After four months of development, it's time for the next big OpenMPT
release, and OpenMPT 1.25 brings a great bunch of new and
improved features.
The biggest change is probably that there is now a third flavour of
OpenMPT: The default 32-bit builds are now optimized using the SSE2
instruction set and require Windows 7 or later to run. Older operating
systems and CPUs without SSE2 are still supported through a separate
build. The 32-bit OpenMPT installer contains both builds and chooses the
most suitable one for you. When using the zip package, you will have to
pick the correct version on your own. The 64-bit package requires
Windows 7 as well, so on 64-bit Windows XP and Vista, it might not work
as intended and you will have to resort to using the 32-bit version for
now. This might change if a great need for a legacy 64-bit version
arises, but we currently doubt that this is the case.
For more information, there is a forum
post about the
different OpenMPT configurations.
Here is a short summary of the most notable new features: