bob_fossil wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:00 pm
New test version available
here.
Some crashes were fixed in the AY plugin and the browser now disables Radastan mode (if active) on entering the browser and restore on exit (ZX-UNO only). Turbo Sound support was added to the PT3 plugin - the maximum size of a playable PT3 module has been bumped to 28972 bytes to allow for increased size of TS modules (it's basically 2 PT3 modules stuck together).
I've also modified Find Mode (Caps Shift + F) so that searching for a single character matches the first character of the filename - giving you a quick way to jump to the first file for a given character. You can then BREAK out of Find Mode and navigate from that point. If you enter two or more characters, Find Mode works as before. Would appreciate some feedback on whether this is useful or not.
If you haven't already, please download the
latest stable release before using the test version as this contains documentation about program usage and installation not included in the test versions.
Hi Bob,
Firstly, thanks for making these changes and for your continued support with this browser. You make us lot very happy
I just spent some time testing this and here are my findings:
Tested on RVM (Retro Virtual Machine) on a 48k machine with virtual DivMMC
Steps:
I first updated the version by copying all the BIN and SYS files from the latest version, then from the test version, into their respective folders. I then renamed the BROWSE file to a B so that I could quickly pull up the browser by typing ".b". This handy tip came from [mention]Luzie[/mention] quite a few pages back. Thanks Luzie!
Upon resetting the machine and starting the browser with ".b", it started up perfectly first time. I navigated to a folder and searched for games starting with S by typing Caps+S, but it didn't respond. Actually it did respond, with the border going red, but I didn't notice it at the time
Then I realized there were no games beginning with "S" in the folder I was in, so that worked correctly.
I searched for another letter and that worked perfectly. If I continue to press Caps+F, it cycled through the files that started with that letter. If I continued to type in the search, it jumped back to normal search mode, cycling through entries that contained the text that I typed. It worked just as you said.
After spending some more time testing this, everything worked flawlessly for me. The only minor thing I would suggest (only if it is easy) is to add a beep sound effect to the red border if a search string is not found in the current folder. This would give an audible clue that the string or letter could not be found.
Thanks again for making the changes.