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BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8301

• New cave properties: slow and fast lava growth probability (see manual for details).
• Cave file format version (1.1) now supports both lava additional parameters and lava transforming threshold parameter.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8300

• Support for AtariPack.dll. Download AtariPack.zip and unzip into BoulderRush directory. Choose 'Select Game...' and check button: 'from Pack library'. AtariPack.dll contains 20 new games designed by different people for 8-bit Atari.

Fixed

• Added 'View' submenu under Editor menu and two commands to toggle toolbars--now it's possible ro turn them on after closing (thanx Harmidis!).
• Mouse cursor auto hide now works under Windows NT.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8271

• Added new element: stone butterfly. This flying moth resembles butterfly, but explodes into stones instead of diamonds.

Fixed

• Hidden exit is now active, this is Rockford can exit the cave using hidden exit.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8270

• Recorder extended to work with GamePack & CavePack caves.
• Added manual recorder entry.

Fixed

• Music no more starts at the application start-up if turned off.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8268

Fixed

• Added omited 'http://' prefix in some links in html documents (thanks David!).
• GamePack (gamepack.dll) loader can now load huge caves (for example 2. cave from TRI BD).
• Music no more stops playing while entering dialog windows.
• Menu bar redraw itself while opening dialog window (full screen mode).
• Horizontal scrolling no more locks.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8263

Fixed

• Magic Wall milling time correctly implemented.
• Selectable level number for Pack caves.
• Increased time for CavePack caves.
• Sharp (flicker-free) and accurate preview redrawing.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8262

What's new

• Short game manual.

Fixed

• OK button in select cave dialog window correctly enabled/disabled.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8260

What's new

• New editor tool to draw grids.

Fixed

• Rockford's blinking/tapping when paused.
• Lava to stones transform rate (caves from GamePack) corrected.
• Main window position no longer stored when in full screen mode.
• Cave source (internal or pack) remembered between sessions.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8249

What's new

• Random colorsets ('Options' dialog window, 'Game' tab).
• Support for GamePack.dll. Download GamePack.zip and unzip into BoulderRush directory. Choose 'Select Game...' and check button: 'from Pack library'. GamePack.dll contains 46 new games designed by different people for Amiga's BoulderDäsh.
• 'Next cave' could be used to select appropriate next cave from GamePack.

Fixed

• Some little bugs in 'Select Game...' dialog window.
• Freeing resources in CavePack.dll.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8242

What's new

• Support for CavePack.dll. Download CavePack.zip and unzip into BoulderRush directory. 'Select Game...' has new option: 'from CavePack'. Select this radio button and choose cave from CavePack. CavePack.dll contains 1115 new caves designed by different people for Amiga's BoulderDäsh.
• 'Next cave' could be used to select appropriate next cave from CavePack.
• Limited support for Amiga's BoulderDäsh *.cav and *.int loading.

Fixed

• Name of loaded external cave (*.cav or *.int) is displayed without whole path (only filename).

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8240

What's new

• This BR version contains initial release of cave editor. It supports only one internal cave format (cannot import map caves), but it's useful for creating your own caves. That simple text format lets store cave parameters and graphics data elements.
  Cave editor is designed to work in hi- or truecolor mode, so in 256 color mode it looks little odd.
• Trouble-shooting option added: pressing Shift key while BR start prevents it from entering fullscreen mode. If you experience problems executing BR try this option to run BR in window.

Fixed

• 'Next cave' command no longer produces strange results when hit at the beginning of app (thanks Szymon!).
• BR cave time unit is accordingly getting longer when you choose slower movement speed in options dialog window.
• Slime (field element) implemented.
• Redrawing of inactive window fixed.
• Sound distortion hopefully eliminated.
• Now game is mute when inactive.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8223

Now you can control Rockford speed. In Option/Game set desired movement speed. Normal is fastest, snail is slowest.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8222

New features: playing statistics, recording/replaying capabilities and previewing cave layout.

• Statistics
  BoulderRush now counts caves you play. You can trace which caves you have played, how much and how successfully. Press 'T' key to invoke stats dialog window.
• Record/replay
  Built-in recorder allows recording Rockford movement. Just press 'C' key and you enter recording mode (flashing red circle reminds about it). Now every move you make will be recorded. Recording will stop on cave finish, Rockford death or pressing 'C' again. Recorded session could be easily replayed. Press 'P' key and you enter replay mode (with yellow R letter flashing). Recorded session could be saved and loaded as well (menu File/...).
• Cave layout preview
  This feature works only when in hi- or truecolor mode. In 'Select game' dialog window you could press 'Preview >>' to see how does it work.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8219

Some fixes (in DirectDraw stuff). Increased Rockford pre-open time to allow some caves to function properly (also one cave changed to let Rockford stay alive after hatching).

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8218

Added four new games. From now on game numbers extend to 20. Some cave requires fixes - Rockford dies immediately after hatching (bad timing?).
Added one unimportant element - kind of wall (behave like an oridinal wall, but looks like steelwall - it's used in one cave).

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8215

Some little improvments & fixes.

BoulderRush 1.0 v. 0.1.0.8214

This is an initial release of BoulderRush - PC clone of well known BoulderDash. Currently it contains caves from 15 different BoulderDash games (1-st & 2-nd game are same).
BoulderRush is coded directly according Peter Broadribb's algorithm.
There is no live limit implemented.
It still lacks support for joystick.
You need DirectX installed to run the game.

You can also play external caves saved in Boulderoid cave maps format although not all Boulderoids elements are supported. In addition to standard BoulderDash you find following new elements:
- expanding wall (horizontal, vertical & both)
- hidden exit
- monolith (here: skull; kills everything)
- dumbford (here: dummy)
- bomb or tnt (explosion range only 3x3 instead of 5x5 in Boulderoid)

Not implemented:
- slime (not yet; sorry)
- glue, fuse, acid, crazyford, teleports

Besides lava (amoeba) growth time & probability as well as milling time may not be exact enough in comparision to Boulderoid settings.

If you need Boulderoid look at the David's web page. There you can find original C-64 BoulderDash version and many others.

Latest version of Boulder Rush you can find at the web site: friko5.onet.pl/ld/mkowalsk/ .