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For a more comprehensive changelog for the latest experimental CVS code, see:
        http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/daily/ChangeLog

0.??
 New Games:
   - ...

 New Ports:
   - ...

 General:
   - ...

 SCUMM:
   - ...

 Broken Sword 2:
   - Major rewrite of how game resources are accessed in memory. This
     should fix alignment issues reported on some platforms.

0.8.1 (????-??-??)
 General:
   - Fixed crash when trying to apply aspect-ratio correction to games that
     cannot use it.
   - Fixed potential security vulnerability with oversized PATH environment
     variables.

 SCUMM:
   - Fixed mouse button states in COMI.
   - Fixed subtitles glitches in HE Games.
   - Improved support for international versions of HE games.
   - Improved support for Macintosh versions of games.

 Simon:
   - Added Polish support for Simon the Sorcerer 2.
   - Fixed fades during ride to goblins camp in Simon the Sorcerer 2.
   - Fixed palette delay at the end of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
   - Fixed sound looping in Windows version of Simon the Sorcerer 2.

 Sword1:
   - Fixed a bug where looping sounds would keep playing during cutscenes or
     when displaying any form of control panel dialog.
   - The save game dialog would erroneously claim an I/O error occurred if the
     savegame list had unused slots, and savegames were compressed.
   - Fixed a scrolling bug which caused the finale sequence to be displayed
     incorrectly.

 Sword2:
   - Fixes and cleanups to the end credits. The German credits work now.

 PSP Port:
   - Fixed a bug that caused Broken Sword 1, and games that use ripped CDDA
     tracks (most notably the CD version of Monkey Island 1), to stop
     functioning properly after a while.

0.8.0 (2005-10-30)
 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.

0.7.1 (2005-03-27)
 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.

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.

0.6.1b (2004-08-03)
 General:
   - Fixed copy/paste bug in launcher that may corrupt the Savegame Path 
   - Fixed crashes on 64-bit architectures

 SCUMM:
   - Fixed VOC crash when playing DOTT Floppy
   - Fixed palette issues in Amiga version of MI2

 Simon:
   - Fixed VOC crash

0.6.1 (2004-07-25)
 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:
   - As usual: 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

0.6.0 (2004-03-14)
 New Games:
   - Added Broken Sword 1 engine.
   - Added Broken Sword 2 engine.
   - Added Flight of the Amazon Queen engine
   - Added support for V1 SCUMM games 'Maniac Mansion' and 'Zak McKracken'
   - SCUMM game Full Throttle is now supported

 General:
   - Subtitles now default to disabled. '-n' option now enabled subtitles.
   - Added HQ2x and HQ3x scalers
   - Rewrote sound code for more flexibility and performance
   - Improved native MT32 support
   - Adlib GM emulation table revamped, providing more accurate software MIDI
   - Default Makefile now uses configure script
   - Greatly improved the launcher and options dialogs (work-in-progress)
   - Many other "under the hood" improvements, like a new config managment
	 and plugin capabilities

 Simon:
   - Added data files decoder for Amiga disk versions
   - Added support for inventory graphics in Amiga versions
   - Fixed various brief freezes
   - Fixed minor glitches in load/save dialog in non-English versions
   - Fixed missing inventory arrows in some versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1

 SCUMM:
   - Many, Many, Many SCUMM game engine fixes. Many of them. And that's a lot.
   - Added INSANE support for Full Throttle 'action sequences'
   - Added option to choose between Adlib, PCjr and PC Speaker in earlier games.
   - Added Adlib support for indy3ega and loom (ega)
   - Added MIDI support for loom (ega), monkeyega and monkeyvga.
   - Added sound effects support for indy3/monkeyega/monkeyvga/pass
   - Added FM Towns targets for Loom and Indy3
   - Rewrote in-game menu (F5) to be easier to use
   - Improved FM Towns SFX support (YM2612 emulation, looping)
   - Classic V1 versions of Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken are now supported and completable
   - Rewrote Digital iMUSE music system
   - Several Analog iMUSE music system bugs fixed
   - Improved music/sound for various Amiga versions
   - Improved compression of Fate of Atlantis and Simon the Sorcerer 2 sound files
   - Keyboard fighting in Fate of Atlantis now works
   - Keyboard support for cannon battle in Curse of Monkey Island
   - Keyboard support for derby scene in Full Throttle

0.5.1 (2003-08-06) 
- Rewrote Beneath a Steel Sky savegame code (see note in READMEs 'Known Bugs')
- Fixed dialog skipping, music volume and several crashes/freezes in Steel Sky
- Fixed dialog skipping in V7 games
- Fixed glitch when quitting ScummVM in fullscreen mode on Mac OS X
- Fixed various COMI bugs related to actor placement/scaling
- Added complete Hebrew support for Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2
- Several MorphOS and DreamCast port fixes
- DreamCast now runs Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
- Fixed a fullscreen problem on Mac OS X were you couldn't use the mouse in
  the top part of the screen by linking to a bugfixed version of SDL

0.5.0 (2003-08-02)
- Enhanced versions of Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken are now supported and completable
- Beneath A Steel Sky is now supported and completable
- Added support for Amiga version of Monkey Island 1
- Initial unplayable support for V1 version of Maniac Mansion/Zak McKracken
- Curse of Monkey Island (COMI) support for playing from CD improved on Mac OS X
- Loading COMI savegames for disk 2 doesn't anymore require disk 1 first
- Rewritten iMUSE engine, and many Music fixes (exp. Monkey Island 2)
- Support for music in Humongous games and simon2dos/simon2talkie (XMIDI format)
- Support for music in simon1demo (Proprietary format)
- Complete music support for Simon the Sorcerer 2
- Improved music and sound support in Zak256
- Added Aspect Ratio option
- Many other bug fixes, improvements and optimizations

0.4.1 (2003-05-25)
- Added AdvMame3x filter
- Fixed crash in Curse of Monkey Island (and possibly other games as well)
- Fixed airport doors in Zak256
- Fixed crash in SDL backend
- Fixed various iMUSE bugs

0.4.0 (2003-05-11)
- 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 Island
- Many Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2 improvements and fixes
- Very pre-alpha Beneath a Steel Sky code. Don't expect it to do anything. 
- 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

0.3.0b (2002-12-08)
- 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 separation 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

0.2.0 (2002-04-14)
- core engine rewrite
- enhanced ingame GUI, including options/volume settings.
- auto-save feature
- added more command-line options, and configuration file
- new ports and platforms (MorphOS, Macintosh, Dreamcast, Solaris, IRIX, etc)
- graphics filtering added (2xSAI, Super2xSAI, SuperEagle, AdvMame2x)
- support for MAD MP3 compressed audio
- support for first non-SCUMM games (Simon the Sorcerer)
- support for V4 games (Loom CD)
- enhanced V6 game support (Sam and Max is now completable)
- experimental support for V7 games (Full Throttle/The Dig)
- experimental support for V3 games (Zak256/Indy3)

0.1.0 (2002-01-13)
- loads of changes

0.0.2 (2001-10-12):
- bug fixes
- save & load support

0.0.1 (2001-10-08):
- initial version