29.Mar.2001
Grzegorz Juraszek via E-Mail
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New PCI-Board "Prometheus"
Announcement - Warsaw, March 29, 2001
We are pleased to introduce you to our latest product - "Prometheus"
card for Amiga.
It is the most advanced PCI bridge adapter available for Amiga
computers equipped with Zorro III expansion slots. With "Prometheus",
a world of cheap, standard PCI cards opens before you! Some features
of the product:
- Works with any Zorro III equipped Amiga, regardless of the
turbo/processor card installed in the system,
- Four 32-bit PCI slots clocked with 33 MHz,
- Fits any tower case, also works with desktop A3000/4000s when open,
- Works with other Zorro III cards, supports AutoConfig (TM),
- Real transfer rates between Amiga and PCI cards - up to 12 MB/s,
- Real transfer rates between PCI cards - up to 120 MB/s,
- Additional on-board connector for the power supply,
- Professionally designed four-layer printed-circuitboard with
gold-galvanized contacts - complies the PCI standard specifications.
Together with the "Prometheus" card we bundle a CD-ROM with:
- Drivers for the Voodoo3 graphics card, developed in close
co-operation with Hyperion and the authors of Picasso96. 2D drivers
work under the P96 system, 3D functions are available through Warp3D,
- Drivers for a sound card and a network card,
- A completely FREE software development kit for programmers. There is
no need to sign NDA and no additional fees - we want to make
"Prometheus" the most open PCI bridge solution as far as the drivers
development goes,
- Demo versions of the games that use the 3D functions of Voodoo3:
Heretic 2, Shogo.
The "Prometheus" package also contains multi-lingual reference manual
(also in English), holders for the bridge and PCI cards and the
extension cord for a graphics card.
Prometheus - no promises, just solutions.
Our webpage: http://www.matay.pl
For information about Prometheus in English, contact Grzegorz Juraszek:
e-mail: fei@matay.pl or cel. phone: +48 609 394778 (from 10 am to 6 pm).
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29.Mar.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark created Support Shop
Virus Help Denmark, the Virus experts
from the upper north, have created their own support shop with merchandising articles like T-shirts,
sweatshirts, coffee cups, and mouse pads with the Virus Help Denmark logo at cafepress.com.
The profit of 2USD for each unit sold will benefit the anti virus programmers (which are not only commercial programmers).
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29.Mar.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail
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Updater v1.3 for the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
For the program updater, on the 'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM' enabling access to updates,
a new version was released. With this new version it is no more necessary to type in the serial code each time, but it
will be saved local. The program can be downloaded from the update section on the Airsoft Softwaire homepage (title link).
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28.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Aqua
There is a new demo version of the recently published adventure game
'Aqua'
by Emerald Imaging. The game is distributed by
Crystal Interactive.
Download: AquaDemo.lha
Tales of Tamar
There is a new Amiga client v0.34 for registered beta testers of
Tales of Tamar
which is a round game based on the Internet.
For the first time with version v0.34 it is possible to create armies on Tales of Tamar. You have to
equip your armies on ToT with the help of bought or self produced weapons and arming. The damage of
an army depends on the level of arming and the quality of the weapons as well as the class of the
arming depends on the arming of an army.
There are over 50 several weapons such as a one-handed weapon, two-handed ones, crossbow or
complex besieging weapons like catapult or trebuchet.
There are also 15 different opportunities of equipping the army with arming.
You can only produce several weapons when gaining a certain level of research. Armies can be generated,
renamed, increased, split, connected, deleted and trained.
MUI PPC for MorphOS
PPC MUI 3.9 Public Release 2 has been published for MorphOS.
Please read the documentation before installing it!
Download: MUI_Release2.lha - 969 kB
Amster V0.8a
Today version v0.8a of the Napster-client Amster has been
published for Amiga computers. Amster is a client for exchanging MP3-files which supports features
like chatting, search, download, announcement-lists and so on.
Downlaod: Amster-main.lha - 199 kB and
Amster-locale.lha - 352 kB
AutoPDF V1.2
With this small but very useful script by Designburo.nl you
can convert Ghostscript-files to PDF-files with your Amiga.
Download: AutoPDF_Archive.lha
ilbm-PPC-Datatype
Stephan Rupprecht has published version 45.3 of his
ilbm-PPC-datatype.
Download: ilbmdtPPC.lha - 10 kB
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28.Mar.2001
AmigActive
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AmigActive issue #19 Available from Today on
From today on issue #19 of the english print magazine 'AmigaActive' is available with
the following topics:
- Payback! - Smell the burning rubber...
- Zoned! - Digital Art.
- Powered Up! - The latest on MorphOS.
- Netted! - The Eye-Surf.
- Bitmap Bonus! - Paging Mr. Montgomery...
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28.Mar.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Strato-Domains Offline Possibly Because of Attack
Since yesterday many websites which are hosted at Strato cannot be accessed any longer. Many Amiga-sites
are also concerned.
Heise writes:
«An attack to the Strato-server cannot be excluded any longer - in contrary to the loss of current
which Strato called to be the reason. The press spokesman Sören Heinze called the incident as a
"abnormal shutdown of the memory unit" and told heise online that he accepts a report against unknown
in the next time. KPNQwest technician said that an attack from outside is almost impossible. Heinze
didn't want to exclusive any possibility as the reason for the offline.»
The full article under the title link.
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28.Mar.2001
Darkage
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Amiga Classix 3
Next month there will be a new multi platform game collection CD called 'Amiga Classix 3'
(Windows, MAC and Amiga) which contains many nice classical Amiga games distributed by
E.p.i.c. Interactive Entertainment.
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28.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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GFX Games Database: Interview with Giles Burdett
On GFX-games-database there is an English spoken interview with Giles Burdett, the programmer
of the WB-game called Connect4, where he speaks about his new and old projects and where he expresses
his opinion about MorphoS, AmigaDE, Amiga magazines and much more. Have fun reading the interview!
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28.Mar.2001
Thomas Unger via E-Mail
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The Kickstart Archives V1.1
The most important innovation of version 1.1 of KICKSTART ARCHIVES is the integrated freeware-search-engine
"S@lz&Pfeffer Leicht 1.0" by Rainer Eschen.
With the help of a pre-calculated JavaScript-file it is possible searching the websites offline
on the CD-R. The search engine does not depends on platforms and is directly integrated in the index-tree
of KICKSTART ARCHIVES. It is only expected a web-browser which supports frames and JavaScript-standard 1.1.
There is a german spoken help function at any time. But there must be said that interpreting the
ca. 8 MByte script-file when starting the search engine takes ca. 10 minutes on a 900 MHz Pentium III-system (WinME, IE 5).
But each search for a string takes just ca. one second. (Remark: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES themselves
and images are put on a harddrive of Amiga 2000 with Blizzard 2060 and 64MByte RAM under AmigaOS 3.5.
The images are burned with MakeCD 3.2.)
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28.Mar.2001
Horst Diebel on ANF
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Strategy game Schlachtfeld
The strategy game SCHLACHTFELD is supposed to be developed on.In order to give some users a first
impression the side is being created in the link. If there is sufficient interest there will be also
a seperate domain.
Up to now you can find the intro-story, a first opinion poll, a forum, a download area and several
outlines to the units in the game.
Please have a look at our side and maybe you've got an idea which things still could be integrated.
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27.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
GoldEd Studio 6 SP 17 CD
Dietmar Eilert, author of this genius editor, offers a small stock of
GoldED Studio 6 SP 17 CDs at a special price.
This version fully upgradeable.
REBOL/Core 2.5
Version 2.5 of REBOL/Core is now released for Amiga and AmigaDE,
it contains hundreds of improvements and bugfixes.
Tales of Tamar
The chronicle of the year 75 of the online game Tales of Tamar is now available.
Audiomaster2k
Frank Fenn provides version 0.65 of his MUI sample-editors Audiomaster2k
for download.The program is shareware, you can not save with the demo version. Download:
audiomaster2k.lha - 274 kb
Ico-datatype V43.5
Version 43.5 of Stephan Rupprecht's ICO-datatype is ready for
download. Download: IcoDT.lha - 17 kb
MorphOS software
More and more software is ported to MorphOS. Now SoX (Sound exchange)
V12.17.1 and NcFTP V2.4.3 are available for download.
Report+ V4.4
Report+ is one of these small but very useful
programs that makes things easier
for the user. With Report+ you can create in a simple way bug reports, Aminet
readme-files, documentations, and similar reports. The program is freeware and
is based upon ReAction and GadTools. Download: report.lha - 350 kb
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27.Mar.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench Needs Beta Testers
AmiBench, the international Amiga blackboard is looking for beta testers for a
new version. If you are interested to test the new scripts, please subscribe
to the AmiBench-betatest-mailinglist.
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27.Mar.2001
AIO
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AIO #45 Released
Issue 45 of the online magazine 'AIO'(Amiga Information Online) is released. Still
authors for articles and reviews are wanted. Download:
AIOV45.lha
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27.Mar.2001
clixnet
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New Virus Menaces Internet
In America experts are warning of a new virus, which uses a security leak of
the server software 'Bind'. The worm can disconnect complete networks from the
Internet and makes websites non-reachable.
Lion, so the name of the new virus, uses a leak in the software 'Bind', used
almost on every Linux domain name server. The software controls the coupling of
IP and real address.
In the last two days the quantity of attacks has risen about 500%. But only 1/10
of companies have taken countermeasures. The virus sends password and other
information to an email address in China.
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27.Mar.2001
Andreas Kürzinger via eMail
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Full Release of AKIconzGold
The Full Release of my icon collection AKIconzGold is now availble from my
homepage and in a few days fom Aminet. The collection contains about 300 icons,
most of them are game icons, like in AKIconz 1-4.
Description:
The icons are drawn in up to 32 colours, based upon an enhanced MWB/RomIcons/BNSM/Bicons
palette. Because they are no New-/GlowIcons they do not need the NewIcons patch
nor OS3.5+ but a predefined colour palette for the Workbench.
The preferences for this palette are explained in detail in the now contained
guide and gives no disadvantages at all - and is especially for LowSpec-User (030,
no gfx board) a colourful (and completely MWB/RomIcons/BNSW/Bicons compatible)
alternative to New-/GlowIcons.
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27.Mar.2001
Michael Heider at the ANF
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SuSE Linux PPC 7.1 Availble from April
On 23.03.2001 on the homepage of SuSE was announced that SuSE Linux PPC 7.1 is
available. You can order online or by telephone at SuSE. Deliveries will begin
in April said a spokesman. Like for the previous versions, I will create an
installation manual for Amiga and announce it here in the amiga-news.
At this point I want to ask coders and users (testers) about a software project
i want to start. This project is about the Mac emulator (PPC) "MacOnLinux",
that is available for Macs with LinuxPPC. The aim of the project is to port
this Mac emulator to Linux-APUS systems. So I just want to know if there is
interest from coders and users.
If you are interested, please send an e-mail to me.
Please let me know then if you have good knowledge of C and C++ programming for
Linux, but all other users are welcome, too. I will inform all of you that are
interested the progress of this project so far.
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27.Mar.2001
Ch. DZ at the ANF
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TECHNODATABASE00 + DPIXELS CD-ROM Updated
TECHNODATABASE00, 100% Amiga CD-ROM, made with Scala and filled with Techno
(400 MB demos, gfx, texts, and music software).
DPIXELS (Compilation of amiga-made creations and utilities) was updated.
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26.Mar.2001
Kai Stegemann on ANF
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Server Moving, New Videos Online
`Amiga - The Site` moved to a new server. The new videos are already available.
The new colors should make the navigation more easy. The videos are now situated in a special area of the download side.
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26.Mar.2001
Bill Borsari via E-Mail
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UGN @ Amiga 2001
The UGN is happy to present live audio, webcam and ICQ from the Amiga St
Louis show 2001! This is only possible with the help of Amiga Inc, Amiga
St Louis, NovaDesign, National Capital Amiga Users Group and AudioLabs. The planned
start time of the webcast will begin Saturday March 31st at
11:00 AM CST (GMT -6) and will end on Sunday April 1st at 5 PM CST. We
hope to bring the top amiga personalities through the power of the internet
right your Amiga so you can ask the important questions.
How it will work is the UGN staff will get a guest from the show floor and
bring them to the UGN booth. Amigan's at home will be able to see the
guest through the webcam and listen to guest speak over the internet with
shoutcast technology. You can ask questions with ICQ and listen to the
answers live over the internet.
Please visit the UGN website at http://ugn.amiga.org for more information.
If you have any further questions or comments please email
tekmage@amiga.org.
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26.Mar.2001
Sebastian Bauer on ANF
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New SimpleMail Alpha Version
New features of the SimpleMail 0.5 alpha:
- mail preselection before downloading
- redesign of the reading-window
- if possible the mails will be send by using 8bit mime
- button pictures will not reloaded every time
- support for the SimpleMail User Gallery
- Bug Fixes
[News message: 26. Mar. 2001, 18:27] [Comments: 0]
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26.Mar.2001
UAE Discussion Board (ANF)
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UAE-JIT/Linux Source Snapshot
A new patch for the Just-In-Time compiler for linux UAE is available at the title link.
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