Release notes for lxdream 0.8

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Please note that this is an alpha release - many things are not yet 

implemented, it has many bugs (especially wrt rendering), and it's

not likely to run at 100% speed.

Having said all that, some games are known to run to at least 

some degree (aka everything we've tried), and most homebrew works 

perfectly or nearly so - feel free to experiment and let us 

know how it goes.

Changes since Milestone 3

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* Speed improvements (translation core now runs at roughly double the speed

  of M3)

* GUI Overhaul - it's actually somewhat usable now. Also removed the gnome

  dependency (now just needs GTK 2.0)

* Sound fixes (aka, some sound actually works now)

* A few minor bugfixes and tweaks.

Changes since Milestone 2

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* Implemented the SH4 translation core

* A handful of minor bugfixes

No really, that's it. The good stuff is coming next version, honest

Changes since Milestone 1

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* Complete rewrite of nearly all PowerVR2 code - The M1 code was largely a

quick hack to get something running. It's done for real now.

* Initial IO event system (not widely used yet)

* Lots of bugfixes throughout the system

Known issues

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The following are known bugs (as opposed to missing features) that will be

fixed in the next release, but are too large to be fixed for this version:

* Polygons that are partially clipped by the view frustum can be distorted

quite badly

* Limited depth precision causes tearing of view on some scenes.

System requirements

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GTK 2.0+

ESounD 2.36+

OpenGL drivers with EXT_framebuffer_object support (any recent drivers should be

fine)

GCC, Make, etc.

Building

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From the base directory

~$ ./configure

~$ make

~$ make install            (optional)

Enjoy!