Subject: ANNOUNCE: KEGS v0.37 released
From: kentd@cup.hp.com (Kent Dickey)
Date: Tue, Jul 14, 1998 259 EDT
Message-id: <6oevlc$l3g$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>


KEGS is an Apple //gs emulator for Unix.  It runs on HPUX workstations,
x86 Linux, and now Linux on PowerPC.

KEGS runs quite well on my PowerCenter 240 (a Mac clone) at 240MHz,
running at 13-15MHz.  I include a MkLinux binary that should work
on LinuxPPC, I hope.

KEGS can be download from: http://www.mtnweb.com/~kentd/kegs/

Changes in KEGS v0.37 since v0.36
- Linux PPC port completed and functional.  KEGS has been tested to
  run quite well and quite fast on a 240MHz 604e running
  MkLinux pre-DR3.
- Change LITTLE_ENDIAN define to KEGS_LITTLE_ENDIAN since Linux
  always defines LITTLE_ENDIAN as a silly macro.
- Dumb bug in IWM 3.5" routines could cause core dumps if disk arm moved
  from outer track to inner track very quickly.
- Deleted some breakpoints that some Second Sight searching code would hit.
- Ignore some SCC reset commands GNO would use that caused KEGS to stop.
- Handle odd partitions better--some //gs formatted Zips had a blocksize
  of 0, which defaults to 512 now.
- Handle some keysyms better to avoid MkLinux bug with keysym 0.

Thanks to Steve Nelson and Dave Tribby for their bug reports.
GNO serial port emulation should now work, and JpeGS should
run without halting.

A user has claimed a port to OS/2, but I have not integrated those
fixes into KEGS yet.

Kent Dickey
kentd@cup.hp.com
HP has nothing to do with KEGS