Warp3D and PCI Graphics Boards
Recently Hans-Jörg Frieden has expressed himself in our
forum regarding the topic driver
software for PCI graphics boards under Warp3D:
«Unfortunately the number of e-mails regarding Warp3D and PCI cards
accumulates for Thomas and me. Almost every time it is "I have purchased a card
of the brand XXX, when will you have 3D drivers ready?"...
Regarding this I want to say the following: Warp3D is and will continue to be a hobby project
that is cooking on smaller flame as for now, because of the time consumption
of Hyperion. If possible we'll write drivers. Nevertheless I will explicitly
point out, that the buying of a graphics card is no cogent reason for us to produce a
driver for it - as that takes quite some time. There will probably be no
driver for Voodoo 5 (V4 is questionable but more likely), none for GeForce, Riva TNT,
ATI Rage or whatever else, especially when there exists no chip documentation.
Neither we will attempt to recycle a Linux driver.
In the case that somebody could get some chip documentation (legal!) and make it
available for us the chances for a driver increase but this is no guarantee
either.»
Via email Hans-Joerg adds that this is no kind of arbitrariness but only a
hint that people shouldn't waste their money for graphics cards that can't be
supported simply because of the lack of time or documentation...
We are getting mails all the time from people asking for GeForce support or
Voodoo 5 but for those documentation isn't accessible. We have tried it even at
NVidia, without success, even not against NDA... :-(
(ps)
CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM
'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW
that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga
in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical),
official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox,
Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems,
accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware),
support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.)
and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).
All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found
on the homepage.
Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success
of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS -
The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.
And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and
successful year 2001.
(sd)
Tales of Tamar: FAQ and Crincles of 55
Regarding the move based online strategy game 'Tales of Tamar' a German FAQ and the
chronicles of the year 55
were released. The FAQ answers the most important questions regarding the game
and gives a hint how to play 'Tales of Tamar' on the Amiga emulator 'UAE'.
(sd)
Regarding the WB3.9 plugin and VolumeGauge plugin of Scalos updates have been released
which fix bugs. The WB3.9 plugin allows under AmigaOS 3.5+ the use of newer
features like 'AmiDock'. The VolumeGauge plugin equips all root volume windows
with a fill gauge in the left window border in the AmigaOS v3.5 style. This
plugin runs on AmigaOS V3.0+.
The following bugs were fixed:
Payback Status Report #17
On 30. December 2000 James Daniels has released the status report #17 regarding
the game 'Payback'. The game now offers additionally a multiplayer deathmatch
mode for up to 4 players. To do this much had to be changed in the source code
and therefor much work had to be put into this mode as the game wasn't design
for supporting a multiplayer mode first. But the work was, according to James
Daniels, worth it. Screens of the multiplayer mode are released on the screenshots page.
The latest photos there also contain the improved textures.
Besides that the game now supports also the CD32 controller, and several bugs
have been fixed.
(sd)
News on the PlayGUI Website
Richard Kapp wrote:
As Rolf Roth has unfortunately no more time to attend the official PlayGUI site,
I (author of PlayGUI) have now taken over this task. The site shines now in a
complete new design and besides, there are again three new skins, a funny theme
and also other news. I wish you all a happy new year 2001!
(PlayGUI is a graphical interface for Hippoplayer, Play16, GMPlay
and MPEGA, that uses skins and themes. By this it is possible to play GUI, MODs,
MIDIs, MP2/3s and samples with one single (ex)changable GUI.)
(sd)
'The Party 2000' is a scene/demo party that attracts around 4,000 people every
year in Aars in northern Denmark.
Supplement: 01.01.2001: Juergen Beck via eMail:
There were several new amazing Amiga demos and intros. Among them well done
demos of the demo groups Haujobb, and Ephidrena.
Download: demos
(sd)
Under the title link Christian first lets the ANN year 2000 pass in review to
have a look into the future afterwards. Looking back he can reference to almost
2 millions registered page views this year with around 50 GB transferred files.
Against the year 1999 with 700 000 page views this is more than a doubling.
(sd)
Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd v1.3
On 31. December 2000 Chris Hodges has released the version 1.3
of the graphics tablet driver 'FormAldiHyd'. The driver supports the graphics
tablets Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310. From the Readme
you can draw the changes against the older version. Among other things this
Millennium edition contains a fireworks demo.
Advertising at Amiga Future
Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine
proposes a "commercial" advertising for "non commercial" products in Amiga
Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to shareware
developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that
are interested in this offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as soon as
possible.
The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish a happy new year 2001 to all of
you.
APC&TCP wish a happy new year 2001
to all of the Amiga users. You can look forward to next year because APC&TCP
is planning to release a whole lot of new Amiga products next year.
(ps)
Martin Strobl writes:
I have build the Elbox-Mediator PCI Board into my showroom tower and I am very
pleased with the VooDoo 3000/16MB graphicsboard I also build in, since this
duo is faster than my private CybervisionPPC.
(showroom tower: Blizzard 1260, Private: CyberstormPPC 233/060/50).
A question concerning this subject: Is there interest to buy the Mediator-PCI
Board/ PCI graphics board directly with a licensed version of the Picasso96
drivers? If you are interested please send an email to
martin@coolbits.de. If there is enough
interest I will contact the makers of the drivers to ask for the price of such
a deal.
By the way, here is a tip for all those who own EXODUS in combination with a
CybervsionPPC (maybe also other graphics boards:
The game ran extremely slow on my computer until I removed the program
"PREPAREMUL" of Shapeshifter from my startup-sequence.
(ps)
EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.6 Released
This millennium's final release of the classic edition of EZP@gerNG has
now also been released. It is as always available in the download section.
The changes of this release are similar to those of the full version 1.3 of
EZP@gerNG, as far as the CE-version supports the different features. All the
changes of
this release. (ps)
playamiga Closing it's Doors...
Juergen A. Theiner wrote:
On 01.01.2001 I will close playamiga.de. But only to be back for you (at the
latest) in February. And then with a lot of new features:
If you want to continue to participate actively in the creation of the page, I
would like to ask you to send me the names of your favourite games so I can
create the charts (eispirat@home.ivm.de).
News from Infomedia Network Fun Time World wrote:
"The homepage of Amiga's partner has been completely reworked. There aren't a
lot of news, but the first pictures of the Set-Top-Bow TVision based on Amiga
technology have been released."
(ps)
AMP2 Version 2.00 Released
Version 2.00 of the movie player AMP2 has been released. In this version there
are a lot of new features. The author tried to make this version as stable and
bugfree as possible. However if you have MPEG movies that don't work or make
AMP 2 crash, the author would be happy to receive a message from you by
eMail.
Amiga Sound Standards and How to Destroy Them (Part 1)
Joern Plewka wrote:
In the past Katodev had to fight the fact that internally there wasn't enough
menpower available. That's why it was impossible for us to participate in
certain discussions. The things that head towards us now (criticism about
AMPlifier) is from our point of view hard and "generated".
Katodev and others are trying to support all of the existing standards those
usable from concept. We'd like to point out that the mpeg.device has been
released 1993 by Commodore (picture and sound). All cards with hardware
MPEG-support that were released after that have used this driver. CD32-FMV,
Peggy+, Melody-Z2, Melody1200 series and also the Delfina series.
For the later even the source code is available on Aminet. Those who are
now still not capable of writing a correct driver for their hardware should
simply ask for help or make their hardware layout available for everyone!
AMPlifier supports this standard. Those who create a driver for their hardware
can use this software unlicensed. AMPlifier is part of OS3.9 or available on
our homepage (unrestricted shareware) in Rev. 2.21. Those who don't like the
software should write their own, but please support the standards! (ps)
Silversurfer does NOT Work with Melody1200
Joern Plewka wrote:
Since the Cologne fair previous to this year's fair the Silversurfer in it's
original state doesn't work correctly with Melody1200 since the complete
clockport is blocked, which is in contradiction with what the manufacturer
states at his homepage. This information isn't even available to users when
they ask for support. Katodev is fed up with fixing Silversurfers without
complaining, by now. Currently it seems that even the software does NOT work
with Melody1200 anymore.
If Silversurfer and Melody1200 can't work together simultaneoulsy it means
that Melody can die from bus-collisions, sooner or later. Please get a guaranty
on purchase that Silversurfer does the things you require or use Twister1200.
This makes you preventing a lot of anger, port and time for you and us.
We have reconstructed the layout of the Silversurfer now. This shows that the
IRQ runs over a diode. Those having problems due to this "trick" should
replace the diode by a transistor (e.g. BS170). (ps)
CoyoteSound: Early Beta Released as Freeware
An early beta-version of CoyoteSound has been released as freeware.
This version is still very limited but since development has continued
a little while ago, it might change very soon.
If you want to see more development on this program, please contact the
authors (coyoteflux@chello.nl) and tell
them why. CoyoteSound will remain freeware.
(ps)
PalmBackup 1.9 Released
PalmBackup is the Amiga software for PalmPilot/Visor/ThinkPad (and derivatives)
users that allows backup/restore of databases held on your handheld computer,
new software installation, and advanced database management. Since 1.9 PalmBackup
was released as free software (the full source code is also available). The
project has a new homepage at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmbackup
where the latest news, and releases can be found.
(ps)
New AmBoS-Support-Homepage
A new support homepage is available for the Amiga mailbox program "AmBoS".
It can be found at http://ambos.regiodata.de
and contains information and downloads (current updates and a complete demo archive).
(ps)
AmigAIM BETA version 0.9406 released
A new beta version 0.9406 of AmigaAIM, the client for Amiga to participate
in the AOL Instant Messenger Service, was released. It's available for download at the usual places.
Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
Also, there's a 30 second video extract at Nova Design, which was produced from a video for
Bob Scharp's Bounce Back Videos.
The idea behind the ´Bounce Back Videos´ is to give Amiga user groups the
opportunity to convey background knowledge on several projects to the users.
Visitor #2,000,000 on amiga-news.de
Last night, the 2,000,000th visitor came to our website. Joe has sent us a
screenshot of the ´event´. A proud number for 27 months. This
turns out about 74,074 visitors per month, with rising tendency.
Currently, between 6,000 and 8,000 readers visit us per day!
This is the opportunity to thank you for this great acceptance. We are
very happy, especially about the fact that more and more programmers,
developers, and readers take the chance to enter news in our
Amiga News Forum (ANF) themselves.
As you certainly know, we are a team of Amiga users
who invest a large amount of their spare time in this project. That's exactly
why we are happy about your feedback and of course most of all about every support, as without all your
help, amiga-news.de wouldn't have emerged to what it is today: one of the best news services
for the Amiga :).
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark: New Informationen on New Trojan
I have received some new info about the new trojan that was found
on the 27'th of December. It is spread in an archive with the name
"dcs-4k.lha". But the demo group have nothing to do with this new
trojan. We have also been told that it is a guy from England and
that he also made the "dkg-blum.lha" trojan, his name and address is
known to Virus Help Denmmark. Thanks to Mikko for the new info.
Here once more the full information on the new archive (we had posted
these on 12/27/2000 already):
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your
"sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus
programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will
be known.
The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then
you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv,
AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.
Picasso96 Driver for Mediator
Sufficient demand for Picasso96 drivers for Mediator provided, that is about 300 registered
users (specify Mediator for purpose when registering), in case of need we will purchase
a complete developer- and test-system with our own funds, and then create own drivers
for diverse PCI graphics boards. This drivers will then be of quality known form
us.
But Elbox mentioned to us that they already would have shipped two systems to Germany for other
driver development (CGX). Well, it would be in our terms to provide us one of these. To charge
UPS with delivery cannot cost the world.....
Another problem would be accessing the API of the Mediator system's pci.library. Elbox provides
this only for NDA, though they don't feel themselves to be bound to such concinnities, see their
unauthorized Voodoo3-P96 driver...
If they would refuse us to access this, of course this would raise a certain problem which could
lead to slightly delays.
Supplement 12-29-2000:
Tobias Abt via eMail:
Afterwards we got the information that this developer system provided to the CGX team was
distributed by Vesalia, but financed by Elbox.
(ps)
New SiteWay-Modul: EasyAccess
EasyAccess is a helpful tool in creating and editing CGI scripts. Using this local
server one can test his sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI). EasyAccess is part of
the SiteWay project.
MainPrefs Version 2.02 Released
Who wants to change environment variables, handily edit configuration files as like s:startup-sequence or
start OS preferences tools in a predictable way can do that using MainPrefs V2.02, now. The program
requires OS3.5 because of its Reaction-GUI.
VaporWare 2000: Winners Published
The US magazine Wired again has published the award winners for announced but not released
computer products. Hundreds of voters again participated. This year award seems to hit
Apple (a hard year for Apple since Steve Jobs had to concede profit caution and errors).
New Roadmap for Mozilla
ProLinux wrote:
"Plans for future versions of Mozilla up to v1.2 has been published on the Mozilla project's
website". Might become a subject for the future AmigaDE.
(ps)
Amiga dazu:
«We will also have a UBB message board, a searchable User Group database,
and mailing lists so that User Groups world wide may communicate
together. All of this will be available from links off this main page.
If you are a User Group member and have other suggestions, please send
feedback to: support@amiga.com».
(ps)
And Max Rally does Work..... ;)
Do you also have the game Max Rally from Aminet Games, Aminet Set 10 or Aminet 36, and
it just doesn't work? Here is the solution: On the above mentioned CD-Roms explode.library
is missing! This can be downloaded e.g. from Aminet (util/libs/explode-7.lha) and unpacked
to your own libs directory. Good playing.
(ps)
FBlit v3.73xms
It was published a new test version of FBlit v3.73xms on 22nd of December 2000. FBlit patches some
OS functions normally using the blitter, such that these can use the
CPU and don't have to operate inside chip-mem.
The patched functions are also faster and non-interleaved data will suffer less from
colour flickering .
Additionally non-displayalbe bitmaps can be put
in fastram for named tasks. The new version contains various minor changes to v3.69b.
New Games and More at AmiSectorOne
There again are new classic games at AmiSectorOne. Among others you can download A-Train, Ambermoon, Amberstar
and Sim City 2000 (English and German) there. Furthermore the demo area was
completely re-established. Therefore most demos are accessible again and you can also find
some new pieces of music in the areas of "Game Music" and "Scene Music".
AmiSectorOne thank all of the visitors for their support.
(ps)
Scalos: Compatibility to OS3.9
Since the release of AmigaOS 3.9 some OS tool are using new functions not available in Scalos.
With a new plugin for Scalos of Juergen Lachmann these
new functions are now available enabling you to make use of tools of OS3.9 like "AmiDock".
Amiga Arena - Free Games
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing enables all of the shareware / freeware
games developed for Amiga by UAC Design to be offered for download! These games are
not available from Aminet!
Olaf Koebnik is especially exited about the full version of board game port "Risiko"
to be available for the first time at Amiga Arena. Appropriate to the quiz fever
the game "Awaking" makes the opening! Awaking is a quiz game such as ´Jeopardy&180;,
´Riskant´ or ´Der grosse Preis´.
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark: New Trojan Found
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your
"sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus
programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will
be known.
The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then
you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv,
AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.
CAD Technologies Website Update
Website redesigned with a fresher look.
Added a large number of links to the tutorial section.
Added renders to the gallery pages.
(ps)
AWeb 3.4 Update for Registered Users
From now for registered users of the browser AWeb v3.x an update for the
latest version v3.4 is available. Amitrix wish merry Christmas.
BindAssigns 1.1 and WIN95 Keymap Update
Updated the BindAssigns archive to 1.1. New, code cleanup
and how to replace the Assigns in the User-Startup.
New for Windows95 keymap for PC-keyboards: notes about
the place of the different key's, including the Help key.
And installation with AmigaOS3.9 notes.
(ps)
The latest version has been uploaded to the normal locations, on the webpage
and descriptions on the links section of the mailing list have been changed.
Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
AmigAIM 0.9405 Beta (25 Dec 2000)
(ps)
VMC News
VMC would like to wish all of their customers a merry Christmas
(the whole thing is available at the title link).
VMC-ISDN 2.99B100 Christmas update released
Attention! This is a commercial update. All features are available without
a VMC-ISDN-license but the connection time is limited.
We will make a special offer to the owners of the original ISDN-Blaster-Z2.
The following changes were made:
Speed-up of the interrupt-system witch made the whole thing a lot more stable.
Problems with FUSION were removed and things like vlink.device are no longer necessary.
At the moment we are working on the next generation of VMC-ISDN. We will
build in some interesting features like message transport over the D-channel and much more.
There are some screenshots of the new X-Phone version available at our VMC-ISDN product page.
HyperCOM 2.98 Christmas update
The new last non-commercial update for HyperCOM are available now. Two minor
problems were fixed and the speed were increased.
(ps)
Changes:
Just a few minutes ago, Gerhard Müller sent an email to me, telling me that
he has managed to get the Tablet working in conjunction with his MFCIII.
Moreover, he has supplied me a patch that is included in this mail (thank
you so much, Gerhard!). All users with MFCIII should try out this patch and
see if it's any good and solves the problem.
So this will be the last update for this millennium. Enjoy your xmas
holidays and happy new year! See you in 2001 :) And let's see who will notice
a slight change in my geek code in a few days :-D
(ps)
AmigaOnlineGames
AmigaOnlineGames took the task to list all Amiga games working in any network. Who knows other online/network games
may sent the titles via e-mail to Frost.
(ps)
Initial Alpha Version of SimpleMail Released
SimpleMail is a new e-mail program being developed by Hynek Schlawack and
Sebastian Bauer. We have just released the first alpha version on the website.
It requires MUI and several additional MUI classes. SimpleMail still is at a
very early level, but it is already usable and the most important features are
implemented.
SimpleMail is to be an open source project at SourceForge. Here the URL of the
project's page.
MasonIcons News
Martin Merz wrote:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
There are some news on MI:
In general
- please, vote for me
for the Trogsoft Awards.
Homepage
- the new MasonIcons homepage now is online
- please, rate this page on ALD
- a new counter system
- ATTENTION! This page is coloured, now ;)
AppMI
- a new update is available (version 5 to 6)
- AppMI is now free for download without registering
- registered users have been added to the newsletter
OpusMI
- OpusMI is to be continued
Other projects
- ApacheMI - an image collection for the Apache server
- PPaintMI - a default icon collection for PPaint
- MicroDotMI - update including all of the images
- VoyagerMI - update including all of the images
I wish you all merry Christmas and a happy new year.
(ps)
The Secret of Mount Monkey - a Canceled Devotee-Adventure
Sebastian Beloch wrote:
This project was started in 1998, but was canceled in the meantime. This demo version includes
complete intro and parts of the first level (not playable). THE SECRET OF MOUT MONKEY is an
adventure game in style of the old classic adventures by Lucas-Arts (e.g. Monkey Island, Indiana Jones,
Day of the Tentacle, ....). The game combines the characters of these games building a new adventure game.
Guybrush Threepwood's daughter accepts the bid of Simon The Sorcerer to save the world, and has to
supply several ingredients for his magic potion. She travels to foreign islands (MONKEY ISLAND), visits
the Maniac Manison (DAY OF THE TENTACLE), stumbles into the comic strip worlds of Sam & Max as well as
Leisure Suit Larry...
The demo in graphics strongly abutes to the old adventure games and is a must for all those who loves adventures.
Merry Christmas - Voyager V33 Alpha 56
Vapor wish all of you a merry Christmas and has released for the Christmas season a new version of
Voyager for registered users. Notes on this version can be taken from the
Release Notes.
Furthermore there is an update of the VSSL library and of the VSearch plug-in.
Support still is open via normal e-mail address of the author
(achimste@gmx.de) or via hotline.
Questions, suggestions, a.o. should be sent to the author directly.
From now on announcements and circular letters are exclusively sent to
all registered DA3 customers or published on Amiga news sites.
I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millennium!!
(sd)
AmigaAMP V2.8 Final
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
At last, short before the holidays there is the full version of AmigaAMP 2.8.
shoutcast streaming now definite works better, and some bugs could be fixed, too.
Along with AmigaAMP v2.8 also a new version of the Plugin Development Kit is
released. Now it is possible to get information on the AmigaAMP window for
example to 'dock' your own plug-in graphics to it.
Christmas Greetings from ACBB
Gojira wrote:
Stress-free Christmas and a clean slip into the next year (millennium)...
... to all Miggies and most of all to the "amiga.news" team from
the members of the Amiga Club Berlin & Brandenburg (Germany).
(sd)
Earth 2140 Finished Pagan Games has finished
Earth 2140. The game will be available within some days. There was also released
a new demo version of the game which fixes several bugs.
A.C.T.: Prelude Z2 und Samplitude
Due to problems shipping of Prelude Z2 sound cards by
A.C.T. delayed for some time.
But now the card is shipping. In additional Samplitude is available for
download on A.C.T.'s homepage. This version has many features disabled which
can be enabled by purchasing a keyfile in the A.C.T. shop.
(sd)
Contrary to some rumours the group would have parted I would like to tell, that we are
still there. We are well and waiting for strating shot for us to come back with new songs, a
new performance and hopefully a great come-back of the Amiga next year.
Publishing a track on the new OS 3.9 hopefully was a clear sign that we are NOT to leaving behind
the Amiga, but rather we are waiting for the things to continue. OS 3.9 also was a noticeable sign
for a generative co-operation happened, at last.
I wish all Amiga users and most of all the programmers merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Thank you for everything.
Daniel "NX_LOKI" Schulz
(ps)
The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Site
The support sites for the The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition
CD-ROM are now online on the Airsoft Softwair homepage .
You can get much information and soon also screenshots on that
page and additionally the CD-ROM can also be ordered from there.
The The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM is out now
for a price of 29.95 DM ($20 USD).
Finally, Airsoft Softwair wish all Amiga users a merry Christmas
and a succesful healthy new year 2001!
(ps)
Merry Christmas from C&C
!!Merry Christmas and a wonderful Amiga 2001!!
From all of us to all of you.. loving; adoring; worshipping and most of all
Using their Amiga!
Martina, Sjef, Willem, Steven, Debby and Charlot
(ps)
StrICQ 0.1733 Released
On the StrICQ support page StrICQ v0.1733 was released!
The new version contains bugfixes and the client has been graphically enhanced.
So there now are status icons in the main window (the known ICQ flower), and
the preferences window has got nicer icons.
Christmas Greetings and Gifts from Katodev
It is Christmas at KATODEV, too. Over the month users' wishes cumulated here. It is
hardly possible to fulfil all of those, but at least some hopefully interesting things
for you are to find on our table with gifts. But, details will not be released before
the days after Christmas; and now at last also a somehow newer webpage. Well, stop
working now, it's time to have a break....
Merry Christmas to all of you! Also greetings to China, where a third of the current
Kato team is located now. Joern Plewka, Thorsten Hansen.
(ps)
Merry Christmas from GeoWorld Team
The GeoWorld team wish all Amiga users merry Christmas, reflective holidays, and
a happy new year 2001!
For of you still not aware: "GeoWorld - Geography for your Amiga" is available at
an abolute special Christmas price until evening of 12-25-00. All information on our
homepage. (ps)
Voodoo 5 CyberGraphx Driver Finished
DCE Computer Service GmbH, Oberhausen, Germany, is exited to announce the
Voodoo 5-5500 graphics board to be supported by CyberGraphX driver
in time for the upcoming release of the G-REX PCI interface end of January 2001.
The following drivers are finished:
End of January 2001 also the initial beta version of the new Warp3D driver
will be available. This driver will support Voodoo 3-2000-3000.
DCE wish all of the readers a merry Christmas and a happy new millennium.
(ps)
Amiga Emulation and More to Come
AMITac wrote:
We are a young NetTeam among other things dealing with emulation of Playstation and Amiga.
We've started doing the manual for the UAE emulator, which will be finished at latest in a week
(HTML manual). Later on more classic stuff will be added. Who would like to can contact AMItac or
RamireZ or put a link to our site.
(ps)
Season Greetings from AS-WebShop
We wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2oo1. Along with our wishes
we want to thank for the great reception in the year 2000. The AS-WebShop will continue
to available for everybody in the year 2001 with it's offerings all around the AMIGA.
We also want to thank for laud and criticism of many kind. With the soon to come new
version (v3) of the WebShop software we will take care of many of these. Extra thanks to:
Heiko and Lars, as well as all of the #AmigaClub-BTX. - Some of it wouldn't not be
possible without your help. Special thanks to: Family Horbach from KDH-Datentechnik -
their sovereignty to master our whims is admirable. - Thank you!
- Danke!
Finally one note: Our office will not be available by phone between the holidays.
FAX (05121-39586), EMail (info@as-webshop.de)
or the online shop of course will be accessible.
PS: I want to thank you Petra (and of course the amiga-news.de team) for daily suppling
us with news, tips, and information all around AMIGA and similar subjects. Great
performance - Thank you!
(ps)
EasyPlayer Version 1.03 Released
Ralph Debusmann wrote:
I've just uploaded the Christmas release (version 1.03) of my
music player "EasyPlayer" to Aminet, now with "be quiet" option.
Who cannot beat waiting until it appears there, will find the version
on my homage under the title link.
Greetings, merry Christmas and a happy new year!
(ps)
COOL bits Newsletter
We wish all of our customers a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
After our stocktaking an update of the homepage will be put online.
Due to stocktaking and holiday our shop will be closed from 12-27-2000 to 01-07-2000.
(ps)
iBrowse News
Middle of December on the support forum of iBrowse, which was hosted by
www.senduptheflares.com/
and now doesn't exist no more it was to read that Stefan Burstroem, author of iBrowse
has got a full time job, cause he wasn't able to exist from what he gains from iBrowse, any more.
Here the original message form the HiSoft forum:
«Unfortunately, after many, many years of hard work on iBrowse, Stefan
Burstroem (the author of iBrowse) has been forced to get a full-time job.
The revenues coming in from iBrowse sales simply are not enough to support
worldwide marketing plus a salary for the author.
Although Stefan remains committed to iBrowse and the Amiga, it is difficult
to see how he can take the product forward without help. And, even then, I
cannot see how enough revenue will come to pay the people involved.
Please let me know if any of you have any ideas how this problem can be
solved. David»
On the iBrowse product page at Hisoft (see title link) it is mentioned that
it is absolute necessary to have a look at the demo version of iBrowse before
registering, to be sure that the browser fulfils your needs. According to Hisoft
so much changes have happened to the internet, that Amiga browser cannot keep up,
any more.
Here the original text:
«The latest version of the Amiga's premier web browser.
Note that the Internet has moved on and the Amiga has not kept up, so some
modern websites are not accessible on the Amiga because they require software
that is not available for the Amiga. Therefore, before you purchase an
iBrowse 2 keyfile please ensure that you have downloaded the evaluation version
and satisfied yourself that iBrowse 2.2 is suitable for your requirements.»
Conclusion: At this time further development of iBrowse is not to expect. But at
eGroups still a discussion forum for iBrowse users is available:
http://www.egroups.com/group/ibrowselist.
(ps)
Individual Computers: ISDN Surfer Driver V1.938
At the download area from now on the new capi20.device, and the new isdnsurfer.device
are available for download. The only change: capi20.device does no longer claim to
be a demo version. This expiry of the software was meant to remind of updating.
Unfortunately the deadline for further development was set too short.
By this we want to wish all of our customers, suppliers and business friends a merry Christmas and
a happy new year.
(ps)
Official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ
On the AmigaOS V3.9 pages
at Amiga Inc. there is to find a link to the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ by
Gregory Donner. This English FAQ contains a.o. the topics installation tips, icon operation,
compatibility, internet applications, undocumented features, 3rd party utilities, and
known bugs. Beside of the online version there is the HTML version as both, LHA and ZIP archive
available for download.
(sd)
Amiga.org V7.0 Now Online
The newly designed website of amiga.org now is accessible directly under the
known URL http://amiga.org/.
Among other things this site provides actual Amiga news on which you now can
comment directly. Additionally there are among other things several discussion forums,
a login for members, and immediate display of the latest uploads to the AmigaDE software
archive at Amiga Inc..
The rss- and
ultramode-Backend
allow developers of web-tools easy to access the current headlines.
(sd)
Christmas and new year wishes from Stefan Robl
Under the above title link Stefan Robl (AmiDock, AmigaMPEGPlayer) does not only
wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year, but also recalls
his Amiga year 2000.
During his internship at Haage&Partner he developed the speed optimized ARexx
interpreter "StormRexx" which but isn't finished, yet. For AmigaOS V3.9 he developed
'AmiDock', and for the AmigaSDK he released the MPEG player 'AmigaMPEGPlayer'.
At the Neuss show he was able to present his "AmiCamedia" driver for digital cameras
by Olympus.
(sd)
Makers of Exodus Taken In by Swindler
Fun Time World wrote:
«The makers of the game "Exodus - Tha Last War" apparently were taken by a swindler.
Mariuz Samson (Exodus) voiced on this problem in an
article on the homepage of the
Polish magazine eXec. The person in question, whose name
wasn't mentioned, has also been responsible for the server problems due to which it partly was
very difficult to download the demo version from the page. Similar problems also happened with
e-mails which didn't always arrive. For the alleged hacker attack also the person in question
has been responsible. Unfortunately the swindler was also able to read the e-mails sent to the
group and possibly answered some of those.
If you happened to receive an e-mail with a reply-to address different from the following, so this one
might be sent by the person in question: samsonm@poczta.onet.pl,
darexodus@poczta.onet.pl, sland@skrzynka.getin.pl, and maybe also slandsales@go2.pl.
Now you can reach the group under the following e-mail address:
samson10@box43.pl.»
(ps)
Back to the Roots Amiga-News 226
Christmas is near and again another year has passed. Therefore
"Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) brings you
some nice presents in form of some wonderful classic Amiga
games - as always for free and with permission!
The companies Dynamix and Digital Integration are supporting
our project now, too so the flight simulations Red Baron,
F-16 Combat Pilot and Tornado are now online. Also the great
adventure games Space Quest 1 (the remake!), Colonel's Bequest,
Code name: Iceman and others like Thunderhawk, Wonder Dog, Vroom
and Warhead!
There are interviews with the legendary Scene-musicians "Jester/
Sanity" and "Clawz/Bomb" online, too! Both are telling some
interesting news, not only for music lovers.
As usual there were also tons of Scene-demos, pictures and
modules from Amiga games and the demo scene added.
We'd like to thank all our visitors for their support during
the last year and send greetings to all companies and people
who helped us to keep the classic stuff alive. We wish you
all a merry X-mas and a happy new year.
(ps)
FMdriver V1.14 BETA released
Stefan writes:
On my homepage is now an official beta version of my driver system for the
FrameMachine video card. New additions include a GrabbingCenter, hardware
drivers were moved into a library (68k and PPC), slight speed improvements,
localisation of the most important programs and a couple of little things ... :)
I can only offer limited support until February 2001 as I will put all my projects
"on ice" to allow me more time for my studies. Thanks for your understanding!
Christmas is soon ... what's missing? Of course, my annual "Christmas letter" ;-),
here in English.
(ps)
Amiga Extreme takes a break
«Amiga Extreme will be closing for a while. This is because I feel
that I don't have the motivation to continue the site, and the fact that there's almost
nothing to post, I don't see much of a point in updating. There are better sites for that
(Amiga.org and Czech Amiga News for example).
Once again, this is not the end, it's just the end for Amiga Extreme on the classic platform.
The next time Amiga Extreme will open is when the AmigaONE release is closing in on us and when there's
some real news for the new platform. I'm already working on a new design and have lots of ideas for
the new AE.
Also, the e-mail addresses will still be up, so you can mail me at syke@amigaextreme.com.
More info will be posted when it's time. I have no plans to leave the Amiga platform, and I'm confident
that the new Amiga platform will be successful. Your sincerely - Stefan "Syke" Falk -
webmaster@amigaextreme.com.» (sd)
New beta version (V.45.00 beta 4) of stormamiga.lib V.45.00 for StormC
After a long time there's a new version of stormamiga.lib as a Christmas
gift from Matthias Henze. The most important improvements in this version
are certainly the new, very fast and exact math functions for the MC68040
and MC68060. Other function were also rewritten from the scratch up. Furthermore,
there are many optimizations and some bugfixes.
(ps)
Happy X-Mas
With this entry in the amiga news, we would like to thank you for the many
visits and the great support.
The last year has brought quite some changes to those working on the web. Even
at us, the PC and thus Flash5 have made their entrances - which doesn't mean
that we will leave or neglect the Amiga sector. On the contrary: there's something
planned in the Amiga sector for next year, you'll be pleasantly surprised!
A special thanks to the AMIGA-NEWS-TEAM. Always reliable and latest informations.
Thanks also to Stefan Kost (SOUNDFX) and Patrick Meng (SYMPHONIEPRO) for the
uncomplicated co-operation.
We wish all who read this pleasant Christmas days and a successful and purposeful
year 2001.
Your 2IDs.TEAM
(ps)
EZP@gerNG Christmas release
The latest version 1.3 is immediately available - it can be downloaded from
the download area.
The unregistered version is free as always. All registered EZP@agerNG users
find an update archive there which they can use to update their registered
version 1.2 to version 1.3.
The most important changes in this release:
All changes of this release.
A merry Christmas to all Amiga users and a happy new year 2001!
(ps)
IRC-Server runs on Amiga 500 :-)
I've just noticed that the information text of the EFnet IRC server irc.gigabell.de
says: "Running on AmigaOS, Kick 1.3". If you want to see it yourself, just log
into this IRC server of the Gigabell AG and have a look at your Whois.
(ps)
Merry Xmas from Hyperion
The Hyperion Entertainment team would like to wish all of you a very happy
holiday season and a merry Xmas. Rendez-vous in 2001 with even more outstanding
games and new deals to come.
(ps)
3ivX.nu: Poll
3ivX.nu poll: On which operating system would you like to run the new video format
3ivX ? Beside of Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, Linux, and BeOS also
Amiga is one of the possiblities to vote for. (ps)
MainPrefs 2.0 Released
For those who want to change environment variables, easily change configuration files
such as s:startup-sequence or start the OS preferences programs in a predictable way,
now can do all of this with MainPrefs V2.0. New in the program is the possibility to change
assigns, and an Italian catalog by Arturo Franzin.
The program requires OS3.5, cause it has a Reaction GUI. It shall be available from Aminet from
the next update, but from now also on the homepage under the title link. The programmer Martin R. Elsner
makes efforts to further enhance the program and is open for new suggestions.
Christmas Version of Emperor Released
Emperor is an object-oriented programming language allowing even users without
knowledge of C/C++ to become master of AmigaOS 3.5 and to programm for it by a programming help.
Emperor provides variegated macro elements for menus, requesters, etc., which put aside dealing
with complicated system structures. Emperor can create source code for AmigaOS 2.0 as well as for
OS 3.5.
Advantages of Emperor:
Innovations in Emperor version 3.5:
The program is available as version 3.5 from the Aminet directory dev/c.
Matthias Gietzelt wishes the entire Amiga community a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium.
Heise: AOL is testing accounts for standard protocols
The online provider AOL allows their customers to connect to net the only with a special
connection software, so far. This might change soon. See title link for complete article (German).
(ps)
Ermentrud-Demo Update
For those who find the Ermentrud demo too fast, now the speed is
adjustable with a small update. The update is available for download
under the title link.
(ps)
VirusHelp Denmark: Virus Warning
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will only execute
it self if you have named your hard-disk "DH0" & "DH1". The trojan
is spread in and archive with the name "DKG-BLUM.LHA". If you run
the "DKG-BLUM.exe", the trojan will replace your c:loadwb with
another loadwb (size: 3560 bytes) and replace c:assign with another
assign (size: 2408 bytes), and the screen will tell you that there
is not enough memory, and you will have to restart, then it looks
like the trojan will delete DH1:.
The trojan also adds or replaces 2 other files, "LIBS:asi.library"
& "DEVS:ASI.device".
The cure right now (If you have lost your DH1: to bad......), then
replace the trojan files with clean ones, here is the trojan sizes:
c:loadwb ( 3560 bytes)
c:assign ( 2408 bytes)
libs:asi.library (24548 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)
devs:asi.device ( 2408 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)
Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
As already reported Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games,
hardware, developer, and websites every year. Under the title link you will find a summary
of votes after the second week.
For applications ´YAM 2.2´ still is far ahead; for games &180;Heretic 2´ still is
ahead followed by &180;Foundation´; for hardware with ´Mediator´ ahead followed by ´AmigaOne´
also nothing changed; for development ´MorphOS´ and ´Hyperion´ are still close up.
The only change appeared for websites with amiga-news.de ahead followed by Czech Amiga News. At this
occasion I would like to thank the readers for voting!
Furthermore APT is looking for distributors within the EU. If you are interested in this,
please send an e-mail to the sales manager Gabi Tingler.
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Andreas Kleinert makes it possible to sell SView IV with PPC-modules and
the AK datatypes at a special price. SView IV is a program for converting, showing and formating of
pictures in a fast and comfortable way. This special price is valid until 15th of January 2001.
You can find further information under the title link or to SView IV and AK datatypes (PNG,JFIF,TIFF)
under ar-kleinert.de.
(ps)
Heise: Background details: Microsoft are Stricken
«Crippled due to the cartel case, tantalized by cracker's attacks, and trailed by the general
downwards trend of the PC branch the software giant from Redmond now starts to paddle hectically.
Because the signs are indicating storm: For the first time after ten years and for the second time
in the company's history at all Microsoft had to call out a profit caution for the current quarter.
PC sales in the otherwise so opulent Christmas business are stagnating worldwide, thus the best
income source stops bubbling the way Bill Gates' crew was used to. After all, almost a third of volume of
sales Microsoft draws from the fact that vendors sell PC's along with Windows or other products by Microsoft.»
Complete article under the title link (German).
(ps)
ANN: Fleecy Discussing
Michael wrote:
«Each one who is not perfectly aware of the intentions and attitudes of Amiga Inc. might be interested in
the long discussion at ANN (see title link - ca. 350 kB).
Even if it might never happen and MorphOS assumedly would be the better choice, so it might be interesting
with Fleecy Moss' statements there in mind for once to consider the "50,000-copies"-edge to be the promise of a solid
4.0 PPC under active headship by Amiga Inc. Contrary to the suspicion this might only be an unsocial lure
to gain more income, cause I initially took it by this, too.
It's a pity that always only hard discussions and impeachment generate clarifying answers from Amiga Inc. or
other companies. In this case regarding the 50,000 copies promise.»
(ps)
Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Guymay presents version 2.1 of Bubble Stones, the freeware
"Bust a Move" clone! New in this version 2.1:
Now you are able to design the look of the field yourself! If you have own fields,
please send them to me to create a Bubble Stones hompage for fields and high scores.
Please, send suggestions for the game to GuyMay, the develper of Bubble Stones!
Merry Christmas!
Amiga Arena wishes a merry Christmas and all the best for 2001 to all Amiga friends.
Keep The Flame burning!
(ps)
New InstallerNG
I have uploaded a new version of InstallerNG to the support page (and to Aminet).
A stupid bug in the message system of the built-in BOOPSI GUI has been fixed, and
new is the CALL-PLUGIN function which allows the user to implement own functions
in InstallerNG by a typed API and to use it from a script. Example source code for
this as well as for all of the other API modules are included.
(ps)
TechReview: Ten Passed Technologies
«Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes the
"losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack. Here are
ten examples.»
In the article Amiga is mentioned as third along with the picture of an Amiga 1000.
Nick Montfort talks about the Amiga's good multitasking - but now which is being implemented
in MacOS X - and other good features we don't want to miss on our computers. It is also
mentioned that an new Amiga is already under construction.
(ps)
New Ermentrud Demo Released !
Timo Kloss on ANF
mailto:Timo@inutilis.de
http://www.inutilis.de
Inutilis Software has released an new demo version of the adventure game "Ermentrud"
for CyberGfx. This demo is ready for download on their website. There are many innovations
compared to the initial demo version due to the entire story control system working now, too.
(ps)
UAE-JIT: Service Pack for 'Ipswich Town'
On December 15th, 2000 Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a service pack for the
'Ipswich Town' version of 'UAE-JIT' for Linux/386, which is an Amiga emulator.
This Update in general fixes bugs of the previous version. Particulary it was
made more stabel, and portable while speed did not change. So this update in
general addresses those who had problems with the previous version in using
or compiling it. A detailed list of changes made are to find in the
WHATSNEW-JIT-Text.
This version is available as Linux/x86 binary for glibc V2.1 or glibc V2.0 in form of
complete source code or source code patch for the
UAE V0.8.15
Source code. In the source code archive the file 'dirct_access.c' is missing, which should
be downloaded separately in addition.
MUI: NListtree V18.6 Beta 5
Carsten Scholling released beta version V18.6 Beta 5 of the MUI class 'NListtree'. This
class displays data in a tree structure. For this time the update contains bugfixes and
useful enhancements.
Arcadia: New Bubble Heroes Patch
A new patch for the game 'Bubble Heroes' by Arcadia was released. This patch fixes
a bug that caused the random function to produce too much yellow bubbles on some
machines, enhances sound output, and makes the game a little faster.
Stock Exchange Sofware: AmiBroker 3.42 Released
Version 3.42 of the stock exchange software ´,AmiBroker´ has been released.
This version contains important bugfixes. Issue #7 of the AmiBroker newsletter is
online, too.
Supplement:Sebastian Brylka noted that this is just the
version for Windows. Sorry, I overlooked that. The current version for Amiga is AmiBroker/Amiga
3.37 beta from 24.11.2000. (ps)
The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
From now on the successor of the 'The Best of Airsoft Softwair' CD-ROM, which
was released by APC&TCP last year, is directly available from Airsoft Softwair.
The Gold Edition is fully filled with 650 MB of data and contains all of the
releases by the user group Airsoft Softwair, again including some full versions exclusively,
e.g. the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG, and Rainboot v3.1. The
other shareware applications of course are there as full versions, too.
The CD-ROM costs just 29.95 DM (20 USD) and can be ordered now.
Owners of the Best of Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM Vol.1 can even upgrade for only 19.95 DM (15 US$).
More information under the title link.
(ps)
Heise: Competitor to Microsoft's new Video Format
«3ivx is to be made available for every platform as there are Windows,
Macintosh, BeOS, Linux, Amiga, and other. A related player is planned as open source
project. Already for now there exists a delta version 1.0d1 of the 3ivx decoder for
MacOS Classic and Windows at the download area of the 3ivix pages. To play the example
videos Apple-Player from version QuickTime 4.0 is needed. Initial tries to use this
decoder with the QuickTime player under Windows leaded to less successful results -
the format wasn't recognized.»
Complete article at the title link (German).
(ps)
Science Fiction Encyclopaedia for Amiga
The PKD-Guide, a freeware-encyclopaedia by the American sience fiction
author Philip K. Dick, started in 1994, now has it's 'own' homepage.
They are looking for help to publish an international version of the guide.
They are urgently looking for translators and collectors of informations all over the world.
But people who wants to read the newsletter or talk to others are also welcomed.
The guide is already available in the AmigaGuide-format and a HTML version will
be available, too. Version 4.0 beta is already available form Aminet.
(ps)
Status of the AmigaOS v4.0 Petition
On the website of Amigart there's a form made available a little
bit to the bottom which can be used to show one's interest for Amiga v4.0. For
the time being 825 people have subscribed to this petition. For now it is
planned to run it until 1. January 2001 and then hand them over to Amiga
Inc.
(sd)
Office package 'Papyrus' for Amiga
The office package 'Papyrus' by the company
R.O.M logicware shall be ported to
the Amiga. Until now the package was available for OS/2, TOS(Atari) and Windows.
Responsible for the prot is Titan
Computer. For the next issue of Amiga Plus it is planned to print more
information. In the issue 11/2000 of the 'st-computer' there's an interview with
the manager of R.O.M. logicware. Fun Time World had already released the
following quote on 11. December:
«For all the love for the Amiga, but very important for us are a Macintosh
and a Linux version at the moment..... As we have just come together for a
cooperation with an important company in the Amiga market, that also supports us
heavily on doing the MacIntosh version one can count indeed on three more
supported platforms:
Mac, Linux and also Amiga.»
(sd)
The site informs comprehensively about the AmigaSDK.
The actual editoral by James Russell with 'Why Linux Needs Amiga' as topic
covers the running-anywhere feature of AmigaDE regarding games for Linux.
(sd)
All those who have sent me an email from Thursday on to xy@stefan1200.de, xy@amiga-user-liste.de
or amiga@alternative-games.de, please send this mail once again to Stefan1200@gmx.de.
And please use this email address at least until Tuesday. As soon as the normal
e-mail addresses work again I'll announce this.
Marcus Neervoort with New URL
Marcus Neervoort's homepage is now reachable under the new URL
http://amigapage.de/. On his site there are
among other things informtion about the history of the Amiga, Fleecy Moss'
speech on the WoA 2000 and pictures of the WoA 2000 to be found.
The move became necessary as the web-space Neervoort needs to keep the page
running wasn't sufficient anymore at T-Online coupled with other providers of
web-space.
(sd)
HTMLread v.48
Gunter Hinrichsen has released an update of 'HTMLread' on 17. December 2000 and
an update of the Genesis plug-in for HTMLread on 14. December.
HTMLread is an extension for the email client YAM that allows reading HTML mails. YAM
can't display e-mails written in HTML for now, as they are sent by Netscape,
Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these e-mails to a
HTML viewer.
Some changes have been made in the new version:
Two bugs were fixed, it's become smaller, condition images are supported, the
download manager now doesn't open his condition windows anymore when you're
offline, the downloadmanager now knows the option QUIET, better looking
condition GIFs and some more changes.
The Genesis plug-in toggles Genesis automatically on- and offline again for the
download of web-images.
Download:
(sd)
MorphOS: MUI class - NList v19
On 16. Dezember 2000 a PPC version of the MUI class NList v19 for MorphOS/PPC
has been released. This class is used for example by the email client YAM. The
PPC version speeds up the building of the lists.
Besides the PPC archive you need the 68k version of NList. This is ready for
download on the NList-Homepage.
ppclib.emu v0.8e
On 16. Dezember 2000 Frank Wille has released the version 0.8e of the
'ppclibemu'. This library makes it possible to run PPC programs, that use
the ppc.library made by p5 directly under WarpOS. Added in this version is the
support for DoMethod, DoSuperMethod and CoerceMethod, so that now the Voyager
Flash-PlugIn does also run with the ppclibemu.
Bonds v1.78 BETA3 with New Homepage
Sven Droege wrote:
The users of the financial software Bonds had to count on long waitstates for
updates. Since today there's a new homepage under the known address
www.programmed-excellence.de
online. Through a server change the access probabily should be improved
drastically. Besides that there's a new update v1.78 BETA3, which only contains
some small bugfixes. Additionally for registered users there's now the tool
"quotations updater", that can be used to update quotations also without Bonds.
Digital Almanac III - Christmas Update
Achim Stegemann wrote:
The Christmas update for DA3 is ready and can be downloaded on the
homepage.
There had some adaption regarding the new OS 3.9 to be done (because of the new
math-libs).
During the installation pay attention to the hints by all means!
Besides that I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium!
(sd)
Mini-GlowIcons 1.3 including OS3.9 Updates
The current MiniGlowincons archive with over 400 small icons for start-bars or
small VGA desktop is now available on our homepage. Included are among
others icons for OS 3.9 (UnArch, AmiDock, Action...). In the download area
there are also some desktop backgrounds and MP2/MP3 sound files that where
created with the Amiga.
(ps)
New Sample-Set for WormsDC
Since Hyperion are taking their time for "Worms Armageddon" for the Amiga, I
have created a new sample-set with up to 90% of German samples for the old
"Worms - The Directors Cut" (try the "Suizid-Oma" or atomic bomb;)). This puts
the fun back into WormsDC :-). Caution: the set is approximately 3 MB large
(you need a lot of Fast-Ram to use the samples).
Interview with Paul Nolan
GraphicsBoard.com did an interview with Paul Nolan, the author of Photogenics.
You can find the complete interview under the title link. (ps)
EASys! Update 4.8.4 and bugfix with OS 3.9
The update to version 4.8.4 of EASys! will be ready for 20.12.2000 at the
latest. User who bought the 4.8.4 CD-R package at the fair in Cologne don't
need that update anymore. But following things should be arranged with 4.8.4
CD-R package so OS 3.9 runs completely.
(ps)
Chip: Nvidia buys 3dfx: Spectacular 3D-Company takeover
The moment has finally come: 3D graphics pioneer 3dfx closes its doors - and
sells the company to its hardest opponent: Nvidia. You can find the complete
report under the title link.
(ps)
aminetGUI is NOT offline
In some forums there is a rumor that says the aminetGUI and even the whole
AmiNET were offline. This is not true. he AmiNET as well as the aminetGUI are
online. Only the URL www.aminet.de is offline since the domainprovider has
problems. The current URL is
www.amiga-gateway.de/aminetgui/index.html.
All services of the GUI can be reached under this URL.
Alexander Kurtz, webmaster of the Aminet-GUI wrote: "I do not
intend to give up on this project.
Currently I lack the time to make all the changes I imagined to make, but I am
still working on it! I owe this to you, the Amiga community."
(ps)
CD³²-Allianz News
On the CD³²-Developer-Site there are new information about coding
including the Akiko-GPU. Furthermore you can find three more documents there.
These texts are only available in English and therefor we are searching for
somebody who could translate them.
(ps)
GeoWorld - Christmas Offer for People Interested in Geography
There is an abslolutely special offer of the newest version of GeoWorld for
all who quickly decide to buy it. The offer is valid until 24.12.2000 (date on
the stamp or email order). A demo version and an order form and more
information can be found under the title link.
(ps)
Amiga Expands the Linux Community through Cross-Platform Architecture
Here's an article/demo
about the Amiga's revolutionary VP (virtual processor) assembly code,
the heart of the new Amiga's Digital Environment. It takes you through an in-depth look at an
an Amiga demo written in VP (virtual processor) assembly code. Also take a look at this
Interview
with Bill McEwen (President) and Fleecy Moss (VP of Technology), to learn more about the
technology behind the new Amiga Digital Environment and why it's so revolutionary and so
damn cool! And here's an article,
that covers more advanced Amiga topics about the new Amiga SDK.
(ps)
Simon The Sorcerer II - Update 3
Paul Burkley has released Update 3 of Simon II for download.
This update solves problems with loading and saving with the adventure game while running AmigaOS 3.9.
I just tried it myself and now the game runs without any problems under AmigaOS 3.9..
SEGA in the red
(Irina Srebot) - Since the introduction of the Dreamcast console, the former hope
becomes a millstone round the company's neck. The Japanese company faces a financial
dilemma. Sega expects for the current financial year a loss of 193 million Euro.
Despite price reductions to stay competitive with Sony's Playstation 2, there's
no hope for a change. Analysts recommend Sega to concentrate on developing software.
Since March 2000, Sega sold profitably 30.2 million games.(ps)
Supplement 12-16-2000:
Accidently we coughed an elder message. On 12-12-2000
Heise reported that
contrary to what many experts expected Dreamcast sells very well after the release of
Playstation 2. So according to the manufacturer around Thanksgiving sells increased of 85% percent
compared to sells of the week before. Also Sega would profit from Sony's delivery problems in the case
of Playstation 2, said Peter Moore, president of Sega USA, in an interview with the news service CNET
on the Jupiter Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, yesterday.
(mj)
Trouble with Defective Crusoe Processors
NEC calls back notebooks
Shortly after notebooks with the Transmeta processor went on sale, they make negative
headlines. Because of defective chips, NEC calls back the sold notebooks.
NEC shipped the new notebooks La Vie XM. 284 in Japan for only a few days, now
they were called back because of defective processors. According to Transmeta,
the fault has already been fixed, the devices run without problem. Probably a
reaction to the defective chips: the stock market value of the processor manufacturer
dropped by 5.06 US$. Apparently, defective chips have also been built into the new
Sony Picture Books Vaio PCGCi VE. Other than NEC, the Japanese company does not
plan to call back the computers. An exact number of affected devices is not known
yet. US media speak of about 13,000. Sony offers free exchange of the notebooks if
difficulties with installing Windows appear.
(ps)
Amiga Extravaganza Delayed
The show ´Amiga Extravaganza´ which was planned by ARCUG for early January 2001
in Indianapolis was postponed for indefinite time because of too little interest.
(ps)
Eternity is waiting for Visitor #40,000
As Christmas time is the time of presents, we will give the person who e-mails
our webmaster Patrick Beerhorst at patrick@synotec-newmedia.de
with a screenshot and mentioning of approximate time and date
a Tornado 3d 1.5 worth about 200 DM!
(ps)
SimonII - Update
Paul Burkey has released an update for the game Simon The Sorcerer II.
This update among other things should fix the ASL requester problem.
Virtual Dimension Show Pictures
To shorten waiting for the show video by Virtual Dimension a bit on the "Vor Ort" page
there are already some photos of the World of Amiga in Cologne.
(ps)
Alchemy Laboratory Junior by XTeam Software available
Chrystal Interactive took on stock ´Alchemy Laboratory Junior´
by XTeam Software, an education software
for chemistry. With the CD you can learn about chemistry in an easy way, can watch
experiments as 3D simulations and the interactive teacher. Necessary materials are
included. Existing localisations: Italian, English, German.
Requirements: A current version of Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer.
Compatible to Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Amiga, and BeOS.
(ps)
iFusion PPC News
iFusion, an iMac emulator for PPC Amigas, has entered beta level. When to expect a final
version isn't mentioned. On the website some
screenshots
of a working iFusion are to see.
(ps)
AmigaOS 3.9 registration
At the title link you will find the registration form to register your copy of AmigaOS 3.9.
(ps)
Supplement 16 Dec 2000
You will need SSL installed to access this page.
If you don't recommend secure data transfer you might use
this page for registration.
(mj)
Think-pad without Crusoe
IBM will not bring note-books with the Crusoe processor by Transmeta to the market.
On detailed reasons the company keeps silent.
The official statement from IBM said the processor would not fit to the current
marketing concept. The decision not to equip think-pads with this processor is
a bad blow for Transmeta. An unfavourable timing, because from November the
company's shares shall be deald in Nasdaq. Senior analyser Peter Glaskowsky from
Microdesign Resources assumes that IBM wouldn't like to use the processor due to the
bad performance. Testings with Sony note-books would have turned out that a Crusoe
processor 700MHz would not be faster than an Pentium 233MHz, Glaskowsky added.
(ps)
With Amiga to the Diploma
By this I would like to officially thank everybody who guided and supported my during
my studies to become a graduate engineer for media technics. To everybody who suffered
from my lack of time I would like to say thank you for your understanding.
As my final year project substantially deals with Amiga I would not withdraw it from
the public. It is available for download on my homepage (German):
The subject of the project is:
Conception and implementation of an automated control for a monitor-wall under technical
and marketing political aspects. Automation bases on an ARexx script controlling several
applications running non an Amiga 1200. For creation of software my special thanks go to:
Rico Schreckenbach
Stefan Robl
Karlheinz Marks
Stefan Steppat
To continue this project placing of some hardware for MPEG video display would be necessary.
As e.g. the related module for the CD32 isn't available any more, for this new projects
as like as Mediator might be addressed as a solution.
With this technic and our software an arrangement could be designed and delivered that would
be unique in the event branch.
With this the most efficient and moreover cheapest device of it's kind would be created. Well now, dear
hardware developers: don't let them detain or discourage you. THANK YOU.
(ps)
Pictures from the WoA
Also the Amiga user & developers from Bielefeld (Germany) were at the show, and
we even took photos with us! (Unfortunately I wasn't there myself, hence the
comments to the pictures are somewhat scanty.)
(ps)
Flash version finished of the galary "Der Mann als Kunstopjekt" - "The man as subject of art"
Well, now it is the time, at last: also the flash version today did
the jump to the net. Beseide of the HTML version now the optically
more extended pages, but of same content, are online. Under the title
link all of the render-workes / grafix-people and artists are invited
to exhibit their art works. Of course copyright will stay with the
relative artis.
Subject of the pictures is "THE MAN AS SUBJECT OF ART".
We are looking forward to your contributions. So, get to your AMIGA or PC
or even MAC and start creatively. Let the artists know what you think about
their art work, and use our guest book to do so.
(ps)
Free Advertising Banners at Amiga-Community.net
Amiga-Community.net Christmas special: Free advertising banners on the main page
without link! (Editor's note: An advertising banner without link might be pretty useless.)
Send your logo (max. 120x120) to xandiy@web.de.
All of the logos sent in up to 12-23-2000 will be put on the site.
The logos will appear rotatory where at this time the pictures of the
WoA2000 are shown. It would have to be a pretty definite logo, cause there
will be no linking! This action will start if enough logos will be there and will
last until 01-06-2001 incl..
(ps)
Nursery School ?
As I learned the IRC conferences organized by UGN and conducted by the Amiga-Club didn't
went off as without a hitch as I said in my show report. Script-kiddies didn't have better
things to do as to flood the channel with multilating scripts, so some of the panned IRC
conferences had be interrupted or could not take place, at all. UGN was already thinking of
never again to organize conferences from shows.
To people not able to attend a show the IRC conferences always were an appreciated possibility
to get actual information, and most of all the only opportunity to address their questions
directly to the VIP's of the branch.
Therefore I appeal to the scrip-kiddies to grow up at last and to stop their nursery school
behavior.
(ps)
Met@box introducing Set-Top Boxes
In time for start of production Met@box AG today introduced to the public
their new generation of set-top boxes. The modular built met@box 1000, which can be
connected to any TV-set, enables interactive TV watching, and by the integrated
digital TV-standard (DVB) is capable of the future TV broadcasting standard.
(ps)
Amiga 2001 - Website online
We already have several exhibitors listed in this
first listing of our web pages. More will be added
each week. Be sure to keep posted on this the biggest
Amiga show in the Americas.
St. Louis is centrally located in the heart of the
U.S., and is served by several airlines, including
TWA, which has a hub here. Check the web page for
the phone number of our official travel agency,
Best Way Travel. They can help you get your travel
arrangements made to attend the show.
Amiga2001 - an Amiga Odyssey, will be hosted at the
Sheraton West Port Hotel, located in St. Louis, MO.
The hotel is physically located in the city of
Maryland Heights at:
Sheraton West Port Hotel
900 West Port Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63146
For reservations contact them at 314-878-1500 and
ask for the reservation desk. Reservations is open
from 8 AM until 10:30 PM CST. Be certain to tell
them that you are attending the Amiga2001 show,
so that you get the special rates. Stay at the
Sheraton West Port, get special rates, and help
the show. The Sheraton has 17 Restaurants, 6 Bistros,
a Comedy Night Club, a two screen Cinema, the
West Port Playhouse, and several snack shops,
magazine shop and speciality shops all available
and within a one to five minute walk. Convenient
undercover parking for guest as well.
While your viewing the web page, be certain to send
in your money for tickets to attend and tickets for
the Amiga2001 Banquet to be held Saturday evening.
The show is Friday, March 30 thru Sunday April 1st,
2001. Friday is the Developers Conference with
classes and the vendor setup Friday evening. Saturday
and Sunday are the exhibit floor displays with lots
of exhibitors showing off their latest Amiga products
and offering good prices to boot. Classes are
also available on Saturday and Sunday for those
not quite up to the more challenging ones on Friday.
Check out the Amiga2001 web pages and come enjoy
the show and say happy retirement to Petro Tyschtschenko,
who will retire while at the show on Saturday, March 31.
(ps)
boeder - no salvation at sight
Some still remember this company from old Amiga days (disks, joysticks, a.m.m.).
The "Computer Partner 43/00" wrote, that the company already in October made application for
insolvency. Negotiations for takeover failed, so the company faces the off. At the time being the
Vivanco AG only is interested in the name, but even this only if the price is right. Insolvency
procedures are planned to be started between December, 15th and 20th.
(ps)
Golem: IBM introduced progressive technology for chip production
«The first chips with CMOS 9S technology form early 2001
IBM for the first time unifies copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transitors, and the
enhanced "low-k delectric" insulation in circuits with 0.13 mikron by their new technology named CMOS 9S.»
Merlancia with new specifications for hand-held?
Amiga.org reported about that Merlancia already put specifications for the
Hurrican system (hand-held computer) as well as it's interface on their website.
AROS News
In December again a number of things happened at AROS. Stefan Berger did
a complete rewrite of the layers.library, hence it is much faster, but
easier than the old one. Georg Steger contributed further files for ReqTools, and
Adam Chodorowski started working on the workbench.library. Johan Alfredsson has
enhanced the ReqTools file requester, and the drive requester now works. A PS/2
Mouse.HIDD was added by Michael Schulz. More details are to find under the
title link. (ps)
MorphOS: CGX Update
cgxsystem.library.elf version 42.5 was released.
The library now contains SuperLayers for PPC, and some speed enhancements for MagicMenuPPC.
Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
Every year Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games, hardware,
developer, and websites. Under the title link you will find a summary of the votes given in first
week.
In category application at this time ´YAM´ is ahead, ´Heretic 2´ in games, ´Mediator´
in hardware, ´MorphOS´ and ´Hyperion´ close up in development, and in websites ´Czech Amiga
News´ is ahead closely followed by ´amiga-news.de´.
The World of Amiga 2000 from December, 9th to 10th, which was organized by
Haage & Partner, was branded by the vending start of
the new AMIGA OS3.9, which according to the vendors sold brilliant on the fair.
The show took place inside the really imposing building of Cologne's Mediapark 7 on about 300 m² room.
For this show were organized within shortest time this event was attended very well with an amount of
about 1500 visitors (note: own estimation). Seminars were held in the opposite building Mediapark 6. The first
day of the fair Saturday was stamped by active crowd, while on Sunday it was rather unhurried, cause of only half
as full as on the day before.
Before I start describing the highlights of the show I want to put across to every reader that I personally
again liked this fair very much. I'm always exited about the cheerful and personal atmosphere. As already
in Neuss an amazing amount of international attendants had come to the show. I've met and spoken to
people from England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain. The visitors had visible
fun and where impressed by the many different presentations. Everywhere crowds of interested viewers got together.
Disappointment only dispersed caused by the fact that Bill McEwen didn't attend the show;
short- termed and insuspendable deadlines kept him from coming to Cologne. Fleecy Moss, Vice President
and Chief of Development, but provided for incredulous astonishment by stating there must be at least
50,000 copies of AMIGA OS3.9 sold, to be able to do OS4.0. As for this time nobody thinks this to be
possible his statement was taken for a clear No for OS4.0.
As already in Neuss amiga-news.de together with the
Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet was present with an
own booth. From our editorial staff were on the fair: Dirk Baeyens,
Tomás J. Cantó, Torsten Dudai, Ruediger Engel, Guido Fehst, Eric Gillé,
Martina Jacobs, Rolf Tingler, and me truly. Nico Barbat was also on the show, but of course was very
busy at his own booth (Falke-Verlag). Rolf inspired the visitor with his
airbrushing skills.
We enjoyed to get in close contact with the readers and numerous dialogues convinced us to have high
acknowledgment for our work, and encouraged us to continue to spend our free time for this project.
Especially intensive and interesting were the dialogues with editors of other news services, as like
Andrea Vallinotto from diff.org (ItalY), Adrian Sweeney from
amigaglobe.com (Irland), Ian Maack from
amiga.dk (Denmark), Sebastian Brylka from
Fun Time World (Germany), and Mark Hinton
and Russell Trent from AmigActive (England).
Along this I would like to say thank you very much for the many kind compliments regarding our news service.
The Amiga-Club provided the people not able to attend the show with actual pictures from the fair, and
cared for trouble-free UGN IRC chats. Traditional the club members answered our questions, and helped
solving one or the other user's problem.
Also this time Michael Schaefer and Dennis Pauler from
Virtual Dimension were busy with their video camera to
create informing show videos. They did many interviews, and over and over made the microphone sure to work,
cause on the last fair the microphone failed completely, which sure was half a disaster.
Trade and the big ones of the branch were present with their own booths - as a matter of fairness this
time in alphabetical order or vice versa:
In talks with the exhibitors it became clear that - almost unisonous - they all came with mixed feelings,
but against what they expected the visitors were joyfully buying. Trade overall voiced positive about
sales.
Almost at all of the above mentioned booths presentations of different software and hardware took
place which I will describe without special order. So for example Peter Hoffmann, Stefan Sommerfeld,
and Juergen Rebensdorf from
Aliendesign introduced their new sound card
´Repulse´, which can be used with every Amiga with Zorro-II expansion. The sound card
offers sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz, including 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz S/P-Diff, and supports
16, 18, 20, and 24 Bit (S/P-DIF) sampling frequence in mono or stereo.
New at individual computers was the ISDN-Surfer Zorro card which was to purchase either with or
without OVP. The announced products ´Lyra´ (adapter to use WindowsTM keyborads with Amiga),
and ´Buddha Flash MK2´ unfortunately were not finished, but probably will be available before
Christmas.
Dirk Conrad introduced his MAS-Player which is distributed by
Eternity. The MPEG-Player is a small piece of hardware looking like a serial plug. The player can
play MP3 files already on a machine only equipped with a 68000 68k processor. HiFi quality is around
18 Bit / 44 kHz. Since the WoA 2000 AmigaAMP is supported.
At the booth of Hyperion the attendants were able to admire a prototype of the G-Rex PCI board
by DCE with Voodoo3 graphics board on action. With this system
Heretic II really looked smooth, it was fast and the lightning effects were wonderfully visible.
Users can look forward to better speed and nice graphics. The boards are planned to be finished end
of December 2000.
Of course we yet asked for the projects under construction at Hyperion, and summarized the answers as
follows:
Shogo: Hans-Joerg and Thomas Frieden are working on the Amiga version which presumably will be
finished end of January 2001.
Freespace: On the port of this space shooter Steffen Haeuser and
Matthias Roslund are working. It is planned to finished 1Q/2001.
Majesty: Stephan Rusdorf and Thomas Frieden are busy porting this
fantasy strategy game which includes roll game elements. It is expected to be finished 2Q/2001.
Die Voelker (Alien Nations): Harry Sintonen is working on the port of this popular build-up and
strategy game, which is a big success similar to Siedler.
SIN: Steffen Haeuser and Peter Annuss are working on the port of the 3D shooter.
The game will presumably be finished 1Q/2001.
Hyperion will also port the 3D software ´Realsoft 3D´ by Realsoft to the
Amiga! With this software comparable to ´Cinema3D´ or ´Reflections´
the Amiga users will get a 3D modelling tool more extended and modern than anything else released
before.
Eyetech together with Martin Schueler from
Escena introduce the plans for the AmigaOne
machine. It was shown on diagrams how the system will look like. The 68k emulation is being developed
by Haage & Partner.
At Eternity Tales of Tamar was presented - Martin Wolf's
favourite project. In the meantime the world map and cities have been enabled. Still intense online
tests are running and the beta testers are really sold on the game. Initial bigger beta test are planned
for 2Q/2001.
Also at Eternity EASys!
by Tom Neidhardt was presented. The current update offers improvements like e.g. a built-in start menu,
OS3.9 menu support and alignment. Other changes: the archive manager now supports XPK; the menus are
structured better, and extend of menus is scalable, and moreover the buggy installation of the previous
version has been fixed, hence a trouble-less installation is possible,yet.
Eternity moreover presented a PC (Eternity 1) basing on 1 GHz (Tunderbird processor by AMD), equipped with
gigabyte board, 128 MB DIMM -133, Ge-Force II graphics board 32 MB DD-RAM, Catweazel controller, 52x CD-ROM drive,
20 GB Quantum HD, two PC floppy drives (one of them connected to the Catweasel), as well as a sound card 128 Bit
PCI. The gag of this PC is a perfectly pre-installed UAE under Windows. This way one gets a fast PC, and
an AMIGA at the speed of 68040/60.
During an interview with Andreas Magerl and Georg Breitsprecher from
Amiga Future and APC&TCP
Mr. Magerl stated that financing of the now self-produced print magazine
´Amiga Future´ finally is safe. Number of orders still isn't 100% satisfying, but a huge layout enhancement
would attract more orders. I've seen the new layout and I can confirm it to be a difference like night and day. :-)
Andreas Kuessner from WK-Artworks presented
´Taifun´, the successor of ´WildFire´. Taifun is being developed for the new
operating system ´Amiga DE´ using the Amiga Software Developer Kit (SDK). KDH-Datentechnik
will be distributor of Taifun.
At epic interactive Paul Burkey introduce ´Simon The Sorcerer II´. The game will be at the vendors
form the middle of next week. Also presented was ´Earth 2140´, a real-time strategy game has been
ported to the Amiga by Pagan Games on demand of epic interactive. The master volume is on its way to production.
Still under development is Dafel:Bloodline. Status: Thomas Wuergler continues to work on this game, but
when it will be finished cannot be estimated at the time being. ´Converting games´ currently has
a higher priority.
The ATC team handed me a disk containing a preview of the reworked classic game
Dynamite. This one will be to play via internet. I promise to have
a look at it soon. :)
My quite personal summary: The AMIGA is anything but dead! There are innovative developments in hardware
and software taking place. There is unfractured engagement and unrestricted attendance to continue. In many
dialogues it got clear that we are facing a future which though is undetermined, it's not hopeless.
Tenor from the exhibitors' commercial point of view was, "Though one is able to make enough money with the
Amiga, one cannot ´line his pockets´". Already from just this solitary point of view I rate this
fair as a success. I had a lot of fun, anyway, and to have been there really pushed on my motivation. :-)
OS 3.9 - Presentation by Juergen Haage and Martin Steigerwald
Torsten Dudai Dubai did a report about the OS 3.9 presentation on the WoA:
Though there was "US-Amiga-News / Bill McEwen" an item of the agenda, either Bill McEwen - who
stayed in America - nor Fleecy Moss - who was at the show - were available at that time, so
Juergen Haage had to stand in. In a direct dialogue with the users he tried to collect their
worries and sorrows for Amiga Inc. to be able to estimate the current mood. But the discussion
(due to the lack of facts on the subject AmigaDE) very soon resulted in the new OS 3.9, in which
every attendant of the seminar was very interested. So, Juergen Haage was able to seamlessly led
over to the following seminar.
Besides of individual problems (one elder man was especially "persistent") also much of the known
subjects were addressed, as like as the condition of "50,000" sold copies of OS3.9 (Fleecy Moss), and
the "license quarrel" around AmiTCP. In both cases Juergen Haage was able to quiet the devotees' minds: the number
"50,000" would not be meaningful at all, because it even isn't combined with a date. Later one just
would have to able to estimate if or if not OS 3.9 has been a success. For example only 40,000
(or less) sold copies already would be a big success. About the license quarrel Juergen Haage just
said, "There is no license quarrel". Haage & Partner obtained the license for AmiTCP correctly
and is allowed to distribute the TCP stack along with Genesis (no MUI, but Reaction GUI) on the
CD-ROM.
Then together with Stefan Robl, the programmer of AmiDocks, the new OS3.9 tool-bar, (almost) all of
the features of the new Amiga operating system were presented. During the presentation again ideas,
criticism, and suggestions were given by the viewers. Juergen Haage put an implementation in parts into
prospective for a coming "Boing-Pack 2". But the limits of what can be done are almost reached with
this update. Without a change of the KickROMs not much further can be done, any more.
But about one subject he could not give any clear statement: Amiga DE. Haage & Partner still didn't
decide whether or not they would port their own products to the new system. In parts this depends on the
availability of a sophisticated GUI system, which isn't available at the time being.
(mj)
Amiga Arena special offer
Together with Helmut Hoffmann, Amiga Arena offers a special Christmas price for
PhotoAlbum/Cybershow inclusive all additional modules. The price will be 35,- DM.
This offer will be valid until 12-31-2000.
(ps)
ICS V2 released
After more than a year of work, the free scanner color correction
ICS V2 was released. Following features have been added to V2 of ICS:
Download the new software from http://www.ics.coloraid.de
Realsoft 3D V4 - Pressrelease
As mentioned in the exhibition-report, Hyperion will publish a AMIGA-version of there
´Realsoft 3D´. You find the whole press release at the title link.
(ps)
TIDesigner (Addon for TealInfo Developer Kit)
For everyone who wants to be able to increase the speed of the editing of TealInfo Folios
for the Palm, TIDesigner is a good help. The program is shareware.
dynAMIte Server
We distributed a free preview of the game dynAMIte among the visitors of the WoA 2000.
Normally you find the addresses of the game-servers on our support-side. Unfortunately
the server is out of order at the moment.
You should use pulp.2y.net (port 6318) as the default server. This one is the official
dynAMIte-server (TDSL-connection). Normally this server is available after 7 p.m. As soon
as the web-server is back again you will be able to find the addresses of the other server
on our support-page.
If there are any problems with the game you can discuss them with us at the IRC. We are
daily available at the euIRCnet (irc.hes.de.euirc.net:6667 channel #AmigaZeux).
(ps)
Woa pictures
The first exhibiton day was gut visited and as could be read in the different
announcements there were interesting presentations of hard- and software all
over the place. As usual we'll supply you with comprehensive information about
all details in our exhibition review.
You can get a first impression through our pictures. Besides the photos by Petra Struck
under the title link Torsten Dudai has also
captured his impressions.
(ps)
To begin with Russell has contacted mozdev.org
about the possibility of hosting the necessary infrastructure (webspace, CVS,
mailing list) for the project. It would then become accessible under
mozamiga.mozdev.org.
Everybody who wants to help in porting, give constructive ideas or feedback may
post on the Open Amiga-Mailingliste
or address directly to James Russell.
He is to find on the IRC-channels #mozamiga at irc.mozilla.org
and #developer at irc.whiterose.net.
He suggests to interested people to have a look at the NSPR-Video on
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/brownbag.htmlfor now,
which informs in a comprehensive way about the NSPR module. This module presents the
biggest hurdle for the Mozilla-port for AmigaDE.
(sd)
Obligement #24
The 24. issue of the french e-magazine 'Obligement' for Amigas
is ready for downlaod. This issue contains among other things an interesting
article about the AmigaOne, an interview with the graphical artist Eric W.
Schwartz, reviews of Nightlong and MooVid 2 and much more.
INET DIAL v3.833
The internet management system 'INET DIAL' now offers a German localisation and
is in general prepared for translations. Everybody who wants to do a translation
may apply to the developer.
BlueBlack Solution websites gets revamped
André Siegel wrote:
Our net presentation gets momentarily reworked, please have therefor some days
patience until we can give you again access to our complete web offer.
You like the new design of our website? You recognised deficiencies? Show
courage, write us an email
and help us to improve our offers furthermore.
(sd)
Open source: Bars&Pipes Pro 2.0
Alfred Faust has released an email of Todor Fay, the former chief programmer of
Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc., on ANF that is dated 9. December 2000. In this
email Todor Fay announces the release of the source code of Bars&Pipes Pro
V2.0. Besides bugfixes this will make the continued development of the
sequencer possible.
For now Fay is collecting together the source code. For this he needs help from
one or more Amiga developers with an up and running Amiga developer environment.
«I think we can work towards a better solution:
I've gotten clearance to release the source code for
Bars&Pipes to the Amiga community. This means several
things:
1) Known bugs can be fixed.
2) Perhaps y'all can create special hooks for real time
services (timer, midi in and out) in the Amiga code so it
can connect more directly with the services in Windows. It's
pretty amazing that timing works at all, given that it is
running on an emulation of the audio interrupt (kudos to
Brian King!). 'Course that would require changes to WinUAE
to support this.
3) Port Bars&Pipes to Windows. If people want to collaborate
on such a project, I will very gladly provide advice and
assistance.
At this point, I'm collecting together the source code. I
need to work with one or more developers who have Amiga dev
environments up and running to help put this together. We
need to make sure everything is there and compiles
correctly.
WOA: Eyetech - AmigaOne/AmigaDE-Roadmap
Together with the partners Escena
(Martin Schueler) and Hyperion Software
(further partners are Haage&Partner (68k-Emulation) and Michael Rock(PCI/AGP-Resource
Libraries and other things)) the company Eyetech has presented their plans
regarding their AmigaOne computer. Fun Time World has released
diagrams
of this presentation.
The AmigaOne 1200 from Eyetech is a PPC-PCI-system plus Amga hardware and
68k-emulation for use with Amiga Classic and AmigaDE software. The PPC system is
based on the project
Brainstormer by Escena.
Via the WestBridge
of the system the A1200, IDE, 1 AGP- and 4 PCI-slots are connected. Via the
NorthBridge the PPC-cpu, the SDRAM, USB and two more PCI-slots. The
PPC
can access the Amiga-system (custom chips, Chip RAM, Amiga I/O).
On starting the system the FlashROM is copied into the SDRAM, then the
68k-emulator respectively the AmigaDE is activated and the Amiga Classic'
booted. The Amiga Classic software now runs on top of the 68k-emulation on the
AmigaOne-board (PPC) and uses the Amiga specific hardware of the integrated
A1200-board.
The emulation only emulates the command set of the 68k-cpu-line but no Amiga
specific hardware like AGA which exists as real hardware. The emulation is
memory intensive and therefore needs a fast memory access. For a step-by-step
adaption of the software 'in-line'-PPC-code is supported.
The following planned schedule is given in the diagrams.
Digital Almanac III Xmas update
Because of illness the release of the Xmas update for DA3 may be delayed some
days. Because of the same reason a preview of the new features was only possible
just now.
Under the title link you can find a summary of the new features including
screenshots.
(sd)
New public beta of AmigaAmp
Just in time for the end of the WoA'2000 there's a new version of AmigaAmp.
Originally Thomas Wenzel had planned to release the final version 2.8 these
days. But there are two features he didn't want to psh back for later releases:
MAS-Player Support
The MAS-Player is an external MPEG-audio-decoder for the parallel port and can be
used with EVERY Amiga. The support in AmigaAmp exists in the form of a new
driver system developed by Paul Qureshi together with Dirk Conrad and Thomas
Wenzel. With the combination AmigaAMP and MAS-Player it is possible to play
MP3-files in full quality even on 68030 Amigas. Dirk himself offers a special
highly optimised software which makes playback of MP3 even on a 68000. The
MAS-Player is distributed by Eternity (Martin Wolf).
Shoutcast Streaming
Shoutcast is a protocol for live broadcastings of radio transmissions via the internet.
>From the today released version on AmigaAMP doesn't need an external program for
receiving such transmissions. The necessary protocol is directly integrated.
The two named features are still in development and don't run 100% stable. For
a first impression it is enough though. The new version of AmigaAMP is
downloadable from www.amigaamp.de.
GeoWorld V1.12 - New demo version of the geographical software
We of Beer Productions are happy to announce the release of a new
demo version of our geographical software for the Amiga. This demo version is
based on the current GeoWorld Version 1.12 and contains a foretaste of the
extensive data and many features that make this software unique on the Amiga.
The demoversion can be downloaded on our homepage as well as on the Aminet
(misc/edu). Currently GeoWorld can still be ordered for a special price at
Amiga Arena. (ps)
Price of the 'Martina' sound card
On December 5th, 2000 Czech Amiga News announced the approximate price of the
'Martina' sound card by Michal Kluczewski. The clockport version will cost
about 180,- DM(90,- EUR).
The MPEG decoder modul will be available seperately. Prices for this modul
and other card versions have not been fixed yet.
(sd)
Mediator, G-Rex and P96
Several news have been released on the CyberGFX pages in the last few days.
In the channel #amiga(irc.whiterose.net), a collaborator of Hyperion, voiced
positively about the design of the Mediator board. To keep costs low the
people from Elbox only use one logic chip which is used as many times as
required. This way they have managed among otheres to create their PCI bus
without having to use expensive Glue- chipsets from third party companies.
«On #amiga (irc.whiterose.net) one of the guys from Hyperion was chatting about the design of
the Mediator: "They've shown some really clever ways to keep their costs down in design, certainly....
All of their hardware consists of ONE logic chip which they use repeatedly, as many as necessary.",
"They design all their own components, so no need to buy expensive external glue logic.",
"Their PCI bus, for instance, is entirely their own implementation, no glue chip-sets from a
3rd party manufacturer.", "For instance there was a bug in the FastATA 4000 hardware, and
they had to send out replacement chips to fix it. FPGA could just be reprogrammed.", FastATA 4000
is "EIDE controller for Z3. The ONLY one." "Umm it implements the fast ATA modes. like PIO-4, etc.
So I get better performance out of IDE drives.", "Again, like all their other products, their
IDE implementation is their own, using the same chip they use on all their products. :-) Pretty cool."
"Well it also does PIO-5 but Z3 has trouble with it."»
The vendors.txt has been
updated on November, 25th 2000 updated. 18 new boards have been added
respectively updated. There have been no particular changes related to the
Mediator itself.
Pictures about the G-Rex with 5 PCI slots, and about CyberGraphX running on a
VooDoo4 4500 have been released..
About Picasso96 concerning Elbox there has been a new article released
from the P96-Mailinglist.
(sd)
ASM-One V1.45 R454c
As announced on December 5th, 2000, version 1.45 revision 454c of the assembler
'ASM-One' has been released. In this version many bugs have been removed and
some functions added. The RTG version (for gfx boards) only made it to a beta
version since there has not been enough time to remove bigger bugs.
The normal version needs at least AmigaOS 2.x. The RTG version AmigaOS 3.x.
Both require reqtools.library and asl.library.
In the first archive there is also the ASM-One Guide, which contains ASM-One
source rescuer and the history
KICKSTART ARCHIVES
The homepage of KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM has moved and can be reached under
http://home.nexgo.de/kickstart/.
This page contains among others a wide collection of texts about the history of
the Amiga.
Release date of the CD-ROM is 12-31-2000.
You can find all the necessary information at the homepage.
(sd)
AmigaOS 4.0 PPC theoretically possible
In the IRC of the WOA 2000 Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. stated that AmigaOS 4.0
PPC is possible to be. Condition for this is that enough copies of
AmigaOS V3.9 will be sold to show that there is a valuable market for this product.
The required number of sold copies is 50,000.
(sd)
Etick is a graphical ticker with plug-in support that can display
miscellaneous information like headlines of news services. The archive contains the
files that are necessary to develop plug-ins. Currently the following sources
are supported:
The program further needs Clip and Artix_Nexttext by Richard Collier. These
packages have to be installed before 'Etick'.
There is a small update for 'Ewinease'. This kit simplifies the programming of
AVE-GUIs in C. This update is an alpha version. The product is not completed and
may contain bugs. More detailed information are in TODO_HISTORY.doc.
Open Source Campaign planning to create a Counsil
The 'Campaign to Open Source the AmigaOS' campaign created by Steve Crietzman
is making efforts to release the AmigaOS sources as open source. In recent times it has
been quiet around this campaign. This was due to the fact that Crietzman had
taken a longer break, because work had gotten to much to handle. Now he regrets
to have been absent for so long without any explanation.
The current plan involves the creation of a transition plan for the Open
Amiga Foundation. Therefore they are looking for participants. Persons
interested in this initiative might contact OpenAmiga@aol.com.
(sd)
Bill McEwen didn't attend the fair - his place was taken by an
unprepared Fleecy Moss. Heretic II has been presented as a Voodoo version.
The graphics board was plugged into a G-Rex PCI prototype in an A4000. The
G-Rex board for A1200's has also been presented. This version is ready and
in progress. It's said to be released early 2001.
More information are available in the Fun Time World announcement. Photos and more
information have been announced.
(sd)
BoXer Board Status
On the Anti-Gravity page there is a press release dated November, 29th 2000
concerning the BoXer mainboard.
Current BoXeR prototype main-boards feature the emulated AGA chip-set on three
single chips. The final revision will integrate the AGA into one single chip.
The redesign has been completed and it is ready for build up. It is planned
to make this board with one single AGA chip available for the AmigaActive
magazine for testing purpose end of December.
The distributor network is growing. According to the latest survey there are
currently more than 500 distributors of the BoXer.
Our employment survey also got great and worldwide response. Anit-Gravity is
hoping to be able to contact everyone who replied to talk about possibilities
to enable all of them to take part in developing this system.
(sd)
FormAldiHyd -- driver for Aldi/Medion/Tevion/Aiptek graphic tablet
Chris Hodges writes: Here
you'll find a new version of my driver for the graphic tablets by Aldi and Aiptek.
there is a MUI version as well as a CLI version. The day after tomorrow, the new
version 0.9ß should also be available on AmiNet.
The driver is freeware, but it would be nice if I'd get some feedback. Maybe it's also
compatible with Summagraphics, but I couldn't test it.
(ps)
NetBSD 1.5 is here!
After some weeks ago, the last patch release of the NetBSD 1.4 branch has been
released with NetBSD 1.4.3, some days ago NetBSD 1.5 has also been released.
NetBSD is a complete open source operating system and is shipped with
system administration and user tools, as well as the X window system. New
in 1.5: IP version 6, IPsec, integrated OpenSSL, -SSH and Kerberos.
New for the Amiga architecture and hardware are: improved FPU emulation for
Amigas without FPU, support for media with large sectors for ADOSFS (reading)
and for Linux partitions, SVR4 (AMIX) emulation; drivers for parallel ports
on HyperCOM 3+/4+; a first version of the PCMCIA support; the IDE support can
use the NetBSD code instead of the Amiga-specific solution if the user wishes
(and will be converted in future to this option).
Support for ISDN is available for Master, MasterII, Blaster with the isdn4bsd packet,
and in preparation for ISDN surfer.
System requirements: 8 MB fast mem; 68020+68851 with/without FPU, 68030 with/without FPU,
68040, 68060, Phase5 PowerPC+68k boards in 68k mode (but with SCSI host driver!).
First attempts at a PPC support are available as source.
You can find more information and suppliers at the title link.
(ps)
Light over Mars CD-ROM released
Light over Mars CD-ROM (LOM) has been released and can be ordered from now on
at APC & TCP. The "Lights Over Mars" CD contains a huge archive with objects
of the best-known science fiction visions. All objects are copyrighted by the
original movie companies. They are for private use only. You'll find more
information in the support area of the APC & TCP homepage (title link).
(ps)
Scenet opens new areas
Scenet has been founded in 1998 as the first web-portal for the legal computer
demoscene, based on a project back in 1994. It offers a huge collection of
web-links, e-mails and icq-numbers of former and active members of the
demoscene on all platforms, just like Amiga, PC and C64 as well as Atari,
Acorn, Mac, CPC and ZX. Since the end of 1999 Scenet has been enlarged by
a big articles- and interviews-section.
Since December 6th, 2000, Scenet contains an internal and interactive
script-system with news items updated every day.
WoA 2000
I was shortly at the fair this morning to take some things there and to
get a first impression. The Mediapark consists of several architectonically
imposing buildings. The fair is held in the building Mediapark 7 (1st floor),
while the seminars are held in the building Mediapark 6 (also 1st floor). The
fair exhibitors are work like beavers on their booths and there's a bustle as in a
beehive.
Supplement:
In a talk with Juergen Haage, I have learned that Fleecy Moss will attend
the fair, too.
If you come by car, here a little tip:
A57 to Cologne-Centre, then follow "Innenstadt" until (very small) signs directing
to the MediaPark appear. The entrance to the underground bypass is directly
after the railway bridge. You drive from there either directly to the building
or down into the underground car park MediaPark. At the "Cinedom", the entrance
to the car park forks to the car park entrance and tunnel bypass. You can also
park in the underground car park Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring. Have a good trip and until
tomorrow :-).
With its PEGASOS development pblan GmbH of Germany brings the unleashed
PowerPC performance to the users.
By using a modular system design, the mainboard could be easily user upgraded
to the individual demands. With todays standard interfaces already designed
onto the PEGASOS mainboard, the users will be able to easily connect standard
components (like harddrives or CD Roms) and a wide range of high-end devices such
as digital video cameras to the system.
While PEGASOS itself is widely scaleable to the users needs, it's a easy task
for retailers or OEMs to configure the system for their demands. By hitting
the best price/performance point for the chosen configuration, systems
starting with one CPU (at entry level) up to multi PPC G4 based cluster computers
could be build using the same hardware.
GoldED - WoA 2000 special offer
Dietmar Eilert offers visitors of the WoA 2000 GoldED for half price.
To get the special price, please send your WoA ticket or a written
confirmation that proves your presence at the fair to the GoldED support.
(ps)
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment present on the Cologne Show
Also e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will be present on the Cologen Show. At the booth of
Falke Verlag Paul Burkey will present the finished Amiga version of "Simon The Sorcerer II". Thomas
Wuergler from Pagan Games, which ported the real-time strategy game "Earth 2140" by our order to
the Amiga, will present the final version exclusively at the Falke booth. Look forward to two
great PC ports, which you can play already this year.
Furthermore we will offer our games at special fair prices on the fair.
(ps)
WayneCam is now online
Wayne Hunt of the Amiga.org team has installed a webcam on his working place.
If you want to watch him work you can do this here.
It is updated every 30 seconds. (ps)
Simon The Sorcerer II is ready
Simon The Sorcerer II is ready and all who pre-ordered it at epic-interactive
will receive it from December, 14th. After many month of work and many problems
Paul Burkey and Peter Mulholland have made it, they have ported one of the best
cartoon adventures to the Amiga.
AGA or a gfx board is required. A 68030/50 with 8 MB RAM is minimal requirement.
The english game has subtitles in English, German, and Italian. It is delivered
in a DVD case with printed manual. You can preorder here.
(ps)
News from Fleecy Moss
Fleecy Moss, Technical Director of Amiga, Inc. sends the message, that
Amiga, Inc. about to release in a few weeks the first part of the
AmigaDE technology. (ps)
UGN-IRC from Cologne
The UGN is happy to announce the presentation of live internet chat with
some of the biggest names in the Amiga industry today. The conferences
will begin on Saturday 09.12.2000 at 12:00 CET (GMT +1h.) There will also
be a live webcam from the show at http://ugn.amiga.org/webcam. You can
join the conferences on the AmigaNet family of IRC servers on channel
#woa2000. Here is a list of servers and the port:
For more information about IRC please visit http://ugn.amiga.org/irc.
We have put together a perliminary schedule as a reference:
Participant Company Time
Darek Dulian. ELBOX 12:30:00 CET
Mick Tinker BoXer 13:00:00 CET
Ralph Schmidt MorphOs 14:00:00 CET
Allan M. Redhouse Eyetech 15:00:00 CET
Bill McEwan Amiga Inc 16:00:00 CET
Juergen Haage Haage & Partner 17:00:00 CET
a) MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card
b) ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI busboard
The PCI to Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1-compliant implementation
for connecting PCI devices, thus allowing expansion of Amiga
with all kinds of industry standard hardware products.
DRIVERS for MEDIATOR 4000 add-on PCI cards:
Availability:
ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI will be sold as a complete set
with the E-BOX 4000 (Power Tower, Winner Tower), beginning
with 9 December 2000 (during the WOA 2000!).
The MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card will be available in January 2001.
(ps)
Aminet CD 40 available
Aminet CD 40 - December 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in nearly thousand
archives. The very special highlight on this CD is the full version of TurboCalc 4.0 with a attractively priced
possibility of updating to TurboCalc 5.0.
(ps)
Eternity News regarding Cologne Show
Eternity will present at the "World of Amiga 2000" which takes place this weekend in Cologne the
following products:
*! EASys will be available in new version !*
You can buy the update as CD for 15,- DM at the fair. After the fair the update can be downloaded
from the internet for free...
*! MAS-Player goes AmigaAmp !*
As already promised during the last weeks we have worked on getting as many as possible software support
for MAS-player. A first step has taken now:
*! Eternity presents Eternity-One !*
As a real alternative to the current Amiga-computer-systems we offer a computer with Amiga-emulation
for the first time. There are the following advantages:
*! Tales of Tamar !*
We also present Tales of Tamar in the current beta-version at the fair. Convince yourself of the
progress and have a look at the things approaching you.
(ps)
AmigArt: AmigaOS 4.0 petition
AmigaArt wants to submit a petition with their wishes to AmigaOS 4.0 to Amiga Inc. It is an opinion poll
where you can express your opinion concerning the development of the Amiga Classic OS to a PPC-native-OS.
(ps)
Digital Albums
Alf's Corner present "Digital Albums" for Amiga. Digital - Albums are photo CDs of Brasilia, Mexico
Argentina and Toscana. Each of the above mentioned CDs contain several hundreds of pictures of
landscapes in high quality. Everybody can start dreaming here.
(ps)
ACSYS canceled
After a last telephone call with programmer it is now official that the development of ACSYS (Turrican-clone)
will be canceled. In our opinion for 86 interested people (result of a opinion poll) it is not
worthy continuing the development.
If the development will be continued by a third person the following applies:
The complete code will be released as open source. Only the engine will be given as an object file.
If a commercial publication is planned percentage share of the profit have to be given to us.
The level has to be negotiated with the developer. If the game is going to be published as freeware
we will waive the financial claims. PD,- shareware or something like that are not allowed.
The level of development is at fifty percent. If there are competent programmers we would continue
working on pictures if desired.
We regret this decision and hope you show understanding of it. If you want to write something
to this topic please mail to the programmer because
I have no influence on it no longer. The homepage will be online during the next time. I will complete
the list of interested people if I will get mails with this content.
For further questions we are at your disposal via eMail:
Code: Joerg Belger
Graphic: Christian Sobotta
(ps)
G-Rex with 5 PCI Slots will be presented on WoA
According to DCE the board was completely new designed and the production
has already started. The board will be presented on the WoA in Cologne. Two new pictures of the board
were published at CyberGFX-homepage. You can also look at
a picture of CyberGraphX on a Voodoo 4-4500 there.
Besides this there are news of the P96 team:
On Saturday the programmer of Picasso96 probably will be present on the WoA2000. Tobias wrote:
"Hi! Alex and I will probably attend the WoA 2000 in Cologne
on Saturday. If you want to meet us (register Picasso96 or complain about
our greed) just look out for us. The pictures on the Picasso96 home page
should be good enough for that. :-) C ya! :-))" .....click on their pictures
for a better view: picture 1
and picture 2.
(ps)
Repulse News
Who would like to see this board live - BTW: which is available at reduced price - can come to
Individual Computer's booth on the World Of Amiga in Cologne, which will take place in the
Mediapark this weekend. We still need some preorders to be able to start production of the
board.
(ps)
It's done: Payback-Work in Progress starts!
Jürgen A. Theiner of playamiga.de wrote:
From now on I will report about the current status of Payback
development irregulary. Because the programmer himself supports me in doing so, I think by now that there may
be many interesting news. It starts with the update to beta 8, which I already released on November, 30th.
The reports will not stop after the final release of the game, but later changes will be reported
(Mission Disks, Updates, Payback 2...), too. So, have a lot of fun on the other side of the law.
(ps)
G-REX driver for Voodoo 4-4500 finished
Peter Merfeld, PR manager at DCE Computer Service GmbH, wrote:
DCE Computer is excited to be able to announce that Vision Factory have finished
the CyberGraphx beta drivers for Voodoo 4-4500 boards. The technical data of the
Voodoo 4 are really impressing. With an impressing filling rate of 333 megapixles per
second, and 32 MB of graphics memory the Voodoo4 4500 will bring your PPC Amiga near
to industrial workstations.
Here are the technical data of the fastest graphics board ever used in an Amiga:
(ps)
IRC-Logfile (revised version)
Andreas Weyrauch, who organized the Jochen Becher chat, has revised the log file and removed
all ´join´, and ´left´. You will find the result (mixed, German and English) at
the title link.
Furthermore he says thank you to all of the attendants for the good replies, which encourage him to
go on.
(ps)
05 Dec 2000
amiga-news.de present at the WoA 2000, too
Of course also the amiga-news.de team will not miss the this year's Amiga show
WoA 2000
in Cologne's Mediapark, which will take place this weekend. As usual we will
inform you about the novelties presented at the fair by extended reports and pictures, and
we are already looking forward to meet our readers in person.
As already traditional our graphics artist, the airbrush artist
Rolf Tingler, will decorate your hardware
live as wanted. He will also bring along the popular mobile phone shells with Amiga design, among others
for the brand-new Nokia 3310, too.
(ps)
Trogsoft Awards 2001
Trogladite Software will overall place five awards in categories application, games,
hardware, developer, and website. Trogladite Software spend a lot of time to simplify
the procedure of voting compared to last year.
If your favourite website for one of the categroies isn't on the list, you have the
possibility to nominate this website.
amiga-news.de is nominated for the category "website". If you would like to vote for us,
please click the following link:
At the time being the SOMS homepage only is accessible at
http://suse.unixcity.de/mangapic/index.html
due to a failture of redirection. Moreover the DeepSilence team would like to mention
alternative-games.de
where a poll is up about which game you are most of all looking forward to. Everybody looking
forward to SOMS, please click DeepSilence-SOMS.
(ps)
05 Dec 2000
AmigaOS 3.9 - a well done surprise?
In fact we would have liked to write an article about the new AmigaOS 3.9 on our own, but found the
article by Martin Steigerwald in the AMIGA Magazin 01/2001
so much perfect that we asked Joern-Erik Burkert, member of the editorial staff at Amiga Magazin,
to allow us publising it on amiga-news.de in both, German and English. Thank you very much for consent.
The announcement of the AmigaOS 3.9 came by accident for many people. Only a few dared to
think of having a new version of the AmigaOS in their hands within this year, already.
Nevertheless Haage&Partner together with many partners developed the new OS. Read
in this initial overview which new features it offers, and come to your own
conclusion whether or not this surprise was well done.
AmigeOS 3.9 is shipped on CD-ROM. Who is not satisfied by the operating system's online
help might order a printed version (German) from Haage&Partner, which is a tips&tricks
book describing what's new in AmigaOS 3.9 in a comprehensive way.
AmigaOS 3.9 contains big and completely new implemented features, e.g. the dock program
»AmiDock«, as well as many enhancements in detail and bugfixes, too. Additionally
proved third party tools are integrated: features formerly only available as patches, such as
like the FontCache or the configuration of asl file requesters, now are firmly integrated into
the OS, tools like »RAWBInfo«, and »ViNCEd« simplify the daily work.
The description of new features in this article does not claim to be complete and bases on
a pre-version of AmigaOS 3.9. But the features described here are already implemented and
supposed to be for sure.
Simplified Installation
Compared to AmigaOS 3.5 installation has been simplified distinctly. It is no longer
necessary to install AmigaOS 3.1, at first. Also there is no need to restart the system, any
more. There are two kinds of installation: the update installation updates an existing AmigaOS 3.5,
and only copies icons which are new since OS 3.5. The full installation installs AmigaOS 3.9 -
including all of the necessary files of AmigaOS 3.5, and AmigaOS 3.1 - including all of the GlowIcons.
Full installation also allows a fast new installation of the system, if booted from a before created
emergency disk. This way AmigaOS 3.9 can be re-installed easy and fast even in case of a complete harddisk
failture. As with AmigaOS 3.5 the emergency disk also supports RTG systems and AGA 31KHz screenmodes.
Due to this also in case of emergency no 15KHz monitor is needed, any more.
Well Docked?
»AmiDock« simplifies working with the Workbench in a enormous way. To start programs
usually one has to click down to the related directory and then double click the program's icon. But
with »AmiDock« you are able to easily create button strips, which allow to open programs and
directories by one single mouse click.
Contrary to most of the other tools like this AmiDock fully supports the new coloured icons. And - maybe
the most important feature - it is extremely easy and fast to use. If you would have to open a
configuration window for other programs, with »AmiDock« you just drag the icon of the
desired directories and programs into a dock. If you drop the icon, it will automatically be included.
This way docks can be created as fast as the wind, cause you don't have to configure each single
switch. Moreover this, there are default configurations for certain directories: e.g. AmiDock just
reads the »Prefs« and displays all of the preferences in one dock.
Also the adjustment of the dock's size is conceivable intuitive. Instead of being forced to declare
the number of lines and columns inside a configuration window, you just drag the dock to the desired
size. Then the dock will be fixed at the related width and height. AmiDock shows this by a small
handle bar. By clicking on this the size will be released, again. Or you just drag the dock to a new
size.
Beside of calling programs AmiDock also supports opening directories on the Workbench, as well as
calling programs using arguments: so e.g. you may drag'n drop a text on the switch which for example
will start the editor »EditPad«, and just lets EditPad insert this text.
More comfortable Workbench
Also in other parts working with the Workbench became more comfortable: many new assistants are
supporting the daily work. »RAWBInfo« offers a Workbench information window with a nice
ReAction GUI which really has got many features. E.g. you even can give an icon a different
picture which is loaded via datatypes.
To make the Workbench deal with files which don't have an icon in a reasonable way there is
»DefIcons«. This program gives files without an own icon a default icon according to
the file type. This way pictures and texts without an icon can easily be started via double click.
DefIcons can be configured via it's own preferences program.
Who - a bit envious of Apple or Windows - always was wishing a trashcan directly on the Workbench,
will get this feature in OS 3.9. With »BenchTrash« this is no problem. This program
either just will delete files dropped on the trash or will move them to a certain directory. But that's
not all of it: who always wanted to eject a CD-Rom like it is done on the Mac can do that now. Just
drag'n drop the CD's icon on the trash, and there you go! Also handy is the feature to clean up the
trash regularly and to delete every file older than a certain amount of days.
It has also been cared for a new clock. »WBClock« displays itself as an animated AppIcon
on the Workbench. It even is optionally transparent, which looks very good sometimes.
Also very handy is the search function of the Workbench. This is done by a external program called
»Find« which can be started via the Workbench menu »Window/Search« or as a single
task. According to how it was started and configured it allows to search in the current Workbench
directory or in one or more harddisk partitions. It cannot only be searched for file names, but
also for contents (e.g. keywords). Double clicking on a file found tries to start a reasonable action
on it: this way e.g. a seldom used file can be searched and started directly from Find.
LhA, LZX, but also archive files of other formats (see »Features«) can be unpacked
by a simple double click, thanks to the implementation of »xad« in AmigaOS 3.9. »xad«
supports many formats. This way the user only seldom will happen to meet an archive which cannot be
unpacked, if any. Related programming knowledge assumed one can write an own unpacking routine.
»xad« can also be addressed via shell commands.
More Multimedia
But also some has happened in the case of multimedia. PlayCD, the somehow bare appearing CD player from
AmigaOS 3.5 has been started up thoroughly: the program now supports skins. Another advancement: PlayCD
as a rule doesn't need to be configured any more, but itself looks for a suitable CD-Rom drive,
if necessary.
»ACTION« plays Quicktime and AVI movies optionally on an own screen or inside a window on the
Workbench.In doing this it's very fast. Even on not that good equipped Amigas acceptable results are
to accomplish. Control buttons allow to start and stop the movie, to adjust volume, as well as to
well directed »skim through« the movie using a scroll bar.
»Amplifier« beside MPEG-3 music files also plays AIFF and WAV files. It has got play lists which
can be both, loaded and saved. The program as well supports skins and is capable of playing music either
via the Amiga sound chip Paula or via a sound card. With this the standards AHI and X-Audio are supported.
A X-Audio driver for the Paula sound chip is included. On the Workbench music files can easily be drag'n
dropped into the play list to add them to this.
»AWeb SE 3.3« which came with AmigaOS 3.5 has been updated to the new version of »AWeb«.
This version now also supports »FONT FACES«. So you can let it display websites nicer and
more true to original with suitable fonts. Support of JavaScript has been enhanced, too, and much more.
And to be able to start surfing immediate AmigaOS 3.9 contains the full version of »Genesis« with
ReAction GUI. Only the Genesis preferences program could not be transposed to ReAction in time, because
of it's scope. Who has MUI installed can use it however - otherwise MUI must get installed. But
the enhanced Genesis Wizard compensates for that, which makes it very easy to configure an internet
account on the basis of the provider database.
Powerful Console
Beside of the extensions to the Workbench and the players also shell enthusiasts will not miss out with
the new update: as console handler for shell windows now the powerful »ViNCEd« is used.
From now on all of the console windows are having scrollbars to re-display text which scrolled out of
the window. But it also has been thought of the shell users which don't like typing in: using the TAB key
incomplete file or directory names can be completed now. With this »ViNCEd«, according to it's
settings, not only searches for suitable entries inside the current directory, but e.g. also inside the
assign list or inside the command search path. If »ViNCEd« finds only one entry the string
immediately gets completed, otherwise an asl requester will open to choose from the suitable entries
found. Handily the completion also works multileveled: if needed the given string gets completed up to
the first char from which multiple entries are possible. By entering a character or pressing the TAB key
and selecting an entry the procedure can be continued. »ViNCEd« is very versatile configurable and
offers many other features.
complete ANSI emulation
supports graphics boards
Macros - with these e.g. it is possible to use the F keys for often used commands and functions.
configurable keyboard control
Job control, as known form Unix shells
And what else?
Moreover there is a nice set of interesting and useful features: so the new »diskfont.library«
with integrated FontCache cares for faster display of font requesters. This features has been implemented
completely transparent for applications, but also can be disabled for single directories. New installed or
deleted fonts are automatically recognized and the cache file gets updated accordingly.
Also »asl« has been extended. Using the preferences program position, size, and sorting order of
asl requesters can be set. Also this is not a patch any more, but is »officially« controlled
by the new »asl.library«, and the new »IPrefs«. The »text.datatype« now
supports searching inside of the text, as well as marking parts of the text. Marked parts handily
are automatically copied to the clipboard. Also the »string.gadget« has been extended: so now you
can mark char by char or undo the last change inside of every text input field.
The new »test« function of the screenmode preferences program is a nice detail, too.
You no longer have to tapper in the dark and maybe reboot, if the newly chosen mode accidently cannot be
displayed contrary to what you've expected.
New Features
AmiDock: completely new written and extremely easy to use dock program. The fast way to easy
start programs or to open certain directories.
Integration of Workbench extensions: »RAWBInfo« offers a nice done and rich of functions
Workbench information window, »DefIcons« a default icon system
More compatibility: »newiconemu« allows to edit the new coloured icons
(»V44-GlowIcons«) with NewIcon capable programs, too.
New Tools: »BenchTrash«, the free configurable trashcan on the Workbench; »WBClock«
, the clock being an icon; as well as »IoMegaTools«,
the tool for ZIP and JAZ drives.
Extended PowerPC support: WarpOS V5 is included, new »picture.datatype« supports PPC
More multimedia: new versions of »PlayCD« with skin support and many bugfixes;
QuickTime and AVI movie player »ACTION«; player for MPEG3, AIFF, and WAV »Amplifier«
Genesis: the TCP/IP stack for local area networks and internet connection - already widely with ReAction GUI.
xad: the archive unpacking system. unpack archives from the Workbench by just double clicking it. Supports
LhA, LZX, ZIP, RAR, ARJ, DMS, and many other formats.
ViNCEd: new console handler with scrollbar, file name completer, ANSI emulation, and many other handy
features.
AWeb 3.4 SE: the in AmigaOS 3.5 included browser has been updated.
»FONT FACE« support, enhanced Javascript support, and much more.
Find: allows searching for file names or file content on multiple partitions. Can be called directly from
the Workbench menu.
Asl requester: there is also a preferences program for setting the size of, and the sorting order inside of
requesters.
text.datatype: now allows searching inside of the text, and copying of marked text parts into the clipboard.
New gadgets: the colour wheel (»colorwheel.gadget«), and the gradient slider (»gradientslider.gadget«)
now support screens with 65000 or 16 millions of colours; the new »string.gadget«
offers marking char by char, undo, and much more.
New FontCache: faster display of font requesters.
rexxmathlib.library: new math functions for ARexx.
Many bugfixes: new mathe libraries with important bugfixes, bugfixes in ReAction, Workbench, and many other.
KDH will make a short glimpse on the future of the Amiga Andreas Küssner of WK-Artworks will demonstrate Taifun on Saturday.
Taifun is the successor of ´Wildfire´ and it's being developed for the new OS ´Amiga DE´.
´Wildfire-for-Movieshop´ will be available, too.
(ps)
KDH releases X-Surf/Miami-DeLuxe Bundle at WOA
KDH will offer a bundle that contains the netwotkadapter X-Surf and Miami-DeLuxe.
Miami-DeLuxe will only be available in this bundle (at the WoA).
(ps)
MPEG 4 available for Amiga soon
Let me inform you about our new MPEG-4-based codec called 3ivx. You probably heard of DivX ;-)
as a movie compression format. And indeed it's great. But we (the whole 3ivx.com team, under
the supervising eye of Mr. Stux who has created the DivX ;-) Player for Mac) want to go a bit
further. Our goal is to optimize compression so that the file size is smaller, of a higher
quality and fully streamable. Moreover the codec will be supported on all platforms (Windows,
Macintosh, BeOS, *nix (inlcuding Linux), Amiga ...). To accomplish this the code of the player
will become an open source.
(ps)
COOLbits at WoA2000
The exhibition-page of COOLbits is online. Apart from a new version of FX-Scan they will
present EaSys and Tales of Tamar at the exhibition. For all video-freaks there will be a
stand-alone video-editiong-system CASABLANCA AVIO.
We agreed with Irseesoft to sell there products at our booth. These products are Turboprint7.x
and Picture Manager5.5. If you bring your old Turboprint discs with you you can update to version 7.16.
The MAS Hardware MP3 Player will be demonstrated too.
We will present the new Eternity-One computer. It is a PC with installed Amiga-emulator.
(ps)
We strictly reject this charge. We have all rights that are needed to sell Genesis.
We bought these rights from the manufacturer Active Technologies this August. We
announced all of this 4 weeks later. We are very surprised about the campaign just
one week before the start of the shipping of AmigaOS3.9.
As planed, Amiga Inc. will start shipping it next Saturday. Bill McEwen will attend
the exhibition at Cologne. I hope you will be there.
Jürgen Haage
Geschäftsführer - HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH
(ps)
GeoWorld - Update 12 released
We, Beer Productions, are proud to announce the release of an other GeoWorld update.
The main feature of the new version are the revised history data. The data now reserve 50 times more space (400kb).
The update is available at our homepage and from the Aminet (misc/edu). A new demo will be available soon.
I would like to put you attention on the Amiga-Arena special offer.
(ps)
AMIGA aktuell 12/00 Published
The new issue contains Amiga news, software reviews and a summary of the latest
issue of »Amiga World« by Amiga Inc. Additional you find informations
about the »World of Amiga« in Cologne next weekend.
(ps)
Exhibition prices for IrseeSoft's Products
At the fair 'World of Amiga', happening on the 9. and 10. December 2000 at
the Mediapark Cologne, products and updates of IrseeSoft will be available for
favorable exhibition prices at the booth of CoolBits.
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ASM-One v1.45 on December, 5th
The release of the version 1.45 of the assembler ASM-One was originally planned
for the 30. November 2000. This date postpones on the 5. December 2000. The
reason for this is that Boussh has begun implementing pasting to the clipboard.
As the clipboard support is a feature that is requested since long by many he
has decided to take some extra days to complete the clipboard support (copy to
clipboard). This time will additionally be used to improve the RTG version of
the package and to update the documentation. For the 5. December is the release
of the standard and the RTG version of ASM-One 1.45 planned.
(sd)
Hosts with REBOL Support
On the basis of reports on the REBOL mailing list Anton Rolls has listed hosts
supporting REBOL. There the language REBOL can be used for example for the
generating of websites via CGI. For the time being the list contains 8 entries.
(sd)
Server Problem at Amiga Resource
Because of a server problem the website "Amiga Resource" can't be accessed for
now. On request you can be informed via email (by using the title link) about
the time the site will be online again.
(sd)
Short review of fxScan3.0
On Fun Time World appeared on the 29. November 2000 a short review of
'fxScan3.0' by Innovative. The program offers among other things text
recognition (OCR).
(sd)
Tales of Tamar v0.32r6
For alpha testers the version 0.32 r6 of the "Tales of Tamar"-client for Amiga
computers has been released on the 30. November 2000. This update contains many
bugfixes regarding the map.
Tales of Tamar is an internet-based round based game for Amiga and IBM
compatibles by Eternity Entertainment Software.
Payback Status Report
On the 3. Dezember 2000 James Daniels from Apex Designs has released the 16th
status report about the game 'Payback' inclusive new
screenshots.
The game similar to GTA nears completion, so there were added many new levels
during the last month, besides that, the following has been done:
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Greek RC5 Team
The Hellenic Amiga User Group has set up a webpage for the greek members of the
Amiga-RC5-team. This contains information about the greek competitors such as
the ranking and the numberof the blocks. The usergroup suggests to other
Amiga-groups to set up similar pages.
(sd)
Amiga Arena News The Amiga Arena releases for the first time 'Bubble Stones2' in an own Design
Bubble Stones2 is a 'Bust a Move'-clone and is
now available in the 256-color version. This version has been exclusively developed
for the Amiga Arena. The field was created by the Amiga Arena and is probably
the first own development the Amiga Arena is involved in.
Amiga Arena - Schlachtfeld v2.16 world premiere
The Amiga Arena presents exclusively in cooperation with Peter Weigoldt
Schlachtfeld v2.16.
The version 2.16 is a registered Amiga Arena edition with map editor.
The map editor is exclusively contained in this archive and will not be
available on Aminet or on the homepage of Schlachtfeld for the time being.
Schlachtfeld 2 is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players. It is a mixture between
"BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" .
Here some "highlights":
Schlachtfeld is shareware (20 DM) and Olaf Koebnik
appeals to all users who play Schlachtfeld intensively
to get registered by Peter Weigoldt and/or give feedback.
Amiga Arena interview action
An interview with Peter Weigoldt (Schlachfeld) is in the section
'Actions' online.
Amiga Arena lottery
The deadline for the lottery is the 06.12.2000.
Amiga Arena special discount offerings
The Amiga Arena has the following limited special discount offers still
online:
FLM, GeoWorld, VisualPrefs, AmiATLAS, Siteway, Apano Sin, SHARKS AGA und
Multi.
(sd)
New UAE-JIT Version
Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a new version of UAE-JIT. This version with the
name "Ipswich Town" contains a pci.library emulation and several improvements
inclusive optimisations and bugfixes.
the PCI emulation enables the usage of the CGX3 Virge drivers of the Mediator
board under UAE. Besides that UAE-JIT may be compiled with some luck with other
compilers than the, this wasn't tested yet tested.
Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
In the sourcecode the following has been changed:
This version is available as Linux/x86-binary for glibc V2.1 respectively glibc V2.0,
as complete source code and as source code patch against the UAE V0.8.15 source code.
Sound card "Martina"
Michal Kluczewski has released some information about the upcoming sound card
"Martina" with the permission of the developer. This card shall be released within
already this year, at first for the clock port of the A1200 and later in addition for
ZorroII (Amiga 3000/4000).
It offers two 16bit channels each for in- and output with maximum 96 kHz and
an expansion port which can be used for a MPEG decoder. The website for the card
shall go online soon.
SecondSpin v2.12 beta
On 02. December 2000 Lauri Ahonen has released the beta version 2.12 of
"SecondSpin". This is a tool to convert normal audio CD tracks into MPEG audio
files (layers 1, 2 or 3). Additionally more formats like AIFF and WAV are
supported. A modified version of LAME v3.87+ is needed for MPEG encoding.
With this update several bugs were removed and the error handling has been
improved. This update is a very early beta version.
Amiga has Installed their own Online Shop
Amiga has installed their own online shop under the above title link.
As for software AmigaOS V3.9 and AmigaSDK V1.0 are available.
(sd)
Amiga.org: Tools for Headlines and AmigaDE Update
Since 27. November 2000 Amiga.org offers the possibility to show the headlines
of this website automatically on the own homepage or directly on the
AmigaDE-Desktop. For this programs for JavaScript, PHP and AmigaDE(ETick V0.8)
are available.
Besides the amiga.org headlines ETick can additionally show the actual date and
time, weather forecasts and the statistics of an own zAMilo webserver.
On the website
itself the actual uploads and top downloads of the AmigaDE archive of www.amigadev.net are now also shown.
(sd)
Genesis Rights Controversial
On 28. September 2000 Haage&Partner released a
note
in which the company announced to have obtained distribution and copyrights
for the TCP/IP-Stack 'Genesis' from Active Technologies (Chris Wiles). Through
this acquisition H&P received the possibility to integrate an own TCP/IP
stack into the new AmigaOS Version 3.9 without any complications.
Note: The Genesis package is continued development of the AmiTCP/IP
package by Network Solutions Development, Inc. (NSDi).
On 2. Dezember 2000 David Gerber, who is working by order of NSDi on AmiTCP,
released a press note by NSDi. According to this Active Technologies didn't
possess the rights for the AmiTCP part of Genesis and hence couldn't
sell these rights to H&P.
In this message NSDi among other things were written that they regard a distribution
of AmiTCP/IP without a direct contract with NSDi as an act of piracy.
To avoid misunderstandings with actual valid license contracts NSDi further
withdraws all for the time being valid licence contracts. Due to NSDi' own
representation this is possible as Chris Wiles (Active Technologies)
didn't observe his part of the license by not paying any licensing fees since
early 1999.
H&P is anxious to solving this problem friendly.
The exact wording of the press release of NSDi is available under the title link.
(sd)
Exhibition prices for IrseeSoft's Products
At the fair 'World of Amiga', happening on the 9. and 10. December 2000 at
the Mediapark Cologne, products and updates of IrseeSoft will be available for
favorable exhibition prices at the booth of CoolBits.
(sd)
ASM-One v1.45 on December, 5th
The release of the version 1.45 of the assembler ASM-One was originally planned
for the 30. November 2000. This date postpones on the 5. December 2000. The
reason for this is that Boussh has begun implementing pasting to the clipboard.
As the clipboard support is a feature that is requested since long by many he
has decided to take some extra days to complete the clipboard support (copy to
clipboard). This time will additionally be used to improve the RTG version of
the package and to update the documentation. For the 5. December is the release
of the standard and the RTG version of ASM-One 1.45 planned.
(sd)
Alternative-Games.de now online
Today a new games site for Amiga and other alternative computer systems,
"Alternative-Games.de", went online. In the Amiga section current test reports
are awaiting you ("Bubble Heroes", "Virtual Ball Fighters", "Wipeout"), a
preview of the GTA clone "Payback", an interview with the leader, coordinator
and art director of the SOMS-Team "Secret of my Soul") and much more.
(ps)
Alternative-Games.de now online
Today a new games site for Amiga and other alternative computer systems,
"Alternative-Games.de", went online. In the Amiga section current test reports
are awaiting you ("Bubble Heroes", "Virtual Ball Fighters", "Wipeout"), a
preview of the GTA clone "Payback", an interview with the leader, coordinator
and art director of the SOMS-Team "Secret of my Soul") and much more.
(ps)
Amiga-Christmas Calendar
Michael Ufer coded a Christmas calendar some time ago and now adapted it for the
year 2000. Each day a virtual door can be opened and there is a little
surprise behind it. Have fun and no cheating :-)
REBOL/Core User Guide V2.3 released as book
Until now, the user guide was only available as PDF-file at the size of 4,5 MB. You can
now buy the guide as book at REBOLpress. The book has got 574 pages
which are divided into 14 chapters and 3 appendixes which describe the elements of this programming language.
There is an index
and a sample chapter of the
book on the site. The PDF-version of the guide can be downloaded at
REBOL . (sd)
New Alpha Version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib for SAS/C
There is once more an alpha version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib
V.45.00 for SAS/C. In this version some functions have been added, some
functions have been reworked, and some bugs removed. This version is for beta testers only.
(ps)
AmigActive issue #15 Released
The december issue of the English print-magazine 'AmigActive' is available.
Under the title link you will find a complete index of issue #15. Highlights of
the current issue are, among others, an article about the future of the
Amiga, an article about Nightlong, and AmigActive takes a close look at the
games list for the AmigaOne.
(ps)
Elbox PR: Total Graphic Mania
Elbox announces in their new press release that the developers of the Elbox
development department have implemented a new version of Voodoo3 drivers for
the Mediator PCI bus board.
(ps)
AmigaOne Discussion Board Remains Open
On November 24th, amiga-news.de reported that Amiga Inc.'s AmigaOne discussion
board will be closed on December 1st. The reason was a huge number of insults
which were published there.
On November 28th, Gary Peake of Amiga Inc. has announced in the Team Amiga
mailing list that the AmigaOne discussions won't be closed. He doesn't know
where the remark originated from, at least it didn't come from Amiga.
So the discussion board can still be
accessed,
but now only for registered users, which wasn't explicitly mentioned by
Gary Peake.
If anyone asks, we are NOT closing the AmigaOne forums on
www.amiga.com
Somebody must have been playing on their Momma's computer and got
loose and posted that remark.
It did NOT come from us. [...] (Gary Peake)
(sd)
Version 2.0 of cmp (ALeXcompare) Released
cmp is a program which compares files in two directories (or trees).
That can be very useful, e.g. to examine in a backup, which files have
been changed / are new. AmigaOS 2.1 is required.
