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0.2.1 (???):
This release is dedicated to Dylan 'Toke' McIntosh, who was
tragically killed in a car crash earlier this year. I knew Dylan
from IRC and the Doomworld forums for several years, and he had
a deep passion for this game. He was also a huge help for me while
developing Chocolate Doom, as he helped point out a lot of small
quirks in Vanilla Doom that I didn't know about. His death is a
great loss. RIP Toke.
This is version 0.2.1: the reason for this is to distinguish from
the various beta versions that have been built over the past months
before this release, as these all had the version "0.2.0".
Big new features:
* Multiplayer! This version includes an entirely new multiplayer
engine, based on a packet server architecture. I'd like to thank
joe, pritch, Meph and myk, and everyone else who has helped test
the new code for their support, feedback and help in testing this.
The new code still needs more testing, and I'm eager to hear any
feedback on this.
* A working setup tool. This has the same look and feel as the
original setup.exe. I hope people like it! Note that it has
some advantages over the original setup.exe - for example,
you can use the mouse.
Other new features:
* New mus conversion code thanks to Ben Ryves. This converts the
Doom .mus format to .mid a lot better. As one example, tnt.wad
Map02 is now a lot closer to how Vanilla says. Also, the music
on the deca.wad titlescreen now plays!
* x3, x4 and x5 display scale (thanks to MikeRS for x5 scale).
* Fullscreen "letterbox" mode allows Chocolate Doom to run on machines
where 1.6:1 aspect ratio modes are unavailable (320x200/640x400).
The game runs in 320x240/640x480 instead, with black borders.
The system automatically adjusts to this if closer modes are
unavailable.
* Aspect ratio correction: you can (also) run at 640x480 without black
borders at the top and bottom of the screen.
* PC speaker sound effect support. Chocolate Doom can output real
PC speaker sounds on Linux, or emulate a PC speaker through the
sound card.
* Working three-screen mode, as seen in early versions of Doom!
To test this out, put three computers on a LAN and type:
chocolate-doom -server
chocolate-doom -autojoin -left
chocolate-doom -autojoin -right
* Allow a delay to be specified on startup, to allow the display to
settle after changing modes before starting the game.
* Allow the full path and filename to be specified when loading demos:
It is now possible to type 'chocolate-doom -playdemo /tmp/foo.lmp'
for example.
* Savegames are now stored in separate directories depending on
the IWAD: eg. the savegames for Doom II are stored in a different
place to those for Doom I, Final Doom, etc. (this does not affect
Windows).
* New mouse acceleration code works based on a threshold and
acceleration. Hopefully this should be closer to what the DOS
drivers do. There is a 'test' feature in the setup tool to help
in configuring this.
* New '-nwtmerge' command line option that emulates NWT's '-merge'
option. This allows TiC's Obituary TC to be played.
* The ENDOOM screen no longer closes automatically, you have to click
the window to make it go away.
* Spechit overrun fixes and improvements. Thanks to entryway for
his continued research on this topic (and because I stole your
improvements :-). Thanks to Quasar for reporting a bug as well.
* Multiple dehacked patches can be specified on the command line,
in the same way as with WADs - eg. -deh foo.deh bar.deh baz.deh.
* Default zone memory size increased to 16MB; this can be controlled
using the -mb command-line option.
* It is now possible to record demos of unlimited length (by default,
the Vanilla limit still applies, but it can now be disabled).
* Autoadjusting the screen mode can now be disabled.
* On Windows, the registry is queried to detect installed versions of
Doom and automatically locate IWAD files.
* Added DOOMWADPATH that can be used like PATH to specify multiple
locations in which to search for IWAD files. Also, '-iwad' is
now enhanced, so that eg. '-iwad doom.wad' will now search all
IWAD search paths for 'doom.wad'.
* Improved mouse tracking that should no longer lag. Thanks to
entryway for research into this.
* The SDL driver can now be specified in the configuration file.
The setup tool has an option on Windows to select between
DirectX and windib.
Portability improvements:
* Chocolate Doom now compiles and runs cleanly on MacOS X. Huge
thanks go to Insomniak who kindly gave me an account on his machine
so that I could debug this remotely. Big thanks also go to
athanatos on the Doomworld forums for his patience in testing
various ideas as I tried to get Chocolate Doom up and running
on MacOS.
* Chocolate Doom now compiles and runs natively on AMD64.
* Chocolate Doom now compiles and runs on Solaris/SPARC, including
the Sun compiler. Thanks to Mike Spooner for some portability
fixes.
* Improved audio rate conversion, so that sound should play properly
on machines that don't support low bitrate output.
Compatibility fixes:
* Check for IWADs in the same order as Vanilla Doom.
* Dehacked code will now not allow string replacements to be longer than
those possible through DOS dehacked.
* Fix sound effects playing too loud on level 8 (thanks to myk
for his continued persistence in getting me to fix this)
* Save demos when quitting normally - it is no longer necessary to
press 'q' to quit and save a demo.
* Fix spacing of -devparm mode dots.
* Fix sky behavior to be the same as Vanilla Doom - when playing in
Doom II, the skies never change from the sky on the first level
unless the player loads from a savegame.
* Make -nomouse and config file use_mouse work again.
* Fix the -nomusic command-line parameter. Make the snd_sfxdevice
snd_musicdevice values in the configuration file work, so that it
is possible to disable sound, as with Vanilla.
* Repeat key presses when the key is held down (this is the Vanilla
behavior) - thanks to Mad_Mac for pointing this out.
* Don't print a list of all arguments read from response files - Vanilla
doesn't do this.
* Autorun only when joyb_speed >= 10, not >= 4. Thanks to Janizdreg
for this.
* Emulate a bug in DOS dehacked that can overflow the dehacked
frame table and corrupt the weaponinfo table. Note that this means
Batman Doom will no longer play properly (identical behavior
to Vanilla); vbatman.deh needs to also be applied to fix it.
(Thanks grazza)
* Allow dehacked 2.3 patches to be loaded.
* Add more dehacked string replacements.
* Compatibility option to enable or disable native key mappings. This
means that people with non-US keyboards can decide whether to use
their correct native mapping or behave like Vanilla mapping (which
assumes all keyboards are US).
* Emulate overflow bug in P_FindNextHighestFloor. Thanks to
entryway for the fix for this.
Bugs fixed:
* Fix crash when starting new levels due to the intermission screen
being drawn after the WI_ subsystem is shut down (thanks
pritch and joe)
* Catch failures to initialise sound properly, and fail gracefully.
* Fix crasher in 1427uv01.lmp (thanks ultdoomer)
* Fix crash in udm1.wad.
* Fix crash when loading a savegame with revenant tracer missiles.
* Fix crash when loading a savegame when a mancubus was in the middle
of firing.
* Fix Doom 1 E1-3 intermission screen animations.
* Fix loading of dehacked "sound" sections.
* Make sure that modified copyright banners always end in a newline
- this fixes a bug with av.wad (thanks myk)
* Added missing quit message ("are you sure you want to quit this
great game?").
* Fix when playing long sound effects - the death sound in marina.wad
now plays properly, for example.
* Fix buffer overrun on the quicksave prompt screen that caused a
mysterious cycling character to appear.
* IDCLEV should not work in net games (thanks Janizdreg)
0.1.4 (2006-02-13):
NWT-style merging command line options (allows Mordeth to be played)
Unix manpage (thanks Jon Dowland)
Dehacked improvements/fixes:
* Allow changing the names of graphic lumps used in menu, status bar
intermission screen, etc.
* Allow changing skies, animated flats + textures
* Allow changing more startup strings.
* Allow text replacements on music + sfx lump names
Fix for plutonia map12 crash.
Fix bug with playing long sfx at odd sample rates.
Big Endian fixes (for MacOS X). Thanks to athanatos for helping
find some of these.
Install into /usr/games, rather than /usr/bin (thanks Jon Dowland)
0.1.3 (2006-01-20):
Imported the spechit overrun emulation code from prboom-plus. Thanks to
Andrey Budko for this.
New show_endoom option in the chocolate-doom.cfg config file allows
the ENDOOM screen to be disabled.
Chocolate Doom is now savegame-compatible with Vanilla Doom.
Fixes for big endian machines (thanks locust)
Fixed the behavior of the dehacked maximum health setting.
Fix the "-skill 0" hack to play without any items (thanks to Janizdreg
for pointing out that this was nonfunctional)
Fix playing of sounds at odd sample rates (again). Sound effects at
any sample rate now play, but only sounds with valid headers.
This is the *real* way Vanilla Doom behaves. Thanks to myk for
pointing out the incorrect behavior.
0.1.2 (2005-10-29):
Silence sounds at odd sample rates (rather than bombing out); this
is the way Vanilla Doom behaves.
Handle multiple replacements of the same sprite in a PWAD.
Support specifying a specific version to emulate via the command line
(-gameversion)
Fix help screen orderings and skull positions. Behave exactly as
the original executables do.
0.1.1 (2005-10-18):
Display startup "banners" if they have been modified through
dehacked.
Dehacked "Misc" section support.
Bugs fixed:
* Doom 1 skies always using Episode 1 sky
* Crash when switching applications while running fullscreen
* Lost soul bounce logic (do not bounce in Registered/Shareware)
* Mouse buttons mapped incorrectly (button 1 is right, 2 is middle)
* Music not pausing when game is paused, when using SDL_mixer's
native MIDI playback.
* Pink icon on startup (palette should be fully set before anything is
loaded)
0.1.0 (2005-10-09):
Dehacked support
WAD merging for TCs
ENDOOM display
Fix bug with invalid MUS files causing crashes
Final Doom fixes
0.0.4 (2005-09-27):
Application icon and version info included in Windows .exe files
Fixes for non-x86 architectures
Fix uac_dead.wad (platform drop on e1m8 should occur when all
bosses die, not just barons)
Fix "loading" icon to work for all graphics modes
0.0.3 (2005-09-17):
Mouse acceleration code to emulate the behaviour of old
DOS mouse drivers (thanks to Toke for information about
this and suggestions)
Lock surfaces properly when we have to (fixes crash under
Windows 98)
0.0.2 (2005-09-13):
Remove temporary MIDI files generated by sound code.
Fix sound not playing at the right volume
Allow alt-tab away while running in fullscreen under Windows
Add second configuration file (chocolate-doom.cfg) to allow
chocolate-doom specific settings.
Fix switches not changing in Ultimate Doom
0.0.1 (2005-09-07):
First beta release