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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:
1.1.1.25! root 5: User-visible changes in 0.8.28:
! 6: - Stability fixes - the GTK UI caused hangs on some systems.
! 7: - Sound code cleanup - several useless options (such as mono sound) removed.
! 8:
1.1.1.24 root 9: User-visible changes in 0.8.27:
10: - Better CPU type selection; now supports 68030, 68882, and more CPU/FPU
11: combinations. 68060 is nominally supported but I've not got it to work.
12: - Enhancements in stereo mixing support (configurable stereo separation and
13: mixing delay).
14: - UAE now gives up processor cycles when the emulated CPU encounters a STOP
15: instruction, even if configured for maximum CPU speed ("idle on stop").
16: - Many improvements in the GTK user interface:
17: * Can now mount and change hardfiles.
18: * The ROM path is scanned at startup, and identified ROMs can be chosen
19: by name from a list.
20: * Default hardware configurations are provided so that e.g. a plain A500
21: config can be set with just a few clicks.
22: * Screen size (and other parameters of the display) can be adjusted.
23: - On Unix systems, a system ROM directory is defined (typically
24: "/usr/share/uae/roms") where ROMs can be installed. This directory will
25: be scanned at startup.
26: - Mounted filesystems/hardfiles now support adjustable boot priorities.
27: - The p.OS port has been deleted on the grounds that the OS never got off
28: the ground and has been dead for about 10 years.
29: - Better compatibility with certain A4000 and A1000 versions of the
30: Kickstart.
31:
1.1.1.23 root 32: User-visible changes in 0.8.26:
33: - Compiles with modern gcc versions
34: - SDL graphics updated, this is now recommended over native X11 (since DGA
35: doesn't work with some graphics drivers these days).
36: - Random updates from WinUAE/E-UAE, including
37: * Sinc interpolation for audio output.
38: - Tries to use gettimeofday in preference to the CPU's rdtsc instruction, as
39: the latter isn't totally reliable on all machines.
40: - Fixed a bug when switching between Picasso and native modes.
41:
1.1.1.22 root 42: User-visible changes in 0.8.25:
43: - More merging with WinUAE; a lot of the input device code has changed
44: - GUI cleaned up.
45: - Quest to eliminate useless options continues: 68000 mode is always "slow
46: but compatible"; it's not that slow after all.
47:
1.1.1.21 root 48: User-visible changes in 0.8.24:
49: - More merging with WinUAE
50: - Now uses GTK2 for the GUI.
51:
1.1.1.20 root 52: User-visible changes in 0.8.23:
53: - Moved over some features from WinUAE:
54: * better m68k exception handling
55: * better m68k prefetch emulation
56: * better debugger
57: - Added ALSA sound support from Heikki Orsila
58:
1.1.1.19 root 59: User-visible changes in 0.8.22:
60: - Mostly bug fixes
61: - Extensive updates for the sprite emulation and blitter timing code.
62: Hopefully more accurate than before.
63:
1.1.1.18 root 64: User-visible changes in 0.8.21:
65: - Several bug fixes, including some serious filesystem emulation bugs.
66: - Support for A1000 boot ROMs.
67:
68: User-visible changes in 0.8.20:
69: - Bug fixes only
70:
1.1.1.17 root 71: User-visible changes in 0.8.19:
72: - A few bug fixes, especially in state-saving.
73: - Picasso screens now support panning.
74:
1.1.1.16 root 75: User-visible changes in 0.8.18:
76: - Numerous bug fixes.
77: - The gtk UI has more options; it also now behaves similar to the GUI found
78: in the Windows version in that it waits for the user to explicitly start
79: the emulation, thus allowing to select the desired options first.
80: - There's a track and LED display added to the bottom of the screen.
81:
1.1.1.15 root 82: User-visible changes in 0.8.17:
83: - AGA should be a bit faster.
84: - AGA sprites emulation added by Toni Wilen.
85: - Numerous bug fixes.
86: - In the Unix version, the gtk UI has a lot more options available.
87: There's a new option "Enable copper speedup code"; I'd be interested in
88: hearing whether there's any software out there that does not work (or
89: runs slower) if this option is enabled.
90: - Now supports image files of high density floppies (Dr. Adil Temel).
91: - Support for A1000 Kickstart disks (Gerald Schnabel).
92: - The option to disable autoconfig devices no longer exists; the emulator
93: automatically recognizes if the Kickstart version is too old.
94: - Numerous improvements for the integrated debugger.
95: - State save/restore implemented by Toni Wilen. At the moment, this is
96: experimental, "use at your own risk" code. It is not guaranteed that
97: future versions of the emulator will be able to read snapshots saved by
98: this version. Test it and report bugs.
99:
1.1.1.14 root 100: User-visible changes in 0.8.16:
101: - AGA playfield support (again) (Toni Wilen)
102: - In addition to plain mono and stereo, there's a new sound setting "mixed".
103: - There's a new option to set CPU speeds more accurately, it's called
104: "finegrain_cpu_speed".
105: - Numerous bug fixes
106: - Graphics should be faster; optimized code was accidentally commented out
107: in the previous release.
108:
1.1.1.13 root 109: User-visible changes in 0.8.15:
110: - A few changes in the core of the custom chip emulation; this should mean
111: more accuracy in general, but likely also a few new bugs in this version.
112: It may be a little slower as well.
113: - "68040" emulation. Dedicated to all the clueless folks out there.
114: (with thanks to Christian Bauer)
115:
1.1.1.12 root 116: User-visible changes in 0.8.14:
117: - More bug fixes:
118: * CPU emulation problem that could have caused copy protection schemes to
119: malfunction has been fixed.
120: * Some AGA problems fixed (one of them visible in ECS modes).
121: * UAE should work again on non-x86 systems.
122: - By default the emulator will try to approximate an A500 in CPU speed.
123: This setting existed before, but it's a bit more accurate now and on by
124: default.
125: - There is a new option to control the number of emulated disk drives.
126: - Software autofire for the keyboard joystick replacements
127:
1.1.1.11 root 128: User-visible changes in 0.8.13:
129: - Bye bye GGI port
130: - Several bugs fixed, mostly in the filesystem code
131: - AGA updates
132:
1.1.1.10 root 133: User-visible changes in 0.8.12:
134: - Several bugfixes
135:
1.1.1.9 root 136: User-visible changes in 0.8.11:
137: - Finally, an accurate copper emulation, thanks to Sam Jordan.
138: - Sprite emulation fixes, also due to Sam Jordan.
139: - Some CPU emulation fixes (Keith Rollin, Toni Wilen, Lauri Pesonen)
140: - Old command line options actually work now.
141: - Some floppy related lockups removed.
142:
1.1.1.8 root 143: User-visible changes in 0.8.10:
144: - Audio interpolation
145: - Bugfixes for
146: * disk emulation
147: * FPU emulation
148: * CPU prefetch emulation (the "compatible" setting).
149: * some 2.0+ filesystem packets
150: * text-based UI (should compile again)
151: * some other parts
152: - People like me who liked the old command line options better can now use
153: (most of) them again.
154:
1.1.1.7 root 155: User-visible changes in 0.8.9:
156: - The filesystem emulation should be able to emulate an Amiga FS more
157: accurately. Script/Pure bits and filenotes are kept.
158: - Patrick Ohly contributed SCSI support (currently Linux only) that allows
159: you to (e.g.) use CD writers with the emulator.
160:
161: User-visible changes in 0.8.8:
1.1.1.9 root 162: - I'm sure there were some.
1.1.1.7 root 163:
1.1.1.6 root 164: User-visible changes in 0.8.7:
165: - Commandline and configuration file handling has been redone. The old
166: options are now longer supported
1.1.1.7 root 167: - Hardfiles and filesystems are called DHx: instead of UAEx:
1.1.1.6 root 168: - Filesystem emulation supports more 2.0+ packets
169: - FPU works again
170:
1.1.1.5 root 171: User-visible changes in 0.8.6:
172: - Black scanlines implemented ('D' modifier for "-O" option)
173: - Should no longer crash when resetting the emulation
174: - DOS port update
175: - Improvements in X11 and ncurses user interfaces.
176: - Sound can be re-configured at run-time in the UI.
177:
1.1.1.4 root 178: User-visible changes in 0.8.5:
179: - Prettier gtk user interface
180: - Swedish documentation by Jonas Holm Pileborg
181: - Might compile with BSD make
182: - The 68000 MOVEP instruction works properly
183: - Many Win32 code updates - it _might_ compile out of the box for you if
184: your compiler setup is identical to mine
185:
186: User-visible changes in 0.8.4:
187: - The option "-O" has two new modifiers, 'a' and 'p'.
188:
189: User-visible changes in 0.8.3:
190: - Amiga and GGI ports updated
191: - X11 version supports DGA and windowed mode in one binary, hotkeys, and a
192: mouse grabbing mode
1.1.1.3 root 193:
1.1.1.4 root 194: User-visible changes in 0.8.2:
195: - Should compile on *BSD and on non-x86 systems again.
1.1.1.2 root 196: - Better gtk detection (hopefully)
197: - Fixed bugs that made the low bandwidth feature and dithered color output
198: unusable in the X11 version.
1.1.1.4 root 199: - The X11 driver can now display 8 bit Picasso screens even on truecolor X
200: displays.
1.1.1.2 root 201:
1.1.1.4 root 202: User-visible changes in 0.8.1:
1.1.1.2 root 203: - BeOS update (Christian Bauer)
1.1.1.4 root 204: - New copper code that should be more exact and maybe a little bit faster.
205: - Picasso bug fixed that caused corruption of window scrollbars.
206: - Fix for problems in interlace modes on line doubled displays.
207: - The CPU emulation can try to approximate the speed of a 7MHz A500.
1.1.1.2 root 208:
1.1.1.4 root 209: User-visible changes in 0.8.0:
210: - Better support for some BSD variants.
1.1.1.2 root 211: - Fixed a display bug that caused dual playfield displays in high resolution
212: to look wrong.
213: - The gtk UI no longer crashes when the "-G" option is used.
214:
215: User-visible changes in 0.7.0:
216: - Picasso96 graphics card emulation by Brian King.
217: - All CPU emulations (68000, 68010, 68020, 68020 + FPU, 68000 compatible)
218: are now compiled into one binary and selectable at run-time.
219: - Many changes in hardfile support. Now you can mount several hardfiles in
220: arbitrary order. You can specify the geometry for every hardfile.
221: The hardfile device has been renamed to "uaehf.device". Please adjust your
222: MountList entry.
223: - Stereo sound support
224: - UAE has been ported to pOS by Samuel Devulder
225: - New sound back-end that just writes sound to a file.
226: - Improved serial support
227: - The XFree86 VidMode extension is supported; if you use it, the X11 version
228: will switch to the video mode that is "closest" to what you specified on
229: the commandline.
230: - Many minor and major bugfixes
231:
232: User-visible changes in 0.6.9:
233: - The sprite code finally seems to work now (well, mostly :( )
234: - Sprite-to-sprite collisions implemented
235: - EHB and dual playfield modes are faster on x86 systems.
236: - Disk changes should be detected again.
237: - Believe it or not, I think the reset and quit buttons in the UI actually
238: work this time.
239: - POSIX_PENGUINS for Linux systems with glibc-2.0. There's now real hope
240: that it speeds things up on SMP machines (it still slows down single
241: processor machines if it's enabled, though).
242: - The filesystem code should be somewhat more robust. It can also be set up
243: to run multi-threaded. That makes sense even on single processor machines.
244: - The old follow-mouse hack for the X version is disabled. There is now a
245: new Amiga program named "mousehack". Please put it in the directory you
246: use for harddisk emulation and put the command "run >NIL: mousehack" in
247: your startup-sequence.
248: - 4 or 8 MB chip memory are supported.
249: - Two joysticks are supported on Linux systems, as well as several
250: alternative keyboard "fake" joysticks (using two simultaneously is
251: possible). Also, two joystick buttons are now supported.
252: - The SVGAlib/DOS version user interface is a bit improved. It can now be
253: used during the emulation by pressing F11, e.g. for changing disks.
254: - For the non-DGA X11 version, the LOW_BANDWITH and DONT_WANT_SHM compile
255: options have been turned into the -L and -T run-time options.
256: - Linux/GGI port by Christian Schmitt/Stefan Reinauer (untested)
257:
1.1 root 258: User-visible changes in 0.6.8:
259: - This should contain all the necessary files...
260: - Bugfixes
261:
262: User-visible changes in 0.6.7:
263: - Some bugs in the new playfield code removed; some speed improvements
264: - New alternate user-interface for X (note the debugger doesn't completely
265: work yet). The Tk GUI is also improved. Note that I don't use either, so
266: there are no stability guarantees.
267: - The options "-d" and "-C" are replaced with "-O", which allows much better
268: control over the graphics display. The old options will continue to work
269: for a few more releases and will be removed after that.
270: - Yet Another Blitter Bug fixed (Sanity Arte demo)
271: - Blitter control by copper now works (would have worked before if I hadn't
272: forgotten the COPCON register)
273: - On Linux systems (running at least kernel version 1.3.something) UAE can
274: now be set up to run in two threads. That's only potentially useful on SMP
275: machines, it's a performance loss on other machines. It currently is most
276: probably a big performance loss even on SMP machines: The implementation
277: is very primitive. This is just to get started.
278:
279: User-visible changes in 0.6.6:
280: - Playfield hardware emulation almost completely rewritten. It _should_ be
281: somewhat more stable and bugfree, but there's no doubt that there are some
282: new fun and exciting bugs in this version.
283: Features: Interlace drawing merges two frames and should look better, plus
284: it now works with even frame skip values.
285: The copper is more accurate.
286: Sprite DMA works better (see Interference by Sanity)
287: Some other bugs removed.
288: - The spanish keyboard now has a "W".
289: - Nice pictures in the Tk GUI.
290: - The USER_PROGRAMS_BEHAVE compile-time option now "works" even if you don't
291: use the compiler.
292:
293: User-visible changes in 0.6.5:
294: - Bugfixes in the filesystem code and in the compiler
295: - There was some speed loss in 0.6.4, which should be fixed for the i386
296: versions. Actually, UAE won't run on a 386 anymore (uses the bswapl
297: instruction). It would be pointless anyway...
298: - The text user interface in the SVGAlib and DOS versions supports harddisks
299: better
300: - The XFree86 DGA extension is supported.
301: - Italian documentation by Paolo Besser.
302: - Spanish keyboard support for X; French keyboard updated
303: - I _hope_ that the X version UAE now always resets keyboard autorepeat.
304: - Option "-A" to control the accuracy of the emulation. Use "-A 0" to
305: restore the old behaviour, which is likely to be somewhat faster.
306: - Solaris sound should actually compile this time.
307: - The built-in debugger has a "M" command to search for sound modules.
308:
309: For versions earlier than 0.6.5, you'll have to read the ChangeLog to find out
310: what's new.
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