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March 25th, 2004, 05:53 PM
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Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?
Personally I prefer to use WinXP to play from. And I prefer Linux (in a completely non-GUI mode) to host from. I think the new switches for things like AI setting, preexec, and if they can get the "create game and quit" mode to work we will have all the command-line switches to make a really good web-based management for multiple games. Game settings selection, maps selection, sign-up, start game, and upload/download turns.
I will wait until thats all working before I start asking the devs for better export of data so the games webpage can reflect game progression. 
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March 25th, 2004, 07:09 PM
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Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?
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This bug has been fixed in the next patch. So hopefully you'll soon be able to mix OSes and still get correct battle replays.
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March 25th, 2004, 10:25 PM
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Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?
The source of the bug has been discussed in another thread. It's called battle inconsistency.... something. Anyway it was a compiler inconsistency.
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March 25th, 2004, 11:11 PM
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Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?
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Originally posted by Johan K:
This bug has been fixed in the next patch. So hopefully you'll soon be able to mix OSes and still get correct battle replays.
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Just curious. What's the source of the bug?
It was something about the windows compiler not doing math formulas in quite the same order as generic open OS compilers.
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March 25th, 2004, 11:22 PM
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Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?
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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
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Originally posted by ywl:
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This bug has been fixed in the next patch. So hopefully you'll soon be able to mix OSes and still get correct battle replays.
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Just curious. What's the source of the bug?
It was something about the windows compiler not doing math formulas in quite the same order as generic open OS compilers.
More precisely, I believe, it was the Windows compiler doing things correctly, but differently than other compilers, with code that is somewhat ambiguous.
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March 26th, 2004, 12:10 AM
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Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?
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It was something about the windows compiler not doing math formulas in quite the same order as generic open OS compilers.
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More precisely, I believe, it was the Windows compiler doing things correctly, but differently than other compilers, with code that is somewhat ambiguous.
Not everything is Microsoft's fault, after all.
I agree. I use Windows most of the time and consider it great for some things. I didnt say it did it wrong, I just said it did it differently than the multi-OS compilers did.
[ March 25, 2004, 22:12: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]
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March 26th, 2004, 12:16 AM
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Re: Best (CD Bootable?) Linux Distro for Dominions?
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It was something about the windows compiler not doing math formulas in quite the same order as generic open OS compilers.
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Which is of course why (in C/C++ especially) explicit grouping (via parenthesises) is your friend. Makes it easier for the human programmer to know exactly what the code is going to do, and makes it harder for evil compilers to find wriggle room to twist the programmer's intent. 
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