Haha thanks Warheck, aren't you nice with your warm welcomes and encouragement!

I did figure CVS was the best option, after playing it the differences from 0.50 didn't seem to make a big difference to the game, to me. I'll be glad to get more people interested in the game.

If anyone happens to try the package and has any problems with it, please post away.

Hi everyone, I took the bugfix I made to the original source and made a package that anyone can use to install IVAN in Ubuntu, without having to compile the source or apply patches. Maybe it'd also be useful as an example for those who'd like to do similar packaging for their IVAN variants.

Next I'll try and get it accepted into the main Ubuntu software source, so more people can play and download it more easily. For now, here's my PPA for anyone who'd like to play or test original IVAN ("CVS"):

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Sure. The character's save method was saving out the result of GetTeam as a ulong type, but the load method was assuming the team was saved as an "int" type when that data was being restored, which gives the wrong result. That bad number got passed to game::GetTeam, which meant that the character's Team object was set to an invalid memory location. The patch makes sure the data gets loaded as a ulong.

I didn't attach properly, sorry

Hi everyone, I started playing IVAN again recently and decided to try the CVS download on this site with the 64-bit fixes. Everything compiled great, but the game crashed when going up and down dungeons. I've attached a small patch that fixes the issue. I haven't tested too much yet, I'll let you know if there's more problems with it.

I don't know if the problem is only on linux or only on 64-bit, but that's the platform I had problems on.

Thanks for keeping this site going!