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The Unofficial XaAES Page
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Welcome to the unofficial XaAES page!
XaAES is a graphical user interface for FreeMiNT, and is the natural successor to Atari's MultiTOS.
While not being an official support page for FreeMiNT/XaAES, this website sets out to offer
information, screenshots and downloads. Furthermore, the forum is regularly visited by developers, so post your feedback and suggestions there!
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| 2010-07-12 Conholio 0.7r released
|  Another binary release of the console project Conholio has been released. This time it's all about bugfixes, and these might be the most significant changes:
- Now works with fVDI in 24/32 bits colour
- Bell sound won't cause nasty crashes anymore
- And many other smaller tweaks and fixes..
Since Conholio is in beta many things are still largely untested, so you use it on your own risc.
Download Conholio here
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| 2010-02-25 Conholio 0.5b released
| PeP has just added the finishing touches to his console project Conholio. The aim is to supply a console that can offer a siginificantly faster performance than that of Toswin. In addition to this you will also notice that Conholio can do some things that other consoles can't. Such things include eg. full screen display and some experimantal eye candy. The author lists the following additions since last beta:
- Cursor! Yay!
- New VT102 terminal back-end, written from scratch (feedback is needed)
- VT52 compatibility mode (depreciated, but it's there)
- Better handling of colours & attributes
- Faster rendering
- Smaller memory footprint
- Different font heights
- Different terminal sizes
- Xterm style mouse support (try 'lynx -use_mouse')
Conholio is developed specifically with XaAES in mind but chances are it is useable under N.AES as well. The memory footprint might be considered high (probably a couple of Mb) but this is intentional - speed has the higher priority over memory useage. Since Conholio is in beta many things are still largely untested, so you use it on your own risc.
Download Conholio here
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| 2009-07-09 FreeMiNT - things are moving on
|  While the XaAES sides of MiNT have rarely been changed in quite a long time (which indeed have reflected the amount of updates on this website), other areas of the OS has seen more activity during early 2009. Many people have put great efforts into binutils, MiNTlib and there is also GCC 4.3.3 available now. It seems people have started targetting the Coldfire, now that the ACP team appears to have gained new powers, hence CF-compatibility in MiNTlib is being worked on. On the XaAES note there has been at least one bugfix commited to CVS, correcting a problem where keyboard input wasn't directed to the seleted form in a dialog. The guy submitting this bugfix, Helmut Karlowski, has recently declared on the MiNT mailing list that he has intentions to improve a couple of things in XaAES. So far his list of changes span over these:
- File selector (faster, better handling)
- DO_FORM dialogs (better handling)
- List windows (ability to copy to clipboard)
In addition to this, Alan Hourihane recently located and fixed a bug (from what it seems only striking when an Eiffel PS/2 adapter is used) in the kernels keyboard handler. This bug would result in continous keypresses, even when a key had been released.
We'll await the XaAES patches from Helmut and then it may be time for a new binary snapshot to be uploaded here. It's about time really :)
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