• Canon S500/630/6300
• Epson Stylus C60,C70,C80, Photo 810
• HP DeskJet 92x, 94x, 96x

"Vollgas - Fullthrottle" and "The Dig" are already planned for the Amiga-version and will probably be included as beta in one of the upcoming versions. There will be a special 256 color version of "Zak Mc Kraken" available, too.

• added checking of some BCPL stuff (which is totally harmless since os37+ anyways).
  • CallGVptr - ROM check
  • EndGVptr - ROM check
  • GlobVecTable - checksumming, that should detect patches of any GV based viri including imaginary ones like GlobVec144 ;) Thanks to Thomas Richter and Holger Hippenstiel for information about GV that helped me a lot...
• added new tooltype 'NoGlobVec' to skip tests described above - it is already set in the icon as nobody beside me needs these checks!
• added notification of LIBS:xvs.library
• added some additional stuff to tc_launch/tc_switch checker
• changed timing routine
• ToolTypes: NoSwitch and NoLaunch are no longer debug only :P
• kicked bonus stuff due to lack of users' interest

Amiga Arena - interview with Nicholas Blachford
Recently Amiga Arena has drawn attention to the sources of the sampler software Aural Illusion. Its further development has been authorized by the author Nicholas Blachford. Amiga Arena's interview with the ex-Amiga developer is by far the most comprehensive interview in the history of Amiga Arena and full of really interesting statements. At the moment the interview is available online in English.

Amiga Arena - interview with Daniel Westerberg
Apart from Stefan Blixth also Daniel Westerberg belongs to OnyxSoft. Programs such as MultiRen, Detris or DRemind are very popular. The interview with Daniel Westerberg is available under German and English.

As already reported are friends of Boris just building up a website named Tronland. Documents, media reports and memories of Tron will be published on this website. In the view of the friends shall the documents proof that the public prosecutor's office is wrong in closing the file.

»Après quelques longues semaines d'absence, votre site Amiga Impact est (enfin) de retour.

Diverses raisons et divers problèmes (la plupart d'ordre privé), ont été à l'origine de cette suspension de la maintenance du site. La situation s'étant aujourd'hui arrangée, il ne devrait donc plus y avoir de gros problèmes à l'avenir.

Amiga Impact va donc pleinement retrouver son allure de croisière dans les jours à venir, avec l'arrivée de nouvelles rubriques.

After the creditor congregation last week in unison agreed to accept the recovery plan of the insolvent old company the newly founded Ascaron Entertainment GmbH can touch-and-go. It has taken over all the rights including the Ascaron brand and also is employer of the present staffers.

The winners:

• 1st prize: Roman Sudlitz (Prizes: Extreme, PuzzleBobs, Mousepad donated by AmigaPage)
• 2nd prize: Jean Yves Auger (Prizes: Extreme, Mousepad donated by AmigaPage)
• 3rd prize: Peter Balogh (Prizes: Extreme, Poster)
• 4th prize: Michael Goken (Prizes: Extreme)

• 10.02.02 new: The Punisher (Digital) done by Psygore
• 10.02.02 new: Wacky Darts (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal & Codetapper
• 10.02.02 new: Spy Vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics (Wicked Software/First Star Software) done by Codetapper
• 10.02.02 new: Spy Vs Spy 2: The Island Caper (Wicked Software/First Star Software) done by Codetapper
• 10.02.02 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) supports two more versions
• 10.02.02 new: Galactic Conqueror (Titus) done by CFOU!
• 10.02.02 updated: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) misc changes
• 10.02.02 new: Escape from Colditz (Digital Magic Software) done by Bored Seal
• 10.02.02 fixed: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) keyboard access in highscores corrected
• 10.02.02 new: Magnetic Dreams (Digital) done by Psygore
• 10.02.02 new: Battle Valley (Hewson) done by Bored Seal
• 08.02.02 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) supports German version too, misc other changes
• 08.02.02 new: Carcharodon - White Sharks (Demonware) done by Galahad
• 06.02.02 improved: Rotor (Arcane) blitter waits added, snoop mode fix
• 06.02.02 new: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) done by Bored Seal
• 06.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) music/sound fixed, blitter waits added and more

About the image converter ArtPRO
ArtPRO supports a variety of file formats like ILBM, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and PCX. It can even load more using datatypes. ArtPRO also supports some raw formats like chunky. Images can be saved as bitplane, chunky or truecolor, as binary or source.
ArtPRO's source generator is capable of creating copper lists and sprites. The program offers very fast down calculation of images of very good quality, has a palette optimizer and real time colour bias also working with true colour pictures.

Development to be continued?
ArtPRO was written in 100% assembler. Who seriously would like to continue development might contact Frank Pagels. It really would be a pleasure if someone would do so.

Because all text informations about countries, cities and organizations are saved with special index numbers as filename it was nearly impossible for the user (without knowledge of the program interna) to change/extend the informations by himself.

I've just uploaded the second Amiga release, and the first platform release for 4.1.3. Some minor 4.1 problems may crop up, but I expect this to be a pretty solid release.

4.1.3 for the other 2 platforms will occur over the next few days, bringing everyone up to speed.

The informations stated in an earlier update are still valid. No big breakthroughs in the last week (but none are planned, though ;) ).
The Exec Kernel is running in a Simulator (parallel to the normal system). In this time it is ported to the hardware platform.
The rest of the components is in different states of finishing. Some are finished but are waiting for the final converting onto the new kernel (this means just only a recompilation of it).

This is a hint for those who want to start with developing for OS4: Develop for 68k. The sources will be fixed with minor changes to OS4 (it means only one or two lines are added to the sourcecode). You can use the normal Exec API. We will release a beta version for developers that will document the new functions (about 20). It should be a change to PPC at least.