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Vampyre Imaging Library 0.26.0 was finally released few days ago. There are many canvas enhancements and support for 3Dc compressed formats. More info and downloads at project's homepage: http://imaginglib.sourceforge.net

I'm planning revamping this whole site. Maybe creating some sort of simple CMS myself or just some better way to handle projects. I don't enjoy coding in PHP but there's not much choice. I hope to get it done during September.

New version of my Imaging library was released today. Check out the project homepage: http://imaginglib.sf.net

There has been no news for quite some time. This will change! Or maybe not.

Imaging 0.24.2 patch will hopefully be released soon (waiting for Lazarus 0.9.24 since there is LCL change that breaks Imaging's LCL support for older Lazaruses). More about new Imaging can be found at its homepage. I also plan to release OpenJPEG (JPEG 2000 library) for Pascal independent on Imaging for those who just want JPEG 2000 for their programs.

I will (have to) start working on my Master's thesis in very near future so you may expect some demos soon (terrain rendering stuff again).

Version 0.24.0 of Imaging has been released!

Main news/changes in 0.24.0:

• New image file format support: GIF (native), TIFF (libtiff), PSD (native).
• New image data format: BTC (block truncation coding).
• File format compatibility fixes (for BMP, JPEG, and DDS) and platform/compiler support fixes (Win64, UNIX, FPC, ...).
• Bug fixes and some enhancements (buffered file IO, ...).

Vampyre Imaging Library Homepage with news and downloads
Imaging Forum with more news
Imaging Info here in Projects section

There is a new beta of Earth Under Fire. Several bugs were fixed, libraries used by the game were updated to current versions, and the game now supports multisample antialiasing.

Find more on Earth Under Fire page in Projects section.

I've just created page in Projects section about my entry for PGD 2007 Compo named Domains Of Chaos.

Check it out here: Domains Of Chaos Page.

The game I have been working on for Chaos Concept was finally released. If you liked old XCOM games you may like this one as well. It has geoscape mode with base building, research, ufo interceptions etc. and turn based tactical missions just like XCOM.

UFO: Extraterrestrials homepage: http://www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/
UFO at Gamers Gate (digital download for EU and rest of the globe except North America): Gamers Gate UFO page
UFO at Matrix Games (digital download for North America): Matrix Games UFO page
Boxed version will be available in few weeks.

Now working on first patch ...

I have added new page to Projects section called My Libs And Units. I will be putting various small libraries and units I write and use here. There is only DirectMusic MIDI player now but I am going to refactor/update/clean some other stuff that can be posted here.

There is a new competition on Pascal Game Development and I am in. Last year I won third place with Earth Under Fire but this year looks tough. I'll be posting info about my entry here.

End of January is here and as I wrote in the last post - Imaging 0.22 is ready. I wrote about new stuff earlier so I just put some links here:

Again, the Year variable has incremented. Current value is 2007. I'm going to release Imaging 0.22 with Extras package in late January or early February. There are only few finishing touches needed but I don't have much time now (many exams at uni). Later I plan to devote some time to update Earth Under Fire, maybe even create 1.0 version and close it. Next I want to brush up on Python (but with my Delphi module containing Imaging and other stuff) and create simple Chaos remake with multiplayer over the Internet. More info on this later.

There is also a commercial app in Delphi we are starting with friend. And Ufo: Extraterrestrials game is about to be released soon (I hope) so I expect subsequent patches, patches, and maybe even some patches. And I should pick up some theme for my Master's thesis soon and do some stuff for it. Well, looks like a busy year, [sigh].

And now for something completely different:

This is something you don't see every day. I met this herd of polar ostriches few days ago. Scary bunch.