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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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# Content
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