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*1.9.0RC4* *r*
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What's new (heaps of things since 1.8.1):
http://www.pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml
Summary of changes:
- many, many fixes and improvements. The largest amount of changes
has gone into this release than any other pygame release.
- bug fixes for backwards compatibility issues introduced in pygame
1.8.x series. old games like solarwolf and libraries like PGU work again.
- experimental *camera* webcam module (still in development).
- experimental midi module based on portmidi and pyportmidi (99%
complete).
- experimental gfxdraw module based on SDL_gfx (including AA circles,
textured polygons and other goodness).
- python3, and python3.1 support mostly completed. Some modules still
remain to be completed - but mostly it's working.
- nokia mobile phone s60 support.
- improved OSX support (dropped pyobjc dependency, improved installer,
sysfont now works on OSX).
- pygame.examples + pygame.tests included with pygame. This makes
testing easier, and also makes learning pygame more fun and easy.
- cleanup of examples, and addition of new examples.
- new tools to aid in development of pygame itself, better compilation
documentation.
- py2app, and py2exe support improved.
Source code release (binaries at bottom of announcement):
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.tar.gz (2.2MB)
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.zip (2.0MB)
Compilation instructions for different platforms:
http://www.pygame.org/wiki/Compilation
After install, it'd be nice if you could do a self test with:
python -m pygame.tests
Testing that your games still work with pygame 1.9.0rc3 would be a
great help. Or test other peoples games if you want to help :)
Some binaries below... for the build page... anyone able to make
other binaries(nokia, windows python2.6/2.4 binaries needed)?
cheers!
See a list of examples...
python -c "import pygame.examples;help(pygame.examples)"
Run one of the 30 examples included...
python -m pygame.examples.aliens
RC4 binary builds for win/mac from the "The Spectacularly Adequate
Automated Pygame Build Page".
OSX 10.4/10.5/10.6 universal(intel and ppc):
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip
10.3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip
10.3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip
10.3MB
Windows:
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.5.msi 3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.5.exe 3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.6.msi 3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py3.1.msi 3MB
http://pygame.googlecode.com/files/pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.4.exe 3MB
Also missing nokia pys60 builds, and python3.1 builds for mac.
Binaries for linux/bsd distros (ubuntu, macports etc are generated by
them).
7071d72f343a5092cc7984fb4a198f94 pygame-1.9.0rc4.tar.gz
08d9a38ba95da95690d9b9a7308d46fb pygame-1.9.0rc4.zip
5927acbf5a4b10e25c201691a848755e pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.5.msi
b247a99c21d333c274809d37898fb213 pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py2.6.msi
62f2a0d27303b8dde524b575ad83022e pygame-1.9.0b04.win32-py3.1.msi
f9295406ab9d489dff728373d94f5401 pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.4.exe
ff48ff888923672f280d6c3c8d0db3e5 pygame-1.9.0rc4.win32-py2.5.exe
35867128358fc1679f8a0dd5ad8635a6 pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.4-macosx10.5.zip
1a79f4ef0cf87ece3872326b83e9c57b pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.5-macosx10.5.zip
d24bbc5d1bbcd4e8596b867f03cbb580 pygame-1.9.0rc4-py2.6-macosx10.5.zip