[Kde-games-devel] ANNOUNCE: Boson 0.9.1

Andreas Beckermann b_mann at gmx.de
Sun Nov 16 19:45:05 CET 2003


Release of Boson 0.9.1, a Real Time Strategy (RTS) game for the K Desktop 
Environment.

This is a bugfix release, fixing a couple of important problems in boson 0.9

Both the data and the music packages are unchanged, so if you already 
downloaded and installed them (or maybe the -all package) you need the code 
package only this time.

Nearly complete changelog (since 0.9):
- Network with kdegames from KDE < 3.2 is fixed
- Minor file format fix, that causes less trouble with network
- Ground texture pixmaps are loaded correctly in the editor
- Factory productions are saved correctly
- Try to find a usable GL font, even if Qt doesn't find any
- Don't crash when using proprietary NVidia drivers and no usable font was 
found (reported to NVidia nearly a year ago)

Requirements
You can find a list of hardware and software requirements at
http://boson.eu.org/info.php
Note that proper 3d acceleration is required.

Downloading and installing Boson
Source packages can be found at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=15087&release_id=197716
Installation instructions are at
http://boson.eu.org/install.php


The Boson Team
 http://boson.eu.org



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