What?!? Legacy GameMaker Version Updated

Lead developer here.

I bit the bullet and purchased a copy of GameMaker Studio 2. It's something I vowed never to do, but I got curious and, well, that lead to my wallet being drained once again by YoyoGames.

After I bought it, I got curious if I could even load up the old version of Fringes with it. Indeed I could! But it was brokey-wokey :( As always, new version of GameMaker = new bugs and changes have to be made. Sooooooo... I spent a couple of weeks tracking down bugs and updating functions, removing some problematic DLL files, and voila! we've got the latest version of Fringes of the GameMaker (Version 89). The previous releases before this update came packaged with version 71, the last known somewhat working copy I could find since GameMaker 1.2 was completely broken (which is why I feel I deserve a refund of $500!!).

For those of you who aren't familiar with this project's history, I started making Fringes of the Empire in GameMaker 1.2 (and I paid a wopping $500 for a special version of it that six months later was basically discontinued) .. it turned out to be a big mess. A big hot mess. So I released all of my improvements as GML-Pro and began rewriting a better version in C++.

Here is the latest version of the GameMaker project -- this one is better than the one I've been distributing as "Legacy" .. so if you played or attempted to play the GameMaker Legacy Version of Fringes of the Empire, you may want to take the time to revisit it! This one will allow you to explore more, fight more, with less bugs, and more weapons and enemies. It also features the voice acting of Autumn Woodland!

I've decided that, since I've got it working, I'm going to make some changes and finish the game and release it as part of this same universe, but focused on the Interstellar Police Force -- the UFSE Vice Squad -- as a game where you bounty hunt space pirates.

However, you get to play around with this early preview version as part of the Fringes game.

Please feel free to leave feedback and I hope you enjoy this GameMaker version of Fringes of the Empire -- a free additional game-lette included with the main Fringes of the Empire game.