Changelog

Features Added:

• AppImage for Linux making it easy to run.

Changes:

• Allows playing the game even if audio fails to load.

Bug Fixed:

• Improved bug report.
• Failed to launch when the system language was not discovered properly.
• Upgraded third party libraries improving especially in low memory conditions.

Features Added:

• Portable version in PortableApps self-extractable format.

Changes:

• In-Game Chat: Only keep 2 lines visible (instead of 5).

Bug Fixed:

• Fix portable version missing DLLs.
• Improved bug report.

Features Added:

• Support multi-user settings.

Bug Fixed:

• Support Windows Vista/7 out of the box.
• Catch and allow reporting unhandled exceptions and bugs.
• Various bug fixes.

Bug Fixed:

• Fixed login issue (which wasn't always sent correctly).

Features Added:

• French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch translations.
• Save local player types (now Human vs Computer by default).

Changes:

• Game resources in a ZIP file, easy to customize the game.
• New network communication system.
• Don't show the starting blue console unless there's a problem.
• Don't display the splash screen after the second game execution.
• In game: Renamed "END GAME" to "LEAVE".
• Rules menu: Right click to select previous.
• Main menu: Sparks sounds removed.

Bug Fixed:

• Dropping a green counter in a column with a single counter in Special mode.
• Using a new resource manager: caches and shares resources, removes memory leaks, safer.
• Improved CPU peaks handling.
• Catch and handle exceptions better.
• Fixed possible image pixels access bug.
• Fixed grid rendering without particles option.
• Fixed console error printing word wrap.

Bug Fixed:

• Minor fixes and compilation with VC9.

Changes:

• Updated manual and translated into French.
• Chat room: The DEL key now only deletes the character under the cursor.
• Chat room: More intelligent name selector.
• Updated link to ipuissance4d.beroux.com.
• Chat room: After clicking on a player in the list, select the user message control.

Bug Fixed:

• Always display the loading screen.
• Use the latest SDL 1.2.13.
• Some refactoring that should fix known and unknown bugs.

Features Added:

• In game: Word wrap for the chat messages.
• Copyright notice.

Changes:

• Nicer particle effects (especially on slow computers).

Bug Fixed:

• User name can be 12 characters long, not only 11.
• Fixed the DrawFPS command that gave wrong values.

Features Added:

• Nice looking 2D grid option (for people who don't like the rotating grid).
• In game: Display a message in the middle of the screen when the opponent left the game.
• In game: Highlight the last dropped counter(s).
• In game: F1 to F10 shortcut to drop a counter in a given column.
• In game: Right mouse button cycles between available counter types.
• Chat room: Possibility to modify the chat message by moving the cursor.
• Chat room: AFK detection and status display.
• Chat room: Enable players' list scrolling.
• Chat room: Clicking a player in the list appends their name in the chat message.
• Chat room: "Join Now!" link for guests (clickable).
• Chat room: Display a Beroux.com link (clickable).

Changes:

• In game: "/msg OPP_NAME " as default start for the chat.
• In game: Smaller END GAME button (to avoid mixing with last column of 10×10 grid).
• In game: Chat paste function improvement.
• In game: Don't display the "TIME LEFT" panel when there is no time limitation.
• Chat room: Keep 200 chat lines instead of 50.
• Chat room: Don't make the window flash when a player changes state.
• Chat room: Wheel scrolling only affects the panel under the cursor.
• Chat room: "/msg PLAYER" improvements.
• Some A.I. improvements, especially for Classic mode.
• F10 console key has been moved to F12.
• Game more reactive, especially on slower machines.

Bug Fixed:

• 2D grid on slow PC: the delete counter bug.
• Possible rare bug on the internet fixed.
• Nicknames can generate sounds.

Features Added:

• Tutorials to start an internet game (Windows only).
• Send PING every so often to check the connection.

Changes:

• To close a MessageBox you have to click on the OK button.

Bug Fixed:

• Fixed: After loading two games with time limits, the game crashes.
• Fixed resize bug on Linux X11.
• Converted most char* to string.
• Converted most printf to stream commands.
• Sound samples are checked before being played.

Major Changes:

• New user interface.
• Linux support.
• Robust internet connection that supports firewalls and player chat.
• New game rules and clear setup of the rules.
• New visual effects.
• Installation setup file.
• More stable game.

Features Added:

• Update for Windows XP.

Features Added:

• "Motion blur" effect when a 3D counter is falling.

Bug Fixed:

• Bug of the quick click on a column resolved.

Features Added:

• Artificial Intelligence to play alone.
• Improved connection quality.
• Choice of a 2D or a 3D grid.
• Added a console.
• Special characters now supported.
• 2 players can easily play on the same computer.
• New special rules added.

Bug Fixed:

• Many bugs resolved.

Features Added:

• With the WBC Server you can easily find an opponent on the Internet.
• Executable file three times smaller.
• Special rules.
• Some FPS acceleration.
• Translated into French.
• An easy auto-update system.
• New connection management.
• Added an information bar.

Bug Fixed:

• Small bugs resolved and other upgrades.