Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded

MAXR 0.2.7 Release

One year of development and here it is. We're happy to announce MAXR 0.2.7 with many new features and bugfixes. The Changelog speaks for itself:

1. Releases

Distribution	noarch/universal	x86	ppc	x86_64
OSX >= 10.4 (dmg)	--	--	--	maxr-0.2.7
Source (tar.gz)	maxr-0.2.7 resinstaller-0.7	--	--	--
Windows (exe)	--	maxr-0.2.7	--	(not yet)

Your download isn't on this list? Check downloads. If it is not there you may help us and create the missing package!

2. Patches

No patches this time. Due to many changes in the source and config and many bugreports we got because of broken installations we want you to reinstall maxr this time.

Manual:

      manual.pdf
      Frequently Asked Questions
      Installation (may be aged - see INSTALL instead)
      Building (may be aged - see BUILDING instead)

Important:

Due many changes we recommand a fresh install of MAXR especially when you make use of the resinstaller. Some game resources changed and if you e.g. don't have sound any more you know that you have to rerun resinstaller 0.7.

Info:

If maxr fails to start maxr.log is a good place to start. If you're stucked it might be a good idea to take a look at the manual. Please report crashes, bugs, odd behaivors or differences to the original game on the Bugtracker (login with your forum account and your password).

Hint: Drop by on the IRC to find other players. There is no game lobby or some sort of master server. MAXR is a standalone application and you have to find other players the old way. Ask your friends, on the irc or even on the bbs. Remember about timezones when you party.

Make sure to check the manual for hotkeys and ingame commands.

Job offer: You got some free time and want to get involved? Waste precious leisure time without getting money for it? We're still looking for translators, testers, sound artists, packager for various distros and especially an amiga porter! Just report on the bbs or on the irc or send us a mail/postcard


Many many thanks to all the coders, artists, svn players, packagers that made this release possible

If you like this project please donate!

"Staycation" promo - Interplay Games are 50% off on GOG[1] until July 4th

In case you didn't notice yet: GOG[1] is on a "Staycation" promo. If you don't own your legal copy of MAX yet this is your chance to obtain MAX + MAX2 for only 2,99$ uncut (means you get the amazing intro video and some other missing stuff from the abadon version as well that our resinstaller can make use of in MAXR). Oh yeah, we usually don't advertise but this is a unique chance for you to get the original MAX legal and cheap too (if you don't mind the included garbage called MAX2 of course). Thank you Dauss for keeping us posted!

[1] Please notice that GOG is a company that has about zero to do with the MAXR project. If you want to support MAXR you can make use of the Donate button.

Building MAXR with Visual Studio 2010

Some of you waited a long time for a new tutorial [url=docs.php?id=57]howto build maxr with latest Visual Studio[/url] on Windows yourself. Alzi managed to free some time for this and rewrote his old article. With this guide you can set up your own maxr build environment at home and compile the latest svn whenever you want to give it a shot. We're waiting for your feedback and your patches on the [url=docs.php?id=22]bugtracker[/url], of course

Webbased IRC Chat

Thanks to david pointing out that Freenode offers a neat java app that allows you to enter our chatroom on the IRC (without downloading and setting up an IRC client) you may now easily join our [url=docs.php?id=54]chatroom[/url] from within your webbrowser. You need the Java extension installed and enabled of course.

While on that topic we want to remind you that the Freenode 2009/2010 Fundraiser is still going on. If you can spare some bucks please donate to keep up the probably finest chat network out there.

Yesterday, 3:37 pm: MAXR 0.2.7 Release by Nager
Yesterday, 11:28 am: [MAXR] MAXR on iPAD would be awesome! by beko
Yesterday, 10:46 am: [MAXR] Couple of questions by Nix
Yesterday, 4:05 am: [HowTo] Get your official and original X-Code from Apple, for free and legal ! ^^ by Meechmunchie
Jan 23, 2012 7:55 pm: [MAXR] Anyone want to play? by Macil
Jan 22, 2012 12:26 am: [MAXR] Post your games here! by Eiko
Jan 21, 2012 10:41 pm: Der gute alte "Guten Morgen Thread" by Eiko
Jan 20, 2012 11:06 pm: [MAXR] Native english speaker needed for text validation on intro text by beko
Jan 19, 2012 10:06 pm: [MAXR] Another debug game on Saturday, Jan 21st by Toranaga
Jan 18, 2012 7:50 pm: [MAXR] debug game on friday, 20.1. by Eiko