Domn freeciv!

[Kumiorava]

School computer labs tend to do strage things to people's heads. That's why I never do Apolyton at school.

[deepone]

quote: Originally posted by Jing on 05-10-2000 05:27 PM Please keep in mind that Freeciv is an open source project. Everyone is welcome to contribute, and the game is absolutely free. If you can make the Windows port, go right ahead! I too have friends who can benefit from such a move. [This message has been edited by Jing (edited May 10, 2000).]

This is the real issue here...
The reason there is no native windows version of freeciv is not that we don't _like_ windows... It's that we don't _use_ windows... (Of course - the reason we don't use it might be that we don't like it but that's another matter )

The way opensource works is that somebody who wants/needs a feature in a program adds it...
Since I don't run windows I have no need for a windows version of freeciv and thus I'm a lot less inclined to spend my (free) time coding it... Certainly - when You code something (for fun) You want to use it... You need to use it - if only to test it...

A windows port needs to be made by windows users... Don't hassle the linux users for not making a windows port... Go hassle some great windows programmer who happens to like civ instead...
[This message has been edited by deepone (edited May 11, 2000).]

[sammyboy7]

yeah, i know. at my school, there are like 10 people trying to use the internet over one 56k connection. it's crazy! that's why i was so deranged when i posted that.

[Kumiorava]

deepone made an excellent point. Couldn't have said it better. Why make it, if you don't use it?

sammyboy: 10 people? Lucky you. We have a 150+ workstation network on a 56k line, with ususally at least 40 of them in use simultaneously. Now that's a real *****.
[This message has been edited by Kumiorava (edited May 11, 2000).]

[adaMada]

Whew!! Glad that's settled.

Personally, I don't blame either Kumiorava or sammyboy. I've made many posts that misrepresent what I'm trying to say then this (I one started arguing over a sig which had nothing wrong with it (sorry studlum )).

PS: Is their any windows users intrested in porting it? Or any mac users (that know how)? Of corse the mac users are more important because macs are better, and mac users are smarter...

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[Kumiorava]

Yeah, using a Mac requires so much know-how and skill...

[deepone]

Hehehe...

[Kumiorava]

Consider this: There is an Amiga native distribution of Freeciv.

Since Windows is much more widely used than Amiga, I'm a little surprised now that there isn't one for Win. Maby the Win-folks are happy playing their commercial versions of the Civ genre games, and don't give a damn about some "opensource thing".

[deepone]

That's probably right...

[Krusty]

Any Win-user who could possibly help all us poor Freeciv starved windows users would get our greatest thanks and possibly a Permanant Military Alliance

[adaMada]

You got me there. When I said 'know how' I was just protecting myself from the person who would have otherwise said "why don't you?"

Still, you win out. Looks like I need to proof read my posts more often .

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[Kumiorava]

Huh? Your "know how" had nothing to do with my "know-how".

I think that if someone made a proper GUI for civserver, most Windows users would be quite happy - as long as they can get X running, that is. Then they could forget about all that nasty, hard-to-use command line crap, righ right?

[CapTVK]

quote: Originally posted by Kumiorava on 05-13-2000 05:56 PM Huh? Your "know how" had nothing to do with my "know-how". I think that if someone made a proper GUI for civserver, most Windows users would be quite happy - as long as they can get X running, that is. Then they could forget about all that nasty, hard-to-use command line crap, righ right?

Man, your starting to sound like MWHC...

As for the civserver part. Yes, it can be a bit daunting, for the first time. But 'set aifill 14' and 'start' will do nicely thank you. Once you figure out that bit you can simply type 'help' and experiment a bit with the other settings and your ready to go.

I'm a WinNT AND Netware 3.20 user and I'm quite used to that "nasty, hard-to-use command line crap", thank you very much.

[Kumiorava]

Well, I use Linux, so I'm used to command line and have no problem with civserver as it is.

Its those green Win98 native poops who I fear will be scared of it. I mean the kind of people that might be real good at playing Civ, but who think "Restart in MS-DOS mode" means virtual suicide for their computer.

[Rasputin00]

As one of the unenlightend ones still using Windows fro mno fault of my own except that all my software only runs in windows, I would love to have a Win version, but as it seems most Windows users are not programmers and most Linux ones are, we will probalby never get a decent port to windows....