PySpaceWar

February 10, 2016: Released version 0.9.8:

• Switched version control system from Bazaar to Git, hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/mgedmin/pyspacewar).

March 8, 2010: Released version 0.9.7:

• Don't crash on startup when audio is not available, disable sounds instead.
• Switched version control system from self-hosted Subversion to Bazaar on Launchpad.

September 30, 2009: Released version 0.9.6:

• Fixed deprecation warning on Python 2.6.
• Dropped support for Python 2.3.

February 27, 2009: Released version 0.9.5:

• Fixed crash on 64-bit Linux machines.
• Now using https://bugs.launchpad.net/ for bug tracking.

June 30, 2008: Released version 0.9.4:

• New icon by Jakub Szypulka.
• Add sound effects and support for background music (now if I only had some music...).
• Show an animation (expanding bubble) when ships respawn.
• Allow up to two keys to be bound to the same action.
• Use 800x600 by default; if your computer is fast enough, you can change to a better video mode; if not, give a better first impression by avoiding sluggishness.
• Change the options menu: show the current state (e.g. "missile orbits: on") instead of the action that would change it ("hide missile orbits"). Add an option to toggle sound propagation in vacuum (or, in practical terms, whether you hear a sound when a missile hits the computer-controlled ship or when it explodes).

December 25, 2006: Released version 0.9.3:

• Keyboard controls can now be customized.
• Keyboard controls and video mode options are stored in a config file.
• Added the -w command line option, in case you desire to override the config file.
• Looks like some accidental dependencies on Python 2.4 crept in.

February 20, 2006: Released version 0.9.2 after a month of procrastination:

• Fixed the -f and -d command line options.
• Missiles are now larger and brighter than their orbit trail dots.
• Alt+Enter now also toggles fullscreen mode.
• Make it work in 15 and 16 bit per pixel modes (no aaline).
• Possibly fix the MacOS X "invisible fix" problem I saw (use 2 x aaline instead of aalines).
• Added a help screen.
• Added an Options menu.
• Added a New Game menu (the main menu was becoming too cluttered).
• Added a pyspacewar.pyw script for the convenience of Windows users.

January 14, 2006: Released version 0.9.1 with some bug fixes and small features:

• Added a background image.
• The thrusters are now drawn more accurately.
• Added an ability to specify the desired video mode on the command line.
• Made debug timings HUDs less intrusive.
• Fix "surfaces must not be locked during blit" bug.
• Fix some cosmetic unit test failures.
• Use pygame.font.SysFont to locate Verdana.ttf on your system.

January 8, 2006: after a week of intensive work, I released version 0.9.0. User-visible changes:

• Added an in-game menu.
• You can drag the viewport around with the mouse (use the right button).
• Automatic zoom in.
• Radars show planet sizes, not just positions.
• Dead ships fade away.
• Information panels have translucent backgrounds.
• Added an icon.

Internal code changes.

• Split the code into several modules in a package.
• Refactored the code extensively, it is now much more flexible.
• Added unit tests.
• Added a distutils setup script.

June 25-29, 2005: wrote the first version and demoed it at EuroPython.

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