FastDoom 0.9.5

[viti95]

• Sigma Designs Color 400 support. 320x200 and 16 colors. Tested only in 86Box, as I cannot make my card work on my 386/486 PCs.
• Added low and potato detail for backbuffered and VBE2 direct modes
• Removed FDOOME80.EXE and FDOOMEW1.EXE, not needed with new detail modes. They were also very half-baked, HUD was basically non-readable
• Removed FDOOMV16.EXE, didn't fit properly in the project. Is a cool hack to get VGA 160x200 and 16-colors, but Doom already supports 256 color modes which also are much faster
• Removed FastDoom VGA vertical mode. Started as a joke, and I don't feel it matches the project spirit. If people want's it back, I'll reconsider it.
• Speed up CGA, EGA, Plantronics and Hercules video modes by optimizing in ASM the backbuffer->VRAM copy routines
• Better benchmarking options, now FastDoom is able to generate CSV data (easier to import in Excel)
• Added BENCH.BAT script. This script makes easier to benchmark FastDoom. How to use it:
  • bench.bat {type} {exe} {iwad} {lmp}
  • {type}: {phil, quick, normal, full}
    • {phil}: Same benchmarks as define by PhilsComputerLab DOOM benchmark
    • {quick}: Full screen + HUD, tests potato, low and high detail modes
    • {normal}: Full screen + HUD, tests potato, low and high detail modes, and different visplane rendering modes
    • {full}: Multiple screen sizes, tests all detail settings (will take a long time if the system is slow)
  • {exe}: {fdoom.exe, fdoom13h.exe, ...}
  • {iwad}: {doom1.wad, doomu.wad, doom2.wad, ...}
  • {lmp}: {demo1, demo2, ...}
  • Example: bench.bat phil fdoom.exe doom1.wad demo3
  • Results are stored in the file "bench.csv"
• New invisible object rendering mode, now it's possible to use Heretic/Hexen translucency for objects. Cached tintmap files are stored in binary .TCF files. This rendering method only looks great on 256-color modes.
• Sound FX support for OPL2LPT and OPL3LPT devices.
• Enabled Ensoniq Soundscape music and sound FX devices. Not tested as I don't have one of these devices.
• Renamed multiple command line arguments. Take a look at the README.TXT to see what has changed.
• Fixed issue -size command line parameter is bugged #139
• Removed "-simplestatusbar" command line parameter. Performance difference was pretty much none, and looked terribly bad.
• Cleanup unused Extended MIDI support from Apogee Sound System.
• Small optimizations for rendering code

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This discussion was created from the release FastDoom 0.9.5.