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Tame Upgrade History
Version 2.41
Tame will now automatically detect Omniview
Tame Geiger counter was fixed so that the defaults are appropriate on fast
80486 based machines.
The first parameter of the /Geiger option is now specified in units of
"clock ticks" between geiger ticks.
The /Geiger option will now be Tamed whenever TAME-RES is loaded and Tame is
properly tuned. This is because the Geiger counter now polls the keyboard
many times between ticks.
When /Geiger:0 is specified, it will tick each time this task gets a time
slice. This required TAME-RES be loaded.
A new batch file, GEIGER.BAT is included. It will run the geiger counter as
fast as possible and fully tamed.
Version 2.4
Windows support, and a new /WINdows switch were added. Tame can be
effective with communications programs, and other programs that are not
affected by the "Idle" box in the Windows PIF setup. Many thanks to Wim
Morrison for supplying the information I needed in order to tame Windows.
TAME-RES can now be provided a command line to run. It will tame the
command line and not load Tame as a resident program. This means you may no
longer need batch files to start up your program in a DESQview/Windows
task. See the docs for restrictions on this way of running Tame.
The /CLONE option has been enhanced to optionally specify the name of the
command to run automatically when the cloned .COM is run.
Version 2.31
/Geiger defaults were not determined properly with FAST machines. this has
been corrected. Also, the default Geiger defaults are more accurately
indicated.
Version 2.3
Support was added for OmniView, VM/386, and TopView compatible
multi-taskers. New options were added to specify which multitasker is in
use in case Tame cannot correctly determine which it is.
New /NoKeyPoll option allows keyboard polls to be ignored. This allows
switching to be based only on the date poll.
The Tame status report now indicates how many times Tame forced the task to
run only in the foreground.
New metering options that I may not document.
/Idle_METER will list how much time the CPU is idle.
/Task_Switch_Meter will count task switches per second.
Compatibility problem with Taming Prodoor 3.1 in DESQview was solved.
The /FGOnly option now has a synonym /NoBackGround due to nomenclature
changes in DESQview. Also, /NoFGOnly has a synonym of /BackGround.
/KeyIdle is no longer the default key-idle option.
Version 2.2
This version has many new options, making Tame even more effective at
reducing Multi-tasking overhead.
New -FGonly:N option forces the task to not run (at all) in the background
during the periods that it is polling the keyboard. An optional "N" numeric
argument allows activating this only after N successive forced task
switches. This works only in DESQview, and is not recommended for all
applications. However, when it may be used, it is extremely effective. See
the DOC file for more details.
The -KeyIdle option now allows specifying the poll threshold to use after an
idle interrupt is detected. With version 2.0 and 2.1, /KeyIdle defaulted to
being on with a fixed threshold of 0. The default now has /KeyIdle off, and
if turned on, its default value is 2.
New -Frequency:n,m option may be used in place of -MAX, and will switch
tasks only if that many polls come in one timer tick (18.2 ticks per
second). This requires individual tuning, but it gives Tame the best
indicator of how much the task is really working. A nominal value for "n"
is suggested by Tame if you specify /Frequency with no value.
New -CLONE:filename option will make a new TAME-RES with the current
parameters as its defaults. Must be run as the only Tame option on the
command line. This feature is available only to registered users.
Some general cleanup of DESQview handling was done based on information in
the DESQview API manual
Tame now uses DESQview to make sure DOS is not busy. This is more effective
than the previously used method when using DESQview.
An incompatibility with the DX shareware utility was corrected. The problem
may have affected other programs.
Version 2.1
A problem with Tame locking up some machines has been fixed.
New -INT15 option added to use version 2.0 INT15 handling
Registered users may now easily register new releases of Tame.
Version 2.0
Tame is now a TSR, and it uses less than 1K of memory.
The function of the previous -Key_Idle option has been removed. A new
option has been added with the same name, but a completely different
meaning.
The following options are no longer supported:
1 -CALLS
2 -DESQVIEW
3 -IDLE
4 -POLL
The following options have been added:
1 -GETALL
2 -HALTSWITCH
3 -OFF
4 -ON
5 -SERIAL
6 -STATUS
7 -UNINSTALL
The following options have been renamed
1 -KEY is now -KEYSWITCH
2 -TIME is now -TIMEPOLL
3 -TOTALS is now -STATUS