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- New for version 3.4
- ===================
-
- ADD: Full featured Pattern Editor!!! Another big step towards a
- complete n-channels music editor...
-
- ADD: New loader for ScreamTracker 3.01! Conversion is not very good,
- but at least it works.
-
- ADD: Supports loading and saving TakeTracker with up to 32 channels.
-
- ADD: Locale support. There is only an italian catalog yet, translated
- by my friend Steven Cantini. If you want more translations, please
- do them yourself and send me the .ct files! :-)
-
- ADD: The installer script has been localized. Thanks to Steven Cantini
- for translating Italiano strings.
-
- FIX: XModule did not load the last sample in (Octa)MED modules. Thanks
- to Brian Tietz for reporting this.
-
- ADD: XModule now stores the current directory and pattern of all
- file requesters in the settings file.
-
- ADD: Added window cycling through ALT-TAB and ALT-SHIFT-TAB.
-
- CHANGE: Rearranged song sequence handling. Now it is possible to have
- an arbitrary song length (let's say 32768) and it will be easy
- to add support for song Sections ala OctaMED 5, but I don't
- think this is a useful option. Tell me if you want it.
-
- CHANGE: Now uses memory pools for storing songs. This will
- reduce memory fragmentation and will make XModule a little
- bit faster at the cost of a little (say 15%) memory waste.
-
- ADD: Fonts preferences are now loaded and saved (sorry, I forgot
- to do it in the last version :-).
-
- FIX: Fixed a bug in the ASL file requester handling routines which
- caused XModule to save songs to its own current directory
- instead of the directories where they were loaded from.
-
- FIX: Loading garbage as a Sound/ProTracker module will no longer lead
- to a crash. I've put a lot of efford in trying to catch all
- dangerous situations, like modules with no patterns or with
- invalid sequence.
-
- ADD: Added support for MMD1 (OctaMED) modules. Improved MED loader and
- saver.
-
- FIX: The "Play All" button in the Sample Editor no longer crashes.
- I'm sorry, it was a really stupid bug. :-))
-
- FIX: Fixed a nasty bug in the instrument clearing routine that also
- affected module optimization. The Repeat/Replen of killed
- instruments was not cleared, causing ProTracker 3.0 to refuse
- loading them. Added some sanity checks in the
- Sound/Noise/ProTracker loader to fix these corrupted modules.
- Thanks to Steven Cantini for reporting this bug.
-
- CHANGE: Default icons are now kept in a separate "Icons" drawer.
-
- ADD: The SaveIcons switch in the Instruments window does now work
- properly.
-
- CHANGE: Double clicking in the Instruments list brings up the Sample Editor.
-
- CHANGE: Changed the way to insert patterns in the song sequence. Now when
- double-click on the song position, the current pattern gets inserted
- there. Double clicking on a pattern causes opens the pattern editor
- window.
-
- FIX: The SongInfo ListView would not hilight the correct song when opened.
-
- FIX: Some string gadgets (The Song Name string gadget in the SongInfo
- window, to name one) allowed too many characters.
-
- ADD: Context sensitive help in all windows: pressing HELP now brings up
- help on the active window.
-
- CHANGE: When cloning the default screen, the overscan ClipRect is used to
- calculate the screen size. This behavior is more pleasing for those
- who use a very big autoscrolling workbench screen. (Hi Alfonso!)
-
- FIX: OctaMed loader now recognizes and converts decimal volumes.
-
- ADD: Instruments window "Add" button now spawns a file requester and lets
- you load an instrument.
-
- CHANGE: When an instrument has no name and has no sample associated, it
- will be marked "--empty--" in the Instruments list.
-
- FIX: Removed a serious bug that could crash the machine when a
- compressed module was loaded.
-
- ADD: The Instruments window is now an AppWindow and you can drop sample
- icons over it.
-
- ADD: The SongInfo window is now an AppWindow and you can drop module
- icons over it.
-
- FIX: Dropping multiple module icons in the ToolBox window or on XModule's
- AppIcon now loads all the modules correctly instead of loading all
- them one over the other.
-
- FIX: Low memory handling generally improved: XModule now has much more
- chances of surviving when memory is very short.
-
- FIX: Fixed a really serious bug in Clear Pattern option of Clear Module
- panel. The song was left with no patterns at all. Now one empty
- pattern is always allocated after clearing the patterns.
-
- FIX: When you delete an instrument, the "Total Module Size" and "Total
- Instrument Size" boxes in the SongInfo panel are now correctly
- updated to show the change.
-
- FIX: The setting editor did not notice when one of the fonts was changed
- with another font with the same width and heigth.
-
- CHANGE: The progress indicator will not be updated when the user is playing
- with Intuition. This way operations do not lock while a window is
- being resized or dragged.
-
- ADD: Menu items in Sample window are now updated correctly when
- preferences are loaded/saved.
-
- New for version 3.2, 3.3
- ========================
-
- Version 3.2 and 3.3 were never officially released. Some of the changes
- logged for version 3.4 were actually introduced in these internal versions.
-
- New for version 3.1
- ===================
-
- Version 3.0 was released to beta testers only, therefore version
- 3.1 is the official release version of 3.0.
-
-
- New for version 3.0
- ===================
-
- Version 3.0 took a lot more time than I originally planned. My machine
- has been used for an animation for a local TV, and the people working on it
- have been so clever that they deleted almost all my WORK: partition.
- I had a backup on a streamer tape, but somehow I couldn't restore it. The
- only thing that actually survived the catastrophe was XModule and its source,
- except the history log and a short assembly file. I've rewritten the
- assembler part, but I'm not going to type the history again (who remembers?).
- There were really lots of news (the list was two pages long), but you'll
- have to discover all them by yourself.
-
-
- New for version 2.8
- ===================
-
- FIX: Fixed a problem with NT/PT FineTune.
-
- FIX: Some memory did not free when user aborted loading/saving of a
- ST/NT/PT module.
-
- ADD: Support for 6CHN/8CHN modules (not tested). Thanks to A.Booker
- for suggesting this.
-
- ADD: XModule now supports loading signed and unsigned 8-bit samples.
-
- FIX: Instrument longer than 128K are correctly clipped when saving
- to ST/NT/PT.
-
- FIX: Memory wasn't freed when loading an instrument over an already
- existing one.
-
- CHANGE: Windows are now simple refreshed. Slower but eats a lot less memory.
-
- FIX: Now the DefaultTool for icons created by XModule contain the
- correct pathname.
-
- CHANGE: Code has been optimized and rearranged in many parts,
- especially the user interface. This should fix some potential
- bugs and make it easier to add new features quickly. Locale
- support and context-sensitive help are almost ready.
-
- ADD: Some new shortcut keys; more keyboard control over gadgets
- available for Kickstart V39+.
-
- ADD: Documentation cleaned up and some parts added.
-
- FIX: Possible small memory loss when closing a window.
-
- FIX: When iconifies, XModule now tries to use its-own icon instead of the
- Workbench default Tool icon.
-
- FIX: Screen re-opening bug which caused XModule to illegally close
- someone else's screen in some cases.
-
- ADD: Many new gadgets in Sample editor (yet some are inactive).
-
- ADD: Range marker in Sample window.
-
- FIX: SaveFormat window text positions were incorrect.
-
- FIX: Newly created songs now have 1 empty pattern allocated.
- This fixed enforcer hits when saving empty songs.
-
- ADD: Three different methods for rendering samples (the code was already
- there since version 2.7 but I didn't add the menu items).
-
- CHANGE: Removed DETACH Shell option, it caused too many bugs.
-
- ADD: Some new (undocumented) ARexx commands.
-
- ADD: Added settings file saving/loading.
-
- ADD: Added Log window.
-
-
- New for version 2.7
- ===================
-
- FIX: Fixed occasional hits when closing a window.
-
- FIX: Bug in IFF 8SVX saver found & killed.
-
- CHANGE: Faster sample graph drawing under V39+.
-
- ADD: ScreenMode requester.
-
-
- New for version 2.6
- ===================
-
- CHANGE: XModule now requires Kickstart V37 instead of V36.
-
- FIX: Instruments ViewList under Kick 2.0 is now displayed correctly.
-
- CHANGE: Assembler startup as been rewritten (smaller & bugs fixed).
-
- ADD: Sequence editor is now fully operative!
-
- ADD: Progress indicator finally sports a percentage bar!
-
- ADD: Can now detach from the Shell.
-
- FIX: The documentation has been revised and corrected.
-
- FIX: Enforcer hits occurrred in Progress Panel under some rare conditions.
-
-
- New for version 2.5
- ===================
-
- FIX: Problem (read: guru) when trying to save as Sound/Noise/ProTracker
- a module having the first pattern longer than 64 lines.
-
- FIX: Oktalyzer saver used to set mode 8 for all instruments.
-
- FIX: Sample editor did not update Repeat and Replen when opened.
-
- FIX: the Repeat value was doubled when loading SoundTracker modules and
- halved when saving.
-
- CHANGE: Numbers in sequence list are now displayed in decimal format.
-
- FIX: Some weird SoundTracker 15 instrument module did not
- load correctly.
-
- ADD: Installer script included in the distribution.
-
- ADD: MagicWB icons for XModule and its documentation.
-
- CHANGE: Documentation improved a little.
-
-
- New for version 2.4
- ===================
-
- ADD: Can now load raw samples.
-
- ADD: Added DataTypes support to load instruments.
-
- ADD: Can now load raw data as instrument.
-
- FIX: Illegal characters in instrument names are now filtered out.
-
- FIX: Sample graphic now clips correctly.
-
- FIX: Fine tune was not saved in SoundTracker modules.
-
-
- New for version 2.3
- ===================
-
- ADD: Asyncronous FileRequesters.
-
- ADD: Asl & ReqTools FileRequester support.
-
- FIX: Didn't accept some SoundTracker effects.
-
-
- New for version 2.2
- ===================
-
- ADD: XModule now sports an ARexx port featuring two (2) commands,
- one of which does not work yet!
-
- ADD: When opening on the Workbench screen, the main window is now an
- AppWindow. You can drop module icons on it and see them loaded
- auto-magically!
-
- ADD: Command line & Tool Types arguments are now supported.
-
- FIX: Save Fromat panel works a little better now.
-
-
- New for version 2.1
- ===================
-
- FIX: Status display routines did sometimes crash.
-
- ADD: Sample graphic display is now a little nicer and clips (almost)
- correctly.
-
- ADD: There is now a Save Format requester, but it is still not fully
- functional.
-
- ADD: Sound/Noise/ProTracker loader now warns notes with 0 as instrument
- number. I discovered that some composers (for istance
- AudioMonster) use this trick instead of command C00 to kill sound
- on a track. The problem is that some players (e.g.: MultiPlayer 1.32)
- will play some random data instead. I had no time to investigate
- deeper, but a solution could be to replace such notes with a C00
- effect, loosing the original effect if any (such as speed commands).
- In this cases you will have to fix the module manually.
-
- CHANGE: Sequence window look has drastically changed and includes a
- list to pick patterns from ( It is not operative, thoug :-( ).
-
- CHANGE: Repeat and Replen moved to Sample window.
-
-
- *** Versions below 2.1 have never been released ***
-