You just need to rename version 0.39 of continuum.exe to subspace.exe and put it in the version1 folder so the checksums match up. The latest server has an option to allow pre-release clients (by default).
I have experience programming Palm OS, although I use PRC-Tools which is C and some 68k asm. Although I don't have VC++ and prefer to make programs within the price range of everyone. http://www.sscont.net/smong/index.php
Maybe have a few special tiles that bounce in a direction depending on their shape (with black being transparent/not part of the shape), that way you can have curves too. AFAIK it wasn't in the original SS, so it's not a flaw.
€ is already there, when UK switches over the £ will be pointless (some dodo will probably say "lets change it to a smiley" or let the zone change it to a random 8x11 picture).
So is it possible to write an ASSS plugin that extracts the encryption from the contenc module or something? What is preventing people from writing a client that uses the contenc module anyway?
The subhelp2.gif is screwed up, get a better one here: http://www.sscont.net/smong/java/subhelp/subhelp2.gif I originally found the applet here: http://ss.virtualave.net/subhelp.html