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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>
   2009-09-16 Version 2.05: The command completer algorithm has been improved by
   marcmagus. Thanks for the contribution! Also a small bugfix for a crash
   in the audio engine has been added.
  </em>
</p>

<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	Client
2
3	<h2>The Deliantra MORPG Client</h2>
4
5	<p>This is the new Deliantra client which was written from scratch
6	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
11	<h3>Screenshots:</h3>
12
13	<p>Screenshots? See on the <a href="screenshots.html">Screenshot page</a></p>
14
15	<h3>Download:</h3>
16
17	<p><a href="play.html">See the Play now! page</a> about the downloads!</p>
18
19	<h3>Installation notes:</h3>
20
21	<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	<b>
35	Please note that you need glibc-2.3 and x-libs with XFT.
36	</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	</b>
43	</p>
44	<p>
45	After downloading you need to extract the client and execute the extracted binary.
46	</p>
47	</li>
48	<li>
49	<p><b>Mac OS X</b></p>
50	<p>
51	To start the client, just double click on the <tt>.dmg</tt> image file to open it and start the client.<br />
52	<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	</p>
54	</li>
55	<li>
56	<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
64	<p>
65	<b>For further instructions and informations look at the <i>Help!</i> button on the top!</b>
66	</p>
67
68	<h3>News:</h3>
69
70	<p>
71	<em>
72	2009-09-16 Version 2.05: The command completer algorithm has been improved by
73	marcmagus. Thanks for the contribution! Also a small bugfix for a crash
74	in the audio engine has been added.
75	</em>
76	</p>
77
78	<p>
79	<em>
80	2009-04-26 Version 2.04 is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release of
81	the client. A Japanese font is included with the distribution now and
82	a workaround of the incompatible ABI change in pango (font engine) has been
83	implemented. Another bugfix related to connecting to the server
84	went into the windows release.
85	</em>
86	</p>
87
88	<p>
89	<em>
90	2009-01-15 First release in the new year, version 2.03 comes with a
91	many changes in the GUI. For example the auto pickup toggle has been
92	moved into a checkbox to the top of the main window.
93	The configuration is now saved automatically on exit.
94	Shimmering during smooth scroll has been reduced a lot and some displaying
95	bugs have been fixed in the inventory. More workarounds which make the
96	client more stable on broken OSes were also implemented.
97	</em>
98	</p>
99
100	<p>
101	<em>
102	2008-12-26 The Chrismas release of version 2.02: Hidden mapspaces are
103	marked visually by a question mark and are made as bright as the darkest
104	mapspaces. A crash has been fixed when the user clicks on the map during
105	login. New tips of the day have been introduced. And more minor stability and
106	visual fixes.
107	</em>
108	</p>
109
110	<p>
111	<em>
112	2008-12-12 Version 2.01: The client tutorial has been rewritten, to match
113	the GUI changes of the last months. The random switching between
114	message window tabs when a new tab was opened has been fixed.
115	Fixed minor displaying bugs of the speech bubble of NPCs and other
116	minor things.
117	</em>
118	</p>
119
120	<p>
121	<em>
122	2008-12-05 Version 2.0: Last minor fixes round up the version 2.0 of our
123	client: The Log window can't be closed anymore by Alt+x, Also wont Alt+x or
124	other Message window operations crash the client anymore directly after startup.
125	Also the invisible/cached parts of the map are darkened even more, so that
126	invisibile parts can be distinguished from dark parts better.
127	</em>
128	</p>
129
130
131	<p>
132	<em>
133	2008-11-09 Version 0.9978: Some minor fixes:
134	The healthbar is now correctly smoothly moved. Own text in NPC dialogues are
135	emphasized now. A crash bug in the macro dialogue has been fixed. The tooltips
136	in the Mesage Window tabs are updated correctly now. And Alt+x won't let
137	Message Window tabs disappear for ever anymore.
138	</em>
139	</p>
140
141	<p>
142	<em>
143	2008-09-29 Version 0.9977: A race condition has been fixed that could lead
144	to client freezes or crashes on login, especially on slower systems. The
145	smooth movement is no longer choppy. The default font for messages is now a
146	(hopefully nicer looking) proportional font. Text display has been tweaked.
147	The client no longer makes unnecessary screen refreshes and uses less CPU
148	time.
149	</em>
150	</p>
151
152	<p>
153	<em>
154	2008-09-05 Next version of the client: 0.9976 comes with many fixes for Mac OS X,
155	like some fixed keyboard issues on OS X. Improved the protocol with compression
156	and fragmentation, leading to more efficent bandwidth usage. Implemented crash
157	diagnostics, which are sent to the server, for easier debugging. Important fix
158	with the default resolution, which was too small. Added theming support, with some
159	basic themes. And some other minor fixes all over the place.
160	</em>
161	</p>
162
163	<p>
164	<em>
165	2008-08-27 Version 0.9975 comes with a small fix with the initial resolution and
166	a carification of the weight/value autopickup option. There is also a <b>Mac OS X</b>
167	port available now of the client!
168	</em>
169	</p>
170
171	<p>
172	<em>
173	2008-08-01 Version 0.9974 comes with smooth scrolling for player movements,
174	workaround for a possible OpenGL slowdown, and other small fixes and enhancements.
175	</em>
176	</p>
177
178	<p>
179	<em>
180	2008-07-07 Some minor fixes and features: IPv6 support, chat tabs have tooltips
181	again and converted to a new non-blocking API. Also fixed the CPAN distribution.
182	</em>
183	</p>
184
185	<p>
186	<em>
187	2008-05-23 Next release: 0.9972. The map cache has been extended a bit to store more
188	map changes (fixes some minor bugs). Fixed some crashbugs when the client is
189	logged out and some UI elements were used. The server XML format is now also
190	supportet in item tooltips. The keyrepeats are ignored now in some conditions.
191	And crashes when the map cache is corrupted are now prevented. Also the client
192	configuration is now stored in pretty printed JSON.
193	</em>
194	</p>
195
196	<p>
197	<em>
198	2008-05-05 Long time no release, but now we got some fixes for you: Some issues
199	with the default sort order have been sorted out, some tooltips were fixed,
200	a long standing bug with the stats tab being empty has been resolved and some GUI
201	fixes have been done. Also the pseudo-items are now only shown in the inventory
202	and not the floorbox. Have fun!
203	</em>
204	</p>
205
206	<p>
207	<em>
208	2008-03-30 Release of version 0.9970: Reduced documentation memory usage, fixed
209	the stat gauge tooltips that have gone missing since 0.9966. Fixced a grave bug
210	with tile id allocation, which effectively disabled the tile cache. And last
211	but not least: The NPC Dialogs have also been fixed.
212	</em>
213	</p>
214
215	<p>
216	<em>2008-03-24 Release of version 0.9967 of the Client: A memory leak was fixed
217	where the messages in the message window were kept for ever and the client
218	consumed more and more memory. The highlighting of the chattabs is now red and
219	not blue. The history handling of the chat input will now not erase the
220	typed input if the down cursor key is pressed. A keyboard modifier display has
221	also been implemented, (for example to signal whether numlock is on,
222	which caused problems under windows). Also a bug with the layout font under
223	windows has been fixed.
224	</em>
225	</p>
226
227	<p>
228	<em>
229	2008-01-19 Another release of the Client, version 0.9965: Some bugs
230	have been fixed: A race condition was found in the database access and
231	a bug which crashed the client with nvidia drivers has been fixed.
232	Some minor bugs in the GUI, the message fontsize and chatbox label padding,
233	have also been fixed.
234	</em>
235	</p>
236
237	<p>
238	<em>
239	2008-01-06 First release in the new year, version 0.9963: Among the
240	changes are some minor bugfixes, optical tweaks and performance
241	improvements on the GUI. Some to the user invisible changes were
242	improvements of the server side widgets and a reimplementation of the
243	message window to allow to undock chats from the central message window in
244	future releases.
245	</em>
246	</p>
247
248	<p>
249	<em>
250	2007-12-25 Released version 0.9960 with some important fixes in the item animations
251	and GUI code, along with an API update to a more recent EV version the documentation
252	had some minor improvements. And last but not least the face loading consumes less CPU.
253	too.
254	</em>
255	</p>
256	<p>
257	<em>
258	2007-12-09 Released version 0.9959, main changes were a bugfix of the
259	audio-jingle playing (sometimes a jingle was played repeatedly if there was no
260	server-provided music available). Also some debugging hooks were added and
261	the code was updated to follow API changes in some of the modules used.
262	</em>
263	</p>
264
265	<p>
266	<em>
267	2007-11-27 Released version 0.9956, main changes were an improved event loop
268	for better performance and compatibility under windows,
269	and the server list has been disabled due to problems with activestate perl.
270	</em>
271	</p>
272
273	<p>
274	<em>
275	2007-11-03 Released version 0.9955, Main changes were adjustment of the default
276	resolution (to 800x600) and making fullscreen the default. The widget extension
277	system was also officially enabled.
278	</em>
279	</p>
280
281
282	<p>
283	<em>
284	2007-10-14 Released a new binary. Main feature: Rename to 'Deliantra'.
285	</em>
286	</p>
287
288	<p>
289	<em>
290	2007-09-02 <b>Finally!</b> We released a non beta version of the client.
291	The version 0.99 is considered mostly stable and playable now. Changes
292	from the last release are: Better compatibility with OpenGL drivers,
293	better face caching, background music and spatial sound effects,
294	more default keymappings and the item descriptions are in the tooltips
295	now (eg. in the inventory).
296	</em>
297	</p>
298
299
300	<p>
301	<em>
302	2007-05-09 <b>Big news!</b> There is a <b>Linux binary</b> now too! Get it and play with it! :-)
303	</em>
304	</p>
305
306	<p>
307	<em>
308	2007-04-24 Next windows beta with following changes is out:
309	Better character creation dialog and item descriptions in the inventory
310	are now in the tooltip rather than spread over the message window.
311	</em>
312	</p>
313
314	<p>For older news look at the bottom of this page.</p>
315
316	<h3>Features:</h3>
317
318	<p>
319	These are the features that are already implemented and work (minus bugs).
320	</p>
321
322	<p><b>Technical:</b></p>
323	<ul>
324	<li>Runs on GNU/Linux and Windows.</li>
325	<li>
326	Uses hardware acceleration if it exists (but also runs without as
327	long as you have OpenGL).
328	</li>
329	<li>
330	Windowed/Fullscreen mode in multiple resolutions
331	with scaling invariant user interface.
332	</li>
333	<li>Smoothing and fog of war.</li>
334	<li>Very nice font rendering with pango (gtk's font renderer).</li>
335	<li>Sound and background music.</li>
336	<li>Face prefetching for the game graphics.</li>
337	<li>Integrated documentation browser with linking and images.</li>
338	<li>Server side widgets (these are server side defined dialogues).</li>
339	</ul>
340
341	<p><b>Gameplay:</b></p>
342	<ul>
343	<li>
344	A minimap which keeps track of explored territories
345	and helps you to navigate on the worldmap.
346	</li>
347	<li>Easier key binding with the ability to <b>record</b> actions.</li>
348	<li>Gained experience is shown in the statusbox.</li>
349	<li>Reporting of stat-changes (stats, resistancies and other stuff) in the statusbox.</li>
350	<li>Online wiki style help.</li>
351	<li>Message window entry with history.</li>
352	<li>
353	Command completer, eg. completes 'cbh' to 'cast burning hands', which
354	eases the input of commands.
355	</li>
356	<li>Command repetition with '.'.</li>
357	<li>
358	There are tooltips all over the GUI which help a lot.
359	</li>
360	<li>Spell list with key-binding shortcuts and tooltip descriptions of the spells.</li>
361	<li>Skill list with quick key binding.</li>
362	<li>
363	NPC dialog system makes chatting with NPCs a lot easier and
364	improves overall game interaction.
365	</li>
366	<li>Inventory operation shortcuts, like: ignite/thaw, inscribe and rename.</li>
367	<li>Healthbars above monsters and players.</li>
368	</ul>
369
370	<h3>News archive</h3>
371
372	<p>
373	<em>
374	2007-04-22 Another windows beta has been released: A problem with map-ghosting
375	was fixed and other bugs werde fixed. Also a texture cache workaround for buggy
376	opengl drivers was implemented (which could reduce the memory leak inside the
377	driver).
378	</em>
379	</p>
380
381	<p>
382	<em>
383	2007-04-14 Another windows beta has been released: Support for smoothing
384	on crossfire+ servers has been implemented along with the support for the
385	large 64x64 tileset!
386	</em>
387	</p>
388
389	<p>
390	<em>
391	2007-01-25 Next beta released to the world: loads of bugfixes, added
392	'bind apply ...' to the context menu of the inventory, improved local
393	database handling, rework of the whole keybindings (much easier now!).
394	</em>
395	</p>
396
397	<p>
398	<em>
399	2006-12-03 Released next beta, further bug fixes. Pickup flesh has been implemented too.
400	</em>
401	</p>
402
403	<p>
404	<em>
405	2006-11-07 Another beta release: The off-by-one bug in the map displaying has finally been found
406	and fixed! This hopefully also fixes other problems with the map :) Have fun and please tell us
407	about your experience with the CFPlus client!
408	</em>
409	</p>
410
411	<p>
412	<em>
413	2006-09-29 New beta is out! Changes: minor bugfixes, added documentation and a 'tip of the day' dialog.
414	</em>
415	</p>
416
417	<p>
418	<em>
419	2006-09-21 Another update of the cfplus.exe is online now. Changes: Fix in the NPC speech bubble code.
420	</em>
421	</p>
422
423	<p>
424	<em>
425	2006-09-20
426	And again: A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! The ghosts on maps have been fixed, along with other
427	minor bugfixes. NPC speech bubbles were also added!
428	</em>
429	</p>
430
431	<p>
432	<em>
433	2006-08-14
434	A <b>new CFPlus beta</b> is out! <b>Healthbars</b> are in!!! Players and Monsters now
435	have a healthbar on top of them, which shows their actual health status.
436	This renders the 'probe' spell mostly useless, but we will find other ways to
437	replace it!
438	</em>
439	</p>
440
441	<p>
442	<em>
443	2006-08-14
444	The <b>next CFPlus beta release is out!</b>: Inscription and renaming shortcuts have been
445	added to the Inventory. The interface got line frames to be more eye pleasing.
446	On top of that the documentation browser has been greatly improved and the documentation
447	improved also a bit. And other minor stuff has been implemented and fixed.
448	</em>
449	</p>
450
451	<p>
452	<em>
453	2006-07-30
454	The long awaited beta release! The last bugs we wanted to fix and features we wanted
455	to add are done and CFPlus is ready for the first more serious testings. Please make sure to read the
456	documentation and the tooltips if there is something not yet clear. Although the documentation
457	is far from complete at the moment, it might be helpful.
458	</em>
459	</p>
460
461	<p>
462	<em>
463	2006-07-24
464	Lots of detail work was done now, and there are still some minor issues that
465	need to be cleared until the client is ready for a beta release. We were working mainly
466	on the documentation the last two days. There is light on the end of the tunnel.
467	</em>
468	</p>
469
470	<p>
471	<em>
472	2006-07-03
473	Finally: The alpha release! Lots has changed since 2006-06-12 and
474	we are happy to present the first test release!
475	</em>
476	</p>
477
478	<p>
479	<em>
480	2006-06-12
481	The new NPC dialog system has been added, and character creation
482	helper dialogs. Along with many other bugfixes and improvements.
483	</em>
484	</p>
485
486	<p>
487	<em>
488	2006-06-02
489	Added pickup configuration. The window titles work again and
490	some other bugs and enhancements went into the gui toolkit.
491	Shift-middle click lock/unlocks items in inventory now. First version
492	of the spell dialog is in and a context menu item has been added to the
493	inventory to allow to get/drop a specified count of items.
494	</em>
495	</p>
496
497	<h2>Authors/Contact</h2>
498
499	<p><b>The Deliantra Development Team:</b></p>
500
501	<p><b>
502	95% of the client, stuff like: protocol handling, widget toolkit, OpenGL integration, windows build,
503	the map, help viewer, all the cool features and all other stuff the user never sees.
504	</b></p>
505	<p>
506	Marc Lehmann <a href="mailto:schmorp@schmorp.de">schmorp@schmorp.de</a>
507	<a href="http://home.schmorp.de/">http://home.schmorp.de/</a>
508	</p>
509
510	<p><b>The remaining 5%, stuff like: client theme graphics, (some) dialogs, key bindings, inventory and some 'concept' code</b></p>
511	<p>
512	Robin Redeker <a href="mailto:elmex@ta-sa.org">elmex@ta-sa.org</a>
513	<a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/">http://www.ta-sa.org/</a>
514	</p>
515
516	<p></p>
517