Arcan v0.2.1 Beta 1 is released. Arcan a portable and fully scriptable frontend for launching games, emulators and other full-screen applications in a visual appealing way, as seamlessly as possible.

It is mainly targeted towards advanced hobbyists that wants to get their hands dirty and dabble with light programming as part of larger build projects e.g. HTPCs and gaming cabinets, and is as such not directly intended for "plug-n-play" type of use.

Features:
- Video playback
- LED Controller support
- Basic 2D features (animations, transformations, picking)
- Detailed event-model
- Scriptable (in LUA currently)
- Able to hijack rendering / input from launched targets and expose as scriptable entities
- OGG music / WAV sample playback
- Database backend
- Highly tunable performance characteristics



Arcan v0.2.1 Beta 1 Changelog:
- Changing the display vector: integration of a rendering many small options that affect the result.
- Change in the gridle: ability to customize the display (list, ...) configuration display effects internally (CRT, NTSC, Vector ...), ability to record video.

Download: Arcan v0.2.1 Beta 1
Source: Here