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A Timely Release of Bugfixes & Improvements

Every time I tag a new release, I vow to merge PIC and it never happens. (Edit: Update... It's been merged! AAAAAAA!)

Every time I tag a new release, I vow to do them more frequently and it never happens.

It's been a strange year.

I added silly images to the docs to make myself feel better.

long press menu to exit a game

Attention people with a final unit in your hands!

Your firmware was built against v0.0.8 Beta and that's where you should grab examples.

Your blit will also run Rocks And Diamonds v0.0.1 out of the box.

You're really going to want to familiarise yourself with flashing the firmware on your 32blit since the pace of development hasn't slowed, and we sadly didn't have something truly final to ship out with your units.

The feature creep has been truly real with this one, but every little extra step has been a truly killer feature and I challenge anyone to say the beta users haven't helped us turn the 32blit into a mind-boggling marvel considering it's just a wee microcontroller at heart.

Exciting things on the horizon

As if we haven't already seen more awesome things than we ever expected 32blit to do, the hard work is still not quite done.

PIC

PIC has been looming for too long now and it really is a huge, big deal for 32blit and it's the key that makes full use of the external flash possible along with some other cool things such as interpreters for script files (or.. cough.. dumps of games) and splitting the Launcher (user-facing main menu) out of the Firmware (gooey bits that make everything work).

See #435 for discussion.

Multiplayer

Another thing we didn't expect is multiplayer. Thanks to the hard work of @Daft-Freak I've got two 32blit handhelds talking to each other through a suspicious microUSB to microUSB OTG cable I acquired from a certain jungle-themed internet seller. Multiplayer is another thing that's been in the pipeline for a long time, and there's still a way to go with it- but it's coming!

See #320 for details and discussion.

Fixes

This really is just a small quality of life release with some key fixes and improvements.

  • System Status/Power LED now works on final units
  • Build tooling now uses .icns files in macOS bundles, oooh! (thanks @Daft-Freak)
  • SD card access is NOW EVEN FASTER (thanks @Daft-Freak)
  • Home+Reset and crash reset bug fixed, no more AAAH IT'S BRICKED? (It's not bricked) (thanks @Daft-Freak)
  • Folders starting with "." are now hidden in the browser so you can hide your secrets (or game data?) in there

As usual you can see the difference between this release and the last, here: v0.0.8...v0.0.9

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