What's New in APE 1.17
See the Ape Users Manual for a complete description of all new features.
- Summary of main program changes.
- Fast computers would halt with error 200. Fixed.
- Colors restored on program exit.
- Broken ATR images could cause APE to abort. Fixed.
What's New in APE 1.16
- Summary of main program changes.
- APETIME.COM now included free with APE.
- Included on image APE_F32G.ATR
- Source code available.
- Downloads the PC time to the Atari and updates the Spartados clock.
- Compatible w/ both Spartados and Spartados X.
- Atari 800 and XL/XE compatible.
- REMOTE.COM now included free with APE.
- Included on both APE_F32G.ATR and APE_WARP.ATR
- Allows user to perform all APE functions from the Atari keyboard.
- Atari 800 and XL/XE compatible.
- Compatible w/ all DOS systems.
- See users manual for a complete description.
- Feature [F]ind Image implemented.
Can recursively search an entire set of drives for any image(s)
- Path configuration now supports 10 'spider' paths.
- Configuration Option [5].
Cables using the CTS line now supported.
- Configuration Option [P].
Registered users can now use persistent sessions.
- Configuration Option [Q].
Registered users can now bypass the startup screen permanently.
- Configuration Option [T].
Attempts to use Windows95 long filenames can be manually disabled.
- Configuration Option [U].
Force use of old smaller PC-MIRROR. (Spartados X)
- Configuration Option [B/F].
R: Atari Modem emulation can be manually disabled.
- Configuration Option [C/1-0].
Spider path settings.
- Configuration Option [C/D].
Default search drive list for find and REMOTE.COM
- Configuration Option [C/F].
Default filespec for find function.
- Configuration Option [C/R].
Persistent PC-MIRROR path switch.
- Summary of PC-Mirror changes.
- Maximum file write size is now 7,864,320 bytes.
Old limit was 93,000 bytes.
- Maximum read size is now unlimited.
- Configuration Setting allows switch back to old small image method.
- Special SpartadosX 4.20 rom patch available on request.
- Mirror can now be swapped like any other image, using keys 1-8.
- Mirror path and filespec are now separate items.
- Summary of APELOADER changes.
- Now moves up a directory when backspace is pressed.
- Now executes APE macros on PC when Shift 1-0 pressed.
- Complete loader rewrite, now totally relocatable anywhere in memory.
- Bugs Fixed in APE
- Screen color corruption in menu Z/C fixed.
- DCM Decompression code fixed.
Thanks to Ernest Schreurs (see IMAGIC.DOC).
- Faster, more consistent, serial I/O routines written.
- Keyboard buffer expansion code rewritten.
Problem with an international keyboard driver.
- Work around for faults in Microsoft's Win95 serial interrupt processing.
Could cause APE to stop responding when Win95 drops an interrupt.
What's New in APE 1.15
- When a DOS shell is launched (Key !),
APE will now try and swap itself out to EMS or disk.
- Free's up about 300k of memory for shell usage.
- New Config Opt: Default swap method.
- Various Screen Update Bugs Fixed
- Fixed READ-ONLY File Problem w/ PC-MIRROR
- New Printer Options
- Print to file now supported
- Print to any printer port supported
- Turn off printer (allows real Atari printer to talk)
- Print to file supports APPEND or OVERWRITE
- (Next version will support multiple emulated printers e.g. P2,etc)
- New Config Opt: Disable Happy/Syncromesh Detect
- Patch available for Spartados X 4.20 for Ape Warp+ (request)
- Added HARD Write protect, acts like a real drive (error returned).
- New Config Opt: Hard/Soft Write Protect (Soft allows old method)
- APELOADER Software Created
- APELOADER Added via direct boot from PC-MIRROR drive.
- (see Ape User's Manual for all the features!)
- APELOADER updated to run even broken EXE files
- APELOADER menu updated, allow base address switch from Atari keyboard
- New Config Opt: Default APELOADER base address
- Full support for .CAS digital cassette images added (key Y)
- (see Ape User's Manual for all the features!)
- New PC modem configuration interface
- New configuration manager interface