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.

1.2.2 August 2

• Fixed inverted roll off for A_Explode.
• Fixed A_MeleeAttack's accuracy argument wasn't read correctly. Also added hitsound and misssound arguments.
• Fixed multiple doors could not be opened by a single trigger.
• Fixed some more issues with the deathcam.
• Fixed random() in DECORATE never obtained the maximum value.
• DROPBASEDONTARGET flag will now account for replacements.
• Corrected Knife damage range to be accurate with vanilla.
• Status bar will display 999 when health or ammo go to or above 1000.
• Added PC Speaker emulator.
• Added GUI iwad picker for Windows and crash reporter.

1.2.3 December 24

• Added support for PowerPC Macintoshes.
• Added OLDRANDOMCHASE which makes A_Chase use the old random number generator table.
• Fixed locale issues.
• Fixed sound zone linking was done improperly.
• Fixed BlueGatlingGun was missing a call to A_GunAttack and didn't play the proper pickup sound
• Fixed difficulty based health properties weren't fully implemented.
• Fixed RandomSpawner stopped working.
• Fixed reversal of Spear of Destiny and Wolfenstein 3D exit messages.
• Fixed crash when inheriting from actors with relative state jumps.
• OPL instruments are cleared when changing songs.
• Control improvements.
• Using include in xlat will now allow you to replace entries in the thing table.

2014

1.3 May 26

• Mostly complete support for Super 3D Noah's Ark.
• Automap including overlay. Adds property overheadicon and flag PLOTONAUTOMAP.
• 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.
• Skill levels can be customized in MAPINFO.
• DemoLoop is now an intermission sequence in MAPINFO.
• Added player.damagescreencolor
• Added DefaultLighting, DefaultVisibility, and DefaultMaxLightVis to mapinfo to specify the light diminishing without using ROTT flags.
• Added deathtransition, victorymusic, forcetally, and victorypic to mapinfo.
• Added BackpackItem along with ammo.backpackamount, ammo.backpackmaxamount, and ammo.backpackboostamount properties.
• Added MapRevealer.
• 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, A_WeaponGrin, and A_Succeed
• Added random duration states.
• Added Thust weapon.bobstyle to emulate Planet Strike's weapon bob.
• Added support for Blake Stone style split doors and doors that slide the opposite direction.
• Blake Stone 64-level colormap support.
• 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.)
• The floornumber property in a map is now a string allowing for floors like "1-1".
• Font characters can be referenced as normal textures with "FONTNAMNE:XX" where XX is the hex code.
• USDF parser although usefulness is limited to new QuizItem. Adds ConversationID.
• Experimental support for ROTT elevators.
• Ability to load vanilla mods embedded in a zip file if they have a file named ecwolf with the extension of their data files.

2015

1.3.1 January 9

• Added support for sampled music formats and tracker music (Opus, Vorbis, FLAC, everything supported by Mikmod).
• Auto map can now be panned with the mouse.
• Improved file system path lookup to be more reliable.
• Saves can now be deleted from the menu.
• Android support is now merged.
• Fixed quick save loading.
• Fixed ouch face appearing when picking up health in Spear of Destiny.
• Fixed issues with title screen palettes and end games.
• Fixed S3DNA MAP19 exit transition.
• Fixed regression with text lines in Spear of Destiny ending.
• Improved elevator support.
• Improved support for quirky AUDIOT files.
• Various bugs with WDC map format loading are fixed.
• --bits switch works again.

1.3.2 June 18

• Support for SDL2 is working and is used on Windows for 64-bit builds.
• Maximum resolution increased to 5K.
• Fixed more issues with path finding with non-Latin user names on Windows.
• Added joystick sensitivity and dead zone configuration among other joystick support improvements.
• Fixed some instances of residual input being carried over between lives.
• Music is now properly restored if main menu is entered in a dialog.
• Improvements to OS X 10.4/10.5 support.
• Enemy projectiles are now blocked by decorations like in vanilla.
• Fixed inaccuracies with Super 3D Noah's Ark plus detection for Steam version.
  • Missing par time on 5-2 and incorrect part for 6-5.
  • Watermelon damage is corrected.
  • Antelope drop a large feed launcher if the player doesn't have one.
• Added fastmonsters and mustconfirm for skill levels in MAPINFO.

2016

1.3.3 October 1

• Windows build is now built with Visual Studio 2015 fixing issue with the 64-bit builds crashing on some Haswell systems.
• 32-bit Windows build is now done with SDL 2.0. Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000 support is now relegated to a special build for legacy systems. Until ECWolf 1.5 these will remain first class supported operating systems.
• The GOG versions of Wolf3D and Spear are now detected automatically if installed.
• Font system updated from ZDoom to support graceful handling of accent marks.
• Implemented missing secret god mode cheat (TAB+G+F10 for Spear and JIM for Noah)
• Removed console window on Windows since it was blocking Steam broadcasting (use --console to get it back for mod debugging)
• Removed F12 to release mouse capture since it got in the way with default Steam binding. Use scroll lock instead.
• Elevators force close their doors to prevent them from being jammed by corpses rendering levels unbeatable.
• Redefining an intermission sequence (such as the demo loop) now properly replaces the old one instead of appending.
• ECWolf now handles the special case of ChaosEdit reusing plane 2 for plane 3's data if the map doesn't use plane 3.
• Fixed hint on question 62 in S3DNA.
• Fixed wrong ceiling color in floor 8 of Spear.
• Fixed wrong par time on E6L8 of Wolf3D.
• Fixed timing errors in S3DNA hand feeding and small feed launcher.
• Fixed missing death sound on some enemies in the Spear of Destiny mission pack secret levels.
• Fixed issue with animated textures pausing if menus were entered for a significant amount of time.
• Fixed missing sounds at the destination point of an elevator.
• Fixed loss of inventory on level transition after loading a saved game.
• Fixed dropped data when loading embedded data files in zips.
• Fixed crash with saves with active elevators.
• Fixed immediate crash on Android.
• Fixed various other crashes.

Next version

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

• LAN multiplayer for up to 11 players.
  • Actors now track their current target instead of assuming the one and only player.
  • Visibility for attacks is determined by geometric checks instead of renderer feedback.
• The "DoomEdNum" has been deprecated and all places where they were used now accept actor class names directly.
• Support for BILLBOARD flag for "3D sprites", compared to Wolf4SDL the angle of the actor is used allowing arbitrary angles.
• Added parallax skies compatible with ROTT through sky1 in MAPINFO/Map definition (mostly incompatible with LZWolf's parallaxsky definition)
• Added support for Wolfstone 3D and Elite Hans: Die Neue Ordnung.
  • Added pageindextext to MAPINFO/Gameinfo.
  • Added $musicalias to SNDINFO.
• Added Super 3-D Noah's Ark MIDI->OPL code (Thanks NY00123).
• Fading has been reworked to allow overlaying fades over game play.
• Support for blend and alpha mixing in TEXTURES.
• Support for colormaps with 64 light levels like Blake Stone.
• Partial support for Blake Stone map meta data.
• Support for Blake Stone's level name strings as LEVELDSC.
• Support for Macintosh Wolf3D's MAPLIST.
• Added support for offset() in DECORATE states.
• Pickups support Hide state to allow spent pickups to be visible.
• Added Idle state for actors to return to if they lose their target.
• Files can be autoloaded though ecwolf.cfg.
• Added game based content filtering for PK3s from ZDoom.
• Default FOV can be changed through DesiredFOV in ecwolf.cfg.
• Added Pushwall_MoveNoStop line special which allows moving pushwalls through walls like Mac Wolf and ROTT.
• Added Teleport_Relative line special which works similarly to ROTT elevators without the theatrics.
• Wall and plane drawing has been modified to generally have better precision.
• Added trackhighscores property to MAPINFO/Gameinfo.
• Added resethealth and resetinventory to MAPINFO/Map definition.
• Enemies can now accept health items.
• Added A_Wander.
• Added SmartAnimation actor to support Blake Stone's "smart animation" system.
• Added --foreignsaves option to force saves to load even if game data check fails.
• Added --skill option to select skill level by number particularly for when more than 4 skill levels are present.
• Added ROTT style tall walls and ROTT's map height marker with feature flag "planedepth".
• Actor z-heights are now rendered and can be set in info plane with "zheights" enabled in map translator (compatible with ROTT).
• ROTT map loader no longer synthesizes a third plane but instead relies on the map translator flag "globalflat".
• Support for ROTT's song numbers in map translator
• Partial support for booting Macintosh Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone: Planet Strike, and Rise of the Triad.
  • Includes support for several new data formats most of which have no practical use outside of loading vanilla compatible data.
  • Macintosh Wolfenstein 3D data is supported through macbin format.
  • Feature is hidden behind ShowPreviewGames in ecwolf.cfg as they're not yet supported or fully playable.
• Improvements in holowall support.
• Fixed some long standing minor memory leaks.
• New icon/logo by NeuralStunner.
• Support for more ultrawide aspect ratios.
• Automap panning speed is now dependent on zoom level.
• Fixed crash if no sound device was present.
• Fixed cases where adaptive frame rate would fail and game would run too fast.
• Vendored SDL dependencies updated to SDL 2.26.1, SDL_mixer 2.6.2, and SDL_net 2.2.0.
  • Customized SDL_mixer is still suggested but no longer required for full functionality as the only feature missing is support for alternate spelling of LOOP_START and LOOP_END tags.
• Steam and GOG support updated to support new releases.

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

None yet!