I squeezed in two more patches. At this rate I'm going to finish the entirety of my "future goals" list before I get a single release out.... (but at least the source is up on GitHub for anyone to play with).

The first of my new patches fixes a bug with Descent 3 where if you're using the mouse at a decently high framerate, holding it down becomes unreliable. I traced this down to an oddity in the mouse code. The keyboard and joystick code, when timing how long a button's been held for, uses the normal timer code, which by default uses a much higher accuracy means of measuring time. The mouse code, on the other hand, uses a simple MS timer with a resolution of somewhere around 10-16 MS according to MS's docs. This means the game would frequently get deltas of 0 and think you released the mouse. I patched it to use the same high-precision timer as the other input methods.

The second is pretty mundane, but since I was having trouble getting mouse controls right, and the mouse sensitivity controls in the game have limited resolution, I threw on a configurable mouse prescalar which will scale the inputs before the game code gets it. Works well for the moment, but mouse control is still a little rough I feel.

It's been a while, but I have two new patches in the pipeline ATM.

The first is reverbs. Descent 3 supported EAX-enabled sound cards to provide reverbs with DirectSound3D, but this wouldn't work on any modern system with simple integrated sound hardware. The right emulator should provide it, but rather than deal with that I've added support for reverbs in the OpenAL Soft sound code I've provided. This can be turned on and off in the configuration.

The second is that I added a patch to change the game to use the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry hive instead of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The upshot of this is that you will never need to run the game as adminstrator to change settings (unless you stick it in Program Files, so don't), and settings are per-user if that's your thing. Downside is that settings are now per-user if that's not your thing, but for most people it's absolutely worth it.

This does warrant a new configuration program, since the stock launcher won't work here, so I added one to the configuration program:

Considering the few times I use D2X-XL anymore, it's typically set real close to vanilla Descent settings, that shouldn't be much problem.

I supposed the embeds not showing up might still be an issue on my side, so I did some more poking around. Turns out one of my adblockers was blocking them. Go figure, right? 

Kai, I think you may have set up these pictures wrong, as all I'm seeing are empty boxes, and when I right-click on them to open them up in another tab (in case it's a site-specific thing), I'm prompted to download/open the file in another program. Which I've done no problem, so it's not too big a deal, but FYI regardless.

Anyway, I'd forgotten just how flashy D2X-XL can be with all of the bells and whistles on. Speaking of, for the reference of those looking to play this, just what features would one need set-up and/or engaged to play this? Or should it actually just be plug-and-play, so long as you're doing it in D2X-XL?

So, this post (and your signature) is how I discovered your Darklite album, and I am FREAKING LOVING IT!! If this is the kind of music you are using in your levels, I am all for it! Totally has that perfect Descent vibe!