Release International Doom / Heretic / Hexen 8.0 (2024-10-06) · JNechaevsky/international-doom

This is a next major version with technical improvements and few eye-candy features.

Kind thanks to @rfomin for a lot of help with Visual Studio and insellium for raising the issue of Windows XP support!

Win64 version: compiled as statically linked executable, so additional .dll files are no longer needed and existing ones from previous versions can be safely removed.
Win32 version: still using .dll dependent approach, but now compatible with Windows XP.
_{Note for XP users: Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable for x86 systems are required. SSE2 compatible CPU is required as well.}

Significantly improved smoothing of "Diminished Lighting: Smooth" in TrueColor rendering.
Added "Palette Fading Effect" feature to make the fading effects smoother. This also affects berserk fade in Doom; Wraithwerge, Bloodscourge and poison palette in Hexen.
Added back "Sound of crushed corpse" feature, but now it's using stock IWAD DSSLOP sound.
"Items are tossed when dropped" gameplay feature now working.
Implemented intermediate brighter gamma-correction levels.
Added -levelstat command line parameter for Doom (thanks @kraflab, @fabiangreffrath and @xemonix0).
Added "Square Aspect Ratio" feature to Automap Setting (shamelessly taken from Woof! Thanks @thearst3rd).

Better sprite clipping for higher field of view settings and wider aspect ratios (thanks @ceski-1).
Even better precision for patch drawing functions on higher wide screen modes, Ultra-Widerpix854 32:9 wide screen assets now working correctly (thanks @rfomin and @Meerschweinmann).
Added dedicated "Speed On" mouse button, added names for mouse wheels and slightly reordered mouse bindings menu (thanks Dweller Dark).
Fixed sector's sound origin for large levels (thanks @kitchen-ace).
Gameplay Features pages can be scrolled via arrow keys when cursor is placed on < Scroll pages > item.
Improved coloring accuracy of Jaguar automap color scheme.
Other small technical improvements.

Path to GUS patches folder now may contain spaces (thanks @mikeday0).
Hexen: fixed possible incorrect save game deletion (thanks @mikeday0).
Heretic and Hexen: fixed incorrect automap line anti-aliasing when toggled in the game menu.

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