v0.30.1

v0.30.1

• Added "Audio Output Device" option (@krimbopple)
  • Allows selection of any audio device for audio output, not just the system default
• Added mouse_menu_navigation config option to toggle mouse support for menu navigation
• Allow controller input to close the ENDOOM window
• Made Hexen stats save across the hub
• Fixed some desyncs due to compiler optimizations (@AbitTheGray)
• Fixed "force load game" message box not allowing 'y' (@AbitTheGray)
• Fixed incorrect character in the UTF-8 terminal ENDOOM (@AbitTheGray)
• Fixed some optional sounds not being used in the finale
• Fixed -skipsec and -skiptic not working with -warp
• Fixed -warp during demos skipping incorrectly
• Fixed game window staying open when ENDOOM is printed in the terminal

v0.30.0

v0.30.0

Important

• Mouse 2 and Mouse 3 have been swapped, update your keybindings if you use them.
• Savegames are incompatible with previous versions

UMAPINFO / MAPINFO

• Bumped UMAPINFO support to revision 3
  • Support for Heretic
    • Only missing endcast
  • Allow for 10 episodes instead of 8
  • Added jumping, crouching and freeaim keywords
  • Added endpalette keyword
• Internal rework of how some UMAPINFO properties are handled
• Removed ZDoom MAPINFO support

UDMF

• Added support for base spec UDMF namespaces
  • doom, heretic and hexen
• Added Line Horizon special
  • Currently only works with the Software renderer
• Fixed Door_Raise special not being able to close while open

New Features

• Added mouse navigation to menus (@El-Juancho)
  • With much added care for the little details
• Added string values for -complevel (@yrriban)
  • vanilla, boom, mbf and mbf21
• Added support for optional menu and intermission sounds
• Added support for TrueColor OpenGL light fade (@JNechaevsky and @pvictress)
• Added "click to advance" to Heretic textscreens
• Added SWITCHES support for Heretic
• Added Fix Shallow Floor View Bob Jolt option (@bangstk)
  • Smooths the view bob when running across shallow floors
• Added Show Line Traces option (@feos)
  • Shows hitscan line traces in the automap
• Added spawn_rel console command
• Added target.get_target console command
• Added Dehacked custom secret message
  • HUSTR_SECRETFOUND
• Added BEX mnemonics for beta pickup sprites

Miscellaneous

• Brought back ENDOOM window support
• Added -loadgame back
• Added icon for GNOME environments (@electricbrass)
• Added interpolation for dropped items
• Added kerning to Raven messages to match vanilla
• Allow ANIMATED and SWITCHES lumps in IWADs
• Allow changing translucency option in strict mode
  • Vanilla complevels force opaque anyway
• Allow toggling fullscreen with alt + enter (@JNechaevsky)
• Do not treat super key as alt
• Do not read patches that are outside the PNAMES table
• Disabled screen melt in Heretic
• Optimized vanilla teleport destination search
  • Fixes Oversaturation MAP04 lag
• Restrict joystick movement inputs to even numbers (@ceski)
• Switch mouse buttons 2 and 3 numbering
• Ensure integer parsing in config flags does not discard data (@yrriban)
• Name the screenshots "dsda" instead of the generic "doom"\
  • Increased screenshots number limit
• Replace Nuked-OPL3 with Nuked-OPL3-fast
  • Using 1.8-fast.3 (@tgies)

Compiling

• The macOS build is now Universal and Static
• The Windows build now works in Windows 7
• Fixed macOS failed build due to SDL2 now using SDL3 with a compatibility layer
• Fixed newer ZLIB versions causing compilation error
• Fixed cross-building of the data wad
• Added libsndfile to the building instructions

Bug Fixes

• Fixed minimap coordinates not refreshing

• Fixed demo playback bar desync due to game modifiers

• Fixed Always Pistol Start reverting when loading saves

• Fixed Heretic and Hexen view being slanted after resurrecting

• Fixed IDDKT cheat finding resurrected and IoS spawned enemies

• Fixed monochrome automap menu colors when invulnerable (@Adrad1234)

• Fixed potential out-of-bounds read in scanner

• Fixed garbage pixels appearing in software fuzz in low resolutions

• Fixed vertical bleed pixels in weapon sprites

• Fixed TNTFAST cheat not working (@nathan-casabieille)

• Fixed crash when pressing backspace in save dialog without binding (@nathan-casabieille)

• Fixed crash if stats.txt file is empty

• Fixed flawed IWAD detection

• Fixed quicksaves not using the current locale for date and time

• Fixed OpenGL wide weapon alignment (@gera2342)

• Fixed OpenGL wrong weapon sprite position rounding

• Fixed episode 4 par times applying even during demos

• Fixed viddumps being affected by the Mute when out of focus option

• Fixed Fighter Flechette exploding on the player when using freelook

• Fixed pusher TID search

• Fixed non-repeatable A_LineEffect being session based, instead of map based

• Fixed Keypad Enter displaying as an empty string in keybindings (@JNechaevsky)

• Fixed window focus being lost after minimizing and then restoring the window (@JNechaevsky)

• Fixed interaction between -warp and negative -skiptic values (@yrriban)

• Fixed music.restart not working for UMAPINFO tracks

• Fixed KIS order in the automap

• Fixed mouse showing on fullscreen demo playback when Playback Mouse Controls are disabled

• Fixed SSG fire "bleeding line"

• Fixed a crash related to distant actor position

• New maintainers: @andrikpowell and @elf-alchemist

v0.29.4

v0.29.4

• Allow freelook in dsdademos
• Reworked the game modifiers to be temporary (andrikpowell)
• Reworked the CREDIT/HELP loop in pwads (andrikpowell)
• Added support for widescreen RAW format (andrikpowell)
• Added longer Now Entering Pause (andrikpowell)
• Added support for non-power-of-2 textures (elf-alchemist)
• Added pickup sprite automap color (feos)
• Fixed weaponbob demo desync (andrikpowell)
• Fixed closest resolution being forced in exclusive fullscreen
• Fixed a case of sound clipping (ceski)
• Fixed an audio issue when viddumping with -skipsec
• Fixed a crash during demo playback on macOS
• Fixed wrong gnrock offsets on statusbar (andrikpowell)
• Fixed walkcamera not following vertical mouse config
• Fixed total time being counted wrong if the level is restarted
• Fixed Now Entering not showing up before MAP31 (andrikpowell)
• Fixed bad framerate when viddumping to avi container
• Fixed hot corners being triggered during gameplay
• Fixed walkcamera not rotating all the way
• Fixed horizon line effect in software (elf-alchemist)
• Fixed many warnings
• Various build system improvements (FtZPetruska)
  • Added STRICT_FIND option
  • Added Brewfile
• Bump minimum CMake version to 3.17 (FtZPetruska)
• Drop libopenmpt player in favor of libxmp (ceski)

v0.29.3

v0.29.3

• Fixed wrong save slot being deleted when quicksaving
• Fixed a crash in Hexen
• Fixed building dsda-doom.wad in big-endian hosts (FtZPetruska)
• Improved statusbar color background algorithm (andrikpowell)

v0.29.2

v0.29.2

• Fix crash with autosaves

v0.29.1

v0.29.1

• Clickable demo progress bar
  • Click to skip to that point
  • To make skipping faster, the closest keyframe is used as the starting point
  • There are new playback keyframes spread around the demo
  • Blue lines are playback keyframes, green lines are rewind keyframes
  • The mouse becomes visible while moving during demos
  • New Playback Mouse Controls option to toggle this behaviour
• Added page just for quicksaves
  • You can now have multiple quicksaves at a time
• Added Keypad Enter to keys that pop-up the menu
• Added customisable View and Weapon Bob percentages (andrikpowell)
  • Uses a new config name, so resets the setting for everyone
• Added colored statusbar background option (andrikpowell)
• Added `Translucent Sprites option (andrikpowell)
  • Off, Default, w/ Vanilla
• Added Translucent Ghosts option (andrikpowell)
• Added Hexen skill strings for cheats (andrikpowell)
• Added extra_level_brightness config (mincardona)
  • Config only for now
• Added dsda_demo_end_quit (feos)
• Added new thing automap appearance hitboxes (feos)
• Added XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS to search paths (DankRank)
• Added Automap marks to Raven (andrikpowell)
• Removed dynamic Help screen
  • In favor of simply showing the HELP graphic
• Allow customisation of the F1 key
• Allow binding scroll wheel to weapons
• Allow setting Gray % even if Colored Numbers is off (andrikpowell)
• Allow Episode 4 in cl2 if there is a E4M1 lump (andrikpowell)
• Allow choosing previous weapon in vanilla with the chainsaw selected (andrikpowell)
• Allow pausing during skipping
• Mark death exits on the Automap
• Enable cross-compilation in one build (FtZPetruska)
• Various CMake improvements (FtZPetruska)
• Don't hide stbar numbers on menu (andrikpowell)
• Force menu off during Heretic E2 end screen (andrikpowell)
• Fixed The D_DDTBLU disease midi issue
• Fixed some M_DOOM images being distorted in Software
• Fixed -chain_episodes not working with UMAPINFO
• Fixed menu not opening after episode end in Heretic (andrikpowell)
• Fixed level table not marking value as max if above max (andrikpowell)
• Fixed a crash by skipping SMMU swirling flats (andrikpowell)
• Fixed linedef action 272 not flipping the sky in OpenGL
• Fixed Hexen weapon pieces HUD position (andrikpowell)
• Fixed some issues with the dark fade overlay (andrikpowell)
• Fixed big_ widgets colors not following Colored Numbers setting (andrikpowell)
• Fixed some crosshairs not being fullbright (thekovic)
• Fixed Hexen keys being visually removed when exiting a map in the same hub (andrikpowell)
• Fixed a hang when quiting while skipping on macOS
• Fixed widescreen assets that rely on offsets (andrikpowell)
• Drop DUMB player in favor of libopenmpt (qookei)

v0.29.0

v0.29.0

Menu Rework

• Reorganized all menus
• Added tabs
  • For Keybindings, the tabs use a carrousel
• Added scrollbar for vertically scrolling pages
• Added new menus "Display" "Demos" "Compatibility"
  • Officially drops support for the boom menu graphics
• Removed the menus "Sound Volume" "Status Bar / HUD"
• Disabled strict options during strict mode
• Enforce maximum line height
• Uses the hud font instead of the exhud font on Raven
• New graphics for < > & on Raven (andrikpowell)

Demos

• Strict mode is now On by default when recording demos
  • The menu option only disables it temporarly
• Increased demo features size to 128
• Don't allow saving the game on strict mode

Lumps

• Added GAMEINFO support (andrikpowell)
  • Only supports the "iwad" field
• Added E#M# lump detection (andrikpowell)
  • Loads Doom1 instead of Doom2 if detected

Miscellaneous

• Added config option for toggling aspect ratio correction
• Added config option for starting the window in a different display
• Added linear sky scrolling option for Software renderer (andrikpowell)
• Added button states to Save games (andrikpowell)
• Added smooth chainsaw bobbing (andrikpowell)
  • Only when Uncapped FPS is On
• Remove SysEx support from FluidSynth midi player (ceski)
• Improved looping for older midi hardware devices (ceski)
• Improved support for TC games (andrikpowell)
• Improved automap (andrikpowell)
  • Clear Last Mark instead of Clear Marks
  • New colors for "Alt Secret Exit line" and "Tag Finder line"
• Various cheat improvements (andrikpowell)
  • Checks if a map exists before changing music with IDMUS
  • Added status for TNTCOMP and IDCLEV
  • New cheat SKILL
  • Disabled TNTCOMP for Raven
• Rename "Use Red Numbers" to "Colored Numbers" (andrikpowell)
  • Resets the setting for all players
• Separate Player Trail Mode option (andrikpowell)
• Show E2M9 on intermission screen if it has been completed (andrikpowell)
• Show E2M7 (instead of E2M5) screen on intermission for E2M8 (andrikpowell)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed sdl_video_window_pos not being able to move fullscreen window to another display
• Fixed shaded overlay in Hexen caused by FOGMAP (andrikpowell)
• Fixed walls beind too bright in OpenGL (jackrjli)
• Reintroduce complevel check for Ultimate Doom Episode 4 (Spectere)
• Fixed desync with chainsaw weapon switch on Vanilla (andrikpowell)
• Fixed weapon being visible at the start of the level (andrikpowell)
• Fixed statusbar not refreshing when changing viewsize on Software (andrikpowell)
• Fixed gnrock being drawn on top of hud during the wipe screen (andrikpowell)
• Fixed an animation issue with Hexen melee weapons (andrikpowell)
• Fixed an animation issue with A_Raise and A_Lower states on custom weapons (andrikpowell)
• Fixed IDMUS not working correctly on Doom1 (andrikpowell)
• Fixed face not reflecting the current health when loading a new level or save (andrikpowell)
• Fixed -save not working when the folder has a backslash on Linux
• Fixed intermission animation timers not being reset (andrikpowell)
• Fixed text screen being skipped in E#M8 when using UMAPINFO (andrikpowell)
• Fixed lower skill stats being kept even if a higher skill run is completed (thecnoNSMB)
• Fixed sounds from SNDINFO overriding DEHACKED sounds (clearyf)
• Fixed wrong sky drawing if freelook is on, but not allowed
• Fixed wrong OpenGL tall skies vertical position (bangstk)
• Fixed animated skies not being animated when defined via UMAPINFO
• Fixed potential hang after restoring keyframe (PeterN)
• Fixed poor performance from retrying sighting a player over and over again (jackrjli)

v0.28.3

v0.28.3

• Added -track_reality
• Added some more keys that can open the menu from the title screen
• Added static MSVC build
• Added "Auto Switch Weapon on Pickup" option (andrikpowell)
• Added shaded overlay for the automap and options menu (andrikpowell)
• Added horizontal mouse wheel support (andrikpowell)
• Added low res aspect ratio correction on OpenGL to match Software
• Improved software fuzz to not scale with the resolution
• Improved automap zoom / scroll speeds (andrikpowell)
• Improved 240p windows no longer get automatically resized to 480p
• Improved "IWAD not found" message
• Improved Heretic / Hexen Menu (andrikpowell)
• Allow running in a read-only environment
• Allow running with $HOME unset
  • Fallback to getpwuid() if possible (suve)
• Allow setting desired_fullscreen in the menu, even if -window or -fullscreen was used
• Fixed an issue with midi volume (ceski)
• Fixed HELP / README routines to match vanilla (andrikpowell)
• Fixed secret revealed sound getting cuttoff by items
• Fixed window not being resizable on macOS
• Fixed undefined behaviour in the MAPINFO parser (suve)
• Fixed the IDMUS cheat not considering music defined in UMAPINFO
• Fixed Hexen extended HUD displaying Armor Percentage instead of Armor Class
• Fixed Heretic / Hexen extended HUD not displaying the updated selected item
• Fixed -save not working if organized saves is on
• Fixed Raven RawScreen aspect (andrikpowell)
• Fixed "Show Alive Monsters" bug when switching from OpenGL to Software (andrikpowell)
• New maintainers: fabiangreffrath, rfomin and Pedro-Beirao

v0.28.2

v0.28.2

• Added ANIMATED support to heretic
• Added release automation for windows (rfomin) and macos (Pedro-Beirao)
• Improved install instructions (otrw)
• Fixed map title style in mapinfo
• Fixed acap attribute units in brute force
• Fixed potential udmf unit conversion issue
• Fixed an issue with pitch shift for certain sample rates (FozzeY)
• Fixed default message position for raven (fabiangreffrath)
• Fixed data directory on macos (Pedro-Beirao)
• Fixed music for shareware iwad (PeterN)
• Fixed mbf21 add / remove NOBLOCKMAP or NOSECTOR dehacked crashes (xaser)

v0.28.1

v0.28.1

• Improved exe suffix game behavior (fabiangreffath)
• Fixed freelook menu crash
• Fixed numlock menu crash (fabiangreffath)