Abuse

Changelog

Abuse 1.0.8 by Metin Çelik (2026-09-04)

• Fixed level transitions.

Abuse 1.0.7 by Metin Çelik (2026-09-04)

• Fixed fRaBs level exits loading levels from the Abuse campaign.
• Added a campaign selector dialog when starting a new game.

Abuse 1.0.6 by Metin Çelik (2026-09-04)

• Added online multiplayer.
• Added Co-op with checkpoints and shared items.
• Added streamer mode.
• Added widescreen support.
• Added colored weapon lighting effects.
• Added customizable player skins.
• Fixed replay recording and playback.
• Improved mouse and gamepad controls.
• Added randomized pitch variation to alien sounds.
• Put a previously unused alien death animation into use.
• Made gibbed enemy body parts remain in the level.
• Made flying enemies destroyed by non-explosive weapons crash and explode on impact instead of exploding immediately.
• Added language, window mode, and SoundFont settings.
• Added the level editor to the main menu.
• Improved multiplayer chat and connection reliability.
• Improved the save/load interface.
• Fixed collision bugs.
• Added Flatpak, Debian, and RPM packages and improved installers.
• Migrated to SDL3, SDL3_mixer, and SDL3_net.

Abuse 1.0.5 by Metin Çelik (2026-02-28)

• Fixed a bug on Windows that caused the movement inputs to get stuck.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to switch from fullscreen to window when starting a multiplayer game.
• Fixed soundfont command-line parameter not being handled.

Abuse 1.0.4 by Metin Çelik (2025-11-16)

• Fixed a bug in the interpolation code that caused screen shaking.

Abuse 1.0.3 by Metin Çelik (2025-10-18)

• Added a Co-op mode.
• Fixed the server browser.
• Added level selection to the Net Game menu.
• Fixed numerous multiplayer-related bugs.
• Merged Abuse 2025 by @apancik.

Abuse 1.0.2 by Metin Çelik (2025-03-15)

• Improved performance of light calculation.
• Fixed VRAM leak by rewriting the renderer.
• Fixed weapon switching using the mouse wheel.

Abuse 1.0.1 by Metin Çelik (2025-03-09)

• Corrected the behavior of the icon buttons in the main menu.
• Increased the brightness of the icon buttons in the main menu.
• Made camera movement smoother when climbing ladders.
• Fixed music not working on Linux if FluidSynth was not installed.
• Fixed crashing when hitting ESC in the main menu before a level was loaded.

Abuse 1.0.0 by Metin Çelik (2025-03-02)

• FPS Unlocked: The game is no longer locked to 15 FPS. Frame rate is now interpolated to match your screen refresh rate.
• Adaptive VSync: Added support for FreeSync and G-Sync to eliminate screen tearing.
• Music: Resolved the issue of music not playing by including a SoundFont.
• Controller Support: Automatically detects controllers without requiring additional setup.
• No Automatic Weapon Switching: You now retain your current weapon when picking up a new one.
• No ‘Are you sure?’ Prompt on Quit: Removed the confirmation prompt for quicker exiting.
• Menu & ESC Key: Pressing ESC from the main menu now returns you to the game instead of quitting.
• AppImage Support on Linux: Added AppImage support, plus .deb and .rpm packages for easy installation.
• Fixed typos and corrected character encoding in German and French text.
• Addressed minor bugs that caused occasional crashes or slowdowns.

Abuse 2025 by Andrej Pancik (2025-01-07)

Multiplayer

• player tints
• reenable networking GUI
• name saving/loading

Rendering

• sharp scaling
• high DPI screens support
• widescreen support
• window resizing
• remove border from rendering

Others

• file handling refactor
• MIDI soundfonts
• compiles on Mac and Ubuntu
• new macos icon
• enable translations through config

Abuse 0.9a by Antonio Radojkovic (2016)

Abuse

• enabled custom screen size and resolution
  • light enabled at high resolutions
• local config file
  • screen width, height, scale, borderless window, grab input
  • editor mode
  • controller aiming, right stick sensitivity, dead zone and crosshair distance from the player
  • physics update time in ms
• unlocked framerate for rendering, physics locked at custom value
• re-enabled OpenGL rendering, enabled vsync
• fullscreen scaling and “fit screen” scaling using F11 and F12
• merged flags_struct and keys_struct into one settings class
• Xbox controller support:
  • fixed aiming using the right stick
  • fixed player movement using left stick and dpad
  • calculating and updating the crosshair position when aiming with a controller
  • rebindable controller buttons, saving and loading of button bindings via config file
  • navigating the main menu and save/load screens using dpad or left stick
  • toggle controller use using F8
• toggle mouse scale type using F7
• fixed level music not being played correctly when level was loaded
• quick load using F9, quick save using F5 on save consoles
• fixed gamma setting not being saved
• added cheats via chat console: god, giveall, flypower, sneakypower, fastpower, healthpower
• enabled some high resolution images from the 1997 Mac OS release
• toggle window input grab using F6
• turned off that image that would randomly flicker in the bottom-left corner
• fixed health power object image
• turned on, what seems to be, the original big font and aligned GUI objects for it
• set the small font to always be used for save game thumbnails
• fixed mouse image when choosing initial gamma

Abuse Tool

• extracting PCX images in SPEC files to modern image formats using OpenCV
  • extracting as individual files
  • extracting as tilemaps
  • extracting animations as individual files
  • extracting as a texture atlas using texture packing algorithm
  • handling transparency in different types of images
  • padding between images
  • outline around groups in a texture atlas
  • external color palettes(tints)
  • tilemap palettes for tile positions
  • extraction settings and list of files via “…/abuse-tool/extract.txt”
  • printing to console trough a log, log file saved at “…/abuse-tool/log.txt”
  • list of output texture files, image positions, sizes… saved at “…/abuse-tool/texture_info.txt”
  • created a list of all available SPEC files containing images and added settings for individual SPEC files

Abuse-XV 0.9 by Daniel “Xenoveritas” Potter (unreleased)

• Xenoveritas’s fork of the SDL version
• Change to CMake for easier cross-platform build support
• Builds under Windows now
• Move from SDL to SDL2:
  • Fullscreen is now the default using SDL2’s windowed fullscreen (Currently there is no method to do “real” fullscreen)
  • OpenGL support is punted to SDL2 instead of being handled here
  • Which also gets DirectX support plus whatever other backends SDL2 can offer

Abuse 0.8 (2011-05-09)

• Support for the original music packs!
• The fRaBs and main Abuse artwork were merged. Due to name conflicts in the level files, fRaBs save games will no longer work.
• 15 save slots instead of 5.
• The Lisp interpreter was heavily improved and now uses its garbage collected allocator instead of malloc.
• A new abuse-tool binary helps editing Abuse data files.

Abuse-SDL 0.7.1 (2008-03-02)

• Countless bugfixes (memory leaks, alignment issues, 64-bit portability, buffer overflows, uninitialised data).
• New webpage.

Abuse-SDL 0.7.0 (2002-12-15)

• Added OpenGL support. (Joris Beugnies)
• Fixed to compile on MacOSX. (Ben Hines, Julian Mayer)
• Fixed window manager “Quit” events being ignored.
• Can specify the location of the datafiles in the abuserc now.
• Updated documentation regarding installation of the datafiles.

Abuse-SDL 0.6.1 (2002-02-04)

• Fixed video blit routine, giving a large speedup. (Bob Ippolito)
• Fixed to compile with gcc 3.0.x.
• Fixed to compile on Sparc systems.(Arto Jantunen)

Abuse-SDL 0.6.0 (2002-01-19)

• Rebuilt the make and configure scripts, including patches.(nix)
• gamma.lsp now stored in the ~/.abuse directory.
• Sound is disabled if no sound files are available.
• Tweaked timing routines.
• Improved mouse handling, should be more responsive on slower systems.
• The binary can now be in a different location to the datafiles. (nix)
• Fixed -fullscreen command-line option.
• Fixed pressing both mouse buttons being ignored if “Emulate3Buttons” is enabled.
• Fixed the size of the volume settings dialog.
• Fixed to compile on BigEndian systems.(Arto Jantunen)
• Added scaling.
• Added a man page.

Abuse-SDL 0.5.0 (2001-08-14)

• More 100% CPU usage fixes.(Ed Snible)
• More temp files (light.tbl, end.mem) are now stored in the ~/.abuse/ directory.
• Fixed compile problems on Solaris.
• Fixed slight graphics corruption at the bottom of the main menu screen.
• Added the ability to customise the keys used in the game.
• Updated documentation.

Abuse-SDL 0.4.8 (2001-04-29)

• Stopped Abuse using 100% CPU time in certain places.(Ed Snible)
• Fixed problem with saving games on some systems.
• Added missing documentation about the abuserc file.
• Configure script now handles the X libraries not being in ld’s default library path.(Arto Jantunen)
• Fixed compile problem when SDL isn’t installed in a /SDL directory in the include path.
• Fixed the -window_scale option to set the size of the window properly. Performance when using this option is still bad.
• Can now use the mouse to skip the intro story.

Abuse-SDL 0.4.7 (2001-03-09)

• Temp files (fastload.dat, level backups etc) are now stored in the ~/.abuse/ directory.
• SDL include and library locations are now gathered from sdl-config.
• Fixed a crash on some systems when saving games.
  • Those who were getting this crash may not be able to save games.
  • Abuse-SDL will print out what it was trying to do in this case.
• Improved audio mixing when lots of sounds are playing.
• Toggling Grab Mouse now informs what state it is in.
• The numpad can now be used for movement aswell as the cursor keys.
• Settings can be stored in an rc file (~/.abuse/abuserc).

Abuse-SDL 0.4.6 (2001-02-15)

• Don’t even check for the existence of a sound file if sound is disabled.
• Added some checks to the video code to handle failure gracefully.
• Fixes to compile under gcc 2.96.
• Fixed the graphic glitches relating to the gamma window and the save game dialog.

Abuse-SDL 0.4.5 (2001-02-06)

• Stopped loading and trying to play sound files when sound has been disabled.

Abuse-SDL 0.4.4 (2001-02-05)

• Adjusted the make and configure scripts.
  • Can now specify the install location with the --with-abuse-dir flag to configure. Defaults to /usr/local/bin if not specified.
• Added grab-mouse support. F12 toggles this on and off.
• Added screenshot support. PRNT-SCRN key takes a screenshot.
• Can now toggle fullscreen during the game. F11 toggles this on and off.
• Added mousewheel support for changing weapons.
• Savegames are now stored under ~/.abuse/
• Window now has it’s own icon(abuse.bmp). Looks nicer in tasklists etc.
• Updated the AUTHORS file as it was a little out of date.

Abuse-SDL 0.4.3 (2001-01-21)

• Fixed a problem with initialising the mouse driver.
• Reenabled net code. Doesn’t work very well yet.

Abuse-SDL 0.4.2 (2001-01-20)

• Fixed to compile under gcc 2.95.2
• More code tidying.

Abuse-SDL 0.4.1 (2001-01-13)

• Rebuilt the make and configure scripts.
• Added an icon. (abuse.png)
• Code tidying.
• Improved key and mouse handling.

Abuse-SDL 0.4 (2000-12-30)

• First release with source available
• Fixed a huge memory leak caused by the stereo sound stuff. (oops)
• Fixed a crash if SDL failed to initialise.
• Tidied up the code, makefiles and configure scripts.

Abuse-SDL 0.3 (2000-12-24)

• Fixed palette changing when running at 8bpp.
• Fixed draw problem when a window was moved off the screen.
• Fixed sound getting choppy and eventually disappearing.
• Fixed an extremely rare crash when playing sounds.
• Added stereo sound and panning. (-mono to disable)
• Removed some stray debug messages that I accidently left in.

Abuse-SDL 0.2 (2000-12-13)

• Removed dependancy on lnx_sndsrv. All sound is now handled through the SDL API.
• Added fullscreen and doublebuffer modes.

Abuse-SDL 0.1 (2000-11-10)

• First public release.