FutureTex Release

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Hi there!

It's about time to have designated thread for FutureTex.

You may have heart about it already here and there, but now it's time to release (29.11.2024) the CPCs most powerful and comprehensive text editor...

It was written already a lot about it, no need to repeat it all, but have a look at the designated CPC-Wiki EU page here:
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/FutureTex

The last changes were the following...

FutureTex now uses not only the new type-ahead keyboard, but also expanded memory management (up to 4 MB of course), so it is possible to copy data from one expansion RAM block to another at 5.4 microseconds per byte. This is much faster than is otherwise possible (shifting using LDIR via buffer storage in the CPC's main RAM is a minimum of 12 microseconds per byte).

Here is an example:
- Figure 1 shows the expansion RAM being occupied by five different text files that are loaded and can be edited at the same time
- Image 2 shows the names of these five files. They occupy one, two, ten, seven or seven E-RAM blocks of 16 KB each.
- Figure 3 shows the RAM allocation after the first file was expanded and everything in the expansion RAM moved.

Working with multiple files of a few 100 KB is possible without any problems.

So, here are the pictures and the current version of FutureTex...

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Lots of updates in FutureTex... Have fun!