14374 Messages found

Fire & Ice - Now Legal and Free at AMI Sector One (20. Jan. 2001)
AMI Sector One has the following interesting news: First of all the company 'Jester Interactive' which owns the copyrights of many older Amiga games, has granted us permission to post many of the games from the cult company 'Graftgold' for free download o...

'The Best Of The Amiga Scene CD' for Free at mp3.com (20. Jan. 2001)
Fredrik, also known as ORG* of X-TRADE ^ BoB, and two friends compiled an Audio CD containing the best Amiga Songs ever five years ago. The CD sold well but now there are only two left and so it was decided to make the songs available for free download at...

Amiga Flame: Top 10 of the Games 2000 Determined (20. Jan. 2001)
Every year the online gaming magazine 'Amiga Flame' starts a poll to determine the best games of the year and then compiles a top 10 hit-list. The results of 2000 are now computed. Here now the games in reversed order: 10. Virtual Ball Fighters by Xteam ...

Interview with Greg Wible of MeterNet (20. Jan. 2001)
Christoph Dietz had an interesting interview with Greg Wible, the founder and CEO of MeterNet Corp.. MeterNet is the company that delivers, amongst others, the 'SimpleBox' Greg Wible Amiga-News: Where are you born? Greg Wible: I was born ...

New Aminet Uploads (20. Jan. 2001)
CNCD-KillerCGX.lha demo/euro 3.0M+CNCD: Killer (CyberGraphX version) APX-TB3FIX.lha demo/mag 9K+Taboo #3 AGA/CGX - FIX (magazine by Appe pmDevBas.lha dev/basic 112K+Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic adasrc1.lha dev/src ...

First Screenshot of 3vix Encoder for Amiga (19. Jan. 2001)
The Amiga version of the 3ivx encoder will be available soon. A screenshot of a Workbench on which 3ivx is already running can be found here. Supplement 20 Jan 2001: Christoph Meier wrote: The author of Frogger has published a screenshot of the OpenDivX ...

Amiga Becomes Handheld PC (19. Jan. 2001)
On video text page 632 of German TV station RTL2 there's the following news today: «On the CeBIT the "Smart-Boy®", a new miniature PC in handheld format, will be presented which is equipped with a touch-screen display, chip- and credit card reader. A con...

Simon the Sorcerer 2 - Update 4 Available (19. Jan. 2001)
As announced, Paul Burkey has released another update of Simon the Sorcerer 2. Especially in the German version, many bugs have been fixed. French language support and the F10 feature have been added. Download: Simon2Upd4.lha ...

NVidia Survey on Preferred Operating System (19. Jan. 2001)
Amiga wins the NVidia survey on the preferred operating system with 58,4%. The question was: "Which is your preferred operating system". 4788 people voted: 58.40% - Amiga OS 13.05% - Windows 2000 6.79% - OS2/ Warp 6.29% - Windows 98 4.91% - BeOS 4.47% -...

Creative Amiga Box (19. Jan. 2001)
'Fisherking' has built his Amiga, after installing the Mediator PCI board, in a really creative wooden box. Have a look at some pictures of this beautiful Amiga at the title link. Supplement: In the comments to this message on our German page, Dennis 'Hu...

Exploring MP-Like Solutions (18. Jan. 2001)
Fleecy Moss (Vice President - Development - Amiga Inc.) talks on the AMIOPEN mailing list about the subject Memory Protection (MP) in the new Amiga. This discussion rose from the amiga-news.de interview with Francis Charig from TAO. Hereupon followed seve...

PureBasic Version 2.00 (18. Jan. 2001)
Version 2.0 0f the compiler PureBasic has been released. It was completely re-written and now is 4 to 7 times faster than before. For registered users there is an update and a demo version for non-registered users available. The website has moved and n...

Planet IT: Interview with Bill McEwen (18. Jan. 2001)
Dave Johnson from Planet IT did an interview with Bill McEwen, President and CEO at Amiga Inc. on January 8th, 2001. Here a small extract from the six-pages interview: Q: It sounds like you have plans to do a lot of things. Where are you concentrating y...

MeterNet® Press Release (18. Jan. 2001)
At the bottom of the following press release MeterNet announced the SimpleBox 8600 series (powered by AmigaDE) to be released late February 2001. MeterNet® Selects EnReach Technology's Easy Internet Access Platform for SimpleBox wb7500 Series SAN JOSE, ...

New WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.1 (18. Jan. 2001)
WarpBMP.datatype v44.1 by Oliver Roberts released. The BMP picture datatype is freeware and available for download for the following processors: 68k, PPC/WarpOS und PPC/MorphOS. ...

Heise: Linux Worm Obviously Spreading Rapidly (18. Jan. 2001)
«An Internet worm named Ramen is attacking servers running under the Linux distribution by Red Hat and apparently is spreading quite quickly. It's activities stood out by augmented scans on Remote Procedure Call Services (RPC). The worm utilizes two secur...

Heise: DivX Successor "OpenDivX" goes Open Source (18. Jan. 2001)
«The MPEG4 video codec successor "DivX", which derived some stardom from being in operation for spreading piracy copied movies via the Internet, may hope to be widely supported. To gain more programmers to participate in the so called "Project Mayo" the d...

New Aminet Uploads (17. Jan. 2001)
F1db.lha biz/dbase 109K+Store and manage Formula 1 results TAdesivi.lha biz/demo 50K+V1.0.5 Ticket editor for TurboGest (ITAL TProspEd.lha biz/demo 84K+V2.0.1alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I AW2.20-Patch.lha biz/ha...

AROS News (17. Jan. 2001)
Since child windows seem to be patented, Stefan Berger has removed the support for them again. :-( If someone knows whether this technology can be used freely, we'd like to know :-) Georg Steger has written an ASL Font Requester Johan Alfredsson ...

Allan Odgaard Needs Help (17. Jan. 2001)
Allan Odgaard, who is known from several MUI-classes, has a serious problem with his hard drive. In order to solve this problem he needs an identical hard drive. The following type is needed: Seagate ST3660A with the following parameter: 1057CYL-16HEADS-...