• 2020-05-02 improved: Jim Power (Loriciel) fixes flashing independently on all levels, trainer improved, blitterwaits added (Info)
• 2020-05-02 updated: Dragon Spirit (Domark) quitkey in intro removed to avoid problems (Info)
• 2020-05-02 improved: Bump'n Burn (Grandslam/Softeyes) quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
• 2020-05-02 improved: West Phaser (Loriciel) supports another version, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
• 2020-05-02 fixed: Prince of Persia (Jordan Mechner/Brøderbund) avoid crash when saving/loading (Info)
• 2020-05-02 improved: Ninja Warriors (Sales Curve) supports 68010, trainer enhanced, joypad/2nd button support improved, new install script (Info)
• 2020-05-02 improved: Leisure Suit Larry 3 (Sierra) supports another version, MT32 optional support added (Info)
• 2020-05-02 improved: Gods (Bitmap Brothers) joypad/2nd button controls added, uses less chip memory, trainer added (Info)
• 2020-05-02 fixed: Feudal Lords (Impressions) corrected wrong patch which led to in-game crashes (Info)
• 2020-05-02 improved: Arabian Nights (Krisalis) 24-bit access fault fixes rewritten, new Slave using 1 MB chip memory (Info)
• 2020-05-01 new: Lost Symphony (Mystic & Pic Saint Loup) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
• 2020-05-01 new: Vision of the Art (Mystic) done by StingRay (Info, Image)
• 2020-04-29 new: Quasar Wars (Light Designs) done by JOTD (Info)
• 2020-04-29 improved: Dragon Spirit (Domark) keyboard enabled in intro, trainer enhanced, fixed ST color palette, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-29 improved: Black Shadow (CRL/Zen Room) uses files instead disk image, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-28 fixed: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) keyboard interrupt fixed (Info)
• 2020-04-28 improved: Vader (Softgang) quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-28 improved: Mad TV (Rainbow Arts) quitkey for 68000, uses less chip memory, option to skip intro, manual added (Info)
• 2020-04-28 improved: Deconstruction (Brain-Logo) adapted for newer WHDLoad, caches disabled for better compatibility (Info)
• 2020-04-28 improved: Capone (Actionware) more versions supported, trainer added, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-28 new: Propaganda (Zero Defects) done by StingRay (Info, Image, Image)
• 2020-04-28 improved: International Sports Challenge (Empire) crash in diving event fixed (caused by self-modifying code) (Info)
• 2020-04-28 improved: Hostages / Operation Jupiter / Hostage: Rescue Mission (Infogrames) supports another version, access fault removed, manual protection removed, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
• 2020-04-27 improved: Valhalla & the Lord of Infinity (Vulcan) kickstart selection improved and check added (Info)
• 2020-04-27 improved: Valhalla - Before The War (Vulcan) kickstart selection improved and check added (Info)
• 2020-04-27 improved: Rise of the Robots (Mirage/Time Warner) kickstart selection improved and check added (Info)
• 2020-04-27 improved: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) kickstart selection improved and check added (Info)
• 2020-04-26 improved: Ween: The Prophecy (Coktel Vision) uses less chip memory, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-26 improved: Valhalla & the Lord of Infinity (Vulcan) made 68000 compatible (Info)
• 2020-04-26 improved: Spaceball / Starball (Rainbow Arts) quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
• 2020-04-26 improved: Pinball Magic (Loriciel) more versions supported, protection removed, trainer added, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-26 new: Mixed-Up Mother Goose (Sierra) done by JOTD (Info)
• 2020-04-26 new: Feudal Lords (Impressions) done by JOTD (Info)
• 2020-04-26 improved: Fascination (Coktel Vision) manual protection bypass rewritten, less chip memory required, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)

• Chuck Rock - Keyboard Cover
• Shadow Of The Beast 2 (Game Over)

• Punch animation is now played no matter if there's a bomb to punch away or not. This was a minor difference to the original game. This behaviour has one benefit: you can easily check if you still got the puncher... Thanks to Valentin for reporting!
• Team mode: original player colors are now being used during the first seconds of a match before they are being switched to white / red team colors. Before you had a hard time figuring out who you were...
• Somewhat adjusted explosion segment offsets, those were a bit off. Well, they still are, but less than in the original and less than before. The thing is: unbelievable but true, they are totally off in the original: it's all shifted by some useless pixels to the right and some asset the segments often simply don't fit well.
• Explosion-animations are now repeated once and played at twice the speed. Closer to the original
• Detail: if you have the kicker you cannot stop kicked bombs with the 2nd button anymore if you also got the jelly!
• New disease: swap player position with a random opponent. For whatever reasons I forgot about this one, saw it in a Youtube video of the original game now. :)
• Disease timing modified to be more closely to the original. Especially the duration decrease when you pass a disease has been changed: before it was 1 sec., now the remaining disease time is cut in half for you. Thanks to Valentin for reporting!
• Improved texture modes, depending on your hardware. In general this improves the playfield's and animations appearance. If possible the washed out bilinear filtering is avoid in favor or an filtered scale2x variant.
• Some graphics, namely bricks, use purple as a transparency indicator. However, for some this color-key is slightly off, so that here and there a single purple pixel remains. Was very well visible for the lilys in that trampoline world. The purple-check is now somewhat fuzzy so that stuff like that is gone.
• Windows users: the game will ask for UAC rights elevation to create a new set of patched decrunched assets.
• Angel death animation: angel now flying upwards. :)
• Death animations fade out on last frame, simply looks better than those original abrupt endings.
• Extras explanation screen: extra-icons now without bilinear washed out filter look.
• For upcoming updates the online update mechanism has changed. Before the game would only check for an update once per day. Now it does always on startup. The reason is that for an online session all players have to be on the same update level...
• Teleporter sound effects added.
• Trampoline sound effects added.
• Many more generic extra-pickup voice-overs added.
• Many more hurry voice-overs added.
• Many more frag taunt voice-overs added.
• Sound when punching a bomb.
• Sound when picking up bomb.
• Sound when a thrown bomb is bouncing around.
• Generic disease voice-overs added.
• Poops sounds added.
• Even more sounds added. :P
• New sound effects manager to gracefully handle this giant amount of sounds even on low end hardware.
• Put original's dedicated tune in the waiting-for-net-players screen.
• Optimization: extra color analyzation to avoid creation of sometimes rather useless secondary textures (useless in terms of: you won't spot the difference...) -> less VRAM used, faster texture generation step.
• Optimization: if the hardware supports it, the game will now create and cache NPOT textures, which means less VRAM used and faster texture generation.
• Optimization: tuned texture atlas generation parameters for the different atlas types (animation, world preview, playfield, extras). Makes quite a difference, until now all used the most effective but most costly variant best suited for the animations, which is overkill for the other variants.
• Optimization: texture atlas creation moved to the initial startup phase.
• Textures now with premultiplied alpha if the hardware supports it (should be pretty much all but Compositing). Above all this gets rid of those little filtering artefacts here and there.

• Shows Niceness, Process ID (PID) and age of each task in the top tasklist
• Now also shows running/sleeping, created/finished and average CPU load below the tasklist
• Strings in top task list entries context menu items (priority, break, etc.) are now localized too

• March/April 2020 news.
• Old articles from Joystick 1 to 3:
  • Review: Tennis Cup
  • Interview: Jeff Minter
  • Review: Highway Patrol 2
  • Review: Khalaan
  • Interview: Philippe Ulrich
  • Review: Sir Fred: The Legend
  • Review: Wild Life
  • Review: Axel's Magic Hammer
  • Interview: Paul Cuisset
  • Review: Vaux
  • Review: Hell Raisers, etc.
• Interview: Bill Borsari (AmiWest).
• Interview: Ian Dunlop (Walker programmer).
• Interview: Neill Glancy (Walker graphist).
• Interview: Rainer Brenda (Commodore Germany).
• Review: Amiga Forever 8 R2 et R3.
• Hardware: HID2AMI.
• Point of view: Commodore and the distribution of AmigaOS 3.1.
• File: Classic Reflections - what ever happen to DKB?
• File: Amiga Games List (update).
• Tutorial: Create filetypes in Ambient.
• DIY: Replacement of the CXA1145M by a CXA2075M on Amiga 1200.
• Special quizz about Dungeon Master.

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• 2020-04-25 fixed: Tin Toy Adventure (Mutation Software) fixed possible crashes (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: Super Cauldron (Titus) trainer enhanced, added 2nd button support, manual added (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: Street Racer (Epic) fixed 3/4 players mode, added joypad controls (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: Freedom (Coktel Vision) quitkey for 68000, manual protection bypass rewritten, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: Emmanuelle (TomaHawk) manual protection bypass improved, uses less chip memory, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: Dragon Breed (Irem/Activision) quitkey for 68000, trainer added, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: Colonization (Microprose) made OCS version 68000 compatible, added keyboard selection, manual added (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: BlockOut (California Dreams) fixed highscore display (Info)
• 2020-04-25 improved: Alien Breed 2 (Team 17) quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
• 2020-04-23 improved: Yolanda (Vectordean) imager fixed to support disk without highscores, trainer added, ButtonWait added, manual included (Info)
• 2020-04-23 fixed: Quest For Glory / Hero's Quest (Sierra) keyboard handling corrected (Info)
• 2020-04-23 new: Hoyle Book Of Games Volume 3 - Great Board Games (Sierra) done by JOTD (Info)
• 2020-04-23 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) quitkey for 68000, using latest kickemu (Info)
• 2020-04-23 improved: Fantastic Dizzy (Codemasters/Purple Haze) fixed music replay on fast machines, fixed trashed screen after save/load on AGA, fixed second button jumps on AGA (Info)
• 2020-04-23 improved: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) made OCS version 68000 compatible (Info)
• 2020-04-23 improved: Bargon Attack (Coktel Vision) crack rewritten to fix crab arcade section, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-22 improved: Gem Stone Legend (Loriciel) splash window options added, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
• 2020-04-22 improved: Ballistix (Psyclapse/Reflexions) second button in title screen fixed, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-22 improved: Tin Toy Adventure (Mutation Software) added joypad controls, added trainer, quitkey fixed (Info)
• 2020-04-22 improved: Time (Empire) quitkey for 68000, uses less chip memory (Info)
• 2020-04-22 improved: Space Gun (Ocean) quitkey for 68000, switchable lightgun support, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-22 fixed: Ishar 3 (Silmarils) second manual protection removed (Info)
• 2020-04-22 improved: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) quitkey for 68000, uses less chip memory, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-22 updated: BlockOut (California Dreams) reassembled, no longer requires 68020 (Info)
• 2020-04-22 improved: Battle Bound (The Warp Factory) trainer improved, skip intro added, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-20 updated: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) streamlined joypad read code to be more compatible with third party adapters (Info)
• 2020-04-20 improved: Intact (Sphinx Software/Grandslam) quitkey for 68000, interrupts fixed, uses less chip memory, trainer enhanced (Info)
• 2020-04-20 updated: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) floppy slave completely rewritten, fixed possibly wrong intro music, trainer improved, joypad support added (Info)
• 2020-04-20 improved: Deliverance (21st Century) added in-game trainer, added alternate slave for 512k chip only, more compatible controller read (Info, Image)
• 2020-04-20 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) added OCS Slave for 1 MB chip memory (Info)
• 2020-04-20 improved: 944 Turbo Cup (Loriciel) quikey for 68000, v17+ features, new install script (Info)
• 2020-04-19 improved: Curse of Enchantia (Core Design) quitkey for 68000, options on splash window (Info)
• 2020-04-19 fixed: Starquake (Stephen Crow/TOS Brothers) access faults and SMC removed, new icons (Info)
• 2020-04-19 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) fixed non-working AGA version, added CD32 controls for ECS version (Info)
• 2020-04-19 improved: Cedric (Neo/Alcatraz) quitkey for 68000, using kickemu13 instead 31, uses less chip memory, skip intro added, manual added (Info)

• Turrican 3 (Scrap Yard 1)

• Beta 6: MediaPlayer: fixed out-of-window issues when compositing effects disabled in prefs:gui, but compositing still available (c) Ami603.
• Beta 6: MediaPlayer: fixed another bug found by ktadd when compositing being disabled in prefs:gui, while compositing still available: the content of composited video overlap other window's content (c) Hans De Ruiter
• Beta 6: MediaPlayer: rewritten media player's AHI part to use AHI device API, instead of AHI library API: No exclusive locks of audio hardware from Odyssey anymore with any AHI settings! (c) Capehill
• Beta 6: MediaPlayer: hack a bit backfill code, so when we in compositing video mode, and hit f11 to go to real fullscreen, then no left/right and bottom (when hit middle mouse button to hide player's GUI) borders visibly.
• Beta 6: MediaPlayer: fixed a look of 'mute' item in media player's RMB menu, which now has on/off marker just like 'control' and 'loop' items. (c) Javier.
• Beta 6: a bit better locale_cleanup (c) Javier
• Beta 6: move an opening of asyncio.library to main.cpp same as other libraries, just to make things be cleaner (thanks to Javier for an idea)
• Beta 6: one more user-agent for spoofing by request: iPhone OS 12.4
• Beta 6: changed in prefs/media "webm (vp8)" on "webm (vp8, vp9)" as we can play both. OWB.cd updated as well, translators need to take care of.
• Beta 6: add functionality to disable audio/video MP4 support in Preferences/Media (handy when one wants to save mp4 instead of playing in a browser) from 1.25 (c) Deadwood. Enabled by default the same as before. OWB.cd updated, translators need to take care of.
• Beta 5: fixed memory leak in ac_free_video_decoder done by Piru on "acinerella" (FFmpeg wrapper simplifying work with FFmpeg: https://github.com/astoeckel/acinerella/)
• Beta 5: for time being use back static libavformat.a instead of shared version till proper changes will have a place (that to avoid crashes in ffurl*)
• Beta 5: debugging: added cross-platform D(bug("...")) define (see Base/debug.h), thus on OS4 always use DebugPrintF() instead of kprintf() and get rid of Clib2's libdebug.a
• Beta 5: get rid of libaos4deps.a, which contain sttcpy() and DoSuperNew() realisations, those functions now in separate object.
• Beta 5: updated youtube scripts to the latest ones from Fab's page.
• Beta 5: get rid of CyberGraphics everywhere in favor of graphics.library (c) Capehill
• Beta 5: added support of compositing video in fullscreen mode. You can have as many videos in different tabs as you wish in fullscreen, not just one as with overlay (be it P96 or CGX5). also fixing some bugs in MediaPlayer while adding compositing video (c) Ami603 with help from Hans & Capehill.
• Beta 4: Major change in Video/Audio: Thanks to Frank from AmiBoing/EntwicklerX Odyssey now uses Frank's real amiga shared libs for all FFmpeg parts handling video/audio in the browser. That in comparison with my older static FFmpeg compile mean:
  1. We have now FFmpeg 2.2.16 instead of an older 2.2.1 (why not 3.x and 4.x ? Because since 2.2.16 some decoders start to be slower).
  2. Binary of Odyssey is smaller on 5mb now, as no FFmpeg code built-in, that code in the shared libs instead.
  3. Frank's version recognize Altivec unit and if available, uses the Altivec code automatically (so theoretically those ones who has Altivec machines can have better speed in video playback)
• Beta 4: All the shared libs also placed in the LIBS folder of Odyssey and will be used from there now, so users will have no issues. But of course, you can move them all to system LIBS: directory if you wish: AmigaOS4 will firstly search libs in the LIBS: directory of Odyssey, and if nothing found then the system's one.
• Beta 4: In the prefs/media enabled by default WebM, Flv and Ogg (before they were disabled), so everything works out of the box. If users wish to not have video/audio be played in the browser but to have downloads instead, then those options can be disabled.
• Beta 4: incorporated some changes which Deadwood did for 1.25 version back in past and which wasn't in our version till now, such as:
  • Improved audio/video sync code in MediaPlayer.
  • Free locale resources regardless of application creation.
• Beta 4: one more user-agent for spoofing by request: Nintendo Wii
• Beta 3: fixed bug in Odyssey with WebP rendering being in blue color (Cairo expect ARGB, no needs for byteswap) (c) Petrol. Also, rebuild with newer libWebP v1.1.0
• Beta 3: major PNG decoding changes:
  1. Odyssey compiled with 1.6.37 instead of old 1.2.50 libpng + necessary changes in Odyssey's code
  2. added APNG (animated png) support. Code taken from today's WebKit source code and adapted to our version + added .apng mime-type as well. Changes applied: 1, 2. For test visit Wikipedia: APNG and see if animation works
• Beta 3: Ouch! The current version of Cairo we use till now didn't use Semaphores as expected, but pthreads instead! Removed pthreads usage in favor of os4 semaphores. That theoretically can bring some speed and may have some impact on MediaPlayer. Also recompiled Cairo with libpng16 now.
• Beta 3: actual build dates for $VER: everywhere (version, aboutbox, and about.html)
• Beta 3: fix "download-font" script by adding --no-check-certificates to wget (c) khayoz