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MCBase revision history list:
Aug. 17th, '95 MAJOR NEW RELEASE.
Release of the new MCBase V2.0: a fully event driven,
mouse controlled, object oriented, dBaseIII+ compatible,
relational-to-the-max, windowing database management
system, with handy dialogs, to set your personal configu-
ration preferences. The only REAL database system for the
music collector.
July 10th, '95 Updated version 1.1f to 1.1g: a maintenance release.
Modifications to registration key recognition routine.
Registration was recognized, but the databases evaluation
limits weren't correctly unlocked.
Mar. 22nd, '95 Updated version 1.1e to 1.1f: Documentation updates (and
program changes, see below). Added a new VendInfo record,
according to the latest standard, in order to comply with
the new set-up for the ASP CD-rom distribution.
Added a (file based) registration key system to MCBase.
This will enable a registered user, with a valid regist-
ration key, to turn any V1.x shareware copy into a per-
sonally registered version: MBase will look for the
excistence of the registration key file and will present
itself as a registered version *if* the registration key
is found to be valid. (If not, it will continue to behave
as a shareware copy).
Also added a small (set of) sample database(s), so that
the user will be able to "play around" with the system,
without having to enter data first.
May 25th, '94: Updated version 1.1d to 1.1e: Documentation updates (and
program changes, see below). Added a VendInfo record to
the documentation and modified the distribution-policy to
be more "friendly".
Also added a possibility to accept credit card orders,
using PsL's order processing services.
Finally, I removed the encryption on MCBase's executable
code. As it seems, some computers COULD have had trouble
running MCBase because of this encryption.
Mar. 22nd, '94: Updated version 1.1c to 1.1d: Documentation updates (and
small program changes) in order to comply with ASP requi-
rements.
Mar. 14th, '94: Updated version 1.1b to 1.1c: Corrected a SERIOUS error
in the documentation, discribing the locationcode.
For tapes, the first 5 (!) digits of the (12 digit)
locationcode are reserved for the actual tape number,
instead of the discribed 2 digits. (The screen report for
tapes is scanning for the first 5 digits, to find the
first and last entry belonging to a certain tape). See
the updated section 8 in the documentation for further
information.
Also elimitated a possible GP-error in the protected mode
version.
Mar. 5th, '94: Updated version 1.1a to 1.1b: Modified all "Add" functi-
ons, to stay active until the user decides that he/she is
done. (Artist and Album "Add" fuctions were left after
adding 1 entry. This was based on the idea that one would
process the data one album at a time).
Eliminated the possible occurance of an "error 100:
Record out of range" while printing the reports. (It
could occur under certain circumstances).
Eliminated a possible counting error in the "Artist
overview"-report.
Also made some minor modifications.
Jan. 7th, '94: Updated version 1.1 to 1.1a: As mentioned in the documen-
tation of the previous versions (in section "Future
plans"), the processing speed of printer option "Songs by
artist" needed to be increased.
In this update, this processing speed has been success-
fully increased to a normal level.
I've also included a function to cancel any running
printjob by pressing the ESCape-key.
Nov. 24th '93: Updated version 1.0c to 1.1, a major new release:
Eliminated the need for a pre-selection on databases with
more than 1000 entry's. (Credit for this goes to Griffin
Solutions, who managed to realize virtual memory usage in
their GS_dBase routine library: Thanks, Richard!).
The "Allfield Editor" is added to the application as a
standard item and also added is an separate "Append"
option, so a user does not need to go through the "Edit"-
selection list if he or she simply wants to "Append".
The menu structure has been a bit modified to accomodate
the above mentioned additions.
Also, the bank adress has been altered to the adress of
the Rabobank's headoffice in Utrecht.
Last, but not least, a new pricing schedule is introdu-
ced, to enable a low-budget registration on the project.
This is done by the introduction of two diffent types of
users: a BASIC and a DEDICATED user, of wich the latter
has a very interesting discount on future updates. See
the ORDER.MCB document for further information on regist-
ration options and prices.
October 5th, '93: Updated version 1.0b to 1.0c, a maintenance release:
Eliminated two errors that occured in the album selection
list for option #7, "View albums by artists".
1) When returning from the reportscreen after viewing an
album (WITH the additional artistname display activated),
the program would generate a NEW album selection list for
the artistname that appeared on the bottom of the report
screen, instead of using the original artistname that was
selected by the user.
2) While walking through the albums of the different
artists, a heap error (#203) could occur. The memory of
the album selection list wasn't properly released.
Also eliminated an error in option #4, "Query on artist".
A messagebox, to allow albumtitle display with each
songtitle, sometimes appeared without a valid reason.
Last, but not least, I added the following text to the
ORDER.ME document, in order to prevent further questions
on the subject:
REGISTRED MCBASE USERS can receive MAINTENANCE UPDATES
for shipping costs only. (NOTE: CompuServe users can
receive their maintenance update through CompuServe mail,
minimizing the need for shipping costs, thus FOR FREE!).
(Same goes for users who can download it from my private
host system, wich is standby on request).
August 19th, '93: Updated version 1.0a to 1.0b, a maintenance release:
Eliminated an error that could cause the system to be
caught in an endless loop, if the last record in a data-
base file was a "deleted" record.
Also improved some text in a messagebox, displayed while
the function "deleted" was processing the album database.
June 22nd, 1993 : Updated version 1.0 to 1.0a, a maintenance release:
Some reportscreens had a bit of trouble with uncleared
screens. The data from the previous information on the
screen was sometimes not fully erased, which garbled the
new information.
June 19th, 1993 : First release, version 1.0, of the MCBase database sy-
stem.