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[Cruxador]

I'm confused as to what will be actually missing without the merge. The way it reads to me at the moment is that we will have all new features and no existing ones, which I'm sure is wrong.

He's merging it with this version, which consists primarily of graphical optimizations and interface improvements.

Not necessarily. The biggest change for me is the keyboard input rewrite. I didn't like having to hit my keys more slowly to avoid having button presses dropped. The speed boost is important too, but nothing else matters much to me. However, if DF2010 is released unmerged, I will likely just dabble with the Arena or something, and not make a proper fort until a proper version gets released.

[Leotto]

Resizing on the fly, is actually really nice.

[DrDada]

i really hope toady gives us some updates on the devlog. I mean the release could be today or in a few weeks and his last posts sound like he only needs to fix one bug to release it.
Just a little "No release today/this week/month/year" would help me to stay sane and let me do my work without checking the page many times a day.

[Qiu]

i really hope toady gives us some updates on the devlog. I mean the release could be today or in a few weeks and his last posts sound like he only needs to fix one bug to release it.
Just a little "No release today/this week/month/year" would help me to stay sane and let me do my work without checking the page many times a day.

Yeah, same here. Having an approximate release date would be nice. I'd like to know if the Mac (ppc) version will be released at the same time too. No point for me in keeping checking the forums, if it's going to be released two months later anyway. 

[Rowanas]

Qiu, I hear you. If the mac version comes out later I think I might strangle someone everyone.

[assimilateur]

If the mac version comes out later I think I might strangle someone everyone.

Should have thought about that earlier and bought a proper computer.

[John Keel]

Come on, this is no place for OS wars. It would be annoying to lack a Mac release, but again, DF is programmed in something like C+ (I'm not sure exactly what) and only takes a tiny file to port. The terminal program is only 4KB on my computer.

[King_of_the_weasels]

Agreed, you can't even right click. *or is that an old joke...* 

[Rowanas]

Agreed, you can't even right click. *or is that an old joke...* 

Way old. Waaaaay old.

[Innominate]

Come on, this is no place for OS wars. It would be annoying to lack a Mac release, but again, DF is programmed in something like C+ (I'm not sure exactly what) and only takes a tiny file to port. The terminal program is only 4KB on my computer.

Porting is not quite as simple as you make it seem. Thankfully for DF it doesn't seem to be a big concern. The 40d# versions use SDL for input and OpenGL for graphics, both of which are cross-platform. The only non-portable code then is the window code, which wouldn't change between versions. So I don't imagine there will be any significant difference in release times; Toady probably just needs access to a PC, a Mac and a 'Nix box for compiling, and I think he'd probably release all those versions simultaneously.

[TheSpaceMan]

To be honest, setting a release date even a aprox./guess date is dangerous.

I mean if someone in the forums make an aproximation and say it will be about The 37:th of Rocktober and it's not, no one will care.

But if god himself put his finger to the ground and say "It might be this date!" and it pass, people will have hearth attacks and other stress related dissorders over it. ^^

[Duke 2.0]

 The forums did come up with a relatively difinitive release date of around the end of February.

 As you can tell, such deadlines are difficult to predict and impossible to upkeep.

[dennislp3]

ITS OFFICIAL! the great one himself said windows release is expected in about a week!

[silverskull39]

ITS OFFICIAL! the great one himself said windows release is expected in about a week!

Ah, I should say that I was talking about 17 releases over a short period being a bandwidth problem.  I think a release a week will probably be okay as long as I've got a few mirrors working.  I'm not really sure, since we haven't had a delay this long for this many people before.

If you're talking about that ^ post, then he was talking about how frequently releases will come AFTER the DF2010 release, not when the 2010 release would be. If that's not the case, then where did you here this? I must know!


Edit: Gah! My devlog won't update for some reason. Nevermind.

[Rafal99]

The current situation is that I expect a (buggy!) Windows release in about a week, with the 40d# merge commencing at that time (or within a few days of the release). This is a bit of a change of plan, since I was originally going to release for all operating systems at once, but I feel like I'm going to get even more bogged down if I don't do it this way and the initial pre-merge release will give us a control to work with in the same way that 40d can be compared to 40d#. The initial merge release shouldn't take too long though, and it will be the top priority aside from the worst catastrophic crashes and things of that nature. I know the merge changes make the game playable for many of you when it otherwise isn't.

Yay!