P96Prefs is an alternative (and hopefully improved)
P96 Preferences editor.
What does P96Prefs offer:
- configuration of all P96 preferences including environment
variables, monitor tool types, boards, resolutions and graphics
modes.
- scalable font-sensitive GUI
- online help system
- fully localizable (Italian and German included)
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New in release 47.1:
- This is the first beta release.
Release 47.2:
- This is the second beta release.
The program now checks for duplicate mode IDs and re-assigns them
potentially when pasting or loading. The environment variables to
adjust the handling of the native blitter are now removed if the
"Native" driver is active as it overloads such settings anyhow. Added
an "Undo" button to the menu which will revert the edits in the
selected board, resolution or mode. The HELP key now works exactly
like the HELP menu item and loads the guide at a particular
page. Fixed handling of AmigaGuide infrastructure. Fixed handling of
out-of-range board types. Fixed handling of Cut, which forgot to
update the GUI and request a reboot. Fixed a couple of GUI glitches at
which entries or menu items were not updated correctly when making
changes. Added a configuration editor for monitors and
auto-configuration for monitors. Updated and restructured the guide.
Release 47.3:
- This is the third beta release.
More glitches of the GUI interface had been fixed, in particular when
restoring the GUI after iconification or when adding or removing nodes
to the configurable items. P96Prefs has now the ability to add monitor
specifications to its preferences, and verify whether modes are
compatible to the monitor. It also attemps to create modes such that
they are compatible to the monitor. P96Prefs can now also create such
specifications from binary dumps of monitor EDID data, and when
creating modes, it will include modes found there.
Release 47.4:
- This is the fourth beta release.
The GUI has been improved slightly, with some GUI elements moved or
rescaled a little bit. Also, the online help system provides now help
for each tool type or each variable setting. The online manual is now
also searched in the program installation directory.
Release 47.5:
- This is the fifth beta release.
The list view on the left window side now shows only the short names
corresponding to the tool types and viarable names instead of the full
names, saving some space. P96Prefs now also shows the modes injected
by boards rather than coming from the settings file. Such modes
cannot be edited or copied, only tested. The gadgets of the mode
editor are thus all ghosted. The editor can now be aborted with
Ctrl-C.
Release 47.6:
- Another beta release, the sixth.
Resolution names were not correctly derived from the board name. In
case a settings file contained monitor information, this information
was not always added to the database. The monitor information was
formatted wrongly in the list view gadget. When modes were changed,
P96 did not always remind the user to verify them, the verification is
now also added when saving modes. The resolution ID of resolutions
added by the driver remained editable even though they should not have
been. If the board and the settings contained duplicate IDs, both
were added, even though only those from the settings should have been
present. Tooltypes and variables are now sorted by type and name.
The cursor keys now navigate through the list view.
Release 47.7:
- Another beta, the seventh.
Saving did not show the reboot selection requester anymore, it
vanished shortly after being displayed. The board name and
configuration name were confused, this should be fixed now. In case
the board did not have an icon (yet, or not at all), the resolution
page did not show a board name, and it may have caused a MuForce
hit. Another MuForce hit was caused by saving configurations into
icons with tool types not containing an equals("=") sign. This release
comes now finally with a localization, this time for German.
Release 47.7.1:
- The first Aminet release.
The actual P96Prefs binary does not differ from the beta version
as no further defects had been identified so far. However, the
archive now includes also an Italian catalog by Samir Hawamdeh,
and catalogs are now placed in a properly named directory.
Thanks, Samir!
Release 47.8:
Enabling or disabling an element by the menu did not indicate this
as a change of the configuration, and thus the modifications were
never saved back. The error requester failed to show the error
message because the wrong function prototype was used for creating
the requester.
Samir kindly updated the italian translation of P96Prefs. Also,
Javier de las Rivas provided a spanish translation of the catalog,
thanks Javier!
Release 47.9:
This release adds support of tooltypes that are supported as of P96
3.4.0, namely the RainbowII and the CBMs only graphics card, the
A2410. The BSC FrameMaster is technically identical and thus also
supported by this release. Added some idiocracies of the above cards
as well when creating modes. Added support for the new monitor width
and height tool types added to P96 3.4.0. In case more than one board
was installed, P96Prefs could have shown a dummy resolution of 320x200
pixels that is only for internal use. P96Prefs disabled modes if the
requested clock frequency differed too much from the actual clock
frequency. This is no longer the case.
Again, I want to thank Samir and Javier for updating the Italian and
Spanish catalogs of P96Prefs.
Release 47.10:
One GUI glitch in the German translation was fixed where one string
in the control panel for numerical elements was taking too much
space.
Release 47.11:
In case a board is ghosted, P96Prefs now prints a reason under
the (assumed) board name, either providing information
that the board driver is not loaded, the monitor icon was not
found, or the settings are not assigned to a board.
Release 47.12:
P96Prefs now requests a reboot in case a board assignment changed
implicitly because an installed board was assigned to an already
existing preferences setting. P96Prefs now also loads the monitor
dimensions from the EDID data and fills them in. Setting the
knob position of numerical tool types was not always set to scale
correctly.
Release 47.12.1:
The binaries remained unchanged, just catalogs had been updated.
Thanks again to Samir and Javier!
Release 47.13:
Only very minor changes have been made in this release, this version
is now more verbose in case it cannot open its window and prints error
messages if opening the window fails. Note that P96Prefs is
designed for classical Amiga Systems, it will not work on PPC
systems.
Release 47.14:
P96Prefs re-evaluates now the double scan and interlace flags from
the board driver, and thus cooperates nicer with the A2410 driver
which turns off the double scan it does not support.
Release 47.15:
This release adds support for the new VA2000 driver and recognizes
its tool types and some card pecularities.
Release 47.15.1:
The P96Prefs binary is unchanged, but this release contains an
updated Italian catalog by Samir and an updated Spanish catalog
by Javier. Thanks folks!
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Installation:
- Copy P96Prefs and its icon to SYS:Prefs, or wherever you keep all
other preferences editors. Any other place works of course, too.
- Copy the P96Prefs.guide to the directory to which HELP: or GUIDES:
is assigned to.
- Copy the directory Catalogs entirely to LOCALE:. It contains the
German and Italian catalogs.
P96Prefs can be, in addition, configured by the following tooltypes in
its icon:
SETTINGSFILE=<path>
defines the path where P96 stores its settings. This is by default
DEVS:Picass96Settings.
MONITORPATH=<path>
defines the path to all monitor icons that are loaded into the system
during startup. By default, this is DEVS:Monitors
HELPPATH=<path>
full path to the AmigaGuide documentation of P96Prefs. This is the
full path to the file name of the guide. By default, P96Prefs scans
HELP:, GUIDES: and subdirectories of the above, according to the system
default language. If you place the guide in some other directory,
please indicate the path to the guide in this tool type.
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Thomas Richter,
December 2023.
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