Re: Apple Game Server 3.0 RC1 released

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On Mar 30, 2:09 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=185513
>
> With tons of help from Nick, I am close to putting the lid on the
> final 3.0 release of the game server.
>
> Remaining to dos:
> -Provide ability to swap out disk images (close, just not done yet)
> -Finish adding descriptions and screenshots for list of games
> -Disk write support
>
> Finished:
> -Limited disk emulation (supports a few disk-based games, and dos 3.3
> images)
> -Support for all apple ][ models (requires at least 64kb, might work
> with 48kb but not tested)
> -New launcher GUI
> -New game selector menu, uses both hires pages
> -Advanced game search
> -Game information with screenshots
> -On-the-fly compression of graphics data using packbits-based scheme
> -All sorts of goodies on the small scale of things
>
> To use, download the release and uncompress.
>
> Change to the release directory (the one with dist, src, lib, etc)
> Use "java -jar dist/ags.jar" to start.  It is imperative that you
> launch with the current directory as the main directory, not the
> "dist" directory for path reasons.
> Edit settings to set your apple settings.  Note that "port" refers to
> TCP/IP port as well as COM port.  Hostname only applies to TCP/IP.
> You will probably need to flip over to the second tab to locate the
> rxtxcomm.dll (or whatever library file is appropriate for your OS
> version)
>
> ENJOY!
>
> -Brendan

Thats great news. A big thanks to you and Nick for working so hard on
this.
I'll try it out tonight when I get home