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A new type of demo version has been released of Knights and Merchants - The Peasants Rebellion. It includes the full game, but you are limited to playing it for 30 minutes total. The demo is approx. 140 mb in size due to the fact that everything is included in it, so modem users can only dream about playing this version of the demo. Download it from here!Also as I promised on the forums, I decided to release an incomplete version of my document decribing some of the commands that can be used when creating a mission.
I don't know how easy it's to understand what I have written so send me an e-mail if you got some suggestions on how to improve it! It's currently in txt format only and can be viewed from here. (Mirror)

Also as I promised on the forums, I decided to release an incomplete version of my document decribing some of the commands that can be used when creating a mission.
I don't know how easy it's to understand what I have written so send me an e-mail if you got some suggestions on how to improve it! It's currently in txt format only and can be viewed from here (dead).

Some of you probably noticed that the site had a three day downtime due to the fact that the host had some problems, but the forums were still functional until recently, when they also started bugging. However right now everything seems to be in order so if you find anything broken e-mail me!

It seems like Peter Ohlamm and Adam Sprys (the members of Joymania) have founded a new company called "OHLMANN PETER & SPRYS ADAM GBR". In theory this means that they are both alive so the fact that they could be developing Knights and Merchants 2 is not impossible. However don't get your hopes up, as noone yet knows what this really means. The name change is really strange as I think Joymania is a better name for a company. More news will probably follow!

Thanks to Buggy for discovering this!
Source: http://web2.cylex.de/firma-home/ohlmann-peter-_-sprys-adam-gbr-1350991.html

Update! - 9.5.2006
It seems like this comapny has in fact been in existance for about 8 years according to The Knight, so this news can probably be ignored!

Last time it was bad news, well this time it's time for good news. ;)
As I mentioned in the decoding section the mission files were decoded and the results were published but they dissapeared. Now I managed to contact free_sms_km thanks to Krom and got the results of his decoding. So in conclusion, why are you still reading this? Go of to the decoding section and figure out how to make yourself some missions!

In other new Krom has started writing an editor for Knights and Merchants. It's progressing in a nice speed and he told that a terrain editor will first be released, and later a mission editor. The editor looks promising, a screenshot of it was also shown but has unfortunately been lost somewhere.

Then to last some news about the website. The forums dissapeared so I had to make new ones (that's what you get with free hosts....), and as no backups were ever made of the old ones all posts have been lost. I hope it's not such a big problem for you!
I also fixed the last layout bugs that could be fixed which showed up in Firefox (yes I lied to you last time), those were non-scrolling backgrounds and roll-over picture descriptions.

I cannot always bring good news, and that is the case today. Both the terrain editor and the mission editor have been canceled. The reason is that The Barbarian has too little sparetime nowdays so he doesn't have time to develop the tools further, Questions about cheating has also rised when developing, and further problems have also been a part of the decision to cancel the editors. The projects are not expected to return, but wonders can always happen.

We must say a big Thank you! to The Barbarian because without him there would be no Graphics Reader, no Style Editor, no Patch Pack and much less the Service Release.

Let's wish The Barbarian luck with his life!