Fresh Fish 5/FreshFish_July-August1994.bin/bbs/util/sysinfo-3.24.lha/SysInfo-3.24/sysinfo.history

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SysInfo HISTORY (HISTORY PRIOR TO V3.10 HAS BEEN DELETED)
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3.22    Fixed a MAJOR bug in the display info.  The bug would
    occur if for example the system was booted without a
    startup-sequence.  This caused the program to totally
    hang or crash.

    Added a new function in the BOARDS section as many
    users have asked for.  If SysInfo does not recognise
    a board by name, SysInfo will look in an external
    ascii file that you create, and try to find a match
    for each unknown card.  Please see the README file for
    specific info on creating this file.

    Added the ability to split the 68020 and 68EC020 CPU's.
    So who said it couldn't be done eh?.  Tests so far
    seem to indicate the routine works fine.

    Replaced the "DISABLED" and "ENABLED" strings for the
    MMU display with "NOT IN USE" AND "IN USE" respectively
    as some users seems to think that disabled, meant
    permanently disabled or a less than working version.
    Remember though that just because SysInfo states that
    you may have one, does not necessarily meant it is
    in a fully working state, some 68EC030's have an less
    than operational MMU that will partially work and
    SysInfo sees this as a working MMU.

    Added the ability to recognise kickstart that have
    been "ReKicked" and kickstarts larger than 512k.  This
    information if found will be displayed in the scroll
    area beside the kickstart version.

3.21    There was an error in the string for 25Mhz Amigas and
    this was forcing it to show as "25000".  This has now
    been corrected and shows correctly as "25.00"

3.20    Even though the -p Print routine was working fine the
    internal print gadget routine was broken.  I have fixed
    this and now it prints ok.

3.19    Thanks to a good friend of mine, Andy Clay, a blatant
    bug has been fixed that has been in SysInfo since
    V3.00.  The priority display in the Task and Port lists
    was shown as values between 0 and 255 instead of -128
    to +127.  This has been corrected and it now shows the
    correct value.  Strange how it took this long for someone
    to notice such an obvious error.  Thanks Andy.

    The Total Size memory field inside the Memory function
    was inaccurate and losing half a meg on some setups, this
    has been corrected.

3.18    Corrected a problem for some IDE drives in the A4000.
    It seems that some brands of IDE drives do not like
    reads of 128K or greater at once and some users have
    not set their "MAXTRANSFER" value to $FFFF.  The SPEED function
    of SysInfo tried to use a 128K read, so I have changed
    this to 64K.  It fixes the problem for a Quantum IDE LP52
    drive and I expect it should fix all others.

3.17    Corrected an error in the drives function.  It always
    used a read size of TD_SECTOR in order to fetch the
    first block of the boot sector.  CD-ROM drives with 2048
    bytes per sector did not like this.  I have changed the
    read size to the id_BytesPerSector of the particular device
        being read.

3.16    Fixed a bug in the dhrystones printing routine, any
    subsequent printing of the number could be wrong if
    it was much smaller (eg. caches off) because the
    number was not erased first, and part of the old
    number was left behind.

3.15    Fixed the "lies" of CLOCK function, it should now
    correctly report if you have a Commodore compatible
    hardware clock or not.  Older versions lied on the
    A1200 and A600.

3.14    Fixed an error for the 68020 CPU.  The "DCACHE" gadget
    was still enabled, even though the string correctly
    showed N/A.

    Now I have access to an A1200 I made the A1200 speed
    comparison slightly more accurate.

3.13    Added a "You" string to make it more obvious which
    computer the red bar was for as some users were
    confused by this.  (Sheeesh!!)

V3.12   Since re-arranging some of the strings in the main display
    I neglected the print strings and subsequently they
    were all mixed up.  I have now corrected this.

V3.11   Was unfinished and I never personally released this version
     but some local person posted it and it ended up on Fish, I
     was most annoyed at this.

    Fixed a bug on the A3000, where a guru would result
    from using any of the cache gadgets after doing a speed
    test.

    Due to massive public demand, the Comment is back.  Please
    take this as a tongue-in-cheek comment, it is not to be
    taken seriously.

V3.10   When the program loads my Logo is in the centre of the
    screen.  The logo is a map of Australia, and if you look
    to right of the 'S' in 'NWS' you will see a star burst in
    the location of my home town 'Toowoomba'.
    Thanks to Kurt Boulter from Don Quixote Software for the
    logo graphics.

    Removed all the Memory amount displays from the main screen
    as it was rather redundant with the 'Memory' function gadget.
    This also allowed for larger and better strings for some of
    the other displays.

    Removed the DMAC display, as it looks like the revised
    chip will not be released.  It seemed pointless to look for
    a newer chip if they are not going to release it.

    Six new gadgets to manipulate cache modes.  This requires
    V2.0 AmigaDOS or later.  See main doc for more info.

    Chip memory comparison has changed so the comparison
    is done against a standard A600 instead of an A3000.