[B2-devel] [ANN] SheepShaver 2.3 snapshot (2005/11/30)

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

Hi,

I placed new source tarballs and RPMs at:
<http://www.gibix.net/projects/sheepshaver/>

You can also find a few notes about the PowerPC Emulator testsuite I=20
wrote for SheepShaver:
<http://www.gibix.net/projects/ppctester/>

User visible changes since 2005/03/21:
* 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=20
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

Note that regressions are very likely considering the amount of changes=20=

brought to this snapshot. Ethernet support in Windows is an example,=20
though "it works for me" ((c) whoever).

Bye,
Gwenol=E9.=