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> I like Raine. I know most people couldn't care less, but I think it's a good
> piece of software, and I like to think it's still finely crafted like it used to
> be. Plus, it runs times faster than MAME, cool if you have a slow pc. Get Raine!
>
>
> Quite a lot of fixes this time :
>
> * Fixed REGION_EMPTY not supported anymore for games like arkanoid bootleg.
> This bug was probably due to the new way of handling clones when loading roms
> (added in 0.40.5) (helped from loading the rom).
> * Save a little more memory for cps1 & cps2 (on scroll1).
> * Try much harder to reset game hardware when a f3 game hangs after its eeprom
> has been reseted. With this we should definetely get rid of the "game xyz hangs
> when I launch it" messages in the forums.
> * Fix levels order in dkong us emudx version (this should be the last time !).
> * Add speed hacks for 19xx and dimahoo (not sure if it's usefull or not, but
> now these games won't be limited by the cpu power...).
> * Fix music speed for cps2 (it was slightly too slow, check sgemf when it
> displays "no mercy"...).
> * Fix a very old bug in the speed hack allocations for cps1 & cps2, it showed
> only in an sgemf background during attract mode afaik.
> * Try a new way of handling the priorities for cps2. This is not the mame way.
> It's faster, but I am not sure it works everywhere, it's much better than what
> we had in 0.42.0 anyway.
> * Fixed compilation with allegro-4.0.x for fedora core (linux).
> * Added new game : nostradamus, fully playable (it was to test the oddities of
> the mcatadv driver...).
>
> About the cps2 video priorities : the code in raine is rather original. I didn't
> test it with the 25 cps2 games, so I am not sure it works everywhere. It's still
> much better than what we had in 0.42.0, and this version might even be faster
> than 0.42.0 while still more accurate. So if you find places with video
> priorities errors, reports to the forum are welcome.
> This can be called a christmas release, since it will very probably be the last
> raine release in 2004 !
>
>
It never remembers any changes after exiting the emu. This among other various video and sound setting glitchiness and weirdness is why I eventually expunged this waste of emulation space from my gamedrive. Sorry.
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