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Makebook V4.92b
This
version features the following additions:
- Bug
fix for extra newlines added during text
import functions
This
version features the following additions:
- Import
Functons for BMP (for font generation),
HTML, RTF and PDF
- A
new san serif 16 pixel high font.
Makebook V4.91
This
version features the following additions:
- Power
reduced version. With the light off, the
new version will run for more than 2 1/2
times longer than the older one. With the
light on the new version will run for 73%
longer than the older one. A final piece
of information is that (on the new version)
turning off the light will more than double
battery life.
Makebook V4.9
This
version features the following additions:
- Fixed
bug in compression which on some files displayed
rubbish.
Makebook V4.8
This
version features the following additions:
- Partly
fixed bar on/off picture size problem (scroll
down amount not correct for current picture,
after switching bars on and off - still
occurs when switching cursor mode on/off)
- Index
tool no longer overwrites selected text
- 'Can't
find bitmap file' message names file
- 'Can't
find jpeg file' message names file
- 'Can't
find font file' message names file
- 'Image
too wide' message names file
- Font
editor allows any font height (6-16) for
gba (but not gameboy)
- Allow
multi line links
- Allow
multi line play midi links
- Now
identifies reason and filename for jpeg
failure
- Adjusted
start time for splash music
Makebook V4.7b
- Now
deletes .tmp files after making book!
- Error
messages relating to images improve
Makebook V4.7
This
version features the following additions:
- Added
text compression option (approaching 2:1)
- Added
Hebrew scroll bar (thanks to Yotam Ofek)
- Added
support for JPEG pictures in book
- Converted
splash screens to use jpeg (85% smaller)
- Total
engine size shrunk to 29% of previous version
- Added
MIDI and hyperlink support to registered
Chinese/Japanese/Korean versions
-
Added option not to show cover (registered
version)
Makebook V4.6
This version features the following additions:
- Colour
options modified - some schemes have 'Windows'
style bars
- The
progress indicator now also shows positions
of each book (volume) within the set of
books
- Persistant
settings - cursor mode and full screen mode
settings preserved from session to session
- Default
cursor position is now middle of screen
- Arabic
Codepage 1256 support (using 16 pixel high
font) - right to left reading - automatic
presentation character substitution (corresponds
to unicode rules R1-R7) - mandatory arabic
ligatures automatically substituted (corresponds
to unicode rules L1-L3) - transparent characters
implemented. Note: more testing needed,
consider Arabic support as beta
- (Midi
functions below for registered users)
- Midi's
improved (corresponds to pogoshell midi
plug-in V0.91)
-
using better set of samples
- Fixed
bugs caused by Pitch Bend, System Exclusive,
and Aftertouch messages
- Implemented
Pitch Bend
- You
can now define 'background' music (midi)
for: - splash screens - cover - any range
of lines in the book
- Changes
in music fade out first tune instead of
cutting it off abruptly
- Sound
on/off settings
- (another
setting for registered users) SRAM contents
ignored - requested for use with cartridge
with defective sram.
Makebook V4.5
This version features the following additions:
- Exit
to Pogoshell (start + select)
- Hebrew
text support, with right to left characters
and combining characters.
- MIDI
file links for registered users.
- Fixed
number of newlines persistance bug
- Prevented
repeat addition of bitmap if registered
- Prevented
repeat addition of midi file
-
Fixed unnecessary monochrome bitmap height
check in 'Advance'
-
Added Display Font Selection
- Added
automatic font codepage selection on opening
text file
Makebook V4.4
This version features the following additions:
- NSIS
based Installer/uninstaller added - Just
run the file gbbook.exe which you download.
Thanks to Pär Moberg for the original
script.
- Improved
controls on GBA:
- Settings
from Start button
- Bookmarks
and Index from Select button
- Automatic
setting on indent Tool button for target
- logic improved
-
Auto increment target name when defining
links and targets
- Added
Index Marks
- Added
Registration - most of the advantages are
on GBA
- Advantages
of Registration:
-
50 bookmarks instead of 3 (GBA only)
-
Goto Index works (GBA only)
- More than 20 links allowed (GBA only)
- Removes 'Not Registered' message from
Makebook and ROMs
- Allows fast startup option (GBA only)
- Restores user settings
- Fix Header GBA allowed
-
Feeling of satisfaction
Makebook
V4.3
This
version features the following additions:
- Allows
colour pictures to be included in text (see
above)
- Option
not to increase size to next biggest
ROM size.
- Option
to 'fix header' if you supply the header
data.
- Option
to indent paragraphs (see middle Korean
example above)
- When
selecting font, all supported code pages
are shown.
- Option
to use a single NEWLINE as a paragraph separator.
- Bug
relating to inserting bitmap, where last
line disappears or is repeated, is fixed.
- New
progress bar shows making-book progress.
- 'Guest'
Splash and Cover Screens designed by Kyle
Fallis.
- Fixed
bug where large (eg Chinese) fonts cause
screen corruption after a few chapters (thanks
to Hu Huaizheng for this information).
- Removed
word wrapping for Korean. According to wildhawk
word-wrap is not really used in Korean.
The spacing may be wrong though at the moment
so feedback is requested.
- Added
'hyperlink' feature. This is not well documented
yet, so is offered currently for your experiments.
Right shoulder button activates it (cursor
mode) so don't press right shoulder and
you needn't be affected. Links don't work
in CJK languages yet.
Makebook
V4.2
This
is the 3rd version to include support for
GameBoy Advance as well as the GameBoy Color.
At the moment the Advance engine is pretty
much a straight port of the original, with
just the obvious enhancements such as full
screen text, display of line number, and 'book
cover'.
Notes
concerning this version:
- New
font added for Traditional Chinese use (12
pixel high). Select it (f_trad_ch12.gbf)
for code page 950 use at 12 pixel height.
- Japanese
scroll bar text added - thanks to Luc!
- Bitmaps
have been fixed. Doesn't mean you won't
find a bug still, but the obvious ones have
been cured. The default
location is now the text file directory.
- Some
aspects of Chinese - Traditional have been
fixed.
-
There are some issues relating to the title
rows. Positioning is not good in some character
sizes. Only the first row appears on the
top bar but two rows appear on the book
'cover'.
- The
'Intro' is just a straight port with a sequence
of splash screens. While this is adequate
for a book reader, the advance does cry
out for a little animation here.
- The
making-book process has been greatly speeded
up. Reading from RichEdit controls is REALLY
slow. So I now
save a copy of the text file and read it
from there.
- This
version should work well for all western
and central European Languages, including
Russian and Greek, as well as Chinese (simplified
and traditional), Korean, and Japanese.
Some text sizes do not work in some languages
(missing characters in font).
- As
always before in Makebook, the text
may look garbled in some cases, especially
where the platform is from a different world
region. This does not stop Makebook from
making a successful book.
- If
you find an anomaly let me know. The program
is hard to test thoroughly, owing to the
variety of languages and ways the text can
be formatted.
- As
usual the help file is out of date. It does
not even mention the Advance. See if you
can figure it out yourself.
- A
word about the Bookmark function. 'Select'
saves a bookmark at the current line. 'Start'
goes to the bookmark. If you don't know
this it can be confusing and you may lose
your place in the book. The bookmarks will
be made more user friendly and functional.
I was asked if the book-marking function
was likely to wear out your cartridge. I
can reassure you on that one. It doesn't.
- The
Advance bookmaker does not include the Nintendo
logo in the header when it makes the book.
You have to add this yourself. Shouldn't
cause you any problem.
Known
Bugs in V4.0
The
following bugs have been reported, and have
been fixed:
- Bitmaps
didn't get displayed properly.
- Traditional
chinese had a display bug.
V3.4
Improvements
- Added
Greek and Icelandic scroll bars, and improved
fonts for these languages.
- Added
ability to embed mono bitmaps which are
a multiple of line height.
V3.3
Improvements
- Added
Japanese Language support - no feedback
received to check if it works
- Added
Traditional Chinese Language support - no
feedback received to check if it works
- Added
progress bar on bottom bar (see if you can
spot it!)
- Added
multiple book scrolling. (Up or Down while
All is selected changes book - use ~v
to mark start of book in text).
- Note
- typical 64M cartridge could hold more
than 30 typical paperbacks!
- Added
third opening screen with copyright disclamer.
V3.2
Improvements
- Added
Russian language support
- Added
new font edit functions
- Korean
hangul added to 12 pixel font
V3.2
Bugs and Omissions
- Just
let me know what you find...
V3.1
Improvements
- Added
colour splash screen opening
- Fixed
'forgetting codepage'
V3.0
Overview
This
is the first International Version based on
the concept of a Unicode font. As a result
Chinese support has been added. In fact I
have also tried Greek, and Polish. For most
languages there are just a few characters
to add.
Please
note that on some versions of Windows in China
the text file will look like rubbish. But
don't worry. If it looks ok in Notepad it
will still make a good book ROM. I would be
grateful if any internationalisation expert
can help me explain this!
Part
of the process of adding Chinese has meant
that I now allow 8, 12 and 16 pixel high fonts.
Less words but more readability at 12 and
16 high.
This
release has the capability of including monochrome
bitmaps. Initially this is 160 x 96 pixels
only (1 bit colour). It will be useful for
a 'cover' page, as well as simple illustrations.
I
will make available some sample bitmaps. Hopefully
you will then all send me lots of much more
artistic bitmaps to use in books.
The
scroll bar now includes all translated languages
in any given book. This was achieved by using
a bitmap so that Chinese and Korean could
easily be included.
Also
this version allows old monochrome GameBoys
to be used again. This feature had become
broken a few versions ago.
There
was also a bug where very short words (like
'I') at the end of a line sometimes had no
space in front of them. Now fixed.
V2.3b Improvements
- Korean
language support added with a lot of help
from Kwak Don-an .
- Some
new text colour options
V2.0
Improvements
- New
multi-document interface for Makebook2
- Integral
font editor - edit fixed pitch and multipitch
fonts use in Reader.
- Added
simple help text.
- Spanish
and Catalan added to scroll bar text.
V1.5
Improvements
- Variable
pitch font for book text. This allows better
glyphs for (e.g.) 'm', and actually allows
more characters per line (than 40) on average.
- MakeBook
allows quick setting of title lines from
selections in text file.
- Portugese
added to scroll bar text.
V1.4
Improvements
- New
totally b/w colour scheme added.
V1.4
Bugs Fixed
- Large
files got corrupted if MBC1 was selected
(thanks to Anna-Karin for help on this one).
V1.3
Improvements
- Added
Italian and Dutch to scoll bar
V1.3
Bugs Fixed
- Newlines,
using 0x0a only, leaked through and displayed
as random dots.
- ANSI
Characters FC-FF were misinterpretted
V1.2
Improvements
- Bookmark
function
- Colour
- Multi-language
scroll bar
V1.2
Bugs Fixed
- Makebook
couldn't cope with words longer that 40
characters. It usually just said that the
book text is too big, as it tries to fit
the word on one 40 character line after
another and fails each time.
- Some
chapters got ignored when chapters were
short and for other reasons.
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