Odamex 0.4.2 released

[impClaw]

Odamex 0.4.2 has been released. Go check it out at Sourceforge or download it. Changes include:

• Silent BFG fixed
  
• Saving and loading of single player games has been restored
  
• A modified sdl.dll is included with the Windows packages that resolves some mouse issues
  
• Improved stability, code reduction and optmization - it runs better
  

[HackNeyed]

Sweet! Just yesterday I was wondering when there would be an update...

[myk]

It's nice to see an update. The Odasite is currently down for some reason (error 500)...

[entryway]

impClaw said:

A modified sdl.dll is included with the Windows packages that resolves some mouse issues

There is no necessity to 'hack' SDL for fixing mouse lags. PrBoom+ (and chocolate-doom too, iirc) has small and 'funny' workaround for that about a year.

Earlier prboom+ used Win32 API for mouse handling, because it is impossible to use mouse with native SDL handling - it's very laggy in some situations. On the other hand most of casual players even did not notice a problem and still can use mouse with vanilla prboom and eternity as if it works perfectly :-/

[Gez]

entryway said:

There is no necessity to 'hack' SDL for fixing mouse lags.

Heh. From ioquake3 readme file:

Mouse Input On Windows
ioq3 uses SDL to abstract away as much as possible from platform specific
implementation details. Unfortunately, SDL 1.2 suffers from a number of bugs
and limitations with respect to mouse input on the Windows platform. We
provide a patch against the SDL subversion 1.2 branch which fixes the
following problems:

[ReFracture]

The mouse is actually usable now, so I'm happy.

[myk]

On my system the mouse seems okay in Odamex. I think more or less like in PrBoom+, but I get the (slight?) impression it is shakier (less smooth) in Chocolate Doom.

[EarthQuake]

UDAMEX ON TOP!

[RestlessRodent]

yay

[LexiMax]

The server list appears to be down.