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Revision: 1.11
Committed: 1999-10-21T18:29:03Z (25 years, 1 month ago) by cebix
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: snapshot-21101999
Changes since 1.10: +1 -1 lines
Log Message:
- bumped version number to 0.8
- updated docs for fbdev and extfs

File Contents

# Content
1 V0.8 (snapshot) - 21.Oct.1999
2 - sony.cpp/disk.cpp/cdrom.cpp: disk insertions are now checked for
3 by an interrupt routine
4 - localizable strings are now split into a common and a platform-
5 specific set
6 - added external file system to access host OS files from the MacOS;
7 root directory is specified by the "extfs" prefs item
8 - moved most initialization/deinitialization code to InitAll() and
9 ExitAll() in main.cpp
10 - added patches for NetBSD [Bernd Sieker]
11 - corrected TimerDateTime() in timer_unix.cpp and timer_beos.cpp
12 [Toshimitsu Tanaka]
13 - AmigaOS: fixed crash when gtlayout.library was not present
14 - AmigaOS: now compiles with GCC (Geek Gadgets)
15 - AmigaOS/clip_amiga.cpp: fixed small bug in CR->LF translation
16 [Giacomo Magnini]
17 - Unix: compilation of cpuemu.cpp is now split in 8 parts
18 - Unix: volume list in GTK prefs editor is reorderable
19 - Unix: added fbdev DGA support and SPARC assembly optimizations to
20 UAE core [Gwenole Beauchesne]
21
22 V0.7 (release 0.7-2) - 6.Oct.1999
23 - Added BasiliskII.spec for making RPMs [with assistance from
24 Roman Niewiarowski]
25 - Unix: "basilisk_ii_keycodes" renamed to "keycodes", default
26 location of keycodes file is now /usr/local/share/BasiliskII/keycodes
27 - Unix: improved the install target, added uninstall target
28 - Unix/Windows: fixed bugs in protocol removal [Lauri Pesonen]
29 - Unix/Linux/NetDriver: removed MAKEDEV, functionality now included
30 in Makefile ("make dev")
31 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: Sys_open() checks whether an HFS volume is currently
32 mounted under Linux and tries to unmount it
33 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: implemented SysAddDiskPrefs() for Linux (scans
34 /etc/fstab to find HFS volumes)
35 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: implemented Sys(Prevent/Allow)Removal() [Ryan Cumming]
36 - Unix/main_unix.cpp: added call to gtk_set_locale() before gtk_init()
37 [Toshimitsu Tanaka]
38 - Unix/video_x.cpp: "dga" screen preferences now takes width and
39 height as parameters (e.g. dga/640/480), like "win" [Pablo Averbuj]
40 - Unix/video_x.cpp: Caps Lock behaves as expected [Pablo Averbuj]
41 - Unix/prefs_editor_gtk.cpp: made the window width/height widgets
42 comboboxes providing some useful defaults
43
44 V0.7 (alpha) - 25.Jul.1999
45 - with 32-bit clean ROMs, the CPU type is now reported as a 68030
46 (for those OpenTransport fans :-)
47 - added new prefs item "nosound" to disable sound output
48 - sound output implemented for BeOS, Linux, Solaris and AmigaOS
49 (requires Sound Manager 3.x)
50 - dummy/audio_dummy.cpp: created
51 - dummy/prefs_dummy.cpp: created
52 - dummy/xpram_dummy.cpp: created
53 - macos_util.cpp: added FileDiskLayout()
54 - video.cpp: removed useless BlankMousePointer flag
55 - uae_cpu: updated to UAE 0.8.9
56 - uae_cpu/gencpu.c: fixed bug in CAS2, OpenTransport works now
57 - Unix: moved Linux- and FreeBSD-specific files to their respective
58 directories
59 - Unix: added 64-bit data types (needed by timer_unix.cpp)
60 - Unix: added keyboard translation method using raw keycodes instead of
61 keysyms (controlled by "keycodes" and "keycodefile" prefs items) which
62 doesn't depend on the selected keymap
63 - Unix: when running as root, Basilisk II tries to assign real-time
64 priorities to some threads
65 - Unix: calls to nanosleep() protected by autoconf define
66 - Unix/main_unix.cpp: tick thread replaced by POSIX.4 timer when possible
67 - Unix/timer_unix.cpp: uses POSIX.4 timing facilities when possible
68 - Unix/video_x.cpp: all X calls during emulation are now done from
69 the redraw thread which is also active in DGA mode; as a result,
70 XLockServer()/XUnlockServer() are no longer necessary
71 - Unix/sysdeps.h: changed C++ comments to C comments as this file is
72 included by some *.c files in uae_cpu [Brian J. Johnson]
73 - Unix/sysdeps.h: added unaligned access functions for SGI MIPSPro
74 compiler [Brian J. Johnson]
75 - Unix/Irix/unaligned.c: created [Brian J. Johnson]
76 - Windows: updated sources
77
78 V0.6 (alpha) - 12.Jul.1999
79 - Unix: Basilisk II now accepts a "-display <display>" argument to
80 specify the X display to use
81 - Unix: mounting floppies with Ctrl-F1 now works
82 - Unix/ether_linux.cpp: now works when ethertap is configured for
83 multicast support
84 - Unix/main_unix.cpp: XOpenDisplay() is now called from main()
85 - Unix/scsi_freebsd.cpp: added support for FreeBSD 2.x [Orlando Bassotto]
86 - Unix/posix_sem.cpp: updated [Orlando Bassotto]
87 - Unix/prefs_editor_gtk.cpp: serial pane recognizes FreeBSD serial/
88 printer devices [Orlando Bassotto]
89 - Unix/serial_unix.cpp: FreeBSD printer devices are recognized
90 [Orlando Bassotto]
91 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: FreeBSD CD-ROM/floppy support, correct default
92 serial prefs for FreeBSD [Orlando Bassotto]
93 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: fixed SysIsDiskInserted for Linux floppy
94 - Unix/FreeBSD/scsidump.cpp: added [Orlando Bassotto]
95
96 V0.6 (alpha) - 5.Jul.1999
97 - fixed mouse for Classic ROM and MacOS 6.x/7.x
98 - Unix/ether_linux.cpp: added ethertap support (see README for details)
99 - dummy/clip_dummy.cpp: created
100
101 V0.6 (alpha) - 2.Jul.1999
102 - rom_patches.cpp: added CheckROM() which has to be called before
103 PatchROM()
104 - rom_patches.cpp: started ROM patches for Classic/SE ROMs
105 - adb.cpp: ADB handlers get ADBBase passed in a3
106 - adb.cpp: moved temporary data area to ADBBase+0x163 (Mac Classic
107 mouse handler wants it there)
108 - emul_op.cpp/EMUL_OP_CLKNOMEM: reading from the RTC time registers
109 yields the correct time and date
110 - uae_cpu/cpu_emulation.h: added FLAYOUT_NONE to disable frame buffer
111 mapping
112 - uae_cpu/basilisk_glue.cpp: RAMBaseMac/ROMBaseMac are now set in
113 Init680x0() (instead of main_*.cpp)
114 - uae_cpu/memory.cpp: added support for Mac Plus/II memory maps
115 and 24 bit addressing
116 - uae_cpu/newcpu.cpp: re-implemented support for 68000/010 emulation
117 - uae_cpu/cpuopti.c: patched for egcs [Orlando Bassotto]
118 - main_*.cpp: added TwentyFourBitAddressing flag
119 - main_*.cpp: CPU type and addressing mode depends on ROM version
120 - main_*.cpp: tick thread changed to use new TimerDateTime() function
121 - include/video.h: VideoInit() takes "classic" parameter to select
122 "Classic" video mode (512x342, 1-bit)
123 - include/timer.h: new function TimerDateTime() to get local date/time
124 in Mac format
125 - Unix: support for FreeBSD [Orlando Bassotto]
126 - Unix/scsi_freebsd-cam.cpp: created [Orlando Bassotto]
127 - Unix/posix_sem.cpp: created [Orlando Bassotto]
128 - Unix/main_unix.cpp: added call to XF86DGAForkApp()
129 - Unix/video_x.cpp: support for Classic video mode and display on
130 1-bit screens
131 - Unix/video_x.cpp: added check whether screen is really DGA capable
132 - Unix/video_x.cpp: added check for image endianess
133 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: added replacement for Linux llseek() for platforms
134 that don't have it
135 - Unix/*.cpp: replaced sleep()/usleep() by nanosleep()
136 - Amiga/prefs_editor_amiga.cpp: ROM file selection via file requester
137 didn't work
138
139 V0.6 (alpha) - 22.Jun.1999
140 - fixed small compilation problems on BeOS/x86
141 - rsrc_patches.cpp: fixed for MacOS 7.6.1
142 - dummy/scsi_dummy.cpp: scsi_send_cmd() was missing timeout parameter
143 - Unix/video_x.cpp: fixed compilation problem on systems without DGA
144 - BeOS/prefs_editor_beos.cpp: it is now possible to drop ROM files on
145 the "ROM File" control
146 - BeOS/sys_beos.cpp: Basilisk II will not try to unmount volumes (from
147 BeOS) that are to be mounted read-only
148
149 V0.6 (alpha) - 20.Jun.1999
150 - scsi.cpp: added "timeout" parameter to scsi_send_cmd()
151 - scsi_*.cpp: fixed S/G table processing bug in scsi_send_cmd()
152 (every entry was written to/read from the same buffer address)
153 - Unix/scsi_linux.cpp: implemented
154 - Unix/video_x.cpp: new hotkeys: Ctrl-Esc = emergency quit from DGA mode,
155 Ctrl-Tab = suspend DGA mode
156 - Unix/video_x.cpp: implemented VideoQuitFullScreen() (used by
157 ErrorAlert())
158 - BeOS/video_beos.cpp: implemented VideoQuitFullScreen() (used by
159 ErrorAlert())
160
161 V0.6 (alpha) - 19.Jun.1999
162 - sys_*.cpp: 400K DiskCopy disk images are now recognized (84 byte
163 header)
164 - user_strings.cpp: added strings for GTK preferences editor
165 - Unix: implemented preferences editor (requires GTK)
166 - Unix: added "install" target to Makefile
167 - Unix: created minimal man page
168 - Unix/main_unix.cpp: ErrorAlert() and WarningAlert() pop up dialog
169 boxes when GTK is present
170 - BeOS/prefs_editor_beos.cpp: added "Create" button to volume list
171 - BeOS/prefs_editor_beos.cpp: "About" dialog added
172
173 V0.5 (alpha) - 13.Jun.1999
174 - prefs.cpp: added ZapPRAM()
175 - prefs.cpp: PrefsReplaceString() can now take an index
176 - user_strings.cpp: added strings for preferences editor
177 - prefs_editor_*.*: created
178 - sys.h: SysCDStop() now takes the MSF address of the lead-out track
179 as a parameter
180 - AmigaOS: start offset and size of devices is now given in blocks,
181 not bytes
182 - AmigaOS: implemented preferences editor
183 - BeOS: implemented preferences editor
184 - AmigaOS/sys_amiga.cpp: added checks for NSD and 64-bit TD commands
185 (not yet used)
186 - AmigaOS/sys_amiga.cpp: implemented CD audio commands
187 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: CD-ROM devices are opened with O_NONBLOCK flag
188 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: using CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS to check for inserted
189 disks if drive supports it
190 - Unix/sys_unix.cpp: CD-ROM devices are closed and reopened on eject
191 to clear the driver's internal buffers
192 - Unix/video_x.cpp: added incremental refresh mode [David Lawrence]
193 - Unix/video_x.cpp: small changes to the DGA code
194
195 V0.5 (alpha) - 17.May 1999
196 - new "fpu" prefs item to enable/disable the (buggy) UAE FPU emulation
197 - Defaults for platform-specific prefs items can be set in the new
198 AddPlatformPrefsDefault() function which gets called by PrefsInit()
199 - added dummy audio component, so MacOS versions >=7.5 should be more
200 stable when running programs that try to do something with sound
201 - adb.cpp: relative mouse mode should work a bit better
202 - macos_util.cpp: new function HasMacStarted() to check Mac warm
203 start flag
204 - macos_util.cpp: new function MountVolume() to aid implementation
205 of manual volume mounting
206 - cdrom.cpp: added CDROMMountVolume()
207 - BeOS: replaced "Mount floppy" menu item by submenu with list of all
208 removable volumes
209 - Win32: many fixes and improvements [Lauri Pesonen]
210
211 V0.5 (alpha) - 8.May 1999
212 - added information about GPL to all source files
213 - rom_patches.cpp: fixed one unaligned access problem (Sparc)
214 - replaced "off_t" by "loff_t" to allow 64 bit disk access under Linux
215 - created "dummy" platform directory containing generic "do-nothing"
216 versions of certain files to aid in testing and porting
217 - Unix: improved autoconf stuff and sysdeps.h
218 - Unix: now compiles under Solaris
219 - Unix/video_x.cpp: automatic SHM detection, fallback to XPutImage
220
221 V0.5 (alpha) - 26.Apr.1999
222 - main_*.cpp: ramsize is rounded down to 1MB boundary
223 - uae_cpu/memory.h: added "REGPARAM2" in more places [Lauri Pesonen]
224 - uae_cpu/memory.cpp: changed "Diff" variables from "uae_8 *" to
225 "uae_u32" [Lauri Pesonen]
226 - uae_cpu/memory.cpp: added "REGPARAM2" in more places [Lauri Pesonen]
227 - uae_cpu/newcpu.h: added "REGPARAM2" in more places [Lauri Pesonen]
228 - uae_cpu/newcpu.cpp: added "REGPARAM2" in more places [Lauri Pesonen]
229 - Windows/*: integrated updated Windows sources from Lauri Pesonen
230
231 V0.5 (alpha) - 25.Apr.1999
232 - prefs.cpp/PrefsRemoveItem(): deleting the last item now works
233 - uae_cpu/memory.cpp: changed "uae_u8 REGPARAM2 *func()" to
234 "uae_u8 *REGPARAM2 func()"
235 - Unix/ether_unix.cpp: implemented
236 - Unix/Linux/NetDriver: created
237 - Unix/video_x.cpp: added support for 32 bit screens, cleaned up
238 VisualInfo code
239 - BeOS/ether_beos.cpp: cleaned up the code
240 - BeOS/video_beos.cpp: full screen video mode and color depth can now
241 be set via prefs("scr/<mode>")
242
243 V0.4 (alpha) - 15.Apr.1999
244 - Added some literature references to the source files
245 - Modularized CPU engine: the interface of the CPU engine is now
246 defined in cpu_emulation.h, so different CPU engines can be
247 substituted more easily [as requested by Bill Huey]
248 - uae_cpu/gencpu.c: duplicate_carry() was missing in SUB and NBCD routines
249 - Unix: added autoconf stuff
250 - Unix: modified the makefile so it won't fail if cpuopti didn't work
251 [Daniel Thompson]
252
253 V0.4 (alpha) - 11.Apr.1999
254 - cdrom.cpp: find_hfs_partition() bailed out too soon when finding no
255 "PN" signature [Lauri Pesonen]
256 - prefs.cpp: prefs file allows more whitespace between keyword and value
257 [Lauri Pesonen]
258 - prefs.cpp: remodeled to allow platform-specific prefs items (list of
259 keywords is kept in table)
260 - video.cpp/cscSetEntries: luminance mapping uses integer instead of
261 floating point math
262 - video_*.cpp: on most systems, the frame buffer is allocated with
263 two additional lines as some ROM versions seem to write behind
264 the frame buffer proper
265 - BeOS/Unix/sysdeps.h: defined X86_ASSEMBLY on i386/GCC systems
266 - BeOS/Unix/sysdeps.h: redefined get/put_mem() functions to take and
267 return an uae_u32 value, added some more x86 optimizations
268 - Unix/serial_unix.cpp/kSERDBaudRate: rates between 57600 and 65535
269 result in a rate of 57600 [Lauri Pesonen]
270
271 V0.4 (alpha) - 10.Apr.1999
272 - upgraded to UAE 0.8.8 CPU, CPU is now built with "gencpu", UAE sources
273 moved to "uae" directory
274 - new preferences item "rom" to specify the path of the ROM file
275 - new preferences item "ether" for Ethernet driver
276 - new INTFLAG_ETHER interrupt flag
277 - main_*.cpp: added ChoiceAlert()
278 - main_*.cpp: disabled UAE FPU (as it is buggy)
279 - serial_*.cpp: device_name is now a "const char *"
280 - serial_*.cpp: implemented monitor (#define MONITOR 1 to activate)
281 - *.h: changed "#ifdef _XXX_H_" to "#ifdef XXX_H" as symbols starting
282 with an underscore are reserved
283 - rom_patches.cpp: icon data moved to sony/disk/cdrom.cpp
284 - rom_patches.cpp: removed unnecessary a0/a1 save/restore from drivers
285 - slot_rom.cpp: removed unnecessary a0/a1 save/restore from drivers
286 - serial_defs.h: added error codes
287 - AmigaOS: the Kickstart ROM is no longer used to redirect NIL pointer
288 accesses as this crashes some machines (especially 68040-based);
289 a scratch memory block is used instead
290 - AmigaOS/serial_amiga.cpp: implemented
291 - AmigaOS/ether_amiga.cpp: implemented
292 - AmigaOS/sys_amiga.cpp: SysAddSerialPrefs() now returns real defaults
293 - AmigaOS/main_amiga.cpp: when the memory for the Mac RAM and ROM
294 cannot be allocated, an error message is displayed (instead of crashing)
295 - AmigaOS/main_amiga.cpp: interrupts are disabled during execution
296 of an EMUL_OP routine
297 - AmigaOS/asm_support.asm: the CTRL-C handler checks for pending
298 AmigaDOS operations
299 - AmigaOS/asm_support.asm: the interrupt signal exception is rethrown
300 when the interrupt level in EmulatedSR gets lowered while interrupts
301 are pending
302 - BeOS: switched from project files to Be supplied makefile system
303 - BeOS/ether_beos.cpp: implemented
304 - BeOS/serial_beos.cpp: modem status of parallel device is returned
305 as (dsrEvent | dcdEvent | ctsEvent)
306 - BeOS/serial_beos.cpp: implemented kSERDBaudRate
307 - BeOS/serial_beos.cpp: serdtDCE is set in PrimeIn()/PrimeOut()
308 - Unix/serial_unix.cpp: added support for parallel ports
309 - Unix/serial_unix.cpp: serdtDCE is set in PrimeIn()/PrimeOut()
310 - Unix/video_x.cpp: pressing F12 and q will quit Basilisk II in DGA mode
311 (useful when it crashed)
312
313 V0.3 (alpha) - 14.Mar.1999
314 - Unix/video_x.cpp: added 15, 16 and 32 bit window modes [Bill Huey]
315 - BeOS/video_beos.cpp: "screen" prefs item is now either
316 "win/<width>/<height>" for window mode or "scr" for full-screen
317 mode
318 - added documentation of preferences file format to README
319
320 V0.2 (alpha) - 11.Mar.1999
321 - tested with ROM versions 19 and 26
322 - prefs.cpp: renamed TYPE_BOOL to TYPE_BOOLEAN beacuse of name clash on
323 BeOS R4.1
324 - uae_memory.cpp: added support for frame buffer pixel type conversion
325 in virtual addressing mode, the Mac frame buffer layout now has to be
326 specified in MacFrameLayout (video.h)
327 - Unix/video_x.cpp: the "screen" prefs item is now read to select
328 window mode (with a specified window size) or DGA mode
329 - Unix/video_x.cpp: DGA mode supports 15, 16 and 32 bit modes (packed
330 24 bit pixels don't work)
331 - Unix/Makefile.linux: added -D_REENTRANT to compiler flags
332
333 V0.2 (alpha) - 23.Jan.1999
334 - first alpha release