New release

15.11.2022

Version 0.71-3 of jGameBase has been released.


New features

  - Updated C64lite to GBC17

  - Support for alternate emulator roms (GEMUS function "findRom()")

  - C64 VICE script now supports different fast loader roms (if supplied)


Bugs Fixed

  - Edit musician, even when "Photo" directory is missing

  - Creating views with years before or after fixed

  - When launching an extra as game the KeyValuePairs from the original game are used

  - When launching an extra as game all extracted files are added as items


Bug fix

24.10.2021

Version 0.71-2 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Finding a game's "file_to_run" in an extracted archive is now working

  - Shortcut "F2" for "Key=Value" pairs

  - New/Edit musician dialog now opens in front of other dialogs


Bug fix

05.06.2021

Version 0.71-1 of jGameBase has been released.


New features

  - Included GraalsJS because since Java V15 JavaScript is no longer bundled


Bugs Fixed

  - "key=value" pairs are case sensitive


Bug fix

17.07.2020

Version 0.70-4 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Corrected debian package dependencies for java jre


Bug fix

05.06.2020

Version 0.70-3 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed setting "enabled" flag on extras like GameBase does

  - Fixed bug exporting to mdb causing an error while importing in GameBase


Bug fix

22.02.2020

Version 0.70-2 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed bug displaying game most played in About dialog

  - Fixed display bug when using a dark theme


Updated GUI, game in separate process

24.11.2019

Version 0.70-1 of jGameBase has been released.


New features

  - GUI updated for font scaling

  - Fonts scalable via options dialog (requires restart)

  - Game emulators started in own process (GUI stays responsive)

  - Option to end running game when starting a new one


Removed features

  - Extractor plugin for 7z

  - Extractor plugin for rar


Workaround for "BROWSE action is not supported"

09.09.2019

Version 0.68-6 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Workaround if though the desktop API is supported the used action is not

  - Changed default picture viewer from "eog" to "xdg-open"


Java 8 to 13

25.04.2019

Version 0.68-5 of jGameBase has been released.


New Features

  - Updated libraries and start script

    => works with Java 8 to 13


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed missing transaction bug in "-releasedb" mode


Import fixed

25.01.2019

Version 0.68-4 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed import of Access databases with inconsistencies

  - Fixed step-by-step import via jToolBox

    (start the jToolBox with "jgamebase toolbox")


Java 10

15.10.2018

Version 0.68-3 of jGameBase has been released.


New Features

  - Updated libraries and start script

    => works with Java 10


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed NullPointerException in GUI


Import old databases

24.03.2018

Version 0.68-2 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed importing databases with old schema version 2.5 or 2.6 (e.g. VIC20 v3)


Java 8

03.02.2018

Version 0.68-1 of jGameBase has been released.


New Features

  - Changed minimum Java version to Java 8

  - Speed up of image loading by separating image loading per panel

  - Implemented cache for images

  - Updated libraries (derby, hibernate, etc.)

  - Applied patches from PaweÅ‚ Majkutewicz (thanks!)

  - Applied jSparrow suggestions

  - Added SPDX license identifiers to source code


Bugs Fixed

  - Reworked "Verify Available Files" GUI

  - Implemented workaround for problem in GTK look and feel (thanks to John Negoita)

  - First game file was not copied if it was not a zipped file and more media files were present

  - Fixed that derby.log would be created where user had no write access

  - Removed obsolete bug fix for memory leak in apple java 1.6


Bug fix, Bug Tracker

26.12.2015

Version 0.64-5 of jGameBase has been released.


New Features

  - C64lite is now based on Gamebase64 V14


Bugs Fixed

  - database export to MS Access (*.mdb) was broken


Bug fix, Bug Tracker

14.07.2014

Version 0.64-4 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - compiled with target 1.6 so that JRE 1.6 can run the class files again


Bug Tracker

  - the bug tracker on the sourceforge project site has been reenabled


Bug fix

27.06.2014

Version 0.64-3 of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - fixed a problem with current rhino (java-javascript engine) releases


CLI improvement, Bug fixes

15.12.2012

Version 0.64-1 of jGameBase has been released.


New Functionality

  - adding a database name and an item id to the command line will launch the specified item

        e.g. "jgamebase  c64lite  G726" will start "Benji - Space Rescue" and
        "
jgamebase  c64lite  M20544" will play "Another One Bites the Dust"

    Thanks to Jim Torelli!


Bugs Fixed

  - games spanning multiple disks are extracted correctly

  - fixed a problem with scaled down animations


GUI improvements, URL handling, Bug fixes

31.03.2012

Version 0.63-1 of jGameBase has been released.


New Functionality

  - overlays have versions

  - system views are now saved to the database

  - loading of images is stopped, if a new item is selected

  - scaling animations

  - icons with overlays for url extras

  - context menus for extra buttons

  - side pane slider positions remembered

  - selected item remembered

  - table columns remembered

  - category windows position remembered

  - screenshots: left click external, right click internal viewer

  - item id displayed in status line

  - marked extra displayed in status line

  - preference to limit the number of extra images shown

  - music details loaded from music file

  - extract additional media

  - download of url extras

  - rudimentary ADF plugin

  - memory usage optimized / use client JVM

  - reorganize database after import

  - remove duplicate urls

  - remove orphaned extras from database


Bugs Fixed

  - workaround for memory leak on OS X with java 1.6.0_29

  - views get sorted after adding new view


Pop up menu, mass import, Bug fixes

16.12.2011

Version 0.50-3 of jGameBase has been released.


New Functionality

  - Handling of URLs

  - Simple GEMUS to JavaScript converter in the Toolbox

  - Popup menu

  - Simple mass import

  - Automatic creation of screenshots

  - "Manage" entry in "Play Game" and "Play Music" buttons


Bugs Fixed

  - Hang loading screenshots

  - Problems while choosing a music file


Documentation, Bug fixes

09.12.2011

Version 0.50-2 of jGameBase has been released.


New Functionality

  - New documentation and homepage


Bugs Fixed

  - Accept "apple" as java vendor

  - Fixed a problem where the categories window got stuck

  - Fixed various display related bugs


Debian-Packages, JDK7, Bug fixes

27.11.2011

Version 0.50-1 of jGameBase has been released.


New Functionality

  - Release a debian package

  - Write messages to a log file

  - Made jGameBase jdk7 compatible

  - Splash screen and main window show version

  - Preliminary support for MS Windows


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed a problem loading bmp images

  - Database icon and splash can be image type other than gif

  - Database icon and splash will be searched for if not found


Support for GB1.3 Databases, new GUI

29.10.2011

Version 0.50 of jGameBase has been released.


New GUI

  - Scaling screenshots

  - Support for animations

  - Extras icon row

  - Included Java C64 emulator JSwingC64 and SID emulator JSidplay


Database

  - New DB schema (compatible with gamebase 1.3)

  - Automatic upgrade of database format

  - Import is now done via jackcess (all java access import) instead of via the external mdb-tools

  - Access export


New Functionality

  - Overlays are zipped changes to GameBase databases that are automatically extracted (e.g. scripts etc.)

  - execution of games/music via javascript


Bugs Fixed

  - Fixed adult filter


Stable Release

01.02.2010

A stable release (version 0.46) of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Size of edit emulator window corrected

  - Emulator script would be called with a doubled path

  - Files with wrong case were not found

  - Some existing files would not be found due to trailing spaces


Second Release Candidate Released

12.11.2009

The second release candidate (version 0.45) of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Added second import (fallback) method, so that Access databases with inconsistencies can be imported (e.g. GameBase Amiga 1.6)

  - Plugins didn't get loaded when started from jar

  - Fixed NullPointerException with ViewFilters

  - Fixed NullPointerException while selecting game file

  - Additional Extras got created in wrong path


New Features

  - Re-wrote the database toolbox: now you can import Access databases step by step

  - Separated jGameBase and demo databases

  - When no database was found a web browser with the download location of jGameBase databases will be opened

  - jGameBase version management has been simplified


First Release Candidate Released

26.09.2009

The first release candidate (version 0.44) of jGameBase has been released.


Bugs Fixed

  - Database hang fixed


New Features

  - The jToolbox is no longer needed

  - File System Hierarchy Standard (FHS)

  - You can now specify multiple paths for all objects

  - Default paths

  - Support for RAR and 7Zip compressed files.


Third Public Beta Released

27.06.2009

The third public beta (version 0.38) of jGameBase has been released.

After a longer time this release has nearly the functionality of GameBase. There are still more bugs, but we are getting close.


Second Public Beta Released

19.05.2007

The second public beta (version 0.27) of jGameBase has been released.

This release is approaching the functionality of GameBase, but has way more bugs ;-).


First Public Beta Released

15.10.2006

The first public beta (version 0.06) of jGameBase has been released.

Basic functionality is working, but compared to GameBase many things are missing.


 
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