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29-Mar-95 *** Version 1.14 released ***

03-Apr-95 The boot sector of the L64 disk had no CBM tag. That's why the
          auto start of L64 did not work on a C128.

07-Apr-95 Shift-Lock now also appears at address 653. The current state
          won't be saved at Esc/F5. A simple Shift can release the
          Shift-Lock key, that depends on the DOS keyboard driver. The
          national keyboard driver option must be set on.

07-Apr-95 The start up message of the floppy has been changed from 1541 to
          1551. This may trick some fast loaders.

21-Apr-95 In Linux dosemu, enter the PC64 about box and press the mouse
          button on the OK button. Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to switch to another
          console and release the mouse button there. Go back with Alt+F1 to
          PC64, and the about box will remain on the screen until you move
          the mouse. A demo program for this bug has been sent to
          [e-mail].

21-Apr-95 On some computers PC64 says "Adlib?" and hangs. Maybe this is an
          incorrect initialized gate of timer 2. Requires further tests at
          the customer's site.

21-Apr-95 If you specify /nosound on the command line, PC64 won't try to
          detect the sound hardware any more.

01-May-95 The new utility CBMTEXT.EXE converts files from some C64 text
          programs directly to DOS, instead of having to print into
          PRINT.OUT from C64 mode.

12-May-95 Registeres customers can order the 64'er-CD for 25 Marks. It
          contains 220 service disks from the 64'er magazine and its special
          editions.

12-May-95 The German online help has been converted into a Books Online
          format, the file HANDBUCH.TXT is omitted. Changes to the
          documentation now will only have to be written into 4 files, and
          everywhere on the same position.

12-May-95 With LShift+GreyPlus/Minus, one can change the CPU speed directly
          without having to go to <Options / Timing / Limit CPU performance
          to x percent>.

12-May-95 When copying disk images, DISK99 will be counted to DISK100 and no
          longer to DIS100.

20-May-95 The secondary address 8 has been defined for printing from text
          programs. It is the same as 7, i.e. small letters with conversion
          from CBM to ASCII. The control characters 0-31 and 128-159 as well
          as the german umlauts 91-93 and 123-126 are not converted, also the
          conversion from CR to CRLF is omitted. Now you can use printer
          control codes like bold without having to go without the CBM to
          ASCII conversion.

25-May-95 The disk image file will be closed when leaving C64 mode. Now the
          DOS FAT is kept intact if you delete a disk image in the Manager
          which is also selected in an Emulator window.

27-May-95 If you switch from an Emulator window with a disk image to an
          Emulator window with P00 files and then back to the disk image,
          the first disk command did not work. The variable fCtrlBreak has
          been mistakenly not reset.

27-May-95 Open two Emulator windows with disk images, run one of them, go
          back to the desktop, switch to the other window, switch the disk
          image to a directory and start the second Emulator window. There
          is still the disk image selected. Although it has been correctly
          set to a directory, starting the Emulation has reload the old
          settings from the temporary file.

29-May-95 Sometimes loading from disk images was very slow. This is a
          problem with overlays. The code for disk images is now resident
          which will reduce the available DOS memory by 32 Kbyte.

29-May-95 The installation program does no longer call NEWNAME.EXE and
          T64TOP00.EXE.

30-May-95 The call to MOUSE_SETSPEED(8, 8) in MEWEL has been removed. Now
          the mouse pointer is no longer faster than in other programs.

30-May-95 If a directory contained more than 150 P00 files, the manager stopped
          reading its contents with the error "00, OK,00,00". This
          limitation is necessary for disk images, because the directory
          sectors can be linked in an endless loop. Now there are 32767
          entries allowed in directories and 1000 on external C64 drives.
          The error message has been changed to "Directory is destroyed".

30-May-95 The display is now updated correctly when you search backward and
          the found match lies within the first few lines.

30-May-95 You can now specify a single file name for T64TOP00, not only a
          complete directory tree.

31-May-95 *** Version 1.15 released ***

06-Jun-95 Because the code for disk images had to be made resident
          (29-May-95), its load address was below 48 Kb if there were more
          than 600 Kb DOS memory free. Because the floppy ROM starts at
          $C000, the pointer to the memory base is set 48 Kb back. This
          was causing a wrap around which is not allowed under memory
          managers like HIMEM.SYS, 386MAX or QEMM. And so the disk images
          were reporting the error message "drive not ready" or "timeout
          on the IEC bus on output". To fix that bug, the floppy ROM has
          been moved into its own data segment which will be always linked
          above the code segments.

06-Jun-95 When changing disk images with F9, the BAM has not been re-read
          and thus the free blocks from the old disk appeared. When
          modifying the code for disk images, the call to the INITIALIZE
          command has been mistakenly removed.

06-Jun-95 The converter CBMText now understands eight formats: CBM Big
          Letters, CBM Small Letters, Vizawrite, Easy Script, Star Texter
          (untested), Textomat (untested), Master Text (untested) and
          Protext-128.

06-Jun-95 *** Version 1.16 released ***

01-Jul-95 CBMText.exe can now convert Basic programs from CBM token format
          to ASCII. In contrary to OPEN 4,4:CMD 4:LIST, spaces are inserted
          between commands and control characters are converted to readable
          text.

13-Jul-95 Dir64.cpp line 229 must read "afUsed[abSector[1]] = TRUE;" or
          the program hangs in an endless loop if a directory contains
          illegal chained sectors.

18-Jul-95 Although the IEC routines have a CLI at exit, there is very rarely
          an IRQ after returning to the caller. The reason is that the
          register $DC0D is read while the transfer is running. This is now
          emulated, so some games like Miniputt will work.

27-Jul-95 The compatibility of the serial shift registers has been improved.
          Arkanoid I to III are now running.

29-Jul-95 If you klick on a disk image in the Norton Commander and the first
          C64 file on it is protected, it will now load correctly.

29-Jul-95 If there is a Sound Blaster, the Adlib test is skipped and Adlib
          is set to TRUE. The detection did not work on some sound cards.

04-Aug-95 The 110 games have been reduced to 36. Now the emulator is fitting
          on a single disk.

15-Aug-95 There are two new switches in <Options / Joysticks>. They will
          exchange the white and the grey cursor arrows and Right and Left
          Ctrl. Also Num-Lock does no longer influence the joystick
          emulation. So you can control your games on a laptop without having
          to buy the Alternative Joystick Adaptor.

15-Aug-95 *** Version 1.17 released ***

19-Aug-95 Version 1.17 had a virus which wasn't recognized by McAfee 7'95.
          Thanks to Jürgen Rochner for finding it. Infected files can be
          detected with Virus895.exe. The virus doesn't make himself
          resident in memory. After starting an infected program, he will
          infect the first non-infected EXE file in the current directory.

19-Aug-95 *** Version 1.18 released ***

06-Feb-96 Switch /e added to Dir64. Checks for cross-links in disk images.

13-Mar-96 Switch -autotype added to PC64. PC64 for DOS is now compatible
          with the C64 Game Database.

14-Mar-96 *** Version 1.19 released ***

20-Apr-96 An old bug has been back again. MEWEL and MOVE don't like each
          other when SHARE.EXE is loaded. MOVE opens the EXE file in
          compatibility mode and MEWEL cannot read menus, dialogs and so on.
          To fix the problem, LLIBCE.LIB must be patched. In C5 16 00 00
          32 C0 B4 3D CD 21, change 32 C0 to B0 40. I had installed the
          upgrade of Visual C++ 1.52, which overwrote the patched LLIBCE.LIB.
          As I don't have SHARE.EXE loaded and had to delete OS/2 because of
          outrunning harddisk space, I didn't notice this bug.

20-Apr-96 *** Version 1.20 released ***

09-Nov-96 Joysticks can now be swapped in C64 mode with <Alt+F10>, just like
          in PC64Win.

09-Nov-96 When PC64Dos is run with a file name on the command line and the
          user leaves C64 mode with <Esc>, the program now no longer quits
          but returns back to the desktop. The old behaviour was
          inconsistent.

09-Nov-96 You can now quit PC64Dos by pressing <Alt+F4> in C64 mode.

11-Nov-96 The hardware mixer of the Sound Blaster Pro has been removed. It
          caused more problems than use. Controlling the volume of AdLib and
          DSP by software with <Options / Sound> is still possible. The port
          addresses of AdLib and DSP are now shown. If there is a DSP
          detected, the AdLib is set to DSP+8. Without a DSP it remains at
          0388. If the sound now still does not work then the reason is a
          wrong BLASTER environment variable or the sound driver. If the
          sound is too quiet, please use the mixer program which comes with
          your sound card.

11-Nov-96 Beginners tried to run D64 disk images with <Emulator / Open>. In
          the error message "No valid C64 file", a hint for the help has
          been added. There one can read how to run D64, P00 and T64 files.

11-Nov-96 Command <Manager / Disk Image / Copy slow> Ctrl+F8 added. You
          don't need to edit Drives.ini by hand any longer if the fastloader
          in L64 hangs on some disks.

12-Nov-96 Fixed a bug in the P00 Manager window block calculation. A C64
          block is 254 bytes, not 256.

18-Nov-96 *** Version 1.21 released ***

18-Mar-97 The switch /nosound does not longer print an error message
          "can't load NOSOUND".

29-Aug-97 All references to License.dat have been removed.

01-Sep-97 The program is now Public Domain. The original author Wolfgang
          Lorenz is no longer responsible for it. The source code is
          available for free. Maybe someone will continue to support the
          project. Interested developers may get in contact with each
          other in the comp.emulators.cbm newsgroup.

01-Oct-97 *** Version 1.22 released ***