• ahi.device: Re-enabled optimization and removed all 64 bit kludges for the Amithlon version. It's still just using the C version of the mixing routines, but is already about 2.5 times faster native (compared to the JIT-compiled 4.180 version). I like it.

• paula.audio: When opening timer.device (used in the DMA mode), I didn't clear the flags parameter and opened UNIT_MICROHZ instead of UNIT_ECLOCK. [Sigbjørn Skjæret]

Newly added complete mirrors:

• amidemos.org (Amiga demos as DivX videoformat),
• amigascne.org (a lot scene material)
• aros.org (the source compatible AmigaOS clone),
• geekgadgets.org (ports of many GNU/FSF programs for Amiga),
• funet.fi [amiga] (many old Amiga programs, +Fish disks 1-999)
• uu.net [amiga] (only few but very old Amiga programs :)
• AMOK (Amiga Modula & Oberon Club, disks 1-105)
• UAE (Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, source- and binary archive)
• WinUAE (Main-FTP of winuae.net)

If somebody wants to add other freeware (floppy-)disk series and owns a flatrate, please feel free to contact us. ADF, DMS and lha archives are welcomed, too.

Furthermore we would like to publish other freeware CD's. So if somebody owns such a thing and has a broadband connection available do not hasitate and contact us, too. Our ftp-server can be accessed at:

• http://ftp.back2roots.org
• ftp://ftp.back2roots.org

Remember this AmigaOne is the prototype (G3/600Mhz) and it runs TurboLinux. And I must confess, I never seen a Linux booting that fast. I'm excited to get my hand on AmigaOS4.

Download: AmigaOne.mpg (80 MB)

Update 02.06.2002:
The video was deleted from this Aminet server. I do not know the motive.

This is the first part of the "Samba" series. Besides lots of other features, the football manager also has an action part where you can actively play with your team.

Amiga Arena has been allowed to release further games by "Sayonara Software" in the future. Yet, for this we need your help, as we don't have all games at our disposal!

We are looking for the following software items:

• Diego - Football manager
• WHLM - Ice Hockey manager
• Samba Partie prof. - Football manager with action part
• Travel-Manager - Travel simulation
• Hollywood Pictures - Manager
• Samba World Cup - Football manager with action part

Amiga Arena - "Full version" redesign
The Amiga Arena Full versions have been divided into new areas. Besides the familiar download facilities for commercial software and shareware programs, the areas have been restructured, and with "Applaud Software", "Sayonara Software" and "Vulcan Software" three new areas have been added.

As the first drafts had been made on an Amiga, and the author used to be an Amiga user then, in the case of an adequate turnout there should be a very realistic chance of an Amiga port.

We are over the moon to announce that like other previous Amiga Magazines in the past, Total Amiga Magazine has now got its own open mailing list on yahoo groups. To subscribe send an email to totalamiga-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

Here are the answers by Stefan Robl, the author of AmiDock.

The OS4.0 version of AmiDock is an almost completely rewrite of the version included with OS3.9 and a lot of outstanding issues were fixed.

The new design comes with a much improved layouter which arranges all types of icons very well (from very tiny to really big ones).

A very nice new feature is the interactive mode of AmiDock which allows the user to arrange, add, remove icons, categories and even docks directly using the mouse without the need to open the configuration dialog.

AmiDock now also supports button type docks allowing for numerous objects (programs, files) to be available at once as this mode consumes very little "desktop real-estate".

With OS4.0's AmiDock, docks can now have their drag bar on all four possible sides of a dock; each dock is now also minimizeable to conserve space.

The new AmiDock is now up to ten times faster than the old version (depending on the number of icons visible at load time).

The most interesting new feature is the possibility to have active content within a dock through plug-ins.

A plug-in of AmiDock is called a "docky". Each docky has full access to all of AmiDock's functionality and can provide for a virtually endless number of features. The usage of dockies is very transparent - throw in a docky and it will work (and vice versa).

A number of dockies will already be included with OS4.0; one of the most requested features - subdocks - was made possible using a docky. There is also a docky which minimizes a dock automatically if the mouse pointer is no longer over the dock. Other included dockies allow you to have clock, a lens, animations and other active content within a dock.

The most thrilling stuff will surely come from third party programmers in the form of third-party dockies (the API will be released with OS4.0) - just imagine having the current network traffic, the printer status, the current rendering process of your raytracer and other similarly useful things in the form of a small and corresponding picture within your dock.

• 1988: Happy Computer Special 3, Happy Computer Special 4
• 1991: Power Play PC
• 1994: Tips & Tricks
• 1995: PowerPlay Online, Weihnachts-Special, Tips & Tricks
• 1998: Strategie-Special, Tips & Lösungen, Fußball-WM-Special (how fitting ;-)