16.Jun.2001
Jens Schoenfeld (ANF)
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Individual Computer: vacation
Individual Computer is on vacation until the end of next week and will therefore
answer to emails again from June 25th.
(ps)
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16.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 16.06.2001
DKG-LIFX.lha demo/sound 754K+Anarchy's 'Legalise It' 680x0/AGA/HD fix
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 560K+V2.32 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBasicUpd.lha dev/basic 496K+V2.32b - Update for registered users (fr
DragnDrop14b.lha dev/gui 129K+Update of dragndrop library - got new fu
WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 526K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 134K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
fat95.lha disk/misc 84K+Win95/98 compatible file system
GHAS.lha docs/lists 204K+Maintenance Update: database of nearly 1
WHDIGamesE-F.lzh game/patch 1.1M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesG-I.lzh game/patch 1.3M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesJ-M.lzh game/patch 1.9M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesN-R.lzh game/patch 2.0M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesS-T.lzh game/patch 2.8M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesU-Z.lzh game/patch 1.0M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHD_HardDrivn2.lha game/patch 43K+HD Installer for Hard Drivin' II
tiny3dV7.lha game/shoot 98K+3D Tankshooter V0.7 (ONLY GFX-BOARDS)
X_Q.lha game/wb 37K+A peg game on an "X" shaped board
3dgpl.lha gfx/3d 46K+3DGPL V1.0 amiga link library
acidtake.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+AcidTakeOver. Techno (MP3) tune from Emu
amphetarmx.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+AmphetamineRMX. Techno/Trance/House (MP3
cosmicspots.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Cosmic spots. HardTrance (MP3) tune from
elephant.mpg mods/mpg 3.3M+Elephant trunk. Goa/PsyTrance (MP3) tune
liquidpath.mpg mods/mpg 4.4M+Liquid path. Goa/PsyTrance (MP3) tune fr
lovemem.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Love memories. Techno/Trance (MP3) tune
plutey.mpg mods/mpg 3.2M+Plutey. Techno (MP3) tune from Emulate
soniceleph.mpg mods/mpg 3.9M+Sonic elephant. HardTrance (MP3) tune fr
trappedspace.mpg mods/mpg 4.3M+Trapped in space. Goa/PsyTrance (MP3) tu
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 143K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 84K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
APowerStuff_9.lha pix/misc 644K+Pics from aMiGa=PoWeR magazine
AquaWB.lha pix/wb 314K+OS3.9 Workbench in Aqua Style
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 31K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
ltools21_demo.lha text/misc 46K+Dictionary and Document Translator
JustName.lha util/cli 15K+A small utility to justify filenames
DragnDrop14.lha util/libs 129K+Update of dragndrop library - got new fu
FWCalendar.lha util/rexx 434K+THE calendar creator for FW & Pagestream
rmicon.lha util/rexx 16K+ARexx script which deletes .info files (
envhandler.lha util/sys 13K+A happyenv replacement (1.8)
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 61K+Creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.19) (as)
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15.Jun.2001
Stefan Martens (ANF)
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#AmigaFun: HBMonopoly online game
The #AmigaFun IRC channel on ie.altnet.org organizes and manages the second
official HBMonopoly game of this month. It will take place on June 16th starting
6:00 pm.
The programmer of HBMonopoly will participate as well. HBMonopoly 2.6 is required.
This version will be available from some people on the #AmigaFun channel should
it not already be on the homepage.
The server which have to be configured in HBMonopoly will be named on the #AmigaFun
channel. Important: you have to know how HBMonopoly works. We'll only explain how
to log in. We'll assume that you have played at least one, two times against the
computer.
In future we'll organize more HBMonopoly games. There's already a #AmigaFun-internal
highscore list which you can have a look at on the #AmigaFun homepage. It will also
contain the top 5 of all HBMonopoly games we'll organize in the future.
It is possible that after some games there'll be a surprise for the best gamer. The
first HBMonopoly game starts Saturday June 16th, 2001 at 6:00 pm. Please note that
Monopoly may take several hours, so you should have a full version of your TCP client
(Miami, Genesis).
You'll find our #AmigaFun channel as follows:
You need an IRC client. For the Amiga there are AmIRC (shareware), BlackIRC (freeware)
and EpicIRC (freeware). On our homepage, you'll find download links. You just have to
enter:
Server: ie.altnet.org
Port: 6667
Channel: #amigafun
Should the server be down you can get access through the following server:
12.30.169.83 (please enter without "irc.").
You can find more information, especially for IRC novices, on the #AmigaFun homepage.
On this occasion I'd like to say that the homepage was entirely redesigned. You
can choose between German and English language.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Demoscene disk mag: Devotion#2 released
Last night the second issue of the English Amiga demoscene disk mag "Devotion"
has been released.
Experts of the scene will compare this issue with the 'Creme de la creme'
and find that Devotion has everything which made classics like RAW, ROM
or GENERATION special. For novices and those interested in the demoscene
the magazine is recommended also. SCENET has the magazine available for
download since it's available nowhere else.
Download: hjb-dvn2.lha
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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Music: DARKAGE releases fix for LEGALIZE IT 2
The group Darkage, known in the Amiga demo scene for their intros, demos
and their disk mag Showtime, released yesterday a fix for the music disk
"Legalise it". This music disk was originally released in the early nineties
by the lengendary group Anarchy.
The programmer Reinhold "Stingray" Kloth has reworked the entire sourcecode
and allows owners of modern Amigas to experience the feeling of the demo
scene from 1992. SCENET hosts also the sixteenth issue of the English disk
mag 'Showtime' which is available here.
Download: DKG-LIFX.lha
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Thomas Tavoly (e-mail)
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RC5-64 contest: Half-time! (Update)
The Amiga RC5 team participates now for four years in this worldwide contest
to crack a 64 bit key. That requires calculating up to 18,4 trillion possible
keys. Half of the total key count has now been calculated. The Amiga RC5 team
did not get lucky after 1331 days, but are currently advancing 2,5 times
faster than the average for the first half, and chances of finding the key
before the whole keyspace is searched are progressively getting better and
better.
The Amiga RC5 team is on rank 7 of thousands of teams and has more than 2500
participants with more than 5000 computers. Read the entire
press release
for more details.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Ray A. Akey on Amipress-ML
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Party Pack: new URL for direct order
Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. announced on the Amipress mailing list that contrary to
the original message (titlelink) you should from now on use the following URL for
direct order of the Party Pack:
Direct order through Amiga Mall
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: 3D game engine for mobile devices
»Finnish developers are working on a 3D engine X-Forge which is supposed to
allow platform-independent games on mobile phones, smartphones, PDAs and other mobile
devices. The company Fathammer founded in October 2000
aims at realizing cheap 3D games for wireless devices.« (ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Bjarke Viksoe (ANF)
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PC: ADF view
The ADF View is a Shell Namespace extension, which opens up the .ADF file
extension. ADF files are Amiga Disk Files, or image dumps of AmigaDOS
formatted disks. These files are used by most Commodore Amiga emulator
software.
Because ADF View is a namespace extension, it is integrated right into
the Windows Explorer. Double-clicking on an ADF file brings up the
familiar folder view, where you can copy, move, delete, recover and
rename files as you would usually do with normal PC files. You can
also drag'n'drop files from any Windows folder to an ADF folder, and
back.
ADF View works with Amiga floppy images and hard disk images. It even
detects Amiga hard drives attached to your computer and adds a new drive
icon to the "My Computer" folder under Windows NT/2000.
New and empty disk images can be created using a Wizard under the Shell
New commands (The File/New sub-menu in the Windows Explorer).
Download: adfview.zip - 96 kB
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Andrew Bell
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Unarchiver frontend: Voodoo-X version 1.5 beta 8
Voodoo-X is a MUI-based GUI for the unarchiver
XADmaster.library by Dirk Stöcker.
With Voodoo-X you can easily view the contents of the archives (also single files).
This beta version may still contain bugs which may lead to crashes. More details at
the titlelink.
Download: VX1.5.BETA8.lha - 110 kB (ps)
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15.Jun.2001
AmigArt
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Images and icons for JabberWocky sought
As already reported, there now
exists an Amiga client for the Instant Messenger Jabber. Author
Gürer Özen is now looking for graphics artists,
who want to create nice graphics and icons for this new program.
Application icons for WB:
One for the jw's .info file. Three for online, offline, message states
of the iconification (this works now, just put some icons under Icons
dir with names like Jabberwocky_online.info, Jabberwocky_offline.info...)
Small status icons for roster:
Available, Unavailable, Away, XAway, DoNotDisturb, FreeForChat
and Message. Several sets with different sizes would be good for
people with different resolutions.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Schatztruhe (e-mail)
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Schatztruhe: Aminet 43 available
Aminet CD 43 - June 2001 - contains more than 900 MB (unarchived) of
software in almost 700 archives. Since Aminet CD 42 many MB of new software
have been added. As special highlight, Aminet 43 contains the full version
of Wildfire 5 with the possibility to cheaply upgrade to Wildfire 7.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Scalos
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Workbench replacement: Scalos beta V1.3
A new beta version 1.3 of Scalos, the extensive Workbench replacement, has been
released. This version contains many bugfixes. Should you find bugs, please submit
a bug report.
Download: ScalosBeta.lha - 140 kB
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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CD32 Games Install Kit v4.41 NG
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.41 NG is now available for owners of the Best of Airsoft Softwair
Gold Edition at the Airsoft Softwair homepage. A major bug was fixed and thus every user
should install this update.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (ANF)
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Party Pack also available at the Benelux Amiga Show
We have if asked Amiga Inc. if we may sell the Party Pack for a week longer,
i.e. on the B.A.S. - and we may.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga starts with delivery of the "Party Packs"
According to a posting of Gary Peake (see titlelink), Amiga has begun
last Thursday with delivery of the "Party Packs".
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
René Thol (ANF)
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(New) informations on GREX 4000 and MicroServer
René Thol has received some interesting informations from DCE on the G-Rex 4000 board
and summarizes:
- the GREX 4000 is ready, they're waiting only for the boards from the manufacturer.
- the GREX 4000 replaces the the daughterboard (ISA-, ZIII- and videoslots) on the motherboard and is connected with the port for the CVPPC on the Cyberstorm board.
- the TV board drivers for the GREX are still in the works and are thus no longer mentioned in the GREX advertising since only finished drivers are advertised there.
- AGP extensions are not planned. The AGP slots of the AmigaOne will also work only through PCI with the resulting speed.
- The planned DCE Microserver will be plugged later in one of the PCI slots and features two SDRAM slots with 133 MHz bus speed. It can be used as busmaster and has access to the entire Amiga hardware. Sadly, a Cyberstorm board already working in the Amiga has still to be used
and its processors can not access the SDRAM (buswidth through PCI too narrow). Because of a CPU socket, more current CPUs than the G3/G4 can be used later. Existing PPC applications won't run immediately on the new CPUs (due to addressing and such) but have to be be adapted through (minor) changes in the sourcecode and a special library.
(ps)
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15.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (e-mail)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party
As already announced,
the Benelux Amiga Show takes place on June 23rd, 2001 in Rotterdam together with a
LAN party which are organized by the Dutch print magazine ´Amiga Scene´ and the dealer
´Computer City´.
Besides the already mentioned highlights and VIPs there are the following confirmations:
Alan Redhouse of Eyetech will present two
AmigaOne with a colleague.
Discount on admission
To make the trip to Holland from neighbor countries more appealing, a discount of 50% on
the admission is granted to everyone who comes from outside Holland. (ps)
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14.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Heise: mp3PRO: MP3 Successor joining the Race
»Since today, 14th June, the first official demo version of the designated
MP3 successor mp3PRO is available for free download on Coding Technologies' website.
The "RCA Demo mp3PRO Player/Encoder 1.0" plays Mp3(PRO) files as well as wav-files.
The latter can also be converted to the new mp3PRO format at a non-varying bit-rate
of 64 kbit/s. The new and downwards compatible format augurs a substantial better
quality of sound at low bit-rates, due to "spectral band replication" (SBR).
«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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14.Jun.2001
Nico Barbat
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Event: Autumn Show appointment determined
Autumnal there will be a show organized by the Falke-Verlag, again.
Meantime the time-frame was determined: The "AMIGA WORLD 2001" will
take place on 20th and 22nd September 2001 with the
maxpo 2001 jointly at the
fairgrounds of Cologne. More information will follow, soon.
(ps)
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14.Jun.2001
BTTR-Team (E-Mail)
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Back to the Roots: Download Hours Fixed
BTTR downloads now disabled 2/3 of each day!
Our archive files will only be available for download from
06:10 to 13:10 GMT (may vary), but they should work at full
speed then. We are not happy about this, but unless we find
some sponsors, we have to prevent our archive from being closed
down by this action. If we find we can extend the times outward
more, we will.
The entire content of the site (except all downloads, full-size
pictures and the mod player) will continue to work the entire
day. The same applies to the Aminet downloads, as they are not
stored on these servers.
If you are willing to help us by either donating money to pay
parts of our traffic, by purchasing targeted advertising at our
site or by providing us a fast dedicated *nix server somewhere
else, please contact traffic@back2roots.org.
Several thousand people visit this site each day, and create
the enormous traffic together. Some download more, some download
less. It would be nice if a few of you could also help us to keep
this monster comfortable for people of all time zones.
Many of you have surely noticed that most of the gaming archive
sites were closed down recently. These sites all paid their
traffic by advertising. So did we. However, this does not work
for archive sites anymore, since advertising prices dropped
horribly worldwide.
We have several ideas in the queue to find an income to finance
this site for your convenience. Just none which will work fast
enough. So please also contact us if you want to provide temporary
help.
To all companies who have licensed games to be offered at our
site for free: BTTR will continue to be a non profit project,
and we did never earn a single pence with it, and we will
continue to do so.
(ps)
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