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- Date: 15 Nov 95 Version 3.51 - SNEWS351.ZIP 48,571 bytes
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- Author's Note : It's more than 5 months since the last version, Ive been
- busy with year 12 and some pcboard utils. This version of sicknews was
- coded about 4 and a half months ago but I never released it because the
- packaging and shit is what takes the most time.
-
- Singer of silverchair's note : Never stage dive into a pack of screaming
- 12 yr old girls.
-
-
- + You can now limit how many bulletins are processed. This means if you have
- 50 bulletins, and you dont want a huge news file, you can configure
- Sicknews to process only the first X amount of bulletins. If you dont care
- about the size of your news file, just enter "0" for unlimited.
-
- + You can pause after each bulletin (without also clearing the screen).
-
- + All features of Sicknews are now available whether it's registered or not!
- Including the popular KEWL COLORS feature, and your own customised header.
-
- + NEW FOREGROUND COLOURS:
-
- "+" turns the foreground color's bright attribute ON.
- "-" turns the foreground color's bright attribute OFF.
- "X" No change.
-
- ie. "|05SICK NEWS UTILITY: |X+SICKNEWS v3.51! |1-By fLAX!" results in
-
- SICK NEWS UTILITY: SICKNEWS v3.51! By fLAX!
- └┬───────────────┘ └┬────────────┘ └┬─────┘
- -DARK Purple FG -LIGHT Purple FG -DARK Purple FG
- -Black Background -Black Background -BLUE Background
-
- + NEW BACKGROUND COLOURS:
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- "+" turns the foreground color's FLASHING attribute ON.
- "-" turns the foreground color's FLASHING attribute OFF.
- "X" No change.
-
- so "|05SICK NEWS UTILITY: |+XSICKNEWS v3.51! |-XBy fLAX!" results in
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- SICK NEWS UTILITY: SICKNEWS v3.51! By fLAX!
- └┬───────────────┘ └┬────────────┘ └┬─────┘
- (NOT FLASHING) *FLASHING* (NOT FLASHING)
- Dark Purple FG Dark Purple FG Dark Purple FG
- Black BG Black BG Black BG
-
- If you dont understand the new codes, dont worry, they're not very important.
-
- + The sample text when selecting kewl colors makes it easier to see what
- your kewl text will look like. BUT flashing characters dont flash in the
- sample window, even though they will in your output files..
-
- * You get more progress information when you run SICKNEWS.EXE.
-
- * You can quickly exit NEWSCFG (without save) by hitting ALT-X.
- You could do this since version 3.0 I just forgot to mention it.
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- Date: 01 Jun 95 Version 3.5 - SNEWSV35.ZIP 52,747 bytes
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- + Background and Flashing Colours are now available. You can also use
- default codes like "|!!", "|!F", or "|8!". See the section on "Sicknews
- Colour Codes" in SICKNEWS.DOC for the new format.
-
- + You can now add up to 9 blank lines at the end of each bulletin.
-
- + You can put "####" codes into the News Header, which display the total
- number of bulletins in the Sicknews.Txt file.
-
- + You get a little more info on whats happening when you run SICKNEWS.EXE.
-
- * PCB Support didnt work in version 3.40, for a really simple reason, which
- was fixed in this version.
-
- * Rewrote the ANSi routines to accomodate Background and Flashing colours.
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- Date: 03 May 95 Version 3.4 - SNEWSV34.ZIP 40,665 bytes
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- + PCBoard Support! This includes all the options which previously affected
- the ANSi output file. I included PCBoard support because I switched over
- to PCB myself, and many PCB sysops had requested this. Of course, sysops
- running systems other than PCB are not disadvantaged in any way. PCBoard
- Support can be disbled easily by setting Newscfg > Toggles > PCB to "NO".
-
- + As of this version, registration is FREE by calling the SICK WHQ.
- See the Registration Info in SICKNEWS.DOC.
-
- * other minor cosmetic changes and bug fixes.
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- Date: 25 Feb 95 Version 3.3 - SNEWSV33.ZIP 39,555 bytes
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- + Ability to Indent your News Text [ANSi].
-
- + Extra Colour Code: "|!!" will allow you to enter the default News Text
- Colour into your news bulletins.
-
- + You are now able to enter ANY filename as your Output files, rather than
- just SICKNEWS.A??. Eg: You might rather NEWS.ANS.
-
- + If you hit INSERT when Entering a String in NEWSCFG.EXE, you may type over
- the previous characters. Also you can hit Ctrl Left/Right to move from word
- to word.
-
- * Registration Info included.
-
- * MUCH MUCH MUCH faster ANSi routines and output display.
-
- * The Sample Sicknews.Txt which is included in the archive is now more
- informative and helpful in understanding the format of your news file.
-
- * News Text with lines longer than 79 characters are now "trimmed" rather
- than spilt over onto the next line.
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- Date: 11 Feb 95 Version 3.2 - SNEWSV32.ZIP 37,164 bytes
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- + Ablility to add ";" comments to your SiCKNEWS.TXT file so that you can have
- bulletins in your text which are NOT displayed in your output files.
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- + Ability to disregard all Color Codes and display the news text in your
- output ANSi file in "Kewl" colors, iE. The color of Uppercase letters can
- be different to the colour of the lower case letters, etc. This format can
- slow down the display of your news file.
-
- + Ability to Clear the Screen before the entire news file, so that if you have
- no News Header, you can still clear the screen before the bulletins begin.
-
- * Huge bug fix. There was a problem with the "Color of the Enter String" for
- the ANSi output, which caused problems in your ANSi file.
-
- * Another Major bugfix. Sometimes you lost the last line of your news text
- in the last bulletin.. and sometimes lost the whole last bulletin.
-
- * In the ASCii outputs, "!!!" would bring up the Total amount of bulletins,
- and "###" would bring up the number of the current bulletin when it should
- have been the other way round.
-
- * Small Bug Fix. If you put two or more color codes beside each other,
- Eg."Yeah |05|09cool", the output would be "Yeah |09cool".
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- * Other minor changes.
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- Date: 01 Feb 95 Version 3.1 - SNEWSV31.ZIP 34,257 bytes
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- + NEWSCFG.EXE Configuration utility included to configure Sicknews.
-
- + ANSi/ASCii Support (No Avatar yet).
-
- + Optional "Hit Enter" and Clear Screen after each Bulletin.
-
- + Sample News Headers and Bulletin Headers included inside the archive.
-
- + Ability to Disable Large Header for the SICKNEWS.A?? file.
-
- + Configurable Default Text Color for the news Text.
-
- + Configurable Default Color for the "Hit Enter..." Prompt.
-
- + Extra codes for the Bulletin Header.
-
- + Upgrade Utility so you dont have to reconfigure the whole program.
-
- + Percentage complete bar while running Sicknews.
-
- * Everything looks way cool when you run Sicknews.
-
- * File handling and Error checking beefed up and bugfixed.
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- Date: 23 Jan 95 Version 3.0 - SNEWSV30.ZIP 11,997 bytes
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- + Customisable News Header, 'SickNews.HDR'.
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- + Customisable Message Header, 'SickNews.BUL'.
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- + Color Codes may be entered into your message text.
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- + Ability to add "Hit ENtEr to Continue..." at the end of the News file.
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- + Unlimited amount of bulletins can now be entered.
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- + Things look cooler when running SickNews.Exe.
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- * Fixed RuntimeError when a non existent path was entered into Sicknews.CFG.
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- - No "The Psychotic BBS, +613-571-7456" advert when running SickNews.
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- Ideas for Next Version
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- + who knows.....................
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