Re: [B2-devel] Planning for SheepShaver 2.3

[<jea...@pa...>]

Would in the 2.3 release of SS for windows also the adobe-altivec problem=
 be solved ?
And if so, is a public download to be expected soon ?

Thx.

>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van: Gwenole Beauchesne [mailto:gb....@fr...]
>Verzonden: donderdag, juni 30, 2005 07:52 PM
>Aan: bas...@li...
>Onderwerp: [B2-devel] Planning for SheepShaver 2.3
>
>Hi,
>
>We can also release a SheepShaver 2.3 soon. Issues left:
>
>General:
>- Audio is not automatically enabled with NewWorld ROMs and MacOS >=3D=20
>8.6. There are workarounds through the "Audio" control pannel IIRC. So,=20
>that's not release critical.
>- Ethernet doesn't work in DIRECT_ADDRESSING mode yet.
>- We need to find a way to sanely abort if people are trying to use=20
>MacOS < 8.5 with NewWorld ROMs. Or is it supposed to work?
>
>MacOS X:
>- I have no news for the Tiger problems.
>- There is no GUI nor CoreGraphics used yet. That's not important to=20
>make a release since we can link with libSDL.a.
>- Add support for Mach/i386 relocations to dyngen to have JIT working=20
>on x86.
>- Build with -mdynamic-no-pic.
>
>Windows:
>- Fullscreen DGA doesn't work
>- Integrate new GTK+2 based GUI
>
>I committed some important bug fixes recently which improves stability=20
>everywhere. However, there may be regressions so some more testing=20
>needs to be done. Especially for clean installs. I only have 8.1, 8.6,=20
>9.0 handy and I again forgot to bring back 7.1.2.
>
>Again, spinning release candidates could bring more build/application=20
>testers.
>
>Since roadmaps are a hype thing to tell nowadays, here are the features=20
>planned for 3.0:
>- Make InputSprockets work but I have absolutely no idea how.
>- Now that SheepShaver reached a decent stability level in CVS, I could=20
>get back to the JIT in the future. AFAICS, it's not difficult to bring=20
>in a 2x speed increase and thus reaching 30% of native speeds. 40+ is=20
>possible but I am not sure yet how/if the profiler will work correctly.=20
>;-) Just need some time to merge all current bits and experiments +=20
>dump remaining techniques out of my head.
>- Host CPU sw assisted OpenGL rendering. Easy to do but simply=20
>boring/tedious to handle and check all thunks. Aranym people did it=20
>though. I have to think again for hwaccel through 3D cards.=20
>Synchronization won't be trivial and offscreen rendering is not really=20
>effecient IIRC and depends on certain cards+drivers.
>
>Bye,
>Gwenol=E9.
>
>
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