ATanks 3.8 Pre Release 2

Submitted by Simeon on October 26, 2008 - 1:02pm

Application: Atomic Tanks
Category: Games
Description: Atomic Tanks is a game in which you control an overly-powerful tank and attempt to blow up other highly powerful tanks. Players get to select a number of weapons and defensive items and then attack each other in a turn-based manner. The last tank standing is the winner.

Download Atomic Tanks 3.8 Prerelease 2 [1.8MB download / 2.5MB installed]
(MD5: a995ad68c9bf9e618fe6063e7c8d90b8)

Release Notes:

3.8 Pre Release 2 (August 11 2009)

Thanks to Bart.S, I now added the Language switching so the Application now "listens" to the Platform. Supported languages are English, French, German, Slovak and Portuguese.

3.8 Prerelease 1 (July 29 2009)

Updated to the latest 3.8

From this version on, a dat file is used for the settings. If you want all the new features/weapons, delete your Data folder.

3.7 Prerelease 1 (July 22 2009):

Updated to the latest 3.7

It is multilingual although I havent found a way to have it "listen" to the platform. I am gonna try to get that done later.

Thanks to Bart.S for his testing

3.2 Prerelease 2 (Nov 1 2008):

Fixed a readme typo

I think its ready now.

3.2 Prerelease 1 (Oct 26 2008):

Updated to the latest 3.2 (Release Notes)

I only tested it in Win XP SP2 limited account. Could someone try Vista and Win2000 please?

Thanks Aciago for suggesting & Patrick for hosting it.

John: I think this could be released soon now that we have a high-res icon!!!

( categories:

Beta Testing

)

you do realize that this is

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - October 27, 2008 - 7:08am

you do realize that this is showing the Development Test splash screen

I'm sold! Anything that can compute and warm my coffee is total awesome. - OliverK

Hmm,

Bart.S - October 27, 2008 - 7:11am

You do realize that Simeon just need volunteers to make a high-res icon for the splash

Hey just saying it shouldn't

Zach Thibeau (Homepage) - October 27, 2008 - 7:15am

Hey just saying it shouldn't be marked as Pre-Release until the proper splash is made thats all

I'm sold! Anything that can compute and warm my coffee is total awesome. - OliverK

Well,

Bart.S - October 27, 2008 - 7:21am

the filename isn't marked as Pre-Release

John told him it was ready

ZachHudock - October 27, 2008 - 8:35am

John told him it was ready for pre-release. if you read through the old thread, Simeon actually planned on dropping it, then got a message from John saying it's ready for PR, so he created a PR. The splash screen really isn't that big of a deal.

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

well, well

Simeon - October 27, 2008 - 8:48am

I thought I had 5 test reports but all I get is (almost) irrelevant nonsense about false volunteering and non-existing splash screens
Life is tough, isn't it?

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Test Report

Bart.S - October 28, 2008 - 5:58am

Ok, my test result: Looks good, except:

Readme.txt:
Copyright 2004-2007 John T. Haller
It says PokerTHPortable.ini in the text
ATanksPortable.ini: Other apps have the option to change the executable. Maybe you could add the line ATanksExecutable=atanks.exe. If you do this, you should add a description to the Readme.txt
Config.nsh: Could be deleted

Well, and the bugs I mentioned in the old thread. (I know, these bugs are non-portable bugs).

Btw: Lebbe is hard, awwer Lebbe geht weida.

I fixed the readme in PR2 and

Simeon - November 1, 2008 - 8:58am

I fixed the readme in PR2 and deleted the config.nsh. I think the copyright is right with 2007 (could be 2008 though) and I purposely dropped support for renaming the exe.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Why?

Devo - November 2, 2008 - 10:25am

Why did you drop support for renaming the exe?

Several reasons:

Simeon - November 3, 2008 - 9:36am

I saw some new apps without the ability.
Its less to code.
I thought not many people use the feature.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Leave it in

Devo - November 3, 2008 - 9:47am

I have to use it for some apps when I'm at work because my work is pretty locked down and they tend to block apps that access the internet too much. I don't think that removing this ability really saves that much space. You don't have to do anything to update the code for this function when a new version comes out, so once it's been coded you can leave it for every update. Even though not many people use this function, some people still do use this.

I believe you should leave the code in for this, it doesn't add any work when you update the app, and if people don't want to use this ability, they don't have to do any extra work to disable this ability.

This is just my opinion, although I would like to hear what other people think about it.

I found a 48x48 icon in the

OliverK (Homepage) - October 28, 2008 - 10:43am

I found a 48x48 icon in the tarball from the site. Icons for the launcher are 48x48, etc, so do you think you could use that one?

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

yes

Simeon - October 28, 2008 - 8:15pm

cool I don't know what size John needs for the splash though.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

I'd guess 128x128 for the

ZachHudock - October 28, 2008 - 9:19pm

I'd guess 128x128 for the splash. its one of the standard sizes and usually looks pretty good

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

I thought about that after I

OliverK (Homepage) - October 29, 2008 - 8:49am

I thought about that after I posted But it'd still be a nice app icon. Now for the splash . . .

EDIT
Try this

I took a screenshot of the program when it first loads, and that's the important part

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

good thinkin oliver

ZachHudock - October 29, 2008 - 10:45am

good thinkin oliver

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

I emailed the ATanks lead

ZachHudock - October 29, 2008 - 11:55pm

I emailed the ATanks lead developer to ask about a high-resolution icon.

Here was his response:
I am glad to hear you were able to work with Atanks. The image you asked about is embedded in the title.dat file which comes as part of the source. When I get back to my development PC next week, I will email you a copy.

If I can be of further help, please let me know.

Jesse

Edit: He sent me the images, but it was a bitmap, with no transparency, so I played with them in Photoshop to try and create some high-resolution PNG images.

Here they are:
No Blast
With Blast

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

thanks Zach

Simeon - October 30, 2008 - 12:40pm

I´ll do a Prerelease 2 with the fixed typos and then John can officialise it.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

visibility!

sylikc - November 3, 2008 - 10:32pm

alright, more visibility with ATanks, can't wait till this becomes official!

/sylikc

Ok.. some things

kai.inouye - January 7, 2009 - 10:10pm

Ok.. some things

Splash still has "Development Test Release"
Does it "support" splash fading?
The icon is not transparent in the backround
it says in the code http://PortableApps.com/DevelopmentTest in places

And you might want to update the installer

Windows XP Home Edition SP3
Developing: Lincity-NG, LMarbles, WinHTTrack, Gourmet, and NVDA Portable

good,

djshortstuff - January 30, 2009 - 2:18am

awesome game. im using vista home premium, administrator account. the only faults are the splash screen and some visual effects compatibility.
On my pc, as soon as i run the game, vista gives me a notification that the color scheme has been changed to Windows Vista Basic. I play it at school on Windows XP Pro. It works perfect there!

Testet

MarcelvP (Homepage) - March 26, 2009 - 5:00am

I have use it on my PC and it work fine. Only de splash screen Prerelease shout replaced

Regards,
Marcel v. Pinxteren
IT-System Manager
The Netherlands

Thanks

Simeon - March 26, 2009 - 6:19am

The Prerelease splash is there because its not officially released yet. I hope it will be though

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Official release?

Bart.S - April 7, 2009 - 8:07am

Hi Simeon, hopefully this will be released soon. It's really great and the ATanks team has released a new version (3.5), which fixes many bugs.

So, what else to say? Release Team, hint hint hint

Tested with ATanks 3.5 R1

Bart.S - April 8, 2009 - 5:54am

Hi Simeon, I've tested your launcher with the new ATanks 3.5 R1 binaries.
I deleted all files in ATanksPortable\App\ATanks and extracted the new ones into that folder.
That didn't work. I found the issue. They forgot two files (kamikaze.txt, weapons.txt) in their Atomic-Tanks-3.5-r1.exe, so I took these files from my old ATanksPortable 3.2.
-> Works like a charm. Only one small thing, ATanks doesn't use atanks-config.txt anymore, it uses atanks-config.dat now. Ahh, too much work to convert the config file so I created a new one.
Oh btw, I love the french revenge phrases

Thanks for your testing!

Simeon - April 8, 2009 - 6:11am

I had a huge exam today and plan on doing the release today or tomorrow. It`ll now go much faster thanks to your work!

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Works with 3.7

Bart.S - July 22, 2009 - 3:03pm

Hi Simeon, just a note. Your launcher works with the current 3.7 release too.

cool

Simeon - July 22, 2009 - 3:07pm

I just saw the update yesterday and hopefully there will be an "official" version soon. I couldnt get it to work with the 3.5r1 version. the download I had wasn't working and I redownloaded some 5 times but it didn't help.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Updated to 3.7

Simeon - July 22, 2009 - 5:51pm

see top post.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Thanks ...

Bart.S - July 23, 2009 - 7:40am

... for the update and the credits
But testing ??? Thought I was playing only

Yippie,

Bart.S - July 29, 2009 - 6:12am

new version, new weapons, I will test soon. Thanks Simeon

Yes

Simeon - July 29, 2009 - 7:45am

They added some new stuff, but I only seem to be able to use it if I delete my old settings and start anew. Can you confirm this?

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Will test tonight.

Bart.S - July 29, 2009 - 8:03am

FYI, the .dat file is used since version 3.5. The release notes for 3.6 says "This release also restores support for game settings for version of Atanks prior to 3.5".
If that doesn't work, it's maybe a bug.

Alright, tested!

Bart.S - July 29, 2009 - 12:40pm

The new release works fine, even an upgrade. But I can't test an upgrade from a version prior 3.5. I deleted my old backups and created new settings for 3.5. (.dat file). Maybe your problem was that you had both config files, the old *.txt and the new *.dat.

I found a serious ATanks bug. Click at Options -> Network and it crashes. (hopefully some ATanks devs read this here).

And last but not least, the small stuff:

help.html: headline says Atomic Tanks Help instead of Atomic Tanks Portable Help
appinfo.ini: ATanks is multilingual, not English only
ATanksPortable.nsi: (line 4 and 27) website could be changed
Other\Source\GetParameters.nsh could be removed

Good work, hopefully we see this official soon.

Thanks

Simeon - July 29, 2009 - 1:00pm

I had both the txt and the dat file. Maybe that was it.

I'll report the bug in their forum.

I know its multilingual, but I want to wait with calling it multilingual till I have updated the launcher to listen to the Platform's language

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

lol,

Bart.S - July 29, 2009 - 1:26pm

it's still multilingual without listening to the Platform
And, btw, the latest official new apps (Blender, ManaWorld, ...) don't switch the language too. So maybe that's not a requirement anymore.

Isn't there a option for the

OliverK (Homepage) - July 30, 2009 - 10:57am

Isn't there a option for the menu to call the languages? I believed you asked for a way to disable it so you could test things as a developer, but I'm not sure.

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

Yes and no,

Bart.S - July 30, 2009 - 11:45am

there is an option to disable it. I'm glad John introduced it. But I don't test things as a developer, I don't like that feature (automatic language switching) as an user and have it disabled forever
(don't ban me John, I'm not alone, believe it)

You're

John T. Haller (Homepage) - July 30, 2009 - 11:57am

You're the only one of the 90,000 community members who won't shut up about it

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

Yup,

Bart.S - July 30, 2009 - 12:21pm

but how many bother to improve the platform?
Have you considered that non-english speakers don't post in the forums?

Back to topic: When will you release ATanksPortable? It's good to go and long enough a Pre-Release!

Listen to the platform

Bart.S - August 10, 2009 - 3:12pm

Hi Simeon,
here is a piece of code that'll add automatic language switching. You'll have to include LogicLib.nsh and add a new variable APPLANGUAGE.

	UserProfileEnvironment:
		System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("APPDATA", "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY").r0'

	;ATanksLanguage:
		ReadEnvStr $APPLANGUAGE "PortableApps.comLocaleglibc"
		${Select} $APPLANGUAGE
			${Case} ""
				Goto LaunchNow
			${Case} "de"	;German
				StrCpy $APPLANGUAGE "30000"
			${Case} "en_US"	;English (United States)
				StrCpy $APPLANGUAGE "0"
			${Case} "fr"	;French
				StrCpy $APPLANGUAGE "20000"
			${Case} "pt_BR"	;Portuguese (Brazil)
				StrCpy $APPLANGUAGE "10000"
			${Case} "sk"	;Slovak
				StrCpy $APPLANGUAGE "40000"
			${CaseElse}
				Goto LaunchNow
		${EndSelect}
		WriteINIStr "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY\.atanks\atanks-config.dat" "Global" "Language          " "$APPLANGUAGE"
	
	LaunchNow:

Hope that helps

Thanks!

Simeon - August 10, 2009 - 3:34pm

I tried to get it to work differently and failed miserably
I put it away for now but maybe your piece of code will boost it...

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

Thanks Simeon,

Bart.S - August 12, 2009 - 11:31am

lol, you forgot to change the appinfo.ini, because it's multilingual and the filename is "ATanksPortable_3.8_English_Prerelease_2.paf.exe"

Edit:
There is a bug in the language switcher code. The launcher stores APPLANGUAGE to the ${NAME}Settings.INI (line 202). At the end the variable contains 0, 10000, 20000,... . The next time you start ATanks Portable the launcher compares that value with the PLATFORMLANGUAGE ("PortableApps.comLocaleCode2") (line 175). -> BUG ( 0 is always != en or pt or ...)

You could replace line 177-178 by

		${Select} $PLATFORMLANGUAGE

Yes

Simeon - August 21, 2009 - 4:43am

I know but it works anyhow

I would have fixed this and the multilingual thing in the next Prerelease, but John made it final so I hope he caught it!

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

I know :)

Bart.S - August 21, 2009 - 4:57am

He wrote he fixed this. #

Official Release

Stevoisiak - August 23, 2009 - 5:14pm

Since the app now has an official release, can a moderator please lock this thread?

The guy who acts like he knows what he's talking about.

no

Simeon - August 23, 2009 - 5:17pm

I'd like to keep it open till we resolved the crash issue.

"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate

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