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- 1.01/1.02
-
- Changes? Absolutely NO changes. Only, a bug in the ARP docs caused
- and incredibly wide range of problems, from memory completely wiped
- (including the backed-up battery clock) to a simple crash-on-exit.
- Now, thanks to Christopher A. Wichura, the 1.01 code is ok. So, even
- you, if you're using ARP, beware:
-
- ARPALLOC() DOES NOT PASS ANY TRACKER BACK THROUGH LASTTRACKER!!!!
-
- You must use the memory pointer you get as a DefaultTracker *, too. Or
- you'll get a NULL tracker pointer...
-
- The same holds for ArpAllocFReq().
-
- Seba
-
- 1.04
-
- I fixed a couple of thing. No major changes tho 8^(.
-
- The dreaded RGB reading guru has gone. Now Mostra complains that "Too
- many bitplanes" if you try to display a 24-bitplanes IFF RGB file.
- The same happens if you try to display a DPaint stencil (0 bitplanes).
- In this case, of course, the message is "No bitplanes". I consider
- them both broken IFF specs.
-
- The keyboard handling is much smarter and closer to Commodore's
- guidelines. SHIFT-cursor brings you to the borders of the picture,
- ALT-cursor moves by a screen width/height-16 pixels, and cursor alone
- (CTRLed) moves by 8 (16) pixels.
-
- The priority handling is much smarter, too. If you start Mostra with
- a priority higher than 1, no priority change will be issued.
- Moreover, at exit the original task priority will be restored
- (previously Mostra set the priority to 0).
-
- Moving to the bottom of a SHAM interlaced picture with an odd number
- of lines caused confusion in the copperlist. This has been fixed, but
- with the loss of the display of the last line of the picture (nothing
- so terrible anyway).
-
- A SHAM image displayed in a screen taller than its height produced a
- random copperlist. This has been fixed.
-
- A new option allows to lock the input from the keyboard during the
- display.
-
- Another new option locks the picture (you can't scroll around) but the
- memory in which the file was loaded is immediately freed after the
- decompression. This should allow for double buffering on a 512K
- machine. The new memory management is also automatically activated if
- the option SECS is used or the picture dimensions are less than the
- screen dimensions (since the picture scrolling is locked anyway).
-
- There are other areas which needed updates, but I'm busy on my copier,
- SuperDuper.
-
- I would like to thank Walter Dörwald (Germany), Jürgen E. Haug
- (Germany), Svante Kleist (Sweden), Tim Beard (Australia) and Christian
- König (Germany) for having sent the shareware contribution for Mostra.
-