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Revision: 1.7
Committed: 2006-01-22T16:46:41Z (18 years, 9 months ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.6: +6 -0 lines
Log Message:
updates

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# User Rev Content
1 gbeauche 1.5 SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-11-30
2 gbeauche 1.1 Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig
3    
4 gbeauche 1.7 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - DD.Feb.2006
5     * Fix extfs volume name to "Unix" (Toshimitsu Tanaka)
6     * Fix unaligned accesses in user network code (Brian J. Johnson)
7     * Port to IRIX/mips
8     * Port to MacOS X for Intel
9    
10 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 30.Nov.2005
11 gbeauche 1.6 * Add fullscreen DGA mode via fbdev in Linux
12 gbeauche 1.4 * Add "screen" prefs item a-la Basilisk II
13 gbeauche 1.6 * Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation (Adobe FrameMaker)
14 gbeauche 1.4 * Add support for old toolchain (gcc "2.96", glibc 2.2)
15     * Add user-space network emulation ("ether slirp" in prefs file)
16 gbeauche 1.6 * Add Ethernet and Serial support to Windows
17     * Add GTK+2 based GUI to Windows
18     * Add initial port to Darwin/x86 with JIT
19 gbeauche 1.4 * Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems
20     * Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode
21     * Improve idle wait on Linux platforms
22     * Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs
23 gbeauche 1.6 * Fix native execution in Linux/PowerPC
24 gbeauche 1.4 * Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard)
25 gbeauche 1.6 * Fix Ethernet support in Linux, avoid hangs
26 gbeauche 1.4 * Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing
27     * Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux
28 gbeauche 1.5 * Fix support for 4+ GB hard disk images
29     * Fix SDL/x11 native cursor acceleration
30     * Fix sheep_net driver to properly work with Linux kernels up to 2.6.11
31 gbeauche 1.4
32 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005
33 gbeauche 1.1 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
34 gbeauche 1.3 * Add other SDL keysym translations
35 gbeauche 1.2 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
36 gbeauche 1.1 * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
37     * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
38     * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
39     * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
40     * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
41     * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
42     * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
43    
44 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
45 gbeauche 1.1 * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
46     * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
47     * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
48     * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
49     * Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
50     * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
51     * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
52    
53 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
54 gbeauche 1.1 * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
55     * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
56     * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
57     * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
58     * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
59     * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
60     * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
61     * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
62    
63 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
64 gbeauche 1.1 * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
65     * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
66     * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
67    
68 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
69 gbeauche 1.1 * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
70     * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
71     * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
72     * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
73     * Add support for wheel mice
74     * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
75     * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
76     * Improve native Linux/PPC port
77    
78 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
79 gbeauche 1.1 * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing
80 gbeauche 1.5
81     Version 2.2 (release) - 04.Feb.2002
82     * Source released under GPL
83     * Integrated code from Basilisk II