• Mainly a release for a few small changes that occured to me, just after releasing Version 0.9384
• Modified Message area in Mail Check Window to show Messages/Total Size
• Slight modifications to make Log files a bit more readable for human eyes.
• Main Archive now should contain latest Sounds and Icons (MWB and Newicons)

• New: Mail-Checking-System.
• New "Mail-Check-Window" for sound and notifications.
• The directory structure was slightly changed and should be readjusted at the first start of the software after the update.
• At the first start one must select the user the program shall begin with, since this save format changed, too.
• A Problem in the relogin system was fixed. The start window was send to sleep mode under many circumstanced, even if it realy should not do that.
• There are still some CyberGuard/Enforcer hits, but those could only be reproduced random, so far.
• The IO packet window now supports Cut'n Paste, so the last values bevore/after an error including all CyberGuard/Enforcer hits can be sent to the author.
• Notice: In the case of Miami it is recommended to use at least Miami V2.1p, V3.2b or MiamiDX V1.0c - with those AIM was tested successfull.

Charon.lha           comm/net   159K+Download manager
Amster.lha           comm/tcp   472K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Apache_1.3.12.lha    comm/www   3.8M+AmigaApache/1.3.12 PHP/4.0.1pl2
SortCopy.lha         disk/bakup  28K+Copy or backup files,directories and lin
PurgeDelDir.lha      disk/misc   11K+Purge PFS .DelDir of useful file referen
AIOV37.lha           docs/mags  454K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 37 (July
Dwarf.lha            game/patch  63K+The Cheating Utility
RotateAnim.lha       gfx/edit     5K+PPaint script for creating animations
Splitmpeg.lha        gfx/misc    71K+MPEG splitter (030/040/PPC)
flamingo.lha         misc/emu   146K+C= Plus/4 emulator v1.50, 68k & PPC
twig_guad.lha        mods/med   162K+Guadalope, a tune by DJTwiglet
twig_minc.lha        mods/med   441K+Mince, a tune by DJTwiglet
twig_mung.lha        mods/med   166K+Mungo, a tune by DJTwiglet
rno-r044.lha         mods/misc  746K+Rno-label release no.44 by matrixx (drum
SuperSansSerif.lha   text/bfont   9K+Light and clean ScreenText Amiga Font
JanoEditor.lha       text/edit   55K+TextEditor beta 10
remcmt.lha           util/cli     1K+Remove all comments in directory
HP2TeX.lha           util/conv   12K+Convert HP11C/12C output to TeX
lucyplay.lha         util/libs   14K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
MonitorTest.lha      util/misc   17K+* Monitor Test v0.7 *
MUISearch13_SI.lha   util/wb      1K+Slovenian catalog for MUISearch v1.3

• MUA_NListtree_Quiet does not work as expected. Fixed!
• User defined compare- and findname-hooks crashed! Fixed!
• Now, NListtree is really quiet if MUIA_NListtree_Quiet is set!
• Reactivation of copied, moved and exchanged entries works better now.
• AutoScroll when opening nodes now works as expected.
• Added new config item "Open scroll".

Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:00:20 +0200
To: AROS Announce mailto:aros-announce@aros.org
Reply-To: aros-announce@lists.hepe.com
Subject: [AROS-Announce] Status update

BGUI has been completely ported to AROS, now. This means that the library
can be compiled and that all demos run. Cudos go to Stefan Berger.

Michael Schulz is working on making mice work on AROS Native/i386.
This includes work on a PCI.HIDD, an IRQ.HIDD, the VGA.HIDD and the
Serial.HIDD plus an IDE driver. Trackdisk is there, too, so the
next thing is to find a filesystem to use. We try to get SFS because
it seems one of the best filesystems for the Amiga at this time.
The SFS developers seem to be very positive to this, we'll see what
comes from it.

As for the Sowatec AG hiring
developers for AROS, all I can say at this time is that we had several
job interviews and things look quite good. The only thing that might
break it at this time (as I see it) is that we get not enough people.
We figured that we need four developers and last I looked, we had three
and one interview still open. Don't hold your breath but press your
thumbs :-)

Nils Henrik Lorentzen has begun to write a framebuffer.HIDD which
uses Linux' framebuffer for rendering. Right now, it's mostly for
debugging (it's a synchronous interface instead of X11s' asynchronous
one) but maybe, there will be a AROS Native/linux-i386, ie. a
version of AROS that will boot with the help of a Linux kernel
but without the need to install a complete Linux system. We'll
see what can be done here.

And I'm diving into the depths of Ami, the SDK for the next Amiga
by Amiga Inc.. As it looks, the
SDK is a bit disappointing because it's very rough and has lots of
holes but on the positive side, Amiga's crew is very helpful and
the developer support is just great. *sigh* Had we just had such
a support in the old C= days. Many thanks for their effort go to
Ray A. Akey and Gary Peake and all the members of the
Tao and Amiga
support staff that I'm bombing with EMails ;-) If they can keep this
attitude, then I have no doubt that in five or ten years, people
will name Ami in the same breath as Windows, EPOC and Linux.
Something really to look forward to.

As for stats, I'm proud that we made 40k hits on our web page and
this year has also been very productive from the EMail side: Last
year, there were about 300KB mails/month in the developer list.
This year, we have 1MB mails/month ! Thanks go to all those
members of the development team that have not been mentioned here
but who do important stuff, nonetheless (in no order): Henning
Kiel and Lars Bischoff for reporting bugs, Georg Steger for
cleaning up after the other developers have raged through the
code and calling me back to earth when necessary, Jaime Dias for
asking "stupid" questions that make us think what we're doing,
Manuel Lemos for trusting us with BGUI, Requin Frederic for
helping Michael Schulz, Tobias Seiler for continuing the NetBSD
port, Bernardo Innocenti for bugging people to allow us to port
their software to AROS and last but not least all those people
who I forgot :-) Thanks to you all; it's your
work that makes this possible.

And at the end, a short note to all those people who started own
ports of the AmigaOS: Good luck to you all. I think you will find
out soon enough why AROS took soo long. The AROS team is still
willing to share their knowledge and code with everyone out
there. And we can do this because of the MPL, the only true Open
Source license :-)

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Witzbergstr. 7,   http://www.sowatec.com
Tel: +41-(0)1-952 55 55
Fax: +41-(0)1-952 55 66
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• Re-Compiled for 68020/+ processors
• Removed Debug option so the executable is only 521ko (200ko gain)
• Updated the version numbers (nomore "1600 series")
• Enabled cut and paste in Chat and History
• StrICQ now uses it's own icon (PROGDIR:STRICQ) as app-icon and no longer Env:sys/Def_STRICQ
• A lot of fonts are now FIXED so that cut/paste work with MCP
• Re-worked prefs window: now resizable
• Updated a lot of borders to ReadList type instead of String to give a closer AmIRC look for chat and list, it is also more MUI styled now and you can configure their look without messing up the input field borders.
• Improved the look of some frames