v3.1.1 Changes...

Bug fix.  Windows only.  Corrected an intermittant memory leak and Windows system
resources leak that occurred when drawing some special icons such as casualty
markers, ATGM launch signatures, entrenchments, mines, and smoke clouds.

v3.1.1 Changes...

Bug fix. Mac & Win.  M1IP tank gun was labeled as 120mm rather than 105mm.

Bug fix.  Mac &  Win. Program would enter an infinite loop if "Do Game Runout" 
lasted more than six game clock hours.

Bug fix.  Win only.  Windows version would allow helos to land (and unload) in 
water during combat phase.  Mac version only allowed this during orders phase.  
This was the source of some recent sync problems and missing units in v3 Mac 
vs Win games since a delayed order to unload into water would be obeyed in 
Win version, thus leading to instant unexplained loss of the unloaded unit in Win 
version but not in Mac version.

v3.1.0 Changes...

User Request.  Mac & Win.  Added four units:  M1IP tank, M1A1 tank, M1A1HA 
tank, M1A2SEP tank and added a new 120mm gun record for each of above.

User Request. Mac & Win.  Increased max useful range of M1A2 tank 120mm 
gun from 3200 meters to 3500 meters.

User Request.  Mac & Win.  Added M88E1 Armored Recovery Vehicle.  The M88 
currently in the TacOps data base was unable to tow the heavier M1 tank 
models.

User Request.  Mac & Win.  Added M1070HET with M1000 Semitrailer to provide 
a tank transport capability in the game.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win.  Tweaked the probability modifiers for the following 
weapons 115mm Gun+, 115mm Gun, 20mm Gatling, 100mm AT Gun, and 
125mm AT Gun.

Bug Fix. Mac & Win.  Deleted use of arrow keys to adjust map position of units 
one pixel at a time during setup turn.

Bug Fix. Mac only. If a Type2 map was stored somewhere other than the factory 
default location, the program would fail to load it even after asking the user to 
manually locate the map. 

Bug Fix. Mac & Win. Increased weights of M1A2 AND M1A2SEP tanks to 63,086 
kg.

Bug Fix. Mac & Win.  Increased cargo capacity of US and OPFOR Landing Craft 
Air Cushion (LCAC) vehicles from 58957 kg to 68040 kg.

Bug Fix. Mac & Win.  Increased cargo capacity of US and OPFOR Medium 
Landing Craft from 54762 kg to 57500 kg.

v3.0.6 Changes...

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. The 25mm gun on the AAAVP was incorrectly listed after 
the Javelin ATGM instead of before it in the AAAVP unit data base record.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win.  Fixed bug.  Amphibious units in water would sometimes 
incorrectly accept orders to go into defilade mode.

v3.0.5 changes ...

User Request.  Mac & Win. Enabled the display of a color miniature situation 
map for both Type1 and Type2 maps.

Misc info.  Mac only. Changed minimum required memory allocation for TacOps 
from 6 megs to 10 megs.   Changed preferred memory allocation from 10 megs 
to 15 megs.

Bug Fix. Mac & Win.  Fixed a rather nasty crash bug courtesy of a saved game 
file from Chuck Bracy.  The bug occurred occasionally when a SAM shot down a 
helo that was carrying a vehicle in a sling and where the vehicle's crew was also 
embarked on the same helo.

Bug Fix. Mac & Win. Program would wrongly display a situation map when the 
full sized map was smaller than the user's screen.  In this case the situation map 
would end up larger than the normal map.

v3.0.4 Changes ...

User Request.  Mac & Win. Added a new type of map to TacOps - the Type2 
map - to facilitate the creation of new maps by users.  Type2 maps are fully 
cross-platform for Mac and Windows.  The artwork for a Type2 map is stored as 
an ordinary BMP file.  Thus Type2 artwork can be created and modified by using 
various popular art programs.  The non artwork data (the terrain coding) for a 
Type2 map is stored separately as an ordinary binary data file and requires a 
map editing utility to produce (available free from www.battlefront.com).  The 
artwork for a Type2 map has the following naming convention:  'Map' + 'three 
digit number' + 'c' + '.bmp'.  The non artwork data for a Type2 map has the 
following naming convention:  'Map' + 'three digit number' + 'c' + '.dat'.

User Request.  Mac & Win. A Type2 map may also optionally have an associated 
Map Legend text file.  This text file may contain up to 20,000 characters of plain 
text.  The contents of this file (if present) will be displayed to the user in a 
scrolling text box when the Map Legend menu item is selected.  To allow cross-
platform usage of the same text file whether the file was created on a Mac or on 
a PC, the Mac version ignores linefeeds (if present) in the text file and the 
Windows version adds linefeeds (if missing) in the text file.  A Map Legend text 
file has the following naming convention:  'Map' + 'three digit number' + 'c' + '.txt' 
and must be saved as plain text.

User Request.  Mac & Win. Moved the optional unit name text (if present) to the 
front of the title line of the Unit Orders Window.

User Request.  Mac & Win. Added optional drawing of unit names alongside the 
unit marker on the map.  The drawing of the unit names can be turned on and off 
by using the Tab key or by using a menu item.

User Request.  Mac & Win. Reorganized the major text reports to show info in a 
more consistent manner.  Also widened the reports windows.

User Request.  Mac & Win. Situation Report,  Logistics Report,  Ammo Report, 
Support Report - if a line in these report windows contains a unit id number in the 
format 'ID:x', then that line can be double clicked on so as to automatically open 
the Unit Orders window for that unit.

User Request.  Mac & Win. The Logistics Report and the Ammo Report now 
mark units with asterisks that have 50% or less of their ammunition remaining.  
These reports used to only highlight units with 10% or less ammunition 
remaining.

User Request. Mac & Win.  Ammo/Logistics Report now shows a statement at 
the beginning of the report, rather than at the end, as to whether any units in the 
report are below the 50% ammo level.

User Request.  Mac & Win. When loading a saved game file, the program will 
start its automatic search for the associated scenario file and  map file by looking 
first in the directory where the saved game file is located.  This simplifies game 
startup and file organization (i.e. allows one to easily isolate similarly named 
saved game files and orders files) for players who prefer to create a special 
named folder for each PBEM and CPX game in progress into which they have 
placed copies of the scenario file and the map file for that game.

User Request.  Mac only.  Sped up initial appearance of 'Add One Unit' window 
by pre calculating and then hard coding its alpha sorted unit name arrays.

User Request.  Mac & Win. Added more terrain info to the text shown in the info 
line at various places in the program.

Misc Info.  Mac & Win.  Shortened the Report Menu list by five items by 
eliminating menu list distinctions between blue reports and red reports.  Program 
can now deduce which force to display reports for.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. If a player interrupted the orders phase of a game session 
by saving the game and exiting TacOps, then when the player next reloaded that 
saved game file and resumed giving orders, the shift point restrictions for 
ongoing artillery and mortar units were sometimes ignored.

Bug Fix.  Win only. Program double printed optional unit name text in the 
ammo/logistics report.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. Windows version would sometimes crash or begin to 
display garbled graphics or begin to fail to draw some graphics if there were large 
numbers of small smoke clouds on the map and if two or more of these clouds 
were located consecutively in memory and if two or more of those consecutive 
clouds were removed from the map in the same 15 second combat pulse.  The 
same bug existed in the code for the Mac version but it did not cause a problem 
on Macs.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. When loading a saved game file, the program failed to 
automatically look for a needed scenario file in a factory folder with the same 
name as the scenario.  Example:  when looking for 'Task Force Craig.sce', the 
program would fail to extend its search to include the factory folder named 'Task 
Force Craig' and would then stupidly ask the user to locate the scenario.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. The program failed to disable the check box line titled '9  
No Enemy OOB Reports' in the Options/Preferences window when displaying a 
CPX map overlay file in which at least one side was protected by an overlay 
password and the creator of the overlay had set the overlay to not show enemy 
order of battle reports, 

Bug Fix.  Win only. The program would sometimes crash while drawing the Order 
of Battle report when displaying a CPX map overlay file when the creator of the 
overlay had set the overlay to not show enemy order of battle reports.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. If a unit was towing a damaged vehicle and if the towing 
unit lost a strength point, the towed unit would be instantly released/placed on 
the map with its damage repaired.

Bug Fix.  Win only. If a unit had five weapon systems, the Unit Ammunition 
Resupply window failed to show the correct maximum possible ammo load for 
the fifth weapon system.  The window incorrectly repeated the maximum possible 
ammo load for the fourth weapon system.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. Deleted French accent over the 'e' character in 'Guide des 
scenarios.pdf'.  The accent mark caused installation problems for Chinese and 
Japanese language versions of Windows.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. Program would sometimes wrongfully refuse to load more 
than one item on a landing craft.

Bug Fix.  Win only. Symbol spacing was sometimes off in the Unit Preview 
Window.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. Program would wrongfully remove from play a non 
amphibious unit that was stationary on a bridge, if the bridge was coded as road 
+ water.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. Changed lift capacity of CH53 helicopter from 33333 kg to 
14515 kg.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. Changed light anti tank weapon on Canadian Taurus ARV 
from AT4 LAAW to M72 LAAW.

Bug Fix.  Mac & Win. If a helicopter or a landing craft was carrying an APC which 
was in turn was carrying an infantry unit and if the user duplicated the helicopter 
or landing craft, the program would fail to duplicate the infantry unit inside the 
APC.

Bug Fix.  Win only. If the user selected a group of units and if the user then 
selected the Setup/Unload Unit menu item, the program would stop unloading 
the list of selected unit markers as soon as it encountered any marker that was 
not carrying troops.

v3.0.3 Changes ...

Bug fix.  Mac & Win. If a unit was towing a damaged vehicle and if the towing unit 
lost a strength point, the towed unit would be instantly released/placed on the 
map with its damage repaired.

Bug fix.  Win only. If a unit had five weapon systems, the Unit Ammunition 
Resupply window failed to show the correct maximum possible ammo load for 
the fifth weapon system.  The window incorrectly repeated the maximum possible 
ammo load for the fourth weapon system.

Bug fix.  Mac & Win. Deleted French accent over the 'e' character in 'Guide des 
scenarios.pdf'.  The accent mark caused installation problems for Chinese and 
Japanese language versions of Windows.

v3.0.2 Changes ...

User request.  Mac & Win. Added more terrain info to the text shown in the info 
line at various places in the program.

Misc info.  Mac & Win.  Changed code in several places to remove certain 
developmental level compiler warnings.  Unknown if the reasons for the compiler 
warnings were actual bugs or not.

v3.0.1 Changes ...

Bug fix.  Mac & Win. Program would sometimes wrongfully refuse to load more 
than one item on a landing craft.

Bug fix.  Win only. Symbol spacing was sometimes off in the Unit Preview 
Window.

Bug fix.  Mac & Win. Program would wrongfully remove from play a non 
amphibious unit that was stationary on a bridge, if the bridge was coded as road 
+ water.

Bug fix.  Mac & Win. Changed lift capacity of CH53 helicopter from 33333 kg to 
14515 kg.

Bug fix.  Mac & Win. Changed light anti tank weapon on Canadian Taurus ARV 
from AT4 LAAW to M72 LAAW.

Bug fix.  Mac & Win. If a helicopter or a landing craft was carrying an APC which 
was in turn was carrying an infantry unit and if the user duplicated the helicopter 
or landing craft, the program would fail to duplicate the infantry unit inside the 
APC.

Bug fix.  Win only. If the user selected a group of units and if the user then 
selected the Setup/Unload Unit menu item, the program would stop unloading 
the list of selected unit markers as soon as it encountered any marker that was 
not carrying troops.

