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UDMA, UDVD & XMGR have been actually available since 26 May! (Announce)

posted by lucho, 10.08.2007, 17:02

Actually, the new Jack's drivers have been available since as early as 26 May!
If you doubt my words, check the date / time stamp of the file "combootf.ima" at

http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/

Note that its date is 6 August, while the date of "drivers.zip" is 9 August. And 6 August is merely the date of last update! The first public versions of Jack's personal drivers (UDMA, UDVD and XMGR) were so available as early as on 26 May!

If you write the image file you'll notice the old Q-drivers there, with the same date and time stamps and file sizes as the final versions of QHIMEM, QCACHE and QCDROM. They even display the original versions and dates when run. However, the similarities with the old drivers end here! The code (and the rest of the data) of the drivers are those of the new Jack's drivers! Thus QCACHE there is in fact UDMA, QCDROM is in fact UDVD and QHIMEM is in fact XMGR, all "disguised" as the old drivers! If you rename the file "run.me" to "runme.btm" and run it in 4DOS, you will read... the text of the file README.TXT included in "drivers.zip"! All aforementioned files are latest-but-one versions which we'll leave there for at least a couple of days (before replacing the files in the image with their real names and latest versions), so that anyone who doubts my words can verify them! (P.S. The 750 MB UDMA cache was proved working by an user whose PC has 1 GB RAM)

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