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- What's New in MakeDat?
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- Version 1.00 - (03-17-90)
- - Initial Release
- Version 1.10 - (03-19-90)
- - Various bugs fixed
- Version 1.20 - (03-20-90)
- - Added Window Support
- - Fixed a few other bugs
- Version 1.21 - (03-21-90)
- - Added support for monochrome graphics cards
- - Fixed problem with a JUKEBOX.DAT file of 0 bytes being
- made when no ROL's are found
- Version 1.30 - (03-24-90)
- - Added Jukebox Front-End Feature
- Version 1.31 - (03-25-90)
- - Fixed bug in file creation routine - if more than two data
- files were needed, it would continue to write to JB2.DAT
- instead of moving on to JB3.DAT
- Version 1.41 - (05-03-90)
- - Various sections of code reorganized
- - Added logic to check for the existence of the SOUND.COM
- and JUKE1.EXE files before attempting to load the Jukebox
- - Hoykey Feature Added
- - Fixed end of file detecion bug in the data file view feature
- Version 1.43 - (05-05-90)
- - More code reorganized
- - Data file sort routine added (Handles 4000 songs)
- - Added View Data File as a main menu option.
- Version 1.44 - (05-09-90)
- - Rewrote procedure to check for necessary Jukebox files before
- trying to run the Jukebox - it now indicates which files are
- not present.
- Version 1.45 - (05-10-90)
- - Removed Hotkey mode from prompts in Load Jukebox and View
- Data Files - it would not allow a two digit file number to
- be entered
- - Fixed file check routine which sometimes caused a "Too Many
- Open Files" error.
- Version 1.50 - (05-21-90)
- - Recompiled Makedat using Technojock's Turbo Toolkit
- - Rewrote sort routine for faster sorting
- - Added feature to enable data files to created in a directory
- other than the current directory
- - Data files can now be loaded from directories other than the
- current directory
- - Easy to use file selection windows added
- - Various other changes to make the program look and run
- better!
- - This version even supports a mouse for the menus and file
- selection windows!
- Version 1.60 - (08-24-90)
- - Added Borland style input fields - pressing DEL as the first
- key will blank the entry, the left and right arrow keys
- position the cursor for editing the default, and any other
- key blanks the entry and places that key in the first
- position awaiting the rest of your typing.
- - The file selection windows now show ALL .DAT files, not just
- the JB*.DAT files.
- - You can now control the name of the data file(s) created. The
- default is 'JB'.
- - Menu options 1 and 2 have been switched. Option 1 is now
- 'Run Jukebox (Play Songs)' and option 2 is 'Create Jukebox
- Data Files'. This will prevent any potential problems in
- case someone acciedntly leaves their finger on the enter
- key when running the program!
- - The size of the buffer created with the SOUND.COM sound
- driver is now adjustable. The default buffer size is 'b3000'.
- If you would like a different sized buffer, enter the buffer
- size as a command line parameter when running MakeDat. This
- feature USES THE SAME PARAMETERS AS SOUND.COM! For example,
- if you would like the buffer to be 'b4000', you would type
- 'MAKEDAT B4000'.
- - If the default data file path is changed, MakeDat will
- remember the change, and use the new path as the default
- from then on.
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