HISTORY

20230623

• Changed contact email address.

• Fixed glUAE_LA (replaced FOLLOWLINKS with COPYLINKS).

• Added generic configurations path.
• Removed some debug leftovers from glUAE_LA.
• Fixed glUAE_WA (due to a syntax error, unmounting of the centralized system would never be attempted).
• Made various internal changes.

• Added direct WHDLoad support.
• Allowed to indicate an alternative UAE executable on a per-application basis.
• Allowed to choose at startup:
  • the boot file, if no startup-sequence is found;
  • a hardfile, if more than 1 is found;
  • a UAE configuration, if none is found;
  • the UAE executable, if the default/application-specific one is not found.
• Reworked the images mounting: when a specific image is specified for DF0:, the next 1, 2 or 3 images in the same directory are mounted to DF1:-DF3: in alphabetical order. (before DF1:-DF3: would get the first other 3 images in absolute).
• Made the determination of the application form depend first of all on the input file type.
• Given the user more feedback in case of errors.
• Renamed the "first-run" splash screen as "first-launch".
• Replaced the installer with a brand-new, AmigaOS-standard installer/reinstaller/uninstaller.
• Made several internal improvements.
• Extended/reworked the documentation.

• Added the auto-creation of S/startup-sequence files for directory-based applications.
• Allowed the configuration chosen by the user at startup to reside in any directory.
• Allowed to choose a configuration at startup if none is found associated to the application (and the user can also decide whether to make the chosen configuration permanent upon quitting).
• Allowed to specify explicitly the disk image to mount to DF0:.
• Fixed the call to SetDTool (quotes were missing, so it would fail when the path included spaces).
• Extended/fixed the documentation.

• Retouched the installer to work also when launched from a different directory.

• Worked on glUAE_WA:
  • added a check so that it tries to unmount the centralized system only if the user requested automatic unmounting during the installation;
  • made the "If" statements fully OS-compliant;
  • replaced the switch SILENT with QUIET.
• Added version strings to all the scripts.
• Revised the documentation.

• Improved the post-execution archive update:
  • replaced the notification requesters with an auto-closing shell window;
  • fixed the check on the new archive (a wrong file name was used);
  • worked around an AmigaOS Rename command bug;
  • improved the handling of the old archive.
• Renamed some environment variables.
• Improved the install script.

• Added hardfiles support.
• Removed the workaround for misbehaving Set command of AmigaOS 4.1 Update 1.
• Extended/fixed/retouched the documentation.

• Improved the installer.
• Added first-run splash screens.
• Fixed the splash screens paths handling (quotes were missing).
• Made a few other minor changes.

• Made sure all the required floppy drives are activated.
• Improved the installer.
• Removed the documentation from the distribution archive.
• Made a few other minor changes.

• Worked around the new behaviour of the Set command after Update 1 of AmigaOS 4.1.

• Fixed the call to dismount script (a wrong file name was used).
• Revised the documentation.
• Made a few other minor changes.

• Extended the locking mechanism.
• Fixed a potential collision between instances of the same application.
• Allowed to ignore the centralized system on a per-application basis.
• Merged the distribution archives into one.
• Revised the documentation.

• Made the archive update 100% robust by simply creating a brand-new archive whenever any file is added/deleted/changed.
• Fixed a possible collision over a temporary script during images detection in case multiple glUAE_LA were running at the same time.

• Fixed a bug that stopped the launching process when more than 4 disk images were present.

• Removed the requirement of strict disk images naming - now the first 4 alphabetically-sorted images are automatically mounted regardless of their file names.

• Used, if available, Dismount instead of Assign DISMOUNT, to avoid broken unmounting of devices that do not support such operation.
• Added the option of automatic unmounting of the centralized system.
• Removed the dirty workaround to a E-UAE bug that has been fixed in the meanwhile.
• Improved the installation script:
  • postponed the removal of old stuff until all the new settings have been correctly chosen;
  • re-used the previous settings (if any) to speed up re-installations;
  • added lots of error checking and feedback messages.
• Added the SILENT option to glUAE_WA.

• Adopted the archive update notification solution of the previous release as final.
• Added the archive update notification also before saving.
• Added the repacking of archives when files are deleted.
  WARNING: for now the check is very simple: when the number of files at the end is less than at the start, repacking is requested. This does not work when some files get deleted and an identical number of new ones are created (the consequence is that the archive will not be updated). A perfectly working solution would be making use of softlinks to track down the original files, but this would sensibly slow down the startup. New solution to be found.
• Substituted scripts arguments brackets with curly braces to avoid redirection misinterpretation by Execute.
• Added a workaround to a problem with softlinks in RAM:.
• Changed the unique identifiers calculation (script glUAE_MTD removed, "{$$}" used).
• Made a few other changes.

• Initial release.