So far it looks that Bleeding Edge v is still running fine and I'm even hearing that there are stil people out there running Old School. If you follow the links and read the instructions carefully (and follow the links on these pages to download the original versions from You-Know-Who which are required to run mine) I guess the will be of some use.
Basically, those two can continue to remain usable for a long time. They won't give you stuff like Mono scripting or Windlight, but as long as the Lindens don't mess with the protocol in which the viewer talks to the server and as long as the keep legacy functions (like old search) in place, these versions will be fine.
A note regarding mandatory updates: The viewers are grouped into so called channels (you'll notice the channel name is displayed in the lower right corner of the login screen). Update notices and mandatory updates these days are mainly organizational and not technical decisions and they are only enforced based on specific channels. Viewers from other channels (like mine) are unaffected. Also, you can change the login channel for any user by modifying the icon and using the -channel parameter.
Anyway, what I actually wanted to say is the following: If you want to try other viewers, there is Henri's Cool Viewer for Linux and Boy Lane's Windows version of the CoolViewer. These are obviously not identical to Nicholaz Editions, but Henri is a good integrator and like me he is pretty religious about stability, so he has incorporated many fixes from other open sourcers, many of mine included. From what I know, all the essential memory and crash related stuff is there. So if you are interested running an 1.19 version with old style interface and better stability than You-Know-Who's, then CoolViewer is definitely worth checking.
Other than that, again I appreciate all the comments and support which I got on my last post ... I hope you will continue to be able to enjoy your OtherExperience (actually I was about to wish you smooth sailing, but that idiom seemed pretty misplaced because smooth sailing and OtherExperience are really two totally different things ... anybody who ever crossed a sim border in a boat after 2005 knows that).
Enjoy ...
Nick
Update:
Barney sez: "Well, just to let people know, I am back in the client building game and leveled up to the Cool Viewer (minus Restraint Life due to patch-apply-problems there): (link). It's the first build of the cool viewer on mac, so I don't have much ideas about it's stability, but people might want to give it a try. I doubt it will be worse than the official client ;)"
Nick sez: "Hey Barney, welcome back :-)"
Friday, April 11, 2008
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Nicholaz, while disappointed, I completely understand, but I was wondering if you could say which of your patches were broken, and which still work with the 1.19.x versions. I am hoping to move forward with a viewer like yours. Its way out of my skill set, but I hope some sandbox members have some of the skills.
What happened in 2005 to boats? o_o
Well, just to let people know, I am back in the client building game and leveled up to the Cool Viewer (minus Restraint Life due to patch-apply-problems there):
http://radio-boomslang.shacknet.nu/~bb/articles/cool-viewer-mac/index.html
It's the first build of the cool viewer on mac, so I don't have much ideas about it's stability, but people might want to give it a try. I doubt it will be worse than the official client ;)
Arthur: The last time I checked many of the GUI things were broken and also some of the stability stuff. Fixing those will be tough without knowledge what they do, but I guess the best starting point will be to use Henry's version and build up on that (Henry includes a couple of my patches and seems to have adjusted them).
Anonymous: Boating and especially used to be a common pasttime before that time (and before I started). Physics allowed to build sail boats but these days sim border crossings and other problems make it a bit underwhelming.
Barney: Hey ... welcome back!
Servas Nicholaz - I've just discovered your blog (a little late, I see), can you tell me, if I run RC 1.20.0 (84432), which of your viewers will run on top of it? Thanks :)
Krissy: There's none for 1.20 ... most recent one is 1.19 (see the post for EC-e). There are also absolutely no plans for an 1.20 at the moment.
All I can say is Thank You. May or may not have glitches, if so I haven't found any yet... But the Nicholaz editions seem to be MUCH easier on my system to run, with less trouble from Lagg and such.
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