- The Master-Slave interface was completely rewritten
Master:
- Implemented zooming
- Fixed a bug that caused negative values to be displayed in the info box for big pictures (significantly larger than 640 x 480 pixels)
- Added a menu to control connections
- Added ‘Open…’ and ‘Close’ buttons to the ‘Slaves’ window
- The Master now calculates a very rough preview of the fractal
- A new file format with compression (PackBits)
Slave:
- Improved appearance in low-color situations
- Added a special quiet mode; see the How It Works chapter for details
- Replaced the ΓÇÿQuitΓÇÖ button with the switch for the quiet mode
- The main windowΓÇÖs position is remembered, as is the setting of the quiet mode switch
- The main window canΓÇÖt be closed anymore
- New ‘Open Connection…’ and ‘Close Connection’ items in the ‘File’ menu to control the connection
Version 1.1 - August 1995
- First full public release
- Full documentation
Master:
- Made About… dialog a modeless window
- Document windows now have a box in the lower left corner which displays how much of the picture has been calculated. Clicking on that area pops up a box with some more information.
- Replaced the ΓÇÿStatusΓÇÖ window by a ΓÇÿSlavesΓÇÖ window containing a standard list with all connected Slaves (that is, it lists the names of the computers)
- Makes better use of the Slaves, eliminating network overhead
- All dialogs were redesigned, most notably the Preferences Dialog
- Uses AppleEvents for the ΓÇÿAuto-Launch SlaveΓÇÖ feature -> zoom rectangles, correct ΓÇ£openΓÇ¥ icon in the Finder
- Calculates multiple fractals concurrently instead of fractal by fractal as in 1.0
- Switched to a horizontal stripe pattern for uncalculated parts of a fractal
- Balloon Help support almost completed
- Now includes a dictionary for Apple Script
Slave:
- New status window, complete with fancy lights, progress bar and 3D effects (256 color mode or better recommended, but not required)
Version 1.0 - July 1995
- First limited public release
Master:
- Balloon Help support incomplete
Future Plans
ΓÇó MacTCP support. This would make it possible to use TCP/IP as the means of transportation instead of AppleTalk. Of course AppleTalk will still be supported. This would also pave the way to port the Slave to other platforms.
ΓÇó Better compression for the files (LZW)
ΓÇó Your suggestion here
ΓÇó Make both applications a fat binary
ΓÇó New technologies (more AppleEvents / scriptability, more Drag and Drop, AppleGuide, who knows)