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Revision: 1.1
Committed: 2005-03-09T00:12:27Z (19 years, 1 month ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
Log Message:
Try to document major changes between released snapshots

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# User Rev Content
1 gbeauche 1.1 SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-03-08
2     Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig
3    
4     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - <date>
5     * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
6     * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
7     * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
8     * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
9     * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
10     * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
11     * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
12     * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
13    
14     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
15     * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
16     * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
17     * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
18     * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
19     * Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
20     * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
21     * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
22    
23     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
24     * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
25     * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
26     * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
27     * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
28     * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
29     * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
30     * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
31     * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
32    
33     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
34     * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
35     * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
36     * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
37    
38     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
39     * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
40     * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
41     * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
42     * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
43     * Add support for wheel mice
44     * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
45     * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
46     * Improve native Linux/PPC port
47    
48     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
49     * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing