lxdream.org :: lxdream 0.8.3

Release Notes

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 0.8.2

MMU Implementation
Dreamcast mouse + keyboard support
Joystick/gamepad support
Assorted bug-fixes

Changes since 0.8.1

x86-64 architecture support
Basic Mac OS X support
Pbuffer support to work with GL drivers without EXT_framebuffer_object
Support for more recent CDI and NRG image file versions
Minor bugfixes

Changes since 0.8

Minor configure and portability fixes
Added GDI support
Implemented full screen mode.

Changes since Milestone 3

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

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

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

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

GTK 2.0+
ESounD 2.36+
OpenGL drivers with EXT_framebuffer_object support (any recent drivers should be fine)
GCC, Make, etc.

The current version has only been tested under Linux, but it should be able to be built without too much trouble on any reasonably modern BSD as well. However non-x86 platforms are not supported at this point (there are known endianness issues).

Building

From the base directory

~$ ./configure
~$ make
~$ make install            (optional)

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