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Star Commander V0.83 [2010] |
AKA :
SC, StarCommander
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Production Info
Submitted by Mace on 12 January 2010
The Star Commander, Version 0.83 (sc083.zip, 2010-01-11)
Bugs fixed since Version 0.82:
- The Commander doesn't crash dosemu anymore but XMS is not used either.
- You get no error message about the drive setup file being corrupted if the
main setup file is missing.
- On certain machines, with a buggy VGA BIOS, the Commander displayed an
empty screen, although worked correctly. (Thanks to H rsfalvi Levente for
the fix.)
- A weird problem, that caused extremely rare lockups upon launching the
Commander on systems with XMS memory available, has been fixed in the
OverXMS unit.
- "Fast mouse reset" didn't make any difference with PS/2 mice.
- The "Extended 1541 disks" setting was saved incorrectly into the drive
setup file.
- The "DOS type" setting was not saved at all into the drive setup file.
- The option "Orig format pattern" was always displayed as disabled in the
configuration menu, although enabling or disabling it had the correct
effect.
- Moving the mouse does not halt the process of a Quick view panel
collecting the number and size of files and directories inside the
directory highlighted in the opposite panel.
- When using the "Quick view" item of the "Left" and "Right" menus, it was
the opposite panel that switched to Quick view mode and the display of the
specified panel was emptied.
- PETSCII codes $7E, $9E, $DE and $FF were incorrectly displayed with the
lowercase/uppercase C64 charset: the character was reversed.
- When pasting long file names, that contain spaces or other invalid
characters, into input lines, they were enclosed into double quotation
marks.
- Quotation marks are removed automatically from DOS paths and file names
entered into input lines so that you may copy and paste them between the
Commander and other applications easily; quotation marks in Commodore
paths and file names are kept, however.
- When disabling long file name support with Ctrl-N, selected files were not
reselected.
- TAR archives were reported as broken.
- The number of sides is not detected for disks in 1570 drives anymore.
- For 1571 drives, the Commander now uses the drive's own detection method
to determine whether a disk is single- or double-sided.
- When copying files out of LHA and ZIP archives, the archive is temporarily
uncompressed into the destination directory - or, if the destination is a
Commodore drive, the TEMP directory - rather than the source directory,
which may be a read-only medium such as a CD/DVD-ROM or a network drive.
- Deleting the last file in Arkive, Lynx and filepacked ZipCode archives
caused data corruption.
- Adding files to a filepacked ZipCode archive may have corrupted the last
block of the previously last file in the archive.
- The progress indicator counted blocks incorrectly while copying a file
from a Commodore drive in normal transfer mode.
- When appending to a DOS file, the progress bar doesn't get filled already
at the beginning of the file copy and, when cancelling the operation, the
destination file gets its original size and date stamp back rather than
getting deleted.
- When copying files into filepacked ZipCode archives, sectors filled with
one byte were compressed as "packed" instead of "homogeneous", by both the
Commander or Star Zip, which causes no data corruption but increases the
archive size unnecessarily.
- In the confirmation dialog box for overwriting read-only or write
protected files, the "No" button has been renamed to "Skip" and it doesn't
cancel the complete file operation anymore.
- If "Copy onto dir track" was enabled, when copying a too large file into a
GEOS-formatted disk image, the Commander locked up rather than displaying
an error message about the destination disk having become full.
- During file rename, already existing target files are now detected
correctly under operating systems other than real DOS, as well.
- If you renamed files on Commodore drives with a device number other than
8, the Commander tried to move them instead.
- It is now possible to rename files inside LHA archives to names longer
than 16 characters.
- When trying to create a subdirectory inside a 1581 disk image, an error
message, complaining about the number of tracks, kept popping up forever.
- When changing the date and/or time stamps of DOS files, the archive
attribute was always set.
- The "Attribute" function could not change the date stamps of files under
Windows XP.
- You couldn't change to a completely empty drive, one that had no files or
directories in the root directory.
- When reading Commodore disks in warp mode, the complete sector header,
including the two padding bytes, is transferred to the PC and stored into
the destination, if it is a GCR-based disk format.
- The warp disk copier handled 20,READ ERROR's incorrectly: no data was read
from the damaged sector and other sectors, on the same track, may have
inherited this error.
- The disk copier locked up at the end of merging disk images.
- There was a memory leak, causing weird behavior or lockups, in the message
box in which the disk copier warned about the sector header ID and the BAM
ID of the source disk being different.
- In the error info editor of the disk editor, you couldn't put error codes
"A" to "F" to a whole track by pressing the appropriate shifted letter.
- When owners are displayed, the BAM editor corrupted the BAM upon saving
changes that affect the second or third BAM sector in 1571 and 1581 disk
images.
- If the video card returned bogus VESA screen mode numbers, the "Video
mode" function couldn't position the highlight bar onto the line that
represents the current screen mode, upon popping up.
- If the video card returned bogus VESA screen mode numbers, the Commander,
its loader, the viewer and the editor may have switched the screen into
80x25 mode, thinking that the current screen mode is graphical.
- In the palette setup screen, the cursor did not show the current color of
the item highlighted in the list.
- The external setup locked up upon exiting the "Configuration" menu.
- Pressing the "Skip" button in the replace confirmation box of the editor
had no effect.
- Standard viewers and editors are executed in a way that is more compatible
with DOS clones.
- The viewer is now able to show files up to the maximum size of DOS files:
2 Gigabytes.
- You couldn't enter subdirectories in 1581 disk images in the file selector
of the internal viewer and editor.
- Very long Commodore file names, those of files in subdirectories of disk
images and archive files, were cut improperly to make them fit into the
title bar of the internal viewer and editor.
- The directory list of the file selector is now centered on the screen in
VESA modes, too, where the screen is wider.
- In disk images, the Star Utilities assume files with a starting track of
zero to be phantom files and don't fall into an infinite loop when trying
to extract file data anymore.
- Star List, when using a format specification file, did not display the
container header if the first file entry of the container was deleted and
so not visible; it also did not display the container footer if the
listing ended because of too many entries in the container.
- Star List shifted the filenames one line upwards when listing LHA, LHA SFX
and TAR archives without format specification.
Other changes since Version 0.82:
- From now on, for unregistered users, beta versions expire one year after
their release; please, always download the newest beta and don't complain
about problems with old betas!
- The source package does not include the (modified) source of Turbo Vision,
Borland Pascal's user interface, anymore, only the compiled units and
object files plus patch files that convert the original Turbo Vision
source files into their modified form.
- Introducing support for accessing Commodore drives via the OpenCBM driver
(cbm4win 0.4.0 or above) under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 - use the
"OpenCBM" value for the "Serial cable" option in the "Transfer options"
configuration screen.
- Introducing disk turbos for 1581 drives.
- Introducing support for ZIP archives, using Info-ZIP as external archiver:
you may read the directory and add, extract, rename and delete files; note
that PKZIP will definitely not work.
- Introducing read-only support for diskpacked ZipCode archives: you may
read the directory, extract files and view the disk with the disk editor.
- Introducing the enhanced disk copier that can copy between any pairs of
Commodore disks, disk images, diskpacked ZipCode archives and sixpacked
ZipCode archives.
- Introducing read-only support for the "*.f64" disk image companion files
created by FCOPY-PC.
- Introducing batch processing capability; read the documentation for more
details.
- Introducing a Commodore 1541 disk formatter that verifies sectors and
allocates bad ones in the BAM; for non-extended disks only.
- The Commander is now able to show file and disk sizes up to the maximum
size of NTFS/ext2 files: 8 Exabytes (1 Exabyte = 1 thousand million
Gigabytes).
- Introducing the "/noxms" and "/noems" command line parameters that disable
XMS and EMS usage.
- Introducing the "/color", "/bw" and "/laptop" command line parameters to
force the color, black & white and laptop palette.
- The "/novesa" command line parameter disables VESA support completely, not
only during startup.
- Introducing the "/nowinclip" command line parameter that disables usage of
the common Windows clipboard.
- Paths longer than 80 characters are also saved inside and between
sessions.
- The interval of valid parallel port addresses has been expanded to
$0200-$F800.
- Under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, the quasi-files, assigned to the GiveIO
and UserPort drivers, are kept open during parallel port access and closed
only afterwards so that drivers can set up exclusive port usage for the
Commander.
- As the parallel port mode cannot be reliably detected under Windows
NT4/2000/XP/2003, the warning about using an XP1541/XP1571 parallel cable
on an SPP parallel port is not displayed anymore.
- A new option, "Invalid GCR error", lets you configure what error message
the warp disk copier should generate when it encounters invalid GCR codes
in sectors of Commodore disks.
- A new option, "Num of smart retries", enables a different method for
retrying bad sectors on Commodore disks: if the damaged raw data, read
from the disk, is the same for this many consecutive retries, the sector
is considered to be successfully read, the error code is noted but no
error message is displayed.
- If the "Delay value" option is set to 0, the new default value, then the
actual delay value is computed by the automatic calibrator before every
access of the Commodore drive.
- The "Force async transfer" option is now called "Async transfer" and its
"Auto" value allows you to let the Commander automatically decide whether
to use synchronous or asynchronous data transfer.
- The new "SafeAll" and "SafeUsed" values for "Detect port modes" skip port
mode detection under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, to avoid delays and crashes
of the DOS shell, but work exactly as "All" and "Used" under other
operating systems.
- The current transfer mode is highlighted in the "Drive interleaves" frame
of the "Drive options" menu so that you may tune the transfer speed
easily.
- More alternative hotkeys: Delete for deleting files, Backspace for
entering the parent directory.
- You get an error message if the Commander runs out of memory while reading
the directory into a panel.
- Removed the screen flickering upon entering and exiting standard viewers
and editors and, when the Commodore character set enabled, the screen mode
changes upon entering and exiting the internal viewer and editor.
- The "low brightness on black" shadow color has been changed to "low
brightness on low brightness" because it casts a more realistic shadow
onto reverse characters.
- To specify special PETSCII characters, "%xy" hexadecimal codes may now be
used for source file names, as well.
- Under Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, files with the extension ".cmd" are also
considered executable program files.
- In the Filter settings, TAR archives are taken for PC archives rather than
CBM archives.
- The "User command" function of the user menu for Commodore drives always
displays the drive status and displays it as PETSCII string so that all
kinds of unusual drive commands may be used and their results viewed.
- When turbo formatting an extended 1541 disk, and "DOS type" is set to
"Dolphin DOS" in "Transfer options", the first padding byte of sector
headers is set to $0D, so that Dolphin DOS also recognizes the disk as
having 40 tracks. The same occurs, when converting an extended 1541 disk
image or diskpacked ZipCode archive to GCR-coded disk image or sixpacked
ZipCode archive format, and "DOS type" is set to "Dolphin DOS" in "Image
options".
- In the "File attributes" box for DOS files, the year part of the date
stamp is displayed with four digits, including the century.
- In "File attributes", date and time stamps may be specified in the ISO
"yyyy-mm-dd" and "hh:mm:ss" format, too.
- In the "File info" box for GEOS files, the hour part of date stamp is
always displayed in AM/PM mode, even if the regional settings of the
operating system tell otherwise.
- "File info" recognizes more of the standard load addresses of BASIC
programs for various Commodore machines.
- Added a separate online help page on disk errors: what their reason is and
how the disk copier reacts to them.
- When "DOS type" is set to "Prologic DOS" in "Image options", only extended
disk images get a DOS version code of "P" written into the BAM sector upon
creation; normal disk images don't.
- The "Change drive" dialog box does not spin up floppy disk drive(s) under
Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003, during the detection of available drive letters.
- The checkbox settings of the "Copy disk" dialog box are remembered during
a single Commander session.
- An error message is displayed if, before a disk copy, you try to preformat
a destination 1541 disk for an extended 1541 disk image and "Command exec
mode" is set to "Normal".
- While writing a Commodore disk, 25,WRITE ERROR's are retried as many times
as the value of the "Number of retries" option.
- With two new symbols, "!`" and "%`", you may use the extension part of
file names in menu and extension files.
- It is now possible to toggle the character set even if a dialog box is on
the screen.
- If the system code page is other than 437 (US default for DOS), there are
seams, rather than national characters, where double and single lines meet
in dialog box frames; also, active options are marked with an "x" instead
of a check mark.
- The mouse cursor changes into an icon over screen hot spots and while a
mouse operation is taking place.
- Mouse wheel up/down acts as Cursor Up/Down, when CuteMouse - or any DOS
Wheel API-compatible mouse driver - is installed.
- Middle mouse button clicks on the key bar activate the functions that are
normally accessed with Shift held down.
- Clicking the middle mouse button outside the active dialog box has the
same effect as pressing Enter.
- You can drag the cursor in the command line with the left mouse button
held down.
- You can select text in the command line and all input lines with the right
mouse button held down.
- You can change the width and height of the panels by dragging the middle
and bottom edges of the panels with the mouse.
- You can change the width of the Name columns of panels by dragging the
vertical separator line to their right.
- Command line options, except for "/cmd", are also available in the
external setup program, SCSETUP.EXE.
- The Commander, the internal viewer and editor and Star Lynx all handle the
last file in Lynx archives without errors even if the "offset of last
useful byte in last sector" counter is missing from its directory entry.
- The new "PETANSI" view mode of the internal viewer, designed for viewing
ANSI-style PETSCII art, can process some control codes in PETSCII text
files: carriage return, all colors, reverse on/off and character set
switching; other control codes are ignored and not displayed.
- The viewer and the editor accept the names of Commodore files inside image
and archive files on the command line, using the common syntax.
- When editing menu and extension files with the internal editor, Shift-F1
toggles the mini help at the bottom of the screen.
- Star List now recognizes 1571 and 1581 disk images, as well.
- Now Star List allows you to use field widthes up to 255 characters rather
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