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- * AmigaWorld *
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- © by Wolfgang Lug
- program history
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- The AnigaWorld program has been developed using an Amiga 2000 and the
- excellent Modula2-developer's system of A+L AG, Grenchen, Switzerland.
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- History
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- Version 1.0 - 01-jan-1993
- o The first working and useful version of AmigaWorld,
- published on AmigaLibDisk #804.
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- Version 1.01 - 24-mar-1993 - intern
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- Version 1.02 - 28-mar-1993
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- Version 1.03 - 01-apr-1993
- o Swedish translation by Bo Arnholm.
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- Version 1.1 - 07-apr-1993
- o Added currencies.
- o Dutch translation by Ruud Hoekzema.
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- Version 1.11 - 13-apr-1993
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- Version 2.0 - 13-jun-1993
- o Added flags.
- o Added important international organizations.
- o Added information about religions.
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- Version 2.01 - 01-jul-1993
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- Version 2.02 - 11-jan-1994
- o Finnish translation by Mika Leinonen.
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- Version 2.03 - 28-feb-1994
- o French translation by Olivier Bogros, David Gaussinel and Yves Salingue.
- o Italian translation by Dr. Guido Alfani.
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- Version 2.1 - 07-mar-1994
- o Danish translation by Casper Thomsen.
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- Version 3.0 - 02-jun-1994
- o Added location maps that you can click on for getting data about a country.
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- Version 3.1 - 30-jul-1994
- o Kickstart 2.0 or better will give you 3d-look and a font requester.
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- Version 4.0 - 30-aug-1994
- o AmigaWorld displays an English text about nature, population, economy
- and history of a country. About 80% of the texts are done, the author
- of these informative texts is Bo Arnholm who has already translated
- AmigaWorld into Swedish!
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- Version 4.1 - 27-sep-1994
- o Now includes a text about each and every country!
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- Version 4.2 - 18-oct-1994
- o Free choice of the screen mode.
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- Version 4.3 - 22-oct-1994
- o Improved text display window.
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- Version 4.31 - 01-jan-1995
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- Version 4.32 - 10-jan-1995
- o Norwegian translation by Bjarne Bjørnsen.
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- Version 4.4 - 05-may-1995 - after the first meeting of Bo and Wolfgang!
- o Any text description can be printed or exported into an ASCII-file.
- o Improved user-interface.
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- Version 4.41 - 20-sep-1995
- o Many flags have been improved or added by Dave Travers.
- o Updated country descriptions.
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- Version 5.0 - 23-oct-1995 - intern
- o Following data has been added to all countries (if available):
- o Annual population growth
- o Life expectancy
- o Share of illiterates
- o Share of city-dwellers
- o Average annual economic growth
- o Inflation
- o Unemployment
- o Energy consumption per capita
- o You can have sum or average calculated for any figure and any selection
- of countries.
- o Country list can be saved to and loaded from disk.
- o Square miles can be used as area measure.
- o Documentation also available as AmigaGuide- and DVI-file.
- o Better installation with Commodore's `Installer'-software.
- o Registered users receive a `Keyfile': Updates for free!
- o Looks better.
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- Version 5.01 - 01-feb-1996
- o All data updated.
- o Country data can be printed to paper.
- o Improved optics and user-friendliness.
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- Version 5.1 - 20-feb-1996
- o Search mode `include' has been added.
- o Search menu has been replaced by a cycle gadget that can be
- contolled via keyboard.
- o Keyboard-support for other features, too.
- o The maps don't look `squeezed flat' anymore on high screen resolutions.
- o Requires at least Kickstart 2.1 -- 1.3 and 2.0 no longer supported!
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- Version 5.11 - 12-mar-1996
- o The menu item `Sort/Reverse order' has been improved: Countries without
- available data stay at the end of the list.
- o New `FarawayEyes' font is available in 9, 11, 13 and 15 point, well
- suitable for high resolution screens. It includes Slavonic, Romanian
- and Turkish chars: For translations and for improved display of cities
- of these countries.
- o Design improvement, bugs fixed.
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- Version 5.12 - 10-apr-1996
- o A bug of versions 5.1 / 5.11 has been fixed that occasionally caused a
- guru when selecting ... the Quit-function!
- (To be honest: At first it seemed a good idea to have such a
- bug: People simply would never quit this beautiful program :)
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- Version 5.13 - 28-apr-1996 - intern
- o The search function has improved again: Now it knows about accents and
- umlauts. Example: "Ae", "æ" and "Ä" are treated just the same, "aa" is
- accepted instead of "å", "e" instead of "Ë" or "è", and so on.
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- Version 5.14 - 29-apr-1996
- o Keyboard support for the country list has improved: Cursor+Alt-Key moves
- the list one line up or down, Cursor+Shift-Key browses through the list.
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- Version 5.15 - 13-aug-1996
- o Many of the country descriptions and some organization descriptions have
- been updated.
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- Version 5.16 - 15-dec-1996
- o Contains completely updated country data.
- o The descriptions about organizations have been updated, some organizations
- have been newly included.
- o Looks better again and is now ready to be translated into any language
- with an alphabet written from left to right side. How come?
- 100% font-sensitivity.
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- Version 5.17 - 01-mar-1997
- o Better keyboard control and improved scrolling of the text descriptions.
- o When printing a text, the preferences settings for left and right margin
- are now considered and the text is formatted accordingly.
- o There are now five formats for saving text descriptions:
- ASCII, ASCII /w word wrap, ASCII /w control codes for bold, italic etc,
- ASCII /w word wrap and control codes, LaTeX.
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- Version 5.18 - 29-jun-1997
- o Some bugs now fixed that did show up on some machines equipped with
- gfx-cards.
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- Version 5.19 - 05-dec-1997
- o All data, some country descriptions and a few flags have been updated.
- o The file format for loading/saving country lists has changed, but the old
- format is still accepted for a while, hence: Should you have created
- and saved some country lists, then please load them and just save them
- again.
- o The Danish translation is no longer included.
- o Internal code-optimizations.
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- Version 5.20 - 09-06-1998 -- after the first "AmigaWorld summit" with
- Bo Arnholm, Ruud Hoekzema and Wolfgang Lug
- o You can have 15 windows of any kind (country, text, map) open at the
- same time.
- o New lay-out for the country window: It's more user friendly and looks
- much better.
- o All flags have been re-painted. They don't look flat anymore.
- o Contains improved location maps that have been generated with "MASSIVE".
- o The colour-requester has been replaced by five colour presets.
- o Registered users now can save the configuration also when using AW from
- a CD-ROM.
- o Internal code-optimizations.
- o Minor bugs fixed.
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- Known bugs
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- o Map display causes problems with some graphic enhancers, e.g. with Cyber-
- graphX 16-bit or 24-bit modes (but using them does not give any benefits
- anyway, as AW does not display more than 16 colors [by now]).
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- Plans for the future
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- o Improved map display with maps that flexibly adjust to any screen mode
- and show cities, mountains and rivers. A beta version of this new map
- generator is already done: It knows 1997's political borders and is
- able to flood-fill land masses very precicely.
- Watch out for "MASSIVE" in Aminet/misc/edu!
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- o Information on major cities
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- o Improved country list.
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- BUT ONLY IF THERE ARE SOME REGISTRATIONS AGAIN!
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