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Documentation: History

The AmigaWorld software has been developed using an Amiga 2000 and the excellent Modula2-developer's system of A+L AG, Grenchen, Switzerland.

Version : [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]

Other: Known Bugs or Plans for the future

1. Version 1
   • 1.0 - 01-jan-1993
     • The first working and useful version of AmigaWorld, published on AmigaLibDisk #804.
   • 1.01 - 24-mar-1993 - intern
   • 1.02 - 28-mar-1993
   • 1.03 - 01-apr-1993
     • Swedish translation by Bo Arnholm.
   • 1.1 - 07-apr-1993
     • Added currencies.
     • Dutch translation by Ruud Hoekzema.
   • 1.11 - 13-apr-1993
2. Version 2
   • 2.0 - 13-jun-1993
     • Added flags.
     • Added important international organizations.
     • Added information about religions.
   • 2.01 - 01-jul-1993
   • 2.02 - 11-jan-1994
     • Finnish translation by Mika Leinonen.
   • 2.03 - 28-feb-1994
     • French translation by Olivier Bogros, David Gaussinel and Yves Salingue.
     • Italian translation by Dr. Guido Alfani.
   • 2.1 - 07-mar-1994
     • Danish translation by Casper Thomsen.
3. Version 3
   • 3.0 - 02-jun-1994
     • Added location maps that you can click on for getting data about a country.
     • High resolution display improved.
   • 3.1 - 30-jul-1994
     • Now with 3D-look.
4. Version 4
   • 4.0 - 30-aug-1994
     • 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!
     • Includes data on Palestine.
   • 4.1 - 27-sep-1994
     • Includes a text about each and every country!
   • 4.2 - 18-oct-1994
     • Free choice of the screen mode.
   • 4.3 - 22-oct-1994
     • Improved text display window.
   • 4.31 - 01-jan-1995
     • Updated data.
   • 4.32 - 10-jan-1995
     • Norwegian translation by Bjarne Bjørnsen.
   • 4.4 - 05-may-1995 - after the first meeting of Bo and Wolfgang!
     • Any text descriptions can be printed or exported into an ASCII file.
     • Improved user-interface.
   • 4.41 - 20-sep-1995
     • Many flags were improved or added by Dave Travers.
     • Updated country descriptions.
5. Version 5
   • 5.0 - 23-oct-1995 - intern
     • Following data was - if available - added to all countries:
       • Annual population growth
       • Life expectancy
       • Share of illiterates
       • Share of city-dwellers
       • Average annual economic growth
       • Inflation (average value of the last ten years)
       • Unemployment
       • Energy consumption per capita
     • You can have sum or average calculated for any figue and any selection of countries.
     • Country list can be saved to and loaded from disk.
     • Square miles can be used as area measure.
     • Documentation now available as AmigaGuide- and DVI-files.
     • Better installation with Commodore's "Installer"-software.
     • Registered users recieve a "Keyfile": Updates for free!
     • Looks better.
   • 5.01 - 01-feb-1996
     • All data was updated.
     • Country data can be printed to paper.
     • Clicking on the little map with the left mouse button brings up a map of the continent the mouse was pointing at.
     • The big world map is still available: Hit the right mouse button over the little map.
     • Pick the first item of the Selection menu to select all countries.
     • Improved scrolling of the country list.
   • 5.1 - 20-feb-1996
     • The Search menu was replaced by a cycle gadget that can be contolled via keyboard.
     • Search mode "include" was added.
     • You can pick countries from the list via keyboard.
     • AmigaWorld also works on 16-coloured screens. Then you can modify the palette without affecting flag and map display.
     • The maps don't look "squeezed flat" anymore on high screen resolutions.
     • Requires at least Kickstart 2.1 -- 1.3 and 2.0 are not supported anymore!
   • 5.11 - 12-mar-1996
     • The menu item "Sort/Reverse order" has been improved: Countries without available data stay at the end of the list.
     • 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.
     • A bug of version 5.1 has been fixed: Listing the dependencies from the mother country's window does work again.
   • 5.12 - 10-apr-1996
     • A bug of versions 5.1 / 5.11 has been fixed that occasionally caused a guru when selecting ... the Quit-function! (To be honest: At first it seemed a good idea to have such a bug: People simply would never quit this beautiful program :)
     • Improved look for Workbench 3.x.
   • 5.13 - 28-apr-1996
     • The search function has improved again: Now it knows about accents and umlauts. Example: "Ae" and "Ä" are treated just the same, "aa" is accepted instead of "å", "e" instead of "é", and so on.
   • 5.14 - 29-apr-1996
     • 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.
   • 5.15 - 13-aug-1996
     • Many of the country descriptions and some organization descriptions have been updated.
   • 5.16 - 23-oct-1996
     • Contains completely updated country data.
     • The descriptions about organizations have been updated, some organizations have been newly included (English and German only, at the moment).
     • Looks better again and is now ready to be translated into any language with an alphabet written from left to right side. How come? 100% font-sensitivity.
   • 5.17 - 01-mar-1997
     • Better keyboard control and improved scrolling of the text descriptions.
     • When printing a text, the preferences settings for left and right margin are now considered and the text is formatted accordingly.
     • There are now five formats for saving text descriptions: ASCII, ASCII /w word wrap, ASCII /w control codes for bold, italic etc, ASCII /w word wrap and control codes, LaTeX.
   • Version 5.18 - 29-jun-1997
     • Some bugs now fixed that did show up on some machines equipped with gfx-cards.
   • Version 5.19 - 05-dec-1997
     • All data, some country descriptions and a few flags have been updated.
     • The file format for loading/saving country lists has changed, but the old format is still accepted for a while, hence: Should you have created and saved some country lists, then please load them and just save them again.
     • The Danish translation is no longer included.
     • Internal code-optimizations.
   • Version 5.20 - 09-06-1998
     after the first "AmigaWorld summit" with Bo Arnholm, Ruud Hoekzema and Wolfgang Lug
     • You can have 15 windows of any kind (country, text, map) open at the same time.
     • New lay-out for the country window: It's more user friendly and looks much better.
     • All flags have been re-painted. They don't look flat anymore.
     • Contains improved location maps that have been generated with "MASSIVE".
     • The colour-requester has been replaced by five colour presets.
     • Registered users now can save the configuration also when using AW from a CD-ROM.
     • Internal code-optimizations.
     • Minor bugs fixed.

Map display causes problems with some graphic enhancers, e.g. with CybergraphX 16-bit or 24-bit modes (but using them does not give any benefits anyway, as AW does not display more than 16 colors [by now]).

• Improved map display with maps that flexibly adjust to any screen mode and show cities, mountains and rivers. A beta version of this new map generator is already done: It knows 1997's political borders and is able to flood-fill land masses very precicely. Watch out for "MASSIVE" in Aminet/misc/edu!
• Information on major cities
• Improved country list.

But only if there are some registrations again!