CVS commit: pkgsrc/emulators/mednafen

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   wiz
Date:           Sun Aug 15 15:10:50 UTC 2010

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/emulators/mednafen: Makefile distinfo

Log Message:
Update to 0.8.D.2 (0.8.13.2 in pkgsrc terms):

0.8.D.2:
        NES: Fixed a crash on certain x86_64 platforms(Mac OS X),
        due to the sound filtering code dereferencing 32-bit
        registers instead of 64-bit registers as it should have.

0.8.D.1:
        Fixed a compilation error on gcc 4.5(thanks to hanno for
        pointing it out).

0.8.D:
        SMS:  Some state that wasn't being saved in save states
        now is, which should fix netplay desynch problems with
        SMS/GG games.

        Fixed a couple of remotely-exploitable(if connected to a
        malicious server) stack manipulation bugs in the network
        play code.

        Fixed an incorrect object creation bug in pce/adpcm.cpp.

        NES:  Added a missing CPU emulator variable to save states.

        PCE:  Added a missing CPU emulator variable to save states.

0.8.D-rc1:
        Lynx:  Fixed a bug in the cart loader code that would cause
        a crash if the ROM bank size was larger than the actual
        data available in the file(as is the case with some homebrew
        programs).  Thanks to "Wookie" for the patch.

        Build files were regenerated using autoconf 2.64 and aclocal
        1.11(previously, they were generated with autoconf 2.61
        and aclocal 1.10.1).

        Fixed a crashing problem when entering an invalid menu
        choice("0") in the cheat interface.  Thanks to tsenart for
        reporting the bug.

        GB:  The GameBoy module now respects the "filesys.disablesavegz"
        setting in respect to saved battery-backed RAM.

        Added support for "lurkers" on the network play server.
        Previous versions of Mednafen don't lack support for this
        per se, but there would be cosmetic issues with status
        messages printed to the internal console.

        SexyAL:  Fixed a bug affecting the return value from
        RawCanWrite() in the ALSA driver.  The returned value was
        typically too small by a factor of 4.  The effects of this
        bug included potential long periods of garbled sound during
        netplay.

        Fixed the return value from RawCanWrite() in the JACK
        driver.  It was being clamped to a value that was too small
        by a factor of 4; however, the clamp value was already
        excessively large in a way that this bug would should have
        only been triggered if the "soundbufsize" setting was
        excessively large.  The effects of this bug would be similar
        to the ALSA RawCanWrite() bug.

        The ALSA and OSS drivers will now try to set audio output
        to 2 channels if the source data only has 1 channel, and
        16-bit signed if the source data is 8-bit(automatic conversion
        is done).  This is done to allow for lower period/fragment
        sizes, as, in ALSA's internals at least, the minimum period
        sizes are expressed in bytes, not sound frames.

        The ALSA and OSS drivers will now try to set lower
        period/fragment sizes than previous versions of Mednafen
        did.  With default settings, for ALSA, the new period/fragment
        size is 50% of what it was before, and for OSS, 25%.  Also,
        there's a new setting to override the SexyAL's driver's
        preferred period/fragment sizes, named "sound.period_time"(default
        value of 0: no override).  The period/fragment size is
        expressed in microseconds.  If the new, lower fragment
        sizes cause problems, the setting can be changed to "2666"
        to approximate the fragment size selection in previous
        versions of Mednafen when using ALSA output, and "5333"
        when using OSS output.

        Added a workaround to the OSS driver for a bug in ALSA(and
        hence, ALSA's in-kernel OSS emulation) that could cause
        the emulator to run far too fast for a short period of time
        if a buffer underflow occurred.

        The ALSA's driver's RawCanWrite() method now(finally) uses
        snd_pcm_avail_update() instead of snd_pcm_delay().  This
        should improve performance and frameskipping behavior when
        the ALSA output is not routed directly to a physical device,
        such as the case with PulseAudio(though PulseAudio is still
        not recommended :b).  CVS:
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To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 pkgsrc/emulators/mednafen/Makefile
cvs rdiff -u -r1.8 -r1.9 pkgsrc/emulators/mednafen/distinfo

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