09.Aug.2001
The Register
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The Register: Gateway pulls out of UK and Ireland
As already reported for several times, the American PC manufacturer Gateway - who
obtained AMIGA in 1997 and sold it again in late 1999 - this year is deep in the red.
After the closing of 27 US stores and the announcement to close their German offices, now
the closing of their European headquarter in Dublin as well as their English office
was confirmed, too. Only for Ireland and England 1,200 people will loose their jobs.
See title link for The Register article.
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09.Aug.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software
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Eternity News: New Eternity1 offers and packets
Since some time Eternity Hard- and Software offers a PC named 'Eternity1'
with an Amiga emulator pre-installed. Since 01. August 2001 they changed the
distribution concept for the Eternity1 to offer two different basic machines.
Moreover the software is delivered separately (meaning no pre-installed software,
anymore). This should better meet future offers of different alternative Amiga
systems.
At the time being Eternity offers the following computer configurations:
1. Eternity One Economy
- Midi-Case 300W
- AMD Athlon 1Ghz
- Quantum Fireball QML 30000 30 GB
- GeForce 2 MX-200
- 128 MB SD-RAM
- CD-ROM BTC 52x
- Gigabyte Mainboard GA7ZX (5 PCI/1 ISA/1 4xAGP)
- Keyboard, Mouse
2. Eternity One Business
- Midi-Case 300W
- AMD Athlon 1,4 Ghz (266 FSB)
- Seagate Barracuda III 40 GB 7200 rpm
- GeForce 2 GTS
- 256 MB DDR-RAM (266 FSB)
- DVD-ROM LiteOn 52x
- Gigabyte Mainboard DA7DXR (5 PCI/1 4xAGP) incl. Raid-Controller (266 FSB)
- Network Card 100 Mbit
- Keyboard, Mouse
3. Eternity One Amiga-Software Packet 1
- Amiga-Forever
- WinUAE-JIT
- Amiga OS 3.9
More details and prices are to find under the title link.
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09.Aug.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: SGrab Version 1.18
Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.18 of his screen grabber SGrab.
With this program you can create screen grabs and save them in different formats.
Download: sgrab.lha (97 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Satra Systems
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Database: SatraDB for AmigaOS
Satra Systems develops a new database management system for AmigaOS 3.5
called SatraDB. 85% of the design have been finished, development progress is
at 66%. More details under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Fr3dY
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Tool: xlHTML for MorphOS Version 0.2.9.11
Fr3dY has written loads of useful tools for the AmigaOS and MorphOS.
On 07. August 2001 he has released version 0.2.9.11 of xlHTML. This
program converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML.
Download: xlhtml.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: News from the Bitboys - XBA about to outplay GeForce3
»Extreme bandwith due to embedded DRAM within the graphics chip
Since 1998 the Finnish graphics chip manufactures Bitboys are working on
their Xtreme Bandwith Architecture (XBA), a memory architecture embedding
fast eDRAM directly into the graphics chip and thus is said to offer
noticeable higher bandwith than GeForce3 and similar. Now the Finns have
released some new information: Their upcoming "wonder graphics chip" now will
have integrated 12 MB instead of 9 MB eDRAM and additionally will be capable
to address up to 64 MB external SDRAM.
«
For complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Chip: ATI Radeon 2 - Samples of the new 3D board
»Initial samples of an ATI graphics board with Radeon-2 chip have shipped in
Korea. The hardware magazine "Brainbox" contains pictures of a Radeon-2 board with
64 MB DDR-RAM at 4 ns access time.«
See title link for complete article.
More messages about this subject:
The Register: ATI Radeon 200 debuts on Web
Brainbox: ATi R200 (incl. pictures)
The Register: ATI R200, R300 roadmap spied
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09.Aug.2001
Borut Zivkovic (ANF)
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Game: Heretic II patch (especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this)
Hyperion Entertainment released a patch for Heretic II for download.
Especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this one;
BilzzardPPC users with 040/25 CPU will experience significant more
speed. Moreover now the so called "wheel mouse" is supported and visual
effects have been enhanced.
The innovations are:
- Speed. The new version is up to 25% faster depending on the hardware.
Especially users with relatively weak hardware (BlizzardPPC with 040/25) will notice a significant speed-up.
- Mouse Wheel support. Heretic II now supports mouse wheel adaptors that map to rawkeys 122/123 (newMouse etc.).
- Improved visual effects: "new" Permedia 2 additive blending mode (requires Warp 3D V4.2)
(see before and after screenshots) and full Voodoo 3 support.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Ben Yoris / Hyperion (ANF)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Website moved and has got new features
Hyperion Entertainment is very proud to announce our webmaster has completely
revamped our website and migrated it to a more powerful server.
The new website can be reached on www.hyperion-entertainment.com.
Key-sections of the site including the general FAQ and the corporate info
have been updated.
Apart from a new progress report on Freespace, the new site now also has a
download section where users can register their copies of Heretic 2 and
Shogo:MAD.
Registered users will be able to download updates of Heretic 2 and
Shogo:MAD which will address certain issues with the Voodoo 3 drivers,
squeeze out more performance and boost visual quality.
Registered users will moreover enjoy further priviliges such as early
access to new versions of Warp3D and be eligible for beta-testing of
our future titles.
Please take the time to register your copy of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: First version of Opera-browser for QNX
»Unicode-support for Opera-versions announced
The strategy of Opera supporting as many as possible operating systems continues: The Norwegian programmers has now published Opera 5.2 for QNX. The QNX-version supports Unicode as the first Opera-browser.«
You can read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: New open-source-competition for DivX and Co.
»On2 Technologies releases TrueMotion VP3.2 video compression technology
The small software company On2 Technologies which is situated in New York has released its powerful video compression algorithm TrueMotion VP3.2 as open-source. With this step the company which formerly has been known as Duck Corporation wants to offer a powerful competition to DivX and the ISO-standard MPEG-4 which has to be licensed.«
Read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Ralf Berg (ANF)
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Tool: New alpha-version of IFFAnzeiger
Ralf Berg writes:
Today I have uploaded a new alpha-version of the IFFAnzeiger on my homepage. IFFAnzeiger can also display oversized pictures directly of the harddrive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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ASP: e-mail address changed
Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz wrote:
At eanet.de there is probably a problem with forwarding of mails.
Because of that I have changed the email address. All those who have
sent me mails in the last week and who did not get any response please
send it again to the new mail address.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Corel wants to take possession of SoftQuad
»Enterprises signed taking possession
Corel wants to take possession of the enterprise SoftQuad Software which is specialized for XML-solutions. The enterprises informed that a corresponding agreement has been signed. According to it Corel will take possession of SoftQuad by buying of shares.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
M0rpheus (ANF)
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New Amiga-website for hard- and software news
M0rpheus writes:
I have created this website to confirm my existing interest in the Amiga-computer. At the moment only one project is online which is a new Amiga-online-game based on the board game RISIKO!
I hope you will enjoy this site and the content :)
Respects M0rpheus
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.27
Yesterday Jan Erik Olausen has published version 33.27 of 'xvs.library'. This version contains the following changes:
- Added Penetrator 2001 Link virus
Thanks to Krzysztof Duda for the files.
- Added CCCP Clone Bootblock virus
Thanx to Mr Yoard for sending me this bootblock
- Fixed bug in recognition code for DKG-Blum file virus again!
Thanks to Urban Mueller for reporting this.
- Added Smeg2a Installer File virus
Thanks to Antonio De Cicco for the file.
- Added Smeg2a Link virus
- Added Smeg2b Link virus
Thanks to Zeeball for the files.
To be done:
- Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory.
Name: xvs.library v33.27
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 56.483 Bytes
Release date: 7. August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
eMail: virusexecutor@c2i.net
xvs.library program length: 56.828 Bytes
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07.Aug.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)
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AROS reachable at new URL
As reported earlier there was a hardware problem
with the server hosting the AROS website. In the meantime you can get to the
website with this URL: http://www.hepe.com/aros/
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Emerald Imaging
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Game: Demoversion of Aqua released
A demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is released. In this game you will find
yourself in a mysterious world and have to try to get a way out.
Download:
AquaDemo.lha -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Assembly
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Event: Assembly 2001
At the Finnish Demoparty Assembly 2001, that has happen not long ago in Helsinki,
MatureFunk has won the first place with the Amiga demo Lapsuus.
This demo and other you will find under the title link for download.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk.
These are the new packages:
- 05.08.01 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts)
- 05.08.01 new: Missiles Over Xerion (Kingsoft/Cycletech)
- 05.08.01 new: Garfield: A Winter's Tail (The Edge)
- 05.08.01 enhanced: Fly Harder (Starbyte)
- 05.08.01 new: Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 new: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software)
- 04.08.01 new: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision)
- 04.08.01 new: Castle Vania (Konami)
- 01.08.01 enhanced: IK+ (Archer MacLean)
- 31.07.01 enhanced: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 07.08.2001
YAT.lha comm/mail 577K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
crossgcc_linux.tgz dev/gcc 2.8M+Crossgcc linux to AmigaOS
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 952K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2001 (Itali
Aakt0801GFX.lha docs/mags 542K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801GUIDE.lha docs/mags 73K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801HTML.lha docs/mags 218K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
HBible.lha docs/misc 1.2M+Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillatio
ChaosHeavy.lha game/2play 16M+World's Best Magic Game! 1-8 players! Fa
AquaDemo.lha game/demo 2.5M+Aqua demo version of great new adventure
mhi_MASPro.lha hard/misc 10K+MHI MAS Player Pro driver
ASIE.lha misc/emu 45K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
mhi_dev.lha mus/play 56K+MHI Dev - The new standard in MPEG audio
mhi_MASStd.lha mus/play 9K+MHI MAS Player Standard driver
PlayGUI.lha mus/play 785K+Skinnable multi-format player-GUI
PlayGUIShot.jpg mus/play 172K+Screenshot of PlayGUI 3.2
arcadesnookeri.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Arcade Snooker
doomicon.lha pix/mwb 65K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
quakeicon.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Quake
Robot.jpg pix/trace 20K+Raytraced Robot
StarRacker.jpg pix/trace 36K+Futuristic Rocket Car
Alecos-WB-1.jpg pix/wb 141K+A nice desktop 800x600 16 Bit by Alecos
Ital301.lha text/misc 566K+English to Italian Translator v. 3.1
GS-JAnim.lha util/batch 7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species)
2b_Spiral.lha util/boot 3K+A little toy to make Your Workbench look
e-bin.lha util/cli 72K+Port of "e", a full expression evaluator
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 122K+WarpDT preferences program V44.5
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 209K+TIFF datatype V44.1 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
AslToRT.lha util/misc 23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
envhandler.lha util/sys 14K+A happyenv replacement (1.10)
Safe.lha util/virus 35K+Virus detector v16.3
FlagsWB3.9_GR.lha util/wb 3K+WB 3.9 Flags, Country files for Greece,
sgrab.lha util/wb 95K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.17) (as) (Translation: gf)
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