Aleph One 0.20

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

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

tab widget

Aleph One finally gets a real tab widget!

texture palette

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

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

lochfrog

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

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.