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1.1     ! root        1: Note! This file only contains user-visible changes. There may be others. For a
        !             2: more detailed description of changes between releases, read src/ChangeLog, and
        !             3: for the full picture, make a diff between releases.
        !             4: 
        !             5: User-visible changes in 0.6.8:
        !             6:   - This should contain all the necessary files...
        !             7:   - Bugfixes
        !             8: 
        !             9: User-visible changes in 0.6.7:
        !            10:   - Some bugs in the new playfield code removed; some speed improvements
        !            11:   - New alternate user-interface for X (note the debugger doesn't completely
        !            12:     work yet). The Tk GUI is also improved. Note that I don't use either, so
        !            13:     there are no stability guarantees.
        !            14:   - The options "-d" and "-C" are replaced with "-O", which allows much better
        !            15:     control over the graphics display. The old options will continue to work
        !            16:     for a few more releases and will be removed after that.
        !            17:   - Yet Another Blitter Bug fixed (Sanity Arte demo)
        !            18:   - Blitter control by copper now works (would have worked before if I hadn't
        !            19:     forgotten the COPCON register)
        !            20:   - On Linux systems (running at least kernel version 1.3.something) UAE can
        !            21:     now be set up to run in two threads. That's only potentially useful on SMP
        !            22:     machines, it's a performance loss on other machines. It currently is most
        !            23:     probably a big performance loss even on SMP machines: The implementation
        !            24:     is very primitive. This is just to get started.
        !            25: 
        !            26: User-visible changes in 0.6.6:
        !            27:   - Playfield hardware emulation almost completely rewritten. It _should_ be
        !            28:     somewhat more stable and bugfree, but there's no doubt that there are some
        !            29:     new fun and exciting bugs in this version.
        !            30:     Features: Interlace drawing merges two frames and should look better, plus
        !            31:       it now works with even frame skip values.
        !            32:       The copper is more accurate.
        !            33:       Sprite DMA works better (see Interference by Sanity)
        !            34:       Some other bugs removed.
        !            35:   - The spanish keyboard now has a "W".
        !            36:   - Nice pictures in the Tk GUI.
        !            37:   - The USER_PROGRAMS_BEHAVE compile-time option now "works" even if you don't
        !            38:     use the compiler.
        !            39: 
        !            40: User-visible changes in 0.6.5:
        !            41:   - Bugfixes in the filesystem code and in the compiler
        !            42:   - There was some speed loss in 0.6.4, which should be fixed for the i386
        !            43:     versions. Actually, UAE won't run on a 386 anymore (uses the bswapl
        !            44:     instruction). It would be pointless anyway...
        !            45:   - The text user interface in the SVGAlib and DOS versions supports harddisks
        !            46:     better
        !            47:   - The XFree86 DGA extension is supported.
        !            48:   - Italian documentation by Paolo Besser.
        !            49:   - Spanish keyboard support for X; French keyboard updated
        !            50:   - I _hope_ that the X version UAE now always resets keyboard autorepeat.
        !            51:   - Option "-A" to control the accuracy of the emulation. Use "-A 0" to
        !            52:     restore the old behaviour, which is likely to be somewhat faster.
        !            53:   - Solaris sound should actually compile this time.
        !            54:   - The built-in debugger has a "M" command to search for sound modules.
        !            55: 
        !            56: For versions earlier than 0.6.5, you'll have to read the ChangeLog to find out
        !            57: what's new.

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