22nov2019

ver 6.5.0 -- 22nov19

• Updated/improved sounds & fragshaders in dungeons & wormhole.
• Reduced graphical overburden that made level 3 unplayable on older hardware.

19nov2019

ver 6.4.9 -- 19nov19

• Updated to use SDL2 v2.0.9;
• Updated Ada binding to SDL2;
• Fixed a broken level 5.

15jun19

ver 6.4.8 -- 15jun19

• Revised monkey motion is smarter and more realistic; limited chatter.
• Approach closer to stargates prior to wormhole effect.
• Improved code organization by moving ada source code into subdirectories: src, adabindings, adautils.
• Improved local wormhole passage.
• Generalized avatar package to draw hats, turbans. Now default to Indiana Jones.

24jan2019

ver 6.4.7 -- 24jan19

• Improved ocean waves & foam;
• Replaced tricky & obscure frag.shader-defined lava pool with a more comprehensible implementation using coherent noise, similar to the fireball;
• Improved Stargate effects using an alternate spherical gridding & 3D Perlin coherent noise;

27dec2018

ver 6.4.6 -- 27dec18

• Changed partition to glass in 4th chamber;
• Fixed dungeon logic error causing keyboard to be ignored whenever a gamepad or joystick was connected.
• Improved default gamepad settings.
• Now deliver 7z archives for better compression and simplicity of extraction on all platforms.

19dec2018

ver 6.4.5 -- 19dec18

• Reenabled & improved trackpad zoom on OSX;
• Zoom key z (return to default) is now incremental, like n & f;
• Portal gun now disabled when not needed.

10dec18

ver 6.4.4 -- 10dec18

• Added avatar-camera zoom keys z,n,f [default,Nearer,Further];
• Added help screen, activated with h-key;

5dec2018

ver 6.4.3 -- 7dec18

• Improved linux compilation portability;
• Now draw portal gun to cue players;

ver 6.4.2 -- 6dec18

• Improved sounds;
• Improved ocean, magma shaders;
• Corrected minor errors;
• Reduced size of resource files;

23aug2018

ver 6.4.1 -- 23aug18

• Updated win32 version to use sfml250 libs + DLLs;
• Improved coding & movement for avatar objects;
• Improved treadwater motion;
• Now using new autogenerated thin ada binding for SDL208;
• Updated to sdl208 libraries, all 4 platforms;

18jul18

ver 6.4.0 -- 28jul18

• Fixed skybox problem not allowing progress beyond 1st level.
• Fixed level 2 graphical error.
• Added awesome rusty metallic island ZPM;
• Improved look of foggy lagoon;
• Added fog to metallic ZPM rendering;
• Linux version now too uses SFML v2.5.0