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From news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 9 11:38:09 1994
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 11:24:47 -0400
From: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
To: watmath!sci-virtual-worlds@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Path: broehl
From: broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Bernie Roehl)
Subject: ANNOUNCE Official release of AVRIL
Message-ID: <CvrMt6.C8G@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Nntp-Posting-Host: sunee.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 1994 15:24:41 GMT
The first official release of AVRIL is now available.
AVRIL is A Virtual Reality Interface Library, a collection of routines
for doing polygon graphics, reading a variety of input devices, and
performing other activities related to VR. It is a successor to REND386,
and is entirely free for non-commercial use.
AVRIL requires at least a 386 and a VGA card, and provides support for the
following input devices:
keypad arrows
mouse
joystick
Logitech Cyberman
Logitech Red Baron ultrasonic tracker
Global Devices Controller
Spatial Systems Spaceball
Polhemus Isotrak
To develop applications with AVRIL, you currently need Borland C 3.1;
however, support for other compilers (and other platforms) is coming soon.
Yes, there will be a port to Linux, probably some time in the next
few months.
There have been some changes since the pre-release back in April, and
the documentation has almost doubled in size. If you've already
developed some applications using AVRIL, check out the revision history
in Appendix A for a quick summary of the changes.
AVRIL is available on sunee.uwaterloo.ca in the pub/avril directory
(the filename is avril11.zip, for version 1.1). Our site is now connected
to the net with a T1 line, so you should notice much better transfer rates.
Remember to transfer .zip files in binary mode, both when using ftp and
when downloading to your system.
Have fun using AVRIL!
--
Bernie Roehl
University of Waterloo Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mail: broehl@UWaterloo.ca
Voice: (519) 888-4567 x 2607 work