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- MR.MATT - VERSION HISTORY
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- VERSION 2.10 - 98/05/26
-
- Better support for languages other than English, now includes
- languages using non-Western character sets.
-
- VERSION 2.09 - 98/05/13
-
- The "slow mode" in playback slowed down a little.
-
- VERSION 2.08 - 98/04/16
-
- Speed-up in game playing.
-
- "Kill level solution" has been moved to the Game menu and can be
- now accessed in the Play mode.
-
- Better fonts installed.
-
- The program no longer displays an error message when a key is
- pressed before any game has been loaded.
-
- VERSION 2.07 - 98/03/16
-
- One more fix in the game editor: "Clear" works OK now.
-
- VERSION 2.06 - 98/02/25
-
- Cleanup and minor fixes in the game editor.
-
- VERSION 2.05 - 98/02/02
-
- A bug replacing void fields with grass upon game loading (in two
- recently added games) has been fixed.
-
- VERSION 2.04 - 98/01/28
-
- Non-English user interface problems corrected. French and Danish
- interfaces brought up to date (no English placeholders).
-
- VERSION 2.03 - 98/01/26
-
- New function: "Export best solutions", to create a file of all best
- level solutions by the current player.
-
- The "Kill level solution" function added to the Edit menu.
-
- A function to move the whole map in a given direction added to the
- editor.
-
- The .sox and .sol files reduced in size.
-
- A number of bugs or "features" in the game editor fixed.
-
- Non-English user interface updated.
-
- VERSION 2.00 - 97/12/22
-
- The game selection box now allows to choose games from separate
- groups, defined by (1) whether the game is "old" (already solved
- by the current player) or "new" (not completed yet), and
- (2) by the difficulty level.
-
- The File menu has a new option: "Delete this user", allowing to
- remove the current user name from the user list. (The list of best
- game solutions is not affected by this.)
-
- You can now display the information about the current game (author,
- difficulty, number of levels) and about the current level (the
- best recorded result, the best result on your computer and your
- best result); these options are in the Game menu.
-
- The editor will not allow you to create levels with unsupported
- stones or boxes; it will offer to "fix" such a level for you.
-
- The program will not delete solutions to games you have just
- edited; it will just offer you an option to do it.
-
- The program can export the solutions to the levels of the current
- game (useful when submitting a game to be posted on the Web).
-
- Rainbow menus removed - a third-party component doing this proved
- to be more trouble than it was worth.
-
- A status information is displayed during the program startup.
-
- Inactive menu options are now hidden instead of disabled.
-
- VERSION 1.59 - 97/09/15
-
- After completing a level, the program will now advance to the
- next one (if available) - you no longer have to click on a button.
-
- Startup in a selected language added: just run Mr.Matt with a
- command line parameter, specifying the language: English
- (default), Deutsch, Svenska, Italiano, Franτois or Espa±ol.
-
- Cosmetic changes in the new, color menus and dialogs.
-
- The 16-bit version is back in sync with the 32-bit one.
-
- VERSION 1.58 - 97/08/23 (32-bit only)
-
- "Panic Button" added: hit [Pause] to hide Mr. Matt in the taskbar
- Icon Tray (32-bit version) or to iconize the program (16-bit).
-
- Added protection against running multiple instances of Mr. Matt.
-
- Screen redrawing speeded up on 256-color systems.
-
- Game play and replay speeded up.
-
- On systems with more than 256 colors dialogs and menus are now
- more colorful. Other minor appearance improvements.
-
- An obscure bug fixed: on faster systems with high keyboard repeat
- rate Mr. Matt might sometimes jump back for no apparent reason.
-
- The 32-bit version has been made compatible with and recompiled
- under Delphi 3.
-
- VERSION 1.56 - 97/05/21
-
- Game merging added (registered copies).
-
- Fixed the misbehavior occurring when the "No stupid moves" option
- was used when playing with the mouse.
-
- VERSION 1.55 - 97/05/12
-
- An option to save (and restore) a game in progress has been added.
-
- Red button background added to show the next level to complete.
-
- The program now automatically deletes any hint (.sox) files after
- merging them into the solution file (mrmatt.sol). It also cleans up
- history files, removing all references to games which are not
- on the disk.
-
- VERSION 1.53 - 97/04/22
-
- Slow Playback option added.
-
- Stone animation made smoother.
-
- VERSION 1.51 - 97/04/15
-
- Fixed a bug in 1.50: not opening the next level after completing
- the previous one. Oops!
-
- VERSION 1.50 - 97/04/14
-
- Added a new gadget: a stone-eating box. It will eat a stone falling
- into it, but will itself disappear after three stones.
-
- Changed graphics in the user interface (LED and sculpted digits).
- Added a new "pumpkin" graphics set.
-
- Speeded up game playback with the sound off.
-
- A minor change in game rules: when a stone rolls to the side after
- falling, and a roll in both directions is possible, it will always
- be towards Mr.Matt (not randomly as before). This affected some
- of the old prerecorded solution files (four levels out of sixty);
- the solution files at Mr.Matt Web page have been updated.
-
- Registered owners: you can now replace the final winning splash
- screen for an individual game with any .BMP picture file of your
- choice. Details on how to do it are in a hidden Mr. Matt page
- which you may find (if you a lucky) on my Web site.
-
- VERSION 1.41 - 97/03/01
-
- Lifted the 1024-step limitation on recorded game solutions.
-
- Added reading of multiple solution (.sox) files at startup.
-
- VERSION 1.40 - 97/02/24
-
- Added support (interface, but not help) for German, French, Spanish,
- Italian and Polish.
-
- Player names are now case-insensitive.
-
- Changed colors in Carrots and Hamburgers graphic schemes.
-
- Fixed bug, showing when the number of player/level combinations
- increased above a certain value.
-
- VERSION 1.32 - 96/12/31
-
- Fixed bug (registered version only) preventing switch to edit mode
- after a game snapshot has been taken.
-
- Fonts reverted from .FNT to .FON standard to avoid problems in
- the 16-bit version.
-
- VERSION 1.30 - 96/12/20
-
- Added mouse support in game play.
-
- Fixed font and logo problems for hi-res displays using large fonts.
-
- VERSION 1.24 - 96/11/01
-
- Mr. Matt will now create create a registration key file when you
- enter the key code manually.
-
- VERSION 1.21 - 96/10/18
-
- Added support for hint files (registered version).
-
- Disabled menu bar during replay.
-
- VERSION 1.20 - 96/10/15
-
- Added game record/replay function.
-
- Added solution recording/replay (registered copies only).
-
- VERSION 1.14 - 96/10/12
-
- Added graphics in dialog boxes.
-
- Fixed write protection for user-created games.
-
- Some glitches in the user interface have been ironed out.
-
- VERSION 1.12 - 96/10/08
-
- Bug fix: the history of previous games is now recorded properly.
-
- VERSION 1.10 - 96/10/05
-
- The first shareware release.
-
- Game editor and snapshot feature introduced.
-
- More sound effects, slight changes to the user interface.
-
- VERSION 1.01 - 96/08/29
-
- A number of minor inconsistencies and soft bugs in the user
- interface has been fixed.
-
- VERSION 1.00 - 96/07/30
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- The original freeware release.
-