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XBill-NG history:

Contents 1 XBill years 1.1 0.01 (7/21/94) 1.2 0.02 (7/22/94) 1.3 0.03 (7/24/94) 1.4 0.04 (7/25/94) 1.5 0.1 (7/26/94) 1.6 0.2 (8/14/94) 1.7 0.21 (8/15/94) 1.8 0.22 (8/16/94) 1.9 0.3 (8/23/94) 1.10 0.31 (8/24/94) 1.11 0.32 (9/18/94) 1.12 0.9 (11/28/94 - a bit busier during school) 1.13 1.0 (4/5/95-4/9/95) 1.14 1.1 (4/16/95) 1.15 1.1a (9/22/95) 1.16 2.0 (1/23/1997) 1.17 2.1 (11/15/2001) 2 NG time 2.1 NG (12/2/2009) 2.2 NG-1.0 (1/10/2010) 2.3 NG-1.2 (1/14/2010) 2.4 NG-1.4 (1/15/2010) 2.5 NG-1.5 (1/16/2010) 2.6 NG-1.6 (1/17/2010) 2.7 NG-1.7 (1/24/2010) 2.8 NG-1.8 (1/27/2010) 2.9 NG-1.9 (2/22/2010) 2.10 NG-2.0 (3/30/2010) 2.11 NG-2.1 "Wikipedia Release" (5/13/2010) 2.12 NG-2.2 (5/27/2011)

XBill years

0.01 (7/21/94)

• Bill moves, and he's in color too. You can even click on him and he screams "OUCH!" or "SPLAT!"
• window resizing is very wrong

0.02 (7/22/94)

• program no longer guaranteed to run predictably for longer than nine years (sorry)
• ridiculously improved code style (no really a lot!)
• added linked list unit and support for multiple monsters
• added support for computers
• bill says "POW!!!!!!" on button 2
• improved Makefile
• remembered to include app-defaults file in tar

0.03 (7/24/94)

• forgot to initialize a variable. either the stupid aix compiler initialized it anyway or we were really lucky testing it.
• removed annoying flicker
• has multiple computers on the screen with random OSes
• has multiple bills moving on the screen in random directions
• used sxpm to create smaller .xpm files, minor savings in memory and executable size, easier to edit pixmaps
• left button (button 1) removes bills from screen
• right button (button 3) now resets computers to wingdows.

0.04 (7/25/94)

• got masking to work (well, maybe not...)
• bill now carries the wingdows box around
• event handling/speed improved

0.1 (7/26/94)

• masking really works now
• fixed computer pixmap so it looks nice(r)
• randomized computer layout now leaves room for bill to stand on right
• support for bills walking in, standing at computers and walking out
• bills walk towards a specific computer to plunder (primitive ai)
• bill turns off computer, 'steals' native os and installs wingdows
• count of bills remaining is kept: decreased when bill enters screen - increased if bill leaves
• bill is killable in all states
• computer reset to native os on right button
• cleaned up code and internal structures
• event handling/speed really improved (optimized for the new code)
• server lag problems identified
• linked list unit fixed so that function to move between lists works
• window resizing is still very wrong

0.2 (8/14/94)

• programmers woke up after being asleep since 7/26.
• code structures were fixed very much (again)
• bill faces in the direction he's walking
• bill explodes in a gory shower of blood when clicked on (yeah!)
• bill drops os when killed
• the os stays on the ground when bill is killed if it had been stolen
• the os bounces up and down while bill carries it
• changed default cursor (matias will have to draw a better one later)
• cursor changes during drag and drop operation
• drag and drop works! there's a little hack involved, but not too bad...
• bill now smart enough to notice that a computer is already corrupted and find a new one
• game ends if all computers are lost

0.21 (8/15/94)

• attempt to port code to athena widgets. it compiles and runs w/o motif now (i hate C macros) a bit
• improved the makefile. an imakefile one day maybe...

0.22 (8/16/94)

• when bill leaves the field, he drops the os he's carrying
• status bar widget now does something

0.3 (8/23/94)

• improved responsiveness a lot :)
• menubar does something (new game, pause and quit buttons) if motif is used.
• levels now exist (barely)
• yet more code cleanup

0.31 (8/24/94)

• a few things depend on the level (freq. and number of appearing bills, number of computers, step size)
• bug where a computer is ignored if off is removed
• menu code written.
• athena code started. this works more or less, but not too well. i'd recommend using motif and/or a statically linked binary.

0.32 (9/18/94)

• about box works. help almost works also.
• a bunch of bugs fixed
• have an Imakefile now (thanks to Greg Seidman - anthro@cs.umd.edu)

0.9 (11/28/94 - a bit busier during school)

• warp to arbitrary level works
• game pauses when cursor leaves window
• cursor warps to near upper left corner of opened dialog boxes
• redefined both reset and drag to right button (button 3), added -1 option for people with a one button mouse. 1 may slow the game down a bit.
• added -l, -L to specify starting level
• added -v for version info
• improved pictures a lot
• added confirmations for actions
• game now pauses well
• fixed level difficulty stuff
• bill walks at two speeds
• minimizes to an icon (a cool one too...)
• scoring improved
• window cannot be resized now, no matter how hard you try :)
• much cooler animations for bill replacing os
• added high score list
• fixed lots of silly bugs
• made program not die from colormap error (i hope)

1.0 (4/5/95-4/9/95)

• remembered that the game's not done yet :)
• replaced usleep() calls with XtAppAddTimeout(). should make the game more responsive
• changed all popup windows to modal dialogs. cleans up code a lot
• removed Athena support, since it would take too long to finish.
• made a couple pixmaps a bit smaller
• changed colors to gray. why not?
• finally got everything to work with full colormaps
• got rid of app-defaults file. Not really used anyway
• Only uses one button now (any button). Easier to play.
• Some Imakefile fixes

1.1 (4/16/95)

• modularized widget code, and added Athena widget support (rewritten from scratch). The game looks better with Motif, but that's not too important.
• made pause button only active during game play
• warping to a level starts a game if one isn't being played
• fixed a potentially nasty bug that could cause bills to get lost
• works in TrueColor now (I think - it works in 16 bit mode at least)

1.1a (9/22/95)

• fixed bug where getopt() returned a char instead of an int.
• fixed bug where hitting Enter when entering a high score corrupted the high score file.
• don't fclose() nonexistant files any more.
• added BSD as another operating system (patches by Joerg Wunsch, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de)
• it was really easy to play forever by guarding one computer. Now you lose when there's only one computer left running its normal OS.
• added man page, written by Pekka Marjola (marjola@trshp.ntc.nokia.com)

2.0 (1/23/1997)

• changed around some timer code.
• removed Athena DrawingArea widget since CoreWidget works too.
• massive code reorganization to improve portability to other GUIs, languages, etc.
• Some computers are connected by network cables
• When a computer with a network cable becomes infected, it will release a spark down the cable which will infect the computer on the other end. Pouring the bucket of water on the spark will extinguish it.
• Made cursors and various other images look better.
• Removed references to defenestration.dorm.umd.edu, which no longer exists.
• Added Red Hat logo (fixed broken Red Hat patch).
• Added GNU Hurd logo
• Added Linux penguin logo
• The BSD, Red Hat, Linux, OS/2, and Hurd operating systems are interchangable on the 2 PC computers.
• The score is now displayed in the playing field.
• Made Athena version far better looking.
• Motif version almost completely works with Lesstif.

2.1 (11/15/2001)

• converted all code from C++ into C.
• cleaned up pretty much all of the code.
• modified build system to use GNU autoconf instead of imake.
• made the UI system modular, and created modules for the Athena and Motif widget sets. By default, both are built into the binary.
• added a GTK front end.
• added an option to use a larger playing field.
• changed the Athena front end to use Xaw3d when possible.
• add Palm OS/CPU (images borrowed from pBill and heavily modified)

NG time

NG (12/2/2009)

• forked into repo on tuxfamily
• see git revisions for details

NG-1.0 (1/10/2010)

• omg first -NG release
• more random
• able to goto a random level
• more points

NG-1.2 (1/14/2010)

• moar points
• more stuff

NG-1.4 (1/15/2010)

• even moar stuff
• random level you may get to is 200 now!
• v2.1 marker removed! NOW REALLY NG

NG-1.5 (1/16/2010)

• replaced X resource name with "XBill-NG"
• max random level is up to 1,000

NG-1.6 (1/17/2010)

• more things added
• replaced sprintf use

NG-1.7 (1/24/2010)

• New Wingdows pixmap!

NG-1.8 (1/27/2010)

• More cables!
• Maybe less computers!
• Try now!

NG-1.9 (2/22/2010)

• developer snooped and didn't wrote a ChangeLog entry

NG-2.0 (3/30/2010)

• moving up to tuxfamily.org, bye bye sourceforge, which had been helpful!
• clean up code that's unused
• optimize pixmap size using "convert"

NG-2.1 "Wikipedia Release" (5/13/2010)

• random level range changed
• buggy motif gui returns
• some other stuff

NG-2.2 (5/27/2011)

• Minor bugfix release.
• Game easier