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Archive 04/2001


09.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
QuickNote V1.5 Beta 1
OnxySoft released version 1.5 (Beta 1) of the program 'QuickNote' by Stefan Blixth. Download: quicknote15b0408.lha

Tales of Tamar Amiga Client V0.34r2
There is a new version (V0.35 R2) of the Amiga-client of Tales of Tamar for registered beta testers available here.

Shogo:MAD
As already reported Hyperion Software uploaded a demo of Shogo:MAD to the Aminet. Download: ShogoDemo.lha or ShogoDemo.lha

Ghostscript 6.50
Rüdiger Hanke announced that
he released version 6.50. The download is available at his Homepage.

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09.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
SKF13Theme.lha       biz/dopus  7.1M+Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2
ListbrowserPch.lha   biz/patch   10K+Fixes AWeb popup problems with OS3.9 BB1
ShogoDemo.lha        biz/titan   36M+Shogo: Mobile Armor Division demo versio
fnews10.lha          comm/misc   50K+Free configurable News Display Tool for 
daytimedemo.lha      comm/tcp     9K+Daytime client/server example + source (
smbfs.lha            comm/tcp   120K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   362K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
mbs-oldskool.lha     demo/ecs   300K+Oldskool Fools by Mandel Bros.
dln-1st.lha          demo/intro 140K+First intro by Deadline SF
dln-dentro.lha       demo/intro 102K+Dentro by Deadline SF
dln-mustro.lha       demo/intro 146K+Mustro (2nd intro) by Deadline SF
Message.lha          demo/intro  88K+An Old-School Demo by HCS 90
upstream1.lha        demo/mag   579K+Upstream 1 diskmag by Balance
upstream10.lha       demo/mag   436K+Upstream 10 diskmag by Balance
upstream8.lha        demo/mag   645K+Upstream 8 diskmag by Balance
dln-notelines.lha    demo/sound 803K+Notelines musicdisk by Deadline SF
deepcore.lha         demo/track 406K+Deepcore trackmo by Balance
JMildred_ScrMd.lha   dev/basic   18K+Example of using Mildred with AGA and RT
devpic.lha           dev/cross   95K+PIC16 development package
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   144K+V2.124 create pragma, inline, ... files
muimaster020.lha     dev/mui     97K+Muimaster.library 020 patch Rel 4
IICopier2.0PL.lha    docs/help    9K+Polish Locale for IconImageCopier2.0
jAnimator1.0PL.lha   docs/help   10K+Polish Locale for jAnimator1.0
MagellanIIPL.lha     docs/help   39K+Polish Locale for MagellanII
Aakt0401GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   89K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0401HTML.lha     docs/mags  267K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
rusfaqs.lha          docs/misc   94K+Amiga FAQs, in Russian
SuddenDeath.lha      game/actio  50K+4 player tron
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data    9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (1 April
obvious.lha          game/data  102K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
MUI_HLed.lha         game/misc   71K+Map editor for HistoryLine 1914-1918
PerOneMine1.lha      game/misc  249K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine2.lha      game/misc  362K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine3.lha      game/misc  363K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine4.lha      game/misc  345K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine5.lha      game/misc  336K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine6.lha      game/misc  372K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
gse1.lha             game/patch  17K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
WHD_JWSnooker.lha    game/patch  30K+HD Installer for Jimmy White Snooker
WHD_PDroid90.lha     game/patch  17K+HD Installer for Paradroid90
WHD_RAMHamster.lha   game/patch   8K+HD Installer for Rockstar Ate My Hamster
WHD_UridiumII.lha    game/patch  14K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer
WHD_Zeewolf.lha      game/patch  25K+HD Installer for Zeewolf
WHD_ZeewolfII.lha    game/patch  24K+HD Installer for Zeewolf II
eyangband.lha        game/role  789K+EyAngband 0.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha          game/role  953K+Gumband 2.1.3b - Roguelike solo RPG
kangband.lha         game/role  843K+Kangband 2.9.2r1 - Roguelike solo RPG
oangband.lha         game/role  900K+Oangband 0.5.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
Connect4.lha         game/think  64K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
MagicNumbersDt.lha   game/think   2K+V1.1, German catalog for MagicNumbers v1
MentalBlokz.lha      game/think 405K+Puzzle game that will drive you mental f
Warp3D-4.0.lha       gfx/board  980K+Warp3D V4
SoftCinema.lha       gfx/show   403K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.12
FMdriver.lha         hard/drivr 356K+FrameMachine drivers, TV on WB, Videos a
FMdriverVHI.lha      hard/drivr  15K+FMdriverVHI - VHI-FrameMachine drivers
ps2m.lha             hard/hack   23K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 WheelMouseController
mathdrill.lha        misc/edu    50K+Math Drill Flashcards Program
imdbDiff010330.lha   misc/imdb  2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
vdo_whit.lha         mods/vdo   802K+Valkoinen [xm 14ch]
DelfMPEG.lha         mus/play   161K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
dmdev.lha            mus/play   135K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
MASMPegDevice.lha    mus/play   129K+CBM compat. device for MAS MP3 Player
AMIGirl.lha          pix/misc   321K+Picture of Death - The AMiGA Girl ;) by 
BareED.lha           text/edit  279K+Simple text editor which supports propor
AutoPDF14.lha        text/misc   26K+AutoPDF 1.4 - Convert Postscript to PDF
ltools157_demo.lha   text/misc   70K+Dictionary and Document Translator
CheckX.lha           util/arc    30K+V1.83 Check for Archives/Packers/Viruses
ilbmdtPPC.lha        util/dtype  11K+Ilbmdt for the PPC, running WarpUP (45.3
WarpDTPrefs.lha      util/dtype  27K+WarpDT preferences program V44.3
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 133K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.19 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 140K+PNG image datatype V44.14 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
cookietool.lha       util/misc   67K+Clean up your fortunes database, V2.5
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni  498K+V1.44 - WB graphics benchmark
WheelBusMouse.lha    util/mouse  12K+Bus Mouse wheel support
ScreenShell.lha      util/shell   9K+Opens full size shell on new public scre
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  19K+PatchBrain v1.29 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
aafont.lha           util/wb      4K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.1)
choowin.lha          util/wb     19K+Start and Window activation utility
classaction.lha      util/wb    190K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager
CondenseIcon.lha     util/wb      6K+Os3.5 tool to make .info files smaller (
mainprefs.lha        util/wb     86K+AmigaOS Preferences GUI


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09.Apr.2001
Thomas Würgler on ANF


Trojan Warning (Update II)
Some sort of trojan (apparently the newly uploaded stackattack.lha on Aminet) has caused SMTP bombing of haage-partner. The file is this: StackAttack.lha util/boot 68K 0 V1.2b Kills GURUs (stack problem). It's on the German Aminet mirror.
Could there be hidden loopholes in MorphOS? Read the link and consider for yourself.

Frank Niewiedzial informed us that other files could be affected too.
"Do not download and install safe.lha and fblit.lha. They are fakes and send hatemails to H&P."

Silivio K. told us that the current version of 'BlaceWCP' could be concerned too.
"The current version of BlaceWP, available from the aminet, opens the port 113 (auth) of your computer and connects to the H&P web- and ftpserver! The program itself is not a product of H&P. Thats why it could be possible that it is a trojan too.
The following logs were recorded:
tcp 0 0 pD9042BA5.dip.t-.auth haage-partner.co.61797 TIME_WAIT
16:00:46.081940 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net.2865 > haage-partner.com.smtp
16:02:08.530618 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net > 217.5.107.165: icmp: echo request
"

Annotation of editor's:
Haage & Partner confirmed that at the moment 15 e-mails arrive at H&P every minute. Juergen Haage: "Do not panic. No normal mail will get lost."

The MorphOS-Team has nothing to do with the virus and dissociate from this! "Lowest level, this is not our way of competition".

Even Georg Steger, the original author of StackAttack dissociates him self in his commentary at ANN.

Virus Help Denmark and the admin of the aminet Matthias Scheler are informed and they will check the files and maybe delete them.

At the title link there is a tool available that removes the task from the ram. After reboot it will be there again and you have to restart the tool.

Annotation: Messsage of the day from Aminet
  • TROJAN HORSES FOUND ON AMINET. The following four archives on Aminet were unfortunately infected: util/boot/StackAttack.lha, util/boot/BlazeWCP.lha, util/virus/Safe.lha and util/boot/FBlit.lha. They contain faked releases of the original software linked with a Trojan horse which sends out abusive e-mails. On infected systems a process called "zakahackandpatch" will show up. If your system is infected deleted the software listed abover or replace it with older versions and reboot. As a protest against this abuse of Aminet we will shut down our services on "us.aminet.net" and "de.aminet.net" until Friday.
  • DE3.AMINET.NET NOW COMPLETE. The mirror in Erlangen, Germany now stores all Aminet files.

Annotation 10.04.2001:
Following the official message by Virus Help Denmark. They are offering the old alten Archives at there homepage.

Four new 'TCP' trojans was found today on Aminet. If you installed one of these archives, please delete the files. We hope to have a cure for these trojan within the next 24 hours.
The TCP trojan will send an email to 'Haage & Partner', with a very stupid text.

Here is what we know so far:

Virus Type.... : TCP Trojan
Trojan name....: zakahackandpatch

Archive name.. : Safe.lha Archive size.. : About 20 kb
Archive name.. : Fblit.lha Archive size.. : 142.086 bytes
Archive name.. : BlazeWCP.lha Archive size.. : 32.862 bytes
Archive name.. : stackattack.lha Archive size.. : About 32 kb

Thanx to Frank Niewiedzial, Kev Harrison, Luca Longone and many more for your information about these archives.....

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09.Apr.2001
Greg Donner


Update of the Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ
Since our last message about the official OS3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner there were many updates in different parts of the FAQ.

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09.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Prerelease!
We made ArTKnoid by Thilo Koehler (developer of Toadies) available at our side. The program is a arkanoid-clone.

Amiga Arena TaskiSMS annotation
The registration for the special-price for TaskiSMS is now possible via snail-mail.

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09.Apr.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac III - News
After a longer brake there are now some new news about Digital Almanac III (DA 3). The English version is available now! The German update will be available within a few days.

These are the main changes since version 2.0:
  • Improved stability
  • Corrected times of the rising and setting of the moon.
  • PixelCheck-function does not longer crash with CGX-15/16/24Bit-Screens.
  • Times of moon eclipses in the calendar are now in local time.
  • and much more...

Furthermore there are about 100MB of videos concerning astronomy and science-fiction.

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09.Apr.2001
Markus Fellhauer on ANF


AmigAIM 0.9412 Beta Released
Betaversion 0.9412 of AmigaAIM by Richard H. Poser is available for download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha

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09.Apr.2001
Jens Troeger on ANF


InstallerNG
I released a small update of InstallerNG. I only changed the runtime error handling: you are able to switch of the error requestors via tooltypes.

There will be version 2 out in some weeks. If you have any wishes for the new version just send me a mail.

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09.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF


Abode of Golgotha Saga at NoRiscNoFun
We have a review of the Abode of Golgotha Saga. These games are based on the Heretic II engine.

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08.Apr.2001
Michael Garlich via E-Mail


Titan Computer Support MorphOS
Press release from Titan Computer, Software Development, 08.04.2001

Titan Computer is happy to announce that we have decided to now also support MorphOS in the future.

One of our first projects will be the video-editing software Motionstudio, which will be developed by the company with the same name, who have already developed software like Elastic Dreams and Artstudio Pro.

Motionstudio will be released in 4/Q exclusively for MorphOS. The software supports non-linear video-editing, PlugIn interface, more than 40 video- and audio effects, innovative GUI as well as Firewire support (e.g. B-Plan Pegasos Computer).

Take a look at one of the first screenshots (201 kB) of the GUI.

Kontakt:
Titan Computer
Mahndorfer Heerstr. 80 A
D-28307 Bremen
Tel.: +49/(0)421/48 16 20
Fax : +49/(0)421/43 88 29

E-Mail: MacFly@TitanComputer.de
WWW: http://www.Titan-Computer.com

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08.Apr.2001
RELEC im ANF


Prometheus in Switzerland & France
Prometheus in Switzerland & France!
RELEC Software & Hardware AMIGA become exclusive distributor in Switzerland and France. More informations and FAQ in French at relec.prometheus.html.

Note from the editor:
'Prometheus' is not the BBS-software, but the PCI-Board by Matay with the same name.


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08.Apr.2001
Jens Schönfeld on ANF


Mekka & Symposium 2001 co-sponsored by individual Computers
As during the past years we support the now nearly legendary scene-party Mekka & Symposium with prices for about 1100,- DM. The fourday party is held every year on easter in Fallingbostel (between Hamburg and Hannover (our report).

In the Mid 80's the first "European style demos" came to the C-64. Intro-Coders broke with the Cracker-scene to let their creativity develop freely. In the 90's this programming style evolved on all of the computer systems, for example Amiga, C-64 and PC, to an style of art, which we think is worth supporting.

The programming (coding) of demos has become a lifestyle for some people: Even the proposal of marriage of a well known C-64 coder to his girlfriend had to shown as a demo over the "big screen" - supported by the applause from several thousand scene-members.

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08.Apr.2001
Martina Jacobs


Sven Drieling's Evaluation now also in English
Martina Jacobs has translated the evaluation by Sven Drieling entitled "St. Louis 2001: Nothing has changed".

St. Louis 2001: nothing has changed - 05.04.2001 Translator: Martina Jacobs

Last weekend Amiga published their current plans in St. Louis which beforehand were announced to be a ground shaking event. According to what I have read about that in the Internet since Sunday it seems to me that nothing has changed.

Amiga's long term target further on is a portable, independent running AmigaDE combined with TAO's Elate. New is that the plan to develop AmigaOS v5 including memory protection, SMP, and other features as an further foundation component for this system was added. Furthermore there is Sharp featuring a cooperation to develop applications for Sharp's Zaurus PDA basing on AmigaDE.

Unfortunately no changes happened to Amiga's information policy, too, thus it is very hard to understand, what Amiga's plans are about and I'm not quit sure if I realized their plans correctly.

Indeed it effects me if Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss are talking about one single plan, but concentrating on opposite tails. Bill McEwen is focusing on short term targets (AmigaOS for PPC, PDA, hosted AmigaDE) and Fleecy Moss is focusing on the long term targets (independent running, portable AmigaOS v5 + AmigaDE for hardware from PDAs through servers including the desktops). Those two different focal points might be one reason for the current confusion. A second reason might be that Amiga didn't publish any contiguous texts clearly stating their future plans, by now - a.o. still almost nothing is known about the AmigaDE.

As I've got it the plans are now as follows, whereas I'm absolutely not sure, if my version is correct, since it is very hard to read what Amiga now actually wants to do from the input coming from Amiga and there is range for personal interpretations.

Short term targets are the AmigaDE hosted on Linux and WindowsCE for PDAs, an an AmigaOS v4.x plus the hosted AmigaDE for PPC computers, which meet the Zico specification. For example this applies to the AmigaOne 1200 by Eyetech.

The long term target is a portable, independent, run-anywhere OS basing on the AmigaOS and combined with TAO's Elate and the AmigaDE. That OS will offer memory protection, virtual memory, SMP, and similar and will be available scalable for from PDAs through servers.

In this there are no changes in plans for and further development of AmigaDE. It still will offer the VP, the Sheep language, OpenGL, and the other planned and still unknown features and it will run hosted on other systems, as well as it will be available as an independent system, on the long run.

The d'Amiga also might still will act as a computer for software development with an advanced SDK. I don't think/hope that Amiga will nominate the Zico-PPC for the only development computer for AmigaDE.

By that and 15 month after their foundation Amiga should now meet the wishes of both, the people wanting an AmigaOS for PPC as well as the people recommending AmigaDE, and not at the expense of any of these groups.

It is completely incomprehensible to me, why Amiga is not capable to put this across the public.

What makes me bothered by St. Louis

Calamitous information policy

Amiga finally has to realize that it is absolutely impossible for outsiders to understand and to comprehend what Amiga actually is planning and for what reason. This is due to all of the necessary information published only bit by bit on account of tempered reactions from Amiga users, who were completely confused and misinformed after the announcements in St. Louis.

What sill is missing are texts illustrating Amiga's plans clearly, understandable, comprehensible, and without contradiction - on amiga.com. Such would not only be helpful for the Amiga users, but even for Amiga's staffers, who again got a flood of tempered reactions lavished on them after St. Louis, while they could have spent their time doing more suggestive things.

No new SDK

Contrary to what was anticipated by many of us there was no new version of the SDK presented in St. Louis already containing e.g. OpenGL, a glimpse on Sheep, and offering other elements. That might have been a reason for the impression that Amiga now would disregard the AmiaDE and instead would put their focus on AmigaOS.

Neglect of current AmigaPPC computers

In the beginning disregarding the AmigaOS and concentrating on the AmigaDE. There even wasn't the definite statement that a third-party company will port AmigaDE to the current AmigaPPC machines and that AmigaDE will contain a Classic Amiga emulation right from start (with accentuation on definite statement). Because of such statements one could have purchased hard- and software for the existing Amigas in peace of conscience, since one would have known that one would be able to use those components together with AmigaDE in the future. That way Amiga companies and distributors could have continued to transacted their businesses from early 2000.

That's why I don't understand why Amiga makes the same mistakes, again. AmigaOS v4.x was announced for Zico PPC machines, but there is no definite statement that AmigaOS v4.x also will be available for existing PPC-Amigas. Equipped with a PCI board plus adequate FireWire cards, and similar, these computers would meet the Zico specification, moreover.

I understand that Amiga themselves is focusing the easier to handle AmigaOne. With this Amiga will not forfeit time and they can concentrate on their real target in a better way. But I cannot understand why the possibility for third-party companies to port the AmigaOS v4.x for AmigaOne to the existing PPC-Amigas wasn't mentioned in one single announcement. Though somewhere Fleecy Moss denoted that possibility, there doesn't seem to be any definite statement on that.

Amiga would not deteriorate by such a port, but probably there would be some 1,000 AmigaOS v4.x users more. Nobody would mope because of the expensive PPC hardware suddenly becoming useless, though this hardware would be proper for the AmigaOS, and Amiga companies and Amiga vendors could earn money with PCI boards, and similar, already now, instead of being forced to wait for the AmigaOne in summer.

Neglect of desktops

Regarding the AmigaDE Amiga first put their focus on PDAs. Due to the existing cooperation with Sharp and - as I think - because it is easier to gain a secure market position in the PDA section than in the desktop section, they are doing it right. But since AmigaDE must be available for desktop machines (developer machines), and because one certain point in case of PDAs is the easy data transfer between PDA and desktops, in my opinion nothing objects to talk about desktops in one breath. Since just AmigaDE would make it possible to execute one single application on PDAs as well as on desktops. The desktop variant then would run hosted on the widely spread Windows and Linux machines, and in addition on AmigaOS v4.x on PPC-Amiga computers.

Conclusion

With AmigaDE plus applications for PDAs and AmigaOS plus the PPC-hardware, in my opinion Amiga takes two ways on which Amiga, as well as third-party companies, could have gains in a short term, already. Additionally Amiga now meet the wishes of the PPC and AmigaDE backers, without changing the initial targets.

I don't know why Amiga now reclaims the AmigaOS. Reasons for that might have been the claims to further develop the AmigaOS, and that Amiga learned to know reality during the last month and while that learned that yet it takes some time to transform own ideas, no matter how good these are.

The Zico PPC computers are still a very small corner of the market only addressing the existing Amiga users, for the first time. With a LinuxPPC for those machines the ring of users can be extended with another hand full of people, who then might become aware of AmigaOS and AmigaDE, too. But in my opinion it will not be possible to address a bigger market with that. But this might be possible by a hosted AmigaDE for PDAs and desktops. While I still don't know what AmigaDE is about in detail, so I absolutely have no idea how much interesting this system would be for users of other systems.

But if there would be an independent running AmigaDE, already yet, that would represent only a small part of the AmigaDE systems installed, cause most of AmigaDE systems probably would run hosted on another system, as I think. Because this way users were able to use the system and software they know and additionally the new system with the run-anywhere software. They would not be forced to switch to another system, overnight.

Because I don't have any details about the AmigaDE, I cannot estimate Amiga's future chances, at the time being. But I think they now have put their plans on stable ground, thus they have good conditions in the beginning.

But in my opinion a possible breakthrough will not come overnight, but will yield over the years. One important thing in this then will be the portable AmigaOS v5, in which assumedly AmigaOS and AmigaDE will melt together as one, making Amiga independent from other systems.

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08.Apr.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF


AmiNET-Gui Available under www.aminet-gui.de
The AmiNET-Gui is, at last, once again reachable under a .de-domain. The Domain aminet-gui.de will in the next hours once again link to the amiNET-Gui. Shortly the page will be redesigned , as soon as http://www.aminet.de will be connected once again.

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08.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
V³ 3.3.95beta
The browser Voyager is now available in 2 versions, one for AmigaOS and one for MorphOS. Which changes have been made can be read in the Readme.
Download:
AmigaOS: v3_3395beta_amigaos.lzx
MorphOS: v3_3395beta_morphos.lzx

Choowin V1.0
Martin Elsner has released version 1.0 of his Workbench-Tool 'Choowin'. Choowin is a small tool to start programs and bring windows to the front and activate them, similar to a task-manager. Version 1.0 now has a startmenu, a new tooltype-filter and a new look
Download: choowin.lha - 20 kB

SoftCinema V0.12 beta
Total Vision has released beta-version 0.12 of SoftCinema, the movie and animation player for the Amiga. The program ist shareware, an unregistered version plays only 30 seconds. You can register the program online at RegNet or, if you don't have a credit card, order at Fun Time World.
Download: SoftCinema_012.lha

CondenseIcon V44.5
Stephan Rupprecht released version44.5 of CondenseIcon, which lets you shrink .info-files.
Download: CondenseIcon.lha - 6 kB

Mapeditor V1.01
At Peter Weigoldt you can find version 1.01 of his map editor for the game 'Schlachtfeld'.
Download: Karteneditor.lha - 72 kB

Turboprint V7.17beta
At IrseeSoft version 7.17Beta of the printer driver system 'Turboprint' is available for download.
Download: tp717beta.lha

VEPatchBrain V1.29
AT Virus Help Denmark you can find the new PatchBrain version 1.29 for the virus checker 'VirusExecutor'. Here the details:
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.29
Archivename: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archivesize: 19.658 Bytes
Releasedate: 8. April 2001
Coder: Jan Erik Olausen


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08.Apr.2001
A.C.T. on ANF


Prelude Programmer-Infos
A.C.T. have made available the first version (currently only in German) of the information for programmers, which will allow to write Prelude drivers. This makes it also possible to develop Linux drivers for both Preludes (Z2 and 1200). Knowledge about the used sound chips is also necessary.

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08.Apr.2001
Daniel Reichen via AMIPRESS-ML


Send Convalescent Wishes to John Zacharias
As we already reported on our Special St. Louis page John Zacharias, author of AEMail and organizer of the AmiWest, happened to have a stroke on the St. Louis Show. Meantime he's on the mend. Send him your convalescent wishes with the greeting card under the title link, created especially for that on Northwest Amiga Group.

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08.Apr.2001
Stefan Robl on ANF


FMdriver und FMdriverVHI V1.25
After a long delay at last I released the two FrameMachine drivers v1.25, today. New in FMdriver the possibility to save different configurations to have optimal source regarding settings at hand. This is very helpful especially if one uses different players for passing data (e.g. 16:9, 4:3, DVD, etc.), but wants to have removed those ugly black borders right from the start. Moreover it now is possible to create time laps recordings in a very simple way.

The VHI driver FMdriverVHI was generally reworked and mate with my new driver conception for the FMdriver packet - now performance together with VHI should be much better.

Something else on personal cause: unfortunately that I'll have to strongly reduce my programming and hardware activities this year, due to my studies and final year project. Due to this I ask you for your understanding, if it will take me some more time to reply on an e-mail! At all events I will try to release more new versions, even though the time famine.

And now, have a lot of fun with the new versions of the programs!

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08.Apr.2001
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


Play!Amiga: Shogo-Demoversion Review
What took a long time, at last became fine! Shogo demo version available!
After a long waiting period now there is the Shogo demo. The game is supposed to be finished next month. Of course there's one probing question: what will the game look like on my computer? It is about to download simply 40 MB as well as Warp3D v4 and one can get a first impression. That's what Play!Amiga has done for you.

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08.Apr.2001
Dynamite Team on ANF


Dynamite 1.2 Released for Download
1. There is an update file for updating Dynamite v1.1 to v1.2 for download. Dynamite is an Bomberman like online game.

2. There are some innovations in the HTTP section.
  • The "Stylorama", the page for new graphics sets, now is working and contains the current versions. Look for "Stylorama" down right below "The empereors new clothes".
  • A Dynamite forum was opened. If you want to express yourself or just would like to praise the people involved in Dynamite, you can do it there.

Download:
Update: dynAMIte_update.lha - 216 kB
Complete Archive: dynAMIte.lha - 1757 kB


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07.Apr.2001
Frank Herfurt alias Master 3 on ANF


Invitation for Chat
Channel #miggy.de invites Amiga & PC users to chatting. Everybody with questions or problems regarding his/her Amiga or PC should address to this place. The channel #miggy.de has always an open ear.

Server: de.arcnet.vapor.com
Channel: #miggy.de


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07.Apr.2001
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Development of BATTLE Stopped
Already in November HighAnt Development announced a turn in direction (we reported). Today Marco Frischkorn informs us that the development of the remaining game 'Battle' had definitively been dropped, too.

Frischkorn: "Game Over! You get to see this normally only at the end of a game but in this case it's also valid for BATTLE. Because of private things (I'll become father for the second time) and the general situation we have decided to finish the development of BATTLE and to let the game and the development kit die."
Read his full statement under the title link.

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07.Apr.2001
Horst Diebel on ANF


New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since the 1. April there are again new entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:
  • New entry and pictures: Amiga Desktop Video Master (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
  • New picture: Micronik A1200 busboard (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
  • New entry and picture: BSC Ram expansion (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
  • New entriy and picture: Xpert flicker fixer (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
  • New pictures: Rocket Launcher (thanks go to Jorge Santillan)
  • New pictures: Access 32 (thanks go to Jorge Santillan)
  • New pictures: A3500[T] (thanks go to an DJ)
  • New entry and pictures: MTec 1230/28RTC (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky)
  • New entry and pictures: Mastercard (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky)
  • New pictures and update: Megamix '2000' (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky and Jens Schönfeld)
  • Generous update: A2024 (thanks go to Ralph Ewers)
  • Update: ATonce Plus (thanks go to Jani Kultanen)
  • New mystery: Item #8 (thanks go to Kepp)
  • Mystery solved: Item #7 (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky and Jens Schönfeld)
  • New entry: VarIO (thanks go to Jens Schönfeld)
  • Manufacturer reports: (thanks go to Jens Schönfeld)
  • New entry and picture: Prometheus


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07.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via email


VEPatch.Brain for VirusExecutor v.1.28 Released
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.28
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 21.052 Bytes
Release date: 6. April 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen

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07.Apr.2001
FOM on ANF


Amiga Easter Card
From the FOM website you can now send an easter webcard of the known Amiga cartoonist Eric Schwartz.

Amiga no Brasil
You can also find a collection of sundry programs of Brazilian Amiga users on the CD-ROM Amiga no Brasil. Games, internet, tools, animations, mods and more. It can be obtained for DM 5.- plus porto and package from me.

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07.Apr.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden on ANF


Warp3D v4 was Released
Warp3D V4 was released. The fourth release of the 3D-hardware driver system now can be downloaded under the title link.

Warp3D needs a compatible 3D-graphics card. The archive contains drivers for ViRGE and Permedia 2. The drivers for the Voodoo 3 aren't present in this actual version yet.

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