20.Nov.2002
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
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AROS Website down during the weekend
Aaron Digulla writes:
I'd like to notify everyone that www.aros.org will be unavailable
a couple of times during the weekend of the 23./24. November 2002
because the system is upgraded.
You can reach the website during this time at
http://aros.sourceforge.net
and the other mirrors.
(ps)
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20.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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Event: Photos from the Amiga meeting in Lodz 2002
On Saturday the 16th of November 2002, the Amiga meeting 2002 with the attendance of Thendic-France, X-Soft, eFUNZINe, Matay and others was held in Lodz, Poland. Thendic-France has published some photos and links to several more photos, which will give an impression of the event.
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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20.Nov.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Amiforce: Forum update / Abakus-Design: note
Forum update
Today the Amiforce forum was brought to a new version. The update was done within a few minutes and brought some positive side effects with it.
The data base seemed to be fixed through the update and even the upload of avatars works without problems again. Furthermore there were some bugfixes with the update, an example given might be the possibility of a dial in without using cookies now.
The forum can be used now with all features again. Who might detect a bug is pleased to report it.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: ub)
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20.Nov.2002
Ron van Schaik (E-Mail)
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HCC-Commodore-Club NL: Little Update and Events
Hello all C= friends,
We are again present on the HCC stock exchange from 22 till 24 November at
the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, standnumber 10E068, Hall 10. We are one of the only
groups that are present from the beginning! Also we have a few updates on
our homepage:
more ...
(ps)
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20.Nov.2002
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Letting the World Know (Executive Update)
November 19, 2002 - With the AmigaOne now shipping and AmigaOS4.0 in
its final stages of development and testing, the time has come to begin
letting the rest of the world know the good news, that the Amiga is alive,
well and ready to let the World have fun with computing again.
more ...
(ps)
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20.Nov.2002
Michael Böhmer (E-Mail)
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E3B: SUBWAY USB controller for Amiga (clockport version) available
E3B is pleased to announce the availability of the USB controller SUBWAY, which has been
presented the public at the Amiga trade show in Cologne 2001.
Unfortunately we were very busy since this trade show with the Zorro USB card HIGHWAY and
its networking module NORWAY, but nevertheless we have not forgotten the "small" module SUBWAY.
Despite the not very good situation on the Amiga Classic market we haven't stopped further
development.
more ...
(ps)
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19.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (E-Mail)
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Event: Eternity shows T.o.T. on ARC 2002
Eternity, the software
makers from Frechen, Germany, will show the online-strategy game Tales
of Tamar. This is not the hectic kind of game that's being played at
so-called LAN-Parties, but a more "grown-up" game. A central server
analyzes every player's moves that are sent via eMail once per day,
and sends back the results through eMail as well. More information
about Tales of Tamar can be found on
www.tamar.net.
(ps)
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19.Nov.2002
A.D.A. - Amiga Demoscene Archive Website
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A.D.A.: 14 new Original-Amiga-Screenshots
A.D.A., the Amiga Demo Archive databank with search function has released 14 new Original-Amiga-Screenshots, made by Mdw/Encore, of the demo Sulaco/Encore.
A.D.A. is looking for users with a PPC Amiga who can help to take screenshots from demos. If you want to help send an email to z5.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Fleecy Moss
An AmigaSource interview with Fleecy moss you will find here.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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19.Nov.2002
Thylacine Website
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USB-Karte Thylacine: Simple GUI for the Stack
For the driver software of the Zorro2 Amiga USB-card Thylacine a simple GUI is released.
Download: usbgui.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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18.Nov.2002
Various sources
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Different software updates (until 18.11.2002)
On the website of Dirk Stöcker there are now updates for the following Tools available:
more ...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: Screenshots of Hollywood - AmigaSeeDC
Andreas Falkenhahn:
Today's Hollywood screenshots show AmigaSeeDC, a real application created
with Hollywood. AmigaSeeDC is an image viewer like ACDSee or IrfanView
that are very popular on the PC market. You can select a picture and then
browse through the picture's directory by simply pressing cursor up and
down. AmigaSeeDC is also able to zoom in and out. It took me only 1 hour
to program AmigaSeeDC with Hollywood. And of course this cool example
program is included on the Hollywood CD-ROM. If you've always wanted a
viewer program for your Amiga that is standard on every PC, order Hollywood
now. I also use AmigaSeeDC privately because it's really cool.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
x-cellence (ANF)
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Demo: Huhnvasion3D
Huhnvasion3D, which is under development for Amiga PPC for one year, was
published now as Freeware for the PC. It is a technology
demo for Wintel computers, which was developed, in order to find a
Publisher for the financing of the further development of the AMiga PPC version. Since this did not
succeed since early 2001, the demo is now made available
as Freeware for Wintel systems.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 16.11.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your hard drive which were
originally made only for use with disks. The following packets have been
added or updated since our last message:
more ...
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Bill Griffin, G&G Publishing Enterprises (ANF)
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Print magazine: 'the NEW AMIGANS' has lowered its prices
"the NEW AMIGANS" magazine (the only Amiga-centric magazine still
printed in the US), has lowered its prices. From now until December
31, G&G Publishing Enterprises is offering one-year subscription to
their magazine at a $5.00 discount. For more details check out our
website at the title link.
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
The Legacy
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The Legacy: Extension for the Game forum integrated
The Legacy is the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC,
Schneider/Amstrad CPC, which supplies the readers with screenshots,
cover scans and information about the developers. A small extension for
the Game-Forum
was integrated. The last forum entries can now be displayed in the
Sidebar of the Mozilla browser and will be updated every 15 minutes.
This can be activated on the front site as well as in the game forum.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT: New fxPAINT 2.0 benchmark page
On the fxPAINT-page you can now find benchmark results that document the
speed gains through native support of x86 and PPC. The routines, already
very fast on 68K, run - depending on the effect/operation - more than 7
times faster on an 180 MHz PowerPC, more than 40 times faster on Amithlon
running on a 850 MHz Athlon.
more ...
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Thilo Köhler (ANF)
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Game: ArTKanoid V2.0
A strongly revised version 2.0 of ArTKanoid is now available for download at the title
link or in the Aminet.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Amiforce (ANF)
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Game: AMHuhn Version 1.1 and news
Franz 'CjStroker' Schlick and Telemar Rosenberger found a new name for their programming activities. The name is Abacus Design.
For AMHuhn and future projects a page was created, which is accessible at the title link. The page is a subpage of Amiforce and also uses its forum. Appropriate boards were also created. Updates on AMHuhn version 1.1:
more ...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Elbox Computer
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Elbox: MediatorUP 3.5 & MM CD UP 1.19
The MediatorUP 3.5 update for Mediator PCI 3/4000T, Mediator PCI 4000D,
Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 1200 SX, Mediator PCI
1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV has been made available today.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox Statement: Elbox against piracy
Under the title link you find a detailed statement of Elbox computer
concerning the discussions and various statements about the Spider USB drivers, RDB and RDSK strings in drivers.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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18.Nov.2002
AmigaZone (ANF)
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AmigaZone: StAHG update available
StAHG (the Standard Amiga Help Guide) has received an update (version
1.1). This update is free, and replaces the previous version.
Bugfix: This version corrects an error in which some documents could
be missed during the scanning process.
more ...
(ps)
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18.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Catweasel Software Updates, X-Surf News
The Windows-drivers for the Catweasel ISA have been extended by some
features. Mainly support for the new Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper has
been added. Also in the archive: a driver for Windows 2000 and Windows
XP that makes use of a keyboard that's connected to the Catweasel MK3
PCI/Flipper.
Download: cw_win_pci.zip (108 KB)
more ...
(ps)
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17.Nov.2002
Patrick Henz (E-Mail)
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FreeCD: Just Football (Amiga), Deimos (Windows)
Patrick Henz has released the CD-ROM 'Just Football' for Amiga computers as
well as 'Deimos' for Windows computers in his FreeCD series. 'Just Football'
contains a large number of football games and other software on that theme,
while 'Deimos' contains games from various genres.
more ...
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: New games, a.o.t. Karate Kid 2 and scans
With permission of the copyright owners, Back to the Roots puts up original
Amiga games for download and furthermore offers freeware games, demos, musical
pieces, scans of game packages etc. In the current newsletter, Back to the
Roots are reporting about new items on the site. In particular, sports games have been added:
more ...
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Maja (ANF)
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Media: Self-destructing DVDs
The American manufacturer MGM has developed a technology by which DVDs become
unreadable after the expiration of a certain time span, e.g. 2 days after
opening the package. In the process chemicals are used which, when exposed to
air, trigger a chemical reaction which can't be stopped.
More about this under the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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Event: ARC 2002 - Advance ticket sale started
The advance ticket sale for the 'AMIGA + RETRO COMPUTING 2002'
fair taking place on 7th and 8th December 2002 in Aachen has begun.
The Web form for the advance ticket sale have been online since today. As of
now, tickets can be ordered with a price reduced by EUR 1,-. This is the first
Amiga fair making use of e-Tickets. Thus you don't have to pay for p&p.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Emulator: WinUAE.chm V1.8 and Amiga Emulator FAQ updated
After WinUAE V0.8.22r2 having been released on 14th November 2002, Peter
Hutchison has updated his
Amiga Emulator FAQ as
well as the
WinUAE.chm help file
of that Amiga emulator.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Matthew Monsoor (Amiga Open-ML)
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Amiga: Amiga-Logo on Microsoft web site
In the Amiga Open mailing list on 16th November 2002, Matthew Monsoor has drawn
attention to the Amiga logo being listed on the Microsoft web site's
'Enterprise Solution Providers - Partner Logos'
page.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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AGH: Voting form for Nov./Dec. 2002 Amiga Games Hit Parade online
Amiga Games Hit Parade (former Amiga Games Classifying) are bimonthly
determining the most popular games. Currently the form for participating in the
November/Decemter 2002 Hitlist vote is online.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Amiga Future
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Icons: 60+ GameIcons for all genres by Frank
On 16th November 2002, 'PygmIconsGL_G2.LHA', a new games icons package, has
been published on GamesIcons.info.
This includes more than 60 AmigaOS V3.5 icons for all game genres. The package
has been compiled by Frank.
Download: PygmIconsGL_G2.LHA
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
ANN
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Text viewer: EvenMore V0.60
On 15th November 2002, version 0.60 of the text viewer 'EvenMore' has been
released. In this version the plugin system for the EvenMore preferences
has been updated. Chris Perver writes:
more ...
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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17.Nov.2002
Heise (ANF)
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PDA: Sharp-Zaurus Enterprise version in collaboration with IBM
Together with Sharp, IBM is developing a version of the Linux PDA Zaurus
especially for business clients. This version's features include software
developed by IBM for wireless access to company networks including
data synchronisation.
The Heise article is accessible through the title link.
(sd) (Translation: cb)
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16.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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GoldED Studio AIX: service pack 3
For the allround text editor GoldED Studio AIX is since yesterday the
service pack 3 available for registered users. The most important new feature is the integration of the gcc compiler. This complete software package is needed for the C/C++ development with GNU C. Via GED is the programming environment integrated within minutes into the editor using a comfortable setup program.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2002
Amiga Filterium
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Tool: Amiga Filterium version 1.14
Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo has released version 1.14 of his flexible and expandable datatype processor and ripper Amiga Filterium (short AFilter). The following changes have been done in version 1.14:
more ...
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2002
Jens Schönfeld (tel.)
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Event: Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 - exhibitors list
Since today is the provisional exhibitors list for the Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 that will take place on December, 7th and 8th 2002 in Aachen in the Eurogress online. Out of experience the list will be expanding until the fair's beginning as many companies decide just before the list closing to participate.
The companies are listed in alphabetical order.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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16.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Event: APC&TCP and Amiga Future at the Amiga fair
APC&TCP as well as the
Amiga Future will be at the
Amiga + Retro Computing 2002 in Aachen, too. APC&TCP will, if all things go well, introduce and sell the game "Crossfire 2" for the Amiga there.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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15.Nov.2002
Glames (Boing Attitude) per E-Mail
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Boing Attitude: Interview with John Harris
You can find an English interview of John Harris, author of Gobbler and
Solitaire on AmigaDE at the title link.
(ps)
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15.Nov.2002
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)
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Multimedia authoring system: New screen shots from Hollywood
Here are again some new screenshots from Hollywood applications.
This time I present screenshots from a popular application field of
Hollywood: A presentation with random transition effects.
(ps)
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15.Nov.2002
Martin Heine (ANF)
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MorphOS in detail
Nicholas Blachford of Thendic France has published an English text about the basic concepts of MorphOS
under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2002
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Copy of WoASE-speech of Alan Redhouse
The copy of the speech is available under the title link who which hold Alan Redhouse (CEO) of Eyetech)
on the World of Amiga Southeast 2002.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2002
IOSPIRIT (ANF)
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IOSPIRIT at the AMIGA- and Retrocomputing 2002
IOSPIRIT will be present with an own booth at the
AMIGA- and Retrocomputing 2002
in Aachen on 7th and 8th December 2002.
more ...
(ps)
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15.Nov.2002
AmigaMARK LPA Website
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Benchmark-Tool: AmigaMARK LPA almost finished
The Austrian Rupert Hausberger has worked for some months on a new Freeware benchmark-tool called
AmigaMARK LPA. The author has now announced that the program is ready to 98%. Currently the program is in
beta test. The first release will be only published in some time because the documentation still
has to be written.
more ...
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Nov.2002
Andreas Magerl (ANF)
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Amiga Future: New screenshots of Crossfire 2
New pictures of Crossfire2 have been published on the the Amiga Future homepage.
The game is supposed to be published still this year at APC&TCP.
The game is a mixture of Stardust, X-Out and Wing Commander.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Nov.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Antivirus program: Mill version 0.79
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski has just released a new update of his new
antivirus program "Mill". Here is some info about the new update:
more ...
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14.Nov.2002
AMIGAplus
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AMIGAplus: Up-to-date Online
Every day new software for Amiga and Amiga-compatible systems appears, whether commercial,
sharware, or freeware. AMIGAplus summarizes the new things of the last few weeks, so read "Up-To-Date"
either online or each month in the current AMIGAplus.
(ps) (Translation: dm)
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14.Nov.2002
Gunnar Bernhardt (ANF)
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Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.22 R2 released
Today the Amiga emulator WinUAE has been released in version 0.8.22 R2 by Toni
Wilen.
more ...
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14.Nov.2002
T.o.T. (email)
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Game: Tales of Tamar - New Amiga version 0.46
Version 0.46 is the first official (and of course free) update for Tales
of Tamar. As promised, we'll keep improving and expanding the game.
Since the release of the CD version, quite a few things have happened:
New features:
more ...
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14.Nov.2002
Chris Hodges (E-Mail)
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Offensive Elbox driver and consequences for Poseidon
Chris Hodges writes:
Dear Poseidon Users,
in the last few days, there were rumours posted to ann.lu, claiming that
the usb.device, that is provided by Elbox Computer Inc. for the Spider USB
PCI card would contain malicious code. This code was posted disassembled
on various websites. This source code, if assemblied into an executable,
would indeed have the ability to kill the RDB (if it was found in block
0). Code destroying data on purpose like this is illegal in most countries
(including Germany) and moreover, is one of the ethically worst things
I've ever seen.
As the source of this security warning was an anonymous poster and
therefore was not reliable, I wanted to check for myself. So I loaded the
usb.device (some friendly Mediator user sent me, as Elbox never offered me
a SpiderCD to check the contents of the CD), let it decrypt itself and
just searched for the 'RDSK' string in the driver (as seen on the
disassembled source code on the websites). No disassembly was used. The
string was found. I could therefore verify that the offensive code is at
least in version 1.2 of the device, I had here to test (there is
absolutely NO reason why 'RDSK' would appear in an usb hardware device
driver).
I gave Elbox the chance to clear things up in public by posting an apology
and removing the code. They didn't. Instead, they said that all my
"doubts" would be answered in the press statement released yesterday and
ignored the consequences that I already had proposed to them.
Well, my "doubts", which actually are facts, that I could see with my own
eyes, remain. Any Mediator user can check this by using a memory monitor
and searching for the usb.device in memory (after loading up Poseidon) and
see, if there's the 'RDSK' ID string within the next 10000 bytes.
As a consequence, I have to warn Mediator users that their machine is in
danger, when running the usb.device. In the non-memory protected Amiga
environment it might get damaged at any time and then cause the routine
that kills the RDB to become active. The next update of Poseidon will
refuse to load up the usb.device, if it detects malicious code. This is
to protect yourself from damage and myself from being held liable for any
loss of data or damage done.
Moreover, I hereby withdraw the permission to include Poseidon in ELBOX's
software distributions, until they
- admit, that the code was in their driver,
- admit, that they have constantly lied to the users,
- have placed a public apology for the first time in their life,
- and have removed any malicious code.
I don't want Poseidon to be included with third party software, that's
highly illegal and whose originators don't deserve any trust.
I do understand that people try to protect their work from being hacked. I
do this too, but not by risking the data of legal users and I cannot
tolerate this offensive behaviour any longer (I admit, I'm again rather
upset and therefore this statement is not as objective as it could have
been).
The Spider users out there are adviced to confront Elbox with the demands
mentioned above, so to allow Poseidon again accept the usb.device driver.
I hope that you believe the facts and my worries and understand the steps
taken.
(ps)
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14.Nov.2002
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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UP ROUGH Releases "The Yard BBS Intro"
Yesterday the Swedish Amiga demo-scene group UP ROUGH released an intro for their BBS "The Yard." The
intro in C64 may be utilized directly from the group's new homepage. Further, older Amiga demos, intros and
diskmags may be utilized in the download area of
diskmag.de.
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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Elbox: New driver for Spider USB 2.0 Hi-Speed card
The SpiderUP 1.10 update for the
Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed
card has been made available today.
more ...
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14.Nov.2002
Mirko Naumann (E-Mail)
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Elbox dispels rumours about usb.device
Press release: For long years, our company has been making efforts to make users of our hardware proud that they receive the best software support. This support is also the most dynamically expanded in the Amiga market.
Some persons/companies do not like this situation, as they would like to compete with Elbox. They know they cannot, though: they have no knowledge or employees to work with or determination to provide on-going support for their products. However, we continue receiving signals from various sources on attempts at disassembling and hacking our drivers for the purpose of stealing the results of our efforts and work.
In recent days the Amiga community witnessed rumours related to our latest product: the Spider USB 2.0 card. In order to clarify this we feel obliged to respond officially to them.
Rumour: Using the Elbox usb.device with an USB PCI card other than Spider USB 2.0 High-Speed may lead to trashing the disk RDB.
Answer: Not true.
If anyone is trying to run the Elbox usb.device with any USB PCI card other
than Spider USB 2.0 (for which this driver is dedicated), the only result
is that the driver does not work with this card and a requester window
appears on the screen: 'No Spider USB 2.0 card found.'
Rumour: Whoever has a Mediator may modify Spider drivers so that they support USB PCI cards from other parties.
Answer: No.
The Elbox usb.device is software protected by international copyright law.
Only owners of the Spider card are licensed to use these drivers (the
drivers are bundled with the cards). The only legal way to acquire the
usb.device drivers is to buy the original Spider package. The software
is always licensed for a specific person and only that person. The
licence for using the driver does not give any right to modify the
code (which is property of Elbox).
Rumour: The usb.device driver has some procedures, which may damage hdd RDB if any external program accidentally damages the driver code.
Answer: No.
Elbox pays much attention to protect its drivers against any improper operation in case of accidental damage to their code by any external events. To ensure this, Elbox drivers are encrypted. When run, they automatically decrypt themselves and verify internal checksums to guarantee the maximum security of operation. This is the best way to prevent program crash if, due to any reason, the code is damaged when read from the media.
Obviously, even such protection measures cannot protect the program against a hacking attack, that is against a program, which purposefully modifies the code to make some part of it operate in a way different from the original intention. No software available for Amiga computers, including Amiga operating systems, can be 100% protected against such hacking attacks.
We hope that what we have stated here explains away all the doubts for good. As always, we stand with full guarantee for our software and our registered users have no reasons to worry. We develop and distribute software, which is reliable, efficient and innovative.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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14.Nov.2002
AmigaZone (ANF)
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AmigaZone present StAHG - The Standard Amiga Help Guide
Press Realease from AmigaZone
Presenting StAHG, The Standard Amiga Help Guide
AmigaZone's FREE GIFT to the world-wide Amiga Community..
© 2002 The AmigaZone division of Merlancia Industries
The AmigaZone division of Merlancia industries is proud to present StAHG,
a simple ReAction based tool created for the purpose of making an Amiga's
collection of help files easier to access. Naturally, the first question
to come up is, "What help files?" The answer is, "Exactly!" Or, if you
prefer, all those help files buried deep within the confines of the
"HELP:" assign.
more ...
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14.Nov.2002
Scott Pistorino (ANF)
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AmigaSource: Interview with Fleecy Moss
AmigaSource is proud to announce its second interview with the big names
in the Amiga Community. Drop on in and read the exclusive
interview with Fleecy Moss
of Amiga Inc.
(ps)
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