[ANNOUCE] NewI\O (Alpha Version 0.09 Build 051)

SDL Development
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In accordance with the release early and release often principle, the
NewI\O team is pleased to announce a new SDL application:

NewI\O (Alpha Version 0.09 Build 051)
http://www.newio.org

What is NewI\O?

NewI\O is a system for running programs on the Internet.

Instead of trying to kludge a hypertext document browser to run
programs, it is an attempt
to create something from the ground up to run programs.

The NewI\O system consists of:

  1. The NewI\O application browser Dreadnought
    (http://www.newio.org/dreadnought.html)
  2. The NewI\O daemon NIOd (http://www.newio.org/niod.html)
  3. The NewI\O library NIO_lib (http://www.newio.org/nio_lib.html)

NewI\O currently supports keyboard and mouse events, colors, drawing
primitives, fonts, images, sounds, and music. Video support is
included, but not fully functional, yet.

How it Works

Type in a URL to the browser. An application is started on the server,
and I/O is sent back to the browser using a simple bi-directional
message scheme.

Resources such as sound or image files are downloaded just like a web
browser would handle them. Therefore, the first time it runs, it will
take some time for the download. The resources are cached, so
subsequent runs are much faster.

What is new?

Everything. This is the first annoucement to this mailing list.

Status

Alpha, very alpha. Major sections, such as security, are still to be
implemented.

The NewI\O is system is free software. It is released under the GPL.
Libraries are released under the LGPL.

There are a few small applications written for the system, although
most of the work to date has been in the lower level plumbing, and not
in applications. Therefore the API is very preliminary at this point.
Fortunately, it is very easy to modify or add to the API.

Acknowledgments:

Sam Lantinga, Ryan C. Gordon and the rest of the SDL team
Bob Pendleton - Font and text routines
Ryan Mcguigan - SDL_prim library

We would be interested in any comments that you have.

The NewI\O Team
February 03, 2006–
E-Mail: Chris Nystrom
Blog: http://newio.blogspot.com/
AIM: nystromchris

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Sorry for my laziness: what has happened since last update?On 2/3/06, Chris Nystrom wrote:

In accordance with the release early and release often principle, the
NewI\O team is pleased to announce a new SDL application:

NewI\O (Alpha Version 0.09 Build 051)
http://www.newio.org

What is NewI\O?

NewI\O is a system for running programs on the Internet.

Instead of trying to kludge a hypertext document browser to run
programs, it is an attempt
to create something from the ground up to run programs.

The NewI\O system consists of:

  1. The NewI\O application browser Dreadnought
    (http://www.newio.org/dreadnought.html)
  2. The NewI\O daemon NIOd (http://www.newio.org/niod.html)
  3. The NewI\O library NIO_lib (http://www.newio.org/nio_lib.html)

NewI\O currently supports keyboard and mouse events, colors, drawing
primitives, fonts, images, sounds, and music. Video support is
included, but not fully functional, yet.

How it Works

Type in a URL to the browser. An application is started on the server,
and I/O is sent back to the browser using a simple bi-directional
message scheme.

Resources such as sound or image files are downloaded just like a web
browser would handle them. Therefore, the first time it runs, it will
take some time for the download. The resources are cached, so
subsequent runs are much faster.

What is new?

Everything. This is the first annoucement to this mailing list.

Status

Alpha, very alpha. Major sections, such as security, are still to be
implemented.

The NewI\O is system is free software. It is released under the GPL.
Libraries are released under the LGPL.

There are a few small applications written for the system, although
most of the work to date has been in the lower level plumbing, and not
in applications. Therefore the API is very preliminary at this point.
Fortunately, it is very easy to modify or add to the API.

Acknowledgments:

Sam Lantinga, Ryan C. Gordon and the rest of the SDL team
Bob Pendleton - Font and text routines
Ryan Mcguigan - SDL_prim library

We would be interested in any comments that you have.

The NewI\O Team
February 03, 2006

–
E-Mail: Chris Nystrom
Blog: http://newio.blogspot.com/
AIM: nystromchris

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No, sorry, my fault. I was thinking if I announced it on a new list I
would not list the changes, but I was not thinking of the list
overlap.

The new things are:

  1. The image load routine was modified to allow for transparent
    backgrounds for images.
  2. New example application: bounce! - a port of an example game
    originally by Bob Pendleton.
  3. Added a new test server (appstest.newio.org), so that upgrades snd
    testing will not effect someone who just wants to check out the system
    on the main server (apps.newio.org).
  4. web site upgrade: example apps mostly have screen shots now.

ChrisOn 2/3/06, Olof Bjarnason <olof.bjarnason at gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry for my laziness: what has happened since last update?

–
E-Mail: Chris Nystrom
Blog: http://newio.blogspot.com/
AIM: nystromchris