28.Jan.2001
JST
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JST v4.5b
On 28. January 2001 the version 4.5b of JST has been released.
JST makes the installation of games on harddisc possible and offers patches that
improve the compatibility of games in relation to more up-to-date Amiga systems.
In this version was a bug fixed with regard to the Phase5 68060 libs and the
Silkworm loader updated (OS 3.5 icon and other things).
Download: jst.lha
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28.Jan.2001
eisblock on ANF
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AmigaOnlineGames Update
On 28. January 2001 three more games were added to the AmigaOnlimeGames site and
therefore the site comes to a number of 34 games that can be played on the Amiga
via different networks.
Hints to further games and information can be sent to
AmigaOG@web.de.
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28.Jan.2001
CD32 Allianz on ANF
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Searching for Retailers of CD32/CDTV Hard- & Software
The CD32 Allianz wrote:
As it becomes more and more difficult to get hard- & software for the CD32
& CDTV I'd like to ask those retailers who still have articles for these
systems in their stocks to contact me so I can let the users know it in the CD32
corner.
Contact address: CD32-Allianz@gmx.de
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27.Jan.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF
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New Version (V.44.50 beta 7) of the HSMathLibs
Again there is a new version of the HSMathLibs for MC68040 and MC68060 for
registered users. Many bugs were fixed and some smaller optimisations were
done. The most significant enhancements in this version for sure are full
compatibility with OS3.9 and support of (hopefully) all special cases of
the math-libraries.
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27.Jan.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register January 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer
User Group. It handels current and important information regarding Amiga,
Macintosh and PC, as well as the computer industry.
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27.Jan.2001
AMIOPEN-ML/Jorge Pino on ANF
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Specifications for Handheld Software under SDK
Amiga Inc. released the specifications for developers to create software for Palm/Handheld/PDA computers
on the official AmigaSDK developer list [AMIOPEN-ML]. Following the data:
QVGA (240*320 Pixel)
16 Bit Color
16 Bit Stereo (audio available form SDK-Version 1.1)
Controls via 2 buttons (a+b) and one Game Boy typ
Directional Device
Shall be smaller than 2 MB.
Suggestions for game genres:
scramble/defender types
space invaders/galaxians types
platformers
puzzle games
sports stuff
To make this possible create a standard AVE window and add a
16 bit 240*320 pixmap.
Gary Peake thinks this also to be another way to get more
experience with the AmigaSDK.
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27.Jan.2001
AIO
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AIO Issue 43 Released
Issue #43 of the online magazine 'AIO' (Amiga Information Online) has been
released. Still more authors of articles and reviews are wanted.
Download: AIOV43.LHA
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27.Jan.2001
Hyperion Software
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Hyperion: Shogo: Progress Report
Thomas Frieden wrote in the status report that Shogo now officially has
entered beta test stage. This means that everything has been integrated to the
game and the only task left is to find possible bugs. Read the entire
report under the title link.
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27.Jan.2001
Christian Bauer
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ShapeShifter V3.11 Released
Christian Bauer has updated his Mac emulator 'ShapeShifter' and made
version 3.11 available for download.
Download: ShapeShifter3_11.lha - 281 kB
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27.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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SoftCinema and How to Get New Codecs
Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World did a summary of a Polish article
(see title link) which we review here by his agreement.
«Jacek Cybularczyk, author of SoftCinema, released an article about the origin
of new codecs for the video player on Amiga.com.pl.
This article was written in Polish, thus here only the most important details.
Meantime the program SoftCinema can read the two formats OpenDivX and
soon 3ivX, too. Still missing e.g. is MPEG-4 support and several other not
quite legal codecs. The problem about those is that sources of the formats are
not free available. But there are some possibilities to fix this problem, too.
Though there are codecs for MPEG-4 and DivX on Macintosh, but due to missing
documentations of the Macintosh resources and extensions this all might be
difficult, somehow. The authors also don't seem to have a PowerMac for disassembling.
In case of the second possibility the author wrote that many might think this to be
moronic, but the thing works. You take the Windows dll's for help. Work started about
two month ago. The technic used is called "binary translation". First the x86 code
gets prepared for the C preprocessor in form of a macro instruction. Much of the
work takes the program TX86 which can read the dll's (comparable to Amiga libraries)
and convert them to C code. This isn't done total automatically, so you still have to
correct much yourself. The this way created code is compiled and can be executed under
a Windows emulated environment called WIN32ENV. In this a part of Win32 and some
important libraries are emulated. This all works on a PowerPC native only. Though all
possible codecs run, but speed is at flabby 1 FPS.
To get things somehow faster the code, which contains about 17,000 lines of macro
instructions, must get optimized. Unfortunately without optimization 72 MB are not enough
to compile, thus the rest of the work were done under APUS with a 200 MB SWAP file. For
an optimized compilation a 1 GB SWAP file was needed. The procedure took about 13 hours.
But the effort was worth while, meantime everything runs much faster. Next the dll's
will be converted to assembler to gain even better speed. This is possible after
analysing the C codes and using what GCC has generated. Later on everything will get
optimized once more. After profiling often used program parts either will be re-written
or more heavy optimized.
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27.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net: Writing Race...
Since one might have to offer more than one Euro for 4 opinions Amiga-Community.net
decided to organize a small competition. Who will write the most opinions until
Thursday, 12:00 am MET will win a price:
1. price - Amiga OS 3.9 CD
2. price - Fondation Gold Ed. CD
3. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
4. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
5. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
Important:
For the form item "Member" fill in your e-mail address. But this is only
applys to non-members! Members will fill in their membership number, cause
by this their points will be double credited.
Some days after the competition expired winners will be announced on
the site and informed by e-mail. Opinions will be rated in my discretion,
so don't write only 10 words. For more questions ask:
xandiy@amiga-vip.de.
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27.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark with New Mailing List
VirusHelp Denmark has created a new mailing list at YahooGroups, which will
replace the old ML at eGroups. The new mailing list will be public, so
everybody will be able to read it. Postings will only be accepted by VHT
themselves.
All members of the old mailing list at eGroups were already subscribed to the
new mailing list at Yahoo and should trouble-less receive the announcements via e-mail,
as usual. Though it's advisable to subscribe again at Yahoo to be able to
take part in e.g. polls.
More information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe can be found under the title link.
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27.Jan.2001
Andy Holzher via eMail
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New Exec V44.1 public beta 1 and New MapROM
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has made available for download version 44.1 of Exec as
official beta version on his website. This is about a non-official Exec version
optimized and faster than the official one, according to himself. Use at your own risk.
Furthermore Piru published version 1.24beta5 of his MapROM tool 'BlizKick' for
phase5/DCE acceleration boards.
Download:
exec44_1_beta1.lha - 56 kB
BlizKick.lha - 245 kB
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26.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
tummy_020.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
tummy_040.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
tummy_060.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
TCom2DEMO.lha biz/demo 96K+V2.8.0 Amiga order program,(COMMESSE ITA
UidlRem.lha comm/mail 5K+Automatic daily YAM .uidl file deleter :
MWI-SDV30.lha demo/mag 1.3M+SAVE DA VINYL #30 - packmag by Madwizard
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 92K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
ASweeperSrc106.lha dev/basic 24K+Source for AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.
clockita.lha dev/basic 66K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
flstack.lha dev/c 11K+Fixed length stack ADT
select_gc.lha dev/gui 67K+BOOPSI pop-up, cycle and button gadget
titlebar_ic.lha dev/gui 24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
amigatalk.lha dev/lang 464K+A GUI version of 'Little Smalltalk' (V1.
MCC_GLArea_Dev.lha dev/mui 408K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_GLArea_Usr.lha dev/mui 126K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_ImageDB.lha dev/mui 25K+MUI Custom class for loading images.
AutoMounter.lha disk/misc 15K+AutoMount tool for any changeable disk d
IoJazOS3.9.lha disk/misc 9K+Iomega Jaz 1GB DOS Drivers/Icons for Ami
FBlitGuideGR.lha docs/hyper 26K+Greek translation of FBlit.guide (v3.73)
stccg.lha docs/hyper 1.7M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
Amigo6_3.lha game/board 91K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
EgyptianWDC.lha game/data 19K+Egyptian landscape for Worms DC
Connect4.lha game/think 52K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
FlashMandel.lha gfx/fract 4.1M+The best fractal rendering program for A
IOBlixUsr.lha hard/drivr 294K+V37.17, IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 673K+V1.59 PSX MemoryCard Reader
breed_junk.lha mods/hardc 121K+A good acidcore DBM module by Breed
rno-r054.mpg mods/mpg 5.0M+Rno-records release no.54 by Earthstar (
breed_egg.lha mods/techn 232K+A minimal acid DBM module by Breed
3PMGUI_Skins1.lha mus/play 13K+8 Semi nice skins for 3PMGUI
OnePoWeRweek.jpg pix/misc 85K+ONE PoWeR WEEK Background by aMiGa=PoWeR
Blessings.lha pix/wfm 179K+Blessings; Artwork&Literature
alba.lha util/boot 56K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
WarpBMPdt.lha util/dtype 42K+Windows BMP datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 297K+Report+ 4.22: Multipurpose utility
coolCalc_sk.lha util/wb 48K+2 new skins for CoolCalc
mainprefs.lha util/wb 66K+OS 3.5,3.9 Preferences GUI
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26.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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WB2000 Images Update V1.5
Since the last archive about 90 new images for users of the startup tool
WB2000 were added - the archive now contains about 390 IFF images.
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26.Jan.2001
Markus Schmidt via eMail
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ICQ User List
The ICQ user list's sign-up form didn't work for some time. Sadly, this has
been noticed only just today because of a hint. The error was fixed immediately.
All those who have tried in vain to sign up, please try again.
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26.Jan.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via eMail
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Andreas Kuerzinger HP Updated
Andreas Kuerzinger has made available version 1.1 of his
AKCatalogs (35 catalogs for various programs) on his homepage. Also the
Amiga links page was finished and many other pages updated.
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26.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox: Version 1.2 MediatorNET.device
Elbox has released a new version 1.2 of the MediatorNet.device for Mediator PCI
for PCI ethernet network cards, today. Changes in the new version:
The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several PCI
Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted to the Mediator PCI busboard.
Support of New Style Device (NSD) has been added and operation procedures
have been optimised in order to reach the maximum transfer performance.
MediatorNET.device is a Sana-2 standard driver. This driver is compatible
with all the Amiga TCP/IP software packages which can access a Sana-2 driver
(e.g. Miami, MiamiDx, Genesis, and AmiTCP).
You can find further details at the title link.
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26.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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nectarine * looking for host
A regular listener of the demo radio station 'nectarine *' wrote:
"Hi and hello, as regular listener I have sad news which could still be turned into a
story with happy end until end of February.
What is Nectarine? At nectarine.ojuice.net/index.htm
you'll find a very special internet radio. They broadcast music of game classics
and well-known sceners. Further, you can upload tracks as a small home producer.
This all results in an interesting music mix which clearly stands out from the
usual droning.
Well and now, where's the problem?
Nectarine needs a new HOST... here's the original message:
Why Nectarine can close at the end of February
- For now, Nectarine is friendly hosted by the company where i work
(http://www.poliris.com) as Orange Juice
webserver etc.. They help us a lot with hardware, technologie and prices for
LTP (remember the travel for Amiga competition at LTP IV). They paid every
month for an Easynet 12 mb/s ATM line but in March they will pay only for the
bandwith that the company needs. So, as nectarine isn't a company project i
can't ask them to pay for us. Maybe you noticed that they didn't ask for any
adverts at all.
- Nectarine needs a new host (best is in Paris) where i can put the 2 computers
of Nectarine Radio. The total amount of bandwith needed could be a very stable
1.5~2mb/S or more and we can find relays everywhere to reduce the total amount.
In exchange we can promote the company who host us with banners, jingles etc...
If you think that you can help us then just send an email to me.
Every emails will be answered.
For now, those peoples try to help us: Scene.org ! Audiorealm ! SonicBox ! and lot
of Nectarine lovers ! thx
ciao THOMAS SiEGEL aka d!RT!e (Organiser of mOOdS.2xs.de)"
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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New TCP Trojan Found
A new 'TCP' Trojan was found in New Zealand. So far it isn't known what
installs the trojan, but Zbigniew Trzcionkowski, the programmer of Safe, has already updated
his virus detector so that the Trojan can be found in memory.
The TCP Trojan replaces "c:mount" by a 7484 byte long file and creates a new file "c:f".
The new file c:mount is a clone of the Vaginitis virus.
More information on the new TCP Trojan:
Virus type: TCP Trojan
Trojan name: Explode
Trojan size: 7484 Bytes (c:mount) - 232 bytes (f)
Archive name: ? (still unknown)
Archive size: ? (still unknown)
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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Safe V 14.7 Released
Version 14.7 of Safe has been released. Safe is a virus detector, the program can
only find, but not remove viruses.
Name: Safe v14.7
Archive name: safe.lha
Archive size: 20.853 Bytes
Date: January 26th, 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Requires xvs.library v33.24
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