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- Version 1.6 -> 1.7
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-
- - Whilst stopped, the read out shows the number of tracks on the CD.
- - You can quit whilst stopped - press and hold both forward and reverse, then
- press stop.
- - Removed the gap between tracks after I found that I couldn't sample part of
- Lifeforms 'cos the gap was in the middle of it. But the timer emulation had
- to go.
- - When DCPlayer was started and there was more than one screen, some screens
- didn't have their read out colours set. Sorted that one.
- - If it couldn't get the shared pens it needs for the read out, it clears
- Workbench's backdrops, tries again, returns the backdrops to the screen,
- and lets them fight over the remaining pens.
- - If you're using lo-res sprites or shared pens, changed it so you've got to
- quit when you use eg. screen mode or overscan prefs like any other program
- with a window open on the Workbench. Before it lost track of which screen
- was Workbench's and went a bit wrong.
- - New options - NOBACKDROPS (don't wipe the backdrops if using shared pens),
- NOLORES (don't force the read out to be lo-res on the Workbench screen),
- and NOPENS (don't use shared pens on the Workbench screen).
-
-
- Version 1.5 -> 1.6
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-
- - Got rid of the bug where the read out could appear in the wrong place on
- dragged down screens or some screen modes.
- - On AGA computers the read out will be lo-res in all screen modes. It only
- works for the Workbench screen.
- - If you've used a screen with more than 16 colours then you'll probably have
- noticed that the screen sets the read out's pen colours (it's something to
- do with the Amiga's hardware). Now, if you've got Kickstart 3, it'll try to
- use pen sharing to stop this. It won't work if something else has already
- stolen the pens it needs (eg. a backdrop) - in that case it'll do the same
- as before. It only works for the Workbench screen.
- - It's faster.
-
-
- Version 1.4 -> 1.5
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-
- - Changed the EMULATION option so that it works for practically any CD32
- emulation around or any new ones. 'Cos of this, the Hisoft Squirrel and
- Power CD drives should work fine now.
- - Made new emulation options for reverse and forward search. This sorts out
- the Archos, Squirrel, and Power drives.
- - Made a new SHOW option so you can choose what read out you want on start
- up. Now you don't need to keep changing it when DCPlayer starts. It works
- for people without control pads too.
- - Made a new LOOP option is like the SHOW option but for repeat play.
- - Made a new PLAY option which can start playing from a track number or in
- random play mode as soon as DCPlayer starts, if there's a CD in the drive.
- - Made a NORESET option for anyone who booted from CD and doesn't want the
- CD32 to reset as soon as the boot CD is removed.
-
-
- Version 1.3 -> 1.4
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-
- - When stopped, the shuffle button starts random play.
- - When not stopped, the shuffle button is used to shuffle through the type of
- display you get - one of track number, time since start of CD, time since
- start of track, time to end of track, time to end of CD, or nothing.
- - And the play button now ejects CDs (the shuffle button used to do this). To
- play CDs only the select button is left.
-
-
- Version 1.2 -> 1.3
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-
- - Added an EMULATION option which makes buggy CD32 emulation work. Currently
- it has options for Archos V8 (disable eject and reverse, fix forward and
- pause) and Archos V9 (disable reverse, fix forward and pause). The Archos
- pause fix in the previous version is removed unless you give this option.
- - If you hit loop in stop mode, the last track number played got displayed by
- mistake. Oops.
-
-
- Version 1.1 -> 1.2
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-
- - New option, CHANGE. When the DISPLAY option is on, it only makes it the
- display appear after anything changes, and then only for a little while.
- - Now pause mode recognises when the CD drive becomes empty straight away.
- - The loop button now does 'no repeat' -> 'repeat' -> 'repeat 1'.
- - An Archos bug fixed - whilst stopped, you can open as well as close the
- drive door (they can't even emulate the eject command properly...).
- - Another Archos bug fixed - when in pause and you changed track, it started
- to play again. Trouble is, searching through tracks is a bit slower now.
- Thanks to Ashley Hinton for pointing this out.
- - Thanks to David Hawthorn, Stuart Allen, and Ashley Hinton - from these
- mails I managed to work out what the 'pressing RETURN causes a pause' bug
- was.
- - And thanks to everyone who said thanks!
-
-
- Version 1.0 -> 1.1
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-
- - The program can be started and stopped properly from the Workbench. There's
- no need for scripts or IconX or any of that rubbish. Instead you just click
- on the icon the first time to run it and again to remove it.
- - From the shell, if you run the program the first time it starts and if you
- run it again it stops (similar to the Workbench). There's no need to mess
- around with CTRL-C or BREAK any more (but they still work though).
- - You can drag it to WBStartup and it works properly too. You can even get
- rid of it later as well. Hurrah.
- - You can choose to have a display of what's happening to the CD (stop, play,
- pause, etc...) put on the screen. It's similar to the display you get at
- the bottom right of the screen when you play CD+Gs on the CD32. It stays on
- the screen all the time (even if you flip or drag or autoscroll screens).
- - Loop works properly now.
- - CDs with mixed data and audio tracks work better on the CD32 and work on
- the Archos.
- - When the drive door is open and eject is pressed, it closes (suggested by
- John Middleton, probably his most useful thought so far this year...).
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