[bf1942] you should all know by now...

[Reinder P. Gerritsen]

Great work Ryan, thanx for the effort on all this. 
'm trying to get a dedicated box online to host the game myself soon,
but I have to get some OK's first.

Anyway, it's downloaded and put online on my file-section.

Since I'm on a sponsored link, I have some restrictions on where it can
be downloaded from, but anyone able to download through the AMS-IX/NL-IX
can try it.

http://files.strikerz.net/bf1942-lnxded-1.3beta.tar.bz2
(mind you, download accelerators seem to corrupt the download on my
box.)


One thing on the distribution of these kind of files: 
In the Halflife/Couterstrike and Day of Defeat scene, it has helped
enormously to prevent redistribution of dated-leaked versions and
corrupted downloads by posting the MD5 checksum of the files also.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan C. Gordon [mailto:icculus at clutteredmind.org] 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:15 AM
To: bf1942 at icculus.org
Subject: [bf1942] you should all know by now...



...that I exist in a timezone all my own, and therefore I kept my
promise to have this "tomorrow".

  http://icculus.org/betas/bf1942/bf1942-lnxded-1.3beta.tar.bz2


This is the complete 1.3 server, so it's a 63 megabyte download. PLEASE
MIRROR THIS.

Here's the changelog:
   * Can take input on stdin, so you can control server without
RemoteConsole.
   * Checks envr var BF1942_GAMESPY_QPORT_BASE for GameSpy query port
base.
   * Sets GameSpy query socket reusable if BF1942_GAMESPY_QPORT_REUSE
exists.
   * Optimizations. Lots of various ones. Binary should be smaller and
faster.
   * Squashed another four memory corruptions.
   * Fixed more uninitialized memory accesses.
   * LAN games no longer have a 30-ping minimum.
   * Merged 1.3 codebase from DICE, so we're probably back at square
one.  :)


Please understand that with the move to 1.3 old bugs might come back
(but hopefully won't), and new ones might be here...and some of those
crashes might be gone, too, between all the touched code and the memory
corruptions I fixed...and naturally, new ones will show up. Are we
having fun or what?!  :)

Please report all crashes with the backtraces, even if they have been
seen before.

Ok, hopefully we can get the last of the annoying bugs out of the way
now.

Have fun, guys. I'm going to go eat some nasty diner food (this is a
reward for me, I swear.) and get some sleep.

--ryan.