| 1 | News for Abuse 0.8 (2011-05-09) |
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| 3 | - Support for the original music packs! |
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| 4 | - The fRaBs and main Abuse artwork were merged. Due to name conflicts |
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| 5 | in the level files, fRaBs save games will no longer work. |
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| 6 | - 15 save slots instead of 5. |
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| 7 | - The Lisp interpreter was heavily improved and now uses its |
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| 8 | garbage collected allocator instead of malloc. |
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| 9 | - A new abuse-tool binary helps editing Abuse data files. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | New for Abuse-SDL 0.7.1 (2008-03-02) |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | - Countless bugfixes (memory leaks, alignment issues, 64-bit |
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| 14 | portability, buffer overflows, uninitialised data). |
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| 15 | - New webpage. |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.7.0 (2002-12-15) |
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| 19 | - Added OpenGL support. (Joris Beugnies) |
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| 20 | - Fixed to compile on MacOSX. (Ben Hines, Julian Mayer) |
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| 21 | - Fixed window manager "Quit" events being ignored. |
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| 22 | - Can specify the location of the datafiles in the abuserc now. |
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| 23 | - Updated documentation regarding installation of the datafiles. |
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| 24 | |
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| 25 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.6.1 (2002-02-04) |
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| 27 | - Fixed video blit routine, giving a large speedup. (Bob Ippolito) |
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| 28 | - Fixed to compile with gcc 3.0.x. |
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| 29 | - Fixed to compile on Sparc systems.(Arto Jantunen) |
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| 31 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.6.0 (2002-01-19) |
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| 33 | - Rebuilt the make and configure scripts, including patches.(nix) |
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| 34 | - gamma.lsp now stored in the ~/.abuse directory. |
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| 35 | - Sound is disabled if no sound files are available. |
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| 36 | - Tweaked timing routines. |
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| 37 | - Improved mouse handling, should be more responsive on slower systems. |
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| 38 | - The binary can now be in a different location to the datafiles. (nix) |
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| 39 | - Fixed -fullscreen command-line option. |
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| 40 | - Fixed pressing both mouse buttons being ignored if "Emulate3Buttons" |
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| 41 | is enabled. |
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| 42 | - Fixed the size of the volume settings dialog. |
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| 43 | - Fixed to compile on BigEndian systems.(Arto Jantunen) |
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| 44 | - Added scaling. |
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| 45 | - Added a man page. |
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| 46 | |
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| 47 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.5.0 (2001-08-14) |
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| 49 | - More 100% CPU usage fixes.(Ed Snible) |
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| 50 | - More temp files (light.tbl, end.mem) are now stored in |
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| 51 | the ~/.abuse/ directory. |
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| 52 | - Fixed compile problems on Solaris. |
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| 53 | - Fixed slight graphics corruption at the bottom of the main menu screen. |
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| 54 | - Added the ability to customise the keys used in the game. |
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| 55 | - Updated documentation. |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.8 (2001-04-29) |
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| 59 | - Stopped Abuse using 100% CPU time in certain places.(Ed Snible) |
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| 60 | - Fixed problem with saving games on some systems. |
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| 61 | - Added missing documentation about the abuserc file. |
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| 62 | - Configure script now handles the X libraries not being in ld's default |
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| 63 | library path.(Arto Jantunen) |
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| 64 | - Fixed compile problem when SDL isn't installed in a /SDL directory in |
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| 65 | the include path. |
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| 66 | - Fixed the -window_scale option to set the size of the window properly. |
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| 67 | Performance when using this option is still bad. |
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| 68 | - Can now use the mouse to skip the intro story. |
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| 70 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.7 (2001-03-09) |
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| 72 | - Temp files (fastload.dat, level backups etc) are now stored in |
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| 73 | the ~/.abuse/ directory. |
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| 74 | - SDL include and library locations are now gathered from sdl-config. |
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| 75 | - Fixed a crash on some systems when saving games. |
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| 76 | Those who were getting this crash may not be able to save games. |
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| 77 | Abuse-SDL will print out what it was trying to do in this case. |
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| 78 | - Improved audio mixing when lots of sounds are playing. |
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| 79 | - Toggling Grab Mouse now informs what state it is in. |
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| 80 | - The numpad can now be used for movement aswell as the cursor keys. |
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| 81 | - Settings can be stored in an rc file (~/.abuse/abuserc). |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.6 (2001-02-15) |
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| 85 | - Don't even check for the existence of a sound file if sound is disabled. |
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| 86 | - Added some checks to the video code to handle failure gracefully. |
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| 87 | - Fixes to compile under gcc 2.96. |
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| 88 | - Fixed the graphic glitches relating to the gamma window and the save |
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| 89 | game dialog. |
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| 91 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.5 (2001-02-06) |
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| 93 | - Stopped loading and trying to play sound files when sound has been |
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| 94 | disabled. |
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| 96 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.4 (2001-02-05) |
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| 98 | - Adjusted the make and configure scripts. |
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| 99 | Can now specify the install location with the --with-abuse-dir flag |
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| 100 | to 'configure'. Defaults to '/usr/local/bin' if not specified. |
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| 101 | - Added grab-mouse support. F12 toggles this on and off. |
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| 102 | - Added screenshot support. PRNT-SCRN key takes a screenshot. |
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| 103 | - Can now toggle fullscreen during the game. F11 toggles this on and off. |
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| 104 | - Added mousewheel support for changing weapons. |
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| 105 | - Savegames are now stored under ~/.abuse/ |
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| 106 | - Window now has it's own icon(abuse.bmp). Looks nicer in tasklists etc. |
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| 107 | - Updated the AUTHORS file as it was a little out of date. |
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| 108 | |
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| 109 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.3 (2001-01-21) |
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| 111 | - Fixed a problem with initialising the mouse driver. |
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| 112 | - Reenabled net code. Doesn't work very well yet. |
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| 113 | |
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| 114 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.2 (2001-01-20) |
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| 116 | - Fixed to compile under gcc 2.95.2 |
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| 117 | - More code tidying. |
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| 119 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4.1 (2001-01-13) |
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| 121 | - Rebuilt the make and configure scripts. |
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| 122 | - Added an icon. (abuse.png) |
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| 123 | - Code tidying. |
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| 124 | - Improved key and mouse handling. |
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| 125 | |
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| 126 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.4 (2000-12-30) |
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| 128 | - First release with source available |
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| 129 | - Fixed a _huge_ memory leak caused by the stereo sound stuff. (oops) |
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| 130 | - Fixed a crash if SDL failed to initialise. |
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| 131 | - Tidied up the code, makefiles and configure scripts. |
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| 133 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.3 (2000-12-24) |
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| 135 | - Fixed palette changing when running at 8bpp. |
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| 136 | - Fixed draw problem when a window was moved off the screen. |
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| 137 | - Fixed sound getting choppy and eventually disappearing. |
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| 138 | - Fixed an extremely rare crash when playing sounds. |
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| 139 | - Added stereo sound and panning. (-mono to disable) |
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| 140 | - Removed some stray debug messages that I accidently left in. |
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| 142 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.2 (2000-12-13) |
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| 144 | - Removed dependancy on lnx_sndsrv. |
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| 145 | All sound is now handled through the SDL API. |
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| 146 | - Added fullscreen and doublebuffer modes. |
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| 148 | News for Abuse-SDL 0.1 (2000-11-10) |
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| 150 | - First public release. |
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