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10th May 2008

• Basic6502 1.20 fixes a couple of small bugs.

12th August 2007

• ZeriBeep 1.30 improves compatibility and rendering of speech.
• Labyrinth adapted to ZeriBeep 1.30 (but no significant changes).

3rd September 2006

• Small fix to ZIDEFS 1.10 release, three utils mistakenly complained of wanting to see 1.02.

2nd July 2006

• All 15 programs/utilities in the Software section have been updated. Some small changes, some larger. Most are intended to be the final versions.

22nd April 2006

• 65Link 2.30 contains a few (last ?) bugfixes/changes.

4th April 2006

• ZeriLink 2.50 now (x86) Linux compatible.
• ZeriLink 2.50 Windows/Linux side source code released.
• 65Link 2.20 contains one last DFS compatibility tweak.

31st March 2006

• 65Link 2.10 server side source code released.

27th March 2006

• 65Link 2.10 now (x86) Linux compatible (should do for now !).

10th March 2006

• Spanking new version 2.00 of 65Link, now also PC compatible.

21st November 2005

• Added new program 'Basic6502' under Software.

14th November 2005

• Added ViewFinder info under Hardware (finally !).

30th November 2004

• GoMMC info restructured, and added some techical info.

18th October 2004

• Translator 8.25 and Creator 3.45 were recompiled and had one or two bugfixes.

27th March 2004

• Improved/added a few pics (for GreyEdit, ZIDEFS and on the Elektor Electronics article pages).

10th March 2004

• 65Link again : 1.40 offers several major improvements, especially when talking to a BBC Master.

24th February 2004

• 65Link 1.36 fixes a major bug, on the server side, in handling OS_File 0.

22nd February 2004

• Code for A & B Computing article 'Old English Font' can now be downloaded.

17th February 2004

• Translator, Creator and the 65Link cable & ROM can now be paid for with PayPal.

29th January 2004

• Added scans of my Elektor Electronics publications to the 'Articles' section.

28th December 2003

• 65Link 1.35 provides a few minor bugfixes and now accepts SSD and DSD disc images.

8th July 2003

• A few tiny tweaks found their way into Labyrinth 1.05.

14th June 2003

• Added scans of my publications in A & B Computing to the 'Articles' section.

8th June 2003

• Translator 8.22 fixes (or rather avoids) a problem that causes crashes on (especially but seemingly not exclusively) Kinetic systems.

5th June 2003

• Re-compiled the GNU utils.

1st June 2003

• Labyrinth 1.04 can now save games.

31st May 2003

• The EarthMap database is now available by simply downloading two Spark archives (possibly only temporarily because they consume a lot of my limited webspace). Get them while you can, because getting the www copy is much more fiddly.

30th May 2003

• 65Link 1.30 provides a number of bugfixes and improvements.

25th May 2003

• ZeriLink 2.44 and ZIDEFS 1.02 are maintenance releases (there are only minor internal changes).

24th May 2003

• Translator 8.21 and Creator 3.41 have had a few minor bugs fixed.

23rd May 2003

• GreyEdit 1.40, PackDir 2.10, EarthMap 1.10, FileAct 2.30, DiscInfo 1.30 and ModeInfo 1.20 have all been rebuilt, thoroughly cleaned up in all sorts of ways, and tested (about time too, the last versions were 6 (PackDir, EarthMap, FileAct, DiscInfo) to even 10 years old (GreyEdit, ModeInfo).
• GreyEdit has had a major facelift and is no longer restricted to pre Risc PC machines, and is now Freeware.
• ModeInfo also got a major overhaul, is no longer restricted to RISC OS 2.00 (!) machines, and even supports ViewFinder.
• DiscInfo now understands RISC OS 4 maps.

23rd March 2003

• ZeriBeep 1.11 is now 26- and 32-bit processor mode neutral.

9th March 2003

• With ZeriLink 2.43 the LinkR and LinkT commands on the Acorn side can now be aborted with Escape. Also a few cosmetic changes.

2nd March 2003

• Various changes, mostly cosmetic.
• Validated all HTML via www.w3c.org.
• Kitties finally make an appearance under 'Me'.

19th February 2003

• Added screenshots to the Creator page.
• Added a screenshot to the Translator page.
• A few changes to the website, mainly cosmetic.
• Changed the entire website directory structure.

8th December 2002

• ZeriBeep 1.10 provides some major improvements in sound fidelity and accuracy.
• ZeriLink 2.42 is the first release since 5 years. Functionally identical to 2.41, but cleaned up, reassembled and recompiled, and otherwise brought up to date.
• Labyrinth 1.03 provides a few minor improvements, and now uses ZeriBeep 1.10.

16th June 2002

• ZeriBeep 1.03 incorporates a few last bugfixes and tweaks.

26th May 2002

• Translator 8.20 and Creator 3.40 can now read Draw files, use the latest available JPEG and PNG library code, introduce a large number of improvements and fix a few bugs.

30th March 2002

• Added screenshots to Translator and Labyrinth pages.

22nd March 2002

• Removed BBC code from Labyrinth 1.02.

21st March 2002

• Labyrinth 1.00 adds sound to the game.
• Released ZeriBeep, an SN76489 sound chip emulator.
• Slight final tweak to Labyrinth and ZeriBeep, now both 1.01.

19th March 2002

• Another new look for the webpages. Edited too.

8th January 2002

• ZIDEFS 1.01 contains a final few tweaks.

8th November 2001

• ZIDEFS 1.00 updates 7(!) year old version 0.90. ZIDEFS is now Risc PC compatible, RISC OS 3.5 to 4.03+ compatible, supports 'large' drives (up to 256 GB), supports LBA (Logical Block Addressing), and introduces several other improvements.

24th July 2001

• Added Labyrinth to the 'Software' section.

24th October 1999

• New look for webpages. Some changes and additions. Probably more to follow.

15th June 1999

• Translator 8.10 and Creator 3.32 now understand more TIFF subformats.
• Translator 8.10 can now perform batch processing.

11th March 1999

• 65Link 1.20 is now compatible with the A5000 (tested) and probably also with the A7000, A4000, A3020, A3010 and A4 (untested).

7th March 1999

• Translator 8.03 fixes a small niggle introduced in 8.02. Saving JPEG barfed on '/' being used in the filename (again).
• Creator 3.31 fixes the same problem for Creator 3.30.

5th March 1999

• Translator 8.02 is now up to 6 times faster loading JPEG and PNG (but this needs dynamic area support and the image to be cached).
• Creator 3.30 has been rewritten in C++ (there are some minor user interface changes). Also, BMP output support has been added and BMP input support has been improved.

10th January 1999

• Translator 8.01 adds BMP output support and improves BMP input support.

11th October 1998

• Finally, after five years : a new version of Translator. Version 8.00 is a full rewrite, containing numerous enhancements.

27th May 1998

• A few more 'quick ports' of Unix commandline utils : Grep 2.2 and Sed 2.05 (and a slightly changed Gawk 3.0.3).

18th February 1998

• Gawk 3.0.3 is a 'quick' port of this well known Unix utility to RISC OS.

3rd February 1998

• Creator 3.22 fixes a few minor problems and can now read the BMP format.

1st February 1998

• 65Link 1.10 adds full support for second processors.

5th January 1998

• 65Link 1.01 includes a module missing from 1.00 (oops). Writes from 6502 to ARM were suboptimal and have been sped up by 40% (51k/sec now).

1st January 1998

• 65Link 1.00 is a brand new application that allows your 6502 equipped machine (e.g. BBC) to use the harddisc of your ARM equipped machine (e.g. RISC PC) for file storage.

5th June 1997

• DiscInfo 1.27 fixes a stupid bug.

1st June 1997

• DiscInfo 1.26 now supports 'large' discs.
• ZeriLink 2.41 is now Freeware and will not be developed further due to apparent lack of interest.

15th May 1997

• DiscInfo 1.20 is a total rewrite and now features understanding of F format discs and graphical display of disc maps.

3rd May 1997

• ZeriLink 2.40 now also supports PS/2 ('bidirectional') parallel ports, which should make ZeriLink work on a much greater number of machine types (e.g. the A5000 and A4, although this is untested currently).

12th April 1997

• ZeriLink 2.30 is twice as fast. Transfer speeds up to 800k/sec are now possible.

5th April 1997

• ZeriLink 2.20 improves on hardware compatibility (in addition to the software, the cable has to be modified).

4th April 1997

• EarthMap 1.00 is a total rewrite and contains numerous improvements among which full RISC PC compatibility, 'wrapping' world display, database file caching, editable detail colours, higher processing speed and more.
• FileAct 2.20 is also a full rewrite, although functionality has changed very little.
• Creator 3.21 and PackDir 2.04 have a few minor bugs fixed.

16th March 1997

• ZeriLink 2.10 improves on hardware compatibility (in addition to the software, the cable has to be modified).

2nd March 1997

• ZeriLink 2.00. A brand new application. This software, with a suitably wired parallel cable, enables 400k/sec file transfer between a RISC PC and an IBM compatible PC, two RISC PC's, or two IBM compatible PC's. ZeriLink is Shareware and costs 30 guilders.

5th January 1997

• Creator 3.20. Again a major upgrade. All available input formats can now be converted to all available output formats, without exceptions. The number of colours to save in palette colour output images can now be chosen freely (e.g. anything between 1 and 256 colours for an 8 bpp image). Support for the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format has been added, both read and write.

25th November 1996

• Creator 3.00. This is, hot on the heels of version 2.00, again a major upgrade. Creator can now perform colour reductions using sophisticated quantization and dithering algorithms, which greatly extends its conversion capabilities. Creator 3.00 is StrongARM compatible.
• Also, a StrongARM compatible version of PackDir (2.03) is now available.

13th October 1996

• PackDir 2.00. Like Creator, PackDir has been totally rewritten since the last version (1.35) which was released three years ago. There are numerous improvements, most notably speed-wise.

1st October 1996

• Creator 2.00. This has been totally rewritten since the last version (1.42) which appeared mid-1993. If you ever used Creator, you *must* check out this new version.