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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14.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New Screenshots of the AmigaDE GUI
Under the title link there is a posting by Fleecy Moss (AmigaOne mailing list) along
with several pictures attached to the mail.
Matt Chaput (together with other people) in deed has been authorized to design the new
GUI.
Fleecy explained that "of course these still are prototypes and eventually will be 'skinnable'
(configurable with skins). But the pictures should give a good impression of where things are
going".
Update: (08.08.2012, cg)
Added the two screenshots mockups that could still be found on the net. (ps)
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14.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 13.06.2001
TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 10K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAMGenesis.lha comm/mail 24K+YAM-->Genesis-->Yam2NN, united. V1.05
FlushHeaders.lha comm/news 32K+FlushHeaders for Yam2NN_087 V1.00
Yam2nnSpa.lha comm/news 4K+Spanish translation catalog for Yam2NN
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
factsSpa.lha comm/tcp 2K+Spanish translation catalog for FACTS
Jabberwocky.lha comm/tcp 185K+Jabber/ICQ/AIM/MSN/Yahoo/IRC client
pproxy-mos.lha comm/tcp 6K+Little Proxy with cache -MorphOS-
Artifictional.lha demo/aga 1.3M+Secretly! - artifictional,demo at ms2001
PureBasic_Upd2.lha dev/basic 661K+V2.32 - Update for registered users (fro
DragnDrop14a.lha dev/gui 129K+Update of dragndrop library - got new fu
MCC_NListtree.lha dev/mui 264K+MUI list tree class for NList
stormgcc_binut.lha dev/src 5.2M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD
stormgcc_cvs.lha dev/src 1.8M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD
stormgcc_gcc.lha dev/src 11M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD
TsGuiSpa.lha disk/misc 1K+Spanish translation catalog for TsGUI
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 31K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
WHDIDemos.lzh game/patch 2.0M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesA-B.lzh game/patch 2.1M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesC-D.lzh game/patch 1.7M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
Stato.lha game/shoot 2.5M+Statoscuro-overhead shoot'em-up.GIFTWARE
vpeg.lha hard/drivr 13K+Hardware mpeg-player for Peggy+ and simi
dissa.lha misc/emu 91K+Pc-Engine Roms Tools V1.77+Gui
Benelux-show.jpg pix/art 19K+Jpg picture with fxPaint and C4D
htmldoc-mos.lha text/misc 679K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.12
htmldoc.lha text/misc 612K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.12
muReset.lha util/cli 3K+Reset command with muFS support, check i
PopScreen.lha util/cli 2K+A small popscreen utility for scripts V1
AslToRT.lha util/misc 21K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
ReqAttackUpd.lha util/misc 52K+RAPrefsMUI 1.81
ReqAttack_deu.lha util/misc 38K+RAPrefsMUI german catalog & docs(1.80)
RxSPack.lha util/rexx 2K+Spanish translation catalogs for RxMUI,R
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 53K+External Virus Support Library v33.25 (as)
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13.Jun.2001
Haage & Partner
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H&P: ArtEffect Plugins Collection
The ArtEffect Plugins Collection
for the first time brings an extended collection of sensational effects and editing filters for the
image editing software ArtEffect.
As highlights among the effects there are Glow and DarkGlow maken
objects "glowing", Solar, Neon, and Alien to mutate images, classics
like PageCurl curling one edge of a picture, as well as OilPainting
creating a perfect painting from a photograph or scanned picture.
System requirements: ArtEffect 2, 3 or 4 (will not work with v1.5 or
SE version). The collection will come along with ArtEffect 2, so you can
start right away. (ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: "Trojan horse" disguise as folder
A new virus disguise as Windows-folder - while opening it shows a directory but in the background it installs a "Trojan horse".
[...]
The mail has the subject-line "Welcome you to" and it contains an attachment "iwantyou.exe".
[...]
In order to get rid of the virus you should delete the files "angel.exe" and "angel.dll" in the Windows/system-directory and reboot the computer.
For full article see title link.
(ps)
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13.Jun.2001
Ron Goertz
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ARexx: FWCalendar 4.14 and FWCAddEvent v3.97
FWCalendar of Ron Goertz is an ARexx-script (macro) for FinalWriter V4+
or Pagestream V3+ which enables you to easily create calendars.
The script contains over 100 variables which can be preferenced by the
user and is therefore useful in many different ways. With the macro
FWCAddEvent you can easily enter dates in the created calendar.
Download: FWCalender.lha - Please note the Installation hints!
(ps)
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