Finally, a new release!

[Joe Wreschnig]

So, I realize we're a week behind schedule on this one. Worse, there's
not much to show for it, compared to some previous releases. Mostly this
was a code cleanup and a "make it feel more like the arcade" release.
Not the most exciting things, but oh well.

Let it be known that pydance got secret arrows first. Shove a '5' in one
of your .dance files, hit it, and amaze your friends with impossibly
high scores.

You guys who don't play in the arcades are going to notice that pydance
got a lot harder by default (those who play in arcades are going to
notice that it feels like the arcade now). To get the old judge back,
open up the game options menu (hold select in the song selector), and
set judge back to 'Beat-Based'. You can also screw around with the judge
scaling factor, lower makes it easier.

http://icculus.org/pyddr/pydance-0.8.1.tar.gz
http://icculus.org/pyddr/pydance-0.8.1.tar.gz.sig
http://icculus.org/pyddr/pydance-0.8.1.zip
http://icculus.org/pyddr/pydance-0.8.1.zip.sig

0.8.1 - Standard caution on the Probulator
+ pydance, DDR 1st/2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th/Max2/Ex, Ex Oni, or Ex Nonstop scoring.
+ Regular, DDR Oni, and Pump It Up combo counters.
+ Regular or endless mode grading.
+ Beat-based (old pydance) or time-based (Stepmania-like) judge.
 ! Time-based is the new default judge.
+ Secret arrows added; these cannot be missed (although they can be boo'd),
  but still add (many!) points, combo counts, and so on. These can be turned
  off, not displayed but counted (default), or displayed faintly.
+ "Cycle" arrow fading in addition to sudden/hidden, as well as stealth mode.
+ Other game modes can be autogenerated from 5 panel steps (e.g. KSF files)
* Break and boost look much better now.
* Growing and shrinking hold arrows work.
* For people interested in working on pydance, the start of a HACKING
  file is included with this release, and the source is much cleaner
  and well-documented in many places.
- This release may be slightly slower on some systems; Psyco is recommended.
! pydance no longer loads or renames old pyddr configuration files and
  directories (You've had almost two months to move them).
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman at debian.org>
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