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- Changes V3.0 -> V4.0
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- Major:
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- - Finally a complete and up-to-date well documented release with all
- of the support utilities.
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- - Basic support for batchmode processing.
-
- - Radical new music composition by Paul van der Valk.
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- - Erwin Zwart has completely redesigned the graphics to conform to the
- 2.0 look. Aesthetics and functionality have improved significantly.
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- - Defaults to support for a "safe library root". This is larger startup code
- for library imploded files that warns when no library is present. You can
- override this setting.
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- - The "Protect" option has been discontinued. See the "philosophy" document
- for the rationale on this.
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- - Mouse hater support by way of a CLI based Deplode command, and keyboard
- equivalents throughout.
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- Minor:
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- - Support for "pure-imploded" files removed; If you know how to make a
- program resident, you know how to use the library.
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- - The "Library" gadget now defaults to on.
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- - The "Merge" gadget now defaults to off. Improved compilers/linkers
- plus the much more frequent appearance of selfdetaching programs have
- made this option less important and more dangerous respectively.
-
- - Added tooltypes and commandline switches for specifying the setup
- options.
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- - The copperlist has been tuned down a bit, and the screen is now
- dragable.
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- - The explode.library has been enhanced/sped up a bit.
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- - Removed bug that caused Intuition to read from location zero. This would
- occasionally crash the machine when location zero was nonzero.
- This bug was already removed in V3.1 (thanks to Arnout).
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- - All stuff has been enforced and mungwalled so now we've even better
- confirmation that no serious bugs are present.
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- - Improved overlay file recognition. No longer expects overlayed files to
- have additional space in the hunk table. Searches for the magic longword.
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- - Decodes ARP resident program tags. Warns against stack gobblers.
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- - Data hunk ID now preserved upon deplosion. Inconsequential, yet neater.
- Very stringent format checks in the old deplosion routine barf on the
- extra bit required for this, but the old explode library doesn't mind,
- so in that sense it is backwards compatible.
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- - Lots of other small changes.
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