The Ur-Quan Masters specifications

NEW FEATURES

• Added the missing bits to the no-voice versions of Mycon, Syreen and Utwig dialogue
• New lander reports for Supox ruins and Ultron. The reports text is new content from TFB.
• Added spoken Slylandro probe coordinates
• Remixes are now selectable from the setup menu
• Added a "safe mode", which will ignore settings. Useful if you've somehow wrecked your configuration files.
• Added --addondir commandline option
• Added --keepaspectratio to keep correct aspect ratio when using custom resolutions in OpenGL mode
• New addon machanism allows greater flexibility for selecting which resource goes with which game element.
• Joystick text input improved
• Unicode strings now could theoretically support UCS-4 on all platforms
• Experimental support for Symbian S60 3rd edition
• Support for Windows CE
• Added fullscreen/windowed toggle key F11
• Support for 3DO "ship spin" videos
• Better location description in savegame summaries
• Cancel key will now quit out of the Manifest Menu
• Error boxes on MacOSX are now actually native to the OS - no need to check Console.app anymore.

BUGFIXES

• Properly account for simultaneous destruction in SuperMelee.
• Ending a battle with a simultaneous death no longer triggers an assertion
• Druuge no longer turn hostile after attempting a salvage
• Fixed Mmrnmhrm's X-Form transformation without energy use
• Fuel and distance estimates are now more accurate
• Analog joysticks less sensitive to jitter
• Cannot talk to Ilwrath with a 'caster anymore after they die off
• Fixed enemy ships getting recrewed between encounters in HyperSpace
• Old Windows installer was horribly obsolete; fixed now.
• Fixed rendering error when entering the orbit of a shielded planet
• Fixed planet blinking when exiting scan
• Menu sounds restored after editing a control set name.
• Fixed a freeze when quickly escaping melee.
• Fixed misaligned cargo count
• Fixed a crash when filling fuel tanks over 10
• Comm code rewrite, fixing a lot of minor annoyances
• Team configuration in netplay no longer desyncs
• Fixed Melee menu timeout when both sides are Cyborgs
• Fixed AI ship not moving on warp in
• Revert gfx settings entirely when a mode switch fails
• Fix for weird colors problem on MacOSX with SDL 1.2.14
• Lander will no longer hang when killed on planets with a lot of
natural disasters
• Fixed crash when saving a game into the last slot while having too many devices on board
• Fixed crashes and potential weirdness when loading savegames from a Homeworld encounter screen
• Fixed a crash when conversing with music disabled
• Extremely busy battle sequences (Orz vs. Orz with many space marines out, for instance) no longer introduces graphical glitches
• Fixed rendering bug that would occasionally make a ship just be solid blue all the time
• Objects in melee made of multiple "parts" no longer jitter during zoom
• Fixed a crash on startup if uqm.cfg did not exist
• Extremely rapid key presses will no longer be lost at low framerates
• 3DO videos now work after a resolution change
• OpenGL texture loading uses surface pitch instead of screen width, improving compatibility across older graphics cards.
• Miscellaneous conversational typo and timing fixes
• 999.9:999.9 is now reachable in HyperSpace
• Do not match singular stars when given a prefix in star search
• Fixed wrong Sa-Matra guards icons after Kohr-Ah win
• Canceling load from the main menu returns to main menu
• Gas giants can no longer have negative masses

INTERNAL CHANGES

• Code cleanup; many warnings removed
• Massive changes to the way the resource system works. This is
mostly interesting in that 3DO voices, 3DO videos, and 3DO music are now addon packs like any other.
• Code reorganization; old stuff removed, new stuff better set-up
• 32-bit graphics everywhere internally.
• Refactored universe generation
• Pthread support
• Removed the 256-frame limit on .ani files