Asteroids ChangeLog

Added sound, proving that yes, there IS sound in the vacuum of space

Added “mute” menu option (hit m)

If compiling, define NO_SOUND to disable audio support at compile time

If compiling with audio support, depends on SDL and SDL_mixer development libraries

Comes with now required SDL.dll and SDL_mixer.dll (win32 version)

Unless audio was disabled at compile time, now depends on the SDL and SDL_mixer runtime libraries (Linux version)

Moved resources (formerly just asteroid.bmp) into new subdirectories; as a result, please uninstall/delete previous versions before installing this one (only consequence of not doing so is having an extra copy of asteroid.bmp, so it’s not that big a deal)

It’s not so much a change as something that happens every release, so I’m going to stop documenting it after this release: old hiscores unreadable

Now, if the texture fails to load, you will be warned but allowed to play

Updated glbmp to newest version, to fix a bug (namely, failure) on big-endian architectures

Asteroids has now been confirmed to work (flawlessly, I believe) in Win32, Linux, and MacOS X

Added installation instructions (ha!) to the README

As with every new build, hiscores wiped

Fixed some makefile issues, hopefully (Linux version)

make install will now install asteroid.bmp (and the game will also load it correctly) (Linux version)

Fixed issues (including a potential segfault) with the hiscore table (Linux version)

First word on command line will be interpreted as your name for hiscore table (e.g., run asteroid beelzebub to have your name appear as beelzebub when you get a hi score) (Linux version)

glbmp.c and glbmp.h are now much better documented (I will soon release them as a standalone library—see glbmp)

Hiscores wiped again

Ported to Linux! Well, it’ll work on any computer with OpenGL and GNU build tools

Had to rearrange some glBindTexture() calls (more portable now)

Tweaked player colors (looks better with new-since-1.0.1 blue asteroids)

Added glbmp library to load bitmaps without using glaux

Old hiscores table can’t be read by new executable (sorry)

Updated all references to the website and my email address: I’m using Chaos Lizard Creations/chaoslizard [at] gamebox [dot] net now1)

Changed asteroid.bmp; the new texture is both cooler and not copyrighted (I think the old texture was, and I didn’t have permission to use it—oops!)

Added a cheesy (yet strangely trippy) rotating starfield (starfield.c / .h)

Added an fps counter (bottom left)

Added powerups (one-up, hit-all, shield, rapid-fire) (powerup.c / .h)

Added a high score table (somewhat encrypted!) (hiscore.c / .h and hiscores)

Made the game run more consistently across all configurations (tweaked the game-update timer interval, which was set to run at 100fps but was only getting as many frames as your monitor could render—game should now run at 60-71.4fps)

Tweaked many physics values so the game would run as it did before (not slowed down with the framerate)

Aliens now only have one clip polygon, so they’re easier to hit

You can only shoot 4 shots at once (without rapid-fire) again

You get a completion bonus for each level

Says hit F2... at game over screen and claims to warp to each level

Aliens now taunt you, as it were

Small aliens are worth only 500 points now

Text is now drawn in front of objects where deemed appropriate

Slightly shorter time at beginning of level where player can’t be hurt

Changed how many asteroids spawn at new levels (more asteroids later)

Changed how frequently aliens spawn (more aliens at higher scores)

Removed cheats

Changes to code file structure:

Now has a Win32 resource script (and a stupid icon)

Added some generic linked list routines for all game objects

No more static arrays of objects—now all use lists

Lots of aliens can spawn simultaneously

Player can shoot five shots at once, now

Tweaked alien shot times

Tweaked player colors

More flexible internal handling of models

Player ship uses plane normals for lighting calculations again

Level no longer advances when game over (for all those cheaters)

Made in-game text colorable, scalable, etc

Asteroids are textured!

Score bursts pop up every time you get points

Pause button (hit p)

Now uses display lists to speed things up

Smooth shading (models look way better now)

Changed points (shots/explosions) to small spheres so they scale along with everything else as display window size changes

Slightly changed the way explosions look (much cooler now)

Player can now move (but still not shoot) when flashing at the beginning of a level

Appropriately tweaked how long the player flashes

Slowed aliens down a lot and tweaked them appropriately

Added fullscreen mode (hit f)

Now it hides mouse cursor after a time of inactivity

Added cheats (see if you can find ‘em... or look in the source)

Being distributed with glut32.dll—either place it in your windows/system32 folder or just leave it in the directory with asteroid.exe (please see glut32-README-win32.txt for information about glut32)

Initial version