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Add a NEWS file.
author Matti Hamalainen <ccr@tnsp.org>
date Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:56:11 +0200
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1 SIDInfo - PSID/RSID information displayer
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2 =========================================
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3 List of user-visible changes in SIDInfo. (Please read the
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4 ChangeLog for more complete list of changes.)
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6 Version 0.9.0
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7 ===========
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8 * Lots of cleanups and some refactoring. Various bugfixes, as usual-
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10 * STIL database support added.
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12 * HVSC location can be specified via "HVSC_BASE" environment variable.
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14 * Fallback character converter now supports CP850 and CP437 output in
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15 addition to UTF-8. You need to set "LANG" environment variable
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16 accordingly.
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18 * Improvements to the sidlib.[ch] API.
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21 Versions 0.7.0 to 0.8.0
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22 =======================
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23 * Build system improvements, bugfixes.
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25 * Support for the newer ".md5" version of the Songlengths database format.
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26 Autodetect the HVSC Songlengths database version based on file extension.
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28 * Verbosity level option -v added.
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30 * The outputted strings can have escaped character sequences, set
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31 via option "-e <chars>", for example: -e '"|'
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33 * Support for specifying directories instead of just individual SID files.
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35 * Added -R option to recursively traverse directory trees.
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37 * Updated documentation and help.
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39 * Support for iconv (Unix only) to convert the ISO-8859-1 character
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40 set used in PSID files to host encoding (UTF-8 for example).
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42 * Simple fallback converter that is used if iconv is not available,
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43 e.g. for Windows builds. Can only convert to UTF-8.