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diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b95059 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,349 @@ +- 20190313 bkw: + +FujiChat is back! + +The source is now developed using git, meaning you'll find low-level +details about changes in the git log. I'll try to remember to update +this ChangeLog to document major new features and such. + +- 20081201 bkw: + +Rewrote & reorganized handle_command(). It now lives in commands.c, +and loops over a table of commands (cmd_list), rather than the old +messy chain of if/else/if. Moved all the logic for each command into +their own cmd_whatever() functions (the addresses of which are in the +table). Not only did this save a couple hundred bytes of object code, +it also means adding new commands is less expensive. + +Instead of telnet_send(tstate, serv_msg_buf, strlen(serv_msg_buf)) strewn +about the code, there's now a send_serv_msg_buf(void) function. Rather +than use strlen() to calculate, we set the new serv_msg_buf_len variable +to the length... which works out great as almost all the telnet_send() +instances were preceded by a sprintf(), which already returns the length +(was just throwing away the return value! Old habits...) + +Added /fgcolor and /bgcolor commands (enable with FEAT_COLOR_COMMAND). +These don't change the colors in the config, and they get reset before +every new IRC connection, but it does mean you don't have to reload the +config menu to try out new colors. Especially important for COL80 users, +since it takes some fiddling to find a color set that looks good on your +monitor (if you can!) + +Completely removed all attempts to do a software cursor when +FEAT_COL80_HACK is enabled. It wasn't working anyway, and needs further +thought before hacking away at it any more (should the COL80 driver +respond to CRSINH at 752, like the real E: does?)... Actually it's +perfectly usable without the cursor anyway, you always know where you +are because you're always at the bottom of the screen. When/if arrow +key editing is supported, there will have to be a cursor... + + +- 20081130 bkw: + +More major surgery: there's now a hacked-up, cut-down version of the +old COL80 driver, and Fujichat support for it. FEAT_COL80_HACK, which +defines its own set of features. Currently the code is a mess of #ifdefs, +but working (still some issues with the cursor not working right in 80 +cols). The 4x8 font is a slightly modified version of Itay Chamiel's +Ice-T font (characters 32-127 only, I made the ampersand and the capital +N look more like I expect them to). Current version of col80 uses the +cassette buffer for a private input buffer for CIO get calls, but +it could just as well use input_buf (though it can't know where that +is, unless FEAT_LOW_RAM_BUFFERS is also enabled). So far, COL80 hack +only tested with Bob-verter. Scroll speed is slower than Ice-T or +E80/ACE80, but TCP has those pauses built into it... someone needs +to try it at 9600 baud. An interesting thing about COL80 is that +it's not limited to 128-char fonts (neither is Ice-T, Itay does a +full 256-char set)... unicode anyone? SW underlining? + +Got rid of redraw_buf (was at $2800), calling fuji_putchar() in a loop +is about as fast as fputs() a whole string. Allows user an extra page +in low memory, unless I find a burning need to use it for something +else... + +- 20081127 bkw: + +Expunged putchar() and cgetc(), from fujichat.c, gained over 200 bytes +(replaced with "indirect JSR" technique using put/get address-minus-one +in OS ROM). BSS now ends at $9515. We almost have enough room for an +80-column software driver (the stack is 2K, so MEMTOP needs to be $9d15 +or higher since we don't use the heap). Default GR.0 setup, MEMTOP +is $bc1f, which is where the stack starts (and grows downward for 2K, +ending at $b41f). $B41F minus $9515 is 7946 bytes, almost 8K. In GR.8 +mode, MEMTOP is $A04F. Subtract $9515 (end of BSS), add 2K ($9D15, +end of stack). Subtract from $A04F and we get $33a, or 826 bytes. This +is not enough room for a GR.8 software 80-column driver's code + font +(COL80E uses more like twice that), but it's a whole lot closer than +FujiChat 0.4 was. + +Strip leading colons from the text of server messages. + +BSS at $977E (got rid of cursor() and replaced cgetc() with version +that doesn't contain setcursor junk (we don't want to ever disable +the cursor). In fact conio.h is gone now. + +Expunged fread() from common.c (replaced with read()), gained over +1/2K. + +Made TCP listen support optional in uIP, and turned it off for +FujiChat. This save about 1200 bytes in the binary. + +Starting to rewrite bits in asm. I've got the end of the BSS +down to $97ED now, and I've barely started... + +Fixed bug in config_is_valid() that made fujichat always use +built-in defaults. Thanks to Beetle for spotting this. + +- 20081126 bkw: + +Renamed menu.com to fujimenu.com (apparently on SpartaDOS X, +trying to load D:MENU.COM ends up loading CAR:MENU.COM instead). +Thanks to Beetle for spotting this. + +makeauto.com now cats the serial driver and loadmenu.com (instead +of menu.com) to make autorun.sys. Saves like 70 sectors on the +disk image. + +Added some test code (FEAT_UNICODE_TEST) that converts an input ctrl-P +(clubs symbol) into the UTF-8 sequence for a Unicode "card suit clubs" +symbol. It looked fine in irssi with univga font, but for some reason 3 +other people saw it as a spades symbol... Eventually it'd be possible to +have a little table to convert all the ATASCII graphics chars into UTF-8 +on keyboard input, and convert the UTF-8 versions back into the ATASCII +chars on screen output. Thanks to Redb3ard for coming up with the idea +and doing the research on this... though it can't be fully implemented +any time soon (FujiChat needs to go on a major diet before I add any +more features, I'm running out of RAM). + + +- 20081125 bkw: + +Added keyboard buffer. Needs lots of testing, but initially appears +to work OK (FEAT_KEYBOARD_BUFFER) + +Added autojoin to fujichat. + +Rearranging things. The Atari 850 driver *crashes* if it's loaded +from the DOS menu even (it *has* to be autorun.sys), so instead +of the default.ser and such, the RS232 driver + menu now get +catted together to create an autorun.sys (and the user is asked +to reboot, to load it). + +Added auto-away on attract mode + +Added alt_nick and timezone fields to cfg file (not used yet), +bumped CONF_VERSION. + +Rearrange fujichat numeric server message stuff, add autojoin capability. +Also add autojoin prompt to fujiconf. + +Change the leading character for local message from * to > (e.g. +"> Registering Nick"), and privmsgs to us now show up as +"-> <nick> message" + +- 20081120 bkw: + +Fixed bug in conf menu (IRC server was getting reset to the first in the +list if the user hit Return, instead of keeping his existing one). Thanks +to Slor for spotting this. + +Added (attempted) 19200 baud support. cc65 doesn't define RS_BAUD_19200 in +rs232.h. Slor suggested defining it as 0x0f (since the baud rate constants +run 0x00 to 0x0e). It almost works: FujiChat is able to send & receive, +but even with hardware handshaking, it can't keep up (lots of incoming +packets get dropped, and the connection eventually stalls). Since Slor's +HW handshaking is known to work (he can do 9600 baud reliably, and runs +unpatched slattach without -L), I assume the trouble is that the loop +in rs232dev.c is too slow. Recoding it in asm may help. It may have to +use SIO instead of CIO though... or would that make it HW-specific? +Guess it would. + +Added (bloated implementation of) ping time calculation. In the ping +request, we send the contents of the 3 bytes of RTCLOK, and when we get +them back, we subtract them from the current RTCLOK value and format +as number of seconds + 10ths of seconds. Code uses CLOCKS_PER_SECOND, +which means it auto-adjusts for PAL vs. NTSC timing. If RTCLOK rolled over +between request & response, it'll appear to be a huge negative number... +but I think uIP fails when RTCLOK rolls over anyway. Most people won't +leave their Atari up for 3+ days anyway I guess. + +Clean up the raw IRC protocol server messages. We now strip the server +hostname, parse numerics, and (for a few numerics) print meaningful +message like "Topic". This could use a lot more work, but it does save +our limited screen space. + +Implemented UIFLAG_HIDE_MOTD in fujichat.c. The traffic indicator still +appears, to let the user know something's going on. Initial pre-MOTD +server messages are not suppressed. + +- 20081119 bkw: + +*Major* surgery! The patient's vitals are strong, and the operation +is a tentative success. + +fujichat's config menu has been split off into a separate executable. +This keeps the menu from sitting around taking up memory while we're +actually chatting. Also it paves the way for a fancier config menu with +more options and a nice UI. + +While I was at it, I added a top-level menu program and an "about" +option, with a separate viewer program that's a simple version of "more" +from UNIX. + +All the programs (fujichat, fujiconf, menu) are able to load & run +each other thanks to aexec (aka atari_exec()). This is a teensy little +binary-file loader that fits into page 6, and gets prepended to +all the other programs. + +Also, the Bob-verter driver is no longer baked into fujichat. Instead, +we've got a tiny little loader called "loadchat", which does this: + +- Check for the existence of an R: device in HATABS +- If not found, load the file DEFAULT.SER (ignoring "file not found") +- Load fujichat.com + +DEFAULT.SER is just a binary load file. By default it'll be a copy +of Bob-verter (also there's a copy called BOBVERT.SER). + +The config menu (fujiconf) allows the user to choose which serial +device he has (by user-friendly name), and copies the appropriate +driver (named something.SER) to DEFAULT.SER. Nota bene: + +- The driver is only loaded when the user chooses to run FujiChat +itself, from either menu.com or fujiconf.com + +- If the driver setting gets changed before any R: driver is loaded, +loadchat will load the new driver. + +- The menu allows the user to type a filename, to use a driver not +in the built-in list (which is good as it's not a very complete +list yet) + +- The menu also allows "none" as a choice, meaning he's taking +responsibility for providing an R: handler himself (e.g. as an +AUTORUN.SYS, or loaded from a SpartaDOS batch file or whatever). +In this case, DEFAULT.SER will be deleted, and loadchat will +silently fail to load it, and then FujiChat will just use the +preloaded R: handler (or if it's missing, it'll give an error +and let the user go back & reconfigure). + +- The way this is set up, it means the user can just use fujichat.com +as a standalone executable, without the presence of menu.com, loadchat.com, +fijuconf.com, or any other stuff from the disk. He can prepend his +R: handler to it and load it from anywhere. It'll use the default +config, but that's OK (most people would set up their SLIP host +with the defaults anyway). He'll have to enter his server every +time, and use /nick, but the program will *work*. + +- It's also possible to run fujiconf once to create a config file, then +copy fujichat.com and fujichat.cfg to some other disk or directory +or whatever, and run it without having the menu/loadchat/fujiconf/etc. +The only missing capability is that he can't create a new config file. + +- The de luxe option: it should be fully possible to copy the contents +of the FujiChat floppy image to a MyDOS or SpartaDOS subdirectory +(obviously don't copy autorun.sys, dos.sys, dup.sys). All the filenames +used by the program begin with D:, not D1:, so they should use the +current drive and directory. (Eventually I'll write an INSTALL.COM +that makes the directory & copies the stuff for you!) + +Other changes: + +Break key is now disabled. No more accidentally sending a line when +you meant to hit Backspace. + +There's now a tiny AUTORUN.SYS that finishes the DOS boot stuff, then +runs MENU.COM (the main menu) for us. + +MENU.COM, FUJICONF.COM, and FUJICHAT.COM all look in page 5 for the +config, which stays resident when switching between programs. If it's +not there, they all try to load it from FUJICHAT.CFG. If that fails, +they use built-in defaults. + +FujiChat (FUJICHAT.COM) *can not* create FUJICHAT.CFG itself. + +Had to use memcpy() instead of Adam's uip_sethostaddr() and +uip_setdraddr() macros (they have trouble when their arguments are +dereferenced pointers; probably this is a deficiency in cc65). + +The config menu is a lot more user-friendly. It stops the user from +setting unreadable colors (where fg/bg have equal luma values), and +the long, long list of questions is broken up into sections. + +rs232dev_init() now returns a status. If it's not RS_ERR_OK, something +went wrong. If this happens, FujiChat allows the user to retry, +run fujiconf, or exit to DOS. + +I won't be providing single-file .xex downloads any more. The ATR image +will be the main distribution (possibly I'll also offer the contents +in a zip file, for S-Drive or MyIDE users). The main executable still +works standalone, but is not fully functional, so I'd rather discourage +'noobs' from running it that way (non-noobs know how to extract the +.xex from the .atr image themselves). + +Changed uip-conf.h, now uIP is compiled with support for only one +TCP conn, one UDP conn, and one TCP listen port (TCP listen support +isn't disable-able in uIP; I'll change that later). Also disabled +UDP checksums. + +Added FEAT_* macros to remove some FujiChat features at compile time. +See fujichat.c for the list of features and how much code space they +take up. + +Added network traffic indicator in upper right corner of screen: +up arrow for transmit, down arrow for receive. FEAT_TRAFFIC_INDICATOR + +/j or /join with no argument now tries to rejoin the current channel +(use if you get kicked). Also, fixed bug where /j with no argument +tried to join a bogus (null) channel. + +/nick now tracks your nick changes. This fixes the bug where, after +a nick change, private messages to your new nick appear to be +channel traffic. + + +- 20081116 bkw: +Fixed bug in 0.3.0 (ctcp responses didn't work when a ctcp request came +back in the middle of typing a line) +Made baud rate selectable in the UI (there was already a config file entry +for it) +0.3.0 released +Added ^W and ^U (delete last word, delete-line, emacs-style) +Added simulated edit buffer using delete-line and cursor controls. This +isn't as nice as a custom display list, but it stays compatible with (most) +80-column drivers. +Added option to run config menu from the "return to connect" prompt, got rid +of "Use defaults [y/n]" prompt. +Added support for selecting the server port (default still 6667) +Added support for real name field +We now close the serial port when disconnected (needed for the config menu +to be able to save to disk, at least with bob-verter driver) + +- 20081115 bkw: +Changed uIP packet buffer size to 576. This will help with those DNS aliases +that return 15 hostnames + aliases (like irc.freenode.org). TCP MSS is still +set to 160 - header_len, to keep it feeling like an interactive app. + +strcmp against config.nick changed to strcasecmp, so we can correctly +handle messages/ctcps to the lowercase (or whatever) version of our nick. + +Added option to enter an IRC server instead of just "press return +to connect". The default is the config file server, or last server +connected to. + +- 20081113 bkw: +0.2 released +Added option to exit to DOS +FujiChat now works with FreeNode (mostly) +Made local/peer/DNS IP configurable +Server hostname now configurable +UI flags configurable: visual bell, no bell, msg bell, show ping +Default server list is now hostnames +Consolidate some UI I/O code +Initial support for DNS resolution + +- 20081112 bkw: +Added visual bell support +Added ` (backtick) support (prints as inverse single quote) + +- 20081105: 0.1 released |