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History
For what it's worth, these version numbers have existed at one point
or another:
| Version |
Release Date |
Copies Still Exist |
Comments |
| 1.0 |
|
no |
First version, written in an afternoon in Nov 1997
on Windows 95 OSR/1 using Visual C++ 4.0 and MFC.
Functional, but very simple, and unreleased to anybody. |
| 1.0.1 |
|
no |
Minor bug fixes. |
| 1.0.2 |
|
yes |
Added zoom-in support the next week. |
| 1.0.3 |
|
no |
Minor bug fixes. |
| 1.1 |
|
yes |
Released to close friends in 1998 |
| 1.2 |
|
yes |
Released to close friends in late 1999.
First version built with Visual C++ 6.0 (I think). |
| 1.3 |
Spring 2000 |
yes |
First public release, to my web site.
Had much faster scanning engine than v1.2. |
| 1.3.1 |
|
no |
Minor bug fixes and additions. |
| 1.3.2 |
|
no |
Minor bug fixes and additions. |
| 1.3.3 |
|
yes |
Minor bug fixes and additions. |
| 1.3.4 |
Sep 13 2000 |
no |
Second public release: Uploaded to my web site and to SimTel |
| 1.3.5 |
Oct 2 2000 |
yes |
(v1.3.5 was featured in Lockergnome)
Third public relese: Uploaded to my web site and to SimTel |
| 1.3.5fr |
|
yes |
Added French Edition of v1.3.5 to my web site,
more-or-less on a lark |
| 1.4 |
Oct 16 2000 |
yes |
Last public release before release of v2.1.
Merged French code into original code-base. |
| 1.4.1 |
|
yes |
1.4.1 was incomplete and never released;
fixed French spellings and added Dutch translation; fixed deletion bug |
| 2.0 |
|
yes |
2.0 had a brand-new scanner and renderer,
and a lot of new UI code. 2.0 no longer used MFC, but used the
Windows APIs directly. Eight months of work on 2.0; then halted
in October 2001 for legal reasons. |
| 2.1 |
[pending] |
yes |
Brand-new everything.
Look and feel is similar to that of 2.0, but 2.1 has all new code based
around the highly-portable Wink development framework. |
Even though versions existed prior to the SimTel upload of v1.3.4,
I highly doubt anybody downloaded any of them from my web site. I
still have copies of some of the old versions (and even some of the
old source code), but I doubt anybody else does.
Version 2.0 and version 2.1 are very similar in appearance and
in function, but under the hood, they're 100% different: there's at
most only a couple dozen lines of code common between them. I could
have called version 2.1 "version 3.0", but since v2.0 was never released,
and v2.1 has a very similar look-and-feel to v2.0, I decided to call
it v2.1 instead.
Why was v2.0 never released? Read the Old News
section for the full story.
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