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3 YEARS OF SOURCE CODE: CHAT TODAY
(28 October 2006, 04:16 | CtP2 | 501 comments) Exactly three years ago today, the full source code for Call to Power II was released by Activision, [see stories], signaling the start of the Source Code Project. To celebrate this unique event in the history of Apolyton and the gaming industry in general, there will be a birthday chat tonight in the #apolyton room of the Apolyton Chat service, at 20:00 UTC (that`s 21:00 BST (London time), 22:00 CET, 16:00 EST, 13:00 PST and Sunday 7:00 AM Sydney time -- Aussies, beware of the change to daylight savings this weekend!)

Join us to celebrate this event, chat with present and former prominent CtP2 community members and talk about present state and future of the Source Code Project and the Call to Power community.

More birthday related to the anniversary of this event may follow later this week, so stay tuned! - Locutus

PLAYTEST BUILD RELEASED
(3 April 2004, 17:57 | CtP2 | 502 comments) A new playtest build for the CtP2 Source Code Project has been released today. A playtest build is de facto an (early) beta of the to-be-released Apolyton patch. This file contains everything needed to run the latest version of the patch-under-construction and can be installed over either a vanilla or patched version of the game. The list of changes can be viewed here. It should be fairly playable but please remember that it`s intended for playtesting only: there may be serious bugs in it and it might theoretically break your game (or worse). It is strongly recommended you backup any data before installing. Use at your own risk.

You can find the file in the Source Code Project section of the Apolyton Directory and if you encounter any bugs, crashes or other problems, please do report them in the forum -- this will help bring the release of the final version of the patch closer. - Locutus

SOURCE CODE PROJECT UPDATE II
(11 February 2004, 16:06 | CtP2 | 15 comments)

Work has been briskly continuing on the CTP2 Source Code project. If you`ve not already done so, you can read the FAQ, website(still fairly bare, unfortunately) or join the team, if you`d like to contribute to the project. If you`d just like to see the current progress, and plans, visit the forum.

Current Developments since the last update:

The source code team, and fromafar in particular, is methodically going through the CTP2 code fixing CTDs (crash to desktop) and memory leaks. The game is smoother and more stable, now, (and seems to improve a few intermitent crashing problems that were specific to Windows XP,) but there is still work to do, in this area.

A number of game fixes and enhancements have been implemented, including (but not limited to):
- Implemented Flat Map and Neptun (y-wrap, no x-wrap) world support
- Implemented Pollution graph
- Fixed infinite rush build (Big MP exploit)
- Display the underlying terrain information when clicking on an enemy object. This prevents easy detection of invisible enemy units.
- Implemented Veteran status
- Improved (or fixed) Trade route pathing (takes account of freight costs, and tile improvement costs)
- Implementation of many SLIC 2.1 (patch 1.1) functions
- DB access for SLIC, as per SLIC1.1 (with stability and flexibility improvements)
There are many, many more- too many to list here. Take a peek at the Altered Source Files thread for full details, and credits.

Linux porting work is progressing well, with reports of successful compilation, and one report of the game working, including starting a game and building cities, etc.

ctplinux fan has been working on an SDL implementation of the sound system, which works under Linux and Windows.

I`ve been working on a number of database flexibility enhancements, including the option to include modified records, for different governments, for items that you can construct, called GovernmentsModified. Another flexibility enhancement is a system of universal prequisites, separate from advances, which allow some profound flexibility in game data. The system uses identifiers called BuildClasses.

There are a large number of discussions and polls about a large number of improvements that are intended. Since we`ve mandated that posts are coded based on their content, its relatively easy to find what you`re looking for, although its reasonably busy. To find all of the discussions about possible game improvements, just search by keyword DESIGN (and choose the Search titles only option) in the CTP2 Source Project forum.

Again, watch this space for future developments.

This newsitem was written by freelancer MrBaggins. - Gramphos

SPECIAL FEATURE: 3 YEARS OF CTP2
(25 November 2003, 19:33 | CtP2 | 19 comments) On November 14th was the third anniversary since the release of Call to Power II.

In celebration Apolyton Civilization Site's Locutus has prepared a feature on the History of CtP modmaking and the release of the source code.

Everything is there, from the CTP1 days to the release of the CTP2 source code. Read on and shout: "Happy Birthday CTP2!" :) - MarkG

SOURCE CODE PROJECT UPDATE
(8 November 2003, 19:50 | CtP2) Almost two weeks have passed since the Call To Power II source code has been released and a lot of things have happened in the community.

The project website has opened at this location. For now it`s mostly a collection of useful links, but it is expected to expand rapidly over the coming weeks and months.
Apolyton has been in contact with Activision regarding some legal issues with the license, the answers Activision provided have been incorporated in the FAQ. There`s also a seperate discussion thread for any legal questions in the forum, where we will try to answer any license-related questions.
One of the outcomes of the correspondence with Activision is that we can now host a zip version of the source code for the Mac and Linux users. It can be downloaded from the aforementioned project website.
Discussions on the organization of the project and the tools that will be used have started all over the forum. If you want to join the project team, you can sign up here.
By now a large group of Visual C++ programmers have gotten the game to compile without errors. Some of the .NET programmers have as well, though not everyone. Running the game is a bit more troublesome though, a lot of people are experiencing a very stubborn crash. A promosing start with a Linux port has also been made.
Inspite of the problems with getting the game to run, numerous known bugs already appear to have been fixed (though for most further testing will be needed). The greatest success was undoubtably made by jonwil, who has gotten the sound working again. A setback however was the discovery that the source code is not that of the patched v1.1 version of the game, but rather the unpatched v1.0 version.

The forum is very active and the project is so far rapidly moving forward. Watch this space for new developments. - Locutus

ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
(29 October 2003, 10:48 | CtP2 | 64 comments) Since a lot of people seem to be having the same type of questions regarding the release of the CtP2 source code and the Apolyton CtP2-Source Code Project, a brief FAQ was created to answer most of these questions. If you still have any questions after reading this, or if you have any feedback on the existing issues, you are of course encouraged to let us know. - Locutus