Wizou updated Freelancer Companion Source Code!!!

[Drox]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/flcompanion/


Here's the email I sent, if you're interested:

24-JUN-2016 Message from Drox to Wizou:
Hello.
Firstly, thank you for your hard work on Companion. I've used it extensively over the years and it's truly one of my favorite pieces of software.
As I understand it, you've discontinued development and have made it open source, but without some necessary DLLs for column sorting. I do appreciate the open source nature of it. Thank you. However, I am not skilled enough to continue work on it...
Discovery is still a rather popular mod for Freelancer, but the current version, 4.88, breaks Companion's compatibility... the devs modified universe.ini and the dynamic economy won't load.
There are several posts on the DiscoveryGC forums with people trying to create workarounds, but there is no good solution...
I am writing this message in hopes that you will continue development on Companion, or possibly make the dependences for column sorting available. (Some people claim to have a working Companion 2.01 with column sorting and dynamic economy, but I've tried for many hours with no luck.)
Please, I beg you, if you can do anything to help the situation, many of us would be greatly appreciative. I'm not sure what it would take... releasing the dependencies... modifying Companion's base code to skip checking universe.ini... I really don't know.
I thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. Companion is really a required tool and without it, Freelancer is really not worth playing.
Sincerely,
Drox

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10-JUL-2016 Message from Wizou to Drox:
Hi Drox
I heard your plea
And as you may have seen, I've updated FLCompanion sources on Sourceforge and fixed all the problems I could see with DiscoveryGC
Enjoy !
Olivier

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10-JUL-2016 Message from Drox to Wizou:
Dear Olivier,

WOW!!! Thank you!!! Frankly, I was expecting a reply along the lines of "I made it open source, let someone else deal with it..." since it's been quite a while since you last updated it. I am amazed and overjoyed, especially since it didn't take you very long at all! Thank you so much! I am positive other Discovery players will be extremely happy as well! There have been countless threads on getting old versions to work... Opening the launcher, modifying universe.ini, running FLC, re-modifying universe.ini, running the game, importing the dynamic economy... it was quite the workaround and it frustrated many people. I can't wait to check it out!
Thank you again so very much. When I can afford it, you will be receiving a donation!
I'm off to spread the word and see what the new version has in store!
Yours Truly,
Drox

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What a great guy. I can't wait to use it without jumping through hoops!