-------------- Updates of !FileTypes since 2.30 -------------
Version 2.30 - 19Mar92 Acorn's Desktop Development Environment Make and Bug Files, !PackDir Files, !Packer Files, !Palette Plus File, New PC Emulator Files, Pinapple and Snapshot colour digitiser Files, MSX-2 Files, ColoRIX files, Unix RLE Files, !Elite Commander Files and both of !Encode4's Filetypes are now recognised.
Version 2.31 - 29Mar92 Files compressed by CFS, 2 types of Illusionist Files, a new filetype later versions of Impression have gained, Investigator2 dump Files, JPEG Files, Notate score files, Squirrel database files, Hawk V9 Video Digitiser Files, and FITS filetype from translator now recognised. Sprite added for Midi data file, and Risc OS 2 PRM consulted, and filetypes from the list contained in that have been added (but not the sprites, obviously). Sprites have been sorted into AlphaNumeric order again again.
Version 2.32 - 2Apr92 Archimedes World's Disk Manager Index Files, Karma Files, Longman's PinPoint Files, 3 Magpie FileTypes, Risc OS 3 Patch Files, 7 (!) Powerbase filetypes, and XMF Paint Sprite files now recognised. Sprites for CGM files added, and new sprites from Pipedream 4 included. Some FileTypes from RISC OS 3 included in name only. I've done a rough estimate, and we've now got a list of about 275 filetypes!
Version 3.00 - 6Apr92 The application has been made multitasking. It now sits on the icon bar, and tells you information about the types of the files that you drag to it, reading that info from text files. Also doesn't clutter up the Wimp sprite area with every single file sprite under the sun, but loads them in stages when necessary.
More info provided on some of the types I wasn't too sure about by Doug, and Disc records from !Recover added. The Risc OS 3 sprites have now been added in.
Version 3.05 - 11Apr92 Last 10 FileType Cacheing has been added, so that the program remembers all the details of the last ten filetypes it has encountered. This significantly reduces the number of disc accesses the program requires.
A minor bug to do with filename length has been sorted out. Long filenames from nested directory structures (such as are found on Hard Discs) used to overflow the allocated space, and cause some interesting errors, but that's been sorted out by increasing the size of memory the icon is indirected to.
Yet another 3 filetypes have been tracked down (honestly - there are thousands of the b*gg*s out there!). They are: ProTracker Tunes, Vector files and Compressed Draw files. Sprites have been found for Raw data files, Squashed files, and the other Draw library type. One of the icons now shows the actual number of the filetype. Info on some more of those hazy filetypes has been provided by that font of all wisdom, Hugo.
And all this with a knackered mouse! What a hero.
Version 3.06 - 14May92 Five extra filetypes added: AIM configuration files, PCB data files, Schematic data files, TARchives, and RGB colour files. Sprite for four of those five, and for AIM+ tracked down and added. All the data files have been proof read by Hugo Mills (Pedant extrodinaire), and those mistakes he found have been corrected. This doesn't mean there won't be lots more, however. Minor Error in the Error handler corrected (my programs never crash, anyway 8). First version to be posted to Newcastle Info-Server.
Version 3.07 - 30June92 Help file reorganised extensively (twice) to include all the various miscellaneous text files that had been knocking around. A few factual errors in the information corrected. Blurb about all except 1 of the Studio 24+ filetypes added. Problem with the page size sorted out.
Approximately 280 extra filetypes added (yes, 280), although most of them are without sprites, or too much info as to what they are actually for. A few typographical errors corrected here and there.
Mark Thompson,
"Pantiles",
Upper Warren Ave.
Caversham,
Reading.
Berks.
RG4 7EF.
Or ThompsonMR@uk.ac.aston.spock
ThompsMR@uk.ac.aston.uhura
ThompsMR@uk.ac.aston.cs_eecs
All Email addresses should be OK up until July '94, and they're listed in a vague order of preference, so basically don't use the last one if you want a reply, ever.