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Sunday, 27. January 2008 15:59:13, by Choplair.

2007-06-16

IMPORTANT!

Given that Choplair has been hospitalized for several months, and is to going on that way for a while, we regret having to announce to you that our program developement are frozen for an undeterminated time.
Moreover, because of that situation, our answers to your e-mails may take very much time to occur. Do not worry about that.

We do sincerely apology...

The front CD cover.

2007-03-20

Hey. No news for a while there. But please be sure that the Choplair-network's idleness is just apparent, we're actually doing intense work and are preparing many interesting things for a near future. :)

Anyhow, we've still got something to show you today... Indeed, we are proud to announce the release of the In the Meat of the Lamb (a parody of Sandra's hit In the Heat of the Night) promotional video!

Click on the following image to watch it on GoogleVideo:

That music video was recorded on February 2007, under the direction of Dimbra, who also shot most parts. The heavy montage work was performed by Choplair from the Choplair-network, which also handled most technical stuffs. The song in itself is a creation of the Marie-Claire Records label, and is not intended for commercial purpose, by respect towards Sandra's business. Indeed the song as the video are released under the Free Art License.

For more links and information, check out the dedicated page on the Marie-Claire's website.

2007-01-02

Hi everyone, and happy new year! :D

To celebrate the entrance to 2007, we are pround to innaugurate a brand new BBS for the developer and user community of the Choplair-network's softwares.

Powered by PunBB, this place is bilingual (English or French messages are understood) and offer forums dedicated to our main programs (XGngeo, Kana no quiz) as well as a global talking space.

This is fresh, and thus empty, so don't hesitate to fill it a bit by posting some message if you have any problem / comment regarding our projects, or just wan't to say hello. You even don't need to register, and we'll try to provide quick answers. :)

See ya.

2006-12-25

Installer icon.

Today, thanks to py2exe, Inno setup and some work, the Choplair-network finally created a simple yet highly practical installer for Kana no quiz to be running out-of-the-box on any Windows platform.

It thus includes, as a single file, the program and all its dependencies: Python interpreter with required modules, as well as the Windows port of the GTK+ library. And by the use of solid LZMA compression, it's only 6MB!

Grab it from the Kana no quiz's download area.
And of course, we'll try to directly bring you such an all-in-one installer with the next stable version releases. ;)

Merry Xmas, Win users (and others). :p
Choplair

2006-11-11

To change a bit compared to the usual release announcements, let me show you off a nice Choplair-network wallpaper I've just realised (click for a full-size view):

Thumbnail.
Nice, isn't it? :p

Ok, for the serious things, Kana no quiz version 2.0 and XGngeo 17 are on the way. Just be patient!
Cheers.

2006-10-25

Screenshot thumbnail. Ten days ago, the Choplair-network, rather discretly, released Kana no quiz version 1.7!
Transition between past stable 1.5 and future 2.0 releases, this new stable version comes with various changes including:

Check out Kana no quiz's download area for packages in various formats.
Enjoy. :p

2006-10-01

XGngeo 16 main window thumbnail. We are happy to announce, since yesterday, the availability of XGngeo v16 final.
A beta version was already released on august, but this new one comes with numerous bug fixes and improvements such as:

You may grab XGngeo 16 from its download area at BerliOS, or have a prior look to the updated screenshot gallery.

Cheers!

2006-08-29

Back from a quick period of holliday, I'm just telling that the XGngeo version 16 final development is still actively on the way and its release should occurs soon, with many bug fixes, enhancements, and additions since the previous beta version...
Stay tuned !

2006-07-24

We've been informed by an user that current version of Kana no quiz is fully working on the Mac OS X plaform!
Such a thing was technically propable (because of the cross-plaform Python code) but we could not test because of Apple hardware lack. However, since yesterday it's not the case any more, since an OS X user reported us the good news ! ^_^

With the Tkinter interface, Mac OS X users may thus enjoy Kana no quiz rendered using the native Cocoa engine! GTK interface is still possible but requires an X11 server to run (and isn't Cocoa-rendered :p).

Here come some screnshots of Kana no quiz on Mac OS X in action (courtesy of Scott Sanborn):

Shot 1 Shot 2 Shot 3 Shot 4

At last, now we can say the program functionning is attested on the following OSs: GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Mac OS X. Yeah, that's a nice list! :)

2006-07-14

One year exactly after the previous version, the Choplair-network is pleased to announce the immediate release of a beta version for the upcoming XGngeo 16.

Thought it is firstly designed for testing purposes, this release, since the previous version 15, comes with a great bunch of new exciting features which are already stable and widely usable by the end users who want to enjoy the currently best Neo Geo gamming experience ever available on Unix!

Major changes include: support for multiple ROM directories in the ROM list (which now perfectly detects ROMs using GnGeo directory scanning), bunch of new params support (hardware surface, transparancy pack, 68K and Z80 CPUs clocking, new benchmark mode...), full Hot Keys support (independently for the 2 players), universal BIOS support, manual ROM selection now featuring automatic ROM detection and optional display of preview image, etc.

The small details that make this release a beta are the lack of up-to-date interface localization (final release should contains updated translations) and also some little potential bugs you might encounter and are encouraged to be reported to the Choplair-network, in order to prepare the release of a completely fail-safe version 16 of XGngeo as soon as possible!

Interesting links: the XGngeo v16 beta download page, its whole Changelog, the updated screenshots gallery, and the original release announcement.

2006-06-14

After Kana no quiz some weeks ago, it's now time for XGngeo to have been ported to FreeBSD (it was yet the case of Gngeo, but not its best frontend!). More info available at http://www.freshports.org/emulators/xgngeo/.

2006-06-12

I'd just like to inform you about the fresh creation of a mailling list where you are nowencouraged to post any repport, suggestions, help messages, etc. concerning our software and the Choplair-network more globaly.

To get more information and/or proceed to your subscription, see the mailling list page.

2006-05-16

We have been told that Kana no quiz has been added to the FreeBSD ports collection! See http://www.freshports.org/japanese/kana-no-quiz/.

2006-05-15

Kana no quiz version 1.5 has been released!

This brand new version features several enhancements and feature additions such as Polivanov ciryllization system of kana, settable random answer selection range, new German and Russian translations, better program installation process (including Windows binary installation package), etc.

You can look at this release complete annoucenement, see the whole Changelog and of course grab the new Kana no quiz from its BerliOS download area.

Feedbacks and contributions are still welcome... Have a nice kana practice! :)

2006-05-05

Change in the Ubuntu repository hosting XGngeo DEB package (see original announcement).

Now, for Breezy, you have to put the following lines into your sources.list: 

deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org breezy main dupdate french
deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org ubuntu main dupdate french

For Dapper: 

deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org dapper main dupdate french
deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org ubuntu main dupdate french

Enjoy!

2006-04-30

Before making a new software release announcement soon, we would like to inform you concerning the recent availabily of an Ubuntu (Breezy & Dapper) DEB package for XGngeo, which thus makes easy the installation of our frontend on this distribution. This packages has been realised by Asher256, who should maintain it when next versions appear.

It is simply available by adding the line deb http://asher256-repository.tuxfamily.org breezy main dupdate french to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, the updating the package list by entering sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get install xgngeo to get it installed.

Have a look to the XGngeo addition in Asher256's repository original announcement and, more globaly, the website dedicated to that repository where you'll be able to grab the lastest stable versions of some others interesting softwares.

2006-01-08

Welcome back everyone, and happy new year!

You should notice it: since the beginning of 2006, we have performed some changes on the website design and, above all, on the way pages content is handled. The Choplair network website is now a wiki (powered by a customized version of Wiclear) which any registered people can edit, for most of the pages.
Moreover, we've left our previous web-hosting, based on a small server owned by a kind friend of ours (Fragnatik, who we thank a lot for his gratitude), and swiched to a professional web-hosting solution, providing higher bandwidth and more reliability (we were victims of hardware issues on Fragnatik's server). By the way, a domain name was offered, so you may also be able to reach our homepage within http://www.choplair.info/, while the adress http://www.choplair.org/ is of course still valid.
However, website evolution is not the only news. A few days ago, on January 1st, our crew released Kana no quiz version 1.4b, fixing a little error in the 1.4 version, which has been released on mid-December, featuring various bug fixes and additions you can see on its Changelog.

We've got over our past, unwilling idleness, and the crew developement force is optimal back again. Thus, this year should be full of project advancements, with the first next releases available very soon. Just wait and see! ;)

2005-11-16

A new Choplair-network crew weblog is now online, reachable from the top menu. There you'll be able to get in touch with our project advancement, day after day (it's still only in French). :p

2005-11-08

There is no release for today. Because of external annoyances, we have been obligated to pass through a rather dead period concerning the development of our projects. That situation should get improved in the following days though, and fresh news would be brought thereafter.
Otherwise, during that time, we got aware that certain people were encountering a bug within the current XGngeo version, as they wanted to load a Rom from the list.
We investigated and it appeared to be an abnormal PyGTK behaviour, which does affect some versions of that library. Nevertheless, that problem may be fixed easily and will of course be out of the next XGngeo release.
Anyway, if you are using XGngeo version 15 and experiencing such an issue, we put online a page explaining the method to fix it up.

2005-07-28

We put an eyes-candy HTML version (generated using texi2html) of the current XGngeo documentation directly readable online.

2005-07-15

After the recent release of Gngeo 0.6.5 beta, another event is striking the GNU/Linux Neo Geo emulation scene...
The Choplair-network is really pround to announce that yesterday, on July 14th, more than half past a year since the previous version, a new major release of our famous Gngeo frontend came out: XGngeo version 15!
Compared to prior versions, the number of modification in this release is rather impressive (Changelog is fifty lines long!). It includes:

To sum up, this new XGngeo version's just a revolution! Get yours now! Feedback and contributions are welcome... Enjoy!

2005-07-06

Hey, nice to meet you again! As you can see, our previous news was posted a while ago. Actually, our website got inaccessible after our web hoster encountered an hard disk crash which caused its complete data deletion (that's a problem, those sheeps which only buy cheap hardware!), including recent database entries. The Choplair-network last news thus disapeared, but also Marie-Claire weblog entries during more than a month. We consequently decided to take out the weblog for a moment... But at last, we are back! The website's now alright and we chose to create a mirror on another server for precaution (link bottom). On top of all, you'll shortly be able to see new realeases of the softwares which we have still been working on, in spite of our absence on the web. Stay tuned!

By the way, we put back (a bit late) an intro page demonstrating against the adoption by the European Parliament, this afternoon, of the Software Patent directive, in its current disgraceful form.

2005-04-25

The Choplair-network is pround to introduce the first stable release of its new project: Nihongo conjugator. As its name sounds, Nihongo conjugator is a little program which is aimed to display a full conjugation table of any Japanese verb or verbal adjective, from one of its form which you entered. Using the GTK+ interface, this program is designed to run formely on Unix platforms, but can also work on other OS. The main feature of this initial version 0.2 is conjugation, in some tense, of Ichidan, Godan and some irregular verbs, and of verbal adjectives.
Nihongo conjugator is going to get quickly evolved. Stay tuned!

2005-03-17

Our crew is pleased to announce the release of the new 1.2d version of Kana no quiz. This is a minor a release whom the new feature is the addition of a Serbian translation done by Dejan Danilovic.

2005-03-08

We made some changes on the website recently: we wrote a tutorial to get Kana no quiz's GTK+ interface working on Windows, and we drew up a list of our various web realisations untill now.
By the way, the development of Nihongo Conjugator is in progress...

2005-02-15

This news is important if you are using Kana no quiz, the leading-edge kana memorization tool which we develop. ;-) This morning, someone has reported to us that he had found a bug in the last 1.2b version of our program. We've quickly made investigations and, once it happened that he was right, we've done our best to fix it. It was not so easy because a big reorganization of the kana engine was necessary. However, tonight I can say that it has been completely corrected! Consequently, a new version of Kana no quiz has just been released. You are strongly invited to download it. Our development crew really apologies for this annoyance... The next time, we won't drink so much before making a release! ^_^

2005-02-09

Release of Kana no quiz 1.2b. This minor version fixes a small bug and indicates which type of interface is used.

2005-02-03

No release for today but we've activated the link of one of our new project, Nihongo Conjugator, toward its BerliOS project page. This program is aimed to become a powerful Japanese verb and adjective conjugator ! ^^; You can grab the lastest development version from its CVS. At last u2015may be you've already seen itu2015, in the menu has been added a link to the brand new official weblog of the Choplair-network which will be regulary updated by the delightful Ms. Marie-Claire (by the way, it's French-speaking :p) ! Enjoy. ;)

2005-01-23

Hi everyone! The 2004 year was, for us, auspicious to the development of Kana no quiz. In 2005, we will try to diversify, you'll learn more with the wire of time. By the way, we are also pround to announce that Kana no quiz 1.2 version has been released. See the changelog for more details. Anyway, the Choplair-network crew wishes you an happy new 2005 year!

2004-09-26

Release of Kana no quiz 1.1 version. In this version we can choose to train ourself over a portion of kana, it is useful for the novices !

2004-07-29

Yeah, that's holiday. We are a bit idle, but not as much as you might fear! In other word, we are glad to announce the release of Kana no quiz 1.0 version. Changelog We did it: all the kana from the official list provided by the the Japanese Language Council are now fully implemented! This version also features a new way to give answer and a Brazilian-Portuguese translation (thanks to Matheus Villela). Enjoy. ;-)

2004-05-31

Release of Kana no quiz 0.9 version whom the main feature is the addition of combined kana. See the changelog for more details. On the other hand, Kana no quiz packages are now hosted on BerliOS and the kana image sources (in SVG format) are now only hosted on a CVS.

2004-05-10

Release of the version 0.8 of Kana no quiz. With a total of 142 kana, the katakana & hiragana syllabaries are now complete! Changelog

2004-04-17

Kana no quiz version 0.7 is released, there are now 101 kana! Changelog

2004-04-04

Kana no quiz version 0.6 has been released. In this version the Tkinter interface (for Windows) is improved in a great measure, detected bugs are fixed and there are new kana! See the changelog for more details. You can compare the 2 interfaces of Kana no quiz on the brand new screenshot gallery. ^^;

2004-03-24

We have put the news archives back! ^^;

2004-03-24

We are proud to announce the new release of Kana no quiz. This version 0.5 features many new kana and major enhancements such as a configuration panel and internationalization. See the changelog for more details.

2004-02-15

Hey! We are sorry about our full website unavailability those days. Because of technical problems with our last web hoster, we had to migrate to another place. It should be fine now.

However, we took time to update it: Kana no quiz page is now available! We keep on coding, now without getting worried about our presence on the web (we are about to get our own domain name), and hope to make new program releases soon. :)

2003-12-31

The Choplair-network is glad to announce a new release of its main software: XGngeo version 14!

In order to celebrate the year 2004, the Choplair-network's staff is also pleased to display a brand new website and hopes that you will continue to improve your chops with those exciting free sotfwares!

2003-12-02

Kana no quiz 0.3 version has been released! ^^ There are 17 new kana (now placed under the Free art license) and the same package now works both on GNU/Linux and Windows using different GUI.

2003-11-28

Added a portuguese page for XGngeo, thanks to Matheus Villela (http://www.romsplace.ya.st/) for his translation. ^^

2003-11-24

Release of XGngeo version 13, featuring new configurable options and a Portuguese translation by Paulo Eduardo Chiva (his website about Gngeo), see changelog for more informations. Therefore, documentation is now available in plain text format, XGngeo's page has been translated in Polish and there is a new magnificient screenshot gallery. ^^

2003-10-31

Kana no quiz version 0.2 has been released! Now, there are 19 kana. ^^ By the way we've built a native Windows version using the Python standard GUI (Tkinter). More information in the Kana no quiz page...

2003-10-25

How the..?! XGngeo version 12 has been released! ^_^ It features the brand new Key configurator and an Audio section. See the Changelog for details...

2003-10-17

The Choplair-network got a new look and is now dynamic (PHP)! I hope you like it! ^_^; There are also new pages translated in French + an About page.

2003-09-28

Added a howto to get Kana no quiz running on Windows.

2003-09-27

Added a page about our new tiny project: Kana no quiz. It's a simple program for memorize hiragana & katakana. This first version is a draft release: there are only 6 different kana!

2003-09-25

XGngeo 11 version has been released! Main changes are a new History menu, the amazing CEC (Configuration Error Checker ™ ® ©) and a Polish translation (thanks to Matma!). Look at the Changelog for details.

2003-09-15

VKRPG's page added. Take a look at this strange project!

2003-08-22

XGngeo 8 version has been released. There are some bugfixes, new features like the great WAGLMOT (Write A Gngeorc Like A Maman Ours Technology ®) and new configurable options!!

2003-08-20

XGngeo version 7 has been released and english page is available.

2003-08-18

The Choplair-network website, as a free software development team, is open! We hope you will enjoy our work. ^^;

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