Quasar
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I'm fairly confident that I will be able to release 3.33.50 either at the end of this week or the beginning of next week. This is fall break week at school. I'll be working alone Wednesday, and off work Thursday and Friday. This should give me plenty of time to finish up everything remaining (mainly, polyobject sound sequence support, saving/loading sound sequences, and finishing joe's pillars, Small functions, and steam generator thing).
It has not coincidentally been approximately a year since the release of 3.33.02. 3.33.33 was released back in May, which seems like a long time, but we did have two SVN maintenance releases thanks to joe which helped offset the delay this time ;)
There will probably *not* be a fix to wobbly lines in 3.33.50. I'm beginning to think that writing a new, floating-point-based renderer might be a good idea. The renderer is largely self-contained, and so with a few function-pointer-bearing structs, it should be possible to allow more than one easily. My main concern still remains the overhead of float->int conversions on Intel processors, as these would be necessary at some point before column and span drawing are done. Apparently int->float isn't that bad, and so the interface between the engine and renderer, with one remaining in fixed-point only, shouldn't be that much of a problem.
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10-17-06 15:43 
