Farewell to Atlantis 0.7

[Prince]

I have just seen that there is no more link to the download of this program. <br><br>Let's say farewell to this program which was so easy to handle that you could give it to an old lady. <br><br>

[admin]

The Atlantis 0.7 Download Page is acessible from the Atlantis Nova Download Page.

[Max_Quordlepleen]

Given that 0.7 was such an excellent light wordprocessor, what features does Nova have over 0.7? I've never bothered to check out Nova, as I bought Ocean Mind on the day it was released.

[admin]

You could check this yourself. Just install Atlantis Nova too. You can install both Nova and Ocean Mind versions to the same computer.

[Prince]

Seems that I barked under the wrong tree. But I am an aficionado of this little program!

[Prince]

Any idea of rebuilding Atlantis 0.7 for Windows CE/Psion? &nbsp;;)

[admin]

Oh, these "pocket PCs" would be another story...<br>But who knows...

[Prince]

Seems they are the trendy in the US. Perhaps somebody like Sixshadows or Scovav &nbsp;could say something on the chances of a cute word processor for them.

[Prince]

I just gave my old pc (486, 66 Mhz) &nbsp;to a young girl, equipped with Atlantis 0.7 as she is not speaking english. And this program is easy enough that her mother can use it too. &nbsp;;D <br><br>Now I have a pretty pc (486,100 Mhz, 2GB Harddrive). &nbsp;:) Of course Atlantis 1.0 OM is just installed. But when will it be available in German?

[admin]

>But when will it be available in German?<br><br>Hard to say definitely. The localization of Atlantis is a very complex task because EVERYTHING is localized: from menus and document templates to the Help and hot keys.<br><br>The localization is even more complex because new features are constantly added to Atlantis. A real head-ache for developers and translators...

[Prince]

I said that Atlantis 1.0 OM is just installed. But it does not work. Well, I have a problem with the driver for the graphics card I have to solve. <br><br>But after the message that Atlantis causes a conflict with Kernel I-do-not-know I installed Nova and opened it without any trouble.

[admin]

Atlantis Ocean Mind contains much more features in comparing to Atlantis Nova. AOM might require services that are not used by Atlantis Nova.

[Prince]

I guess that there is a relation between e. g. it's function as a handy convertor and the setting on 16 colours only. What brings me back to my graphics card (WEITEK 9100). I will surf for a driver for it or change to another card. <br><br>AOM has a lot of features you do not want to miss if you are used to it even for a short time. I wouldn't like it to work without the page preview and cod-files. (This I call: the husband's best friend!) ;D

[Prince]

Of course, it wasn't the graphics card. After installing the driver and starting the pc again the monitor stayed dark. <br><br>Now I installed a SVGA-card with 256 colours, dropped one hard drive which obviously damaged (the other one is a noisy little thing) and realised that the PC has only one com-port - either for the mouse or for the modem. And no Ocean Mind at all - conflict with kernel ...<br><br>Let me say that I was very happy to see the splash screen of Nova. I love this splash screen - it is artistic, beautiful and the first sign that something is working on this PC!

[Prince]

And here my newest Update: AOM works (or as another technician said in a similar situation: "Es lebt, Meister, es lebt!" Poor Igor!) but not very reliable. I need 3 times to get it started and one time it is broken down. <br><br>With Nova I had some trouble with the toolbars. The haven't been visible for half the time. 0.7 worked of course without any problem.

[admin]

Atlantis 1.x uses COMCTL32.DLL that as a rule is installed/updated by MS Internet Explorer. Does your IE work properly?

[Prince]

That is a point I have to investigate. As I prefer Nestcape Communicator 4.7 I have not tested the IE. Are there differences between the versions of the IE?

[admin]

Internet Explorer is now a standard and very important component of Windows.<br>It is not so easy (in Windows 98 and higher - impossible) to remove IE from Windows. Misconfigured IE might be a reason of many unpleasant things.

[Prince]

Indeed that was the solution. Now it works without any problems. Did you find out on the differences of the three versions?

[admin]

A tricky question. I can say a single thing: if you have a properly installed/configured MS IE 4.0 (or higher), most applications will work properly too.