SheepShaver News

Handle up to 1 GB of Mac memory

Improve SLiRP network emulation performance

Fix Native QuickDraw acceleration

Fix a crash during MacOS 9 installation

Fix a crash in the AppleShare extension

Fix support for MacOS 7.5.3 Revision 2.2

Fix gigantic window dimensions on first boot

Fix extfs volume name to Unix (Toshimitsu Tanaka)

Fix unaligned accesses in SLiRP network emulation (Brian J. Johnson)

Initial port to IRIX/mips

MacOS X:

Windows:

Add fullscreen DGA mode via fbdev in Linux

Add screen prefs item a-la Basilisk II

Add missing lvsl/lvsr instructions in AltiVec emulation (Adobe FrameMaker)

Add support for old toolchain (gcc “2.96”, glibc 2.2)

Add user-space network emulation (ether slirp in prefs file)

Add Ethernet and Serial support to Windows

Add GTK+2 based GUI to Windows

Add initial port to Darwin/x86 with JIT

Improve portability of FPU emulation code to non C99 capable systems

Improve interrupt processing in emulated mode

Improve idle wait on Linux platforms

Properly fail to load MacOS < 8.1 with NewWorld ROMs

Fix native execution in Linux/PowerPC

Fix PowerPC test-and-set implementation (fix clipboard)

Fix Ethernet support in Linux, avoid hangs

Fix occasional hangs during interrupt processing

Fix High Resolution Timing code for Linux

Fix support for 4+ GB hard disk images

Fix SDL/x11 native cursor acceleration

Fix sheep_net driver to properly work with Linux kernels up to 2.6.11

Precompiled binaries are now available for Windows platforms

Implement high-precision timings on POSIX systems

Add some SSE2 optimizations to the AltiVec emulation core. Performance increased by up to 20%

Add port to FreeBSD 5.3 and NetBSD 2.0 systems (x86 tested)

Add initial port to Windows with SDL graphics

Fix interrupt handling, registers are now fully preserved

Fix support for native execution on recent Linux/PPC systems

Fix support for Gossamer ROMs (PowerMac G3 Beige)

Fix crash in Apple Personal Diagnostics on MacOS 9

Fix crash in Power Management on MacOS 9

Add support for MacOS 9.0.4

Native MacOS X port through SDL graphics

Fix timebase emulation, i.e. fix applications using UpTime()

Fix hardware cursor acceleration on X11, e.g. make the I-beam cursor visible

Fix “r” and <ctrl> key mappings for Apple X11 servers

Fix video thread cancellation on MacOS X

Fix detection of PowerPC 750FX and 970 processors

Minor improvements to the generic JIT engine. SheepShaver now performs at around 1/8-th of native speed.

Make JIT generated code “reentrant” thus speeding up 68k audio processing a lot.

Add Native QuickDraw acceleration routines for BitBlt (srcCopy), FillRect.

Add TUN/TAP device support. Try to make ethernet support code little-endian and 64-bit clean.

Add run-time depth switching code from Basilisk II. It now supports 1 bpp to host screen depths.

Add idlewait option so that SheepShaver doesn't eat up all CPU when MacOS is not doing anything.

Add experimental jit68k option to enable MacOS 68k DR emulator.

Better fullscreen DGA support.

Correctly setup XPRAM for first-time users.

Improved generic JIT, also now translates FPU instructions

AltiVec emulation, thus enabling the emulated CPU to be identified as a 7400 (G4)

Partial port to Darwin/PPC, i.e. it runs but some features may be missing

Various CPU fixes to pass the testsuite

FPU emulation is more accurate (this fixes e.g. the “scrollbar” bugs, Graphing Calculator with 3D demos, MacOS help center, etc.)

Support for 64-bit platforms. More precisely AMD64 with JIT

Support for copy-paste of text between MacOS and X11 through the clipboard

Support for the wheel mouse

Better support for PowerMac PCI ROMs with more generic patches

Better support for audio output (with pre-G3 PowerMac PCI ROMs)

On native side, fixes for SheepThreads & semaphores

Initial public release with PowerPC CPU emulator for testing