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Website down time 22 Jul 2004

Hi
The box we had this site hosted on went down after 3 disks in the raid array failed almost at the same time. We have restored a backup to another server, but not everything is functioning correctly.

Jeremy

Forums 28 May 2004

Well, we're just finally sorting out some forums where you can feel free to ask questions about the libraries and games we've worked on over the past few years.


Exiciting days!


Find them at: http://forum.newdawnsoftware.com



PXSync Uploaded 05 Apr 2004

PXSync provides a native library for synchonizing rendering against the vertical retrace in Java windowed mode. Hopefully this might prove useful to someone out there.

Net code update 04 Apr 2004

A version of the New Dawn Net package has been uploaded. This version now uses NIO. Included is the source, javadoc, jars and a test application.

Get it here.


40 Hour Game Dev 20 Jun 2003

40 Hour Game Dev is a site for smaller projects started as breather from some of the more major undertakings.. the first of these is Warlock 2D.. check the site out at:

http://www.newdawnsoftware.com/40hrweb


HUD Update 06 Jun 2003

Updated the HUD, there are still some unresolved issues with alpha/transparent objects. The compromise for now is to have levels within the HUD having no effect, this will mean that all alpha/transparent effects will work correctly.

Updated loaders 30 Mar 2003

New version of the MD2 loader that supports interpolation between frames and reduced the memory footprint considerably.

New version of the AC3D loader that fixes some issues to do with transparancies and texture wrapping/repeating.

Early Access section 27 Mar 2003

Added a Early Access section on the resources page. This will contain APIs that we are working on but have not completed as yet. Generally, things will only appear here if requested by some other means.

Tutorials 27 Mar 2003

Started a set of tutorials (see the link to the left) which are intended as a beginners access point to Java 3D.

UML editor 06 Feb 2003

Jose is going to be a UML editor. Written in Java. Trying to be simple and most importantly, FREE. Check it out at: http://www.newdawnsoftware.com/jose

Side Project 29 Dec 2002

A side project light cycle game has been added. Check out : http://www.newdawnsoftware.com/lightcycle

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