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History of Tactical - The Tactical Starfleet Simulator ------------------------------------------------------ (1.00b) - First Playable Beta Release (07/19/91) (Tested by Stephen Lobrano) (1.05b) - Bugs in torpedos, pursue, elude, save game and (07/20/91) load saved game commands fixed. (1.10b) - Weapons ranges vary from ship class to ship (07/21/91) class, as does manuverability. Now, when firing phasers, you have a better chance of hitting if you are close to the target. (All three recommended by Benjamin Adams.) Bug in self-destruct causing wrong shield to be damaged fixed. Bug in phasers causing all phaser hits to have the damage they caused squared fixed. (No wonder it was so easy to destroy a ship!) (Tested by Andrew Palmer and Jason Dittmer) (1.11b) - Self Destructs may now be aborted. (07/22/91) (Recommended by Stephen Lobrano) (1.13b) - Bug in "Illegal Command" subroutine causing (07/22/91) unpredictable results inside of the scan command due to a conflicting variable fixed. Bug in screen displays causing two ships which are on the exact same Y location to have one dissapear from the map fixed. (1.16b) - Bug causing problems in Pursue, Elude, and (07/22/91) torpedo movement fixed. Bug causing stress damage to be displayed as other types of damage fixed. Bug in shield regeneration in which a starship with less than 10 power units in a certain shield arc will have their shields returned to full power fixed. (Tested by Benjamin Adams) (1.22b) - Bug in Distance subroutine causing ships to (07/23/91) be farther away in the computer's mind than they actually are fixed. Bug in phasers causing the wrong shield to be weakened fixed. Bug in Cargo where if you lose all the cargo in your ship, next time you are hit by a phaser or torp the program gives a division by zero error fixed. Photon torpedos and Plasma now move faster to make them harder to avoid. When you place ships, you will now be asked what heading the ship shall have at the beginning of the simulation. Cargo and Crew losses now depend on the superstructure of the ship rather than being totally random. (Recommended by Benjamin Adams.) (Tested by Benjamin Adams) (1.24b) - Bug in phasers hitting the wrong shields (07/23/91) fixed AGAIN, there was a bug in the fix of 1.22. Major bug in Plasma where Plasma torps are thought to be regular torps fixed. (How did I miss that?) Cloaked ships now much harder to detect. (1.27b) - Bug in phasers hitting the wrong shields (07/24/91) is REALLY FIXED now, I swear. Fire command shows disruptors now when you select to have a Klingon fire since Klingons have disruptors, not phasers (Recommended by Benjamin Adams). Bug in which ships having no torpedos and no plasma had torpedos listed on the initial fire selection fixed. (1.29b) - In the firing arc information on the main (07/24/91) screen display the "Pha" for phasers will now be a "Dis" for Klingons with disruptors. Also, there is now a yellow circle on the border of the main tactical screen which shows your heading, where the upper-left corner is 315 degrees, upper right is 45, etc. (Recommended by Stephen Lobrano). (1.30b) - Bug fixed in which an error occurs when you (07/24/91) try to fire at a ship which is in the same sector you are in. (Tested by Stephen Lobrano and Jason Dittmer) (1.50b) - ONE PLAYER OPTION ADDED. Bug in Pursue and (08/05/91) Elude commands fixed. Grid added to Tactical display window. Heading Changes no longer take up a turn (Recommended by Stephen Lobrano). Bug in which the fire command thinks your ship's weapon range is the enemy ship's range fixed. Bug which lets a ship fire at a cloaked ship fixed. "K'Tanga" class Klingon changed to "K'T'Inga" class (shoulda checked my booklet...) Program Split into several files to make way for one player option. (Tested by Benjamin Adams and Stephen Lobrano) (1.54b) - Bug in one player option in which the computer (08/06/91) stops starships when they get within 1000 kilometers of an enemy ship and then the computer keeps having them stopped every turn after that fixed. Bug in damage control routines in which if a ship's system drops below 10 unpredictable results may occur fixed. Bug in which a computer controlled ship may say "Pursing the" and no ship name fixed. New title screen added. Lefthand status window now updates during computer's turn. (Tested by Jason Dittmer) (1.58b) - Computer Controlled ships will now rotate (08/07/91) themselves to fire at a ship using the firing arc with the best weapons/shields. Bug in which random characters came on the screen when the computer fires torpedos fixed. Bug in computer controlled firing where a ship's heading becomes the heading the ship fires in order to hit the targer fixed. Computer Controlled ships will now retreat from battle or go to repair tenders if all their weapons or all their shields are destroyed. (1.60b) - Bug causing the ship shillouettes in the (08/07/91) shield box to be garbled fixed. Bug causing a ship's superstructure points to be higher than it was before being hit fixed. (Tested by Jason Dittmer, Paul Lim, and Benjamin Adams) (1.64b) - Bug causing the location of cloaked ships (08/07/91) to be revealed in the PLACE command and the ship selection subroutine fixed. The yellow circle around the tactical display showing heading removed during computer's turn. Pursuits and Elusions may now be "repetitive", where each turn the computer will automatically adjust your heading to stay on course each turn (Recommended by Stephen Lobrano). Text box no longer clears when a computer controlled ship fires a weapon. (1.66b) - Bug causing a "max range for that weapon is (08/08/91) (whatever) kilometers" to show up when you hit "Q" in the ship selection window of the fire command fixed. Bug in which your max warp speed shows up as 0 in the Warp Speed command fixed. (Tested by Benjamin Adams, Stephen Lobrano, and Timothy O'Brien) (1.75b) - Gorn, Orion, and Free Traders added. (08/08/91) (Thanks to Benjamin Adams for the starship data.) (1.76b) - The chance of losing a firing arc when hit (08/09/91) on the hull now depends on your superstructure rather than being totally random. (1.79b) - Bug causing ships firing a weapon which does (08/10/91) very little damage to do no damage fixed. One-Time Pursuit option eliminated. Bug in computer self-destructs causing the screen to clear and the word "hey" to appear (!?) fixed. (Tested by Timothy O'Brien) (1.80b) - Bug causing a number to appear in the text (08/13/91) if there is a tie game fixed. (Tested by Benjamin Adams) (2.00b) - SHIP CLASS EDITOR/CREATOR now available (08/14/91) for registered owners of Tactical. All game files re-structured for compatibility with the class editor. The display screen will no longer update when the computer moves a cloaked ship. (Suggested by Stephen Lobrano) (Tested by Benjamin Adams) (2.04b) - Bug in second page of the selection screen (08/15/91) not allowing you to select any ships fixed. Bug where you make a ship cloaked at the start of the game causing all other ships to be cloaked at start fixed. Bug in Class Editor Module not allowing Phaser range to be greater than 20,000 fixed. Ship Class Editor may now be invoked from within the tactical main program. (2.05b) - Title Picture added to Class Editor Module. (08/16/91) (2.06b) - Fixed bug in One Player Option causing the (08/16/91) computer to skip all ships which came after a destroyed ship. (Tested by Benjamin Adams) (2.11b) - Fixed bug causing overlapping displays in (08/17/91) the computer's movement display window. Bug causing computer to enlessly try to move immobile ships fixed. Bug in Class Editor Module not allowing you to make a defense outpost immobile fixed. Bug causing the screen saying that the ship is immobile when you try to move it to not work right fixed. Bug not decreasing your warp speed when you're damaged and your warp speed goes down fixed. Bug in designer not adding extra space to the class info line if the ship's number is below 10 fixed. (Tested by Benjamin Adams and Eddie Brown) (2.16b) - Fixed bug causing Repair Tenders made with the (08/17/91) Class Editor to not be able to repair anything. Bug causing "you're here already" to appear in the turn change after initiating repairs fixed. Bug causing "max range is (etc) kilometers" to appear during the computer's turn fixed. Gorn ships now are shown to have blasters instead of phasers because Gorns have blasters, not phasers. Bug in which Klingons made with the Class Editor were shown as having phasers instead of disruptors fixed. (Tested by Charles McCoy, Timothy O'Brien, Benjamin Adams and James Abbott) (2.17b) - Bug causing "file not open error" in Info (08/18/91) command (part of place command) fixed. (2.18b) - If a computer controlled ship is severely (08/18/91) damaged, not bad enough to self-destruct but bad enough to elude, and has no warp capability, it will fight to the death. (2.20b) - Warp Drive damage now depends on your hull (08/19/91) superstructure rather than being totally random. Firing arc damage now relies more heavily upon superstructure. (Tested by Timothy O'Brien) (2.21b) - Place command option which lets you make a (08/19/91) ship cloaked initially not working due to a bug fixed. (2.23b) - Bug in which the computer thought ships with (08/19/91) plasma were repair tenders fixed. You can no longer see what the computer is doing with a cloaked ship during the cloaked ship's move. (2.24b) - A computer controlled ship can no longer (08/20/91) pursue or elude a cloaked ship controlled by the computer's opponent. (Tested by Timothy O'Brien, Benjamin Adams, and Stephen Lobrano) (2.26) - First Public Release (08/20/91) Bug in Class Designer not letting you set a weapon's power or range to 0 fixed. Bug in Class Designer not updating/changing the range infoline when plasma/torpedo command is toggled. (2.27) - Bug allowing cloaked ships to fire fixed. (08/23/91) (2.30) - Place command screen display altered to show (08/24/91) the total WDF of all ships, the odds of winning for each fleet, the number of ships, computer/human control and fleet ship type. (Recommended by Benjamin Adams) (2.31) - Turn number now shows up on the main game (08/24/91) display to the left of the Range setting. (Recommended by Benjamin Adams) (2.33) - Ship Class Names/Classes can now be edited in (08/25/91) the Class Editor Module. (2.50b) - PLANETS, STARS, ASSAULT SHIPS, added. Command (09/04/91) to lower shields added. Transport command to invade planets/other ships added. Bug causing ships with torpedo power which is less than 10 to have torpedos which fizzle out too quickly fixed. Bug causing save game not saving torpedo data and turn number fixed. (Tested by Benjamin Adams, Timothy O'Brien, and Richard Peterson) (2.63b) - Bug in Class Editor causing the troop editing (09/07/91) to not work correctly fixed. Bug in class editor causing troop editing to alter shield power fixed. Problem with SHIPS.DAT causing class editor to give an error when saving fixed. Bug in info causing the wrong ship shillouette to be displayed fixed. Place command now checks to see if you are placing a ship too close to a planet. Stars now have a larger burnup range than planets. Begin Odds screen moved to BEGINGAM.EXE so there will not be that load delay. Bug in scan causing planet scan to switch to ship scan when you enter an illegal command fixed. Numberous bugs caused by conflicting variables fixed. Computer Controlled ships will now avoid burning up in the atmosphere of a planet or star. (2.66b) - Invasions/Boarding parties now may not be (09/08/91) sent while the transporting ship is cloaked. Bug in computer turn causing turn number to not update fixed. Game will no longer end until all enemy ships have been destroyed and all enemy planets have been captured. (2.69b) - Bug in place command causing planets to have (09/09/91) more troops or population than you set it to have fixed. Bug in planetary invasions causing enemy troops to have negative troop losses fixed. Bug in which game will still end even if the enemy still has planets for you to invade fixed. (Tested by Benjamin Adams and Stephen Lobrano) (2.71b) - When you invade a ship or planet, or transfer (09/11/91) troops to a ship or planet, the prompt now tells you the number of troops you have available. Bug causing "ILLEGAL COMMAND!" to not be cleared after it's display in the transport command fixed. (2.75b) - Bug in computer controlled ships evading (09/12/91) stars and planets fixed. Turn changer now warns you if any ships are getting too close to a star or planet. Transport command can now be aborted. First turn now turn 1, not turn 0. (Tested by Benjamin Adams) (2.80b) - Bug in which a computer controlled ship (09/15/91) which is trying to invade a planet keeps lowering and raising it's shields fixed. Bug in orbit routine causing ships to orbit the NW corner of the map fixed. Turn changer now tells you when a ship has entered orbit. Turn changer warning which tells you when you are getting too close to a planet is no longer shown if you are getting too close to a planet you are trying to orbit. If a computer controlled ship takes over a starship the computer must now send some of his crew to man the ship he secured. (2.83b) - Bug in place command causing ships which are (09/16/91) supposed to be orbiting a planet at the beginning of the game to not work fixed. Also, the prompt asking what heading the ship is to be at in the beginning of the game no longer shows up if the ship is to be in orbit around a planet. Transporter range extended to 5000 kilometers. (Tested by Jason Dittmer) (2.85b) - Bug in place command where if you place a (09/17/91) ship too close to a planet or star it tells you you are to close but doesn't say which planet or star you are too close to. You will also now be warned if you place a planet or star to close to a ship, or place a planet or star too close to another planet or star. (Tested by Stephen Lobrano) (2.90b) - Configuration system added, and all files (09/18/91) made compatible with the configuration system. (Tested by Benjamin Adams) (2.93b) - Bug causing configuration system to give an (09/19/91) error if you are not registered fixed. Bug in self-destructs causing them to do nominal damage fixed. Bug in placing planets causing them to be made as stars fixed. (Tested by Stephen Lobrano) (2.96b) - Bug causing the prompt asking how many troops (09/20/91) you wish to use in a planetary invasion to flash on quickly and then return you to the previous prompt fixed. Bug in place command causing planets which are supposed to be initially orbiting to not be orbiting fixed. Bug causing the game to give an error if player 1 has no ships at the start of the game fixed. (Tested by Stephen Lobrano) (2.97b) - Bug causing some DOS 5.0 users to have (09/21/91) a confliction with SCREEN.COM and the SCREEN command of DOS 5.0 fixed. (Tested by Paul Lim and Paul Taylor) (2.98b) - You can no longer leave something as being (09/21/91) Not Set Yet in the configuration program. (2.99b) - Documentation Re-Written and new command (09/22/91) installed at the main menu which allows you to read the documentation and the history file from within the game. (Tested by Scott Christen) (3.00) - Second Public Release (09/25/91) Bug in Class Editor causing lockups, file not found errors, and other problems being caused by a conflicting variable fixed. (3.01) - Bug in SHIPS.DAT in which the end of file (09/26/91) mark was left out causing errors in ship placement and the class editor fixed. (3.10b) - Entire game modified to support more than 9 (09/27/91) of each weapon type per arc (for Ferengi Marauder). Entire game modified to support Next Generation ships (coming soon.) (Tested by Stephen Lobrano and Benjamin Adams) (3.20b) - Random Planet/Star Placement System added, (09/29/91) so you can easily place a large number of celestial bodies. Class Editor now allows you to create stand-alone files, so you can trade ships made with designer with others. Bug causing star/planet listings to not show all the stars or planets if there are so many that a two page listing is required fixed. Bug causing damaged weapons to appear as '-5' weapons fixed. Bug causing computer controlled ships to have 'You cannot fire in that direction!' to appear on the screen due to the fact that damaged weapons register as -5 on the damage control fixed. Computer controlled ships will now self-destruct if they cannot move and all their weapons have been destroyed. (Tested by Stephen Lobrano and Benjamin Adams) (3.25b) - Class Editor Module now automatically sorts (09/30/91) ships by their type (I.E. Battleships at start of list, then Command Ships, etc.) Bug in which you can fire unlimited torpedoes fixed. (3.50b) - NEXT GENERATION SHIPS ADDED. Numberous Bugs (10/03/91) in the Class Editor fixed. Repair command removed. Now, you can dock up with repair tenders via the new "Dock Upon Arrival?" prompt in the pursue command or the manual dock command in the move command. Also, ships can now dock up with repair docks and be protected by them even if they don't need or don't want repairs. Numberous new non-next generation starships added, including several new ship classes, like Starbases (big repair docks), Hospital Ships and Hospital Outposts (injured crew and troops will be implemented in a future version.), Passenger Liners, Reasearch Outposts, Surviellance Outposts, Penal Outposts, and Command Ships. Thanks go to Benjamin Adams for all the new classes plus the next generation ships. (Tested by Stephen Lobrano) (3.60b) - Troops and Crew can now be injured, and (10/04/91) Hospital Ships & Hospital Outposts can now cure wounded troops and crew. Repair times now depend on your ship's damage. Bug causing computer controlled ships with no phasers to have very poor aim fixed. Several problems in SHIPS.DAT and NGSHIPS.DAT fixed. The shillouette of the NG Paine Class Frigate edited for more accuracy. Bug causing torpedoes to hit the wrong firing arcs is really fixed now. Bug causing docked ships to be able to do anything a undocked ship can do fixed. Bug causing errors in computer turn if you have an NG ship on the human player's side and an Original ship on the computer's side. (3.62b) - Bug causing scan command to lock up and the (10/05/91) Hospital Ship repair system to cause the computer to reboot fixed. (3.66b) - Starbases added for Klingons and Romulans, (10/05/91) and Spacedocks added for Federation, Klingons, and Romulans. Bugs in info command causing 'None' to be displayed in the wrong place and the wrong ship shillouettes to be shown fixed. Bug in Designer causing the most recently placed ship's shilluette to be erased when placing a new ship fixed. (Tested by Stephen Lobrano and Benjamin Adams) (3.75b) - Starbases are now planet-based, that is, they (10/08/91) cannot move, are located on a planet's surface, and have only 1 shield arc. Also, you must now lower the starbase's shields before you can invade a planet (or else the starbase will just destroy your invading armies). Starbases will also contribute their troops to the defense of the planet against invasions. Bug where the game was giving an error if player 1 was human and had NG ships, and player 2 was computer and had original ships fixed. (3.85b) - Artificial Intelligence modified to support (10/11/91) new docking system, hospital ships, and planet based starbases. Bug causing ships which cannot cloak to be able to cloak after being repaired. (4.00b) - Planets and Stars Enhanced, they now have (10/16/91) class types, climates, atmospheres, life forms, and more! Bug causing selector module to give away the location of cloaked ships in the pursue command fixed. Annoying bug causing really slow screen updates when there are alot of ships & torps fixed. (4.05b) - Computer Controlled ships which can cloak (10/17/91) will now wait until they are within optimum range before they decloak and strike, thus making their attacks more of a suprise. Computer Controlled ships will no longer stop moving if they get within 4,000 kilo- meters of one of their opponent's ships and that ship is moving. Torpedoes and Plasma both increased in speed, Plasma now travels at Warp 12 and Torpedoes and Warp 18. (4.06) - Third Public Release (10/18/91) Documentation revised for all new features since v3.01. (4.10) - Whole game revised where there are no (10/18/91) longer .SHP files (thank goodness!) instead there is SHIPS.SHL. Bug in class editor causing you to not be able to make passenger liners fixed. (4.11) - Bug causing game to say that you need to (10/21/91) register when making Next Generation ships even if you are registered when you have capslock on fixed. (4.12) - WHOOPS! The new class files were NOT added (10/24/91) to v4.10, or v4.11. The new files have been added so you really have the new classes now. (4.20b) - Torpedo Dispursion added, Manual Torpedo (10/25/91) Firing also added. Torpedo movement system in the turn changer now 300% faster than before, and max number of torpedos on the map at one time increased to 500. Also, CONFIG.EXE has been removed and the code put into TACTICAL.EXE (saving 40k). (4.25b) - SHIPS.DAT, NGSHIPS.DAT, and SHIPS.SHL are (10/31/91) now Random Access Files to speed up the game. Also, the turn changer now shows what it's doing as it does it (similarly to the artificial intelligence status screen). (4.30b) - Phasers, Torpedos, and Plasma must now be (11/12/91) reloaded after firing. (Reloading takes 4 turns for phaser, 8 for Torp). Also, the computer players can now use torpedo dispursion. Bug causing cloaked ships to not have their sheilds regenerated or to have their repairs updated fixed. (4.45b) - FLEET.EXE added and fleet selection system (12/03/91) now totally cursor driven. Mission game begun and roster system partially complete. (4.46) - MAJOR BUG CAUSING TACTICAL v4.10 - v4.12 (12/11/91) TO NOT WORK UNLESS REGISTERED FIXED! (4.56) - Bug causing torpedoes to disappear fixed. (12/13/91) Minor display problems in the scan command corrected. Bug causing error if you try to edit the configuration fixed. Designer bugs causing wrong record pointers to be written and lockups fixed. Bug causing divison by zero errors in the artificial intelligence if a computer ship is in the exact same sector with an enemy ship fixed. Bug causing string overflows causing un- predictable results fixed. Bug causing the screen to clear during the computer turn fixed. Bug in the starship datafile in which the Nelson and Bader scouts were messed up fixed. Problems with turn change screen display fixed. Computer Turn display now tells you exactly how many torps the computer has fired when he fires. Cloaked ships no longer wait for their target to stop moving before de-cloaking (in AI). (4.61) - Bug in which all ships pursuing a planet (12/16/91) are shown as orbiting that planet in the scan display fixed. Problems with turn change displays fixed. Bug causing changes in warp speed while pursuing a planet to cause you to break off course fixed. Bug causing troops to not be killed or wounded during hull hits fixed. Computer players now leave half their troops on a planet after capturing the planet. (5.02b) - NEW CLASS ADDED WHICH CAN FIRE WHILE (01/05/92) CLOAKED (The Klingon Unseen Bird class Cruiser). Designer modified to allow you to make cloaked ships which can fire. Last known location targeting/ course system added to allow one to fire or pursue the last known locations of cloaked ships (see docs). Bug causing computer players to self-destruct a ship which has no weapons even if it didn't have any to begin with fixed. New font added for EGA/VGA. Configuration system modified to allow you to quickly tell the computer the locations of all the system files, and modified to ask you the graphics capability of your computer. VGA title screen added. Bug causing a ship to move while in spacedock/hospital ship fixed. Transporters are now repaired by spacedocks/repair tenders. Shilloutes of all Next Generation ships edited for accuracy. Individual weapons can now be lost from a firing arc. Shield arcs now collapse when a ship is hit on the hull. Bug causing phaser hits on a ship who's shield has been lowered with the shield command to take much less damage than it should fixed. Turn changer removed from the GAMEPLAY.EXE file and made into a new file called TURN.EXE due to memory restrictions. (5.12b) - Bug causing registered owners to not be able (01/20/92) to control a Ferengi fleet fixed. Bug causing computer controlled ships to cloak if their weapons are reloading fixed. Bug causing cloaking devices to not be able to be damaged fixed. Bug causing computer controlled ships to chase each other in circles fixed. Bug causing Starboard to fire Port weapons and vice-versa fixed. Demo added. Save game command now checks to see if the filename entered does not already exist. Bug with "You may not edit a Saved Game" prompt fixed. (5.14b) - Map updates now occur in the demo and during (01/25/92) Computer vs. Computer simulations. Bug in turn changer causing input past end error in all turn changes fixed. (5.15b) - Human vs. Computer demo option now added. (01/28/92) (5.18b) - Planets not being cleared from memory after (02/12/92) quitting from game, causing planet corruption problems fixed. Bug causing endless loop if you enter an invalid filename in the Load Saved Game command fixed. Ships which you have already moved now appear as gray on the Select Ships listing. (5.28b) - Ships command now tells you the destination (02/27/92) of all scannable ships. Ships which have already been moved are now dark green on the map (and, in addition, ships which have not already been moved are light green). Bug causing all troops not sent over in an invasion party to dissapear fixed. Bugs in planet color buffering and in random placement of planets causing planet variable corruption fixed (fixing several planet related problems). Bug in planet invasions causing a player to not take over the star- base (if there is one) after capturing the planet fixed. Bug causing crew loss on starships (in the event of a failed invasion) to not cause loss of crew in the ship's datafile fixed. Bug causing a ship's emerg- ency warp speed to be less than crusing warp speed after taking hull damage fixed. Bugs causing display problems in the turn changer fixed. Bug in designer causing a change in a ship's torpedo strength if an invalid torp range is entered. Plasma ranges can no longer be edited. (5.29) - Bug causing the system to go nuts if an un- (03/08/92) armed ship is scanned fixed. (5.30) - Major bugs in class editor causing the system (06/16/93) to delete existing classes and cause serious damage to the starship data files fixed. (5.38) - Bug causing the game to crash when trying to (07/25/93) dock fixed. Bug causing the system which destroys ships within a dock when the dock is destroyed not to work fixed. When capturing docks, a player will now also sieze any ships inside the dock. Bug causing players to be able to move ships which are docked without undocking fixed. Bug causing the configuration system to not read files from the correct dir- ectories fixed. Bug causing game to crash when scanning a ship with no shields fixed. Bug causing computer player to self-destruct his docks and repair tenders fixed. Torpedoes can no longer hit ships within docks, rather, they can only cause damage to the dock itself. Some minor display problems also fixed.