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Hi All,

I upgraded recently to the newer versions of Forge due to a Java conflict that turned out to be unrelated. I neglected to back up my files, and was surprised to find that the new GUI is definitely not my thing. Unfortunately, all of the download links on the Forge site are for these newer versions. Do any of you fine folks have a link or a torrent for the ol' fashioned lightweight, grey version of Forge (pre-1.0, I guess)? I would be fantastically grateful!

Looks like the last version before the new UI was 1.1.8 (1.2 marked the change). You can grab it from the first post of this thread or from the releases page here (you'll want to grab forge-1.1.8.tar.bz2 near the bottom of the list if you're on Windows. Cardforge hosts the beta releases back to 1.1.6 here

This forum also has links from when mtgrares started posting to this forum, all the way back to this release on 28 May 2008:

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It includes the Java source code in case you want to read it. It was all written by me, so it might not make sense to anyone else.

So somewhere in between you'll find the version you're most comfortable with.

Thanks, Marc!

Going back to version 1.1.8 will remove the many bug fixes and new cards that have been added over the last 6 months or so...

Maybe some one will create a new skin that is based on black text with light grey and white backgrounds.

Chris H. wrote:Going back to version 1.1.8 will remove the many bug fixes and new cards that have been added over the last 6 months or so...

Maybe some one will create a new skin that is based on black text with light grey and white backgrounds.

If I get a chance I'll throw it together. We'll call it Alpha Edition

moomarc wrote:

Chris H. wrote:Going back to version 1.1.8 will remove the many bug fixes and new cards that have been added over the last 6 months or so...

Maybe some one will create a new skin that is based on black text with light grey and white backgrounds.

If I get a chance I'll throw it together. We'll call it Alpha Edition

 
Might be interesting to find a pic of Gandalf and convert it to greyscale and then save it as "bg_match.jpg". Then name the skin "Greybeard".

Chris H. wrote:Going back to version 1.1.8 will remove the many bug fixes and new cards that have been added over the last 6 months or so...

Maybe some one will create a new skin that is based on black text with light grey and white backgrounds.

That's a good point, but it's more than just the skin. The much older versions were a heck of a lot more lightweight, were lightning fast to load and play, and were designed in a way I feel was more intuitive (such as having separate fields for lands and non-land permanents.

Also, the older versions didn't prompt you through each draw and upkeep phase. I realize that it's technically an improvement that they were added in, but it makes the game slower and sucks the fun right out.

Arimathea wrote:Also, the older versions didn't prompt you through each draw and upkeep phase. I realize that it's technically an improvement that they were added in, but it makes the game slower and sucks the fun right out.

You can disable these to auto-skip if you don't want anything to do during them. I only have like 5 phases set to stop and my game moves on pretty quick. Just click on them and they should turn from Green to Red.