Raine 0.50.1 released

[Robert]

Arcade emulator

 

Here it is, already... there are a few changes this time again (even a new game), but not as many modifications in the code so I can release it faster...

Notice that the windows binary has got whole new dlls, which has made the zip file to shrink significantly. zlib1.dll isn't used anymore, and if you still have libpng12.dll you can remove it too !

Last piece of advice for windows : if you switch from windowed mode to fullscreen and you start to have weird blinking effects in the gui, either launch a game or relaunch raine. This is the last problem with double buffering, and I didn't bother to fix this one yet !

 

Grab it from the download section, linux debian package updated too !

 

raine (0.50.1) unstable; urgency=low

 

* double buffer: forced yuv overlay colors when in fullscreen double buffered (red & blue could be inverted)

* double buffer : fixed the crash when using scale2x/3x

* fix the dlls in windows so that SDL_image and raine use the same dll for png.

* Add some info in the video info dialog about the blit method selected (yuv overlay, scale2x, 3x or simple blits).

* fix very slow gui updates when in fullscreen with a hardware surface

* Added the mutlipac 1.5 rom (see : http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~msilvius/sillyarcade.htm ). Sorry the rom is rare, and that's one of the reasons why I added it. The other is because it's an impressive hack : 24 games in only 1 z80 rom, I never saw this before ! When you have selected a game in the menu, press P1 start or p1 b1 to play it. The hiscores and history are reset with the game you select. To return to the menu, reset raine (F1 is the default control for that). So it adds virtualy 24 new games in only 1 rom !

* Now raine changes its resolution if you ask it in video options even if it uses yuv overlays. It can be useful to force the yuv overlay to exactly 2x the size of the original screen for example (to get a clearer picture). And it will try to avoid windows biger than the screen in windowed modes.

* double buffering is now optional, you can disable it in "Video options". The default is to use it when available, and normally all the bugs related to double buffering are fixed, but anyway, maybe it can be useful to disable it sometimes...

* Fix the fps counter when the framecount is not limited

* The return of the sound options dialog, with the addition of the ensoniq voice filters option (leave it to yes if you have a fast computer, the sound is better with this option turned on).

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