[B2-devel] New SheepShaver test release

[Gwenole B. <gb...@di...>]

Hi,

I uploaded sources & binaries from current CVS at:
<http://gwenole.beauchesne.free.fr/sheepshaver/files/>
Files: SheepShaver-2.2-20040114.tar.bz2, RPMs 2.2-8

Note that the -hacks.patch file is required if you compile from sources 
and intend to use MacOS 8.6. Hopefully, there will be a real fix later 
(through a better fake SCSIManager/SIM expert?).

Christian, I think we are approaching an official 2.2 release. ;-)

Notable changes from previous test release include:
* PowerPC ALU emulation is validated over 700K instruction variants
* PowerPC 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
* Start support (SIGSEGV recovery) for the following platforms: IRIX/mips,
Solaris/sparc, FreeBSD/alpha