From now on I’ll be using DMG’s to distribute XBlaze. They’re slightly larger (a couple of kb’s – nothing to worry about) but it’s a more standardised format to distribute software in.
As fate would have it, as soon as I made the post below, I had a thought that might fix game detection in 0.8.
Some might recall that one of 0.8′s new features was the ability to be able to set a status message without being marked as away by Adium.
Unfortunately, the hack that I used to achieve this broke the game detection.
I have now removed the hack, which has restored game detection, but now setting any status message will mark you as away in Adium.
This doesn’t affect the people on your list using Windows. The Windows Xfire client will still see your status message as any normal status message – it only affects other people on your list who are using XBlaze. Other XBlaze users will see you marked as Away when you have a custom status message.
The other feature, real-time nickname updates, is still intact and is working fine.
I’ve also included the new games files, and new icons too – so the newer games will be detected also.
Since I removed the status feature from 0.8 I decided to number this as Version 0.8.1 – it’s a revision of version 0.8.
0.8.1 can be downloaded from the Downloads page, along with the source if you’re that way inclined.
I updated the icons that XBlaze uses to display next to buddies names in the buddy list. This is thanks to =HT=Gamma from Xfire Plus, again. He was able to show me how to get the icons from the official client.
I added them into the 0.6 download, so if you want the new icons, all you have to do is download 0.6 again and install it.
I have been receiving increased reports that game detection is non-functional in XBlaze 0.8 and to some extent in XBlaze 0.7.
I am working on the issue, and I believe I’m coming closer to the problem.
For now, I will offer XBlaze 0.6 for download again, since version 0.6 doesn’t seem to suffer from these issues.
Something I changed between 0.6 and 0.8 must have affected game detection.
The 0.6 download includes an updated xfire_games.ini file and the current up-to-date macgames.txt file. This will allow support for newer games such as Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
I have updated the forum software.
The new forum is at the same address, and the old one has been moved.
Both links can be found on the support page.
I haven’t been able to migrate all the old posts, which is why I left the old forum up. I’ll take it down after a while though.
I moved the Step-By-Step guide over to the new forum. The link on the support page has been updated.
I’ve decided to post the copy of the Mac_Games.txt file that XBlaze uses on the download page.
It’s the copy that I use with XBlaze, and it seems to work well enough for me in terms of game tracking.
People who find that game tracking doesn’t work for them while using XBlaze 0.8 should download the games list again and overwrite the one they’re currently using to see if it solves the problem.
Details of how to do that are on the support page.