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  - Tads virtual machines and compilers updated to 2.5.14/3.0.18.1.

v0.12

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  - Tads 2 virtual machine and compiler updated to 2.5.11.

v0.11

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  - Tads 3 virtual machine and compiler updated to 3.0.16.

  - Embedding resources in Tads 3 game files (like a GameInfo.txt) was

    somewhat broken; the EOF identifier just before the resource wasn't

    removed.  In the case of the GameInfo.txt resource, this resulted

    in third-party tools like Babel and Zoom not being able to read

    this resource.  This has been fixed.  Make sure to recompile your

    games with the now fixed t3make in order to have the resources

    correctly embedded in your game files.

v0.10

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  - Since Unicode doesn't work yet correctly in the curses interface,

    the interpreter will use regular ASCII by default to avoid display

    problems with apostrophes and quotes.

  - Compilation problems on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Intel C++, Solaris

    10 and on the Linux version of the Sun Studio compilers have been

    fixed.

  - FrobTADS should now compile and run correctly as a 64-bit binary,

    at least under x86-64.  Tested under x86-64 Linux, FreeBSD/AMD64 and

    Solaris 10.

  - It should be easier now to cross-compile FrobTADS without modifying

    any code.  If your cross-compiler is called "i586-pc-mingw32-gcc",

    you can cross-compile with:

      ./configure --host=i586-pc-mingw32

      make

    and it should build out-of-the-box.

    If you don't know what cross-compiling is, then you probably don't

    need it ;P

  - The PDCurses library is now correctly detected when building.  It

    will be used if neither ncurses nor curses is found.

v0.9

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  - Tads 3 virtual machine and compiler updated to 3.0.15.3 (beta).

  - The default project file t3make looks for when invoked without an -f

    argument is now Makefile.t3m instead of makefile.t3m on every

    system.  Capitalizing the first letter of the makefile is common

    practice on Unix.  This means that if you use "Makefile.t3m" as the

    filename for your project file, you only need to type "t3make" with

    no arguments to build your project.

  - You can now choose between screen interfaces by using the new -i (or

    --interface) option.  Available interfaces right now are curses (the

    default if not using the option) and plain (which only does stdio

    input/output).

    This new "plain" interface is still experimental and not complete at

    this point; screen size and text input are not handled correctly.

    Note that even in it's complete implementation, input will be very

    basic in plain mode and none of the more advanced features will ever

    be available (colors, banners, statusline, etc.)  This mode is

    useful for screen readers that might get confused by the more

    complicated output of curses and for using FrobTADS as a back-end

    for other programs (a CGI script to play IF on the web, for

    example).

v0.8

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  - Tads 3 virtual machine and compiler updated to 3.0.15.1 (beta).

v0.7

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  - On most POSIX systems, the Tads 3 compiler (t3make) should now be

    able to include resources in the build when -res is used to specify

    a whole directory.  The -recurse option should work also.  (Patch

    was submitted by Ilya V. Goz.)

  - Tads 2 character mapping files are now supported and loaded by the

    interpreter when a game requests them.  Charmap files are

    distributed with some games and the interpreter tries to find them

    in the current directory.  The interpreter changes the current

    directory to the game's directory by default, so if you place the

    mapping files in the game's directory the interpreter should load

    them.  (Patch was submitted by Ilya V. Goz.)

    Note that FrobTADS still has problems with 8-bit character sets,

    since curses deals only with 7-bit characters.  This will hopefully

    be fixed in a feature release.

v0.6

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  - Tads 3 virtual machine and compiler updated to 3.0.12.

v0.5

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  - Tads 3 virtual machine and compiler updated to 3.0.11.

  - The compiler was unable to compile sourcefiles that were using a

    non-built-in character set.  For example, a sourcefile beginning

    with #charset "koi8-r" would generate an error message.  This has

    been fixed.

  - The Tads 3 "proto-documentation" has been wiped.  More thourough

    documentation is now available at www.tads.org (it's a 10MB

    download so it has not been included in FrobTADS).

v0.4

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  - Tads virtual machines and compilers updated to 2.5.10/3.0.10.

  - Fixed a problem where it was not possible to compile TADS 3 games.

    Some required library files, although included in the package, did

    not get installed at the "make install" step.

  - Fixed a compilation problem with "src/missing.cc" ("unknown

    identifier: wc" and "unknown identifier: dst").  This only occured

    on some systems that lack the wchar C99 functions (like some

    Mac OS X systems).

  - Fixed possible color-curruption problems with old/broken curses

    libraries.

v0.3

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  - Tads virtual machines and compilers updated to 2.5.9/3.0.9 (the

    included Tads 2.5.9 version is more up-to-date than the official

    2.5.9 release, but it's not yet 2.5.10).

  - Statusline now looks good even when colors are disabled

    ("--no-colors" option) or not available.

  - Fixed compilation problem on systems that don't support the SIGWINCH

    signal ("unknown identifier: SIGWINCH"), like MS Windows with MinGW

    and/or Dev-C++.

  - Fixed the fix of the compilation problem with the <wchar.h>

    functions (wcslen and wcscpy); this time for good, I hope.

  - Hopefully improved terminal resize handling.

v0.2

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Thanks to Mike Roberts, FrobTADS now has its own homepage and main

distribution point:

 http://www.tads.org/frobtads.htm

  - Some command line options have been changed (type "frob --help" to

    list them).

  - Scrollback mode can now also be activated with the Escape (ESC) key.

    Fixed some possible problems with the ENTER key not being recognized

    on some systems.

  - White text on white background ("frob -t7 -b7") should work now.

  - Fixed a curses compilation problem (compilation failed with

    something like: "unknown identifier: KEY_RESIZE").

  - Screen resizing (when running in an xterm) has been improved; a

    signal handler does the job now and some code has been improved for

    better resizing.

  - Fixed a compilation problem on systems that lack the wchar.h header

    and/or the wchar functions wcslen and wcscpy.

  - If you don't override the default colors, or use white on black

    (-b0 -t7), *and* your curses/ncurses version supports it, the

    interpreter will use the default colors of your terminal.  This

    makes it possible to use bitmap pictures as background, or make the

    terminal transparent (if your terminal supports this, of course).

    Note that, by default, this won't work for the statusline, as it

    reverses the colors.  If you want to use this feature for the entire

    screen, you'll have to start frob with "frob -g0 -l7".

    This feature can be disabled using the "-o" (or "--no-defcolors")

    option.

  - The Tads 3 documentation (HTML format) is now installed along with

    the compiler ([prefix]/share/frobtads/tads3/doc).

  - Documentation files have been moved into the new "doc" directory.

v0.1

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