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Revision as of 01:53, 15 October 2007

COSMOS is a personal cost monitoring system written by Dimitris Karalis. It runs under CP/M 2.2 (v 1.2) and is under development since 2005. The user can track his expenses and organize his costs. COSMOS supports the hard disk under CP/M, the mouse, deals with the RAM expansion and contains graphics. It runs on 128 kB machines only.

History

May 2005

• Starting COSMOS coding during Military Service

January 2006

• COSMOS first release (v.18) *

June 2006

• Improved COSMOS documentation
• COSMOS OverView added in COSMOS Tools
• Transfer function added in OverView module (Overview -> Month processor)
• Number of hits added in search (SRC) module
• New editor added for user attachments (NotePad-like)
• Added support for attachments: *.ATT extension files only
• Added the ability to modify text attachments with built in editor (ATT files)
• All in-progress ASCII bars converted to real graphic bars
• Verification of Cost matrix added in tools module
• Improved speed for SUM module
• Option added for <End Of Month> Calculations and 2D Graph
• Added the ability to install COSMOS in HD-0 (Dobbertin/Vortex/Campursoft ?)
• Small graphic icons added at specific procedures and locations
• Option for 5 sequential inputs added in month processor (instead of calc.)
• Annual agenda module included in COSMOS OverView (view and edit)
• Full Agenda Search support added in search module
• Individual Annual Agenda module added (this requires a lot of memory...)
• Improved Month editor
• Alarm signal added in SUM module
• Warning Meassages added in case of negative cash availability
• Optimized Ram Expansion management for multiple projects
• COSMOS second release (v.19)!

July 2007

• Improved Verify procedure to check Net annual costs and income
• Skip Option added in SUM module providing faster execution time
• Save icon added in advanced mode (3.5" disc)
• Printer support for TXT review file (instead of using CP/M PIP)
• Printer function checked with EPSON Stylus Color 640 printer and Hewlett Packard B/W Laser printer. EPSON EPL-6200L Laser printer does not work properly.
• Auxiliary logical device support for review file (PUN: and RDR:)
• Improved Agenda editor
• In-progress bars added while Printing or transferring
• Left margin added on printed hard copy in SUM print function
• All CRT frames and logos tuned for reasons of uniformity
• Calculation of maximum profit added in SUM module
• Previous year residual added in TXT review file
• VDU bugs fixed in Overview, Annual and Constant module
• Help modules homogenized in one executable
• All modules renamed for easier backup using wild cards (module.*)
• Improved management of temporary files
• Free disk space and free RAM space added
• Added control of destination disk space in Setup
• Each comment variable size reduced by 1 byte
• Day and Date added in Agenda in Overview module
• Graphic bar added in month module
• Sequantial month analysis added for faster processing
• Added comments length check
• New low level routines added (some provided by Werner Cirsovius :) )
• New TAX module added to control TAX
• Virtual matrices reduced to allow COSMOS execution in 169 kB disks
• Alert function implemented in COSMOS Main, Overview, Agenda and SUM
• Code checked for its validity for more than 2 years on a daily basis
• Automatic tracking of income or expenses added in Search module
• COSMOS third release (v.20)

Plans for the future

• Upcoming next release v.21 - Fall of 2008 !
• Improving software performance, speed and Graphics User Interface
• Improving management of TPA, disc space and RAM Extension
• System bug fixed (drive B: wrong free disk space in Tools in v.20)
• Adding user defined delay parameter in SUM module
• Implementing escape function using ESC key
• Improving SETUP installation utility (added Name day generator)

User manual

• Cosmos 2.0 user manual (at cpcwiki.eu)

Web links

• Download site
• Download Cosmos 1.8 directly
• Download Cosmos 2.0 (at cpcwiki.eu)