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GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 12:32
by Graf Zahl
A new release is online.

This contains all the bugfixes from the last 8 months and a few minor new features.
Please note: This is the first official release that was built with Visual Studio 2013. Although I have set the project to create an XP compatible binary I have no means to check if that worked. Please report if it doesn't, I'll try to fix it then if necessary.


EDIT: link taken down due to 1.8.6 release which contains some critical changes.

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 13:16
by Enjay
Thanks very much for the release. It seems to work just fine on my Win7-64 system but that won't be a surprise. I can't check my XP machine right now but I'll be able to do so later if no one else has reported back by that point.

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 17:53
by Tiger
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Great stuff!

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 18:38
by ntype
I received a "Not a Valid Win32 Application" error message on XP (SP3).

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 22:19
by Graf Zahl
Argh. I have to find a way to set this from within CMake then. Changing it in the project manually seems to get reset immediately...

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 1:36
by Tiger
I apologize for opening my thoughts like this, but why even bother supporting such an ancient and yet no longer a supported Operating System?

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 8:33
by Graf Zahl
Maybe...

...because it still has a market share of of 30%, probably even more among retro gamers?

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:09
by Graf Zahl
Can someone please test this one?

(link moved to first post)

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 10:37
by Enjay
OK, sorry for the delay. I can confirm that I too got this with the first version:

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But with the newer version:

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(Image resized from 1440x900 for great justice)

It seems to be working just fine. :)

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 14:15
by ntype
GZDoom is now ready for XP :cheers:

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Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 16:39
by Tiger
Graf Zahl wrote:Maybe...

...because it still has a market share of of 30%, probably even more among retro gamers?
Are you sure that the 30% is not mostly because of some businesses (ATM machines included in the US) and governments (UK, US, Chinese, and the Dutch) that are refusing or simply neglected to move over to a modern OS?

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 0:52
by Graf Zahl
Whatever. I know for certain that among retro gamers old hardware (and along, old OSs) are a lot more widespread than in the general public.
And since GZDoom doesn't use any post-XP feature I find it rather pointless to drop support for no good reason. It's just a single compiler setting that needs to be changed.

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 2:54
by Tiger
Graf Zahl wrote: I know for certain that among retro gamers old hardware (and along, old OSs) are a lot more widespread than in the general public.
Fair enough. The reason why I posted the links is merely to outline that some of the market shares are probably skewed to one region.
Graf Zahl wrote:And since GZDoom doesn't use any post-XP feature I find it rather pointless to drop support for no good reason. It's just a single compiler setting that needs to be changed.
I guess I don't see any harm in that.

Graf Zahl wrote:Whatever.
I register this as an attack; keep in mind that I was merely pondering - not challenging you....

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 15:05
by undead003
If XP compatibility is taken away then I can't be able to play Doom in school at free time without my favorite hardware rendering program.

:D

Re: GZDoom 1.8.5 released.

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 18:09
by Enjay
Any unauthorised EXE is blocked at my school anyway. So, yes, most machines are still XP (though that is slowly changing to 7) but I wouldn't be able to start the gzdoom.exe anyway. Then, if I could, the graphics card in most of the machines would say "nope". Basically, no GZDoom at my school for anyone.