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- From version 1.9 to 2.0 alfa3
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - From now the program must be registered
- (I've changed registration method since first alfa version so the
- program doesn't have any errors in this routine)
-
- - Audio support has been enhanced
-
- - More testing with games and bugs fixed
-
- - Maximum number of tracks have been set to 99 because of the new TSR design
- and to take smaller space of memory, besides that MSCDEX is not capable of
- handling a number of tracks greater than 99 (at least until version 2.25)
-
- - Volume label of DOS functions could be read through READ function and it is
- put into a hidden buffer, different from the buffer for volume label
- of CDROM functions (the one you can modify in main menu) and it is used
- separated in CDROM emulation; anyway, if you don't have the CD from which
- you have to read the volume label of DOS functions (e.g. DESCENT II) but
- you do know the volume label of DOS functions (e.g. for DESCENT II is
- DESCENT_II) than you have to use DOS LABEL command to label the hard disk
- with DESCENT_II; in some cases you cannot modify the label of hard disk
- but you do know the 'bad INT21 label'(function 4Eh of INT21 has an error),
- for example volume label for DESCENT II DESCENT_.II, than you have to run
- CDCR.EXE with 'v' or 'V' option and write at volume label field from
- main menu DESCENT_.II
-
- - Number of posible configurations has been upgraded to 20 from 10
- (chech out PgDn)
-
- - NOTE: Because of some incompatibility with some games i'd removed automatic
- set of read-only attribut and because of that it is recommended that you
- set read-only attribute to all CD-files; be careful because
- Dos Navigator II is removing read-only attributes on all copied files
- to HDD
-
- - Command line help has been enhanced
-
- - Command line options added for using CDCR without graphic shell
- These options are:
- - e{filepath [directory_path} = this option will execute file specified
- in filepath and will create a CD drive with directory_path
- - t{ [directory_path} = this option will create a CD drive with
- directory_path and remains resident in memory; if you will run it second
- time it will update CDCR information in memory
- - m|M = removes CDCR from memory installed with TSR feature
- These options has been added for the posibility to create batch file
-
-
- From version 2.0 alfa3 to 2.0 beta1
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - Command line help has been enhanced again
-
- - "d|D" option changed to "s|S" and "r|R" option changed to "m|M"
-
- - From now it is possible to run the CDROM CHEATER with command line options
- without the need to have a valid CDCR.CFG file but because the registration
- information is written in this file you will get "THIS PROGRAM IS
- NOT REGISTERED..." message
-
- - Command line options engine has been rewritten in hope to work better
-
- - New option added:
- - drv:drive_letter = uses specified drive_letter as the new CD drive;
- with this option can be specified only one drive letter (so it doesn't
- support multiple CD drive, not because i am not able to program this but
- because it is another discouragement in not using the graphic shell)
-
- - Error removed from execute file_path routine, observed when you want
- to execute filename from current directory
-
- - From now it is posible to use as directory_path the current directory;
- in order to do that you have to enter "." character after "[" character
- (for some examples look at command line help and at FILE TO EXECUTE fields
- from graphic shell)
-
- - Some errors from graphic shell engine have been removed
-
-
- From version 2.0 beta1 to 2.0 beta2
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - Some of the resident code has been rewritten
-
- - Some little bugs have been removed
-
- - REMOVE function code has been rewritten
-
- - Phony device header has been put at offset 0000h of the resident code
- (like any normal device header)
-
- - New option added:
- - f{filepath} = uses specified filepath as CDU file for supplemental CD
- informations (default file is CDCR.CDU)
-
- - The supplemental CD informations (VTOCs and other data) are read from a
- CDU file created by CDU.EXE program (only if this file exists, otherwise
- are used default informations); this file is by default CDCR.CDU but it
- can be renamed and used with "f|F" option; if no path is specified it will
- be used current path; the reason not to use CDCR.CFG it is that in future
- vesions this informations would be very big and would make my programming
- very hard; CDCR.EXE is using only the first two VTOCs in order not to take
- too much memory and anyway games with more than two VTOCs i didn't see;
- because of all that new stuff added from now the resident code it takes 10k
- of memory and EXEC code it takes 12k of memory
- NOTES: For a full support of a CD program please use CDU.EXE for creating
- CDU file and use READ function from CDCR.EXE also.
- BE VERY CAREFUL - the following data fields will be modified by VTOC
- data: volume label, creation date, copyright filename, abtract filename,
- bibliographic filename; if you named HDD than volume label obtained
- through INT21 will not be modified
-
-
- From version 2.0 beta2 to 2.0
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- - Some general errors have been removed
-
- - Some general optimizations have been done in resident code
-
- - Disk transfer access feature has been enhanced
-
- - Usage of VTOCs have been enhanced
-
- - Truename support has been added
-
- - Device driver support has been enhanced
-
- - Windows 95 support has been enhanced
-
- - FAT32 support has been enhanced
-
- - 'm' option (remove TSR from memory) has been changed to 'u' option
-
- - 'm[f|a]' options added; this options are very useful in case you want
- to use CDCR with MSCDEX, for example the game you are playing can play
- audio tracks and therefore you want to here music from a CD-DA; in some
- cases the game verifies the numbers of tracks but you still want to here
- music from a CD-DA then use 'ma' option which will tell to CDCR to use
- MSCDEX only for playing functions (not working every time)
- 'mf' = tells to CDCR to use MSCDEX for the following functions:
- ■IOCTOL functions
- ■audio disk info
- ■audio track info
- ■audio channel info
- ■audio Q-channel info
- ■audio sub-channels info
- ■audio status info
- ■head position
- ■play function
- ■stop function
- ■resume function
- 'ma' = tells to CDCR to use MSCDEX for the following functions:
- ■play function
- ■stop function
- ■resume function
- NOTES: - CD emulated drive must be the same as MSCDEX CD drive
- - in most cases you'll have to have a CD in drive
- - CDCR as default will not use MSCDEX functions
-
- From version 2.0 to 2.1
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- - Some general errors have been removed
-
- - Some general optimizations have been done in resident code
-
- - Device driver support has been enhanced
-
- - Some general enhancements have been done on some INT21 functions
-
- - Structure of .CDU file has been enhanced (you have to have at least
- CDU V0.6)
-
- - An error has been fixed that made specified source directory from command
- line to work only with letters (for example C:\C&C or C:\GP2 were not
- working); also in some strange situations this error made the program
- not to execute a specified file
-
- - Idem as above for specified .CDU file (for example C&C.CDU or GP2.CDU were
- not found as valid files)
-
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