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so i had the demo downloaded from the startshatter site, and then found the "updated" demo 4.03 on matrix games site!!! cool!!!

i download it and go to install it, and the installer says it is version 3.9.4. huh? i figure maybe it is a typo and they jusy reused the same installer text. finish the install, start the game to check, and guess what? it IS version 3.9.4.

Matrix,
Wassup with that? Why are you advertising it as 4.0.3 and it is actually 3.9.4? Even the date is 15 Dec 04, and the 4.0.3 patch is Sep 04... Once would think it could actually have been updated by now...

3.9.4 is the updated demo, 4.0.3 is the latest commercial patch. The old demo is 3.9.0.

Yeah, it's just my funky version numbering scheme. All of the demos for Starshatter are version 3.9.x, while the full retail releases are 4.0.x. Demo 3.9.4 uses the same engine and basic data set as 4.0.3.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do for a demo version when 4.5.0 is released. Perhaps it would be less confusing to use "4.5.0 DEMO".

it would be MUCH easier if the demo version was the same as the release version...and it seems that everyone else in the world does it that way...