Re: [Freeciv-Dev] FreeCiv Shareware competitor

[Per Mathisen <permath@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> Don't know if you folks have been to Freshmeat lately, but i saw there
> today a FreeCiv competitor (i.e. another Civilization close).

I noticed it too. Once we finish the GTK port, the new tiles and GTK
is stable on Windows, we will bury them :)

The only enviable thing they have is the isometric view (soon). A while
ago someone said he wanted to port freeciv to OpenGL... *wink wink*

> On another matter... Since it seems freeciv 1.8.0/1.7.2 whatever will go
> out soon, will that come with the GTK+ client support we have coded in?
> I so, well probably need to sincronize so that i (or somebody else) add
> the new extra features to the currently 1.7.1 client compatible GTK+
> version.

Is the code in ftp://ulven.ifi.ntnu.no/pub/freeciv/fic-gamma2.tar.gz the
most recent version of the port?

Yours,
Per