BIOCROSS PUBLIC BETA!!!

I am proud to announce the first real public release of Biocross, EVER!!

Good luck to all who try this out, you are reminded not to test this on your mission critical servers, but I can’t stop you if you do, just do not hold me responsible for whatever happens.

http://forge.the-starport.net/gf/project/biocross

Keep looking back here for patches, there will be one very soon adding FLStat generation to Biocross and also the ability to create Online Player Lists and Banned Player Lists…

The next patch after that will add auto uploading via FTP and will fix any reports you beautiful people at starport send me over the coming weeks/months.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE test it thoroughly, I don’t want to release a bugged product to the mainstream but more importantly I don’t want to be labelled the jackass that deleted everyone’s player files at Disco because I forgot to change a 0 into a 1…

get back to me through MSN (biosoft<at>live.co.uk) PM on Starport or through this forum post…

the Setup speaks Japanese, German, French, English and Italian.

NOTE: Biocross (as it is BETA) is not fully language aware yet, for the moment the GUI will only accept and display in English, come final release day all Languages will be supported

PREREQUISITES:

.NET Framework 2.0 SP2
Windows Installer 3 or Greater
SQL Server 2005 Express or greater
7-Zip may be required to open the zip file (can be acquired from www.7-zip.org)

read the user guide for more info</at>

Use: http://www.digitalbrilliance.org/LS/BiocrossDataGen0_002.zip

to generate XML Gamedata for your mod before running Biocross

NOTE: That application belongs entirely to Lancer Solarus, please contact him regarding bugs or queries! BINI’d files are unsupported by DataGen however Vanilla Gamedata is already provided…

Serious bug which may make Biocross unable to even get passed the splash screen (good start right guys :P)

install patch 1017: http://eredivine.net/biosoft/biocross/1017/Update.exe (6MB)

REQUIRES ADMIN PRIVELEDGES

ADDITIONAL: Forgot to mention I added FLStat from this patch onwards

Missing files may cause SQL issues when testing for a connection

Patch 1018: http://eredivine.net/biosoft/biocross/1018/Update.exe

NOTE: You DO NOT have install patch 1017 to install 1018!

REQUIRES ADMIN PRIVELEDGES

Hey Xarian thanks for checking it out, I fixed our little Vista issue turned out to be my fault

download the Setup and then download the 1018 patch (1017 is not necessary to download 1018 builds on top of 1017)

sorry to here about your XP machine I know you and her go way back

let me know if these patches are working out for you

PATCH 1019: http://eredivine.net/biosoft/biocross/1019/Update.exe

Fixes some issues between SQL Server 05 and 08 - again if you have just downloaded the main setup skip patches 1017 and 1018 and come straight to this one…

THIS PATCH IS REQUIRED TO MAKE BIOCROSS WORK WITH SQL EXPRESS 2005!

what do you mean by scan your computer? If your referring to a page in the user handbook tell me which one, but almost all times are variable and are based on your hardware and software configurations…

@rsabatino:

ok i cant use your program because my sql server gets stuck in the middle of the install

I would honestly love to help you, but because that’s a Microsoft Product I really have no idea what is going on, unless your on Vista or Win7 then make sure your running as administrator.

Perhaps a screen on where it is getting stuck and your system Specs and we can get to the bottom of this

I am now going to start posting updates and things at my FL-Forge page - please head over there for future patches, let’s keep this stuff off the forums…

http://forge.the-starport.net/gf/project/biocross

Microsoft are known for resource hungry installers - perhaps it is worth leaving it on in the background while doing other things for as long as possible I would say after about 10 - 20 minutes you can safely say the installer is broken…

At which point does it freeze/take forever?

Installation of the most basic SQL Express edition is extremely quick even on my laptop and is only 40-60MB depending on additional features…

It works fine when it is just the SQL Service active, there is no need for management studio or any other advanced tools… I have never had a bad experience with SQL Server 2005

2008 on the other hand is a different story…

A few of my stored procedures use SQL Statements which are only present in Microsoft’s SQL Server unfortunately, the class I wrote into BioHelper.dll also only works for Microsoft’s SQL Servers… It’s a really difficult change at this late a point, Biocross however was designed generally for mid performance machines and was tested mainly in a Server environment…

Perhaps later on after final release I will write a low performance version of Biocross which will use SQLLite - until then I am sorry to all those with older machines

Even if I use SQLite I would still need the .NET Framework - also Biocross is now configured to run on the .NET Framework 2.0 which comes shipped with XP and Server 2003 so really there is no need to download it at all (you must choose to install it off your XP CD still though as it is optional).

I just tried one line of my SQL Statements against a SQLite database and it turns out I can’t use IF statements in SQLite either which is extremely limiting.