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3<h2>The CFPlus Client</h2> 3<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
4 4
5<p> CFPlus is the new Crossfire TRT (Crossfire compatible) client which 5<p>This is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
6was written from scratch in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was 6in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
7written to have a more immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground 7immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
8to implement new features. (And it's still mostly compatible with the 8features.
9original Crossfire). </p> 9</p>
10 10
11<h3>Screenshots:</h3> 11<h3>Screenshots:</h3>
12 12
13<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p> 13<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>
14 14
15<h2>GNU/Linux</h2>
16<h3>Download</h3> 15<h3>Download:</h3>
17 16
18<p> 17<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>
19<b>Version 0.99 release from 2007-09-02</b>: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin">cfplus linux</a><br />
20If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
21bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
22</p>
23 18
19<h3>Installation notes:</h3>
20
21<ul>
22 <li>
23 <p><b>Windows</b></p>
24 <p>
25 To start the client, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
26 use the context menu of the right mouse button.
27 <b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
28 and start up everything it needs.
29 </p>
30 </li>
31 <li>
32 <p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
33 <p>
24<p><b>Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT. (For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32)</b></p> 34 <b>Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT. (For amd64 you will need ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32)</b>
25 35 </p>
26<p> 36 <p>
27Alpha release: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus-alpha-gnu-linux-x86.bin">cfplus linux alpha</a><br /> 37 After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
28<b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> As this is an alpha release! We are going to be deaf about missing features and bugs in the alpha release! 38 </p>
29</p> 39 </li>
30 40 <li>
31<h3>GNU/Linux Installation</h3> 41 <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
32 42 <p>
33<p> 43 To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
34After downloading you need to make the binary <b>executable</b> like this:<br /> 44 <b>NOTE: You will need an Intel CPU for this binary, it will not work with PPC CPUs! Also you will need Mac OS X 10.3 or later.</b>
35<tt style="margin-left: 2em">chmod a+x cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt><br /> 45 </p>
36And start it like this (when cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin is in the current working directory):<br /> 46 </li>
37<tt style="margin-left: 2em">./cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt> 47 <li>
38</p> 48 <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
39 49 <p>
40<h3>Build from source</h3>
41
42<p>
43If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that 50 If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
44are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>. 51 are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
45</p> 52 </p>
46 53 </li>
47<h2>Windows</h2> 54</ul>
48
49<h3>Download</h3>
50
51<p>
52<b>Version 0.99 release from 2007-09-02</b>: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus.exe">cfplus windows</a><br />
53If you find bugs in the release, please inform us! There are indeed still some glitches and
54bugs in the client, and they are on our TODO.
55</p>
56
57<p>
58Alpha release: <a href="http://dist.schmorp.de/cfplus/cfplus_alpha.exe">cfplus windows alpha</a><br />
59<b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> As this is an alpha release! We are going to be deaf about missing features and bugs in the alpha release!
60</p>
61
62<h3>Windows Installation</h3>
63
64<p>
65Just download the binary above in the <i>Windows binary</i> Section above at <b>Download</b>.
66Thats all. (To start it, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
67use the context menu of the right mouse button :-).
68<b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
69and start up everything it needs.
70</p>
71 55
72<p> 56<p>
73<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b> 57<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
74</p> 58</p>
75 59
76<h3>News</h3> 60<h3>News:</h3>
61
62<p>
63 <em>
64 2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
65 to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
66 smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
67 (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
68 The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
69 time.
70 </em>
71</p>
72
73<p>
74 <em>
75 2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
76 like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
77 and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
78 diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
79 with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
80 basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
81 </em>
82</p>
83
84<p>
85 <em>
86 2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
87 a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
88 port available now of the client!
89 </em>
90</p>
91
92<p>
93 <em>
94 2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
95 workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
96 </em>
97</p>
98
99<p>
100 <em>
101 2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
102 again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
103 </em>
104</p>
105
106<p>
107 <em>
108 2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
109 map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
110 logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
111 supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
112 And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
113 configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
114 </em>
115</p>
116
117<p>
118 <em>
119 2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
120 with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
121 a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
122 fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
123 and not the floorbox. Have fun!
124 </em>
125</p>
126
127<p>
128 <em>
129 2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
130 the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
131 with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
132 but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
133 </em>
134</p>
135
136<p>
137 <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
138 where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
139 consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
140 not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
141 typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
142 also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
143 which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
144 windows has been fixed.
145 </em>
146</p>
147
148<p>
149 <em>
150 2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
151 have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
152 a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
153 Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
154 have also been fixed.
155 </em>
156</p>
157
158<p>
159 <em>
160 2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
161 changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
162 improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
163 improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
164 message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
165 future releases.
166 </em>
167</p>
168
169<p>
170 <em>
171 2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
172 and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
173 had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
174 too.
175 </em>
176</p>
177<p>
178 <em>
179 2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
180 audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
181 server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
182 the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
183 </em>
184</p>
185
186<p>
187 <em>
188 2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
189 for better performance and compatibility under windows,
190 and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
191 </em>
192</p>
193
194<p>
195 <em>
196 2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
197 resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
198 system was also officially enabled.
199 </em>
200</p>
201
202
203<p>
204 <em>
205 2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
206 </em>
207</p>
77 208
78<p> 209<p>
79 <em> 210 <em>
80 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client. 211 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
81 The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes 212 The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
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155 </li> 286 </li>
156 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li> 287 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
157 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li> 288 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
158</ul> 289</ul>
159 290
160<h3>Yet unimplemented features (for version 1.5 or 2):</h3>
161
162<ul>
163 <li>On screen player name labels.</li>
164</ul>
165
166<h3>Future features/ideas:</h3>
167
168<p>
169These are some (more or less serious) ideas we have regarding extension of the client's
170functionality:
171</p>
172
173<ul>
174 <li>Integrated IRC client.</li>
175 <li>Editor stating shortcut with automated downloading of maps.</li>
176</ul>
177
178<h3>News archive</h3> 291<h3>News archive</h3>
179 292
180<p> 293<p>
181 <em> 294 <em>
182 2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting 295 2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
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302 </em> 415 </em>
303</p> 416</p>
304 417
305<h2>Authors/Contact</h2> 418<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
306 419
307<p><b>The cf.schmorp.de Crossfire Development Team:</b></p> 420<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
308 421
309<p><b> 422<p><b>
310 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build, 423 95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
311 the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees. 424 the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
312 </b></p> 425 </b></p>
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320 Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a> 433 Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
321 <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a> 434 <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
322 </p> 435 </p>
323 436
324<p></p> 437<p></p>
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