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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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Armagetron has been reported to run successfully on all modern MS Windows versions (that excludes 3.11 and earlier and some versions of Windows 95). An OpenGL capable 3D accelerator card is recommended, but not required.

Please read the documentation for installation instructions; have a look at the Changelog to see what has been added or fixed recently.

Dedicated Server

The dedicated server is a special program that allows setting up a game server without playing on it. Since no input/output is needed, the dedicated server runs without the model and texture files and without the libraries. Configuring it is a mess, I must admit...

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Stable Version 0.2.5.2 for Windows

YES, THESE LINKS DON'T WORK. THAT IS ON PURPOSE. If you absolutely want this version and not the newer and much better versions of Armagetron Advanced, remove the "broken." bit from the links.

Downloads are managed by several mirror servers. Sometimes, one of them has problems; simply select another one then. A special problem affects the Windows version ( see here): On an incomplete download, Norton Antivirus and others may detect a HackerTool malicious code fragment. This is a false alarm, of course. Download the complete file and the warning will go away.

This version is vulnerable to certain easy to fabricate DOS attacks. If you plan to run a server on the internet, you should use 0.2.6.1 instead.

You may get higher transfer rates on PlanetPirror (Australia) .

Alternatively, download the latest

Development Version 0.2.6.1

YES, THESE LINKS DON'T WORK. THAT IS ON PURPOSE. If you absolutely want this version and not the newer and much better versions of Armagetron Advanced, remove the "broken." bit from the links.

Version 0.2.6.1 is mainly a security fix release. Several DOS attack possibilities have been found, this release fixes the most important ones. Nothing can be done against the fake player server flood attack currently. If you want new features, you should upgrade to Armagetron Advanced, there has been the release 0.2.7.1 superior to 0.2.6.1 in every aspect.

Older versions can be grabbed directly form the download directory, even older ones from the old web page.

Source Code

If you have MS Visual Studio 6, you can compile Armagetron for Windows; download this archive (7.5Mb) containing the source code of all used libraries (SDL_mixer, SDL_image, SDL) and the Armagetron source for version 0.2.1. Read the enclosed readme.txt for details on what files you need to copy around.

New versions of the Armagetron source code can be installed right into the extracted directory and will coexist with other versions that are already there.

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