If anyone want it, it's here!

If anyone wants to do development, please let me know and I'll add you to the list.

Pete

I just finished it! The ending took me by surprise. It is a shame to leave it unfinished like that. I'd be interested to see the design doc for finishing it, whether Josh had one or whether Peter is drawing one up.

Troy: Check the allegro.cc main news page -- click the link to get to the sourceforge project devoted to finishing it!

I got the executable, and works perfectly. But the version I got doesn't use LUA (?). By the way, I cannot download it through CVS shrug. I will download the package, check if it is the same I have, and then we could clean the code a bit together until thw author decides to wake up.

RB: some of the files on CVS were uploaded without the 'binary' attribute; fixed now if you download a clean copy.
23: You should find out more about Bagpuss if only because it's one of the few images on the WWW you haven't attached a beard to

Here are the things I thought should be done:
1. Bug fixes - I haven't got as far as you guys so it hasn't crashed on me yet, anyway this should be priority
2. Content - there are some tantalising hints in the release notes as to what jb intended the ending to be. Unfortunately he rm'd his whole website so there's nothing there, just a cached copy of the second-to-last message I found on google. I'll post that up, too.
3. Maintenance - the code needs a good tidy up. Using switch instead of multiple ifs and a few pointers here and there would make it better. One particular thing is the text bubble function (for conversations), which is heavily used. ATM it takes one argument per line of text. It should be straightforward to make it take on long string and do line-breaks/pagination automatically.

I have got other stuff as well, so I can't do this all myself. If people are keen then I'll set up a forum on the site , and add people to the developer list (only needed if you want to use CVS). Otherwise, you can email me with patches/gfx.

Pete

When the enemy on the bridge uses the Flash Flood attack, sometimes you get an error by trying to draw a null sprite (don't know why). After tracking this down, I put an if (cframes[dude][ff]) around the draw_sprite in combat.c so it skips it if it's null. I got a similar error later when Demnar uses Maul of the Titans. I couldn't track this one down, but it stopped occurring.

I used Sarina, and unfortunately the way to beat the tough enemies is to hang around killing easy ones until you're stronger With the one on the bridge you might need to work out what magic works best, or make sure yo've got the best equipment you can buy. Later on you need to hang around killing enemies to get lots of money.

I might join the project, although I need to learn to use CVS! How are you organising the project now??

Ultio: You might as well get JGMOD and Lua, as they aren't too big and they're easy to compile. Also, KQ will be updated soon (hopefully).

Using MSCV, everything is hard to compile

So, how is the project going to be organised now?

You should probably get any docs Josh has written and write up a design quickly.

I need to learn to use CVS!

I added a forum to the site - go on and be the first to post there! If we get some docs in electronic format I can upload them. And if you get a SF id I will make you a developer, too.

Pete

i went through some of the code and tried to understand it, but its a little messy. some of the variable names are a little unwaranted while the rest are to short to understand their purpose. it seems a little to thrown together to be understood by anyone except for the creator. this will be hard to modify.

Has anyone posted a .exe yet?

Here's a Windows binary I just made:

[url http://www.leverton.cc/misc/kq.zip]

It requires alleg41.dll - which you should be able to get from the Allegro sourceforge site.

You'll also need the source package - just place the executable in the base directory.

PH dared me Too many British people on these forums, dammit Was the show any good?

Matthew: DLL's on Sourceforge only go up to 4.0.2 The 4.1.* ones all seem to be source, no DLL's ...

EDIT Good news; found the DLL. Bad news; still crashes when I buy weapons That's it; I'm trolling through the source when I get a chance ...