Conquest Changelog

What's new in Conquest 8.4.1i

• unless there is a big problem, a 'stable' official release will be
• up next.
• Switch to using Mercurial (hg) for source code control. I totally
• love it compared to svn.
• MAC OS X (Darwin) support. Note this support is still a little
• fuzzy, in regards to counquest group creation, etc. I do not have
• direct access to a Darwin system, so this port was accomplished by
• back-and-forth with a friend who does. Once you can get it built,
• OpenGL and sound is fully functional.
• Windows (XP) native support via MinGW cross-compiler toolchain :)
• See README.Windows for installation instructions (or INSTALL.TXT
• if you download the .zip package). Full HW acceleration and
• sound. Oh yes.
• I will build a binary .zip package for Windows XP systems and make
• it available on sourceforge. Only the conquestgl executable and
• required config/data files will be provided.
• I do not have access to Windows 7, so I have no idea if it would
• work on those systems.
• The zip file will contain an INSTALL.TXT file for instructions on
• installation.
• Allow various GL functions to be able to detect when geometry is
• changed so they can compensate.
• Fix problem where using undefined mouse macros could inadvertantly
• cancel beaming or bombing.
• Fix problem wereby the doomsday AP beam was being drawn with
• length PHASER_DIST rather than DOOMSDAY_DIST.
• add missing contrib/ dir to src dist.
• remove 'telnet' support. None of these servers have been in
• operation for years, so there's no need for 'telnet' server hacks.
• Remove conquestsh, and conquestsh.man. Update SERVER.TXT and
• conquest.man
• change Conquest licensing from Artistic v1 to Artistic v2. Based
• on stumbling across:
• http://www.linux-archive.org/fedora-games/140611-good-candidate-packaging-conquest.html
• Really - if any dist has issues with Conquest's license, I can't
• do squat about it if I don't know about it.
• correct a server problem with UDP keepalive packets. UDP
• keepalive packets are sent to the server by the client on a
• periodic basis to convince some firewalls that the UDP link is
• still active.
• During certain operations (like beaming, bombing, self destruct,
• etc) these packets could improperly terminate these activities on
• the server, leaving the client to believe these activities were
• still in progress.
• Now, the lower level packet handling routines filter out these
• packets, preventing them from accidentally affecting the game's
• state.
• since nWelcome can be called multiple times, init the state in the
• Init routine.
• add server name and version to (O)ptions display.
• add '%option noyywrap' to the yacc parser. Do not need it, and this
• is required for macosx, apparently.
• Remove Unixware specific privilege support.
• In the old days, when I was running Conquest on i386/i486 hardware
• under Unixware, being able to escalate the drivers process
• priority and lock the commonblock into memory was a good win for
• performance.
• These days, the hardware is so fast, and memory so expansive, it
• makes no sense to do this anymore :) Also, I haven't run unixware
• in over 10 years, so....
• Remove terminfo src files (ti/*) from the source distribution.
• While these files will still be available in the source code repo,
• they will no longer be supplied in the src distribution tarballs.
• get rid of portable snprintf implementation - used as a fallback
• if the target OS does not support it. All target OS's do support
• it, and the fallback implementation could not handle floats
• without crapping on itself anyway.
• Get rid of localhost data and checks. Totally uneccessary. Buh
• bye.
• Fix a memory leak when dealing with cInfo.remotehost
• Under windows, default to -m if no server (-s) explicitly
• specified.
• Fix up the 'CLIENTID' (client type) stuff. Differentiate between
• 'Unix' and 'Windows' systems.
• Add check for gzipped .cqr files and no LIBZ support. Emit a more
• useful error if you attempt to replay a compressed game recording
• (.cqr) but your client was not built with libz support.
• Add sdl.m4 and libtool.m4 autoconf files in m4/, in case the
• target build system does not have it
• Update several of the autoconf scripts (ltmain.sh, yylwrap, etc)
• to more current versions.
• Use CONQUEST_NAME for the Window title (GL client)
• On Windows(MINGW), use $APPDATA/Conquest to store per-user
• settings and config.
• Provide a mechanism when running under windows to locate the
• various files conquesgl needs to run (etc/, img/, sound/)
• Under Windows, CONQETC/CONQSHARE don't really mean much. So, we
• add a new funtion, utGetPATH() that will attempt to locate the
• various directories conquestgl needs at runtime. These are: etc/
• (for global configuration), img/ (for textures) and sound/ (for
• the sound files).
• First, if there is an env variable CONQUEST_ROOT set to some path,
• this will be used to find the other directories.
• If this env var is not present, then the 'standard' Windows
• %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%/Conquest/ will be used to locate these
• directories.
• Otherwise we will default to /Conquest.
• For example, if you download a conquestgl .zip file, and unpack it
• under C:\ , you will want to set CONQUEST_ROOT equal to
• "C:\Conquest", and add "C:\Conquest\bin" to your Path, and all
• will be well.
• Add a makewinzippkg script for building the windows binary zip
• package, add the DLL's neccessary for packaging under windows
• (windlls/).
• a variety of other misc stuff. See 'hg log' (if you have the hg
• repo cloned) for any missing details.