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FAZ stands for | FAZ stands for '''Free Allegiance Zone''' which is a conjunction of two terms originally used to segregate the community under Microsoft's rule: [[Free Zone]] and [[Allegiance Zone]]. '''FAZ''' is used to describe the new version of Allegiance which is being developed by the community. | ||
Until February 2004 everyone had been playing with the Allegiance game written and compiled by Microsoft back in 1999. Since Microsoft stopped supporting Allegiance no changes have been made to the game. In 2004 Microsoft, with [[Individuals#Solap|Solap's]] persuadence, released the sourcecode to our community which allowed us to finally start modifying the game however we wanted ... unfortunately this code was still written to use a 1999 compiler and was almost incompatible with modern development environments. The sourcecode was almost useless to us in its original state. | |||
This meant that the [[FAZ team]]'s first goal was to change Microsoft's sourcecode to compile with today's compilers under today's development environments. That was completed in 2006 and they were able to create their own stable build of Allegiance. The development team were finally at "Square One" and from there they have been able to march proudly forwards, slowly but surely adding features that have been requested since Allegiance was first released, and correcting bugs/errors. | |||
For a full synopsis of the improvements that have been made browse the releases section below. | |||
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Revision as of 03:24, 7 August 2008
FAZ stands for Free Allegiance Zone which is a conjunction of two terms originally used to segregate the community under Microsoft's rule: Free Zone and Allegiance Zone. FAZ is used to describe the new version of Allegiance which is being developed by the community.
Until February 2004 everyone had been playing with the Allegiance game written and compiled by Microsoft back in 1999. Since Microsoft stopped supporting Allegiance no changes have been made to the game. In 2004 Microsoft, with Solap's persuadence, released the sourcecode to our community which allowed us to finally start modifying the game however we wanted ... unfortunately this code was still written to use a 1999 compiler and was almost incompatible with modern development environments. The sourcecode was almost useless to us in its original state.
This meant that the FAZ team's first goal was to change Microsoft's sourcecode to compile with today's compilers under today's development environments. That was completed in 2006 and they were able to create their own stable build of Allegiance. The development team were finally at "Square One" and from there they have been able to march proudly forwards, slowly but surely adding features that have been requested since Allegiance was first released, and correcting bugs/errors.
For a full synopsis of the improvements that have been made browse the releases section below.
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