Forge Beta: 07-29-2011 ver 1.1.1

Forge Beta: 07-29-2011 ver 1.1.1
(Quest icons used created by Teekatas, from his Legendora set http://raindropmemory.deviantart.com)
8688 cards in total.
The dev team is working on setting up a new source code repository. We are no longer using googlecode and forge releases will no longer include a SVN revision number. Instead, they'll be given official x.y.z revision numbers, and possibly a 7 character hex code. To help new developers with the transition away from SVN, Braids has created a new getting started wiki page which is now linked to the forge wiki. Dave is adding the Maven build system to the new source code repository. At some point this may lead to a nightly build and release archive which will be hosted at cardforge.
The Forge main window appears much more quickly than in the prior beta. There is one minor downside: there is a new waiting period after choosing an activity from the main window. This happens because Forge is loading information for all cards. This "new waiting period" only happens once per Forge session, and it has a progress bar (thermometer) to show that Forge is still working. We simply moved the loading of the cards from the beginning of the program to the point where the cards were actually needed.
The card picture files for Magic 2012 should appear online soon. Some are available now and the rest will be online in the near future. Several bugs were fixed and a handful of new cards were added for this version. We also added a new opponent deck or two to the quest mode.
We have changed the archiving format to ".tar.bz2". 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 07-29-2011 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.
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
Slapshot5
Friar Sol
JenDave
Braids
Rob Cashwalker
Snacko
Jeff Wadsworth
ArsenalNut
Jaedayr
Marc
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)
8688 cards in total.
The dev team is working on setting up a new source code repository. We are no longer using googlecode and forge releases will no longer include a SVN revision number. Instead, they'll be given official x.y.z revision numbers, and possibly a 7 character hex code. To help new developers with the transition away from SVN, Braids has created a new getting started wiki page which is now linked to the forge wiki. Dave is adding the Maven build system to the new source code repository. At some point this may lead to a nightly build and release archive which will be hosted at cardforge.
The Forge main window appears much more quickly than in the prior beta. There is one minor downside: there is a new waiting period after choosing an activity from the main window. This happens because Forge is loading information for all cards. This "new waiting period" only happens once per Forge session, and it has a progress bar (thermometer) to show that Forge is still working. We simply moved the loading of the cards from the beginning of the program to the point where the cards were actually needed.
The card picture files for Magic 2012 should appear online soon. Some are available now and the rest will be online in the near future. Several bugs were fixed and a handful of new cards were added for this version. We also added a new opponent deck or two to the quest mode.
We have changed the archiving format to ".tar.bz2". 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 07-29-2011 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.
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
Slapshot5
Friar Sol
JenDave
Braids
Rob Cashwalker
Snacko
Jeff Wadsworth
ArsenalNut
Jaedayr
Marc
Chris H
Added many cards, including:
- NEW CARD LIST | Open
The links to the various archives:
The Forge 07/29/2011 archive (requires java 6):
forge-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT.tar.bz2 (14.68 MB, at MediaFire)
forge-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT.zip (14.7 MB, at cardforge.org)
Forge 07/29/2011 BETA packaged as a Mac OS application:
forge-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT.osx.tar.bz2 (15.79 MB, at MediaFire)
The quest opponent icons (New version, includes additional icons for the new opponents):
Quest_Opponent_Icons 07-29-2011.7z (1.48, at MediaFire)
The quest pet icons (Original version, revision 2):
Pets 06-12-2011 rev 2.7z (1012.1 KB, at MediaFire)
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