PearPC v0.2.0

posted in Emulator Release by spacetiger on Jun 14th, 2004

PearPC is a PowerPC emulator for Windows that is able to run most PowerPC operating systems. The main improvements in this version are Windows networking support, conditional redraw code, and adjustable screen resolution. Here's the full list:

General

JITC: all crXX implemented
JITC: tlbie only invalidate one entry
JITC: optimize tlb_invalidate_all
Implemented fsqrtx instruction
Implemented frsqrtex instruction
IO/IDE: regs are per device, not per controller
Implemented runtime video mode switching via video.x (Win32 + X11)
Got rid of indexed modes
Better XER carry mapping
HFS partition code fixes
Removed tools/regex.c, tools/regex.h, io/prom/hfs/memcmp.c
Implemented conditional redraw code
Code to minimize redraw races
Bnstr() has been banned. fixes: can't parse pci_3c90x_mac
X11: only redraw when exposed
Win32: only redraw when exposed

New Hardware

RealTek-8139 network card driver

Porting Efforts

Francois Revol's BeOS patches
Anders F.Bjoerklund's Mac OS X patches
Roman Bogorodskiy's FreeBSD patch
AMD64 portability fixes
Windows Networking support driver R2

Configure-system Fixes

Support for FreeBSD, BeOS, MinGW and Darwin
Endianess auto-detect v2 (but big-endian hosts still not working correctly)
Autoconf-2.13 endianess detection work-around
Now using -Wundef and -Woverloaded-virtual compiler switches

Other

Networking code abstraction
Preliminary man-page added
Fdisk and single partition images support
3c90x now correctly detected by Mac OS X (if driver is loaded)
Grab mouse on click / ungrab mouse on unfocus (Win32 + X11)

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