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Welcome to The Holotable, where you can find everything you need to play Star Wars CCG online! Holotable and Holodeck provide the gameplay and deck building components, respectively, you need. Both are updated frequently, with user input having a major effect on what gets done. If you've been playing all along the lifespan of SWCCG, or if you're just getting (back) into the game, Holotable provides you the ability to play the game even when you don't have anyone around your area who plays anymore. Check out the links on the left to find out more, then go to the download page to find instructions on how to get started.

News

5/29/10

Holotable 0.8.8 is now available from the downloads section.

The main changes are several features to help people who are limited to smaller screen/table sizes to be able to have a better experience. Users can detach the hand area (just like the detach chat/log feature that has existed for a long time), hide the status and phase/turn bars, and cause auto-adjustment of the table size to use the smallest dimensions instead of the largest. This last feature is intended to help players with small table sizes be able to see everything that goes on on the table (one benefit of which is they can do more to detect cheating attempts).

Additionally, the user can suppress the pile shuffle that happens after a search. The "lose Force to" command now uses the correct card name when used with a two-sided card that has its "back" (second) side facing up.

Matt

11/21/09

Holotable 0.8.6 is now available from the downloads section.

It has several bugfixes. A large number of potential jumping card conditions have been removed. A problem with saved games which could crash the program has been fixed. A complicated problem with pile search and verify dialogs which would crash the program has been fixed as well.

Matt

11/14/09

Holotable 0.8.5 and Holodeck 0.3.4 are now available from the downloads section.

Holotable 0.8.5 has the capability to automatically update image files (optional). This is very similar to the CDF and program update capability from 0.8.4. Additionally, the pile search dialog card list comes up in pile order; that is, the top card in the pile is at the top of the card list. The list can be sorted alphabetically by clicking on the column header. A long-standing bug where some people would see cards jump across the table has been fixed.

Holodeck 0.3.4 allows the user to create random decks. The sets used as the card pool are selectable. All cards have the same weight when being selected.

If you have 0.8.4 set for trying to download program updates, it's not going to work. It will download the file and then fail to execute it. Apparently I screwed something up in the 0.8.4 code after testing it with the program update function. It appears that the GTK call doesn't work as it should. Anyway, you ought to have a file "ht_temp.exe" in your Holotable install directory after that fails. You can manually run that and get the new versions (it's a normal installer). Alternatively, you can download the update from the Holotable website. I modified (and tested) 0.8.5 so that it should be able to do program updates correctly in the future. I guess we'll have to see what really happens when the time comes.

Thanks to MAVanDriel, Accolon, and JediJer for their testing help. Some image updates (available through 0.8.5) are courtesy of Crickett.

Matt

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