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Revision: 1.5
Committed: 2005-11-29T23:46:43Z (19 years 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

# 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 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 30.Nov.2005
5 gbeauche 1.4 * 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 gbeauche 1.5 * Add support for Ethernet & Serial to Windows
11     * Add Windows GUI with GTK+2
12     * Add initial support for Darwin/x86 with JIT
13 gbeauche 1.4 * 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 gbeauche 1.5 * 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 gbeauche 1.4
26 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005
27 gbeauche 1.1 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
28 gbeauche 1.3 * Add other SDL keysym translations
29 gbeauche 1.2 * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core
30 gbeauche 1.1 * 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 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004
39 gbeauche 1.1 * 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 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004
48 gbeauche 1.1 * 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 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004
58 gbeauche 1.1 * 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 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004
63 gbeauche 1.1 * 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 gbeauche 1.5 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003
73 gbeauche 1.1 * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing
74 gbeauche 1.5
75     Version 2.2 (release) - 04.Feb.2002
76     * Source released under GPL
77     * Integrated code from Basilisk II