Linux-Announce Digest #580, Volume #3 Sun, 29 Aug 99 09:13:25 EDT Contents: Ganymede 0.99.6 released - GPL'd network directory management system (Jonathan Abbey) Serial PCI card support available for testing (Otto Moerbeek) sitecopy 0.8.0 - easily manage remote web sites (Joe Orton) Record Management 0.6 (Theofilu Andreas) new apsfilter version 5.1.3 available for download (Andreas Klemm) uart16550_midi.4a - OSS/Free MIDI driver for serial ports (George Hansper) CORRECTION: r2d2 - an alternative startup concept (Winfried Truemper) WWW: Linux NetMag 3 (in german) (Ronny Ziegler) Version 1.09 of Pixcon released - set of rendering and animation tools (Alex Harper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jonathan Abbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ganymede 0.99.6 released - GPL'd network directory management system Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:52:53 GMT =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Ganymede 0.99.6 is now available for download at http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/ or ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/ Mirrors: (may take a short while to update) ftp://ftp.netlag.com/ganymede/ (USA) ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ganymede/ (Australia/NZ only) ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/pub/ganymede/ (KDD R&D Labs, Saitama, Japan) Ganymede is a GPL'ed network directory management system written in Java, providing support for team management of NIS, DNS, etc. ---- A month's worth of bug fixes, including fixes to GUI components in the client, improvements to the server's handling of new object creation, and improvements to some of the DBEditObject hooks used in creating custom plug-ins. Added support for MD5-hashed passwords to the Ganymede server, but have not yet made the Linux and BSD schema kits take advantage of this capability. Tweaked the Ganymede client to work properly under the new JDK 1.3 beta (Kestrel) that Sun released this week. For 0.99.7 I'm planning on significantly changing the way that schema kits are packaged and installed, to support independent development and distribution of schema kits. Documentation and DNS schema kit work are both still in the pipeline for the future. See http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/CHANGES for a detailed list of changes. - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Abbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin Ganymede, a free NIS/DNS management system http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2 - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kfFVrUI/eHXJZ5AQGAJAP/ZmEnDiO0XuZMj7rxmkfpCYk4eoz9K9F/ yo00RKRxBqfLfCXaQ4CscIbhLcq9vALe+SWwWFERivFxA0CgGMVVOyfMnxfzaAqu /phuhOM04Z1uInA77lyxFsWzOkt+ouPLULcFa5/zLNv1OJ7sT8LhGy+JzvzeRZOS dQL7N0YMgtE= =oa2N =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Serial PCI card support available for testing Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:53:33 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Hi, A test release of an extension to the serial driver that provides vendor independent and platform independent PCI support to the standard serial driver is available from my little site <http://people.a2000.nl/omoerbe/>. If you have a "dumb" (e.i. without its own processor) serial PCI card and are running Linux 2.2.x on an Intel, PowerPC, Alpha or any other system that supports PCI, chances are that this patch will work for you. The driver extension is very new, so do not expect that everything will work out of the box. Adding support for a new card can be as little work as adding an entry to a table, though, For more details, see my home page. Regards, Otto - -- Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] See <http://people.a2000.nl/omoerbe/> for some Linux stuff I'm working on. - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kfPVrUI/eHXJZ5AQEC3QQAyv5DhLyE3KmhU0Ez1L6C42qh/MOQVbv4 JBEyZwWjnSVcx+SiyKMI8Hkd/4hOPQ2tgaCG68wFmK/DDQ7hkVnxEiamK6Vtr8Jp m3WxCr/eNlbr5P+w6HQ9VoTycJpBLShJqPOuBVxxuqau3BPw6FnO27Et9kJLMqKu v0BjI+cjjxc= =wHbh =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: sitecopy 0.8.0 - easily manage remote web sites Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:56:22 GMT =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== sitecopy is for easily maintaining remote web sites. With a single command, the program will upload files to the server which have been changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local site. FTP and WebDAV servers are supported. sitecopy 0.8.0 is now available for download at http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/sitecopy-0.8.0.tar.gz The significant changes since version 0.7.0 are: * Rewrite of HTTP authentication to the RFC2617 standard * Support for HTTP proxies * Many bug fixes, and portability improvements, and build fixes * FTP transfer type set when appropriate after broken connection - patch by Tim Ricketts. * Minor cosmetic changes for the console frontend * GNOME frontend changes from Lee Mallabone: - Redesigned 'quit' and 'update' dialogs - Improved error handling - WebDAV support See the website at http://www.lyra.org/sitecopy/ for more details. Please send feature requests and bug reports etc to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Joe Orton - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kf5lrUI/eHXJZ5AQHPKQP+OijUh5Mje3XbEWviAz7gaOqhY0oDU+9B jj84GEknLD01mEmMDYJOJtYPEtEDYuIZaOFyn1k4Bz2InuVUnjMnW2J0bNHWxNGq jfxI6ntMCSebQ79SdNaIoeTCUWtD7hEIcNT0D8CUF+fkIBplG1RSsw/4jj7cNgOL eSJHU+UuQtw= =CPi4 =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theofilu Andreas) Subject: Record Management 0.6 Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:56:07 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== This is an announce for 'Record Management 0.6' - ----------------------------------------------- What is 'Record Management'? - ---------------------------- 'Record Management' is a program to manage large sound carrier archives. It is able to store singles (old records with only one song per side) and records with multiple cuts on it, like LPs, CDs, MCs, MP3-CDs and other sound carriers. The program is based on a database and has a GUI front end. This makes it even for the novice user easy to use. 'Record Management' is designed to have separate database tables for the singles and the other sound carriers. Therefore the handling for each type of sound carrier is optimal. If you've already stored all your CDs in a local CDDB database, you can easily add all your CDs to the database of 'Record Management' without retyping anything. All you've to do is inserting the CD in your local CD drive and hit a button in the application. 'Record Management' reads then the track information from the CD and mixes it with the data of the appropriate CDDB entry. The result is entered automatically into the database of 'Record Management'. 'Record Management' does similar with MP3-CDs. Just insert the CD with all your MP3 files on it and mount it. Then hit a button in the program and 'Record Management' gets it's information directly from the MP3 files. What do I need to use 'Record Management'? - ------------------------------------------ 'Record Management' uses Lesstif (GPLed) together with Xmt (Shareware) for the GUI interface. Additionally you need Xbae (GPLed) and 'libcdaudio' (GPLed). Currently 'Record Management' can use only Informix as database. Support for Postgres is planned but not realised yet. (Any help is welcome!) Hint: If you've S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1 or 6.2 you've got an Informix distribution with it. All you have to do is getting a license key (unlimited personal license!). To get one, you've to register at Informix. It's absolutely free! For more details and links to the needed libraries, take a look at my home page. The link is below. License: - -------- 'Record Management' is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Where to get 'Record Management'? - --------------------------------- Download the binary distribution: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu/platten.tar.gz (Version: 0.6) Download the source code: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu/platten-src-0.6.tar.gz My Home page: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu Short description of the program in English: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu/plattenEN.html Short description of the program in Germany: http://members.eunet.at/theofilu/platten.html Users manual (German only!) http://members.eunet.at/theofilu/RecordManagement.dvi http://members.eunet.at/theofilu/RecordManagement.ps - -- Theofilu Andreas http://members.eunet.at/theofilu ------------------------------------------------- Enjoy the science of Linux! Genie�e die Wissenschaft von Linux! ------------------------------------------------- - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kf11rUI/eHXJZ5AQHMQgQAzszgcUarcDjuOyvcOtepiTDb+mN3/GBM jYuc9kqd5EdF3LQxnbOpSParpu4BRrGT9yv7eNn7sBoZtSgWUtI+Wj0fCcN3jxnG ObHQw3aG2VTHKnZ8H9+vzAqW2VVNxuCzv1sccm9qPtRbGhoeSsy8Eez1hG396E7W BcIr9rHPaY8= =Jtc1 =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Klemm) Subject: new apsfilter version 5.1.3 available for download Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:55:18 GMT =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Please note, that the COPYRIGHT has changed slightly. Apsfilter uses still GPL, the GNU Public License. But additionally I'd like to get a postcard if somebody is using apsfilter. I hope that's not too much and I would be glad to see, how many people are using apsfilter and where they live ... Thanks for your understanding. Best regards Andreas /// # $Id: ANNOUNCE,v 1.17 1999/08/28 14:36:30 andreas Exp $ WHAT IS APSFILTER ================= Do you have the German Unix Magazine UnixOpen February 1995 handy ? Yes ?! Then read the article about apsfilter "Jetzt wird Druck gemacht". APSFILTER is a lineprinter input filter for systems with a BSD-like printing mechanism (lpd, /etc/printcap), that saves users a lot of work when printing different file types wether compressed or not !!! Additionally it enables non Postscript printers, that are supported by the free postscript emulator - under the terms of the GPL - "ghostscript" (gs), to print postscript files automatically ! With the new apsfilter Version 3.0 its now possible to print *compacted* documents directly without unpacking !!! The wanted packers/unpackers have to be already installed on your system. o Supported packers: BZIP2, GZIP, PACK, COMPRESS, FREEZE/MELT o Supported file types: ASCII, BMP, DVI, Data (PCL,...), FIG, GIF, Group 3 FAX, HTML, JPEG, PBM, PDF, PostScript, PPM, Sun Raster, TIFF, troff, X11 Bitmap Unix Platforms, that are able to run apsfilter flawlessly ========================================================= - FreeBSD 1.X - FreeBSD 2.X - FreeBSD 3.X - FreeBSD 4.X - NetBSD - OpenBSD - SUN SPARCSTATIONS, Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS4) (when using another file command that can read from a pipe) - Many Linux Distributions But please use the supported lpd print daemon, not LPRng ;-) - and surely all commercial Unix Systems, that run a BSD 4.X operating system ========================================================== How to get apsfilter and related software ========================================================== apsfilter: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/download/apsfilter-x.y.z.tar.gz To use all of apsfilters features or capabilities some additional (on your system possibly non-standard) utilities need to be installed. a2ps-4.12 - http://www-inf.enst.fr/~demaille/ftp/a2ps/a2ps-4.12.tar.gz bzip2 - http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/bzip2-0.9.0c.tar.gz ghostscript5.50 - ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/gs550/ ghostscript-5.50.tar.gz ghostscript-5.50gnu.tar.gz ghostscript-fonts-std-5.50.tar.gz ghostscript-fonts-other-5.50.tar.gz gs hp850 driver - http://www.erdw.ethz.ch/~bonk/ftp/gs-driver-distrib/ hp8xxs13.zip gzip - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4a.tar.gz jpeg - ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b mgetty+sendfax - ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/networking/mgetty/ mgetty1.1.19-Nov24 netpbm - ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz recode - ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/recode/recode-3.4.tar.gz teTeX - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/ pub/tex/ctan/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib/sources/ teTeX-src-0.4pl7.tar.gz teTeX-lib-0.4pl8.tar.gz transfig - ftp://crl.dec.com/pub/X11/contrib/applications/ drawing_tools/transfig/transfig.3.2.1.tar.gz unzip - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/src/unzip540.tar.gz xpm - ftp://avahi.inria.fr/pub/xpm/xpm-3.4k.tar.gz zlib - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz - -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Latest song from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/mp3/schaukel.mp3 - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kfplrUI/eHXJZ5AQFe+gP+ITABJBBC/+PfBgLN3tGShuP9ppPZEQ3w 2jdIV+j7SsicPL5EY9y4xfwRzeUTISHvRmTA1smOpdX2V7VuEwyG5GfxQDaZ6u+m RldzqKxz8Qyd5KchyooPv85THDf+/00KpibbZXilCZcLzgdT4N56lHj4h2lR0M1g DDYkuP/j5Bk= =ro7h =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: George Hansper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: uart16550_midi.4a - OSS/Free MIDI driver for serial ports Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:59:26 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Hello MIDI fans, This is a re-release of a driver which allows ordinary serial-ports to be treated as MIDI devices by the Linux / OSS-Free sound driver. The serial-port MIDI driver was previously implemented as a "patch" for OSS/Free version 3.5.4 It has now been repackaged as a low-level OSS/Free driver. The goal of this release has been to make installation simpler. In this theme, the driver will now auto-probe both the IRQ and divisor. You might be interested in this driver if you have one of the following: a) A synthesiser/keyboard or MIDI-sound-module with a serial interface capable of 38400 baud (eg a "to host" port) b) A Winman 1x1 or Winman 2x2 MIDI interface c) Any other MIDI hardware based on 8450 or 16450 or 16550A or 16552 devices Driver features: *) Modularised for 2.2.x kernels *) Backwards-compatible with 2.0.x kernels *) Up to 4 serial ports can be configured as MIDI devices *) Auto-probing of IRQ and divisor for easy installation *) Polled mode available if no IRQ is available *) Can share interrupts with other devices (not fully tested) You can download the driver and documentation from: http://crystal.apana.org.au/ghansper/midiaxis.html#MIDIdriver Regards, George Hansper - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kgnlrUI/eHXJZ5AQH3QwP8DgaQ/UnTOcgxrasi+U445bXRNTSoUG+4 K/cix4QlMh9qAbhrw5bmSYm0KrlCMhK42U8UtloEL+GQgBYzifTLNJmSswiP3yv9 2DvKJgnr/k/hrxqs72Ai+mSqsXEQpa1xw60CV5vS1yIrhuFqNzcuxbXfJa9hj3eE AtyWbETwTj4= =E4py =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: Winfried Truemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CORRECTION: r2d2 - an alternative startup concept Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:57:39 GMT =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Some people wonder I really post that much... its only for the share price of RedHat: more postings in c.o.l.a. will make it go up. (Although... I'm a little bit pissed that the RedHat-offer to get cheap shares was limited to american developers; I could have been a millionaire now... directly profiting from my postings). ;) Ok, to become on-topic actually: I forgot to mention that version 0.9.1 of r2d2 is for developers only. If you want to try r2d2, please use some older version, which ship utilities (1) to convert your existing setup into to a file named runlevel.conf (and even back, if you should not like r2d2) (2) to manipulate runlevel.conf from non-interactive installation scripts (it's called update-rc.d, because the Debian-people asked for it first). Both utilities are actively used for two years now. Please see the current package file-rc shipped by Debian for more real-life modifications to the utilities. Once we approach the release 1.0, adapted tools will exist (or even a general solution like sql4txt). I also got some mail from people badly suffering on the dot-d-syndrome. They think dot-d-directories in the SysV-style are the best invention since sliced bread. Please always show me your comittment to this way of storing content, by sending your email-messages as a tarball like in this example: sh> touch 00_From 01_now 02_on, 03_I 04_will 05_write \ 06_my 07_texts 08_without 09_an 10_editor. sh> ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 00_From -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 01_now -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 02_on, -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 03_I -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 04_will -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 05_write -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 06_my -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 07_texts -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 08_without -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 09_an -rw-r--r-- 1 winni winni 0 Aug 21 18:44 10_editor. If you happen to run BSD, you are also allowed to edit the binary directory information directly in vi instead of using tools like ln, rm or cp those dumb Linux users require.[1] If you are more the GUI-type of user, then you can type the text into the icon-descriptions and send me a tar of the associated "folder" (usally a corresponding directory). I also accept screenshots of your icons, if you prefer the graphical way consequentally. Specialized tools like editors, what a waste of development resources. \end{irony} Regards - -Winfried [1]: Yes, some BSD-variants support editing of directories. vi /etc/rc.d does not show a filemanger, but "binary garbage". Maybe this is also the reason why BSD did not completely adapt the SysV-init style: they don't want to have binary configuration files. - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kgM1rUI/eHXJZ5AQEzQwP+Nw6dzuzhY+PTV5nPxSBPi7jgnk6SkJQw xqkc23ZeFdgKaGtpXvdehac9z2txd0oDtJzbJ72ZxrQ/p9tEmL+c/Zvp7vW9OcC0 wa3wy/hvRVbZBZuuK/myCj0bhcrMUrKv/1sDSbJoWh1wxXUJQcOhUUZuCUV63Jno zCBN411MVWc= =CG/L =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: Ronny Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: WWW: Linux NetMag 3 (in german) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:58:28 GMT =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Linux NetMag is a german e-zine. http://www.linuxnetmag.de Ausgabe 3: Software + Mp3: Xaudio, xmms, mp3blaster / freeztag, kmp3te + Spiele: Quake / Descent / Flugsimulatoren + Applikationen: Wine / Cron / Gpasman + Verschiedenes: Bootlogo / Seti / Lightspeed! Netz Web-Browser / Linpopup / VNC / Post / Apache / Samba / Sitecopy / wget / Webalizer Hardware Mounten / jslaunch und mehr ... Ronny Ziegler [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html =====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE===== Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBN8kgZVrUI/eHXJZ5AQGPuAP8D2qhz6FSNJLthmz696nY7zVhhl08+2Le iBgWqDIh+HgjnouFcOdzcQR/5Zv8xqwhfqR+Lx8YL6WHJasQ2bMAyxHJk9UsFX6a rlsFG/rnB4kXc3rHRnDmT1P3588n/nHwzerBRyW4uiIZUkrZr7AUahtIIZC/b8Fe TGwfnJmPjfU= =J7V3 =====END PGP SIGNATURE===== ------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Harper) Subject: Version 1.09 of Pixcon released - set of rendering and animation tools Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:59:13 GMT =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE===== Hi :) I'm happy to announce that Pixcon/Anitroll/Gamegine release 1.09 is available to the public. What is Pixcon you may ask? Pixcon is a set rendering and animation tools that include: - a render that creates high quality images by using a combination of 11 rendering primitives. - a dynamic/kinematic hiearchical based animation system w/ support for "flock of birds", autonomous cameras, and flight models. - a real time system designed for game development. - libraries and source code for customizing and developing 2D/3D tools. If you aren't convinced yet, I invite you to look at the Pixcon Home page at: http://www.radix.net/~dunbar/index.html * Available for Pentium-Linux, Win95, and SGI-IRIX 6.5 BTW, If you have any comments email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have fun :) - --------------------------------------------------------------------- New features since version 1.08: - added VC 6.0 support for Gamegine - user-defined loaders are supported for other file formats. - added Dave Bodenstab's code changes to support FreeBSD - convert documents to HTML - started Pixcon/Anitroll/Gamegine API SDK documentation in HTML - Gamegine: - added animated texture capability to objects - improved collision code - ~30% faster - OpenGL hardware acceleration support - improved win95 sound engine - changes to Gamegine Space Shooter Demo: - added missiles, explosions, shield, and missile trail FX - new computer fighter AI - more fighter systems - more HUD items - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/mjr/cola-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. 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