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News
Updates coming soon
Posted on:Fri Feb 27, 2026 12:48 am
It has been a long silence but some news and updates are coming soon
Discord Server
Posted on:Sun Dec 10, 2017 2:28 am
Join the Discord server at https://discord.gg/hkxKS3r to chat with us!!
Min
New Voice Server
Posted on:Thu May 03, 2012 2:17 pm
Join us on our IRC chat!
WinBolo 1.17 Released
Posted on:Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:00 pm
WinBolo 1.17 is now available for download.
Full change list can be found on the Wiki.
Thanks to Min, jhood and Sticks who are largely responsible for all the code that have gone into this new version.
WinBolo 1.16 Released
Posted on:Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:54 am
WinBolo 1.16 is now available for download.
The most noticible change is that the game play has been changed to be closer to the original Bolo game. Full list of changes are as follow:
WinBolo and related utilities are now free software and released under the terms of the GPL version 2. For more information see: http://www.winbolo.org
Game Play
* A lot of changes were done to WinBolo's game play to make closer to the feel of bolo.
* Tank acceleration, deceleration and automatic slow down rates have been changed to match Bolo.
* When hit by a shell the tank now slides in the direction it has been hit rather than getting moved there straight away.
* Changes to the base regeneration of stocks algorithm. Bases now regenerate new stock at a rate of one unit per 20 seconds per player.
* Pillboxes now shoot slightly faster.
* The time between when a player dies and when they can restart has been changed to 7 seconds.
* Swamp now takes 4 shells to turn be destroyed.
* Tanks can no longer build underneath their boat.
Networking
* RSA public key encryption. To prevent players from compiling their own clients and exploiting cheats within the games source code a test is done on joining network games to ensure that only official clients can join official servers. For more information see the WinBolo wiki.
* Dedicated server: IP addresses are now displayed with incoming information request packets.
* Dedicated server: -autoclose flag no longer closes the server when all bases are taken.
Interface
* New game opening dialog.
* Static is now drawn on the screen when a player dies. Note this changes the skin file format and older skins will no longer work correctly. Skin authors will need to update their skins to work with 1.16.
* The scroll wheel can now be used to change the gun sight range.
* Fixes drawing problems on Windows Vista.
* Players behind a NAT firewall now have their IP address displayed correctly in the networking info dialog.
* Number of free pillboxes in a game is now displayed correctly in tracker game search window.
* A single road square in water now displays the water colour correctly.
* Fixed crash on network game startup from within the game client when the inbuilt map “Everard Island” is used. – Note: Starting a game server from within the client on Vista or newer operating system has been currently disabled. Please use the dedicated server to start games.
