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New SDL release for Atari.

• Video: Automatically disable Xbios driver if FVDI is detected.
• Video: Experimental support for Milan Xbios.
• Joypads: Teamtap autodetection.
• Audio: Enable Xbios driver for Magic.
• Experimental support for Coldfire CPUs.

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Scripts to cross-compile libraries:

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LDG (loadable library) generator, from libxxx.a static version.

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Image viewer and movie player for Resident Evil games.

• Add separate clock for engine, so loading times are not taken into account for player movements.
• Add timing in ms, in log file.
• Heavy rewrite for texturing. The background image is processed with same stuff as the model textures.
• Heavy rewrite for drawing code. EMD model is organized in a skel structure, with the various meshes.
• Can set width,height,bpp of video mode
• Software renderer: Bilinear filtering for background.
• Display model skeleton.

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Image viewer and movie player for Resident Evil games.

• Dump room scripts (see -dumpscript command).
• Display doors and walls on map.
• Can enter doors (only RE2/RE3).

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Image viewer and movie player for Resident Evil games.

• Fixed some bugs in S-Buffer.
• Added 24 bits rendering to software renderer.
• Added room map with camera, camera switches and boundaries.
• OpenGL: Disabled ARB_npot texture support, till testable.
• OpenGL: Only upload texture to video card when loading model.
• RE1: Fixed wrong row length for some backgrounds.

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Added setup application, to change some settings:
- NVRAM settings, and clock
- CPU frequency

Also display SDRAM information and temperature, if you have the CT60 with the sensor.

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Changing background color was not working (commands 27,'c',color). This is now fixed.

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All games:

• README list supported game data files.
• Added -iwad /pat/to/gamefile.wad command line parameter.

Doom:

• Fixed bug when saving game, was corrupting memory
  (Thanks to Sascha Uhlig for report and testing).

The ports are built with SDL 1.2 (svn 20090526) which have the following things changed, compared to SDL 1.2.13:

• Xbios video driver disabled when FVDI present.
• Teamtap autodetection on joypad ports
  (Thanks to Fredifredo for teamtap and joypads).
• Xbios audio driver enabled for Magic
  (Thanks to Sascha Uhlig for testing).

Doom port Heretic port Hexen port

Add STMicro flash chip support to 1.03c firmware.

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