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Revision: 1.5
Committed: 2005-11-29T23:46:43Z (18 years, 4 months ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.4: +18 -8 lines
Log Message:
Move to V2.3 (snapshot) versioning since V2.2 was already CVS-released 4
years ago. Add missing changes.

File Contents

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