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There have been some changes in the Armagetron project structure. The original author, Z-Man, took a very long break from development. Long enough, in fact, for another team of gifted and motivated developers to produce a fork called Armagetron Advanced. They managed to actually understand some of Z-Man's convoluted code and made meaningful additions in the form of their release 0.2.7.0.
Z-Man has reappeared in the meantime, and joined the Armagetron Advanced development team. So, now Armagetron Advanced is no longer a fork, it is the official real thing. Armagetron has been obsoleted by Armagetron advanced. At the time of this writing, a new release 0.2.7.1 has just been made public that fixes, among others, some security issues of interest for people running a server.
Z-Man wishes to apologize to everyone who had to wait far too long for news or new developments, and for those who might have been affected by the security issues. For those who cannot part with the original Armagetron, version 0.2.6.1 has been released which fixes the most critical security issues, but no other bugs.

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Addons

Moviepack

Here's what you have been waiting for: the Moviepack by Fabrice Holbé( ), making Armagetron look more like the movie, only a bit better :-). Download it as a windows installer (440 KByte) or ZIP archive (350 KByte) (See below for installation instructions then), and read the enclosed file "art_read_me.txt" for copyright stuff. Armagetron does not yet have full support for it; especially, the title screen is not displayed. Here are some screenshots:

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Ross Worthley created an alternative version of the Moviepack with new textures. Get it from here and unzip it into the main Armagetron directory. Nice work! Looks really polished.

Ian Novack modified the Moviepack cycle texture and added two logos: the Psi corps from Babylon 5 and the Philadelphia Flyers. Just copy the files over the usual moviepack/bike.png. I'll add real skin selection support in Armagetron later. He also made a different rim wall texture, so if you want some change, download it and just copy the files contained in the archive into the moviepack directory.

Charles R. Mann ( ) added a logo of the Star Wars Imperials and Rebels as well as the Autobot and Decepticon Transformers. The installation instructions above apply here, too.

Jon Foyle ( ) made made a new wall texture for the moviepack for those of you who like the property of the non-moviepack walls that you can determine the direction the cycle drove from them; see here for a screenshot and get the texture here. Just copy it over the file of the same name in the moviepack directory.

Movie Sounds

Chaz Guarino has extracted sounds from the movie, and you can hear them in Armagetron, if you like. They are available for download in different qualities (the intermediate qualities have the large files stored in lower quality than the smaller ones). Please note that these files are not under the GPL; in fact, it probably is a violation of Disney's copyright to make them available for download here.

Spanish Movie Sounds

Gonzales Castro ( ) recorded the Spanish versions of some of the sound files; get them directly or visit his page with more Tron stuff in Spanish.

Lars' Fiddlings

Lars Doucet made some changes to the game textures; see a screenshot and get them if you like the new look.

More Stuff

If that's not enough, visit the user defined patches collection. Use it to freely share your creations.

All this nice stuff really makes me think about implementing proper graphical mod support earlier than planned.

Installation

To install the sounds or the moviepack, just unzip the archive you chose to download into your Armagetron directory, so the directory structure looks like this:

If you are using a command line unzip, you just change to your Armagetron directory and type
<unzip> <Path>\moviexxx.zip
If you are using Winzip, right-click on the .zip-file, select "extract to..." from the pop-up menu, and enter your Armagetron directory as the target path.
In both cases, the "moviepack" and "moviesounds" subdirectories of your Armagetron folder must not contain any subdirectories: the files should be right there.


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