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This is Zelda Classic's Development History. All reported versions of this program's existence are found in the archives towards the end of this page. There are some gaps in the history, but for the most part, it's accurate, and the most definitive version of the ZC beta history that exists. If you're able to fill in any of the holes, please email DarkDragon.

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ZC Version 1.92 beta 178October.20.2002
  1. Added a "-large" option to ZQuest so you can preview the new, larger screen configuration (remember the larger ZQuest mockup a while back?)
  2. Flood is now undoable.
  3. Fill is now the default ctrl-click option instead of flood.
  4. Took out the brush size right-click menu options. Maybe when I get time to code them, I'll put them back in.
  5. Added a new right-click menu option, "Edit Combo". This lets you edit the combo the mouse is pointed at directly.
  6. Added a new right-click menu option, "Select Combo". This makes the combo that the mouse is pointing at the current combo. Still need to work on this some more so that the combo list on the right centers the selected combo for you.
  7. Added a new combo type: bush. Same as slash->item, but this does the leaf animation you've come to know and love from the later Zelda games. This is a customizable sprite (bush leaves).
  8. Added a new combo type: flowers. Same as bush, but uses a different animation sprite (flower clippings). Inspired from the flowers in the Oracle games. Technically, it doesn't have to be a bunch of flowers, you could make it another bush if you want, as it uses the exact animation sequence as the bush.
  9. Added a new combo type: tall grass. Same as bush, but uses a different animation sequence and sprite "grass clippings". Also, has a tall grass sprite that shows and animates in front of Link when he walks on the tall grass combo (like in Zelda 3).
  10. Added a new combo type: shallow water. This makes the new "ripples" sprite show and animate when Link is walking on this combo type. Similar to the shallow water in Zelda 3.
  11. Almost finished the Hammer Smack code. The smack sprite displays now, it just needs to be positioned correctly.
  12. Almost done fixing the with the CSet fix problem so you can make it affect layers as well (instead of the base screen) and also make it affect all layers on the screen instead of just the current layer.
  13. You can now have 252 MIDIs instead of 32.

Added preliminary .MOD/.S3M/,XM/.IT support (for Octium, according to PM). At the moment, these tracker music files are not stored inside of the quest file. Instead, each DMap has a T. Music (tracker music) setting (filename of a tracker music file that is in the current ZC directory) that can be between 1 and 55 characters long. There are advantages and disadvantages of doing this:

Advantages:

  • If the author wants to update a song, he or she can simply give out that one song; people don't have to redownload the entire quest and every other song in it.
  • If someone doesn't want to download the tracker music file (too slow internet connection, not enough HD space, computer not powerful enough to play them right), he or she doesn't have to. ZC will, if it can't find the tracker music file, play the MIDI file for the DMap instead.

Disadvantages:

  • Others will have access to the tracker music, as the files would be in their native format.
  • If 2 quests use the same filename for 2 different songs, one version of the tracker music file in question gets overwritten.
  • This breaks the "one quest, one file" setup that has been in effect ever since ZC went public.

While I could probably make it where the tracker music was stored in the quest files, the easiest way to do it would be to extract them with temporary names while playing and delete them when done with that quest. This will fix the last 2 disadvantages, but leave the remaining one since the files are extracted so people could copy them to other locations to prevent them from being deleted after they quit the quest. Also, this would cancel out the 2 advantages. Granted, the quest designer could create 2 versions of the quest, one using MIDIs and one using tracker music, but the second advantage would still be gone.



Archives:
November.21.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1101 Mac OS X
November.17.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1099 Windows
November.10.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1095 Windows
November.08.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1094 Mac OS X
October.25.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1090 Mac OS X
October.24.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1089 Windows
October.19.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1086 Windows
October.19.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1085 Linux
October.16.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1082 Windows
October.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1079 Mac OS X
October.09.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1076 Mac OS X
September.27.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1075 Mac OS X
September.26.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1074 Windows
September.21.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1072 Windows
September.20.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1071 Windows
August.27.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1065 Windows
August.20.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1057 Windows
August.20.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1056 Linux
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1046 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1045 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1042 Linux
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1038 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1032 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1030 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1028 Windows, Linux
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1025 Windows, Linux
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1018 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1015 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1010 Mac OS X
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1008 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1007 Mac OS X
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1005 Windows, Linux
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 1001 Windows, Mac OS X
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 997 Linux
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 987 Windows
August.13.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 982 Windows
March.19.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 980 Windows
March.18.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 979 Windows
March.16.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 976 Windows
March.16.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 971 Windows
March.16.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 967 Windows
March.10.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 964 Windows
February.21.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 956 Windows
February.04.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 946 Windows, Linux
February.04.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 944 Windows, Linux
January.14.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 935 Windows
January.11.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 928 Windows
January.03.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 922/923 Windows
January.03.2009 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 919 Mac OS X
December.15.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 910 Windows, Linux
December.10.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 908 Windows
December.10.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 907 Linux
December.09.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 906 Windows
December.09.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 904 Linux
December.09.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 901 Windows
December.02.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 899 Windows
November.27.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 896 Mac OS X
October.27.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 887 Windows
October.23.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 885 Windows
September.04.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 863 Windows
September.04.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 859 Windows
July.23.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 846 Windows
July.20.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 842 Windows
June.27.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 819 Windows
June.12.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 816 Windows
June.08.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 813 Windows
June.07.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 809 Windows
May.07.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 798 Windows
April.30.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 796 Windows
April.29.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 794 Linux
April.29.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 788 Windows
April.14.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 780 Windows
April.10.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 777 Windows
February.29.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 758 Windows
February.23.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 743 Windows
February.23.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 742 Windows
February.19.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 738 Windows
February.10.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 735 Windows
January.29.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 731 Windows
January.29.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 730 Linux
January.29.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 728 Linux
January.29.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 726 Windows
January.26.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 724 Windows
January.13.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 718 Windows
January.13.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 716 Mac OS X
January.13.2008 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 712 Linux
December.30.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 704 Windows
December.11.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 693 Windows
November.25.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 679 Windows
November.22.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 675 Windows
November.20.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 673 Linux
November.19.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 672 Windows
November.18.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 build 668 Windows
November.13.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 660 Windows
November.06.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 build 655 Windows
October.28.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 643 Mac OS X
October.25.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 639 Linux
October.16.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 635 Windows
October.01.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 626 Windows
September.28.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 622 Linux
September.28.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 613 Mac OS X
September.28.2007 - Zelda Classic 2.5 Build 584 Windows
June.19.2004 - ZC Version 1.93 Alpha/Beta 4
June.19.2004 - ZC Version 1.93 Alpha/Beta 3
June.19.2004 - ZC Version 1.93 Alpha/Beta 2
December.30.2003 - ZC Version 1.93 alpha/beta 1
June.16.2003 - ZC Version 1.92 alpha 187
June.16.2003 - ZC Version 1.92 alpha 186
June.16.2003 - ZC Version 1.92 alpha 185
April.22.2003 - ZC Version 1.92 alpha 184
January.23.2003 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 183
December.24.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 181
December.11.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 180
December.02.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 179
October.20.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 178
October.13.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 177
September.2.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 176
August.20.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 175
August.02.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 174
August.02.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 173
August.02.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 172
August.02.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 171
July.20.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 170
July.20.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 169
July.12.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 168
July.12.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 165
June.16.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 162
June.16.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 161
March.29.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 159
March.26.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 158
April.12.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 152
April.07.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 150
April.01.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 148
March.30.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 147
March.23.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 144
March.21.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 142
March.20.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 141
March.19.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 140
March.18.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 139
March.16.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 138
March.14.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 136
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March.18.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 123
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January.15.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 117
January.09.2002 - ZC Version 1.92 beta 113
April 3,2001 - ZC Version 1.90
July.21.2000 - ZC Version 1.84
July.15.2000 - ZC Version 1.82
March.28.2000 - ZC Version 1.77
March.27.2000 - ZC Version 1.76
March.15.2000 - ZC Version 1.72
March.12.2000 - ZC Version 1.70
December.12.2000 - ZC Version 1.60
January.03.2000 - ZC Version 1.02
December.29.1999 - ZC Version 1.00
December.26.1999 - ZC Version 0.99 debug
December.22.1999 - ZC Version 0.98 debug
December.18.1999 - ZC Version 0.97 debug
December.14.1999 - ZC Version 0.96 debug
December.06.1999 - ZC Version 0.95 debug
November.28.1999 - ZC Version 0.94
September.21.1999 - ZC Version 0.86
August.31.1999 - ZC Version 0.82
August.05.1999 - ZC Version 0.76
August 03.1999 - ZC Version 0.73
August.01.1999 - ZC Version 0.72
July.23.1999 - ZC Version 0.64
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