0.36b16 2000/02/04 [#090 - Nicola Salmoria]
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New games supported:
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Berlin Wall [Luca Elia]
Bomb Bee [Nicola Salmoria]
Cutie Q [Nicola Salmoria]
Fighting Soccer [Phil Stroffolino]
Kaitei Takara Sagash [Juergen Buchmueller]
Kodure Ookami [Takahiro Nogi]
Navalone [Juergen Buchmueller]
SOS [Juergen Buchmueller]
Toryumon [Andrew Prime]


New clones supported:
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Bermuda Triangle (older) [Nicola Salmoria]
Big Pro Wrestling (= Tag Team Wrestling) [Nicola Salmoria]
Champion Wrestler (Japan) [Nicola Salmoria]
Crazy Cop (= Gang Busters) [Nicola Salmoria]
Gee Bee (Namco) [Nicola Salmoria]
Great 1000 Miles Rally (set 2) [Nicola Salmoria]
Guerilla War (version 1) [Nicola Salmoria]
Guevara (= Guerilla War) [Nicola Salmoria]
World Wars (= Bermuda Triangle) [Nicola Salmoria]


These drivers have improved GRAPHICS:
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- Fixed shadow/highlight in the Namco System 1 games (check 'Dangerous Seed's' title screen!) [Vernon C. Brooks].


These drivers have new or improved SOUND:
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- Fixed sound in 'Sindbad Mystery' [Zsolt Vasvari].
- Sound in 'Warp Warp' [Juergen Buchmueller].


Source changes:
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- [DOS] MMX optimized video blitting functions [Bernd Wiebelt].
- Added vector intensity control to the On Screen Display (for vector games) [Mathis Rosenhauer].
- Unified keyboard and joystick interface, now they are all assigned in the "Input" menu and you can mix them at will [Andrea Mazzoleni].
- mixer.c now does all sound mixing, generating one single sample stream, played using the new osd_XXX_audio_stream() functions. All other OS dependant sample functions (osd_play_sample() etc.) have been removed. This should standardize the sound output across ports, and allow porters to write much cleaner sound code [Aaron Giles].
- Removed some obsolete fields from struct GameOptions [Nicola Salmoria].
- The functionality of osd_skip_this_frame() is now more strictly defined (see osdepend.h). Ports not complying with that must be updated, otherwise problems with certain drivers might arise [Nicola Salmoria].
- The transition to the GAME() macro is complete. struct GameDriver must no longer be used. Alro removed the old ROM_REGION() and ROM_REGION_DISPOSE() macros, and renamed ROM_REGIONX() to ROM_REGION() [Nicola Salmoria].