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Category Archives: Misc

Google Summer of Code – Accepted Students

by blast on 2009-04-27, no comments

On Monday the 20th, the accepted students for Google Summer of Code 2009 were announced. BZFlag has four students this year. Quentin Pradet a.k.a. Cygal Project: Lots o’ bug fixing This project will be targeted at fixing some of the bugs in the latest development code. Some of the current bugs are big enough to […]

Happy New Year!

by blast on 2009-01-04, no comments

Hope everyone had a great New Year. It’s 2009, and maybe we’ll see a new release of BZFlag this year. The BZFlag developers are currently trying to get version 3.0 ready. The current version number in our SVN is in the format of 2.99.x, based on our new version number scheme. There are still some […]

Official BZFlag Forum Upgrade

by blast on 2008-12-29, no comments

I finally got around to upgrading the official BZFlag forum to phpBB 3. Had a few quirks, mainly with the authentication for the game clients/servers. The new version of phpBB uses the utf8_bin collition, which is case sensitive. Had to use a bit of code from phpBB to convert a username to a ‘clean’ username, […]

Jingle Tanks

by blast on 2008-12-25, 2 comments

Dashing to your base In my 3D rendered tank Gonna steal your flag Cap it several times! You get a super flag And shoot me in the butt As my tank blows into chunks I mutter “WTF!” Oh, jingle tanks, jingle tanks Jingle all the way! Oh what fun it is to shoot A bullet […]