Annotation of uae/docs/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.19

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: 
1.1.1.19! root        5: User-visible changes in 0.8.22:
        !             6:   - Mostly bug fixes
        !             7:   - Extensive updates for the sprite emulation and blitter timing code.
        !             8:     Hopefully more accurate than before.
        !             9: 
1.1.1.18  root       10: User-visible changes in 0.8.21:
                     11:   - Several bug fixes, including some serious filesystem emulation bugs.
                     12:   - Support for A1000 boot ROMs.
                     13: 
                     14: User-visible changes in 0.8.20:
                     15:   - Bug fixes only
                     16: 
1.1.1.17  root       17: User-visible changes in 0.8.19:
                     18:   - A few bug fixes, especially in state-saving.
                     19:   - Picasso screens now support panning.
                     20: 
1.1.1.16  root       21: User-visible changes in 0.8.18:
                     22:   - Numerous bug fixes.
                     23:   - The gtk UI has more options; it also now behaves similar to the GUI found
                     24:     in the Windows version in that it waits for the user to explicitly start
                     25:     the emulation, thus allowing to select the desired options first.
                     26:   - There's a track and LED display added to the bottom of the screen.
                     27: 
1.1.1.15  root       28: User-visible changes in 0.8.17:
                     29:   - AGA should be a bit faster.
                     30:   - AGA sprites emulation added by Toni Wilen.
                     31:   - Numerous bug fixes.
                     32:   - In the Unix version, the gtk UI has a lot more options available.
                     33:     There's a new option "Enable copper speedup code"; I'd be interested in
                     34:     hearing whether there's any software out there that does not work (or
                     35:     runs slower) if this option is enabled.
                     36:   - Now supports image files of high density floppies (Dr. Adil Temel).
                     37:   - Support for A1000 Kickstart disks (Gerald Schnabel).
                     38:   - The option to disable autoconfig devices no longer exists; the emulator
                     39:     automatically recognizes if the Kickstart version is too old.
                     40:   - Numerous improvements for the integrated debugger.
                     41:   - State save/restore implemented by Toni Wilen.  At the moment, this is
                     42:     experimental, "use at your own risk" code.  It is not guaranteed that
                     43:     future versions of the emulator will be able to read snapshots saved by
                     44:     this version.  Test it and report bugs.
                     45: 
1.1.1.14  root       46: User-visible changes in 0.8.16:
                     47:   - AGA playfield support (again) (Toni Wilen)
                     48:   - In addition to plain mono and stereo, there's a new sound setting "mixed".
                     49:   - There's a new option to set CPU speeds more accurately, it's called
                     50:     "finegrain_cpu_speed".
                     51:   - Numerous bug fixes
                     52:   - Graphics should be faster; optimized code was accidentally commented out
                     53:     in the previous release.
                     54:   
1.1.1.13  root       55: User-visible changes in 0.8.15:
                     56:   - A few changes in the core of the custom chip emulation; this should mean
                     57:     more accuracy in general, but likely also a few new bugs in this version.
                     58:     It may be a little slower as well.
                     59:   - "68040" emulation.  Dedicated to all the clueless folks out there.
                     60:     (with thanks to Christian Bauer)
                     61: 
1.1.1.12  root       62: User-visible changes in 0.8.14:
                     63:   - More bug fixes:
                     64:     * CPU emulation problem that could have caused copy protection schemes to
                     65:       malfunction has been fixed.
                     66:     * Some AGA problems fixed (one of them visible in ECS modes).
                     67:     * UAE should work again on non-x86 systems.
                     68:   - By default the emulator will try to approximate an A500 in CPU speed.
                     69:     This setting existed before, but it's a bit more accurate now and on by
                     70:     default.
                     71:   - There is a new option to control the number of emulated disk drives.
                     72:   - Software autofire for the keyboard joystick replacements
                     73: 
1.1.1.11  root       74: User-visible changes in 0.8.13:
                     75:   - Bye bye GGI port
                     76:   - Several bugs fixed, mostly in the filesystem code
                     77:   - AGA updates
                     78: 
1.1.1.10  root       79: User-visible changes in 0.8.12:
                     80:   - Several bugfixes
                     81: 
1.1.1.9   root       82: User-visible changes in 0.8.11:
                     83:   - Finally, an accurate copper emulation, thanks to Sam Jordan.
                     84:   - Sprite emulation fixes, also due to Sam Jordan.
                     85:   - Some CPU emulation fixes (Keith Rollin, Toni Wilen, Lauri Pesonen)
                     86:   - Old command line options actually work now.
                     87:   - Some floppy related lockups removed.
                     88: 
1.1.1.8   root       89: User-visible changes in 0.8.10:
                     90:   - Audio interpolation
                     91:   - Bugfixes for
                     92:     * disk emulation
                     93:     * FPU emulation
                     94:     * CPU prefetch emulation (the "compatible" setting).
                     95:     * some 2.0+ filesystem packets
                     96:     * text-based UI (should compile again)
                     97:     * some other parts
                     98:   - People like me who liked the old command line options better can now use
                     99:     (most of) them again.
                    100: 
1.1.1.7   root      101: User-visible changes in 0.8.9:
                    102:   - The filesystem emulation should be able to emulate an Amiga FS more
                    103:     accurately.  Script/Pure bits and filenotes are kept.
                    104:   - Patrick Ohly contributed SCSI support (currently Linux only) that allows
                    105:     you to (e.g.) use CD writers with the emulator.
                    106: 
                    107: User-visible changes in 0.8.8:
1.1.1.9   root      108:   - I'm sure there were some.
1.1.1.7   root      109: 
1.1.1.6   root      110: User-visible changes in 0.8.7:
                    111:   - Commandline and configuration file handling has been redone. The old
                    112:     options are now longer supported
1.1.1.7   root      113:   - Hardfiles and filesystems are called DHx: instead of UAEx:
1.1.1.6   root      114:   - Filesystem emulation supports more 2.0+ packets
                    115:   - FPU works again
                    116: 
1.1.1.5   root      117: User-visible changes in 0.8.6:
                    118:   - Black scanlines implemented ('D' modifier for "-O" option)
                    119:   - Should no longer crash when resetting the emulation
                    120:   - DOS port update
                    121:   - Improvements in X11 and ncurses user interfaces.
                    122:   - Sound can be re-configured at run-time in the UI.
                    123: 
1.1.1.4   root      124: User-visible changes in 0.8.5:
                    125:   - Prettier gtk user interface
                    126:   - Swedish documentation by Jonas Holm Pileborg
                    127:   - Might compile with BSD make
                    128:   - The 68000 MOVEP instruction works properly
                    129:   - Many Win32 code updates - it _might_ compile out of the box for you if
                    130:     your compiler setup is identical to mine
                    131: 
                    132: User-visible changes in 0.8.4:
                    133:   - The option "-O" has two new modifiers, 'a' and 'p'.
                    134: 
                    135: User-visible changes in 0.8.3:
                    136:   - Amiga and GGI ports updated
                    137:   - X11 version supports DGA and windowed mode in one binary, hotkeys, and a
                    138:     mouse grabbing mode
1.1.1.3   root      139: 
1.1.1.4   root      140: User-visible changes in 0.8.2:
                    141:   - Should compile on *BSD and on non-x86 systems again.
1.1.1.2   root      142:   - Better gtk detection (hopefully)
                    143:   - Fixed bugs that made the low bandwidth feature and dithered color output
                    144:     unusable in the X11 version.
1.1.1.4   root      145:   - The X11 driver can now display 8 bit Picasso screens even on truecolor X
                    146:     displays.
1.1.1.2   root      147: 
1.1.1.4   root      148: User-visible changes in 0.8.1:
1.1.1.2   root      149:   - BeOS update (Christian Bauer)
1.1.1.4   root      150:   - New copper code that should be more exact and maybe a little bit faster.
                    151:   - Picasso bug fixed that caused corruption of window scrollbars.
                    152:   - Fix for problems in interlace modes on line doubled displays.
                    153:   - The CPU emulation can try to approximate the speed of a 7MHz A500.
1.1.1.2   root      154: 
1.1.1.4   root      155: User-visible changes in 0.8.0:
                    156:   - Better support for some BSD variants.
1.1.1.2   root      157:   - Fixed a display bug that caused dual playfield displays in high resolution
                    158:     to look wrong.
                    159:   - The gtk UI no longer crashes when the "-G" option is used.
                    160: 
                    161: User-visible changes in 0.7.0:
                    162:   - Picasso96 graphics card emulation by Brian King.
                    163:   - All CPU emulations (68000, 68010, 68020, 68020 + FPU, 68000 compatible)
                    164:     are now compiled into one binary and selectable at run-time.
                    165:   - Many changes in hardfile support. Now you can mount several hardfiles in
                    166:     arbitrary order. You can specify the geometry for every hardfile.
                    167:     The hardfile device has been renamed to "uaehf.device". Please adjust your
                    168:     MountList entry.
                    169:   - Stereo sound support
                    170:   - UAE has been ported to pOS by Samuel Devulder
                    171:   - New sound back-end that just writes sound to a file.
                    172:   - Improved serial support
                    173:   - The XFree86 VidMode extension is supported; if you use it, the X11 version
                    174:     will switch to the video mode that is "closest" to what you specified on
                    175:     the commandline.
                    176:   - Many minor and major bugfixes
                    177: 
                    178: User-visible changes in 0.6.9:
                    179:   - The sprite code finally seems to work now (well, mostly :( )
                    180:   - Sprite-to-sprite collisions implemented
                    181:   - EHB and dual playfield modes are faster on x86 systems.
                    182:   - Disk changes should be detected again.
                    183:   - Believe it or not, I think the reset and quit buttons in the UI actually
                    184:     work this time.
                    185:   - POSIX_PENGUINS for Linux systems with glibc-2.0. There's now real hope
                    186:     that it speeds things up on SMP machines (it still slows down single
                    187:     processor machines if it's enabled, though).
                    188:   - The filesystem code should be somewhat more robust. It can also be set up
                    189:     to run multi-threaded. That makes sense even on single processor machines.
                    190:   - The old follow-mouse hack for the X version is disabled. There is now a
                    191:     new Amiga program named "mousehack". Please put it in the directory you
                    192:     use for harddisk emulation and put the command "run >NIL: mousehack" in 
                    193:     your startup-sequence.
                    194:   - 4 or 8 MB chip memory are supported.
                    195:   - Two joysticks are supported on Linux systems, as well as several
                    196:     alternative keyboard "fake" joysticks (using two simultaneously is
                    197:     possible). Also, two joystick buttons are now supported.
                    198:   - The SVGAlib/DOS version user interface is a bit improved. It can now be
                    199:     used during the emulation by pressing F11, e.g. for changing disks.
                    200:   - For the non-DGA X11 version, the LOW_BANDWITH and DONT_WANT_SHM compile
                    201:     options have been turned into the -L and -T run-time options.
                    202:   - Linux/GGI port by Christian Schmitt/Stefan Reinauer (untested)
                    203: 
1.1       root      204: User-visible changes in 0.6.8:
                    205:   - This should contain all the necessary files...
                    206:   - Bugfixes
                    207: 
                    208: User-visible changes in 0.6.7:
                    209:   - Some bugs in the new playfield code removed; some speed improvements
                    210:   - New alternate user-interface for X (note the debugger doesn't completely
                    211:     work yet). The Tk GUI is also improved. Note that I don't use either, so
                    212:     there are no stability guarantees.
                    213:   - The options "-d" and "-C" are replaced with "-O", which allows much better
                    214:     control over the graphics display. The old options will continue to work
                    215:     for a few more releases and will be removed after that.
                    216:   - Yet Another Blitter Bug fixed (Sanity Arte demo)
                    217:   - Blitter control by copper now works (would have worked before if I hadn't
                    218:     forgotten the COPCON register)
                    219:   - On Linux systems (running at least kernel version 1.3.something) UAE can
                    220:     now be set up to run in two threads. That's only potentially useful on SMP
                    221:     machines, it's a performance loss on other machines. It currently is most
                    222:     probably a big performance loss even on SMP machines: The implementation
                    223:     is very primitive. This is just to get started.
                    224: 
                    225: User-visible changes in 0.6.6:
                    226:   - Playfield hardware emulation almost completely rewritten. It _should_ be
                    227:     somewhat more stable and bugfree, but there's no doubt that there are some
                    228:     new fun and exciting bugs in this version.
                    229:     Features: Interlace drawing merges two frames and should look better, plus
                    230:       it now works with even frame skip values.
                    231:       The copper is more accurate.
                    232:       Sprite DMA works better (see Interference by Sanity)
                    233:       Some other bugs removed.
                    234:   - The spanish keyboard now has a "W".
                    235:   - Nice pictures in the Tk GUI.
                    236:   - The USER_PROGRAMS_BEHAVE compile-time option now "works" even if you don't
                    237:     use the compiler.
                    238: 
                    239: User-visible changes in 0.6.5:
                    240:   - Bugfixes in the filesystem code and in the compiler
                    241:   - There was some speed loss in 0.6.4, which should be fixed for the i386
                    242:     versions. Actually, UAE won't run on a 386 anymore (uses the bswapl
                    243:     instruction). It would be pointless anyway...
                    244:   - The text user interface in the SVGAlib and DOS versions supports harddisks
                    245:     better
                    246:   - The XFree86 DGA extension is supported.
                    247:   - Italian documentation by Paolo Besser.
                    248:   - Spanish keyboard support for X; French keyboard updated
                    249:   - I _hope_ that the X version UAE now always resets keyboard autorepeat.
                    250:   - Option "-A" to control the accuracy of the emulation. Use "-A 0" to
                    251:     restore the old behaviour, which is likely to be somewhat faster.
                    252:   - Solaris sound should actually compile this time.
                    253:   - The built-in debugger has a "M" command to search for sound modules.
                    254: 
                    255: For versions earlier than 0.6.5, you'll have to read the ChangeLog to find out
                    256: what's new.

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