Dragon UnPACKer Changelog

What's new in Dragon UnPACKer 5.7.0 Beta

• Updated licence to MPL 2.0 (from MPL 1.1).
• Added extra check in the extraction routine to avoid going past the end of file.
• Fixed many memory leaks (thanks to FastMM!).
• Fixed create list feature (macros can be upper-case or lower-case).
• Changed macros in the DUP4 HTML template (v1.2) for lists to upper-case anyway to be consistent.
• Re-factored the TDrivers class to stop using pointers replaced by dynamic arrays. Will be easier to maintain and less prone to errors.
• Also introduced DUDI v6 that uses a callback function every time an entry needs to be added. This is completely different than DUDI v5 were the core program calls the plug-in function for all found entries.
• Both the old DUDI v1-v5 & v6 methods are supported by Dragon UnPACKer 5.7.0+.
• New directory cache should be as fast (if not faster) than the old one.
• Note: Only main & ZIP driver were adapted to DUDI v6.
• Added FastCode & FastMove.
• Fixed support for multiple convert plug-ins during preview.
• Re-factored how TDrivers & TPlugins were global variables, now properties of the main form. Both don't access directly main form components any more and go through a wrapper command class.
• Completely revamped the logging features.
• There might still be some places were it misbehaves.
• Revamped the old "Look" functionality to a much easier to maintain and modify "Theme" (files in a folder for the moment).
• Not really nice with Delphi 7 but should pave the way to Lazarus.
• Added chained conversion from plug-ins to internal Vampyre Imaging Library.
• This allows for the plug-ins to just convert to .DDS for example and the chaining will also propose BMP, PNG and TGA with no additional work from the plug-in.
• Added direct internal Vampyre Imaging Library convertion of compatible files. For ex: .DDS to .BMP/.PNG/.TGA.
• Fixed the SetPercent callback function that was refreshing the component on every call, now it will refresh only if the value changed...
• This resulted in tremendous speed up for the loading of some formats, for ex: POD5 loading in previous version: ~17sec now: ~7sec.
• HyperRipper v5.6b:
• Fixed the sanity check on the BIK searching algorithm.
• Should avoid some false-positives.
• Fixed the memory leak for not freeing the TBufferedFS component:
• Switched back to using THandleStream instead of TBufferedFS.
• Free THandleStream but keep handle open and pass it to TDrivers.
• Elbereth's ZIP Driver plug-in v2.0.0 Beta 1:
• Updated to new DUDI v6. This means as of this version the plug-in requires Dragon UnPACKer v5.7.0 or more. It won't work with older Dragon UnPACKer versions.
• Changed to use Abbrevia instead of Info-Zip UnZip32.dll.
• Elbereth's Main Driver plug-in v3.0.1 Beta 4:
• Updated to new DUDI v6. This means as of this version the plug-in requires Dragon UnPACKer v5.7.0 or more. It won't work with older Dragon UnPACKer versions.
• Added support for Aliens vs. Predator (2010) .ASR file format.
• Actually support for both uncompressed & compressed Asura files.
• Almost all files in the game use those formats (.EN/.GUI/etc..).
• If you have smart format activated (which you should) it will load them automatically.
• Please note the compressed Asura files are slow to load & to extract from but there is nothing I can do (the format is not foreseen for random read access).
• Added support for Star Wars Starfighter .PAK file format.
• Added support for The 7th Guest .GJD file format. (This never worked in drv_11th...)
• Added support for The 11th Hour .GJD file format. (No activation needed)
• Added sanity checks to Terminal Velocity .POD format.
• Removed Elbereth's The 11th Hour Driver plug-in.
• Not needed anymore, features merged in drv_default v3.0.1 Beta 3.
• Duppi v3.4.0:
• Updated to work with Indy 9 instead of Curl.
• This means a full Delphi implementation with no need for DLLs.
• It is also compatible with Lazarus (Indy 9 & 10 were ported to Lazarus).
• Now compiled with FastMM4, FastCode & FastMove.
• Default Conversion plug-in v2.2.1:
• Added Ghostbusters: The Video Game .TEX to .DDS
• Based on Ghostbusters texture converter C++ code by Jonathan Wilson Published in 2010.