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- :::::::::::::::::::::::: BOOTX HISTORY ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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- ::: Version 5.23b :: June 20, 1993 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - Patch: date requester deactivated.
-
- ::: Version 5.23a :: January 3, 1993 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - Some minor bugs slipped through in the last debug pass..
-
- ::: Version 5.23 ::: December 29, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - BUG FIX: Fixed the 68040 MMU detection code.
-
- - BUG FIX: Removed several unnecessary Enforcer hits and made
- BootX faster at the same time.
-
- - IMPROVED: BootX doesn't bring it's screen to the front anymore
- unless a virus has been detected and the Silent Check option
- is not on.
-
- - IMPROVED: It seems that the Italian translation of the BootX
- catalog was not as good as the author let me believe. Therefore
- I decided to try the catalog from Michele Giorato. Please direct
- any complaints to him (as I don't understand Italian to either
- correct or improve the translation).
-
- - NEW: BootX now perform a self-integrity check. As a consequence of
- this the BootX executable can _NOT_ be crunched anymore without
- getting the following warning:
-
- "BootX executable has too many hunks ! Please check !"
-
- This way BootX can check if itself has been infected by a link- or
- infiltrator virus.
-
- - NEW: BootX will warn you if it thinks it is getting too old.
- In the current version this will happen every time you start
- BootX 90 days after it has been released.
-
- The length of this period is subject to change.
-
- Thanks to Erik Løvendahl Sørensen (Denmark) for suggesting this.
-
- - NEW: BootX will warn you if it thinks the Recog file you are using
- is getting too old.
- In the current version this will happen every time you start
- BootX with a Recog file that is older than 60 days.
-
- The length of this period is subject to change.
-
- Thanks to Erik Løvendahl Sørensen (Denmark) for suggesting this.
-
- ::: Version 5.22 ::: October 26, 1992 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - NEW: Added special code to look for the Crime'92 infiltrator
- virus.
-
- ::: Version 5.21 ::: October 21, 1992 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - BUG FIX: When BootX found the locale library on a v37 Workbench
- (which is NOT normal) it assumed that locale capabilities where
- available and paniced when it could not find the Locale: device.
- Thanks to Roland Poppe (Belgium) for reporting this.
-
- - BUG FIX: Spotted and fixed a potential bug in the memory clear
- routine.
-
- - BUG FIX: The unit number was wrongly shown as 0 in some
- trackdisk error messages.
-
- - BUG FIX: The 68040 detection code contained a tiny bug.
-
- - IMPROVED: Custom chip detection is more precise now.
-
- - IMPROVED: Made some changes in the Italian translation. Thanks
- Giorato Michele (Italy).
-
- - IMPROVED: Improved the installation script in case the
- Installer utility is not found.
-
- ::: Version 5.20 ::: October 3, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- In the recent weeks I have received some reports from various
- sources concerning problems with disappearing mouse pointers.
- Each time there was mention of a mouseblanker type program as
- FracBlanker or QMouse. The reports also said the problem
- occurred only with BootX.
-
- THIS IS NOT A BUG IN BOOTX. BootX uses the ReqTools library for
- all its mouse pointer management. Apparantely it is the only
- program to do so. BUT since there are no problems with the
- official Commodore MouseBlanker commodity the problem has to be
- found in the higher mentioned mouse blanker programs and not in
- ReqTools. Contact the respective authors about this problem. I
- only got reports about these two programs but that does not mean
- that other mouse blanker program don't have the same problem.
-
- - IMPORTANT: The telephone and fax number of SHI Headquarters in
- Denmark have changed. See the BootX.doc file for the new numbers.
-
- - BUG FIX: Apparently the Show Brain requester still suffered
- from the 'mysterious string gadget' syndrom.
-
- - BUG FIX: BootX did not recognize an edited filter path.
-
- - BUG FIX: Reading an unformatted or erroneous disk sometimes
- caused an Enforcer read hit.
-
- - BUG FIX: Fixed the ARJ archive recognition.
-
- - BUG FIX: There were some problems with the BootX.config file
- when running BootX in an other language than English. This has
- been fixed. As a result all users running BootX in a language
- other than English should reset their preferences and save them
- again.
-
- - BUG FIX: If BootX can't find a BootX.config file it'll use some
- sensible built-in default settings.
-
- - BUG FIX: Fixed a lot of small bugs reported by one of my ßeta
- testers, Steffen Salzmann (Germany).
-
- - BUG FIX: Checking the vectors on a 68020 equiped Amiga crashed
- due to a bug in the 68020 identification code.
-
- - BUG FIX: Sometimes the Cancel Block Check requester would reappear
- after selecting No. Fixed.
-
- - BUG FIX: Two abort messages got cleared immediately after they
- appeared.
-
- - BUG FIX: If you deleted the current Install bootblock from the
- bootblock library the install display was not updated hence
- causing confusion and a wrong bootblock to be written.
-
- - IMPROVED: BootX has been enhanced with a deep search mode that
- will detect current infiltrator viruses and that can be easily
- expanded to detect future infiltrator viruses.
-
- - IMPROVED: Creating a report uses a lot less memory then before.
-
- - IMPROVED: Made some of the requesters wider to allow for more
- comfortable translation of BootX.
-
- - IMPROVED: Gadget key shortcuts other than those defined in
- English are now supported.
-
- - IMPROVED: BootX will now tell you that it skipped a certain
- directory.
-
- - IMPROVED: BootX now recognizes the new KickStart 3.0
- FileSystems bootblocks.
-
- - IMPROVED: BootX recognizes some more patched vectors.
-
- - IMPROVED: BootX now only pops its screen to the front if a virus
- or an unknown bootblock are found.
-
- - IMPROVED: BootX is KickStart 3.0 compatible and aware.
-
- - IMPROVED: The BootX user interface now follows more closely the
- Commodore Style Guide. Thanks to Steffen Salzmann for the many
- suggestions.
-
- - NEW: BootX can now cure executables that have been infected by
- infiltrator viruses.
-
- - NEW: BootX is localized ! This means that all the messages and
- text in BootX can be translated in a different language. This
- feature is only available with Workbench 2.1 or later (v38.xx).
-
- - NEW: BootX now uses the AmigaGuide.library to support hypertext
- like help screens. The AmigaGuide.library is available as of
- Workbench 3.0.
-
- - NEW: BootX can now decrunch executables that have been crunched
- with Crunch Mania 1.x with the Normal decruncher. The Simple
- decruncher is not supported yet as there seems to be a bug in
- it.
-
- - NEW: Added the DOS4 and DOS5 FileSystem bootblocks to the
- builtin bootblock library.
-
- - NEW: BootX now recognizes and decrunches PowerPacker 4.0
- crunched executables with overlays.
-
- - NEW: BootX now recognizes Imploder 4.0 crunched executables
- with overlays.
-
- ::: Version 5.11 ::: September 4, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - BUG FIX: "I have the ListRequester blues...". Due to an MC68030
- instruction that slipped into the release version of BootX v5.10
- most of the ListRequester functions guru'd on any Amiga without
- a MC68030. Sorry about that...Why doesn't everybody have an
- A3000...(Please, no mail on this programmers frustration !)
-
- - BUG FIX: The title bar of the BBLib ListRequester showed a wrong
- entry count.
-
- - BUG FIX: There were some problems with the integrity of the
- several preference gadgets of no settings file was found.
-
- - CHANGE: All BBLib requester have the same width now.
-
- - CHANGE: Removed the part from the doc file that stated the
- settings were still saved in the icon. Thanks to Magnus Holmgren
- (Sweden) for reporting this.
-
- ::: Version 5.10 ::: August 27, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - BUG FIX: BootX did not release all allocated memory after it
- had decrunched a program. This has been fixed. Thanks to
- Carsten Fulde (Germany) for reporting this.
-
- - BUG FIX: The message displayed during a file check does no
- longer get accidentally cleared during decrunching.
-
- - BUG FIX: BootX will now find its Brain file anywhere you want.
- The location was not saved with the other preferences.
-
- - BUG FIX: BootX finally knows where it started from.
-
- - BUG FIX: Sometimes BootX had the nerve to add a string gadget
- on top of the window title bar of the List requester. This
- is fixed now. I relied on A1 to be zero which it was not all the
- time...sigh. Thanks to Magnus Thelander (Sweden) for reporting
- this the first.
-
- - BUG FIX: Using the keyboard short-cuts in the new List requester
- used to leave the requester window open. Thanks to Mats Eirik
- Hansen (Norway) for writing me about it.
-
- - BUG FIX: The keyboard short-cuts of the Preference requester did
- not all work.
-
- - BUG FIX: Fixed the gadget interaction in the Check Files
- preferences
-
- - CHANGE: Support for Crunch-O-Matic has been suspended until this
- cruncher produces executables that decrunch on ALL Amigas (or
- should I say: executables that decrunch AT all...)
-
- - IMPROVED: The colors of the messages have been cleaned up. The
- following colors now apply (using the standard color names):
-
- BLACK : Normal message
- WHITE : Program request or Bootblock recognized
- by the Brain file.
- WHITE on BLUE: Bootblock virus
-
- (I am sure you are thrilled by this...)
-
- - IMPROVED: Made some changes to the startup code and moved around
- some code which resulted in some saved bytes.
-
- - NEW: BootX finally decrunches Imploder Library crunched files...
- It was so simple to implement. I don't know how I could have
- overlooked it... The Explode.library is required if you want to
- decrunch Library Imploded files.
-
- - NEW: The first toolbox utility called Filter. With it you can
- created a filter containing path names that BootX should ignore
- when checking your files. Normally you put only paths in here
- that contain only data files like the Include or FD directories
- of programmers or the Fonts directory.
- Read section 6.1 of the manual.
-
- - NEW: New checkbox gadget in the Check Files Preference requester.
- Activates the current filter.
-
- - NEW: To accomodate the filter settings and to comply even more
- with the Amiga User Interface Style Guide the settings are no
- longer saved in the icon. Instead, a directory will be created
- and used in ENVARC: and ENV: called 'BootX'. In it you will
- find a plain ASCII file called 'BootX.prefs'.
-
- - NEW: When BootX reads the bootsector of your disk and detects
- a virus in it, it will pop up a handy requester asking you if
- you would like to kill it.
-
- ::: Version 5.05 ::: NOT RELEASED BY ME :::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - BOGUS VERSION: Not released by me but by some mentally disturbed,
- infantile individual. It's a sick world we're living in...
-
- ::: Version 5.03 ::: August 3, 1992 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - BUG FIX: Because of the new ListRequester the dots that indicate
- a built-in bootblock disappeared.
-
- - BUG FIX: Some exotic vertical overscan settings caused BootX to
- scroll the box boundaries of the main display window. Ah...
- KickStart 2.0 is a mixed blessing...Thanks to Ralph-Thomas
- Außem (Germany) for reporting this.
-
- - BUG FIX: Deleting a single Braincell sometimes used to cause a
- complete Brain to disappear.
-
- - BUG FIX: Typing an non-existing name in the Rename Braincell
- string gadget would cause some Enforcer hits.
-
- - BUG FIX: Several other Enforcer hits removed. Thanks to Ralph
- Thomas Außem (Germany) for reporting this.
-
- Note: BootX will still cause several READ Enforcer hits when it
- examines your memory for viruses (which occurs at various times)
- This is normal. But should you encounter any further WRITE
- Enforcer hits, please report this by writing me when this hit
- occurred (Please no Enforcer print-outs, they don't help).
-
- - NEW: BootX now recognizes Crunch-O-Matic 1.0 crunched files.
-
- - NEW: Added a paragraph to the doc file about the BootX Enforcer
- hits and the SnoopDos task. See Section 1.4 Before you
- complain...
-
- - EXPLANATION: BootX launches during its run a small do-nothing
- task called 'SnoopDos'. It is a simple but effective counter
- measure against an old PowerPacker 3.2 trojan horse. The task
- does absolutely nothing and uses no CPU time at all. When BootX
- quits, this task is removed. This task will not be launched if
- a real SnoopDos is already running nor will it prevent a real
- SnoopDos from being run.
-
- ::: Version 5.02 ::: July 26, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - NEW: Added special code to look for the Infiltrator linkvirus.
-
- - IMPROVED: Completely rewrote the List requester. It'll now use
- a lot less memory and be faster at the same time.
-
- ::: Version 5.01 ::: July 20, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- * Because Commodore has a problem with the early distribution of
- the locale language files for BootX they will not be in any
- future releases of BootX until the official approvement. It
- was and is not my intention to harm any further development.
- Let's hope an official release is Real Soon Now... *
-
- - BUG FIX: Decrunching a PowerPacker 3.0 crunched file with a
- library header would cause major havoc.
-
- - NEW: You can customize the AppIcon that BootX displays when you
- choose Iconify a little bit more. Add the following tooltypes
- to the BootX icon:
-
- APPICONNAME=<your name> (default: BootX)
- APPICONX=<x position in pixels> (default: floating (-1))
- APPICONY=<y position in pixels> (default: floating (-1))
-
- - NEW: The SetPatch version is shown in the Check Vectors report
- (if installed.)
-
- ::: Version 5.00 ::: July 11, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- "There can only be one..."
-
- - NEW: BootX now requires KickStart 2.04. In order to keep
- improving BootX in future I decided that it became time to make
- BootX a true KickStart 2.0 program.
-
- - NEW: No more extra BootX.Prefs file in the S directory. BootX
- now stores its preferences as tooltypes in its icon.
-
- - NEW: All of the BootX support files can now be crunched with
- PowerPacker. BootX will use the PowerPacker.library when it finds
- it.
-
- - NEW: Brain cells can now be deleted and renamed. View Brain shows
- the list with scroll gadgets instead of a simple scrolling list.
-
- - NEW: The Bootblock library can now be edited: renaming, deleting
- and adding of bootblocks is now possible.
-
- - NEW: BootX now becoms an AppIcon when the user selects Iconify
- (previously Go to Sleep).
-
- - NEW: BootX is now able to remove linkviruses from infected
- files. Simply check the "Fix infected files" option in the
- FileCheck preference requester.
-
- - NEW: BootX supports all the drive types that the TrackDisk
- device supports. Also the new high-density drives (1760K ) as
- found in new A3000.
-
- - NEW: File check report can now be printed from within BootX.
-
- - NEW: The contents of the Recog file can be printed.
-
- - NEW: BootX clones the Workbench dimensions and specs. This means
- a bigger and better looking BootX screen.
-
- - NEW: BootX will try to play the sample in stereo whenever
- possible.
-
- - IMPROVED: The file check is now a lot faster and has a lot more
- options to control it.
-
- - IMPROVED: Completely rewritten documentation.
-
- ::: Version 4.50 ::: May 7, 1992 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- - Last version of BootX that supported KickStart 1.3.
-
- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
-
- © 1993 BootX v5.23b written by Peter Stuer
-
- Thanks to Nico François, Johan van Houtven, Steffen Salzmann and
- James Knittle for ßeta-testing and all the useful suggestions.
- _
- _ //
- Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !
-