History of AVS
 

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.

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.

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

Regards Tonic

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.

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.

you might want to have the first alpha versions of avs:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=112233

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)