------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/30 REL: RELEASED VERSION 1.30. Major bugfix. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/30 FIX: The Startup Minimized option is working correctly now. 4/30 FIX: The Startup Playing option is working again. 4/29 FIX: FUM is gone! FUM describes the condition where DMPlayer would skip to the next song after playing just a few seconds and eventually crash. It no longer does this! 4/26 NEW: Added support for more E commands. Now supports Fine Portamento Up/Down, Set Finetune, Pattern Loop, Retrig Note, Fine Volume Up/Down, Note Cut, Note Delay, and Pattern Delay. 4/26 NEW: Added support for sample finetuning. Finally! This is a major improvement in the quality of the playback. 4/20 FIX: SongList entries that were filtered out were confusing the list, resulting in a 'Loading Getting Details...' message. 3/15 CHG: Possible speed up on some systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/27 REL: RELEASED VERSION 1.20. Fairly major revision. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/26 CHG: The minimum number of buffers is up from 16 to 32. 12/26 CHG: No longer skips to the next song if an error occured while loading a file. 12/25 BRK: Merry Christmas! 12/24 CHG: SongList entries that are non-existant are filtered out when the list is loaded. 12/18 FIX: Seems to work just fine with Warp now. 12/18 CHG: The buffer % will not go above about 75%. Do not be alarmed. 12/18 CHG: Opening multiple MOD's from the WPS should be much safer now. 12/18 FIX: Dramatically reduced the number of hard lockups by handling exceptions and stopping MMPM/2 before the system deadlocks! 12/17 FIX: Aha! Finally fixed the 'Skip at the beginning of the song' bug. MMPM/2 has the tendency to lie just a bit when it starts to play a playlist and DMPlayer has to take this into account. 12/16 CHG: You no longer need to input the path of a shell to run. DMPlayer automatically uses [BOOT]:\OS2\CMD.EXE. 10/11 CHG: The buttons reflect the state of the player now! 10/11 CHG: The SongList no longer goes through a weird 'Getting details...' process. Items are inserted with all info attached. 9/25 CHG: The SongList window no longer has it's own thread. This is a good thing, just ask Glade. 9/15 FIX: Stabilized the player state system. 9/14 CHG: All status messages appear in the SongList title area thanks to Glade Diviney. 9/14 NEW: Changed over to nice new ownerdrawn buttons 9/12 CHG: DMPlayer got a facelift. 9/4 CHG: The SongList window pops to the front when DMPlayer is activated instead of hiding in the shadows. 9/3 CHG: Made the device passing more robust. 9/1 FIX: Finally fixed that annoying "Settings notebook page never starts out centered." bug. 7/31 CHG: More optimizations 7/11 FIX: Songlist window gets the focus when it is opened. 7/11 FIX: Songlist window is only restored if it was open when DMPlayer was minimized. 6/6 NEW: Includes FILE_ID.DIZ for those BBSers. 6/6 FIX: Now uses a more proper way to resume after a pause. 6/6 CHG: Major change in playing engine. Should be significantly faster. 5/30 FIX: Fixed small bug related to help not being found. 5/30 CHG: Author came back to life after being at his new job for 3 months. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/2/94 REL: RELEASED VERSION 1.01. Bugfix distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/1 CHG: About dialog does not show up if 'Startup Minimized' is selected. 3/1 CHG: No longer asks to save the SongList upon exit. (This will more than likely become an option at a later date.) 3/1 FIX: Dropping from file system now initially sets each name to 'Getting Details...' as do other add song methods. 2/25 FIX: The Start Playing option works now. 2/25 FIX: The Start Minimized option works properly now. 2/25 FIX: Maintain Sort Order menu option works correctly now. 2/25 FIX: Fixed problem with DMPlayer refusing to play the next song under certain circumstances. 2/25 FIX: Fixed BIG problem with trying to use the 'Play' menu option with MMPM/2 elements. 2/25 FIX: The option to support old 15 channel modules now works properly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/22/94 REL: RELEASED VERSION 1.00! Golden code goes out the door... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/22 FIX: Drag/Drop internals modified slightly. DMPlayer will now accept drags from FM/2 (among others). 2/17 FIX: Several little things that I just can't remember... 2/17 NEW: Default decompression entries for gzip and unzip have been added to make life easier for non-registered users. 2/17 FIX: The Settings Notebook autosizes a little better now. BTW, the notebook is sizable. 2/15 NEW: Made the dynamic priority adjustment optional. 2/15 NEW: Added support for ANY FILE FORMAT THAT MMPM/2 SUPPORTS! DMPlayer can now play all of the following: .WAV, .MID, and even .AVI files! 2/13 FIX: Fixed a little bug that may have prevented DMPlayer from finding a song file. 2/11 CHG: The Sample list in the Song Info dialog shows ALL instruments. Now, you can read the messages the authors leave. 2/11 NEW: Made old 15 channel module support optional. 2/11 NEW: Added sorting to the SongList! 2/11 FIX: Loads SongLists much faster. Now uses a different thread to read in the details of each file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/8/94 REL: RELEASED VERSION 0.99. Pre-1.0 distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/7 FIX: Several little things. 2/2 CHG: The SongList window is no longer a child of DMPlayer (for now). 2/2 FIX: Fixed some problems with crashing/locking up the WPS. 2/2 NEW: Full online help is now here! Press F1 wherever you may be. 2/2 NEW: Better WPS integration because of the next item. 2/2 NEW: Better integration. Only one copy of DMPlayer will ever start, any subsequent executions will pass the command line arguments to the currently running copy of DMPlayer. The songs will be added to it's current list. 1/27 NEW: Added support for compressed modules. The decompression methods are configurable in the new Settings notebook. 1/27 NEW: The Settings dialog has transformed itself into a Notebook. 1/26 FIX: Fixed some problems when trying to load another song at an unexpected time. 1/25 NEW: Added settings to allow user adjustment of the Upper and Lower Thresholds for dynamic priority adjustment. Also added a setting to change the number of buffers used. 1/25 FIX: Won't crash if an unacceptable filename is dropped on the SongList. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/23/94 REL: RELEASED VERSION 0.92. Bug fix distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/23 FIX: Settings dialog is now properly dealt with. 1/19 FIX: Improved .MOD command support. 1/19 FIX: Won't let songs jump back from the last track. Songs that do this kind of defeat the purpose of a SongList. 1/19 FIX: General speedup. 1/19 FIX: Dynamic buffer resizing is back, correctly. (No more Traps) 1/19 NEW: Menu option added to delete a file from the SongList. 1/18 NEW: Commandline functionality added. 1/18 NEW: Dynamic priority adjustment added. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/17/94 REL: RELEASED VERSION 0.91. Bug fix distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/17 FIX: Lowered priority a little. 1/17 FIX: Improved 8 bit mono quality slightly. 1/17 FIX: Can now enter just one module name in the Add Songs file dialog. 1/17 FIX: Several bits regarding to saving of SongLists in registered version. 1/17 NEW: Added 'SongList - ' to title of SongList window. 1/17 FIX: Now stops song when dialog is closed. 1/17 FIX: Trap E in SSM$ is now avoided. The buffer size is now fixed at 16k for the time being. This will cause longer preloading delays for 8 bit users. 1/17 NEW: Error is displayed if there is an error playing a song. 1/17 NEW: Skips to next song if error loading current one. 1/17 FIX: SongList window is now a child of the main DMPlayer dialog. 1/17 FIX: Length of text for the filename in the Info dialog extended. 1/17 FIX: Won't ask to save SongList on exit in unregistered version. 1/17 NEW: Added 'Hardware Issues' to docs. 1/17 NEW: Added 'What is a .MOD file and where can I get them' do docs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/11/94 REL: RELEASED VERSION 0.9. First wide distribution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------