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| Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 3 changes | ||
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| Description TBD... | ||
| Released December 28th, 2023. | ||
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| Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 3 comes with the black magic that gives you a ton of | ||
| amazing features and improvements that make it look like it's made from | ||
| scratch. This version is a major breakthrough over the previous beta version | ||
| of Nitrocid 0.1.0 because of a number of improvements that we had to make to | ||
| enhance the user experience. | ||
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| Since Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 2 was released for testing purposes, here's a | ||
| list of changes that will surprise you: | ||
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| Re-targeted .NET 8.0 | ||
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| TBD... | ||
| Celebrating the release of the fourth long-term support (LTS) release of the | ||
| modern .NET framework, we've updated the application and its associated | ||
| addons so that they use the .NET 8.0 framework instead of the older .NET 6.0 | ||
| release. This means that Nitrocid and its addons will be able to take | ||
| advantage of the new features and improvements that .NET 8.0 brings to you. | ||
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| This version now targets .NET 8.0 instead of 6.0 to benefit from the speed | ||
| improvements for the whole framework over the previous long term support | ||
| version of .NET that was released on 2021. | ||
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| Simplified JSON manipulation | ||
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| Before, there were several variants of Add and Remove commands with no way | ||
| to edit an array, an object, or a property. Now, we've added three commands | ||
| that help simplify your JSON manipulation. | ||
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| * add: Adds an array, a property, or an empty object to a target array or | ||
| object. If the property name is specified, it adds a property with a | ||
| value of your selected type. You can also add raw JSON contents. | ||
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| * rem: Removes an array, a property, or an empty object to a target array | ||
| or object. If the property name is specified, it removes a property with | ||
| a value of your selected type. | ||
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| * set: Sets a value of a target to an array, a property, or an empty | ||
| object. You can also use raw JSON content. | ||
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| This means that you don't have to jump between various steps to form a final | ||
| JSON file. | ||
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| Flexible console | ||
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| TBD... | ||
| Resizable elements are now spread through the entire kernel and not just | ||
| screensavers. This allows this kernel to be more flexible when it comes to | ||
| console resizing. This is to make it scale more appropriately. | ||
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| Alongside this, between the second beta and the third beta, we've made a | ||
| truckload of console-related improvements that make the performance like the | ||
| speed of light. | ||
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| We've also implemented the screen feature, which helped making the console | ||
| more flexible than before, therefore allowing dynamic screen printing to the | ||
| console across all platforms in a light speed. | ||
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| Lite and Full | ||
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| Starting from this beta version of Nitrocid KS, there are two versions of the | ||
| binary copy: lite and full. The lite version comes with very basic kernel | ||
| features with no extras, and the full version adds extra features to the | ||
| kernel using a mechanism called the kernel addons. | ||
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| The kernel addons add extra features to the base kernel that allow you to use | ||
| many of the common tools that are not available in the base version, such as | ||
| unit conversion, games, and playing music. This ensures that the development | ||
| is more streamlined than before. | ||
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| Here are some of the addons that come with the full version of the kernel: | ||
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| 1) Music Player | ||
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| Powered by BassBoom, you can play music right from the kernel without having | ||
| to download the standalone BassBoom music player on your system. It works on | ||
| all the platforms that have sound drivers installed, like Windows, macOS, and | ||
| Linux. The full-featured music player is built for speed and accuracy. | ||
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| The music player addon allows you to play your local music files right from | ||
| the kernel from classical to hip-hop to reggae to techno and trance. It | ||
| doesn't support playing Internet music files and radio stations. | ||
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| 2) Contacts | ||
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| Powered by VisualCard, you can manage your contacts imported right from your | ||
| VCard files. This allows you to view your contact information, such as their | ||
| phone numbers, their full name, and their addresses. | ||
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| Not only can you import VCard files (single and multiple contacts with | ||
| differing VCard files), but you can also import your Android contacts right | ||
| from your contacts2.db file if you have a rooted Android device with contacts | ||
| imported. You can also import contacts using the MeCard string extracted from | ||
| the QR code of your contact. | ||
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| 3) ChatGPT | ||
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| Powered by Semantic Kernel in association with OpenAI and ChatGPT, you can use | ||
| this AI chatbot to get assistance in almost all the queries, like getting | ||
| instructions on how to cook your food, ask it questions, and much more. | ||
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| Please note that we're not affiliated with OpenAI, and we're not responsible | ||
| if anything happens due to misconduct. | ||
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| Analyzer for your Mods | ||
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| Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 3 also provides you with more than 50+ code analyzers | ||
| that detect common usage pitfalls in your kernel mods and correct your code to | ||
| use appropriate functions that are better alternatives, such as replacing | ||
| plain console writes with the usage of the text writer, which gives you more | ||
| flexibility. | ||
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| It's up to you if you want to enable analyzers for your mods, but we provide | ||
| you with two easy ways to analyze your mod code: | ||
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| * The standalone analyzer is a console application that allows you to analyze | ||
| your mod code for such pitfalls. It requires .NET SDK to be installed in | ||
| order to be able to use it. | ||
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| * The Visual Studio-based analyzer is an extension that analyzes all your | ||
| mods to check to see if your code is declining in quality according to the | ||
| Nitrocid KS mod coding standards. | ||
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| The analyzers will keep growing up as time passes and as new versions get | ||
| released. | ||
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| Interactive text and hex editor | ||
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| You can now interactively edit your binary and text files without any | ||
| difficulty. Just execute the "tui" command in either the console-based text or | ||
| the hex editor to start using it. This saves you time from having to manually | ||
| re-typing in commands. | ||
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| The good news is that they're resizable, too! This means that you can occupy | ||
| the whole screen editing a text file or a binary file while editing it | ||
| interactively. | ||
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| It not only allows you to perform standard text editor operations in these | ||
| interactive TUIs, but you can also perform advanced editing operations. | ||
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| More changes? | ||
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| As this is one of the "Black Magic" releases, we strive to leave that as an | ||
| exercise for you to find the new features that we've added. Try to break the | ||
| magician's code to see what we've got for you in Nitrocid KS 0.1.0 Beta 3! | ||
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| (To be populated. TBD.) |