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Offline Noble713

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #30 on: December 29, 2016, 08:47:03 AM »
I just want to play with 6+ empires at start, all spoilers, and with a high generation chance without getting a slowdown. To me those other features, while nice and very useful, are somewhat secondary.

This x1000. I'm gaming on a pretty decent rig* and Aurora can be painfully sluggish. And I know most of that stems from the VB/Access combo. Even with no new features, a code refactoring/language re-write and a database switch should be a godsend for speed.


*Core i7-4770, SSD drive, 16GB RAM, nVidia GTX 650 Ti 2GB, running Lubuntu Linux with Aurora in Wine.
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #31 on: January 13, 2017, 09:44:34 AM »
OMG NEW AURORA im waiting .
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #32 on: February 01, 2017, 01:40:50 AM »
So very excited for this! I'm a relative newcomer to Aurora 4x, and while I've played for several hours I always end up going away just to come back given the oddities and relative clunkiness of the UI.  Updating the code to a much more modern language and toolchain will hopefully help, over time, the pain and make it that much easier to maintain! Can't wait for the first playable alpha/beta/whatever!

Funny thought, with it written in C# might even be Linux compatible now :)
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #33 on: February 01, 2017, 02:32:36 AM »
I always thought winforms on Linux was a no-go, but just googled and found this:
http://www.mono-project.com/docs/gui/winforms/

No idea how well it works or if Steve would have any interest in trying to compile it with mono. And there is probably lots of other stuff that is Windows-specific anyway.
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #34 on: February 01, 2017, 06:35:56 PM »
There might very well be issues simply compiling for Linux since there might be some very specific Windows only stuff.  However, I suspect unless he's gone out of his way there's probably a lot less than we think.  Or possibly none, it might simply run either directly on Mono (remember it's CLI, more or less a virtualized execution environment) or with a simple recompile using Mono tools.

I vote he gets done with basically all of the work to bring feature parity with the older VB version in C# before he considers looking into it  :)
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #35 on: May 04, 2017, 05:36:43 PM »
Hey hey, it been very quite lately :( any progress?
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #36 on: May 04, 2017, 05:59:31 PM »
[various clamering for status updates]
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #37 on: May 05, 2017, 12:00:47 AM »
There probably hasnt been updates, because he hasnt been working on it. So if he were to update, it would probably be to state, that he hasnt worked on it.
 

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #38 on: July 02, 2017, 03:34:24 AM »
Maybe for Xmas 2017 :)

It isn't going to be ready this year. I do have a few days off next week and hope to make some progress on system generation. However, I am probably at least six months away from completion. I do hope to get a test game started earlier than that - maybe 2-3 months. It really depends on my available free time.

"Xmas 2017" >>>> - 6 Months

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #39 on: July 12, 2017, 01:09:34 PM »
Maybe for Xmas 2017 :)

It isn't going to be ready this year. I do have a few days off next week and hope to make some progress on system generation. However, I am probably at least six months away from completion. I do hope to get a test game started earlier than that - maybe 2-3 months. It really depends on my available free time.

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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #40 on: July 12, 2017, 06:40:30 PM »
 
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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #41 on: December 15, 2017, 08:27:07 AM »
In case anybody is interested, I finally got around to doing a C# possible features discussion on my youtube channel.  This is something Steve had said he was OK with.

BTW Steve, if that has changed let me know.  Since I am using your screenshots, I will take it down if there are any issues, no worries.

 
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Re: Hype by anticipation...:)
« Reply #42 on: January 03, 2018, 05:11:51 PM »
In case anybody is interested, I finally got around to doing a C# possible features discussion on my youtube channel.  This is something Steve had said he was OK with.

BTW Steve, if that has changed let me know.  Since I am using your screenshots, I will take it down if there are any issues, no worries.

WOW Duranium, very nice Blog. Good job!