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:::::::::::::::::::::::: BOOTX HISTORY ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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::: Version 5.23 ::: December 29, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BUG FIX: Fixed the 68040 MMU detection code.
- BUG FIX: Removed several unnecessary Enforcer hits and made
BootX faster at the same time.
- IMPROVED: BootX doesn't bring it's screen to the front anymore
unless a virus has been detected and the Silent Check option
is not on.
- IMPROVED: It seems that the Italian translation of the BootX
catalog was not as good as the author let me believe. Therefore
I decided to try the catalog from Michele Giorato. Please direct
any complaints to him (as I don't understand Italian to either
correct or improve the translation).
- NEW: BootX now perform a self-integrity check. As a consequence of
this the BootX executable can _NOT_ be crunched anymore without
getting the following warning:
"BootX executable has too many hunks ! Please check !"
This way BootX can check if itself has been infected by a link- or
infiltrator virus.
- NEW: BootX will warn you if it thinks it is getting too old.
In the current version this will happen every time you start
BootX 90 days after it has been released.
The length of this period is subject to change.
Thanks to Erik Løvendahl Sørensen (Denmark) for suggesting this.
- NEW: BootX will warn you if it thinks the Recog file you are using
is getting too old.
In the current version this will happen every time you start
BootX with a Recog file that is older than 60 days.
The length of this period is subject to change.
Thanks to Erik Løvendahl Sørensen (Denmark) for suggesting this.
::: Version 5.22 ::: October 26, 1992 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- NEW: Added special code to look for the Crime'92 infiltrator
virus.
::: Version 5.21 ::: October 21, 1992 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BUG FIX: When BootX found the locale library on a v37 Workbench
(which is NOT normal) it assumed that locale capabilities where
available and paniced when it could not find the Locale: device.
Thanks to Roland Poppe (Belgium) for reporting this.
- BUG FIX: Spotted and fixed a potential bug in the memory clear
routine.
- BUG FIX: The unit number was wrongly shown as 0 in some
trackdisk error messages.
- BUG FIX: The 68040 detection code contained a tiny bug.
- IMPROVED: Custom chip detection is more precise now.
- IMPROVED: Made some changes in the Italian translation. Thanks
Giorato Michele (Italy).
- IMPROVED: Improved the installation script in case the
Installer utility is not found.
::: Version 5.20 ::: October 3, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
In the recent weeks I have received some reports from various
sources concerning problems with disappearing mouse pointers.
Each time there was mention of a mouseblanker type program as
FracBlanker or QMouse. The reports also said the problem
occurred only with BootX.
THIS IS NOT A BUG IN BOOTX. BootX uses the ReqTools library for
all its mouse pointer management. Apparantely it is the only
program to do so. BUT since there are no problems with the
official Commodore MouseBlanker commodity the problem has to be
found in the higher mentioned mouse blanker programs and not in
ReqTools. Contact the respective authors about this problem. I
only got reports about these two programs but that does not mean
that other mouse blanker program don't have the same problem.
- IMPORTANT: The telephone and fax number of SHI Headquarters in
Denmark have changed. See the BootX.doc file for the new numbers.
- BUG FIX: Apparently the Show Brain requester still suffered
from the 'mysterious string gadget' syndrom.
- BUG FIX: BootX did not recognize an edited filter path.
- BUG FIX: Reading an unformatted or erroneous disk sometimes
caused an Enforcer read hit.
- BUG FIX: Fixed the ARJ archive recognition.
- BUG FIX: There were some problems with the BootX.config file
when running BootX in an other language than English. This has
been fixed. As a result all users running BootX in a language
other than English should reset their preferences and save them
again.
- BUG FIX: If BootX can't find a BootX.config file it'll use some
sensible built-in default settings.
- BUG FIX: Fixed a lot of small bugs reported by one of my ßeta
testers, Steffen Salzmann (Germany).
- BUG FIX: Checking the vectors on a 68020 equiped Amiga crashed
due to a bug in the 68020 identification code.
- BUG FIX: Sometimes the Cancel Block Check requester would reappear
after selecting No. Fixed.
- BUG FIX: Two abort messages got cleared immediately after they
appeared.
- BUG FIX: If you deleted the current Install bootblock from the
bootblock library the install display was not updated hence
causing confusion and a wrong bootblock to be written.
- IMPROVED: BootX has been enhanced with a deep search mode that
will detect current infiltrator viruses and that can be easily
expanded to detect future infiltrator viruses.
- IMPROVED: Creating a report uses a lot less memory then before.
- IMPROVED: Made some of the requesters wider to allow for more
comfortable translation of BootX.
- IMPROVED: Gadget key shortcuts other than those defined in
English are now supported.
- IMPROVED: BootX will now tell you that it skipped a certain
directory.
- IMPROVED: BootX now recognizes the new KickStart 3.0
FileSystems bootblocks.
- IMPROVED: BootX recognizes some more patched vectors.
- IMPROVED: BootX now only pops its screen to the front if a virus
or an unknown bootblock are found.
- IMPROVED: BootX is KickStart 3.0 compatible and aware.
- IMPROVED: The BootX user interface now follows more closely the
Commodore Style Guide. Thanks to Steffen Salzmann for the many
suggestions.
- NEW: BootX can now cure executables that have been infected by
infiltrator viruses.
- NEW: BootX is localized ! This means that all the messages and
text in BootX can be translated in a different language. This
feature is only available with Workbench 2.1 or later (v38.xx).
- NEW: BootX now uses the AmigaGuide.library to support hypertext
like help screens. The AmigaGuide.library is available as of
Workbench 3.0.
- NEW: BootX can now decrunch executables that have been crunched
with Crunch Mania 1.x with the Normal decruncher. The Simple
decruncher is not supported yet as there seems to be a bug in
it.
- NEW: Added the DOS4 and DOS5 FileSystem bootblocks to the
builtin bootblock library.
- NEW: BootX now recognizes and decrunches PowerPacker 4.0
crunched executables with overlays.
- NEW: BootX now recognizes Imploder 4.0 crunched executables
with overlays.
::: Version 5.11 ::: September 4, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BUG FIX: "I have the ListRequester blues...". Due to an MC68030
instruction that slipped into the release version of BootX v5.10
most of the ListRequester functions guru'd on any Amiga without
a MC68030. Sorry about that...Why doesn't everybody have an
A3000...(Please, no mail on this programmers frustration !)
- BUG FIX: The title bar of the BBLib ListRequester showed a wrong
entry count.
- BUG FIX: There were some problems with the integrity of the
several preference gadgets of no settings file was found.
- CHANGE: All BBLib requester have the same width now.
- CHANGE: Removed the part from the doc file that stated the
settings were still saved in the icon. Thanks to Magnus Holmgren
(Sweden) for reporting this.
::: Version 5.10 ::: August 27, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BUG FIX: BootX did not release all allocated memory after it
had decrunched a program. This has been fixed. Thanks to
Carsten Fulde (Germany) for reporting this.
- BUG FIX: The message displayed during a file check does no
longer get accidentally cleared during decrunching.
- BUG FIX: BootX will now find its Brain file anywhere you want.
The location was not saved with the other preferences.
- BUG FIX: BootX finally knows where it started from.
- BUG FIX: Sometimes BootX had the nerve to add a string gadget
on top of the window title bar of the List requester. This
is fixed now. I relied on A1 to be zero which it was not all the
time...sigh. Thanks to Magnus Thelander (Sweden) for reporting
this the first.
- BUG FIX: Using the keyboard short-cuts in the new List requester
used to leave the requester window open. Thanks to Mats Eirik
Hansen (Norway) for writing me about it.
- BUG FIX: The keyboard short-cuts of the Preference requester did
not all work.
- BUG FIX: Fixed the gadget interaction in the Check Files
preferences
- CHANGE: Support for Crunch-O-Matic has been suspended until this
cruncher produces executables that decrunch on ALL Amigas (or
should I say: executables that decrunch AT all...)
- IMPROVED: The colors of the messages have been cleaned up. The
following colors now apply (using the standard color names):
BLACK : Normal message
WHITE : Program request or Bootblock recognized
by the Brain file.
WHITE on BLUE: Bootblock virus
(I am sure you are thrilled by this...)
- IMPROVED: Made some changes to the startup code and moved around
some code which resulted in some saved bytes.
- NEW: BootX finally decrunches Imploder Library crunched files...
It was so simple to implement. I don't know how I could have
overlooked it... The Explode.library is required if you want to
decrunch Library Imploded files.
- NEW: The first toolbox utility called Filter. With it you can
created a filter containing path names that BootX should ignore
when checking your files. Normally you put only paths in here
that contain only data files like the Include or FD directories
of programmers or the Fonts directory.
Read section 6.1 of the manual.
- NEW: New checkbox gadget in the Check Files Preference requester.
Activates the current filter.
- NEW: To accomodate the filter settings and to comply even more
with the Amiga User Interface Style Guide the settings are no
longer saved in the icon. Instead, a directory will be created
and used in ENVARC: and ENV: called 'BootX'. In it you will
find a plain ASCII file called 'BootX.prefs'.
- NEW: When BootX reads the bootsector of your disk and detects
a virus in it, it will pop up a handy requester asking you if
you would like to kill it.
::: Version 5.05 ::: NOT RELEASED BY ME :::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BOGUS VERSION: Not released by me but by some mentally disturbed,
infantile individual. It's a sick world we're living in...
::: Version 5.03 ::: August 3, 1992 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BUG FIX: Because of the new ListRequester the dots that indicate
a built-in bootblock disappeared.
- BUG FIX: Some exotic vertical overscan settings caused BootX to
scroll the box boundaries of the main display window. Ah...
KickStart 2.0 is a mixed blessing...Thanks to Ralph-Thomas
Außem (Germany) for reporting this.
- BUG FIX: Deleting a single Braincell sometimes used to cause a
complete Brain to disappear.
- BUG FIX: Typing an non-existing name in the Rename Braincell
string gadget would cause some Enforcer hits.
- BUG FIX: Several other Enforcer hits removed. Thanks to Ralph
Thomas Außem (Germany) for reporting this.
Note: BootX will still cause several READ Enforcer hits when it
examines your memory for viruses (which occurs at various times)
This is normal. But should you encounter any further WRITE
Enforcer hits, please report this by writing me when this hit
occurred (Please no Enforcer print-outs, they don't help).
- NEW: BootX now recognizes Crunch-O-Matic 1.0 crunched files.
- NEW: Added a paragraph to the doc file about the BootX Enforcer
hits and the SnoopDos task. See Section 1.4 Before you
complain...
- EXPLANATION: BootX launches during its run a small do-nothing
task called 'SnoopDos'. It is a simple but effective counter
measure against an old PowerPacker 3.2 trojan horse. The task
does absolutely nothing and uses no CPU time at all. When BootX
quits, this task is removed. This task will not be launched if
a real SnoopDos is already running nor will it prevent a real
SnoopDos from being run.
::: Version 5.02 ::: July 26, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- NEW: Added special code to look for the Infiltrator linkvirus.
- IMPROVED: Completely rewrote the List requester. It'll now use
a lot less memory and be faster at the same time.
::: Version 5.01 ::: July 20, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
* Because Commodore has a problem with the early distribution of
the locale language files for BootX they will not be in any
future releases of BootX until the official approvement. It
was and is not my intention to harm any further development.
Let's hope an official release is Real Soon Now... *
- BUG FIX: Decrunching a PowerPacker 3.0 crunched file with a
library header would cause major havoc.
- NEW: You can customize the AppIcon that BootX displays when you
choose Iconify a little bit more. Add the following tooltypes
to the BootX icon:
APPICONNAME=<your name> (default: BootX)
APPICONX=<x position in pixels> (default: floating (-1))
APPICONY=<y position in pixels> (default: floating (-1))
- NEW: The SetPatch version is shown in the Check Vectors report
(if installed.)
::: Version 5.00 ::: July 11, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
"There can only be one..."
- NEW: BootX now requires KickStart 2.04. In order to keep
improving BootX in future I decided that it became time to make
BootX a true KickStart 2.0 program.
- NEW: No more extra BootX.Prefs file in the S directory. BootX
now stores its preferences as tooltypes in its icon.
- NEW: All of the BootX support files can now be crunched with
PowerPacker. BootX will use the PowerPacker.library when it finds
it.
- NEW: Brain cells can now be deleted and renamed. View Brain shows
the list with scroll gadgets instead of a simple scrolling list.
- NEW: The Bootblock library can now be edited: renaming, deleting
and adding of bootblocks is now possible.
- NEW: BootX now becoms an AppIcon when the user selects Iconify
(previously Go to Sleep).
- NEW: BootX is now able to remove linkviruses from infected
files. Simply check the "Fix infected files" option in the
FileCheck preference requester.
- NEW: BootX supports all the drive types that the TrackDisk
device supports. Also the new high-density drives (1760K ) as
found in new A3000.
- NEW: File check report can now be printed from within BootX.
- NEW: The contents of the Recog file can be printed.
- NEW: BootX clones the Workbench dimensions and specs. This means
a bigger and better looking BootX screen.
- NEW: BootX will try to play the sample in stereo whenever
possible.
- IMPROVED: The file check is now a lot faster and has a lot more
options to control it.
- IMPROVED: Completely rewritten documentation.
::: Version 4.50 ::: May 7, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Last version of BootX that supported KickStart 1.3.
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© 1992 BootX v5.23 written by Peter Stuer
Thanks to Nico François, Johan van Houtven, Steffen Salzmann and
James Knittle for ßeta-testing and all the useful suggestions.
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Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !