2024 Game Updates
 

Some of you may have been wondering why there has not been any info on this year's updates

It's complicated and involves personal issues for both of us. We weren't exactly young when we started doing this in 1998 now add 26 years on to that. There were years when we had released two updates per year. Those days are long over

What I can tell you now is we will not be issuing this year's updates for both games together as has been SOP in the past

We HOPE to have the final release for winSPWW2 ready by the end of April 2024 and we HOPE to have the final release for winSPMBT ready before Christmas 2024

That is all the info I can provide for anyone at this time

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FYI.........." before Christmas 2024" is not going to happen

My apologies for not updating this sooner. I forgot I had said before Christmas and there is no way that is going to happen.

Perhaps sometime late winter early spring 2025..... MAYBE

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I thought I would slip this in this thread

I figuired this factoid out on a whim

I started working on what became SP2ww2 at the beginning of January 1998. Andy started August 1998 and over time that work morphed into the two mods featured here.

Jan 1998 the world population was 5,875,688,329

Today it's 8,202,999,400 ( and counting...)

So we have been working on this game longer than 2.3 BILLION people have been alive :eek:

And just for more giggles it took all of recorded history up to 1927/1928 for the world population to reach 2.3 Billion

:D

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Sounds like you've been double timing it for some time. That's a 200% effort. That's a mighty impressive contribution to wargaming. My thanks go out to you both, you and Andy.

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I was 15 when the game became available. I remember cutting grass all that afternoon and trying to push that mower along even faster so I could get inside to download it, which took a couple hours IIRC.

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Was it SP2WW2?

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Yes, with the scenario "The Raiders Ride to Work" or something? Each tank unit had the name of people involved with the Wargamer.

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OK.... Then you are almost the age now that I was then

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Speaking of that past, is Ed Mortimer still around?

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I have no idea. I have not communicated with him since we ended the DOS version updates and started work on the windows version. I think he wandered over to Matrix but in what capacity IDK

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I was fourteen when I first started playing this game. I turned twenty-nine last week so I'm not nearly as old as everyone else, but it feels kinda bittersweet seeing the game finally wrapping up. It's been a long, LONG ride, but it's been real fun. I hope this game continues to get enjoyed far into the future -- it scratches an itch nothing else can.

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I can't assume everyone looks at the MBT Thread so, I've "cut and pasted" Dons latest post from there to here knowing most are focused on this Thread at this time.

I wish the news could be better...

From MBT Thread Post #1935

"Guys

On january 13 slipped and fell on ice in my backyard. It was sudden and I KNEW I Had hurt myself as soon as I hit the ground
AS A result I do not know if I am capable of moving forward with the games and ASSEMBLING.THE PATCHES HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY RESPONSIBILITY[/b]...only time will tell but I May not be able to carry on and I am just putting EVERYONE on notice about that my ONE HOPE is that I start gettin better soon

Don"

I leave you with your thoughts for his family and more importantly Dons health and full recovery.

Regards,
Pat
:capt:

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Can someone please help me?. I am trying to create an 89x89
pink square and no matter what I try to enter into the shp file list I keep drawing a blank

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:d :d :d

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I'm dead Serious I need help remembering how to do this I hav e had a serious head injury and if I do not get assistance the MBT patch is dead in the water

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Dear Don;

Sorry for taking so long to get around to this. I've been a bit distracted/busy.

How are you holding up?

Can someone please help me?. I am trying to create an 89x89 pink square and no matter what I try to enter into the shp file list I keep drawing a blank

Are you trying to make a transparent square or a pink-ish square?

There is a specific color that is designated "transparent" by the game code; it's pink-ish in color.

The exact value of this transparent color is:

#ffe6e6 (HTML code to cut and paste into Paint Shop Pro Color Picker)

R: 255
G: 230
B: 230
H: 255
S: 255
L: 243

ANYTHING THIS COLOR WILL BE TREATED AS TRANSPARENT (BLANK) BY THE GAME CODE

If you're trying to add a transparent bitmap into an existing SHP file using SHPEd, I can walk you through this process tomorrow.

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Thanks Mark but I had my eureka moment about this a week ago....... all good now but I was trying to create a standard transparent pink 89x89 Icon square and striking out........then the light came on


https://forum.shrapnelgames.com/atta...1&d=1743556401

I would advise anyone to avoid head injuries....... it is a PITA -------It took me two weeks to figure out how to do what I had been doing for 27 years

Don