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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

# 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) - 21.Mar.2005
5 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
6 * Add other SDL keysym translations
7 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
8 * 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