Drawing performance of the game window is significantly improved. People with older machines should find the games much more playable, and Mac OS X users should find that the games use far fewer CPU cycles.
A delay between cards played in network games has been removed speeding up game play in network games
The time to quit games is approximately 700% faster. This reduces the time it it takes to switch to a different game and get back on to AspyrWorld.
Added support for Random Rooms, each new game will randomly select a room when turned on. On by default.
Added support for Random Puppets in solo games, enabled with a checkbox in the Puppets dialog. On by default. Each new solo game gets three random puppets.
While online, typing "/help" in the chat section now displays help
Score Pad cosmetically improved. The bottom portion of the score pad now supports most Edit menu options: content can be selected, copied and cleared using the Edit menu items.
When connected to AspyrWorld, using the Quit and Open option to open a different CCC game will automatically log you back in to AspyrWorld.
There is a new preference to control how talkative the puppets are. When using "terse" talking puppets, only essential information is spoken by the puppets (bids, and so on).
Redesigned the Solo Stats window. It now includes the number of hands played and an option to open after each solo game.
Added Drag and Drop support for iPuppet image in the Preferences dialog
Many network play messages now include more information about who is dealing or who won the trick. For example, "Ian dealt, Colin is bidding"
Moved the two options from the Pitch Rules dialog into the Preferences dialog that controlled the information visible on the score pad. The Rules dialog is now used only for actual options that modify game play.
Slightly redesigned the Rules dialog to be more compliant with the Mac OS X interface guidelines.
The main game window's chat typer now supports Undo on Mac OS X.
The AspyrWorld window now uses Mac OS X's "Quartz" text drawing for the chat typer and chat history
The Score Pad window is automatically hidden now when the AspyrWorld window is frontmost. When the game window resumes being frontmost, the score pad is once again shown.
Hiding the desktop now attempts to switch screen resolutions to 800x600. Hold down the option key when the desktop is being hidden (at startup or when changing it via Preferences) to confirm the the switch. Once the desktop is hidden, if the resolution is switched to something other than 800x600, the games will remember that and use your preferred resolution the next time.
When the desktop is hidden, the game window is now larger if the monitor resolution is higher. This allows for a larger chat history area.
When joining a new network game, a welcome message from the host is now displayed (in case the game name does not include the name of the host).
Home/End and Page Up/Down work when the chat history areas of the game window or server window are focused.
Copy, Select All and Clear now work in the chat history areas of both the game and server windows.
In Pitch, when not playing with the Queen or the Jack, that column on the Score Pad is disabled.
The game list in the server window now displays the lock icon immediately after the game name
The Music menu has been removed. We were ahead of our time, but iTunes is just too good at this.
