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Comic Book Fanatics Database.
Report On Bugs Fixed Or Changes Made Or Added.
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If you find any bugs or have any comments or ideas, please contact me at :
Wolverine's Lair BBS
c\o Joe Pelley
(519)672-4501
Joe Pelley
v9.8
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- Fixed a little bug that reported the wrong amount of comics. For example:
If you had 5 of the same comics in the same condition, it would report
that you had 5 comics in the database but under the Statistics, comic
conditions only reported 1, now it will report the 5.
- Changed a statistic. It will now report the drive and directory that
you are in instead of just the drive.
v9.7
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- When adding a comic(s) or updating(s) a comic you MUST enter its condition
and whether or not it is a reprint. Also the default value of the number
of copies is 1, so if you enter a 0 or just pressed enter, it will be
changed to 1. Also if you enter the comic(s) name and you pressed enter,
it will return you to the main menu. All comic books have names!
v9.6
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- Ok Now I will not be releasing no more beta versions. They will be full
versions, no more betas, alphas or whatever!
- If you haven't ran the upgrade.exe file from v9.5 beta, then do so.
else, DO NOT not run this copy of it.
- Fixed a little bug that reported on the 'Statistics' screen how many
comics you have on record, well it counted how many records there are.
It should have read how many 'copies' you own. It goes and adds up all
the 'copies' instead of the number of records on file. So lets say that
you have 10 records, it would report that you have 10 comics, lets say
that you own 2 copies of the same comic, well it still reported 10 instead
of 11, this is now fixed. Provided that you enter a number in that field.
v9.5 beta
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- Please run the UPGRADE.EXE file in order to convert all your database
structures to this version or else if you try to access it without doing
so, you may lose all your data. <<<<<<<<<<<<< IMPORTANT <<<<<<<
You only need to do this ONCE! More than that and well, loss of data.
DO NOT run it every time a new version comes out unless otherwise
told too.
- Changed a bit of the menus around so that they aren't displaying some
same screens over and over.
- Took out some unwanted or repedative coding.
- Added to the record structure 'Reprint'. So now you can add whether or
not it is a reprint copy or not of the comic.
v9.4 beta
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- Added a screen saver to the 'Main Menu' to prevent screen burn. After
about 2 minutes it will activate. Just press any key to return to the Menu.
- Added Date and Time to the Main Menu.
- Redone ALL the menu screens. I must say that it looks ALOT better.
- Fixed a bug with the record limit.
- Moved more code around, makes it smaller and faster to run now.
v9.3 beta
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- I added a nice little feature here, in the 'Statistics' screen, it will
now add up all your 'Book Values', and show you the estimated value or
worth. Also when it makes your textfile listing, it will also add the
estimated total value or worth onto the end. This is probably a long
awaited feature. Nice to have for investment wise people.
- Added more trivia questions, total = 153.
If you have any questions that you would like to donate, please make a
text file listing of them, the proper questions and right answers please.
And upload them to my BBS. Thanx alot to all who helped me with the
questions and who uploaded them too me.
- Made some of the menus or screens a bit more nicer. (I am getting there!)
I made some popup screens upon error messages and asking for the
password to create a new database.
v9.2 beta
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- I added some little help messages to some of the screens or options.
I trust that you will find this useful as for a reference. It helps
by not going to the 'Help' option all the time.
- I took out the first time operation of Creating a new databse for the
1st time users, it no longer exists. So now the 1st time users can
start it up and immediately start entering their comic books.
- I moved all the code around due to some compiling errors. So now the code
is somewhat faster and smaller also.
v9.1 beta
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- Added more trivia questions, total = 142.
- I took out the fading effects of some of the screens, apparently it
works only on some machines and not on others.
- I added 2 more record structures to the database. You can now store
your 'Date Purchased' and 'Date Sold' into the records. So you will
have to start a new database!!! <<<<<<<<<<<<< Sorry! <<<<<
v9.0 beta
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- Added a fade in screen to the welcome screen, when first starting it all
up.
- I added a big time option here, i added a Comic Trivia option.
Here is a fun part if you get bored of adding your comics and you need
a break. I will add more questions to it as time goes by.
If you have any questions you would like me to add to this Trivia, just
make a text file listing with the proper question and answer and upload
them to me.
v8.9 beta
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- Changed the Listing to only a date stamp instead of a date and time stamp.
- Made the File Listing ( 'Comics.lst' ) better looking.
- Added a nice little fade in and fade out screen upon exiting. It looks
real nice too! ( I Think :) )
- Added a 10 second pause upon exiting if you happen to have an unregistered
copy, if you own a registered copy, then you don't have to worry about it.
- There is also a 25 record limit to unregistered copies. Registered copies
would hold unlimited as far as I know, I haven't tried to put in unlimited
number of copies.
- Added a Quit option in the Help screens. You may now quit the help section
anytime you want instead of having to go right through to the end.
v8.8 beta
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- Tried to make the menu screens a little more nicer. Still not nice enough.
- Made the code a little bit smaller or tighter for faster performance.
- Increased the text file buffer, it was writing 128 bytes, it now writes
512 bytes which will hopefully make it faster while writing the master
file listing to the text file Comics.lst.
- Changed the 'Drop To DOS' code, it will now search the environment for
the 'COMSPEC' ( where command.com is located, if you have it 'SET' in
your autoexec.bat file, ie: SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM ), if it finds it,
it will use that, if not then it will look in the root directory for
command.com. It use to just look in the root directory, but it should work
better now.
v8.7 beta
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- I added to the options, 'Make Complete List'. What this does it that it
reads all the records and writes them out to a text file called
'Comics.lst' and adds some statistics to the end of the list. It will
date and time stamp the list for you also. I am still working on some
nice looking color menu screens, but I can't think of some nice ones
so if you have any ideas let me know. Thanx.
v8.6 beta
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- Changed the 'Update Screen'. It now shows you the complete record and
then you choose what you want to change instead of going thru all the
record options and answering yes or no to change it.
v8.5 beta
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- Added a option to when you are entering the 'Comic Condition' in the Add
A Record option, it will show you at the bottom of the screen your list
of options that you want to enter for the condition of the comic. Just
hit the coresponding letter beside the option.
- Added to the 'Statistics' screen your count of the condition of your
comics. It will give you a list of how many comics are in certain
conditions.
v8.4 beta
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- Added a 'Cover Price' and 'Book Value' to the record structure.
You can now keep a record of what you paid for it (Cover Price) and what
it is worth (Book Value) at todays prices.
- I will be working on making the screens look better once i get all the
internal bugs and options that i want corrected or added. So be patient!
- I changed the input of the 'Name Of The Comic', it is a changed to
uppercase. All comic 'NAMES' will be changed to uppercase.
It makes things easier to do a search on.
- Added, Shareware version only holds 25 records, and the Registered
version is unlimited.
- Added a bit or borders to the menus to make them somewhat presentable.
v8.3 beta
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- Fixed the Install program, for when it finished it could not locate
the command.com file and therefore halted the computer.
- Fixed the 'Delete A Record', it wasn't capitalizing the 1st letter of
each word in the comic name when you entered it.
- Fixed to 'Drop To Dos' feature, when some people dropped to dos their
system halted because it was looking for the COMSPEC set feature
in their setup in the autoexec.bat file, anyways i changed it to
find c:\command.com.
- Added capitalization of the 1st letter of each word when a record
was added instead of capitalizing the whole word or sentence.
- Added 'Mark A Record', so now you can mark as many records as you wish
for deletion. This only marks the record for deletion, IT DOES NOT
DELETE IT. And you can also unmark marked records too if the database
hasn't been packed yet.
- Added 'Pack Database', so now you can delete all the marked records
that you have for deletion. It will delete all marked records without
the chance for recovery.
- Added when exiting the program, it makes a backup of the database for you.