GREETINGS, OPERATIVE. WELCOME TO THE FREESYND PROJECT.

FreeSynd is a cross-platform, GPLed reimplementation of engine for the classic Bullfrog game, Syndicate.

 

RSS feeds

As the development of Freesynd is not very fast, it can be tedious for our users to visit the website from time to time just to check if something has changed. So, we decided to set up a RSS feed so people would follow in an easier way the project's life. See the Project Communication section on the Development page for the addresses.

 

Project status

We have a new developer - Joey Parrish. He implemented few big changes: - save files are portable over different CPU architectures; - separate directories for Syndicate and Freesynd data directories; - cmake instead of autotools, also cmake used to build project files for MSVC++, for now it is without install part for Unix's.

 

New v0.5 release

This was hard, but we did it. Get it from sourceforge.

 

Project status

With chamel back in the game, v0.5 is now back on track! I finally got rid of that load/save feature and a few updates later, the future release is ready to be packaged. This week is the target!

 

Research available

One step forward to v0.5 with the ability to run research on weapons and mods. Everything should work as in the original game. Now, I'm working on the load/save functionnality and I hope to complete it by the end of April (don't look at previous news).

Next to it, I'm planning to reorganize the SVN repository a little bit. The idea is to keep the trunk directory only for freesynd source code. All other directories will go one level up, the first will be the www directory.

 

Project status

After quite a long period of inactivity, Freesynd development has started again. Holidays, new year's eve resolutions have delayed the release of the v0.5 version. On top of that, we lost one of our contributor : chamel. See you!

I'm planning to release v0.5 at the end of March. The goal of this version is to complete all work on menus so that future development will be focused on the gameplay. Next stop : end of march!

 

New v0.4 release

The v0.4 development release is now available from sourceforge. Again, this release contains mainly bug fixes and enhancement. Read the release notes to have a complete view of the work done.

This release and the next ones won't contain the original data files because of licence restrictions. So you'll have to download the original game to use its data files (use -p option to specify the new data path when launching the game).

Enjoy!

 

New v0.3 release

Freesynd is still alive! A new development release is available from sourceforge. This v0.3 release contains mainly bug fixes and minor evolutions but it's still a step toward the v1.0.

Please try it and report any bug in the project bug tracker.

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