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***********New features in A3E_121Γ, released 921119

■  added possibility to have only "cursor home" in ansi/avatar-files

■  Fixed a bug in animation-mode.

■  Added a warning if user is about to save an animated file but
   there are characters that are not in animationsequence.

■  Possible to specify how long the ansi-strings (when saved to
   disk) may be, configparameter MaxAnsiStringLength.

■  New system to take care of linefeeds in ansifiles. Now they
   wont wrap when screen scrolls...

■  Modified the BBS-codes to support PCboard and Maximus token-codes
   (now possible to use up to 20 characters per BBScode)

■  The, since long promised, blocksave-feature has been fixed. It is
   still slightly buggy (try it and you'll propably find out), but it
   will work for the moment ;-)


***********New features in A3E_120Γ, released 92-10-04

Nothing new since 1.15. I simply removed the expirydate, and a key
is no longer required to run.

Go ahead!




***********New features in A3E_115ß, released 92-08-15

╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ I forgot the one year celebration in the last version. ║
║ It is now more that one year since the work begun, and ║
║ I guess I have worked on this peice of software about  ║
║ 800-1000 hours. Thanks to you guys who registerd the   ║
║ first year (all 16 of you)!                            ║
╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

■  AnsiMusic! Try the editor at F7. Also try to load some of the
   Fiddle*.ANS to play around with.



***********New features in A3E_114ß, released 92-08-11

■  Betareleases will from now on be timelimited, however the
   timelimit will hopefully be generous enough. This one will expire
   92-09-30.

■  The A3E archives will from now on be protected by a checksum.
   Look at the CRC_TEST.DOC for further info.

■  Fixed a nasty bug in the BBScodes Header feature that could cause
   a runtimeerror at programtermination (no one propably ever
   noticed it...)

■  Fixed a bug in blockmode. No longer possible to press End before
   Begin.

■  Added a print-option, but it is not complete yet.

■  Added a Block-exchange-char-feature (find/replace)

■  Working on a GIF-output... as soon as I find the real specs
   (including the LZW-compression).

■  Correct shading of polygons and circles (in blockmode)

■  Added asciichart at filling blocks with characters, instead of
   typing the character

■  Fixed a BIG bug in the undo-feature, I dont know if it ever
   occured in the earlier versions, but it looked disastrous.

■  Fixed a bug in the NEW-command (might have been related to the
   undo-bug above)

■  Fixed a bug in unfurl-BBScodes that entered when I enhanced the
   BBScodes-window with the headers (v1.10), sorry for that.

■  Savemodes in the configurationeasyfier now works properly.

■  Added CTRL-K (enter blockmode) if you have the wordstar emulation
   active.

■  Fixed a bug in the block-read function that caused a nasty
   runtime error, also fixed a small bug in the memoryhandler that
   lost 8 bytes every now and then.

■  Fixed a potential bug in the BBScode-identifier

■  If the space is not defined in a font, it will default to
   (HMargin+1)*2 positions to the right.

■  F1 now gives help everywhere ALT-H does.





***********New features in A3E_113ß, released 92-05-20

■  Revised the DOC, and added a chapter on Animation.

■  Added possibility to paint with characters (in paintmode)

■  Added marking of Circle-blocks.

■  Bugfix: Write-block messed up when you wrote a polygon-block.



***********New features in A3E_112ß, Released 92-05-11

■  Two new swithches added in fontmode: Transparent & Save Background.

■  A Megamaxed Blockfeature: Polycorner blocks. Activate by pressing P
   in normal block-marking mode and then mark each corner with SPACE.
   Almost all the old blockfeatures will apply on these strangely shaped
   blocks (not adjust, scroll and mirror), and they may be used for
   animations and defining fonts aswell! Try it out!

■  A few helppages converted to the new format (I think they were
   the last ones)

■  A3E will prompt to save updated fonts, when you want to load a new
   one, release the old or quit A3E.

■  At "deallocate page", A3E now prompts to save the file first,
   if it has been upated.

■  Still havent got the time (taken me the time?) to write the doc on
   animations... The new PolyBlock is not there either.


***********New features in A3E_111ß, Released 92-05-04
!!
!! Distribution & support sites have been established in Holland and
!! USA. Info in the end of the documentation
!!
!!
!! The registrationfee has been raised from 70 SEK / $13 to 100 SEK / $18
!!


■  Global Exchange now operates on the whole file, not just the
   visible screen.

■  Remove-Solidspaces now works properly again.

■  HotKey F6 to record (or just view) macros

■  Asciichart (F9) is now available from the menu aswell.

■  Fixed a bug in the load-fone-window.

■  Added "UnErase line". Pressing ALT-CTRL-Y will unerase the last
   erased line at the current cursor position.

■  Now the statusline says "Y: 1" instead of "Y:-1" at startup

■  the cursor at choose-animation menu is now gone.

■  Added a circleanimation for CGA screens.

■  Pressing ESC at the saveoption-window when exiting now makes you
   return to the editor.

■  The animation random-feature screwed up in the last version,
   fixed.

■  Fixed blockmenu.shade, still not documented though

■  In fontmode: If you press "a" and it is not defined, A3E will try
   "A" instead, characters that are not defined at all will beep.

■  Loading a file from the commandline will set default directory to
   the directory of that file.

■  Not possible to specify highlighted colors for the backgrounds
   (in config).

■  Avataranimationsave now writes the correct extension on screen





***********New features in A3E_110ß, Released 92-04-05

■  Wow, I renewed the whole Help-page system! Perhaps it is just a
   little bit slower as it loads the text from disk, but on the
   other hand the A3E.EXE got 4k smaller. I think it looks real
   nice. Thanks Paul for the idea.
   Helppage Colors may be defined with these configcommands:
      HelpFG
      HelpBG
      HelpHiFG
      HelpHiBG

■  Removed the two menu commands load and save animationsequence.

■  New configparameter again: MarkMethod

■  Fixed a problem with the first colors in an animated load screwed
   up. Reported by Fredrik Lewerth.

■  Nonanimated files without clearscreen is no longer detected as
   animated.

■  I think I sqashed a bug that stripped a few spaces in the
   animationmode...

■  ALT-k now marks a block in animationmode instead of "A", to make
   it a bit more logical.

■  Sysopcodes are written in a vertical order instead of a
   horizontal order to make it easier to find them. I also
   introduced a new keyword in the sysopcodes-file: Header...
   More info in the documentation. I also rewrote the RA111.cfg file
   to use the new features.

■  ALT-G (get color from screen) was added to the menu (wonder why
   it hasn't been there before. thanx FL).

■  The asciichart on F9 now shows the asciivalue of the current
   character.



***********New features in A3E_109ß, Released 92-03-31

!!! Since 1.08, the betaversions will only run together with a
!!! regisrationkey, and the archivefilename got an extra "b"

■  There is still a lot of documentation missing concerning the
   animationdepartment, and I'll try to type it just about any year
   now. If YOU are interested in doing it for me, please drop me a
   line.

■  3 new configcommands: AddDisableMorepromptToAnim
                         ViewAnimationSlowDown
                         CompressAnimation

■  The chr(12) character (femalesign) may now be loaded as a Chr(12)
   instead of a clrScr in Avatar and ascii mode too (turn off the
   "process #12" in the filemenu (only if it is not among the first
   10 characters in the file).

■  PageUp/PageDown (+CTRL) now has a more logical way of working.

■  Fixed a big bug in the pagehandling when loading files.

■  I ran the sourcecode through Turbo Analyst, and reduces the size a
   few 100 bytes. Once I figure out the rest of the configuration I
   might give it another shot.

■  Animations can now be retrieved from the loaded file (the
   menuoptions to load/save animations will be gone within short!
   (unless anyone actually use them?))

■  Some spellingerrors corrected, some extra help in the
   animationdepartment.

■  The A3EConf was brought to live again (and reduced in size)

■  The Mark/unmark on animationstatusrow is de-confused (atleast by
   me).

■  the annoying beep at manual unmark (animation) was removed (you
   didn't like it, did you?)

■  Already in 1.08 there were two new configurationkeywords:
   RemoveSolSpacePreSave and DuplicateFileNamesInPickList (long
   and nice names, huh?)



***********New features in A3E_108ß, released 92-03-21

■  PageUp/Down moves one screenheight

■  COMfile savemode. Thanx to Jaffa the priest for the initcode.

■  Bugfix in loadmode, long files didn't get correctly truncated.

■  Added feature to remove all solidspaces, will also be available
   automatically before save, if configured, within soon.

■  Started on the ansianimationfeature (can be found on F5 for the
   moment). Look at the helppage, No documentation at all yet...

■  NewFile now clears the entire file, not just the visible screen.

■  Fixed the strange "window"-bugg (which wasn't really so strange
   once you had a look at it...).


***********New features in A3E_107ß, released 92-03-02

■  The new A3EConf has been modified to support 1.07ß

■  Fixed a bug with the DefaultVGAEGA-switch, now it won't hang the
   computer.

■  Fixed a bug in Delete-line, it didn't restore the bottomline on
   screen.

■  Save now saves whats on screen too... (instead of some unmodified
   buffer.

■  Circular Macros may be interrupted by pressing the system-request
   key.

■  long Ansifiles works with Ansi.sys, if you have ForceAsciiCR OFF

■  Every loadmode works binary, so it can read lines of any length.

■  Added 255-lines support in Drawmode, and extended the support in
   Fontmode.



***********New features in A3E_106ß, released 92-02-28
!!!
!!! Oops, the postal giro number got wrong in earlier
!!! versions of the DOC. The correct number is:
!!!            6291111-0
!!! and NOTHING else.
!!! IF anyone payed to the wrong account without getting through,
!!! contact the post-office (some did get through)
!!!
!!!
!!! The configparameter MaxPages has been removed!
!!!

■  A3E now supports up to 255 lines per file! Allocate pages from
   inside the editor.

■  A3EConf does not support 1.06ß! Do NOT try to run it...

■  almost 300k of sourcecode (920227)

■  FontColor. Makes it easy to adapt fonts to each situation.

■  Asciiload now uses blockread, faster and hopefully works better.

■  Bugfixes.

■  Added some warningscreens to the fontfeatures,
   Also added some memorychecks, and a helpscreen for fontmode.

■  Macros may be limitedly(?) edited with Shift-BS.

■  Now unregistered users get a warning when entering fontmode,
   and not registered users, as in version 1.05, sorry.




***********New features in A3E_105ß, released 92-02-24

■  Back to betaversions again, propably lots of new nice bugs for
   you guys to find :-)

■  BIG fonts, quite nice! Thanks Anders...

■  Macros available.

■  Minor bugfixes.

■  Possible to choose Direction and color of shadow (in blockmenu)

■  cursor coordinates are shown almost everywhere

■  Choose if you want the blockmenu to return after every
   blockcommand, or not (configurable).

■  Bug in blockmode, when you used some features you would loose a
   small amount of memory each time, eventually giving a
   runtime error. Fixed!

■  Doesn't give runtime error if DefaultAnsipath does not exist.

■  Some more typos corrected.



***********New features in A3E_100, released 92-02-05

■  Changed name, from USA to A3E (Ansi Ascii Avatar Editor), due to
   nameconflicts with another program.

■  Fill block with foreground and background.

■  Topmenu will restore the last position

■  Fixed a bug in commandline loading. It didn't use the right
   directory...

■  Added a "configuration easyfier" It's rather big, so if you dont need
   it, just delete it. A texteditor would work just fine.

■  !!!!!!!!!!!!! The registrationkey will only work as a separate file:
   !!!!!!!!!!!!!         A3E.KEY

■  Introduced "InvertUnderCursor". A feature that always will make your
   cursor visible in editormode. Configurable, but "on" by default.

■  Speeded up Avatarsave, ALOT!

■  Menuoption to show all solidspaces, so you want have to scan the whole
   screen with your cursor.

■  The Mirror image truly mirrors, try to flip some of the line
   characters :-)

■  Joel designed an even more marvellous logo before my one got time to
   reach the stars :-)

■  A Brand new menusystem in blockmode. added some extra blockfeatures.

■  Every choicewindow (with more then one column) wraps in a more natural
   way

■  Fixed a bug in centerline

■  Implemented Execswap, and made it configurable (USESWAP), default = OFF

■  Big spellcheck in documentation, thanx to Per Brax and Paul Leffler.

■  EGA has been confirmed working.

■  FileMask *.$$$ gives a directory containing the files with the default
   ansi, ascii or avatar extensions.

■  Moved Save Undo to Shift Esc, so it won't interfere with multitaskers.

■  Cursor size in input is now the same as in editor.

■  The undo-window is saved prior to clearscreen.

■  Fixed a cause of runtime error! Tabsize must be a number between
   1-79.

■  CTRL-Space gives a space with default background.

■  Backspace and delete won't mess up your screen if you have insert
   off.

■  When you are prompted to save (at Quit or load), Esc will terminate
   the command, and return you to the editor.

■  Saves, and restores old screensize upon return to DOS

■  Designed a marvelous (?) logo that is displayed in the beginning and
   the end.

■  Introducing Solid Space (ShiftSpace), works in for example block and
   ruler.

■  ALT Q - Ruler

■  Configuration Spellcheck. Unknown commands will alert.

■  Added several configcommands:
      DefaultCGAEGA
      AdaptInDraw
      ATKeyPad
      WordStar

■  Fixed a bug in Ansisave (screwed up long lines).

■  Mirrorimage in blockmode.

■  Additional improvement on input-function: Text will be coloured
   differently, before first keystroke, to indicate that a charater
   will erase the text.

■  Fixed some bad behaviour in delete- and insertline


***********New features in usa008, released 92-01-14

■  Adjust block, you may center, rightadjust and leftadjust a block

■  Cursorsize indicated insertstatus

■  Some bugs with curpos was fixed

■  Extralines: you can specify how many extra linefeeds you want to
   have at the end of the file.

■  ClearScreen has a shortcut on Shift home.

■  Lineadjustment works better, a space with a forground is now
   considered a space, not a character.

■  Inputfunction has been improved (end moves to the position after the
   last character. If the first key to be pressed is a character, the
   prior string will disappear).

■  Blocks can be marked with space (first space means "begin block",
   second means "end block".


***********New features in usa007, released 91-12-17

■  A weird bug in TP (nope, it was NOT my fault) made things bugout in the
   "write-to screen", that has been fixed now. (mainly occured after
   commandline-loads)


***********New features in USA006, released 91-12-15

■  Corrected the loadfile-routines a bit. By now they should never
   generate runtime-errors.

■  512 files in directorylisting possible

   Corrected a bug in ansisave-routine (thanks fredrik)

■  Configurable clock on statusrow

■  Possibility to load file direct from commandlineprompt.

■  Nicer looking messages in startup.


***********New features in USA005ß, released 91-11-23

■  USA.EXE is now compressed with PKLite. Does it work for you?

■  User now gets to confirm the savemodes each time a file is saved for
   the first time. (not only NONAMEs)

■  Shortcuts in Directorylisting (pressing a letter will move to the
   first dir/file that starts woth that letter).

■  BIG bug in Avatar fixed, X and Y koordinates were mixed, resulting
   in real spagetti.

■  A strong suggest not to sort the BBScodes, please read the docs
   (BBSCodesection for more details)

■  Alphabetical sorting of the BBSCodes. Configurable

■  Registrationcodes. Without it, only 10 BBSCodes will be available.

■  Possibility to choose wether CTRL-Y Shall delete a line (like
   ALT-Y) or return an asciichar (like the other CTRL-kombinations).

■  EGAaware, the changescreensize-function will now work with EGAadapters
   too, I think, I dont have one so it's not yet tested.


***********New features in USA004ß, released 91-11-11

■  New blockmode-feature: Exchange

■  NOTE! My Fidoadress will change from 400.3 -> 408.3 because of some
   administrative reasons.

■  Handles other drives than C:

■  Unfurl BBSCodes (ALT - U), expands codes to show a piece of reality.

■  The F1 for online help is no longer only in the doc, but also in the
   program :-)

■  USA will now restore the previous DOS-colors upon exiting.

■  Instead of the topmenu the highest row on the screen can be used to
   display the current charset a little more extensive than before on
   the statrow. (toggle with ALT - M)

■  Did some cleaning up on the statusrow

■  Added Blockfeatures:
   * Last block, will retrieve the coordinates of the last block
   * Fill, Will work as an ordinary framefill, but just in the area of
     the block

■  OSshell will use your ordinary commandinterpretator (the one found
   in ComSpec), and it is reachable from ALT - Z

■  Multiple pages. Up to 8 pages (configurable) can be active in either
   VGA/CGA-size (if you have the memory :-) Use ALT+J to switch pages.
   Also available when you are in blockmode.

■  Bugfix related to displaying directory when loading files

■  Another bugfix in the framefilloption.


***********New features in USA003ß, released 91-11-02

■  PgDown/PgUp will have a meaning in normal editormode, Pup will move
   to the upper left corner, PDown to the Lower right corner.

■  In block mode:
      Home will move the block as far to the left as possible.
      End            -    "    -             right -   "   - .
      PUp            -    "    -             up    -   "   - .
      PDown          -    "    -             down  -   "   - .

■  Shell to dos is implemented, and should work. It is not tested very
   much, cause from TP there is not enough memory, but when I tried it
   from DOS it seamed to work.

■  ALT - A will from now on mean Attributechange, this is a combination
   of ALT F and ALT B, and will show you a grid of all possible
   colorcombinations. Move around and choose :-) "B" toggles blink.

■  Shortcuts in the menues. In every menuchoice there will be one
   letter highlighted. Pressing this letter will fastchoose this
   option.

■  AVATAR! Support for Loading and saving in avatarformat!

■  LoadMode, a little option in the config, choose between
   Ansi/avatar/auto. read the docs.

■  Screenblanker. Default blanks the screenafter 5 minutes,
   configurable.

■  Defaultdirectory, specify in the config which directory to have as
   your default startdir.

■  Some minor bugfixes and cleanups. Forgot exactly what.

■  BLENDING! The one and only ansiblend-function in the world!
   load BLENDTST.ANS and try it...

***********New features in USA002ß, never released

■  Menusystem was reformed 91092?

■  work is progressing real good 911009

***********New features in USA001ß, never released

■  Work begun 910810