XSeal, new maintainer, etc

David Fredin — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:35:27 -0000

First of all, i (Kostas "Bad Sector" Michalopoulos) am the new maintainer of SEAL.
Secondly, SEAL is transforming to XSeal, which will be written almost from the scratch, based on my other software (available on sourceforge), The Force.
This puts the state of the project back to "Pre-Alpha".
This major rewrite is a must, since SEAL 2.0 failed to be the major rewrite of SEAL 1.0 :-) and followed the same architecture and design, while focusing on eye candy instead of the underlying system. Anyway, XSeal will be focused to good performance, preemptive multitasking (SEAL 1/2 used cooperative event-based multitasking). Also, unlike SEAL 1/2, XSeal will provide only a very basic window-based interface. Programmers should use this very basic interface to program low level programs (such as games) or a toolkit to program more sophisticated material. I'm planning to port GTK+ to XSeal, but this is only a plan and i don't know how possible this is.

The discussion about the abone new should be done in the Forums section on the XSeal Home Page.

SEAL 2.00.11 is out, along with new site!

David Fredin — Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:31:34 -0000

SEAL 2.00.11 is finally out! Go and get it from the Files section now! There are many changes and enhancements in this version - see the changelog for details.

The new web site is out - check it out at http://sealsystem.sourceforge.net/.

A version of Bad Desktop 0.55 for SEAL 2.00.11 has also been uploaded - if you want an alternative desktop for your SEAL installation, try this!

Absolute SEAL source code released

David Fredin — Sat, 06 Apr 2002 13:02:33 -0000

The source code to Absolute SEAL (aka Bad Seal 0.55), by Bad Sector, has been released. Go and get it from the Files section!

Move (back) to SourceForge

David Fredin — Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:36:03 -0000

As you may know, SEAL is moving back over to SourceForge. The latest source code will be integrated into CVS, and the site will be at http://sealsystem.sf.net/. The forums have already been moved - find them at http://sealsystem.sf.net/forums/.

If you have any queries, post a message on the forums or contact me privately.

Seal begins Independent development

David Fredin — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 17:47:09 -0000

We have waited for our project leader Michael Stencil too long. As of today, Seal has become the property of the entire Seal community. All further development will be on a more advanced codebase than originaly provide by Michael Stencil.

Our developers have been waiting a long time for this day, and here it is.

If anyone else wants to join us, e-mail a.m.o.s@juno.com and you will be added to the developers list after a quick review of your skills.

SEAL 1E beta 3 uploaded!

David Fredin — Fri, 25 May 2001 14:44:04 -0000

Hi!

I found the time (yeah ;-) to
uploaded SEAL 1E beta 3 onto sourceforge!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sealsystem

The source code and the binary version will be also avaiable in some days!! If you want to mirror them, please send me an email!

What's new?
+many bugfixes in the kernel
+bugfix in scroller.c
+new funktion: DYNTEXT in dialogs.c. Fore info, read !GUIDE.TXT or look at smaledit
+improved smaledit (with dyntext), note you can DRAG&DROP the time/date
+Owen improved SFA, now supports MOD files!
+some other changes I cannot remember

SEAL 1E is (should be ;-) the kernel of all distributions or for advanced users!

so long,flox

Annual General Meeting NOTIFICATION

David Fredin — Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:23:48 -0000

From: http://pub8.ezboard.com/fsealsystemannouncements.showMessage?topicID=36.topic

=========== NOTIFICATION OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ===================

Hi All

The time has come to establish a Committee to run the SEAL project. Michal Stencl has not fulfilled his obligations as President (Chair) - this is a moot point and needs no further
discussion.

As our circle has grown, I have noticed attempts to circumvent HQ, the latest being Callum Lawson creating a seperate forum for developers. Now this is not without reason. Some of you feel that others are thieving code etc. But it will do no good to circumvent HQ. Now this is NOT my project or Michal's project or anyones. That is why this needs to be wrapped up. Without the input of Michal, we are lost - completely.

We have dedicated ourselves to this project and I want to see it succeed. Therefore, I propose that all those concerned meet in our chat room on 31 March 20:00 GMT. This will allow us to estabish ground rules and more. For now this is the agenda. Please submit additions to: sealsys@kwazulunatal.com

============== AGENDA

DEFINING MISSION STATEMENT

DEFINING CODE OF CONDUCT

ELECTION OF OFFICE BEARERS AND DESIGNATION OF ROLE

CHAIRMAIN NOMINATE: AMOS VRYHOF
VICE-CHAIRMAIN NOMINATE: FLORIAN
MARKETING/ANALYSIS MANAGER NOMINATE: MYSELF (CAN I? ;) )
WEBMANAGER NOMINATE: JULIEN
BOARDMANAGER NOMINATE: MYSELF (CAN I? ;) )
sourceforge/DEVELOPER MANAGER NOMINATE: KOSTAS

Forward nominees, possible roles etc etc ASAP

Thanks

Anton Lasich
Acting Manager: Marketing/Analysis/web/more

SFA for beginners - FAQ

David Fredin — Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:15:12 -0000

Hi!

Uploaded a small documentation, how to use SFA,
how to include new libraries, write them etc.

It is small, but better than nothing!

Bye, Florian

source code of SEAL 1E uploaded!!!

David Fredin — Tue, 26 Dec 2000 13:17:14 -0000

Hi!

I uploaded the source code of SEAL 1E onto SOURCEFORGE which I got
from Michal Stencl some days ago.

I made 2 improvements:

+ cdplayer
+ imager

But there are memory leaks in the source :(

- html viewer (viewing a html file)
- DC (using F3 and F4)

I couldn't find the bugs in the source :(
So, please look at the source and search the error if you have time. This would help us a lot!

I haven't include the windows manager?
I think that it is so big, that it should be a sub-task! (like the sound driver). So in the kernel (sealsrc) an old version of the desktop is included.

I think, the next binary version should be made public when the 2 bugs are fixed. But if many people want to release it before....

Merry Christmas!
Florian <florianx@drdos.org>

SFA updated

David Fredin — Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:26:58 -0000

Hi!

I fixed two bugs in dlxsound.c and player.c.
Now it runs also in pure DOS (without LFN driver).

I uploaded the compiled exe and dlx files, too!!

Bye, Florian <florianx@drdos.org>

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