2024, october 01. - General bugfix update

-Control C is now properly captured, to act as a copy hotkey (instead of killing the entire GUI system).
-Left and right cursor icon is fixed in the virtual keyboard.
-Keymouse hotkeys now accelerate when you hold them pressed.
-Removed broken Home hotkey from virtual keyboard.
-Added a new Escape hotkey in virtual keyboard.
-Added Select All hotkey to virtual keyboard.
-Added missing icons to right-click menus.
-Added icons to start menu elements (recommended by MiNiDOS).
-Attempted some tricks to remove phantom B: drive from drive list
-Lifted the 128 character paste limit in simple text boxes.
-Fixed a crash in file browser when copy pasting texts.
-Better system responsibility when loading preview icons of JPG and PNG files.
-Fixed missing text box decoration in file browser.
-Fixed a bug in file browser, causing DEL button tryign to delete files, when pressed in a textbox.
-Fixed a bug in file browser resulting wrong files to be selected in some cases.
-Fixed a bug: copy text boxes in properties was too narrow for translations.
-Fixed a bug in text editor, which resulted in failed selection clearing if everything was selected.
-Fixed a bug when clearing multiple line selections in text editor, and instantly selecting text areas.
-In text editor, fixed a bug which hides the content of the editor when certain text boxes are being displyed.
-Fixed some stability issues in the text editor.
-Removed old icon for console.
-Added compression icon for the compressor panel.

2024, december 01. - General bugfix update

-Decreased RAM usage by around half MBytes.
-Windows can now be moved or resized with keyboard.
-Fixed a bug when desktop was not getting focus, if closing every windows.
-Fixed a bug when auto generating backgrounds.
-Increased the speed of the program by 10%.
-Fixed a bug causing a small stutter once or twice in every second on slower systems.
-Double click on the window bar now toggles full screen mode for a window.
-Fixed a bug causing phantom click on the desktop when closing a window.
-Fixed a bug causing memory garbage when opening windows below a pinned window.
-Fixed missing icons for html, php, xml, doc, docx, sh, xls and other types of files.
-Implemented a faster algorithm to sort the files by date or name in the file browser.
-Fixed a bug causing file names below file icons to get shifted outside of the screen in some cases.
-Added Japanese language file.
-More accurate DOS kernel version detection.
-Image viewer can be toggled with space button.
-Fixed a bug in the camera program.
-Executable assignation to a file now will react to enter or escape keys as it should.
-EXE, COM or BAT files now can be opened from the "Open with" menu.
-Fixed a bug causing the display system to appear frozen after a double click, when the mouse button is being held.

Finally i managed to make XCOM work properly on old first gen SVGA graphics cards.
From now on, a random ISA graphics card in a typical 486 system should be ok to run XCOM with good color quality.

2025, march 07. - 8 bit fixes

-SVGA cards with 8 bit color depth are now properly supported.
-SVGA cards with 256KB VRAM are now supported properly.
-Fixed a bug when uploading 8 bit palette to the graphics card.
-800x600 at 8 bit color depth and 1024x768 at 8 bit color depth now works.
-Implemented pixel dithering in 8 bit graphics mode.
-Fixed a bug when changing to 8 bit graphics depth from a failed true color initialization attempt.
-Fixed a bug when rendering alphablended textured layers with certain colors.

I just wanted to chime in and let you know I appreciate this and actually use it on my test bench.

appiah4 wrote on 2025-04-30, 09:24:

I just wanted to chime in and let you know I appreciate this and actually use it on my test bench.

Thankyou.

2025, august 15. - general bugfix and new features

-Active windows title bar is now blue instead of black.
-Better selection of icons: from now on, when selecting elements in file browser or on the desktop, the selection will
work even if you click on the file name.
-Added new menu "Open all selected" in the file browser, to individually open multiple files at once.
-Right click menu is now a little wider on the desktop.
-Added new icons for some previously unrecognized file formats.
-Small improvements in measuring the CPU utilization graph when there is activity.
-Fixed a serious bugs in the chess game, now the chess is capable to play like a professional player.
-Improved picture viewer: + and - button can increase or decrease the image magnification size,
and WASD keys can move the magnified picture.
-Fixed the compatibility issue with some PIF executable descriptor files.

Wonderfull news! Thank you very much 😄

2025, december 20. - multimedia upgrades and fixes

-Fixed a bug in the sound system, resulting the audio resampling to be bugous, when the sample rate was not a multiple of the old frequency.
-Fixed a bug in the audio playback system, resulting distorted sampling when two loud audio files were playing simultanously.
-Fixed a glitch in the font system when measuring text length.
-Added new icon for the terminal.
-Fixed a bug when creating new large windows, now the window is positioned properly to be above the task bar.
-Fixed a coloring glitch on window elements, when resizing the window to larger size.
-Due to an issue, a single click could have started applications from the desktop in some cases - the bug got fixed.
-Fixed a memory leak when displaying multiple backgrounds.
-Added a terminal button to the taskbar.
-Frequently used buttons are removed from the taskbar, if the resolution is too small.
-Due to a floating point precisity glitch, scroll bars were causing glitches when more than a few 10 000 elements were displayed. The bug fixed by replacing float format with double format.
-Now when playing an mp3 or a wav file, the file will start to play instantly, without having to wait for decoding the entire file.
-Fixed a bug with the AVI player, causing the video to be stuck after the loading is finished.
-Added a missing icon in the file explorer to open directories.
-Fixed a bug with selections, when using the compact view, and the scroll bar is visible.

http://xcom.infora.hu/download.html

2026, february 12. - pre-alpha version for Linux

-Added support for 64 bit memory addressing.
-Fixed a bug causing some deleted window parameters to be duplicated into new windows.
-Missing visualisation of some activity on the desktop has been resolved.
-Fixed multiple window ordering bugs.
-Experimental Linux version is available for public testing.
-X11 emulation is enabled: only xlinks2 and mplayer will work, more complicated software will crash for now.
-Mouse acceleration now can be turned on.
-System sound volume can be adjusted in Linux
-Fixed duplicated My Computer entry in file browser
-Fixed a bug when clicking on window contents if the mouse cursor is being changed
-Fixed a bug causing left mouse keypress to repeat on long mouse press
-Fixed bugs with the virtual keyboard
-Fixed double click problem on program title bar
-Disabled problematic desktop animations when partially hovering on desktop icons above applications
-Fixed a bug with startmenu hotkey
-Added icons for webm format
-Partially redesigned the progress bar system when copying or moving files.
-Partially redesigned the error messages when copying or moving files.
-Picture browser now can move backwards to previous images.
-Various bugfixes in the terminal emulator.
-Enabled network management under Linux