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Chocolate Doom 3.0.0

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Chocolate Doom 3.0 is a new major revision. The main change is that
the codebase has been ported to SDL 2.0. This brings a number of
benefits, although there have also been some other minor changes (all
listed below).

Huge thanks go to the entire Chocolate Doom team for working on the
port to SDL2, and to all the testers who have found and reported bugs
during its development.

General

• All screen scaling is now performed in hardware, meaning that the
  game can run in arbitrary window sizes in high quality. It can also
  scale to very large resolutions sizes without using large amounts of
  CPU or suffering degraded performance (thanks Fabian).
• It is now possible to switch between windowed and full screen modes
  while the game is running by pressing alt + enter (thanks Jon)
• Windows binaries now ship with several previously-optional DLLs.
  This means it is now possible to take PNG screenshots and to use
  digital music packs (FLAC/Ogg Vorbis formats).
• The game now remembers your preferred monitor and will start on the
  same monitor you were using the last time you played. Windows appear
  centered on the screen.
• The OS X launcher was tweaked somewhat, and now uses proper path
  controls for choosing files. FreeDM was added as an IWAD.
• Configuration files on Mac OS X and Unix are now stored in locations
  compliant with the XDG standard (thanks chungy):
  • On Unix: ~/.local/share/chocolate-doom/
  • On OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/chocolate-doom/
• Icons when the game is running are now a higher resolution.
• Keyboard input is improved and uses the new SDL input API; on
  systems with on-screen keyboards, this should activate the on-screen
  keyboard when it is appropriate.
• Menu navigation with the joystick is now much more practical, and
  it's possible to bind a joystick axis to look up/down in games which
  support it (thanks Jon, Wintermute0110).
• Several command line options were removed that were judged to be
  useless: -grabmouse, -novert and -nonovert. The mouse grabbing
  and novert settings can still be configured in the setup tool.
• There is no longer any option in the setup tool to specify a screen
  resolution, since in full screen mode the game just runs at the
  desktop resolution without changing screen modes. If necessary, the
  config file options fullscreen_width and fullscreen_height can
  be used to explicitly set a screen resolution.
• There is no longer a soft dependency on Zenity on Unix systems; the
  SDL API is now used to display error dialogs.
• Joysticks are identified more precisely using GUID now.
• A new parameter, -savedir allows users to specify a directory from
  which to load and save games. (thanks CapnClever)
• The midiproc code from Eternity Engine has been imported, improving
  native MIDI playback on Windows and fixing a long-standing bug with
  music volume adjustment (thanks AlexMax, Quasar).
• VGA "porch" emulation was added (thanks Jon).
• The codebase now compiles with OpenWatcom (thanks Stephen Finniss).

Doom

• The GOG install of Doom 3: BFG Edition is now detected (thanks chungy)
• A -shorttics command line parameter was added that simulates
  recording a vanilla demo without actually recording a demo.

Hexen

• The CD audio option for music playback has been removed; the CD
  playback API has been removed from SDL 2.0. However, it is possible
  to use digital music packs as an alternative.

Strife

• voices.wad is now correctly loaded before PWADs (thanks
  @Catoptromancy)

libtextscreen

• On OS X on machines with retina displays, text screens are rendered
  using a high detail font.
• File selector widgets now look more visually distinctive.
• There is now a convenience widget for conditionally hiding widgets.
• Font handling was restructured to be based around PNG format fonts
  which are converted during the build and can be more easily edited.
• Handling of code pages was cleaned up, so it is easier to change the
  code to work with a different code page now.
• Lots of the UI code was changed to use UTF-8 strings.
• File extensions when using the Zenity file selector are now case
  insensitive (thanks Jon).