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Revision: 1.10
Committed: 2006-05-14T20:46:19Z (17 years, 10 months ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: HEAD
Changes since 1.9: +1 -0 lines
Log Message:
updates

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# Content
1 SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-05-14
2 Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig
3
4 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.May.2006
5 * Handle up to 1 GB of Mac memory
6 * Improve SLiRP network emulation performance
7 * Fix Native QuickDraw acceleration
8 * Fix a crash during MacOS 9 installation
9 * Fix a crash in the AppleShare extension
10 * Fix support for MacOS 7.5.3 Revision 2.2
11 * Fix gigantic window dimensions on first boot
12 * Fix extfs volume name to "Unix" (Toshimitsu Tanaka)
13 * Fix unaligned accesses in SLiRP network emulation (Brian J. Johnson)
14 * Initial port to IRIX/mips
15 * MacOS X:
16 o Port to MacOS X for Intel, including the JIT
17 o Add a primitive graphical preferences editor
18 o Add support for run-time CD-ROM auto-detection
19 o Fix clipboard (copy/paste of text from/to the host OS)
20 o Fix extfs to preserve native folder attributes
21 o Fix extfs to handle file/folder creation times
22 o Fix SLiRP network emulation (workaround MacOS X bugs)
23 o Improve overall performance on PowerPC (by a factor 2)
24 * Windows:
25 o Add SLiRP network emulation ("ether slirp")
26 o Add TAP-Win32 network emulation ("ether tap")
27 o Fix CD-ROM auto-detection ("pollmedia" now works)
28 o Fix idle sleep ("idlewait" now works)
29 o Fix native cursor to be updated as soon as MacOS modified it
30 o Improve GUI for network configuration
31
32 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 30.Nov.2005
33 * Add fullscreen DGA mode via fbdev in Linux
34 * Add "screen" prefs item a-la Basilisk II
35 * Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation (Adobe FrameMaker)
36 * Add support for old toolchain (gcc "2.96", glibc 2.2)
37 * Add user-space network emulation ("ether slirp" in prefs file)
38 * Add Ethernet and Serial support to Windows
39 * Add GTK+2 based GUI to Windows
40 * Add initial port to Darwin/x86 with JIT
41 * Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems
42 * Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode
43 * Improve idle wait on Linux platforms
44 * Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs
45 * Fix native execution in Linux/PowerPC
46 * Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard)
47 * Fix Ethernet support in Linux, avoid hangs
48 * Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing
49 * Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux
50 * Fix support for 4+ GB hard disk images
51 * Fix SDL/x11 native cursor acceleration
52 * Fix sheep_net driver to properly work with Linux kernels up to 2.6.11
53
54 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005
55 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
56 * Add other SDL keysym translations
57 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
58 * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
59 * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
60 * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
61 * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
62 * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
63 * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
64 * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
65
66 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
67 * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
68 * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
69 * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
70 * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
71 * Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
72 * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
73 * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
74
75 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
76 * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
77 * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
78 * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
79 * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
80 * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
81 * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
82 * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
83 * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
84
85 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
86 * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
87 * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
88 * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
89
90 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
91 * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
92 * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
93 * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
94 * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
95 * Add support for wheel mice
96 * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
97 * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
98 * Improve native Linux/PPC port
99
100 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
101 * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing
102
103 Version 2.2 (release) - 04.Feb.2002
104 * Source released under GPL
105 * Integrated code from Basilisk II