rc-0.2.9.0_rc_z2100 is availalbe! The only change is for Windows users, it now works with high DPI monitors. Or rather, it ignores high DPI settings, so that whatever you tell the game its resolution/window size should be, it will be that in pixels.
Previously, Windows 10 would interfere and increase the window size (even if it's fullscreen) by the scaling factor. That... didn't work so great. At best, in windowed mode, you'd get a blurry image and a larger window than you requested (in pixels). Fullscreen mode was unusable on 0.2, as it would still open a sized up window, of which you then only saw a fragment, blurily.
Now the game claims in its embedded application manifest that it knows how to handle high DPI and even DPI changes between monitors. It doesn't really, of course, it just sticks to pixels.
The one thing that doesn't work as it maybe should is if you have a high and a low DPI monitor and drag the game window from one to the other; normal apps then change the window size to keep the physical size constant. Not all do it well. With the console app, for example, it can easily happen that you drag the window from one screen to the other and back, and then it has changed size. It's easy to get wrong, and I don't even know whether we can get the information we need (there's an DPI change event to listen to). So I'm very much inclined to leave it like it is.
There's one other change not related to the builds themselves. The Beta Feed for Zeroinstall I was claiming worked for Windows? All the recent builds were marked as 32 bit Linux builds, so they were not installed on Windows. They may have been installed on 32 bit Linux systems, though... Anyway, that's fixed.
Monkey wrote: ↑Sun Jul 19, 2020 3:33 am
So, OpenBSD and Clang arent as bad as you thought eh
Welllllll, hng, still not installing OpenBSD as a main OS
But I get along with it now, probably due to an improved default installer and/or better installation instructions. Last time, I was stuck without X, and I somehow was under the impression gcc 4.8 was all there is ever going to be available, which made it a lost cause anyway.
This time, at least I got the same X I had on my first Linux installation 1993/4 (not out of the box back then, mind; and I know other desktops are available, I just didn't need any now). And while installation of development dependencies over ports took ages, it at least worked flawlessly. Ran out of HD space at some point, but I can't blame the system for that, and after a global make clean, it continued just fine. It's a viable option! The mix of conservative software choices and lack of convenience just isn't for me.
