freeserf/freeserf v0.5

0.5

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Freeserf now has the computer player of the original game, the tutorials and the end of the game, and new options that the original doesn't have.

Game logic

• Computer player: the AI of the Amiga original. Opponents in missions and custom games place their castle, build up their economy and attack (#580, #535).
• The emergency program of the original when the castle runs out of planks or stones (#578).
• Tutorials 1–6 with their goals and the orders from the manual (#575, #576, #577).
• End of the game: the winner and the original's texts and pictures (#573, #574).
• Fixed:
  • a transporter duplicating a resource when switching at a flag, which made buildings throw "Delivered more resources than requested" (#579);
  • loading the original's save games (#585).
• A consistency check of the game state after loading: problems are logged and repaired where possible (#586, #81).

Interface

• Zoom: sharp pixels, growing from the centre, the panel and the boxes at most twice as large, smooth with the mouse wheel (#582, #531, #520).
• Fixed the window maximize button on macOS (#582).
• The game init box has a frame like the other boxes (#589).
• Advanced options in a new box, opened from the options box (#590). All of them are off by default:
  • invert the vertical map scrolling (#458);
  • show counts over 999 shortened: 15K, .2M (#592, #475, #138);
  • autosave every 10 to 60 minutes (#593, #145);
  • a new stock shows its building box until its serf has arrived (#594, #524);
  • graphics, sounds and music from different versions, for example DOS graphics with Amiga sounds (#596, #455).
• The options of the options box and of the advanced box are kept between runs in freeserf.ini (#591).
• The -f (fullscreen) command line option works again (#591).
• Ctrl+Shift+F shows the frames per second (#584).

Performance

• Fixed-step main loop: input is handled without delay, and missed game steps are made up after slow frames (#584, #527, #445).
• The landscape tile cache no longer grows to the whole map, about 1.3 GB on large maps (#587, #139).
• The boxes are drawn again when Direct3D loses their textures, for example the minimap after a window resize on Windows (#588, #447).

Sound and data

• The data of several versions can be installed together: in the subfolders dos/, amiga/ and custom/ of a data folder, or with several -g options (#595).
• Fixed the DOS smelter sound (#581, #478).
• The game starts without sound when no audio device can be opened (#583, #132).
• resources/ holds images of Freeserf's own, installed with the game (#589).