TurboRisk History

TurboRisk History

Known bugs in the current release

There is a memory deallocation bug still not resolved. This cause the program to allocate more and more memory every time you start a new game. This bug is probably located inside the interpreter and not in TurboRisk itself. I will work at it. Workaround: close and re-open TurboRisk after a few games.

New features

Stats window now shows the color associated with each player.
Players' configuration window now shows the list of the available TRPs in a combo box.
For its scripting feature TurboRisk now uses the Delphi-style Innerfuse Pascal Script 3 (IFPS3) developed by Carlo Kok.
The new script engine introduces some interesting new features. TRP developers may have a look at the conversion.html document, which describes the main differences between the previous and the current scripting language.
The TurboRisk distribution includes a new program called TRComp (Turbo Risk Compiler), aimed at making the life easier to the users who want to develop TRPs.
Enhanced documentation, now in HTML format.
There are new API functions to use in scripts: CEntriesCount, CEntry.

Fixed bugs

A bug in the program caused the FORTIFICATION routine not to be called everytime it was expected to. In particular, it was not called after a successful attack which led to the occupation of a new territory. Fixed.
A wrong design choice in the architecture of the game supervisor routine made de program use always 100% CPU time, even when waiting for user input. Fixed.

Due to a subtle bug TurboRisk stopped calling the ATTACK procedure of a Computer Player after the OCCUPATION routine was called the first time during a turn. Corrected.
A similar bug happened when a computer opponent defeated a player and got his cards: if it had enough to make a set and get armies, the PLACEMENT procedure was called to place them, but the attack procedure was not called afterwards. Corrected.
The first time the players dialog box was opened after having ran TR, the "computer file" entry of the first player in the .ini file was changed to simple.trp.
The log message for the OCCUPATION routine was doubled. Corrected.
The log messages now say clearly whether the troops movement are due to the OCCUPATION or the FORTIFICATION routine.

SPlayersCount() returned always 10 instead of the actual number of active players. Corrected.
New function PProgram that returns the program file name of computer players.
New function URandom to generate integer/real random numbers
Wrong main map scaling for screen resolution other than 800x600 corrected.