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Client

<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>

<p>This  is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
features.
</p>

<h3>Screenshots:</h3>

<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>

<h3>Download:</h3>

<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>

<h3>Installation notes:</h3>

<ul>
   <li>
      <p><b>Windows</b></p>
      <p>
         To start the client, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
         use the context menu of the right mouse button.
         <b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
         and start up everything it needs.
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
      <p>
         <b>
            Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
         </b>
         <br />
         <b>AMD64 users should use the amd64 binary.
            (But if you want to run the 32bit client on an amd64 you would need
            ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32
            (for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
         </b>
      </p>
      <p>
         After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
      <p>
         To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
         <b>NOTE: You will need an Intel CPU for this binary, it will not work with PPC CPUs! Also you will need Mac OS X 10.5 or later.</b>
      </p>
   </li>
   <li>
      <p><b>Build from source</b></p>
      <p>
      If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
      are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
      </p>
   </li>
</ul>

<p>
<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
</p>

<h3>News:</h3>

<p>
  <em>
   2009-04-26 Version 2.04 is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release of
   the client. A Japanese font is included with the distribution now and
   a workaround of the incompatible ABI change in pango (font engine) has been
   implemented. Another bugfix related to connecting to the server 
   went into the windows release.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
   many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
   moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
   The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
   Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
   bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
   client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
   marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
   mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
   login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
   visual fixes.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
   the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
   message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
   Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
   minor things.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
   client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
   other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
   Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
   invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
  </em>
</p>


<p>
  <em>
   2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
   The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
   emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
   in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
   Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
   2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
   to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
   smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
   (hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
   The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
   time.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
    like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
    and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
    diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
    with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
    basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
    </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
    a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
    port available now of the client!
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
    workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
    again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
    map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
    logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
    supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
    And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
    configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
     with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
     a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
     fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
     and not the floorbox. Have fun!
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
     the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
     with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
     but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
      where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
      consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
      not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
      typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
      also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
      which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
      windows has been fixed.
   </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
     have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
     a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
     Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
     have also been fixed.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
     2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
     changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
     improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
     improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
     message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
     future releases.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
    and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
    had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
    too.
  </em>
</p>
<p>
  <em>
    2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
    audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
    server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
    the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
  <em>
    2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
    for better performance and compatibility under windows,
    and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
  </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
    resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
    system was also officially enabled.
 </em>
</p>


<p>
 <em>
    2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
    The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
    from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
    better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
    more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
    now (eg. in the inventory).
 </em>
</p>


<p>
 <em>
    2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
    Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
    are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
 </em>
</p>

<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>

<h3>Features:</h3>

<p>
These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
</p>

<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
<ul>
    <li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
    <li>
        Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
        long as you have OpenGL).
    </li>
    <li>
        Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions 
        with scaling invariant user interface.
    </li>
    <li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
    <li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
    <li>Sound and background music.</li>
    <li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
    <li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
    <li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
</ul>

<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
<ul>
    <li>
       A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
       and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
    </li>
    <li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
    <li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
    <li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
    <li>Online wiki style help.</li>
    <li>Message window entry with history.</li>
    <li>
       Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
       eases the input of commands.
    </li>
    <li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
    <li>
       There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
    </li>
    <li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
    <li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
    <li>
       NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
       improves overall game interaction.
    </li>
    <li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
    <li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
</ul>

<h3>News archive</h3>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
    was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
    opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
    driver).
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
    on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
    large 64x64 tileset!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
    'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
    database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
    and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
    about your experience with the CFPlus client!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-09-20
    And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
    minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-08-14 
    A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
    have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
    This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
    replace it!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-08-14 
    The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
    added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
    On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
    improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-30
    The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
    to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
    documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
    is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-24
    Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
    need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly 
    on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-07-03
    Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
    we are happy to present the first test release!
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-06-12
    The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
    helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
 </em>
</p>

<p>
 <em>
    2006-06-02
    Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
    some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
    Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
    of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
    inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
 </em>
</p>

<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>

<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>

<p><b>
      95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
      the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
   </b></p>
   <p>
    Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
    <a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
   </p>

   <p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
   <p>
    Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
    <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
   </p>

<p></p>

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1	elmex	1.11	Client
2	pippijn	1.1
3	root	1.6	<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
4	pippijn	1.1
5	root	1.6	<p>This is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
6	root	1.5	in Perl with C bindings to SDL/OpenGL. It was written to have a more
7			immersive overall gameplay and to base as ground to implement new
8			features.
9			</p>
10	pippijn	1.1
11			<h3>Screenshots:</h3>
12
13	root	1.2	<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>
14	pippijn	1.1
15	elmex	1.11	<h3>Download:</h3>
16	pippijn	1.1
17	elmex	1.26	<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>
18	pippijn	1.1
19	elmex	1.11	<h3>Installation notes:</h3>
20	pippijn	1.1
21	elmex	1.11	<ul>
22			<li>
23			<p><b>Windows</b></p>
24			<p>
25			To start the client, run the executable, i.e. by doubleclicking on it with your left mouse button or
26			use the context menu of the right mouse button.
27			<b>Note:</b> The windows binary might take a while to start (up to some minutes), as it needs to unpack itself
28			and start up everything it needs.
29			</p>
30			</li>
31			<li>
32			<p><b>GNU/Linux</b></p>
33			<p>
34	elmex	1.32	<b>
35			Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
36	elmex	1.38	</b>
37			<br />
38			<b>AMD64 users should use the amd64 binary.
39			(But if you want to run the 32bit client on an amd64 you would need
40			ia32-libs and a 32bit OpenGL driver, eg. nvidia-glx-ia32
41			(for NVIDIA) or fglrx-glx-ia32 (for ATI))
42	elmex	1.32	</b>
43	elmex	1.11	</p>
44			<p>
45	elmex	1.30	After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
46	elmex	1.11	</p>
47			</li>
48			<li>
49	elmex	1.26	<p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
50			<p>
51	elmex	1.27	To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
52	elmex	1.33	<b>NOTE: You will need an Intel CPU for this binary, it will not work with PPC CPUs! Also you will need Mac OS X 10.5 or later.</b>
53	elmex	1.26	</p>
54			</li>
55			<li>
56	elmex	1.11	<p><b>Build from source</b></p>
57			<p>
58			If you want to build the client from source there are two ways that
59			are explained on a different page: <a href="client_cpan.html">Source installation</a>.
60			</p>
61			</li>
62			</ul>
63	pippijn	1.1
64			<p>
65			<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
66			</p>
67
68	elmex	1.11	<h3>News:</h3>
69	pippijn	1.1
70			<p>
71	elmex	1.21	<em>
72	elmex	1.39	2009-04-26 Version 2.04 is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release of
73			the client. A Japanese font is included with the distribution now and
74			a workaround of the incompatible ABI change in pango (font engine) has been
75			implemented. Another bugfix related to connecting to the server
76			went into the windows release.
77			</em>
78			</p>
79
80			<p>
81			<em>
82	elmex	1.38	2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
83			many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
84			moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
85			The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
86			Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
87			bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
88			client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
89			</em>
90			</p>
91
92			<p>
93			<em>
94	elmex	1.37	2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
95	elmex	1.36	marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
96			mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
97			login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
98			visual fixes.
99			</em>
100			</p>
101
102			<p>
103			<em>
104	elmex	1.35	2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
105			the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
106			message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
107			Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
108			minor things.
109			</em>
110			</p>
111
112			<p>
113			<em>
114	elmex	1.34	2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
115			client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
116			other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
117			Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
118			invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
119			</em>
120			</p>
121
122
123			<p>
124			<em>
125	elmex	1.33	2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
126			The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
127			emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
128			in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
129			Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
130			</em>
131			</p>
132
133			<p>
134			<em>
135	elmex	1.29	2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
136			to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
137			smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
138			(hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
139			The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
140			time.
141			</em>
142			</p>
143
144			<p>
145			<em>
146	elmex	1.28	2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
147			like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
148			and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
149			diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
150			with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
151			basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
152	elmex	1.29	</em>
153	elmex	1.28	</p>
154
155			<p>
156			<em>
157	elmex	1.26	2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
158			a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
159			port available now of the client!
160			</em>
161			</p>
162
163			<p>
164			<em>
165	elmex	1.25	2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
166			workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
167			</em>
168			</p>
169
170			<p>
171			<em>
172	elmex	1.24	2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
173			again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
174			</em>
175			</p>
176
177			<p>
178			<em>
179	elmex	1.23	2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
180			map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
181			logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
182			supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
183			And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
184			configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
185			</em>
186			</p>
187
188			<p>
189			<em>
190	elmex	1.22	2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
191			with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
192			a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
193			fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
194			and not the floorbox. Have fun!
195			</em>
196			</p>
197
198			<p>
199			<em>
200	elmex	1.21	2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
201			the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
202			with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
203	elmex	1.22	but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
204	elmex	1.21	</em>
205			</p>
206
207			<p>
208	elmex	1.20	<em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
209			where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
210			consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
211			not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
212			typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
213			also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
214			which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
215			windows has been fixed.
216			</em>
217			</p>
218
219			<p>
220	elmex	1.13	<em>
221	elmex	1.19	2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
222			have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
223			a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
224			Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
225			have also been fixed.
226			</em>
227			</p>
228
229			<p>
230			<em>
231	elmex	1.17	2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
232			changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
233	elmex	1.18	improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
234			improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
235	elmex	1.17	message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
236			future releases.
237			</em>
238			</p>
239
240			<p>
241			<em>
242	elmex	1.16	2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
243			and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
244			had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
245			too.
246			</em>
247			</p>
248			<p>
249			<em>
250	elmex	1.15	2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
251			audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
252			server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
253			the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
254			</em>
255			</p>
256
257			<p>
258			<em>
259	elmex	1.14	2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
260	elmex	1.13	for better performance and compatibility under windows,
261			and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
262			</em>
263			</p>
264
265			<p>
266	pippijn	1.1	<em>
267	elmex	1.12	2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
268			resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
269			system was also officially enabled.
270			</em>
271			</p>
272
273
274			<p>
275			<em>
276	elmex	1.7	2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
277			</em>
278			</p>
279
280			<p>
281			<em>
282	pippijn	1.1	2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
283			The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
284			from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
285			better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
286			more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
287			now (eg. in the inventory).
288			</em>
289			</p>
290
291
292			<p>
293			<em>
294			2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
295			</em>
296			</p>
297
298			<p>
299			<em>
300			2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
301			Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
302			are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
303			</em>
304			</p>
305
306			<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
307
308			<h3>Features:</h3>
309
310			<p>
311			These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
312			</p>
313
314			<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
315			<ul>
316			<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
317			<li>
318			Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
319			long as you have OpenGL).
320			</li>
321			<li>
322			Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
323			with scaling invariant user interface.
324			</li>
325			<li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
326			<li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
327			<li>Sound and background music.</li>
328			<li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
329			<li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
330			<li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
331			</ul>
332
333			<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
334			<ul>
335			<li>
336			A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
337			and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
338			</li>
339			<li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
340			<li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
341			<li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
342			<li>Online wiki style help.</li>
343			<li>Message window entry with history.</li>
344			<li>
345			Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
346			eases the input of commands.
347			</li>
348			<li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
349			<li>
350			There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
351			</li>
352			<li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
353			<li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
354			<li>
355			NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
356			improves overall game interaction.
357			</li>
358			<li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
359			<li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
360			</ul>
361
362			<h3>News archive</h3>
363
364			<p>
365			<em>
366			2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
367			was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
368			opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
369			driver).
370			</em>
371			</p>
372
373			<p>
374			<em>
375			2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
376			on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
377			large 64x64 tileset!
378			</em>
379			</p>
380
381			<p>
382			<em>
383			2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
384			'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
385			database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
386			</em>
387			</p>
388
389			<p>
390			<em>
391			2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
392			</em>
393			</p>
394
395			<p>
396			<em>
397			2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
398			and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
399			about your experience with the CFPlus client!
400			</em>
401			</p>
402
403			<p>
404			<em>
405			2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
406			</em>
407			</p>
408
409			<p>
410			<em>
411			2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
412			</em>
413			</p>
414
415			<p>
416			<em>
417			2006-09-20
418			And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
419			minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
420			</em>
421			</p>
422
423			<p>
424			<em>
425			2006-08-14
426			A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
427			have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
428			This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
429			replace it!
430			</em>
431			</p>
432
433			<p>
434			<em>
435			2006-08-14
436			The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
437			added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
438			On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
439			improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
440			</em>
441			</p>
442
443			<p>
444			<em>
445			2006-07-30
446			The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
447			to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
448			documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
449			is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
450			</em>
451			</p>
452
453			<p>
454			<em>
455			2006-07-24
456			Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
457			need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
458			on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
459			</em>
460			</p>
461
462			<p>
463			<em>
464			2006-07-03
465			Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
466			we are happy to present the first test release!
467			</em>
468			</p>
469
470			<p>
471			<em>
472			2006-06-12
473			The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
474			helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
475			</em>
476			</p>
477
478			<p>
479			<em>
480			2006-06-02
481			Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
482			some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
483			Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
484			of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
485			inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
486			</em>
487			</p>
488
489			<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
490
491	root	1.5	<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
492	pippijn	1.1
493	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>
494	pippijn	1.1	95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
495			the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
496	pippijn	1.3	</b></p>
497	pippijn	1.1	<p>
498			Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
499			<a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
500			</p>
501
502	pippijn	1.3	<p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
503	pippijn	1.1	<p>
504			Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
505			<a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
506			</p>
507	pippijn	1.3
508			<p></p>
509	root	1.5