Warning! Upgrade from SuperMemo 8.x to SuperMemo 98 is irreversible!

Accessing help:

1. Please download smweb.chm file from the Site Map page (1.7 MB) and place it in the bin subdirectory of SuperMemo. This file can be used to display context-sensitive help pages in SuperMemo
2. You can also access help from this site: SuperMemo 98 Help

Minimum Requirements:

• 486, Win95 or WinNT 4.0
• 8 MB RAM
• Internet Explorer 4.0 (only for HTML processing and Complied HTML help)

New features added during beta-testing

• translation and transliteration keyboard shortcut
• Add pronunciation picks the currently selected text into the text field
• possibility to turn off on-the-fly lexicon compilation to speed up the program (Tools : Options : Data access : Compile lexicon on-the-fly)
• connecting to SuperMemo Website in case CHM file was not found in Help
• detecting Internet Explorer 4.0 installation
• speeding up writing of texts to the disk
• supporting WMF format in image components
• SuperMemo remembers the last used Display At status set in sound components and use it as default when creating new sound components
• displaying X and Y mouse coordinates when using drag-and-drop from the Compose toolbar
• options Transparent, Stretch and Edit Hit-Area work with JPG, GIF and WMF images
• Import : Multimedia Files can now also import JPG, WMF, MID and RMI files
• Set difficulty ordinal in the contents window to generate ordinals from a real learning process
• File : Registration : Unregister (e.g. for redistribution of collections with unregistered SuperMemo)
• protecting Print button from accidental use
• English interface can also be edited with Localization table (without the need to change the name)

Bugs fixed

Beta B, Aug 20, 1998

• some entries were missing in the localization table
• main window would disappear occasionally on restore
• elements would disappear from the history window on click in beginner and basic modes
• occasionally browser columns would be zero-sized on switching between levels
• maximize status would be lost on switching between levels
• errors would be reported at switching to beginner level with HTML components in the currently displayed element
• History button would be permanently disabled on the first entry to the program
• Shift+click translations would turn on the editing mode
• deleting all texts from HTML editor would not clear the web browser component
• program would report multiple errors in case mshtml.dll or shdocvw.dll were missing
• on opening browser, the browser window would be deactivated by the element window
• Ctrl+F and Ctrl+A would cause integrity errors if the translation windows was opened

Beta C, Aug 25, 1998

• repetition at midnight could result in wrong scheduling date errors
• GIF and JPG image components would not work
• Q&A import and export would not work
• default background in SuperMemo 8.4 would turn black upon upgrade to the new version
• File : Reset : Collection would apparently hang up on large collections
• using the contents pop-up menu would result in blocking drag-and-drop operations on the Compose tab
• Insert HTML link would often report errors and delete the hyperlinked text
• choosing a new element would not close Path or Title tabs
• using pop-up menu in empty image registry would result in errors
• localization files (TRA) would not accept long filenames
• Duplicate would not store the duplicated item on the history list
• Contents window would not display the icon for a duplicated item
• dropping elements from Element ClipBox would not initially refresh the element's content
• old title would remain in the element data window upon accepting a new title
• Alt+N during title editing would loose the changes

Beta D, Sep 3, 1998

• pending browser would not close before sorting the pending queue
• Search and Replace in registries would skip some members due to reindexing
• lack of repetition history file would abort Import : Learning process
• Help did not work at the beginner and basic levels
• Last Repetition set at the First Day of the learning process would not show up in the element data window
• JPG and GIF images would not preserve the Stretch status
• registry search results would not be sorted
• focus on grade keys would move in the wrong direction upon pressing arrow keys
• early Internet Explorer 4.0 installation would not be detected
• component labels would not be updated upon deleting one or more components

Beta E, Sep 15, 1998

• removing focus from edited component after Duplicate would not be possible with Esc
• opening collections without phonetic transcription after collections with mouse-move transliteration would occasionally cause errors
• ClipBoxes were disabled in Beta D
• default size of the element window would not fit 800x600 resolution
• copy and paste would not work on image components
• Import in localization table would ignore font setting
• switching with subset>0 in registry to another window would reset the subset
• displaying dates would ignore short-date setting in Windows
• pop-up menus were available at the beginner and basic levels
• Color would not work in RTF components

Beta F, Sep 19, 1998

• File menu would often be invisible upon switching back from professional to beginner level
• RTF component would occasionally report an error: Posit=0 at IntegrateRTFFile
• RTF texts could not be edited in the text registry
• vertical line would become slanted upon switching to editing mode
• File : New would use a wrong path if the pathname included a dot

You can compare the present beta-testing procedure with the results of beta-testing SuperMemo 8.2 (Feb 1997 - May 1997) and beta-testing SuperMemo 8.4 (Aug 1997 - Jan 1998)