- give maintainership to David Griffith <bugs@661.org>
Frotz 2.50 was released on Tuesday November 12, 2019.
NEW FEATURES
- Added UTF-8 input and output. Plain ASCII is still available.
- Added -L option for restoring save file directly from the command line.
- Added -R option for restricted read/write path.
- Sound effects in AIFF, MOD, and OGG formats supported per the Blorb specs.
- Sound driver selection is automated through the use of libao.
- Allow for an alternative Blorb file to be specified on the command line.
BUG FIXES
- Overhauled MacOS compilation.
- Corrected problems with error handling.
- Fixed a lot of unsafe strcpy() and strcat() calls.
- Fixed numerous problems with portability to other flavors of Unix.
- Fixed adaptive palette rendering for SDL.
- Fixed scaling with manually specified window dimensions.
- Fixed problem with unnecessary newlines with input timeouts.
- Allow fontdir in .sfrotzrc to work relative to user's home directory.
- Fixed problem with memory allocation leading to crashes in DOS.
- Fixed problem with DOS Frotz creating non-portable Quetzal files.
PR: 242821
Submitted by: David Griffith <bugs@661.org>
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