2020s

GRAFX 2.9 (28/04/2024)

New features

• Loading and saving of Apple II GS file formats
• Loading of PI4 (Atari TT low resolution) and PI5 (Atari TT medium resolution) files
• Some support for high DPI display with the GRAFX2_RENDER_SCALE environment variable
• "Dawnbringer's toolbox" Lua scripts are now included in GrafX2 releases

Improvements

• New skins by Ilkke: Black and Klin
• Better keyboard handling in input widgets
• C64 file formats: handle unpacked draz paint files
• C64 file formats: show packer format and file size when loading
• CPC file formats: load CPC+ ConvImgCPC files and some other executable formats. When loading a raw SCR file (no loader code) or with an unknown loader code, show a window asking the user for CRTC settings and video mode.
• Palette merge automatically remaps the picture to the merged palette

Fixes

• Fix crash when saving TIFF images
• Fix glitch in input buttons showing text that should not be there
• Fix corrupt font rendering in SDL2 version
• Gradient rectangles with an exactly vertical gradient had the colors in the wrong order

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