amiga-news.de - Game: Tales of Tamar - New Amiga version 0.46

14.Nov.2002
T.o.T. (email)

Game: Tales of Tamar - New Amiga version 0.46
Version 0.46 is the first official (and of course free) update for Tales of Tamar. As promised, we'll keep improving and expanding the game.

Since the release of the CD version, quite a few things have happened:

New features:

Title screen reconverted. Antialiasing improved
Diplomacy: Personal messages can be sent and received
Cheat protection for ARMY, SHIP and MOVE chunk
Fonts have been reworked by Damaso Dominguez
Spanish characters are now shown correctly
ToT is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos
new BardsTale stories
Ruines added
new map images for town level 2 to 4
CGX V5 is now recognized

Bugfixes:

first level town had incorrect number of inhabitants
plundered trade ships left their loaded figure in the water. Fixed
loss of capital caused problems
fallback mode for screen mode rewritten
output in FTP routine and diplomacy removed
Bugfix in chunkmachine
Bugfixes in stringinput
Bugfixes in TaverneOfflineChat
resources display under AGA fixed
some bugfixes relating to ships
repair routines for ship
building screen updated
gotcha changed from hardware to software
fadein and fadeout is in software on the Pegasos now
CGX V5 check
MorphOS is now detected correctly
BardsTale now completely in German available

We'd like to discuss three things in particular:

First is the new option to send "intime" messages directly to another player. The feature allows you to act completely undetected, you don't have to use a secondary email account to exchange messages without a third party noticing. A quite useful addition.

Next is the addition of ruins and different town levels on the map. Before, all towns had the same image, the one of a small village. From now on, abandoned towns will show as ruins and the image of a town will adapt to its size. Major towns will be visible as such to everyone.

The whole system can be extended as far as adapting the land around a town. The bigger your town becomes, the more settlement and small buildings will appear in the surrounding lands. You may see small farms, picturesque houses by small lakes, or hunters hideouts. Your land can change every turn. The possibilities are only limited by the capacity of the server and the number of players. The more players, the more possibilities :-)

Last but not least, we would like to thank some people for helping us bringing Tales of Tamar to MorphOS. First would be Ralph Schmidt, who really helped and just talked like other people. And Frank Mariak, whose fixes to CyberGFX V5 made it possible for Tales to be adapted. Thank you to both of them!

Tales of Tamar is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos. It benefits from the WarpUP emulation in MorphOS, which seems to be even faster than the original. Since Tales of Tamar is a mixed binary, the PPC routines work under MorphOS as well. Animations are even faster there. We will keep adapting more features to MorphOS in the future. (ps)

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