v2.80 (Saturday 01-Mar-97)
 -Cube-operator: problem with the edges fixed (even at high Quant3D-values)
 -Water-Operator: *additional moveXY-parameter to disable the
                   deformation in the xy-plane which sometimes
                   causes errors in the image
                  *additional axis-parameter
                  *border-behaviour changed

v2.81 (Sunday 02-Mar-97)
 -PowerPlugs!-concept finished, the following operators are
  supported: Cube, Wrap, Wave3D and Water

v2.82 (Sunday 02-Mar-97)
 -special wildfire.library for PowerPlugs!-support
 -documentation updated

v2.83 (Wednesday 05-Mar-97)
 -3D-engine: *negative 3DQuant-values to improve the image-quality at
              drastic deformations
             *the centreX,centreY-values are now really used to
              rotate/zoom around

v2.84 (Thursday 06-Mar-97)
 -Wave3D, Water, Wrap: correct interpretation of the origin-parameters
 -Calculator: rnd()-function to easily create "random walks"
              using the EvaluateExpression-function of the Envelope-Window
 -3D-engine: *minor speedup
             *fast camZ-check which only fails at very small values like -50
 -Bump-Operator: changed the type into 2D
 -Wave3D-Operator: additional originZ-parameter

v2.85 (Thursday 06-Mar-97)
 -Perspective-Operator: completely rewritten (simply uses the 3D-engine)
 -3D-operators: proper gadget-(de)activation in TEMP3D-mode

v2.86 (Friday 07-Mar-97)
 -Magnet3D-operator (with PowerPlugs!-support)
 -Envelope: update the x- and y-value after evaluating an expression

v2.87 (Friday 07-Mar-97)
 -Magnet3D-operator: additional shape-parameter
 -PowerPlugs!: *if the input- and the output-3d-buffers are different or
                if the input-buffer is a 3d-buffer the 3d-buffer to transform
                is duplicated before the transformation.
                This requires more memory but results in a clean concept
                (like the one of image-temp-buffers)
               *changes to the image-structure where not applied to the
                original-buffers which has been fixed
                (this for example caused "stripes" transforming
                 a cube)
               *(If all this sounds weird: the 3d-temp-buffer-concept is
                 complete and works now)
 -Processor: <3>-shortcut for the 3DQuant-parameter

v2.88 (Friday 07-Mar-97)
 -PowerPlugs: *additional tRender-option to save memory (avoids the
               duplication of a temp-3d-buffer which will never be used)
 -SlideShow-PlugIn: reduced the lockGUI-parameter to 0.1 s
 -all operators: additional shortcuts:  <v>    -  toggle preview
                                        <space> - test process
 -Processor: try to load even corrupted or old scripts

v2.89 (Friday 07-Mar-97)
 -Sphere-Operator (with PowerPlugs!-support)
 -Main: the shell-output (version number etc.) was totally weird
 -Converter: *if the converter was aborted after writing less than
              four frames the program crashed (while deleting the output-file)
             *the contents of the anno-string-gadget was ignored  - fixed
             *the progress can be aborted from within the preview-window
              pressing the <escape>-key

v2.90 (Saturday 08-Mar-97)
 -Twist-Operator (with PowerPlugs!-support)

v2.91 (Saturday 08-Mar-97)
 -Twirl3D-Operator (with PowerPlugs!-support)

v2.92 (Sunday 09-Mar-97)
 -Main: additional CON:-window to store the output of external
        programs (Bernd Rsch)
        (In many cases Enforcer-hits occured or Wildfire crashed
         after starting external programs which problem should
         be fixed now)
 -Processor: Clear:*reset the pcScale-value
                   *set the filename to "default.process"
 -Magnet-operator: some calculations are done using float's (instead of long's)
                   to increase the image-quality
 -Magnet3D-operator: better (and finally good) method to compute
                     the "smooth" shape

v2.93 (Sunday 09-Mar-97)
 -Transform3D-Operator (with PowerPlugs!-support)
 -3D-operators: don't activate the centreX-gadget after changing the beta-value
 -Log: report even displayed stats to the logfile

v2.94 (Monday 10-Mar-97)
 -Processor:  *continous quant3D-parameter for fine-tuning
              *save and load the smoothing-option
 -Documentation: *Operator-documentation extended and updated
                 *example-pictures and -scripts updated

v2.95 (Sunday 16-Mar-97)
 -ConvertImages-PlugIns: images where not freed after writing
 -Bump3D-Operator (with PowerPlugs!-support)

v2.96 (Wednesday 19-Mar-97)
 -Startup: *checking screenmode before calling OpenScreen (because
            this system-function sometimes causes Wildfire to crash if the
            Screenmode isn't available !)
           *some very internal changes
           *in fact the program works now:
            After booting without startup-sequence and entering the lines
             setpatch
             assign libs: hd0:classes add
             adddatatypes flush
            the program works without problems
            (without the env:-, the wf:- and all other assigns)
            Enforcer reported not any read- or write-hit while
            converting a mpeg-stream into a YAFA-animation and
            processing and displaying some images - even the
            ColorWheel-PlugIn works (which is somewhat surprising).)
 -Main: *The program can be aborted at every stage after the initialization
         pressing Ctrl-C (e.g. while converting)
        *all signals catched during initialization are ignored
        *don't open libraries which are already open
         (I slaughtered the startup-code)
 -Demo-version: removed the text "Storing %ld bytes of memory..." (printed
                at every unsuccessfull free()-call) to increase the
                operation-speed  (the text-output slows down everything)
                and to complicate the job of hackers
 -ARexx: the port-naming ("Wildfire.1", ...) was done too late (after
         creating the port (no joke))
 -Makefile: the General PlugIns where not generated new after changing
            the fpu-settings - this may have caused the numerous
            reported crashes ("after initializing the Command-PlugIn the
            program hangs up" - but only on system without fpu

v2.97 (Sunday 23-Mar-97)
 -Bump3D-operator: *algorithm rewritten to produce really good results
                    (the old one was pure crap)
                   *noground-option to subtract the "ground" automatically 
                    (a white heightmap will so cause no effect)
                   *auto-centre-option
                   *aspect-option
 -Main: "noPlugIns"-option for quick-startup
 -3D-engine: show some information about the allocated memory in debug-mode
 -Twirl3D-operator: the origin-values where ignored while rotating - fixed
 -Cube-operator: the map-direction at some sides was wrong - fixed
 -Processor: bring the Preview-window into foreground after opening an
             Operator-window

v2.98 (Friday 11-Apr-97)
 -Main: stack-check at startup (minimum 16000 (hopefully))
 -Processor: disable/enable particular lines of the script (Jernej Pecjak)

v2.99 (Thursday 22-Apr-97)
 -EPSSaver-PlugIn: *memory of source-images was not freed after use
                   *sometimes the program crashed due a stupid error
 -Prefs: update savers-windows after changing the screenmode
 -AutoCrop-PlugIn
 -Operators: sometimes the rotation-angle-gadgets where
             activated in the wrong case

v3.00 (Friday 23-May-97)
 -Info-Window: -read the info-text from the external file "wf:systemm/ifo.txt"
               -<r>-key: refresh the info-text (for only private use)
 -FilmStrip-Window: convert even single images into FilmStrips
 -ARexx: *FC_SAVE-command didn't work
         *filename was not refreshed after a FC_FILMFILE-command
 -FilmStrip-Player: serious bug fixed: sometimes the bitmap-pointer was
                    not set to NULL after cleanup which caused the program
                    to crash later
 -PCSelect-Window: preview-thumnails

v3.01 (Saturday 24-May-97)
 -Neon-Operator

v3.02 (Saturday 24-May-97)
 -DLA-Operator ("diffusion limited aggregation")

v3.03 (Tuesday 27-May-97)
 -Neon-Operator: *now two algorithms are supported:
                  -trivial
                  -Hoshen-Kopelman-cluster-detection
                 *documentation improved and updated
 -DLA-Operator: minor speedup
 -PCSelect-Window: *reset the preview-position after window-resizing
                   *don't show the progress-bar while rendering previews
 -KillTemp3D-Operator

v3.04 (Tuesday 27-May-97)
 -Join3D-Operator

v3.05 (Wednesday 28-May-97)
 -Calculator: *Evaluate-Window to create data-files easily
              *Load/save expressions and the x-range from/to symbol-files
 -DWA: Evaluate-Window-support
 -Neon-Operator: *color-search-bug in tolerance-mode fixed
                 *all arrays turned to LONG to avoid problems with large images

v3.06 (Thursday 29-May-97)
 -Crack-check (be surprised if you use a cracked version)
 -3d-engine: *internal structures changed
             *kernel rewritten to support more types of polygons
              in the future
             *uses more but smaller blocks of memory

v3.07 (Friday 30-May-97)
 -all 3d-operators fixed to fit the new concept

v3.08 (Friday 30-May-97)
 -Perspective-Operator: support for the PowerPlugs!-concept (output-channel)
 -Prefs: *changed default Player-path from "c:yp" to "yp"
         *changed default Player-Screen from "Workbench" to "Wildfire"
 -3d-engine: *support for 3- and 4-point-polygons
             *quality slightly improved (without any loss of work-speed)

v3.09 (Saturday 31-May-97)
 -3d-engine: optional z-sort-algorithm
 -LWOB-Operator: *PowerPlugs!-support, only 3-, 4- and convex 5-point-polygons
                  are currently supported
                 *bgColor-option removed (3d-engine is now used)

v3.10 (Saturday 31-May-97)
 -3d-engine: *output-quality slightly improved again
             *support for 1- and 2-point-polygons
 -Cube-operator: "mysterious edge-bug" detected: the cube- and the
                 base-coordinate-system where shifted by (0.5,0.5,0.0)
                 which caused bad results at the edges

v3.11 (Sunday 1-Jun-97)
 -3d-engine: phong-shader for triangles (very alpha)
 -Perspective-Operator: full PowerPlugs!-support

v3.12 (Sunday 1-Jun-97)
 -3d-engine: phong-shader: *render-speed increased by a factor of 2
                           *quality improved
 -documentation updated

v3.13 (Monday 02-Jun-97)
 -3d-engine: *the phong-shader acts as a "legal feature" now
 -all 3d-operators: *gadget-autoactivation removed
                    *light-option changed from light=(ON|OFF)
                     to light=(NORMAL|PHONG|OFF)

v3.14 (Monday 02-Jun-97)
 -3d-engine: *detect "sharp edges" using a maximal smoothing angle (in phong-mode)
             *render-speed slightly increased (in phong-mode)
 -Processor: global Phong-option (smoothing angle)

v3.15 (Wednesday 04-Jun-97)
 -3d-operators: individual phong- and 3d-quant-option
 -Processor: *Phong- and 3DQuant-option removed
             *separate Render-settings-window for all 3d-operators
 -PlugIn-interface and -version-number changed

v3.16 (Thursday 05-Jun-97)
 -Processor: improved the method to recognize used variables
             before killing them
 -some 3d-operators fixed to work with the new concept:
   Cube, Twist, Wave3D, Wrap, Magnet3D, Transform3D

v3.17 (Friday 06-Jun-97)
 -remaining 3d-operators fixed to work with the new concept:
   Bump3D, Sphere, Twirl3D, Join3D, LWOB, Perspective, Water
 -Example-operator removed

v3.18 (Friday 06-Jun-97)
 -TMaker: *(implicit) support for single images
          *the following methods where fixed and should work now (again):
            Twirl, Rotate, Perspective, Whirl, Stripes, Tile
          *Create-example-function updated

v3.19 (Friday 06-Jun-97)
 -Processor: method to convert old Process-scripts improved
 -3d-operators: tRender-mode fixed
 -Join3D-operator: additional centre-flag

v3.20 (Saturday 07-Jun-97)
 -Processor: bring the preview to front after opening the PCSinglePicture-Window
 -Envelope: *automatically sort points while adding
            *explicit sort after pressing the <t>-key
 -Documentation updates
 -some example-session created
 -Stats: *time-output-format improved
         *in some cases the printed fps-value was incorrect - fixed

v3.21 (Saturday 07-Jun-97)
 -PCSinglePicture: number-gadgets turned into calculator-gadgets
 -Processor: global background-color to simplify advanced
             compose-operations
 -Text: background-color-option removed

v3.22 (Saturday 07-Jun-97)
 -added the background-color-feature to the following operators:
   BlackHole, Bump3D, Cartesian2Polar, Cube, DLA, Join3D, LWOB,
   Magnet, Magnet3D, Perspective, Roll, Rotate, RotateBlur,
   Shear, ShiftLines, Sphere, Text, Transform3D, Twirl, Twirl3D,
   Twist, Water, Wave, Wave3D, Wrap
 -Editor: <space>-shortcut (PlayAll)
 -*cool* intro-picture (the first *cool* one)

v3.23 (Saturday 14-Jun-97)
 -Statistics: "minutes-bug" removed (the minutes where subtracted from
              the global stats-structure while output)
 -Prefs: *the "c:"-path from the default settings was removed
         *the rootdrawer always is named "wf:"
 -Help: the program should never hang up after AmigaGuide-initialization-
        failure
 -3d-engine: introducing a new concept: "color-functions"

v3.24 (Sunday 15-Jun-97)
 -3d-engine: first colorfunction implemented: colorCube

v3.25 (Sunday 15-Jun-97)
 -ColorCube-PlugIn to access the new features

v3.26 (Sunday 15-Jun-97)
 -ColorCube-PlugIn: *alpha-mode
                    *sizing-option
                    *some more useful gadgets
 -Perspective-PlugIn: serious memory-bug fixed (in contrary to the other
                      3d-PlugIns this one has an implicit tRender-option
                      which caused the problem)

v3.27 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
 -TMaker: immediately delete animations after creating filmstrips
 -ARexx: *command TM_CREATEEXAMPLES:
           -didn't work - fixed
           -doesn't display the stats-requester any more
            (which should be better for "install-scripts")
         *command IM_RESET renamed as M_RESET
         *additional command M_QUIT (the same as M_EXIT)
 -SetBackground-PlugIn (to allow dynamic background-colors)

v3.28 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
 -Triangulate-PlugIn (to convert images with high quant3D-values into
                      smooth phong-objects)

v3.29 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
 -SetColor-PlugIn (to modify the color of 3d-objects)

v3.30 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
 -3d-engine: rendering of two-point-polygons didn't work correctly because
             of swapped x- and y-coordinates - fixed
 -ZPlot-PlugIn: *plots f(x,y)-functions at any resolution using phong-shading
                *optional flat-shaded grid
                *PowerPlugs!-support (of course)
                *color-plots can be made using the ColorCube-PlugIn easily
                *no axes (a separate PlugIn adding axes and labels
                          at high quality will be available later)

v3.31 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
 -PPlot-PlugIn (parametric plots)

v3.32 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
 -DataPlot-PlugIn (plots 3D-data in gnuplot-format)

v3.33 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
 -ZPlot-PlugIn: 8 (nice) presets
 -PPlot-PlugIn: 12 (nice) presets

v3.34 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
 -Morph-PlugIn (Morphs between two objects with the same point-count)

v3.35 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
 -Calculator: new functions "abs" and "sig"
 -DataPlot-PlugIn: *x-/y-quantization-option
                   *scale-value for each coordinate
 -Documentation updated

v3.35a (Thursday 19-Jun-97)
 -Cube-Operator: additional *cool* "parcel-mode" (called folding)
 -SaveImage-PlugIn: format changed to %04d (to be compatible with LoadImage)
 -ILBM-Saver: error detected which occured saving the same chunky image
              for more than one time: because the interleaved-flag was not set 
              correctly the images saved after the first looked very strange

