesuit]

I haven't seen any updates about gambling and dwarf games in taverns, and they're still listed as "future goals" on the dev outline page. Are they still going in this release?

[LordBaal]

In the hope that I can do a bit of early prep work for PyLNP:

Have you decided how you will distribute the 64-bit builds (once they're ready)? Will it be a single ZIP per OS, containing both 32 and 64-bit executables, or one ZIP for OS/bitness combination?

I'm guessing it would be two separate zips. That would help ease confusion among most players, and it's pretty much the "standard" on how software is handed out when it has a 32 and 64 bits versions.

[Shonai_Dweller]

I haven't seen any updates about gambling and dwarf in taverns, and they're still listed as "future goals" on the dev outline page. Are they still going in this release?

The original plan was for the taverns release to be split into two parts, with gambling and tavern games in the second release. Toady hasn't said that this isn't the case any more, but he has made some vague comments about gambling needing the economy and, maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a kind of excited can't-wait-to-dig-deep-into-this vibe around the myth generator so we'll have to wait and see whether part two follows part one or if it all gets mixed up. Either way, they don't seem to be part of the upcoming release.

[Dirst]

I haven't seen any updates about gambling and dwarf in taverns, and they're still listed as "future goals" on the dev outline page. Are they still going in this release?

The original plan was for the taverns release to be split into two parts, with gambling and tavern games in the second release. Toady hasn't said that this isn't the case any more, but he has made some vague comments about gambling needing the economy and, maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a kind of excited can't-wait-to-dig-deep-into-this vibe around the myth generator so we'll have to wait and see whether part two follows part one or if it all gets mixed up. Either way, they don't seem to be part of the upcoming release.

Maybe it would work better is we phrased it as "There is a myth that gambling will be in the next release..."

[Putnam]

I haven't seen any updates about gambling and dwarf games in taverns, and they're still listed as "future goals" on the dev outline page. Are they still going in this release?

they never were AFAIK, they were always the release after this

[reality.auditor]

so how big could embarks get? The players on supercomputers could actually do something to scale now?

Nope, supercomputers rely on many processors working in parallel. Since DF is one-threaded, it wouldn't preform better than on your home computer.