Multilevel 1.6

1. Introduction

The international version of  Multilevel 1.6 is finally available!

From this very moment the software can be downloaded from the server as a fully functional shareware evaluation version. The programm can be distributed to third parties and evaluated for a period of 30 days, but afterwards a registration fee of 30 German Marks (15 EURO) has to be paid to the author.
I guess the price of this software is very fair, if you think of  the enormous practical testing that has been done after all. Professional decompression software of this kind is not very often offered below a price of 100 German Marks. I ask you to register, because all of the registration fees are primarily used for decompression medicine research, which in turn will lead to safer diving procedures for the whole diving community. Please don't abuse my generous offer, to provide you with a fully functional (uncrippled) shareware version -  respect the shareware philosophy! The shareware version of Multilevel can be downloaded from the server to your local hard drive, after you have carefully read the licence statement.
 
Multilevel 1.6 is the first international version of this decompression software.The first German version dates back to 1996. It all started with an MS-DOS version, much like the famous "Dr. X". Several Windows - version were released afterwards, written in the powerful but platform- dependent C++ - programming language. In 1998 the Java Revolution provided the world with the fascinating possibility of a platform-independent programming language. I soon realized the huge potential and converted  my source code to Java. It was well worth the effort and I am sure, never to return to the C++ - world. Meanwhile I have the great pleasure, to provide the diving community with the first professional mixed-gas decompression software that is running on different platforms like Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Windows CE, Linux, MacOS, Unix etc.......

Attention: Multilevel has been tested with various operating systems and WWW-browsers, but problems might possibly occurr, since I have used the AWT- and not the (truly platform-independent) Swing - classes because the program had to be able to run on a simple WWW-browser under Java 1.02. Although the software has generally proven to be platform-independent, the GUI might have to be altered on particular operating systems . This can most probably happen with handheld PCs with small screens, operating on systems like Windows CE or Palm OS.
Moreover, there is some kind of distribution problem with the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for Windows CE because of the ongoing hazzle between Microsoft and Sun. However, generally speaking, the availability of JVMs on even exotic operating systems is steadily improving. Please give me some sort of feedback on which platforms you have successfully tested Multilevel.

Until this very moment the following combinations have proven successful:
 

For suggestions and questions I can be contacted at  juergen.bohnert@uni-tuebingen.de .

And last but not least I would like to thank the members of Höhlenforschungsgruppe Ostalb/Kirchheim e.V. (HFGOK) and Höhlentauchsektion des Verbandes deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher (HTS-VdHK), who have supported the development and testing of Multilevel .

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