News(page 24)

postLoader 4.4.8
* gameBrowser: Automatic DM(L)/QuadForce wad installation (please, read notes carefully !!!). Thx to waninkoko WadManager 1.7 source codes.
* gameBrowser: Fixed a bug on reading/writing configuration information
* Increased mp3 buffer size (less disc i/o)
* little fixes

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DM(L),QUADFORCE automatic mode:
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When this option is enabled (press [home] while in gamecube mode, then " "GameCube mode = DM Auto""), postLoader will choose and install the correct wad file to execute the selected gc/qf game.
To use this feature, you must create a wads folder in your <dev>/ploader folder, for example usb://ploader/wads if your postloader data folder is in the usb device.
Then rename the dm(l)/qadforce wads as follow

DIOSMIOS_2.10.wad -> dm.wad
DIOSMIOSLite_2.10.wad -> dml.wad
quadforce_4.1.wad -> qfusb.wad
quadforce_4.0.wad -> qfsd.wad

so you will end with the following files

<dev>://ploader/wads/dm.wad
<dev>://ploader/wads/dml.wad
<dev>://ploader/wads/qfusb.wad
<dev>://ploader/wads/qfsd.wad

Use only tested wads, from well known source. Installing these wads should be a safe operation, anyway it is a your choice. No warranty provided, no responsibility on me if you brick anything!

postLoader 4.4.6
* emuBrowser: added an option in plugin.conf to enable recursive search of roms in a folder
* emuBrowser: plugin .dol is checked before searching roms
* minor fixes

postLoader 4.4.5 (only as update)
* emuBrowser: Fixed loading of AbdallahTerro plugins.conf
* emuBrowser: Plugins are searched only one time. Filters are now applyed instantly
* emuBrowser: up to 36 plugins can be displayed in filters (tested). Anyway note that no more than 32 different plugins can be used (this limit require some work to be bypassed, as filters are in a 32bit var)
* emuBrowser: added current selected plugin(s) and rom count information
* minor fixes

postLoader 4.4.4
* added a flag in plugins.conf to enable/disable plugins. Check the file!
* added mutex for almost any file i/o. Seems that postLoader no more hang occasionally
* added "Return to real WII" in exit menu when working in neek2o
* the folder for covers can now be changed. Check "ploader/paths.conf.sample" and rename it to "paths.conf". Postloader uses sd:// and usb://, usb2://, usb3://, usb4:// for additional partitions)
* minor fixes

postLoader 4.4.3
* removed some debug messages
* minor fixes

postLoader 4.4.2
* fixed buffer allocation error in mem2 that was causing a dsi
* covercache now uses a single large buffer in mem2 for covers
* added mutex in mp3 player to control multithreaded file io
* minor fixes (also a typo in plugins.conf)..

postLoader 4.4.1
* added new tag to plugin.conf to specify alternate dol search path (more info in the the file)
* removed option menu
* when a an icon is clicked, a full res cover is displayed.
* postloader binary configuration file is no more resetted if size changes
* emuBrowser: fixed filters issue if plugins.conf file is modified
* changed, again, sigh :( semaphores in covercache, hoping that this will stop occasionally hangs
* various fixs...

postLoader 4.4.0
* covers are scaled down to save memory
* added "Enable TEX cache" in "config->advanced option". If enabled a folder /ploader/tex will be created, and a rgb raw texture will be saved.
This give a great boost on cover update speed but require up to 144Kb per covers on the device. Note that disabling it will remove all cached textures.
* covers lookup for emus is much faster

Version 1.3.1 (2013-06-01)
- Fix: When overbuilding a reserved track with a non-track station tile, that tile would remain reserved and eventually trigger a crash upon removal [FS#5540] (r25251)


Version 1.3.1-RC1 (2013-05-17)
- Feature: Translations of baseset descriptions via language files (r25209, r25205)
- Feature: Faroese and Scottish Gaelic translations (r25198, r25176)
- Feature: Plural form to be used by Scottish Gaelic (1,11; 2,12; 3..10, 13..19; other) (r25078)
- Change: [strgen] Allow any number of colour codes in translations (r25193, r25192, r25191)
- Change: [Win32] MSVC 2010 comes with stdint.h (r25128)
- Change: Be slightly more lenient with trying to detect a subversion repository in case someone has a sparse tags checkout. In that case the .svn folder misses from the $ROOT_DIR because it is in the $ROOT_DIR/.. (i.e. tags) folder (r25107)
- Fix: 'No station' error was given, even when there was a station that way occupied or not yours [FS#5546] (r25243)
- Fix: Crash when AI is executing a command as it is bankrupted (removed from the game) [FS#5547] (r25236)
- Fix: Give bridges owned by noone (from bankrupt companies) to the first company which replaces the bridge. Everyone could have removed/rebuild the bridge anyway [FS#5541] (r25231, r25227)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Revise when vehicle running sound effects 04, 07 and 08 are played; in depot or tunnel, or when crashed or stopped: No sound. Braking: Effect 08 instead of 07 [FS#5538] (r25226)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Play vehicle sound effect also for planes (r25225)
- Fix: [NewGRF] cur_speed is only valid for the front engine, so make other engines in the consist use the speed of the front [FS#5534] (r25224)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Make tick_counters work the same for vehicles (r25223, r25222)
- Fix: [NewGRF] IsCompatibleTrainStationTile() is not a symmetric function. Clarify the parameters and fix the cases were they were swapped (r25221)
- Fix: Consider map border as water with repsect to river/canal continuation (r25220)
- Fix: [Script] Clarify on which tiles IsDesertTile and IsSnowTile work, i.e. the ones without infrastructure or buildings, and introduce GetTerrainType for the cases where IsDesertTile/IsSnowTile do not work [FS#5537] (r25213)
- Fix: The level crossing sound is an ambient sound and not a new year sound (r25200)
- Fix: Original train and road vehicle acceleration did no longer respect bridge speed limits [FS#5523] (r25167)
- Fix: [Win32] Do not statically link to SHGetFolderPath as it may not exist, and improve its emulation [FS#5522] (r25155, r25153)
- Fix: [Win32] Do not store invalid paths in the search path list (r25154)
- Fix: Remove stray reservation from savegames affected by FS#5510 et al. upon loading [FS#5520] (r25152)
- Fix: [Script] XXBase::Chance function did not work for large values (>65535) [FS#5517] (r25148)
- Fix: Several typos/inconsistencies in English strings [FS#5496] (r25144, r25143)
- Fix: When extra dynamite was disabled, towns would be allowed to clear bridges with trams (r25141)
- Fix: Towns are build as OWNER_TOWN, so they also need to be removed as OWNER_TOWN otherwise parts might remain [FS#5519] (r25140)
- Fix: Editboxes could become too small when resizing windows (r25121)
- Fix: Game script language files did not work, when inside a tar [FS#5509] (r25117, r25114)
- Fix: [NewGRF] Acceleration of NewGRF aircraft was too fast, while acceleration of default aircraft was way too slow (r25115)
- Fix: Pass $LDFLAGS_BUILD to all endian_check compilations (r25108)

szs v1.19a r4461 - 2013-06-02

- wszst CHECK: Check existence of minimap bones 'posLD' and 'posRU'.
Read http://szs.wiimm.de/cmd/wszst/check#desc for a list of all tests.

- Check commands: KMP objects with presence flag == 0 will be handled as
non existent. This changes the missing files status and the slot proposals.

- KCL type names synchchronized to Wiki.

- Bug fix: If a function was searched and a const was defined with the same
name, a `segmentation fault| (or similar) occured.

- New command: wkmpt STARTPOS: Print the start positions of players in
various formats. See http://szs.wiimm.de/cmd/wkmpt/startpos for details.

- Patching option --kmp accepts now the keywords LEFT, RIGHT, WIDE and NARROW
to modify the start options in section STGI.

- New global option --de: Use german track and arena names.

- Command FILETYPE --long: Column with version of file format added.

- wszst EXTRACT/CREATE: The version number of the archive file format is
stored in and read from the help file 'wszst-setup.txt' to support version
dependent file formats.

- BREFF and BREFT:
- Version numbers are printed in listings with version support.
- The file format version number is written to 'wszst-setup.txt' on
extracting and read from read from 'wszst-setup.txt' on creating.
- The default aligning for BREFT files depends now on the version number.
It is 0x20 for versions <10 (MKW=9) and 0x40 for versions >9 (NSMB=11).
At the moment the new alignment for NSMB is not well tested!

szs v1.18a r4404 - 2013-05-01

- There is a complete new transformation algorithm: All transforming options
will be used to create a transformation matrix. If using >1 transformation
steps (see below), the matrices are multiplied to get a final transformation
matrix. All transformations are now done using this final transformation
matrix. This is faster and the internal handling is now much easier.

- New option --next: This option allows and separates up to 10 transformation
steps. Logical, each point is transformed step by step in the definition
order. Internally, a final matrix is calculated and all transformations are
done in a single step by using this final matrix. There are some issues
transforming KMP object, see http://szs.wiimm.de/opt/next for details.

- Command MATRIX is now available for all tools with transformation support.
It was redesigned to control the impact of the new transformation steps.
See http://szs.wiimm.de/cmd/matrix

- New option --rot=deg@origin: Define the rotations for 3 axes by one option.

- New option --arot=deg[@pt1]@pt2: Do an (axis) rotation around the axis
specified by the 2 points as single transformation step.
This option is EXPERIMENTAL! See http://szs.wiimm.de/opt/arot

- New option --ascale=factor@dir: Do an (axis) scaling into the direction
specified by the vector 'dir' as single transformation step.
This option is EXPERIMENTAL! See http://szs.wiimm.de/opt/ascale

- KMP object database updated.