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Roadways PC
HISTORY OF CHANGES AND UPDATES
Changes to version 2.0:
1. Added checking of Environment for defaults.
2. Added the ability to bypass the copyright screen for
registered users.
3. Added the option to save routes to disk.
4. Added Retrieval of routes from disk with optional printout.
Includes a directory listing of .RDW files (roadways saved
files).
5. Added 'R' to the help menu and to the Mouse selection blocks.
Also added Disk Output to the display screen. Added a mouse box
with Print, More and Return to Roadways PC Main to the Retrieval
screen.
6. Added the mileage rate input to the config screen.
7. Added mileage output to all output screens.
8. Added the option to change the mileage rate from within
Roadways with the 'M' key.
9. Updated the documentation to include all of the above
features.
10. Changed the Help box to a true window that is closeable and
moveable.
11. Put the mileage information on the route screen into a
moveable, closeable window.
Changes to version 2.5:
1. Pull down menus have been added to the main city selection
screen.
2. The route display is scrollable if it exceeds the room on the
screen.
3. Starting and ending cities in the route display have been
highlighted to make them more visible.
4. A help menu has been added to the route screen.
5. The configuration program has been removed from the main
program and revised to include installation to a hard drive.
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Changes to versions 2.51, 2.52 and 2.53:
1. Several minor bugs were fixed that caused problems with
calculated dollar amounts in the mileage calculation routines.
2. The Up and Down keys were switched to make the Up Arrow key
scroll the list up and the Down Arrow key scroll down. (oops!)
3. The colors were fixed for monochrome displays to make the
display screens readable and highlighting look correct.
4. A bug in the scroll screen was fixed that caused the scroll
up and scroll down block to appear if only 12 cities were in the
route. The minimum should have been 13.
Changes to version 2.54 and 2.54a:
1. Allowed Roadways PC to be used on a Hercules display and
adapter card.
2. Updated the INSTALL program to include selection of the
Hercules monochrome monitor.
3. Changed the INSTALL program to require <enter> to be pressed
after a selection was made. This was at the request of several
users.
4. Fixed a bug that prevented the EPSON printer selection on the
install menu from working properly. Now when EPSON is selected,
Roadways will send the code to the printer to put it into the
graphics character set (IBM printer codes instead of the EPSON
codes).
Changes to version 3.0:
1. Fixed a bug with the output mileage calculations that made
them incorrect until the screen was completely scrolled.
2. Added the capability to scroll continuously with the mouse by
holding the left mouse button down while in the scroll box.
3. Changed questions to positive answer to affirm (particularly
the exit prompt).
4. Added default answers to all Y/N prompts. Accessed by just
pressing <enter>.
5. Highlighted the complete city and state space.
6. Added a time out to the copyright screen (5 seconds) when
displayed during program startup.
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7. Added Hercules graphic adapter support.
8. If the ROADWAYS.CFG file is not found or is incorrect, upon
startup of ROADWAYS, an option to run the INSTALL program is
displayed from the ROADWAYS program startup.
9. The INSTALL and REGISTER programs have been merged into one
program called INSTALL.
10. You can now start INSTALL with a drive specifier for
installation to a particular hard drive (range of C: to G:), by
typing INSTALL d:, where d: is the drive you want Roadways
installed onto.
11. Other minor bug fixes designed to make life easier and
faster for the user.
12. Put the documentation on disk with a left margin and at 10
cpi to make it more readable when printed out.
13. Added several new options on the drop down menus: Default
Settings, Set Home City, re-run last route, and Toggle Shortest
Time/Distance.
14. Did away with some of the boxes on the main screen, and
added a separate Quit function on the menu bar.
15. Added the option to use different data files with Roadways
by just entering the datafile name in the INSTALL program or from
within Roadways.
16. Added several features to the INSTALL file to fix some of
the problems some users were having installing to a hard disk, as
well as dressing the whole shebang up.
17. Added handling of states with 55 mile per hour maximums
different than states with 65 mile per hour.
18. Added an option to run routes by the shortest time as
opposed to the shortest distance.
19. Made the default speeds used for calculating driving times
user changeable and a part of the configuration file.
20. Improved the precision of the cost per mile of operation, by
going to 4 decimal places, versus 2.
21. Added the option to run Roadways PC from within the INSTALL
program.
22. Added the ROADWAYS.TIM file to allow running of routes by
shortest time.
Changes to version 3.01:
1. I discovered that somehow a semicolon got erased and when
using the arrow keys to scroll down the list of cities, when
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reaching the bottom, the entire screen would move up a line.
This made a real mess of the display.
2. When calculating speed on a stretch of highway, the speed
assigned to the 65 mph areas was used for all roads in states
with 65 mph speed limits. This was fixed to make state roads
accept the speed assigned to the 55 mph areas.
3. Due to the above bug, I also found the same problem in the
portion of the program that generates the .TIM file. This was
fixed.
Changes to version 3.02:
1. Put a Re-Run last route button on the main screen to ease re-
running routes. Redefined the key 'R' to re-run the last route
and changed Retreive Routes to the 'F' key.
2. Fixed a bug that allowed the re-running of previous routes
without having run any routes.
3. Changed the Registration program so no changes were needed to
the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. A change is made to the ROADWAYS.EXE file
instead.
Changes to version 3.1 and 3.1a:
1. Added the capability to have 3 additional types of routes
(State roads, Rural routes, and Turnpikes with a numeric
designation).
2. Updated the ROADWAYS.DAT file to take advantage of the new
route types.
3. Added a line at the bottom of the Route Screen that shows the
selected speeds for time and driving speed calculations.
4. Added support for routes that exceed 100 hours in length
(Thanks Donald!).
Changes to version 3.1b:
1. Made some updates to the datafiles.
2. Changed the address for registration and support.
3. Recompiled Roadways to make sure it would work on 8088
machines.
Changes to version 3.1c:
1 - I found that if a city was shown as deleted in the datafile
(in other words, if you had zero connections to that city)
Roadways would not run - it constantly said that there was an
error in the sorted datafiles. This now works.
2 - Some folks have complained that it is too hard to quit
Roadways, and that when they select the Quit option from the
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menu, and then have to select Quit Roadways PC, that they
shouldn't have to be asked AGAIN if they want to quit. When you
select the option QUIT from the Roadways PC menu bar, after
clicking on Quit Roadways PC, you will immediately exit Roadways.
Changes to version 3.1e:
1 - When in the route screen, if the ALT key was pressed, the
menu from the main screen would attempt to open. This is
corrected.
2 - Corrected sorting so sort by State now also sorts by city
within state. 3 - Changed the exit prompt to an exit window and
standardized it.
4 - Made some minor text changes in the copyright screen.
5 - Added checking for display type on startup and automatic
correction if the display type selected is wrong.
Changes to version 3.1f:
1 - If a city name was over 17 characters long, it would generate
an error and end the program - it now no longer does this.
Cities with names over 17 characters long are truncated to 17
characters.
2 - Changed Rural Routes to County Roads in the docs and in
Roadways. County Roads are abbreviated CO-## where ## is the
number of the county road.
Changes to version 3.2:
1. Made Roadways PC 'smart' about what you call it. This is
only important if you have registered Roadways PC, as the
registration code is stored in the ROADWAYS.EXE file. As long as
Roadways PC was named ROADWAYS.EXE there was no problem, but if
you re-named ROADWAYS.EXE to any other file name (i.e. -
ROAD.EXE), it couldn't find the registration code, since it was
looking for the file ROADWAYS.EXE. Now, once you register
Roadways PC and enter the correct registration code, you can
rename Roadways PC to anything you wish and it can still tell
what it's name is!
2. After much deliberation, and tests of different methods, I
have finally decided to follow the pack. It has become almost a
standard to put the 'Quit' or 'Exit' option in the menu choice
called 'File'. I had chosen not to. Well, I've finally given in
and am now right in there with the big-boys. 'Quit' is now in
the 'File' menu heading.
Changes to version 3.25 over 3.2:
1. When selecting a default starting city from the menu
(Utilities section) that information is now saved to a file on
your disk called DEFCIT.DAT. This allows the selected 'default
city' to appear 'by default' each time you start Roadways PC.
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2. Some companies (i.e. courier companies, limosine companies,
etc.) needed the option to use per mile rates above 99 cents.
This has now been changed to allow mileage rates up to $9.99 per
mile.
Roadways PC version 3.25 has the following changed files:
ROADWAYS.EXE
ROADWAYS.DAT
ROADWAYS.STA
ROADWAYS.CTY
ROADWAYS.TIM
ROADWAYS.DOC
FILE_ID.DIZ
INVOICE.DOC
HISTORY.DOC
README.DOC
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