| 1 | $Id: NEWS 310 2004-01-03 23:15:48Z sam $ |
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| 3 | Changes between 0.5 and 0.6: |
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| 4 | ---------------------------- |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | * 30% speed increase in the bitmap rendering routine |
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| 7 | * mouse support and various speed optimisations in the X11 driver |
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| 8 | * X11 is now the preferred driver |
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| 9 | * improved documentation |
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| 10 | * minor bugfixes |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | Changes between 0.4 and 0.5: |
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| 13 | ---------------------------- |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | * palette optimisation for the S-Lang driver to work around the colour pair |
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| 16 | shortage bug |
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| 17 | * minor compilation fix |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | Changes between 0.3 and 0.4: |
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| 20 | ---------------------------- |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | * preliminary X11 graphics driver |
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| 23 | * support for simultaneously compiled-in drivers |
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| 24 | * honour the CACA_DRIVER, CACA_GEOMETRY and CACA_FONT environment variables |
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| 25 | * more documentation |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | Changes between 0.2 and 0.3: |
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| 28 | ---------------------------- |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | * antialiasing support |
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| 31 | * dithering, antialiasing and background mode can now be selected at |
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| 32 | runtime or in the environment using the CACA_BACKGROUND, CACA_DITHERING |
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| 33 | and CACA_ANTIALIASING variables |
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| 34 | * alpha channel support in cacaview |
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| 35 | * BMP loading support in cacaview even if Imlib2 is not present |
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| 36 | * cacafire, a libcaca port of aafire |
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| 37 | |
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| 38 | Changes between 0.1 and 0.2: |
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| 39 | ---------------------------- |
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| 40 | |
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| 41 | * rendering now uses 256 colour pairs instead of 16 |
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| 42 | * mouse support for ncurses |
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| 43 | * ncurses is now the preferred backend |
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| 44 | * arbitrary color depth and bitmasks in the bitmap renderer |
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| 45 | * cacaview, an image viewer based on libcaca |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | New in 0.1 |
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| 49 | ---------- |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | * initial release |
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| 52 | * slang, ncurses and conio drivers |
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| 53 | * basic line, box, ellipse and triangle primitives |
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| 54 | * colour bitmap blitting |
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