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xrick-021212

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Here goes the Work in Progress list ...

Here goes the Bugs'n Things to Do list ...

[bug?] when Rick dies while climbing a ladder, it come back with a "climbing" sprite. Looks like a reset of the sprite would be needed.
[bug] the sound pointer associated to the jewel in Egypt points to nowhere, thus freezing the game
[feature] provide a mean to come back to original Atari graphics, i.e. having rick on front all the time (never hidden by foreground map elements)
[feature] provide a mean to find out which map/submap is currently playing
[bug] when compiling on Windows w/VC++ SDL does not seem to use Windows keyboard mapping
[bug?] joystick crashes on BeOS?
[bug?] pause on loss of focus does not work on BeOS, and acts strangely on Windows
[bug] must cleanup the code to get rid of compiler warnings
[bug?] does xrick segfaults on exit? I can't reproduce this
[feature] implement a demo mode
[feature] implement a "save game" option
[feature] implement a "main menu"
[feature] On the Atari ST, there is a smooth (fade-out/fade-in) transition between screens
[todo] Find out how to set an embedded icon (Linux and Cygwin) ... SDL_WM_SetIcon seems fine on Linux, not on Windows. No mask is set on Linux?
[bug?] Although it is an exact replica of the original map, I can't find out how submap 19 can be played ...
[bug] intro should run faster
[bug?] not sure fullscreen runs ok on laptops
[feature] implement some sort of filtering on graphics so they look smoother

Version #021212

Released on Decembre 12, 2002:

Reworked the build system so xrick can easily be built on Unix boxes as well as on non-Unix boxes (do not rely on symbolic links, etc.).
Use function keys instead of numeric keys for various game controls, as some non-US keyboard require that SHIFT is pressed for numbers (A. Majorel).
Fixed a potential buffer overflow in command-line parameters handling (A. Majorel).
Joystick is (hopefully) OK now (S. Chauveau).
Implemented all sounds: music, effects, etc.
The sound was horrible on Windows due to a poorly dimensionned sound buffer. Fixed.
Re-ripped all sounds. This time I used STeem with debugger to save each sound as a WAV file, then Audacity to filter an annoying static noise produced by STeem, then SOX to re-sample.

Released on August 8, 2001:

Alpha sound support, Basic sounds are here, including the Waaaaaa of Death, but music is not implemented. The quality is far from being perfect -- it's alpha.
Finished Hall of Fame ("congratulations" banner, etc.)
Added an "xrick" splash screen
Various minor bugfixes
New command line options: -nosound to disable sound, and -vol <vol> to set volume to <vol>
Man page (thanks to André Majorel)
Cheats now an option that can be turned off at compile time
Updated -help text
Add "500" animation when capturing bonus
Add a switch so that zombies (everything that has been killed) can not be hidden by foreground tiles
Discovered that initial values for Hall of Fame differ on Atari and PC -- fixed
Still no feedback about joystick support. However, by comparing w/other SDL apps, it seems I had up/down swapped -- fixed. But it remains alpha
Disabled "pause of focus" for BeOS -- it seems there are problems w/focus management on BeOS and the game would always go to pause

Released on July 21, 2001. Plenty of code cleanup, plus:

Implement hall of fame (ongoing, need to improve presentation)
Alpha joystick support (I have no joystick and therefore can not test that it works), please report bugs.
Hide the mouse cursor on the screen
Automagically determine fullscreen zoom level (no more problem w/missing 320x200 setup under X)
Pause when window is de-activated (i.e. focus was lost). Must press P to play again (i.e. gaining focus does not automatically restart the game). Also added a "pause" indicator to make it clear when the game is paused.
Got rid of tiles bank #1 for ST, as it was a copy of bank #0 (for IBM the two banks differ)
Reworked the sprites display system, wich was rather dirty and was the cause of several display bugs
Packaging: I have been playing with automake/autoconf, but it's going to take some time until I can do what I want with it. I wonder if it's not a bit of an overkill: I'll probably stick with the current system for a while.
Fix various things: scroller period set to 24, game over screen for ST graphics, adjust positions for ST graphics, proper ST bomb animation, IBM graphics for map 2 and 3, ...
Bug fix: connection problem between submaps 0x11 and 0x12
Bug fix: map 3, when dogs run fast enough, "expose" cheat mode leaves a dirty trail
Bug fix: map 4, the rocket traps leave a trail of old sprites which only slowly get cleared
Bug fix: submap 47, wrong sprites sequence (bug in the original IBM PC version of the game. replaced by a valid sequence)

Released on July 10, 2001:

Code cleanup (so I can figure out what I am doing)
Now compiles and runs on Windows under Cygwin (with SDL 1.2.1)
New "config" system (yes I'd rather use automake/autoconf but I need to figure out how to do it)
Fix bug in "trainer" cheat mode (bombs and bullets always stay at six but lives would go down to zero and then xrick segfaulted)
Make it possible to exit the game (via ESC) from everywhere, including the introduction, game over, etc. screens
Properly lock and unlock SDL surfaces
New parameters: -fullscreen, -zoom (default is 2), -speed (replaces -p)
Got rid of "sprites planes" for PC-CGA graphics
Add support for arrow keys in addition to original keys
Make it possible to close the window (and thus abort the game)
Fix bug w/dynamite sticks remaining lethal forever after they'd exploded
Fix bug w/scrolling having a small delay at the end
Fix bug w/cheat infos appearing during intro, hall of fame, etc.
Keys config via -keys command line option
Allow jump to any map/submap via -map and -submap command line options
Added an icon for Windows

Released on March 15th, 2001. First public release.