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Revision: 1.7
Committed: 2006-01-22T16:46:41Z (18 years, 9 months ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.6: +6 -0 lines
Log Message:
updates

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# Content
1 SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-11-30
2 Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig
3
4 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - DD.Feb.2006
5 * Fix extfs volume name to "Unix" (Toshimitsu Tanaka)
6 * Fix unaligned accesses in user network code (Brian J. Johnson)
7 * Port to IRIX/mips
8 * Port to MacOS X for Intel
9
10 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 30.Nov.2005
11 * Add fullscreen DGA mode via fbdev in Linux
12 * Add "screen" prefs item a-la Basilisk II
13 * Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation (Adobe FrameMaker)
14 * Add support for old toolchain (gcc "2.96", glibc 2.2)
15 * Add user-space network emulation ("ether slirp" in prefs file)
16 * Add Ethernet and Serial support to Windows
17 * Add GTK+2 based GUI to Windows
18 * Add initial port to Darwin/x86 with JIT
19 * Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems
20 * Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode
21 * Improve idle wait on Linux platforms
22 * Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs
23 * Fix native execution in Linux/PowerPC
24 * Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard)
25 * Fix Ethernet support in Linux, avoid hangs
26 * Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing
27 * Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux
28 * Fix support for 4+ GB hard disk images
29 * Fix SDL/x11 native cursor acceleration
30 * Fix sheep_net driver to properly work with Linux kernels up to 2.6.11
31
32 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005
33 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
34 * Add other SDL keysym translations
35 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
36 * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
37 * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
38 * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
39 * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
40 * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
41 * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
42 * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
43
44 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
45 * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
46 * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
47 * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
48 * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
49 * Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
50 * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
51 * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
52
53 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
54 * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
55 * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
56 * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
57 * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
58 * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
59 * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
60 * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
61 * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
62
63 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
64 * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
65 * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
66 * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
67
68 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
69 * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
70 * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
71 * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
72 * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
73 * Add support for wheel mice
74 * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
75 * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
76 * Improve native Linux/PPC port
77
78 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
79 * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing
80
81 Version 2.2 (release) - 04.Feb.2002
82 * Source released under GPL
83 * Integrated code from Basilisk II