<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">netrek-dev,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Next Netrek pickup game: Thursday 6/11 6PM Pacific.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m pleased to announce that Netrek v2.0 for MacOS 10.15 is now live in the MacOS App Store as a free download. Those of you who downloaded via the App Store should get this as an automatic update. I suggest you delete all alpha/beta versions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition to using SwiftUI for graphics, this has other improvements:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) Better logic for auto-selecting an eligible team</div><div class="">2) A “helpful netrek hint” each time you are killed (can be turned off in preferences)</div><div class="">3) Windows can be resized</div><div class="">4) Your tractor/pressor is visible with a cool animation</div><div class="">5) “Focus follows mouse” is better than v1.3, although left-clicking is still necessary in each window before right-clicking or center-clicking is responsive.</div><div class="">6) Torpedos now have a small red detonation</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Open Source at <a href="https://github.com/darrellroot/Netrek-SwiftUI" class="">https://github.com/darrellroot/Netrek-SwiftUI</a> (note: different repository than the 1.3 version)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those of you running MacOS 10.14, I’m leaving an old version 1.3 (SpriteKit based) binary available at <a href="http://networkmom.net/netrek/" class="">http://networkmom.net/netrek/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Two ways to help:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1) You can add “help tips” via a Github pull request to the bottom of the file <a href="https://github.com/darrellroot/Netrek-SwiftUI/blob/master/Netrek2/Model/Help.swift" class="">https://github.com/darrellroot/Netrek-SwiftUI/blob/master/Netrek2/Model/Help.swift</a> (I’ll take help tips via email too).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) You can provide a positive review on the MacOS App store. The more downloads and positive reviews, the more visibility Netrek gets.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m going to take a break and then see if a native iPadOS version is workable.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Darrell</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>