====== SheepShaver News ======

  * ''[2006/05/14]'' **SheepShaver 2.3 snapshot**
    * 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

  * ''[2005/11/30]'' **SheepShaver 2.3 snapshot**
    * 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

  * ''[2005/03/21]'' **SheepShaver/SDL for Windows**
    * Precompiled binaries are now available for Windows platforms 

  * ''[2005/03/15]'' **SheepShaver snapshot**
    * Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems
    * Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core. [[en:projects:benchmarks:altivec|Performance]] increased by up to 20%
    * 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 

  * ''[2004/07/07]'' **SheepShaver snapshot**
    * Add support for MacOS 9.0.4
    * Native MacOS X port through SDL graphics
    * Fix timebase emulation, i.e. fix applications using ''UpTime()''
    * Fix hardware cursor acceleration on X11, e.g. make the I-beam cursor visible
    * Fix ''"r"'' and ''<ctrl>'' key mappings for Apple X11 servers
    * Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X
    * Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors 

  * ''[2004/06/09]'' **SheepShaver snapshot**
    * Minor improvements to the generic JIT engine. SheepShaver now performs at around 1/8-th of native speed.
    * Make JIT generated code "reentrant" thus speeding up 68k audio processing a lot.
    * Add Native QuickDraw acceleration routines for ''BitBlt'' (''srcCopy''), ''FillRect''.
    * Add TUN/TAP device support. Try to make ethernet support code little-endian and 64-bit clean.
    * Add run-time depth switching code from Basilisk II. It now supports 1 bpp to host screen depths.
    * Add ''idlewait'' option so that SheepShaver doesn't eat up all CPU when MacOS is not doing anything.
    * Add experimental ''jit68k'' option to enable MacOS 68k DR emulator.
    * Better fullscreen DGA support.
    * Correctly setup XPRAM for first-time users. 

  * ''[2004/02/25]'' **SheepShaver snapshot**
    * Improved generic JIT, also now translates FPU instructions
    * AltiVec emulation, thus enabling the emulated CPU to be identified as a 7400 (G4)
    * Partial port to Darwin/PPC, i.e. it runs but some features may be missing 

  * ''[2004/01/14]'' **SheepShaver snapshot**
    * Various CPU fixes to pass the testsuite
    * FPU emulation is more accurate (this fixes e.g. the "scrollbar" bugs, Graphing Calculator with 3D demos, MacOS help center, etc.)
    * Support for 64-bit platforms. More precisely AMD64 with JIT
    * Support for copy-paste of text between MacOS and X11 through the clipboard
    * Support for the wheel mouse
    * Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches
    * Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)
    * On native side, fixes for SheepThreads & semaphores 

  * ''[2003/11/25]'' **SheepShaver snapshot**
    * Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing