Update to bsnes v027r03? release.

I have a new WIP up. Again, this one has only source, as nothing has
changed on Windows since wip01.

 This time, I've just cleaned up the OSS and OpenAL drivers. Nach will
probably want to kill me, since by cleaned up, I mean "removed lots of
not-so-helpful comments and safety checks", but I intend to add them
back. Before v028, I'd like to have vai init() functions return a
boolean success value, and have bsnes continue to fall back on lesser
drivers until there are none left, in which case it won't use one. But
it will keep the program from crashing.

 Also, I tried some black magic on the OSS4 support. Because
soundcard.h is included in a different location than the OSS3 one, I
tried manually defining the new SNDCTL options and invoking ioctl
regardless of OSS version. This is supposed to be safe -- the ioctls
should just fail silently and it will behave just like OSS3. Let me
know if you have problems compiling or using the driver with OSS3,
especially on non-Linux boxen.

             > Will you update the readme with recommendations for
which sound driver to use on which system?

 I suppose I can do that. I was planning on writing up an article
about OSS4 and such, perhaps I can just link to that in the readme.

 > I changed it to set_background_color(0, 255, 0) and sure enough I
had a green statusbar. The main window background color was still
black though. Assuming that set_background_color() is meant to be used
for the main UI this is very odd.

 Okay, here's how this works. Inside the main window, there is a view
control, which is a gtk_drawing_area(). I draw the video to this. When
bsnes is in windowed mode, obviously this control fills the entire
window. And the view control draws a black background by default. But
when you go fullscreen, the view area centers itself on your screen
(or tries to, some issues in GTK+ size requests render it non-
perfect.) Now there's the problem that the window itself is exposed on
the sides. Therefore, I have to set the window background to black
here, otherwise it will show up gray, which is _very_ distracting in
fullscreen mode, to say the least.

 Now, I only tell GTK+ to set the window to black. The reason I do
this is because just setting the formcontainer to black has no effect,
since containers do not draw a background. As for why that is causing
your statusbar to render black ... good lord, I have no idea at all
o.O

 I don't know what to do to fix this, unfortunately ... but at least
we now know where the problem is so we can research it. Thank you very
much for tracking that down [vEX], I realize my request to have an
end-user look into that was unreasonable, but it's very much
appreciated.

 > EDIT2: After some testing it doesn't appear that bsnes was guilty.
I can't reproduce the memory consumption, but it could be all the
recompiling bsnes that somehow ate all my memory.

 bsnes does appear to have a tiny memory leak at the moment. It loses
about ~100k a minute on me. I'm not sure if it's specific to the Linux
port or not. This will certainly be a hard one to track down in such a
big program.

             > I believe OpenAL is pretty smart in frequency handling.

 Definitely. I don't really like complex APIs, but the buffering
system in OpenAL will actually come in handy. I failed with
DirectSound, but maybe with OpenAL I can manage to resample audio --
maybe even let OpenAL do the resampling for me by calculating the
frequency as a measure of "how many samples should have been created"
versus "how many actually were."

 That would be awesome. Combine that with OpenGL triple buffering, and
SDL/libjsw joypad support, and wow ... I'll have something really,
really usable :)

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