Bos Wars 2.7 is released!

[mvw]

Today, feb released Bos Wars 2.7.
It is available for download now.

It has been more than 3 years since the last release - a lot has been improved.

Thanks, feb, and all others that participated.

Have fun!
Michiel

EDIT: Download Bos Wars 2.7 for Windows here.

[Lmoy]

This is great!
...how do I get it to run on Windows? ._.

[Smeet_the_Second]

I'm also wondering how to play this on Windows. I found some instructions in the .zip download and I followed them, except I used VC++ 2010 instead of 2005. It almost worked, but when I try to run Bos Wars I get an error saying something like SDL.dll is missing from my system. I could have misunderstood the instructions about where to place SDL.dll and the other 2 folders in the download, but I'm not sure. Can anyone shed some light on this?

[Smeet_the_Second]

I figured it out. Email me for a copy.

[Lmoy]

Your email doesn't seem to be visible on your profile. Can you email me at [email protected]?

Also I really think the Windows version of the game (and Mac version, if someone can port it) should be made available for download on the downloads page. Linux is easily a lot better in most ways, but few people run it, and making Bos Wars available to the more common operating systems would make it a lot more available to more players. If Smeet_the_Second made a Windows executable for the game, that can be zipped and added to the downloads page.

[Smeet_the_Second]

I emailed it to you just now.

[Kyran]

Could you upload the binary to the forum?

[Smeet_the_Second]

You'll need to download three items.
1) The source code for Bos Wars 2.7
2) http://www.boswars.org/dev/msvc-libs.zip
3) The attachment in this post

Extract the source code to its own directory and extract everything else into the root of the directory.

You should now have a folder called "boswars-2.7-src" in it you should have
1) boswars.exe
2) SDL.dll
3) a directory called lib
4) a directory called include
5) a whole mess of other files/folders

Some of these files/folders can probably be deleted, but I have yet to experiment with that.

[Big Daddy]

Jesus Christ. User-friendliness to the max!

[Kyran]

We're an elitist club.