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gnome-xbill-2.0: 21 May 1998
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- Initial release of GNOME version of xBill. Based on xBill 2.0
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- Converted all Xt (including athena and motif) calls to GTK ones,
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and converted Xlib calls to GDK.
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- Replaced the score file interface with calls to the gnome_score_*
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- Changed to using automake/autoconf from the Imakefile.XBill history:
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Here is the NEWS for the non GTK versions of xbill:
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- Bill moves, and he's in color too. You can even click on
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him and he excaims "OUCH!" or "SPLAT!"
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- window resizing is very wrong
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- program no longer guaranteed to run predictably for
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longer than nine years (sorry)
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- ridiculously improved code style (no really a lot!)
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- added linked list unit and support for multiple monsters
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- added support for computers
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- bill says "POW!!!!!!" on button 2
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- remembered to include app-defaults file in tar
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- forgot to initialize a variable. either the stupid aix compiler
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initialized it anyway or we were really lucky testing it.
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- removed annoying flicker
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- has multiple computers on the screen with random OSes
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- has multiple bills moving on the screen in random directions
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- used sxpm to create smaller .xpm files, minor savings in memoy
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and executable size, easier to edit pixmaps
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- left button (button 1) removes bills from screen
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- right button (button 3) now resets computers to wingdows.
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- got masking to work (well, maybe not...)
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- bill now carries the wingdows box around
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- event handling/speed improved
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- masking really works now
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- fixed computer pixmap so it looks nice(r)
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- randomized computer layout now leaves room for bill to stand on right
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- support for bills walking in, standing at computers and walking out
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- bills walk towards a specific computer to plunder (primitive ai)
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- bill turns off computer, 'steals' native os and installs wingdows
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- count of bills remaining is kept: decreased when bill enters screen
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- increased if bill leaves
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- bill is killable in all states
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- computer reset to native os on right button
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- cleaned up code and internal structures
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- event handling/speed really improved (optimized for the new code)
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- server lag problems identified
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- linked list unit fixed so that function to move between lists works
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- window resizing is still very wrong
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- programmers woke up after being asleep since 7/26.
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- code structures were fixed very much (again)
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- bill faces in the direction he's walking
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- bill explodes in a gory shower of blood when clicked on (yeah!)
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- bill drops os when killed
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- the os stays on the ground when bill is killed if it had been stolen
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- the os bounces up and down while bill carries it
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- changed default cursor (matias will have to draw a better one later)
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- cursor changes during drag and drop operation
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- drag and drop works! there's a little hack involved, but not
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- bill now smart enough to notice that a computer is already
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corrupted and find a new one
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- game ends if all computers are lost
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- attempt to port code to athena widgets. it compiles and
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runs w/o motif now (i hate C macros) a bit
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- improved the makefile. an imakefile one day maybe...
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- when bill leaves the field, he drops the os he's carrying
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- status bar widget now does something
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- improved responsiveness a lot :)
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- menubar does something (new game, pause and quit buttons) if
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- levels now exist (barely)
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- yet more code cleanup
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- a few things depend on the level (freq. and number of appearing
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bills, number of computers, step size)
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- bug where a computer is ignored if off is removed
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- athena code started. this works more or less, but not too well.
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i'd recommend using motif and/or a statically linked binary.
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- about box works. help almost works also.
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- a bunch of bugs fixed
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- have an Imakefile now (thanks to Greg Seidman - anthro@cs.umd.edu)
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0.9 (11/28/94 - a bit busier during school)
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- warp to arbitrary level works
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- game pauses when cursor leaves window
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- cursor warps to near upper left corner of opened dialog boxes
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- redefined both reset and drag to right button (button 3),
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added -1 option for people with a one button mouse.
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-1 may slow the game down a bit.
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- added -l, -L to specify starting level
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- added -v for version info
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- improved pictures a lot
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- added confirmations for actions
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- game now pauses well
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- fixed level difficulty stuff
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- bill walks at two speeds
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- minimizes to an icon (a cool one too...)
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- window cannot be resized now, no matter how hard you try :)
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- much cooler animations for bill replacing os
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- added high score list
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- fixed lots of silly bugs
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- made program not die from colormap error (i hope)
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- remembered that the game's not done yet :)
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- replaced usleep() calls with XtAppAddTimeout(). should make
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the game more responsive
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- changed all popup windows to modal dialogs. cleans up code
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- removed Athena support, since it would take too long to finish.
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- made a couple pixmaps a bit smaller
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- changed colors to gray. why not?
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- finally got everything to work with full colormaps
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- got rid of app-defaults file. Not really used anyway
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- Only uses one button now (any button). Easier to play.
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- Some Imakefile fixes
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- modularized widget code, and added Athena widget support (rewritten
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from scratch). The game looks better with Motif, but that's
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- made pause button only active during game play
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- warping to a level starts a game if one isn't being played
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- fixed a potentially nasty bug that could cause bills to get lost
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- works in TrueColor now (I think - it works in 16 bit mode at least)
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- fixed bug where getopt() returned a char instead of an int.
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- fixed bug where hitting Enter when entering a high score
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corrupted the high score file.
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- don't fclose() nonexistant files any more.
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- added BSD as another operating system (patches by Joerg Wunsch,
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joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de)
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- it was really easy to play forever by guarding one computer. Now
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you lose when there's only one computer left running its
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- added man page, written by Pekka Marjola (marjola@trshp.ntc.nokia.com)
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- changed around some timer code.
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- removed Athena DrawingArea widget since CoreWidget works too.
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- massive code reorganization to improve portability to other
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GUIs, languages, etc.
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- Some computers are connected by network cables
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- When a computer with a network cable becomes infected, it will
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release a spark down the cable which will infect the
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computer on the other end. Pouring the bucket of water
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on the spark will extinguish it.
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- Made cursors and various other images look better.
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- Removed references to defenestration.dorm.umd.edu, which no
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- Added Red Hat logo (fixed broken Red Hat patch).
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- Added GNU Hurd logo
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- Added Linux penguin logo
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- The BSD, Red Hat, Linux, OS/2, and Hurd operating systems are
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interchangable on the 2 PC computers.
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- The score is now displayed in the playing field.
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- Made Athena version far better looking.
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- Motif version almost completely works with Lesstif.
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