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10.Sep.2002
Gerd Frank (E-Mail)

AmiATLAS 6 Update Info
Gerd Frank writes:
It really lasts a very long time, but now there are some updates to AmiATLAS 6 available. Sorry for the really long delay, but we had some strange personal and technical problems over the last months...

A few users already got several of the older update archives some months ago, others obviously nothing. So now within several eMails (spreaded over some days to avoid overfilled eMail accounts) you will receive all the available updates again. But remember, only for registered users and some selected beta testers with an NDA release!

The distribution will be done in several packed archives in LHA format. There are normally no installation scripts included, it is enough to unpack the archives and copy the directories directly into your installation of AmiATLAS 6. If you are not sure with such procedures, just send an eMail!

You should receive the following updates:

- AmigaAUTO v1.06
- AmigaKONTO v1.06
- AmiATLAS v6.38 (ony an internal but stable release!!!)

- map denmark v6.50
- map benelux v6.50
- map germany_special v6.50

All these maps were done by Manfred Rohde in many many sacrifying hours of absolutely hard work. Kind regards to him and thank you very much!!!

Possible a new enhanced map for Italy, done by Fabio Miscia, will follow in the near future too! But again please be patient...

To the programs I can only say these are mainly bug fixed localized versions, the main changes and enhancements are done inside and by now are mostly not visible to the user. This will follow with the updates in the future. So please don't be disappointed or even expect miracles.

In future releases the following maps won't be supported or enhanced anymore, because it needs too much time to do all the work on nearly the same maps for one country. It's even possible some maps will only be renamed so don't panic!

austria (these three will be joined to one "austria")
austria_plus (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
austria_special (the travelguide and a map of europe)
belgium (included in the new BeNeLux)
D_CH_A (old stuff...)
germany (now only "germany_special" is supported,)
germany_global (same conditions as austria and switzerland)
germany_small (dito)
netherlands (included in the new BeNeLux)
switzerland (these three will be joined to one "switzerland")
switzerland_special (map with highest capacity, choosable with)
switzerland_standard (the travelguide and a map of europe)

What we will do with the maps in "germany_prof" was still not decided finally.

Within the travel guides and hotel guides are very extensive changes in progress, but because of the amount of data of course it needs some more time. In the future you can use a database as known from similar products on other systems. Btw AmigaGuide files wont be used so extensive in the future as it is currently done, but you will get powerful possibilities e.g. for searching. By request you can get the actual beta release and have some fun...

The tools AmiAVON and AmigaPLZ should follow soon (I hope so!). The problem is I have to recode these tools now already four times because of technical problems with the old hardware.

And don't forget:

Anybody who had already done own enhancements on towns, streets or other things, surely knows about the long time to wait for new updates. In most cases this is really underestimated.

Last not least a request to all users:

The whole project AmiATLAS lives from the contributions of its users. A short eMail with new ideas or bug reports would be really great and of course very useful for future releases of this product! Thank you!!!

I would note this because from hundreds of users there are only about ten enthusiastic guys with ideas and bug reports from time to time, what I think is very a pity.

Best regards,
Gerd Frank
AmiATLAS Development Team (ps)

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