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Another JACE build released



JACE finally has a decent amount of updates and I think it's stable
enough to release another build.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/java-ace/files/Builds

Changes since last build:
-Better NTSC color emulation
-Fixes to prevent crashes on start (race condition in video
initalization)
-Tweaks to sound timing
-Experimental raw sound output (activate/deactivate with F7)
-Help text on start screen now reports correct key shortcuts
-Lots of other things here and there I've forgotten about (it's been a
while!)
-Removed some configuration options that were causing unnecessary
grief (Program counter shouldn't be a config variable)

I think the most important part is that the configuration seems to be
pretty reliable (press F4).  There are some unfortunate limitations to
Java though, especially when it comes to joystick support (or lack
thereof) and accelerated graphics -- though the Java 2D can work
relatively well on most platforms.  Next big steps will be conversion
to a more modular plugin system so that additional modules will not
constitute compile or runtime dependencies of the core code.  This
will allow better input/video/output plugins that can utilize things
like jinput and lwjgl at some later point in time.

-B