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3. The planned features of Amiga OS 3.5

BENEFITS OF THE AMIGAOS 3.5 UPDATE

* Easy Internet Access
* Support for Hard disks > 4GB
* Modern Graphical User Interface (GUI)
* Extensive CD-ROM Support
* Support for current Printers
* PowerPC Support
* HTML Online Documentation
* Bug Fixes

EASY INTERNET ACCESS

TCP/IP Stack

* Easy to setup the connection to your provider within minutes
* Multi user support
* Multi interface support (Internet and Ethernet)
* Latest Socks v4/5 client module for firewalls
* Enhanced SANA II support for fast transfer rates

WWW Browser with Offline/Online Support

* Browsing the OS 3.5 docs and the Internet

New Cross-Application E-mail Library

* General API for sending and receiving of E-mails

New EMail Client

* Based on the E-mail library

SUPPORT FOR HARD DISKS > 4GB

NSDPatch

* New standard for 64 Bit Devices
* Updated Info, Format, Diskcopy and FastFileSystem

New HDToolBox

* The low-level library processes the following tasks
* Scanning the SCSI bus
* Read the physical information of the hard disk
* Read/write the logical information (RDB)
* Create Mount files
* Read special Mount entries to restore the RDB
* HDToolBox applicatsion that uses the low-level library
* New GUI style

MODERN GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI)

New Icon Set (Glow Icons)

* New complete icon set for all system tools
* New icons for most applications

New Icon Library

* Icons with up to 256 colors
* Automatic color adaptation
* NewIcon compatible
* Compatible to OS 3.1 icons

New BOOPSI Library

* New complete set of powerful BOOPSI gadgets
* Very fast, modular and scalable
* AmigaOS compatible implementation
* Compatible to existing BOOPSI classes

New Resource Library

* Loads and manages all GUI resources
* Change the GUI without recompilation of the application
* Can be used with any programming language

New GUI Editor for Developers

* WYSIWYG GUI editor
* Creates resource files that are used by the new resource library
* Automatic localization of the application

EXTENSIVE CD-ROM SUPPORT

CacheCDFS

* ISO9660, RockRidge, Joliet (Win 95/98) and MAC HFS compatible
* Supports Amiga protection bit and file comments
* MultiSession CD-ROM support

New PlayCD

* (programmable) Audio player for SCSI and ATAPI CD-ROM drives
* Low memory consumption

New CDFSPrefs

* CacheCDFS preferences for 'on the fly' configuration

FULL PRINTER SUPPORT

New Printer Device

* Drivers for all common printers
* PowerPC support
* New functions to print all kinds of bitmaps
* New API to define page size and page break correctly
* Support for 24 bit Picasso96 DumpRastPort command
* TurboPrint compatible functions to print 8 Bit chunky and 16/24 bit
bitmaps

New Printer Preferences

* Updated for new GUI style

POWERPC SUPPORT

New WarpUP PowerPC Support

* AmigaOS compatible integration
* Extensive functionality
* Hardware independent driver system, easy to extend

New Preferences

» Updated for new GUI style

HTML DOCUMENTATION

New Comprehensive Instructions

* Reworked documentation for Workbench, DOS, ARexx and Harddisk
* Completion of all the new featues of AmigaOS 3.5
* Extensive Illustrations
* Bilingual English/German

BUG FIXES

* Corrections and Extensions
* Accelerated and reworked Workbench
* Extened and reworked ASL library
* Reworked Bullet library
* Reworked Diskfont library
* New datatypes for JPG, GIF, AIFF
* New SCSI Mount tool
* Reworked A2024 monitor driver
* Reworked CLI command (Join, Status, Type)

THE FUTURE (PLANS AND OPTIONS)

3.6, 3.7, ....

* Further Releases or AddOn Packages

4.0 - A New Release for the Classic Amiga

* New reworked and extended Kickstart
* Extended PowerPC Support
* New 68K Emulator for PPC-only systems
* Many new System Libraries ( Graphics.Library, Layers.library, etc) as
PPC-native«

(Source: Amiga)