ChangeLog.txt

1.9 28-Oct-2022
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- Added clamping to mixchunk() in the example replayer code (but not in the
  tracker proper as clipping noise is a good indicator to the composer to
  sort out the gain setting ;-)
- White noise is now much more accurate to the real AHX sound <passing_by>
- Example replayers come with accurate Amiga PAL/NTSC frequencies <passing_by>
- Filters now sound exactly like the real AHX ones <kode54 and passing_by>
- Fixed potential divide by zero <kode54> and <Stian Skjelstad>
- Added workaround for Alt Gr handling on Windows. The windows SDL library
  sends dummy RCTRL key presses when you hit Alt Gr, so now right alt works
  as it should (thanks to AceMan)
- Much more accurate wavefilter function <kode54>
- Various macOS fixes <Chris O'Neill>
- Changes to make the replayers more suited to systems with more ROM but
  not much RAM <Fredrik Ahlstrom>
- Fixed 5xx command bug <passing_by> and <str00t>
- GTK message bugfix <r-mtwo>
- Linux improvements <Alex Myczko>, <Olivier Humbert>, <Francesco Gazzetta>
  and <Stian Skjelstad>
- Font fixes <DeltaRazero>
- Misc replayer fixes <pachuco>


1.8 07-May-2013
===============

- Fixed some warnings
- Fixed E1x and E2x fine slide commands (thanks to passing_by and kode54)
- Fixed broken stripping of 4xx upper nibble (thanks to passing_by). Due to
  a copy/paste bug, the fix for this in 1.6 only affected the left instrument
  column.
- Speed multiplier range is now 1-4 in the GUI. The HVL and AHX module formats
  only support this range anyway, so you couldn't save a module with a mult.
  of 5 or 6 (thanks to javamannen)
- Fixed some keyboard documentation bugs (thanks to javamannen)
- "Alt+Cursor Left" and "Alt+Cursor Right" now behave the same as AHX (suggested
  by javamannen)
- Updated all copyright dates and updated all URLs to hivelytracker.co.uk
- Removed all mentions of the sadly defunct IRIS homepage


1.7 27-Oct-2012
===============

All platforms:

- Fixed some crash bugs when closing tabs under certain circumstances
- Fixed some memory leaks
- Added an SDL wrapper that allows HivelyTracker to build for other
  platforms (Windows, OSX..)


OS4:

- Replaced some deprecated system calls with newer OS4 APIs


1.6 22-Oct-2008
===============

- Right since 1.0, EDx was broken because of how i'd implimented the
  two effect columns. Fixed. All replayers and plugins will need
  updating :-/ Thanks to skope for pointing this out.
- Fixed validity check for Cxx command, which broke in the ht replayer
  because the parameter is signed. (fixes the sidvibes ahx file, which
  used invalid Cxx commands). Thanks to megacz for pointing it out.
- The replayer now strips the upper nibble of 4xx instrument commands
  from "THX\0" AHX modules. These modules are saved from older versions
  of AHX that didn't have filters, and so if the upper nibble is set
  it activated filtering which is wrong since the module was created
  in an editor that didn't have filters. The AHX editor also does this
  stripping, but AFAIK WinAHX and its derivatives never did.


1.5 18-Aug-2008
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- A parameter in the undo system was declared as a signed byte instead
  of a signed word, which meant that some song parameters got corrupted
  when they went over 127. Editing songs over 127 positions long was
  buggered, for example. Can't believe i didn't spot this until now :(
- Added Protracker mod import. Just like the one in AHX, it simply strips
  out all PT commands that are not equivalent to AHX ones, and all
  instruments are set to a simple tone, so you'll still have a lot of
  work to do to make it sound nice.
- Added a size optimisation feature. It removes all unused instruments,
  and duplicate tracks. If you click with the right mousebutton, it'll
  additionally try and use the transpose column to remove tracks which
  are the same but transposed. However it doesn't know if sounds
  continue after the newly transposed track so you may have to manually
  fix any problems with that afterwards. Both modes keep the original
  version and open a new tab with the optimise version so you won't
  lose your work if it messes up. Both modes also use track 0 as the
  empty track as AHX and HVL both make smaller files if that is the
  case, however, if there are no empty tracks in the module, it won't
  keep track 0 blank unnecessarily.
- Added a new command! When "EF1" is placed on or after the last note
  in a track, the "transpose" value for that channel will be preserved
  until another note is played in the channel. This overrides the
  default AHX/HVL behaviour, which is to switch to the next transpose
  value as soon as the next position is reached.
- '=' now does row preview, like enter does in protracker
- '-' now toggles horizontal advance in the position editor
- Added "posedadvance", "notejump" and "inotejump" fields to the
  ht.prefs file. They don't show up in the prefs window, though, so
  you have to edit them manually (run hively 1.5 and quit it to make
  them show up in the file). "posedadvance" is either 0 or 1. When set
  to 0, horizontal advance is disabled by default.
  "defnotejump" is 0 to 9, and sets the default notejump in the pattern
  editor. "definotejump" is the same for the instrument editor.
  

1.4 24-Aug-2007
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- Playback no longer stops when the "Load Mod" filerequester is open
- Undo & Redo for almost all edit operations
- Cutting an area in the position editor cleared both columns of
  the left & right edges even if they weren't selected. Fixed.
- Cutting or pasting in the position editor didn't update the
  track editor even if the current tracks were changed by the
  operation. Fixed.
- If you change preference options that require the GUI to be closed
  and re-opened, it now does that instead of requiring you to quit
  and restart.
- Skin directory, initial song directory and initial instrument
  directory options all now can be selected via ASL directory requester.
- Right-clicking on a channel mute button now mutes all other channels
  except that channel. If it is already the only un-muted channel,
  all channels will be unmuted instead (suggested by Syphus).
- Added "9xx" panning command to the instrument performancelist. It
  only changes the panning position for that specific instrument. The
  next time an instrument is played in that channel, it returns to
  the last panning position set with the traditional "7xx" track
  command.
- Pasting or marking blocks in the position editor didn't work
  correctly if channel 1 wasn't the leftmost channel. Fixed.
- Pressing Ctrl+B while marking a block now cancels block marking
  instead of resetting the mark position.
- Added a drumpad mode, selectable either by the funky new on/off
  gadget or via the backslash key. When enabled, selecting instruments
  via numeric keyboard causes them to be played, and if edit mode is
  set, the instrument is inserted into the song. Suggested by Syphus.
- Changed the release cut gadget from a 0/1 number gadget to the funk-
  tastic new on/off gadget (W00T!!111)
- Fixed a bug in the command line replayer that was really dumb and
  should have been spotted ages ago! Oops.
- Before, if a skin directory existed, and the logo bitmap existed
  in that directory, but there was any other file missing, hively would
  bomb out instead of reverting to the default skin and retrying. Now
  if a skin fails to load for any reason, hively retries with the
  default skin (SIDMonster-Light). This allows hively to load even
  if ht.prefs contains an invalid skin (such as SIDMonster-Heavy,
  which has been discontinued from 1.4 onwards).
- Fixed an incorrect pointer in the autogain routine


1.3 05-Mar-2007 (sorry it took so long :)
=========================================

- Position editor now has indicators so its clear to which channel
  each column relates (suggested by syphus).
- If you used ring modulation effects in the right hand parameter
  list of an instrument, but not the left, it would try and save
  it as an AHX instrument instead of an HVL instrument. Fixed.
  (thanks to syphus).
- Added Zap Song/Instrument/Position options (suggested by m0d)
- Added play time indicator (suggested by someone, sorry forgot who).
- You can now copy and paste arbitary regions in the position editor.
  (suggested by a couple of people, and I always intended to do it
  anyway :)
- "prefs_bg" and "Settings" in skins are now "prefs_os4" and
  "Settings_os4" respectively so that the same skin can be used for
  both the OS4 and OS3.x versions.
- Added some bounds checking to the replayer to avoid weird crashes
- Fixed a couple of small bugs in the replayer (thanks to pieknyman)
- When changing the position during playback, the current position
  plays through to the end before jumping to your selected position
  (suggested by syphus)
- Some status information which should have been local to each tab
  was global. Oops. Fixed now.
- Added Ctrl+Tab to jump to the same column in the next channel, and
  Shift+Ctrl+Tab to jump to the same column in the previous channel.
  (suggested by syphus)
- Added Alt+A to mute all but the current channel (suggested by
  syphus)
- Added Alt+Q to mute all channels
- Right clicking on "New Tab" now makes an identical clone of the
  current tab.
- Added speed multiplier gadget. This is a feature of both AHX and
  HVL tunes that was always implimented, but there was no way to
  actually set it in hivelytracker until now (oops :)
- Pressing the right mousebutton in the instruments list of the
  instruments editor will copy the current instrument to the slot
  where you clicked.
- Holding control and pressing the right mousebutton on a slot in
  the instrument list in the instrument editor will zap that
  instrument.
- Changed the default gain values when loading in AHX modules and
  using stereo mixing. The values before were calculated by
  running lots of tunes through the Autogain calculations and
  using the lowest values that came out. Well, it was too high, so
  now I actually calculated them using actual maths! (thanks again
  to pieknyman for finding a tune that clipped).
- Added some more options to the skin system to enable the cool new
  "Vintage" theme.



1.2 01-Jan-2007 (another bug fix release)
=========================================

- Pressing ESC now swaps between the instrument editor and tracker panel
  (as in AHX, suggested by syphus)
- An "are you sure?" requester now comes up when you try and quit, and
  if there are modified songs loaded, it warns you of that fact, too.
  (I always meant to do this but forgot. Thanks to syphus for the
  suggestion).
- Updating instrument number, or FX parameters with notejump set to 0
  didn't show the change until you scrolled the track editor. Fixed.
  (thanks to syphus).
- Renamed the "palette" file in the skins to "Settings" and included the
  ability to set fonts in there (thanks to spot and buzz for the
  suggestion)
- "Ctrl+K" and "Ctrl+Shift+K" keys actually worked without Ctrl pressed.
  Fixed (thanks to syphus)
- Added "BlankZeros" option (suggested by Spot)
- Fixed 4xx command which was missing from both HivelyTracker *and* the
  WinAHX sources that ahxplay.library was based on. The code was in there
  all these years, but the actual bit of code that decodes the 4xx command
  was missing! This fixes loads of old AHX tunes that played wrong in
  windows players. (thanks to syphus for pointing this out)
- Fixed a bug that called RectFill() with a negative Y value. This caused
  no problem under OS4, or under OS3.x on RTG, but under AGA caused a
  bad crash. Fixed because even though it didn't cause a problem under OS4,
  it was still a bug.
- Added "skinext" option to the skin settings file, so that skins can be
  in a format other than PNG.


1.1 19-Dec-2006 (bug fix release)
=================================

- Ensured all images are actually PNG. Any skin loading issues *should*
  now be fixed.
- Some places in the track editor were using the baseline offset of the
  wrong font (oops!). It didn't notice on OS4 since the two fonts had
  the same baseline. Fixed.
- Notejump is now taken into account when editing instrument and effect
  columns as well as the note column. (suggested by syphus)
- You can set notejump in the instrument editor, which is independant
  from the track editor notejump. (suggested by syphus).
- Fixed a buffer overrun that somehow didn't cause a DSI under OS4, but
  caused havoc on BuZz's port.
- Fixed an illegal memory access when clicking on buttons. Again, thanks
  to BuZz ;-)
- Added www.hivelytracker.com to the screentitles


1.0
===

- First release