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Caesar II 1.0.2

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@github-actions github-actions released this 08 Sep 11:42
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  • Windows: no console window behind the game. Started from a terminal, the
    program still prints there (--version, errors, the crash report's
    location).
  • The Windows version's soundtrack plays: every CD from August 1996
    carries it (C2WIN95/RAW/), the 1998 US disc has nothing else. It is
    different music, not the DOS score re-recorded — Keith Zizza wrote it in
    1996 for the Windows release, where the 1995 game is Jeremy A. Bell's
    and Jason P. Rinaldi's. Choose in the launcher, in the web page's
    Settings → Game data → Music, or with --music dos|windows; the DOS
    music, which follows your city's mood, stays the default. Either place
    says which of the two the game data has.
  • The web page's Settings tab "Assets" is "Game data", as the launcher
    and the front page already said.
  • The five full-screen movies the Windows version ships at 500x240
    (battle won/lost, promotion, victory, defeat) play from those files
    instead of the 320x152 DOS ones.
  • Launcher: the game data's version and release note each get a line of
    their own (no more left-truncated "...rsion 1.02"), and the status line
    no longer draws over the media note.
  • Launcher: a disc without music files is told so, instead of "they
    stayed on the CD", which is only true of an installed folder.
  • Launcher: accented letters in a localized version line ("Version
    Française") are shown without the accent instead of as "?": C2.ENG is
    CP437, not Latin-1.
  • The helmet is the icon everywhere: the game and launcher windows
    (taskbar, Alt-Tab), the Windows executable (with a version block), the
    AppImage, the macOS disk image's volume, and a 256 px icon on Linux
    desktops without SVG support.