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03.Apr.2002
Paul Cardwell (ANF)


GetBoinged!: Amiga Expo 2002 show report
GetBoinged! is proud to present the Amiga Expo 2002 show report. The GetBoinged! crew drove to Baltimore, MD for the Amiga Expo 2002. Head on over to GetBoinged! for the report. (ps)

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02.Apr.2002
Bernie Meyer (E-Mail)


Statement from Bernie Meyer regarding the distribution of Amithlon
Bernie Meyer:
The bad news first: I have just released a statement regarding the distribution of Amithlon; It is available under the title link. Please read it; I hope it might explain some of my recent less than cordial reactions on the Amithlon mailing list.

The good news is that I have uploaded an updated kernel image (based on linux 2.4.19pre4) and a bunch of patches; You can grab that stuff from http://www.amithlon.net/en/amithlon_updates.shtml.

I hope it comes in useful for someone.

I know this is going to cause a great deal of discussion and speculation. I would like to ask everyone to please be reasonable, and stick to the known facts, as well as to polite forms of discourse. The situation is bad enough as it is, nothing at all can be gained from aggravating anyone involved.

Thank you all for your understanding,
Bernie Meyer (ps)

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02.Apr.2002
Benjamin de Waal (AmigaOne-ML)


Amiga Information Site
Due to the number of complaints on several public lists and forums regarding a lack of a centralised place for Amiga information of all kinds (classic, AmigaOne, OS4, Amiga Anywhere), I am working on such a site.

It's TEMPORARY home is at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~yttrium/amiga/ Please note that the current layout is very much not going to be the final look of the page. I've got it how it is so that I can easily and quickly add pages and information without the need to work on the nitty-gritty of looks - I'm no website designer but please don't send ideas for how you think I can make it look better, I'll come to that when I've got enough information to warrant having a page in the first place. What I'd like to request is that anyone who feels they can contribute, please do so by emailling me information and pages to include. This is not intended as a news site so I don't want information about upcoming events and that sort of thing, just straight info. I'd appreciate it if you send me whole pages to just slot in where appropriate that you design them with no javascript, frames, or scripting of any kind - just straight and plain HTML with links - also if you could keep images to an absolute minimum as I only have 10MB webspace with my ISP and don't intend on moving it to a real server until it's complete enough to be the kind of place I'd be happy to point people for more information. My 10MB should be plenty if we can keep it to being pure text and key images only. If you take a look at what I've got there at the moment, you'll see the general kind of things I want. My AmigaOne page is probably about the most complete at the moment, but I could very much do with more technical information linked off the AmigaOne specs (most of those links I've written about one or two lines only at present).

The general idea is that anyone of any level can look at the site. People click on the AmigaOne link and see basic information. Techie types say, I want to know more about xxx, and click on that link for more tech info. Any information that is implied or suggested but not directly stated anywhere by someone "official" should be marked as such. I know you might mean well, but unsubstantiated rumors are NOT the intended goal of the site. I'm going to be putting a lot of my personal time and effort into maintaining the information and keeping it all as up to date as possible and I'd appreciate not having to wade through mountains of rumor and misinformation. Information regarding anything to do with Amiga is welcomed, but no "this is better than that" without hard fact to back it up. Presently I'm mostly interested in information on AmigaOne, AmigaOS4, Classic Amiga (history), Amithlon and AmigaDE (Anywhere), however if someone wants to write something about MorphOS, UAE, Pegasos, Merlancia, pOS, Classic Amiga expansions, software issues or anything else relevant, I won't reject it (if it's factual, unbiased and contains useful information of course).

Also, obviously, if anyone sees anything on the page that they think is incorrect, let me know and I'll investigate it further.

To avoid spamming these lists with ideas, please send information/pages directly to me at either yttriumox@softhome.net or yttrium@ihug.com.au with "page submission" in the subject (just so I can filter for it, I get ALOT of mail). (sd)

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02.Apr.2002
Allen Kamp (E-Mail)


Magazine: REBOL/Zine Issue 5 Vol 1
On April, 1st Allen Kamp has released issue 5 of the REBOL/Zine magazine: This English online magazine deals with the REBOL-System. The themes of the latest volume:

  • Lit-Word!
  • Discovering The forgotten DRAW dialect (PART #1)
  • More than one way to... (Skinning, Effects)
  • Bigger than a pixel - working with sections of an image!
  • Bits & Pieces
    • How can I change the title text of a window?
    • Did you know?
  • Pick of the List - Everything is a Value
  • Get-Word! (Send in the contributions)
(sd) (Translation: gf)

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02.Apr.2002
Michiel Erasmus (Open Amiga-ML)


AmigaDE: Tip - VNC-Client (Java)
The great free remote desktop sharing program VNC client is working in the AmigaDE, all thanks to Java!

You can download it from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html. Maybe some1 on this list can try to port the server program to the AmigaDE??

Anyways, that was my Java tip of the day ;-) (sd)

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02.Apr.2002
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Poll results and consequences
First of all "Thanks" to all Amigans who participated in the poll (Digital Almanac). Though the poll was not representative, it has showed several directions:

About 80% of all participants have shown their interests in the AmigaOne and Pegasos board. But most of them want to wait how the market will develop before they decide to buy one of the boards.

Astonishing: Almost all were not sure whether to buy the AmigaOne AmigaOne or the Pegasos, but almost all would prefer OS 4 rather than MorphOS! That's not a miracle, as both boards have almost identical specifikations. And Amiga has shown with the publishing of BoingBag 2 and the specs of OS 4, that development is continuing, while it has been quiet calm with MorphOS during the past month. Also most participants await a higher compatibility from OS 4 to old OS 3 instead from MorphOS.
This shows, how important it is for Amigans, that the current existing software will run reliable under the new OS. However, it is currently unknown, how much new software will be released for OS 4.
Read more under the title link. (ps)

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02.Apr.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena - Interview with László Török
Betaversion 1.6 of the AVI/MOV player "MooVId", part of AmigaOS 3.9, with DivX support is in work.

In the interview László Török talks about future features and answers the standard questions asked a few weeks ago. You can find the interview here. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Apr.2002
Markus Tillmann (ANF)


S-File #17 from clickBOOM
The Canadian games producer clickBOOM has released a new S-File in which it says a small amount of bugfixed Nightlong CDs was produced and that infos about new games and reworked homepage will be online soon. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Apr.2002
László Török


AVI/MOV-Player: MooVId 1.6 with Divx-Support in work
László Török announces that his AVI/MOV player "MooVId" version 1.6 is in work, and has released a Screenshot. This version will support DivX. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Apr.2002
Greg Donner


Greg Donner: AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ updated - Version 1.6
Greg Donner has updated his AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). The list of known bugs was expanded. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Apr.2002
Amigart


SWAUG: Interview with Ben Hermans, Hyperion
The Amiga usergroup of South Wales (SWAUG) has released an interview with Ben Hermans, Hyperion. You will find it here. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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02.Apr.2002
Costel Mincea (ANF)


DynDNS Client: AmiDynDNS v1.0 BETA
The DynDNS client AmiDynDNS is available in version 1.0 BETA, you can download it from the website (title link).

AmiDynDNS is now a CLI/Commodity hybrid program. So you can use it as before from the CLI and from the workbench with a little GUI.

The Commodity mode is interesting for server users who must know the latest host. AmiDynDNS is running in the background after startup and checks in free chooseable intervall the stated host and updates if necessary.

Also two options are added, you can choose paths for log- and configfile.

This is a public BETA so I want to ask all users to report their experiences. I am interested especially in bugs and suggestions for the final version 1.0. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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01.Apr.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


VHT-DK New update of VirusZ III (v0.99)
Georg Hoermann has made an update of VirusZ III, and the bugfixed update is now available for download at our homepage. Here is some info about the update:

Name: VirusZ III v0.99
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 57.211
Date : 1 April 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or better
util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha
util/pack/xfdmaster.lha
util/arc/xadmaster.lha (recommended)
util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)

News in VirusZ III v0.99:

  • Improved window calculation code to avoid rendering bugs when you have installed sysihack-like programs. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the bug report and screenshot.
  • Splitted the single 'About' request in a 'Technical Info' request and a new 'About' request and added some more information to them.
  • Fixed bug: 72 bytes of memory disappeared during every program startup, this seems to be a problem with special CreateNewProc() tags. After two nights of debugging I still couldn't locate the bug exactly, so I did some workaround instead, now there are at least no more memory losses.
  • Added the first vector snapshots sent by David Oakes, Ian Chapman, Fulvio Peruggi and Harry Sintonen. Thanks guys!
  • Fixed minor rendering problem with VirusZ's main window. This one only appeared if you have modified the top_border size with tools like MCP. Thanks to Luca Longone for the report/screenshot and sorry for my angry email :-)
  • Added full support for NSD-64-bit devices. Now the bootblocks of partitions located higher than the old 4GB-border will finally be accessed correctly.
  • Improved disassembler output in the bootblock lab. The first three longwords now always get displayed as 'dc.l' lines and disassembly starts at offset $000c, the real entry point of a bootblock. This avoids strange interpretations of the bootblock's checksum and the two other fields.
  • Added some more vector snapshots sent by Dariusz Krzempek. Thanks!
Download shortcut (ps)

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01.Apr.2002



April-fools
Many of you had noticed that we had our very own little April-fools' joke:

Microsoft - AmigaAnywhere Banner

Microsoft - .net
Microsoft - .net

;-) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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01.Apr.2002
SFXSoft


SFXSoft: YGM V2.6
YGM stands for 'You've Got Mail'. It checks an unlimited number of POP3 mailboxes for new mails without needing to start up the favourite yet sometimes bulky mail client just for this. YGM shows how many mails are waiting in each mailbox for download and their approximate size.

The most important new features in this release are:
The argument NOQUIT has been added to tell YGM not to quit an already running instance of YGM if it is started again. Modified the places where YGM looks for different files to better support running YGM from the WBStartup drawer. Mailbox login now supports APOP for transmitting username and password more safely. REPEAT values may now be specified in seconds too.

Download: YGM.lha (151 KB) (ps)

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01.Apr.2002
Richard Hackelbusch (ANF)


Order in advance of Amiga PPC sytems by KDH
The online-shop of KDH-Datentechnik now offers the possibility to order AmigaOne and Pegasos systems in advance. Interestingly enough they have the same pricetag with the same equipping. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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01.Apr.2002
Daniel Miller (ANF)


Dave Haynie left Merlancia
Dave Haynie, "Mr. 3000," was asked at the AmigaExpo2002 last weekend if he is still working for Merlancia Industries. His answer was NO. Dave would not tell what he actually doing right now, only that it has nothing to do with Amigas or PCs. amiga-news.de reported last year (July) that Haynie had become CTO of Merlancia.

Last weekend Dave played with a band called 'Unpanned Swampland Band'. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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01.Apr.2002
Pär Boberg (E-Mail)


Famous Amiga Uses - Update
Pär Boberg reported that his website 'Famous Amiga Uses' was updated. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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31.Mar.2002
CDł˛-Allianz (ANF)


CDł˛-Tuning: MPEG-modul
Henning Schlautmann has written a report about the MPEG-modul for the CDł˛-Allianz which has been published today on the CDł˛/CDTV-corner. It is exactly written how to install and use it. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2002
Richard Kapp (ANF)


GFX-BASE: Interview with Darius Brewka (AmiStart)
Richard Kapp wrote:
The GFX-BASE team has published an English spoken interview with Darius Brewka who is the author of the startmenu clone "AmiStart".

AmiStart is a new startmenu clone for AmigaOS which offers the usual functions as well as some special things like transparent menus, keyboard-shortcuts, drag and drop and more. We have spoken with Darius about his plans for the new beta of AmiStart which is supposed to be published soon and have asked the usual questions.

And a last point: Please change your bookmarks to www.gfxbase.com. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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31.Mar.2002
Ricco Clemens (E-Mail)


Game: Pilot pictures for Freespace
Ricco Clemens wrote:
The Amig@lien Team wishes all Amiga-users a happy Easter and we offer some new pilot pictures for Freespace as an Easter present which you can download from the Amiga Freespace site and which also work with the Freespace demo version.

If we will get the needed permission then we will publish new missions, campaigns, mids and other things for the Amiga version of Freespace in the next time. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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