RAINE v0.31: "New foundations" - DOS/Linux/Windows
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What's New?
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This release adds mostly new graphic functions to allow almost every
driver to support 16bpp/rotation. It was done mainly to see if f3
games would benefit from it. Apparently : not that much, except maybe
for popnpop ?
Anyway with this, and automatic rom loading, adding new drivers should
be easier now.
Since it's quiet now, and we have also included many fixes and
improvements, time was good to make a release.

New games:
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- Added donpachi, hot dog storm (cave)
- Added 3wonders (preliminary work)


- Taito F3 drivers:

  - Finally fixed the bad looping sounds (especially in puzzle buble 3 & 4)

- Cave driver:

  - Added linescrolling to uopoko, and zooming effects to most games.

Overall improvements:
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 - Added 16bpp support and rotation to 90% of the games.
 - Added bpp selection to the gui (you can now change the bpp without
   quiting raine...)
 - Added continuous playing (see below)
 - Changed the game selection dialog : options can be chosen with the
   new button "Selection", and added selection by company.

 - Fixed Battle Shark : it works again !
 - Fixed music rate in toaplan2 games (batrider...), thanks to a patch
   on the net. See http://www.emucamp.com/boukichi
 - Fixed sample rate not being saved in 0.30a.
 - Fixed bad samples in wrestlefest
 - Some assembler optimisations on the basic drawing functions (from Karma)
 - Fixed light bringer (broken in 0.30a).

Changes for linux :
 - New fbcon driver for linux (frame buffer console)
 - svga, fbcon and dga drivers are now generating their list of
supported modes on the fly.

Continuous playing :
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This option allows you to automatically save a game when you quit, and
automatically load it when you load the rom. It allows to keep high
scores for any game without the hiscore.dat file, can be used as an
emergency save function !
Enable it by running raine with the "-cont" option.
Disable it with the "-nocont" option.
You can also edit the raine configuration file. In this case, change
"auto_save" option in [General] options.
Of course, it eats lots of disk space, so it is off by default.