28.Oct.2001
Robert Williams (ANF)
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Magazine: Clubbed #9
Clubbed Issue 9 Now Available
South Essex Amiga
Link are proud to announce that the latest issue of
Clubbed, our quarterly print Amiga magazine is now
available.
Subscription copies have been posted and
copies are available from stock. SEAL will be at the
World of Amiga South East show next weekend
selling the new issue.
The new issue has 44 A4 pages
packed with Amiga news, reviews and tutorials. For
issue 9 the main feature is on DTP with your Amiga,
we cover the basics of publishing, describe the
applications, old and new, that might suit your needs
and discuss getting your work printed.
We review
Metaview, the ArtEffect Plugins Collection, Epson's
Stylus Photo 790 printer and take a first look at the
PCI card drivers on the Elbox Mediator Multimedia
CD.
On the games front you will find an extensive
review of Shogo:MAD and a preview of Payback
PPC/Warp3D. To go with our DTP feature we have a
PageStream 4 tutorial on planning your pages and
setting up for long documents. Also in issue 9 are
tutorials on archiving and IRC. As usual there are
many more items there wasn't room to mention here
including news, comment, tips, and several other
reviews.
If you'd like to know more visit our website
at www.seal-amiga.co.uk for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues.
Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication.
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
CyberGFX
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CGX: Snapshots of CyberGraphX V4.3
Snapshot of RadioX on a CGX V4.3 screen [Friday 26-Oct-01] (585K)
Here is a snapshot of CyberGraphX V4.3 Workbench with most of the
Multimedia software running. RadioX (under AmigaAMP), Visionary,
TeleText software and the ForteMedia801 SoundMixer software. Click on
the thumbnail to the left for the 1280x1024x16bit full size grab.
CyberGraphX V4.3 driving 2 screens: G-Rex [Wednesday 24-Oct-01] (492K)
Here is a picture of CyberGraphX V4.3 (not out yet) driving 2 17" Monitors.
On the left is a Voodoo4 based card gfx with Workbench running Visionary
with TV/Video in the background. A quick peek at RadioX. Screen #2 is on
a ViRGE based card and has AmIRC and AmigaAMP running, with the
same TV/Video in the background. Both screens are 1024x768x16bit and
watching "The Arrival". Click on the thumbnail to the left to see the full
shot.
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
Amiga Future
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Workbench: WBStartEmu V45.2b
On 25. October 2001 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 45.2b
of 'WBStartEmu' being an AmigaOS V3.9 version of the 'wbstart.library'.
The following has changed since version 45.2:
- Bugfix: Now all path problems (program not found, program cannot find own icon)
should be solved. Thanks to Andreas Kürzinger for testing.
- New: Spanish translation. Thanks to D.Dominguez.
- Changed. New version of the wbrun command with a better deficons support:
Note: This is the wbrun version from AmigaOS V3.9 which does not require
both, neither AmigaOS V3.9 nor 'wbstartemu'.
Download: WBStartEmu.lha (8K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
ANN
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Magazine: The Crypt #20
Issue 20 is our NEW edition of The Crypt,
and it's our Birthday! 4 whole disks worth of the best material for you to
enjoy. And our Online version as well.
So what do we have for you this
time? Well, it seems as though the world has gone mad since we brought
out our last issue So hopefully this one will bring some cheer back into your
lives. As we have been back for a year now (Find out more about this in the
"History" section. We thought it was time to have some fun, so this is what
we have for you:- Ever wondered where the Haggis came from? Well we
bring you the story. And find out why the Scots are thought of as miserly.
Then we preview a forthcomming part of the Crypt for all the Steam Train
enthusiasts out there.
Just before we released this issue, we heard of the
closure of Amiga Active who have given us their support for the last year,
so our esteemed Dungeon Master has written a few words and we thank
them for all the work they have done for the Amiga community, and we
wish them well for the future with their new venture of "Digital".
As usual
we have a strong line up of Readers bringing you all the best (and some of
the worse) jokes and articles for every taste, and the Riyan Production
team have been busy scouring the world to great effect, and have once
again done us proud with all their articles and pics.
Have you ever
wondered how safe it is to buy things online? Well we give you the best
advice on how to make sure you are as safe as you can be with some very
good tips about the world wide web.
Dr. Jekyll writes about the MAS
Player, and Craig gives us a review on MuLib. And did you know that
someone has made a robot from an Amiga? We have the pics and a review
from the man himself. Then there is our usual collection of jokes and pics,
which will brighten up any party. And in our Dungeons section we have
some real life accounts from people who have experienced our Haunted
World.
At the time of writing this, we are just a week away from the
WOA-se show, where we hope to see new things from Amiga, and I'm
hoping to get myself a very fast emulator for the PC so I can run all my
favourite programs on a fast machine. Ray Elf has submitted a load of
cartoons and art work for you to enjoy, and then we have a look at a NEW
CD called D.O.O.N. which is a great utilities CD for the Amiga which gives
you everything you could want for Opus including a whole host of themes,
there are also OS3.5 and OS3.9 icons and a REGISTERED version of
Class Act!
But thats enough from me for now, as we have a lot of work to
do, bringing you the Christmas edition, which is only a few weeks away
now. Zola
You will need the "CrM.library" to read the Crypt Disk mag.
Download the lib,unlha it,and pop it in your libs drawer.
Also this version is incompatible With Amiga's using RTG or
a graphics card. So please go to Online so
you can read the HTML version.
Download:
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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The amiNET.GUI has a forum again
The amiNET.GUI has a forum, again, available via the menu item
[interaktiv].
There you can ask or answer questions and discuss with people.
Unfortunately at this time there's only a German version.
At last the Spanish, Italian, and French versions of the amiNET.GUI
got the category descriptions and menu texts translated. The same
for the English version.
The Recent-Uploads are available so far, again, and the amiNET
full text search was implemented.
Any file now can be rated inside of the directories.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail)
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Tools: ClassAction V4.3, Choowin V1.11, StopMenu
Martin Elsner has released new versions of the filemanager
'ClassAction' and the tool 'Choowin'. A new version of
'StopMenu' is being worked on.
ClassAction V4.3 - Poppping Uppp
The new version of the filemanager carries the sub-title
'Poppping Uppp', because of the new popup-menus like known
from 'MagicMenu'. Those replace the old action-list, the main menu,
and the drop-down list.
Additionally the following has changed:
- Both lists of same functionality.
- New edit menu.
- Directory buffering.
- Updating on disk change.
- Path buttons.
- Cut'n paste.
- Search.
ClassAction is aware of more than 40 file formats (gif, jpeg, iff, mods, ...), what makes
possible to automatically start operations by just clicking on a file - view, start, edit,
translate. It is possible to define new file types and add operations.
Choowin V1.11
This little help tool can start programs, put windows to front and activate them -
similar too the Task-Manager. You click on one of the buttons in one corner of
the Workbench screen and chose the program or window title from the list displayed.
'ClassAction' and 'Choowin' both require AmigaOS V3.5+.
StopMenu
Development of the start menu 'StopMenu' progresses, but still needs more time.
A release date within next week wasn't determined, yet.
StopMenu is a small help tool to start programs and put windows to front and activate them,
similar to Windows' start menu.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)
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Virtual Dimension: Video interview planned, Star Empire reservation possible
Virtual Dimension wrote:
On 17. and 18. November the
'AMIGA 2001'
will take place in Cologne, Germany, and of course we will be there for
you, again.
On this occation we are planning to make an interview with one of the
Amiga VIPs on the show. Who to interview? That's up to you.
Write your wishes to
interview@virtualdimension.de.
Who is it you allways wanted to see in front of the camera? What questions would you
like to ask him / her? We will collect all of the requests, chart them and then do what
ever possible to get this person on tape.
By the way: Who is interested in participating the next
StarEmpire round
can pencil in from now on, and will contact you as soon as the registration phase
has started.
Star Empire II is a round and text basined space strategy game by Christian Becker
for up to 32 players.
(sd)
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28.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: Graphics competition for Schlachtfeld
Horst Diebel wrote:
Since we are urgently needing new graphics for phase 2 of the Schlachtfeld
development and our own recources are quite limited, we decided to start
a graphics competition.
Since Eddy already eagerly designed units this competition is about creation
of background graphics. Those patterns should be of 256+ colours at the size of 16x16,
32x32 or 64x64 pixel.
Different scenarios are needed for the backgrounds, such like swamps,
grass or hill landscapes, craggy and rugged mountains, towns, deserts, ....
Partitipants are free to chose a subject - but we would be happy to get
informed in advance just to have the chance to discuss our ideas.
As first prices two new A1200s are at our disposal, also there are several
packages with Amiga software classics and Aminet CDs. Maybe the number
of prices will increase, but we ask you to take into account that this project still
is about creating free available software, which of course qualifys what we are able to
give as prices :-(
Anybody can participate, the graphics must be free from third-party rights, and in the
case of a price winning graphic we must get entitled to use it for comming versions of
Schlachtfeld.
Ok, as usual we would be happy to get feedback.... To determine the winners in a way
as neutral as possible we called up several representatives of the community to join the
jury - but just have a look at the website..... Also there are more information and even more
soon.
PS: As usual, of course we still are wanting people who would like to cooperate in this project;
conceptional, as programmer or graphics artist.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Amiga Exotica Team (ANF)
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ExoticA overloaded
The Amiga-ExoticA team wrote:
Please, use the mirror of Amiga ExoticA:
http://hangar18.campus.luth.se/exotica/.
The main page cannot cope with the run on the server. Thank you for your interest.
The ExoticA website deals with the musical capabilities and history of the Amiga.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Oct.2001
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)
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History: The Commodore Billboard - Q1241 brochure
26 English Amiga adverts have been added to The
Commodore Billboard. Several German brochures
have been added too, including a brochure for the
A1200 CDrom drive Q1241 from Amiga
Technologies. Last but not least a 30 second
Australian Commodore64 commercial has been
added too. It was shown on Australian channel 10
back in 1985.
(sd)
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27.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena: "Uropa² HD" full version
With permission by Stephen Smith (Austex Software) the Amiga Arena makes the
download of the full version of Uropa² (shareware version 2.0) available. Uropa² is a game
based on isometric 3D graphics and lightsource vector graphics. The plot takes
place on the moon of Uropa. Fight the evil Kapones and find their leading head
that is responsible for their acts!
Available for download is the Aminet version of Uropa² as well as the Amiga Arena
archive with the keyfile, German guide and catalogue files.
Hint: Exclusively can the Final Uropa² CD version 3.0,
distributed by Vulcan Software, be found as full version on the
Amiga Future readers CD 33.
Exclusive II: For all owners of the orginal CD are all Final Updates for
Uropa² available for download, too! Including a new intaller for the CD
version by Stephen Smith.
Special thanks go to Stephen Smith for the support as well as to Gerd F.,
who made the shareware version available. Enjoy one more commercial full
version! With the best wishes from the Amiga Arena!
Next to Uropa² there are more commercial games available for free and legal
download like Burnout, Blade and The Prophet. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org - roadmap
Under the title link you find a comprehensive roadmap, how Amiga.org will continue. Among other things a new server, new partner sites,
an improved user login are planned as well as a new comments system. The forums system and
the poll scripts are to be improved during this complete overhaul, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Bernie Meyer (email)
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Amithlon.net now online with information
Bernie Meyer wrote:
As there seems to be the need for it I have gathered some information on http://www.amithlon.net/ and made downloads
available. In particular there are:
- a detailed guide how to boot Amithlon from the hard disk,
- bootable CD and floppy images for testing existing hardware
for Amithlon compatibility,
- an up-to-date FAQ.
Some parts are still in development and some parts are missing just completely
--- but regarding the discussions taking place at the moment I wanted to make
the existing information available as soon as possible.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - update and further news
Promised is promised: the latest update for DA III (to version
4.2) was uploaded to Aminet. Users of the program can download and decrypt the program via
in-built function automatically as soon as the update
appears on the recent list. For this you need an already installed v4.0 or
higher.
Here the most important changes:
- Complete Bayer/Flamsteed data base (historical naming of stars)
- The DA screen is now public.
- The printer output can now be previewed in a browser.
- Online information about several hundred stars.
The most important bugfixes:
- Drawing Deep Sky objects into the printer output caused crashes.
- The evaluation of the mouse position in the PPC versions had not always
worked.
And a short notice regarding the OpenGL version of DA III (issue 10/2001 of the
AmigaPlus):
This project was cancelled already several weeks ago as there was no speed gain
compared to the normal version.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)
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IRC-Kanal for GRex users
Michael Göken wrote:
As already mentioned we want to set up an IRC channel that offers a
possibility for the exchange of experiences to GRex owners.
If we'd have some flatrate owners we could maintain an online channel.
I post the server I'll open the #GREXX channel on from time to time.
Server: 141.44.163.6
Channel: #GREXX
Port:6667
(ps)
Update 28-Oct-2001:
The name of the IRC channel was changed. It's now
'#GREX' and it is set up on the server 141.44.163.6
(port: 6667).
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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27.Oct.2001
Volker Mohr (ANF)
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New site about self built Amiga laptops online
Volker Mohr wrote:
For all interested I have finally put together pictures of all Amiga laptops built by me as
well as some hints for assembling such on a homepage. I admit this
page was overdue but better late than never :-)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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26.Oct.2001
Gerd Frank (e-mail)
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New AmiATLAS website online
At the title link you'll find the new website of the route planner AmiATLAS 6.
Alternately the website can be reached at
http://software.freepage.de/iss.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with James Daniels (programmer of Payback)
There's currently perhaps only one commercial Amiga game which is maintained
so well as Payback by James Daniels. Sadly, James' work does not reflect in
the sales. Because of the download count (updates) which are much higher than
the sales it has to be assumed that a huge amount of pirated copies endanger
the further development of Payback!
In the interview with Amiga Arena James revealed what the update 6 will offer.
Should the amount of sales not increase we will have to do without a very
talented "young" developer for Amiga.
Special thanks to Christian B. who made it possible that the interviews are
online in German and English.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Michael Dittmar (ANF)
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Blizkick - Bugfixed for the new (PCI)-Flash-ROM
A new update for the MAPROM tool Blizkick is available. Besides other bugfixes
the new version now works with BlizzardPPC boards which have been flashed with
the new (PCI-)flash ROM.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
eisblock (ANF)
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DiCaTool V0.81
There is a new version of DiCaTool which you can download again this weekend
(server is not online permanently). With DiCaTool you can configure your digital
camera, load pictures from the camera or use it as a webcam. Have fun with it.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (ML)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.36
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. This is a major update
and you should download the update right away, just read about the changes.
And what must be one of the best news in the anti-virus scene in 2001, the 'man'
himself is back on the Amiga scene. Georg Hoermann, the original programmer of
VirusZ III and xvs.library is BACK. Georg Hoermann and Jan Erik Olausen will work
together on the update of xvs.library in future.
Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.36
Achive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 82,452 bytes
Release date: 25 October 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann
News for v33.36:
- After several years on a journey the sourcecodes finally came
back home;-) Yes, it's me (Georg Hörmann) again, still alive
and kicking virus asses... Thanks must go to Alex van Niel and
Jan Erik Olausen for keeping the project alive!
This update was done by me alone, but in the future, Jan Erik
and I will keep the library up-to-date together.
- Rearranged and enhanced the security stuff inside the library
for 100% detection of any (illegal) function patches. Programs
like 'ZeebsVS' will no longer work with this version. Thanks
must go to Zeeball for his demonstration of security gaps in
the older versions.
- Added support for 'IOZ (512 Bytes)' linkvirus. Thanks go to
Zeeball for sending it.
- Added support for 'Rexxfunc' trojan. Thanks must go to Zeeball
and Jan Andersen for sending it.
- Totally redesigned the scanner for virus tasks/processes. The
new code scans all tasks/processes for every known virus in just
one step and can even handle several running copies of one virus
correctly (thanks Zeeball for the hint).
- Checked ALL the stuff that has been added in my absence since
xvs.library 33.18. See below for what I have changed/fixed.
Thanks must go to Jan Andersen, Jan Erik Olausen and Zeeball
for sending me the missing viruses and lots of other stuff.
Special thanks to Zeeball for the ZeebsVS sourcecodes!
- Fixed file recognition for 'Bastard Installer 1'.
- Renamed 'Miami 4.0 Fake Installer' to 'MUI 4.0 Fake Installer',
because that's what it really is.
- Renamed 'CCCP Clone' bootvirus to 'Anal Rapes' (its real name),
fixed its memory recognition and added it to linkvirus brain.
- Removed recognition for 'Doubledensity' bootblock, this is just
an intro boot.
- Fixed longword access to odd address in 'Jode Capullos 2' file
recognition. This caused crashes on 68000 systems.
- Fixed memory removal code for 'Zakahackandpatch' and 'Zakapior'.
The processes of these viruses might stay in memory up to one
minute after they have been detected, that's not a bug, but
their own call to Delay() that we have to wait for.
- Fixed recognition for 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Installers' and added
the plain version created by xfdmaster.library 39.13.
- Renamed 'MadRoger Short' to 'NoName (248 Bytes)' to follow the
guidelines of VTC Hamburg (idea by Jan Andersen).
- Renamed '212 Bytes Link' linkvirus to 'NoName (212 Bytes)' and
fixed its memory removal code.
- Renamed 'Explode Trojan' linkvirus to 'Port 9876' and removed
the repair code, we can use 'Fungus' code instead.
- Renamed 'Explode Trigger' filevirus to 'Port 9876 Trigger'.
- Renamed 'Port 4097 Installer' to 'Port 4097' and added memory
removal code for the trojan's process. The process will stay
in memory for a while without doing any harm, see explanation
at 'Zaka...' above.
- Fixed 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' memory removal code. The process gets
killed immediately, the patched stack addresses will disappear
one by one after a while without doing harm.
- Fixed memory and file recognition and the repair code for
'Motaba 3' linkvirus. Now it restores the correct library jumps
and can repair even files that have been damaged by the virus
(bad branch offsets!).
- Fixed memory and file recognition and the repair code for
'Bastard' linkvirus. Now restores all patched functions (inside
asl.library and VirusCheckerII) and repairs even big files with
bad branch offsets.
- File recognition for 'Bastard Installer 2' will now only detect
the plain, uncrunched virus as xfdmaster.library unpacks this
file correctly.
- Fixed brain entry of 'Port 2421' linkvirus (wrong virus length)
and added memory recognition. Moved 'Port 2421 Installer' from
linkvirus to filevirus brain as it cannot reproduce itself.
- Fixed 'Smeg 2a' and 'Smeg 2b' memory removal code. The processes
get killed immediately and the patched stack addresses disappear
one by one after a while without doing harm.
- Fixed repair code for 'Penetrator 2001' linkvirus to handle both
ways of infection and added memory removal code (removes the task
and 2 of 3 processes, the other one usually should already have
been run out or crashed because of bad coding!).
- Fixed memory recognition for 'Bobek 2' linkvirus and tuned the
file recognition/repair code. Thanks to Jan Erik Olausen for his
bug report about the beta-release of this code.
TO DO:
- Add some code to close TCP ports opened by several trojans.
- Add Neurotic Death 1-5 linkviruses. These are highly polymorphic, but
crash on my system if I try to infect some test files. I have received
several infected files already from other persons and will try to find
some solution for these viruses in the near future.
- Try to get and add GlobVec linkvirus. The only one who has it is Heiner
Schneegold (author of VT-Schutz) and VTC Hamburg, but Heiner doesn't
give his permission to the VTC to send me the virus :(
Authors:
Currently we are developing xvs.library together, so for bug reports, other
comments, new ideas etc. it's enough if you choose one of the following
addresses:
Georg Hörmann, Martinswinkelstr. 16c, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
email: ghoermann@gmx.de or ghoermann@epost.de
Jan Erik Olausen, Rødsveien 5, N-1671 Kråkerøy, Norway
email: virusexecutor@c2i.net
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm
Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you
must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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