spinvaders 1.0.0

posted by jack at 04:36 CET in / compute / programming / spinvaders

I'm pleased to announce the release of spinvaders 1.0.0!

The main change in this release is the introduction of fantastic music and sound effects courtesy of David Tweet. Collaborating with David on this release has produced fantastic results. It's almost like a whole new game!

Also new for this release is that spinvaders is now open source, with its own project hosted at sourceforge. This means that not only can Mac and Windows users download a precompiled package, now users of BSD, Linux, or other unixy platforms can download the source and all its dependencies (which aren't too terribly many) and run it on their platforms as well.

Here's where to get it:

• spinvaders for Macintosh (made for Mac OS X 10.4, but may work on 10.3 as well)
• spinvaders for Windows 95/98/ME/2K/XP
• spinvaders source for other platforms

Installation is the same as before: The Mac version is in a disk image; you can copy the enclosed application and run it from wherever you like. The Windows version is a zip file containing a directory; unpack the directory wherever you like, and run it by starting "spinvaders.exe" from within the directory.