For version 1.6 there is still a PGP chat planned as well as some further improvements of the GUI and, of course, more plugins..

Hint: Please take a view to the history before you start Bender, the config has changed a little.

• New: Sound now plays in stereo
• Fix: Autosave did crash Simon the Sorcerer after five minutes
• Fix: MidiEmu did not work when AMidi wasn't installed (not quite the purpose of it ...) - thanks to Michele
• Fix: Monkey Island CD sound plays now also when CD is called "Madness" (previously name was assumed to be "Monkey1CD") - thanks to Henri

New games added in May 2002:

• XSoldier V1.3 (Galaga-Clone)
• Project: Starfighter V2 (2D-Space-Shooter)
• Kobodeluxe V0.3 (2D-Space-Shooter)
• Maelstrom V3.0.5 (Asteroids-Clone)
• Ibreakout 2 V2.2.2 (Arkanoid-Clone)
• Fly V0.3.0 (Starship-Shooter)

• Apache Tools
• Several GCC-Tools
• Techno/House Module
• background pictures

• EXPERIMENTAL: added configurable input device (mouse, joystick, keyboard) support
• EXPERIMENTAL: added OpenGL mode (for best results set lores and disable line-doubling)
• printer support fixed (Bernd Roesch)
• MIDI updates (Bernd Roesch, Alfred J. Faust)
• custom chipset updates (Superfrog,Exile,Apocalypse,Rainbow Islands,Torvak the Warrior etc..)
• CPU idle patch (no more 100% CPU usage)
• HOME + F5 opens state restore dialog and SHIFT + HOME + F5 opens state save dialog
• vsync updates (50/60/100/120 frequencies are now always selectable. Useful for Powerstrip users)
• AVIoutput improvements (can be started later, stops when re-entering GUI)
• Picasso96 updates. Mouse trails are now 100% fixed (Bernd Roesch)
• refresh rate selection only affects Amiga display modes, Picasso96 always use default refresh rate
• "16-bit mode detect" crash fixed
• removed useless 8/16-bit sound selection. Sound output is now always 16-bit
• sound lag compensation slider reimplemented. (if you have bad sound, move slider left until sound gets better)
• build-in gzip and zip support (autoselects first adf-image or Amiga executable if zip contains multiple files)
• executable to adf support, just "insert" Amiga executable in to floppy drive
• improved external decompression support (xdms.exe)
• configuration save option is now available even after emulation has been started
• HD floppy image support in disk-tab

• 27.05.02 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) decruncher and keyboard features added
• 27.05.02 new: Hilt 2 (Scorpius Software) done by Asman
• 27.05.02 new: Zool 2 (Gremlin) done by Codetapper
• 27.05.02 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) misc changes
• 27.05.02 new: Hunt for Red October (Grandslam) done by Bored Seal
• 27.05.02 new: Gee Bee Air Rally (Activision) done by JOTD
• 27.05.02 new: The Games: Summer Edition (Code Monkeys/Epyx/US Gold) done by Codetapper
• 25.05.02 improved: Stack Up (Zeppelin Games) music delays added, colorbit fixed
• 25.05.02 new: Starians (Amigo!) done by Bored Seal
• 25.05.02 new: Peter Schmeichel Soccer (Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
• 23.05.02 new: Alien Breed 3D II: The Killing Grounds (Team 17) done by Psygore
• 23.05.02 new: Welltris (Spectrum Holobyte) done by Bored Seal
• 23.05.02 new: Octagon () done by Bored Seal
• 23.05.02 new: Apache Flight (Atlantis) done by Bored Seal
• 23.05.02 new: World Class Leaderboard Golf (Access) done by JOTD

This new Amiga version was ported to gcc and is now a mixedbinary which means that it can contain PPC-code.

Besides some other new features and improvements the player is now able to use tradeships for transportation purposes. Infantry, cavalry, artillery, settler and scounts can be moved by tradeships to yet undiscovered islands.

• NEW the sphere of influence can be expanded indefinitely
• NEW invasion with the help of a fleet
• NEW war can be spread over more than one island
• NEW scouts can reconnoitre uninhabited isles
• NEW settler can be send to uninhabited isles to found new cities
• NEW players can flee from bigger enemies to start some where else from the beginning

History v1.5 (26.05.02):
CHG: If you set 'Com=Command' to "" (empty string),
then no action button (named "!") will be created.
[suggested by Todd A. Oberly]

(23.05.02):
CHG: The value after "time: " now shows the time
since starting the download! Previously the
time when the file was last modified has been
used.

FIX: The "time: " value now also takes care of the
days part of the time, f.e. if a download
started before 00:00 o'clock, the time
was negative.

NEW: Added the magic-stackcookie, to ensure that
it get at least 16K of Stacksize! Shell
v45.6+ is needed for this!

NEW: There a now 2 executables in the archive,
one has a "_NoGuru" appended. This is like
the previous, it shouldn't cause a guru
if an error occured.
The other (w/o the suffix) has some checks
disabled, which reduces the filesize about
3000 Bytes and may cause gurus if an error
occured! The version string tells you which
version you have.

CHG: Removed shell arg SM=SizeMode, replaced by
AutoSize/T

NEW: New shell arg AS=AutoSize/T
If used (AutoSize = YES), the current size,
the filesize and the bps are shown in B
(=Bytes), if the size is < 1024 Bytes,
in KB, if the size is >= 1024 Bytes and in
MB, if the size is >= 1048576 Bytes!

CHG: Changed the gauge infotext a little bit.

CHG: Remove the alias EXIT for AUTOEXIT, it was
only introduced to use with AmiSat, till
AmiSat required FSwatcher v1.3+.