08.Feb.2001
Boingworld
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Amigas at the NASA
Boingworld discoverd a website summarizing on what occasions the Amiga is utilized
by the NASA, this very day. Though this isn't new, it's very interesting.
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08.Feb.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing via eMail
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100%AMIGA CD Magazine Published
The new and English Amiga Magazine called '100%AMIGA CD MAGAZINE', which is published on
CD-ROM only, is available form the vendors, now. The CD-ROM has got it's own graphical
surface guiding you through the magazine. More information under the title link.
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08.Feb.2001
Bob Scharp via eMail
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St. Louis Show - Amiga2001
On 30 March 2001 the biggest Amiga show of America will start, the Amiga2001.
The show will take place in the Sheraton hotel, West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO.
The organizer Bob Scharp told us that there will be many high-lights and interesting
news on the show, and he is inviting everyone to still take care to get a ticket for
the banquette. You will find more information under the title link.
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08.Feb.2001
Steffen Haeuser on ANF
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OpenDivX for Amiga
After implementations of the "state-of-the-art" video codec 3ivX available for the Amiga,
another modern video codec will come to the Amiga. Within the following days the opendivx.library
will be released, a mixed-binary (WarpOS and 68k support) library capable of decoding and encoding
OpenDivX animations. Player support already will be available. The opendivx.library along with
developer information will be to find at Aminet.
Note: OpenDivX is not DivX :-) compatible, but it is possible to convert both of those similar formats
one into the other on a Windows machine.
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07.Feb.2001
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Software News
AudioLabs now offers ProStationAudio
bundeled with AudioLab16.
On the TFA Homepage
you will find a small status report about the development progress of the
'ASM-One' assembler.
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07.Feb.2001
Suite101
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New Article by John Chandler
After a longer break John Chandler at Suite101 wrote a new article titled
´This Is Reality Control´.
In his new column John Chandler deals with a new low-cost PPC computer.
This computer is about the
RealityStation by
Ideas2Reality.
This is a A500 like device at £300 with the following features:
- PowerPC (200 MHz)
- Graphic system (OpenGL compatible)
- 5 USB-Ports
- 2 Firewire-Ports
- 16 MB FlashROM
- DVD-Drive
- Optional harddrive
For operating systems QNX RTP and Linux will be utilized. But the
company also is interested in other operating systems and for this
hands over to third-party companies the system documentations.
More information can be taken form John Chandler's text under the
title link.
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07.Feb.2001
V³ Portal
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New Pages in the V³ Portal
Oliver Wagner generated
two new pages in the V3·Portal. One page shows a list of supported
JS objects, and
the other one gives an overview of the
Voyager-readme´s.
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07.Feb.2001
Markus Schmidt
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The ICQ User List has got a Forum, now
Since there are more and more registrations from people apparently not knowing
what ICQ is about, Markus Schmidt has set up a
forum which
hopefully will be used lively.
It is planned to create an ICQ-FAQ from the postings but at the time being
time and information to do that is missing. Thence all ICQ users (and such about to
become one) are asked to drop by time by time and use the forum.
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07.Feb.2001
Telepolis
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Telepolis: Online Readers Are Less Informed
»- and Less Controllable by the Editorial Staff
An investigation on different behavior in reading of print and online issues
of the NYTimes complains about missing visual indicators and detention to
pure value of the new inside online media.
How does on read news? Contrary to a newspaper, which is bought as a whole and normally
you run over the pages in part at least, whereby you possibly occasionally recognize
something you originally maybe didn't want to read, you single out much more when you
read online. But this maybe also would mean that little by little your point of view
takes in more and more, even more by personalized offers.«
You can find the complete article by Florian Roetzer under the title link (German).
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07.Feb.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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VirusHelp Denmark: Survey Changed once again
Since the survey by VirusHelp Denmark regarding the mostly used anti-virus program
didn't work 100% with every browser a new survey was set up, which hopefully works
now. Follow the title link to participate.
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07.Feb.2001
AOG on ANF
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AmigaOnlineGames
4 new games, Armour Geddon 2, Flight of the Instruder, Global Effect, and
Powerdrome, have been added to the list. Have a look at the download area,
too.
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07.Feb.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga, Inc.: New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
February 06, 2001
Executive Update - St. Louis and Beyond
Greetings to the Amiga Family:
In Melbourne this last year, I was able to surprise many of you with several announcements that were unexpected, and we delivered on each of those.
Now we have a new show coming up in St. Louis. In a few weeks we will all learn...
Where is the AmigaOne? Will Cringley finally eat his words about a new Amiga? What about AmigaDE on PDA's, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances, or even desktops? Will Tom and Nicole stay together or is it over? Is there life for the AmigaOS after 3.9?
Contrary to the rumors and what many people are saying about our demise, or that we are going to have the same fate of the others before us, we have a big surprise for all of them.
I look forward to visiting with all of you in St. Louis, and I look forward to taking over the Hotel, and the surrounding area with the Amiga Spirit, and Community.
I hope to see many of you there.
There is still time, and in 6 weeks, it will all be known.
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the Amiga Team
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06.Feb.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Screenshots
On the Airsoft Softwair homepage just some snapshots have been
released at the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" section from
programs published on this CD-ROM e.g. Rainboot v3.1, the CD32 Games Install
Kit 4, and RB2Exe 1.2. There also is the high resolution 1600x1600x24 cover
designed by Pixel Art.
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06.Feb.2001
Ray McCarthy via eMail
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Kicksoft present at the alt.WoA
Kicksoft announce to attend the alt.WoA
Amiga show, which will take place in Huddersfield, England, on 24 February 2001.
Kicksoft on the occation of the show is organizing a
contest
in which you can participate online, too. 2 x Drawstudio 2 are to win.
Any one who has previously had problems with valid registrations of
GoldEd 6 from other companies are urged to get in contact with Kicksoft.
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06.Feb.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project!
In cooperation with Bernhard Lindner Amiga Arena makes possible a special price
for T.U.M.M.Y! which is a little specialized database managing a big base of cards
of the card-game collection Magic The Gathering (>6700 cards).
The program's particular fortitude are the extremely powerful search functions
allowing to search for any card by almost any criteria imaginable. Many
enhancements are planned for the future, but strongly depend on number of
registrations.
Amiga Arena - AmiAtlas Special Price Project!
Still until 28 February 2001 AmiAtlas is available for special price.
Andreas Regul did NOT stop development of AmiAtlas! (But he just cannot continue
development himself.) He still is looking for a programmer for further development.
Also hobby developers are addressed by this! If interested please mail to
olaf.koebnik@online-club.de.
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06.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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New Version of WorkON Released
There was a new version of WorkON released on my homepage to be found
in the Amiga/WorkON section. WorkON is a littel 'system enhancer' for
the AmigaOS. Though it is not in beta stage any more, it wasn't finished, yet.
The final version will be released on Aminet, soon. But interested people can
already download the archive now and send bug reports to me.
The new features:
- Many, many bugfixes.
- Now you can call Exchange and Shell from the menu.
- Config can be deleted and restored
- Extended languages for the WB-Help section.
- User path's can have names.
- New GUI and new images exclusively by Martin Merz (MIcons)!
- Archive functions enhanced.
- The HTML documentation has been reworked, too.
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06.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
At the time being all of the elder versions of ArtEffect can be updated to
version 4 at a low unique price from Haage&Partner.
ArtEffect 4 is a flexible and easy to use painting program for Amiga.
The AROS project's website has been updated.
You can read about progress in detail.
Harry "Piru" Sontonen
has made version 1.6 of his PCMCIA network card driver available for download.
Download:
cnetdevice.lha - 147 kB
Version 0.11 beta of the shareware video animation player
SoftCinema
is available for download.
Download:
SoftCinema.lha - 400 kB
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06.Feb.2001
Roland Wintgen via eMail
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Golem: PDA with AmigaOS Raising?
»Amiga is looking for software developers for PDA applications.
After the SDK's for Amiga's upcomming AmigaDE platforms are available
the company now is looking for programmers to develop organizer applications
for a possible PDA with AmigaOS. But Amiga still is keeping silence about
details on the type of PDA.«
You can find the full article under the title link (German).
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06.Feb.2001
Alfred Faust on ANF
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FinalExecute as Open Source
By order of my son Matthias I've uploaded the last version of
the popular FinalExecute to AMINET including source code.
The source code is available for free, all rights remain with the
author. By doing this Matthias finally says good by to the AMIGA.
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06.Feb.2001
Sascha Koebner on ANF
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SPIEGEL: Jenny E. of the New Economy
In the current issue of the SPIEGEL (German magazine), in the context of
an article about the shady scheming of the former hacker Kim "Kimble"
Schmitz, on page 128 the following sentence is written:
"Already as a teenager Schmitz realized that one can do much more than
just playing "Pac-Man" with an Amiga computer. Pretendedly he invaded
the secure systems of the NASA, Pentagon, and Citibank. Soon he got the
aura to be a computer genius. But this version is vehemently mistrusted inside
the hacker scene."
A very interesting article making clear that genius and (megalo)mania
are very close neighbours.
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05.Feb.2001
Boingworld
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Desktop Replacement for Windows
The program "WorkbenchOnWin" (only 364kB) makes it easy to give every
Windows-Desktop the look'n feel of an Amiga-Workbench. The topical version is an
early alpha version and no emulation of an Amiga.
Download: wow.zip
I am very keen on the future versions. With some knowledge of the Windows
registry it is possible to completely replace the Windows-Desktop.
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