1.1 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES	Sun Feb 11 10:11:05 2007 +0000
     1.2 +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES	Sun Feb 11 10:15:23 2007 +0000
     1.3 @@ -1,28 +1,44 @@
     1.4 -Release notes for Milestone 1 ("Smoke and Mirrors")
     1.5 +Release notes for Milestone 2 
     1.6  ===================================================
     1.7  
     1.8 -This is an early development release. Most things don't work. Many things
     1.9 -that do work only do so by sheer luck. Framerates are typically 1-4 frames
    1.10 -per second on a 3Ghz P4. In short, don't expect to run any actual games on
    1.11 -it at this stage (I have not even tried, myself).
    1.12 +Please note that this is a development release - many 
    1.13 +things are not yet implemented, it's still quite slow, and not
    1.14 +particularly user-friendly. Framerates are typically 4-5 frames 
    1.15 +per second on a 3Ghz P4. If you're looking for something to just
    1.16 +play DC games, you'll probably want to wait for the next version.
    1.17  
    1.18 -Having said that, the following are known to run with at least some degree of 
    1.19 -success:
    1.20 +Having said all that, some games are known to run to at least 
    1.21 +some degree (aka everything we've tried), and most homebrew works 
    1.22 +perfectly, albeit slowly - feel free to experiment and let us 
    1.23 +know how it goes.
    1.24  
    1.25 -  * Most KOS based demos, and a number of other demos (An exact inventory of 
    1.26 -working demos is not being maintained at this stage).
    1.27 -  * The BIOS bootstrap (you can boot NRG and CDI cd-rom images)
    1.28 +Changes since Milestone 1
    1.29 +-------------------------
    1.30 +* Complete rewrite of nearly all PowerVR2 code - The M1 code was largely a
    1.31 +quick hack to get something running. It's done for real now.
    1.32 +* Initial IO event system (not widely used yet)
    1.33 +* Lots of bugfixes throughout the system
    1.34 +
    1.35 +Known issues
    1.36 +------------
    1.37 +The following are known bugs (as opposed to missing features) that will be
    1.38 +fixed in the next release, but are too large to be fixed for this version:
    1.39 +
    1.40 +* Some games experience geometry corruption of varying levels. This is
    1.41 +believed to be caused by an SH4 core bug.
    1.42 +
    1.43 +* Polygons that are partially clipped by the view frustum can be distorted
    1.44 +quite badly
    1.45  
    1.46  System requirements
    1.47  -------------------
    1.48  GTK 2.0+
    1.49  Gnome 2.0+
    1.50  ESounD 2.36+  (if you want interrupted stuttery sound[0])
    1.51 +OpenGL drivers with EXT_framebuffer_object support (any recent drivers should be
    1.52 +fine)
    1.53  GCC, Make, etc.
    1.54  
    1.55 -[0] Actually the ARM chip can be run independently, in which case the
    1.56 -performance is reasonably decent.
    1.57 -
    1.58  Building
    1.59  --------
    1.60  From the base directory
    1.61 @@ -30,3 +46,5 @@
    1.62  ~$ make
    1.63  ~$ make install            (optional)
    1.64  
    1.65 +Enjoy!
    1.66 +

     2.1 --- a/STATUS	Sun Feb 11 10:11:05 2007 +0000
     2.2 +++ b/STATUS	Sun Feb 11 10:15:23 2007 +0000
     2.3 @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@
     2.4  General issues
     2.5    - No dynamic recompilation yet
     2.6    - Slow (not performance optimized yet at all. See above).
     2.7 -  - No I/O timing whatsoever except at a timeslice level for audio/video.
     2.8 +  - No I/O timing whatsoever except for video events.
     2.9      (ie DMA, rendering, GD-Rom operations need to take > 0 ms to complete)
    2.10  
    2.11  SH4 Core
    2.12    + Base instruction set  (Complete?)
    2.13    - No MMU support (address translation, TLB, etc)
    2.14 -  - No user-mode support
    2.15 +  - no FPU exceptions
    2.16    - Not remotely cycle-correct timing
    2.17  
    2.18  SH4 On-chip peripherals 
    2.19 @@ -46,20 +46,17 @@
    2.20  
    2.21  PVR2 GPU
    2.22    TA
    2.23 -    + Quick-n-dirty hack job to store the TA command lists in the poly
    2.24 -      buffer and nothing else. Not remotely correct. 
    2.25 -    - Doesn't support 16-dword vertexes
    2.26 +    - Functionally complete
    2.27 +    - Some bugs/error behaviour not implemented
    2.28 +    - No timing support
    2.29    Render
    2.30      + Basic opaque and translucent polygon support
    2.31      + Depth buffer, alpha blend, most poly modes
    2.32 -    - No translucent poly sorting
    2.33 +    - Basic translucent poly sorting
    2.34      - No modifier volumes
    2.35 -    - No sprites
    2.36 -    - No specular highlight
    2.37 -    - No 16-dword vertexes
    2.38 +    - No fogging
    2.39    Texture
    2.40 -    + Most texture formats supported
    2.41 -    - No support for VQ decompression
    2.42 +    + All texture formats supported except bump maps
    2.43  
    2.44  GD-Rom
    2.45    IDE interface