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Revision: 1.2
Committed: 2005-03-14T00:32:12Z (19 years, 8 months ago) by gbeauche
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.1: +1 -0 lines
Log Message:
mention improvements to the altivec code

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# User Rev Content
1 gbeauche 1.1 SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-03-08
2     Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig
3    
4     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - <date>
5     * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
6 gbeauche 1.2 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
7 gbeauche 1.1 * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)
8     * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics
9     * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved
10     * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems
11     * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)
12     * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9
13     * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9
14    
15     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
16     * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
17     * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics
18     * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate
19     * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11
20     * Fix 'r' and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers
21     * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
22     * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors
23    
24     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
25     * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds
26     * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code
27     * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect
28     * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems
29     * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens
30     * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle
31     * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems
32     * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use
33    
34     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
35     * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated
36     * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4)
37     * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server
38    
39     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
40     * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite
41     * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone
42     * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT
43     * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems
44     * Add support for wheel mice
45     * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
46     * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
47     * Improve native Linux/PPC port
48    
49     Version 2.2 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
50     * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing