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Aleph One 0.23.2

2010-04-24T23:24:00.000-04:00

A bug fix release is available from http://source.bungie.org/get/

Fixes:

Support saved games with large numbers of map indexes
Add native error dialogs for Mac OS X and Windows
Fix a crash when switching to overhead map
Fix a crash when browsing files with invalid modification dates
Fix compiling without SDL_image
Fix an infinite loop parsing malformed XML input

native dialogs

2010-03-01T21:32:00.000-05:00

Aleph One can now display native dialogs when SDL dialogs are unavailable (for example, assertion failures should now generate dialog boxes) in Windows and Mac OS X.

Aleph One 0.23.1

2010-02-18T22:53:00.000-05:00

A bug fix release is available from http://source.bungie.org/get/

Release Notes

Aleph One 0.23

2010-01-18T21:51:00.001-05:00

Aleph One 0.23 is now available from http://source.bungie.org/get and http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

Major highlights for this release include an entirely new modern 3D renderer option, a plugins system, PNG screenshots, Lua API improvements, and bug fixes. You can read the complete release notes here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/marathon/Aleph%20One/2010-01-18/AlephOne-20100118.html

Aleph One 0.22.1

2009-10-15T21:27:00.000-04:00

This is primarily a bug fix release.

Release Notes

Aleph One 0.22

2009-09-09T21:03:00.003-04:00

Aleph One 0.22 is available from http://source.bungie.org/get/

Highlights for this release include Lua persistence, a network stats display, and joystick support (from Eric Peterson). Jeremiah Morris has also joined us to add terminal and classic HUD scaling, as well as a new customizable HUD; and Solra Bizna added gamma-corrected alpha blending.

Jeremiah and TychoVII have also created an amazing custom HUD script based on the HUD in the XBLA game Marathon: Durandal, which you can get from Fileball: http://fileball.bungie.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=53&func=fileinfo&id=3468

Aleph One 0.22 is network compatible with the previous release, except for the new Lua features. Aleph One 0.22 is the last release which will support Mac OS X 10.2.8; future releases will require Mac OS X 10.3.9

Read the full release notes for more details.

Aleph One 0.22 RC 1

2009-08-16T18:58:00.002-04:00

A release candidate is available from treellama.org:

Mac OS X: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090816.dmg

Windows: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090816.zip

Source: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090816.tar.bz2

Source (Mac/Win): http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090816-MacWinSrc.7z

RC1 incorporates all the changes from previews 1 and 2 (see http://blog.treellama.org/2009/08/preview-build-is-available-from.html and http://blog.treellama.org/2009/05/aleph-one-022-preview-1.html) plus these additions:

Features:

Enhanced HUD: access to pictures from the Images file[/list]
(Lua) Player.weapons.desired
Optional gamma-corrected blending on platforms that support GL_ext_*_sRGB extensions (currently Windows and Linux)

Bug fixes:

Remove hard-coded X11 include path[/list]
Fix crashes on PowerPC Mac OS X when using enhanced HUD
Fix landscape display problems in texture palette
Fix a crash on exit
Fix crashes when using Lua replacement sounds

Please report any bugs you find in RC1 to the SourceForge bugs page: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1997&atid=101997

Aleph One 0.22 Preview 2

2009-08-01T10:04:00.003-04:00

A preview build is available from treellama.org:

Mac OS X: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090801.dmg

Windows: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090801.zip

Source: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090801.tar.bz2

Source (Mac/Win): http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090801-MacWinSrc.7z

Preview 2 incorporates all the changes from preview 1 (see

http://blog.treellama.org/2009/05/aleph-one-022-preview-1.html) plus

these additions:

Features:

Lua functions to set the position of items, effects, and scenery
Add an option to draw the HUD using a Lua script, allowing a vast amount of HUD customization (see Lua_HUD.html)
Support shape types besides walls in Lua texture palette

Bug fixes:

Fix sprite-border problem on big-endian machines (from preview 1)
Fix exp2 and log2 errors on systems with broken math.h
Fix crash on respawn (from preview 1)
Fix documentation for Lua Scenery.x, .y, and .z
Improved motion sensor rendering in magnetic environments (SF 1684830)
Draw message area relative to player name, instead of hard-coding its location
Fix OpenGL font memory leak
Default DirectInput checkbox to off; too many people use Vista

Aleph One 0.22 Preview 1

2009-05-31T19:01:00.000-04:00

A preview build is available from treellama.org:

Mac OS X: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090531.dmg

Windows: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090531.zip

Source: http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090531.tar.bz2

Source (Mac/Win): http://treellama.org/alephone/AlephOne-20090531-MacWinSrc.7z

Highlights include Lua persistence, a network stats display, joystick support (from Eric Peterson), various other improvements and bug fixes. Jeremiah Morris has also joined us to contribute HUD scaling and some improvements of his own. This preview build is compatible with the the previous release, except for the new Lua features.

Features:

Add .filA extension to saved films
Add .sgA extension to saved games
Add an option to hide file extensions in dialogs
Display file modification date in file selectors; allow sorting by date
Add a "Network Stats" display (accessed by pressing the non-number-pad 1 key, by default), which displays color-coded latency, jitter (standard deviation in latency), and CRC errors. Consequently, the .ping command has been removed. Every second, stats are also sent to joiners, who can access them with the same key. You must be connected to a gatherer running the preview build to receive stats updates.
Joystick/gamepad support. Some things are configurable in the preferences screen, but more advanced settings like sensitivity and dead zones require editing the preferences file
Lua functions for restoring some custom fields from before level teleports, and for restoring all custom fields from saved games (see Lua.html)
Preferences for scaling HUD and terminals up by 2x, or to fill the screen
Lua: monster.external_velocity and vertical_velocity (see Lua.html)
Draw in-game OpenGL dialogs without blacking the whole screen

Bug fixes:

Fix missing metaserver login failure message
Fix Lua texture palette crash with landscapes
Support building from the Mac OS X command line using autoconf
Fix host crashing in net games after a joiner disconnects
Fix "could not receive map" bug
Fix a crash when opening the ALSA net mic fails
Fix the Lua texture palette on maps with glow mapped textures
Respect monitor gamma calibration when rendering fade effects
Make OpenGL crosshairs look like the preview
Don't read the map when idle at the menu screen
Fix Lua documentation for long cinematic fade in mnemonic

modification times

2009-02-28T14:49:00.002-05:00

File selectors now display modification times of files, and Continue Saved Game defaults to sorting by most recent. This should make resuming your last saved game easier.

Aleph One 0.21.2

2008-12-26T22:07:00.001-05:00

A bug fix release is available from http://source.bungie.org/get or
http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

Changes:

Added support for custom window sizes (by editing prefs file)
Fixed assertion failures when changing levels in net games
Restore the previously selected map when finishing a net game
Restore support for UTF-8 prefs / MML
Added a VSync checkbox in OpenGL

Aleph One 0.21

2008-12-13T23:41:00.002-05:00

Aleph One 0.21 is available from http://source.bungie.org/get/ or http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

Highlights of this release are screen resolution detection, level embedded Lua and MML, and bug fixes. This release is not network compatible with previous releases.

Full release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=1997&release_id=647017

Prelude in D-flat

2008-09-27T10:08:00.005-04:00

Inspired by this drawing by irons.

Download (4.2 MB mp3)

Atque

2008-09-27T09:35:00.002-04:00

Atque is a tool for merging/splitting Marathon maps and images files. Atque is available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, and can split maps and extract resources to regular files on all platforms, eliminating the need for ResEdit.

For instance, chapter screens and terminal pictures are exported as BMP or JPEG; CLUTs are exported as Adobe Color Table files; and chapter sounds are exported as WAVs. TEXT resources are stored as editable text files, allowing, for example, easy find-and-replace operations. Once split, these files can be edited with commonly available editors, and then merged together again into a Unimap 2 map or images file.

Unimap 2 files use the Marathon 2 for Windows 95 style of resources, where each resource is stored as a chunk in a level of appropriate resource ID in the wadfile. Some advantages over the old MacBinary Unimap format:

Can be opened directly with Forge, to view/export levels
No 16 MB limit on stored resources
Removes dependence on the classic Mac OS utility ResEdit

There are a couple minor drawbacks:

There is only one name per resource ID in Unimap 2, whereas Unimap allowed storing a name for each resource type/ID pair
Aleph One 0.20.3 (9/13) is required to view Unimap 2 chapter screens / terminal pictures

In addition to resources, Atque handles levels, merged physics, merged shapes patches, and can compile and decompile terminal text. It has support for some terminal features Forge didn't, such as creating wide terminal pictures without resorting to the distasteful Cinemascope hack.

Atque is available under the GNU GPL. You can download Atque 1.0 binaries and source code from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/igniferroque

A basic manual is available at
http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/igniferroque/index.php?title=Atque_Manual

Aleph One 0.20.3

2008-09-13T20:49:00.001-04:00

A patch release of Aleph One is available from http://source.bungie.org/get or http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

This is a minor feature release of Aleph One, which includes Windows improvements and support for the Unimap 2 format. It is network compatible with Aleph One 0.20.x

Changes:

Recognize PICT resources stored in M2-Win95 format (completes Unimap 2 support)
AlephOne.exe now requires a Pentium-class processor. Windows 2000 or higher is recommended.
Applied SDL patches from Tim Angus (from ioquake3) to allow DirectInput mouse control while OpenGL is active. If you have trouble with Vista, disable the "DirectDraw / DirectInput" option.
Added window manager icons in Linux and Windows
Added support for #STATIC terminal groups

Aleph One 0.20.2

2008-07-22T21:27:00.001-04:00

A patch release of Aleph One is available from
http://source.bungie.org/get or http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

This is a bug fix release, with some additional metaserver functionality as well. It is network compatible with 0.20.1.

Changes:

Add a "Mute All Guest Chat" checkbox
Add a sound for private messages
Include Alex Bolton's carnage messages MML in Extras

Bug fixes:

Fix horizontally flipped textures in the OpenGL texture palette
Fix ignoring guests on the metaserver
Better platform export from .save level

Aleph One 0.20.1

2008-07-07T21:05:00.000-04:00

A patch release of Aleph One is available from http://source.bungie.org/get or http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

This is a bug fix release, with some additional Lua functionality as well. It is network compatible with 0.20, but it is recommended that all players upgrade to 0.20.1 for Lua compatibility.

Visual Mode.lua

2008-07-01T07:46:00.004-04:00

One of the big obstacles to third party map editor development is the reliance of many map makers on Forge's visual mode. In order to give the authors of these editors some time to focus on the essentials of geometry and stability, I added some functions to the Lua API in 0.20 to allow scripts to access map textures and lights. I also added a .save level command, which will export the level in its current texture state.

Since 0.20 came out, Irons and I have written a script which fairly accurately reproduces some of the major functionality in Forge's visual mode, appropriately called Visual Mode.lua.

You can get it from http://www.simplici7y.com/items/visual-mode-lua

Visual Mode.lua uses the engine's built-in keys, so it isn't quite as easy to use as Forge. But, once you get used to it, it should flow pretty well.

What can Forge do that Visual Mode.lua can also do?

Mouse click application of textures/landscapes, lights, and transfer modes to primary and secondary solid sides
Automatic alignment of surrounding textures
Drag to align textures (not quite as well as Forge, but OK)
Copy and apply textures without lights, copy and apply lights without textures, apply textures without aligning surrounding textures
Jump
One level Undo

What can Visual Mode.lua do that Forge can't do?

Work natively in Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux
Use OpenGL replacement textures
Not crash on long distance views, too many transparent lines
Apply textures from all collections, and all landscapes
Use larger texture collections without creating sequences, and landscape collections with multiple bitmaps
Use embedded shapes patches (including save)
Teleport to numbered polygon
Freeze in mid-air
Co-operative texturing

What can Forge do that Visual Mode.lua can't do (yet?)

Apply transparent textures
Drag to change floor/ceiling elevations
Place switches, pattern buffers, terminals, and rechargers
Be a little more elegant about the user interface, saving, etc., since it's a real application

We may be able to overcome these limitations some day, but in the mean time, this script plus Pfhorge should be an adequate Forge replacement. Smithy is also coming along nicely, so there's another option there.

Aleph One 0.20

2008-06-22T08:34:00.001-04:00

Aleph One 0.20 is finally ready. You can get it from http://source.bungie.org/get or http://marathon.sourceforge.net/

Highlights include a vastly improved Lua API, TrueType font support, major updates to themes and dialog layouts, enhanced Find Internet Game metaserver functionality, as well as lots of other features and bug fixes.

The full release notes are here

Aleph One 0.20 RC1

2008-06-15T22:51:00.002-04:00

Release Candidate 1 is ready, read all about it in my post to M-dev

tab widget

2008-06-08T16:12:00.001-04:00

Aleph One finally gets a real tab widget!

texture palette

2008-06-07T13:45:00.002-04:00

Lua scripts can display a bunch of textures instead of the HUD:

This might not be useful for anything, but it looks cool.

solo lua

2008-06-01T22:31:00.003-04:00

Now it's possible to pick a Lua script for use in solo play.

lochfrog

2008-06-01T07:47:00.007-04:00

Getting tired of playing your favorite map? Assign a random texture to each wall, floor, and ceiling, and it's like playing a whole new map!

You can download the map here.

terminal formatting

2008-05-29T21:19:00.006-04:00

TrueType font rendering in terminals has been working for a while, but there were weird formatting problems. I finally tracked those down today, it turns out Bungie (Double Aught?) used tab characters in their terminals, and the old Mac OS font renderer happily rendered them as single spaces! So, translating '\t' into ' ' was enough to fix TrueType terminal formatting.