20.Mar.2001
Bob Scharp via eMail
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Amiga2001 - 1. April - Tip
Press release: Some of you have commented on our Amiga2001 show falling on April 1st. If you are not familiar, April 1st in the
U.S. is called April Fools Day. A day when some pull pranks. To answer your concerns about the last day of the show being held on April 1st, all I can say is...
"The joke's on our competitors. They're going to feel like it's 1985 all over again!"
Anyone familiar with the original release of the Amiga
should know how this statement applies.
See you in St. Louis in just over a week. Remember, the
Banquet is going to be something special. We only have
a few tickets left, so get your orders in now.
Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey
Sheraton West Port - Lakeside Chalet Hotel
St. Louis, MO. USA
Friday March 30 thru Sunday April 1, 2001
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20.Mar.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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Over 1500 New Binary Packages for NetBSD - 1.5 for M68k Computers
John Klos and Bob Nestor have uploaded Over 1500 new binary packages for NetBSD
- 1.5 for m68k computers (eg. Amiga) on the ftp server. This is the result of
some month of compiling on their computers.
If someone needs more packages, but can not translate them himself due to technical
problems or lack of time please contact John john@sixgirls.org.
The NetBSD-package system for third party software allows the installation of precompiled
packages or self-made translations, including the management of interdependences (and specific deleting again, later,
or upgrading to newer versions).
More information:
NetBSD package system
list of documented packages
direct download
NeBSD/Aiga
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20.Mar.2001
Piotr Pawlowski
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Polish amiga-news.de - First Anniversary
Since one year Piotr Pawlowski and Valwit have been translating our news into Polish language.
On the occasion of this anniversary we would like to say "Thank you!"
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19.Mar.2001
Eric Gillé on ANF
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SelectOSv.1.1 Update
I uploaded a new update for my program SelectOS to the AMINET. SelectOS
lets you choose whether to boot AmigaOS, LinuxAPUS or MorphOS at boot time
with a nice GUI. The archive has the name 'SelectOSv.1.1.lha'.
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19.Mar.2001
Martin R. Elsner on ANF
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Further Development of ClassAction
The multipurpose program ClassAction will be developed furthermore. After a 3 year
delay Martin R. Elsner took over the
development from Salim Gasmi.
At the moment the programmer is working on the porting to reaction. A first screenshot
is available here.
There will be a beta version soon. If you would like to be a beta-tester please send an
e-mail to email@martin-elsner.de.
ClassAction is a file-manager.
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19.Mar.2001
Jens Langner on ANF
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Bug Reporting for InstallerNG/AmIDE/P96Speed
Since yesterday there is a new bug reporting system for the users and developers of the
software-projects InstallerNG, AmIDE and P96Speed available at the following link:
http://bugzilla.light-speed.de/
We are using the bugzilla-system that is also used by Mozilla and RedHat too.
The developers of InstallerNG, AmIDE and P96Speed would prefer that the users would add new bugs in the future.
We will add other programms in the future because this tool to realize a bugwatch-system.
The products can be find at the following links:
http://iNG.light-speed.de/
http://AmIDE.light-speed.de/
http://p96speed.light-speed.de/
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19.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha biz/dbase 117K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (1.5.4)
fxPAINTDemo.lha biz/demo 1.5M+THE new image-processing and paint-packa
DopJoin.lha biz/dopus 2K+Join files with DirectoryOpus 4.xx. V1.0
PGSUniFilter20.lha biz/patch 833K+PageStream Universal Filter V2.0LE for J
AVSearch.lha comm/irc 3K+Search Altavista in AmIRC or CLI, New Ve
GGSearch.lha comm/irc 2K+Search GOOGLE with AmIRC
YAT.lha comm/mail 519K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
MiamiPhoneHU.lha comm/tcp 1K+Hungarian pricefile for MiamiPhone (Mat
wpz-impact.mpg demo/file 111M+VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Sa
hLA-AP15.lha demo/mag 1.7M+Amiga Positive no.15, diskmagazine in cz
wla_dx_020_7.1.lzh dev/cross 336K+WLA DX v7.1 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
htcobpp.lha dev/misc 86K+Set of COBOL utility programs
fda_DviPS.lha disk/cache 540K+English documentation DVI, PS, PDF & tex
fda_d_DviPS.lha disk/cache 575K+German documentation DVI, PS, PDF & texi
JazOS3.9.lha disk/misc 12K+Iomega Jaz 1GB DOS Drivers/Icons for Ami
JsplitIt.lha disk/misc 54K+Split & join files between Amiga & IBM w
AmigaFuture29.lha docs/mags 460K+Great german paper mag preview
PaybackDemo.lha game/actio 2.9M+Payback playable demo (Updated)
PaybackDemoUp1.lha game/actio 425K+Updates the Payback demo to the latest v
PaybackUpdate1.lha game/actio 700K+Updates Payback to the latest version
dynSP_style.lha game/data 89K+SouthPark Style for dynAMIte
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (18 Marc
CGXMode3V2.9-I.txt gfx/board 2K+Italian Catalog for CGXMode 2.9
CreateIndex.lha gfx/conv 71K+Make HTML picture index with ImageStudio
Iconian298_Dt.lha gfx/edit 7K+Much improved German catalog for Iconian
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 32K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 35K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V25.lha gfx/edit 1.3M+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
VHIStudio.lha gfx/misc 944K+V5.4: DigiCam & Videoboard-soft: Rec, Gr
ICS.lha hard/misc 2.4M+V2.01c LE ICS - professional color corre
AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip misc/emu 782K+AROS - Amiga Research OS (Beta release)
imdbDiff010309.lha misc/imdb 1.8M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
LocalePL_OS39.lha misc/misc 209K+Polish locale OS39 (AmigaPL/ISO-8859-2)
CoolOS.jpg pix/wb 105K+Stylish WB-pic made with Perfect Paint!
CoolOS2.jpg pix/wb 175K+Stylish WB-pic made with Perfect Paint!
gazswb.jpg pix/wb 569K+My Hot WB :)
Voodooshot.jpg pix/wb 375K+Screenshot of my Voodoo3-WB
DeTar.lha util/arc 17K+.Tar UnExtracter
RatSalad.lha util/boot 118K+Displays random image at bootup
wbstartup++.lha util/boot 22K+Startup program launcher
RV1.57-ITA.txt util/cli 2K+Italian Catalog for R (Request) 1.57
r_HU.lha util/cli 1K+Hungarian catalog for "R" v1.55
akJFIF-dt.lha util/dtype 215K+AkJFIF-dt V44.96 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/M
akJFIF-PPC.lha util/dtype 56K+AkJFIF-dt PPC plugin V44.96 (JPEG)
Type1EngineHU.lha util/libs 7K+Hungarian catalog for Type1Engine (Fixed
AmiSearch11Dt.lha util/misc 5K+V1.3, German catalog for AmiSearch 1.1
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 341K+Report+ 4.32: Multipurpose utility
AntiCron.lha util/rexx 5K+Deny program execution at certain times
AmberRAM.lha util/sys 42K+Replacement RAM disk. Beta. GPL.
AminetAwnpFR.lha util/wb 5K+French locale for Aminet.awnpipe
DefComp.lha util/wb 29K+Popup menu program selection for DefIcon
GenePrefsFR.lha util/wb 7K+French locale for GenesisRAPrefs
WBInfoV2.9-ITA.txt util/wb 2K+Italian Catalog for WBInfo 2.9
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19.Mar.2001
Digital Amiga Dream
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DAD Interview with James Daniels
Digital Amiga Dream interviewed James Daniels, programmer of Payback.
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19.Mar.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register March 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana
Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important information about Amiga, Macintosh and PC.
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19.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
VersionWB V2.16
Håkan Parting made version
2.16 of VersionWB
available for download. The program displays version strings and is easy to use with DirOpus or RO.
akMPEG V.4.60
Andreas R. Kleinert
released version 4.60 of this MPEG-player. Download:
akMPEG4.lha
JST V4.7
Version 4.7 of JST by Jean-Francois Fabre
were released and is now available as freeware! JST lets you install games on your harddisk and
offers patches to increase the compatibility to new Amiga-systems. Download:
jst.lha
wav-Datatype V41.9
Stephan Rupprecht released version 41.9 of the wav sound datatype (68k + WOS).
Download: wavdt41.lha
WHDLoad V14.0
Bert Jahn released version 14.0 of WHDLoad. WHDLoad helps you to
install floppy based games on your harddisk. Download:
WHDLoad_usr.lha
XBaze
Rafal Kaczmarczyk announced the soon release of version 7 of the database-editor
XBaze. The new version will contain localizations and
documentations for different languages.
Scalos Plugin
There is a new update of the 'Persistent Windows Plugin' for Scalos available at the
Scalos homepage. The plugin remembers opend windows even
after a crash of your computer. Download:
Scalos-Plugin_PWindows.lha
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19.Mar.2001
BTTR-Team via E-Mail
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Back to the Roots Amiga-News #228
There are new games available from our webside. The highlights are the following programs:
- Air Supply / Magic Bytes
- Beast Busters / Activision
- Castle of Dr. Brain / Sierra
- Death Trap / Anco
- Fire and Ice / Graftgold
- Gloom Deluxe, Gloom Special Edition 97 / Acid Software
- Paradroid 90 / Graftgold
- Uridium 2 / Graftgold
- Virocop / Graftgold
- XTreme Racing / Silltunna Software
- ...und mehr!
Additionally there are new scene demos, music files and pictures and an interview with Adam
'Scorpik' Skorupa, one of the most famous musicians in the amiga scene.
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18.Mar.2001
Bob Scharp via E-Mail
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Amiga2001
As formerly reported several times, the Gateway Computer Show 'Amiga2001' will take place in St. Louis from
03-30-2001 to 04-01-2001. Petro Tyschtschenko will attend a celebration on the occasion of his
retirement at the show .
The original message:
»Petro Tyschtschenko is hosting a celebration at the
Amiga2001 show. That's right, Petro has been kind
enough to provide funding for a little celebration
of his retirements. Check out the web pages for this
special announcement.
Don't forget, we have a ROAST of Petro lined up for
the Banquet. The deadline for advance ticket purchase
and the Banquet have been extended to Monday March 26.
Banquet tickets are only available in advance this
year. So get you check in pronto. Tickets are selling
very well.
The Amiga2001 web pages have been updated several times
since my last email. If you haven't checked them for
venors and prizes lately, you should look again. We'll
have more next week too. So check often.
Several companies have been kind enough to donate prizes
for our show. Also, the hall is filling up quite nicely,
so check and see if you've missed any of the vendors.«
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18.Mar.2001
Dirk Hase on ANF
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Which one looks best? Amiga-Boing-Ball or Check-Marks?
Dirk Hase takes interest in the opinion of
Amiga-Users. "I have already heard many said that they prefer the Check-Marks over the
Boing-Ball. One criterion is the recognition value of the logos. The Check-Marks overrules
the Boing-Ball at this in my experience. Has the time come to start a poll about his? Or
maybe a graphics contest about this subject? I think that Amiga Inc. should also be informed
about this since we can count on a new product, soon."
We can fulfill Dirk's wish about the poll. You can participate by following the
title link.
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17.Mar.2001
Amiga-Community on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net news
From this day on Amiga-Community.net is split into different sites:
- Amiga-VIP.net - The user info portal only for AMIGA
- Amiga-Info.net - The portal for forums, auctions and short adverts around AMIGA
- Amiga-News.net - The portal for up-to-date news headlines around AMIGA
- Amiga-faq.net - The forum for questions around AMIGA, and their answers
- Amiga-***.net - The site that is yet in preparation
P.S.: A sponsor is still wanted!
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17.Mar.2001
Wolf Faust on ANF
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Version 2 of the Universal Filter for PageStream
The 'universal' filter allows loading of many additional graphic formats
within the PageStream v3.x/v4.x DTP program. Furthermore the loading of already
supported graphic formats was considerably accelerated in parts.
Version 2 of the filter is finally released for free on
http://www.uni.coloraid.de. Similar to
ICS the filter is now using the IRW library for
image loading.
The innovations in version 2 are:
- Now supports <8Bit and CMYK modes in PageStream
- Faster
- Almost no memory usage when no image is loaded
- Loading of 16 bit (converted to 8 bit) and CMYK data is now possible
- Improved PGM/PBM/PPM/JPEG/BMP/TIFF routines
- Considerably improved error handling thanks to IRW
- Locale support
- Compiled for different cpus
- MANY small improvements
The supported formats for now are:
BMP, DataTypes, DCX, IFF ILBM, JPEG, PCX, GIF, PGM/PBM/PPM,
PNG, Targa, TIFF
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17.Mar.2001
Heise [newsticker]
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Heise: Slashdot have to Delete Article about Scientology
On last Friday the news and discussion forum
Slashdot announced a premiere the operators
might rather not wanted to experience: for the first time the internet
service - founded in 1997 they have become one of the most important
speaking tubes for the open source scene - had to remove an already published
article.
In a message
regarding the incident Rob Malda,
founder of
Slashdot and on the net also known as CmdrTaco,
stated that on Saturday last week an anonymous reader had contributed an article containing
a text Scientology keeps copyright for.
Scientology lay claim on being a church which the US revenue authorities admited.
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17.Mar.2001
Scalos
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Scalos News
The website of Scalos, the comprehensive Workbench replacement, had been
reworked. Next to new graphics and an improved navigation you can find here the
information that a new version with many bugs removed is currently being tested.
It is yet unknown when the new version will be publicly available.
Furthermore some subdomains were created:
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17.Mar.2001
DCE
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DCE Website: Support Area Extended
DCE, manufacturer of several Amiga expansion cards, has extended their support area with
several manuals that are downloadable as PDF documents. A description
of the new GREX 1200 PCI interface is available, too.
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16.Mar.2001
amigasdk.com
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Espial Escape - Slim Webbrowser for AmigaDE
"Escape is a HTML4.01 webbrowser which just happens to work on AmigaDE
thanks to its Java support. Escape is not only small, but fast and loaded
with features including HTML4.01, DHTML and more."
On amiga.org
you can read about it:
I noticed that the easiest way to install Espials Escape on the AmigaSDK was to simply
unzip the *.jar files to the root. Sadly there was no archive on Espials homepage that
made it easy for me to get them. So I mailed them about the problem. Now they have
added an archive of Escape with the Jar files on their homepage.
Further links on Espial Escape:
Espial Homepage
internet® product watch
devices.internet.com
Espial Escape is a slim webbrowser for smart devices which supports all modern web standards.
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16.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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Merlancia Industries and Nova Design: Keynote Address on Amiga 2001 show
Merlancia Industries and Nova Design will both be making some astounding announcements
during a joint Keynote Address that will open the Amiga 2001 show on Saturday, March 31st, 2001.
Details are not available in advance, but both companies promise some great news.
The Keynote Addresses will begin before the opening of the exhibitor floor on
Saturday and are open to all at no extra charge.
Best Regards,
Bob Scharp
bscharp@icon-stl.net
http://www.amiga-stl.com/
Links to the companies:
Merlancia Industries
Nova Design
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16.Mar.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Update
The first update for Payback
is available. Several reported bugs were fixed and a screen scaling feature was added
for slower processors. Also, new graphics were integrated.
There's also an update of the demo version,
which raises the time limit of three to five minutes.
On the Payback website, an FAQ about
Payback was opened which answers frequently asked questions. The game can be ordered directly in the
online store.
In an interview with the Amiga-Future, programmer James Daniels describes Payback as follows:
"The player assumes the role of a young, fleeing driver and attempts to become a big
gangster boss. The game is entirely non-linear. To complete a level, the player has to
collect a certain amount of points. How he achieves that is entirely up to him. You can
follow the advice of the local Kingpin, uncover secret missions, or get into a fight."
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