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* Switched to .tar.xz.
* Added missing depednencies; now all supported engines are built.
* FluidSynth is not an option any more.
* Enabled release mode; but without forced compiler optimisations.
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General:
* Added MIDI driver for Atari ST / FreeMint.
* Added a 'Load' button to the Launcher (not supported by all engines).
* Added a new global main menu (GMM) dialog usable from all engines.
* Added the ability to return to the launcher from running games (via the GMM).
* Rewrote GUI renderer to use an vector based approach.
* Rewrote GUI configuration to use XML.
New Games:
* Added support for Blue's 123 Time Activities.
* Added support for Blue's ABC Time Activities.
* Added support for Bud Tucker in Double Trouble.
* Added support for The 7th Guest.
KYRA:
* Added support for Auto-save feature.
* Added support for MIDI music.
SCUMM:
* Implemented radio-chatter effect in The DIG.
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New Games:
- Added support for Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
- Added support for Elvira 2: The Jaws of Cerberus.
- Added support for I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream (demo and full game).
- Added support for preAGI game Mickey's Space Adventure.
- Added support for preAGI game Troll's Tale.
- Added support for preAGI game Winnie the Pooh in the Hundred Acre Wood.
- Added support for Amiga version of Waxworks.
- Added support for Lure of the Temptress.
General:
- Added ARM assembly routines for code in the sound mixer and SCUMM
video playback, resulting in some nice speedups on several ports.
- Improved the way keyboard input is handled internally, resolving
some odd quirks in some game / port combinations.
- Added optional 'confirm exit' dialog to the SDL backend.
- Added support for TiMidity++ MIDI server.
- Added DMedia MIDI driver for IRIX.
- Improved detection of new game variants and localized versions.
- Completely reworked internal access to files. (GSoC Task)
- Added option to delete games from the list with Del key.
- Added support for "~/" prefix being substituted by $HOME in paths
on POSIX systems (Linux, Mac OS X etc.).
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New Games:
- Added Cinematique evo 1 engine. Currently only Future Wars is supported.
- Added Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer engine.
- Added support for Gobliins 2.
- Added support for Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack.
- Added support for Ween: The Prophecy.
- Added support for Bargon Attack.
- Added Sierra AGI engine.
- Added support for Goblins 3.
- Added Parallaction engine. Currently only Nippon Safes Inc. is supported.
General:
- Added dialog which allows the user to select the GUI theme on runtime.
- Added 'Mass Add' feature to the Launcher, which allows you to scan for
all games in all subdirectories of a given directory (to use it, press
shift then click on "Add Game").
- Improved the way the auto detector generates target names, it now takes
a game's variant, language and platform into account.
- Improved compression for DXA movies.
- Keyboard repeat is now handled in a centralized way, rather than on a
case-by-case basis. (Simply put, all engines now have keyboard repeat.)
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support in the meantime, bump PKGREVISION.
Patch from ftp.altlinux.org /pub/people/thresh
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(e.g. NetBSD 3.0).
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New Games:
- Added kyra engine (for the Kyrandia series). Currently only the first
part of the series is supported.
- Added support for The Feeble Files
General:
- Fixed a bug that prevented you from overriding the scaler from the command
line for 640x480 games.
- Added subtitle configuration controls to the Launcher options dialogs.
- GUI was completely redesigned and is now themeable.
SCUMM:
- Rewrote the detection code, for improved accuracy and better support of
fan translations. It should now work much better on games with unknown
MD5.
- Added subtitle configuration controls to the options dialog.
- Fixed graphical glitches in several HE games.
- Fixed palette glitches in Big Thinkers 1st Grade.
- Fixed songs in the kitchen of Pajama Sam 1.
SAGA
- Fixed sound distortion in the Inherit the Earth demo.
Simon
- Improved Hebrew support
- Lots of long-overdue cleanups and re-structuring were made to accomodate
for The Feeble Files.
- Fixed a rare MIDI bug that would cause a channel to change volume without
adjusting it to the master volume.
- Fixed delay after introduction of Simon the Sorcerer 1 demo (With speech)
- Fixed music tempo in DOS versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
Broken Sword 1:
- Added support for the --save-slot option.
Broken Sword 2:
- Major rewrite of how game resources are accessed in memory. This
should fix alignment issues reported on some platforms.
- Missing data files are handled more gracefully.
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New Games:
- Added SAGA engine (for the games "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"
and "Inherit the Earth").
- Added Gob engine (for the Goblins series). Currently, only the first of
the Goblins games is supported.
New Ports:
- Added PlayStation 2 port.
- Added PlayStation Portable (PSP) port.
- Added AmigaOS 4 port.
- Added EPOC/SymbianOS port.
- Added fixes for OS/2 port.
General:
- Reworked cursor handling in SDL backend. Now cursors can have their own
palette and scaling. This is used by Humongous Entertainment games now.
- Added FluidSynth MIDI driver.
- Added GUI for the "soundfont" setting. (Currently only used by the
CoreAudio and FluidSynth MIDI drivers.)
- The MPEG player could hang if the sound ended prematurely.
- Improved autoscaling GUI, which takes full advantage of your screen.
- Fixes for GCC 4.
SCUMM:
- Added support for Mac Humongous Entertainment titles.
- Added support for multiple filenames/versions using a single target.
- Implemented CGA and Hercules render modes in early LEC titles.
- Added dialogs which are shown when you modify the talkspeed or music
volume using hotkeys.
- Added support for NES version of Maniac Mansion.
- Added thumbnail support for savegames.
- Broke compatibility with HE savegame (HE v71 and upwards only).
- Added possibility to disable building of HE and SCUMM v7 & v8 games
support.
- Fixed the last few known music glitches in Sam & Max. (There are still
some - probably - minor missing features though.)
- Added support for Commodore64 version of Zak McKracken
- Eliminated all demos targets and platform-specific targets. Config file
is autoupdated.
Sword2:
- Made the resource manager expire resources more intelligently.
- Improved performance when playing the game from CD instead of hard disk.
- Simplified sound effects handling. Again.
- Code cleanups and restructuring.
- Fixed long-standing bug in decompressing sounds from the speech/music CLU
files. It was generating one sample too many, which could be heard as a
very slight popping noise at the end of some sounds. Files that have been
compressed with older versions of compress_sword2 will, of course, still
have the same error. You may want to regenerate them.
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General:
- Added a MT-32 emulator. (It was actually added in 0.7.0 but we forgot to
put it into the NEWS file :-).
- Less memory-hungry MPEG movie playback for the Broken Sword games.
SCUMM:
- Fixed wrong actor animation in Full Throttle INSANE
Windows Mobile port (PocketPC / Smartphone) :
- Fixed FOTAQ crash on all platforms when leaving the hotel AGAIN
- Better low quality Adlib emulation for FOTAQ
- Fix randomly broken Hide Toolbar option (thanks iKi)
- Fix first hardware key mapping (was not displayed before)
- Fix BASS & Simon hangs on Smartphone when using the Skip hotkey
- Fix Zone key action on Smartphone (now mapped on key 9)
- Experimental third party VGA mode (SE-VGA) fix
- Add Key Mapping option in the launcher (Options / Misc / Keys)
- Remove AYGSHELL.DLL dependency to work on CE .Net platforms
- Fix key mapping issues introduced in 0.7.0
- Full Throttle interactive action sequences should be more playable.
- New key mapping option "FT Cheat" to win a Full Throttle action sequence
- Quit Simon game with 'Action key' on Smartphones
Sword2:
- Fixed crash caused by attempting to play music from CD1 and CD2 at the
same time.
- Fixed crash in the cutscene player if the speech file was missing.
BASS:
- Fixed crash when talking to the gardener using spanish text with the
floppy version.
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New Games:
- Added 26 Humongous Entertainment titles, only a few are completable.
General:
- Added support for FLAC (lossless) encoded audio files
- Added an 'On Screen Display' to the SDL backend
- Partially rewrote the backend API
- Comments and the order of section in config files are preserved now
- Updated AdvMame scalers based on scale2x 2.0 - AdvMame3x looks nicer now,
and AdvMame2x is MMX accelerated
- Added MMX i386 assembler versions of the HQ2x and HQ3x scalers
- Added 'Extra Path' option allows for a searching an additional datafile
location (for reencoded cutscenes and the like)
- Disabled Alt-x and Ctrl-z quit keys in favour of Ctrl-q on unix like
operating systems, like Linux (exception: Mac OS X still uses Cmd-q)
- Separate smaller font for the console, allowing for more visible
information, for example in the SCUMM debugger.
- Added support for setting output sample rate at run-time, although there
is currently no GUI for it.
- The save directory now has a default rather than the current directory on
some platforms:
Mac OS X: $HOME/Documents/ScummVM Savegames/
Other unices: $HOME/.scummvm/
- Added a new about dialog with scrolling credits
SCUMM:
- Removed the old zak256 target, use zakTowns instead
- Added native support for Macintosh versions using a special container
file. This removes the need for using the 'RESCUMM' program
- Added smooth horizontal scrolling for The Dig, Full Throttle and COMI
(matching the original engine)
- Partially rewrote the text engine, fixing various bugs, especially in
newer games (The Dig, COMI)
- Fixed actor drawing glitches in V1 Maniac and Zak
- Fixed ship-to-ship graphic glitches in COMI
- Fixed palette glitches in COMI
Queen:
- Fixed some issues with the Dreamcast backend.
Sword1:
- Added support for compressed speech and music.
- Added support for the demo.
- Better support for the Czech version.
- Added workarounds for script and subtitle bugs in some game versions.
Sword2:
- Simplified memory/resource management
- Simplified sound effects handling
- Added support for compressed speech and music.
- Fixed various minor bugs.
BASS:
- Added workarounds for some rare scripting bugs that could render the game
unwinnable.
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General:
- Fixed sound glitch when streaming two or more Ogg Vorbis sounds from the
same file handle, e.g. in the Sam & Max intro when using monster.sog.
SCUMM:
- Many SCUMM game engine fixes.
- Added graphics decoders for 3DO Humongous Entertainment games
- Numerous Humongous Entertainment games fixes
- Fixed bug in Full Throttle, so battle difficulty matches original
- Improved Digital iMUSE
Sword1:
- Warn the user if saving fails, instead of crashing.
- Slightly more user-friendly save/restore dialog.
- Fixed masking glitch outside Nico's apartment.
BASS:
- Warn the user if saving a game doesn't work.
Simon:
- Fixed crashes in some international versions
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This release contains many bugfixes and improvements, two new
graphics scalers (HQ2X/HQ3X), better launcher/options support and
support for the following new games: V1 versions of the LucasArts
games Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken, the LucasArts game Full
Throttle, Broken Sword 1/2, and Flight of the Amazon Queen.
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* Extensive overhaul of the music subsystem, more games now support music
* Support for the Enhanced (V2) versions of Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken
* Support for Beneath A Steel Sky
* Aspect Ratio correction added
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- Curse of Monkey Island (comi) support (experimental)
- Added support for the EGA versions of Loom, Monkey Island and Indy3
- Improved music support in Indy3 and the floppy versions of Monkey Islands
- Many Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2 improvements and fixes
- Very pre-alpha Beneath a Steel Sky code. Don't expect it to do anything.
[not compiled in]
- Even more pre-alpha support for V2 SCUMM games (Maniac Mansion and Zak)
- Preliminary support for early Humongous Entertainment titles (very experimental)
- New debug console and several GUI/Launcher enhancements
- New Save/Load code (easier to expand while retaining compatibility)
- DreamCast port now works with new games added for 0.3.0b
- New official PalmOS port
- Various minor and not so minor SCUMM game fixes
- Large memory leak fixed for The Dig/ComI
- SMUSH code optimised, frame dropping added for slower machines
- Code cleanups
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changes by me.
Changes:
- fix major race condition resulting in extremely frequent crashes on
MorphOS/PocketPC
- massive cleanup work for iMUSE. Sam and Max music now plays correctly
- many bugfixes for Zak256, + sound and music support
- music support for Simon the Sorcerer on any platform with real MIDI
- experimental support for Indy3 (VGA) - Indiana Jones + Last Crusade
- completed support for Monkey1 VGA Floppy, The Dig
- added akos16 implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle costumes
- added digital iMUSE implementation for The Dig and Full Throttle music.
- Loom CD speech+music syncronisation improved greatly
- added midi-emulation via adlib, for platforms without sequencer support
- code seperation of various engine parts into several libraries
- several fixes to prevent Simon the Sorcerer crashing and hanging
- hundreds of bugfixes for many other games
- new SMUSH video engine, for Full Throttle and The Dig
- new in-game GUI
- launcher dialog
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the data files). Package provided by Adam Ciarcinski, cleaned up and
buildlink2ed by me.
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