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Release v1.01 - 24-Apr-96
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The initial release of BlitzDms - a gui for all versions of DMS. In
order to be also compatible with the newer PackDev/Lzx method seen in
XDM20 by Adam Chapman, BlitzDms uses PackDev by Christian Wasner to
read a disk image which then gets archived with Lzx. However, not all
of XDM's features were implemented as that also used the program 'dd'
by Bruno Costa to read a disk-image that could be limited to selected
tracks. I did not feel this was necessary as I don't believe in halving
floppies - the idea isn't exactly OS friendly. ;)
Release v1.10 - 12-May-96
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Immediately upon the first release of BlitzDms, we received an e-mail
from a Mr. Dirk Vael, author of DiskSqueeze!, who objected to the .xdm
file-extension - or so it seemed to me from his subject line which read:
"BlitzDms contains illegal code!" Apparently this, according to Mr Vael,
was a straight copy of his own program. The files written by his own
DiskSqueeze have a .dsq extension, so to accomodate both, it was decided
to update BlitzDms and provide a switch to allow the user to select which
extension should be appended to the archive name. Even if XDM20 was an
illegal copy, it isn't fair to lose archives already made up with it.
The program was also provided with a way to select a working directory
- depending on the amount of memory that is available to the user -
this can be either 'T:', a virtual-mem path for Lzx, which needs to be
in the root directory of a device/partition or the archive destination
directory.
A further improvement was made at this time in that all the available
devices on the system are updated now each time the user flicks between
Main and Configuration windows as opposed to only once when the program
starts up. Now it is possible to mount RAD:, SDx: or FFx: devices while
BlitzDms is already running. Unfortunately there seems to be no easy way
in Blitz2 to change individual gadgets at will without redrawing the
gadgetlist in its entirety - this is what happens when flicking windows.
Implemented smart device-recognition for when the user drags a disk icon
into the BlitzDms Main window - not very easy as the dos.library seems
to prefer to work with Volume names...
Paul Juhasz - phineas@darkside.demon.co.uk - Fido: 2:254/524.37