C-evo-x Dev Journal

• 10 Apr 2019: C-evo-x Icon

  The logo and application icon for C-evo is a picture of the Earth in the center of four stylized compass points. The Windows icon, cevoxp2.ico, only contains a 32 x 32 pixel version, though it is 32-bit color.

• 18 Feb 2019: Thanks for StdAI!

  When I started C-evo-x, there were two big missing pieces: the installer project, and the source code for StdAI.dll. I’ve built installers before, so creating a WiX Installer for C-evo-x wasn’t hard. That left the StdAI source. Posting on the C-evo forum confirmed that Steffen never released the StdAI source.

• 03 Feb 2019: No Warnings: A Small Milestone

  I reached a small milestone yesterday with C-evo-x: all the code in the Delphi, C# and C++ projects now compiles without warnings.

• 19 Jan 2019: WiX Installer

  Poking around in the C-evo\ program directory, I can see by peeking inside the unins000.dat file that the C-evo installer was built with Inno Setup, which is open source and still seems to be going strong. Unfortunately, the Inno Setup project isn’t included with the C-evo source.

• 13 Jan 2019: Missing Pieces

  Getting started with the C-evo source code was an exercise in yak shaving. Step one: download the source. Step two: find a copy of Delphi 4. That turned out to be easy; the WinWorld software archive has a great collection of old software, including Delphi 4.

• 12 Jan 2019: C-evo-x Goals

  I have some specific short term goals for the C-evo-x project. Medium and long term goals are naturally broader and fuzzier.

• 09 Jan 2019: For the Love of Civilization

  It’s 2019 and I still enjoy playing C-evo, but as I write this, the game and the code are showing their age. The last release of C-evo was in April 2013. The core game was developed in Delphi 4, which was released in 1998. The ancillary Configurator program and C# AI template were developed in Visual C# Express 2008.

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