Hi, Here's a new release of GNU FreeDink :) https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freedink/freedink-109.6.tar.gz https://www.gnu.org/software/freedink/ https://play.freedink.org/
This is the first official announcement for the new 109.x line with updated technologies (SDL2, OpenGL), WebAssembly support and many fixes and improvements. See below for details. About GNU FreeDink: Dink Smallwood is an adventure/role-playing game, similar to classic Zelda, made by RTsoft. Besides twisted humor, it includes the actual game editor, allowing players to create hundreds of new adventures called Dink Modules or D-Mods for short. GNU FreeDink is a new and portable version of the game engine, which runs the original game as well as its D-Mods, with close compatibility, under multiple platforms. 109.2 ===== * User-visible changes: - Rewrite graphics/sounds/inputs against SDL2 - Enforce full-screen aspect ratio (no more 4:3 stretched to 16:9). - Runs in current resolution so leave the screen clean if something goes wrong (no more stuck in 640x480). Also smoother full-screen / windowed toggle. - FreeDink respect local keyboard layout for keys (ALT+... shortcuts and custom D-Mod keys) on Windows. - FreeDinkedit now uses layout-independent scancodes - no longer searching where '[' or '`' was relocated. - CD-ROM support dropped. - Default harware-accelerated (OpenGL) rendering - Web browser support (Emscripten) - Debug mode is toggled once when Alt+D is pressed (no more fighting with continous toggling). - DinkC console is toggled when Alt-C is pressed (no more creating a key-xx.c with just "show_console()" inside). - Game engine translations are loaded under Windows. - Fix game freeze in The Scourger (in DinkC: cancel concurrent fade_up() and fade_down()) - Never recreate an empty dink.dat in the game, even if there's a problem opening it (avoids potential corruption when running both the game and an editor at the same time). - Fix portability when saving a FreeDinkedit screen for the first time - Fix 'make_global_function' and 'load_map' DinkC functions - sp_custom returns 0 rather than -1 if the lookup key doesn't exist (compatibility with 1.08) - sp_custom now works for sprite 1 instead of crashing the game (unlike 1.08, that's an improvement :)) - Can skip Mom's first dialog line when quickly starting a new game - Fix historical segfault in DinkC busy() (off-by-one array out of bounds). Somehow the segfault wasn't triggered in the past. - Sprites colors are more stable after a palette change and a savegame load to a different palette (compatibility with 1.08) - New translation for the engine strings in Friulian (thanks Fabio Tomat); updated Spanish translation (thanks Francisco Javier Serrador) * Developer notes: - Move from C to C++ - Move from 'check' to 'cxxtest' - Start a comprehensive test suite 109.4 ===== * Fix missing strings in the translation template * Improve AppStream metadata for GNU/Linux software centers: mark as localized, install proper meta-package, update screenshots declaration, new SVG icon * Web version: support Emscripten 1.38.25 * Windows version: update reproducible recipe 109.6 ===== * Improve distro integration some more (Desktop and AppStream files) * Updated translations: Danish, German, Esperanto, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish * Web version: upgrade to Emscripten 1.38.27 Cheers! Sylvain -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
