Sorry for the delayed release of the 1.9.2 client. Head over to my EL page to grab the latest and greatest.

New client available for the FOSS MMORPG Eternal Lands. Head over to my EL page for more information and download.

Eternal Lands is getting ready for a minor game update. Some features include now being able to see medallions that are worn and higher resolution textures. As usual, I have the Macintosh client built and will be providing subsequent release updates.

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.