| 08-June-2008 |
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GarrettLoader Version 1.42 coming soon.
Version 1.42 of GarrettLoader is near completion.
Its been a while I know, and not a lot has been adjusted or added but below is the full list of changes:
- UPDATED: adjusted the Dark Mod FM detection and FM management based upon the Thief's Den Demo FM release. Thief's Den installs, runs and uninstalls correctly via GarrettLoader.
- ADDED: IntelliText like system into the FM Readme's display.
- ADDED: Auto/manual update process to update GarrettLoader, Skins, Help Files, etc.
- FIXED: Various bugs found in Version 1.41
Updated 07-July-2008.
All GarrettLoader help files have now been uploaded and are available to browse on this site. The content is a direct export of the latest help content used by GarrettLoader and is part of the update mechanism in GL 1.41.
Updated 08-July-2008.
GarrettLoader Version 1.42 is coming along nicely, and is being tested at the moment. It is likely to be another few weeks before it is fully released.
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| 03-September-2006 |
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GarrettLoader Version 1.41 has been released.
Version 1.41 of GarrettLoader has been released, get it now from the downloads page.
A few additional items have been added since beta testing began:
- ADDED: SouthQuarter.com RSS reviews feed. This allows GL to maintain a local cache of FM reviews available at SouthQuarter.Com, which in turn is then displayed within GarrettLoader.
- FIXED: Various bugs found in beta testing as well as a bug with MP3/OGG file conversions that fail if another FM has been installed during the same session.
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| 20-July-2006 |
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GarrettLoader Version 1.41 is nearly ready.
Its taken longer than expected but is nearing completion. Final stages of beta testing are underway, documentation and help is being updated and final changes to the competition feature handling and keywords system.
Below is a few previews of the changes to the new interface and GL with a Half Life 1 skin on.
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| 12-May-2006 |
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GarrettLoader Version 1.41 is currently going through early beta testing.
- FIXED: Recently used FM bug that caused the selected FM not to be selected on some PC's
- FIXED: Several install bugs. These are ones where some of the required dll's needed to run GarrettLoader have not been registered correctly.
- UPDATED: Adjusted the Recently used FM's, this now records ALL FMs, not just ones that have predefined image files. Also this now works for custom games as well.
- UPDATED: Major change to the GL interface, the FM Details section is now tab based to make it simpler to use.
- UPDATED: Default program menu items added making it simpler to use.
- ADDED: A competition feature. This allows competition organisers to add a reference file into entry FM zip files, GL will then use them to generate competition submission forms pre-filling alot of info for them (making it much simpler to vote for your favorite entries).
- ADDED: Shadowspawns T3 IBT file decompressor DLL, this means that those 50mb T3 FM zips can now be compressed down to about a tenth the size.
Version 1.41 is expected to be release mid June
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| 28-March-2006 |
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GarrettLoader Version 1.32 has been released, this is a slight bug fix version of GL 1.32 and was mainly released for the inclusion on a German games magazine.
- FIXED: A couple of bugs in the Custom Game Wizard that stopped downloading of custom game reference files and certain combinations of Registry checks failing
- FIXED: At least partly...GL has a small bug fix routine that it runs upon startup, this currently resolves a runtime error 429 on startup at the moment but will be expanded later on.
- UPDATED: Adjusted a slight error in the scores download which caused Loot List links to be added to the Info Links of readme's. Also updated the single score download to update links as well as the bulk score download.
- ADDED: Lots more error checking in general and diagnostic information for when the Debug Console is used.
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| 05-March-2006 |
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GarrettLoader Version 1.31 has been released, it has masses of changes, masses of improvements, and lots of bug fixes.
Here is a list of what has been updated or added:
- ADDED: Custom Game Wizard - Fan Missions and Maps for other games using reference files is now possible through GarrettLoader. It should be possible to support pretty much any game using this method...and you can create the reference files yourself!!!. And whats more, not only can you score, review and categorise them, you can also install and play them as well (in most cases).
- ADDED: FM Readme Toolbar - This is shown when viewing a readme file in GL and gives you a customisable toolbar to enhance the FMs readme. This includes adding links for Walkthroughs,Loot Lists, Forumn Threads, etc.
- ADDED: Game Diagnostic Tool - Use this to diagnose your game install (works on any game) by creating a reference file of your game before installing FMs and then should anything go wrong, you can run teh diagnostic again against your original reference file.
- ADDED: Debug Console - enables basic tracking of what GL does while its running.
- UPDATED: Scores system - This has had a few improvements so that scores can now be seen in the FMs readme files, including the number of people that have scored it. Its also now possible to download scores on demand with a right click of the download scores button. Also links can also be downloaded to be added into readmes (see above), giving you quick access to known forum links, and cheats for the FMs. Also there is now a guide to how to score FMs, including an automated scorer to help you give the fairest score for an FM.
- UPDATED: Main Game Toolbar - Right clicking buttons on this now provides more options, such as quickly accessing settings, or filtering your FMs by your score (or community score) for smaller, more focused lists to work with.
- FIXED: Bug causing some Doom 3/The Dark Mod FMs not to load up directly.
- FIXED:
- Extended the functionality of the Lite mode so that the interface becomes very simple to use, with the option of going straight into Full Mode easily (done via a right click on the FM Details section).
- Lots of minor bug fixes.
- Added some other language help files and additional language support.
- Minor changes.
Released custom game reference files list
- Half Life 2 - Single player BSP based maps
- Half Life 1 - Single player PAK based maps
- Half Life 1 - Single player BSP based maps
- Deus Ex 1
- A favourite game of yours not listed? let me know through the TTLG forums
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| 13-December-2005 |
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GarrettLoader Version 1.31 is well into production with a slightly different interface, more options (or less options if you use the Lite Mode).
Here is what has been updated or added:
- UPDATED: QBAR - This has had a major upgrade and now allows you to manage Fan Missions and Map for other games (see list below) using reference files (it should be possible to support pretty much any game using this method...and you can create the reference files yourself!!!). And whats more, not only can you score, review and categorise them, you can also install and play them as well (in most cases)
- Improvements to ease of use.
- Extended the functionality of the Lite mode so that the interface becomes very simple to use, with the option of going straight into Full Mode easily.
- Added a category system so you can categorise FMs into types (hopefully I will extend the scores system and auto scores download to be able to categorise your FMs as well according to the community).
- Lots of minor bug fixes.
- Added some other language help files and additional language support.
- Minor changes.
Current custom game reference files list
- Half Life 2
- Half Life 1
- Return To Castle Wolfenstein - being worked on
- Deus Ex - being worked on
- Max Payne 2 - being worked on
- Max Payne - being worked on
- Far Cry - I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP WITH THIS
- Unreal Tournement - I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP WITH THIS
- Serious Sam - I NEED SOMEONE TO HELP WITH THIS
- A favourite game of yours not listed? let me know through the TTLG forums
Version 1.31 should be released late January.
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| 11-October-2005 |
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GarrettLoader version 1.21 has been released, get it from the downloads section.
- QBAR - a means by which GarrettLoaders supported games list can be extended.
- Improvements to ease of use.
- Lots of minor bug fixes.
- Basic support for other languages.
- Minor changes.
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| 14-September-2005 |
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GarrettLoader version 1.11 Has been released, get it from the downloads section.
Additonal changes made for this release since last news posting (this release also includes the last 2 news postings changes):
- Excess Zips Feature - If GarrettLoader detects zips that are not for the current game in your thief FM folder, it will display them to you.
- Minor bug fixes.
- Minor changes.
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| 05-September-2005 |
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GarrettLoader version 1.11 is currently starting its beta testing phase with an aim to release next week.
Additonal changes made for this release since last news posting (this release also includes last news postings changes):
- Major Bug fix - unexplained random crashes should now be eliminated (any crashes now can be traced and is usually due to incorrect configuration).
- New Tweaks - including a Recently Used FMs system.
- New Maps Tool - designed for FM authors to build upon existing FMs and Garretts world..
- Minor bug fixes.
- Minor changes.
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| 09-August-2005 |
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Having release the bug fix version (1.02) of GarrettLoader on the 23rd July, a few more issues were discovered (although not showstoppers). So version 1.11 is now near completion and (should) be released by the end of the month (along with the source code of the Cheats tool and Map tool).
This fixes:
- Missing FMs - more missing FM's are now supported.
- Slight improvement to stability.
- General minor bug fixes that you will most likely not notice.
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Improvements Added
- Cheats Tool - Contains Loot lists of FMs and Original Missions which allow you to check off what loot you have missed (upgradeable)
NOTE: further enhancements will be added in version 1.51.
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| 22-July-2005 |
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The bug fix version (1.02) of GarrettLoader is nearly ready.
This fixes:
- Missing FMs - most FMs that did not appear in the Main FM List now do, however there may be one or two that do not.
- DromEd startup - This now only starts DromEd with no extras (these will be configurable via the Tweaks Tool in version 1.51).
- FM Packager Tool - Thief 3 start location is now corrected to the root of Thief 3's install folder rather than the system folder.
- Fixed File Security - improved the restrictions put on which files to extract from FM zip files
- File Number Restrictions - GL was limited to only 1023 files per zip file. This is now 1500 EXTRACTABLE files per zip (not all files are extracted). This will be improved in the next release of GL.
- Fixed Readme Maker - txt files now save correctly, all fields are enabled so that you can't lock the readme.
- Scores system has had a slight bug fix both in program and on the web server, this should improve the accuracy when uploading scores.
- Slight improvement to stability.
- General minor bug fixes that you will most likely not notice.
NOTE: no new enhancements have been added in this version, however there are plenty in development and will be released in version 1.51.
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Improvements In Development
- Cheats Tool - Contains Loot lists of most FMs which allow you to check off what loot you have missed (upgradeable)
- Completed Dark Mod support
- Map Tool - Displays a map of the city in a grid structure and GarrettLoader FM images for FMs located in those areas. Also displays rough 3D views of those areas to enable FM authors to expand on the landscape.
- Plot Writting Tool - This builds a rough storyline for your mission from a series of tickboxes. Also it will build a kind of shopping list of things to include in your mission.
- Save Game Management - This allows you to manage the save games that GarettLoader produces
- Enhanced Tool Management - This allows you to kick off tools when starting up an FM. These include things like starting FRAPS or automatically re-registering video codecs, etc.
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| 13-July-2005 |
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Well for a start this news system is new.
WEB/GARRETTLOADER - The scores system has had a slight update to make it more accurate when uploading scores (however it may still need a further one at a later date).
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