Sunday, October 7, 2007

Release: Old School OS-o

Here is a new Old School release. It should now be safe against Linden mandatory updates (it uses a feature which logs in as a non-Linden version rather than cheating with the version number). It also has three nice crash-fixes imported from the latest Bleeding Edge, so it should be worth updating. See the change log for all the details.


Important: You need to have Linden version 1.18.0.6 (download here) installed before running this Old School version.

There is still the little goodie on the server, for those who want a more compact and appealing friends list (works with all my Old School Editions, see the readme.txt inside the file).

Disclaimer: This viewer is unofficial and although I am doing my best to make it better than the release viewer, it may contain extra bugs and you will have to trust me that there is no malicious code in it. Please also understand that it runs on the main grid with your real Second Life account and inventory. Also read the disclaimer/header in the Install.txt in my archive.

This version is for the Windows platform. It is optimized in processor independent ways. It offers all the optimizations which previously my P4 releases had, except for the processor dependent options. I'm not sure if the processor optimization made any actual difference anyway, but this should be a good balance which serves everybody.

If you choose to use this release, please first check that you have1.18.0.6 installed (otherwise get it here). Then have a look at the install instructions on my server and then download nicholaz-OS-o.zip from there.

PS: There is an in-world group for announcements of my releases: Search, Groups, "Nicholaz"

2 comments:

Princess Ivory said...

Mandatory update required? I just downloaded this Old School version. But when I try to log in to Seocnd Life with it I get the following: A new version of Second Life is available. (Required version 1.18.3.5)You must download this update to use Second Life. And my choices are "download" or "quit." What am I supposed to do? I thought you had a work around to the mandatory updates? Please advise.

Nicholaz "The Mad Patcher" Beresford said...

Hmm, it does work here (and should now indeed be outside the Linden update channel). Are you sure you started OS-o?

Anyway, if it does not work, OS-n is still on the server (in the older versions folder)