2 From this version on, this game is called “Meritous Recharged” to avoid confusion with the original Meritous.
3 NEW: Very basic joystick/gamepad support (see readme.txt).
4 NEW: Help section which shows and describes all artifacts, can be accessed in help or with [I].
5 NEW: Help section about using the map.
6 NEW: Help can now be navigated with PgUp, PgDn, Home and End as well.
7 NEW: Pressing [Backpace] in help returns to the index.
8 NEW: Toggle sound effects with [F2].
9 NEW: Toggle music with [F3].
10 NEW: Sound effect on failed attemps (insufficient psi crystals, etc.)
11 NEW: Skip intro by pressing a key or joystick button.
12 NEW: Main menu entries “Help” and “Quit” added.
13 NEW: New commandline arguments “nointro”, “nomusic” and “nosounds” (see readme.txt)
14 NEW: Compass tiles show brief help when “activated” (for newbies).
15 NEW: Several non-activatable tiles show “failure” message (for newbies).
16 CHANGED: Help entry on compasses.
17 CHANGED: More intuitive and less confusing usage of crystal device.
18 CHANGED: Help does not scroll on short pages (<=40 lines),
19 CHANGED: Map symbols for save, refill, charge and shield tiles.
20 CHANGED: Outro texts have to be confirmed with Enter or joystick button 1, because the texts were too fast.
21 BUGFIX: Pretty serious segmentation fault shortly after starting a boss fight
22 BUGFIX: Enemies became easier again only because of loading a game with 1 or more defeated bosses.
23 BUGFIX: Help did not work under non-Windows systems due to bad line-endings.
24 BUGFIX: Rare bug where another checkpoint appeared in the starting room.
25 BUGFIX: Several weird sounds behaviours when going back to main menu.
26 BUGFIX: Outro credits failed to show serveral artists.
27 INTERNAL: Removed executable bits of Makefile and source code files.
28 INTERNAL: Use UNIX-style line-endings everywhere.
29 INTERNAL: Fixed all compilation warnings.
30 POLITICS: Forked this game off Meritous.
31 POLITICS: Renamed this game to “Meritous Recharged” (original name: “Meritous”).
34 BUGFIX: Fixed a bug that only seemed to be affecting some Linux environments.
35 POLITICS: Published the source code under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3 (see gpl.txt). (by ASCEAI)
38 NEW: Holding space while viewing the auto map now allows you to scroll around much faster.
39 BUGFIX: Some issues associated with boss dialog not appearing have been fixed.
42 This was the first public release of Meritous.