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* WHAT'S NEW *
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Here you will find a summary of the changes made in each released
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version of gnuboy, organized from an end-user perspective.
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Webmasters, please use this file as a basis for announcing new
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versions; the CHANGES file is too technical and unorganized.
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RELEASE 1.0.3
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All ANSI C incompatibilities should be fixed. Please report any that
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remain.
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Various bugs encountered when building gnuboy on strange compilers
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have been fixed.
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Internal support for decompressing gzipped roms now exists in a
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minimal form. The inflate code used is taken from a quine
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(self-reproducing program) written by David Madore and placed in the
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public domain. This code is very portable but is rather slow and may
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crash when given invalid data; however, there should be no impact on
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security. Currently only gzip files (not pkzip files) are supported.
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HuC3 emultaion has been fixed to some extent. Robopon Sun and Star are
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both playable now, but many features of the HuC3 are still not
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implemented.
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Color filtering to make gnuboy look much more like a real CGB is now
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included, thanks to the work of Jonathan Gevaryahu.
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A new rcvar "gbamode" has been added to unlock the GBA-only features
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present in some newer CGB games. (This has nothing to do with GBA
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emulation, which gnuboy does not do and will not do in the future.)
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Sprite sorting in DMG mode has been fixed. This should improve things
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in various DMG games where sprites previously overlapped in the wrong
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order.
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RELEASE 1.0.2
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A minor problem in the frequency sweep function on sound channel 1 was
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fixed, correcting the sound of the ice beam and metroid encounter
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sound in Metroid 2.
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Sound channel 3 waveform data is now trashed when the sound is
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played. This makes it more difficult for games and demos to detect
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that they are running on an emulator.
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The channel 3 waveform is now properly initialized in both DMG and CGB
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modes. Before it was incorrectly initialized to have frequency 16
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times too high, and the initial "random noise" pattern exhibited by
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DMG wasn't emulated. R-Type now sounds much better.
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The sound length register for channel 3 now works properly, fixing the
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title screen music in MegaMan 2. No thanks to gbspec.txt for having
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blatently wrong info about this matter.
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Major problems with sound quality on channel 4 (noise) have been
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fixed, and the pseudorandom sequence has been replaced to very closely
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resemble that of a real Gameboy, thanks to the hard work of Lord
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Nightmare. All these changes make a significant improvement in many
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games, notably Metroid 2, Final Fantasy Legend II and III, Camp
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Deadly, and Wario Land.
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Stereo channels are no longer backwards.
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The DMG STAT register write bug, which causes an interrupt if the STAT
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register is written while in HBLANK or VBLANK, is now emulated. This
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fixes Legend of Zerd and probably any other DMG game that will not run
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on a real Gameboy Color.
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A hack/potential fix for a problem that kept Konami Collection Vol 1
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from working has been put in place.
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A major interrupt bug that prevented Amazing Penguin from running has
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been fixed.
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Several bugs that could have resulted in crashes under strange
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circumstances have been fixed.
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Other minor sound issues have been tweaked or fixed.
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RELEASE 1.0.1
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BUGS FIXED
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Keys that didn't work in the SDL-based ports have now been fixed.
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The --bindir= option to the configure script now works properly.
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Running "make install" no longer fails when the destination directory
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doesn't already exist.
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Various minor cleanups.
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RELEASE 1.0.0
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NEW FEATURES
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Auto-loading rc files on a per-rom basis.
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Less intense yellow in the default mono palette.
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Default keybindings no longer use modifier keys.
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Lots of new documentation.
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Hardware scaling on matroxfb now looks better.
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BUGS FIXED
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Disabled some useless optimizations to work around a bug in gcc 2.96, which
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despite being a broken compiler has become rather popular since Redhat
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decided to package it without sufficient testing. This will fix the problems
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lots of people have reported when compiling.
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Added --disable-arch option to configure to prevent the binaries built from
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being dependent on the exact host cpu they're built on. This will allow
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distro maintainers to build packages that work even on older cpus.
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RELEASE 0.9.13
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NEW FEATURES
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Hardware scaling support on fbcon with matroxfb.
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PERFORMANCE
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Now all software scaling code has assembly implementations.
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COMPATIBILITY
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Invalid opcode crash in Montezuma's Return has been fixed.
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Visual glitches in Pokemon Yellow are now fixed.
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BUGS FIXED
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Line refresh was taking place too late, causing visual glitch in Alleyway.
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Flags behavior on the RL, RR, RLC, and RRC opcodes was completely bogus in the
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asm cpu core. Miracle it didn't break more things. Should be correct now.
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The SWAP (HL) instruction in the asm cpu core was nonfunctional.
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RELEASE 0.9.12
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NEW FEATURES
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Hardware YUV scaling with full interpolation on systems that support it,
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using SDL -- thanks goes to Magnus Damm.
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COMPATIBILITY
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Binary Chaos no longer has graphical glitches, and is fully playable.
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Wacky Races now displays correctly again (broken since 0.9.7).
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BUGS FIXED
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Some test code was left in cpu.s, breaking DOS/Windows builds and
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slowing things down across the board.
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SDL joystick code was generating bogus release events.
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Unused bits of VBK register were 0's; they should be 1's.
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DMG palette was not being restored correctly after loading savestates.
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RELEASE 0.9.11
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NEW FEATURES
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Most ports can auto-choose screen size appropriate to scale given.
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Scaling to 2x, 3x, and 4x is now possible at all color depths.
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PERFORMANCE
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SDL port should run considerably faster than before at hires modes.
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New X11 rcvar "x_shmsync" can be turned off for performance boost,
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but it can result in heavy shearing and skipped frames.
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The new scaling code is slightly faster than before.
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COMPATIBILITY
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Konami Collection (GBC) series now works in color mode.
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Worms Armageddon is now playable, might still have some glitches though.
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Turok 3 no longer hangs at startup and seems fully playable.
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Sound samples that played too slow in many games now sound correct.
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BUGS FIXED
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Video mode setting was not working with svgalib.
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Undocumented behavior - STOP instruction causes PC to skip forward.
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SDL hardware surface mode is now always on and should always work fine.
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More undocumented behavior - HDMA can occur while LCDC is off...?
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HDMA5 register was not being initialized correctly on reset.
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Timer was running at half the speed it should when in high-speed mode.
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RELEASE 0.9.10
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NEW FEATURES
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Primitive but fast and fully functional scale-by-two support.
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New rcvar "vmode" sets video mode in all the targets that support it.
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Now up to 16 joystick buttons can be used, as opposed to 8 before.
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Static palette mode (rcvar "rgb332"), which can make highcolor games
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look better when run at 8bpp by faking a 3/3/2 color channel mode.
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COMPATIBILITY
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Added a quick hack to fake serial I/O so that Super RC Pro-Am works.
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Spiderman's web is now visible in Spiderman GBC.
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PERFORMANCE
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New refresh code blits lines slightly faster.
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Added sdl_hwsurface rcvar to turn hardware surface on for speed boost,
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disabled by default because it crashes on Windows.
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BUGS FIXED
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Hopefully fixed issue with X header locations affecting some users.
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DMG sprite sorting isn't working right. It's now disabled by default.
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VBLANK timings have been changed slightly to fix Daedalian Opus.
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Fixed various minor bugs found by enabling compiler warnings.
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Spacebar was not working with SDL. Fixed.
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Fixed bug that made OAM unreadable.
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RELEASE 0.9.9
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NEW FEATURES
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DOS port is now entirely thinlib-based. Should be more robust, featureful.
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For example, custom video modes such as 256x224 are available.
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PERFORMANCE
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New asm routines for displaying the background layer on color games.
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This results in a significant performance boost low-end machines (~P75).
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SDL code no longer fakes 16bpp but uses the native color depth.
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BUGS FIXED
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SDL gnuboy no longer produces random pops in sound at startup.
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Mono/stereo should now be handled correctly in the SDL code.
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Eliminated compiletime error about SDL_DISABLE on SDL ver < 1.1.8.
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Serious bug -- loading savestates was not updating the memory bank map --
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resulted in bogus behavior after loading in certain situations.
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Scrapped SDL_HWSURFACE to make fullscreen work on Windows.
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RELEASE 0.9.8
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NEW FEATURES
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Native SDL sound support. This means sound will work on BeOS and Windows.
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Sprites are priority sorted on DMG games by default now.
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ROMs can be loaded from stdin using "-" as the filename.
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SDL port now runs fullscreen by default. Set sdl_fullscreen to 0 to disable.
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SDL port now supports alt+enter fullscreen toggle.
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Integrated Windows port by mewse (using SDL and mingw32).
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COMPATIBILITY
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Added support for undocumented ram size 05 (presumably 256 kbit).
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This fixes the crash with Pokemon Crystal.
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Removed hacks for Altered Space and W&W because they break other games.
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Added new VBLANK code that should fix them again without breaking other stuff.
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BUGS FIXED
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SDL keyboard handler was not accepting the numeral keys.
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SDL video was messed up bad when it couldn't get a true 160x144 display.
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Loading a ROM with bogus ROM/RAM size headers used to crash the program.
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RELEASE 0.9.7
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NEW FEATURES
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DOS sound support!
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VESA video modes on DOS!
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Mono sound for cards that don't support stereo.
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COMPATIBILITY
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Altered Space and Wizards & Warriors now run.
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Change was made to VBLANK behavior; hopefully it doesn't break other games.
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BUGS FIXED
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Envelope length was being computed wrong.
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HDMA was incorrectly taking place all at once.
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Command line parsing incorrectly changed - to _ in places it shouldn't.
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SDL joystick support was not building correctly on non-Linux systems.
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RELEASE 0.9.5
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NEW FEATURES
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Showing the name from the ROM header in X11 and SDL titlebars.
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The various targets can be disabled at compiletime with --without-* options.
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OSS sound support might work on FreeBSD and OpenBSD but is untested.
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SDL joystick support.
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GNU make no longer required to compile.
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OPTIMIZATIONS
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Flags handling in the C and asm cpu cores should be faster.
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Word-at-a-time memory I/O is now done more efficiently.
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BUGS FIXED
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Highcolor screens no longer flicker.
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Misplaced high-pitched beeps in sound have been removed, again.
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C graphics code was misaligning the screen by one pixel. Fixed.
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RELEASE 0.9.4
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NEW FEATURES
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Linux fbcon display support.
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Linux joystick device support.
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COMPATIBILITY
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HDMA now works in DKC and Lemmings Color.
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Default wave pattern is now supported.
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RELEASE 0.9.2
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NEW FEATURES
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SDL port!
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Sound channel 4.
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MBC3 RTC support.
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COMPATIBILITY
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Sound is now properly handled in savestates.
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Pokemon Silver and Gold should now be playable.
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BUGS FIXED
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Another bug in sweep.
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Nasty aliasing from extremely high sound frequencies.
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RELEASE 0.9.1
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NEW FEATURES
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Experimental sound support!
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Better command line parsing.
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Added --showvars command line option.
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Various optimizations.
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BUGS FIXED
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HDMA bug.
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LCDC STAT interrupt bug.
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NOTE: Earlier releases have not yet been documented in this file.
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Hopefully they'll be added eventually, at least for the sake of
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completing the records.
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