18.Feb.2001
Czech Amiga News
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MPEG: Frogger v1.64b3
On 17. February 2001 Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has released a new beta
version of the MPEG players 'Frogger'. This is by name the version 1.64b3 of the
MPEG player.
The player supports MPEG-2 and runs on 68k and PPC Amigas with at least an
68030. The PPC versions are available for WarpOS and PowerUp. The download of
the single versions is possible on the download site.
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18.Feb.2001
Olaf Koebnik via email
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Amiga Arena News
Free AmiAtlas Italy map
The Italy map and the Italian by Umberto for AmiAtlas are ready for free
download.
The Amiga Arena is looking for more self-made add-on maps.
Commercial maps that were enhanced are of course NOT freely distributable.
The special discount action with AmiAtlas is only valid until 28.02.2001.
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18.Feb.2001
Robert Williams, editor Clubbed magazine on ANF
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Clubbed Magazine #7 Released
The issue #7 of the magazine 'Clubbed' by SEAL (South Essex Amiga Link) is now
available.
The latest issue contains 48 DIN A4 pages with news, features, reviews and
tutorials.
Under features a first glance is thrown on AmigaOS V3.9, the products fxSCAN
3.0, ScanQuix 5, ArtEffect 4 and EZMouse PS/2 had been tested and under support
'Back to Basics' handles the writing of shell scripts.
The complete summary
and extracts from previous issues have been released on the SEAL homepage.
Subscribers get the magazine sent in the next days. In addition this issue will
be available at the SEAL booth at the WoA show in Huddersfield, Great Britain on
February, 24th.
Via the SEAL site
you can subscribe to the not-for-profit magazine or order a test issue.
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18.Feb.2001
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF
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Coyote Flux: 3d Engine Running and PPC680x0 v2.0
After long delays the 3d engine developed by Coyote Flux now works. It supports
antialiasing and very high resolutions. Two early
screenshots showing the
terrain renderer of the engine have been released today on the preliminary
homepage of Coyote Flux. Further pictures will follow soon.
The version 2.0 of the 680x0 to PPC assembler 'PPC680x0' is almost ready. It
offers a new conversion model, an internal cache for optimizations, full point'n
click porting and further features.
Further information can be taken from the Coyote Flux website.
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18.Feb.2001
Mirko Engelhardt on ANF
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8 New Games at AmigaLand
Because of the license of Lankhor there are immediately new games available at
AmigaLand.
These are by name the following classics:
- Mortville Manor (adventure)
- Der Landsitz von Mortville (adventure)
- G.Nius (action)
- Outzone (shoot'em up)
- Maupiti Island (adventure)
- Black Sect (adventure)
- Vroom + Data Disk (racing game)
Additionally a game by Ascaron: On the Ball (simulation).
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18.Feb.2001
NoRiscNoFun on ANF
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Official Exodus Update for Download at NoRiscNoFun
A new update of Exodus is available. Among other things it removes memory
problems with some SFS configurations. The update is offered with the friendly
permission of Sland Media. Have fun with while playing.
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17.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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NARR Site Reworked
Today the NARR site has been reworked graphically and several links
have been put to categories, so that hopefully it becomes more easy to
find the GFX lists, programs, reviews, etc.
There also is a gallery with some of my cartoons now, created with
Amiga drawing programs like PPaint or DPaintIV. Also the AGA demo
'Ayrton' by HITMAN is to find in the projects section, for which
I contriuted the music.
Furthermore I advice my anims section for those who like witty cartoon animations.
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17.Feb.2001
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Software News
Pagan Games has created a website
for the new strategy game Earth 2140 on which
press releases
and reviews about the game are to be published.
Amidogs Movieplayer
has been released in version 2.02.
Download: AMP202.lha
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17.Feb.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft Fires Contra Open Source
«How does the evil come to earth? With Open Source, if one wants to
believe Microsoft's chief for Windows, Jim Allchin. Open Source could
smother each and every innovation; it "destroys intellectual property",
said Allchin, and politicians would have to recognize this danger.
Open source would be the death of any inducement to invest in research and
development. Allchin "cannot imagine anything more worse for the software
business". Withal he equates open source like the free operating system
Linux with music exchange services á la Napster - an argument which immediately has
been intensely offended by the open source community.»
Complete article under the title link (German).
Does somebody suggest business competition facing him? Supposedly yes.
I wonder what you think about that. Personally I see great chances in open source to
realize great projects. The Internet is best evidence for that and Linux meantime
has got a huge community of rooters.
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17.Feb.2001
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Now Reading News Groups via Google
As reported before Google completely took over the news groups archive of
DejaNews. Under the following links you can access the old news groups entries,
but also find the current ones. This list does not claim to be complete; it
only contains news groups we found at first go.
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17.Feb.2001
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF
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Mekka Symposium 2001 Homepage Online
From today the homepage of the Mekka & Symposium 2001 is online!
The MS is one of the biggest demo parties in Europe and has 1,200 to 1,300
visitors yearly. Among other things there are demo competitions for Amiga, C64, and
PC, and the well known and popular party feeling (who's got big ***** ?).
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16.Feb.2001
Christian Effenberger on ANF
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Helpful Programs for Your Site Management
SiteWay 1.0 programs as a bundle (download at the title link):
The software deals with integrated site and content management.
The bundle consists of small window tools. All programs listed
here can be downloaded as single archives from the
Amclust site.
The partly required external resources (ixemul.library 48.x,
jpeg.library 5.1, jpegtool) can also be downloaded from the
Amclust site
or AmiNet.
Programs contained in this archive:
- IsoLatin2Html
Converts all characters in plain text files from 127 into
HTML syntax, where German umlauts as well as quotation marks
are written out in full and all others in numerical spelling.
- Html2IsoLatin
Converts all characters in HTML files back into the typical Amiga
IsoLatin 1 (iso-8859-1).
- SimpleEd
Complete text editor with ARexx port and many features.
- Finder
Complex frontend for the search command with many features.
- JS-MenuEd
Program to create entire site navigations.
Backwards compatible down to HTML 2.
- ListBuddy [requires SimpleHTML 0.11]
A program helpful for creating any type of lists. Mainly thought
for converting text lists.
- ResourceInspector
Lists all resources and links referenced with a HTML file.
- SyntaxChecker [requires ixemul.library 48.0 and Tidy]
Checks single HTML files or entire paths including subdirectories
via "HTML-Tidy".
- SiteChanger
Manipulates the contents, the format and the file names of entire
web sites (including subdirectories).
- SiteFiler [requires SimpleHTML 0.11]
A program helpful for creating variable sitemaps.
Mainly thought for CD-Roms and local web sites.
- TX-ButtonEd [requires jpeg.library 5.1 and jpegtool]
Program to create (anti-aliased) text buttons in
jpeg format via "jpegtool".
- WebColor
Tool helpful for creating and editing
HTML colors (clipboard support).
Programs NOT included in this archive:
- TableMaster [with extensive German documentation]
Extensive program to create complex tables in near-WYSIWYG.
- EasyAccess [with extensive English documentation]
Helpful tool for creating and editing CGI scripts.
With this local server you can test your sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI).
- ImageEditor [with extensive English documentation]
Extensive electronic image processing software
based on the NetPBM filters (incl. PPC support).
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16.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
An updated file of all available servers
for SMSEngineerMUI
(SMS = Short Message Service), with which you can send short messages to mobile
phones, has been released.
Version 5.2 of the compression tool XpkMaster for MorphOS by Sigbjørn
Skjæret is available for download on the MorphOS
website. Download: xpkmaster52_mos.lha - 183 kB
Oliver Roberts has version 1.5 of his compression library
xpkBZP2.library
available for download. Download: xpkBZP2.lha - 79 kB
Version 0.1735 of the Amiga ICQ client StrICQ can be downloaded at
the StrICQ support site.
The version was entirely recompiled and the executable is now only 360 kByte in size.
The bug that the chat- and filewindow did not appear was fixed, just as the bug
with the missing ICQ logo (flower).
Download:
stricq.lha - 128 kB (Programm)
stricq_cat.lha - 135 kB (all catalogs)
For registered betatesters of Tales of Tamar
there's version v0.33R3 for the Amiga client available with bugfixes regarding
the trade screen.
The FAQ on the
e-mail based turn game Star Empire was updated by Virtual Dimension.
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16.Feb.2001
Matthias Gietzelt on ANF
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New Version of Emperor Released
Emperor (download by clicking the title link) is an object-oriented programming
language which combines extensive features with a high level of user-friendliness.
Emperor opens up a higher quality of software development on Amiga computers
without having to deal with complex system structures.
The easy user interface provides a clear overview of the components of your own
program.
Emperor knows the most important system components like windows, requesters, menus and
ASL requesters, but also gadgets of many different kinds. All common Reaction and
GadTools gadgets are supported.
With Emperor, you can develop programs based on AmigaOS 3.5+, as well as for
AmigaOS 2.0. There's also the option to generate a program which contains both
parts (OS 3.5+ / OS 2.0) and adapts to the system booted.
Features of Emperor:
- Reaction/GadTools gadgets support
- creation of menus, requesters and many more
- support of asl.library and locale.library
- predefined, but changeable macros for all components
- immediate visualization for each element
- source code generation in C/C++ - (contrary to object files as in ReActor)
- programming help which is operated entirely through menus
- integrated text editor
- extensive German/English guide
- online help
- StormC connection
- FREEWARE
Version 3.6 of the program is available in the Aminet directory "dev/c"
(download at the title link).
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16.Feb.2001
Cinemaware (Sascha Köbner on ANF)
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CINEMAWARE Release old Amiga Games
The Amiga versions of "King of Chicago" and "Lords of the Rising Sun"
are now offered by Cinemaware for free download.
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16.Feb.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon Online: White House
The latest cartoon is online at karikatur.dudai.de.
Everybody is invited to give his comment and rate the cartoon.
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16.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
MTRechIII_1_09.lha biz/dbase 1.3M+MT-RechnungIII Invoice program V1.09
MTRIIIsrc_1_09.lha biz/dbase 411K+MT-RechnungIII Invoice program V1.09
DCPatch.lha biz/patch 36K+Some Bugfixes and improvements for DosCo
LW4UP.lha biz/patch 192K+CGX patch for LightWave4. (v0.95)
LW4UP060.lha biz/patch 193K+CGX patch for LightWave4. (v0.95) (060)
Cit_Docs_BA22.lha comm/bbs 572K+Citadel 68K Documenation
Cit_exec_BA22.lha comm/bbs 246K+Citadel 68K BBS Program
Cit_Util_BA22.lha comm/bbs 450K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Utilities
Babelfish.lha comm/irc 3K+Use Altavista's translating service from
AmyGate.lha comm/net 112K+THE Aminet download manager V1.1
GoFetch_Public.lha comm/net 1K+FREE Public Keyfile for GoFetch!
Tango.lha comm/tcp 115K+Samba/smb-handler gui.
SiteWay.lha comm/www 1.0M+A bunch of WebTools for your Site-Managm
BUtility.lha dev/amos 135K+Extension for Amos 1.3 users.
SNMAOptsMUI.lha dev/asm 31K+Modern SNMA assembler options GUI v1.0 (
lucyplayDevBas.lha dev/basic 57K+Using LucyPlay library from HBasic
Amiga-C-Jan01.lha dev/c 135K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Janu
Emperor.lha dev/c 570K+Object-oriented programming language
HowToReAction.lha dev/src 19K+ReAction GUI with ReActor
AutoMounter.lha disk/misc 17K+AutoMount tool for any changeable disk d
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 75K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Aminet-CD-41.lha docs/lists 23K+Aminet CD 41 index and description
WarpUp-Jan01.lha docs/misc 22K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in J
Toadies.lha game/2play 711K+A Real Worms Clone !
BrickFast_A.lha game/data 9K+Levelset replacement for BrickFast v1.00
BrickFast_D.lha game/data 10K+New levelset for BrickFast v1.00+
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 17K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
FlashNG.lha game/misc 67K+Small GPL Arkanoid clone with RTG suppor
FlashmandelPPC.lha gfx/fract 56K+The best fractal program for Amiga/WarpO
RiVA.lha gfx/show 34K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
A2000tower.lha hard/hack 178K+A2000 tower project pictures
CGX2TV.lha hard/hack 8K+Very simple TVout for GFX card v0.3
Fred_and_Rose.lha misc/antiq 91K+Fred the Baker & Rose the Florist Demo
adt.c misc/unix 77K+Aminet Download Tool 2.6, minor update
Klangwelten.lha mods/atmos 476K+Dark Ambient/Trance track from Psycho/MO
Beginning_autu.lha mods/house 143K+House track from Psycho/MOODS
Trip_to_hell.lha mods/jungl 94K+Drum & Bass track from Psycho/MOODS
AcidFog.lha mods/techn 151K+ACID track from Psycho/MOODS
af-pulse.lha mods/techn 312K+DBM10ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 142bpm
af-something.lha mods/techn 233K+Ptmod ->Acid Frog<- techno 154bpm
Monotone.lha mods/techn 268K+Minimalistic Tekkno track from Psycho/MO
TheScene.lha mods/techn 186K+Old school Tekkno track from Psycho/MOOD
BlueXTC.lha mods/tranc 181K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
BrainInjection.lha mods/tranc 853K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
chill_out.lha mods/tranc 116K+Ambient Tekkno track from Psycho/MOODS
energy.lha mods/tranc 1.4M+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
Herzschmerz.lha mods/tranc 254K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
Hirnschlag.lha mods/tranc 230K+Hypnotic Trance track from Psycho/MOODS
Night_fear.lha mods/tranc 232K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
Sehnsucht.lha mods/tranc 404K+Trance track from Psycho/MOODS
vdo_wav2.lha mods/vdo 986K+Wavelength of a day [xm 20ch]
BaxPlayerV2.2.lha mus/play 160K+Multi-format module player.
Skins125a.lha mus/play 13M+125 Skins (Amplifier/Amp/Eagleplayer)
Skins125b.lha mus/play 13M+125 Skins (Amplifier/Amp/Eagleplayer)
amigawarrior.jpg pix/back 113K+Amigawarrior.jpg (800X600X24)
brokenpromise.jpg pix/back 88K+Brokenpromise.jpg (800X600X24)
doomed.jpg pix/back 86K+Doomed?.jpg (800X600X24)
dopus5.jpg pix/back 60K+Dopus5.jpg (800X600X24)
hello_world.lha pix/back 300K+Blue Workbench Backgrounds in 1024x778x2
lauraNduke.jpg pix/back 75K+LauraNduke.jpg (800X600X24)
macscrap.jpg pix/back 82K+Macscrap.jpg (800X600X24)
pirates.jpg pix/back 75K+Pirates.jpg (800X600X24)
fomst17.jpg pix/henz 142K+Stra Trek-scene
fomst18.jpg pix/henz 394K+Klingon Bird of Prey in the Jupiter orbi
fomst19.jpg pix/henz 99K+Federation ship at Saturn
fomst20.jpg pix/henz 211K+Original Enterprise at Saturn
fomst21.jpg pix/henz 183K+Star Trek-scene, black/white
fomst22.jpg pix/henz 190K+Ferengi Marauder, black/white
fomst23.jpg pix/henz 202K+Vulcan Shuttle, black/white
fomst24.jpg pix/henz 290K+Enterprise C, black/white
fomst25.jpg pix/henz 238K+Work Bee
fomst26.jpg pix/henz 315K+Star Trek-scene
fomst27.jpg pix/henz 200K+Klingon Cruiser
diff01.jpg pix/misc 291K+Difference between Amiga and Windows
diff02.jpg pix/misc 193K+Difference between Amiga and Windows
IkeWB4.jpg pix/wb 116K+Screen Grab of OS 3.9 Workbench
html-php.lha text/edit 21K+Extended HTML,PHP,JavaScript,JSP parser
PLConverter.lha text/misc 42K+PLConverter V2.1, Text Converter for Pol
EvenMore.lha text/show 291K+V0.57 - Great textviewer! ANSI/AGUIDE su
SRename.lha util/cli 107K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program.
WoW.lha util/conv 38K+Free text converter (Html, Ww6, Rtf, Asc
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 280K+Report+ 4.24: Multipurpose utility
idle1_1.lha util/moni 16K+A (working) cpu monitor
xpkBZP2.lha util/pack 79K+Bzip2 xpk compression library (68k,WarpO
trackdisplaycl.lha util/time 37K+V1.14 Use hardware track display as cloc
Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v14.9 - virus dicovering system
QuickLens.lha util/wb 7K+A quick lens, any OS, source included
WB2000_Update.lha util/wb 9K+Update for Workbench2000 1.9
WorkON.lha util/wb 566K+WB-System Enhancer with nice GUI!
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16.Feb.2001
Amiga Inc.
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New Amiga Accessories
In the Amiga shop 'AmigaMall' you can now order accessories as for example
bags, blankets or t-shirts with Amiga logo.
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16.Feb.2001
Gunter Hinrichsen on ANF
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New HTMLread Version
A new HTMLread version (V1.00) is available for download at the support site
(titlelink).
HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a marvellous mailer, but it's not
able to display e-mails that have been written in HTML code as they are sent
by Netscape, Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these
e-mails to an HTML viewer.
Some changes have been made in the new version:
Installer, better support of status gifs, better <base> tag
handling with web graphics, nowebbug fixed, picturename bug fixed,
no picture bug fixed, better multi window support, only one HTML mail is
stored in t:, multiple ARexxPort support (AWeb), the binary is now compiled
with the stormamiga.library (smaller, faster, more secure). HTMLread has
now internal support against e-mail espionage (please read on that topic
»Espionage through HTML-E-Mails« in the documentation).
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15.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
On Peter's Amiga Homepage
a new printer driver for the HP Deskjet 870c (version 40.12) is
available for download. This new version now also supports 68040 processors
and the HP Prefs. Download:
HP_Deskjet870C.lha
Payback by Apex Designs is
ready on CD-Rom and thus suppliable. You can draw the game either from Apex Design's
online shop directly or from the vendor of your choice.
In this game the player takes the role of a young driver on the run and in this
tries to become a big gangster's boss. The game is completely non-linear. To finish a
level the player simply has to collect a certain number of points. It is up to the player
how to reach this. There also is a FAQ
available for the game.
Demo: PaybackDemo.lha - 2,94 MB
Jacek Rzeuski has made
DirOpus Version 4.15h (Beta) available for
download. Download:
DOpus415h.lzx - 362 kB
At Denis Spach's you will find a new version (release v030) of the
X11 server for Amiga.
Version 13.1 of WHDLoad,
the disk-game-to-harddisk-installer, has been released.
Download:
WHDLoad_13.1_usr.lzx - 116 kB
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15.Feb.2001
KOSH
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KOSH News
There were no news about the ´KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware]´ organisation
founded by Fleecy Moss, since September 2000. The group reorganized and nominated the
following speakers:
- Red (developers) speaker, John Chandler
- Green (companies) speaker, greenboy
- Joint Blue (users) speakers, Marcus Petersson and Greg Webb
If you would like to join the group you can register
here
and if so support other speakers.
SVM
Many thanks to all who've contributed to the discussions on the SVM Simple
Virtual Machine. Even greater thanks to Timo Suoranta for getting the whole
thing rolling and Marcus Petersson for providing valuable feedback.
Information on the SVM proposal as it currently stands is available here -
please read, enjoy and contribute your thoughts. For those who missed the
beginning of this fascinating task, the original document is available here.
This isn't exactly a light discussion and some understanding of assembly
language coding would aid any participants - but don't be intimidated!
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