27.Aug.1999
Andre Beer
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Update GeoWorld
After more than half a year of work, today we finally finished the long-awaited update to
version 1.1 of GeoWorld. GeoWorld, probably the best geographical software for the Amiga,
has been expanded by the following features in version 1.1:
- adding a new generic search function in the maxi search, enabling for the first time the
search for special keywords in the additional databases like economy, history etc. (full text
search)
- complete rework and bugfixes
- NewLook-Menus for OS 3.0+ (no more changing menu colors)
- flashing pointer for cities and small countries now working correctly
- scrolling of the maps pixel by pixel per keyboard
- sorting speed-up due to presorted databases
- faster search functions (in Assembler)
- VisualPrefs now supported nearly completely
- GeoWorld-Fonts can now stay in the same directory
- interaction with all requesters now completely by keyboard
- option to give distances in miles instead of kilometers
- requester "no information available" now with configurable time-out
- reworked and expanded prefs window (among others display mode, font,
use, save or reset prefs)
- expansion of the city database for Austria, Switzerland, Brasil and US
cities (over 1100 cities with ZUP code, 6119 cities total)
- expanding the city databases with details about country / state capitals
- expanding the country databases with details about the Internet abbreviation (e.g. .de, .uk, .us)
- informations about the databases are now kept in a seperate GeoWorld.data file,
so an expansion of the databases does no longer imply a change of the main program
- expansion of the info requester
- rewritten and expanded online help
- reworked and extremly expanded data about the inhabitants of the countries (over 100 kByte
text!!)
The Update Nr. 9 and a up-to-date demo version are available from our
homepage (title link), and should appear on Aminet (misc/edu) in the next few days.
Download (Demo): GeoWorld_E.lha
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