gnusto 
This document attempts to chart the goals and strategy for the upcoming
versions of Gnusto. It also tracks the sequence of previous project milestones
in an effort to give the present goals some sense of context. All goals are
subject to moving forward or back in the milestones based on the capricious
impulses of the bit-wranglers that herd them.
Upcoming Milestones
| Gnusto 1.0 |
Target Release Date: |
January 1, 2005 |
- Heavy focus on stability and usability
- Bugfixes and accessibility improvements
- Support for in-game sound in games that offer it
- Lots of testing
| Gnusto 1.1 |
Target Release Date: |
Summer 2005 |
- Support for Z-code Version 6 (the graphical one)(bug 3621)
- (Possible) support for Z-codes Version 1 and 2 (so rare as to almost be pointless)
- More robust Blorb support
Previous Milestones
| Gnusto 0.7 |
Release Date: |
October 3, 2004 |
| (Note: Requires FireFox 0.9 or later) | |
- Support for Z-code Versions 3 and 4 (bug
3619)
(means that now all non-graphical Infocom games are playable)
- Support for reading and writing savegames in the Quetzal format (bug
3475)
(save games can be shared with other interpreters)
- Auto-invocation of Gnusto when clicking z-code files on websites (bug
3504)
- Over 100 new features and bugfixes.
| Gnusto 0.6.0 |
Release Date: |
September 1 2003 |
- Many, many, many bugfixes. Lots of 'em.
- Support for Z-code version 7-8.
- Support for command-history (up and down arrows cycle recent commands).
- Uninstaller
- Larger default font size
| Gnusto 0.5.0 |
Release Date: |
July 26 2003 |
- Support for intact (non-mangled) z-code files (bug
3622)
- Complete basic support for all opcodes (bug
3466)
- Dynamic resizing of the game screen (not just the window) (bug
3584)
- Further Improved Screen-Handler(bug
3655)
- Support for Custom Alphabet Tables and Custom Unicode Translation Tables (bugs
3486, 3632)
- Improved handling for [More] text paging (bugs
3617, 3814)
- Speed improvements (bug
3599)
- Improvements to the installer (proper skin registration) (bugs
3620, 4053)
- Friendlier error-window(bug
3316)
- Firebird support (bug
3722)
- First release based off of the new screen model (major fundamental changes) (bug 3461)
- Substantially improved color handling (bugs 3456, 3460, 3590)
- Support for more opcodes, plus bugfixes and more robust handling for existing ones (rather a lot of bugs)
- Preliminary front-end for BAF's Guide
- Interface fixes
- Changes to allow Gnusto to work under Mozilla 1.3 (bug 3439)
- More robust error trapping and handling
- Tossio (debugger) improvements?
- Allow loading of arbitrary (mangled) Version-5 z-code games
- Integration of Tossio (debugger)?
| Gnusto 0.1.0 |
Release Date: |
04 February 2003 |
- First official release: hardcoded to run an embedded copy of "Troll's Eye View"
| Blorple 0.0.2 |
Release Date: |
23 December 2002 |
- Proof-of-concept: linked in post to RAIF/RGIF
- Ran first 1000 or so cycles on "Troll's Eye View" before crashing.
| Blorple 0.0.1 |
Release Date: |
? |
Page Last Updated: 1 September 2003