History of AVS

RovastarDecember 16, 2002 at 9:49 PM#

I am writing a 'History of Visualizations' article and obviously WA fetaures pretty heavily in it (or will do)

Now does nayone know when AVS first appeared with winamp?

Winamp Heaven is not much help to me although it does give dates of WA version and the option to download.

jherikoDecember 16, 2002 at 10:02 PM#

I seem to remember AVS first came with Winamp 2.6... I could be wrong, it might have been 2.5c... I think 2.5c is a real version ,anyway around about 2.6/2.5-ish. Hope that helps to some degree.

TonicDecember 17, 2002 at 5:51 AM#

Send to my e-mail tonic@softhome.net all questions you want to have answer? I think I can help you. :-)

Regards Tonic

YathoshoDecember 17, 2002 at 2:55 PM#

Originally posted by jheriko
I seem to remember AVS first came with Winamp 2.6

i think that was the first time, that AVS was bundled with winamp. it should've been available as standalone before.

tonic is indeed the right person to speak to, it were his presets i downloaded first in summer 2000.

RovastarDecember 17, 2002 at 10:18 PM#

Thanks all for teh info so far. I know AVS 2.0 was included a bit ago 2.something.

I will draft an email to you TOnic later, cheers.

Lion KingDecember 18, 2002 at 4:07 AM#

you might want to have the first alpha versions of avs:

First Public release of Geiss & AVS plugins - Winamp & Shoutcast Forums

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=112233

You wanna talk about something, but don't know where to turn? Chat your heart out here...

read winamp's whatsnew.txt:

Winamp 2.61:
* AVS 1.5a6 (coming soon, 1.50)

Winamp 2.666:
* AVS 2.1 . New blitter/movement filtering, MMX optimized, new presets.

...

I won't list every mentioning of avs in whatsnew.txt, find the rest yourself

get those old winamp versions at http://www27.brinkster.com/winampheaven/ (you probably knew that already)