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2.99 is in such flux (including protocol changes) that posting compiled versions probably is of no use. If you can't compile from source, then 2.99 isn't ready for you.

Since Jeff didn't want to just back out the change that broke robots, I went back to the beginning and took another look at it, and found myself at the same place I was before (but now I remember why). Here's what I found: Attempting to use the local RobotPlayer object whenever a particular PlayerId...

Your explanation almost makes sense... Except that someone joined while the bot was getting obliterated and he didn't suffer the same fate. Also, the seemingly interminable SW stopped as soon as I shot a regular bullet (which I did as an experiment to try to make it stop). Nevertheless, you have don...

I had SW and a glitch kicked in where it continually fired, obliterating the bot. On the other hand, it was my highest score EVER!

You young kids may not recognize the reference, but in the orignal Dukes of Hazzard TV series, the sheriff had a Basset Hound who never seemed to move. His name was Flash.

One of my friends dubbed me with the nickname because I don't move very fast.

I would like to build a Mac version from the CVS, but I have no experience using CVS. I am an expert developer on Solaris. Could someone give me a straightforward step-by-step on how to do a CVS build?

I've been playing 2.0 for a little while, and now it decides to crash on me at some point. My console log offers this: data path is "/Applications/Games/BZFlag-2.0.0.app/Contents/Resources" % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 100 395 0 ...