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Revision: 1.3
Committed: 2005-03-20T23:58:43Z (19 years, 1 month ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.2: +2 -1 lines
Log Message:
Respin snapshot with functional Windows port + extra SDL keysym translations
in case keycodes were not used (e.g. includes key-'3')

File Contents

# 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 gbeauche 1.3 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005
5 gbeauche 1.1 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
6 gbeauche 1.3 * Add other SDL keysym translations
7 gbeauche 1.2 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
8 gbeauche 1.1 * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
9     * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
10     * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
11     * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
12     * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
13     * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
14     * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
15    
16     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
17     * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
18     * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
19     * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
20     * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
21     * Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
22     * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
23     * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
24    
25     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
26     * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
27     * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
28     * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
29     * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
30     * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
31     * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
32     * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
33     * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
34    
35     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
36     * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
37     * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
38     * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
39    
40     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
41     * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
42     * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
43     * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
44     * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
45     * Add support for wheel mice
46     * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
47     * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
48     * Improve native Linux/PPC port
49    
50     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
51     * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing