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SheepShaver – history of user-visible changes

Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Christian Bauer and Marc Hellwig

Version 2.3 (snapshot), 2006-05-14

  • Handle up to 1 GB of Mac memory
  • Improve SLiRP network emulation performance
  • Fix Native QuickDraw acceleration
  • Fix a crash during MacOS 9 installation
  • Fix a crash in the AppleShare extension
  • Fix support for MacOS 7.5.3 Revision 2.2
  • Fix gigantic window dimensions on first boot
  • Fix extfs volume name to "Unix" (Toshimitsu Tanaka)
  • Fix unaligned accesses in SLiRP network emulation (Brian J. Johnson)
  • Initial port to IRIX/mips
  • MacOS X:
    • Port to MacOS X for Intel, including the JIT
    • Add a primitive graphical preferences editor
    • Add support for run-time CD-ROM auto-detection
    • Fix clipboard (copy/paste of text from/to the host OS)
    • Fix extfs to preserve native folder attributes
    • Fix extfs to handle file/folder creation times
    • Fix SLiRP network emulation (workaround MacOS X bugs)
    • Improve overall performance on PowerPC (by a factor 2)
  • Windows:
    • Add SLiRP network emulation ("ether slirp")
    • Add TAP-Win32 network emulation ("ether tap")
    • Fix CD-ROM auto-detection ("pollmedia" now works)
    • Fix idle sleep ("idlewait" now works)
    • Fix native cursor to be updated as soon as MacOS modified it
    • Improve GUI for network configuration

Version 2.3 (snapshot), 2005-11-30

  • 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), 2005-05-21

  • 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), 2004-07-07

  • 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), 2004-06-09

  • 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), 2004-02-25

  • 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), 2004-01-14

  • 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), 2003-11-25

  • Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing

Version 2.2 (release), 2002-02-04

  • Source released under GPL
  • Integrated code from Basilisk II