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- * AmigaWorld *
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- created by Wolfgang Lug
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- program history, known bugs & future plans
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- History
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- Version 1.0 o The first working and useful version of AmigaWorld.
- (01-jan-1993) Published as a freeware version with some limitations
- [Fish #804] on AmigaLibDisk #804.
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- Version 1.01 o Added manual selection/deselection of countries (with the
- (24-mar-1993) right mouse button)
- [internal] o Most menu selections are restored after changing font, screen
- mode or language.
- o Some internal improvements that are not visible to the user.
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- Version 1.02 o Invented code numbers for the countries. See the chapter
- (28-mar-1993) 'awo.data' in the documentation file for details.
- o Some minor optical bugs were fixed.
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- Version 1.03 o AmigaWorld does now also contain Swedish data files. They
- (01-apr-1993) were written by Bo Arnholm of Mölndal near Gothenburg.
- Thank you Bo!
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- Version 1.1 o Added data about currencies.
- (07-apr-1993) o AmigaWorld can now also express itself in Dutch. The Dutch
- [Fish #851] data files were created by Ruud Hoekzema of Driebergen
- near Utrecht. Thank you, Ruud!
- o The numbers that appear in the country window are now
- displayed as groups of three figures. That makes them
- more readable.
- o Fixed a bug that caused the program to terminate when you
- changed from a language with a long name to a language
- with a short name.
- (e.g. "Nederlands" (10 chars) -> "Deutsch" (7 chars))
- o Removed the menu short cuts. They seemed quite useless to me
- in the end.
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- Version 1.11 o Fixed a bug that caused the program to quit if you tried to
- (13-arp-1993) use a font with a name longer than 10 chars.
- o Fixed a bug that made topaz font look rather strange if you
- had already used another font before.
- o If there are open country windows when you change language,
- font, or screen mode, the country windows are adapted to
- your new selections.
- o You can close info and config windows via the keyboard now:
- Press return to confirm changes or any other key to undo
- and exit.
- o The width of the menus in the screen title bar is adapted to
- the length of the texts they contain, making the Swedish
- version look better.
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- Version 2.0 o The flags of all independent countries and some dependencies
- (13-jun-1993) are displayed together with the other data.
- o The religions which are most common in a country are listed.
- o AmigaWorld tells you about membership in important inter-
- national organisations (independent countries only).
- o You can also get a short description and all members of these
- organisations by selecting the menu item "Search for" /
- "Organisation".
- o The data about languages has become more precise.
- o AmigaWorld first calculates the size of a country window and
- THEN opens it. No more giant windows that are shrinked
- later on!
- o If the data about a country is already displayed, you cannot
- open its window again.
- o Minor optical improvements, e.g. in the window that pops up
- when an error occurs in the country data.
- o The freeware and the full functional version use the same
- output file now. The few different output texts are held
- internaly.
- o Every text in 'awo.data' had a maximum length of 80 chars in
- older versions. Now those texts that are displayed in the
- country window can be 120 chars long, the other ones (for
- the search funtcion) only 30 chars long. That's why some
- data became more precise, without eating up more memory.
- o A new country is born: Welcome, Eritrea!
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- Known bugs
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- Since I've implemented flag display, AmigaWorld eats up 80 Bytes of memory
- every time you open a country window. This memory is not deallocated later
- on. I don't have any idea why this happens because I did not program the
- IFF routines myself.
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- Plans for the future
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- o More information about the countries, e.g.
- - political system
- - ruler
- - cities
- - important economic branches
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- o A ten line history for each county. This is actually not my idea but Bo
- Arnholm's who has even volunteered and already started to write these
- short stories!
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- o Option to print out the data about a country.
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- o A map for each country,
- either computed with the CIA's WorldDataBank or as an IFF-picture.
- (won't be finished until 2010, I'm afraid)
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- o Selecting countries by clicking them on a map. (coming 2020 or so)
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- o Opportunity to use a screen with 16 colors: 8 colors for flags/maps (not
- changeable) and 8 selectalbe colors for the usual display.
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