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CTP BEST SELLING GAME AT MAC-O-RAMA (20 February 2000, 8:23 EST/CtPMac) Call to power has outsold Quake3 Arena, Unreal Tournament and the fabled {grins} Alpha Centauri in the present top ten games listings on the games page of Mac-O-Rama. I don't know how often this listing is updated but it's a good indicator of CTP's recent success. See http://www.mac-o-rama.com/ GAMEShome.lasso -Baston
Apolyton &Friends News
20-26 Feb. 2000
CALL TO POWER
MAC CTP 1.2B PATCH
1.2b PATCH IS AVAILABLE (25 February 2000, 9:23 EST) Westlake have posted the 1.2b patch Update on their site. It has yet to be posted on Macsoft's site. It is available here at Apolyton. http://apolyton.net/cgi-bin/ctp/ files/download.pl?id=115 Warning: Its 1.2MB but again, an essential download. "Civilization: Call to Power has been updated to version 1.2b. Fixes include the "NavigationLib not found" error, the "Could not restore AI" error, arrow key map scrolling, and a few more updates to CD music playback. Check the Read Me text for more detailed information." -Baston
1.2b DOES NOT MEAN BETA! (26 February 2000, 17:32 EST) In a posting on the newsgroup comp.sys.mac.games.strategic Phil Sulak from Westlake Interactive posted the following interesting point: "IMG currently has CTP 1.2b listed as a Beta patch. It's not. It's simply the second update we've released for CTP 1.2 (1.2a was the first). In the future, Westlake will try to label their patches with uppercase letters (ie, CTP would become 1.2B) to try to minimize confusion." -Baston
PATCH 1.2A STILL APPARENTLY BUGGY (21 February 2000, 15:16 EST) It seems there are still a few issues with the release of the 1.2a patch, here is a summary of things that have either been e-mailed to me or posted on the newsgroups: The patch issues are as reported by users and should only be used as a guide to the problems you may experience, some problems seem more common than others. - Music play. If you have animations on in the Library, and are playing music, then open the library, the game still has problems opening the Library window. - Music AutoRepeat. - 'Can't restore AI'. Players are still getting this error when loading a saved game. - Some unloading issues with ships.
- Preferences not remembered. It seems that players are reporting that they have to reset these each time they start the game. - Not able to open the game becaue of a 'navigationlib not found' error. This seems to be by far the most common error experienced by players *. * The best solution seems to be to save off all of your old games, re-install the application and then apply the patch. This really seems to only cure the navigationlib not found error (but don't quote me!). -Baston
NEW PATCH TO BE RELEASED SOON!!! (21 February 2000, 19:07 EST) I just got word from Mark Krenek at westlake regarding my query on the NavigationLib error, and found out something very interesting: "NavigationLib is the Apple extension that provides a new set of save dialogs. It became available sometime during MacOS 8. HOWEVER, we made a last minute mistake in the patch such that if you are running a system that does not have this extension, then the app refuses to launch. We should get a new patch out tomorrow. Until then, you'll have to go back to the old version. The updater should have left the old version of CTP in the trash." Keep your eyes peeled my friends :) -Baston
1.2b PATCH IN THE PIPELINE (22 February 2000, 4:04 EST) In response to my post on the newsgroup "comp.sys.mac.games.strategic" this reply was posted by Phil Sulak: "Sorry about the problems, Gang. Apparently none of our 16 testers (or 2 programmers) are running with System 7.x :-( I'll talk to Mark Krenek tomorrow about a "b" patch. We can have one up within a few hours, but it will only fix the NavigationLib problem. However we may end up waiting a few days; I've isolated many of the remaining music problems and I'd like to get those fixes in also. Thanks for your patience." So it looks like more of the "still" reported errors will be corrected at the same time. I'll keep you all posted if i hear anything! -Baston
1.2b PATCH DUE TOMORROW (23 February 2000, 13:44 EST) Nate Birkholz from Macsoft posted this in the newsgroup today: "We hope to have a new CTP patch to fix some of the music errors, as well as the AI error and the NavigationLib Not Found error." The subject was "New CTP Tomorrow". -Baston
DINOSAURS
YOUR INTEREST IN DINO`S SO FAR? (24 February 2000, 19:09 EST) Here is our new poll:Comments? -MarkG
NOT JUST SCENARIOS PLEASE! (24 February 2000, 18:29 EST) Our second poll, titled Scenario vs Big World is over with a total of 212 votes. Here are the results
CIVILIZATION III
ESSENTIAL CIV3 REPORT (23 February 2000, 14:02 EST) 8 Days later, we have 31 proposals with new ideas for civ3 and 18 for things to be fixed! The List Forum has been quite active as you can understand... Submission for new ideas or fixes are still accepted, start from the Essential Civ 3 - Guidelines thread. -MarkG
ALTERNATIVE CIVS
MD PATCHED; NEW DEMO (22 February 2000, 17:44 EST) The Manifest Destiny team has released a new demo version (1MB) of the game, bringing the current version to 0.3.6 from 0.3.5; those who are currently running v0.3.5 can download an update (968K).
The reason for the patch stems from the excessive memory the previous version of MD leeched, and the response to the problem from the public.
"I think everyone will find the game is a lot more stable", lead programmer Ron Hiler says of the update. "We also enhanced several areas of the game, including adding polar ice caps"!
Hiler has stated that the team will now focus on adding more playability to the game before releasing the next downloadable installment to the public. -DanQ
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