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Fulmen wrote:BZE is discontinued. Reaper is just testing some little things for 1.5 from what I hear.

Psychedelic Rhino wrote:BZE is still avaliable.

BZE1.3 pretty much has gone to gold.

It's now a completely playable, win7 32&64bit compatible version using DX9. Playing it at 1900x1200 @ 60FPS makes it look almost like a new graphics engine.

Sounds finished, not discontinued.

Where do we download it?

Nielk1 wrote:Sounds finished, not discontinued.

Yes, it's pretty much finished. At the time of my previous post I was unaware of the details. Dx won't be doing anything on it in a looong time at this rate.

Is that the expansion pack?

Fulmen wrote:

Nielk1 wrote:Sounds finished, not discontinued.

Yes, it's pretty much finished. At the time of my previous post I was unaware of the details. Dx won't be doing anything on it in a looong time at this rate.

Is he just busy? I know how that can go.

Clavin12 wrote:Is that the expansion pack?

TRO and Battlegrounds are the expansion packs, BZE is a mod/unofficial patch.

Nielk1 wrote:

Fulmen wrote:

Nielk1 wrote:Sounds finished, not discontinued.

Yes, it's pretty much finished. At the time of my previous post I was unaware of the details. Dx won't be doing anything on it in a looong time at this rate.

Is he just busy? I know how that can go.

No. He's done with the computer for quite a while. RL reasons.

It has been brought up. Ken does not have the source code, or at least didn't when I last mentioned it.

I still don't have it, alas...

Ken what happens with source codes for older games?

Ever see the very end of Raiders of the Lost Ark where a box is wheeled into a giant warehouse, filled with many other boxes? Most game's source code is like that. It's usually archived right at the end of release, and thrown into a giant pile of other backups. If it's been more than 3-5 years since archiving, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody knew where to find it, as the combination of normal employee turnover and sloppy record keeping means it'd take *real* effort to find. The kind of effort that costs $$$. And that's for companies (e.g. Activision) that are still in business. Trying to get source code when the developer and publisher are bankrupt and closed (e.g. 3DO) is far harder.

In short, it's a royal pain to try and find source code for something unless you're ready to pony up the $$$ for the legal and IT work to try and find things. And then, you better pray that the backup tapes still work, weren't flooded, etc.

-- GSH

Fulmen wrote:BZE is discontinued. Reaper is just testing some little things for 1.5 from what I hear.

Been listening to Spock or something? lol

BZE is just fine.

Anyone wondering where to get it, it is now available for download here and the expansion pack here.

SnakeEye wrote:Ken what happens with source codes for older games?

In the case of BZ most of the developers didn't keep a copy of the code.
Ken didn't even keep a copy.

Got BZE the other day after a link was posted elsewhere. Plays beautifully, I'm suprised I didn't get it sooner.

Also, Fulmen is also against Spock as far as I can tell. BZ2Maps has entered the fray

Yes, it has been playing very smoothly for quite some time.

There were several RC candidates for 1.3 but most were minor bug fixes. It's as done as it's going to get for the time being.

AHadley wrote:Also, Fulmen is also against Spock as far as I can tell. BZ2Maps has entered the fray

I think anyone that's a mature individual that is willing to think for themselves and check for themselves instead of taking someone's comments as gospel, will eventually have trouble dealing with spock.