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Title                   : The Eternity Engine v3.40.00 "Rebirth"
Filename                : ee3.40.00-win32p.zip
Release date            : 01/08/2011
Author                  : Team Eternity
                          James "Quasar" Haley and Stephen "SoM" McGranahan
Email Address           : haleyjd@hotmail.com
Other Files By Author   : ee3.40.00-src.zip 
                          ee3.40.00-edf.zip
                          ee3.40.00-win32.zip

Description             : The Eternity Engine is an advanced Doom source port
                          which uniquely combines a high compatibility rate 
                          with bleeding-edge editing and gameplay enhancements.
                          Eternity supports all versions of Doom, Doom II,
                          Final Doom, HACX, and the FreeDoom project, and it 
                          has in-progress support for Raven Software's Heretic
                          and Hexen.                          

Additional Credits to   : - GPL DOOM Source -
                          - Quake 2 Source -
                              id Software                          
                          - GPL Heretic and Hexen Source -
                              Raven Software
                          - DosDOOM -
                              Chi Hoang
                          - BOOM by TeamTNT -
                              Lee Killough
                              Jim Flynn
                              Rand Phares
                              Ty Halderman
                              Stan Gula
                          - MBF -
                              Lee Killough
                          - SMMU -
                          - Chocolate Doom -
                              Simon "fraggle" Howard
                          - PrBoom -
                              Colin Phipps
                              Florian Schulze
                          - PrBoom-Plus -
                              Andrey Budko
                          - ZDoom -
                              Randy Heit
                              Graf Zahl
                          - libConfuse Parser Library -
                              Martin Hedenfalk
                          - snes_spc 0.9.0 Library
                              Shay Green
                          - DJGPP libc -
                              DJ Delorie et al.
                          - MinGW libc -
                              Matt Weinstein et al.
                          - SDL and Support Libraries -
                              Sam Lantinga et al.
                          - Small Scripting Language -
                              ITB CompuPhase
                          - Three-Band EQ and Rational-tanh Clipper -
                              Neil C / Etanza Systems
                              cschueler
                          - Start Map -
                              Derek Mac Donald
                          - Graphics - 
                              Sven "ptoing" Ruthner
                              Bob Satori
                              
                          
Special Thanks to       :    Russel Rice * Joe Kennedy * Julian Aubourg
                             Anders Astrand * Joel Murdoch * SargeBaldy
                              Kate * esselfortium * CSonicGo * DavidPH
                            Yagisan * MP2E * Catoptromancy * Kaiser * Lut
                             4mer * Mordeth * Assmaster * Toke * DooMWiz 
                             Nemesis * Carnevil * Cephaler * John Romero 
                                   Chris Rhinehart * James Monroe
                          

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* What is included *

New levels              : 1 (START Map)
Sounds                  : Yes
Music                   : No
Graphics                : Yes
Dehacked/BEX Patch      : No
Demos                   : No
Other                   : Yes (Required data and wad files)
Other files required    : DOOM, DOOM II, Final Doom, HACX, or Heretic 
                          IWAD(s)


* Construction *

Base                    : SMMU v3.21 / v3.30
Build Time              : Ten years and counting
Editor(s) used          : Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio 2008, UltraEdit-32,
                          Doom Builder
Known Bugs              : Too many to mention here, see below for more info
May Not Run With...     : Anything made for other source ports (duh...)


* Copyright / Permissions *

Authors MAY use the contents of this file as a base for modification or 
reuse, subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License which may be
found inside the file named "COPYING".  Permissions have been obtained from
original authors for any of their resources modified or included in this 
file.

You MAY distribute this file, subject to the terms of the GNU General Public
License.


* Where to get the file that this text file describes *

Web sites: http://eternity.mancubus.net/ee3.40.00-win32.zip
FTP sites: None

      
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* Disclaimer *

This software is covered by NO WARRANTY, implicit or otherwise, including
the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose. The authors of this software accept no responsibility for any ill
effects caused by its use and will not be held liable for any damages, 
even if they have been made aware of the possibility of such damages.

Bug reports and feature requests will be appreciated.

Please email haleyjd@hotmail.com with any concerns.


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* Features New to Version 3.40.00 *

These include some of the major features added in the latest version:
  
- Rendering Enhancements -

  * Portal overlays (semi-functional in this version)
 
- Gameplay Features -

  * "buddha" command/cheat added for playtesting
  
    
- Menu Enhancements -

  * Some string variables can now be blanked.
  
  * Editing of long file paths is now significantly more intuitive.
  
  * Master Levels Menu can now be exited to the title screen, and now
    fully supports multi-level PWADs.
  
- Interface Enhancements -

  * -iwad and -game parameters can now be used to select the best match
    from amongst preconfigured IWAD paths in system.cfg. For example:
    
    -iwad doom.wad
    
    will use your configured Ultimate or Registered doom.wad IWAD if
    no doom.wad is found in Eternity's immediate directory first.
    
  * Support for DOOMWADPATH - the paths configured by the DOOMWADPATH
    environment variable will be searched in order for both standard
    and specified IWAD names.

- EDF -

  * BRIGHT flag supports making a thingtype bright in all of its frames
    unconditionally.

- Mapping -

  * ExtraData Sectors
    Support is now available for specification of flat offsets, rotation
    angles, per-sector terrain overrides, colormaps, damage properties,
    portal overlays, and more.
    
  * ExtraData linedef records now support alpha and additive blending.

- Compatibility -

  * Multiple complevel 9 demo compatibility fixes have vastly improved
    support for demos recorded with this popular setting under 
    PrBoom-Plus.

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* Coming Soon *

These are features planned to debut in future versions of the Eternity 
Engine:

- Priority -

  ** 100% Heretic support
  ** EDF Inventory/Weapons/Pickup system
  ** Aeon scripting system
  ** UDMF support
  Linked portals
  Double flats  
  More standard TerrainTypes
  Hubs
  
  ** == TOP PRIORITY

- Long-Term Goals -

  Hexen Support
  Strife Support
  Improved network code


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* Revision History *

3.40.00 "Rebirth" -- 01/08/11

  10th anniversary release, and the first release from the C++ codebase.

3.39.20 "Resheph" -- 10/10/10

  Point release for additional HACX 1.2 support.

3.37.00 "Sekhmet" -- 01/01/10

  Big release after nearly a year of development time with some major 
  advancements, though many are behind-the-scenes improvements.

3.35.92 "Nekhbet" -- 03/22/09

  Minor maintenance release with numerous interface improvements, and a new
  EDF font specification system.

3.35.90 "Simorgh" -- 01/11/09

  It took two years and almost 450 SVN revisions to create this new
  incarnation of the Eternity Engine.

3.33.50 "Phoenix" -- 10/23/06

  Sad times have given way to happy ones as the energy to do great work
  has been unleashed.

3.33.33 "Paladin" -- 05/17/06

  The most work ever done for a single release possibly excepting only the
  port of v3.29 Gamma to Windows. We apologize for the delay, but it is
  well worth the wait.

3.33.02 "Warrior" -- 10/01/05

  A very respectable amount of progress hopefully offsets the terrible 
  delay experienced for this release. 3D object clipping improvement,
  new EDF TerrainTypes engine, and various EDF improvements are the
  most significant features.

3.33.01 "Outcast" -- 06/24/05

  Minor fixes, some user-requested and CQIII-needed features implemented,
  and HUD scripting functions for Small.

3.33.00 "Genesis" -- 05/26/05

  Small scripting finally complete and available to the user. Lots of
  fixes, tweaks, and feature additions on top of that.

3.31.10 "Delta" -- 01/19/05

  More Small support, ExtraData, global MapInfo, and tons of other new 
  features and bug fixes make this an extremely critical release.

3.31 Public Beta 7 04/11/04

  High resolution support enabled via generalization of the screen 
  drawing code. Some minor fixes to portals, and a new codepointer just 
  for good measure.

3.31 Public Beta 6 02/29/04

  A huge amount of progress toward all current goals for the engine.
  Portals, the brain child of SoM, are the major stars of this release.
  Small and ExtraData are on the verge of becoming available to users 
  for editing.

3.31 Public Beta 5 12/17/03

  Several minor bug fixes over beta 4, including 3D object clipping and
  file drag-and-drop. Incremental improvements to EDF and to several
  parameterized codepointers.

3.31 Public Beta 4 11/29/03

  Most effort put into improving EDF, largely via user feature requests.
  Major progress has been made toward working ExtraData as well. The
  Heretic status bar is now implemented.

3.31 Public Beta 3 08/08/03

  A long time in coming, and a ton of features to show for the delay.
  EDF steals the show for this release.

3.31 Public Beta 2 03/05/03

  New BFGs, object z clipping, movable 3DMidTex lines, tons more Heretic
  support, and some really nasty bugs fixed. Also first version to use
  SDL_mixer for better sound.

3.31 Public Beta 1 09/11/02

  Prelim. Heretic support, 3DMIDTEX flag, zdoom-style translucency, and
  some other stuff now in. And of course, bug fixes galore.

3.29 "Gamma" 07/04/02

  Final release for v3.29. Massive changes all over. First version to
  include Windows support. SoM is now co-programmer.

3.29 Development Beta 5 10/02/01

  Minor release to demonstrate dialog, primarily

3.29 Public Beta 4 06/30/01

  Fixed a good number of bugs once again. Improved portability with 
  Julian's help, major feature is working demo recording. See info below
  and changelog for more info, as usual.

3.29 Public Beta 3 05/10/01

  Fixed a large number of bugs, added several interesting features. See
  bug list below, and the changelog, for more information.

3.29 Public Beta 2 01/09/01

  Fixed mouse buttons - problem was leftover code in I_GetEvent() that
  caused the mouse button variables to never be asserted - code was
  unreachable because of an assignment of the variable 'buttons' to 
  'lastbuttons'.
  
3.29 Public Beta 1 01/08/01

  Initial Release


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* Bugs Fixed, Known Issues *

Bugs Fixed (since 3.39.20):

+ TerrainTypes are selected more appropriately in some situations when an
  object is standing partway over a cliff.
  
+ Printing console constants now longer causes a crash.

+ Sound stuttering reduced or eliminated from 3.39.20.

+ Colormaps are no longer arbitrarily applied to skies while in view
  elsewhere.
  
+ Cardboard visplane splitting glitches related to flat rotation and other
  sector properties eliminated.
  
+ Invalid subsector references will be cleansed from levels' BSP trees
  to prevent crashes.
  
+ comp_zombie is no longer enabled in 200 - 202 version demos.

+ PIT_CheckThing incompatibility due to recursion eliminated.

+ mlook arithmetic is no longer used during old demo playback.

+ Ref counting in 202-only P_LookForPlayers code segement restored to 202
  behavior.
  
+ Same-subsector LOS check short circuiting optimization is no longer 
  applied in 200 - 202 version demos.
  
+ Heap corruption issues eliminated in qstring module.

Known Issues in v3.40.00:

- Volume sliders may permanently affect desktop volume levels. This is due
  to bugs/limitations/oversights in SDL_mixer and NOT because of any
  problem inherent in Eternity.

- Network code is incomplete; game will desync if some settings differ
  between nodes, or if certain console commands are used at runtime.

- Particles are broken in low-detail mode.

- Portal overlays are partially broken. Please be patient, they will be
  repaired as soon as possible!