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2 2
3<h2>The CFPlus Client</h2> 3<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
4 4
5<p> CFPlus is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch 5<p>This is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
6in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more 6in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
7immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new 7immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
8features. 8features.
9</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 unpack the client:
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 <tt style="margin-left: 2em">tar -xvzf deliantra-gnu-linux-x86.tar.gz</tt><br />
29</p> 39 It will unpack a binary called 'deliantra-gnu-linux-x86', which you just need
30 40 to execute:
31<h3>GNU/Linux Installation</h3>
32
33<p>
34After downloading you need to make the binary <b>executable</b> like this:<br />
35<tt style="margin-left: 2em">chmod a+x cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt><br />
36And start it like this (when cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin is in the current working directory):<br />
37<tt style="margin-left: 2em">./cfplus-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt> 41 <tt style="margin-left: 2em">./deliantra-gnu-linux-x86.bin</tt>
38</p> 42 </p>
39 43 </li>
40<h3>Build from source</h3> 44 <li>
41 45 <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
42<p> 46 <p>
47 To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
48 <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>
49 </p>
50 </li>
51 <li>
52 <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
53 <p>
43If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that 54 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>. 55 are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
45</p> 56 </p>
46 57 </li>
47<h2>Windows</h2> 58</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 59
72<p> 60<p>
73<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b> 61<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
74</p> 62</p>
75 63
76<h3>News</h3> 64<h3>News:</h3>
65
66<p>
67 <em>
68 2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
69 to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
70 smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
71 (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
72 The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
73 time.
74 </em>
75</p>
76
77<p>
78 <em>
79 2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
80 like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
81 and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
82 diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
83 with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
84 basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
85 </em>
86</p>
87
88<p>
89 <em>
90 2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
91 a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
92 port available now of the client!
93 </em>
94</p>
95
96<p>
97 <em>
98 2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
99 workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
100 </em>
101</p>
102
103<p>
104 <em>
105 2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
106 again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
107 </em>
108</p>
109
110<p>
111 <em>
112 2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
113 map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
114 logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
115 supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
116 And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
117 configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
118 </em>
119</p>
120
121<p>
122 <em>
123 2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
124 with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
125 a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
126 fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
127 and not the floorbox. Have fun!
128 </em>
129</p>
130
131<p>
132 <em>
133 2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
134 the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
135 with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
136 but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
137 </em>
138</p>
139
140<p>
141 <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
142 where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
143 consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
144 not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
145 typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
146 also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
147 which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
148 windows has been fixed.
149 </em>
150</p>
151
152<p>
153 <em>
154 2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
155 have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
156 a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
157 Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
158 have also been fixed.
159 </em>
160</p>
161
162<p>
163 <em>
164 2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
165 changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
166 improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
167 improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
168 message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
169 future releases.
170 </em>
171</p>
172
173<p>
174 <em>
175 2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
176 and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
177 had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
178 too.
179 </em>
180</p>
181<p>
182 <em>
183 2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
184 audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
185 server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
186 the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
187 </em>
188</p>
189
190<p>
191 <em>
192 2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
193 for better performance and compatibility under windows,
194 and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
195 </em>
196</p>
197
198<p>
199 <em>
200 2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
201 resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
202 system was also officially enabled.
203 </em>
204</p>
205
206
207<p>
208 <em>
209 2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
210 </em>
211</p>
77 212
78<p> 213<p>
79 <em> 214 <em>
80 2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client. 215 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 216 The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
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153 NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and 288 NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
154 improves overall game interaction. 289 improves overall game interaction.
155 </li> 290 </li>
156 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li> 291 <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
157 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li> 292 <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
158</ul>
159
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> 293</ul>
177 294
178<h3>News archive</h3> 295<h3>News archive</h3>
179 296
180<p> 297<p>

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