Release Changes
VM
Labs SDK Internal Release 0.85
Important Upgrades |
The following changes are recommended for the SDK release.
If these upgrades are not performed, the development tools and downloaded code may produce unexpected results or fail to operate. |
The following changes have been made to the release install scripts, documentation, and directory structure for SDK Release.
Problem ID# |
Description |
Changes |
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Please Note: This is an internal version of the SDK. For an external version of the SDK, please contact sdk-release@vmlabs.com. |
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Updated Scripts, Executables
and Documentation
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Windows installation. |
If you do not have the ROOTDIR environment set, you must set it for the sh.exe (from the MKS tools) that we include with the internal SDK release:
See the windows installation documentation for more information. |
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Aries Debug Stub 4.9.5 |
File Server connectivity has been
stabilized.
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Mload 4.9.5 |
Allows the -fs, -me and -ms options to appear after the filename to be loaded. | |
BIOS 1.03.16.00 | Extended the timeout period to 20 seconds. The new bios is used with the new stub to improve file server connectivity. See Flash Rom Documentation for more information. | |
PAL/NTSC firmware |
Movies and audio cds now work in PAL mode. Video games can be played in PAL mode, though there are black bars displayed at the top and bottom of the screen. The default video mode set by the firmware is NTSC. To switch to PAL video mode, execute set-pal. To switch back to NTSC video mode, execute set-ntsc. See Flash Rom Documentation for more information. |
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Updated vml_make.mk; there is now a vml_make_os.mk file. |
Split the OS determination part out into its own fragment, vml_make_os.mk. See new Makefile Fragments documentation. |
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Added bin/windows/DataTool.exe |
The NUON Data Tool is used to concatenate a list of smaller data files into a larget NUON.DAT file. Currently it is only available for Windows. See help file or the NUON Application Programming Guide. |
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Updated bin/windows/rgb2ycrcb.exe | ||
Added bin/windows/m3dinfo.exe | M3DL library utility that dumps information about the M3D files output by the 3D Studio MAX plug-in. | |
Updated bin/windows
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Since the SDK is an internal release, we included the MKS version of these tools. If you do not have ROOTDIR set, please set it to your C: drive by doing either of the following:
Other UNIX like tools are from the GNU royalty-free set of Win32 gnu utilities provided at http://www.edv.agrar.tumuenchen.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html The Unix tools that we include are: cat.exe, less.exe, gawk.exe, echo.exe, m4.exe, diff.exe, touch.exe, sed.exe, rmdir.exe, rm.exe, mv.exe, ls.exe, grep.exe, find.exe and chmod.exe |
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Updated bin/linux/h2i and bin/windows/h2i.exe | Fixed bug. | |
Updated the 3D Studio Max Plug-ins in the bundled directory | Now includes MAX v3.1 as well as MAX v2.5. | |
Removed from bin/windows:
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No longer needed. | |
Updated Libraries and Include
files
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Updated lib directory. |
See the Library Updates documentation. |
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Updated include directory. | See the Include File Updates documentation. | |
Platforms Tested
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Windows 98, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux 6.2
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Known Problems
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Firmware Problems |
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Compiler Problems |
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Puffin Problems | On Windows 98/2000, Puffin is not working correctly with Day5 (bright.d) of the tutorial; it doesn't load the dmademo.cof file into the dev system. This bug is being looked at and will be fixed as soon as possible. It works correctly on Windows NT. On Linux, it loads the cof file but then core dumps. | |
bin/linux/mgcc | Uses hardcoded paths to libraries before using your specified library paths. | |
bin/windows/sendmidi.exe | Needs to be updated to use TCL81.dll. Currently it uses TCL80.dll. |
For changes to the SDK .85 beta release, please see ReleaseChanges-0.85beta.html.
Please email comments or questions to SDK-Release@vmlabs.com
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