0.7.0 (2004-12-24)
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.
PR: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
Submitted by: ports/75798
USE_SDL=yes -> USE_SDL=sdl (good examles everywhere)
WANT_SDL/HAVE_SDL instead of exists(localbase/lib/lib...)
See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-sdl.html
for more information on how to use USE_SDL, WANT_SDL and HAVE_SDL.
PR: follow-ups of ports/55494, ports/61877
Submitted by: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Looks ok for me modulo he sent a shar instead of a diff
-ruN. Please, pass maintainership to Alex as I'm not going
to keep up with it.
PR: ports/56333
Submmited by: Alex Trull <alexander@trull.com>
This is part of the PR. The update to the port will have to wait
until after the ports freeze.
PR: 46150
Submitted by: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
