: Er, what do these installers do exactly? Do they retrieve the latest version
: of Aleph One (from the website or the user's hard drive), or do they
: become out of date and network-incompatible when a new version is
: released?
They are already out of date with the latest version, and I don't think that they even have internet capability compiled into them. I am using an EXE from probably close to a year ago. In windows properties it shows as AppVersion 0.11 and in FileVersion it shows 0.12. I chose this build of Aleph because it had custom icons built into the executable and because it was the only windows version that I have tried which did not show the player as black on black in the overhead map.
This is not meant to be a current package to replace the AlephOne latest windows distro. It is meant as complete, everything included in one download, one double-click solution for the trilogy and third party scenarios that are available. Think of what a windows user without any Mac experience or access to a Mac has to do to play Evil or Rubicon. Quite impossible for them to make it happen, actually. Download a single installer, double click and you are now playing Rubicon on your windows PC. That is what i'm looking to do here. Make the wealth of marathon material accessible with an absolute minimum of effort.
The question I pose to you is... what benefit is there in using the latest windows build over one from a year ago besides net-play?
