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Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2) 1.5.9 is released

Version 1.5.9 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion (uHexen2) is released.
All users are encouraged to upgrade.

Uploaded the source code, as well as packages for Win32, Win64, Mac OS X,
Linux-x86, Linux-x86_64, OS/2, DOS, AROS-x86, m68k-AmigaOS, and MorphOS:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/uhexen2/files/Hammer%20of%20Thyrion/1.5.9/

The changes since the previous release are as follows:

  • OS/2 support using SDL (should work on eComStation and ArcaOS too.)
  • Updated third-party libraries (music codecs, SDL, etc.)
  • Support for Watcom compiler targeting OS/2 and Windows.
  • Support for libxmp for tracker music decoding (disabled by default.)
  • AHI audio no longer fails if the library returns 32 bit format (e.g.
    in AROS v0 nightly builds.)
  • New AmigaOS MIDI driver using CAMD library.
  • Several optimized assembler sources for m68k-amigaos.
  • gcc is now supported to target m68k-amigaos.
  • Software renderer: Reduced some 2D overdraw. Faster model lighting.
  • Recursion optimizations to server world query procedures.
  • New 'viewpos' command to display client's position and angles (based
    on FitzQuake version.)
  • config.cfg is no longer written in case of a Sys_Error().
  • Utils, windows: Change threads creation to use _beginthreadex().
  • All platforms, gameplay: Necromancer soul devour no longer prints a
    stray number (bug #65.)
  • Other minor fixes, tidy-ups, and portability tweaks.
Posted by Ozkan Sezer 2018-06-08