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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:
1.1.1.15! root 5: User-visible changes in 0.8.17:
! 6: - AGA should be a bit faster.
! 7: - AGA sprites emulation added by Toni Wilen.
! 8: - Numerous bug fixes.
! 9: - In the Unix version, the gtk UI has a lot more options available.
! 10: There's a new option "Enable copper speedup code"; I'd be interested in
! 11: hearing whether there's any software out there that does not work (or
! 12: runs slower) if this option is enabled.
! 13: - Now supports image files of high density floppies (Dr. Adil Temel).
! 14: - Support for A1000 Kickstart disks (Gerald Schnabel).
! 15: - The option to disable autoconfig devices no longer exists; the emulator
! 16: automatically recognizes if the Kickstart version is too old.
! 17: - Numerous improvements for the integrated debugger.
! 18: - State save/restore implemented by Toni Wilen. At the moment, this is
! 19: experimental, "use at your own risk" code. It is not guaranteed that
! 20: future versions of the emulator will be able to read snapshots saved by
! 21: this version. Test it and report bugs.
! 22:
1.1.1.14 root 23: User-visible changes in 0.8.16:
24: - AGA playfield support (again) (Toni Wilen)
25: - In addition to plain mono and stereo, there's a new sound setting "mixed".
26: - There's a new option to set CPU speeds more accurately, it's called
27: "finegrain_cpu_speed".
28: - Numerous bug fixes
29: - Graphics should be faster; optimized code was accidentally commented out
30: in the previous release.
31:
1.1.1.13 root 32: User-visible changes in 0.8.15:
33: - A few changes in the core of the custom chip emulation; this should mean
34: more accuracy in general, but likely also a few new bugs in this version.
35: It may be a little slower as well.
36: - "68040" emulation. Dedicated to all the clueless folks out there.
37: (with thanks to Christian Bauer)
38:
1.1.1.12 root 39: User-visible changes in 0.8.14:
40: - More bug fixes:
41: * CPU emulation problem that could have caused copy protection schemes to
42: malfunction has been fixed.
43: * Some AGA problems fixed (one of them visible in ECS modes).
44: * UAE should work again on non-x86 systems.
45: - By default the emulator will try to approximate an A500 in CPU speed.
46: This setting existed before, but it's a bit more accurate now and on by
47: default.
48: - There is a new option to control the number of emulated disk drives.
49: - Software autofire for the keyboard joystick replacements
50:
1.1.1.11 root 51: User-visible changes in 0.8.13:
52: - Bye bye GGI port
53: - Several bugs fixed, mostly in the filesystem code
54: - AGA updates
55:
1.1.1.10 root 56: User-visible changes in 0.8.12:
57: - Several bugfixes
58:
1.1.1.9 root 59: User-visible changes in 0.8.11:
60: - Finally, an accurate copper emulation, thanks to Sam Jordan.
61: - Sprite emulation fixes, also due to Sam Jordan.
62: - Some CPU emulation fixes (Keith Rollin, Toni Wilen, Lauri Pesonen)
63: - Old command line options actually work now.
64: - Some floppy related lockups removed.
65:
1.1.1.8 root 66: User-visible changes in 0.8.10:
67: - Audio interpolation
68: - Bugfixes for
69: * disk emulation
70: * FPU emulation
71: * CPU prefetch emulation (the "compatible" setting).
72: * some 2.0+ filesystem packets
73: * text-based UI (should compile again)
74: * some other parts
75: - People like me who liked the old command line options better can now use
76: (most of) them again.
77:
1.1.1.7 root 78: User-visible changes in 0.8.9:
79: - The filesystem emulation should be able to emulate an Amiga FS more
80: accurately. Script/Pure bits and filenotes are kept.
81: - Patrick Ohly contributed SCSI support (currently Linux only) that allows
82: you to (e.g.) use CD writers with the emulator.
83:
84: User-visible changes in 0.8.8:
1.1.1.9 root 85: - I'm sure there were some.
1.1.1.7 root 86:
1.1.1.6 root 87: User-visible changes in 0.8.7:
88: - Commandline and configuration file handling has been redone. The old
89: options are now longer supported
1.1.1.7 root 90: - Hardfiles and filesystems are called DHx: instead of UAEx:
1.1.1.6 root 91: - Filesystem emulation supports more 2.0+ packets
92: - FPU works again
93:
1.1.1.5 root 94: User-visible changes in 0.8.6:
95: - Black scanlines implemented ('D' modifier for "-O" option)
96: - Should no longer crash when resetting the emulation
97: - DOS port update
98: - Improvements in X11 and ncurses user interfaces.
99: - Sound can be re-configured at run-time in the UI.
100:
1.1.1.4 root 101: User-visible changes in 0.8.5:
102: - Prettier gtk user interface
103: - Swedish documentation by Jonas Holm Pileborg
104: - Might compile with BSD make
105: - The 68000 MOVEP instruction works properly
106: - Many Win32 code updates - it _might_ compile out of the box for you if
107: your compiler setup is identical to mine
108:
109: User-visible changes in 0.8.4:
110: - The option "-O" has two new modifiers, 'a' and 'p'.
111:
112: User-visible changes in 0.8.3:
113: - Amiga and GGI ports updated
114: - X11 version supports DGA and windowed mode in one binary, hotkeys, and a
115: mouse grabbing mode
1.1.1.3 root 116:
1.1.1.4 root 117: User-visible changes in 0.8.2:
118: - Should compile on *BSD and on non-x86 systems again.
1.1.1.2 root 119: - Better gtk detection (hopefully)
120: - Fixed bugs that made the low bandwidth feature and dithered color output
121: unusable in the X11 version.
1.1.1.4 root 122: - The X11 driver can now display 8 bit Picasso screens even on truecolor X
123: displays.
1.1.1.2 root 124:
1.1.1.4 root 125: User-visible changes in 0.8.1:
1.1.1.2 root 126: - BeOS update (Christian Bauer)
1.1.1.4 root 127: - New copper code that should be more exact and maybe a little bit faster.
128: - Picasso bug fixed that caused corruption of window scrollbars.
129: - Fix for problems in interlace modes on line doubled displays.
130: - The CPU emulation can try to approximate the speed of a 7MHz A500.
1.1.1.2 root 131:
1.1.1.4 root 132: User-visible changes in 0.8.0:
133: - Better support for some BSD variants.
1.1.1.2 root 134: - Fixed a display bug that caused dual playfield displays in high resolution
135: to look wrong.
136: - The gtk UI no longer crashes when the "-G" option is used.
137:
138: User-visible changes in 0.7.0:
139: - Picasso96 graphics card emulation by Brian King.
140: - All CPU emulations (68000, 68010, 68020, 68020 + FPU, 68000 compatible)
141: are now compiled into one binary and selectable at run-time.
142: - Many changes in hardfile support. Now you can mount several hardfiles in
143: arbitrary order. You can specify the geometry for every hardfile.
144: The hardfile device has been renamed to "uaehf.device". Please adjust your
145: MountList entry.
146: - Stereo sound support
147: - UAE has been ported to pOS by Samuel Devulder
148: - New sound back-end that just writes sound to a file.
149: - Improved serial support
150: - The XFree86 VidMode extension is supported; if you use it, the X11 version
151: will switch to the video mode that is "closest" to what you specified on
152: the commandline.
153: - Many minor and major bugfixes
154:
155: User-visible changes in 0.6.9:
156: - The sprite code finally seems to work now (well, mostly :( )
157: - Sprite-to-sprite collisions implemented
158: - EHB and dual playfield modes are faster on x86 systems.
159: - Disk changes should be detected again.
160: - Believe it or not, I think the reset and quit buttons in the UI actually
161: work this time.
162: - POSIX_PENGUINS for Linux systems with glibc-2.0. There's now real hope
163: that it speeds things up on SMP machines (it still slows down single
164: processor machines if it's enabled, though).
165: - The filesystem code should be somewhat more robust. It can also be set up
166: to run multi-threaded. That makes sense even on single processor machines.
167: - The old follow-mouse hack for the X version is disabled. There is now a
168: new Amiga program named "mousehack". Please put it in the directory you
169: use for harddisk emulation and put the command "run >NIL: mousehack" in
170: your startup-sequence.
171: - 4 or 8 MB chip memory are supported.
172: - Two joysticks are supported on Linux systems, as well as several
173: alternative keyboard "fake" joysticks (using two simultaneously is
174: possible). Also, two joystick buttons are now supported.
175: - The SVGAlib/DOS version user interface is a bit improved. It can now be
176: used during the emulation by pressing F11, e.g. for changing disks.
177: - For the non-DGA X11 version, the LOW_BANDWITH and DONT_WANT_SHM compile
178: options have been turned into the -L and -T run-time options.
179: - Linux/GGI port by Christian Schmitt/Stefan Reinauer (untested)
180:
1.1 root 181: User-visible changes in 0.6.8:
182: - This should contain all the necessary files...
183: - Bugfixes
184:
185: User-visible changes in 0.6.7:
186: - Some bugs in the new playfield code removed; some speed improvements
187: - New alternate user-interface for X (note the debugger doesn't completely
188: work yet). The Tk GUI is also improved. Note that I don't use either, so
189: there are no stability guarantees.
190: - The options "-d" and "-C" are replaced with "-O", which allows much better
191: control over the graphics display. The old options will continue to work
192: for a few more releases and will be removed after that.
193: - Yet Another Blitter Bug fixed (Sanity Arte demo)
194: - Blitter control by copper now works (would have worked before if I hadn't
195: forgotten the COPCON register)
196: - On Linux systems (running at least kernel version 1.3.something) UAE can
197: now be set up to run in two threads. That's only potentially useful on SMP
198: machines, it's a performance loss on other machines. It currently is most
199: probably a big performance loss even on SMP machines: The implementation
200: is very primitive. This is just to get started.
201:
202: User-visible changes in 0.6.6:
203: - Playfield hardware emulation almost completely rewritten. It _should_ be
204: somewhat more stable and bugfree, but there's no doubt that there are some
205: new fun and exciting bugs in this version.
206: Features: Interlace drawing merges two frames and should look better, plus
207: it now works with even frame skip values.
208: The copper is more accurate.
209: Sprite DMA works better (see Interference by Sanity)
210: Some other bugs removed.
211: - The spanish keyboard now has a "W".
212: - Nice pictures in the Tk GUI.
213: - The USER_PROGRAMS_BEHAVE compile-time option now "works" even if you don't
214: use the compiler.
215:
216: User-visible changes in 0.6.5:
217: - Bugfixes in the filesystem code and in the compiler
218: - There was some speed loss in 0.6.4, which should be fixed for the i386
219: versions. Actually, UAE won't run on a 386 anymore (uses the bswapl
220: instruction). It would be pointless anyway...
221: - The text user interface in the SVGAlib and DOS versions supports harddisks
222: better
223: - The XFree86 DGA extension is supported.
224: - Italian documentation by Paolo Besser.
225: - Spanish keyboard support for X; French keyboard updated
226: - I _hope_ that the X version UAE now always resets keyboard autorepeat.
227: - Option "-A" to control the accuracy of the emulation. Use "-A 0" to
228: restore the old behaviour, which is likely to be somewhat faster.
229: - Solaris sound should actually compile this time.
230: - The built-in debugger has a "M" command to search for sound modules.
231:
232: For versions earlier than 0.6.5, you'll have to read the ChangeLog to find out
233: what's new.
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