09.Dec.2001
amiga.org
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.37
On 9. December 2001 Georg Hoermann and Jan Erik Olausen published
the version 33.37 of the virus scanner library "xvs".
Compared to the previous version the following changes have been made:
- Once more added some new security features to the library. It will
now try to self-defend after alien attacks, only if these efforts
fail, the library gets disabled.
- Added recognition for 2 demo files that I call 'Anti-UAE Trojan'.
Their code checks for UAE systems and in case it finds one will
delete important files. Thanks to Jan Andersen for sending the
demos to me.
- Added recognition for a MS-DOS strain of 'Bastard Installer'.
Thanks to Jan Andersen for the file.
- Added recognition and repair code for 'Bobek 3' linkvirus.
Thanks to Zeeball for sending me an infected file, even though
it was accidentally :-)
This virus scanner library can be used together with VirusExecutor,
VirusChecker II or VirusZ.
Download: xvslibrary.lha (79972 Bytes),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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09.Dec.2001
ANN
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Magazine: Amitopia
The Amiga magazine "Amitopia" in Norway is still
looking for further 23 subscribers from Norway or
Sweden in order to publish the current edition.
Orders are possible via the title link.
In Sweden the magazine will finally be available
from 15. December 2001.
In addition, the publication of the magazine in Denmark
has been planned for next year.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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09.Dec.2001
ANN
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Programming Language: PowerD V0.19 Alpha3
On 9. December 2001 Martin Kuchinka published the
alpha version V0.19 Alpha3 of the programming language "PowerD".
In this early alpha version various bugs were rectified.
Modifications:
- announced support for OOP4A project
(more: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/5737/)
- on some occasions (when no external references used), phxass produced
executable directly without the intermediate object file, that PowerD
requires
- all the LIBRARY definition only modules made an error, fixed
- bugfixes reported by Michel Bagmeijer
- pr2m: some string fixed and at last translated from E to D :)
- removed few enforcer hits
Download: alpha.lzx (157K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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09.Dec.2001
Amiga Future
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Game: Walkthrough for Myst
In the interactive section of Amiga Future
Olaf Bathke has published a walkthrough (German) for Myst.
The Amiga Future Editorial Department would of course be happy if even more
users would write solution paths in order to publish them on the
Amiga Future Homepage.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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09.Dec.2001
x-cellence (ANF)
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Games: x-cellence redesigned, Amiga-Team sought for
Jens [bruZard] Henschel writes:
The web page of the game development team "x-cellence" has been completely
redesigned. Our latest project, the RPG "God's Light", has made this
necessary.
Unfortunately, we can only work on PC-titles at the moment. For this
reason we're still (and have been for a year now) looking for a qualified
Amiga-Team which will work together with us on the implementation of
our titles for Amiga.
This mainly means the implementation of the X-Fire-Engine in Warp3D
or OpenGL. On this basis, it would be relatively easy to develop
our titles for Amiga and at the same time support this fantastic platform.
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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09.Dec.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Magazin: NoCover #93
On 8. December 2001 the APC&TCP published the edition 93
of the disc and online magazine 'NoCover' in German.
The magazine can be read online and can be downloaded.
Download: nocover93.lha (1,7M)
(sd) (Translation: sr)
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08.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: full version of Bangboo
With permission by Michael Taupitz is the game "Bangboo" available for free
download in the Amiga Arena. "Bangboo" is a game mixture needing skill and
puzzling. "Bangboo" is playable from disk/HD and really recommendable for long
winter evenings. Special thanks go to Michael Taupitz and Andreas Magerl.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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08.Dec.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)
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100%AMIGA CD Magzine issue 19
The Christmas issue of 100%AMIGA is out now. Inside the magazine this month we
have a totally festive theme for Christmas including some free Xmas games and a
whole bunch of seasonal clipart, music and animations. We also show the results
of last month's readers survey of the future of Amiga and take a light hearted
look at some future Amiga products (mostly fictional) sung to the tune of the 12
Days of Christmas. You can also listen to the out-takes in the 100%BLOOPERS
drawer. The new Directory Opus/OS3.9 utilities collection D.O.O.N. is shown in
the Hot Off The Press section and of course we bring you the top Amiga news
stories in the only magazine that has News Presenter reading them to you. More
details available from Amiga Online
Superstore or 100%AMIGA
website.
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08.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)
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Collect points in the new topcool club
The magazine amiga-topcool has brought from this day on a new loyalty club into
live. The membership is free. Members can collect points for various actions and
then change these into CDs. You get points for sending news, writing articles,
participating in polls or enlisting new members.
(Translation: wk)
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08.Dec.2001
Jan Andersen (ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: two new viruses discovered
1.
Two archives found on Aminet contain a new trojan. They are said to be
AGA demos but if you run these demos on a PC using 'WinUAE' your
system will be deleted. These demos come from a Polish demo group.
Why they would program something like this, I don't know.
This is some info about the two archives:
Trojan name... : AME-DSD Trojan (name might be changed later)
Trojan file... : dsd-main
Trojan size... : 93.924 bytes
Trojan archive : AME-DSD.lha
Archive size.. : 6.927.166 bytes
Archive info.. : Dog Star Descends by Amnesty (CGX&AHI compatible)
Trojan name... : PSL-KMJ Trojan (name might be changed later)
Trojan file... : main
Trojan size... : 49.308 bytes
Trojan archive : PSL-KMJ.lha
Archive size.. : 5.530.365 bytes
Archive info.. : Kiss My Jazz by Pic Saint Loup (AGA/CGX)
In the code for these archives you can read:
------------ Code start -----------------------
Warning!!! UAE System for lamers detected!!!
- System will reboot after mouse button...
run c:delete s:startup-sequence force quiet >NIL:
------------ Code end -------------------------
It is not legal to release destructive programs to the public, and
we will see what we can do with this. In almost every country the
programmer of such destructive programs can go to jail for this kind
of programming.
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Urban' for the info about the archive.
2.
A new linkvirus has been found a few days ago, we are not sure if
this virus is in the wild.
It was send directly to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski (the programmer of
Safe). Zbigniew received one infected file. This new virus is a clone
of the "Bobek-2" linkvirus and is named "Bobek-3". This is able to
disable the antivirus programs.
We do not know if this virus was released in any way, so if you get a
requester popping up, telling you that something is trying to disable
the xvs.library, please let us know.
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus name: Bobek-3
Virus Type: Linkvirus
Virus size: about 2.000 bytes (uses polmorphic engine)
Well, it looks like the Polish virus group is back in action. But maybe not
for long. Things will happen very soon.
Thanks to 'Zbigniew' for sending the archive. (ps)
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08.Dec.2001
Hynek Schlawack (E-Mail)
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Mailer: SimpleMail Version 0.13
Yesterday was released SimpleMail Version 0.13.
The changes are:
- Included a real manual at last. Thanks to David Rey!
- SMTP over SSL.
- POP3 connections can be made secure with the STLS
command now. (RFC 2595)
- Primitive ARexx-port.
- Support for playing sounds.
- Taglines, the last %t in the signature will be replaced by a tagline.
- Folders holding unread mails are hilighted now.
- Localization.
Please note: if you downloaded your archive before 2001/12/08, 0:30 am, there were
informations
about the taglines missing in the guide so the guide has been replaced just
now. If you don't want to download the whole archive again, here is the changeg
paragraph:
Tick this box if you want SimpleMail to automatically add a random
tagline to every email you write. Simply insert a %t in the signature
and it will be replaced by a random tagline found in .taglines when
composing a mail.
Sorry for the inconvience.
Download: simplemail.lha - 306 KB
(ps)
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07.Dec.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses
"The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses"
"Stefan Robl, author of OS 3.9's AmiDock, has agreed to support the
OOP4A project by providing his class system 'WizardClasses' which is
extensively used in all of his programs. The class system also
contains - among many other classes - a GUI class system. We hope to
release a first package sometime in Q1, 2002 - this will enable programs
using OOP4A to use GUI in a truly object oriented way as well.
Martin Kuchinka, author of the PowerD programming language, agreed
too to support the OOP4A-Project within PowerD.
New features in this weekend's release of OOP4A are argument types and
method overloading. These are the last basic oop functions which had to
be implemented, so that the next releases will concentrate on building
new classes."
OOP4A stands for Object Oriented Programming for All and offers full oop
support to nearly any programming language used on the Amiga. Project
start was the around the 5.10.2001. German Pages see title link.
English Pages
Marius Schwarz
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Dec.2001
Elbox Computer / Wojtek Kozlowski
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Event: Amiga 2001 pictures by Elbox
At the title link you'll find images from the Amiga 2001 fair by Elbox Computer.
The images are subtitled in English.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Dec.2001
Ralf Steines
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Back2Roots.org: Friday, 7th december offline
On Friday, 7th December 2001, at about 11:00 GMT
Back to the Roots will temporarily go offline,
since we upgrade the server's harddisks, memory
and operating system.
If all performs well it should be back online in
less than one day, and should allow our future
updates and services to be even more massive :)
Sorry for the inconvenience.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Dec.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga board elects Frank Wilde as Chairman of the Board (update)
Update:
Carsten Schröder of Amiga Aktuell
explains in a special the following terms:
"First of all for clarification: in American companies the "chairman" is the head
of the "Board of Directors", some sort of administrative council which is elected
by the company shareholders and decides on the basic company politics as well
as announcing the "Executive Officers" who are responsible for daily business.
Thus the chairman has - at least formally - a higher influence as for example the
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a company."
Wilde brings 18 years of experience in the personal computer industry
to Amiga's Board of Directors
(December 6, 2001) The Board of Directors for Amiga Inc. have elected Frank Wilde as
its new Chairman of the Board.
Mr. Wilde will bring his many years of experience and leadership to Amiga to help
expand its business into new markets while releasing new products.
Mr. Wilde joins Amiga from Ravisent Technologies where he was President and Chief
Executive Officer. Frank was appointed Chief Executive Officer of RAVISENT Technologies
Inc. in April of 1998, a year after joining the company as Director and President.
Wilde brings over eighteen years of sales, marketing and business development experience
in the computer industry holding key industry positions at IBM, Dell Computer Corporation
and Memorex Telex Corporation. He has over 15 years P&L experience and is a veteran of
six startup companies and has led or been a team member of companies that have raised over
300 million in venture funding. He strongly believes in developing highly competitive and
fast growing organizations that enable individuals and teams to grow and develop their
professional capabilities in such a way that shareholder value is maximized. Wilde was
instrumental in the planning and execution of the company's transition from a hardware
company to a software Intellectual Property licensing company. Under his leadership,
RAVISENT was able to raise $18 million in private funding in June of 1998. Wilde also led
the company through the IPO process, taking the company public in July of 1999, raising
$61.4 million. RAVISENT's flagship product family, CinePlayer, offers consumers a
single look-and-feel PC solution for interactive playback of a wide variety of multimedia
formats - including CD Audio, MPEG audio, MPEG video, DVD, Dolby Digital audio, MP3 audio,
LPCM audio, digital television (DTV), analog (traditional) television, high definition
television (HDTV), and "time-shifted" television broadcasts (so-called digital
video recorder files or DVR).
“I had many choices on where I wanted to go next and where the best opportunity
for the future was. Bill McEwen and I had been speaking for many months on business
plans and other issues, and after meeting with the team, and viewing the technology and
their partners, there was no better choice for me than joining Amiga" said Frank
Wilde, Chairman of Amiga, Inc. "The Amiga has an amazing past and is well known at
Ravisent, but seeing what I have seen of the technology, they have even a brighter future,
and I am pleased to be here".
"Frank brings a level of expertise and knowledge that is second to none. His level
of excitement and dedication to Amiga, will be seen shortly as we continue to build and
release new products" said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc.
"I look forward to working with Frank, and the two of us working with the community
and our partners on building a very solid future".
Over the years, Wilde and RAVISENT received recognition from numerous business and
technology organizations. Most recently, RAVISENT was recognized as the #7 in the 2000
Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern
Pennsylvania. He was also recognized as a Technology Pioneer, an award that is developed
jointly by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to recognize the world's
fastest growing, most technologically innovative companies. In 1999, RAVISENT was named
the #1 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in
Eastern Pennsylvania. Also, RAVISENT was recognized as the #9 in the 1999 in the Deloitte
& Touche Fast 500 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the United States. In
April of 1999, RAVISENT was ranked #8 in the Electronic Business list of Top 20 Small
Electronics Companies. Frost & Sullivan granted RAVISENT the 1998 Marketing
Engineering Competitive Strategy Award because the company was able to create and
implement an effective competitive strategy.
Wilde received a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Seton Hall
University. He is a member of the American Management Association, American Electronics
Association, USA Reserves Officers Association, Special Forces Decade Association and the
Army Aviation Association of Aviators and Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He has also been
named to Who's Who in International Business and awarded the Republican National Committee
"Businessman of the Year" award for 1999.
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a
new multi-media operating system which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint
development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated.
AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS
R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on
Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and
applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com.
Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices
worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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07.Dec.2001
Joachim Schmid (ANF)
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Freespace demo update 4 released
The fourth update to the demo version of the game Freespace
has been released for download on the Hyperion homepage.
It removes several smaller bugs (like the bug in the third statistics table)
as well as a new option to allow switching voicestreaming on and off.
Also included is a description how you have to connect an analog joystick.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena/Fun Time World: Puzzle BOBS Website online
After the game "Puzzle BOBS" was for the first time presented to the audience
on the "Amiga 2001" show, an own
website for the
game was created at Fun Time World.
Puzzle BOBS was successfully tested under "UAE" and "Amithlon". More and topical
information on the game you can find at
Nexus Development.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with the Scalos team und special price project
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
With the Workbench replacement "Scalos" a good alternative for the Amiga and
your very own desktop. The acitve and steady further development or support
makes "Scalos" getting more and more extensive and multifunctional. The Amiga Arena
talked to the entire team of "Scalos" about past, present, and future.
Amiga Arena - AmiATLAS 6 Update Special Price
From now on all registered AmiATLAS 5 users can take the special price for
AmiATLAS 6 (wihtout the term of the registered additional maps).
The programs "X-Trace", "MicroPaint", and "MicroBase" are available at the
respective special price thru 31. December 2001.
Amiga Arena - The fire still burns
After hardware problems and an internal rework of the hompage, now it should
not be a problem to display the "Amiga Arena" with the "Voyager" browser, any
more.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
A.S.Munde (ANF)
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DocDatatypes Version 40.30 Released
DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported
formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works,
AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word,
Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.
New for this version (40.30) is the support of reading and writing TEAL Docs
and RichReader Docs. MS-Word XP (2002) is also supported. Available to download
only from http://go.to/docdatatypes.
(ps)
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06.Dec.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update
Just in time for Santa Clause day there is a tasty thing for all astronomy fans and DA III owners!
From today a new version 4.6 was released on Aminet to be installed by every DA III user. This update
fixes some more smaller bugs from the prior version and offers the possibility to move the star map
with the joystick as a new feature (little marginal gimmick).
This is to be the last update for Digital Almanac III for this year.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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06.Dec.2001
Innovative (ANF)
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Drawing- and imagemanipulation: fxPAINT Christmas-action from Innovative
Just in time for christmas time we now offer fxPAINT 1.0 for an
incredibly low price (see title link). We hope to allow many users a
look at the power of fxPAINT at a low price and want to shorten the
waiting time for those users that are waiting for Version 2.0 that is
currently under development and will again set new standards.
fxPAINT 1.0 is fully updatable to the current V1.5 and Version 2.0
at a low price. This special offer is valid until 31th December 2001
and only as long as enough fxPAINT 1.0 are in stock. You can place
your order directly via our online-shop.
(ps)
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