[Freeciv] Re: Freeciv & MS Windows

[Dan Sugalski <dan@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:43 PM 11/17/99 -0500, Todd Goodman wrote:
>Wow.  That's a new error that I've seen.  I run on Windows NT 4.0 SP4
>(I'll be running on SP5 soon) and on Windows98 and haven't had those
>problems.  I'm running eXceed.

Took me by surprise, that's for sure. Pity X is too heavyweight to run over
one of the PCMCIA packet ethernet cards...

>What depth are you running the server at?

8bit pseudo-color. Alas the only option eXcursion has. (Otherwise I'd be in
24-bit mode)

>Did you try the XAW client?  It's available as a separate civclient.exe
>from the same place as the install set.  Just save the GTK civclient.exe
>and copy in the XAW version.

Nope, didn't realize it existed. I'll snag it and try. If it works, maybe
it'd be worth packaging in with the install kit.

>I certainly agree that the Windows build could be better and intend to
>continue work on it as soon as I can.

Cool. This is probably ultimately a windows Gtk issue, since that's what's
throwing the error, and Freeciv under Linux likes this config just fine. If
you do get a chance to mess with it, drop me a line and, if I still have
this particular box (it's a loaner machine) I'd be happy to give it a whirl.

                                        Dan

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