The backgrounds can be quite large, for example
the Hellfire title background is a 2.4 MiB PCX file.
Previously, we converted all background to SDL surfaces.
This required extra memory, e.g. the 2.4 MiB Hellfire
title background uses 4.6 MiB as an SDL surface.
Changes the background to render directly from PCX instead
to reduce the allocator pressure.
libmpq is a much simpler alternative to StormLib for reading MPQ archives.
We use our own fork of libmpq: https://github.com/diasurgical/libmpq
Impact:
* DevilutionX is now a lot more portable. Unlike StormLib, libmpq only
needs platform-specific code for Windows.
* Locks around file access **removed** (instead we duplicate the file descriptor for streamed audio only).
* RAM usage is **300 KiB** lower than StormLib.
* Stripped release linux_x86_64 binary is **32 KiB** smaller.
* Amiga build now hangs instead of crashing.
The game will now autodetect if it should run in shareware mode or full
retail based on the found mpq file. Additionally it can beforced in the
shareware mode with --spawn even if the retail data is found.
This simplifies a lot of the spagetty code and lets us better refactor,
also worth noteing is that we won't have to setup a secound set of build
tests.
Still missing is the support screen (functionally identical to the
credit screen)
This also fixes a long standing issue with the menu code where it would
some times return the index and some times the value of the selected
menu item. It now always returns the index and reciver must look up the
value.
Gleb Mazovetskiy
obligaron
Anders Jenbo
staphen
ephphatha
Vladimir Olteanu
arcas
John Törnblom
Tyler
BDC