Taipan Changelog

What's new in Taipan 9.0

Aug 22, 2018
  • 64 bit capable version of this software, which requires macOS 10.9 and above.

New in Taipan 8.5.1 (Aug 20, 2018)

  • Bugfix release, for example no longer displays the path to the saved game when opening a previously saved game.

New in Taipan 8.5 (Aug 10, 2017)

  • With the most recent major version, the standard Saved Games folder
  • is stored within Application Support now. Previous versions offered to save in
  • Documents folders as well, but this option has been removed in current major version.
  • Unfortunately, there was a mistake in the Saved Games dialog when opening a game from
  • within the Documents folder, which is fixed now.

New in Taipan 8.4 (Dec 27, 2016)

  • Earlier versions offered a choice between Documents folder and Application Support to save games at the very first start. Now, the Application Support folder is the only folder to save games. In case the Documents folder has been used before to save games, you can still switch between Documents and Application support to read the saved games stored in the Documents folder.

New in Taipan 8.3 (Aug 10, 2016)

  • New Codesign.

New in Taipan 8.2.1 (Mar 16, 2016)

  • When calling the Help files from a Mac OS X system set to German, the Help files will be opened in German as well.

New in Taipan 8.2 (Jan 25, 2016)

  • Again, the newest Xojo compiler version (which is 2015r4 now) has been used to ship the Taipan Remake.
  • When switching back from fullscreen to windowed mode, the correct window size should be set again.

New in Taipan 8.1 (Dec 14, 2015)

  • No longer should crash when quit in full-screen mode.

New in Taipan 8.0.1 (Nov 24, 2015)

  • A window in the Hammurabi game was to small in height.
  • This version requires an Intel based Macintosh with minimum Mac OS X 10.7 installed.

New in Taipan 8.0 (Sep 17, 2015)

  • Newest Xojo compiler version has been used to compile this version.
  • Adds another window with a width of 1660 pixels.

New in Taipan 7.2.1 (May 25, 2015)

  • Bugfix updates.

New in Taipan 7.2 (Oct 18, 2014)

  • Menu item "Not just one choice..." located in the "Sell" toolbar item now works correct by opening the appropriate window.
  • Code-signed now.

New in Taipan 7.1.1 (Jun 25, 2014)

  • Additionally to the previous Toolbar item fixings done in the main window of Taipan, the Toolbar items of the Sheet windows used in the game has been also fixed yet.

New in Taipan 7.1 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • Cannons attempted to be bought will be added to the ship now. Other bug fixes has been done as well. The bug fixed has been added to the PowerPC version as well, which is available as version 6.2 now.]

New in Taipan 7.0 (Sep 3, 2013)

  • Modified with AppWrapper by Ohanaware to add the category property to the application package.

New in Taipan 6.1 (Jul 15, 2013)

  • The pirates window shown in the largest main window no longer should raise a NilObject exception.
  • Some refinements in the Hammurabi game also included in Taipan.

New in Taipan 5.1 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • Since the introduction of this game in the year 2004, the German localization of the word "June" was listed as July, which is fixed now.

New in Taipan 5.0 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • Adds an internal Savedgames browser to the game.

New in Taipan 4.2 (Mar 5, 2012)

  • Font size used in Help file (to be opened with Apple Help Viewer) has been decreased to match into Help Viewer window with.

New in Taipan 4.1 (Jan 30, 2012)

  • The Readme file introduced in Taipan 4.0, written in HTML, will be displayed now using Apple's HelpViewer application, instead of standard HTML viewer (Firefox, Safari,...) like before.

New in Taipan 4.0 (Dec 27, 2011)

  • In sheet windows, the black title bars has been removed.
  • Grammar corrections ("One Ship", "More ships").
  • Readme in HTML format now.
  • Switching background color will be set immediately now.

New in Taipan 2.3 (Apr 17, 2010)

  • When changing the firm's name using the Preferences dialog, after closing the Preference window in the game's main window the new name will be displayed correctly now.
  • Also, text dragged onto the game's text fields will be handled correctly yet: Carriage Return chars will be removed from the text pasted from clipboard in order to not mix game settings.