Forge 04/01/2011 (unofficial BETA) version

Forge 04/01/2011 (unofficial BETA) version
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set
http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
7662 cards in total.
This version is based upon the revision # 7936 which is found on our SVN.
This beta includes some new cards and a number of bug fixes. The work pace has slowed somewhat. Work continues on the Ability Factory and cards sets. Some improvements were made to the AI and additional cards were added to the list of cards that will not appear in a randomly generated deck.
I found a utility to remove the hidden Mac-related files. I removed the ".SVN" and the /res/lib/ folders from this archive as they are not needed. We have changed the archiving format to ".tar.bz2" since this may help to store the file permissions for the Mac OS X launcher. There are utilities for Windows, Mac OS and the various *nix's that can be used to decompress these archives.
The Mac OS application version:
We have packaged the Forge 04/01/2011 BETA version as a Mac OS application. You can double click the Forge.app icon to launch the forge application on your Apple computer running Mac OS. This application will automatically increase the java heap space memory for you as it launches. This version does not require the forge.command file and it does not need to start the Terminal application as part of the start up process. This version should only require java 1.5.
You can move a copy of your pictures and decks over to the Forge.app application. Right click or control click on the Forge.app icon. Select Show Package Contents form the contextual menu. A Finder window will open and will display a folder named Contents. Navigate to the folder:
/Contents/Resources/Java/res/
Your decks can be placed in the decks folder, your pics can be placed in the pics folder, etc.
Many people helped with this version. A special thank you goes out to them:
Dennis Bergkamp
Snacko
Friar Sol
Sloth
Slapshot5
Hellfish
Jeff Wadsworth
Jaedayr
Zirbert
SoulStorm
Chris H
Added many cards, including:
The links to the various archives:
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set
http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
7662 cards in total.
This version is based upon the revision # 7936 which is found on our SVN.
This beta includes some new cards and a number of bug fixes. The work pace has slowed somewhat. Work continues on the Ability Factory and cards sets. Some improvements were made to the AI and additional cards were added to the list of cards that will not appear in a randomly generated deck.
I found a utility to remove the hidden Mac-related files. I removed the ".SVN" and the /res/lib/ folders from this archive as they are not needed. We have changed the archiving format to ".tar.bz2" since this may help to store the file permissions for the Mac OS X launcher. There are utilities for Windows, Mac OS and the various *nix's that can be used to decompress these archives.
The Mac OS application version:
We have packaged the Forge 04/01/2011 BETA version as a Mac OS application. You can double click the Forge.app icon to launch the forge application on your Apple computer running Mac OS. This application will automatically increase the java heap space memory for you as it launches. This version does not require the forge.command file and it does not need to start the Terminal application as part of the start up process. This version should only require java 1.5.
You can move a copy of your pictures and decks over to the Forge.app application. Right click or control click on the Forge.app icon. Select Show Package Contents form the contextual menu. A Finder window will open and will display a folder named Contents. Navigate to the folder:
/Contents/Resources/Java/res/
Your decks can be placed in the decks folder, your pics can be placed in the pics folder, etc.
Many people helped with this version. A special thank you goes out to them:
Dennis Bergkamp
Snacko
Friar Sol
Sloth
Slapshot5
Hellfish
Jeff Wadsworth
Jaedayr
Zirbert
SoulStorm
Chris H
Added many cards, including:
- NEW CARD LIST | Open
The links to the various archives:
The Forge 04/01/2011 archive (requires java 5, possibly java 6):
forge04012011.tar.bz2 (7.78 MB, at MediaFire)
(at cardforge.org)
Forge 04/01/2011 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application:
Mac Forge 04012011.7z (7.91 MB, at MediaFire)
The quest opponent icons (Same as the previous betas, unchanged):
Quest_Opponent_icons_02-14-2011.7z (1013 KB, at MediaFire)
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