"Executive summary" ChangeLog targeting users
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This file tries to organize and describe the changes between releases.
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Changes are broadly classified into the following categories:
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- New Features: These are either elements of the original games that
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were first implemented in this release, or actually new capabilities
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that are visible to the user.
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- Bugfixes: The removal of visible Bad Things from the code.
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- Internal Changes: The removal of invisible Bad Things from the code,
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or changes in the way the program itself is structured. These are
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unlikely to be of interest to you unless you plan on coding
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extensions.
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Version 0.2
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NEW FEATURES
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- Planet info "coarse scan" information available and properly rendered
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- 3D spinning planet in orbit window is present, with antialiasing and
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phong lighting and an animated approach
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- Pixel-perfect collision detection
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- Build system enhanced and generalized to handle OpenBSD and FreeBSD cleanly.
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- Oscilloscope display works in communication now
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- Color-shading in planet scans
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- Earth with its slave shield now functions properly
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- Outfit Starship and Shipyard graphics re-extracted
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- OpenGL colors work on big-endian machines.
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- Save data and temp files are put in a separate directory now
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- Star sizes and colors are properly differentiated.
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- Scanline simulation added
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- Planet surface is smoothed, blurred, and randomized slightly when it's
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magnified
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- SIS Status window fully implemented (including gradiated fonts from PC
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version)
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- Dialogue "slider" shows how far along the speech is
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- 'ESC' alone lets you emergency-warp-escape
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BUGFIXES
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- Melee screens cleaned up, SuperMelle menus work.
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- Subtitles now render for all alien races
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- Major editing of subtitles to match more closely the speeches
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- Autopilot indicator doesn't take over the top of the screen anymore.
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- Entering star systems on autopilot doesn't crash the system.
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- Planet scan is properly erased when cancelling/landing
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- Initial display of planet surface on landing is at correct position
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- Spheres of influence now move correctly on the starmap
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- Melnorme correctly compute the required additional credits
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- Team names switching when selecting the next ship to fight in melee fixed
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- Commas left dots behind on planetary reports; this is fixed
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- Screen resets properly after loading/saving
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- Dialog choices wrap properly
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- Precursor ship crew count now placed correctly in melee
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- 'Cued' color transforms in conversations occur at the right time now
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- SIS correctly predicts its own fuel usage now
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- Melnorme no longer give away fuel
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- Flagship modules are properly aligned
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- The PC soundtrack now loops correctly
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- Lander upgrades were drawn incorrectly
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- Autopilot now works in QuasiSpace without fuel
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- Captain portraits in melee are updated properly now
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- If you have over 1000 units of a resource, those numbers are properly
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cleared
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INTERNAL CHANGES
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- SDL_mixer has been abandoned in favor of either OpenAL or the new
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"MixSDL" library built on the basic SDL_audio routines
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- Color transforms in communications are merged into the core animation
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thread now, improving speed and stability
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- Much more flexible handling of commandline options
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- All allocated memory is allocated through 'safe' routines that abort if
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the allocation fails.
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- Thread library now includes condition variables
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- Threads can tell the rendering thread to sleep until everything they've
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requested is done
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- The rendering thread has been recoded to use no heap space and to have a
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far smaller memory footprint.
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- Added a special #define, DCQ_OF_DOOM, which simulates severe overload
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stresses.
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- SAI and related scalers removed due to GPL incompatibilities; similar
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algorithms reimplemented under GPL.
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- Files for the intro and ending sequence have been successfully extracted
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- Rendering thread routines are somewhat more modular than before
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- Created a new set of graphics primitives that's much easier to use
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- Only parts of the screen that actually changed are updated
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- Input code rewritten entirely
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- Various functions have their names changed to avoid conflicts with
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core library routines on OS X
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Version 0.1
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- Initial release!
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