The Zeus 1.3 update has been released!

For new users, Zeus costs £60 (UK Pounds) and can be obtained on CD-ROM as described by the information at the end of this press release.

Existing users can upgrade from Zeus version 1.2 to 1.3 for free! You must be running Zeus 1.2 before upgrading to 1.3, and the 1.2 upgrade is available at all Zeus distribution sites together with the new 1.3.

An older Zeus demo is currently also available from our website and AmiNet. A more current demo is being worked on.

Here is a brief list of the bigger changes we've made to Zeus for this release:

• Fuzzy Logic AreaFix - A point sends an AreaFix to fix into an area. But, they've spelt the name of the area wrong! Instead of simply telling them that the area doesn't exist, Zeus will also suggest some other area names it's found which are spelt similarly.
• New random number generators ensure greater security.
• Correct recognise and parse modem connect strings such as: CONNECT 57600/V34/LAPM/V42BIS/28800:TX/31200:RX .. it will not report them as connecting at 57600, which is incorrect - it will report 31200 instead.
• Zeus's FidoNet mailer now features better security, performance, compatibility with older standards, and a new `dialing list' window - all queued outgoing calls are shown in it.
• Voyeur can be snapshotted in place without the need for setting positions manually in the ToolTypes. The window is also now resizable, and in general much more usable!
• Full keyboard control in list views - programs like the FileEditor are now fully controllable without the need for a mouse. Also improvements to the actual list view itself makes selecting many items at once very easy.
• The superlative Internet gating system has been improved beyond recognition! Well, that's a lie as it looks the same, but just to give you a taster - imagine reading UseNet newsgroups and mailing lists with the To: fields of the messages correctly filled in. No more talking to "All", you can integrate UseNet and e-mail into your BBS like never before. Also featured, you can now (using the Mapper utility) allow any user to have any name before the @ sign for their e-mail address.
• Needless to say; all should work fine after both 1/1/2000 and 1/3/2000.
• Large additions to the manual, include several new chapters and appendixes.
• Some compatibility with AmiExpress doors though a new door emulation.
• Zeus keeps daily statistics on mail flowing through areas which are imported with ZMP: the statistics can be viewed flexibly using the new ZMPStat command.
• Full support throughout Zeus for the file sub-system's MultiPaths - letting you treat many hard disks, even CD-ROMs as if they were one directory.
• Receipt Request and Netmail Auditing are supported. Zeus can, if the sender of the message asks for it, send back a receipt on receiving a Netmail. Also, if Zeus receives a message which is flagged for Auditing, it will tell the sender of the message that that message passed your system and also where Zeus is sending it!
• Similarly to the above, Zeus will detect and stop `loop mails' - netmails which another system has sent back to your system after they've already been sent.
• Zeus also now features a tool to 'tunnel' FidoNet-type networks over E-Mail. What this means is that you can have points linked in by e-mail, so they can be anywhere in the world.
• ARexx/WriteMsg finally has the NOEXE argument to stop Zeus adding tagline, filters, whatever you might have configured.
• PostMsg now recognises area tag names. You can now post messages into area "AMY_NEWFILES" and not area "430", for example.
• ARexx/FindMsgAreaTag provides a similar functionallity for your scriptset.
• The bug which displayed long kludges (mainly InterNet control lines) even when they were switched off has been fixed.
• Control, when run under OS 3.0 or higher, will make the screen colour pens sharable (so you can open Multiview on it, for example) but also ensure all MagicWB pens will remain as you set them so that don't have to worry about the background pattern.
• FidoNet netmail "Via" lines now follow the standards exactly.
• Control's Dock can change icon images without the need to redraw the display (so the ZMailer icon system doesn't mess up icon order).
• FileManager finally updates filenotes correctly!
• Fixed the condition where Control would not iconify if on the Workbench.