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| FlipClock shows weather in Bergen City! |
There has been a couple of minor updates after Update 6. AmiUpdate on my system is using version 2.24. There is actually a 2.25 version, but it crashes the system when trying to ignore the DSI error the GR (GrimReaper) shows when trying to run AmiUpdate 2.25 for further scanning for updates. Luckily, there was a Rollback allowing me to roll back to version 2.24 while waiting for version 2.26 to fix the bug 2.25 causes.
Other minor updates were to some AmigaOS components after the Calculator update. These minor updates were to the PCIGraphics.card in Kickstart, workbench.library in LIBS and the Input preference in PREFS. Very useful that AmiUpdate is officially supported by the latest AmigaOS 4.1 update!
Now to the point. I downloaded FlipClock 53.1 Beta 3 from OS4Depot.net, unarched it with Unarc into RAM and tested the application from there. As seen on the screenshot above, FlipClock seems to have gotten a nicer facelift and some rather unique but useful new features.
It's important to mention that if you don't like a multi-tool as Jack (the one i use), then FlipClock is actually the one for you. A very simple, but nice-looking tool! This one is best installed into SYS:Utilities/FlipClock, as well as letting the WBStartup preference starts up FlipClock during startup. This is so that the weather server is located during startup through the Network and can check the weather in your city (Read instructions for how to install FlipClock successfully on your system).
A small photo of the functions of FlipClock is provided in the FlipClock drawer to give you the idea of how the "new" functions work. A very cool thing with FlipClock is that when the minutes and hours pass, the calender-like icons flip an animate to bring up the new minute and/or hour! Very nice, actually! FlipClock in short is very identical to the tool you see in several modern smart phones, also using such a tool to display time, date, month and the weather in your city! It will make your Amiga system look smart and future-proof!
FlipClock works amazingly well under AmigaOS 4.1 Update 6 on ANY compatible hardware you run! Testing it on my AmigaOne 500 running AmigaOS 4.1.6 left NO problems at all! NO GRs, NO crash, NO mess! Simply NO problems! So this concludes the testing by saying the test was a great success!
If you are not interested in all the functions that Jack have, like downloading programs from OS4Depot, like doing a slideshow of your photos and such extra things, but rather only checking time, date, month, year and the weather, then FlipClock is just the tool for you!
Download the latest FlipClock from here: FlipClock 53.1 Beta 3
Written by
Helge Kvalheim, Norway
