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Kega Lazarus - Released 16th September 2002.
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Please note:

This is not meant to be a major release of Kega. There may be many bugs or
other problems in this version. Therefore it has been renamed, and you
should not delete v0.04b, which remains as the last major release.

This is my effort to get Kega back on track after a major hardware failure,
which resulted in me losing ALL the source code, apart from an old backup
of version 0.02. Much work has been done, much has been rewritten, although
much of the code is probably not as polished as it used to be.

Game Genie emulation is currently not supported, I *really* couldn't be bothered (yet).

I have not done any work on Kega for a few months now, apart from fixing a
couple of stupid bugs about half an hour ago. Most of what you see here was
written quite a while ago now. But I decided to release it anyway. Play with
it, test it, see what you think of it.

It has proven to be much more difficult than I ever imagined to get this
thing back to where it was. I found many problems that I had fixed in v0.04b
(and even after that version) that I forgot to re-fix this time around. This
has caused a lot of problems.

However, certain parts *have* been improved. There is an entirely new Z80
core, and other improvements which should mean that SMS/GG emulation is now
a lot more useful. There are various improvements to Genesis emulation, and
to SegaCD emulation, too.

I've pretty much forgotten now what is new. You'll just have to find it ;)

Should this version actually turn out to be more stable, and more useful
than I thought, then great :) Tell me about it.

My current plans for Kega are to scrap it completely... the source is now a
huge mess.

HOWEVER:

Should I feel that it is worth the effort, I plan to write an entirely new
68000 core (I *really* need to do this) and then to take what I have learned
from Kega, maybe even parts of the code, and write something new: Kega II !

Maybe some new, nice, tidy code will make me feel more motivated to work
with it. And it will certainly be better, more compatible, faster, and have
nicer features.

Who knows what will come after that ?

Snake, 16th Sept 2002.
