Greetings APE user! FTED32G.ATR contains the Shareware version of Spartados 3.2g. Spartados is an advanced _high speed_ DOS system from Fine Tooned Engineering. APE_WARP.ATR contains: MyDos 4.53 System 3x Sio APE+ OS Patch for any Atari DOS MyCopier High Speed (upto 3x sio) sector copier The .PRO images in this distribution are example PRO System images to showcase APE's ability to emulation complex copy protection. Changes since 1.11b2 -------------------- 2/7/97 1.12. Added or improved since APE 1.10 * APE now works 100% will all monochrome cards. * Lockup bug fixed. * Indus GT Syncromesh is now supported * Many internal changes * Crashes caused by file access violations are fixed. * Printer emulation reworked. APE now supportes many new printer options. * PC Mirror could be crashed by unexpected file permissions, fixed. 11/28/96 1.11. Added since 1.10 announce * True Monochrome support and support for all adapters with video memory in the B000 page fixed. * Fixed bug in serial ISR causing lockups for some users 11/11/96 1.10. Added or improved since APE 1.09: * Added intial ATR-FAST code. * Buffers are allocated earlier in the initalization for computer with low memory. * ATR FAST system now supports multiple call methods and keystoke activation * Setting the framing threshold sometimes caused an infinite loop, fixed. * The TILDE character used in Windows95 long filenames caused filenames in the PC MIRROR ro be garbled. Files now use the underscore character for long filename translation * While writes to the PC mirror under spartados are not supported, trying to do it caused a crash instead of a warning. Fixed. * SpartaDOS X cartridge support for floppy formatting added * SpartaDOS X cartridge support for PC Mirror added * SpartaDOS X cartridge now sees the PC mirror and can read it. * SDX COPY command now compatible with PC Mirror. * Problem with last path used in ATR file selection fixed * Ultraspeed and Ape Warp+ 3x SIO now compatible with more software, Top Mag, Superdos, etc * ATR FAST now displays ATASCII comments properly * ATR FAST system now responds to shift driven option * Extra SIO commands added for more support of the 1050 Speedy upgrade. Bibocopy 1.5 now works at 56k * Some functions optimized to allow faster performance with the APE Warp+ OS * Configuration menu totally revamped * New configuration options: Saftey Margin, Sio Control Method, file selector choice. * Cursor was sometimes left visible after a pick box was displayed. Fixed. * More robust configuration file checking installed * Many new features added to the Win95 file selector * APE sometimes left stray characters at the right margin. Fixed. * Write protect no longer clobbers byte 15 of ATR header * APE fully supports CRC32 ATR Authentication. ATR Authentication standard and documentation available at the APE Home Page. * Warp_453 from 1.09 now obsolete due to new driver in APE_WARP.ATR. 3x SIO patch for MyDOS/Atari DOS now much more reliable. * New versions of MyCopier included on the APE_WARP.ATR. Old version was also corrupted. Changes from Ape 1.09 BETA --> Ape 1.09 Full Release (5/24/96) Ape now includes an XFD conversion utility in addition to an improved and hopefully now complete DCM conversion utility. Image conversion is available to all users and is invoked with the 'A' keystroke. Many users asked for APE to handle commands sent by the Sio2PC program REMOTE.OBJ. Ape now handles these requests, but obviously you must use APE keystrokes. Keystrokes accepted for registered users only. REMOTE.OBJ was created by and is the property of another software author and is therefore not included in this software package. I'm not aware of any restrictions on its use, but if it requires some type of payment for use of course please register it. You can now select a new ProSystem emulation mode for any image directly from within APE as of 1.09. This _greatly_ speeds up the PRO image testing process. Registered users only. Sometimes the screen was left 'dirty' from previous menus, little dots at the right edge, etc. Fixed. The shareware version of APE could crash in the Atascii/Ascii viewer. Fixed. The file selector has again changed and you should note a signifigant change to the usage of the 'Additional Extension' option of configuration menu 3. This option used to specify the extension of the files to be displayed in the file browser. This setting _no longer_ perfoms this function. It now specified an _extra_ extension to be displayed in the file browser. ATR and PRO extensions are now automatically displayed at the proper times. If you have this option set to '*' I suggest you clear it so you dont have to wade through tons of usless files to get to your disk images. Changes Since 1.07 ------------------- Ape 1.09 and ProSystem 1.50 now support images of enhanced density and a extension of the .PRO format was changed to help this along. You _must_ convert your old v2 .PRO images to v3 .PRO images or they cannot be used with Ape 1.09. A fast and automated program, PRO2TO3.EXE is included to convert all your old images. You can give it a wildcard filespec so you should be able to convert all your .PRO images in one pass :) There have been a ton of internal and visible changes to the ProSystem. These changes will be documented in the first version of the ProSystem documentation. Changes from Ape 1.07 -> 1.09 BETA (As of 5/18/96) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executable file now smaller because of internal changes in allocation of dynamic memory vs. the old static method. Executable now uses overlays for routines that are not time critical, freeing page space for more features in the main program. 850 Emulation Fixed - A problem in 1.07 caused a 6502 vector in the stage 3 handler to point to a BRK instruction (OOPS!). 850 Emulation Fixed - Problem with concurrent I/O dropping out the instant it starts cured. Fixed DCM code to allow decompression of double density images, bug has been in the DCM code since its was written. PC Mirror: Files written to the PC mirror would fail with a DISK FULL message after about 400 sectors, fixed. Mirror now supports capture of files upto 8 Megs. Writing to a file that already existed in the PC Mirror drive would cause the program to fail with a device timeout. Mirror now supports writes to any file, even if it exists. Files written to the PC Mirror would on rare occasions be truncated to 125 byte intervals, or have an extra 125 bytes appended. Fixed. Files written to the PC Mirror would appear in the default DOS path instead of the current PC Mirror path. Fixed. Ape and ProSystem now be more monochrome friendly. If MDA adapters are detected all screens are displayed in white on black _only_. Ape 1.07 could be crashed about 10 ways with runtime error 203. This sloppy memory problem has been fixed and wont happen anymore. Spartados 3.2x (XF551 version) is now fully supported. Thanks to the user who sent 3.2x for testing. Problems included failure to format any disk (floppy or HD). Unknown if this will effect the X cart situation. When ATR images were created, they could then be mounted on the same drive as the PC Mirror, caused some interesting effects but is fixed. When creating ATR images they would appear in the default DOS path if no path was specified, they now appear in the default ATR/PRO path. APE ProSystem emulation code rewritten and streamlined, added 5 extra emulation modes (more coming). ProSystem now _requires_ version 3 format images. See the above instructions for converting your existing .PRO images. Many improvments to file selector including better path handling, type highlighting, drive change entries, visible marker (mono friendly) and internal changes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to everyone who sent images, bugs, raves, etc. Of course a teriffic thanks to all that have registered since 1.07. Most all the above enhancments are only for you, and I hope they make APE a better and easier to use product for _you_. Steven Tucker Author of APE: The Atari Peripheral Emulator, APE ProSystem, and Imagic 95/NT: The Universal disk image converter. http://www.nacs.net/~classics mailto:classics@nacs.net mailto:dh395@cleveland.freenet.edu