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[a1s]

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retracted.

@Everyone else
   Lets stop arguing and have someone compile the dang source then tell us whats what. There is enough drama so don't let trolls cause more of it here even when they are not actively trolling.

I agree shut up if someone (non-lunatic) does that.

[Danv]

a1s
once in a while (usually few times a week) i'm checking prospector forum and google code for any updates, while checking again this morning (well, in my timezone) i found this new version posted by CopperD (it was his link on weird file-hosting, later he reuploded it it seems), but before posting link here, i checked update on google code, downloaded game from his link and played for about 5 minutes (my AV scanned it automatically) and only after all this i made quick post here (cuz after all this i was in hurry, as i wrote before)

didn't know about this stuff with CataDDA, but again, i feel it was my bad to post it like this without any explanation

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Compiling with a proper compiler and will upload soon. Sorry for being upset I just found it rather disrespectful to be shooting the messenger like that.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   It is a bit sad but we have had problems with people dressed as messengers as of late who aren't. In fact there is even a locked thread right now put up by the latest dodge ban account of the CataDDA troll.

[Aklyon]

Was it locked by toady, or did he seriously just start a new thread and lock it himself?

[BigD145]

didn't know about this stuff with CataDDA, but again, i feel it was my bad to post it like this without any explanation

Posts on Bay12 with little to no explanation are often received with suspicion. More so with a file linked. This is not a new thing here or anywhere on the internet.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

@Danv
   I will admit that wasn't clever though you had just up the page posted previously with updates. I was explaining the reason the mess got so big, not why there was one to begin with. I saw some people from the CataDDA thread and someone even said this was their reason for being suspicious so I felt it only appropriate to explain some of the out of scale hostility.

[puke]

nevermind.  nothing to be helped here.

[Man of Paper]

I can verify it's awesome, and my laptop hasn't tried to strangle me yet. So fear not, citizens!

[copperd]

Holy crap you guys picked this up fast. I have been lurking on bay12 for awhile now. I just did a Google search to try to find people who have talked about Prospector before.

I started off thinking Prospector was completely dead. So I downloaded the latest at the time R131 and compiled it and like most found it to crash on planet landing. A few minutes gdb and a few more googling, I found freebasic compiler has a -t option to increase stack size for passing very large data types. At this time I tossed a version up somewhere 2shared I believe until buy buddy could set up a vhost. I also sent an email to the author asking for any notes or comments on the code. I didn't expect a reply. Long story short he updated the SVN with the latest code, I have been made a committer, and we have a very nice long email going.

For now I am working on bug fixes, minor features, and code documentation. I am going to keep these builds to the forum along with some sort of progress indicator.

My personal host
http://fred.neurotica.com/Prospector_R132_Win_x86_Fix1.zip

I am guessing at this point I should add the executable to the google project as your all going to slam my poor host.


I have a meeting to attend till 10:30pm est I'll check back in after that.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Cool, it is nice to know someone is working on it. One thing is if you could get the original guy to post here or the prospector forum so we can lay to rest any remaining problem with legitimacy.

[copperd]

   Cool, it is nice to know someone is working on it. One thing is if you could get the original guy to post here or the prospector forum so we can lay to rest any remaining problem with legitimacy.

http://code.google.com/p/rlprospector/people/list

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Well that good enough for me. If anyone else has any problems speak up now or hold you peace. Later today I think I will grab the latest and greatest and see how its doing.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Okay, I downloaded the game from the link copperd provided and it scanned clean so thats all good. The game booted up just fine and it works completely as expected. Also apparently I stopped playing at some point before the game stopped being actively developed by the original Dev so there was a bit more new stuff for me to see and I don't know whats recent but overall I like what I see. For those who may want more concrete proof of it working or just want to see whats up without playing the game yourself I have started up a new prospector LP on my YouTube channel and you can find the first video here.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Don't fudge around with graphical settings on this version. If you go mussing about the resolutions and tick the tileset on/off you'll get some graphical glitches. Tileset gets mad if you turn it off.