I'll never finish it, and I doubt PSYKLIK will ever have time to merge his incredible parallel developments into it either. But maybe someone will be inspired...

This is the only beta released. Fully functional, but follow the install instructions. Use at your own risk, no support implied, not for sale, yada yada.

Sorry I couldn't bring this one home. Have fun.

http://www.simwarrior.com/gunship/GSTOS_beta.html

fng

Oh frakking sweet.Thank you And we appreciate the hard work as well.We are a patient lot.

Hi fng2k
Hope that the real world is treating you well & thanks for your past efforts anyway.

Glad to see you around fng2k!!

Hi guys-

Good to see you all, too. Sorry this is so long in coming, but I hope folks will still enjoy it.

IIRC, I *think* this version is free-standing- just in case you can't find that old Gunship CD ... I'll rummage around and see if there are any updated bits that can be uploaded as easy patches.

Many thanks to all the folks who contributed, especially Keith Bedford, Polak, PSYKLIK, Stratos and the good folks at 1st Bear Hunter Squadron. WB also came up with many great enhancements since this beta was done. He posted a lot of them that can probably be manually added to this version.

Try here:
Wills Gunship page:
http://members.fortunecity.com/whb11/GunshipTool/Gunship.htm

PSYKLIKs Waypoint site has compendious info abou the internals of GS:
http://www.waypoint.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
(He also has more great stuff that I'll link to if he says ok...)

And of course samovar6 has lots of cool new bits, too:
http://samovar6.fortunecity.com/

This was an incredibly fun project, right up until it wasn't... But so much more is now known and so many more tools are now available, it could be carried on to amazing places if there is the passion for it.

Be well-
fng

Hi,
good to see you around!
Keep well.

Cheers,
keith

Hi Keith! Great to see you too! Hope you are finding productive work.

So please accept warmest Hi from Polak too.

GTOS mod is one of most interesting around. I hope that we can continue this Project even if by chipping little by little at the time to it. I hope I will find some time to do my part.

This forum was full of very lively, interesting and revealing discussions about Gunship! and modding. At one time I have learned a lot from here thanks to guys like fng2k, Keithb77, WB, Psyklik, Samovar. It was the Company and not so much the game which was so magnetic. It is a really pitty that this forum is not so active in further advancing glory of Gunship!.

Thank you all and be well.

This is what I "love" about this forum. Kind of like in "hover" mode.

Anyway, after I placed this reply yesterday I "rolled back my sleeves" and did quick conversion of my SF:P1 terrain. Here are some photos with results but I rush to say that PCX indexed conversion does some hurt to quality of textures. Original textures were converted from the SF:P1 game so my plug here should not hurt anyone's feelings.

At the moment I'll probable leave at that because IIRC changing of the palette (to produce better PCXs) would be rather quite extensive job. So for now thats that:




Sorry for the lenght and many pictures , but by doing this conversion I wanted to pay my tribute to my old friends of this forum and fng2k in particulary. Thank you for all you done for Gunship! and all you took to explain its beauty to me.

I'll echo the sentiments of everyone else.

Thanks for all your work, fng2k. It is indeed a pleasure to see you return to this forum, however briefly.

And all of you guys on the TOS project did a kick-ass job!

Polak, there's no need to apologise for the pics of your tiles. They look fantastic.