BY WAY OF EXPLANATION
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This release was originally intended to be 1.7.4, and was to have a limited subset of the features listed below;
basically those towards the top of the list.  However, things got out of hand and I kept adding more and more,
primarily as an excuse to have something to do other than finishing off the ProQuake messaging system.

By the time I decided to leave the messaging in a semi-implemented state for this release I had added so much that
I felt it was time to start bringing things together and get it out.  Unfortunately while I was going about this
Metlslime went and documented the FitzQuake protocol, so I just had to put that in too.

While all this was going on I had two other projects - one minor and one fairly substantial - on the go, both of
which remain unfinished.  There was also the small matter of the usual Real Life.

This was meant to be out AGES ago.  Sorry about that.

The decision to bump the version number was made because of the large amount of significant changes and new
features that went in.  I didn't want to call it 1.8 as I had, and still have, some very specific plans for that
version.  Someone had mentioned that I had missed the boat by not having a 1.666, so here it is, a version number
later.


DIRECTQ 1.7.666 UPDATES
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* Increased console buffer to 256k.
* Removed dosisms.h (unused).
* Added protocol selection to Multiplayer/New Game menu (included descriptive text for each protocol).
* Improved texture resource management slightly.
* Relaxed restriction on size of sky textures - can use 4x2 or upwards.
* Added v_gunkick cvar (default 1 to replicate ID Quake) and moved all kick control cvars to archive.
* Added bestweapon.
* Removed baseline updating from PROTOCOL_VERSION_MH (any demos recorded with this version may become invalid).
* Added +/-quick* commands to keybindings menu and removed ancient/rarely used stuff (keyboard look, look up, etc) from that menu.
* Switched gamma handling from mixed to pure GDI.
* Added say/team %l/%t/etc formatting (made it case-insensitive).
* Added ProQuake message parsing (quite crude and incomplete ATM).
* Added "vid_defaultmonitorgamma" command to revert monitor gamma to linear if it screws up.
* Modified COM_Parse to enable parsing of full lines as well as tokens (for .loc files).
* Added hud_centerhud cvar to control centering of entire HUD.
* Added scr_viewsize, gl_conscale, scr_fov and scr_fovcompat to video menu even in simple mode.
* Added comaptibility for DarkPlaces non-standard skin replacement locations.
* Fixed dynamic lights were on models and objects even with r_dynamic 0.
* Implemented dynamic far clipping plane depending on map size.
* Adjusted dynamic far clipping to work off dimensions of current view.
* Reworked sky and sky fog for compatibility with variable far clipping plane; same appearance at all values.
* Switched 2D stuff to D3DFVF_XYZRHW for extra performance.
* Adjusted r_dynamic so that values != 0 are now a scaling factor for dynamic lights.
* Removed W Buffer.
* Restored r_shadows mode.
* Added d3d_infodump command to generate info about current state and driver for further analysis.
* Fixed bug where an empty centerprint used to explicitly clear the previous one wasn't doing so.
* Added "inc" command from FitzQuake.
* Added "lastweapon" command to switch to last used weapon (added to keybindings menu).
* Added ability to run DirectQ from any folder (not just your Quake folder) (limited in released version).
* Restored original default gamma range.
* Removed several stupid hacks that should not be needed any more.
* Added r_overbright cvar to control overbrighting; default 1, valid values 0, 1, 2.  0 == default GLQuake.
* Definitively fixed r_fullbright 1 mode.
* Corrected oversaturation of lumas for different values of r_overbright.
* Cleaned out lots of weird and horrible code in the menu system.
* Bumped version number to 1.7.666.
* Added vsync control via vid_vsync cvar; default 0 (vsync off).
* Compiled for Windows 2000+ Compatibility.
* Switched missing gfx.wad error message to something more friendly.
* Standardised some startup calls with SDK examples.
* Corrected handling of Ortho and Perspective matrixes so that they now multiply the previous value in the matrix.
* Reworked fullbright handling to work correctly with custom colormaps that don't contain fullbright entries.
* Reworked lighting ranges to be even more accurate to the Quake colormap.
* Restored gl_texturemode command and options as in GLQuake.
* Added cmdlist, cvarlist and cmdcvarlist to dump commands and/or cvars to console or file.
* Relaxed restriction on external luma textures requiring to have luma texels in the native texture.
* Rewrote lightmap handling and evicted a lot of horrible code.
* Restored original software Quake and GLQuake 'm' lightstyle of 256 (was 264 for ('m' - 'a') * 22).
* Removed gl_flashblend (again!)
* Made r_fullbright consistent with different values of gl_overbright.
* Disabled vid_restart at a disconnected console for release builds (graphical glitch city).
* Fixed alias model cache bug (new for 1.7.666, was not in previous versions).
* Resized initial memory allocations for peaks of a full run through all of ID1.
* Fixed crash with -nosound.
* Changed default underwater warp speed to more closely match software Quake.
* Implemented FitzQuake protocol 666.
* Implemented better fix for buffer overflow/memory access violation in PF_VarString.
* Added r_filterrefresh cvar to prevent slow gfx cards from bottlenecking when everything else is fast (default 0).
* Added r_waterwarp 2 mode for projection matrix waterwarps (also used if RTT warp is unavailable).
* Switched game timer from QueryPerformance functions to multimedia timer (evil on x64 and multi-core).
* Restored Draw_DebugChar.