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- /* Version 1.3d */
- /* Dated 13-May-1992 */
-
- New Features with Version 1.3d of Discpassage
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- . Help bug from version 1.3c has been fixed.
-
- . Help can now be accessed if not in DISCPASS subdirectory.
-
-
- New Features with Version 1.3c of DiscPassage
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- . Command line options do not need to be in lower case any more.
-
- . The F3 key can now be used to page through image databases.
-
-
- New Features with Version 1.3b of DiscPassage
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- . DiscPassage now supports networks correctly. Audio is excluded on network
- drives.
-
- . The problems with the brs header volume information has been fixed. (This
- only affects internal production.)
-
- . Document count has been reduced back down to 20000 due to memory problems.
-
- New Features with Version 1.3a of DiscPassage
- ---------------------------------------------
-
- . The size and length of menus has been expanded.
-
- . Multiple audio tracks on the F9 documents window has been fixed/added.
-
- . DiscPassage now supports the variant version of the Trident 8900c
- (id=13h) video bios. This should fix some problems with some Trident
- cards not detecting properly.
-
- . Some software changes have been made to support _Complete Baseball_.
- (Document count has been increased from 20000 to 22000.)
-
- . Detection of the Trident 9000 (id=23h) chipset has been added.
-
- . The problem with the first page of a printout being one line too long
- has been fixed.
-
- . The duration of the pause after the publish screen has been lengthened.
-
- . VGATEST will now wait for a carriage return instead of just displaying
- the publish screen.
-
-
- New features with version 1.3 of DiscPassage
- --------------------------------------------
-
- . DiscPassage now supports the VESA standard drivers for Super VGA
- cards. These drivers are available from your video card manufacturer
- or with the drivers supplied with your video card.
-
- . Problems with VGATEST detecting a different way than DiscPassage have
- been corrected.
-
- . Problems with VGA cards that load in a different segment than c000h have
- been fixed.
-
- . Problems with standard VGA detection have been fixed.
-
- . Mode 12 (640 x 480 x 16 shades of grey) has been fixed.
-
- New features with version 1.2 of DiscPassage
- --------------------------------------------
-
- . Memory Usage
- DiscPassage now uses virtual memory, so it will automatically take
- advantage of any expanded or extended memory on your system. It is
- *very important* that you run the SETUP.EXE program provided with your
- floppy update. In particular, the software depends on an environment
- variable, TMP, for its use of virtual memory. This variable should be
- set to a *writable* location. If you run DiscPassage from the dp.bat
- file (copied by SETUP to the root of your hard drive), you should not
- experience any problems.
-
- The SETUP.EXE program will now create the appropriate commands in
- dp.bat which set up the TMP environment string for proper execution.
- However, if you have no environment space left, you may need to set TMP
- yourself in your autoexec.bat, as follows:
-
- set TMP=c:\discpass
-
- with a writable location for the software to use during its operation
- (i.e. it cannot be set to the CD-ROM drive).
-
- If you want to increase the size of your environment space (the default
- size is 128 bytes for MS-DOS), you can add the following line to your
- config.sys file:
-
- shell = c:\command.com /e:1024 /p
-
- where c:\ is the location of command.com, and you wish to increase the
- environment size to 1024 bytes.
-
- . Packed File Support
- DiscPassage now supports large numbers of files on disc, and allows for
- files to live in 'packages' for more efficient operation on MS-DOS. This
- operation is completely transparent to the operation of the software.
- The benefit to you as a user is more efficient retrieval of files from
- CD-ROM, in cases where a large number of files is present on disc.
-
- . Pioneer Audio Fix
- Forcing an alternate drive letter from the command-line, for multi-drive
- units such as the Pioneer 6-disc changer (DRM-600), would only play
- audio selections for subsequent discs (not the first selected, if it was
- not the first drive letter on the system). Audio is now functional for
- all drive letters, even when the drive-override from command-line option
- is used. You need to have version 1.03 or greater of the Pioneer driver.
-
-
- New features/fixes for 1.2d
- ---------------------------
- . Trident 1 Meg video card
- Support has been added for the newer Trident video cards with 1 Megabyte
- of video memory on board.
-
-
- New features/fixes for 1.2e
- ---------------------------
- . Text only operation
- There is now a -vtextonly commandline option to suppress all images. This
- allows proper operation of EGA video cards, which may have had split text
- displays (the new SVGA detection was the culprit). This switch can also
- be useful when running on a dual monitor system (say, both SVGA and MDA)
- when text-only operation is desired. Use this option as follows:
-
- dp -vtextonly
-
- when starting up DiscPassage.
-
-
- New features/fixes for 1.2f
- ---------------------------
- . When printing very wide tables (more than 100 characters wide), sometimes
- the second page printed improperly. This has been corrected. Some medical
- CD-ROM's contained a few wide tables which manifested this problem.
-
-
- New features/fixes for 1.2g
- ---------------------------
- . Support has been added for 'The Family Doctor' CD-ROM.
-
-
- New features/fixes for 1.2h
- ---------------------------
- . A new video option has been added, which allows you to force text display
- to black and white. This option was added primarily to support Braille
- users with EGA video. This option will work in conjunction with other
- -v option switches.
-
- In particular, if you are a Braille user with EGA, you should use
- DiscPassage in the following manner:
-
- dp -vtextonly -vmono
- in order to view text properly on an EGA display, in black and white.
- This option may also be helpful for display on some laptops.
-
- . Additional support for new Genoa SVGA BIOS releases has been added.
- Previous versions of DiscPassage only supported earlier versions of the
- BIOS.
-
- . The video option -vmode13, which is available for standard VGA systems
- which do not support mode $13x (Video 7 with only 256K video memory, for
- example) was broken; this has been fixed.
-
- . A new version of the installation program 'SETUP.EXE' allows installation
- to a subdirectory of your choice.
-
-