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lxdream 0.9.1
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author nkeynes
date Mon Jan 15 10:37:02 2007 +0000 (17 years ago)
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Release notes for Milestone 1 ("Smoke and Mirrors")
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This is an early development release. Most things don't work. Many things
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that do work only do so by sheer luck. Framerates are typically 1-4 frames
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per second on a 3Ghz P4. In short, don't expect to run any actual games on
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it at this stage (I have not even tried, myself).
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Having said that, the following are known to run with at least some degree of 
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success:
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  * Most KOS based demos, and a number of other demos (An exact inventory of 
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working demos is not being maintained at this stage).
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  * The BIOS bootstrap (you can boot NRG and CDI cd-rom images)
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System requirements
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GTK 2.0+
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Gnome 2.0+
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ESounD 2.36+  (if you want interrupted stuttery sound[0])
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GCC, Make, etc.
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[0] Actually the ARM chip can be run independently, in which case the
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performance is reasonably decent.
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Building
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--------
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From the base directory
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~$ ./configure
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~$ make
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~$ make install            (optional)
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