MagiC 6.2 (10.07.2001 - 02:10 Uhr)

Despite all rumours to the contrary, Application Systems Heidelberg has not stopped further development of its MagiC operating system. As ASH informed us, the update to version 6.2 of the multitasking system for Atari, Milan, Macintosh and PC will be released in a few weeks. All versions have undergone profound changes, primarily in the GEMDOS area, which were extremely complex to realise. MagiC 6.2, for example, will have greatly increased compatibility with MiNT. For the user, a configurability of the devices in the directory "u:/dev" has been added. In addition, the standard tool VT 52 has been revised, which can now also be iconified. In addition, many error corrections have been made. By the way, according to the main developer Andreas Kromke, the patch program is already finished and is currently in the test phase. The update of 6.1x versions will be downloadable free of charge from the ASH homepage. MagiCMac for the new Apple operating system Mac OS X is also still in the works. The new kernel 6.20 will also be used here. However, ASH is dampening expectations for the first release: MagiCMac for Mac OS X will not initially be able to match the performance of the Classic version. For example, the program runs slower than the normal version, and NVDI cannot be used at present. The reasons are the lack of quality of Apple's Carbon API as well as the lack of cooperation with the developers of NVDI. (tr)

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