Raine WIP
Haven\’t heard much lately about this arcade emulator for Windows, but the Raine site posted some news regarding the emulator:
Here is what the new game selection looks like :
In short, it tries to make the gui transparency usefull by showing a picture of the currently selected game (the picture is taken from the screenshot directory). So it replaces the aging snapshots of the allegro version. It\’s a very old idea I had when Zaxxon created the snapshots at first.
The size of the font on the picture is entirely optional, I chose quite a small one here.
It\’s not finished obviously, still no rom directory selection for now ! I am thinking about adding some crazy stuff like downloading a picture from the web if it\’s not available in the screenshots directory…
Also I have added scale3x to the software blits. Now scaling can be automatic, it allows raine to select the best scaling method available for the current video mode. It allows me to play bubble boble fullscreen in a 1024×768 framebuffer console in linux ! Smiley
Still a lot to do, but some nice progress anyway…
