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- History of the development of the VangeliSTracker program.
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- 09-Dic-1992 Created version 1.0a
-
- * First non-beta version.
- * Now it works on the SB 16 in stereo. ¡¡Up to 34500 Hz in stereo!!.
- Inconvenient: It's a little bit unsteady. If you change the sampling
- frecuency or the filters, it can loose track.
- * The circular buffer already works, great with QEMM, etc. We'll see
- how it does with the SB and the Pro (only tried with the SB 16, with
- its uninitialized mode, and sounds perfect).
- * Fixed the bug that stopped the program from starting with the full
- 34500 Hz.
- * Tried the circular buffer with the SB and the Pro. There was a bug in
- the initialization. Fixed.
- * Fixed the freq. change in the File (OS/2) driver.
- * Fixed a click when starting the music.
- * Created a credits window. Activated using F8.
- * Fixed the usage description. Now, it doesn't ask to press a key if you
- redirect the output to a file.
- * This version 'escaped', and was distributed before time, without
- documentation. DMA didn't work fully.
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- 12-Dic-1992 Created version 1.0b
-
- * Duplicated the DMA transferences, to avoid slight reverberations.
- Works really well.
- * Optimized the DMA buffer calculations, so they don't occupy more than
- necessary.
- * Fixed an initial bad tone when using Hi-speed DMA with the SB.
- * Changed the vu-meter aspect. Better now, ¿isn't it?
- * Distributed to the public.
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- 17-Jan-1993 Created version 1.0c
-
- * Introduced the swap file system.
- * Now, the program saves the full video state. The video buffer is stored
- in the swap file.
- * Better aspect for the vu-meters. Now changeable with the B key.
- * Better movility for the sample color bars. Now, they can never get stuck
- in yellow.
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- 27-Jan-1993 Created version 1.0d
-
- * Removed the dynamic memory control based in the DOS Heap. Did this to
- allow a better use of the swapping.
- * Fixed the damaged or wrong file detection. Now it doesn't abort.
- Instead, the program will go on with the next song.
- * Prepaed the .WOW and 6/8 voices .MOD files found in the Triton
- FasTracker.
- * Introduced the BPM command (F with parameter > $1F). Necessary to listen
- to .WOW, FasTracker and .669 songs. Changed the limit to $30, to avoid
- errors in the classic 4 voice MODs.
- * Now 8 voices available!!!!!!! O:-)
- * Created the channel scroll system. Only 4 channels can be seen at one
- time.
- * Changed the partiture aspect. No more command number.
- * Introduced the "Fine tone portamento" commands.
- * Made the .OKT loader. The better 8 voices seen up to the date.
- * Introduced the "Arpeggio 1 and 2" commands, used in tthe .OKT files.
- Still missing the "Note Slide".
- * Doubled the output volume. Made this because the .OKTs were too low,
- and so with fewer bits. Introduced the saturation control, to avoid
- "sparks" in the sound.
- * Version not released to the public, because it lacks things (the stereo
- doesn't sound).
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- 31-Jan-1993 Created version 1.0e
-
- * Added the stereo again.
- * During the former versions, some bugs seem to have been fixed by
- themselves. Bugs related to certain NCR computers...
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- 23-Feb-1993 Created version 1.1a
-
- * This version is the 1.0e, only with the DOCs updated. Didn't release the
- 1.0e because I wanted to make the .669 loader, but I've got too much job
- going on, and it's not finished.
- * IMPORTANT NEWS: I've got a few little files with the extension .S3M,
- which are the songs of the last Future Crew demos (Scream Tracker 3.0
- format). I've already figured out the file format, so for the next
- version... ;-) (All this made in the most respectful of the ways towards
- the FC people, who are doing the best in graphics, music effects and
- aesthetic in the whole PC world, and wanting to allow 286 and non-SB
- users to enjoy and apreciate their job).
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- xx-Feb-1993 Created version 1.1b
-
- * This is not a version. It's junk. :-( The EXE file says 1.2a,
- but it's not so.
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- 07-Mar-1993 Created version 1.2a
-
- * Implemented the heap handling UNIT. Now, if you have free UMBs, the
- program uses them.
- * Implemented a new internal song format, quite more generalistic. Also,
- it's OOP. With this format, I'll be able to implement every feature of
- every other format. The new format includes more patterns, more
- instruments, independent volumes for the notes, space for the song
- comment, etc.
- * Implemented the .S3M loader.
- * Implemented the .STM loader.
- * Implemented the .669 loader.
- * Now it's no longer necessary to give the song filename extension. The
- program will use all the known ones.
- * Fixed the standard output redirection detection.
- * Changed the video initialization, to make it more similar to older
- versions of VT. (Bug fix).
- * Added ShellVT params, to allow the specification of a program to
- execute instead of the shell.
- * Changed the command line syntax. Now, it uses switches. It also allows
- to have switches and song names in an ASCII file, just by writing it
- starting with an at-sign (@). That's the .VTO files.
- * Implemented the .S3M loader which extracts the file from inside the EXE
- file of a Future Crew demo. Now, you can say: "VT UNREAL.EXE" ;-)
- * Implemented the .S3M loader. This format corresponds to the intermediate
- versions of the Scream Tracker, between the 2.x and the 3.0, probably
- beta versions. This kind of songs is found in demos like "Mental Surgery",
- by FC. Note that not all the .S2M song use the very same format, so some
- might not work.
- * Implemented a filter bass-enhancer. Try it pressing the "L" key. It only
- works in mono sound.
- * There are several versions around with this version numbre. They are not
- the same, and not all work well. And none of them says "beta" O:-(
- Therefore, it won't be an official version. Also, all those versions
- are unexplainably packed as 1.1b. :_(
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- 30-Mar-1993 Created version 1.2b
-
- * It's the 1.2a, only with ShellVT and OS2VT enhanced with all the changes
- in VT.
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