1.0.12 (Codename: Strong and stable)

• Added

  • Prevention against setting anything in Settings as a quick launch option

• Fixed

  • SDL input freakout on holding left on 1st boot to cancel quic launch
  • PocketGo2 brightness for rogue and stock differences
  • Low battery from going negative

• Improved

  • Previews traversal is now open ended on dir structure
  • HW Polling resilience

1.0.11 (Codename: SpeedRun)

• Added

  • Quick launch the last game on 1st boot
    • Hold left on the dpad down to bypass
    • Toggle on / off in Settings menu
  • Fast cache load option
    • Doesn't validate the cache and look for new or missing apps, just loads current state
    • This is used automatically when in quick launch mode
    • Toggleable in Settings menu
      • If enabled, use the built in App Scanner (via select button) to manually update on demand
    • Live monitoring for new opk's is always enabled
  • Folder previews
    • for when your roms come in multi files - ps1 etc
    • or if you have custom rom sub-folders that you want images for
    • Name the folder the same as the rom (minus the suffix), and you'll get a preview if you have an existing image
    • Or have a different image for the folder
    • eg....
    • psx/
      • .previews/
        • favourites.png
        • game1.png
        • game2.png
        • game2-folder.png
        • something.png
        • something-else.png
      • favourites/
        • something.bin
        • something-else.bin
      • game1/
        • game1.bin
      • game2-folder/
        • game2.bin

• Fixed

  • LED low power boot loop
  • Time Zones
  • Upgrades clobbering the esoteric.conf file and resetting your skin
  • Upgrades clobbering existing files, like your skin.conf settings

• Improved

  • Setup wrapped in crash handler and dialog
  • Skin colour editing - L1 & R1 step +- 10
    • This is to work around the Y button being mapped to Left Shift, which doesn't support auto repeat in SDL
  • Preview images looks one directory higher now as well, so you can have something like
    • snes/
    • .previews/
    • all/
    • favourites/

1.0.10 (Codename: I can't believe it's not battery)

• Added

  • Accurate battery support
  • Try / Catch support
  • Toggle battery icons or percentage in Skin Settings ui
  • Hidden files and folders toggle for explorer

• Fixed

• Improved

  • HW abstraction extends to batteries now
  • Refactored UI transition code
  • Refactored String Helper code
  • Refactored File readers and writers

1.0.9 (Codename: The smell of dissapointment)

• Added

  • Support for key combo's in input handler
    • Can be set via input.conf for any action
    • format is : action=combo,key_code_1,key_code_2,key_code_n
    • eg. power=combo,9,308 (this is for GKD350h)
  • Power button brings up power off / restart dialog on RG350, PG2
  • L1 & B on GKD350h brings up power off / restart dialog
  • New Device setting, Default CPU speed to launch apps at if nothing in the desktop file

• Fixed

  • Directory copy installer notification
  • File browser filters for empty string and no extension

• Improved

  • Cleaner session restore
  • More defensive 'save last selection' restore
  • Surface collection error checking
  • Only remove boot marker on clean exit from esoteric
  • Refactored Cpu code, added factory for determining JZ4770O capabilities
  • About reports cpu info

• Currently thwarted by....

  • GKD350h overclock registers....
  • closer but not happening still, and smells of closed source sadness

1.0.8 (Codename: Don't worry, it's just a background check)

• Added

  • Backgrounds for favourites
    • Fullscreen or
    • Best fit in the link view space

• Fixed

  • Save last selection
  • Potential crash after making a favourite if no icon was created
  • Empty directory handling in browser

• Improved

  • Stay in rom browser after making a favourite
  • Add custom value in ui for preview width if it doesn't match a step of 5
  • Background image scaling and placing
  • File handlimg routines and path resolvers
  • Includes and ifdef's

1.0.7 (Codename: Meet the family)

• Added

  • RG350
    • ALSA Mixer
    • Console apps in general
  • GKD350H
    • All standard opk / launcher functionality
    • Key mappings
    • Power off and reboot
    • Screen off timer
    • Power off timer
    • Screen brightness
    • Real Time Clock setting
    • Battery level reporting
    • Volume level adjust and reporting
  • PocketGo 2
    • All standard opk / launcher functionality
    • CPU performance guvernor (on demand / performance)
    • Key mappings
    • Power off and reboot
    • Screen off timer
    • Power off timer
    • Battery level reporting
    • Brightness control
    • Led control
    • Volume level adjust and reporting

• Fixed

  • Default clock speed reporting for non overclocked rg350
  • Allow zero volumes in device menu
  • Screen tearing on rg350 and gkd350h

• Improved

  • Tear down of the app on link launch

1.0.6 (Codename: Lay some skin on me)

• Added

  • Seperate device specific input configs
  • Keyboard nav arrows
  • Skin settings for preview image size

• Fixed

  • Restore session handling
  • Set screen w & h back to config after determined once
  • Fullpaths for gkd350h poweroff and reboot
  • Manual file filter extension typo

• Improved

  • Overclocking detection and guard conditions
  • Performance mode detection and guard conditions
  • Upgrade

1.0.5 (Codename: TLOE: Links Hiding)

• Added

  • Hide / show links
  • CPU underclock option for launcher, exposed in Device
  • CPU underclock for links
  • Default the date to build date if it's not set
  • ALSA mixer launcher
  • CPU freq or governor mode shown in About
  • Manual

• Fixed

  • Crash viewing logs from apps w/ control codes
  • Force vsync in any sdl version
  • Reset alt keymap file on launch. thanks @Nebuleon
  • SDL_ShowCursor(SDL_DISABLE); comes after SDL Video setup now to avoid potential side effect
  • UI race condition removing an OPK

• Improved

  • Performance in HW polling
  • CPU scaling to hw layer
  • Clock types abstracted
  • Only set SDL Fullscreen flag if we're on unknown w/h

1.0.4 (Codename: Fight the power!)

• Added

  • Lock for selector browsing when you edit a link
  • Auto Power off
    • Toggleable
    • Only activates when running on battery

• Fixed

  • Some links weren't editable that should be
  • Save config after hiding section
  • possible dangling slash in config file for external apps path
  • crash when info bar is smaller than icons

• Improved

  • Video initialisation is portable across devices
  • Refactored screen resolution consumers
  • Refactored inputManager
  • Refactored screenManager and powerManager to a common interface
  • screenManager now uses hw abstraction layer for blanking
  • powerManager now uses hw abstraction layer for power off

1.0.3 (Codename: Is that garlic?)

• Added

  • Key repeat
  • More skinning docs in templates
  • Linux HW abstraction layer

• Fixed

  • Screen sleep if nothing happens after boot

• Improved

  • Optimised surface collection
  • Build scripts
  • HW abstraction layer layout
  • key bindings for linux HW layer