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:::::::::::::::::::::::: BOOTX HISTORY ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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::: Version 5.10 ::: August 27, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BUG FIX: BootX did not release all allocated memory after it
had decrunched a program. This has been fixed. Thanks to
Carsten Fulde (Germany) for reporting this.
- BUG FIX: The message displayed during a file check does no
longer get accidentally cleared during decrunching.
- BUG FIX: BootX will now find its Brain file anywhere you want.
The location was not saved with the other preferences.
- BUG FIX: BootX finally knows where it started from.
- BUG FIX: Sometimes BootX had the nerve to add a string gadget
on top of the window title bar of the List requester. This
is fixed now. I relied on A1 to be zero which it was not all the
time...sigh. Thanks to Magnus Thelander (Germany) for reporting
this the first.
- BUG FIX: Using the keyboard short-cuts in the new List requester
used to leave the requester window open. Thanks to Mats Eirik
Hansen (Norway) for writing me about it.
- BUG FIX: The keyboard short-cuts of the Preference requester did
not all work.
- BUG FIX: Fixed the gadget interaction in the Check Files
preferences
- CHANGE: Support for Crunch-O-Matic has been suspended until this
cruncher produces executables that decrunch on ALL Amigas (or
should I say: executables that decrunch AT all...)
- IMPROVED: The colors of the messages have been cleaned up. The
following colors now apply (using the standard color names):
BLACK : Normal message
WHITE : Program request or Bootblock recognized
by the Brain file.
WHITE on BLUE: Bootblock virus
(I am sure you are thrilled by this...)
- IMPROVED: Made some changes to the startup code and moved around
some code which resulted in some saved bytes.
- NEW: BootX finally decrunches Imploder Library crunched files...
It was so simple to implement. I don't know how I could have
overlooked it... The Explode.library is required if you want to
decrunch Library Imploded files.
- NEW: The first toolbox utility called Filter. With it you can
created a filter containing path names that BootX should ignore
when checking your files. Normally you put only paths in here
that contain only data files like the Include or FD directories
of programmers or the Fonts directory.
Read section 6.1 of the manual.
- NEW: New checkbox gadget in the Check Files Preference requester.
Activates the current filter.
- NEW: To accomodate the filter settings and to comply even more
with the Amiga User Interface Style Guide the settings are no
longer saved in the icon. Instead, a directory will be created
and used in ENVARC: and ENV: called 'BootX'. In it you will
find a plain ASCII file called 'BootX.prefs'.
- NEW: When BootX reads the bootsector of your disk and detects
a virus in it, it will pop up a handy requester asking you if
you would like to kill it.
::: Version 5.05 ::: NOT RELEASED BY ME :::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BOGUS VERSION: Not released by me but by some mentally disturbed,
infantile individual. It's a sick world we're living in...
::: Version 5.03 ::: August 3, 1992 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- BUG FIX: Because of the new ListRequester the dots that indicate
a built-in bootblock disappeared.
- BUG FIX: Some exotic vertical overscan settings caused BootX to
scroll the box boundaries of the main display window. Ah...
KickStart 2.0 is a mixed blessing...Thanks to Ralph-Thomas
Außem (Germany) for reporting this.
- BUG FIX: Deleting a single Braincell sometimes used to cause a
complete Brain to disappear.
- BUG FIX: Typing an non-existing name in the Rename Braincell
string gadget would cause some Enforcer hits.
- BUG FIX: Several other Enforcer hits removed. Thanks to Ralph
Thomas Außem (Germany) for reporting this.
Note: BootX will still cause several READ Enforcer hits when it
examines your memory for viruses (which occurs at various times)
This is normal. But should you encounter any further WRITE
Enforcer hits, please report this by writing me when this hit
occurred (Please no Enforcer print-outs, they don't help).
- NEW: BootX now recognizes Crunch-O-Matic 1.0 crunched files.
- NEW: Added a paragraph to the doc file about the BootX Enforcer
hits and the SnoopDos task. See Section 1.4 Before you
complain...
- EXPLANATION: BootX launches during its run a small do-nothing
task called 'SnoopDos'. It is a simple but effective counter
measure against an old PowerPacker 3.2 trojan horse. The task
does absolutely nothing and uses no CPU time at all. When BootX
quits, this task is removed. This task will not be launched if
a real SnoopDos is already running nor will it prevent a real
SnoopDos from being run.
::: Version 5.02 ::: July 26, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- NEW: Added special code to look for the Infiltrator linkvirus.
- IMPROVED: Completely rewrote the List requester. It'll now use
a lot less memory and be faster at the same time.
::: Version 5.01 ::: July 20, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
* Because Commodore has a problem with the early distribution of
the locale language files for BootX they will not be in any
future releases of BootX until the official approvement. It
was and is not my intention to harm any further development.
Let's hope an official release is Real Soon Now... *
- BUG FIX: Decrunching a PowerPacker 3.0 crunched file with a
library header would cause major havoc.
- NEW: You can customize the AppIcon that BootX displays when you
choose Iconify a little bit more. Add the following tooltypes
to the BootX icon:
APPICONNAME=<your name> (default: BootX)
APPICONX=<x position in pixels> (default: floating (-1))
APPICONY=<y position in pixels> (default: floating (-1))
- NEW: The SetPatch version is shown in the Check Vectors report
(if installed.)
::: Version 5.00 ::: July 11, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
"There can only be one..."
- NEW: BootX now requires KickStart 2.04. In order to keep
improving BootX in future I decided that it became time to make
BootX a true KickStart 2.0 program.
- NEW: No more extra BootX.Prefs file in the S directory. BootX
now stores its preferences as tooltypes in its icon.
- NEW: All of the BootX support files can now be crunched with
PowerPacker. BootX will use the PowerPacker.library when it finds
it.
- NEW: Brain cells can now be deleted and renamed. View Brain shows
the list with scroll gadgets instead of a simple scrolling list.
- NEW: The Bootblock library can now be edited: renaming, deleting
and adding of bootblocks is now possible.
- NEW: BootX now becoms an AppIcon when the user selects Iconify
(previously Go to Sleep).
- NEW: BootX is now able to remove linkviruses from infected
files. Simply check the "Fix infected files" option in the
FileCheck preference requester.
- NEW: BootX supports all the drive types that the TrackDisk
device supports. Also the new high-density drives (1760K ) as
found in new A3000.
- NEW: File check report can now be printed from within BootX.
- NEW: The contents of the Recog file can be printed.
- NEW: BootX clones the Workbench dimensions and specs. This means
a bigger and better looking BootX screen.
- NEW: BootX will try to play the sample in stereo whenever
possible.
- IMPROVED: The file check is now a lot faster and has a lot more
options to control it.
- IMPROVED: Completely rewritten documentation.
::: Version 4.50 ::: May 7, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- Last version of BootX that supported KickStart 1.3.
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© 1992 BootX v5.10 written by Peter Stuer
Thanks to Nico François, Johan van Houtven, Steffen Salzmann and
James Knittle for ßeta-testing and all the useful suggestions.
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Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !