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From: dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Conquer v5.0
Message-ID: <219@coplex.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 90 17:49:46 GMT
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Organization: Copper Electronics Inc.; Louisville, Ky
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water@wheaton.UUCP (Paul Waterman) writes:

>The summary line says it all.  If I recall correctly, in February there
>was a post that said that version 5.0 of conquer was already in beta
>testing.  Then, a little later, there was a post that proclaimed that
>conquer version 5.0 would be coming out over the summer.  At the end of
>the summer, a post stated that it would be out in about two months.

It's still in Beta.  The author is still working on this enormous
project, but had a programming lapse for a couple of months.  Apparently
he wanted to escape to the "real" world for a while (-;

>Guys, it's been longer than that.  Care to update us on what's going on 
>with version five?  Will it ever come out?  Will any messages that I
>send to the author ever be answered?

Its should be soon now.  From what I have heard from Adam Bryant, he has
massively reorganized large portions of the code.  In addition, all the
new features are still being worked in.

>No flame intended.  I'm just in an interesting mood, and have a horde
>of gamers here waiting for version five.

Keep waiting!  If you havent already seen Conquer 5.0 (PL2) Beta, it
looks absolutely awesome.  I cant wait for a playable version.  If you
haven't  heard of Conquer at all, grab a copy of Conquer 4.0
(Patchlevel 10).  It is far and away the best/most-portable UNIX
war-strategy game available in the PD so far, IMHO.

If you want to subscribe to the conquer mailing list, contact the
mailing list at "conquer-news@cs.bu.edu" or for beta testing information,
contact "conquer-beta@cs.bu.edu".

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dean@coplex.UUCP   Dean A. Brooks
                   Copper Electronics, Inc.
                   Louisville, Ky
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