Miniature/archive
Archived news
- 2010-07-12: P2P support available. Play against other Miniature users. Full changelog here
- 2009-12-21: Miniature learns to use animations (0.1.5-1). Miniature is now using exclusive features of Qt 4.6.
- 2009-12-20: Miniature got a bug tracker component, thanks to André!
- 2009-11-28: First bug report. :)
- 2009-11-27: Miniature 0.1.2-1 released for Maemo and Ubuntu with first Chess rules applied.
- 2009-11-17: Miniature available for your desktop PC
- 2009-11-16: A first & dummy .deb package of Miniature is available in Maemo 5 extras-devel.
- 2009-11-11: "(10:52:48 PM) mikhas: well, it's confirmed: Miniature runs on Qt 4.6, on the N900"
- 2009-11-10: Talk thread started: Miniature development: Play chess games online
- 2009-11-09: Miniature - it moves!, first blog post from Michael Hasselmann.
- 2009-11-08: First running example mimicking the "first realistic mockup".
- 2009-11-06: Code repository created: http://gitorious.org/miniature - source code exists since the beginning.
- 2009-11-06: First realistic mockup for playing basic online chess (portrait).
- 2009-10-31: First idea proposed in a Talk thread: Contributors needed: the killer free chess game for Maemo
Miniature for Maemo 5 (unstable)
Miniature 0.1.3-1 is available in Maemo 5 Extras-devel, a repository recommended only to developers. End users will do good staying far from it, but there is a launchpad PPA with irregularly updated Ubuntu 9.04 packages.
New features in the last version:
- Candidate UI to move pieces: one click to select piece, second click to select destination square and click to an external button to confirm the move. Pieces and squares can be changed at will before clicking the confirmation button.
- Checks are detected now.
- Backend fixes improving the responsiveness of the moves.
Features implemented in previous releases:
- Boot a screen in portrait mode.
- Display a nice-looking board.
- Set the pieces in starting position.
- Enforce basic chess rules except:
- Checkmate
- Stalemate
- Castling
- En-passant
- Pawn promotion (works in the desktop version)