Forge 05/31/2011 (unofficial BETA) version

Forge 05/31/2011 (unofficial BETA) version
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set
http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
8131 cards in total.
This version is based upon the revision # 9116 which is found on our SVN.
We have fixed some bugs, added some new cards, improved the AI in the draft mode, revised existing quest opponent decks and added new opponents, improved the AI's attacking and blocking code and improved the border around card images displayed in the new GUI battlefield.
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 05/31/2011 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:
Sloth
Rob Cashwalker
Slapshot5
Friar Sol
Hellfish
Agetian
Jeff Wadsworth
Jaedayr
SoulStorm
Night Shadow
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)
8131 cards in total.
This version is based upon the revision # 9116 which is found on our SVN.
We have fixed some bugs, added some new cards, improved the AI in the draft mode, revised existing quest opponent decks and added new opponents, improved the AI's attacking and blocking code and improved the border around card images displayed in the new GUI battlefield.
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 05/31/2011 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:
Sloth
Rob Cashwalker
Slapshot5
Friar Sol
Hellfish
Agetian
Jeff Wadsworth
Jaedayr
SoulStorm
Night Shadow
Chris H
Added many cards, including:
- NEW CARD LIST | Open
The links to the various archives:
The Forge 05/31/2011 archive (requires java 5, possibly java 6):
forge 053120011.tar.bz2 (7.64 MB, at MediaFire)
forge05312011.zip (12.2 MB, at cardforge.org)
Forge 05/31/2011 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application:
Mac Forge 05312011.7z (7.83 MB, at MediaFire)
The quest opponent icons (New version, includes additional icons for the new opponents):
Quest_Opponent_Icons 05-31-2011.7z (1.34 MB, at MediaFire)
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