NEWS: AdvanceMAME v0.82.0

AdvanceMAME v0.82.0 has been released at :

	http://advancemame.sourceforge.net

AdvanceMAME is an unofficial MAME version with an advanced video
support for helping the use with TVs, Arcade Monitors, Fixed Frequencies
Monitors and also for PC Monitors.

It runs in Linux, Mac OS X, DOS, Windows and in all the other
platforms supported by the SDL library.

This is the list of changes:

* Added a new "Startup End" key (minus on numeric pad) to store
  in the configuration file the startuptime required for
  the current game. Simply press it when the game start.
* The `sync_startuptime' now has an `auto' value which use an
  internal table to select the correct startup time.
* The sound normalization is now computed using the normalized
  power of the audio and not the maximum value.
* Added a new option `misc_freeplay' to enable the freeplay mode
  changing the game dipswitches.
* Added a new option `misc_mutedemo' to mute the sound on game demo.
* Improved the audio/video syncronization. It should fixes the problems
  on system which are not able to return the correct number of
  samples in the audio board buffer.
* The `sync_resample' default value is now set to use
  internal resampling.
* Fixed the loading of .rc files from the /etc directory.
* Improved the loading speed of the history/mameinfo databases in
  Linux using the unlocked file API.
* The history/mameinfo text is now wrapped to fit the whole screen.
* Added a new `device_alsa_mixer' option to control the sound mixing.
  The default is to use an internal mixer to change the volume.
* Documented in the `advdev.txt' file how use the ALSA `dmix' plug
  for a software mixing from multiple programs.



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