Hey everyone!
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Weekly private dev meetingsTo avoid forgetting to write devlogs and to make sure the dev team is up to date we will have weekly meetings were we discuss our progress.
This will be internally but will hopefully keep us motivated and up to date.
Starting next week ;P
Devlogs will be on Tuesdays nowDue to the weekly meeting date the devlogs will be posted on Tuesdays now.
Soldat client sound code portingI started port the Soldat sound code to another library. There is still a lot of room for improvements sound wise.
For example stopping sound playback when game enters pause mode, or slower playback in bullet time mode.
The port to the new library is the first thing that is aimed at the 1.7 release.
I had some fun playing wav files backwards, faster/slower or jump in them "enemy flagger down, down, down"
Automated deployment/development virtual machine creationSince I'm currently not using Windows I need a Virtual Machine to run Windows software like Soldat, Soldatserver, Delphi or Cygwin (and ofc Notepad!).
I use a free Virtual Machine Image for VirtualBox from Microsoft which you can get from
http://modern.ie for that.
This has the advantage that I have a clean Windows installation without viruses and stuff like that.
I have to reinstall the VM and the software every 90 days (that's the maximum time you can use the free VM) which is annoying.
That's why I started to write a script which will do that for me.
I did the same for the Ubuntu VM I use to build Lazarus compiled Soldatserver for Linux (we use vagrant here).
The script downloads and installs all the tools we need for this.
There where a few changes though. We use a newer version of Ubuntu (12.04 - previously 10.04) because the new Lazarus install files won't uncompress on the old Ubuntu version (dpkg cannot handle tar.xz).
Probably too many details so I'll stop here
Have fun!
