2020s
GRAFX 2.8 (24/03/2021)
New Features
- Load and save SymbOS SGX files
Improvements
- Amstrad CPC SCR loading: handle ConvImgCPC packed files
Fixes
- Fix licensing, all sources used in GrafX2 are compatible with GPL2 now (in previous versions there were some GPLv3 and some code of unknown provenance used in non-UNIX platforms only)
- Gradient ellipses tool could write pixels outside the image in some cases
- Fix canvas size when saving GIF files
- Many fixes to file path handling and unicode support
GRAFX 2.7 (01/02/2020) - 8 bits are alive !
New Features
- Allow relative directory bookmarks
- C64 pixcen .GPX format support (loading only)
- Amiga Extra Half Bright palette support
- Sega Genesis/Mega Drive drawing mode
- TMS9918 Mode 2 drawing mode (MSX, ColecoVision, SC-3000, etc.)
- Load from/save to network neighborhood under windows
- Support for loading the HP48 GROB format
- Support for Atari ST TNY format
- Support for Atari ST CA1 (CrackArt) format
- Support for Graphos (Amstrad CPC Plus) format
- Support for loading and saving autoloading C64 picture files
- Support for loading and saving autoloading CPC picture files
- Support for MSX Screen 2 pictures (.SC2)
Improvements
- keep mouse "captured" in window when the button is pressed
- Win32: process Horizontal wheel event
- Add tests to the automatic building process
- Joystick support rework
- Nintendo Switch port
- add support for greek and hiragana/katagana characters in file names
- many improvements in the documentation
- build with the latest versions of recoil, lua, libtiff, libjpeg, etc.
- Packbits optimization (used in IFF, PC1) for smaller files
- Rotate brush now uses angles from -179° to 180°
Fixes
- handling of keyboard mouse emulation + mouse panning
- Enable to close the application within dialogs
- properly handle negative mouse coordinates
- fix memory leaks
- fix GIF saving (see #125)
- fix loading of some unusual PNGs
New Features
- Allow relative directory bookmarks
- C64 pixcen .GPX format support (loading only)
- Amiga Extra Half Bright palette support
- Sega Genesis/Mega Drive drawing mode
- TMS9918 Mode 2 drawing mode (MSX, ColecoVision, SC-3000, etc.)
- Load from/save to network neighborhood under windows
- Support for loading the HP48 GROB format
- Support for Atari ST TNY format
- Support for Atari ST CA1 (CrackArt) format
- Support for Graphos (Amstrad CPC Plus) format
- Support for loading and saving autoloading C64 picture files
- Support for loading and saving autoloading CPC picture files
- Support for MSX Screen 2 pictures (.SC2)
Improvements
- keep mouse "captured" in window when the button is pressed
- Win32: process Horizontal wheel event
- Add tests to the automatic building process
- Joystick support rework
- Nintendo Switch port
- add support for greek and hiragana/katagana characters in file names
- many improvements in the documentation
- build with the latest versions of recoil, lua, libtiff, libjpeg, etc.
- Packbits optimization (used in IFF, PC1) for smaller files
- Rotate brush now uses angles from -179° to 180°
Fixes
- handling of keyboard mouse emulation + mouse panning
- Enable to close the application within dialogs
- properly handle negative mouse coordinates
- fix memory leaks
- fix GIF saving (see #125)
- fix loading of some unusual PNGs