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- Yesterday afternoon, I finally received the LW PC upgrade in
- the mail(I ordered it on the morning of April 17). Since I planned to
- attend a local LW meeting in 2hrs, I just installed it and looked
- through the menus. When I showed up at the meeting place, I found
- out it was cancelled due to the leader's illness. However, a couple
- of people were standing there and I asked about LW 4.0. By chance,
- one of the people was Newtek's LW product manager! He was in the area
- to demo LW 4 to various meetings and groups in the area.
- For the next two hours, we stood outside the closed building
- talking about Newtek, LW 4, etc. Since I had not enough time to
- thoughly check out the new LW, I could only ask him about features I
- noticed immediately. What comes with the pre-release is just reprints
- of the amiga manuals plus a few pages describing some new features. He
- said that LW 4.0 final will be shipping in 4-6 weeks with four completely
- new manuals (Layout, Modeler, Tutors, and Reference). Support for about
- 20 read/write formats for objects, images, and anims will be included.
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- Now only IFF/TGA/LW images can be loaded or saved.Some plug-ins will be includ
- before final release. The Xaos plug-in for SGI may also be available
- for the Intel platform at no charge. They said they may mirror the
- Newtek BBS to Tomahawk. They will monitor the LW use group and mailing
- list frequently. At present, you can not import/export directly from
- Layout to Modeler (they are working on the problem). There is no
- moving preview in Modeler as in the amiga version (because of lack
- of Bitter?). The prelease has references to amiga which will disappear
- in the final. The Amiga will still be supported as long as there is a
- market.He said Newtek has sold "tens of thousands" of Toasters.
- The company currently employs about 45 people.
- That's about all I can remember about LW issues. Others
- there ask about Toasters/Flyers, but I only half listened.
- I hope this news in encouraging.
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