Patch Notes
🖥️ Display Improvements
- Widescreen & Non-4:3 Display Support — The game now correctly letterboxes or pillarboxes on displays that aren't 4:3, preserving the intended aspect ratio instead of stretching.
- Viewport rect is now cached and only recalculated on resize, improving rendering performance.
- Fixed an issue where querying display pixel size immediately after entering fullscreen could return incorrect dimensions — the game now pumps SDL events first to ensure accurate output.
- Fixed an edge case where the logical presentation could cause stretching artifacts by switching to SDL_SetRenderLogicalPresentation.
🐧 Linux Support
- Linux/Debian builds are now officially supported! The game can be compiled and run on Linux via CMake.
- Bundled GLM headers are now used, removing a broken external dependency fetch.
- A Linux README has been added with build instructions.
🔧 Bug Fixes & Code Quality
- Fixed build errors and warnings in the pixel rendering pipeline.
- Extracted the DISPLAY_ASPECT constant to a shared header for consistency across the codebase.
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