[announcement] Massive tpclient-pywx 0.2.0 released

[Tim Ansell]

As this is my largest program written using wxPython I hope this is an
okay place to announce it.

After a massive amount of work, Thousand Parsec is proud to announce
that the next version (0.2.0) of its primary client is now available. 

There have been massive changes to the client's back end code and quite
a few UI improvements. Some off the highlights are:

      * Request Pipelineing. Faster downloads on fast connections and on
        connections with high ping times.
      * Automatic Media Downloading. The client will now download the
        required media of the web.
      * Animated Planet Graphics. There are now cool animated planet
        graphics and other graphics displayed in the information screen.
      * Account Creation Support. You can now create an account on
        servers straight from the client.
      * Design Support. You can now create ships, torpedoes or any other
        object that the server supports. Properties and requirements of
        designs are calculated locally using a Scheme based language
        called tpcl.
      * Message Reference Support. Servers can now say that messages
        refer to certain objects and the GOTO button will take you to
        them.
      * Better Caching. Better support for universe caching and only
        downloading what has changed.

This release also includes binaries for windows and binaries for Mac OS
X ( http://www.thousandparsec.net/tp/downloads.php#tpclient-pywx ). The
binaries have the following requirements: 

      * Windows 
              * Windows 98 or greater
              * 50mb disk space
              * 1024x768 screen or greater
      * Mac OS X 
              * Mac OS X 10.3.8 or higher, 10.4.1 or higher is preferred
              * 200mb disk space
              * 1024x768 screen or greater

There are also two permanent demonstration servers. The servers have the
following properties: 

      * demo1.thousandparsec.net 
              * 5 minute turns
              * Restarted every day
              * MiniSec rule set
      * demo2.thousandparsec.net 
              * 6 hour turns
              * Restarted when somebody takes over 80% of the universe
              * Partial MTSec rule set

Hope you all enjoy the new release!

Tim Ansell aka Mithro
tpclient-pywx lead developer.