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/* Version 1.3f */
/* Dated 13-September-1992 */
New Features with Version 1.3f of DiscPassage
--------------------------------------------
. Converted to Microsoft C 7.0.
. The help system has been fixed so that it loads the help entry points
when the program loads and is not hardcoded into the program. (This fixes
the problem of help not printing if someone changes helptext and does not
recompile the source.)
. Support for the new version of .RTLink has been added.
. Fixed problems with some VESA cards in the display of graphics. (Some
cards use a different memory size for video pages than standard VGA-type
cards.)
New Features with Version 1.3e of DiscPassage
---------------------------------------------
. Misc changes to code to accomidate new version of assembler and linker.
. Fixed setup to allow installing from subdirectories. (The setup disk can
be in a subdirectory now.)
. Fixed cursor problems in setup. (Loading the wrong info in the cursor
variable)
. Setup now reports current version number.
. Setup now creates the drive letter in batch file.
. Setup now copies vgatest.exe and vgatest.doc.
. Setup no longer copies DP13.EXE to the drive before decompressing it.
. Setup no longer copies dp.bat and then overwrites it.
. The F2 key now clears correctly on search window.
. Menu corruption problems have been fixed on deep menu structures.
. Errors involving printing destroying the menu chain have been fixed.
. Escaping from printing crashing discpassage have been fixed.
. The cursor vanishing when dp hits an error condition have been fixed.
New Features with Version 1.3d of Discpassage
---------------------------------------------
. Help bug from version 1.3c has been fixed.
. Help can now be accessed if not in DISCPASS subdirectory.
New Features with Version 1.3c of DiscPassage
---------------------------------------------
. Command line options do not need to be in lower case any more.
. The F3 key can now be used to page through image databases.
New Features with Version 1.3b of DiscPassage
---------------------------------------------
. DiscPassage now supports networks correctly. Audio is excluded on network
drives.
. The problems with the brs header volume information has been fixed. (This
only affects internal production.)
. Document count has been reduced back down to 20000 due to memory problems.
New Features with Version 1.3a of DiscPassage
---------------------------------------------
. The size and length of menus has been expanded.
. Multiple audio tracks on the F9 documents window has been fixed/added.
. DiscPassage now supports the variant version of the Trident 8900c
(id=13h) video bios. This should fix some problems with some Trident
cards not detecting properly.
. Some software changes have been made to support _Complete Baseball_.
(Document count has been increased from 20000 to 22000.)
. Detection of the Trident 9000 (id=23h) chipset has been added.
. The problem with the first page of a printout being one line too long
has been fixed.
. The duration of the pause after the publish screen has been lengthened.
. VGATEST will now wait for a carriage return instead of just displaying
the publish screen.
New features with version 1.3 of DiscPassage
--------------------------------------------
. DiscPassage now supports the VESA standard drivers for Super VGA
cards. These drivers are available from your video card manufacturer
or with the drivers supplied with your video card.
. Problems with VGATEST detecting a different way than DiscPassage have
been corrected.
. Problems with VGA cards that load in a different segment than c000h have
been fixed.
. Problems with standard VGA detection have been fixed.
. Mode 12 (640 x 480 x 16 shades of grey) has been fixed.
New features/fixes for 1.2h
---------------------------
. A new video option has been added, which allows you to force text display
to black and white. This option was added primarily to support Braille
users with EGA video. This option will work in conjunction with other
-v option switches.
In particular, if you are a Braille user with EGA, you should use
DiscPassage in the following manner:
dp -vtextonly -vmono
in order to view text properly on an EGA display, in black and white.
This option may also be helpful for display on some laptops.
. Additional support for new Genoa SVGA BIOS releases has been added.
Previous versions of DiscPassage only supported earlier versions of the
BIOS.
. The video option -vmode13, which is available for standard VGA systems
which do not support mode $13x (Video 7 with only 256K video memory, for
example) was broken; this has been fixed.
. A new version of the installation program 'SETUP.EXE' allows installation
to a subdirectory of your choice.
New features/fixes for 1.2g
---------------------------
. Support has been added for 'The Family Doctor' CD-ROM.
New features/fixes for 1.2f
---------------------------
. When printing very wide tables (more than 100 characters wide), sometimes
the second page printed improperly. This has been corrected. Some medical
CD-ROM's contained a few wide tables which manifested this problem.
New features/fixes for 1.2e
---------------------------
. Text only operation
There is now a -vtextonly commandline option to suppress all images. This
allows proper operation of EGA video cards, which may have had split text
displays (the new SVGA detection was the culprit). This switch can also
be useful when running on a dual monitor system (say, both SVGA and MDA)
when text-only operation is desired. Use this option as follows:
dp -vtextonly
when starting up DiscPassage.
New features/fixes for 1.2d
---------------------------
. Trident 1 Meg video card
Support has been added for the newer Trident video cards with 1 Megabyte
of video memory on board.
New features with version 1.2 of DiscPassage
--------------------------------------------
. Memory Usage
DiscPassage now uses virtual memory, so it will automatically take
advantage of any expanded or extended memory on your system. It is
*very important* that you run the SETUP.EXE program provided with your
floppy update. In particular, the software depends on an environment
variable, TMP, for its use of virtual memory. This variable should be
set to a *writable* location. If you run DiscPassage from the dp.bat
file (copied by SETUP to the root of your hard drive), you should not
experience any problems.
The SETUP.EXE program will now create the appropriate commands in
dp.bat which set up the TMP environment string for proper execution.
However, if you have no environment space left, you may need to set TMP
yourself in your autoexec.bat, as follows:
set TMP=c:\discpass
with a writable location for the software to use during its operation
(i.e. it cannot be set to the CD-ROM drive).
If you want to increase the size of your environment space (the default
size is 128 bytes for MS-DOS), you can add the following line to your
config.sys file:
shell = c:\command.com /e:1024 /p
where c:\ is the location of command.com, and you wish to increase the
environment size to 1024 bytes.
. Packed File Support
DiscPassage now supports large numbers of files on disc, and allows for
files to live in 'packages' for more efficient operation on MS-DOS. This
operation is completely transparent to the operation of the software.
The benefit to you as a user is more efficient retrieval of files from
CD-ROM, in cases where a large number of files is present on disc.
. Pioneer Audio Fix
Forcing an alternate drive letter from the command-line, for multi-drive
units such as the Pioneer 6-disc changer (DRM-600), would only play
audio selections for subsequent discs (not the first selected, if it was
not the first drive letter on the system). Audio is now functional for
all drive letters, even when the drive-override from command-line option
is used. You need to have version 1.03 or greater of the Pioneer driver.