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Archive 10/2000


22.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai


New Cartoon Online: Highway Patrol




Together with a new there's a new homepage.

The layout was completely revised and Pearl is used to give it a more interactive design.
You can now rate and comment on every cartoon.

Besides, there's now a service for Amiga clubs only. More about that here.

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22.Oct.2000
Bastian Moritz on ANF


New German Magazine - Triple-A
Bastian Moritz wrote:
Until some months ago I had created an Atari fanzine with some other people. But as I am also an Acorn user and some of my colleagues Amiga fans we thought that we could also put it all on a broader basis.

This resulted in Triple-A, a fanzine for Amiga, Acorn and Atari. The first issue comes out on 29.10. From today on you can at least surf to our homepage.

At www.triple-a-mag.de you get infos and a forum. In addition to this you can subscribe here or place free adverts.

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22.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino via email


AmigaOne Area at amiga.com
At the area products at amiga.com is now a section specially for the AmigaOne. There are news, information, FAQs and a discussion forum at your disposal.

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22.Oct.2000
David Connoly via email


CS&E: Software and Banner
CS&E will soon releae "Cosmo's Fun Class". This is a education software package for children at the age of 4-9 years. It fosters reading, calculating and the hand/eyes coordination and much more.. The software runs on an A1200. It was developed by the team of Electronics Dream Interactive. In conjunction with an Amiga Survivor subscription the package is available at a special price. To do a translation into German language CS&E needs 300 pre-orders. They expect 1000 pre-orders for the game "Carmageddon". All in all the people at CS&E hope to sell 5000 copies of "Carmageddon". "Back in Time 2" however has been finished as is the English version of "Cosmo's Fun Class", so they don't need any pre-orders for that. Details about pre-ordering are available via email: csande@csande.com and will be released soon in both, the print and online magazines of CS&E.

On the website of the Amiga Survivor magazine is free room for small banners. Everybody interested may place his/her banner there in exchange with banners by CS&E on their own websites.

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22.Oct.2000
Fun Time World


ppclibemu v0.8c
Frank Wille has released the version 0.8c of the ppclibemu on 21. October 2000. This software emulates the ppc.library by phase 5 under WarpOS and this way allows the direct use of PowerUp-programs with WarpOS. This version patches the Exec-functions FreeMem()/FreeVec() to avoid problems with bad coded programs which free PPC memory using theses Exec-functions. This affects for example TurboPrint.

Download:
The update contains solely the libraries. Everything else is included in the complete archive of the version 0.7.


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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amiga Super Expansion System
The new company Fastech announces an expansion on their website with the following features: 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot, 1 SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion ports, 1 A1200 clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x EPP parallel ports. As CPU modules are a G4 module with 400 MHz and a Coldfire module with 333 MHz announced. The expansion shall be released first for A3000/T- and A4000/T computers and is in the alpha test stage at present.

While the G4 module is delayed to reach a higher performance via a rework of the design the Coldfire module is in the test stage. As the Coldfire is not 100% compatible with the 68k line OS patches and library patches are needed. They are working on these at the moment.

Editorial note:
Hints strengthen that this website and so the report may be a fake. We can't neither confirm nor deny this at the moment, but we'll continue our investigations.

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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News


StrICQ v0.1728 beta
After a long time a new beta version of the ICQ client "StrICQ" for the Amiga was released on 20. October 2000. This beta version 0.1728 is dated on 18. February 2000. According to Czech Amiga News this version is supposed to work better together with ICQ2000. Though it tends to crash the ICQ2000 client during the chat initialisation.

Download: STRICQ.lha

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22.Oct.2000
CyberGFX


Mediator Drivers
Already on 19. October 2000 the following information appeared on the CyberGFX website: Elbox has sent an updated driver archive to the registered Mediator users. This archive contains the Mediator system files, a SANA-II network driver supporting many network chip sets and the CGX Virge driver.Those belonging to the registered Mediator users may contact Elbox regarding the latest drivers. The latest CGX Mediator drivers can be found on the CyberGFX Mediator page.

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22.Oct.2000
ANN


English Amiga Board
AmigaMos and rck-power have joint and set up the English Amiga Board. This one aims to be as good as the German Amiga Emu Board.

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22.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame


Amiga Flame: Article concerning AmigaOne Games
Articles appeared regarding the games Europa Universalis, Echelon: The Storm, Jagged Alliance 2, and Battle for the Globe at Amiga Flame.

The strategy game "Europa Universalis" will be ported by Hyperion-Software for the Amiga. The games "Echelon: The Storm" and "Jagged Alliance 2" are listed on the AmigaDE Software list that was released by Amiga recently. "Battle for the Globe" is an action-strategy game that is being developed at the moment by Nordicsoft for PPC-Amigas and IBM compatible PCs.

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22.Oct.2000
Mirko Engelhard on ANF


AmigaLand: 2 New Games
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Since today there are two new adventures on our site. Beneath a steel Sky and Lure of the Temptress. Both games were made by the company Revolution Software Ltd. who gave us the permission yesterday to offer these games for free download.

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22.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via email


Screen Shots of Crossfire II
Stefan Schulze writes:
On our website are the latest screen shots of the action shooter Crossfire ready for admiration. They are completely taken from the campaign mode.

Besides that it looks as if Jan Morgenstern (www.jm-music.de) will be supporting us as a free lancer in the future. I'm really pleased that we don't have to rely on Techno now. :)

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22.Oct.2000
ANN


Nostalgia: Putty Squad Demo
On 20. October 2000 the demo of Putty Suqad was released in the Amiga Rediscovery section of AmiHoo. This demo was released as coverdisk. The game itself was never released by System 3 Software.

Amiga Rediscovery of AmiHoo has the conception to rediscover some of the greatest Amiga games by playing the demo versions which were released as cover disk years ago. So this site also calls to share your thoughts about the games with others and to ask for help at comp.sys.amiga.misc.

Besides the demos of the recent months there's, among other things, a help file on the page reachable on the page at the title link that explains how to unpack the DMS disk archive.

Download: PuttySquad.dms

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22.Oct.2000
Schatztruhe


Aminet Set 10
Schatztruhe announces the release of the 10. Aminet set by 2. November 2000. This set contains all files that have been added since the 9. set and full versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The Aminet CDs 36 to 39 are included in unchanged. Altogether the set contains more than 3G of software in almost 4000 archives.

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22.Oct.2000
David Connolly via email


CS&E: Amiga Future and Games at the Shops
The english issue of Amiga Future will be available by February 2001 at the newspaper sellers in Great Britain and Ireland. The price will be £5,99. A six months subscription including coverdisk costs £29,99 and can be ordered at CS&E.

In Great Britain and Ireland CS&E now also offers Amiga games via retail chains like Dixons and Electronics Boutique. PC games will be ported to the Amiga (and vice versa) and released as dual-format-package by CS&E. So there are three possibilities for the Amiga user to buy games. 1) At the local Amiga retailer. 2) Via retail chains like Dixons. 3) As download liable for costs via the soon opened website http://www.pc-software.com/.

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22.Oct.2000
Jochen Abitz on ANF


Merlancia Comments on Criticism
Merlancia Industries announced some hardware for the AmigaDE some days ago covering computers from Palmtop over laptops to PC-towers. This announcement caused some doubts. In the above statement, dated 22. October 2000, Ryan E. A. Czerwinski from Merlancia comments on the criticism.

Among other things it can be read that the release of the TORRO website took place to give the Amiga community an idea now of what is in development. For the COMDEX, in Phoenix, Merlancia announced the introduction of a working Hurricane prototype and invited to an arrangement for a private talk at the exhibition. They are working on the Hurricane board for eight months now. As expected release date for the Hurricane and the eClips they named the second to third quarter 2001. This date also depends on the release of the AmigaDE.

The complete statement caters to further nine subjects.

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22.Oct.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanach III Demo Bugfix
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Everybody having difficulties with the demo of the planetarium program Digital Almanach III can download a bugfix from my homepage. Unfortunately there was an enforcer hit in the first demo version which caused problems on some few Amigas (020,030 ??).

Download: DA3Demo.lzx (2,5 MB)

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21.Oct.2000



Olliweb.de back online
olliweb.de provides information covering the Amiga - Linux subject. After the website was offline for quite some time, due to logistic and technical problems of the provider, olliweb.de is available again from now on.

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21.Oct.2000
Amidog


AMP 2
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has posted some important comments about his movieplayer "AMP 2" on his website. Among other things he points out that the prefs-format has changed. Therefore all the former AMP.cfg files must be deleted before you can use the new version. Some option were had, names of options were changed or options have been removed, and may not be used in the old way anymore. More informations can be found under the title link at the "AMP 2" section.

Download current version 1.33: AMP2pre6.lha

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21.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


EU-Commission starts Poll about Software Patents
"The European Commission has started a poll about patents on computer programs, so-called "computer-implemented inventions". Prior to this is the EU's fear that the lack of EU-standard provisions of law in this sector could slow down economic growth, competitive capacity and development of the internal market. The commission has asked concerned institutions, companies, the public, and the member-states to express themselves about a probe document from the commission's departements. The commission will state its final position concerning this subject around beginning of 2001."
Complete article under the title link. (German)

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21.Oct.2000
amiga.org


Merlancia Announces New Products Running on the AmigaDE
Merlancia announced a new product line that will run on the AmigaDE. From the Palmtop PC to tower and laptops everything is represented.

In this context, it might be interesting to point out Merlancia's Collection of Amiga and Commodore antiques and curios and prototypes and his 1974 AMX. There are lots of pictures of the prototypes.

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21.Oct.2000
Alfred Faust via eMail


BlueRibbon Soundworks Inc. Is Alive ...
Alfred Faust wrote:
Nearly 5 years after the take over of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc. by Microsoft, I received the official permission from Todor Fay (the former boss) to post all of Blue Ribbon Inc.'s products for download on my newly created homepage. Until now, the software could only be (officially and legally) acquired if you happened to be a member of Compuserve.com (USA).

I'm very grateful to Todor Fay (and surely every other musically interested AMIGA-user does so) for this permission, because in my opinion programs even though those have great functionality never have achieved this level of user-friendliness. They fit so nicely into the AMIGA system that they run on OS 3.1 and on graphic-boards (promote with NewMode) without any problem.

Bars&Pipes can be expanded by its tools and accessories to such an extend that it is in a certain way "updatable".

My new homepage concerns:
  • Bars&Pipes 2.5 (German online-manual which is also downloadable as AMIGA-Guide)
  • DB-50XG (my Hardware-Hack, online and downloadable)
  • TriplePlay3.1 (the same)

    also planned or in preparation:

  • SuperJAM! 1.1 (z.Zt. only program and styles downloadable)
  • Rules for Tools (Toolscoding for Bars&Pipes - only as download for now)
  • Inovatools1 (Intuition-expansion - used in Bars&Pipes, SuperJAM! and The PachtMeister , only as download for now)
  • My own music made with Bars&Pipes - SuperJAM! - DB-50XG
  • and more

As mentionned above the site has a huge download-area where you can _l e g a l l y_ download all of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc.'s products.

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21.Oct.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


Five New Rainboot3 Configurations
On October 20th, 2000 Airsoft Softwair released 5 new Rainboot3-configurations. There are Aladdin Boot, Beatbox Boot, Baaack Boot, Lion King Boot and Windows Sucks Boot by Werner Henkel. You can find them at the download area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage.

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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS: BoardType V1.0
BoardType is a small tool which prints out the version of the BlizzardPPC board in use. This information is needed to track bugs. The bug report should mention the output of this tool.

Download: boardtype.lzh (1,6K)

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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS: CygnusEd Professional 4.21
An official PPC port of the text editor "CygnusEd Professional V4.21" has been released for MorphOS. This port needs the original CygnusEd4-CD-ROM as a basis. During the installation of the patch, the 68k version stays untouched so that it can still be used in case one would like to install both versions on the same partition. The updated frontend recognizes whether the editor has been started under MorphOS or AmigaOS an then loads the corresponding binary. This update can also be downloaded at Schatztruhe.

Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd.lha (211K)

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21.Oct.2000
Michael Heider on ANF


Kernel Version 2.2.10 for Linux_m68k Available
Michael Heider wrote:
As announced, the Kernel-2.2.10 for Linux_m68k can be downloaded on my homepage under the link mentioned above from today on. A comment how to install this kernel is included in the archive.

I would also like to announce the following: After a call at SuSE I was told that SuSE Linux 7.0 for PowerPC should be available from next week on. Pre-orders are already accepted at this time.

In near future I will once again create an installation how-to and inform about the innovations.

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21.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta nn ANF


Nightlong problems due to bugs
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
Nightlong has been shipped and I received it today. Unfortunately the game cannot be installed since there are no executable icons. As promised, Qu**e is included but it can't be installed either, but there are nice videos on the CD.

Note from the editors office: Many users were able to run the game without any problems. As we were told on the phone today, a wrong CD-filesystem might cause this problem

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21.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF


PlayGUI News
On the PlayGUI website there is a small update for PlayGUI (v3.a).
  • PlayGUI now shows Playtime
  • Playtime can be switched on and off
  • Bugfix (no mod in memory caused problems)


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21.Oct.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Amiga Inc. anounnces the AmigaOne
Press release: October 21, 2000, Melbourne, Australia - It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the first new Amiga hardware in over 6 years. The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary Amiga Digital Environment (DE).

We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed it the "Zico". It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their needs and tastes.

The Zico specification is as follows:
  • One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
  • 64MB+ memory
  • Next Generation Matrox graphics card
  • Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
  • 10 GB+ HD
  • CD/DVD
  • USB 1.0
  • Firewire
  • 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
  • 56k modem
  • Spare PCI slots for expandibility
With the completion of the specification stage of the Amiga One, we contacted several respected hardware companies with a view to selecting partners who would be interested in creating AmigaOne products.

The AmigaOne process involves close co-operation between Amiga and our partners' hardware groups, the running of the AmigaDE on the hardware, and a thorough quality certification of the final product. Only then can the product be called an AmigaOne.

Whilst still in detailed negotiation with several companies, we are delighted to announce the first partner company and its initial set of AmigaOne products.

The Eyetech Group Ltd, of Stokesley, U.K. already has an excellent reputation in the Amiga community. They have done much to keep the classic Amiga alive during the last five years, and we feel that in the creation of the first new Amiga machines and the transitioning >from the classic to the next wave, that experience will prove invaluable.

Bill McEwen President of Amiga Inc commented: "This arrangement builds on and extends our existing partnership agreement with Eyetech, first announced in April of this year. Our experience during this period has shown Eyetech to be a no-nonsense company capable of delivering what they promise on time and this consideration also weighed heavily in our choice of a hardware partner for the PPC based AmigaOne."

Alan Redhouse, Managing Director of UK-based Eyetech, said; "I am delighted that we have been able to build on our existing partnership with Amiga and continue our close working relationship with them on both a technical and manufacturing level. Our decade of Amiga experience, plus our hardware and software efforts to push the Amiga forwards means that we are able to work with Amiga to deliver a proven upgrade solution to Amiga users which gives their existing 'Classic' applications an immediate and substantial performance boost whilst providing full forward compatibility with the new Amiga DE. Our work on the Predator line of boards means that we can help Amiga to fulfill its requirement of maximising the investment of the current community as it moves forwards."

Fleecy Moss, Chief Technology Officer, Amiga Inc added: "After talks with the hardware development staff of several companies I am convinced that working with Eyetech will allow us to offer an elegant solution that gives both an excellent level of backward compatibility and a powerful basis for the new Amiga Digital Environment. Top of our requirements list was to ensure that those Amigans who have spent considerable money in staying with the Amiga would not be left out in the cold. Whilst you can't please all of the people all of the time, we think we have come up with a set of products and solutions that will put a smile on as many faces as possible."

Eyetech is focusing on an immediate need in the existing Amiga market. Many have already invested considerable resources in their classic Amigas, both in terms of hardware and in terms of software. Whilst keen to move forwards with the AmigaOne, they also want to maximise their investment in the classic platform.

The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 is a custom board which uses Eyetech Predator technology with the "zico" specification to provide a perfect synergy of classic and next generation. It provides all the functionality of the standalone AmigaOne PPC, but has been extended to mate with a classic Amiga A1200. This allows customers who have a serious investment in the classic Amiga to continue to use their machines whilst also having a brand new Amiga at their disposal. The 68k processor in the A1200 will be emulated at a substantially increased level via the PPC processor on the AmigaOne, whilst the classic operating system can take advantage of the AmigaOne's next generation hardware resources.

The AmigaOne PPC 4000 machine is similarly designed to allow customers who have a significant investment in their classic Amiga A4000 to be able to move that investment forwards whilst also benefiting from the next generation capabilities of the AmigaOne.

The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 will be available as an upgrade for owners of towered A1200 computers, the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 4000 as an upgrade for Amiga 4000 desktop computers in tower conversion cases. Options for producing AmigaOne PPC upgrade designs for other Classic Amiga designs (such as the A3000 and Amiga International A4000T) will be looked at (subject to demand) once the A1200 and A4000 products are released.

In order to implement all the features of the AmigaOne specification the, A1200 and A4000 upgrade versions will feature one AGP and six PCI slots, a user-upgradable G3/G4 (Macintosh-type) cpu slot, up to 512MB SDRAM and a high speed IDE/ATAPI interface. The system will be dual-bootable both into the Amiga DE and into Classic Amiga Workbench. This latter feature will allow purchasers to have the performance benefits of full G3/G4 cpu speeds and 512MB of SDRAM memory whilst running Classic Amiga software. Both these boards are scheduled to ship in 1Q01, with developer versions being available in December 2000.

Design of both the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC A1200 and A4000 products has been done with great sensitivity to the existing user and developer community.

"By releasing the classic compatible AmigaOne PPC products first," said Alan Redhouse. "We are providing a transitional path forwards for the existing community, enabling them to maximise their current investment whilst also leaping ahead with the new Amiga DE."

In order to facilitate this transition, the classic Amiga operating system will see its lifeline extended. OS3.9, to be launched before Christmas will add a raft of new features and functionality, and will be able to run on the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC classic products.

Eyetech are also keen to talk to existing hardware manufacturers about possibilities for licencing, manufacturer and other co-operation in order to ensure a smooth transition of the existing Amiga community from the present to the future.

Amiga is also very close to signing up partners for a standalone AmigaOne machine. The ATX form factor AmigaOne has been designed to run the full consumer version of the Amiga Digital Environment (DE) allowing the best of the Classic Amiga software which has been ported to run directly under the Amiga DE, and the use of a wide range of Amiga DE-based digital content - such as productivity software, content creation suites, development environments and 3-D games - to be used 'out of the box'.

All this work - including extensive testing of hardware and software components - is scheduled to be complete in time for end user deliveries 3Q01. Amiga Inc is currently in negotiation with several potential partner companies for the development and manufacture of the stand-alone AmigaOne and its related digital content/software. Companies interested in producing this version, utilising the PPC processor family include Eyetech, and bplan GmbH of Germany. We hope to have announcements to make on this within the next few weeks. Other companies and other processors are also under negotiation.

A new website is being set up, specifically to provide a focal point for news, questions, comment and discussion on the AmigaOne, and we encourage people to visit it and participate.

Supplement:
More links on this subject:
Slashdot: Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of (German)
Golem: AmigaOne - New Amiga comes in late summer 2001

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21.Oct.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF


AminetGUI - Update
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The AminetGUI is once again free from commercial banners and PopUp windows. The AminetGUI has also found a new server. I would like to thank Ingo Bowe once more for providing his server.

During the move, AminetGUI has been restructured. The new structure permits to provide new language versions of AminetGUI in a simple way. A developer archive with a matching template in the download area will be available soon. Spanish will be the first language to be added. Many thanks in advance to Tomás J. Cantóy Diez. More translators are always welcome.

I would also like to thank Buster who send me the German version of the Aminet-Upload.docs some while ago. Those can be reached at the Docs area. Due to the move I also drop the Link area. Links are handled by the Amiga-Gateway from now on.

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21.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


Malice: The better Q***e?
To shorten the waiting until the release of Shogo and Sin a bit, I provide a test about Malice, a Q***e conversion. Is it really more than a mission pack?

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21.Oct.2000



New Aminet Uploads
MCC_Guigfx.lha       dev/mui    172K+Guigfx MUI custom class V19.2
BackUp.lha           disk/bakup  31K+A simple backup tool.. v1.2
dblocate.lha         disk/misc   20K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
ges3b.lzh            game/hint  7.9M+Packet of solutions, cheats cards to gam
WHDShdWarriors.lha   game/patch  23K+HD Installer for Shadow Warriors V1.1
Detris.lha           game/wb     45K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715!
MPEG_S_LAMEppc.lha   mus/misc   232K+MPEG_S_LAME the MP3 Encoder for SoundFX 
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc    81K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
DeliDecrunch.lha     mus/play     9K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.1
MRQ.lha              util/cdity 151K+The MUI requester improver, now OpenSour
Cmp.lha              util/cli     4K+Nice and tiny binary file compare tool
HexShow.lha          util/cli     5K+Shows files as Hex
SED.lha              util/cli    13K+Amiga stream editor
MultiRen.lha         util/misc  173K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with 
DRemind.lha          util/time  216K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.56!
CLICon.lha           util/wb    161K+A versatile replacement for IconX


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21.Oct.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail


Statusreport about Descent: Freespace 'The Great War'
Hyperion Entertainment Software is working on a port of "Descent: Freespace 'The Great War'". The game already runs in software-render-mode. The engine still needs some optimization before work on the 3D acceleration can begin. Furthermore Ben Yoris tolled us that there is still hope for a version running on 060 or 040 CPUs with Warp3D.

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21.Oct.2000
Jens Schönfeld via eMail


Kickflash under Production
After a long period of waiting a reworked version of Kickflash is finally under production. First there will be a version for the absolute Amiga classics, the A500 and A1000. Besides 1MB flash memory for Kickstart ROMs, there is also a 86 pin CPU-Slot for A2000 accelerator cards, and a Zorro slot. A version for the A1200 will follow.

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20.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com homepage


Results of the Top 10 SDK Wish List now made public
At the title link you'll find the results of the top 10 SDK wishes survey. Among others, special wishes like an extended documentation on VP programming (special tutorials and examples), USB and Firewire support, or even a language translation routine were named.

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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF


Earth 2140 Status Report Part 2
The second part of the Earth 2140 status report is available at the "preview area" at Amigafire.

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20.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF


PlayGUI Website News
Version 1.6 of the PlayGUI add-on PLone is finally ready and can be found on the PlayGUI website. The following has changed since V1.5:
  • New: PlayerControl
  • New: DeliTracker support
  • Fix: Saving now works correctly again
  • Change: Small change made to the playlist format
  • New: Support for the new PlayGUI functions (Midi/MPeg)
  • New: Skin.txt support
  • New: Internal (sample/midi) and mp3 suffix file check
  • New: mp3 TAG support (currently no genre, though)
  • New: Play16 support + prefs
  • New: MPegA support + prefs
  • New: GMPlay (midi) support + prefs
  • Fix: Add Directory function fixed
  • New: Images lv_pic and op_pic as default pictures. That means that a skin can now be a single main image only.
  • New: Starts Hip/DeliTracker by itself if required
  • New: (Still) simple ASCII export function
  • New: Samples can now have a comment
  • New: There can be dividers inserted
  • New installer script
  • New skin


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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Dellert on ANF


Press Photos of G-Rex Available
On our website you now can see a press photo of the G-Rex-PCI bridge.

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20.Oct.2000
Kamil Barczynski on ANF


PSV Manager Available in English
Thanks to the help of 'Scanner' (webmaster of the Ami-Site), our soccer management game 'PSV Manager' is now available for download in English on our new website. There you'll also find further information on 'PSV Manager' and all other current and future projects.

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20.Oct.2000
AmiSpaTra


A Coruna - Meeting of Spanish Internet Participants
About 600 internet participants from all over Spain will meet from October 20th to October 26th in A Coruna at the Arroutada Party. This year's Arroutada Party is held at the Coliseo of A Coruna, organized by the "da Mocedade Informatica Galega de A Coruna (Amiga)" and sponsored by the local town hall.

According to informations from the local town hall, this is the eighth year of this party which was held until now at the Forum Metropolitano, but was moved to the Coliseo due to the enormous success.

At this multiuser event a network of 600 computers is formed which are all connected to the internet. The technology is sponsored by the R. Ademas company. A sound machine of 80,000 watt will be available as well. Contests with prices of up to one million ptas will take place.

A huge projection screen will be installed as well on which animations, roboter fights on Linux and other elements from the world of computer science can be seen. Also, further activities will be organized which are aimed at the entertainment of the participants.

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20.Oct.2000
CyberGFX Homepage


Pictures of Phase5 PCI Board Prototype
A two year old picture was made available on the CyberGraphX homepage which shows the prototype of a PCI bridge from Phase5. The prototype served as a help for the development of graphics board drivers for the Amiga based on Mac graphics boards. You can find the link to the picture if you follow the title link in the second news bottom right (Phase5 G-Rex PCI Bridge Prototype).

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20.Oct.2000
MorphOS Team


MorphOS - Butterfly 1.1, Ghostscript 5.10 and SoX 12.17 Released
The MorphOS team announced the following product updates:

  • Butterfly 1.1 is a graphical frontend for the MprphOS launch program. The program can be started from anywhere, but the standard prefs file assumes that Butterfly is in the user directory. Newly added was a ResetLevel switch, as on some configurations the standard ResetLevel settings did not work. Please read the Startup.doc file for more details. You'll find the archive here: Butterfly1.1.lha (38K).
  • Ghostscript 5.10 was ported for MorphOS/PPC. The installation requires the 68k mode as well as the IXEmul archive. The file is available for download at: gs510.lha (690K).
  • Sound eXchange 12.17 was ported to MorphOS. The program converts 20 different sound formats. The download archive can be found here: sox 12.17 morphos.lha (104K).


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20.Oct.2000
Mike Bouma on Slashdot.org


Slashdot.org Reports on the Growing Success of Amiga
Mike Bouma wrote: «Already well over 15,000 developers have bought the Amiga SDK 1.0 and soon there will be an update available (3D, Sound, GUI and performance improvements). It will be downloadable freely for 1.0 buyers and a Windows equivalent will be available. There is an enormous amount of activity going on within the Amiga community, ....»
Read the full article at the title link.

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