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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:
1.1.1.18! root 5: User-visible changes in 0.8.21:
! 6: - Several bug fixes, including some serious filesystem emulation bugs.
! 7: - Support for A1000 boot ROMs.
! 8:
! 9: User-visible changes in 0.8.20:
! 10: - Bug fixes only
! 11:
1.1.1.17 root 12: User-visible changes in 0.8.19:
13: - A few bug fixes, especially in state-saving.
14: - Picasso screens now support panning.
15:
1.1.1.16 root 16: User-visible changes in 0.8.18:
17: - Numerous bug fixes.
18: - The gtk UI has more options; it also now behaves similar to the GUI found
19: in the Windows version in that it waits for the user to explicitly start
20: the emulation, thus allowing to select the desired options first.
21: - There's a track and LED display added to the bottom of the screen.
22:
1.1.1.15 root 23: User-visible changes in 0.8.17:
24: - AGA should be a bit faster.
25: - AGA sprites emulation added by Toni Wilen.
26: - Numerous bug fixes.
27: - In the Unix version, the gtk UI has a lot more options available.
28: There's a new option "Enable copper speedup code"; I'd be interested in
29: hearing whether there's any software out there that does not work (or
30: runs slower) if this option is enabled.
31: - Now supports image files of high density floppies (Dr. Adil Temel).
32: - Support for A1000 Kickstart disks (Gerald Schnabel).
33: - The option to disable autoconfig devices no longer exists; the emulator
34: automatically recognizes if the Kickstart version is too old.
35: - Numerous improvements for the integrated debugger.
36: - State save/restore implemented by Toni Wilen. At the moment, this is
37: experimental, "use at your own risk" code. It is not guaranteed that
38: future versions of the emulator will be able to read snapshots saved by
39: this version. Test it and report bugs.
40:
1.1.1.14 root 41: User-visible changes in 0.8.16:
42: - AGA playfield support (again) (Toni Wilen)
43: - In addition to plain mono and stereo, there's a new sound setting "mixed".
44: - There's a new option to set CPU speeds more accurately, it's called
45: "finegrain_cpu_speed".
46: - Numerous bug fixes
47: - Graphics should be faster; optimized code was accidentally commented out
48: in the previous release.
49:
1.1.1.13 root 50: User-visible changes in 0.8.15:
51: - A few changes in the core of the custom chip emulation; this should mean
52: more accuracy in general, but likely also a few new bugs in this version.
53: It may be a little slower as well.
54: - "68040" emulation. Dedicated to all the clueless folks out there.
55: (with thanks to Christian Bauer)
56:
1.1.1.12 root 57: User-visible changes in 0.8.14:
58: - More bug fixes:
59: * CPU emulation problem that could have caused copy protection schemes to
60: malfunction has been fixed.
61: * Some AGA problems fixed (one of them visible in ECS modes).
62: * UAE should work again on non-x86 systems.
63: - By default the emulator will try to approximate an A500 in CPU speed.
64: This setting existed before, but it's a bit more accurate now and on by
65: default.
66: - There is a new option to control the number of emulated disk drives.
67: - Software autofire for the keyboard joystick replacements
68:
1.1.1.11 root 69: User-visible changes in 0.8.13:
70: - Bye bye GGI port
71: - Several bugs fixed, mostly in the filesystem code
72: - AGA updates
73:
1.1.1.10 root 74: User-visible changes in 0.8.12:
75: - Several bugfixes
76:
1.1.1.9 root 77: User-visible changes in 0.8.11:
78: - Finally, an accurate copper emulation, thanks to Sam Jordan.
79: - Sprite emulation fixes, also due to Sam Jordan.
80: - Some CPU emulation fixes (Keith Rollin, Toni Wilen, Lauri Pesonen)
81: - Old command line options actually work now.
82: - Some floppy related lockups removed.
83:
1.1.1.8 root 84: User-visible changes in 0.8.10:
85: - Audio interpolation
86: - Bugfixes for
87: * disk emulation
88: * FPU emulation
89: * CPU prefetch emulation (the "compatible" setting).
90: * some 2.0+ filesystem packets
91: * text-based UI (should compile again)
92: * some other parts
93: - People like me who liked the old command line options better can now use
94: (most of) them again.
95:
1.1.1.7 root 96: User-visible changes in 0.8.9:
97: - The filesystem emulation should be able to emulate an Amiga FS more
98: accurately. Script/Pure bits and filenotes are kept.
99: - Patrick Ohly contributed SCSI support (currently Linux only) that allows
100: you to (e.g.) use CD writers with the emulator.
101:
102: User-visible changes in 0.8.8:
1.1.1.9 root 103: - I'm sure there were some.
1.1.1.7 root 104:
1.1.1.6 root 105: User-visible changes in 0.8.7:
106: - Commandline and configuration file handling has been redone. The old
107: options are now longer supported
1.1.1.7 root 108: - Hardfiles and filesystems are called DHx: instead of UAEx:
1.1.1.6 root 109: - Filesystem emulation supports more 2.0+ packets
110: - FPU works again
111:
1.1.1.5 root 112: User-visible changes in 0.8.6:
113: - Black scanlines implemented ('D' modifier for "-O" option)
114: - Should no longer crash when resetting the emulation
115: - DOS port update
116: - Improvements in X11 and ncurses user interfaces.
117: - Sound can be re-configured at run-time in the UI.
118:
1.1.1.4 root 119: User-visible changes in 0.8.5:
120: - Prettier gtk user interface
121: - Swedish documentation by Jonas Holm Pileborg
122: - Might compile with BSD make
123: - The 68000 MOVEP instruction works properly
124: - Many Win32 code updates - it _might_ compile out of the box for you if
125: your compiler setup is identical to mine
126:
127: User-visible changes in 0.8.4:
128: - The option "-O" has two new modifiers, 'a' and 'p'.
129:
130: User-visible changes in 0.8.3:
131: - Amiga and GGI ports updated
132: - X11 version supports DGA and windowed mode in one binary, hotkeys, and a
133: mouse grabbing mode
1.1.1.3 root 134:
1.1.1.4 root 135: User-visible changes in 0.8.2:
136: - Should compile on *BSD and on non-x86 systems again.
1.1.1.2 root 137: - Better gtk detection (hopefully)
138: - Fixed bugs that made the low bandwidth feature and dithered color output
139: unusable in the X11 version.
1.1.1.4 root 140: - The X11 driver can now display 8 bit Picasso screens even on truecolor X
141: displays.
1.1.1.2 root 142:
1.1.1.4 root 143: User-visible changes in 0.8.1:
1.1.1.2 root 144: - BeOS update (Christian Bauer)
1.1.1.4 root 145: - New copper code that should be more exact and maybe a little bit faster.
146: - Picasso bug fixed that caused corruption of window scrollbars.
147: - Fix for problems in interlace modes on line doubled displays.
148: - The CPU emulation can try to approximate the speed of a 7MHz A500.
1.1.1.2 root 149:
1.1.1.4 root 150: User-visible changes in 0.8.0:
151: - Better support for some BSD variants.
1.1.1.2 root 152: - Fixed a display bug that caused dual playfield displays in high resolution
153: to look wrong.
154: - The gtk UI no longer crashes when the "-G" option is used.
155:
156: User-visible changes in 0.7.0:
157: - Picasso96 graphics card emulation by Brian King.
158: - All CPU emulations (68000, 68010, 68020, 68020 + FPU, 68000 compatible)
159: are now compiled into one binary and selectable at run-time.
160: - Many changes in hardfile support. Now you can mount several hardfiles in
161: arbitrary order. You can specify the geometry for every hardfile.
162: The hardfile device has been renamed to "uaehf.device". Please adjust your
163: MountList entry.
164: - Stereo sound support
165: - UAE has been ported to pOS by Samuel Devulder
166: - New sound back-end that just writes sound to a file.
167: - Improved serial support
168: - The XFree86 VidMode extension is supported; if you use it, the X11 version
169: will switch to the video mode that is "closest" to what you specified on
170: the commandline.
171: - Many minor and major bugfixes
172:
173: User-visible changes in 0.6.9:
174: - The sprite code finally seems to work now (well, mostly :( )
175: - Sprite-to-sprite collisions implemented
176: - EHB and dual playfield modes are faster on x86 systems.
177: - Disk changes should be detected again.
178: - Believe it or not, I think the reset and quit buttons in the UI actually
179: work this time.
180: - POSIX_PENGUINS for Linux systems with glibc-2.0. There's now real hope
181: that it speeds things up on SMP machines (it still slows down single
182: processor machines if it's enabled, though).
183: - The filesystem code should be somewhat more robust. It can also be set up
184: to run multi-threaded. That makes sense even on single processor machines.
185: - The old follow-mouse hack for the X version is disabled. There is now a
186: new Amiga program named "mousehack". Please put it in the directory you
187: use for harddisk emulation and put the command "run >NIL: mousehack" in
188: your startup-sequence.
189: - 4 or 8 MB chip memory are supported.
190: - Two joysticks are supported on Linux systems, as well as several
191: alternative keyboard "fake" joysticks (using two simultaneously is
192: possible). Also, two joystick buttons are now supported.
193: - The SVGAlib/DOS version user interface is a bit improved. It can now be
194: used during the emulation by pressing F11, e.g. for changing disks.
195: - For the non-DGA X11 version, the LOW_BANDWITH and DONT_WANT_SHM compile
196: options have been turned into the -L and -T run-time options.
197: - Linux/GGI port by Christian Schmitt/Stefan Reinauer (untested)
198:
1.1 root 199: User-visible changes in 0.6.8:
200: - This should contain all the necessary files...
201: - Bugfixes
202:
203: User-visible changes in 0.6.7:
204: - Some bugs in the new playfield code removed; some speed improvements
205: - New alternate user-interface for X (note the debugger doesn't completely
206: work yet). The Tk GUI is also improved. Note that I don't use either, so
207: there are no stability guarantees.
208: - The options "-d" and "-C" are replaced with "-O", which allows much better
209: control over the graphics display. The old options will continue to work
210: for a few more releases and will be removed after that.
211: - Yet Another Blitter Bug fixed (Sanity Arte demo)
212: - Blitter control by copper now works (would have worked before if I hadn't
213: forgotten the COPCON register)
214: - On Linux systems (running at least kernel version 1.3.something) UAE can
215: now be set up to run in two threads. That's only potentially useful on SMP
216: machines, it's a performance loss on other machines. It currently is most
217: probably a big performance loss even on SMP machines: The implementation
218: is very primitive. This is just to get started.
219:
220: User-visible changes in 0.6.6:
221: - Playfield hardware emulation almost completely rewritten. It _should_ be
222: somewhat more stable and bugfree, but there's no doubt that there are some
223: new fun and exciting bugs in this version.
224: Features: Interlace drawing merges two frames and should look better, plus
225: it now works with even frame skip values.
226: The copper is more accurate.
227: Sprite DMA works better (see Interference by Sanity)
228: Some other bugs removed.
229: - The spanish keyboard now has a "W".
230: - Nice pictures in the Tk GUI.
231: - The USER_PROGRAMS_BEHAVE compile-time option now "works" even if you don't
232: use the compiler.
233:
234: User-visible changes in 0.6.5:
235: - Bugfixes in the filesystem code and in the compiler
236: - There was some speed loss in 0.6.4, which should be fixed for the i386
237: versions. Actually, UAE won't run on a 386 anymore (uses the bswapl
238: instruction). It would be pointless anyway...
239: - The text user interface in the SVGAlib and DOS versions supports harddisks
240: better
241: - The XFree86 DGA extension is supported.
242: - Italian documentation by Paolo Besser.
243: - Spanish keyboard support for X; French keyboard updated
244: - I _hope_ that the X version UAE now always resets keyboard autorepeat.
245: - Option "-A" to control the accuracy of the emulation. Use "-A 0" to
246: restore the old behaviour, which is likely to be somewhat faster.
247: - Solaris sound should actually compile this time.
248: - The built-in debugger has a "M" command to search for sound modules.
249:
250: For versions earlier than 0.6.5, you'll have to read the ChangeLog to find out
251: what's new.
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