04-29-2014, 07:49 AM
Hey guys!
Back from the dead here.
Glad you found the source code! (For posterity here it is: https://github.com/Ramblurr/Far-Horizons). The documentation source is is doc/, and is built with LaTeX as kwll discovered.
Back in 2011 I did a bit of work modernizing the code so it compiles on modern systems, so I'm glad that's still the case!
I don't recall the specifics, but while everything seems to run ok at first, in practice I ran into bugs upon every turn submission. Nearly every turn required manually editing of the data or the code. It was a real PITA. Unfortunately I don't remember specifics, just that the brittleness of the whole codebase inspired me to start from scratch.
Moroever, I think a new version written in Python or another more accessible language would be a huge improvement.
Back from the dead here.
Glad you found the source code! (For posterity here it is: https://github.com/Ramblurr/Far-Horizons). The documentation source is is doc/, and is built with LaTeX as kwll discovered.
Back in 2011 I did a bit of work modernizing the code so it compiles on modern systems, so I'm glad that's still the case!
I don't recall the specifics, but while everything seems to run ok at first, in practice I ran into bugs upon every turn submission. Nearly every turn required manually editing of the data or the code. It was a real PITA. Unfortunately I don't remember specifics, just that the brittleness of the whole codebase inspired me to start from scratch.
Moroever, I think a new version written in Python or another more accessible language would be a huge improvement.