LINUXGAMES

A new release of PrBoom has been brought to our attention. This release of this Doom source code port has the following changes since the last version:

• - Don’t fail when a texture name can’t be looked up
• - Increased several limits – Thanks to entryway and RjY
• – Increased number of sidedef limit to 65534
• – Increased number of vertexes limit to 65535
• – Fixed crash when crossing sectors with very big height differences
• - fix crash on E4M8
• - New command-line options for setting a window (-window) or fullscreen
• (-nowindow) mode temporarily.
• - The maximal supported resolution is increased from 1600×1200 to 2048×1536
• - GLBoom will use the closest supported resolution when running fullscreen
• - The “RUN” key inverts the autorun state
• - Live monsters are highlighted in a different colour on the iddt-automap
• - Fixed OpenGL sky rendering in Requiem and Memento Mori
• - The “Show coordinates of automap pointer” setting works now
• - merged many cleanups and fixes from PrBoom 2.3
• - fix translucency map file handle leak
• - fix consistency failures in netgames
• - prevent crashes at 800×600 caused by rounding errors with naive clipping
• - fixed slowdown at 1024×768 on some systems
• - ability to play tasdoom demos directly
• - -solo-net option is a shortcut for one-player network games
• - emulate spechit overflows for dosdoom and tasdoom compatibility
• - made several cleanups and fixes

Download: [ PrBoom 2.4.4 ]

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