Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded

Building MAXR with Visual Studio 2010

Some of you waited a long time for a new tutorial howto build maxr with latest Visual Studio on Windows yourself. Alzi managed to free some time for this and rewrote his old article. With this guide you can set up your own maxr build environment at home and compile the latest svn whenever you want to give it a shot. We're waiting for your feedback and your patches on the bugtracker, of course

Webbased IRC Chat

Thanks to david pointing out that Freenode offers a neat java app that allows you to enter our chatroom on the IRC (without downloading and setting up an IRC client) you may now easily join our chatroom from within your webbrowser. You need the Java extension installed and enabled of course.

While on that topic we want to remind you that the Freenode 2009/2010 Fundraiser is still going on. If you can spare some bucks please donate to keep up the probably finest chat network out there.

A project's name is it's identity

Hi folks. This is something I simply want to make clear. Our little clone project here starts to become famous. That's primary a good thing. However when I check with e.g. a search engine or whenever I see a newsfeed about MAXR I'm puzzled once in a while. During the founding we had no clear statements in our ABOUT or other readmes distributed with MAXR and while the project name itself was firm from the beginning everbody used his own shortcuts. However we changed that long long ago consequently in all files[1]. So if you spread the word (or see others spreading the word) keep the following things in mind:

• The project's shortcut is M.A.X.R. (often referred as maxr because extra dots suck on the net or as filenames)
• The project's name is Mechanized Assault and eXploration Reloaded (use maxr if that's to long for you)
• MM is not the author of M.A.X.R. . He wrote the first version called MM's MAX 2 years ago and stopped developing it any further.
• M.A.X.R.s' codebase has almost nothing in common with MM's MAX any more. We're even breaking up with the aged structures.
• M.A.X.R. is the result of the hard work of the people mentioned in the AUTHORS file, the translators and many many more people of this very community (including MM of course).

So please stop referring to maxr as "MAX R" (you see that blank? no blank there!), MAX Reloaded, M.A.X. Reloaded, MM's MAX or whatsoever and don't write that MM is the author of this. He is not. Please RTF-READMEs from time to time and if you see people blogging such rubbish talk to them and show them that they're wrong.

Thanks for reading

[1] If there's still somewhere an invalid shortcut lurking around tell us!

MAXR 0.2.6 Release Bugfix for Windows

We just updated the Win32 Installer and latest patch. Everybody who had an error message about a wrong application configuration should now be able to start the game

Today, 3:51 am: [MAXR] build help by ineedhelpfast
Jul 28, 2010 8:42 am: MAX players from Brazil (using the forum because it's easier than email to... by WittZi
Jul 25, 2010 8:18 pm: [MAXR] No enemy on map by beko
Jul 20, 2010 9:24 am: [MAXR] M.A.X.-Mod für Supreme Commander by beko
Jul 13, 2010 3:34 pm: [MAXR] Unit and Building Stats by Sal
Jul 11, 2010 2:25 pm: Der gute alte "Guten Morgen Thread" by Fu7u23Y05chi
Jul 07, 2010 10:56 am: [MAXR] Clan Bonuses - Downloadable PDF by beko
Jun 27, 2010 10:12 pm: [MAXR] Map Editor by Sandman
Jun 27, 2010 12:22 pm: [MAXR] MAXR Font request by WittZi
Jun 24, 2010 4:38 pm: [MAX] Max laggt und stürzt ab by Sal