News from Hammer of Thyrion:

2008-04-04: Hammer of Thyrion version 1.4.3 is released. Version 1.4.3 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion is released: This release is a result of heavy maintainance after the previous 1.4.2 version and fixes several bugs, including some security related ones such as the hexenworld Huffman decoder vulnerability (Secunia advisory SA28124), and improves portability. There have been a few feature improvements, as well. It also features a DOS port and an experimental svgalib support. An updated game data, v1.19a, is provided along with HoT-1.4.3, too. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the new release. The detailed release notes are here, or here. The downloads page is updated for this new release, too. Enjoy. Update (Apr. 06, 2008): Uploaded rpm files for Linux-PPC built on Yellow Dog Linux (YDL6). Kindly provided by Bill Blake. Thanks Bill. Update (Apr. 15, 2008): Levent prepared the Mac OS X compilations. Uploaded the Version-1.4.3 retail and demo dmg files for Mac OS X. 2008-03-11: PPC and PS3 Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion runs perfectly on Playstation 3/Linux: Here is the YDL blog entry and a youtube video. I hosted the rpm file here at our download pages, too. 2008-02-08: Hammer of Thyrion for GP2X ! Adventus made a GP2X port of the Hammer of Thyrion source! The forum threads are here and here. Nice! 2008-02-08: Hammer of Thyrion, 1.4.3-rc1 The first release candidate for version 1.4.3 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion is released. This release contains serious bug fixes, such as a fix for the Huffman decoder vulnerability (Secunia advisory SA28124). Other than the usual bug fixes, there have been small improvements in several places, and even a DOS version was prepared, too. We'd appreciate any feedback. The files can be downloaded from here, and the full release notes are here. Enjoy. 2008-01-28: Hammer of Thyrion for Nokia N800/810 ! Well, I ran into this at internet tablet talk: Someone actually built Hammer of Thyrion for N800/810 (Maemo)! There seems to be a build for 770, too. Nice! The forum thread is here. 2008-01-08: A New DM map pack Jas, aka. JWH, sent a deathmatch map pack for Hexen II and HexenWorld to us: converted dm maps from Quake and an original one named Cthulhu's burnt offerings. He says that it is a beta version yet and the final version including the map sources will be ready soon, by the end of this month. The package, Hexen2_2008.zip, can be found here for now. Thanks Jas! 2006-12-19: HexenWorld buffer overflow vulnerability fix I posted patches for HoT versions 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 fixing the Huffman decoder buffer overflow vulnerability in HexenWorld. The bug was in Raven's original hexenworld source and the fix has been in our CVS for quite some time: it will be integrated in the next release 1.4.3 (see the newest 1.4.3-cvs version among the beta releases). BTW, although I posted patches for them, the releases 1.4.0 and older are considered outdated, they are no longer supported: please use the newest versions. 2006-11-22: Initial DOS port for Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion I prepared an initial DOS port of Hexen II (hey, I was bored and felt nostalgic ;) , it seems to work fairly good. The file is uploaded among the beta releases. 2006-11-22: Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.2, Mac OS X packages are ready Levent prepared the Mac OS X builds of Hammer of Thyrion v1.4.2 release: The dmg packages are on the downloads page. Have fun. 2007-10-03: Hammer of Thyrion version 1.4.2 is released. At long last, version 1.4.2 of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion is released. The 1.4.2 development cycle took a lot of time, but it was worth the result: We added support for 64 bit platforms, provided compatibility with older Hexen II protocols, fixed several opengl problems, fixed some security issues, updated the software renderer to support non-intel processors, among many other things. All users are encouraged to upgrade. The detailed release notes are here: Release Notes - 1.4.2 The downloads page is updated for this new release, as well. An updated game data, v1.19, is released along with HoT-1.4.2, too. Enjoy. 2007-04-04: a Linux-PPC binary for HoT-1.4.1 Tyrann (the author of tyr-quake) gave us a pre-compiled binary of HoT-1.4.1 for linux-ppc. The binary can be found here. Thanks Tyrann! 2007-02-02: External music file support. For those who are interested, the development version (browse the CVS or download snapshot tarballs) contains a new extra patch which enables external music files. The idea started with a feature request by 'scen', see the thread here. The patch actually applies to the 1.4.1 release as well and is known to work just fine. Have fun. 2006-12-07: Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.1, Mac OS X packages are ready We finally made the Mac OS X builds of Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion v1.4.1: The dmg packages are on the downloads page. Have fun. 2006-12-01: Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.1-rev1 Uploaded hexen2source-1.4.1-rev1.tgz as a small hotfix: contains minor patches to version 1.4.1. Find it on the downloads page. ChangeLog: Updated rpm spec file to 1.4.1-2 to use gamecode-1.16a and xdelta-1.1.3b Gamecode: Fixed an obscure bug where the assasin with her 4th weapon uses the tome of power and can't fire it. Ensured that the basedir always stays the same for Mac OS X. Documented the packaging method for Mac OS X. Updated release date to November 16. 2006-12-01: Gamedata 1.16a for Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion An updated 1.16a version of gamedata is released: It fixes an obscure bug where the assasin with her 4th weapon uses the tome of power and can't fire it. This particular version of game data was not included in Hammer of Thyrion v1.4.1 binary packages: this is an update for HoT-1.4.1. All files, source and binary, can be found on the downloads page. 2006-11-01: Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.1 and gamedata 1.16 are released This release contain major bug fixes and several enhancements, such as on-the-fly changing of text and hud size and a new hexen2 dedicated server application. Support for Mac OS X and QNX are also included. All users are encouraged to upgrade. The detailed release notes are here: Release Notes - 1.4.1 2006-07-15 : Henk Jonas made an inital PalmOS port of Hammer of Thyrion v1.4.0. Find it at http://www.metaviewsoft.de. 2006-04-28 : Released the game-data 1.15 package, Released Hammer of Thyrion version 1.4.0. Changes include: Video mode changing on the fly Support for colored lighting and external lit files Improved insert/overwrite mode console editing Console command completion Single binary supporting both hexen2 and the mission pack Massive bug hunt and clean-up in C and gamecode Here are the detailed release notes: Release Notes - 1.4.0 2006-04-16: Fixes for HoT-1.3.0, and 1.4.0 news: Posted three patches which fix some outstanding bugs in HoT-1.3.0. They can be found at the hot-fixes page. On the other hand, HoT-1.4.0 seems to be complete. It should be released around this weekend or so. For the latest snapshots, you can go to the pre-release downloads page as usual. 2005-08-31 : Re-packaged the the original HoT-1.3.0 source tarball. The only difference is that some of the extra patches are updated and a few ones added. This does not affect any binaries from the original 1.3.0 release in any way. 2005-08-29 : Released the game-data updates 1.14 package, Released Hammer of Thyrion version 1.3.0. Changes include: Full screen anti-aliasing Multitexturing Fixes in music volume and music re-init features Fully FreeBSD-ised Massive bug hunt and clean-up in C and gamecode Improvements to the 3rd person view mode Total revamp of the gtk game launcher Here are the detailed release notes: Release Notes - 1.3.0 2005-06-09: Posted version 0.5.1 of Hexen2 launcher as a hot-fix for HoT-1.2.4a. It can be found on the downloads page under Hot-Fixes. 2005-03-17: Game-data 1.12h for Hammer of Thyrion is released: Changed since 1.12g is the inclusion of an actual H2MP 1.12a axtail patch which has been missing in 1.12g/CVS for ages. And noone told me about this, oh well.. 2005-03-14: Hammer of Thyrion version 1.2.4a: This is a maintainance-only release after HoT-1.2.4, fixing a couple of tiny bugs: fixed an oversight in reinit_music which resulted in a needless restart of midi music upon pressing Esc twice added back console video mode reporting small statusbar resizing fix in software mode updated the documentation 2005-03-06: Posted some botmatch tarballs to the downloads, Released the game-data updates 1.12g package, Released Hammer of Thyrion version 1.2.4: The primary focus of this new release may be considered as sound and music changes: Two new sound drivers, SDL and ALSA, were added. People who used to have issues with sound should now play the game with sound. Volume adjustment issues for music are also addressed. Here are the detailed release notes: Release Notes - 1.2.4a 2005-02-15: Released the game-data updates 1.12f package: This update fixes issues only in HexenWorld and adds map cycling ability. (Hexen2 and PoP code isn't changed since 1.12d). Get it from the downloads page. Uploaded some HexenWorld games (ctf, siege, etc) as unix-friendly tarballs. See the project page. HoT-1.2.4 release is beginning to shape up these days. It should be ready in a week or so... 2005-01-21: Hammer of Thyrion 1.2.3 is released. Get it from the downloads page. Here are the detailed release notes: Release Notes - 1.2.3 2005-01-06: Released the game-data updates 1.12d package Get it from the downloads page. Re-organized the downloads page. Re-packaged and re-uploaded some files. 2004-12-25: Merry Christmas to all! Made a home page, finally.