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                    Atari Rom File Designer's 
                    WHAT'S NEW and TO DO FILE


What's New in Revision 1.9.0 since Revision 1.8.0:
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  * Main window:
    - Toolbar updated
    - Statusbar changed, addding loaded file information
    - Accelerators keys updated and modified
  * Using of an listview Dialog for the Atari DOS Directory
  * Upgrading the file saving with Overwritting Confirmation
  * Possibility to change the ASCII font if all text display windows
  * Conversion ATR <> XFD available in the Parameter Dialog and in the
    SaveFile Dialog.
  * My brand new About dialog bitmap has been inserted
  * Edit Sector window:
    - Fully redesigned including new features:
    - Menu updated and statusbar redesigned
    - Insersion of data in the whole file, not only on the edited sector
    - Resizing of the window is automatic according to the font used
    - Resizing minima are limited
    - Insersion and suppression of sector
    - The Atari real font is now in ressources, AtariFont.dat is no more needed.
    - Using of the mouse rigth button
    - Copy, cut, paste data.
    - Insert, delete, replace bytes.
    - Modifications are done directly on the file loded in memory
    - Change color used and selection showing.
  * Import (read from file into memory) and export (write from memory into a file)
    functions have been debugged and optimized
  * Compare function with maximum difference added
  * Search and replace functions have been debugged and optimized
  * Disassembly table (Atari addresses name) and algorythm updated and optimized,
    including new features (ex: for address $100, $101 to $1FF, address name will be
    STACK, STACK +1 to STACK +FF)
  * HEX <> DEC convert window debugged (static text) and upgraded
  * GetLastError : Windows system messages support added
  * Unformization of the displayed text message of ARFD
  * Automatic sizing and resizing of the ARFD dialogs and windows (to be commented)
  * New windows title procedure
  * Boot sector information debugged (didn't with ATR)
  * 'Block' is replaced by 'Segment' in the Atari DOS directory procedures
  [list may be incomplete]

TO DO AND KNOW LIMITATIONS on Revision 1.9.0:
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  * Atari DOS is supported up to official DOS 3.00 (Atari 1050 DOS, 1023 sectors of
    128 bytes maximum). -> See if other DOS may be supported.
  * Limitation of the open file length : 360Ko + 16 bytes = (360 * 1024) + 16
    = 368656 bytes (0x5A010). No particular reason for this value.
  * ARFD does not support ATR disk image with 256 bytes per sector (in this format, 
    the 3 first sectors are 128 bytes sized, and other sector are 256 bytes sized)
    -> Get information about this ATR format and see what could be done
  * Atari DOS flag are not used. -> They could be supported in futur.
  * TO DO : Creation of an Atari DOS file in memory from reading an EXE or COM file
    on PC hard drive.
  * TO DO : Colors amy be added in the text display windows, and a color selection
    dialog may be added for the selection of any displayed color.
  * TO DO : Print and print setup to be added
  * TO DO : Inline help to be written, HELP button to make enable
  * TO DO : Improve the interaction between windows (resising, minimizing, closing...)
  * COM DIALOG, TO DO:
    - Support of the Atari Verify Sector command
    - Add the communication data frame monitoring
    - Add support for other cable interface
    - Add support for debugging the cummunication with a progress indication ( acting
      like the LED on an Atari disk Drive. 
  * DISPLAY DIALOG, TO DO:
    - Add Save Bitmap procedure
    - Add a dialog for modifying the colors
  * TO DO : using of a listview dialog for the 6502 opcode and Atari address mnemonic
    list.
  * TO DO : add the 'Search ASCII text in the display window' procedure
  * ARFD is strict on keyboard number type input (Hex or Dec). Flexibility may be
    added by using '$' before an hex number and 'd' before a dec number to enter with
    the number on the keyboard.
  * TO DO : improve the function result repport in the text display window
    Example for searching, display the following:
      Searching HEX data '00 FF EE ' in sector $001 ...
      End of file reached : ASCII data not find!
  [list must be incomplete]

 Your your own ideas or suggestions are welcome too, feel free to mail-me!


 Philippe

   PVBest@free.fr
   http://pvb.free.fr/Atari/



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