Annotation of uae/docs/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.7

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: 
1.1.1.7 ! root        5: User-visible changes in 0.8.9:
        !             6:   - The filesystem emulation should be able to emulate an Amiga FS more
        !             7:     accurately.  Script/Pure bits and filenotes are kept.
        !             8:   - Patrick Ohly contributed SCSI support (currently Linux only) that allows
        !             9:     you to (e.g.) use CD writers with the emulator.
        !            10: 
        !            11: User-visible changes in 0.8.8:
        !            12: 
1.1.1.6   root       13: User-visible changes in 0.8.7:
                     14:   - Commandline and configuration file handling has been redone. The old
                     15:     options are now longer supported
1.1.1.7 ! root       16:   - Hardfiles and filesystems are called DHx: instead of UAEx:
1.1.1.6   root       17:   - Filesystem emulation supports more 2.0+ packets
                     18:   - FPU works again
                     19: 
1.1.1.5   root       20: User-visible changes in 0.8.6:
                     21:   - Black scanlines implemented ('D' modifier for "-O" option)
                     22:   - Should no longer crash when resetting the emulation
                     23:   - DOS port update
                     24:   - Improvements in X11 and ncurses user interfaces.
                     25:   - Sound can be re-configured at run-time in the UI.
                     26: 
1.1.1.4   root       27: User-visible changes in 0.8.5:
                     28:   - Prettier gtk user interface
                     29:   - Swedish documentation by Jonas Holm Pileborg
                     30:   - Might compile with BSD make
                     31:   - The 68000 MOVEP instruction works properly
                     32:   - Many Win32 code updates - it _might_ compile out of the box for you if
                     33:     your compiler setup is identical to mine
                     34: 
                     35: User-visible changes in 0.8.4:
                     36:   - The option "-O" has two new modifiers, 'a' and 'p'.
                     37: 
                     38: User-visible changes in 0.8.3:
                     39:   - Amiga and GGI ports updated
                     40:   - X11 version supports DGA and windowed mode in one binary, hotkeys, and a
                     41:     mouse grabbing mode
1.1.1.3   root       42: 
1.1.1.4   root       43: User-visible changes in 0.8.2:
                     44:   - Should compile on *BSD and on non-x86 systems again.
1.1.1.2   root       45:   - Better gtk detection (hopefully)
                     46:   - Fixed bugs that made the low bandwidth feature and dithered color output
                     47:     unusable in the X11 version.
1.1.1.4   root       48:   - The X11 driver can now display 8 bit Picasso screens even on truecolor X
                     49:     displays.
1.1.1.2   root       50: 
1.1.1.4   root       51: User-visible changes in 0.8.1:
1.1.1.2   root       52:   - BeOS update (Christian Bauer)
1.1.1.4   root       53:   - New copper code that should be more exact and maybe a little bit faster.
                     54:   - Picasso bug fixed that caused corruption of window scrollbars.
                     55:   - Fix for problems in interlace modes on line doubled displays.
                     56:   - The CPU emulation can try to approximate the speed of a 7MHz A500.
1.1.1.2   root       57: 
1.1.1.4   root       58: User-visible changes in 0.8.0:
                     59:   - Better support for some BSD variants.
1.1.1.2   root       60:   - Fixed a display bug that caused dual playfield displays in high resolution
                     61:     to look wrong.
                     62:   - The gtk UI no longer crashes when the "-G" option is used.
                     63: 
                     64: User-visible changes in 0.7.0:
                     65:   - Picasso96 graphics card emulation by Brian King.
                     66:   - All CPU emulations (68000, 68010, 68020, 68020 + FPU, 68000 compatible)
                     67:     are now compiled into one binary and selectable at run-time.
                     68:   - Many changes in hardfile support. Now you can mount several hardfiles in
                     69:     arbitrary order. You can specify the geometry for every hardfile.
                     70:     The hardfile device has been renamed to "uaehf.device". Please adjust your
                     71:     MountList entry.
                     72:   - Stereo sound support
                     73:   - UAE has been ported to pOS by Samuel Devulder
                     74:   - New sound back-end that just writes sound to a file.
                     75:   - Improved serial support
                     76:   - The XFree86 VidMode extension is supported; if you use it, the X11 version
                     77:     will switch to the video mode that is "closest" to what you specified on
                     78:     the commandline.
                     79:   - Many minor and major bugfixes
                     80: 
                     81: User-visible changes in 0.6.9:
                     82:   - The sprite code finally seems to work now (well, mostly :( )
                     83:   - Sprite-to-sprite collisions implemented
                     84:   - EHB and dual playfield modes are faster on x86 systems.
                     85:   - Disk changes should be detected again.
                     86:   - Believe it or not, I think the reset and quit buttons in the UI actually
                     87:     work this time.
                     88:   - POSIX_PENGUINS for Linux systems with glibc-2.0. There's now real hope
                     89:     that it speeds things up on SMP machines (it still slows down single
                     90:     processor machines if it's enabled, though).
                     91:   - The filesystem code should be somewhat more robust. It can also be set up
                     92:     to run multi-threaded. That makes sense even on single processor machines.
                     93:   - The old follow-mouse hack for the X version is disabled. There is now a
                     94:     new Amiga program named "mousehack". Please put it in the directory you
                     95:     use for harddisk emulation and put the command "run >NIL: mousehack" in 
                     96:     your startup-sequence.
                     97:   - 4 or 8 MB chip memory are supported.
                     98:   - Two joysticks are supported on Linux systems, as well as several
                     99:     alternative keyboard "fake" joysticks (using two simultaneously is
                    100:     possible). Also, two joystick buttons are now supported.
                    101:   - The SVGAlib/DOS version user interface is a bit improved. It can now be
                    102:     used during the emulation by pressing F11, e.g. for changing disks.
                    103:   - For the non-DGA X11 version, the LOW_BANDWITH and DONT_WANT_SHM compile
                    104:     options have been turned into the -L and -T run-time options.
                    105:   - Linux/GGI port by Christian Schmitt/Stefan Reinauer (untested)
                    106: 
1.1       root      107: User-visible changes in 0.6.8:
                    108:   - This should contain all the necessary files...
                    109:   - Bugfixes
                    110: 
                    111: User-visible changes in 0.6.7:
                    112:   - Some bugs in the new playfield code removed; some speed improvements
                    113:   - New alternate user-interface for X (note the debugger doesn't completely
                    114:     work yet). The Tk GUI is also improved. Note that I don't use either, so
                    115:     there are no stability guarantees.
                    116:   - The options "-d" and "-C" are replaced with "-O", which allows much better
                    117:     control over the graphics display. The old options will continue to work
                    118:     for a few more releases and will be removed after that.
                    119:   - Yet Another Blitter Bug fixed (Sanity Arte demo)
                    120:   - Blitter control by copper now works (would have worked before if I hadn't
                    121:     forgotten the COPCON register)
                    122:   - On Linux systems (running at least kernel version 1.3.something) UAE can
                    123:     now be set up to run in two threads. That's only potentially useful on SMP
                    124:     machines, it's a performance loss on other machines. It currently is most
                    125:     probably a big performance loss even on SMP machines: The implementation
                    126:     is very primitive. This is just to get started.
                    127: 
                    128: User-visible changes in 0.6.6:
                    129:   - Playfield hardware emulation almost completely rewritten. It _should_ be
                    130:     somewhat more stable and bugfree, but there's no doubt that there are some
                    131:     new fun and exciting bugs in this version.
                    132:     Features: Interlace drawing merges two frames and should look better, plus
                    133:       it now works with even frame skip values.
                    134:       The copper is more accurate.
                    135:       Sprite DMA works better (see Interference by Sanity)
                    136:       Some other bugs removed.
                    137:   - The spanish keyboard now has a "W".
                    138:   - Nice pictures in the Tk GUI.
                    139:   - The USER_PROGRAMS_BEHAVE compile-time option now "works" even if you don't
                    140:     use the compiler.
                    141: 
                    142: User-visible changes in 0.6.5:
                    143:   - Bugfixes in the filesystem code and in the compiler
                    144:   - There was some speed loss in 0.6.4, which should be fixed for the i386
                    145:     versions. Actually, UAE won't run on a 386 anymore (uses the bswapl
                    146:     instruction). It would be pointless anyway...
                    147:   - The text user interface in the SVGAlib and DOS versions supports harddisks
                    148:     better
                    149:   - The XFree86 DGA extension is supported.
                    150:   - Italian documentation by Paolo Besser.
                    151:   - Spanish keyboard support for X; French keyboard updated
                    152:   - I _hope_ that the X version UAE now always resets keyboard autorepeat.
                    153:   - Option "-A" to control the accuracy of the emulation. Use "-A 0" to
                    154:     restore the old behaviour, which is likely to be somewhat faster.
                    155:   - Solaris sound should actually compile this time.
                    156:   - The built-in debugger has a "M" command to search for sound modules.
                    157: 
                    158: For versions earlier than 0.6.5, you'll have to read the ChangeLog to find out
                    159: what's new.

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