BattleZone 1.5 Experimental patch

This is a total overhaul mod/patch that applies over BattleZone 1.4
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BattleZone 1.5 Experimental patch

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The Battlezone game programmer *Ken Miller* has made a Experimental patch for the game.

You can get the patch here: http://www.bzuniverse.com/forum/index.p ... ,48.0.html

Please offer him your help and support.

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I have tested it with XP and Vista64. stock BZ and BZE work great with Vista64 but Ken's exe causes a DEP error and Vista won't let me exclude it. I haven't come up with a way around it yet so I can't really test it with Vista.

It runs solid in XP, though the stock exe runs pretty solid too. The bug fixes are the main benefit, I love that it no longer causes the mouse pointer to be BZ's permanently. Dx, you should find out what that change was and incorporate it into BZE.

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FirBirGir wrote:Dx, you should find out what that change was and incorporate it into BZE.

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I did that 2 weeks ago though it's not the fix ken made, it works off of the mouse pointers i provided. My code base is quite different than his but mine is much more tested.
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So 1.12 won't mess the mouse up? Great to hear...

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"The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you."

Seems they made it private or deleted it on the first link.
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I would guess he's working on another version that may be more compatible so he took the post down. Just a guess...

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One of the admins made it private.
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Both links above in the first post work for me when I'm logged in and when I'm not logged in.
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The links stopped working for a while but the post is back now.

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I've always liked the lingering BZ cursor.... :D
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The permanent cursor change made working on BZ a drag, which is why it was one of the first things I took out. :D
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