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Description

JOverseer is a desktop application which aims to assist players of the Middle Earth PBM game (http://www.middleearthgames.com).

The player facing 'help' for the usage of Joverseer is now hosted here https://www.middleearthgames.com/joverseer-troubleshooting/

If you make changes that would need an edit to the player facing 'help' please get in touch with [email protected] to organise that.

Downloading Although the source code is still hosted here, the official downloads will be found at http://www.middleearthgames.com/gamingsoftware/.

The latest version is 1.18.0, released on August 11, 2022. See the Changelog for more details of bugs fixed.

Updating

To spot new versions, the updater will visit the RSS feed http://www.middleearthgames.com/software/joverseer/feed.xml once a week. If it finds a new version, then it will notify you, show you what's changed and ask if you want to update. If you do, then it will download and install it. Updates are currently about 2MB instead of the 35MB for the full install.

JOverseer now installs a minimal version of the free open-jdk java.

Running

Windows users can now run jOverseer.exe which replaces the old batch file and automatically configures the java environment for joverseer.jar.

Mailing Lists - Getting Involved

To ask questions, offer suggestions, or report bugs please use the mepbm forums or discord server as a first choice. (see http://www.middleearthgames.com/ for the contact details)

Read the Documentation - Wiki Pages

• Installation instructions
• Introduction
• Help for the Map display
• Entering Orders
• Importing Orders
• Checking Orders

Powered by:

• the Spring RCP (http://www.springframework.org/spring-rcp)
• JIDE (http://www.jidesoft.com)
• JIDE Spring Rich Client Integration (https://jide-springrcp.dev.java.net/)
• PDFBox (http://www.pdfboxorg)
• txt2xml (http://txt2xml.sourceforge.net)
• the Eclipse icon set (http://www.eclipse.org)
• Apache Digester

Developed by:

• Marios Skounakis
• Dave Spring (current maintainer)

Special thanks to:

• Brad Brunet, who spent long hours testing JOverseer and offering feedback and ideas, and who is also helping to support it.
• Wade F. Buhr, Mark Jeffries, Scott Moyes, Adrian Sheridan, Jerry Soules, Jon Steer, Lynn Still, who helped with testing, finding bugs and suffering through the various shortcomings of the first versions. Several of these guys also contributed very useful feedback and ideas for improvement. JOverseer would not be what it currently is without their contribution.
• Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Haris Nikokavouras, Manolis Perakis, who originally tested the program in alpha version.
• Mike Mulka (author of Automagic), for letting me clone the Automagic Economy Calculator.
• Edward Lane, who helped with some issues with the XML parsing.
• Jason Bennett (author of MEOW), for some tips on turn auto-submission.
• Clint Oldridge, for supporting the project and prodding other people to help.
• Rob Jones, for sending me various ME materials.

Last update: 11 August 2022, Dave Spring