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SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-05-14
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Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.May.2006
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* Handle up to 1 GB of Mac memory
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* Improve SLiRP network emulation performance
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* Fix Native QuickDraw acceleration
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* Fix a crash during MacOS 9 installation
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* Fix a crash in the AppleShare extension
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* Fix support for MacOS 7.5.3 Revision 2.2
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* Fix gigantic window dimensions on first boot
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* Fix extfs volume name to "Unix" (Toshimitsu Tanaka)
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* Fix unaligned accesses in SLiRP network emulation (Brian J. Johnson)
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* Initial port to IRIX/mips
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* MacOS X:
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o Port to MacOS X for Intel, including the JIT
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o Add a primitive graphical preferences editor
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o Add support for run-time CD-ROM auto-detection
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o Fix clipboard (copy/paste of text from/to the host OS)
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o Fix extfs to preserve native folder attributes
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o Fix extfs to handle file/folder creation times
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o Fix SLiRP network emulation (workaround MacOS X bugs)
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o Improve overall performance on PowerPC (by a factor 2)
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* Windows:
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o Add SLiRP network emulation ("ether slirp")
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o Add TAP-Win32 network emulation ("ether tap")
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o Fix CD-ROM auto-detection ("pollmedia" now works)
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o Fix idle sleep ("idlewait" now works)
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o Fix native cursor to be updated as soon as MacOS modified it
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o Improve GUI for network configuration
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 30.Nov.2005
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* Add fullscreen DGA mode via fbdev in Linux
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* Add "screen" prefs item a-la Basilisk II
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* Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation (Adobe FrameMaker)
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* Add support for old toolchain (gcc "2.96", glibc 2.2)
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* Add user-space network emulation ("ether slirp" in prefs file)
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* Add Ethernet and Serial support to Windows
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* Add GTK+2 based GUI to Windows
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* Add initial port to Darwin/x86 with JIT
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* Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems
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* Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode
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* Improve idle wait on Linux platforms
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* Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs
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* Fix native execution in Linux/PowerPC
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* Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard)
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* Fix Ethernet support in Linux, avoid hangs
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* Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing
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* Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux
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* Fix support for 4+ GB hard disk images
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* Fix SDL/x11 native cursor acceleration
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* Fix sheep_net driver to properly work with Linux kernels up to 2.6.11
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005
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* Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
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* Add other SDL keysym translations
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* Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
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* Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
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* Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
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* Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
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* Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
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* Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
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* Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
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* Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
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* Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
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* Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
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* Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
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* Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
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* Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
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* Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
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* Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
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* Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
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* Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
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* Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
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* Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
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* Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
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* Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
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* Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
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* Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
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* Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
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* Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
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* Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
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* Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
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* Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
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* Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
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* Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
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* Add support for wheel mice
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* Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
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* Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
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* Improve native Linux/PPC port
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Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
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* Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing
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Version 2.2 (release) - 04.Feb.2002
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* Source released under GPL
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* Integrated code from Basilisk II
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