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- 29-Mar-95 *** Version 1.14 released ***
-
- 03-Apr-95 The boot sector of the L64 disk had no CBM tag. That's why the
- auto start of L64 did not work on a C128.
-
- 07-Apr-95 Shift-Lock now also appears at address 653. The current state
- won't be saved at Esc/F5. A simple Shift can release the
- Shift-Lock key, that depends on the DOS keyboard driver. The
- national keyboard driver option must be set on.
-
- 07-Apr-95 The start up message of the floppy has been changed from 1541 to
- 1551. This may trick some fast loaders.
-
- 21-Apr-95 In Linux dosemu, enter the PC64 about box and press the mouse
- button on the OK button. Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to another
- console and release the mouse button there. Go back with Alt+F1 to
- PC64, and the about box will remain on the screen until you move
- the mouse. A demo program for this bug has been sent to
- jmaclean@fox.nstu.ns.ca.
-
- 21-Apr-95 On some computers PC64 says "Adlib?" and hangs. Maybe this is an
- incorrect initialized gate of timer 2. Requires further tests at
- the customer's site.
-
- 21-Apr-95 If you specify /nosound on the command line, PC64 won't try to
- detect the sound hardware any more.
-
- 01-May-95 The new utility CBMTEXT.EXE converts files from some C64 text
- programs directly to DOS, instead of having to print into
- PRINT.OUT from C64 mode.
-
- 12-May-95 Registeres customers can order the 64'er-CD for 25 Marks. It
- contains 220 service disks from the 64'er magazine and its special
- editions.
-
- 12-May-95 The German online help has been converted into a Books Online
- format, the file HANDBUCH.TXT is omitted. Changes to the
- documentation now will only have to be written into 4 files, and
- everywhere on the same position.
-
- 12-May-95 With LShift+GreyPlus/Minus, one can change the CPU speed directly
- without having to go to <Options / Timing / Limit CPU performance
- to x percent>.
-
- 12-May-95 When copying disk images, DISK99 will be counted to DISK100 and no
- longer to DIS100.
-
- 20-May-95 The secondary address 8 has been defined for printing from text
- programs. It is the same as 7, i.e. small letters with conversion
- from CBM to ASCII. The control characters 0-31 and 128-159 as well
- as the german umlauts 91-93 and 123-126 are not converted, also the
- conversion from CR to CRLF is omitted. Now you can use printer
- control codes like bold without having to go without the CBM to
- ASCII conversion.
-
- 25-May-95 The disk image file will be closed when leaving C64 mode. Now the
- DOS FAT is kept intact if you delete a disk image in the Manager
- which is also selected in an Emulator window.
-
- 27-May-95 If you switch from an Emulator window with a disk image to an
- Emulator window with P00 files and then back to the disk image,
- the first disk command did not work. The variable fCtrlBreak has
- been mistakenly not reset.
-
- 27-May-95 Open two Emulator windows with disk images, run one of them, go
- back to the desktop, switch to the other window, switch the disk
- image to a directory and start the second Emulator window. There
- is still the disk image selected. Although it has been correctly
- set to a directory, starting the Emulation has reload the old
- settings from the temporary file.
-
- 29-May-95 Sometimes loading from disk images was very slow. This is a
- problem with overlays. The code for disk images is now resident
- which will reduce the available DOS memory by 32 Kbyte.
-
- 29-May-95 The installation program does no longer call NEWNAME.EXE and
- T64TOP00.EXE.
-
- 30-May-95 The call to MOUSE_SETSPEED(8, 8) in MEWEL has been removed. Now
- the mouse pointer is no longer faster than in other programs.
-
- 30-May-95 If a directory contained more than 150 P00 files, the manager stopped
- reading its contents with the error "00, OK,00,00". This
- limitation is necessary for disk images, because the directory
- sectors can be linked in an endless loop. Now there are 32767
- entries allowed in directories and 1000 on external C64 drives.
- The error message has been changed to "Directory is destroyed".
-
- 30-May-95 The display is now updated correctly when you search backward and
- the found match lies within the first few lines.
-
- 30-May-95 You can now specify a single file name for T64TOP00, not only a
- complete directory tree.
-
- 31-May-95 *** Version 1.15 released ***
-
- 06-Jun-95 Because the code for disk images had to be made resident
- (29-May-95), its load address was below 48 Kb if there were more
- than 600 Kb DOS memory free. Because the floppy ROM starts at
- $C000, the pointer to the memory base is set 48 Kb back. This
- was causing a wrap around which is not allowed under memory
- managers like HIMEM.SYS, 386MAX or QEMM. And so the disk images
- were reporting the error message "drive not ready" or "timeout
- on the IEC bus on output". To fix that bug, the floppy ROM has
- been moved into its own data segment which will be always linked
- above the code segments.
-
- 06-Jun-95 When changing disk images with F9, the BAM has not been re-read
- and thus the free blocks from the old disk appeared. When
- modifying the code for disk images, the call to the INITIALIZE
- command has been mistakenly removed.
-
- 06-Jun-95 The converter CBMText now understands eight formats: CBM Big
- Letters, CBM Small Letters, Vizawrite, Easy Script, Star Texter
- (untested), Textomat (untested), Master Text (untested) and
- Protext-128.
-
- 06-Jun-95 *** Version 1.16 released ***
-
- 01-Jul-95 CBMText.exe can now convert Basic programs from CBM token format
- to ASCII. In contrary to OPEN 4,4:CMD 4:LIST, spaces are inserted
- between commands and control characters are converted to readable
- text.
-
- 13-Jul-95 Dir64.cpp line 229 must read "afUsed[abSector[1]] = TRUE;" or
- the program hangs in an endless loop if a directory contains
- illegal chained sectors.
-
- 18-Jul-95 Although the IEC routines have a CLI at exit, there is very rarely
- an IRQ after returning to the caller. The reason is that the
- register $DC0D is read while the transfer is running. This is now
- emulated, so some games like Miniputt will work.
-
- 27-Jul-95 The compatibility of the serial shift registers has been improved.
- Arkanoid I to III are now running.
-
- 29-Jul-95 If you klick on a disk image in the Norton Commander and the first
- C64 file on it is protected, it will now load correctly.
-
- 29-Jul-95 If there is a Sound Blaster, the Adlib test is skipped and Adlib
- is set to TRUE. The detection did not work on some sound cards.
-
- 04-Aug-95 The 110 games have been reduced to 36. Now the emulator is fitting
- on a single disk.
-
- 15-Aug-95 There are two new switches in <Options / Joysticks>. They will
- exchange the white and the grey cursor arrows and Right and Left
- Ctrl. Also Num-Lock does no longer influence the joystick
- emulation. So you can control your games on a laptop without having
- to buy the Alternative Joystick Adaptor.
-
- 15-Aug-95 *** Version 1.17 released ***
-
- 19-Aug-95 Version 1.17 had a virus which wasn't recognized by McAfee 7'95.
- Thanks to Jürgen Rochner for finding it. Infected files can be
- detected with Virus895.exe. The virus doesn't make himself
- resident in memory. After starting an infected program, he will
- infect the first non-infected EXE file in the current directory.
-
- 19-Aug-95 *** Version 1.18 released ***
-
- 06-Feb-96 Switch /e added to Dir64. Checks for cross-links in disk images.
-
- 13-Mar-96 Switch -autotype added to PC64. PC64 for DOS is now compatible
- with the C64 Game Database.
-
- 14-Mar-96 *** Version 1.19 released ***
-
- 20-Apr-96 An old bug has been back again. MEWEL and MOVE don't like each
- other when SHARE.EXE is loaded. MOVE opens the EXE file in
- compatibility mode and MEWEL cannot read menus, dialogs and so on.
- To fix the problem, LLIBCE.LIB must be patched. In C5 16 00 00
- 32 C0 B4 3D CD 21, change 32 C0 to B0 40. I had installed the
- upgrade of Visual C++ 1.52, which overwrote the patched LLIBCE.LIB.
- As I don't have SHARE.EXE loaded and had to delete OS/2 because of
- outrunning harddisk space, I didn't notice this bug.
-
- 20-Apr-96 *** Version 1.20 released ***
-
- 09-Nov-96 Joysticks can now be swapped in C64 mode with <Alt+F10>, just like
- in PC64Win.
-
- 09-Nov-96 When PC64Dos is run with a file name on the command line and the
- user leaves C64 mode with <Esc>, the program now no longer quits
- but returns back to the desktop. The old behaviour was
- inconsistent.
-
- 09-Nov-96 You can now quit PC64Dos by pressing <Alt+F4> in C64 mode.
-
- 11-Nov-96 The hardware mixer of the Sound Blaster Pro has been removed. It
- caused more problems than use. Controlling the volume of AdLib and
- DSP by software with <Options / Sound> is still possible. The port
- addresses of AdLib and DSP are now shown. If there is a DSP
- detected, the AdLib is set to DSP+8. Without a DSP it remains at
- 0388. If the sound now still does not work then the reason is a
- wrong BLASTER environment variable or the sound driver. If the
- sound is too quiet, please use the mixer program which comes with
- your sound card.
-
- 11-Nov-96 Beginners tried to run D64 disk images with <Emulator / Open>. In
- the error message "No valid C64 file", a hint for the help has
- been added. There one can read how to run D64, P00 and T64 files.
-
- 11-Nov-96 Command <Manager / Disk Image / Copy slow> Ctrl+F8 added. You
- don't need to edit Drives.ini by hand any longer if the fastloader
- in L64 hangs on some disks.
-
- 12-Nov-96 Fixed a bug in the P00 Manager window block calculation. A C64
- block is 254 bytes, not 256.
-
- 18-Nov-96 *** Version 1.21 released ***
-
- 18-Mar-97 The switch /nosound does not longer print an error message
- "can't load NOSOUND".
-
- 29-Aug-97 All references to License.dat have been removed.
-
- 01-Sep-97 The program is now Public Domain. The original author Wolfgang
- Lorenz is no longer responsible for it. The source code is
- available for free. Maybe someone will continue to support the
- project. Interested developers may get in contact with each
- other in the comp.emulators.cbm newsgroup.
-
- 01-Oct-97 *** Version 1.22 released ***
-