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Microsoft Windows Help File Content | 1998-05-02 | 15KB | 208 lines

:------------------------------------------------------------------------: : LOCATHA INDUSTRIES, INC. Voice - (904) 772-0540 : : Modem - (904) 772-1996 : : W H A T S N E W - LI-TERM F/X Inet - WWW.LOCATHA.COM : : Fido - 1:112/1000 24hr : :------------------------------------------------------------------------: 02/10/98 - 1.00 - First Public Release 03/28/98 - 1.10 - We've removed the Blue Pop-up window registration insentive from the TERM. The only registration insentive remaining is the scrolling text when you exit the term. We've done this as a curtesy to the users of LI-TERM. However, please do consider registering the term. Registering will allow us to continue support and enhancements of the LI-TERM product. 04/25/98 - 1.20 - The usual minor internal enhancments, spelling mistakes corrected, etc.. - A minor bug in the DDO-F/X script was corrected. When Graphic Text Windows were housed within a Graphic Window they still updated the Visual Page causing some of the Animation Profiles to stamp a perminent frame to the visual page. This problem has been fixed. - Also, the bitmap fonts were not being positioned on the screen properly. They were using the bottom Y coordinate as if it were the upper Y coordinate of the scale box for placement orientation. This has now been fixed so the box created is where the bitmap font will go. This too is a DDO-F/X script fix. - The RUN LOCAL SCRIPT function did not recognize the A.I. DEFVAR variable reference within the scripts. You can now pass a System Variable to this function as well as specifically stating the local script to run. (i.e. {*DEFVAR1} if DEFVAR1 = 'MAIN.FXN' it would run MAIN.FXN. This is the same as saying {*MAIN.FXN}) This too is a DDO-F/X script fix. - We've enhanced the polling for incomming characters to help those users with slower 486 machines. On the slower 486 CPU's users reported seeing ANSI codes while receiving ANSI screens. This was a result of missed characters due to the computers inability to poll for incomming characters fast enough. We have shifted additional priorities to the polling of characters to help resolve this issue. If you still have problems then turning off the music and sound f/x will help greatly. Background music and sound f/x consumes a lot of priority resources. When background music and sound f/x is off those resources are shifted to the polling of incomming characters. We have also increased character polling during a DDO-F/X (NM) session for similar reasons. - Many people were mistaking the Telnet Modem Profile as a bug in LI-TERM. Thinking that LI-TERM was detecting a COM PORT that they did not have. The Telnet Modem Profile is a default profile set-up to make telnetting with LI-TERM easier. To eliminate any confusion on this I've removed the notification of this com port from the Scanning process. - We added a Textual Fade test to the front end of the term when it is first installed and executed. This will help to configure LI-TERM for those Video Cards which do not support the enhanced textual fading and color cycling. - The music bars in the terms main window were a bit staticy. We rewrote them so that they appear more solid. - We made additional enhancements to the DDO-F/X (PRO) Client execution routines. You may notice a minor difference when running any of our PRO doors. Ultimately it will work the same allowing you to play the games, however, it will just do it a little differently. - We added a Newsletter Back Issues catagory to the catalog so that you will always be able to re-read back issues of the newsletter. When using the auto update feature to pick up the new newsletter you will need to pick up a new catalog to update the back issues area. It is not necessary to do this, only if you are interested in back issues of the news letter. - We've dramatically increased the number of SVGA video cards we are compatible with and have dumpped support for the VESA 2.0 standard. It was just too buggy for our tastes. We have included an advanced detection system for the video hardware and if no supported chip-sets are detected LI-TERM will refuse to boot. This will ensure that if LI-TERM boots up all DDO-F/X applications (sufficient memory not withstanding) will work. Thanks Stuart! - We've also enhanced the mouse detection routines to included more reliable detection for Serial, Bus, InPort, PS/2, and Hewlette Packard mice. - LI-TERM now does a basic self-diagnostics to ensure that the environment it was executed in is satisfactory. The primary check is to ensure that LI-TERM wasn't installed in a directory which uses LONG FILENAMES as the name of the directory. LI-TERM is not compatible with the WIN 95 LONG FILENAMES and installing it to directories longer than standard DOS naming schemes will cause an error. This diagnostics will detect this problem before it hits and inform the user to REINSTALL LI-TERM to a proper directory format. Also, LI-TERM makes sure that their is sufficient disk space available for its 8 meg virtual ram file. - Added support for 78 more SVGA cards, thats more than 100 SVGA cards directly supported at the Chip Set Level. This should clear up any strange side-effects that some of you have reported while in graphics mode. - Fixed the Fax status display, some characters were begin cut off prematurely and now will display the entire information. - The numerous fixes in version 1.2 of the term also coincide with upgrades of all of our DDO-F/X doors If you were experiencing any of the above problems be sure to pick up the latest versions of the doors to make sure that all problems are corrected properly. - We added a mention in the F1 pop-up help window to inform users that they can press F10 even while in a DDO-F/X (NM) application (graphical) to temporarily switch back to text modem and navigate the drop down menu's of LI-TERM to issue any term based functions which may be necessary. Many users were confusing DDO-F/X (NM) applications (such as Dark Harvest, Dungeon Lords, and the like) as stand-a-lone applications and believed that they were executed seperately from the term. In reality, these DDO-F/X (NM) games are actually using DDO-F/X script commands and even though they are in graphics mode they never cause the user to leave the terminal program but, only change from text mode to graphics mode. The Text mode interface is still running seamlessly under the graphics mode interface and can be accessed by the user at any time by pressing F10. - We also added the CTRL-BACKSPACE function to the F1 pop-up window letting users know that if an ill behaved DDO-F/X (NM) application erroniously leaves them in graphics mode starring at a black screen or a non- responsive graphics screen that pressing CTRL-BACKSPACE will switch them perminantly back to text mode. This command differs from the F10 command which will auto- matically return the user back to the graphics mode session once they ESC out of the textual drop down menus. This command perminantly switches the user back to text mode and abandons the currently executing DDO-F/X (NM) application. The application would have to re-issue the GO TO GRAPHICS MODE command along with any setups the application needs (sprites and so forth) to continue. - Keep those bug reports comming.....We are dedicated to making LI-TERM as error free as possible. Version 1.0 and 1.1 were our initial releases and although much of the basic code was well tested we hadn't had an opertunity to test the term on many different hardware configurations. Version 1.2 consists mainly of enhancments in the detection and proper use of various types of hardware. The upgrades in this version should eliminate all problems reported to this date including any and all listed above and probably a few I forgot to mention. We had a hard time beating these bug reports out of you for version 1.2. We're begging you to please report any problems you may have through any of the multitude of channels we provide for contacting us. Even if it is just a mention in a FIDO Echo. Even if you think the bug may have already been reported please report it to us again. We can't fix bugs we don't know about. We want LI-TERM to be error free and to work flawlessly with as many systems as we can. The better the term works the more time we'll be able to spend on evolving DDO-F/X and writing new cool releases for DDO-F/X (Like Dark Harvest) instead of the time consuming task of hunting down bugs in the term. Since the term is required to view any DDO-F/X application it will always take top priority and we want to make sure that it is top quality. So help us out and report any and all bugs you may find in the term. We're pretty sure we got all of the reported hardware problems fixed in this version....Let us know if we didn't...Thanks much in advance. 04/27/98 - 1.21 - Made a correction in the Graphic Text Window. The Ansi clear screen command will now home the cursor position. Minor spelling mistakes corrected. 05/01/98 - 1.30 - Sorry for the versions so quick back to back but we completed our new auto-installation program sooner than expected and wanted to release it before too many people downloaded v1.21. This new installation program will work equally well under Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and DOS. It is a multi-purpose all in one installation program. It makes it easy for a user to install the term. Under windows it will create a work group and even make available an icon with a PIF file with the propper settings so that all a Windows user need do is click the icon to boot up LI-TERM. It can't get much easier than that. This should solve all those problems with Windows Users who are not very adept at using DOS and PKZIP. Also, we've inlisted some new minimum requirements for the term. We've up'd the minimum memory required to 12 megabytes if the user is intending on using the DDO-F/X (NM) SVGA graphical interface of LI-TERM. However, the DDO-F/X LITE (Enhanced ANSI) interface will still be available to those systems with only 8 megabytes. Some of the new added features of v1.21 pushed the memory requirements just a tad over 8 megabytes. We tried everything to cram it back down into 8 megabytes but to no avail. On the up-side however, this may give you the reason you were looking for to spend the $25 bucks and pick up 16 megs of ram <grin>.........Let us know what you think of the new installation program.