History of changes for DeuTex

DeuTex 4.0.3 (AYM 1999-10-02)

• CLI: new option -doom2 as suggested by Matthew Miller.

• Graphics: now accepts to extract pictures as large as 4096×4096 (previously the limit was 320×200). This fixes "Failed to write sprite" errors when trying to extract PSYBA0 and PSYBB0 from strain.wad. Thanks to Matthew miller for reporting the bug.

• Misc: added a useful URL to the GIF warning.

• Sound: fixed a bug that caused DeuTex to extract sounds with unlikely sample rates like 4 GHz whenever the sample rate in the lump was higher than 32767 Hz (for example DSVILACT and DSVILSIT from ncc1701.wad, with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz). Thanks to Matthew Miller for reporting the bug.

DeuTex 4.0.2 (AYM 1999-09-19)

• CLI: new options
  • -doom02 (implies -ipf alpha, -itf none and -itl none)
  • -doom04 (implies -ipf alpha, -itf nameless and -itl textures)
  • -doom05 (implies -ipf alpha and -itl textures)
  • -doompr (implies -ipf pr)

  Use those options where you would have used -doom and friends. For example, to extract the contents of the Doom 0.4 iwad that is in c:\doom0_4, type "deutex -doom04 c:\doom0_4 -xtract".

• Code: replaced certain unjustified uses of Int32 by long.

• Doc: removed old/readme.txt. It's so out of date that it's more confusing than useful.

• Game: Doom alpha and Doom PR: it's now possible to extract graphics, patches, sprites and textures from those iwads. Three new options :

  -ipf {normal|pr|alpha}

  Use alpha for Doom alpha 0.2, 0.4 and 0.5.
  Use pr for Doom PR (press release pre-beta).
  Use normal for everything else.

  -itf {normal|nameless|none}

  Use none for Doom alpha 0.2.
  Use nameless for Doom alpha 0.4.
  Use normal for everything else, including Doom alpha 0.5.

  -itl {normal|textures|none}

  Use none for Doom alpha 0.2.
  Use textures for Doom alpha 0.4 and 0.5.
  Use normal for everything else, including Doom alpha 0.5.

  You shouldn't ever have to use those options directly. It's better to use just -doom02, -doom04, -doom05 and -doompr, which take care of setting ipf, itf and itl properly for you.

  Note that extracting levels and some other lumps from the Doom alpha iwads does not work yet.

• Platform: new target in the makefile to generate a binary DOS distribution with the executables and the user documentation in DOS format, with DOS-ish names.

DeuTex 4.0.1 (AYM 1999-09-10)

• CLI: reworked the command line arguments parsing, with the following consequences.
  • Options can now be abbreviated freely, as long as the abbreviation is not ambiguous. For example, you can use -heretic, -hereti, -heret, -here or -her but not -he because that could also be the abbreviation for -help (or -hexen, for that matter). On the other hand, -h is allowed because it's not an abbreviation (there's really a -h option).
  • -heretic and -hexen now work (they were "hidden" by -h[elp]).
  • -v@ has been split in -v0, -v1 ... -v5 because the new code does not allow excess characters after an option. -vstring where string is anything else than "0" through "5" now triggers an error (it used to be accepted silently). I hope no one relied on the old undocumented behaviour.
  • Certain silly command line arguments that would have worked before would now trigger an error. For example, it used to be possible to type -extramarital or -extermination for -extract but not anymore. The old code defined relatively short options (-ext) and accepted command line arguments as long as the defined option was an initial substring of the command line argument. The new code does the reverse; it defines relatively long options (-extract) and accepts command line argument as long as they're an initial substring of the defined option.

• Code: replaced direct testing of __MSDOS__, __OS2__, __GNUC__, __BORLANDC__ by DT_CC and DT_OS. This is hopefully going to make Udo's job a bit easier.

• Code: now uses the same fopen() modes for all platforms: "{rw}b" for binary mode and "{rw}" for text mode, as per the ANSI/ISO C standard. This will fix the problem Udo Munk reported with the Cygwin build opening binary files in text mode and thus failing miserably. Note that certain DOS C compilers can be configured so that "{rw}" opens files in binary mode. Don't do that ! If you have problems with text files on DOS, make sure your C compiler is configured so that "{rw}" opens files in text mode.

• Code: added to the distribution archive gifcodec.c that I had forgotten to include (it's not used anyway).

• Code: added to the distribution archive src/{deusf,deusfos,deutex,deutexos}.def that I had forgotten to include. I guess that's Windows/OS/2-only stuff.

• Doc: updated making.txt and renamed it as INSTALL for homogeneity. Removed obsolete reference to alpha.sh and the file itself.

• Doc: made more legal updates.

• Doc: documented DOOMWADDIR in the man page.

• Misc: changed the default graphics format for Unix from GIF to PPM, so that fewer user sites are broken if and when GIF support is removed. For the same reason, added a warning message when -gif is used or the first time an image is read from a GIF file.

• Misc: changed the lookup order for images to PPM, BMP, GIF (was BMP, GIF, PPM).

• Platform: fixed a couple of things that didn't work on 16-bit platforms (real-mode DOS).

• Platform: now compiles on DOS with Borland C++ 4.0.

• Platform: now compiles on DOS with MSC 6.0. The MSC 6.0 build is functional but limited because it can't allocate blocks larger than 64 kB, which is insufficient for certain images. I can't use halloc() instead of malloc() because it does not supporting resizing (i.e. there's no hrealloc() function).

• Platform: in response to Udo's remarks, DJGPP and Cygwin are now properly identified (__DJGPP__ and __CYGWIN__).

• Platform: added sanity checks on specified-size types Int32 and friends.

DeuTex 4.0.0a3 (AYM 1999-09-05)

• Code: removed incongruous #define-ing of O_BINARY and SEEK_SET.

• Code: after Udo Munk's report, fixed warnings in
  • src/color.c(74)
  • src/ident.c(583)
  • src/ident.c(658)
  • src/mkwad.c(78)
  • src/mkwad.c(79)
  • src/mkwad.c(80)
  • src/mkwad.c(81)
  • src/picture.c(903)
  • src/picture.c(912)

• Doc: updated making.txt.

• Legal: as agreed to by Olivier Montanuy, DeuTex is now entirely GPL'd. Well, almost entirely, since it includes code written by different authors in lzw.c and elsewhere. Changed the notices in the source files and added new file LICENSE to clarify things.

• Makefile: should now work with all C compilers (removed -Wall from CFLAGS).

• Makefile: clean now removes the DOS executables if they exist.

• Makefile: does not compile with debug information in by default anymore.

• Makefile: new targets dall, ddt, dds, ddeutex and ddeusf for compiling with debug information and all warnings.

• Makefile: new target help.

• Makefile: new target distdos.

• Platform: replaced unlink() by remove() for portability. Thanks to Udo for reporting this.

• Platform: on 8.3 filesystems, make should not choke on docsrc/changes.html anymore. Thanks to Udo for reporting this.

• Sound: corrected some misleading endianness comments in sound.c.

DeuTex 4.0.0a2 (AYM 1999-08-14)

• Game: easier to use with Strife (now looks for "strife1.wad", new option "-strife").

• Game: easier to use with Hexen (new option "-hexen").

• Command line: new options "-hexen" and "-strife".

• Command line: new option "--version" (prints version number and returns 0).

• Doc: various changes in the man page, in the output of "-help" and "-man" and elsewhere.

• Makefile: various improvements.

• Distribution: set modes straight.

DeuTex 4.0.0a1 (AYM 1999-08-12)

• General: fixed many segfaults that were caused by attempts to fclose (NULL).

• Game: Strife is now supported.

• Wad: new options -be, -le, -ibe, -ile, -obe and -ole to control the endianness of the wads. Caution: don't use them if you don't know what you're doing ! As far as I know, wads are always little-endian regardless of the architecture of the host. Therefore, I see no reason for someone in his/her right mind to create a big-endian wad. Those options are here more for the sake of completeness than anything else.

• Wad: made "%" legal in names, to deal with Strife's "INVFONG%" and "INVFONY%".

• Wad, graphics: end-of-flats marker is now F_END by default instead of FF_END. The reason for this change is that, with F_END, you don't need DeuSF to get Doom to see your new flats. Should you need to, it's still possible to get FF_END by using -fend.

• Graphics: the default transparent colour is now a dark blue-green (rgb:00/2f/2f). It used to be cyan (rgb:00/ff/ff) which was blindingly bright, especially compared to the usually dark colours used in Doom textures. It's no fun to tweak shades of dark brown on a cyan background.

  To reuse images done with/for a previous version of DeuTex, you need to either invoke DeuTex with "-rgb 0 255 255" or convert your images by replacing all occurrences of colour (0, 255, 255) by colour (0, 47, 47). To preserve compatibility with WinTex, I didn't change the default transparent colour in WinTex mode ; it's still (0, 255, 255).

• Graphics: fixed segfaults due to bug in conversion of bitmap images to Doom pictures. Occured in certain 2-pixel high images such as STBFN045 in the Strife iwad.

• Graphics: now supports pictures and textures up to 509 high (was limited to 128).

• Graphics: now supports pictures and textures up to 1024 wide (was limited to 512).

• Graphics: new option "-pf" to deal with the different picture format in the Doom alpha iwad (the underlying functionality is not implemented yet !)

• Graphics: using -ppm does not cause anymore DeuTex to abort with "Bug: *** psvit ***".

• Graphics: fixed "-ppm" message.

• Sound, platform: a bug that must have prevented reading .wav files on big endian machines has been squashed.

• Command line: options can't start with a slash ("/") anymore. I don't think anyone used it and was a silly feature for a Unix program.

• Command line: not case insensitive anymore.

• Command line: changed the wording of error messages to use "option" instead of "command".

• Command line: added options "-?" and "--help" as synonyms for "-help".

• Doc: new option "-man" to print help in troff -man source format for inclusion in the man page.

• Doc: the version number is now a free-form string.

• Doc: Made on-line help more compact.

• Doc: updated "making.txt".

• Doc: made a proper README file.

• Makefile: renamed "unix" target as "strip".

• Makefile: new target "install".

• Makefile: new target "dist".

• Platform: reworked the handling of endianness. DeuTex used to deal with that through a set of macros that swapped bytes whenever the required endianness was not the same as the native endianness. To known the native endianness, DeuTex relied on a macro defined via -D.

  There were two problems with this scheme. Firstly, Olivier got the meaning of "little endian" and "big endian" backwards and defining LITTLE_ENDIAN in fact caused DeuTex to believe it was being compiled for a big endian machine. As the glibc headers happen to define LITTLE_ENDIAN if the machine is little endian, compiling DeuTex on a glibc little endian Linux system was impossible unless you made changes to the source.

  The other, more fundamental, objection against the old approach is that, as it needed the user to tell it about the native endianness by modifying the makefile, it prevented unattended builds and made things difficult for naive users.

  The new method eliminates this problem by using a different algorithm that does not need to know the native endianness. The end result is that you don't have to worry about endianness anymore.

• Internal: in TXTinit(), removed useless "% 0xFF" in index of TXTval.