MegaGlest 3.7.0 beta2 ready for testing

[softcoder]

Installation files are available on sourceforge at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/files/megaglest_3.7.0/

Linux 32 and 64 bit full and stand alone archives, Windows full and stand alone archives.

Please be aware that there are several mirror servers for sourceforge. After clicking on the file you wish to download you will see a page with fine print allowing you to go to a special page where you can then select a mirror server close to you which has the given file. For example, if you wanted to download MegaGlest-Installer-3.7.0-beta2_i386_win32.exe and are from Brazil, you may want to click on said link, ending up on
http://sourceforge.net/settings/mirror_choices?projectname=megaglest&filename=megaglest_3.7.0/MegaGlest-Installer-3.7.0-beta2_i386_win32.exe
As a Brazilian, your best choice is probably the mirror server in Brazil, so you would click that one, and restart the download. This time you should get forwarded directly to the brazilian server and thus end up at
http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/megaglest/megaglest_3.7.0/MegaGlest-Installer-3.7.0-beta2_i386_win32.exe
This very server also supports directory indexes, so if you wanted to download any of the other 3.7.0 beta2 files from Brazil rather than elsewhere you could take a look at
http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/megaglest/megaglest_3.7.0/

Optionally we have snapshots of the latest code available at:
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8753.0



Edit (tomreyn, 2013-05-12): Replaced outdated snapshot links.

[softcoder]

Beta2 really seems rock solid. Once we get translations in from the translators we can put out a release.

P.S. Megaglest even compiles on the arm platform (I tested last night).

[tomreyn]

It's really great that MG compiles on ARM now!

Now if someone who owns a powerful ARM device will be happy to work on making MG run there as smoothly as on the other platforms, that would be even better. Anyone wants to give it a try?

[treba]

awesome =)

so if it runs on arm now, maybe we should slowly move into the direction of gles 2.0?

[tomreyn]

Well MegaGlest compiles on ARM now, but I'm told more work needs to be done in terms of making the network protocol work cross-platform. And the latest plan is to have a release before any major changes.

We lack OpenGL developers, which will make it difficult to move towards a different graphics standard, I guess.
And last but not least we also lack ARM devices which provide sufficient resources for development and allow for graphical output.