I've heard it works better on other operating systems besides Windows. Unfortunately, I don't know Linux, yet
There's no real "getting started with Huntercoin" list.
Let's collect some useful notes, assuming little knowledge and no-enthusiast-level hardware. (1 desktop PC or notebook, windows, CPU with VTx, no SSD or no free space on it for blockchain)
1) get blockchain from
http://chain.huntercoin.org/ - on Windows, get a program like "wxDownloadFastPortable" to download big files
2) get the newest 1.3.01 client, start and exit a few times while offline, rename the resulting wallet.dat files (e.g. wallet.dat.huc.new.01 to wallet.dat.huc.new.19) and BACKUP them.
- this way, it will always be easy to have a fresh (<10MB) wallet, and less lag, when playing
3) Make a reliable node (so that it'll never simply stop receiving blocks again)
- get Oracle VirtualBox and Oracle VBox guest additions
- get Linux Mint Mate edition (v17.3LTS, the old v13LTS works too)
- give the new VM 35...40GB disk space (fixed size), 2 CPUs, 64MB video ram
- to install guest additions: open VBOXADDITIONS... folder, "open in terminal", and:
sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
- don't use their stupid Update manager (paste "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" in console once per day)
- on 17.3: use Software manager, search "qt", install Qt-Creator.
- source: (get both, put in different folders)
- official v1.3.01:
https://github.com/chronokings/huntercoin - modded client:
https://github.com/wiggi/huntercoin - Dependencies:
- formatting in
http://huntercoin.org/downloads/compile-guide/ seems broken so that only 1 line is processed
- I (also) installed this:
sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev build-essential libboost-dev libboost-system-dev \
libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev \
libssl-dev libdb++-dev
- and for good measure, and bitcoin 0.11.2 (only if using Mint v17.3):
apt-get install libevent-dev
- open huntercoin-qt.pro in Qt-Creator
- in official v1.3.01 huntercoin-qt.pro, if miniupnpc is not installed, add the line
- and: Build | Build project huntercoin-qt
to be continued...