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Revision: 1.4
Committed: 2005-07-04T11:38:17Z (18 years, 8 months ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.3: +17 -1 lines
Log Message:
updates for next snapshot

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# Content
1 SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-03-21
2 Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig
3
4 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - XX.Jul.2005
5 * Add fullscreen DGA via fbdev on Linux
6 * Add "screen" prefs item a-la Basilisk II
7 * Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation
8 * Add support for old toolchain (gcc "2.96", glibc 2.2)
9 * Add user-space network emulation ("ether slirp" in prefs file)
10 * Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems
11 * Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode
12 * Improve idle wait on Linux platforms
13 * Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs
14 * Fix native execution on Linux/PowerPC
15 * Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard)
16 * Fix Ethernet support on Linux, avoid hangs
17 * Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing
18 * Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux
19
20 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005
21 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
22 * Add other SDL keysym translations
23 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
24 * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
25 * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
26 * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
27 * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
28 * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
29 * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
30 * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
31
32 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
33 * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
34 * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
35 * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
36 * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
37 * Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
38 * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
39 * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
40
41 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
42 * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
43 * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
44 * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
45 * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
46 * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
47 * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
48 * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
49 * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
50
51 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
52 * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
53 * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
54 * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
55
56 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
57 * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
58 * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
59 * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
60 * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
61 * Add support for wheel mice
62 * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
63 * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
64 * Improve native Linux/PPC port
65
66 Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
67 * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing