Hercules 3.04 announcement

Jay Maynard

Feb 24, 2006

What's new in release 3.04

Release date: 24 February 2006

CCKD garbage collection fix (Greg Smith)
Reworked timing functions (Jan Jaeger)
Codepage 1047 conversion tables (Kevin Leonard)
Fixed off-by-one-day bug with SYSEPOCH other than 1900;
added new config parameter, YROFFSET, and added warning if
SYSEPOCH is not 1900 or 1960 (Jay Maynard, Jan Jaeger)
New 2305 CKD disk emulation (Jay Maynard)
Added floating point instructions CEGR, CDGR and CXGR (Bernard van
der Helm)
Added support for cgi-bin dynamic modules (David "Fish" Trout)
Instruction fixes: PLO, CVB, CXFBR, CXGBR (Bernard van der Helm,
David "Fish" Trout, Greg Smith, Pasi Pirhonen)
Fix for Windows ..\relative path dasd files (David "Fish" Trout)

This is a recommended update for all Hercules users. The CCKD garbage
collection fix, in particular, fixes a problem that might cause CCKD DASD
files to grow uncontrollably in unusual circumstances.
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Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.cx
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Hercules 3.04.1 announcement

Jay Maynard

Mar 25, 2006

What's new in release 3.04.1
Release date: 25 March 2006

Fix to allow building for Intel-based Mac OS X (Jay Maynard)

Note: This version only applies to the Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) platform.
Version 3.04 is current for all other platforms. The updated Tiger binary
package is a universal binary that will run natively on both Intel and
PowerPC-based Macs.
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Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.cx
http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net
http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!)
Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390

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