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04.Apr.2001
Thomas Siegel on ANF


Online Music Module Compo started well!
Online-Module-Compo which started on March 1st 2001 has now 17 participants and you cannot send modules any longer. From now on you can download and vote the modules which were all made from the same sample-set. Just download, vote and listen to it - have fun! Thomas Siegel aka "d!RT!E - organiser&websitter of mOOdS"

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04.Apr.2001
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Turboprint for Linux V1.0
You can order version 1.0 of the printer driver software Turboprint for Linux at IrseeSoft. It contains printer driver (beta) for Canon S400, 450, 4500, 800; Epson Stylus Color 680, 880, 980 und Photo 790, 890, 1290. more ...

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04.Apr.2001
Neodym on ANF


Sharp Zaurus Really Exists!
Because many reports at least doubts the existence and availability of Zaurus-PDA I kept my eyes opened and went shopping in Tokyo. Zaurus does really exist! Two of them I held in my hands. It is written all in Japanese but the device gives a very solid and good impression. The silver metal housing (there were just dummies of the white and lilac variant) looks very fine and feels good (just like Palm V). more ...

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04.Apr.2001
Torsten Dudai


New Caricature online: Doc Fleecy
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04.Apr.2001
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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
 Below are items pertaining to the just completed Amiga 2001 show held
in St. Louis, USA, over the past weekend (March 30 - April 1). Due to
the importance of the show, and the buildup before it, we thought
we'd put together a small special issue to get information to you.
 As with most things, the true significance of events will probably
not be known for some time.
 Brad Webb,
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            O U R   " T A K E "   O N   T H E   S H O W

3 April, 2001

By Brad Webb

 It was billed as "1985 all over again". In some ways, for some
people, it probably was.
 It was definitely the changing of the guard.
 It had it's usual share of organizational problems.
 It was fun, and the place to be this last weekend.
 The most important news from the point of view of our readers may be
that there will be additional versions of AmigaOS, and they will be
Power PC native!
 The most important news from the point of view of the Community and
its continuation is that there are once again good ways to make money
as an Amiga developer!

Logistics
~~~~~~~~~
 There were problems with getting classes and seminars started and
ended on time, and there was a terribly long wait to enter the banquet
hall Saturday night. These things seem endemic to many Amiga shows and
can often be traced to the small number of people willing to help. We
hope as the new market develops and grows, more people will be
available to help run Amiga shows. In the meantime, those who worked
on Amiga 2001 did a fine job given the circumstances, and those in
attendance were able to deal with the minor logistical problems and
get real benefits from the events.

The Sales Floor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The sales floor was well attended, especially on Saturday, and there
seemed to be a good amount of buying. The number of vendors was not
real high (about 14 or 15 key Amiga stalwarts), but the large booth
belonging to Merlancia seemed determined to make that up by itself. It
looked as if all the stock ever assembled by Amiga International was
there to be purchased. They also had a nifty assemblage of items in a
sort of mini-museum of Commodore and Amiga memorabilia. The two large
vats of free bottled beer on Saturday didn't hurt matters, and went
well with the incredibly huge pile of pizza in boxes brought in by
Petro for his retirement luncheon. The pizza itself was first rate.
 There were only a few new products, the most interesting of which was
a PC on a card from Mr. Hardware Computer. We haven't seen it in
operation, but hope to have more information in the future.

Petro
~~~~~
 Genuine emotions and deep appreciation were everywhere in evidence
for Petro throughout the weekend as his retirement was was both
celebrated and regretted. The roast, which certainly had its
hilarious moments, ran quite long as many in the Community wanted to
share their affection and memories. It might well have been an event
by itself on another night, so much needed to be said. A standing
ovation for Petro was just one of many clearly deeply felt attempts to
express appreciation. And just because he's retiring, don't be
surprised if you see him very much in attendance at future Amiga
shows.

The Future
~~~~~~~~~~
 When Bill McEwen finally got to the main presentation during the
banquet, he tried to compress his remarks to save time. As it turned
out, he had a lot of good things to say, and anything that had to be
left out was covered later during the weekend.
 Much applause greated the statement that Amiga OS is planned out
through vresion 5.0 and they're not going to stop there! The OS will
become native PPC, beginning by moving OS 3.9 to PPC. Eventually, at
version 4.2, the "old hardware" will no longer be needed and
standalone machines can be built. Once again, emphasis was made that
Amiga will not be making hardware itself.
 For the short term, a completed Amiga ONE board for the 1200 was
shown. We discussed the status of an Amiga ONE for the A4000 the next
day with Alan Redhouse of Eyetech. He tells us it's still firmly in
the plans, but must be a money-maker to remain there. If it doesn't
see the light of day, it will most likely be due to completion taking
longer than Amiga OS requires to reach 4.2, when it will no longer be
needed. It all depends on how fast the new versions of Amiga OS come
along.
 The Amiga ONE is headed into beta in the June/July time frame and
just might (no promises) be ready in time for the west coast Amiga
show in Sacramento, California, at the end of July.
 The other key point made by Bill McEwen during his banquet
presentation is that there is now, finally, a new and huge potential
market for Amiga developers, where they can actually make money! This
is where the comparison with 1985 has some merit. In 1985, Commodore
created a new market for developers with the original Amiga. Now, the
new Amiga Inc. has created another new market for developers with
Amiga DE.

New Market
~~~~~~~~~~
 Bill pointed out that the cell phone and handheld markets are
starving for content. This content needs to be small games and
utilities of the kind Amiga developers are well equipped to create.
 The Amiga DE provides a single solution for this new Java-centric
small appliances world. In Japan, the Sharp Zaurus is already
Amiga-able. More are coming, and coming to the rest of the world as
well. We have a press release below which should answer most questions
you have. Bill did point out there were over 1800 new Amiga developers
now due to this new market.
 Bill noted that after the Zaurus comes the Psion, and that's just the
beginning.
 It's a simple market. The user of the cell phone or PDA downloads an
application / game / ringer sound / what-have-you and pays for it
on-line. Price is perhaps $10 for a small game. 60% goes to the
author, 40% to the distributor. There are no boxes, no shelves full of
inventory, no manuals to take care of, and no returns. Simple,
elegant, and with millions of potential customers.

New Amiga OS Versions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Bill also stated that Amiga DE would roll into the Amiga OS as it
goes forward. During discussions Sunday morning, Bill explained the
reason for going forward with Amiga OS was a business one, which means
there's a good chance it will actually happen close to plan. The
business reason is simple - the new Amiga needs server machines it can
control for use as it's home server. There's nothing better for the
job than the existing Amiga OS. A second, but very important reason,
is that Amiga knows a number of the talented developers in the
Community won't develop on anything else.
 There are a couple words of caution. At this point, it's not clear
how compatible existing PPC based machines will be with the future
standards. Compatibility will not be ignored, we're sure, but of
course can't stand in the way of success for the future.
 In addition, this does mark a change in direction for Amiga from what
was announced in the past. The Amiga DE was supposed to be scalable
from PDAs to servers. Now it seems it is not, due primarily to its
lack of memory protection as we understand it. A change in direction
is not all bad when it's fine tuning an overall strategy. The problem
is the Amiga community has seen little other than changes in direction
in the past, with no direction lasting long enough to produce growth
and meaningful product. This change doesn't seem to be in the same
category as previous ones, but we're not surprised Amiga is being
taken to task in postings on the net by long term disillusioned
Amigans. As we've said so often in the past, "time will tell" - but
we're inclined to be more reassured than frightened by this change.

The Transition
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 It might have escaped notice by some, but this event marked a
significant transition for Amiga. Petro's retirement was one element
of this, though mostly symbolic. The second is more subtle, but more
important for the future. Amiga Inc. is now taking a firmer guiding
hand. In the past, Amiga OS 3.5 and 3.9 (for example) were pretty much
farmed out on a "bring us something" basis. From now on, Haage and
Partner and other key contributors will be functioning more as project
managers within an overall strategy maintained by Amiga. This will
give the market some much needed direction and should be a help to all
who depend on it. It's a sign of the maturing of the company, and is
quite welcome.
 Interestingly, Bill McEwen stated Amiga enters this new state with a
new Vice President of Engineering, a person he would not identify yet
to spare him loads of e-mail, but who came from MicroSoft. The
operating system side of development is being handled by Fleecy Moss
and his team.

Word Pictures
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 There's always so much more to an Amiga show than the speaches and
sales. We'd like to share a few "word pictures" with you from the
weekend.

 40 or 50 Amigans talking about every Amiga topic under the sun at
Amiga's Hor's D'overies party Friday night. We finally got to meet
Phil Vedovatti, the man behind New Icons, and found him delightful.

 Living in yet another hotel with strange floor arrangements. Last
year's Henry VIII was torn down due to airport expansion, but this
Sheraton maintains its spirit. We entered on the ground floor, then
took an elevator down two floors to our room on the first floor.
There, we had a door out onto a ground level patio. Shades of
"Castrovalva" from Dr. WHO.

 Getting tossed out of the dining room along with "Mrs. Brad", JoAnn,
Florence and John Zacharias (of "AE Mail" fame) when they closed it
for the night. There was a lot to be gone over, so we just moved on
...

 The first day, the phones didn't work. Not just in the hotel, but all
over this section of St. Louis. Someone cut a key cable somewhere. It
was NOT a MicroSoft plot to keep the word from getting out.

 The Mardi Gras beads being handed out by Kermit Woodall of "Nova
Design". No, we're not going to tell you what you had to do to get
some. Yes, we do have some. They were everywhere in evidence, all
weekend long.

 Seeing Dave Haynie and Leo Schwab again, Leo in full medieval costume
as in days of old. Wonder where he gets the hats? "Schwabbies"
(remember them?) might be just "the thing" for the new small appliance
market.

 Rollie and his clarinet, performing "A Very Good Year" for the
banquet crowd. Actually kept everyone quiet in appreciation of the
music, no small task! High marks for the organizers for this one!

 The dancing Petro baby during the Petro roast video. Not to mention
the speach by video from Bill Gates - or a darn good rendered
likeness, anyway.

 The stories of Petro's driving. It's a good thing he's skilled at it,
or we might be short a large number of Community members.

 The UGN folks in the corner, doing their best to get the word out to
the world. We didn't get to discuss the phone failure and how it
affected them, but it can't have been a help.

 The many good restaurants, bars and shops in the West Port area right
outside the hotel. Definitely an improvement over the old venue. There
are a lot of word pictures to come from events in a few of the bars,
which we won't be bringing you.

 The collision of the Amiga crowd waiting to enter the sales floor on
Saturday morning and 100 or so children with parents heading through
the same area on their way to an early Easter Egg hunt. Can't blame
the organizers for this one. Incidentally, the wandering Canada geese
outside the hotel seemed slightly confused by all the colored eggs
lying about.
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   A M I G A ,   S H A R P   Z A U R U S ,   A N D   O T H E R S

 ST. LOUIS, MO, March 30, 2001 - Amiga Incorporated, a pioneer in the
development of multi-media and content, today announced a long-term
partnership with Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of
innovative products and core technologies in electronics, in which
Amiga will develop content for next-generation Sharp handheld
computing devices.

 In March, Sharp announced its plans to market the Zaurus PDA in the
United States and Europe as one of the world's first Linux-based
handheld device. The Linux operating system is gaining wider
acceptance in the computer server market because its underlying code
is freely distributed on the Internet. Easily adaptable for different
hardware devices, the Sharp handheld will be able to run software
written in Sun Microsystems' versatile Java software language that
supports different operating systems.

 In this partnership, Amiga announced that its developer community
would either develop new content or adapt existing content for PDA
applications, using their reputation for innovation and leadership in
gaming, 2D, 3D, animation, video, and music applications.
Amiga-developed content can be downloaded directly through wireless
networks, using desktop computers, or ported directly into the new
device.

 "By working with Amiga as one of our content partners we are able to
expand the applications and content available for our new devices,"
said Dr. Hiroshi Uno, Ph.D. Division General Manager - Mobile Systems
Division, Communications Systems Group, Sharp Corporation Japan.

 Amiga has an outstanding reputation for software development. We
anticipate that the alliance with Amiga will create a lot of momentum
for the Zaurus PDA."

 "Amiga is excited to be part of the Zaurus PDA project, and we look
forward to bringing the excitement, brilliant content and magic of the
Amiga community to Sharp," said Bill McEwen, President/CEO of Amiga
Incorporated. "Amiga is adding new dimensions of content for the next
generations of computing devices, and we see the new PDA platform as
an important area of strategic business growth and applications for
the Amiga community. We intend to develop some really great
applications as consumers more fully understand the great potential
and skill set of the Amiga community."

 About Sharp Corporation

 Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of the core digital
technologies that are playing an integral role in shaping the next
generation of mobile computing products for consumer and business
needs. Since creating the Wizard(R) electronic organizer in 1989,
Sharp has led the market in introducing innovative handheld computing
products. Sharp is also the global leader in LCD technology, which is
incorporated into leading-edge LCD monitors and projectors. From the
small office/home office (SOHO) to large corporate environments, Sharp
provides a variety of innovative, computer-related solutions designed
to help increase productivity while providing functionality to meet
customer demand. Dedicated to improving people's lives through the use
of advanced technology and a commitment to innovation, quality, value
and design, Sharp Corporation employs approximately 60,200 people
worldwide in 30 countries. More information is available at
http://sharp-world.com/index.html.

 About Amiga

 Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware
agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group
of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications
can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000,
R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The Amiga OS can run
hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and
QNX4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and
has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit
Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com.
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   S O M E   D E T A I L S   F R O M   G A R Y   P E A K E   . . .

 {The following items were found posted on the net and should help
clarify the announcements from Amiga 2001. Brad}

3 April, 2001

As has been discussed here several times, AmigaDe has no
memory protection. This and a couple of other issues are
the reasons for the announcement.

Basically, here is what we are doing and why:

1. Developers are starving to death and will leave
unless we find a way to help them make money fast.
Dealers have the same problems. We need more oomph to
take advantage of higher fps games, etc. This IS a
multimedia platform community after all. My mail box
tells us developers and dealers need something quickly.
We can get AmigaOne and OS4.0 out by summer without
losing any time developing the DE. This is with our
thanks to Haage & Partner and Eyetech who have agreed to
meet PRD's we set before them. We could not implement
this plan so quickly without their valued help. Also we
should include Hyperion who is assisting our team with a
level of GL and video capability that will enhance game
developers potential.

2. Users want new hardware. Amigas are starting to fail
and frankly it is just too expensive to start R&D for
new (modified) chips in the amounts we would probably be
able to sell and just as expensive for fabbing the older
chips as well. So, off the shelf, open designed, new
machines based on PPC is the most inexpensive way to get
the Amiga user onto a newer platform.

3. Amiga users have always been partial to PPC. Dean
Brown, Dave Haynie, Mick Tinker, and Joe Torre (four of
THE best and brightest Amiga minded hardware gurus I
know) are all for a PPC based platform advance. Dave had
the PiosOne design that he allowed us to release openly
to help people see what can be done with an open
hardware design based around PPC. We did not release
Dave's specs the week before the announcements by
accident. It was to open people's minds to what can be
done by thinking outside the box. Dave Haynie doesn't
know what a box is. Remember, we already run on a bog
standard PC.  :)

4. Our Zico base specs are an open spec based around
PPC. Alan Redhouse at Eyetech has a full plan, knows
when to freeze the design and ship, and has met our
Product Requirements Document. Dean Brown has approved
his design. Dave Haynie saw it in St Louis and thought
it was cool. Joe was there also and while I didn't ask
Joe specifically for his ideas, he is open enough to
have said if he thought the design was bad. Haage &
Partner have met our PRD's on the software side. Both
have excellent reputations for actually meeting
deadlines and shipping product when they say they will.
While they are contracting to us, these projects are
being managed by us now.

5. Amigade provides us with binary compatibility,
distributed processing capabilities and many other
things we can get no where else. This line of
development will continue as previously planned. Note:
There are NO changes to what you have been told we plan
to do with AmigaDE.

6. We intend, as we have stated all along, to cover
everything from PDA's and cell phones, set top boxes,
and servers. This plan allows us to do that with ease.

7. AmigaOS will continue to be developed and will be
merged into or under AmigaDE so that we eventually have
our own familiar base to play on and it will be a full
AMIGA base that is server capable and cell phone capable
as well. But we will not drop Windows and Linux
compatibility either. Think of this as adding yet
another playground for AmigaDE. It is no different from
deciding to also play on top of Be or any other OS out
there. We will continue to find playgrounds that provide
us, our developers, and dealers even more opportunities.

8. As far as splitting the community and the developers:
We have over 2,000 developers currently involved with
us. Another 30 added themselves today after the news
from St Louis. My mailbox is so full I spent all day
JUST answering new mails from developers and companies
wanting to come to Amiga and play and I didn't get them
all answered yet. Half of the developers are firmly in
the PDA, cell phone, and set top box camp. The other
half are either desktop oriented or want to do both.
This gives everyone a place to utilize their talents and
make money.

9. Most notable request from developers I have
is "please also give us a desktop". As Bill noted in his
banquet speech, he made certain promises to me based on
what Team AMIGA members (6000 plus) and others in the
community have said they want from whomever has the
Amiga name. I took this job based on those promises.
Bill keeps his promises.

10. This is a business and this is fun. We do what we do
because we want to and we can. If someone tells us we
can't, we do it just to show them we can. This is also a
family. This was very evident over the weekend. I hugged
more people in St Louis than I do at a family reunion.
Bill had tears in his eyes as he talked about us losing
Bob Cosby. We care. We have to make sure our friends and
family can finally make money but we have to do it in
ways that keep us afloat as well from a business
standpoint.

11. Tao Group is a great partner and is providing Amiga
with opportunities we have never been able to land
before. Good business means taking advantage of this
opportunity they provide and we intend to do that with
their help and asistance.

12. Listen to the facts and ask questions here and in
other Amiga forums where we are there to answer your
questions truthfully. Don't listen to the naysayers, the
hype, the conjecture, and the innuendo of people who
have no clue. We will tell you the truth. Bad or good,
you get the truth.

13. We have taken flak from certain people because they
say we provide no value. Our value is in uniting as many
people as we can into a formidable force. We can not do
what we plan alone. It takes unity, solidarity, team
work. All of us must work together and together we will
slowly conquer the world ... just because we want to.


Sincerely,

Gary Peake
Amiga Inc.
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{Also found on the net, and dealing with things at a bit more
technical level, are these notes from Amiga's CTO, Fleecy Moss. We
found this as a posting from Alexander Lohrmann and answers from
Fleecy, which we indicated with *s. Our thanks to Mr. Lohrmann for
asking the questions! We've removed a few things for clarity but added
nothing beyond the *s. Brad}


Apr 1, 2001

 Will there be any improvements over OS3.9 like:

 - A really integrated TCP/IP-stack

 *Brand new, written from scratch.

 - Memory Protection for new apps (I know it is impossible for old
ones)

 *Virtual Memory will come in OS4, which will make a big difference.
MP is much harder and will be done in OS5.

 - recource tracking

 *the Amiga Component Model will give you that.

 - SMP

 *OS5

 - A new datatypes-system, especially for streaming and anims

 *The ACM and streaming system will give you that.

 - a new and better soundsystem, with support for surround and 3D

 *The Audio system will be the best of any system out there. We have 5
of the best audio people in the world working on it.

 - 2D and 3D APIs, integrated into the gfx-system instead of hacked-in
like now

 *Already underway, and with our close alliance with Matrox, there
will be not only standard high level APIs but GLIDE like low level
APIs to really take advantage of Matrox cards.

 - a new Workbench

 *OS4.5

 - an improved intuition.library (we really need one !)

 *OS4.5

 - hardware-independancy

 *OS4.2

 - a new filesystem

 *OS4.0 -

 - a good printer-system with drivers for more printers

 *Probably OS4.2, waiting for USB, and for the full benefits, OS5, the
PDP media system.


  2) AmigaDE

 We always heard that the AmigaDE will run on everything from PDAs to
servers. I think you have left this idea behind, I have understood it
that way that it will run on STBs and PDAs and the new AmigaOS 4. Is
this right

 *That's correct.

 ? Do you think that there will be a really native version for x86 &
co, I mean a real desktop-os, later in the future ?

 *It will integrate into existing desktop OSs. That is what all of our
big customers tell us is necessary for success.

 What I liked about the AmigaDE as it was announced in the past was
the fact that (as I understood it) developers would have the
possibility to write an application or a game for the AmigaDE and
contribute some kind of runtime-environment including all necessary
stuff like the translator, the Elate-kernel, GUI, Sound and 3D-APIs or
whatever is needed by the product for every supported operating system
with it. This could bring developers to the AmigaDE and if there is a
version of AmigaDE hosted (or really part of) on AmigaOS 4 then there
would be many new apps and games and then maybe there will be some new
(or old ? :-)) users. Will this still be possible ?

 *Yes.

 Will the AmigaDE still contain stuff like OpenGL, a sound-API or some
gui-stuff ? Or will it only contain things PDAs need ? If it would
contain everything needed by big apps like office-packages or games I
think many developers would come along, even companies, because they
could increase their sales from let's say only Windows-users to Mac,
Linux and AmigaOS 4 users without the need to make several version.
Write once run everywhere

 *The AmigaDE has a capabilities system which dynamically matches
requests to capabilities. If you are on a desktop, you can use AmigaDE
desktop apps.

 P.s.: Will AmigaOS 4 run on existing PowerUP-hardware ? I think this
is a must-be, otherwise many users will feel traited ... (Is this the
right word ?)

 *At the moment no 8-( Anyone who has bought PPC accelerators
understands the drag the architecture has placed on those products. To
code an AmigaOS4 around that solution is to condemn it before it even
begins. The new AmigaOnes will be cheap enough and expandible, and
will be orders of magnitude faster than the existing products. It is
hard, but this is the first Amiga certified hardware in over five
years - the line has to be drawn somewhere, and this is it.

 *There is a possibility of a software compatability layer, but the
performance would most likely kill its usefulness compared to an
AmigaOne.
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Sven Ottemann via E-Mail


LHA 1.14i for UNIX Amiga-port
Sven Ottemann has compiled LHA1.14 for UNIX for AmigaOS. This version supports -lh6- und -lh7-. You can download versions for 68000, 68020+ and PPC (WarpOS) under the title link.

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04.Apr.2001
FORE-MATT via E-Mail


100%Amiga issue 11
The English software distributor 'Fore-Matt' has published a new Amiga magazine. The magazine is called '100% Amiga' and is distributed exclusively on CD-ROM. It has a seperate surface which leads the reader through the magazine. more ...

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04.Apr.2001
Rainer Benda on ANF


Finance Online: Chairman of Met@Box Resigned
»Today Met@Box which is quoted on the New Market announced that chairman Geerd-Ulrich Ebeling resigned. Private reasons were named for that. There will not be a successor because the company is going to name a new chairman as a financial chairman. more ...

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04.Apr.2001
ADR (BAUD) on ANF


Amiga Apache 1.3.19 - PHP 4.0.4 pl 1 Published
You can download the new patch-level of webserver Apache version 1.3.19 - PHP 4.0.4 pl 1. more ...

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04.Apr.2001
Thomas Dellert via E-Mail


DCE Microserver G3/G4 - Press Release
Product-info "DCE Microserver G3/G4" more ...

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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Elbox publishes MediatorUP2.1
There is an update of the driver software of the Mediator-PCI-board of Elbox. The file is 60 kB and you can download it at the usual places or order it from Elbox.

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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


MakeCD 3.2 beta6 with Video CD Support
It has been announced version 3.2d public beta6 (videoCD-edition) of the writing software MakeCD. All CD-RW-driver has been updated. You can now import .toc (cdrdao) images which are generated with VCDTools and .cue (CDRWin) images which are generated with VCDGear. Please have a look at History for further information. Download: Is still not possible.

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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Cinemaware offers TV Sports Football and -Baseball for Download
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response from the last offering, Cinemaware proudly presents these two innovative classics! Take a nostalgic journey back to the birth of the modern sports craze! The TV Sports franchise was original and new in that it presented the game like it was an actual television broadcast.
They're only going to be available for a limited time, so run to the Vault quickly to download TV Sports Football and TV Sports Baseball. Don't forget to stop by at the forums and tell us which other classic titles you'd like to see made available.

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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Meternet Reworking Hardware of their SimpleBox
Meternet informed of reworking the hardware of its SimpleBox (Set-Top-Box) which is supposed to run on AmigaDE in order to produce SimpleBox still cheaper. It is possible that there will be news still this month.

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03.Apr.2001
Ruediger Hanke via eMail


Aladdin Ghostscript 6.50 for Amiga
I have compiled Aladdin Ghostscript 6.50 for Amiga. You can download it from my homepage (title link), I will upload it to the Aminet in the next days. There is a 68k- and a PPC-version available. The PPC-version needs the latest WarpOS version (5.0) more ...

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03.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FootballPatch.lha    biz/dbase  109K+Patches for Football 2.6
LocalePL_OS39.lha    biz/dbase   78K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.5.1
Indy5Theme.lha       biz/dopus  5.5M+Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2
DCF77update.lha      biz/patch  573K+Update for DCF77 3.0-3.10 to 3.11
DCPatch.lha          biz/patch   34K+Some Bugfixes and improvements for DosCo
YAM22GrkCP.lha       comm/mail    4K+Greek charset conversion files for YAM 2
TTimeDeluxe.lha      comm/misc  582K+Displays Phonecosts online (Germany only
Amster-locale.lha    comm/tcp   352K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Amster-main.lha      comm/tcp   199K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Amster-source.lha    comm/tcp   144K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
BabelDoc.lha         comm/tcp    30K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   362K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
TaskiSMS_PL.lha      comm/tcp   181K+Polish catalog & documentation for Taski
simplehtml.lha       comm/www    34K+V0.15 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
wpz-impact.mpg       demo/file  2.9M+VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Sa
Distance2.lzh        dev/amos     4K+Computes distances between 2 points on e
repos_demo.lha       dev/misc     9K+Small demo source of drag`n`drop lib and
ScalosDev.lha        dev/misc    49K+Scalos Development Kit v3
muimaster020.lha     dev/mui     97K+Muimaster.library 020 patch Rel 3
Amplifier2.21P.lha   docs/help    9K+Polish Locale for Amplifier2.21
BookCon1.4PL.lha     docs/help    9K+Polish Locale for BookConverter1.4
HardDrive.lha        docs/help   14K+The Amiga Hard Disk Guide
hmg4ng.lha           docs/hyper  61K+AG about Metal Bands - V 4.0 NG
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/hyper 777K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 03/2001 (Itali
AaktInt0301.lha      docs/mags  208K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0301GFX.lha   docs/mags  105K+International infotainment magazine (gra
FireballExtr1a.lha   docs/mags  843K+German Entertainment Magazine
FireballExtr1b.lha   docs/mags  834K+German Entertainment Magazine
Fireball_2HTML.lha   docs/mags  596K+German Entertainment Magazine
Fireball_5a.lha      docs/mags  741K+German Entertainment Magazine
Fireball_5b.lha      docs/mags  666K+German Entertainment Magazine
mc501.lha            docs/mags  386K+German Metal Mag in HTML - May 2001 Issu
wtdcsea.lha          game/2play  17K+An underwater level type for WormsDC
wtdcwb.lha           game/2play  32K+A WorkBench 3 level type for WormsDC
DopeWars.lha         game/actio  46K+Classic game where you go around and buy
dynSP_Style.lha      game/data   94K+SouthPark Style for dynAMIte
MagicSets.lha        game/data   34K+3 nice 256 colour sets for MagicNumbers!
MOTU_11.lha          game/data   30M+Abode of Golgotha 2 - Heretic II Addon
obvious.lha          game/data  102K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
M-1_Demo1.lha        game/demo  1.9M+Game Demo by Marcio Esper playable more 
sys.lha              game/gag     7K+Commodore C64 SYS command emulator
pawclaw.lha          game/jump  133K+Arcade platformer
roper.lha            game/jump  467K+Roper
SManMOSB2.lha        gfx/fract  121K+Mandelbrot generator for MorphOS
SManWOSB2.lha        gfx/fract  133K+Mandelbrot generator for WarpOS
NcodeR_Indy5.lha     gfx/misc   145K+Skin for NcodeR V1.5x +++
NcodeR_TD21.lha      gfx/misc   217K+Skin for NcodeR V1.5x +++
MMKeyboard.lha       hard/hack  133K+V0.62 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
ps2m.lha             hard/hack   21K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 Wheel Mouse Controll
TestGear-Notes.lha   hard/hack    7K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
TestGear3.lha        hard/hack  257K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
TestGear4A.lha       hard/hack  288K+The Oscilloscope Project Disk 4A.
TestGear4A.lha       hard/misc  288K+The Oscilloscope Project Disk 4A.
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   116K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9b031
imdbDiff010323.lha   misc/imdb  1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
diru.lha             misc/misc  2.9M+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700
diru_nodb.lha        misc/misc   85K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700
elu_grav.mpg         mods/elbie 5.2M+Elusive Cure - Gravety [Gothic] By ElbiE
memory.mpg           mods/elbie 2.9M+A Memory of the Past [Electric] by ElbiE
crs_apac.lha         mods/techn 329K+CRS00059: phase - apache
crs_mend.lha         mods/techn 968K+CRS00058: jocko - mendes
id3taglibgui.lha     mus/edit    80K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
Episode-II.lha       pix/anim   4.8M+Star Wars Ep 2 intro sequence (.mov)    
GameIcons1.lha       pix/gicon  551K+Great GlowIcons for MANY Amiga games.
lch-JapIcons3.lha    pix/gicon  101K+Japanesque GlowIcons for Os 3.5 pack 3
NetGlowIcons.lha     pix/gicon    5K+A few GlowIcons for AmigaOS 3.5+
AmigaFINlogo.gif     pix/irc      6K+#AmigaFIN
Hipsamtab4.jpg       pix/misc    53K+More pics of this amazing Amiga. Read .r
Hipsamtab5.jpg       pix/misc    51K+More pics of this amazing Amiga. Read .r
Hipsamtab6.jpg       pix/misc    58K+More pics of this amazing Amiga. Read .r
Pointers.lha         pix/misc     7K+Some cool mouse pointers!
sg-strip_10.lha      pix/misc    64K+[ancor] StarGround 10
sg-strip_9.lha       pix/misc    46K+[ancor] StarGround 9
yoroshii.lha         pix/misc   281K+[ancor] a pic with Sandra & Sarah
x-not-x.mpg          pix/mpg    2.5M+A preview for an upcoming film
AKIconzGold.lha      pix/mwb    531K+The ALL NEW 32 col. Icon Collection #1
cbm-logo.lha         pix/trace   55K+C4D Commodore logo by Hibisch
madonna.jpg          pix/wb     148K+Hand drawn picture of Madonna
wb1200_1.jpg         pix/wb      79K+How to make the best out of 2MB Chip-RAM
wb1200_2.jpg         pix/wb      69K+How to make the best out of 2MB Chip-RAM
guideml2.lha         text/hyper  54K+Cool AmigaGuide -> HTML converter (V2.2)
AutoPDF12.lha        text/misc   20K+AutoPDF 1.2 - Convert Postscript to PDF
Epson_400.lha        text/print  25K+Epson Stylus 400/440/460 Driver for WB V
Epson_600.lha        text/print  26K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.2
acces1-11B.lha       util/app    33K+Multi User system (difrent settings and 
RemAPollo.lha        util/boot   64K+A1200 040\60 MMU Apollo Turboboard Rema
titleshadow.lha      util/boot   20K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
WoW.lha              util/conv   40K+Text converter (Html, Ww6, Rtf, AGuide, 
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  351K+Report+ 4.4: Multipurpose utility
ReqAttack.lha        util/misc  635K+Best, configurable requesters for Amiga
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc  117K+RAPrefsMUI1.74, ReqAttack1.60 
SelectOSv.1.1.lha    util/misc   11K+Select AmigaOS and/or Linux APUS and/or 
WheelBusMouse.lha    util/mouse  10K+Bus Mouse wheel support
ScreenShell.lha      util/shell   6K+Opens full size shell on new public scre
DRemind_Ger.lha      util/time   18K+German catalogs for DRemind 1.57
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  16K+PatchBrain v1.27 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha    util/virus 252K+VirusExecutor v2.09
QuickLens.lha        util/wb      8K+A quick lens, any OS, source included
ScalosModuleEC.lha   util/wb     22K+Scalos 'Execute Command' Replacement
ScalosPlugin39.lha   util/wb     17K+Scalos 'Workbench 3.9' Plugin
ScalosPluginPW.lha   util/wb     17K+Scalos 'Persistant Windows' Plugin
ScalosPluginTP.lha   util/wb     12K+Scalos 'Titlebar PPC' Plugin
ScalosPluginVG.lha   util/wb     13K+Scalos 'Volume Gauge' Plugin


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03.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


osOpinion: Be and Amiga: Ominous Parallels?
»The difference between the two companies lies in the management. Whereas Commodore had faceless suits who were disconnected from the technology, Be, Inc. is run by people who are actually passionate about the operating system.«
More: title link.

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03.Apr.2001
Dirk Stoecker on ANF


XAD-System V10 Released
The latest version V10 of the archive extracting system XAD is released in the Aminet. There is a new version of XFD, too. New are bugfixes, new archive types and main improvements. The readme contains the complete (and long) list. more ...

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03.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Amiga.org Online Again
As reported was Amiga.org due to too much traffic caused by the fair pictures and the webcam disconnected by the provider. Now Amiga.org is online again. Amiga.org looks out now for a cheap and reliable provider.

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03.Apr.2001
Martin R. Elsner via eMail


News about ClassAction and MainPrefs
News to ClassAction
V4.0 is already finished. I am looking for translators, that can create catalog files. A list of catalogs you can find on the homepage. If you are interseted send an eMail. more ...

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03.Apr.2001
Martin baute via eMail


Personal Estimation From Martin Baute
This article in German more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Dhomas Trenn via E-Mail


Young Monkey Amiga-Software becomes Freeware
Young Monkey Studios is proud to announce that our whole Amiga software portfolio is now available for free. This includes the following programs:
  • Commander-ImageFX - Customizable GUI for ImageFX
  • GridLock - 2 player game Modem/NullModem/Ami-TCP
  • HP3PS - PacificPage PS/PCL Mode Changer
  • ImageFX - various loaders/scripts/etc.
  • MSE - MIDI SYStem EXplorer - PatchEditor+MORE
  • SamplerUtility - Disk imager for ProAudio Samplers
  • TextToBraille - Text To Braille Conversion Utility
  • TimeKeep - TimeClock Util for Clients-Projects-Invoices
  • TimeKeepDev - TimeClock Util for Project Development
  • TimeSpeak - Speaks current date or time

Additional informations and the downloads are available at the title link.

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02.Apr.2001



amiga.nl with New Design
amiga.nl was completely reworked and updated. There are some pictures of the presentation at the Amiga 2001 online.

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02.Apr.2001
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF


More Coyote Flux 3D-Engine Screenshots
Some more screenshots of the 3D terrain-renderer have been added to the temporary website of Coyote Flux. These are the last screenshots without texturemapping. more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF


Informations about stormamiga.lib and HSMathLibs
Due to personal reasons we could not work on the 'HSMathLibs' and 'stornamiga.lib' for a month. Because of this the release of the new versions will be postboned for a month.

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02.Apr.2001
Matthias Muench on ANF


Amiga presentation at the Gateway Computer Show 2001
The presentation by Amiga at the Gateway Computer Show 2001 is now available at our side.

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02.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Golem: Amiga develop Software for Sharp Linux-PDA
Sharp-PDA will be available by christmas in germany.
Amiga announced that they co-operate with Sharp to offer content and programs for the upcomming Linux-PDA by Sharp. Sharp plans to ship this new device for Christmas. The whole article is available at the title link. more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Patrick Beerhorst


Eternity Computer / Tales of Tamar / Play!Amiga Changing Server
We are currently working on the moving of our Internet pages to a new server. We please you to be patient if any of our pages won't be available for some days. This concerns the domains www.eternity-computer.de, www.tamar.net and Play!Amiga. more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp


Update of SendStuff
New version (0.6) of SendStuff released. New features:
  • SendStuff now stores the preferences of the send-mode (copy or move).
  • Bugfix: directories will now be moved correct without an error message.
  • Subdirectories will now be moved or copied correct too.

SendStuff lets you copy or move files or directories into other directories or devices by using drag'n'drop.

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02.Apr.2001
Wayne Hunt on ANF


Amiga.org Clarification
Amiga.org is currently down. This weekend we took over 2.5 million hits to the server, and transferred over 40Gb in two days (mostly because of the Amiga 2001 pictures). more ...

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02.Apr.2001



St. Louis Special - Annotation
There will be many reports, pictures and informations concerning the Amiga 2001 Show in St. Louis in the next few days. We will not present every link to every article or snippet of information at the main news page but you will find every link in the special. That's why you should check it daily to find new informations. more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
SimpleHTML V0.15
Sebastian Bauer released version 0.15 of his program SimpleHTML. SimpleHTML is an offline browser that lets you display small files very fast. It supports only a few HTML-tags. There is a html.datatype available too. Download: simplehtml.lzx - 32 kB more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Matthias Muench on ANF


AUG99: AmigaONE 1200
There are pictures of the AmigaONE 1200 Board by Eyetech available at the title link. more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


Virus Help Denmark News
New VEPatchBrain for VirusExecutor: more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF


TaskiSMS Update
Version 2.52 of TaskiSMS were released. TaskiSMS lets you send short messages into 112 countries. more ...

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02.Apr.2001
Eyetech AmigaONE ML / Jorge Pino on ANF


FAQ by Fleecy
The following link offers you a complete lists of all questions that were made and the answers of Fleecy. FAQ

Thes faq-list was compiled by James Bridge.

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01.Apr.2001
Markus Nerding via E-Mail


Gateway Show Amiga 2001 - Report by Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding promised us to send us a live report from the fair if he had the opportunity. He kept his promise and sent us the following report: more ...

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01.Apr.2001
Stéphane Campan via E-Mail


Amiga Impact: Special Edition
Our French co-site Amiga Impact are currently rebuilding their website completely. On occasion of the Amiga 2001 Show in St. Louis you can find a french-speaking special about the show under the title link.

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01.Apr.2001
Martin Baute


Audio Records by Martin Baute
Martin Baute has send us 2 audio records from the St. Louis-Show, which we gladly make available for download. more ...

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01.Apr.2001
Reader on ANF


Fleecy Explains the Current Plans of AmigaInc
Under the title link you can find a posting by Fleecy Moss, which he posted on the AmigaONE mailing list. In the message, Fleecy explains in detail the plans of Amiga Inc. and answers some questions.

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01.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


individual Computers Produces C-64 hardware
In association with members of the C-64 scene a clone of the popular Action Replay has been developed. The new edition has a 128K Flash Rom instead of the 32K Eprom and a 32K Ram instead of a 8K Ram. This makes it possible to use the known Rom versions of the Action Replay as well as the Roms of the SuperSnapshot and the Nordic Power. more ...

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01.Apr.2001
comp.sys.amiga.misc


"Classic" Amiga OS 4.x PPC will come!
Harv Laser, the maintainer of AmigaZone draws an overview of the announcements made on the Amiga 2001, in his posting at comp.sys.amiga.misc and confirms that the Classic Amiga OS PPC will definitively come. Amiga OS 4.x and 5.0 will follow. more ...

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01.Apr.2001
Quantum Leap on ANF


Amiga Inc. Reveals Partner
Quantum Leap - the italian e-zine oriented toward new technologies - was officially authorised by Amiga Inc. to publish information about their new partnerships. more ...

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01.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun


New PPC OS with AMIGA- and Windows Support
On our page there are first pictures of our new project AmiWin (working name), a PPC OS which can run AmigaOS as well as Windows Software. The current version runs on Macintosh hardware and there is a screenshot on the page. more ...

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01.Apr.2001
Thomas Wuergler on ANF


Payback Review
The most comprehensive Payback review anywhere is now on Amigafire.com. There have been other reviews, but none as in-depth as this one.

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31.Mar.2001
amiga.org


St. Louis Images by amiga.org
amiga.org has a collection of pictures of the Gateway Computer Show taking place in St. Louis put into the WWW. more ...

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31.Mar.2001
AMIGA Inc.


Boing Bag #1 for OS 3.9
Just in time for the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 Amiga Inc. and Haage&Partner make the new Boing Bag #1 for Amiga OS 3.9 available for free download. more ...

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31.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
AROS News
On the website of AROS you can find a status update in which the willing reader finds answers to the question which parts have already been ported. Right now 138 registered developers are busy with AROS and have already completed 75% of the original AmigaOS. The source codes cover 55 MB including all changes. Further 38,5 MB can already be filled with ported software and there are some MB with several screenshots. more ...

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31.Mar.2001
Stefan Martens on ANF


SecondSpin v2.16 beta
A new version of SecondSpin has been released. SecondSpin is a tool to convert audio CDs to MPEG audio 1, 2 or 3. Additionally further formats like AIFF and WAV are supported. For MPEG encoding is a modified version of LAME V3.87+ needed. more ...

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31.Mar.2001



St. Louis Special
Because of the Gateway Computer Show in St. Louis we have set up a special page on which we summarize all information we find on the WWW. As soon as new reports or images are available the page gets updated. For the lasting of the show there's a link in the title area pointing to the special page. more ...

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31.Mar.2001
Juergen Theiner on ANF


And the Winner is... Play!Amiga Comparing Review
There's a big review at Play!Amiga comparing Napalm, Earth and Exodus. Read who gets the best rating. Besides you get the chance to vote for the charts; would be nice if you'd use it.

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31.Mar.2001
Håkan Parting on ANF


AmiComSys Looking For a New Server
Håkan Parting, the author of AmiComSys, is looking for a new server for his Amiga buddy and chat program. The program works similar to the known ICQ but exists only for Amiga computers for now. Up to now around 200 people use this program. more ...

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31.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF


New Review on the GFX -GAMES-DATABASE
You can find a review of the WB game WBSteroids following the title link. Besides, the 'About' page has been reworked, games add-ons have entered the database and much more has taken place.

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30.Mar.2001
Stefan Falke on ANF


New EZP@gerNG Versions
The latest unregistered version 1.4 of EZP@gerNG is available in the download area for free, from today. more ...

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30.Mar.2001
A.C.T.-News


A.C.T. presenting Plans for Multimedia Network Machine
The AV-NetNode will be an embedded system with a real-time OS which can play besides DVD, VCD, etc. also MP3 from both CD and network from (any!) server platforms. more ...

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30.Mar.2001
Suite101.com


John Chandler Article: Amiga Handhelds
John Chandler monthly writes articles about Amiga at Suite101.com. This time, he wrote about the Amiga Handhelds which have been much-discussed last month. Read the entire article at the title link.

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30.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF


Again new SendStuff Version
At the title link, you can find the new version 0.4 of SendStuff. SendStuff is a program with which you can send files simply by drag'n'drop to any directory or device (either copy or move). more ...

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30.Mar.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Heise: Corel makes Profit Despite Low Sales
»Even if only barely, the software company Corel would make some profit in the first quarter. Despite strongly decreasing sales, the graphics software specialist could reach a profit of 534,000 USD, or one cent per share. In view of being deep in the red in the business year 2000 and the last quarters, Corel is of course happy, since with the presentation of the year's results, getting into the black was announced for the third quarter 2001.«
Entire article (German) at the title link. more ...

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30.Mar.2001
Darek Dulian on ANF


Elbox: Does SharkPPC G3/G4 work only in G-Rex Busboard?
Elbox was frequently asked whether their SharkPPC G3/G4 board works with the G-REX busboard by DCE. In the mail you can find at the title link, Darek Dulian of Elbox explains, why it does not work and cannot work. more ...

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30.Mar.2001
David Gerber via E-Mail


New Software for MorphOS: Voyager-PPC 3.3.92beta
David Gerber, one of the programmers of Voyager, has ported the popular browser to MorphOS and released a first beta version (3.3.92). This is the original message: more ...

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30.Mar.2001
Mikael Persson via E-Mail


The Coolest Amiga on Earth II
Yesterday, we presented in the article The coolest Amiga on Earth! Mikael Persson's Amiga. Some people doubted about the authenty of the pictures. We contacted Mikael and he sent us three more pictures proving that his Amiga, built into a table, really exists. more ...

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30.Mar.2001
Amiga-OPEN-ML / Jorge Pino on ANF


Internet-Relay-Chat (IRC) during the Gateway Computer Show in St. Louis
Amiga Inc. invites to a chat during the Gateway Computer Show in St. Louis. Gary Peake and/or Fleecy Moss will dispel rumors and answer to questions on announcements which are made during the show. Here the original message: more ...

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30.Mar.2001
Elbox via E-Mail


ELBOX Computer: New Software for Mediator PCI Busboard
ELBOX COMPUTER - Krakow, 29 March 2001 more ...

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30.Mar.2001
Dennis Lohr via E-Mail


New Song by Psyria
Psyria is a music project which produces songs exclusively with the AMIGA. After about seven weeks, the Psyria homepage was updated. more ...

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29.Mar.2001
Schatztruhe


Aminet CD 42 - 04/2001
Aminet CD 42 - April 2001 - contains over 800 MB (unpacked) of software in more than 900 archives. Since Aminet CD 41 numerous MBs of innovations have been added. more ...

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29.Mar.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF


New TaskiSMS
Pawel 'Paplo/Taski' Filipczak, Taski has published version 3.51 of his program TaskiSMS. Using this program short messages (SMS) can be sent cia cell phone to 112 countries.
  • Some bugs in the main program fixed.
  • New Plug-in for Switzerland (DiAx).
  • New Plug-in for the Czech Republic and Slovakia (D1cz)
  • More send information.
  • Updated Polish translation (others to follow, soon)

You can download the demo version from the TaskiSMS website or from AmiNet.

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29.Mar.2001
Bernd on ANF


Fireball under Additional Address
Additionally to http://fireballmag.2000pages.com we are now also reachable under http://www.amiga-fireball.da.ru.

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29.Mar.2001
Dynamite Team on ANF


Dynamite Update 1.1- Download Now!
Today a new version of the online game dynAMIte has been published which of course is better, more colourful, and louder. Some bugs were fixed, a new bonus and a new chat command (/msg) were added. One new feature e.g. is the "Afterburner" which lets the flames last a bit longer. more ...

[News message: 29. Mar. 2001, 22:40] [Comments: 0]
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29.Mar.2001
Virus Help Denmark


VirusExecutor V2.09 Released
Version 2.09 of the anti virus program 'VirusExecutor' has been released.
Here are the details: more ...

[News message: 29. Mar. 2001, 19:45] [Comments: 0]
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29.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
LocalePL_OS39.lha    biz/dbase   79K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.5
tummy_020.lha        biz/dbase  887K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.05
tummy_040.lha        biz/dbase  888K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.05
tummy_060.lha        biz/dbase  887K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.05
NickServAuth.lha     comm/irc     1K+NickServ identify AmIRC script
UidlRem.lha          comm/mail    4K+Automatic daily YAM .uidl file deleter :
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   343K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
Puchdemo.lha         demo/slide 1.4M+Really stupid slideshow demo. Swedish.
muimaster020.lha     dev/mui     98K+Muimaster.library 020 patch
TextEditorExam.lha   dev/src     11K+ReAction texteditor.gadget example
charlemagne.lha      docs/anno  744K+New C64 CD to release!
AIOV45.lha           docs/mags  437K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 45 (Marc
AquaDemo.lha         game/demo  2.6M+Demo of Aqua a great new commercial adve
FlashNG.lha          game/misc   74K+Small GPL Arkanoid clone with RTG suppor
angband.lha          game/role  726K+Angband 2.9.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
kangband.lha         game/role  842K+Kangband 2.9.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
MagicNumbers10.lha   game/think  33K+A small but good mind game
SvIVFix917.lha       gfx/misc     5K+*Fix* for SViewIV V9.17 (24.3.2001)
imdbDiff010316.lha   misc/imdb  2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
listchopper.lha      misc/imdb   11K+Prevent buffer overflow in MovieMUI 3.5a
ThatsWhat.lha        mods/s3m   239K+That's what friends are for
TIM_0040.lha         pix/3dani  1.3M+TIM's rendered animations (Cinema4D)
GameIcons.lha        pix/gicon  490K+Great GlowIcons for MANY Amiga games.
fomst28.jpg          pix/henz   309K+NCC-1701D (Star Trek)
fomst29.jpg          pix/henz   280K+Romulan Warbird (Star Trek)
Hipsamtab1.jpg       pix/misc    57K+A picture of the best Amiga on earth! (r
Hipsamtab2.jpg       pix/misc    53K+A picture of the best Amiga on earth! (r
Hipsamtab3.jpg       pix/misc    51K+A picture of the best Amiga on earth! (r
Cruiser.jpg          pix/trace   54K+D7 Klingon Cruiser
StationK7.jpg        pix/trace   62K+Classik Series Star Trek"The K7 Station"
theworld.jpg         pix/views  100K+Poem with background pic
guideml2.lha         text/hyper  51K+Cool AmigaGuide -> HTML converter (V2.1)
AutomaticRead.lha    text/misc   40K+An Automatic Reader that speaks your tex
CGXrndLIB.lha        util/boot  1.6M+Random Bootpic.library Selector
titleshadow.lha      util/boot   20K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
WoW.lha              util/conv   40K+Text converter (Html, Ww6, Rtf, AGuide, 
akJFIF-dt.lha        util/dtype 215K+AkJFIF-dt V44.97 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/M
akPNG-dt.lha         util/dtype 230K+AkPNG-dt V44.97 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/MOS
akPNG-PPC.lha        util/dtype  79K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.97
akTIFF-dt.lha        util/dtype 226K+AkTIFF-dt V44.97 (TIFF, 68000-060, PPC/M
WarpPSDdt.lha        util/dtype  44K+Adobe Photoshop  datatype V44.1 (68k,War
ArgueGUIColl.lha     util/misc   53K+Argue GUI for SoftCinema, Moovid, Visage
ReqAttack_mgr.lha    util/misc    5K+RAPrefsMUI hungarian catalog


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29.Mar.2001
Thomas Steiding via E-Mail


"Knights and Merchants" to be Ported to MAC
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment porting "Knights and Merchants" more ...

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29.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail


NARR-Site Update
Again there are three new downloads on the Narr-Site: more ...

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29.Mar.2001
Michael Rupp on ANF


Update: TAWS v0.7 is Online
A new version of TAWS - the Amiga Workbench simulation - is now online. TAWS is a pure JavaScript simulation of the Amiga Workbench for Win32 Internet Explorer 5.x, just for fun and of course in dedication for the Amiga. ;-)
Innovations are:
  • Real Amiga-Menue
  • Implementation of the menue commands «Open», «Close» and «Close Workbench ...»
  • Preferences program for user settings which even can be saved (pay regard to the simulated BOOPSI elements)
  • Background patterns for windows and Workbench
  • Configurable fonts, font size and colours
  • OS3.5 Icon-Dragging-Patch (for dragging several icons without SHIFT key)
  • SolidWindows-Patch (no fram while dragging or enlarging windows, but those will be redrawn immediately)
  • PowerWindows-Patch (window parts can be placed out of the visible area)
  • ClickToFront-Patch now can be disabled, too
  • Transparency while dragging icons (configurable, too)

Feedback is always welcomed, as well as your favourite patterns which I think about to implement into TAWS, then.

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29.Mar.2001
AmigArt


The Coolest Amiga on Earth!
Among yesterday's Aminet uploads AmigArt has found three pictures by Mikael Persson from Sweden showing his super-cool Amiga built into an "Amiga" table (Aminet-Readme): more ...

[News message: 29. Mar. 2001, 02:18] [Comments: 0]
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29.Mar.2001
Grzegorz Juraszek via E-Mail


New PCI-Board "Prometheus"
Announcement - Warsaw, March 29, 2001 more ...

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29.Mar.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


Virus Help Denmark created Support Shop
Virus Help Denmark, the Virus experts from the upper north, have created their own support shop with merchandising articles like T-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee cups, and mouse pads with the Virus Help Denmark logo at cafepress.com. more ...

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29.Mar.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail


Updater v1.3 for the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
For the program updater, on the 'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM' enabling access to updates, a new version was released. With this new version it is no more necessary to type in the serial code each time, but it will be saved local. The program can be downloaded from the update section on the Airsoft Softwaire homepage (title link).

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