First release of OpenGamePanel

Tyger — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:39:23 -0000

We're pleased to announce the first sourceforge.net release of the OpenGamePanel web and agent files.
After about a year of development, we have reached a milestone suitable for an official release. It's still alpha code, but has most of the functionality of the old hldStart2.
OpenGamePanel is an administration tool written in PHP for managing game servers. Using remote agents, a single OGP web app can manage many remote game servers.

hldStart --> Open Game Panel

Tyger — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:16:25 -0000

Hello everyone,
I'm writing to announce that hldStart will be renamed and rebranded as "Open Game Panel" over the next few months.
Since version 2, hldstart has supported more games than just Half-life, so the name isn't really fitting anymore.

The 2008.3 version will be the last version under the hldstart name and branding.

Going forward, it will be referred to as "Open Game Panel" or OGP for short.

Open Game Panel will be Open Source and free as it was before, but with more improvements and better capabilities.

At this time, the sourceforge project name will remain hldstart, so all existing sourceforge services will continue to use the same URLs.

The URL of the project home page will change too.
No word on when the first release of OGP will be ready. We're still working hard though.

Please nominate hldstart for "Best project for gamers"

Tyger — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:42:06 -0000

Hello all,
The 2008 Sourceforge.net community choice award nominations have started.
If you like hldStart, please click the link, and nominate hldstart for Best project for gamers

http://sourceforge.net/awards/cca/?group_id=100705

Thanks very much, you're an awesome community!
Greg

hldstart2 Version 2008.3 has arrived!

Tyger — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:29:36 -0000

It is with much pride to announce that the 2008.3 release of hldstart is now available. There are a number bug fixes, as well as serveral improvements...
-Added ability for admins to set free form CLI startup options (in the section where you set max players)
-Added some links to help the user when settings are missing
-Allow more than 4 IPs to be set per server (unlimited)
-Fixed the bugs and permissions problems with the Admin Server montior
-restart option not getting passed into startup script fixed
-Agent not receiving some additional paramters, fixed that
-Fixed errors in Gentoo init script

**** NEW GAME ADDED **** Team Fortress 2 has been added
* New feature - Admin now has the ability to force a game server to run on a given CPU

hldstart to use MySQL backend

Tyger — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:47:30 -0000

Hello everyone -
After some debate, and input from the hldstart user community, I have decided to move hldstart2 over to a MySQL backend, rather than DB flat files.
I wanted to use DB files rather than SQL to reduce the complexity and requirements of hldStart. Now that most Linuxes have MySQL working out the of the box, setting up SQL is easier for most people, and DB flat files are mostly unknown.

With that said, the 2008.3 version will be the last release using DB files.

With the help from Solid Snake and Tyger, we are going to take the 2008.3 and convert it a SQL backend, as well as add some great new features.

There will be a conversion utility so your existing settings and users can be imported into the new SQL database.

Sorry for the dramatic change, but the general interest in the community was to use a SQL backend. Most web devs are familar with it, and people wishing to contribute will have an easier time coding it.

Not sure when the first SQL release will be out, but it will **hopefully** be early summer.

The project will probably change names too. Keep and eye out on the project page for news and updates.

SVN now enabled for hldstart

Tyger — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:36:26 -0000

Hello Everyone -
I have enabled Subversion and have checked in a working version of 2008.3
I have some bug fixes in this working copy. It has not been thoroughly tested, but feel free to check out a copy to give it a try:
svn co https://hldstart.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hldstart hldstart

hldstart2-v2008.3 coming soon

Tyger — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:29:39 -0000

Thanks to everyone who put up with the bugs in the 22008 version, and those of you who posted them in the forum.
I have fixed them and will be releasing the fixes in the 2008.3 version, along with a new command line update utility that will allow you to easily update your hldstart web installation.
Stay tuned for more info about this release. Testing will begin soon...

hldstart2-v22008r1 - quick fix

Tyger — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:30:38 -0000

Hello all!
My apologies, I had a bug in one of the scripts that managed to make it into my final package.
A Perl script that handles decryption in for remote agent communications was outputting error messages, causing problems with lib_remote.php - make for that "Key Mismatch" error.
Thanks to DF Beyond Devil for posting about the problem, and giving me access to his servers to trouble shoot and find the problem.

hldStart2-v22008 is here!

Tyger — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:57:29 -0000

After some delays, I'm very pleased to announce that hldStart2 Version 22008 is now available for download! (I know, it was supposed to be version 12008, but things have been busy, and I did lots of testing and documentation.
If you have problems, please contact me in the forum.
http://www.gamehound.net/~hldstart/

Next release coming soon/big changes

Tyger — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:16:55 -0000

The next release of hldstart2, featuring the new remote agent, is coming soon. I have decided to make the agent a required component to help reduce the complexity of coding and management.
Fear not! It will only make your life easier! Read this post for more info:
https://www.gamehound.net/~hldstart/forum/viewtopic.php?p=616#616

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