AMIC PD TERM beta version .58E - Revision notes
1. VERY Quick reference to revision on .58E
o CONFIGURATION WINDOW: Some bugs have been removed here,
while making the code smaller. Also the program is now
able to support 31250 Baud transmitions, although the
current release does NOT go THAT fast, but the REGISTE-
RED users version of Revision F WILL! We are clocking
around 18900 Baud on NULL MODEM 19200 connection, and
around 8600 in 9600 HST to HST connection, and that is
going to get faster!
o REVIEW BUFFER: The character flow processing has been
modified quite a bit now. Although this can be MUCH
faster than it is now with large buffers, still one is
faster than previous releases. Revision F will have a
completely modified Review algorithm.
o WXMODEM: Is it FINALLY fixed? Please, let me know!
o Registered users will noticed that the script language
has been fixed, particularly the CAPTURE and CALL com-
mands of the program.
o UNARC: Only change here is the shortcut key, it is not
a duplicated now.
o PRINT BUFFER: Nobody seems to use this, so, we removed
this feature from the program since it saves about 1K
of code, plus whatever Review Buffer you have! So, if
ya had 16K Review buffer, you have now an extra 17K to
play around!
o PHONELIB: Cleaned up some code here too.
o ERROR MESSAGES: Error messages are not going thru one
common routine, giving more consistency to the error
messages the user gets from the program.
o INTRO SCREEN: Hope you like it! Just click the mouse
button, or type a key to abort it.
o What's best on this release, for me, is that the code
has been cleaned up quite a bit. Mantaining this code
is getting easier, and that's something we really MUST
do! :-)
o LOOK for Revision F, REGISTERED USERS! Yeah, sorry,
there won't be REVISION F for non-registered users.
That's if I don't find a MAJOR bug that changes our
mind about that.
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AMIC PD TERM beta version .58D - Revision notes
1. VERY Quick reference to revision on .58D
o CONFIGURATION WINDOW: Some little bug in here with the
operator variable has been fixed. Also tuned up the
precision of the Fields selector a bit.
o INSTANT WINDOW: Fixed a problem that caused the window
to "Dissapear", crashing the system when use trying to
re-select it again.
o REVIEW BUFFER: Made some small changes in the Review rou-
tine, which makes the input flow much faster on large
Review Buffers. Let me know if it is faster or not!
o ASCII SET: FINALLY! This is FIXED 100% You should be able
to use those networks that send strange characters now
when using the 32-127 ASCII Character set.
o WXMODEM: I think the problem with WXModem and PLINK is
fixed. This thing has worked all the time from AMIC to
AMIC, but since I am not subscribed to PLINK, I can't
be sure if I am doing it right for them. Hope so! Let
me know ASAP if not!!!
o PRESENTATION: Well, hope you like the intro thingie.
o And some other little thingies here and there, like the
phone autodial toggle, etc.
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AMIC PD TERM beta version .58B - Revision notes
2. VERY Quick reference to revision on .58B
o CONFIGURATION WINDOW: As far as I know all the configura-
tion data is being written correctly to the .Config
file. We added some more Configuration parameters, and
a MORE Gadget to access them. This are the definition
of the Beep Sound, and to select the use of the whole
255 ASCII Table, or just the normal set. This why ya
can still use those IBM boards with fancy menus, or
with networks like PC Pursuit that require the limited
ASCII Table set.
You should be able to RUN AMIC as many times as you
want w/o having a crash created by the program.
You can change the operator mode (to Sum or Rest) by
clicking the RIGHT Mouse Button, a status line is in
the top right of the Configuration window, reporting
the current status of the Operator.
o INSTANT WINDOW: Just a minor problem with one of the Fast
Menu choices... it has been corrected.
o ASCII SET: There is a new selection in the SETUP Menu of
this version, which allows you to select the ASCII Set
range you want to get on your screen. Selecting the
31-127 Item will insure a clean screen when connected
to packet networks like Telenet and TymeNet. When se-
lecting the full set (0-255, ya are able to see those
fancy IBM borders on some of those ANSI BBS's..
o SERIAL IO: We have changed the code so that the Serial IO
Port priorities are set to the value defined in the
.Config file, instead of ZERO as it was done before,
that will greately improve IO performance on higher
priorities, but may deteriorate Multitasking a bit on
heave file transfers at high speed, if this priority
value is too high.. 2 seems to be a nice balance for
high performance, without loss of multitasking.
o TRANSFER WINDOW: It won't "vanish" when this window is
draged around, as it did on the previous release!
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