Toaster 0.4.14

A start in about half a second, space as a thirteenth scene, the koi pond's koi redrawn in pixels, and sturdier updates.

• Starts in about half a second.

  • Every start used to compile the first scene's shader again, even after a normal restart: 5 seconds and more before the scenery showed.
  • Chromium was keeping compiled shaders in memory only, so they never reached the disk cache.
  • Now they're kept between launches. A restart shows the first scene in about half a second, and every other scene is ready a second later, where they took minutes. The first launch after an update still compiles, once.

• Space, a thirteenth scene:

  • On the moon, the toaster floats on its own power cord, plugged into a lander.
  • The Earth, Saturn and an astronaut hang in the sky, Colin's own pixel art.
  • The Milky Way crosses it, with a glowing core and its dust rift, and Andromeda sits beside it.
  • On a drop, the toast pops and tumbles off in zero-g while meteors streak by.
  • There's no day in space, so it's night whatever the theme. The code keeps its own boxes, so it stays readable in the light themes too.

• The koi pond's koi, redrawn in pixels: clean patterns, see-through fins and tails, eyes, the gold ones glinting, and their shadows on the bottom by day. They swim and feed as before.

• The sharks get ready in half the time the first time after an update. Their shader compiles about twice as fast, with the picture unchanged.

• Sturdier updates:

  • a download that stalls or breaks gives up cleanly and leaves your Toaster as it was;
  • only GitHub's own downloads are taken;
  • a failed update tidies up after itself;
  • unpacking an update no longer holds up the window.