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- MCBase revision history list:
-
-
- Aug. 17th, '95 MAJOR NEW RELEASE.
- Release of the new MCBase V2.0: a fully event driven,
- mouse controlled, object oriented, dBaseIII+ compatible,
- relational-to-the-max, windowing database management
- system, with handy dialogs, to set your personal configu-
- ration preferences. The only REAL database system for the
- music collector.
-
-
- July 10th, '95 Updated version 1.1f to 1.1g: a maintenance release.
- Modifications to registration key recognition routine.
- Registration was recognized, but the databases evaluation
- limits weren't correctly unlocked.
-
-
- Mar. 22nd, '95 Updated version 1.1e to 1.1f: Documentation updates (and
- program changes, see below). Added a new VendInfo record,
- according to the latest standard, in order to comply with
- the new set-up for the ASP CD-rom distribution.
-
- Added a (file based) registration key system to MCBase.
- This will enable a registered user, with a valid regist-
- ration key, to turn any V1.x shareware copy into a per-
- sonally registered version: MBase will look for the
- excistence of the registration key file and will present
- itself as a registered version *if* the registration key
- is found to be valid. (If not, it will continue to behave
- as a shareware copy).
-
- Also added a small (set of) sample database(s), so that
- the user will be able to "play around" with the system,
- without having to enter data first.
-
-
- May 25th, '94: Updated version 1.1d to 1.1e: Documentation updates (and
- program changes, see below). Added a VendInfo record to
- the documentation and modified the distribution-policy to
- be more "friendly".
-
- Also added a possibility to accept credit card orders,
- using PsL's order processing services.
-
- Finally, I removed the encryption on MCBase's executable
- code. As it seems, some computers COULD have had trouble
- running MCBase because of this encryption.
-
-
- Mar. 22nd, '94: Updated version 1.1c to 1.1d: Documentation updates (and
- small program changes) in order to comply with ASP requi-
- rements.
-
-
- Mar. 14th, '94: Updated version 1.1b to 1.1c: Corrected a SERIOUS error
- in the documentation, discribing the locationcode.
-
- For tapes, the first 5 (!) digits of the (12 digit)
- locationcode are reserved for the actual tape number,
- instead of the discribed 2 digits. (The screen report for
- tapes is scanning for the first 5 digits, to find the
- first and last entry belonging to a certain tape). See
- the updated section 8 in the documentation for further
- information.
-
- Also elimitated a possible GP-error in the protected mode
- version.
-
-
- Mar. 5th, '94: Updated version 1.1a to 1.1b: Modified all "Add" functi-
- ons, to stay active until the user decides that he/she is
- done. (Artist and Album "Add" fuctions were left after
- adding 1 entry. This was based on the idea that one would
- process the data one album at a time).
-
- Eliminated the possible occurance of an "error 100:
- Record out of range" while printing the reports. (It
- could occur under certain circumstances).
-
- Eliminated a possible counting error in the "Artist
- overview"-report.
-
- Also made some minor modifications.
-
-
- Jan. 7th, '94: Updated version 1.1 to 1.1a: As mentioned in the documen-
- tation of the previous versions (in section "Future
- plans"), the processing speed of printer option "Songs by
- artist" needed to be increased.
- In this update, this processing speed has been success-
- fully increased to a normal level.
-
- I've also included a function to cancel any running
- printjob by pressing the ESCape-key.
-
-
- Nov. 24th '93: Updated version 1.0c to 1.1, a major new release:
- Eliminated the need for a pre-selection on databases with
- more than 1000 entry's. (Credit for this goes to Griffin
- Solutions, who managed to realize virtual memory usage in
- their GS_dBase routine library: Thanks, Richard!).
-
- The "Allfield Editor" is added to the application as a
- standard item and also added is an separate "Append"
- option, so a user does not need to go through the "Edit"-
- selection list if he or she simply wants to "Append".
-
- The menu structure has been a bit modified to accomodate
- the above mentioned additions.
-
- Also, the bank adress has been altered to the adress of
- the Rabobank's headoffice in Utrecht.
-
- Last, but not least, a new pricing schedule is introdu-
- ced, to enable a low-budget registration on the project.
- This is done by the introduction of two diffent types of
- users: a BASIC and a DEDICATED user, of wich the latter
- has a very interesting discount on future updates. See
- the ORDER.MCB document for further information on regist-
- ration options and prices.
-
-
- October 5th, '93: Updated version 1.0b to 1.0c, a maintenance release:
- Eliminated two errors that occured in the album selection
- list for option #7, "View albums by artists".
-
- 1) When returning from the reportscreen after viewing an
- album (WITH the additional artistname display activated),
- the program would generate a NEW album selection list for
- the artistname that appeared on the bottom of the report
- screen, instead of using the original artistname that was
- selected by the user.
-
- 2) While walking through the albums of the different
- artists, a heap error (#203) could occur. The memory of
- the album selection list wasn't properly released.
-
- Also eliminated an error in option #4, "Query on artist".
- A messagebox, to allow albumtitle display with each
- songtitle, sometimes appeared without a valid reason.
-
- Last, but not least, I added the following text to the
- ORDER.ME document, in order to prevent further questions
- on the subject:
-
- REGISTRED MCBASE USERS can receive MAINTENANCE UPDATES
- for shipping costs only. (NOTE: CompuServe users can
- receive their maintenance update through CompuServe mail,
- minimizing the need for shipping costs, thus FOR FREE!).
- (Same goes for users who can download it from my private
- host system, wich is standby on request).
-
-
- August 19th, '93: Updated version 1.0a to 1.0b, a maintenance release:
- Eliminated an error that could cause the system to be
- caught in an endless loop, if the last record in a data-
- base file was a "deleted" record.
- Also improved some text in a messagebox, displayed while
- the function "deleted" was processing the album database.
-
-
- June 22nd, 1993 : Updated version 1.0 to 1.0a, a maintenance release:
- Some reportscreens had a bit of trouble with uncleared
- screens. The data from the previous information on the
- screen was sometimes not fully erased, which garbled the
- new information.
-
-
- June 19th, 1993 : First release, version 1.0, of the MCBase database sy-
- stem.