Septerra Core for Windows (x86)
Version 1.04.0.13

Original Septerra Core version 1.04 is required for playing.
(version from GOG.com can be used for playing)

Installation
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Install game (or copy installed game from another computer).
Put files from this archive into the installed game's directory.
Run SR-Septerra.exe in the installed game's directory.

Configuration
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Configuration is stored in the file Septerra.cfg.


Controls
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The game can use gamepad or joystick to emulate mouse and keyboard, if it's enabled in the configuration file.

Controller mappings can be added using file gamecontrollerdb.txt.

Gamepad / joystick controls:
Analog stick/pad: mouse movement
Digital stick/pad: up/down/left/right arrow key
A/X / 1st joystick button: left mouse button
B/Y / 2nd joystick button: right mouse button
Start / 3rd joystick button: virtual keyboard
Back / 4th joystick button: tab key


Misc
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The game uses following libraries:
SDL2 (https://www.libsdl.org/)
mpg123 (https://www.mpg123.de/)
quicktime2 (http://libquicktime.sourceforge.net/)
dlfcn-win32 (https://github.com/dlfcn-win32/dlfcn-win32)
ffmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org/)
win-iconv (https://github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv)
zlib (https://zlib.net/)

The game optionally uses SpeexDSP library for audio resampling (https://github.com/xiph/speexdsp).

Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/M-HT/SR


Changes
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v1.04.0.13 (2026-05-30)
* use newer library versions
* bug fixes

v1.04.0.12 (2024-09-24)
* fix problem with higher mouse polling rates
* add option to use installed or portable game installation
* add option to use higher quality audio resampling
* add option to select audio sampling rate
* add support for higher sampling rates
* add support for using gamepad or joystick as mouse/keyboard
* minor bug fixes

v1.04.0.11 (2023-11-14)
* minor bug fixes

v1.04.0.10 (2023-05-23)
* fix repositioning mouse cursor

v1.04.0.9 (2023-05-17)
* fix moving mouse cursor outside the game area in fullscreen

v1.04.0.8 (2023-05-15)
* add option to use right mouse click to preselect characters in combat (based on unofficial patch)
* change mouse cursor position handling
* fix screen shake when loading new area
* don't add sleep (to prevent too much CPU utilization) when not necessary
* minor bug fixes

v1.04.0.7 (2022-01-08)
* add option to only use integer scaling

v1.04.0.6 (2021-11-04)
* add option to reduce cpu sleep, to help with higher mouse poll rates

v1.04.0.5 (2021-01-21)
* add scaling option without bilinear filtering
* add options to set command line parameters
* add option to set delay after image flip
* add options to enable cheats
* add options to switch WSAD and arrow keys

v1.04.0.4 (2020-04-13)
* fix playing .avi versions of movies from GOG Windows installer
* allow setting size of audio buffer

v1.04.0.3 (2020-03-30)
* fix audio in Windows Vista and higher

v1.04.0.2 (2019-10-11)
first Windows (x86) version
