-Platforms: **Windows x86-64** and **Linux x86-64 (including Steam Deck)**.
-Region: **NTSC-U (US) only**. See [Known issues](#known-issues).
+Platforms: **Windows x86-64** and **Linux x86-64 (including Steam Deck)**, plus
+an **experimental macOS Apple Silicon** download (not notarized; see
+[Running it](#running-it)). Region: **NTSC-U (US) only**. See [Known issues](#known-issues).
## Highlights
-This is the first release since v0.4.0. It includes everything that was
-staged as v0.4.1, which was never published on its own.
+This release is v0.5.0 plus frame rates above 60, an experimental macOS port
+and a batch of fixes.
-- **2-4 player split-screen.** The game's multiplayer runs with a pad per
- player, on every map, with each seat keeping its own controls.
-- **One options menu.** The file-select **PC Options** entry and the F10 overlay
- are now the same menu, laid out like the Perfect Dark PC port's, with
- checkboxes, sliders and dropdowns. The game's own crosshair is the mouse
- pointer, long pages scroll, and a tip explains the selected option.
-- **The game's N64 control styles, per player.** Pick **Original** to use the
- game's own styles 1.1-2.4; each seat keeps its own, saved with the Bond file.
-- **Emulator saves load directly.** Copy a Project64, mupen or 1964 save in as
- `data/ge007.eep` and it is converted on first launch.
-- **Fog and haze closer to the N64.** Ground fog no longer chunks away tile by
- tile, the sky fades into fog at the horizon, and the haze around Bond stays
- steady as he moves. A new **Fog distance** setting (100-800%, 100% = N64) is separate
- from Draw distance, and both apply live.
-- **Fixes you can see:** the Dam ending camera swivels onto Bond as on the N64,
- and rockets no longer pass
- through the ground.
-- **New settings:** an optional always-on crosshair, a custom
- crosshair colour (0-255 RGB, like the Perfect Dark port), fullscreen mode,
- center window, crosshair opacity and crosshair colour by health, a scalable
- HUD overlay, and an optional update check (off by default).
+- **Frame rates above 60.** The *Frame rate cap* (`Video.FpsCap`) now offers
+ **90, 120 and 144**, and an **Auto** setting that matches your display's
+ refresh rate (up to 144). Auto is the default on fresh installs; an existing
+ `ge007.ini` keeps its value. Extra frames are blended between game ticks, so
+ the game still simulates at its original rate. It costs one game tick of
+ extra latency, does nothing on a 60 Hz display, and the *Original N64*
+ display mode caps at 60. This is my rework of f1zz1ec0ke's #137.
+- **macOS on Apple Silicon (experimental).** There is now a
+ `macos-arm64` download (or build from source; see `docs/building.md`). Based
+ on danturn's #95. A 21-level campaign sweep and live sessions ran without
+ crashes on one M3 Mac, but it has not had the wider testing the Windows and
+ Linux builds have, and the download is not notarized. Test reports are very
+ welcome.
+- **Fixes you can see:** geometry vanishing when you stand against a wall
+ (#150), the Cradle catwalk shadow flicker, stale pixels beside the
+ native-widescreen picture on front-end screens, and the first launch opening
+ on the wrong monitor (#151).
+- **Crash fixes:** the Linux end-credits crash (#152) and a crash when a guard
+ spawned wearing a hat (#153).
-Played on Windows and Steam Deck: campaign spot-checks, 2-4 player split-screen
-and controller-only sessions.
+Checked on PC at 120 Hz with VSync on a G-Sync display, and on the Steam Deck
+at 90 fps.
---
## What's new
-### Options menu
+### Frame rate
-- Six sections in the Perfect Dark port's order: Video, Audio, Mouse,
- Controller, Key Bindings and Game. **Display mode** is a dropdown; **Backspace** goes back.
-- The F10 overlay and FPS counter are the same on-screen size in the front end
- and in a level, and **Game.HudScale** scales them with the in-game HUD.
- Sliders and arrows are drawn smooth at any window size.
-- The OS cursor stays visible over the overlay (no main-menu flicker),
- right-click goes back, and the tip follows the hovered row.
-- Clearer wording: 27 menu-wording edits, sliders with real units (percent,
- frames, seconds, pixels), wrapped tips, one `Key: Action` hint style and
- consistent names (Original / Extended, "Original layout"). *Skip intro* and
- *All unlocked* are no longer marked experimental, and *All unlocked* applies
- live. The game's own *Look up/down* row is gone; use *Invert look* on the
- Mouse and Controller pages.
+- **Auto, 90, 120 and 144** join 30 and 60 in the F10 *Frame rate cap* row.
+ Above 60 the port draws extra frames between game ticks by blending the
+ previous and current frame. It only applies when the display is faster than
+ 60 Hz; on a 60 Hz display nothing changes.
+- A fresh install uses **Auto**, so a 90 Hz screen runs at 90 and a 144 Hz
+ monitor at 144. The *Original N64* display mode sets the cap to 60.
+- A fast camera turn, or a large change in what is on screen, falls back to a
+ full frame instead of a blend.
+- The Steam Deck at 90 is good on most levels (see the known issues).
-### Controls
+### macOS (Apple Silicon, experimental)
-- **Control style:** **Ext** (this port's scheme, unchanged) or **Original**
- (the game's N64 styles 1.1-2.4), chosen per seat.
-- The Xbox-release presets (1.1 Jinx, 1.2 Christmas, 1.3 Frost, 1.4 Elektra)
- and Custom rebinding carry over. Preset names refer to the Xbox
- release's control styles; this project is not affiliated with Microsoft or Rare.
-- The right stick aims and the D-pad strafes, as on the N64; the Xbox
- release's "left stick aims the crosshair" and "D-pad copies the left stick"
- behaviours are not reproduced.
-- New profiles default to Crouch Toggle and Look ahead off (it fights mouse look
- on PC). Existing untouched empty save folders get the same on first play;
- played or customised profiles are not changed.
+- On arm64 macOS the N64 address window sits at a high host base (set
+ automatically by CMake). The 64-bit address fixes this needed (textures,
+ input, animation and multiplayer crashes) are in the shared code and have no
+ effect at base 0 on Windows and Linux.
+- Build from source with Homebrew's GNU `gcc`; there is no download. The
+ x86_64 macOS code (Julio C. Rocha's #88) is in the tree but was never
+ verified on Intel hardware.
-### Saves
+### Settings and diagnostics
-- An emulator-format `data/ge007.eep` is converted on first launch (the
- original is kept as `ge007.eep.emulator.bak`). The converter `eep_convert.py` still does explicit two-way conversion.
- (Live playtest owed.)
-
-### Picture and settings
-
-- Fog and near-plane clipping closer to the N64 (details under the technical
- section below). Forced aspect ratios letterbox/pillarbox without re-cropping
- the play area.
-- Draw and LOD distance default to 2.0x (N64 = 1.0x), stick deadzone to 25%,
- mouse sensitivity maximum is 4x. **FOV** is vertical degrees, 30-90, with
- 60 = the N64 view. "Guard AI uses full wide view" is now **Gameplay view
- area** (Original / Extended). Old values migrate once; existing `ge007.ini`
- files still load.
-
-### Window and updates
-
-- The title bar is static (the FPS readout is still in the F10 overlay) and
- the window/taskbar icon is a new project mark.
-- **Check for updates** (Game, **off by default**): when on, one HTTPS request
- to GitHub per launch and an "Update available" row linking to the releases page.
-
-### Also new since v0.4.0
-
-- **Split-screen multiplayer** for 2-4 players, played live in 2P on every
- multiplayer map and in 4P on Temple.
-- Controller presets and rebinding, PlayStation and Nintendo button names,
- master volume and audio-device selection.
-- A steady 60 fps on low-end GPUs (tested on an Intel HD 3000 laptop).
-- Fidelity fixes checked against the N64 game: AI visibility at long draw
- distances, sniper zoom, turret pacing, Dam/Caverns water, weapons.
-- Fixes for reported issues: fire rate (#114), the tank-crush sound loop
- (#115), tank movement (#116), weapon sway (#117), recoil on some GPUs (#118)
- and light fixtures that didn't react to shots (#119).
+- The old front-end **Velocity** pointer mode is removed; the retired ini keys
+ are ignored quietly (D574).
+- The Linux/macOS **update check** no longer fails on a response over 64 KB
+ (D575).
+- Every log line is also written to **`ge007.log`** next to the ini; the
+ previous run is kept as `ge007.prev.log` (D576).
+- F10 slider labels no longer end in ".." at HUD scale 150 (D577).
+- The crosshair look (colour, size, style, alpha, health colour) is your
+ preference and is no longer reset by the *Display mode* presets (D440).
+- The sound-effect and text-bank pointer guards check the real address range,
+ so they work at any address base (D573, #108 with italoarruda).
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@@ -119,12 +87,14 @@ and controller-only sessions.
|---|---|
| `goldeneye-pc-port-