PearPC v0.4.0 Released

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OSNews.com reports that PearPC, the PowerPC processor emulator capable of running Apple's Mac OS X on x86 hardware, has been updated to version 0.4.0. Below are the changes in this version.

 

- CPU: stfiwx implemented

- config: "ppc_start_fullscreen" for starting in fullscreen mode

- POSIX: allow bridging of tun device

- use FISTTP instruction on SSE3 aware processors

- merged native_cd branch from Alexander Stockinger

- endianess fixes

- warn that the generic CPU is slow

- better detection of HFS+ volumes

- support for DVD-Drives

- correctly check for NASM

- Work-around for graphic errors in Mac OS X 10.1

- POSIX/Linux: fall back to 1 GHz if /proc/cpuinfo doesn't provide cpu frequency

- 3c90x emulation fixed

- some PROM fixed for yaboot

- alteration of x86asm interface to be more programmer friendly

- use transparent cursors instead of altering cursor visibility (hack for using PearPC with remote desktop)

- DVD emulation implemented.  Fixes problems with Tiger installation

- Updated the read_effective_* commands to be faster !!! REGRESSED !!!

- fixed lvalue casts (compiles now with gcc 4.x)

- booting from disks with bootfile about 4 GiB limit fixed

You can visit the official homepage of PearPC here.