SheepShaver NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-11-30 Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig Version 2.3 (snapshot) - DD.Feb.2006 * Fix extfs volume name to "Unix" (Toshimitsu Tanaka) * Fix unaligned accesses in user network code (Brian J. Johnson) * Port to IRIX/mips * Port to MacOS X for Intel Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 30.Nov.2005 * Add fullscreen DGA mode via fbdev in Linux * Add "screen" prefs item a-la Basilisk II * Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation (Adobe FrameMaker) * Add support for old toolchain (gcc "2.96", glibc 2.2) * Add user-space network emulation ("ether slirp" in prefs file) * Add Ethernet and Serial support to Windows * Add GTK+2 based GUI to Windows * Add initial port to Darwin/x86 with JIT * Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems * Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode * Improve idle wait on Linux platforms * Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs * Fix native execution in Linux/PowerPC * Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard) * Fix Ethernet support in Linux, avoid hangs * Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing * Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux * Fix support for 4+ GB hard disk images * Fix SDL/x11 native cursor acceleration * Fix sheep_net driver to properly work with Linux kernels up to 2.6.11 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 21.Mar.2005 * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems * Add other SDL keysym translations * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core * Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested) * Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics * Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved * Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems * Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige) * Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9 * Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9 Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 07.Jul.2004 * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4 * Add native port to MacOS X with SDL graphics * Fix timebase emulation. UpTime() is now more accurate * Fix hardware cursor acceleration in X11 * Fix 'r' and key mappings for Apple X11 servers * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 09.Jun.2004 * Improve generic JIT engine to reach around 1/8-th of native speeds * Improve 68k audio processing with "reentrant" JIT generated code * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration for BitBlt (srcCopy) and FillRect * Add TUN/TAP device support on Linux systems * Add run-time depth switching. Support at least 1-bpp screens * Add "idlewait" option to pause SheepShaver when MacOS is idle * Fix ethernet support on little endian and 64-bit systems * Fix initialization of NVRAM on first-time use Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Feb.2004 * Improved generic JIT, FPU instructions are now translated * Add AltiVec emulation, emulated CPU is now a PowerPC 7400 (G4) * Add initial port to MacOS X with an X11 server Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 14.Jan.2004 * Fix several CPU emulation bugs, extended testsuite * Fix FPU emulation, "scrollbar" & Graphing Calculator bugs are gone * Add support for 64-bit platforms, more precisely AMD64 with JIT * Add support for copy-paste of text on Unix/X11 systems * Add support for wheel mice * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs) * Improve native Linux/PPC port Version 2.3 (snapshot) - 25.Nov.2003 * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing Version 2.2 (release) - 04.Feb.2002 * Source released under GPL * Integrated code from Basilisk II