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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:
1.1.1.17! root 5: User-visible changes in 0.8.19:
! 6: - A few bug fixes, especially in state-saving.
! 7: - Picasso screens now support panning.
! 8:
1.1.1.16 root 9: User-visible changes in 0.8.18:
10: - Numerous bug fixes.
11: - The gtk UI has more options; it also now behaves similar to the GUI found
12: in the Windows version in that it waits for the user to explicitly start
13: the emulation, thus allowing to select the desired options first.
14: - There's a track and LED display added to the bottom of the screen.
15:
1.1.1.15 root 16: User-visible changes in 0.8.17:
17: - AGA should be a bit faster.
18: - AGA sprites emulation added by Toni Wilen.
19: - Numerous bug fixes.
20: - In the Unix version, the gtk UI has a lot more options available.
21: There's a new option "Enable copper speedup code"; I'd be interested in
22: hearing whether there's any software out there that does not work (or
23: runs slower) if this option is enabled.
24: - Now supports image files of high density floppies (Dr. Adil Temel).
25: - Support for A1000 Kickstart disks (Gerald Schnabel).
26: - The option to disable autoconfig devices no longer exists; the emulator
27: automatically recognizes if the Kickstart version is too old.
28: - Numerous improvements for the integrated debugger.
29: - State save/restore implemented by Toni Wilen. At the moment, this is
30: experimental, "use at your own risk" code. It is not guaranteed that
31: future versions of the emulator will be able to read snapshots saved by
32: this version. Test it and report bugs.
33:
1.1.1.14 root 34: User-visible changes in 0.8.16:
35: - AGA playfield support (again) (Toni Wilen)
36: - In addition to plain mono and stereo, there's a new sound setting "mixed".
37: - There's a new option to set CPU speeds more accurately, it's called
38: "finegrain_cpu_speed".
39: - Numerous bug fixes
40: - Graphics should be faster; optimized code was accidentally commented out
41: in the previous release.
42:
1.1.1.13 root 43: User-visible changes in 0.8.15:
44: - A few changes in the core of the custom chip emulation; this should mean
45: more accuracy in general, but likely also a few new bugs in this version.
46: It may be a little slower as well.
47: - "68040" emulation. Dedicated to all the clueless folks out there.
48: (with thanks to Christian Bauer)
49:
1.1.1.12 root 50: User-visible changes in 0.8.14:
51: - More bug fixes:
52: * CPU emulation problem that could have caused copy protection schemes to
53: malfunction has been fixed.
54: * Some AGA problems fixed (one of them visible in ECS modes).
55: * UAE should work again on non-x86 systems.
56: - By default the emulator will try to approximate an A500 in CPU speed.
57: This setting existed before, but it's a bit more accurate now and on by
58: default.
59: - There is a new option to control the number of emulated disk drives.
60: - Software autofire for the keyboard joystick replacements
61:
1.1.1.11 root 62: User-visible changes in 0.8.13:
63: - Bye bye GGI port
64: - Several bugs fixed, mostly in the filesystem code
65: - AGA updates
66:
1.1.1.10 root 67: User-visible changes in 0.8.12:
68: - Several bugfixes
69:
1.1.1.9 root 70: User-visible changes in 0.8.11:
71: - Finally, an accurate copper emulation, thanks to Sam Jordan.
72: - Sprite emulation fixes, also due to Sam Jordan.
73: - Some CPU emulation fixes (Keith Rollin, Toni Wilen, Lauri Pesonen)
74: - Old command line options actually work now.
75: - Some floppy related lockups removed.
76:
1.1.1.8 root 77: User-visible changes in 0.8.10:
78: - Audio interpolation
79: - Bugfixes for
80: * disk emulation
81: * FPU emulation
82: * CPU prefetch emulation (the "compatible" setting).
83: * some 2.0+ filesystem packets
84: * text-based UI (should compile again)
85: * some other parts
86: - People like me who liked the old command line options better can now use
87: (most of) them again.
88:
1.1.1.7 root 89: User-visible changes in 0.8.9:
90: - The filesystem emulation should be able to emulate an Amiga FS more
91: accurately. Script/Pure bits and filenotes are kept.
92: - Patrick Ohly contributed SCSI support (currently Linux only) that allows
93: you to (e.g.) use CD writers with the emulator.
94:
95: User-visible changes in 0.8.8:
1.1.1.9 root 96: - I'm sure there were some.
1.1.1.7 root 97:
1.1.1.6 root 98: User-visible changes in 0.8.7:
99: - Commandline and configuration file handling has been redone. The old
100: options are now longer supported
1.1.1.7 root 101: - Hardfiles and filesystems are called DHx: instead of UAEx:
1.1.1.6 root 102: - Filesystem emulation supports more 2.0+ packets
103: - FPU works again
104:
1.1.1.5 root 105: User-visible changes in 0.8.6:
106: - Black scanlines implemented ('D' modifier for "-O" option)
107: - Should no longer crash when resetting the emulation
108: - DOS port update
109: - Improvements in X11 and ncurses user interfaces.
110: - Sound can be re-configured at run-time in the UI.
111:
1.1.1.4 root 112: User-visible changes in 0.8.5:
113: - Prettier gtk user interface
114: - Swedish documentation by Jonas Holm Pileborg
115: - Might compile with BSD make
116: - The 68000 MOVEP instruction works properly
117: - Many Win32 code updates - it _might_ compile out of the box for you if
118: your compiler setup is identical to mine
119:
120: User-visible changes in 0.8.4:
121: - The option "-O" has two new modifiers, 'a' and 'p'.
122:
123: User-visible changes in 0.8.3:
124: - Amiga and GGI ports updated
125: - X11 version supports DGA and windowed mode in one binary, hotkeys, and a
126: mouse grabbing mode
1.1.1.3 root 127:
1.1.1.4 root 128: User-visible changes in 0.8.2:
129: - Should compile on *BSD and on non-x86 systems again.
1.1.1.2 root 130: - Better gtk detection (hopefully)
131: - Fixed bugs that made the low bandwidth feature and dithered color output
132: unusable in the X11 version.
1.1.1.4 root 133: - The X11 driver can now display 8 bit Picasso screens even on truecolor X
134: displays.
1.1.1.2 root 135:
1.1.1.4 root 136: User-visible changes in 0.8.1:
1.1.1.2 root 137: - BeOS update (Christian Bauer)
1.1.1.4 root 138: - New copper code that should be more exact and maybe a little bit faster.
139: - Picasso bug fixed that caused corruption of window scrollbars.
140: - Fix for problems in interlace modes on line doubled displays.
141: - The CPU emulation can try to approximate the speed of a 7MHz A500.
1.1.1.2 root 142:
1.1.1.4 root 143: User-visible changes in 0.8.0:
144: - Better support for some BSD variants.
1.1.1.2 root 145: - Fixed a display bug that caused dual playfield displays in high resolution
146: to look wrong.
147: - The gtk UI no longer crashes when the "-G" option is used.
148:
149: User-visible changes in 0.7.0:
150: - Picasso96 graphics card emulation by Brian King.
151: - All CPU emulations (68000, 68010, 68020, 68020 + FPU, 68000 compatible)
152: are now compiled into one binary and selectable at run-time.
153: - Many changes in hardfile support. Now you can mount several hardfiles in
154: arbitrary order. You can specify the geometry for every hardfile.
155: The hardfile device has been renamed to "uaehf.device". Please adjust your
156: MountList entry.
157: - Stereo sound support
158: - UAE has been ported to pOS by Samuel Devulder
159: - New sound back-end that just writes sound to a file.
160: - Improved serial support
161: - The XFree86 VidMode extension is supported; if you use it, the X11 version
162: will switch to the video mode that is "closest" to what you specified on
163: the commandline.
164: - Many minor and major bugfixes
165:
166: User-visible changes in 0.6.9:
167: - The sprite code finally seems to work now (well, mostly :( )
168: - Sprite-to-sprite collisions implemented
169: - EHB and dual playfield modes are faster on x86 systems.
170: - Disk changes should be detected again.
171: - Believe it or not, I think the reset and quit buttons in the UI actually
172: work this time.
173: - POSIX_PENGUINS for Linux systems with glibc-2.0. There's now real hope
174: that it speeds things up on SMP machines (it still slows down single
175: processor machines if it's enabled, though).
176: - The filesystem code should be somewhat more robust. It can also be set up
177: to run multi-threaded. That makes sense even on single processor machines.
178: - The old follow-mouse hack for the X version is disabled. There is now a
179: new Amiga program named "mousehack". Please put it in the directory you
180: use for harddisk emulation and put the command "run >NIL: mousehack" in
181: your startup-sequence.
182: - 4 or 8 MB chip memory are supported.
183: - Two joysticks are supported on Linux systems, as well as several
184: alternative keyboard "fake" joysticks (using two simultaneously is
185: possible). Also, two joystick buttons are now supported.
186: - The SVGAlib/DOS version user interface is a bit improved. It can now be
187: used during the emulation by pressing F11, e.g. for changing disks.
188: - For the non-DGA X11 version, the LOW_BANDWITH and DONT_WANT_SHM compile
189: options have been turned into the -L and -T run-time options.
190: - Linux/GGI port by Christian Schmitt/Stefan Reinauer (untested)
191:
1.1 root 192: User-visible changes in 0.6.8:
193: - This should contain all the necessary files...
194: - Bugfixes
195:
196: User-visible changes in 0.6.7:
197: - Some bugs in the new playfield code removed; some speed improvements
198: - New alternate user-interface for X (note the debugger doesn't completely
199: work yet). The Tk GUI is also improved. Note that I don't use either, so
200: there are no stability guarantees.
201: - The options "-d" and "-C" are replaced with "-O", which allows much better
202: control over the graphics display. The old options will continue to work
203: for a few more releases and will be removed after that.
204: - Yet Another Blitter Bug fixed (Sanity Arte demo)
205: - Blitter control by copper now works (would have worked before if I hadn't
206: forgotten the COPCON register)
207: - On Linux systems (running at least kernel version 1.3.something) UAE can
208: now be set up to run in two threads. That's only potentially useful on SMP
209: machines, it's a performance loss on other machines. It currently is most
210: probably a big performance loss even on SMP machines: The implementation
211: is very primitive. This is just to get started.
212:
213: User-visible changes in 0.6.6:
214: - Playfield hardware emulation almost completely rewritten. It _should_ be
215: somewhat more stable and bugfree, but there's no doubt that there are some
216: new fun and exciting bugs in this version.
217: Features: Interlace drawing merges two frames and should look better, plus
218: it now works with even frame skip values.
219: The copper is more accurate.
220: Sprite DMA works better (see Interference by Sanity)
221: Some other bugs removed.
222: - The spanish keyboard now has a "W".
223: - Nice pictures in the Tk GUI.
224: - The USER_PROGRAMS_BEHAVE compile-time option now "works" even if you don't
225: use the compiler.
226:
227: User-visible changes in 0.6.5:
228: - Bugfixes in the filesystem code and in the compiler
229: - There was some speed loss in 0.6.4, which should be fixed for the i386
230: versions. Actually, UAE won't run on a 386 anymore (uses the bswapl
231: instruction). It would be pointless anyway...
232: - The text user interface in the SVGAlib and DOS versions supports harddisks
233: better
234: - The XFree86 DGA extension is supported.
235: - Italian documentation by Paolo Besser.
236: - Spanish keyboard support for X; French keyboard updated
237: - I _hope_ that the X version UAE now always resets keyboard autorepeat.
238: - Option "-A" to control the accuracy of the emulation. Use "-A 0" to
239: restore the old behaviour, which is likely to be somewhat faster.
240: - Solaris sound should actually compile this time.
241: - The built-in debugger has a "M" command to search for sound modules.
242:
243: For versions earlier than 0.6.5, you'll have to read the ChangeLog to find out
244: what's new.
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