[MUD-Dev2] [ANNOUNCE] Magic Study

[John Buehler]

John Buehler writes:

> Mike Sellers writes:
>
> > John Buehler wrote:
> > > For your amusement and hopefully not your consternation or
> > > frustration, I've assembled a toy that permits you to
> > > operate as a mage in a small, enclosed study.  It is a 3D
> > > environment with basic physical, thermal and light
> > > simulations that have been coupled to the spells available to you as a
> > > mage.
> >
> > I'd love to play it, but it fails unceremoniously on my machine
> > -- probably because I'm running (agh) Vista.  I have .NET and DX9
> > and a hefty video card, RAM, etc.
> >
> > Just thought I'd let you know -- I'd love to try this out!
>
> My apologies Mike.  Despite my best efforts to avoid consternation and
> frustration, that's what I handed out.  The installer was
> packaged with the wrong files.  Please try downloading the software
> again.  I found that the new software works just fine on my laptop
> with its Intel graphics accelerator.
>
> I can't think of a reason why Vista would upset it.  It's all .NET and
> DirectX.

The bottom line on this fiasco is that the software requires - get this
-.NET 2.0 AND .NET 1.1.  DirectX requires .NET 1.1 while I require .NET
2.0.As a result both are required.  It's a perfectly viable
configuration.  I'mrunning it, which is why the software works on my
machines.  The onlyversion of DirectX that uses .NET 2.0 is on Vista,
and I cannot buildsoftware for Vista.

As I recently wrote to Mike, next time it's C code and VT100 graphics. 
Istand behind every word I ever wrote about graphics being a hindrance
toother aspects of game development.