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1.5 Update Package

It's not an installer, but it contains everything needed to upgrade a 1.0-1.4 Battlezone install:

• Assets from the Official 1.4 Patch (minus broken NSDF Grizzly model)
• Large Asset Pack
• Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) Installer
• DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
• Registration entries for enabling the Indeo codecs on Windows Vista and Windows 7
• Release Executable (version 1.5.0.120)
• Updated Assets (2011-10-13)
• Recompiled Anet library (NOTE: incompatible with BZ 1.4)
• Updated label.map (2011-09-01)
• Updated render.cfg (preconfigured for modern systems)
• Broadband net.ini (2011-09-25)
• Xbox 360 controller configuration
• Updated input.map (binds weapon_special to middle mouse button)
• Bootserv.txt (built from Dan Kegel's master server list)

Until I get a proper installer working, here's how to install the update:

• Start with a working Battlezone installation
• Rename (or delete) the "splash" and "addon" folders
• Unpack the 1.5 update archive into your Battlezone installation, allowing it to replace files
• Run vcredist_x86.exe, the Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x86) Installer
• Run dxwebsetup.exe, the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer
• On Windows Vista or Windows 7, run indeo_win32.reg (32-bit) or indeo_win64.reg (for 64-bit OS) to enable the Indeo codecs
• If starting from a pristine retail install:
  • Option 1: copy a pre-built servers.dat into your Battlezone installation (for example, this one)
  • Option 2: delete servers.dat and let Anet regenerate it from bootserv.txt

nice job i installed it over my messed up install and it worked perfectly - and i was able to use 1680 x 1050 res

Battlezone was my first love (gaming-wise) and it is really wonderful that you have made it live again, even better than before.

Thank you for doing this, Ken!

Awesome, I hadnt even realised there was a very-hard setting now
Had a blast yesterday evening replaying the SP missions with some badass AI, I really am not going to play RO at this difficulty

(I actually got my behind handed to me on the last Rusky mission, the first 2 times )

RO has it's own exe so that would be a moot point as noone has the source code to TRO.

sent an e-mail to him asking if Ken could have access to it.

We've tried that already on BZC, and he doesn't. None of the members of Team Evolve are still around to give it to him either, unfortunately - the khu account at bz1.org is most likely a ghostwriter.

oh, okay, i'll abandon all hope then...

There's no need for the RO engine anyhow, all we really need is the original 24bit 2D art assets.

Cloaking in RO is handled by the engine.

AHadley wrote:We've tried that already on BZC, and he doesn't. None of the members of Team Evolve are still around to give it to him either, unfortunately - the khu account at bz1.org is most likely a ghostwriter.

Wow, they're all dead?

With no valid contact addresses there's no real way to contact them. Activision might have it in their archives somewhere but there's no guarantee and I wouldn't know who to ask. I don't know who to ask for the BZ1 source assets either. The only person I know at Activision actually works for the Chicago office, not the Los Angeles one where the internal studio was.

Zenophas wrote:

AHadley wrote:We've tried that already on BZC, and he doesn't. None of the members of Team Evolve are still around to give it to him either, unfortunately - the khu account at bz1.org is most likely a ghostwriter.

Wow, they're all dead?

No, but they never left any e-mail addresses behind and the company doesn't exist any more.

Did you contact GSL Ken, what did he say?

I didn't. I'll get around to it at some point...

AHadley wrote:No, but they never left any e-mail addresses behind and the company doesn't exist any more.

Oh well.