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01.Dec.1999
Andreas R. Kleinert by e-mail


PNG and Amiga
The book "PNG - The Definite Guide", by Greg Roelofs, O'Reilly, ISBN 1-56592-542-4, mentions the Amiga positively for a change:
Especially considering PNG, it is very easy to support new file formats in Amiga browsers by using Datatypes... to briefly cite the book (p.36):
"On the Amiga, it is ubiquitous, thanks to a technological marvel, known as datatypes, (a kind of super-DLL that, among other things, provides generic image support); but under operating systems like BeOS or Atari TOS, it is virtually nonexistent."
Of course this leads to Amiga WWW browsers and a collection of Amiga tools and applications get very good comments (some from myself, too ;) The book is also very open towards other alternative platforms (Acorn, BeOS, Macintosh, NextStep, OS/2).
Bottom line: worth reading. (ps)

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01.Dec.1999
Jörn Plewka by e-mail


Many requests for Melody-Z2
We thank the users for the big interest in Melody-Z2, and the companies Rüdiger Gruner Bürotechnik and DCE for the quick, uncomplicated revival:
There was only a minimum number of Melody-Z2 sitting on the shelves half assembled. These cards were gone some hours after the announcement. This was unsatisfactory for Katodev. The cooperation of Katodev, Gruner and DCE now makes it possible to initiate a small production run. Special thanks goes to DCE. Save the expansion port, the card is identical to the one offered until one year ago.
If your order was declined, ignore it for the time being. sales@katodev.de should contact you explaining the additional availability. After this, however, Melody-Z2 is done for sure. The MPEG1-DSP used (layer 1+2) is no longer available. Melody1200Plus (only this option, because of the same DSP being used) is also running out of production.
We want to warn, however, not to see Melody-Z2 as a replacement for the Melody1200-series. Melody-Z2 was intended as Paula replacement (plus MP2 hardware interesting back then). Melody1200 is much better from both a functional and quality point of view. We recommend preferring the Unity+Melody1200xxx solution, in the very least compare them. Colored technical readouts (PDF) can be found in the Docs area on our homepage.
More information can be ordered from sales@katodev.de. (ps)

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01.Dec.1999
Thomas Frieden by e-mail


New Shogo report
At the title link you can get information about the development status of Shogo. (ps)

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01.Dec.1999
Aminet [recent]


Aminet Uploads until December 1st, 1999
RCDPlay.lha          biz/dopus    6K+Remote CD-player for DOpus5
FondsCalc.lha        biz/misc    84K+Calculation for money makers
TelekomBill.lha      comm/misc   14K+Telekom Bill calculator for WG V1.7
CheckHTML.lha        comm/www   184K+Checks HTML files
HTTPResume_Sw2.lha   comm/www     2K+Swedish localization for HTTPResume v1.6
HTTPResume_Swe.lha   comm/www     2K+Swedish localization for HTTPResume v1.7
fetish.lha           demo/aga    65K+Fetish by Ozone. 2nd place at Satellite'
FLP-TuneIn.lha       demo/aga   3.7M+"TuneIn - second trip" by Floppy - 3rd a
HLA-Smoked.lha       demo/aga   132K+040/060 patched version of "smoked" (128
Sat99-4kb.lha        demo/aga     9K+Satelitte'99 4kb intros package.
ImageDTInfo.lha      dev/basic   20K+Image Datatype Info 1.1
MMULib.lha           dev/c       35K+Vbcc stubs linklib for mmu.library
COP.lha              dev/debug  157K+Low Level Debugger
MuForce.lha          dev/debug  210K+The V40 Enforcer, detects illegal RAM ac
MuGuardianAnge.lha   dev/debug  257K+MungWall superset, detect accesses to no
APL4Amiga.lha        dev/lang   149K+A Programming Language interpreter, prer
MuScan.lha           dev/misc    93K+Print the MMU tree layout.
fda.lha              disk/cache 353K+Faster than PFS also installed V1.8
fda_DviPS.lha        disk/cache 207K+English documentation in DVI, PS & texin
fda_d_DviPS.lha      disk/cache 227K+German documentation in DVI, PS & texinf
fda_d_GuidHTML.lha   disk/cache 102K+German documentation in Guide & HTML
SCSIQuery.lha        disk/misc   19K+Prints internal infos of SCSI devices
elementarz2_0.lha    docs/hyper 289K+Guide about Amiga for new user`s (Polish
KC0.9.lha            game/role   88K+Create your hero for RPG Krysztaly Czasu
Turtleminator.lha    game/shoot 995K+V1.1  Cannon Fodder style game
wbperplexity13.lha   game/wb    247K+Version 1.3 really kewl update :)
Mpeg2ani14c.lha      gfx/conv   612K+Converts MPEG animations into ANIM files
Frogger.lha          gfx/show   334K+Ultimate MPEG video player (68k & PPC v1
MjK-dahappy.lha      mods/techn 220K+Big Beat Cheeze by Mijk 
MjK-fonKyy.lha       mods/techn 336K+Fonky Beat tune by Mijk 
Mjk-Knock.lha        mods/techn 2.0M+Swingin' BigBeat by Mijk 
Try_It.lha           mods/techn  90K+Techno Tune made by MadMan of FunDesign
Zop.jpg              pix/irc     89K+Rare pic of Zop (UDM) offline&outdoors
amigaadvert.lha      pix/misc    54K+Possible New Amiga Advert
amigaadvert1.lha     pix/misc    72K+(another) Possible New Amiga Advert
AP7Recto.jpg         pix/misc   448K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 7 Cover Recto
Dominos.lha          pix/mpg    2.2M+Animation (MPG) by MadMan
UsefulGlowIcon.lha   pix/nicon   34K+10 GlowIcons you REALLY need (OS 3.5)
sunset1.jpg          pix/views  213K Sunset at sea
sunset2.jpg          pix/views  148K Sunset at sea
sunset3.jpg          pix/views  147K+Sunset at sea (winter)
ElectraWBOpus.lha    pix/wb      59K+Snapshot of my Workbench + DirOpus 5.56 
CharMap.lha          text/font   62K+Display the whole charset of a given fon
2b_UGW.lha           text/misc    4K+AmigaGuide file unwrapper
Tab2Spc.lha          text/misc    7K+Converts tabulators into spaces.
MuFastChip.lha       util/boot   91K+Chip memory cache mode fine tuning tool
MuFastZero.lha       util/boot  105K+MuLib Zero Page remapper, FastExec/Prepa
MuLockLib.lha        util/boot   86K+Lock the mmu.library in memory on startu
MuOmniSCSIPatc.lha   util/boot   90K+Make the omniscsi.device MMULib aware
MuSetCacheMode.lha   util/boot   95K+MMU tree adjustment tool for experts
VersCheck.lha        util/cli   708K+Check your libs,MUI,devs,dtypes,classes,
MMULib.lha           util/libs  588K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
FlipSide.lha         util/misc    6K+Middle mouse button screen flipper
InstallerTools.lha   util/misc   31K+37.2
nodelete.lha         util/misc   33K+Saves *ALL* deleted files, not only from
68040Lib.lha         util/sys   163K+A MuLib aware 68040.library
PoolMem.lha          util/sys    70K+Memory defragmentizer/AllocP superset
BenchTrash.lha       util/wb    190K+Global trashcan for WB, with ejection & 
DefIcons44.lha       util/wb     31K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.2)
quotes.lha           util/wb      9K+Quotes - displays weird messages
(ps)

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01.Dec.1999
Ed Collins by e-mail


TWF News
_#TWF News.#_

#1. TWF Opinion Polls#
#2. Explorer 2260 Update.#
#3. Maim & Mangle Update.#
#4. Next News Update#

~~~~~~

#1. TWF Opinion Polls#

There has only been only poll held this month which asked the question:
"What is your favourite type of game ?".

This was split into 10 different game types with the top 2 choices being
RPGs and Space Sims with the votes of 37 and 33 respectively. Well no
surprise you're all wanting a good space sim. :)

A new poll will appear soon.


#2. Explorer 2260 Update.#

Here are a few of the things that have been done for Explorer 2260 in
November:

    - RedHat 6 (LinuxPPC 3Q99) has been installed and, while lots of setup
work
      still needs to be finished, work on the Linux server core routines is
      continuing.

    - More background documents for the CEG are being created.


#3. Maim & Mangle Update.#

Work is continuing on M&M and here is what has happened in November on
development.

    - (temporary) removed the obj's shadow due a few bugs.

    - Optimized the 3D math routines.

    - The collision routine now working perfectly (in the sense that it
      recognize a collision situation.)

    - Removed a lot of bugs.

    - The loading routines are now a little bit faster.

    - New Warp3D supporting Object Editor for 68k (PPC version coming soon).

    - Further M&M game design thrashed out.


#4. Next News Update#

31st December 1999 / 1st January 2000 (Wahey!!) Or maybe /slightly/ later in
the new year. :)

~~~~~

All the best,
Ed.
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