The Old-School viewer still had over 500 downloads this year and I am personally still very fond of this version. I was even asked about upgrades by a few people, so I wanted to give it a little attention.
Of course most user will instead want to try my Eye Candy or Bleeding Edge viewers, but I am sure this blast from the past will find it's audience (luddites like myself, or users which performance challenged hardware).
For vintage connoisseurs, the Old School version now comes with a few backports from the later releases, mainly Havok4 (4096m) building, redmap warning and IM filter, but also the new icon, title and channel name. See the change log for all the details.
Old School won't give you atmospheric bliss, it won't even let you use voice (although I guess few people will actually miss the latter), but it will give you good performance, low memory usage and the same extras as my later viewers. If you look at the change log, this viewer has come a long way, all based on the same version and I think that this does show in terms of quality.
Luddite or not, you will of course be subjected to my usual release blurp :-)
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.
Important: Before running this Old School version, you need to have the totally outdated Linden™ version 1.18.0.6 (download here) installed, preferrably in a separate folder like SL_1-18-0-6 .
Then have a look at the install instructions on my server and then download nicholaz-OS-p.zip from there.
After the download completes, follow the instructions and make sure the files go into the right folder and don't hesitate to buy me a beer if you find this piece of software beneficial to your second experience!
Also you will most likely download this little goodie from my server to get a more compact and appealing friends list (see the readme.txt inside that file).
Enjoy
Nick
PS: There is an in-world group for announcements of my releases: Search, Groups, "Nicholaz". Also, at the top right of this blog you will find a link to a forum thread where I am sure that people will be able to help you if you have problems.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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Yay Luddites! Yay Old School! Thank you, thank you!
Hachi: :-)
Thank you very, very much! My not so old HP laptop can run SL without problems now.
I followed the instructions to the letter and i'm not a computer whiz but do know how to get by since i my first computer didn't have windows only DOS...but when i try to run nicholaz.exe it says it can't because it doesn't find xul.dll ...not sure what to do now.
Thanks~
im a new mac user but on an old mac..does this work only for windows machines?
Dude you rock so much for this!
My poor laptop, which is only a couple years old, chugs and grinds with SL. Now it works okay, and I can actually see my land and walk around easily! THANK YOU!
Thank-you so much, you literally saved my butt today. My tower blew up, laptop bound, and loving my new, old client. Amazing, absolutely amazing for limited performance.
FYI - Although I expect you know and know why. Your old school viewer permits me to see and even delete what appear as "phantom prims" in the current s/l viewer.
I just found this viewer tonight and i am SERIOUSLY hoping that it will once again make SL work on my 1984 IBM SERVER system that is actually still fully functional. I used to be able to run SL on it, but for some reason it wont load now and tells me my drivers are outdated. Keep ur fingers crossed!
Just downloaded and tried to run, but it refuses to connect to Second Life servers. Says something about "best of our abilities" and "check web site for updates". On the log-in screen, the "splash-image" says that I need to update to version 1.24, but don't know if that has anything to do with it.
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