Christopher J. Madsen

Registered users of GUEmap 1.x can also use development releases of GUEmap 2 until it's finished. The development releases are time-limited, and usually expire a few months after their release. Once version 2.0 is released, you'll have to upgrade or return to version 1. (Of course, people who bought a lifetime license will get 2.0 free.)

If you would like to be notified when new releases are available, please send mail to me with a subject of "subscribe GUEmap 2 announcements". (Registered users of version 1 do not receive these announcements unless they request them.)

Development releases will come in two flavors. Experimental releases are hot off the compiler and may have partially implemented features (not to mention brand new bugs). After it's been out a while with no problems, an experimental release may be reclassified Stable. If you want new features with minimum chance of getting hit by a bug, stick with stable releases. If you want to help out with the testing, and get the very latest features, try an experimental release.

Experimental: There are no experimental releases at the moment.
Stable: GUEmap 2.0 rc 1 (476k) (September 14, 2007)

For developers, the source code is available under the GNU General Public License.

GUEmap 2.0 rc 1 (source code) (160k) (September 14, 2007)

GUEmap 2.0 rc 1 -- September 14, 2007

GUEmap becomes free software.

GUEmap 2 alpha 25 -- September 16, 2005

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 24 -- September 18, 2004

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 23 -- September 15, 2003

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 22 -- October 8, 2002

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 21 -- December 22, 2001

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 20 -- July 1, 2001

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 19 -- December 30, 2000

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 18 -- March 1, 2000

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 17 -- October 4, 1999

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

First release compiled with Visual C++ 6.

GUEmap 2 alpha 16 -- July 3, 1999

Yet another stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 15 -- April 16, 1999

A new stable release while I work on the dynamic map sizing.

GUEmap 2 alpha 14 -- February 18, 1999

Can automatically place pages to cover the map.

GUEmap 2 alpha 13 -- February 8, 1999

Multiple page printing.

Right-clicking outside a room now produces a popup menu.

GUEmap now creates a backup file the first time you save a map after loading it.

GUEmap 2 alpha 12 -- February 5, 1999

Partial implementation of multiple page printing. All maps have 2 pages, and the page locations aren't saved, but you can drag them around.

Clicking on GUEmap when it's not the active application now activates GUEmap without doing anything else.

GUEmap 2 alpha 11 -- January 30, 1999

Reduced map size to 271 x 451 to fix display bugs on Windows 95/98.

GUEmap 2 alpha 10 -- January 28, 1999

Fixes zooming with Control+mouse wheel.

GUEmap 2 alpha 9 -- January 27, 1999

You can now search in room names.

You can zoom with Control+mouse wheel.

Miscellaneous bug fixes

GUEmap 2 alpha 8 -- January 26, 1999

You can scroll the map using the right mouse button.

You can hold Control to add rooms in a region to the selection.

You can fill paragraphs (to remove extra line breaks) in comments.

GUEmap 2 alpha 7 -- January 25, 1999

You can now zoom in and out while editing the map.

GUEmap 2 alpha 6 -- January 23, 1999

Finally! Something really new!

I've decided to go with a less ambitious new display engine. The map size is now 273 x 455. This isn't as big as I had planned, but should be large enough for any maps anyone's likely to want. (It's about 6.5 pages wide by 8.5 pages high, or more than 50 times the area of GUEmap 1.)

GUEmap 2 alpha 5 -- December 19, 1998

Minor update to alpha 4 to provide a stable version while I work on the new display engine.

GUEmap 2 alpha 4 -- May 19, 1998

Updates alpha 3 with the changes from version 1.01

GUEmap 2 alpha 3 -- April 14, 1998

Reduced the map size to 51 x 86, which is the maximum Windows 95 can handle before it throws up its little hands and says "I can't count that high!" If you're using NT, you can stick with alpha 2. Maps from alpha 2 can be loaded by alpha 3, if they aren't bigger than 51 x 86.

GUEmap 2 alpha 2 -- April 13, 1998

Fixed Comments dialog (broken in alpha 1)

GUEmap 2 alpha 1 -- April 11, 1998

First alpha release of GUEmap 2.

Increases the map size from 42x53 to 500x500 and the room limit from 255 to 65535. This should be enough for most maps. :-) Note that you can only print the upper left corner of the map. (This will be fixed before version 2.0, but I don't know when.)

There are no additional features planned for version 1. I will fix bugs if necessary, and I may add some minor features, but all significant new features will go into version 2. Features are listed more or less in the order I plan to implement them.

For version 2.0

• Dynamically sized maps spanning multiple pages
• The ability to zoom in and out on the map
• The ability to reformat comments to remove unwanted CRs.
• The ability to search room names as well as comments
• The ability to export maps in PostScript format
• Speed buttons for special connections (up/down/in/out/etc.)
• The ability to edit connection properties

For subsequent versions

• Indicate lit/dark rooms
• Make navigation mode turn your lamp on or off, or just avoid dark rooms
• A comments window that displays all room comments at the same time
• The ability to print out room comments
• Variable size rooms