--- SheepShaver/NEWS 2005/07/04 11:38:17 1.4 +++ SheepShaver/NEWS 2006/05/14 20:46:19 1.10 @@ -1,23 +1,57 @@ -SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-03-21 -Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig +SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-05-14 +Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig -Version 2.2 (snapshot) - XX.Jul.2005 -* Add fullscreen DGA via fbdev on Linux +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.May.2006 +* Handle up to 1 GB of Mac memory +* Improve SLiRP network emulation performance +* Fix Native QuickDraw acceleration +* Fix a crash during MacOS 9 installation +* Fix a crash in the AppleShare extension +* Fix support for MacOS 7.5.3 Revision 2.2 +* Fix gigantic window dimensions on first boot +* Fix extfs volume name to "Unix" (Toshimitsu Tanaka) +* Fix unaligned accesses in SLiRP network emulation (Brian J. Johnson) +* Initial port to IRIX/mips +* MacOS X: + o Port to MacOS X for Intel, including the JIT + o Add a primitive graphical preferences editor + o Add support for run-time CD-ROM auto-detection + o Fix clipboard (copy/paste of text from/to the host OS) + o Fix extfs to preserve native folder attributes + o Fix extfs to handle file/folder creation times + o Fix SLiRP network emulation (workaround MacOS X bugs) + o Improve overall performance on PowerPC (by a factor 2) +* Windows: + o Add SLiRP network emulation ("ether slirp") + o Add TAP-Win32 network emulation ("ether tap") + o Fix CD-ROM auto-detection ("pollmedia" now works) + o Fix idle sleep ("idlewait" now works) + o Fix native cursor to be updated as soon as MacOS modified it + o Improve GUI for network configuration + +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 30.Nov.2005 +* Add fullscreen DGA mode via fbdev in Linux * Add "screen" prefs item a-la Basilisk II -* Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation +* Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation (Adobe FrameMaker) * Add support for old toolchain (gcc "2.96", glibc 2.2) * Add user-space network emulation ("ether slirp" in prefs file) +* Add Ethernet and Serial support to Windows +* Add GTK+2 based GUI to Windows +* Add initial port to Darwin/x86 with JIT * Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems * Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode * Improve idle wait on Linux platforms * Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs -* Fix native execution on Linux/PowerPC +* Fix native execution in Linux/PowerPC * Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard) -* Fix Ethernet support on Linux, avoid hangs +* Fix Ethernet support in Linux, avoid hangs * Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing * Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux +* Fix support for 4+ GB hard disk images +* Fix SDL/x11 native cursor acceleration +* Fix sheep_net driver to properly work with Linux kernels up to 2.6.11 -Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005 +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems * Add other SDL keysym translations * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core @@ -29,7 +63,7 @@ Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005 * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9 * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9 -Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004 +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004 * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4 * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate @@ -38,7 +72,7 @@ Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004 * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors -Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004 +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004 * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect @@ -48,12 +82,12 @@ Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004 * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use -Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004 +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004 * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4) * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server -Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004 +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004 * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT @@ -63,5 +97,9 @@ Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004 * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs) * Improve native Linux/PPC port -Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003 +Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003 * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing + +Version 2.2 (release) - 04.Feb.2002 +* Source released under GPL +* Integrated code from Basilisk II