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      Arios Software announces the release of the EVONE Public Beta. EVONE, the Escape Velocity Override Nova Editor, is a full featured and easy-to-use plugin editor for Escape Velocity, EV Override and EV Nova.

      Fully native in both Mac OS 9 and OS X, EVONE can do things other editors can only dream of. Since all editors are integrated into the app, you can open as many of them, editing as many plugins, as you want to, all simultaneously. EVONE intelligently loads data files into your plugin based on the target game, allowing you to simply double-click any of the resources already present in the game to edit them. Any changes made are immediately saved to your plugin. You don't even have to worry about file corruption, as EVONE keeps running backups of the plugins as you edit and can be set to update the backups as often as you would like - up to once per minute!

      EVONE is a dedicated plugin editing program for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X 10.1 and later. EVONE makes the process of creating quality plugins easy and quick. The many graphical editors allow you to see exactly what you are changing inside the editor - no more launching EV once every five minutes, only to find you entered an invalid number in one of ResEdit's ubiquitous text fields. To insure stable plugins that work reliably, EVONE error-checks every field and alerts you to any problems. In most cases, however, you can simply check a box or select a choice from a popup menu and leave it to EVONE to fill out the field.

      Features:

      • Native on both OS 9 and X

      • Graphical, high-level editors to ease plugin creation

      • Low-level editors for field-by-field editing if you prefer complete control

      • Automatic file backups to guard against corruption

      • Powerful search engine to easily locate specific resources

      For much more information and to download EVONE, see the program's website:
      (url="http://"http://www.ariossoftware.com/programs/evone/")http://www.ariossoft...programs/evone/(/url)

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      Comments:
      EVONE has not yet been realized. It is being released as a public beta to give those interested something to play with while I continue work. In this release, EVONE is by no means feature complete. Drag and drop support is still not implemented, making it impossible to re-arrange your plugin into custom folders. EVONE is also lacking editors. Currently, it includes two major editors and four minor ones: A graphical system editor, a graphical Galaxy editor (a system map), and then dësc, STR , STR#, and spďn. It would be fair to look upon this release as a system editor instead of as a general plugin editor.

      That being said, the program and all the editors it does include are fully functional and should be quite useful. The beta testers have been testing for months and have not yet found any major problems in this current version. If you encounter anything, please report it immediately. You may want to work on a backup copy of a plug to start, but I cannot stress enough that the two system editors should work well and as desired.

      In the next two months EVONE will undergo significant changes. I am going to do away with its separate high- and low-levels (explained in the documentation), which I have decided is a confusing metaphor. EVONE will also gain a hex editor, though I don't exactly know what the use would be, and one more thing. EVONE will gain a complete template driver. This interprets ResEdit templates and creates editors from them at run-time. I am going to customize it significantly, allowing anyone to build complete editors with little more than ResEdit templates and a few supporting resources. When this is done, EVONE will instantly be able to edit all resource types in all three games, using the ResEdit templates included with the bibles. This will leave me free to work on the fancy, graphical editors that EVONE needs and a few more revolutionary features. EVONE holds great promise and it will soon be realized!

      On a final note, the registration system in this version is fully functional. If you do decide to register this release, you will, of course, get a free update to the 1.0 version and all versions for the foreseeable future. In addition, all editors will always be free and they will be released via (url="http://"http://www.ariossoftware.com")http://www.ariossoftware.com(/url) as they are completed.

      Do not judge EVONE by this release, judge it by the two main editors it does have. Use them, try to make plugins with them, and please send me or post any constructive comments.

      Jeffrey - Arios SoftWare

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      I can't seem to download either the .dmg file or the .sit file -- the .sit file shows up on my desktop as download.pl, while the .dmg file opens in a window on my browser.

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      Treat the download.pl file as a sit file - drag it over Stuffit Expander. I will look into the cause.

      Edit: What browser are you using and what mirror have you tried? Does it work from any of the mirrors?

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      (This message has been edited by AriosSw (edited 01-27-2003).)

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      w00t!

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      I can reproduce it in IE. IE for some reason is giving the download the name of the cgi-script instead of the file itself. I have added instructions as to what to do on the download page. Thanks for reporting that.

      (This message has been edited by AriosSw (edited 01-27-2003).)

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      Originally posted by AriosSw:
      **Treat the download.pl file as a sit file - drag it over Stuffit Expander. I will look into the cause.

      Edit: What browser are you using and what mirror have you tried? Does it work from any of the mirrors?

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      This was from Mirror 1. Stuffit Expander said it wasn't a compressed file and recommended I use MacPerl to open it.

      Mirror 3 actually worked (don't know why I didn't try Mirror 2 -- best things come in threes?) and I like what I see very much so far.

      I notice, however, there's no way to delete a nebula from the Galaxy editor.

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      Originally posted by UncleTwitchy:
      **I notice, however, there's no way to delete a nebula from the Galaxy editor.

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      You can only delete what you can create. If you create one, you can delete it by choosing Delete Selected from the syst menu. You can't delete systems either unless you create one.

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      (This message has been edited by AriosSw (edited 01-27-2003).)

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      Thank you so much! I'm registering this week!

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      I have re-done the download system so it should now work for everyone. It is now just a simple list of links.

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      (This message has been edited by AriosSw (edited 01-27-2003).)

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      Um... everytime I open a plug in it it crashes my computer.

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      You just proved theories worked.

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      Originally posted by AriosSw:
      **You can only delete what you can create. If you create one, you can delete it by choosing Delete Selected from the syst menu. You can't delete systems either unless you create one.

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      That makes sense.

      Will you be adding the ability to Undo changes down the line? (e.g. I accidently moved a s˙st I didn't want to move and without knowing the precise coordinates, I couldn't move it back.)

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      Originally posted by no_use_for_a_name:
      **Um... everytime I open a plug in it it crashes my computer.

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      Do you have aliases to the data files of the specific game you want to edit in the Data Files folder?

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      Originally posted by no_use_for_a_name:
      **Um... everytime I open a plug in it it crashes my computer.

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      Does creating a new plugin work? It helps to narrow down the cause.

      I forgot to mention that if you need to discuss something or have problems, post at (url="http://"http://forums.ariossoftware.com")http://forums.ariossoftware.com(/url) - there is no need to flood these boards.

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      Sweetness 😄 Just downloaded it for a look!

      ewan

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      Just a note.

      Any problems with EVONE can, and should be posted in the Tech Support Forum.: :p](http://www.ariossoftware.com/forums/index.php?act=SF&f=2)

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      And all queries about making plugs wih EVONE should be posted (url="http://"http://www.ariossoftware.com/forums/index.php?act=SF&f;=12")here(/url) 🙂

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      (This message has been edited by yomcat (edited 01-27-2003).)

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      Two comments:

      1. It's quite slow...I'm using 10.2 on an iMac 500 with 256 megs of RAM.

      2. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines specify "OK" as the localized string to acknowledge a dialog - not "Ok" 🙂

      Cheers!

      Kane O'Donnell

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      (quote)Originally posted by shado83:
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      2) The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines specify "OK" as the localized string to acknowledge a dialog - not "Ok":)

      Jeffrey

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      Tip : There is a little extra when you register....

      Entarus, 😛

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