Changes between version 2.3 and 2.7 (2012-02-01): - changed title from Astrorix Gold to Aristrox Gold - Change: the ball no longer starts automatically, it now waits for a left click; available shots are now fired by right-clicking - New: non-arcade mode - New: suspend save feature - New: the game is now bilingual (English/German) - Change: replaced the music - Fix: the ball should now break out of infinite loops - Change: previously, a new ball always kept its predecessor's direction, this may now be adjusted to make sure it starts out moving towards the bat - Change: When the game removes all items from the screen, those created at virtually the same time are no longer affected - New: available bubbles are displayed - Change: made level 15 somewhat easier to reach but more difficult and, in arcade mode only, endless - New: the instructions now describe the items - Change: the game is now paused with the space bar, instead of [P] - Change: Level fade-in transitions removed, due to a bug in the runtime - New: game configuration is now saved - Change: the high score list is now saved under the All Users folder (old scores are not kept for technical reasons) - Change: text screens no longer auto-close, they now wait for a mouse click - Change: special typefaces used for various things - New: the name box for the high score list is now prefilled and saved, and it is possible to cancel - Change: level 14 can now be won earlier, but will no longer abort immediately under a certain condition - Fix: the game now goes to the high score screen after level 15 - New: Abort feature to immediately go to the high score screen - New: the password prompt can now be accessed with [P], using the menu bar is no longer required - New: you can now immediately start a new game from the high score screen without going back to the title - Change: the credits and secret screens now use the same layout as the title screen - Change: resetting the high score list is now done with the mouse, no longer with the keyboard - New: the Web site can be accessed from the menu bar - Change: some of the default numbers in the high score list - Change: the balls display no longer does line wrapping when a tenth ball is collected - New: larger program icons - only Windows XP and successors still supported (at least officially) Changes between version 2.2 and 2.3 (2002-03-11): - Change: the ball stops for a short time at the start and after falling off the screen - Change: lives and score display - Fix: blocks below the lives display do not disappear any more - Change: new intro; Top Games is now called Malign Black - Change: revised title screen - Change: extra lives look different now - Change: deleted the dumb animation of the bat - Change: the game no longer uses Direct X; this means you can now play in full screen mode - Change: slightly changed ending - Change: some of the preset highscore names - Change: rewritten instructions - an updated version of the runtime library is included