The following has been removed or tightened:

• Only modern upgraded Amigas will be supported (FPU, graphics board >16 Bit, at least 32 MB RAM, OS 3.9).
• Program functions that were not of interest for the customers have been removed (external telescope control, VSOP87 planets theory).
• MPEG animation has been removed as this is too much for the Amiga regarding its capacity.

• Implementation of the Hipparcos stars catalogue as cross index.
• Improved data about stars parallaxes of almost 100,000 stars.
• Improved star ephemerides, Hertzsprung-Russel diagram.
• Improved GUI. Many single functions have been integrated in a page orientated window and sorted by topics (see MUI prefs, STRICQ etc).
• Automation of some settings that had to be done by hand before.
• Animation size independant of screen size.
• ... and some more things.

Soon I'll upload the first beta snapshot of the new DA3 version to the net.

Here are the most important changes:
A cable for connection to the A1200 clockport will not be included. A connection kit will be available separately for 10,- EUR. To use the Midi-ports, a separate cable is necessary. It's a standard Midi cable that is also used by PC sound cards, and it will not be included with the Delfina Flipper. It can be ordered separately for 9,- EUR.

Samba is a software for connecting for example PC and Amiga.

The same Voodoo 3 Warp3D driver-code runs substantially faster on the Prometheus and the Mediator which is clearly a sub-optimal situation considering the much higher bandwidth available on the Cyberstorm PPC/GREX 4000 combo.

We can only conclude that something in the consumer-version of the GREX is interfering with the normal operation of the driver, be it the software, be it the hardware itself or a combination of both.

It's equally unclear if the same problem arises also on the GREX-1200.

We want to take the opportunity to strenuously deny the rumour spread by certain dealers that we are trying to extract an additional license-fee from DCE to correct this problem.

Time permitting, we would be most happy to correct this problem although we fear this may well prove impossible without the cooperation of DCE.

The most important new feature in this version is the added argument QUIT to finish a running YGM.

• 03.05.02 new: Super Grand Prix (Codemasters) done by Codetapper
• 03.05.02 new: Fighter Bomber (Activision) done by Galahad
• 03.05.02 new: Crackdown (U.S.Gold) done by Galahad
• 02.05.02 new: Skyfox (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
• 02.05.02 new: Seconds Out (TyneSoft) done by Psygore
• 29.04.02 new: Hawkeye (Thalamus) done by Bored Seal
• 29.04.02 fixed: Archon (Electronic Arts) install script corrected
• 26.04.02 new: The Lost Vikings (Interplay) done by Asman

Staf Verhaegen worked some more on RexxSysLib.library.

Georg Steger implemented PGA_NotifyBehaviour and PGA_RenderBehaviour in gadget.class. The behaviour of the propg.class can now be configured with this to behave like on the Amiga or in a "nice" way. The default (if you don't specify anything) is "nice". The GUI of Font prefs was improved. Many bugs in diskfont.library were fixed. There will soon be a program to convert TrueType fonts into Amiga/AROS bitmap fonts to use them with diskfont.library without having to convert them (ie. you can open these fonts in all sizes without having .font files for them on disk). A bug in ReadArgs() (the flags /K/A didn't work correctly) was fixed, too.

Matt Parsons updated the AROS User Guide. Some debug statements in the screen blanker were removed. Our LoadWB has now an About menu item which prominently shows the names of the AROS developers. Credit where credit is due :-)

Henning Kiel, Fabio Alemagna and Georg Steger ... helped ... Matt with LoadWB ;-) (Note: That's an internal joke and only for the records... ahem).

Did you notice? No Zune in the last post. Of course, Sebastian Bauer wasn't idling around. He just didn't commit :-)

DESCRIPTION:
This little "bar" allows to you load any program or script by one click on icon. A bubble help tells you the name of loaded program. Two help files (GUIDE and HTML) are available.

New:
Pixload can be moved anywhere easily, contextual menu added!

What about:
It is a window with buttons including pictures. Each click on button, loads a command line which loads a program or script. It was made in AREXX and RXMUI for graphic part. You can modifiy everything (colors, aspect, etc.. from the Pixload contextual menu).