CraftOS-PC Accelerated v2.6.4

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! CraftOS-PC v2.6.4 is a smaller release compared to previous ones, and it's hot on the heels of v2.6.3. However, it brings an amazing new feature of CC:T 1.100: PCM audio playback on speakers! This feature has been a long time coming, and it's finally possible to play any music you want in ComputerCraft - no extra mods/plugins required.

Yesterday was also the 10th anniversary of ComputerCraft. @dan200 released CC 1.0 for Minecraft 1.0.0 on December 24, 2011, and it was quite barebones compared to today's CC: Tweaked releases. Over the years, it has grown in both size and popularity, and even after Dan left in 2017, its legacy continues today through the continuation that is CC:T. It's inspired thousands of future programmers, young and old, including myself - I wouldn't be doing what I am today without it.

Unfortunately, today is also the day that @SquidDev announced that he's stepping down from active CC: Tweaked development. It's sad to see him go, but maintaining a mod used by millions for years can take a toll on you, and I respect his decision to move on. ComputerCraft will live on in CC: Restitched (the Fabric port) and CraftOS-PC, and I plan on working on my own fork/continuation of CC: Tweaked as well (once I figure out how Minecraft modding works fully). CraftOS-PC will be honoring SquidDev with a permanent MOTD until the end of the year. Thank you for everything, Squid, and good luck in your future endeavors! ♥

• Updated CC:T version to 1.100.0
  • Speakers can now play arbitrary PCM audio.
  • Add support for encoding and decoding DFPWM streams, with the cc.audio.dfpwm module.
  • Fix the "repeat" program not repeating broadcast rednet messages.
• Added useDFPWM config setting to toggle use of DFPWM playback emulation
• Added speaker.setPosition(x, y, z) to emulate positioning of speaker audio
• Standards mode now controls the behavior of the new speaker.playAudio
  • When disabled, all audio is added to a queue with no latency, and speaker.playAudio never fails
  • When enabled:
    • speaker_audio_empty is queued when the audio is 0.5 seconds before it's expected to finish, emulating latency
    • speaker.playAudio returns false if there is more than 0.5 seconds of audio in the buffer
    • useDFPWM is forced to true
• Renamed speaker.stopSounds to speaker.stop
  • stopSounds still exists for backwards compatibility, but is deprecated
• speaker.playLocalMusic is now deprecated in favor of speaker.playAudio
  • It is recommended you load the audio files yourself instead of relying on the system to decode it
• CraftOS-PC Online is now working better (#222)
  • CraftOS-PC Online now supports Safari on iOS 15.2+/macOS 12.2+
  • There is currently a huge memory leak bug in some browsers that can cause the page to crash on low-memory systems
  • Hopefully CraftOS-PC Online will be fully working in the near future
• Fixed some string comparisons not working as expected
• Fixed incorrect documentation on mobile gestures (#230)
• Fixed keyboard on iOS being dismissed when closing the app (#231)
• Fixed screen glitches when opening a new terminal after changing useHDFont (SkyTheCodeMaster)
• Fixed some issues with textutils.serializeJSON

If you need help using CraftOS-PC, I'm available on the CraftOS-PC Discord server as @JackMacWindows#9776. Feel free to ping me if you need anything.