Version History

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ramBunctious 1.6.2
22 August 2001

ramBunctious 1.6.2 includes several bug fixes:

• Some RAM-only RAM disks would write out large data files to the hard drive. This was corrected.
• Colored themes are now enabled for RAM disk settings window.
• Fixed conflicts with a couple third party utilities to eliminate cosmetic problems.
• Other miscellaneous cosmetic fixes.

ramBunctious 1.6
18 July 2001

New Features:

• Progress Dialogs for lengthy operations.
• Using Navigation Services for creating and opening RAM disks.
• Default name of new disk image files end in a ".ramb" extension.
• Appearance Manager friendly.
• Application is now purely native PowerPC since we require MacOS 8.6.
• Get Info dialog in Finder on a mounted RAM disk now shows better information.
• When creating RAM disks larger than 32MB in size, HFS+ is the default format to save space.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where skipping startup items by holding down the shift key when mounting was broken under Mac OS 9.1.
• After a user reformatted a RAM disk, the color icon was lost. This is now fixed.
• Balloon help was updated to explain the blue icon status.
• Added the custom folder icon back for this release.

The changes in ramBunctious 1.5 include:

• Added some performance optimizations for those last few percentage points of throughput.
• More appealing "LED" access indicator.
• Updated periodic-save interval interface.

The changes in ramBunctious 1.3.2 include:

• Support for Mac OS 9 was added to ramBunctious. This is a required upgrade for users of Mac OS 9 and optional for users of previous versions of the Mac OS.

The changes in ramBunctious 1.3.1 include:

• The default filename for the startup items alias is now double-checked for the correct length.
• Initial zeros are now always written to the image file.
• The appearance (including icons and the splash screen) has been overhauled.

ramBunctious 1.3 is our registrant's request release. Each feature was specifically requested by a registered user. As an acknowledgement of the importance of our registered users, we took some of the most commonly-requested features and implemented them to reward registered users:

• ramBunctious can now be fully controlled by AppleScript! There are several sample scripts to give examples of using ramBunctious via this powerful interface.
• A RAM-only checkbox is available when creating RAM disks, so no space is necessary on the hard drive for the image file.
• ramBunctious now remembers the name of the RAM disk volume, even when it's RAM-only.
• The documentation display mechanism has been significantly improved.

ramBunctious 1.2:

• Save RAM disk contents at timed intervals.
• Performance enhanced up to 30% through a judicious balance of 68K assembly and native PPC code.
• MacOS 8 popup menu update glitch fixed.
• New, smoother busy cursors.
• Enhanced various driver attributes:
  • Finder does not present a misleading dialog when putting the RAM disk away.
  • Worked around a MacOS 8 bug which caused RAM disks to be un-put-away-able.
  • Better information when "Get Info" is performed on a RAM disk.

ramBunctious 1.1.2:

• Worked around ATA driver (IDE bus) bug that caused a crash under System 7.6.1 by blowing up the stack when creating large RAM disks. By doing large FSWrites as a series of smaller FSWrites, we don't encounter the ATA driver bug.
• Fixed a balloon help inconsistency.

ramBunctious 1.1.1:

• Put Away menu item added.
• Several bugs were identified and worked around or fixed.

ramBunctious 1.1:

• Improved data integrity for RAM disk creation, and force-quitting the application.
• Miscellaneous user-interface enhancements, including a Save menu item and a Save Now button.
• Popup menu added for common RAM disk sizes.
• Improved performance.
• Improved error reporting.
• Added communication capability with Peek-a-Boo to indicate RAM disk memory usage -- size and location in the Process Manager Heap.
• Added support for a "startup items" folder on the RAM disk.
• Added runtime checks for all known incompatibilities.
• Infinity Windoids now used for the settings windows.
• FAT application.

ramBunctious 1.0: first released version.

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