2012

1.0 September 18

Initial release based of Wolf4SDL and ZDoom.

1.1 December 17

• Fixed numerous bugs. Particularly in Spear of Destiny support.
• Improved old format loading code to handle malformed data.
• Added WolfensteinMonster helper actor.
• Added RandomSpawner
• Binding keys to next/previous weapon.
• Added A_JumpIfCloser, A_JumpIfInventory, A_TakeInventory, and A_ChangeFlag
• Added chance parameter to A_ActiveSound.
• Added meleerange, minmissilechance, and missilefrequency
• Added weapon and movement bob.
• Added ALWAYSFAST.
• Added mapinfo properties messagecolors, messagefontcolor, menuwindowcolors, flat, finaleflat, entertext, entertextislump, and entertextismessage.
• Removed deprecated properties and flags.
• Initial implementation of free look via Y-shearing.

1.1.1 December 23

• Improved vanilla accuracy.
• Added user configuration variable to disable movement bobbing.

2013

1.2 June 10

• Improved vanilla accuracy.
• ECWolf will attempt to reset Spear of Destiny installations which were set to play the mission packs.
• Partial ability to load Rise of the Triad data and Mac Wolfenstein data.
• Added support switches and touch plates in the fourth binary map plane. (In the format of Rise of the Triad's third map plane.)
• Support for non-64x64 floor/ceiling textures, but still limited to power of twos for speed.
• Depth fog darkness can be set per map so the menu setting was removed.
• Added A_Explode, A_GunFlash, and A_Light (and variants).
• Added scale, xscale, yscale, player.viewheight, player.forwardmove, and player.sidemove.
• Added WEAPON.NOALERT, WEAPON.ALWAYSGRIN, INVENTORY.ALWAYSPICKUP, and RANDOMIZE.
• Added WeaponGiver.
• 1600x1200 and 1920x1200 how are aspect corrected even in the menus since it can be corrected using whole numbers.
• Map translators can now include the default translator.

1.2.1 June 12

• Fixed crash when saving when no flash state was active.

Next version

The follow changes are slated for the next release of ECWolf.

• Fixed inverted roll off for A_Explode
• Fixed multiple doors could not be opened by a single trigger
• Corrected Knife damage range to be accurate with vanilla.
• Added GUI iwad picker for Windows and crash reporter.
• PC Speaker emulator

These changes are slated for the next, non maintenance version of ECWolf.

• Improved file system access code to fix issues with non-latin character sets. This results in some stuff moving around a bit particularly when it comes to the save files:

Windows 9x continues to store everything in the program directory.

Type	Windows (NT based)	Linux	Mac OS X
Configuration	%AppData%\ecwolf	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ecwolf ~/.config/ecwolf	~/Library/Preferences
Saves	NT-XP: %AppData%\ecwolf Vista+: %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\ECWolf	$XDG_DATA_HOME/ecwolf/savegames ~/.local/share/ecwolf/savegames	~/Documents/ECWolf/Savegames
Screen shots	%AppData%\ecwolf	$XDG_DATA_HOME/ecwolf/screenshots ~/.local/share/ecwolf/screenshots	~/Documents/ECWolf/Screenshots
Game data (additional)	%AppData%\ecwolf	$XDG_DATA_HOME/ecwolf	~/Library/Application Support/ECWolf ~/Documents/ECWolf

• Signon screen can now be removed by not providing it in mapinfo.
• Added player.damagescreencolor
• Added DefaultLighting, DefaultVisibility, and DefaultMaxLightVis to mapinfo to specify the light diminishing without using ROTT flags.
• Added BackpackItem along with ammo.backpackamount and ammo.backpackmaxamount properties.
• Added alternate fire, reload, and zoom states for weapons. (Along with weapon.ammogive2, weapon.ammouse2, weapon.ammo2).
• Added flags to A_WeaponReady
• Added A_SetTics, A_ZoomFactor, A_ChangeVelocity, A_ScaleVelocity
• Added random duration states.
• Added Thust weapon.bobstyle to emulate Planet Strike's weapon bob.
• player.movebob is unlinked from the weapon bob. (The configuration option still affects both.)
• Integrated ZDoom's 2D drawing code, but only the SDL back end is available so ECWolf is still limited to the 8-bit palette.
• Action pointers in the first frame of the Spawn state are now executed. (Similar to specifying NoDelay in ZDoom.)