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* AmigaWorld *
© by Wolfgang Lug
program history
The AnigaWorld software has been developed using an Amiga 2000 and the
excellent Modula2-developer's system of A+L AG, Grenchen, Switzerland.
History
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Version 1.0 - 01-jan-1993
o The first working and useful version of AmigaWorld,
published on AmigaLibDisk #804.
Version 1.01 - 24-mar-1993 - intern
o Minimal changes.
Version 1.02 - 28-mar-1993
o Optical improvements.
Version 1.03 - 01-apr-1993
o Swedish translation by Bo Arnholm.
Version 1.1 - 07-apr-1993
o Currencies added.
o Dutch translation by Ruud Hoekzema.
Version 1.11 - 13-apr-1993
o Optical improvements.
Version 2.0 - 13-jun-1993
o Added flags.
o Added important international organizations.
o Added information about religions.
o Data about languages more precise now.
o Optical improvements.
Version 2.01 - 01-jul-1993
o Entering a country's abbreviation gives country and dependencies.
Version 2.02 - 11-jan-1994
o Finnish translation by Mika Leinonen.
Version 2.03 - 28-feb-1994
o French translation by Olivier Bogros, David Gaussinel and Yves Salingue.
o Italian translation by Dr. Guido Alfani.
Version 2.1 - 07-mar-1994
o Danish translation by Casper Thomsen.
o More flags.
o Search for location improved.
Version 3.0 - 02-jun-1994
o Added location maps.
o You can get information on a country by clicking it on such a map.
o Text display window improved.
o Interlace display improved.
Version 3.1 - 30-jul-1994
o Kickstart 2.0 or better produces 3D-look.
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!
o Includes data on Palestine.
Version 4.1 - 27-sep-1994
o Includes a text about each and every country! But some do not contain
information on economy and history.
Version 4.2 - 18-oct-1994
o AmigaWorld co-operates with graphic expansions in a better way now,
at least if you have got Kickstart 2.1 or greater: Free choice of the
screen mode.
Version 4.3 - 22-oct-1994
o You can now modify the size of the window where country and other text
descriptions are displayed.
o A bug was fixed: Text does not flow outside this window anymore.
Version 4.31 - 01-jan-1995
o All numeric data was updated (for all languages), some of the other
data was made more precise in the English and German files.
Version 4.32 - 10-jan-1995
o Bjarne Bjørnsen from Trondheim translated all data into Norwegian. Thanks!
Version 4.4 - 05-may-1995 - after the first meeting of Bo and Wolfgang!
o The text descriptions of countries, continents and organizations can be
printed or saved as an ASCII file.
o If you move the proportional gadget next to the country list it starts
immediately to move, i.e. before you let the gadget up again.
o You can also move this list and the descriptions with the cursor up and
down keys.
o Windows may be closed with the Esc-key.
Version 4.41 - 20-sep-1995
o Many flags were improved or added by Dave Travers.
o Bo improved several of the country descriptions.
o Slightly better (but still bad) installation.
o Other minor improvements.
Version 5.0 - 23-oct-1995 - intern
o Following data was - if available - added to all countries:
o Annual population growth
o Life expectancy
o Share of illiterates
o Share of city-dwellers
o Average annual economic growth
o Inflation (average value of the last ten years)
o Unemployment
o Energy consumption per cpita
o Sum and average can be calculated for any figure and any selection
of countries.
o Country list can be saved to and loaded from disk.
o Mouse-click is sufficient to select language: No more keybord-typing
necessary.
o Square miles can be used as area measure.
o Looks better.
o Documentation as AmigaGuide- and DVI-file.
o Better installation with Commodore's ``Installer''-software.
o Registered users receive a ``Keyfile'': No more updates necessary!
Version 5.01 - 01-feb-1996
o All data was updated.
o All data which is displayed in a country window can be printed to
paper.
o Clicking on the little map with the left mouse button brings up a map
of the continent the mouse was pointing at.
o The big world map is still available: Hit the right mouse button over
the little map.
o Pick the first item of the Selection menu to select all countries.
o Scrolling of the country list was improved.
o Other little improvements.
o Some minor bugs were fixed.
Version 5.1 - 20-feb-1996
o The Search menu was replaced by a cycle gadget that can be
contolled via keyboard.
o Search mode ``include'' was added.
o You can pick countries from the list via keyboard.
o AmigaWorld also works on 16-coloured screens. Then you can
modify the palette without affecting flag and map display.
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 are not supported
anymore!
Version 5.11 - 12-mar-1996
o A bug of version 5.1 was fixed: Listing the dependencies out of a
country window does work again.
o The menu item ``Sort/Reverse order'' was 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 Requires less Chip RAM for map display on high resolution screens.
o Looks even better than before.
Version 5.12 - 10-apr-1996
o A bug of versions 5.1 / 5.11 was fixed that occasionally caused a
guru when selecting ... the Quit-function!
(To be honest: At first I thought it was a good idea to have such a
bug: People simply would never quit this beautiful program)
o Improved look under Workbench 3.x.
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 "é" or "è", and so on. And you
can add or remove dashes "-" and spaces " " to your input as you like.
Version 5.14 - 29-apr-1996
o Keymap 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.
Version 5.15 - 13-aug-1996
o Many of the country descriptions and some organization descriptions have
been updated.
Known bugs
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o None at all.
Plans for the future
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o Improved map display with maps that flexibly adjust to any screen mode
and provide more information than just borders.
o Information on major cities
o Improved flag display on high resolution screens.
The authors
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Bo Arnholm (47), a lover of music, works for an important newspaper in
Gothenburg. He likes it most to navigate around those many tiny islands
of the Swedish west coast in his boat, together with his family.
Ruud Hoekzema (39) is a physicist. A much-travelled man with a weakness
for Greece, Pizza, Science Fiction and the Internet.
David Gaussinel of Bélier Production from French Sarlat publishes the
DomPub disk-mag, Yves Salingue (44) is a traffic controller at Paris'
Charles-de-Gaulle airport, his hobbies include long-distance-running
and collecting stamps. He spends most of his spare time with his two
sons. Olivier Bogros is in charge of the municipial library of Lisieux.
Guido Alfani (28) from Roma (Italy) is Doctor in Political Sciences -
spec: historico-pol. (University of Roma "La Sapienza") and now is
attending a postgraduate course for Consulents of Assembly at the
Department of Theory of the State - Faculty of Political Sciences,
Univ. of Roma. He collaborates part time with "Istituto dell'Enciclopedia
Italiana /Treccani" (redaction of byographies) and is busy in historical
researches. His hobbies are: reading, image processng, swimming and martial
arts (Kung Fu - Long Fu Tong).
Dane Casper Thomsen has just begun studying. Finnish Mika Leinonen coming
right from the Polar Circle is now a student of information engineering
in Oulu. Bjarne Bjørnsen (59) has been working for Norwegian Defence
Communication Administration (NODECA), the military counterpart to civilian
"PTT". He has just retired and therefore has much time for his hobbies now,
that include fishing and walking in the Norwegian mountains.
I am 22 and study political science, anthropology, Arabic and Turkish
at the university of Freiburg. Guitarist, gourmet and gourmand.