- added a different sound for balls reflected from the paddle
(05/01/13 M.S.)
- bugfix: acceleration of balls by middle mouse button now works in
the testing mode of the editor (previously the balls got stuck in
mid-air) (05/01/13 M.S.)
- the game will be paused if the input focus is lost or the
application is iconfied (05/01/13 M.S.)
- when the 'sticky' bonus runs out, all attached balls will be
detached (05/01/13 M.S.)
- when pressing either left or right shift, the name and score of
the first chart entry of this set will be displayed at the upper
right-hand side display of the frame instead of your name and
score (05/01/12 M.S.)
- if a paddle is frozen and the mouse is moved, the paddle will no
longer jump after thawing (05/01/12 M.S.)
- when a paddle turns invisible due to the 'ghost paddle'-malus, all
attached balls will be detached (05/01/12 M.S.)
- re-implemented explosion animation for bricks directly hit by an
explosive ball (05/01/12 M.S.)
- only levelsets from the install directory are used for
Freakout
- order of Freakout levels is saved
- bugfix: balls will not start in next level with max speed when
the middle mouse button was pressed while clearing the last
brick of a level
- bonus floor uses proper brick image (blue energy wall instead
of normal wall)
- replaced chaos bricks in level 7 of N_Snapshots with normal
wall bricks
- to continue when viewing final network stats only SPACE is
allowed
- re-added continue option for single player mode, however
with 100% score loss this time
Changes 2.5:
- added additional network support via SDL_net for portability
- bug fixed: game crashed when quitting testing mode in the
editor
- removed 5000 points bonus for completing a level. instead
the score of the remaining destructible bricks is substracted
as a penalty when warping to the next level
- generation of bug message is disabled
- sounds are played stereo in a local game and partially stereo
in a network game
Changes include:
2.4.1:
- unlimited number of backgrounds for themes (03/03/08 M.S.)
- if a levelset is selected its highscore chart is shown (03/02/27 M.S.)
- the warp icon gets static after it blinked four times (03/02/27 M.S.)
- the official levelsets 'Original', 'AddOn-1' and 'AddOn-2' became the
first entries in the levelset list (03/02/27 M.S.)
- default warp limit is now 80% of bricks (03/02/27 M.S.)
- scores are displayed while player changes (03/02/23 M.S.)
- loading themes from installation path no longer restricted to the
default ones (03/02/23 M.C.)
- added an explanation of the 'Warp' feature to the documenation
(03/02/07 M.S.)
2.4:
- fixed a bug were balls could get caught within the paddle if the
'bonus floor' was active and the paddle wasn't moved (02/12/16 M.S.)
- extra balls of upper paddle (multiplayer) are created at proper position
(02/12/16 M.S.)
- shadows of extras are clipped to the playing field (02/12/15 M.S.)
- lost/gained lives are refreshed correctly (02/12/15 M.S.)
- decreased corner sensitivity and improved corner reflection (no longer
reflected at 45° but at the real perpendicular which makes it much
easier for balls to enter narrow passages) (02/12/14 M.S.)
- simplified range check for ball velocity vector (02/12/14 M.S.)
- the frame's shadow is not drawn twice (thus darker) when a brick close to
the frame is removed (02/12/13 M.S.)
- difficulty 'Hard' gives 30% score bonus (02/12/13 M.S.)
- increased ball speed for 'Medium' and 'Hard' (02/12/13 M.S.)
- added a missing check concering the reset position of reflected balls
to the target computation (without this they could get into bricks which
resulted in a corrupted next target) (02/12/13 M.S.)
- extra balls (random initial direction) can no longer move straight up
(when they did so they simply left the screen as no target could be computed
for them) (02/12/13 M.S.)
- reduced number of get_target() calls for balls and shots (02/12/11 M.S.)
- improved handling of scrollbars (02/12/11 M.S.)
- fixed color key bugs occuring at depth >=24 (02/12/10 M.S.)
- when bricks regenerate they are refreshed correctly (02/12/08 M.S.)
- player can disintegrate single bricks by pressing 'd' and spending
5% of his/her score (02/12/08 M.S.)
2.4beta-3:
- continues always cost 50% of the current score but fully restore the
initial amount of lives (02/12/07 M.S.)
- fixed a bug in the 'restart' code that could accidently cause the
game to quit if you hadn't paid the continue cost twice (02/12/07 M.S.)
- updated Jurgen De Backers theme AbsoluteB (02/12/07 M.S.)
- shadow creation for surfaces with no color key now works correctly
(02/12/07 M.S.)
2.4beta-2:
- fixed security holes created by improper use of sprintf (02/11/24 D.B.)
2.4beta:
- added a quick help for network game (02/11/03 M.S.)
- optimized drawing of balls/extras/shots/shrapnells (02/11/01 M.S.)
- removed config option shadow (is always enabled) (02/11/01 M.S.)
- 'paddle.png' may provide an additional paddle set for a different
upper paddle (02/11/01 M.S.)
- audio buffer size became config option (02/11/01 M.S.)
- network statistics are sent in one go after game is finished
(02/10/30 M.S.)
- code clean-ups in establishing direct connection (02/10/30 M.S.)
- in the highscore chart the level index is no longer 0 after
completing a levelset (02/10/29 M.S.)
- levelset transfer improved (02/10/27 M.S.)
- fading time decreased (02/10/26 M.S.)
- SDL >= 1.1.5 is now required (02/10/25 M.S.)
- invalid users are properly removed from server (02/10/25 M.S.)
- code clean-ups and performance enhancements (02/10/21 M.S.)
- improved chatroom GUI (02/10/19 M.S.)
- fixed a network leak that caused 500% more latency in 'Deathmatch'
and 900% more latency in 'Normal Multiplayer' (02/10/08 M.S.)
2.3.5:
- added pseudo levelset !FREAKOUT! that lets you play all levels (~600)
in a random order (02/09/21 M.S.)
- moved 'Select Theme' option from 'Advanced Options' to 'Graphics'
(02/09/21 M.S.)
- bonus stack is cleared at beginning of new level (02/09/21 M.S.)
- replaced 'wontgiveup.wav' with 'verygood.wav' (02/09/20 M.S.)
- implemented 'warp' option to switch to next level before all bricks
where cleared (02/09/19 M.S.)
- bricks/bonuses/maluses may have transparency (02/09/17 M.S.)
- optional bonus floor graphic (02/09/17 M.S.)
2.3.4:
- fixed a crash in 'Classic' theme (02/09/12 M.S.)
Changes:
2.3.3:
- added winning themes AbsoluteB, Oz, Moiree from theming contest and
the previous default theme has been renamed to Classic (02/09/10 M.S.)
- fixed a bug that crashed LBreakout when there where two alternating
players left in the last level and one finished it (02/09/05 M.S.)
- modifications to make LBreakout run on FreeBSD (02/09/05 S.M.)
- option to display balls above debris and explosions (02/09/05 J.S.)
- input bug fixes for win32 (02/09/05 L.R.)
- blinking cursor for editable menu items to distinguish them from
switches (02/09/05 L.R.)
2.3.2:
- added all existing levelsets (27 sets, ~440 levels) (02/08/16 L.R.)
- quick help can be opened in game by pressing F1 or 'h' (02/08/16 M.S.)
- the 'select theme' hint bubble will show information on a theme (author,
version, description) if it provides an ABOUT file (02/08/16 M.S.)
- menu graphics and sounds are now themeable (02/08/16 M.S.)
- added information about version and author of levelset to the hint
bubble in the menu (02/08/16 M.S.)
- menu item added to modify challengers game port (02/08/16 M.S.)
- ip buffers resized to cover AF_INET6 addresses (02/08/16 M.S.)
- bugfix in net talk (02/08/15 M.S.)
- levelsets MP_Arenas and MP_Snapshots now have the correct contents
(02/08/14 M.S.)
2.3.1:
- multiplayer levelsets MP_Arenas and MP_Snapshots are now installed
correctly (02/08/14 M.S.)
- configure option --disable-network now works correctly (02/08/14 M.S.)
- if your challenge is invalid an error message is displayed
(02/08/14 M.S.)
2.3:
- no warnings when loading a theme (02/08/13 M.S.)
- two network levelsets MP_Arenas (deathmatch) and MP_Snapshots (normal)
added (02/08/13 M.S.)
- added version for levelsets (02/08/13 M.S.)
- added commands '/version', '/idletime' and '/userlimit (02/08/12 M.S.)
- 'turbo' key that temporarily doubles the paddle speed added
(02/08/10 D.B.)
- command '/transfer' implemented (02/08/10 M.S.)
- bonus info displayed at the right side of the screen is now optional
(02/08/10 M.S.)
- chatroom commands implemented (02/08/09 M.S.)
- chatroom channels implemented (02/08/08 M.S.)
- added configure option --disable-network (02/08/06 M.S.)
- network statistics implemented (02/08/06 M.S.)
- bugfix for networked weapon fire (02/08/06 M.S.)
- PNG loading routine updated (02/08/06 M.S.)
- fixed an aweful lot of bugs in normal network game (02/08/05 M.S.)
- implemented info about running games to chatroom (02/08/05 M.S.)
- users are properly unlinked after playing a network game (02/08/05 M.S.)
- pause chatroom implemented (02/08/04 M.S.)
- normal networking implemented /02/08/04 M.S.)
- network bugfixes (02/08/03 M.S.)
- screen is grayed for paused games (02/08/02 M.S.)
- deathmatch networking implemented (02/08/02 M.S.)
- bugfix for shooting bricks (02/08/02 M.S.)
- welcome message when entering chatroom and the user name is colored white
(02/08/02 M.S.)
- score modification for difficulty level is directly added (02/07/31 M.S.)
- each level gets a background assigned instead of simply changing
the background when the player changes (02/07/31 M.S.)
- plain text config (02/07/31 M.S.)
- restored compatibility with old layout (02/07/31 M.S.)
- for win32: (02/07/18 L.R.)
- edit bug fixed
- installation details added to README
- muched improved installation system
- files are always opened in binary mode
- added missing screen.jpg in the docs (02/07/18 L.R.)
- implemented network enviroment with chatroom
- implemented second fire key
- added check for libz to configure as this is required for PNG
- option to modify audio buffer size to fix sound problems
