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Freeciv 2.1.9 portable Development Test 3

Submitted by dagardner on June 12, 2009 - 12:53pm

Application: Freeciv
Category: Games
Description: Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...

Download Freeciv Portable 2.1.9 Development Test 3 [11.4MB download / 18.8MB installed]
(MD5: 525314b7f4adbb09c9d65cee8088c6d3)

Release Notes:

Development Test 3 (2009-07-08):

Changed filename to meet Development Test guidelines
no other changes

Test Release 2 (2009-06-16):

launcher looking for the wrong executable
made launcher save files and settings are saved to the Data\settings directory
compressed of the files to reduce the footprint

Test Release 1 (2009-06-12): Initial release

( categories:

Beta Testing

)

Java

horusofoz - June 12, 2009 - 7:23pm

Thanks for making this. Can you confirm if it uses Java Portable or is it set to use the base java install? To be portable you'll need to instruct the app to use Java Portable. Having a look at Chris Morgan's efforts with Gantt Porject Portable and Sweet Home 3D Portable will give you good examples.

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

RE: Java - oops

dagardner - June 15, 2009 - 8:28am

I didn't even realize that FreeCiv used Java. I'll take a look at getting it to use Java Portable.

Thanks!

Are you sure?

dagardner - June 15, 2009 - 9:15am

Are you sure that FreeCiv uses Java? The FreeCiv Sourceforge page says that it uses C.

I just downloaded the source

ZachHudock - June 15, 2009 - 9:45am

I just downloaded the source code. Didn't see any JAVA at all...

The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705

Maybe...

dagardner - June 15, 2009 - 12:28pm

Did you mean GTK+ instead of Java? I did see that FreeCiv uses GTK+. I briefly looked at Pidgin Portable to see how GTK+ is done there, but I think I need to look at some other examples to figure it out. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be glad to hear them!

I also realized that I'm not saving the saved games. I don't know if there are any other settings I need to copy over too. I'm trying to get that figured out, then I'll upload a new installer.

Thanks,

Andy

GTK apps:

Bart.S - June 15, 2009 - 12:54pm

GIMP, Dia, Inkscape, ... and many more

Awesome!

dagardner - June 15, 2009 - 1:47pm

Thanks for the references, I'll take a look at them later.

Andy

No GTKCommon

dagardner - June 23, 2009 - 8:58am

John said that PortableApps.com is moving away from GTKCommon, so there isn't anything I need to do with that.

I know :-)

Bart.S - June 23, 2009 - 9:31am

You asked for examples and I listed some ...

... and my Dia Portable launcher doesn't support GTKCommon anymore. It still supports custom paths to the GTKDirectory (for the geeks ).

Oh...

dagardner - June 23, 2009 - 10:10am

I didn't mean that as me telling you that. I wanted to put a note in the comments to say that I wasn't doing the GTKCommon thing, and this seemed the most appropriate place to put it. I had it in the main post, but removed it.

Ah, I see

Bart.S - June 23, 2009 - 11:02am

Never mind

My bad

horusofoz - June 15, 2009 - 7:03pm

I think I got FreeCiv and FreeCol mixed up.

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

Compression

enderandrew - June 13, 2009 - 5:08pm

Thanks for doing this! My only comment is that the .exe, .dll and .png files aren't compressed.

Edit: There is an even bigger problem. Your launcher is looking for freeciv.exe and not civclient.exe, so the launcher doesn't work. I renamed civclient.exe to freeciv.exe and then it worked fine here.

Nihilism makes me smile.

RE: Compression

dagardner - June 15, 2009 - 8:31am

Check, I will do compression on all of the files to get them as small as possible. Thanks.

That's interesting that it didn't work on you computer. I was able to run it and it found the .exe file just fine. I'll take a look at it and get that problem fixed.

Thanks for the feedback!

launcher

jnw222 - June 15, 2009 - 4:22pm

working on launcher
woot! first time i have studied NSIS

working launcher

jnw222 - June 15, 2009 - 4:43pm

http://rapidshare.com/files/244960543/FreeCivPortable_2.1.9_English.paf....

temporary link to an modified version with a out -of-box working launcher

changes:
launcher points to civclient.exe instead of freeciv.exe
installer version .91.3

Feedback

horusofoz - June 16, 2009 - 4:45am

* Here you can find a screenshot confirming that FreeCiv Portable is not currently working on a fresh install.
* You cannot label FreeCiv a pre-release. This is done once it had been tested and approved to go to pre-release stage by the release team.
* Thanks again for creating this = )

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

Oops, yeah...

dagardner - June 16, 2009 - 6:18am

Thanks for the screenshot. I think I've already fixed the problem, but I haven't had a chance to test it in a VM yet.

I've been out for a while, and I wasn't thinking when I labeled it Pre-Release. I
have now changed it to Test-Release, which, I hope is less official.

I hope to have the save files figured out soon, and I'll post another test when I get that working.

Test Release 2

dagardner - June 16, 2009 - 12:38pm

I updated the post, but that doesn't register in the forum, so I'm posting to let people know that I've updated this.

Thanks dagardner

horusofoz - June 17, 2009 - 4:23am

Will test tonight = )

EDIT: I was impatient and did a quick test at work. I can confirm it works on XP SP3 without admin rights. Great work mate. Also I noticed the icon looks like it has a halo. Can I recommend getting an icon from the FreeCiv development team rather than this one which looks like you've extracted from a screenshot. Alternatively I found this one thru a google image search. It's in jpeg format but using IcoFX (Portable launcher here) you can easily convert it to a ico file.

Hope this helps = )

EDIT2: Confirming the game works with admin rights on XP. Regshot results below:

Regshot 1.8.2
Comments:
Datetime:2009/6/17 08:39:10  ,  2009/6/17 08:54:02
Computer:TOWER_7200 , TOWER_7200
Username: , 

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Values deleted:4
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HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\DiskCleanerPortable\DiskCleanerPortable.exe: "Disk Cleaner Portable"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\DiskCleanerPortable\App\DiskCleaner\dclean.exe: "Disk Cleaner main module"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\RegshotPortable\RegshotPortable.exe: "Regshot Portable"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\RegshotPortable\App\regshot\regshot.exe: "regshot"

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Values added:8
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HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe:*:Enabled:civserver"
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe:*:Enabled:civserver"
HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "civserver"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\LangID: 09 04
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "civserver"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@xpsp3res.dll,-20000: "Network Diagnostics for Windows XP"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\@C:\WINDOWS\system32\netshell.dll,-1200: "Network Connections"
HKU\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\G:\PortableApps\FreeCivPortable\App\FreeCiv\civserver.exe: "civserver"

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Values modified:8
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: 0B 3F CF 11 50 55 F8 DF 53 0C 08 8B E0 9F C9 C2 4A 73 C0 A1 32 58 8F 40 26 16 7E 8E A5 95 A7 0B E3 A4 61 5C 9A B6 96 D2 2B E4 A1 56 9C F3 C5 78 50 79 AF 1B F9 6F B4 30 87 A9 D0 C8 2D 18 FC EB 64 E3 0D 81 4A E7 38 61 90 AA 45 B0 FD 8F CA 5B
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: CC 61 94 70 9B BD A0 C9 3B BA 52 0E 26 08 1C 8A D6 BA 31 06 6A B6 CB AF 5D 92 65 F8 A9 77 53 48 A4 46 AD DE 43 70 87 FF 7A CE CF 19 6E 9A 46 BB 52 24 D4 8C 6A 87 55 5F 1A 71 4F CB E4 AE 46 3C C6 B9 29 1E 1D 8C 61 57 95 E2 29 5D 65 87 69 26
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001163
HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001166
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       0: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x0000C28F
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{6994AD04-93EF-11D0-A3CC-00A0C9223196}\##?#USB#VID_046D&PID_0A07&MI_00#6&7A0040C&0&0000#{6994ad04-93ef-11d0-a3cc-00a0c9223196}\#GLOBAL\Device Parameters\Mixer\       0\Controls\       1\Channel       1: 0x00008F5C
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001163
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Epoch\Epoch: 0x00001166
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\SessionInformation\ProgramCount: 0x00000003
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\SessionInformation\ProgramCount: 0x00000001

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Files added:4
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C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\CIVCLIENT.EXE-055C2BE0.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\CIVSERVER.EXE-04BA6FB1.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\FREECIVPORTABLE.EXE-0144AAC2.pf
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\RUNDLL32.EXE-3F3109C1.pf

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Files [attributes?] modified:5
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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Logitech\LCD Software\LCD Manager\LGLCDDB.TXT
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ntuser.dat.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system.LOG

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Total changes:29
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Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

Icon and stuff

dagardner - June 17, 2009 - 9:15am

I was able to find a relatively high res PNG of the FreeCiv logo on DeviantArt. I have now updated the icon and the next time I do a release, it should be fixed. I got the previous icon from the freeciv.org favicon; I guess that icon wasn't high quality.

Thanks for doing the Regshot; Is there anything that needs to be addressed from that?
- The deleted values appear to be unrelated (related to Disk Cleaner and Regshot)
- The added values appear to be ones added when you run any program. Do portable apps typically clean those up?
- I don't see anything in the modified values that is related to FreeCiv.
- Do I need to clean up the prefetches?
- I don't think that there is anything I can do about the modified files

I'm new to this, so any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy

Clean shot

TaffinFoxcroft (Homepage) - June 18, 2009 - 1:42am

That regshot is clean, all of the things there that were added are generally acceptable to not worry about. Usually its only things in HKCU\Software, HKLM\Software and HKU\*\Software (although this translates to HKCU\Software).

Twoflower: Rincewind, I think there's a broomstick in this cupboard.
Rincewind: Well, what's so unusual about that?
Twoflower: This one's got handlebars.

Sweet

dagardner - June 18, 2009 - 6:24am

Thanks for the interpretation of the runes. I'm glad everything came up clean.

Has anyone tried this?

dagardner - June 29, 2009 - 12:33pm

Any comments/suggestions/bugs?

It's all good here = )

horusofoz - June 30, 2009 - 1:27am

It's all good here = )

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

Can anyone tell me?

dagardner - June 30, 2009 - 8:12am

Aside from the uploaded file name, is there anything that I need to change about this to get it into the offical PortableApps.com release format? I've looked at what is there, and I think that I have it all; I want to double check before I change the file name (since that would be the only change that I am making) and upload again.

Thanks,

Andy

Still no problems

horusofoz - August 7, 2009 - 7:45am

I've been playing this off and on and have encountered no functionality issues whatsoever. I can't comment on advanced things such as code but from an end user perspective this is all good. Hopefully the Release Team give this a look soon.

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

Thanks!

dagardner - August 7, 2009 - 7:53am

I'm glad to hear that there aren't any issues.

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Firefox + AdBlock Plus

dagardner - August 7, 2009 - 12:36pm

If you are having a problem with ads and pop ups, I recommend that you use Firefox + AdBlock Plus; I use Firefox and I wasn't even aware that the site had ads and pop ups.

seems to work

finalbob - August 31, 2009 - 6:17am

I installed it, and it seems to work properly.
i don't know if it respect the specifications (and i can't control it... XD).

Just one point, how can i change the language from english to french ?
I searched on the official website, trough the folders of the app but didnt' find anything...
On the website there is an aticle about gettext, but nothing about installing new language. (I use win XP).

thank you for this great job !

youplaboum !

Translations

dagardner - August 31, 2009 - 7:21am

I guess I need to look at translations. The way it is done with the non-portable version of FreeCiv is to set an environment variable LANG with the appropriate language abbreviation. That isn't presently built into FreeCiv Portable. But I will take a look at it.

thank you thank you thank you

finalbob - August 31, 2009 - 12:36pm

thank you thank you thank you !!!!!

youplaboum !

Arrgh!

dagardner - September 3, 2009 - 7:03am

Nothing is as easy as it looks. I found on the Freeciv website that to change the language on Windows, sent an environment variable LANG equal to the two letter language code, but that doesn't seem to work.

Do you have a computer that uses French by default? Freeciv is supposed to use the local language without any modification; I'm curious as to whether that is actually working.

Still working great here

horusofoz - August 31, 2009 - 7:01pm

Been giving this the occasional thorough tst and even installed it for a friend and no complaints as yet. Looking forward to the pre-release and thanks again for your work

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

also thanks

jamvaru (Homepage) - September 4, 2009 - 2:26pm

a great accomplishment

is better than i remembered

;> jamvaru

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