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@@ -1,91 +1,48 @@ ... * Chocolate Doom now runs on Windows Mobile/Windows CE! - * It is possible to rebind most/all of the keys that control the - menu, shortcuts, automap and weapon switching. The main - reason for this is to support the Windows CE port and other - platforms where a full keyboard may not be present. - * Chocolate Doom now includes a proper Mac OS X package; it is - no longer necessary to compile binaries for this system by - hand. The package includes a simple graphical launcher - program and can be installed simply by dragging the "Chocolate - Doom" icon to the Applications folder. + * It is possible to rebind most/all of the keys that control + the menu, shortcuts, automap and weapon switching. The + main reason for this is to support the Windows CE port + and other platforms where a full keyboard may not be present. + * Memory-mapped WAD I/O is disabled by default, as it caused + various issues, including a slowdown/crash with Plutonia 2 + MAP23. It can be explicitly re-enabled using the '-mmap' + command line parameter. * The video mode auto-adjust code will automatically choose windowed mode if no fullscreen video modes are available. - * The zone memory size is automatically reduced on systems with - a small amount of memory. - * The "join game" window in the setup tool now has an option to - automatically join a game on the local network. - * Chocolate Doom includes some initial hacks for compiling under - SDL 1.3. - * Recent versions of SDL_mixer include rewritten MIDI code on Mac - OS X. If you are using a version of SDL_mixer with the new - code, music will now be enabled by default. - * Windows Vista and Windows 7 no longer prompt for elevated - privileges when running the setup tool (thanks hobbs and - MikeRS). - * The Windows binaries now have better looking icons (thanks - MikeRS). - * Magic values specified using the -spechit command line - parameter can now be hexadecimal. - * DOOMWADDIR/DOOMWADPATH can now specify the complete path to - IWAD files, rather than the path to the directory that contains - them. - * When recording shorttics demos, errors caused by the reduced - turning resolution are carried forward, possibly making turning - smoother. + * The zone memory size is automatically reduced on systems + with a small amount of memory. + * There is now a second, small textscreen font, so that the + ENDOOM screen and setup tool can be used on low resolution + devices (eg. PDAs/embedded devices) + * The textscreen library now has a scrollable pane widget. + * Doxygen documentation was added for the textscreen library. + * The "join game" window in the setup tool now has an option + to automatically join a game on the local network. Compatibility: * The A_BossDeath behavior in v1.9 emulation mode was fixed (thanks entryway) - * The "loading" disk icon is drawn more like how it is drawn in - Vanilla Doom, also fixing a bug with chook3.wad. - * Desync on 64-bit systems with ep1-0500.lmp has (at long last) - been fixed (thanks exp(x)). - * Donut overrun emulation code imported from Prboom+ (thanks - entryway). - * The correct level name should now be shown in the automap for - pl2.wad MAP33 (thanks Janizdreg). - * In Chex Quest, the green radiation suit colormap is now used - instead of the red colormaps normally used when taking damage - or using the berserk pack. This matches Vanilla chex.exe - behavior (thanks Fuzztooth). Bugs fixed: - * Memory-mapped WAD I/O is disabled by default, as it caused - various issues, including a slowdown/crash with Plutonia 2 - MAP23. It can be explicitly re-enabled using the '-mmap' - command line parameter. * Crash when saving games due to the ~/.chocolate-doom/savegames directory not being created (thanks to everyone who reported this). - * Chocolate Doom will now run under Win95/98, as the + * Chocolate Doom will now under Win95/98, as the SetProcessAffinityMask function is looked up dynamically. * Compilation under Linux with older versions of libc will now work (the semantics for sched_setaffinity were different in older versions) * Sound clipping when using libsamplerate was improved (thanks David Flater) - * The audio buffer size is now calculated based on the sample - rate, so there is not a noticeable delay when using a lower - sample rate. - * The manpage documentation for the DOOMWADPATH variable was - fixed (thanks MikeRS). - * Compilation with FEATURE_MULTIPLAYER and FEATURE_SOUND - disabled was fixed. - * Fixed crash when using the donut special type and the joining - linedef is one sided (thanks Alexander Waldmann). - * Key settings in a configuration file that are out of range - do not cause a crash (thanks entryway). - - libtextscreen: - * There is now a second, small textscreen font, so that the - ENDOOM screen and setup tool can be used on low resolution - devices (eg. PDAs/embedded devices) - * The textscreen library now has a scrollable pane widget. Thanks - to LionsPhil for contributing code to scroll up and down using - the keyboard. - * Doxygen documentation was added for the textscreen library. + * The audio buffer size is now calculated based on the sample rate, + so there is not a noticeable delay when using a lower sample + rate. + * The manpage documentation for the DOOMWADPATH variable was fixed + (thanks MikeRS). + * Compilation with FEATURE_MULTIPLAYER and FEATURE_SOUND disabled + was fixed. 1.2.1 (2008-12-10): |