COSMOS : Keep your Amstrad at home! History ------- .. May 2005 Starting COSMOS coding during Military Service (Limnos Island) .. January 2006 COSMOS first release (v.18)! .. June 2006 - Improved COSMOS documentation - COSMOS OverView added in COSMOS Tools - Transfer function added in OverView module (Overview -> Month processor) - Number of hits added in search (SRC) module - New editor added for user attachments (NotePad-like) - Added support for attachments: *.ATT extension files only - Added the ability to modify text attachments with built in editor (ATT files) - All in-progress ASCII bars converted to real graphic bars - Verification of Cost matrix added in tools module - Improved speed for SUM module - Option added for <End Of Month> Calculations and 2D Graph - Added the ability to install COSMOS in HD-0 (Dobbertin/Vortex/Campursoft ?) - Small graphic icons added at specific procedures and locations - Option for 5 sequential inputs added in month processor (instead of calc.) - Annual agenda module included in COSMOS OverView (view and edit) - Full Agenda Search support added in search module - Individual Annual Agenda module added (this requires a lot of memory...) - Improved Month editor - Alarm signal added in SUM module - Warning Meassages added in case of negative cash availability - Optimized Ram Expansion management for multiple projects - COSMOS second release (v.19)! .. July 2007 - Improved Verify procedure to check Net annual costs and income - Skip Option added in SUM module providing faster execution time - Save icon added in advanced mode (3.5" disc) - Printer support for TXT review file (instead of using CP/M PIP) - Printer function checked with EPSON Stylus Color 640 printer, Hewlett Packard 410 Laser printer and EPSON 6200L laser printer - Auxiliary logical device support for review file (PUN: and RDR:) - Improved Agenda editor - In-progress bars added while Printing or transferring - Left margin added on printed hard copy in SUM print function - All CRT frames and logos tuned for reasons of uniformity - Calculation of maximum profit added in SUM module - Previous year residual added in TXT review file - VDU bugs fixed in Overview, Annual and Constant module - Help modules homogenized in one executable - All modules renamed for easier backup using wild cards (module.*) - Improved management of temporary files - Free disk space and free RAM space added - Added control of destination disk space in Setup - Each comment variable size reduced by 1 byte - Day and Date added in Agenda in Overview module - Graphic bar added in month module - Sequantial month analysis added for faster processing - Added comments length check - New low level routines added (some provided by Werner Cirsovius :) ) - New TAX module added to control TAX - Virtual matrices reduced to allow COSMOS execution in 169 kB disks - Alert function implemented in COSMOS Main, Overview, Agenda and SUM - Code checked for its validity for more than 2 years on a daily basis - Automatic tracking of income or expenses added in Search module - COSMOS third release (v.20) ..September 2008 - Improving software processing speed: - Improved speed for End of Month calculations (+ 700 %) - Improved speed for project Verification (+ 700 %) - Improved speed for Constant module (+ 700 %) - Adding available cash in month module - Improving management of memory resources: - Improved memory management for AmsDOS/X-DDOS/ParaDOS ROM machines - Improved TPA memory resources - Adding the ability to compress (ZIP) projet, releasing disk space - Adding the ability to Retrieve project from ZIP file - ZIP effect:Up to 16 projects for X-DDOS/ParaDOS users on the same disk! - Compressed Tools source code to gain 5 kB of RAM - Improving Graphics User Interface: - Added 2D graph support for very large profits (larger than MaxInt) - Improving software performance: - System bug fixed for drive B: free disk space in Tools - Added user defined delay parameter in SUM module and option for page mode - Escape function implemented using ESC key for on board help - Improved robustness of SETUP installation utility - Included Currency support (Euro, USD, GBP, or other) for all modules - Added the ability to edit any ASCII char (127-255) in Attachments - Printer support: - Adding drivers for Windows dot matrix printers (EPSON LX-300) - Added the ability to directly print attachments - Added the ability to directly print each month data - Added the ability to directly print constant income / expenses - Added the ability to directly print End of Month Cash - Introducing CNTRL key functions in Tools Module for drive contents - Added on board calculator in Tools Module - Move function added in Month Module - Forward/Backward move added in Month Module - Improved GUI in OverView module - Added new Screen Saver (the graphics example included in Turbo Pascal v.3.00 MSDOS disk, modified to 16 colors to run on CPC) - Added full suport for small-RAM extension machines (64-256 kB) - Mixed running mode implemented (part of project in RAM extension) - Implementing Amstrad CPC - Windows XP HyperTerminal communication - COSMOS v.21 released! .. March 2013 - Improving all modules and algorithms to make software run faster on real CPC systems - Improving Screen Saver - Improving Tax module - Fixing I/O errors - Adding drive/RAM disk access warnings in all modules - Improving Alert function for continuous monitoring of the alert day - Added warning for improper installation target media - Added ASCII Code of extended range charachters in Attachment editor - Making application look like an Amtrad PC 1512/1640 MS-DOS application .. January 2014..January 2015 - Testing the software using WinCPC emulator. - COSMOS final release. ..May 2017 - COSMOS Calculator User Interface (UI) bug fixed. - COSMOS Annual UI bug fixed. - COSMOS Constant UI bug fixed. - COSMOS Agenda UI bug fixed. - CP/M version check added at initialization of Setup.com and Cosmos.com - COSMOS TAX modified according to general taxation laws. - Alternative printer driver UI bug fixed. - Screen Saver added in COSMOS Agenda. - Keys and Mouse operation explaination added in SETUP.COM - COSMOS Month and COSMOS Agenda linked. - Transformation function Y=Ax+B option added in COSMOS Tools. - Export function added in COSMOS Agenda. - Export function added in COSMOS TAX. - Alert symbol in COSMOS main improved. - Demo version option added in installation. - UI bug fixed in COSMOS Month. - ASCII code error in COSMOS Tools/Att corrected. - Block.Att attachment included (template of block of receipts or invoices). - Printer connection warning added in COSMOS Prn. - RS232 Serial Interface connection warning added in COSMOS Srl. - Improved support added for 2D Graph in case of higher cash than MaxInt. - New graph added depicting the available cash per day (366 days). - Seargent - major graphics removed and replaced with a bar chart. - On board help revised. - File name included in attachment editor. ..October 2017 - version 23 released. - Agenda soft copy option added. - 'Enter hit' inputs considered as zero inputs in all modules. - All COSMOS modules renamed for uniformity of directory especially in 800 KB Disks and Dobbertin Hard disk HD20. - Added a second screen saver (randomly plotted triangles). - Added Cmp (Comparison) module in COSMOS Tools in order to compare up to 15 projects on the basis of the 15 different Summary annual reports. - ASCII Tools (previously released as ASCII Tools v3) adapted accordingly and added in COSMOS Tools in order to provide support for the COSMOS output text files. - I/O error check added for all ASCII Tools (source file). - DEMO.TXT included to depict ASCII Tools output. - Screen saver added in ASCII Tools. .. December 2017 - Final version 24 released.