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        !             2: FrontierVM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111
        !             3: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        !             4: This thing uses code from:
        !             5: 
        !             6: Reverse-engineered Atari ST frontier (David Braben, etc)
        !             7: Hatari (http://hatari.sourceforge.net),
        !             8: Scale2x (http://scale2x.sourceforge.net),
        !             9: All the other shit i wrote myself (like the 68k assembler
        !            10: and disassembler) are GPL (i guess...).
        !            11: 
        !            12: Type 'make' and perhaps god will favour you.
        !            13: 
        !            14: Some special keys:
        !            15: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        !            16: 
        !            17: 
        !            18: F11    - Toggle fullscreen.
        !            19: F12    - Open the emulation menu.
        !            20: Ctrl-M - Toggle mouse grabbing.
        !            21: Ctrl-Q - Quit.
        !            22: 
        !            23: If you have a middle mouse button then pressing it should toggle
        !            24: mouse grabbing also.
        !            25: 
        !            26: Changes
        !            27: ~~~~~~~
        !            28: 
        !            29: * 4096 colour palette (was 512 in ST version).
        !            30: 
        !            31: * dynamic colours are always allocated. frontier used to allocate 14
        !            32:   dynamic colours for scenes which typically want 25-35 colours. now
        !            33:   all these colours are available. this basically means frontier is
        !            34:   now 256 colours from a 4096 colour palette.
        !            35: 
        !            36: * New option: Light/dark space colour.
        !            37: 
        !            38: * Fixed ST FE2 bug: milkyway was not visible until after a hyperspace.
        !            39: 
        !            40: * 'Scale2x' mode, which can be activated in the screen section of
        !            41:   the big F12 menu thingy.
        !            42: 
        !            43: * ripped out the crappy sound code. sfx are now 8 or 16 bit 22khz
        !            44:   wavs in sfx/, and music doesn't exist for the moment.
        !            45: 
        !            46: 2004.05.16 - Option 'Icon beeps' had no effect in ST frontier. Fix this.
        !            47: 2004.05.16 - Remember option 'light/dark' space in savefiles.
        !            48: 2004.05.16 - Default to 'very high' detail level.
        !            49: 
        !            50: 
        !            51: Savefiles should remain compatible with those of the atari ST version.
        !            52: 
        !            53: ------
        !            54: 
        !            55: Bug reports, patches, legal threats welcome.
        !            56: 
        !            57: -- 
        !            58: [email protected]
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