AngelLoader v1.11.0 - now works better on Wine! (updated 2025/07/24)

Darkness_Falls on 21/2/2024 at 14:38

AngelLoader rocks! Thanks for making, supporting, and evolving it, Fen

Plibb on 24/2/2024 at 21:41

Great idea, would be perfect if there was an option to also apply some sort of brightness filter too to make screenshots more legible when you're sending screenshots on discord (ie: take a screenshot, pop into AngelLoader, copy & paste the image. Would be a great QOL change), etc, a bit like how the Thief Buddy save preview also raises the gamma slightly.:D

FenPhoenix on 2/3/2024 at 03:03

Here is some work in progress on the screenshot feature requests:

[video=youtube;_90WuNLBg-s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_90WuNLBg-s[/video]

Plibb on 2/3/2024 at 13:22

This is looking pretty awesome, thank you for your hard work making AngelLoader the best FM loader out there :laff:

Petike the Taffer on 4/3/2024 at 06:26

Quote Posted by FenPhoenix

AngelLoader is a standalone FM loader where you can manage, install, and play all of your FMs in one place.

Quote Posted by FenPhoenix

Here is some work in progress on the screenshot feature requests

Fen, thank you for all the great work ! I had no idea it was you behind this project. Very cool. :cool:

If you'd need a Slovak and maybe even Czech translation of the running list of changes, let me know.

FenPhoenix on 9/3/2024 at 08:24

(https://github.com/FenPhoenix/AngelLoader/releases/download/v1.9.0/AngelLoader_v1.9.0_x64.zip) AngelLoader v1.9.0 is out.

Features and improvements:

* Added a screenshot tab. If an FM is installed and has screenshots, you can view them, change their gamma, and copy them to the clipboard (in gamma-changed form).
* Tabs can now be displayed at the top-right, bottom-right, or both. This is to allow better use of screen space in this era of widescreen and ultra-widescreen monitors.
* Added tooltips for audio conversion settings checkboxes.

Fixes:

* Dialog boxes were sometimes returning an "OK" result when closed by clicking their window's X button or by pressing Escape. They now return "Cancel" in this case.
* Scanner error log message might say "fm is 7z" when it was actually rar.
* Fixed a longstanding edge case when dragging tabs to change their order, if you dragged really fast it could sometimes mess up the tab order.

Plibb on 9/3/2024 at 10:46

Thanks for the update!

vincentlancon on 9/3/2024 at 18:39

It won't even let me download anymore... says virus detected... what the heck are you doing to trip so many protections?

FenPhoenix on 9/3/2024 at 19:51

A while back I checked an AL install on VirusTotal. A couple of the engines detected UDE (the character set encoding detector). I fiddled around with it and got it to stop, but then I noticed that a couple engines were also detecting 7z.exe, which is a bog stock file taken straight out of 7-zip's official distribution. So I gave up. Why bother spending all day finagling my own code when 7z.exe is just going to get me detected anyway? :grr:

Antivirus software is garbage, like I keep saying. More false positives than real positives. Windows comes with an auto-update feature that restarts your computer randomly and interrupts your work without your permission and that's legit, yet when you apply a registry mod to stop it, that gets detected as malware. The computing world is upside down and I'm just about tired of dealing with it.

FenPhoenix on 9/3/2024 at 20:34

Having said that, is it telling you which file(s) it detected?