ADF Opus Version History

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Version 0.7.2 released 4 March 2000

Re-enabled the File|Information menu item to activate the Volume Information dialogue.
Changed the About copyright text to GPL suggested.
Changed things so that the buttons on the About dialogue actually open the right web page and email address as well as display them. Cheers to Andy Voss for pointing out the blunder. ;-)
When converting DMS to ADZ, the temporary ADF is now created in the temp directory, avoiding an existing ADF of the same name being deleted from the working directory inadvertantly.
Batch Converter output buttons are now properly reset when the dialogue is closed. Using Remove All will also reset them.
Added About tabs to fully credit xDMS and zlib.
Added the help file to the installer. You'll have to remove the AdfOpus.GID, that's created by Windows, manually when you uninstall, for now.
The help file returns, updated for version 0.7.2 and integrated as context sensitive help. The content has been heavily updated and expanded In dialogues, either click on the question mark [?] button and select a feature or right click on a feature for context-sensitive help. Use the Help buttons to open the help topic for the dialogue. You can also open the topic list or the Main Window help topic from the main menu. See Bugs\Limitations for more info on the current programme status.

Version 0.7.1 released 25 February 2000

Some careless path management during the addition of compressed ADF handling caused the opening of uncompressed ADFs to break. Fixed.
Added functionality that ensures that temporary ADFs, created when opening compressed ADFs, are not left in the temp directory on exit. These are now deleted by ADF Opus as part of programme shutdown.

Version 0.7 released 21 February 2000

When creating a new ADF or hardfile, ADF Opus now takes notice of whether you specified FFS/INTL/DIRC (before it used to always create OFS volumes with no international mode and no directory cache).
The Read Only check box in the Open dialogue now works.
The Options dialogue is now fully functional and correct. Settings are saved between sessions in the registry.
The batch converter can now convert between all formats with the exception that it can't compress to DMS i.e. ADF->ADZ, ADZ->ADF, DMS->ADF, DMS->ADZ.
I'm looking into the status of the DMS standard and the possibility of adding DMS compression to ADF Opus. For now, use DMS within the emulator to compress ADFs, if desired.
Documentation and About box updated with new mail and web addresses.
You can now open ADZ and DMS files for viewing. ADZs can be manipulated normally and will be recompressed when closed. DMS' can be viewed but not manipulated since, at present, they can't be recompressed. Compressed disk images are extracted to ADFs, which are created in a temporary directory. The temporary directory defaults to <Adf Opus path>\temp, at present. A user-configurable temp directory might be an option for the future. Temporary files are deleted on exit or when the owner child window is closed. Modifications to ADZs are performed on the temporary ADF and that is then compressed. Make sure that you close the child window of an ADZ you have made changes to, before exiting ADF Opus, to ensure that it is recompressed before exit.
Fixed a minor bug that caused the Up One Directory Level button to remain active until pressed again, when returning to the root directory of disk files.
The Information dialogue now shows whether a disk image is compressed and what its compressed size is in the Device tab. The Volume tab still shows the details of the original disk image.

Version 0.6.1 released 2 October 1999

Fixed bug where the program kept a lock on ADF files even after they had been closed
Fixed serious bug which caused corruption of hardfiles (actually a bug in ADFlib)
Enabled recursive copying of directories (now you can install Workbench from ADFs onto a hardfile!)

Version 0.6 released 21 September 1999

Added a copy progress window (not entirely complete yet). There is also a display of the current physical sector being accessed during the copy process.
Fixed missing details for first entry in a list
Can recursively delete Windows directories
ADFlib section added to About box
Can recursively delete Amiga directories
Removed Up One Level item in listers because it was causing too many complications and it is non-standard. You can use the equivalent button in the toolbar or the context-menu instead (sorry Laurent ;-)
View | Clone Current Window has been disabled because it doesn't work (yet)
Stopped it being possible to drop files onto a drive list window (doh!)
Started an Options dialogue (not 100% functional yet)
Due to complaints, directories are now sorted case insensitively (same as Windows Explorer)
Added a .inf file for easy install/removal
Uses a nicer cursor when dragging files

Version 0.5.0 released 29 May 1999

NOTE: Since this version is a complete rewrite, it's possible that bugs which were killed in previous versions have returned, so previous history entries are a bit meaningless.

ADF Opus is rewritten from scratch as a raw Win32 application, hence the smaller file size and better performance (older versions used Borland's OWL classes).
New version numbering system - x.y.z rather than x.yy. Don't ask.
I have scrapped my own ADF access routines in favour of Laurent Clevy's ADFLib, which is more robust and has more features (like write support to DCFS volumes and unlimited hardfile size).
ADF Opus can open real Amiga hard disks if running under Windows NT4 or the beta of Windows 2000.
User interface redesigned - now Windows file lists and ADF contents are displayed in separate windows rather than one split window. This makes the display less cluttered when working with a lot of ADFs. The menus have also been moved around and are hopefully more logical now (Laurent's idea).
You can now open ADFs by dragging them from Windows Explorer onto the ADF Opus window.
It is now possible to open more than one view of a disk image (e.g. to copy a file from one dir to another in the same ADF).
Gary's help file is temporarily MIA. It will surely return in the near future.
The DMS converter has been generalised into a batch converter. At the moment it still only supports DMS->ADF but in the future will support things like DMS->ADZ, ADZ->ADF, and maybe even ADF->DMS.
Right-clicking in a child window brings up a context-menu of useful commands.
Deleting (empty) directories works now. Thanks to Chris Neale for spotting that one.
You can now open DMS files and copy files out of them.
Volume information is now more comprehensive - includes info about device and volume(s).
Added an option to install (make bootable) an ADF.

Version 0.30 released 9 December 1998

Added a DMS to ADF converter (Tools|Convert|DMS->ADF) using code based on xDMS by Andre R. de la Rocha. This also features a batch converter, which allows you to convert many ADFs in one operation.
Optimised bitmap code - copying files from Windows to Amiga is now much faster, especially when copying into large or very full volumes.
The program now multitasks properly when copying files, even on Windows 95/98.
International Mode volumes now work correctly due to new hash function.
It is now possible to open more than one file at once in the Open dialogue.

Version 0.21 released 6 October 1998

Fixed yet another bug in my hash chain routines that caused errors when renaming or deleting in a volume with more than a few files.
Changed the link in the about box to reflect the change of homepage.

Version 0.20 released 1 October 1998

Integrated the help file properly. Context-sensitive help is available pretty much everywhere.
Added read/write support for hardfiles. Just open them as you would a normal ADF file. The maximum size of a hardfile is somewhere around 50MB. This restriction will be lifted in the future.
By default the Open dialogue now displays .hdf files as well as .adf.
The New Volume dialogue now allows you to create hardfiles and high-density ADFs.
Editing a volume label after performing a write operation sometimes caused corrupted directory entries. Fixed.
Found and fixed another stupid bug: OFS volumes were not being written correctly and caused checksum errors in AmigaDOS.

Version 0.11 released 14 September 1998

Added a help file written by Gary Harris. I haven't yet had chance to integrate it into the program - I'll do that in the next update. For now just double-click on the .hlp file to view it.
You can now delete files (not directories yet, not even empty ones) by clicking the Delete button on the toolbar or choosing File|Delete.
The Volume Information dialogue now behaves more logically: if you edit the volume label and then close the dialogue (without clicking OK) the change will not be committed to disk.
Fixed a serious bug in my hash-chain management routines where copying more than a few files into a volume caused corrupted directory entries.
Sizes of files are now displayed in KB rather than bytes (except if the file is less than 1KB, in which case the size in bytes is still displayed).
The last 1KB of a volume was not been used. This should be fixed now.
Implemented View|Refresh and View|Refresh All.

Version 0.10 released 6 September 1998

You can now create new directories in your ADFs by clicking the New Directory button on the toolbar or selecting File|New Directory.
You can rename files and dirs by clicking twice (not double-clicking) on their names, or using the Rename toolbar button or File|Rename.
Fixed a crazy bug which caused the program to sometimes miss directory entries.
Status bar is now turned off by default, because it doesn't actually do anything yet.

Version 0.02 released 30 August 1998

Copying a file into an ADF sometimes caused other files to disappear. Fixed. Probably.
ADF contents are now sorted alphabetically.
It is now possible to create new formatted ADFs (via Volume|New or the New button on the toolbar).
You can relabel volumes by editing the label in the Volume Information dialogue.
v0.01 forgot to calculate the bitmap checksum, so volumes written with it had to be validated by AmigaDOS before they could be used. Fixed.
Now checks the bitmap checksum is valid before opening a volume.

Version 0.01 released 20 August 1998

Initial beta release