Release notes for lxdream 0.8.4
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Please note that this is still 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 0.8.3
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* Fullly native Mac OS X support
* Renderer rewrite (fixes perspective correction among other problems)
* ALSA and PulseAudio sound drivers
* Save states now work on x86-64
* New translations: Spanish and Italian
* Lots of miscellaneous bug-fixes and improvements

Changes since 0.8.2
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* MMU Implementation
* Dreamcast mouse + keyboard support
* Joystick/gamepad support
* Assorted bug-fixes

Changes since 0.8.1
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* x86-64 architecture support
* Preliminary Mac OS X support
* Pbuffer support (to support OpenGL drivers without EXT_framebuffer_object)
* Support for more recent CDI and NRG image file versions
* Minor bugfixes

Changes since 0.8
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* Various configure/build fixes for compatibility
* GDI image support
* Minor bugfixes

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:

* Graphic artifacts related to triangle sorting and/of lack of depth
  precision.

System requirements
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Linux:
   GTK 2.6+
   OpenGL drivers with EXT_framebuffer_object or GLX PBuffer support
      - Currently this means either the ATI or NVidia binary drivers.

OS X:
   System 10.4 or later

GCC, Make, etc.

Building
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From the base directory
~$ ./configure
~$ make
~$ make install            (optional)

Enjoy!