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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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