Software - Patches

This patcher is for RISC OS 4.00 (19990630-002), 4.02 (19990818-001), 4.03 RiscStation (20000202-002) and Mico (20000330-001), and 4.03 and 4.04 Kinetic (20000507-001 and 20010308-001). It may or may not work with 4.10, 4.11 and 4.20; if it does...

The patches are listed below; those which are struck through are disabled.

Module	Vsn	Patches
DDEUtils	1.59	Fixes problems when there's no throwback server
DisplayManager	0.35	Removal of the fade when you change mode
WindowManager	4.15, 4.16	Adjust-click on the Back tool brings the window to the front
Pinboard	0.75	Shift-Select on the Close tool iconises the window at the pointer; fixes iconisation when the text is more than 188 OS units wide
Desktop	2.55	Fixes the RMA block release bug
Resolver	0.55	Don't open the debug log file at all
MessageTrans	0.33	Fixes the buffer overflow bug (tokenised strings)
Filer	1.97	Fixes a menu opening problem with Unix special files (eg. NFS exported); use "" as the default for new directories
DeviceFS	0.37	Fixes an UpCall bug (triggered when DeviceFS sees an event on a buffer which it doesn't own).
Contributed by David O'Shea
CDFS	2.37	Don't uppercase everything (retain case); add Rock Ridge support; fix for long extensions, eg. .tar.gz [DS]
Contributed by David Bryan
Messages (UK)	0.85	Make ptr_write symmetrical
DrawFile	1.48	Use background blending
Contributed by Chris Manning
FontManager	3.40	Fix *FontCat so that it will display long font names
Contributed by Justin Fletcher
SpriteExtend	1.05	Fix problem with JPEGs with 8×16 quantisation tables
Contributed by Daniel Ellis
TaskWindow	0.57	Fast output (don't poll just because the output buffer is full)
Contributed by Theo Markettos
ParallelDeviceDriver	0.47	Suppress 'out of paper' etc. (assumes that status output is unavailable)

Risc PC fixes

Patch to allow two writes to zero page.

(Unfortunately, the game still locks up randomly. Ideas?)

General fixes	Prevents erroneous writes to zero page.
StrongARM	STM {PC}/NOP/B fix (as found on AUCD10.)

General fixes	Frame rate independence.
Risc PC fixes	None required.
StrongARM	STM {PC}/NOP/B fix; cache flushing.

General fixes	Frame rate independence.
StrongARM	STM {PC}/NOP/B fix.

Risc PC fixes	Frame rate independence; palette (by redrawing in a 256-colour fully paletted mode). A newer version of MusicModule is required; see the patched !Run file for details.
StrongARM	STM {PC}/NOP/B fix; cache flushing.

General fixes	Frame rate independence; installable on HD; 6-digit scores.
Risc PC fixes	Palette; zero page writes.
StrongARM	None required? TrackerModule 4.09 is required; found in RiscTracker, DigitalCD etc.

Bug fix	Handle (most) mail of over approx. 10MB.
UIDL	Useful if you aren't deleting messages on the server.
APOP	Secure authentication. Not secure connection!
SMTP	Better handling of temporary server failures.

The archive contains a 32-bit binary.

This archive contains a patched version of v0.47 of the sFTP command-line FTP client, and not the front end; for that, you will need sFTP 0.46 (which you should install first).

The patch fixes problems with Y2K-broken ftp servers which return, in response to the MDTM command, the year as 19 followed by the actual year less 1900, eg. 2000 => 19100.

General fixes	Frame rate independence.
Risc PC fixes	Screen address; bank switching.
StrongARM	None required?

Note that this patch is not required for v1.5, as found on AUCD10.