* Handle up to 1 GB of Mac memory
* Handle MacOS idle wait (idlewait prefs item)
* Fix a crash with the AppleShare extension
* Improve SLiRP network emulation performance
* Portability fixes to IRIX/mips, Solaris/SPARC
Mac OS X:
* Port to Mac OS X for Intel, including the JIT
* Add a primitive graphical preferences editor
* Fix clipboard (copy/paste of text from/to the host OS)
* Fix external filesystem
* Fix SLiRP network emulation (workaround MacOS X bugs)
Windows:
* Add SLiRP network emulation (ether slirp)
* Add TAP-Win32 network emulation (ether tap)
* Fix CD-ROM auto-detection (pollmedia now works)
* Improve GUI for network configuration
developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
- fixed the problem with Ticks getting incremented on every interrupt, not
just 60Hz (e.g. moving the mouse made the caret blink faster)
- Unix: integrated JIT compiler for Linux/x86 and FreeBSD/x86
- Unix: moved minimum autoconf support to 2.52+
- Unix: add large file support for 2+ GB hard disk images
- Unix: cleaned up pthread attributes [Brian Johnson]
- Unix: fixed floppy problems under Linux
- Unix: implemented "ignoresegv" feature on Linux/x86, Linux/ppc, Darwin/ppc
- Unix: serial port baud rates are now set correctly
- Unix: it is now possible to make the serial drivers pipe their input/output
to programs by using a '|' followed by a command line as the modem or
printer port setting (instead of a device name like '/dev/ttyS0')
- Unix: the option "--config FILE" tells B2 to use a different config file
- Unix: new prefs options "dsp" and "mixer" to set the OSS device names
instead of the hardcoded '/dev/dsp' and '/dev/mixer'
- Unix: new ether prefs option 'tun' to use a TUN/TAP interface. The
configure script used can be overriden with "etherconfig"
- Unix: SDL audio and video output are now available in option
- Unix: port JIT compiler to Linux/x86_64 (AMD64 and EM64T platforms)
- Unix: sheep_net driver ported to kernel 2.6 (patches from Mac-On-Linux)
- Unix: fix network code to work correctly on 64-bit platforms
- Unix: implement X11 to MacOS exchange of text through the clipboard
- Windows: a new port derived from Lauri's work is now available
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting bsd.builtin.mk as well as all of
the builtin.mk files to follow the new example in bsd.builtin.mk.
The loop to include all of the builtin.mk files needed by the package
is moved from bsd.builtin.mk and into bsd.buildlink3.mk. bsd.builtin.mk
is now included by each of the individual builtin.mk files and provides
some common logic for all of the builtin.mk files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one builtin.mk file includes another.
The second major change is teach the builtin.mk files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the builtin.mk files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing builtin.mk and version.mk files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The builtin.mk
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the version.mk file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the buildlink3.mk files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various builtin-imake.mk
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include
x11.buildlink3.mk instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for buildlink3.mk
and builtin.mk files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on buildlink3.mk files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package buildlink3.mk should also include x11.buildlink3.mk
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of x11.buildlink3.mk have been removed.
version 1.0:
- fixed the problem with Ticks getting incremented on every interrupt, not
just 60Hz (e.g. moving the mouse made the caret blink faster)
- Unix: integrated JIT compiler for Linux/x86 and FreeBSD/x86
- Unix: moved minimum autoconf support to 2.52+
- Unix: add large file support for 2+ GB hard disk images
- Unix: cleaned up pthread attributes [Brian Johnson]
- Unix: fixed floppy problems under Linux
- Unix: implemented "ignoresegv" feature on Linux/x86, Linux/ppc, Darwin/ppc
- Unix: serial port baud rates are now set correctly
- Unix: it is now possible to make the serial drivers pipe their input/output
to programs by using a '|' followed by a command line as the modem or
printer port setting (instead of a device name like '/dev/ttyS0')
[Brian Johnson]
- Unix: the option "--config FILE" tells B2 to use a different config file
- Unix: new prefs options "dsp" and "mixer" to set the OSS device names
instead of the hardcoded '/dev/dsp' and '/dev/mixer'
The patches for this update were contributed by Todd Vierling in
private e-mail.
- added support for on-the-fly video resolution and depth switching,
and gamma tables
- fsave/frestore emulation under AmigaOS and NetBSD/m68k always behaves
like a 68882/68040 FPU, eliminating the need for 68060 FPU patches
- added support for platform-independant mutexes, used by adb.cpp for
thread-safe mouse handling
- the TIME_OFFSET constant has been replaced by a (portable) function
TimeToMacTime(); file dates in ExtFS should now be correct
- ADBInterrupt() is no longer called from the 60Hz interrupt but has
its own interrupt flag, potentially increasing the smoothness of
mouse movement
- ether.cpp: implemented relatively platform-independant "AppleTalk
over UDP" mode that doesn't require any special kernel modules or
network drivers but can only interconnect instances of Basilisk II;
this is enabled by setting "udptunnel" to true
- Unix: windowed display mode supports different resolutions and color
depths, which can be switched on-the-fly
- Unix: Ctrl-F5 grabs mouse in windowed mode (enhanced compatibility
with games like flight simulators)
- Unix: X11 events are handled as soon as they arrive, outside of the
60Hz video refresh raster
- Unix: audio sample rate, bit depth and channel count are adjustable
in the MacOS "Sound" control panel
The patches for this update were contributed by Todd Vierling in PR pkg/21861.
Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it
enables you to run 68k MacOS software on you computer, even if you
are using a different operating system. However, you still need a
copy of MacOS and a Macintosh ROM image to use Basilisk II.
