Development status

DOStopia client are now being ported from C# .NET to C++ .NET. This happens as a result of poor performance in view of speed and memory consume.

During the development of v2.x the development team was forced to rethink their strategy, especially when benchmarking revealed that the client consumed approx 20 MB ram when in regular use, and it would be running very slow on any computer less than ~1.2GHz

The team decided to promptly cease all development on v2.x of the client, and focus on v3.x instead. v3.x will be written in Visual C++ .NET, and it will be using Windows Forms for GUI interface at this stage.

The team plans to make a GTK2 interface in the future, but an eventual timeframe for this has not been officially decided. The team will focus most of future GUI features to be Windows Vista compliant, before attempting to utilize other GUI managers.

The v3.0 release date is set to be July 25th 2006.