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Aquileo | MacGLide 0.13 released

2007-12-15T20:19:16Z

Hi,

MacGLide 0.13 has finally been released, with lots of new features, better compatibility and the usual bunch of bugfixes.

Download: http://macglide.sf.net/

Features:

+ Improved rendering quality for Tomb Raider 1 Gold:

- geometry analysis (and correction) for removing
background-colored gaps between landscape tiles.

- Runtime analysis of texture content for removing
texture border artefacts caused by anisotropic
filtering/mipmapping and the way TR1 stores its
textures.

+ adjustable Gamma Bias

+ Optimisations for the framebuffer emulation
(Carmageddon, Falcon 4.0):

- Altivec Velocity Engine optimised color format
conversion for maximum performance on slower machines

- Fiddling with the cache lines in order to optimise
memory bandwidth usage on G4-based systems

- Only downloading the parts of the framebuffer to
the GPU that actually have changed, skipping any
unchanged data

On my 450Mhz Cube Carmageddon now plays almost fluid
with a Radeon 9000 at 1024x768. Falcon 4.0 users should
also benefit from an improved framerate, but I haven't
tested this thoroughly.

+ resolution cap config setting allows for setting the
maximal resolution ever requested by MacGLide
(useful if resolution doubling is enabled)

Behind the scenes:

+ Revised and extended preferences system
- Default settings for all games
- Game specific settings
- Oh yes, older settings are again reset
(hopefully for the last time)

See the changelog for an (almost :^) complete list of bugfixes

Aquileo | MacGLide 0.13a1 "Tomb Raider Special Edition" released

2006-05-23T08:38:06Z

Looks like this is the "Tomb Raider Special Edition" of MacGLide, since
all new features have been tailored towards improving the rendering quality
of Tomb Raider Gold (and to some extent of TR2 too). Have fun.

Download: http://macglide.sf.net/

Aquileo | MacGLide 0.12 released

2006-01-26T13:13:56Z

Provides gamma correction, performance improvements and fully working map view / retro mirror for Carmageddon.

Adds FutureCop, Quake, Descent 1 & 2 to the list of fully supported games

Features:

+ Gamma Correction (ColorSync has to be installed)

+ Better performance (Especially in Carmageddon :^)

Bug fixes:

+ FutureCop radar and dispatcher window working,
V1.02 not crashing anymore when pausing the game

+ Carmagddon retro mirror working

+ Carmageddon Map 3D-View working in all situations

+ Fixed crash when moving the cursor in Carmageddon Movie mode

+ Quake 3Dfx is working (actually it did all the time but it just wanted exactly 2M framebuffer/texture RAM)

+ Descent 1 & 2 display the cockpit and instruments

+ Switching between (emulated) Glide display and
Mac-Passthrough display preserves the color depth

+ Full support for undocumented Delta0 mode
(no more special cases for Tomb Raider and Carmageddon)

Download: http://macglide.sf.net/

Aquileo | MacGLide 0.11 released

2005-11-18T09:31:40Z

Features:

+ New rendering engine (more accurate than in 0.10.1) allows better quality
on suitable graphics cards (ATI 7500 and later or similar NVidia cards).
Also fixes some rendering glitches such as the haze in Falcon 4.0 (which didn't
show up in 0.10.1).
To get the higher quality rendering, you need a graphics card with at least 3
texture units, for example an ATI Radeon 7500. Smaller cards like NVidia GForce
2mx or ATI Rage 128 will still use the simple rendering mode, and things will
continue to look like in 0.10.1.

+ Full Scene AntiAliasing (FSAA) for ATI chips (only in the Classic environment)

+ Global texture smoothing and mipmapping

+ Tweaked a code a little to gain more speed on slower systems (does anyone notice?)

+ Original 3dfx-splash animation is displayed when starting a game in order to achive
a more authentic appearence.

+ Better resource management

+ Added better support for pixel pipeline framebuffer writes.

+ Reorganised the code base

+ Lots of bugfixes and smaller improvements

Bugfixes:

+ Menu backgrounds in Carmageddon 2

+ If the exact screen size isn't found, MacGLide tries to choose a slightly larger one.

+ Tomb Raider 3: The in-game menu background now shows the current game scene (greyed out).

+ Objects in Carmageddon (and probably other games) don't loose their transparency
anymore when the fog becomes thicker.

+ Tomb Raider 1 Gold: Switching to the In-Game menu got a bit faster.

+ Less white screen appearence during screen resolution changes

+ Improved memory management fixes sudden exits in Falcon 4.0 that happended
to some users when firing a rocket.

+ Haze in Falcon 4.0 rendered correctly.

+ Translucent Menu backgrounds in Tomb Raider 1 Gold.

+ Translucent Lightnings in Tomb Raider 1 Gold.

+ Fixed the multicolored skidmarks in Carmageddon (Splatpack).

+ Fa/18 Korea looks better because of fixes because of texture format fixes
and improvements in the pixel pipeline frame buffer emulation.

Aquileo | OpenGLide for Macintosh 0.10 released

2005-01-07T20:49:51Z

OpenGLide for Macintosh is a shared library that emulates a 3dfx-Voodoo-Graphics board, allowing to run 3dfx/Glide games without the 3dfx-hardware. Version 0.10 allows to play 3dfx-based games in any resolution supported by your computer/display.

It also provides a lot of visual, compatibility and performance improvements as well as a lot of fixed bugs, like

- Tomb Raider Gold can be played with Movies enabled
- Rendering quality in Falcon 4.0 has been improved
- Some ugly crashes in Falcon 4.0 have been fixed
- The mouse pointer in Carmageddon is working

See the Changlog for the full list of bugfixes and features. You can find this latest release here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/macglide/download/

Aquileo | OpenGLide for Macintosh 0.09 released

2004-09-13T14:19:57Z

OpenGLide for Macintosh is a shared library that emulates a 3dfx-Voodoo-Graphics board, allowing to run 3dfx/Glide games without the 3dfx-hardware.

In OpenGLide for Macintosh 0.09 the code has been tweaked a litte more, and the display quality has been improved by fixing an annoying bug that caused random pixels to appear on 64x64pixel textures.

You can find this latest release here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/macglide/download/