* Switched to .tar.xz.
* Added missing depednencies; now all supported engines are built.
* FluidSynth is not an option any more.
* Enabled release mode; but without forced compiler optimisations.
1.8.1 (2016-05-25)
New ports:
- Added Nintendo 3DS port.
- Added Android SDL port.
General:
- Removed TESTING flag from several supported games.
- Added Chinese Pinyin translation.
- Fixed cursor stuttering in the launcher that occured on some systems.
BBVS:
- Fixed game restart.
CinE:
- Fixed sound effect loading.
Drascula:
- Fixed text alignment to be faithful to the original.
- Fixed character walking off screen.
- Fixed loading savegames in the Pendulum scene.
- Fixed wrong background for inventory items during chapter 6 in the
Spanish version.
- Fixed animations speed (they were running two times slower than in the
original engine).
- Fixed noise at start and/or end of speech. This was most noticeable
with the Spanish speech.
- Fixed delay when interacting with the verb menu and the inventory.
- Fixed possibility to pick up the axe in the castle multiple times.
Gob:
- Fixed lock up for some games during sound initialization.
KYRA:
- Fixed potential crash when using swamp snake potion on the rat in Hand
of Fate. (NOTE: This fix was included in version 1.8.0, but it was not
added to the NEWS file).
- Fixed missing voice reactions when hitting enemies in CD version of
Lands of Lore.
Lab:
- Fixed lock-up during ending sequence.
- Improved internal game controls.
- Fixed lock-up during some in-game animations.
SAGA:
- Fixed user interface colors in the French and German versions of I Have No
Mouth and I Must Scream.
SCI:
- Make cursor workarounds work properly on OpenPandora (and other devices, that
support touch screen and analog sticks/mouse at the same time)
- Script patch to fix broken ending battle in multilingual King's Quest 5
(French, German + Spanish versions are all broken)
- Fixed invalid memory access, when loading broken King's Quest 5 credit music track
- Fixed lowres/hires issues in King's Quest 6 when saving, changing the lowres/hires
setting and restoring the saved game afterwards.
SCUMM:
- Fixed detection of Maniac Mansion from Day of the Tentacle in the Windows
version of ScummVM.
- Fixed a sound effect not stopping in Loom EGA with AdLib.
Broken Sword 2.5:
- Added option to use English speech instead of German one when no speech is
available for the selected language.
- Fixed resource releasing on game exit.
- Fixed game restart after language change in-game.
- Fixed flickering in main Menu.
- Fixed long save time on Windows.
Windows port:
- Fixed bug in MIDI device listing affecting cases where MIDI devices were
not usable.
Mac OS X port:
- Dock menu for ScummVM now lists recently played games when ScummVM is
not running and allows starting those games.
- Enabled Sparkle application updater.
GCW0 port:
- Improved support for built-in ScummVM documentation.
1.8.0 (2016-03-04)
New Games:
- Added support for Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender.
- Added support for Sfinx.
- Added support for Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands.
- Added support for Zork: Grand Inquisitor.
- Added support for The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the
Serrated Scalpel.
- Added support for The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose
Tattoo.
- Added support for Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity.
- Added support for Amazon: Guardians of Eden.
- Added support for Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars.
- Added support for The Labyrinth of Time.
New Ports:
- Added Raspberry Pi port.
- Added GCW0 port.
General:
- Updated Munt MT-32 emulation code to version 1.5.0.
SDL:
- Alt-x no longer quits ScummVM. Use Cmd-q/Ctrl-q/Ctrl-z instead; see README.
- On POSIX systems we now follow the XDG Base Directory Specification for
placement of files for users. This effectively results in new locations
for our configuration file, our log file, and our default savegame path.
We still support our previous locations. As long as they are present, we
continue to use them. Please refer to the README for the new locations.
File locations on Mac OS X are not affected by this change.
3 Skulls of the Toltecs:
- Improved AdLib music support.
AGI:
- It is now possible to disable mouse support (except for Amiga versions
and fanmade games, that require a mouse).
- Fixed PCjr sound volumes.
- Major rewrite of graphics subsystem.
- Support for Apple IIgs, Amiga + Atari ST transitions, fonts and mouse
cursors. The Atari ST 8x8 system font is not included with ScummVM.
- Added ability to make for example a PC version look like an Apple IIgs
version. This includes palette, cursor, transition and even font. Just
set corresponding render mode.
- Fixed Apple IIgs game versions running too fast.
- Added support for automatic saving/restoring used by Mixed Up Mother Goose.
- Removed forced two second delay on room changes; replaced with heuristic.
- Fixed certain key bindings breaking after saving/reloading.
AGOS:
- Fixed arpeggio effect used in music of Amiga version of Elvira 1.
- Fixed loading and saving progress in the PC version of Waxworks.
- Fixed verb area been removed in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
- Added Accolade AdLib & MT-32 music drivers for the games:
Elvira 1, Elvira 2, Waxworks and Simon the Sorcerer 1 demo.
- Added Simon the Sorcerer 1 AdLib output. This vastly improves the AdLib
output and makes it closer to the original.
Broken Sword 1:
- Fixed Macintosh version speech when running on big endian systems.
- Fixed loading from Main Menu in bull's head scene, and maybe other scenes.
CinE:
- Added support for music in CD version of Future Wars.
MADE:
- Improved AdLib music support in Return to Zork.
SAGA:
- Improved AdLib music support.
SCI:
- Handling of music priority has been greatly improved.
- A lot of fixes for original game script bugs that also occurred when
using the original interpreter. This affects the following games:
KQ6 (Dual Mode), LSL5, PQ1, QfG1 (EGA), QfG1 (VGA), QfG2, QfG3, SQ1,
SQ4 (CD).
- Restoring from the ScummVM in-game menu should now work all the time.
- Improved support for Japanese PC-9801 games.
- Default to hi res version of KQ6, changeable using engine option.
SCUMM:
- Major improvements to Korean versions text rendering.
- Implemented original Maniac Mansion v0-v1 walking code.
- It is now possible to play Maniac Mansion from within Day of the
Tentacle, with a few caveats. See README for details.
- Alt-x can now be used to quit SCUMM games on all platforms.
- Improved lip sync animation in later HE games.
Tinsel:
- Improved AdLib music support in Discworld 1.
New Games:
- Added support for Chivalry is Not Dead.
- Added support for Return to Ringworld.
- Added support for The Neverhood.
- Added support for Mortville Manor.
- Added support for Voyeur.
General:
- Updated Munt MT-32 emulation code to version 1.3.0.
- Switched from our custom JPEG and PNG decoders to libjpeg(-turbo) and
libpng, which are faster and can handle more images.
(NOTE: The change to libpng was done in version 1.6.0, but it was not
added to the NEWS file).
- Added generic OpenGL (ES) output (based on GSoC Task).
- The GUI can now be rendered in 32-bits.
- The build system has been changed to be more modular and easier to add new
engines.
SDL:
- Added OpenGL graphics mode based on our generic OpenGL output. This
allows for arbitrary output sizes. However, it does not support special
filters like AdvMAME, HQ, etc.
AGOS:
- Added mouse wheel support for inventory and save game lists.
- Enabled verb name display in Simon the Sorcerer 2.
- Fixed the Feeble Files loyalty rating in the English 4CD version. (This
was apparently a bug in the original game. It is currently unknown if
other versions still have the same problem.)
Broken Sword 1:
- Added back support for MPEG-2 videos.
Broken Sword 2:
- Added back support for MPEG-2 videos.
CGE:
- Added an option to enable "Color Blind Mode" to the ScummVM GUI.
Gob:
- Improved video quality in Urban Runner.
Hopkins:
- Added an option to toggle "Gore Mode" from the ScummVM GUI.
- Fixed bug that could cause the music to stop prematurely.
Pegasus:
- Fixed several rare crashes and glitches.
- Fixed multiple bugs carried over from the original binary.
SCI:
- Added support for the more detailed RAVE lip syncing data in the Windows
version of King's Quest 6. Portraits should now be much more expressive
when talking.
- Added support for simultaneous speech and subtitles in the CD versions
of Laura Bow 2 and King's Quest 6 (toggled either in-game with the new
"Dual" audio state, or via the ScummVM audio options).
- Fixed music fading.
- Fixed several script bugs in Camelot, Crazy Nick's, Hoyle 3, QFG1VGA, KQ5,
KQ6, LB2, LSL2, LSL5, Pharkas, PQ1VGA, SQ4, SQ5.
- Improved the MIDI parser so that music event processing is done more
properly.
SCUMM:
- Changed the saved game naming scheme of HE games to always contain
the target name.
- Fixed having multiple coaches in Backyard Football.
- Improved AdLib support for Loom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
This makes sound effects like, for example, the typewriter and waterfall
in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade sound like in the original.
- Added support for the Steam versions of Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Loom and The Dig. Both
the Windows and the Macintosh versions are supported.
TONY:
- Savegames in Tony Tough now work on big-endian systems.
Tinsel:
- Discworld 1 and 2 no longer crash on big-endian systems.
Android port:
- Added experimental support for the OUYA console.
PS2 port:
- Added configurable TV modes: NTSC and PAL.
- Added configurable graphics modes: SDTV progressive, SDTV interlaced, EDTV
progressive and VESA.
- Added a configuration option for the HDD partition used.
- Added a configuration option for the IP address used.
- Added a configuration option to toggle USB mass storage.
Tizen port:
- The BADA port has been merged/updated into Tizen.
changes:
-support more games
-support for TrueType fonts via FreeType2
-custom game and engine options
-speedup, UI improvements
-bugfixes
-translation update
pkgsrc change: cleanup of options -- the "x11" backend doesn't work,
so "sdl" is the only choice left
New Games:
- Added support for Backyard Baseball.
- Added support for Backyard Baseball 2001.
- Added support for Urban Runner.
- Added support for Playtoons: Bambou le Sauveur de la Jungle.
- Added support for Toonstruck.
- Added support for Living Books v1 and v2 games.
- Added support for Hugo's House of Horrors, Hugo 2: Whodunit?
and Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom.
- Added support for Amiga SCI games (except Conquests of the Longbow).
- Added support for Macintosh SCI1 games.
New Ports:
- Added WebOS port.
General
- Added support for loadable modules on platforms without a dynamic
loader (GSoC Task).
- Added Danish translation.
- Added Norwegian Bokmaal translation.
- Added Norwegian Nynorsk translation.
- Added Swedish translation.
- Added Debug Console to Cine, Draci, Gob, MADE, Sword1, Touche and
Tucker Engines.
- Closed significant memory leaks. RTL should now be more usable.
* New Games: Added support for Fascination.
* New Games (Sierra SCI0 - SCI1.1).
* New Ports: Android, Dingux, Caanoo, OpenPandora.
* Removed the outdated PalmOS port.
* Switched to the "fast" DOSBox OPL emulator.
* Fixed a crash in the rjp1 player code affecting the FOTAQ Amiga version.
* Added support for more original media layouts.
* Added support for GUI localization.
* Improved GUI by adding tooltips and radiobuttons.
* Improved GUI usability by hiding more irrelevant options not supported by
specific games.
New Games:
- Added support for Blue's Art Time Activities.
- Added support for Blue's Reading Time Activities.
- Added support for Freddi Fish 5: The Case of the Creature of Coral Cove.
- Added support for Pajama Sam: Games to Play on Any Day.
- Added support for SPY Fox 3: Operation Ozone.
- Added support for Dragon History.
- Added support for TeenAgent.
General:
- Added support for a custom SJIS font for FM-TOWNS and PC98 games.
- Added support for 16bit graphics. (GSoC Task)
- Removed QuickTime MIDI backend on Mac OS X; it was buggy and did not
compile on modern systems.
CinE:
- Added support for Amiga style menus for Amiga versions of Future Wars.
KYRA:
- Added support for the Amiga version of The Legend of Kyrandia.
(sound support was done as a GSoC Task)
- Adapted KYRA to support the custom SJIS font.
SCUMM:
- Added support for the PC-Engine version of Loom.
- Added support for music and sound effects in the the Amiga version of
The Secret of Monkey Island. (GSoC Task)
- Fixed some other bugs related to game versions for the Amiga.
- Added support for original save/load dialog in MM NES.
- Added support for savepoint passcodes for Sega CD MI1 via debugger command
'passcode'
- Added support for Kanji rendering in Japanese version of Monkey Island SegaCD.
New Ports:
- Added MotoEZX and MotoMAGX ports.
General:
- Fixed several bugs in GUI.
- Updated the project logo and icons.
- Clarified licenses for several PS2 port files.
AGI:
- Fixed crash on game exit.
- Fixed crash at detection of some games.
AGOS:
- Fixed load/save code for PC version of Waxworks.
- Fixed undo in Puzzle Pack games.
Broken Sword 1:
- Fixed missing background sound effects in some rooms.
CinE:
- Fixed crashes with Future Wars and Operation Stealth demos.
Cruise:
- Fix freeze on game pause.
Gob:
- Fixed gfx glitch in Lost in Time.
- Fixed hotspot-related regressions in Gob2.
- Fixed several regressions in Gob3.
- Fixed crash in Bargon Attack intro.
- Fixed animations in Win3.1 version of Gob3.
Groovie:
- Fixed video performance on PSP.
- Fixed menu blanking in some instances.
Kyra:
- Fix possible corruption of restart game save in Kyrandia 1.
- Fix GFX glitch at the broken bridge.
- Fix for brandon tunring invisible in some situations in Kyrandia 1.
MADE:
- Fixed performance on NDS.
- Fixed several crashes in Return to Zork demo.
Parallaction:
- Fixed several regressions in Nippon Safes.
- Fixed music in sushi bar in Nippon Safes.
SCUMM:
- Fixed crash on Macintosh versions of Putt-Putt Joins the Parade and Fatty
Bear's Birthday Surprise.
- Fixed game save in Macintosh versions of HE games.
- Fixed default save game path in later HE games.
- Fixed palette in NES version of Maniac Mansion.
- Fixed palette in Amiga version of Secret of Monkey Island.
- Fixed cutscenes not stopping music after pressing ESC in DIG.
- Fixed lip-sync in Fatty Bear.
- Fixed crash in FT when entering inventory.
Tinsel:
- Fixed crash in palace.
- Fixed crash when talking to the old lady.
- Fixed partially off-screen text in DW1.
General:
* Added MIDI driver for Atari ST / FreeMint.
* Added a 'Load' button to the Launcher (not supported by all engines).
* Added a new global main menu (GMM) dialog usable from all engines.
* Added the ability to return to the launcher from running games (via the GMM).
* Rewrote GUI renderer to use an vector based approach.
* Rewrote GUI configuration to use XML.
New Games:
* Added support for Blue's 123 Time Activities.
* Added support for Blue's ABC Time Activities.
* Added support for Bud Tucker in Double Trouble.
* Added support for The 7th Guest.
KYRA:
* Added support for Auto-save feature.
* Added support for MIDI music.
SCUMM:
* Implemented radio-chatter effect in The DIG.
New Games:
- Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two: Hand of Fate.
- Added support for The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Three: Malcolm's Revenge.
- Added support for Lost in Time.
- Added support for The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble.
- Added support for the PC version of Waxworks.
- Added support for the Macintosh version of I Have no Mouth, and I
must Scream.
- Added support for Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back.
General:
- Added CAMD MIDI driver for AmigaOS4.
- Revived the PS2 port (was already in 0.11.1 but was forgotten in the
release notes).
- Plugged numerous memory leaks in all engines (part of GSoC'08 task),
- Added audio double buffering to the SDL backend, which fixes the
problems with the MT-32 emulator on Mac OS X (for now only enabled
on Mac OS X).
AGOS:
- Fixed crashes during certain music in Amiga versions of Elvira 1 and
Simon the Sorcerer 1.
- Fixed palette issues in Amiga versions of Simon the Sorcerer 1.
Queen:
- Speech is played at the correct sample rate. (It used to be pitched a bit
too low.)
SCUMM:
- Rewrote parts of Digital iMUSE, fixing some bugs.
- Rewrote the internal timer code, fixing some speed issues in e.g. COMI.
- Improved support for sound effects in Amiga version of Zak McKracken.
- Added support for mixed Adlib/MIDI mode in Monkey Island 1 (Floppy).
New Games:
- Added Cinematique evo 1 engine. Currently only Future Wars is supported.
- Added Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer engine.
- Added support for Gobliins 2.
- Added support for Simon the Sorcerer's Puzzle Pack.
- Added support for Ween: The Prophecy.
- Added support for Bargon Attack.
- Added Sierra AGI engine.
- Added support for Goblins 3.
- Added Parallaction engine. Currently only Nippon Safes Inc. is supported.
General:
- Added dialog which allows the user to select the GUI theme on runtime.
- Added 'Mass Add' feature to the Launcher, which allows you to scan for
all games in all subdirectories of a given directory (to use it, press
shift then click on "Add Game").
- Improved the way the auto detector generates target names, it now takes
a game's variant, language and platform into account.
- Improved compression for DXA movies.
- Keyboard repeat is now handled in a centralized way, rather than on a
case-by-case basis. (Simply put, all engines now have keyboard repeat.)
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.
changes by me.
Changes:
- fix major race condition resulting in extremely frequent crashes on
MorphOS/PocketPC
- 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 seperation 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
