That is a great set of updates.
Personally I prefer year-first dates so don't assume the illogical way
was was a universal preference ;)
But it's a small thing that I also don't think it's worth making
configurable. I would have told anyone who cared enough to ask for it to
be changed, to get over it and find something more important to worry
aboiut. But likewise, I am saying that for myself now that it's the
"wrong" way.
Auto-updating the current ram image before loading a different one
sounds like one of those tiny things that makes a big difference.
Probably very little code to do it, but it makes a whole different
convenient usage pattern like keeping a bunch of live ram banks rather
than a bunch of backups.
And yet they can still be used as backups & references too, just answer
no to update.
Maybe a complementary feature should go along with auto-saving backups,
which would be the ability to mark an image read-only, so that you can
protect images from accidentally being modified. It sounds like the way
the auto backup is done is probably a question that gets asked every
time rather than really automatic, but still once that convenience
exists, it trains the user to answer quickly by habit, and so the safety
lock option would complement and counter that. Or maybe instead of a
read-only flag, it's an auto-save flag. For marked images, they always
auto-save on exit, and unmarked images don't. Maybe a single flag if
it's more than one bit could indicate a few different possible states:
auto-save never/always/ask, read-only y/n.
Just thinking out loud.
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bkw
On 1/30/23 18:19, Stephen Adolph wrote:
I'm most of the way through testing a bug fix release for REX# and REXCPM.
Current load is R2.1 build 19.
New load is R2.2. Here's the list of changes (see below).
I'll post the upgrade files to the wiki when I am happy it is all
looking good!
cheers
Steve
Bugs
Rel 2.1: All: Fix the date display. Now it is YY/MM/DD. Request is to
change to DD/MM/20YY. Seems reasonable.
Maybe a date format toggle control? "D" in REXMGR menu.
Coded R2.2 / Tested
Rel 2.1: M100/T102: Make display tolerant to "hardware scrolling main ROM".
Coded R2.2/ Tested
Rel 2.1: Interworking with actual TPDD does not work. Fix pending.
Coded R2.2 / Tested
Rel 2.1: NEC: noticed that, with only one RAM bank installed, pressing TAB
or BANK causes laptop to hang in MENU.
This should not happen. Probably affects T200 as well. Yes it did.
Coded R2.2 / Tested
Rel 2.1: All: Reduce time on power up before option rom is switched, to
prevent undesired uninstall of option rom.
Coded R2.2 / Tested
Rel 2.1: T200: UR-2 support seems like it is broken.
Major defect discovered, coding error on my part. Fixed.
Coded R2.2 / tested
Feature Requests
Rel 2.1: Request to put an "Overwrite?" option to allow images to be saved
when one exists already. Great idea!
Coded R2.2 / Tested
Rel 2.1: All: when switching RAMs, give option to re-save current RAM or
not.
Coded R2.2 / Tested
Rel 2.1: M100: add quickmenu command to reNAME or KILL a file in MENU.
T200: add quickmenu command to NAME a file in MENU.
Coded R2.2 / Tested
Rel 2.1: All: Allow use to de-install the active ROM, leaving no ROM
active. F6.
Coded R2.2 / Tested
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bkw
