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- Update for release 4.12:
- ported Unix changes back to the amiga. Includes adding the speedmode option,
- and being more informative as far as the version number is concerned...
- I think I need to devise something for the handling of version numbers.
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- Update for release 4.6:
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- Mostly nothing has changed between 4.5 and 4.6...
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- Actually tracker 4.0 was not really useable... it did have some SERIOUS bugs.
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- Fixe up a stupid bug: the Quit menu item didn't work, but hanged the machine instead !
- Another stupid bug in the main.c code: I forgot to check for UI_QUIT returns, so clicking
- on the close window button from the gui startup `select song' requester was a sure way
- to lock tracker.
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- added v39 newlook menus for those not using MagicMenus. More tricky than I thought: you
- need to use GTMN_FrontPen in the CreateMenus() call !
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- added v39 code to set the busy pointer while the machine is not responding...
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- added wb2cli code, so workbench tracker actually works now.
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- March, the 2nd 1994
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- Well, this version of tracker works on the amiga too.
- I happened to have the source of tracker with me and my amiga
- less than the usual 300 km far from me.
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- Astoundingly enough, it took me only 5 hours to bring tracker up to speed and
- running, except for some trivial bugs, and only about twenty lines to change
- in the usual tracker source. Of course, I cheated. Some people may remember
- a quite old project of mine on the amiga... I already had some code for the
- audio.device.
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- Then I came back home and I implemented the two-tasks model described in
- amiga.tech. The end result runs much more satisfactorily and in the end,
- it depends even less on the main program being optimized.
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- By the way, it should be a bit more difficult to port this tracker release
- to a version of amiga-unix, or you'll have to retrofit the whole user interface.
- I hope somebody will do it and send it back to me anyway. Thanks !
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- Marc Espie, december the 26th 1993
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