The latest update to Eternal Lands, 1.9.0, is now available. A fair bit of the textures have been redone, and I think it makes the game look a lot better. As usual, I have the Macintosh client built.

After my last rant, I need to give props to the "good" EL players. While I will not mention many names, there have been a few outstanding citizens...especially the early testers like Atlantis and gizz. Recently I had a pleasant conversation online with a (new to me) Mac user, who pointed out that there are bugs when playing under OS 10.5. Another user requested some non-standard features (e.g. NOTEBOOK). Feedback is good. Positive feedback is better, since it influences my decision to continue working on the game.
There will be a game update sometime soon which will include preliminary special effects. Woohoo! See you soon.

So, I have been spending my free time (that is, time away from work and Madeline) writing the special effects code for Eternal Lands. It required a couple rewrites, as I was not originally happy with how I implemented it. Anyhow, I think it is in pretty good shape.

Made a working EL client for i386 Macs, available over in Programming. It avoids a lot of the endian problems in the PPC port since it uses the Intel chip.