EmuNations

Most Recent Changes

--13--

Project Dart Frog 

Significantly faster search times

• Ordering by Last Played or Playtime now behaves like a history page by excluding games with no playtime from the search results.

• Improved search capabilitiesDate comparisons for dateAdded, dateModified, releaseDate and lastPlayed (e.g releaseDate=2009)

• Search results can now also be ordered by Release Date and Platform

• Improved log page visuals (Theme authors will need to update)

• More information about the boot sequence is included in the logs page

• Verbose logging (enabled via Config page) to display detailed database queries and launcher event execution time.

• Game context menu buttons to:Show Logos / Screenshots in Explorer
  Delete individual game playtime tracking data

• Playlists now respect active Tag Filter Groups

• Playtime tracking no longer modifies Date Modified

• Grid view is now the default, you can change back to List with the bottom right dropdown

• Simplified extension API interactions with tags and platforms** (Extension authors may need to update, consider using the @fparchive/flashpoint-archive npm package)**

• Game configurations (middleware) are no longer supported. The functionality will be reintroduced at a later date.

• Fixed tags / tag categories not being editable via their respective pages.

--12.1--

Project Salamander

• Minor fixes for Flashpoint Manager integration

• Added archive state variables

--12--

Project Axolotl details not yet released...

--11.1--

• Updated launcher, hopefully fixing the 'disconnected from backend' problem, adding Game of the Day, and other fixes.

• Added HypnOS theme by Spacy.

• dded /f/ theme by Shady.

• Thousands of metadata fixes.

• Hundreds of replaced logos and screenshots.

• Zipped 7000 more games.

• Fixed alternate apps not opening if they used a browser.

• Updated server configuration to improve compatibility with WebGL games.

• Updated logo sets.

• This is a big update; there might be more missing from this changelog we haven't mentioned.

• Please refer to extensive change log for details.

--11--

• A massive update to the tags system to help tags be cleaner and more accurate.

• The Launcher has been updated with multiple QOL fixes and updates. 

• The manual is now available in the Launcher itself.

• Startup and preference saving bugs have been fixed.

• Loading zipped games is now significantly faster.

• The default search results have been lowered to 250 to help performance. You can still select higher values at the cost of potential performance issues.

• Added an Animation Hall of Fame playlist

• Removed several dozen duplicates.

• Moved all Shockwave games to htdocs.

• Thousands of metadata fixes.

• Thousands of games have been zipped.

• Hundreds of logo & screenshot updates.

• Updated languages.

• Updated the FlashpointProxy for the standalone Flash projectors.

• Updated the Flashpoint QEmu VM for a smaller footprint in both RAM and hard drive space.

• Updated our standard Flash projector to get around China blocking older versions of it from running.

• Check here for the complete update list of Games! 

• Added thirty-six new plugins:
   * DPGraph
   * Envoy
   * FreeHand
   * HotSauce
   * MHSV
   * o2c
   * Pixound
   * Show It
   * ThingViewer
   * PointPlus
   * Calendar Quick
   * Squeak
   * E-Animator
   * EVA
   * Flatland Rover
   * DFusion
   * WebAnimator
   * Harvard WebShow
   * SVF viewer
   * Surround Video
   * Formula One
   * Illuminatus
   * ASAP WebShow
   * Lightning Strike
   * SmoothMove Panorama
   * Ambulant
   * iPix
   * Fractal Viewer
   * JCAMP-DX
   * AboutTime
   * AboutPeople
   * Live Picture Viewer
   * X3D
   * Noteworthy Composer
   * MapGuide
   * Blender

--10.1.6--

Changed

• Renamed secret.txt to secret.dat to avoid upsetting Avast

--10.1.5--

New

• Help Page that uses onlineManual (url) or offlineManual (rel path) preference to display inside an iframe

Changed

• Right Sidebar is hidden on Logs, About and Help pages

Fixed

• Playlist Games can now be removed

• Playlists won't deselect after a Game has been removed from it

• The frontend socket server will no longer try and reconnect more than 5 times if it disconnects from the backend

• The backend socket server will no longer try reconnecting once a client disconnects

 

--10.1.4--

Fixed

• Bumped Electron to v19 to address window not rendering until moved or resized  

--10.1.3--

New

• Selected Game in the right sidebar is persistent across all screens

• "Please Wait..." will be displayed during a game launch on the Play button

• Default Preferences can be loaded from .preferences.default.json at the Data folder root

• If an invalid preferences.json is detected, prompt will appear to load defaults

• Copy Diagnostics button added to Logs page for quick copy paste to Discord

• Logs page can now be split into a separate Logger window via a button on the page

• Tab you're on is not bold and underlined in the nav bar

• Browse pages now display 'Searching...' text when searching, with a Fancy Animation spinner

• FP_PATH environment variable included in env for launched games #359

• flashpoint:// protocol support

• flashpoint://open/<uuid> will show the game in the right sidebar

• flashpoint://run/<uuid> will run the game as well as show in the right sidebar

Changed

• Updated to Electron 17 and React 17

• Changed to better-sqlite3 (Estimated 20% faster perf)

• Preferences writing is atomic if the temp folder is on the same filesystem as the preferences. (Fourth time's the charm?)

• Build: replace ttsc with swc for the frontend #351

• Unsupported :flash: browser mode removed #358

Fixes

• Extensions: deactivation won't crash backend

• Extensions: Input fields are now editable in Config

• Extensions: Playlist functions correctly broadcast changes to frontend #353

• Extensions: findTags now works when given no input

• onWillLaunch events are properly awaited before returning result to frontend

• Fixed logoset caching #342

• Resizing sidebar no longer causes a search

• Fixed empty preferences file hanging electron window #340

• 'No Game Selected' now shows 'Game' or 'Animation' correctly depending on library

• Browser mode now works on Mac and Linux #345

• Mac: FP path is no longer canonicalized on startup #364

--10.1.2--

Mostly a maintenance patch (especially for Linux / Mac), feature patches will be coming at a later date.

New

• Exec mapping now supports Wine overrides (independently for Mac and Linux)

Changed

• Updated to Electron 17

• Other dependencies updated to support Node 16+

• Treekill has been swapped with a solution which supports closing Linux + Mac process trees better

Fixed

• Proxy env var properly applied to Mac processes

• PATH env var is properly set for launched Mac processes

• Wine processes should behave properly as a service (Play button state)

• Various fixes to Mac pathing

• meta.yaml files in nested folders will be ignored when finding the metadata in a Curation

• Clicking links on the About page will no longer cause a crash

• Window size has a minimum to prevent impossible to resize situations

• Preferences no longer possible to wipe during certain process exit conditions (Third times the charm)

• EACCES error when starting the backend will retry with a new port number

--10.1.1--

• Hotfix updating dependencies to support SSL connections using the ISRG Root X1 root certificate.

• Breaking: Pepper flash support for Browser mode is no longer supported.

--10.1--

New

• Update Feed (Url specified in preferences.json, downloads and processes as markdown)

• onLog API event

• Tag Filter Groups can contain Descriptions

• Fancy Animations setting (Currently affects checkbox slider animations and the color changing logo on the home page)

• Can now add a Search Limit to results via the Config page

Changed

• Notes and Original Description are hidden if empty

• Headers can be clicked to sort by them instead of using the dropdown field

• Tag Filter Groups have been visually updated to be more understandable

• WebSocket, Electron, TypeORM and Axios have been updated to fix vunerabilities

• Node typings bumped from v12 to v14 (Extensions should match typings)

• Swapped category ID order in Tags page to ascending

• Right Game Sidebar now has more predictable element locations

Fixed

• Logo Set images are centered correctly

• The launcher backend will no longer close until preferences.json has finished writing

• Preferences syncing is now throttled (Should help delays on the UI, especially with the Zoom slider)

--10.0--

• Added support for many new plugins:
  * AXEL Player
  * Adobe Atmosphere
  * Alambik
  * AnimaFlex
  * Cult3D
  * DeepV
  * Hyper-G
  * LiveMath
  * Octree View
  * Play3D
  * ProtoPlay
  * REBOL
  * Xara Plugin

• All new games are zipped by default, and many games previously in Flashpoint have been zipped. This results in the file count of this version being significantly lower than 9.0.

• Updated the launcher to support Tag Filters and fix bugs.

• Updated the Flashpoint Secure Player to support arrow keys better on certain titles.

• Added the Flashpoint Super Hall of Fame playlist, an amalgamation of the micro-playlists, regular Hall of Fame, and other assorted recommendations, to serve as a new one-stop shop for new users of Flashpoint.

• As such, the old Hall of Fame and most of the micro-playlists have been retired.

• Added three new themes - Light, Steel Blue and Red Velvet.

• Many games updated with one or two missing files.

• The usual thousands of metadata fixes.

• Check here for the complete update list of Games!