31.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM
'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW
that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga
in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical),
official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox,
Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems,
accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware),
support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.)
and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).
All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found
on the homepage.
Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success
of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS -
The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.
And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and
successful year 2001.
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31.Dec.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden in the Forum
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Warp3D and PCI Graphics Boards
Recently Hans-Jörg Frieden has expressed himself in our
forum regarding the topic driver
software for PCI graphics boards under Warp3D:
«Unfortunately the number of e-mails regarding Warp3D and PCI cards
accumulates for Thomas and me. Almost every time it is "I have purchased a card
of the brand XXX, when will you have 3D drivers ready?"...
Regarding this I want to say the following: Warp3D is and will continue to be a hobby project
that is cooking on smaller flame as for now, because of the time consumption
of Hyperion. If possible we'll write drivers. Nevertheless I will explicitly
point out, that the buying of a graphics card is no cogent reason for us to produce a
driver for it - as that takes quite some time. There will probably be no
driver for Voodoo 5 (V4 is questionable but more likely), none for GeForce, Riva TNT,
ATI Rage or whatever else, especially when there exists no chip documentation.
Neither we will attempt to recycle a Linux driver.
In the case that somebody could get some chip documentation (legal!) and make it
available for us the chances for a driver increase but this is no guarantee
either.»
Via email Hans-Joerg adds that this is no kind of arbitrariness but only a
hint that people shouldn't waste their money for graphics cards that can't be
supported simply because of the lack of time or documentation...
We are getting mails all the time from people asking for GeForce support or
Voodoo 5 but for those documentation isn't accessible. We have tried it even at
NVidia, without success, even not against NDA... :-(
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30.Dec.2000
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Happy new year from amiga-news.de!
© 2001 by Rolf Tingler (ps)
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30.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
MicroBase_500d.lha biz/dbase 830K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN
MicroBase_500e.lha biz/dbase 439K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH
Videomat1.7.lha biz/dbase 56K+Video cassette management system
OS3.9NOupd.lha biz/misc 2K+Bugfix for Norwegian translation of Amig
yaec_fix.lha dev/e 0K+Fixes stupid archive error in yaec.lha (
Progr_Langs_v6.lha dev/misc 71K+Comparison of progr. langs
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Mattonite.lha game/demo 234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Tankista_v0.3b.lha game/demo 105K+Buggy betaversion action game for 2 play
MicroPaint208.lha gfx/edit 492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
Keyswitch.lha hard/hack 13K+Automatic keyboard&mouse switch (German)
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 133K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 72K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ECat01.lha misc/misc 15K+Spanish Catalogs Pack 01
psY_srY.lha mods/blkha 87K+REvENgE - Nachfolger PT mod by blakkhar
BoingRays.jpg pix/back 152K+Boing Ball peeking out of dark clouds
AP12Recto.jpg pix/misc 128K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Recto
AP12Verso.jpg pix/misc 74K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Verso
dau-cdrom.jpg pix/misc 29K+How might a CD-ROM for dummies look like
titleshadow.lha util/boot 3K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
iFlush.lha util/cli 13K+Flushes UnUsed MemBlocks() Librarys() ,
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 289K+Report+ 4.21: 10-function utility
MicroRexx202.lha util/rexx 50K+ARexx Intuition extension
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30.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Advertising at Amiga Future
Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine
proposes a "commercial" advertising for "non commercial" products in Amiga
Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to shareware
developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that
are interested in this offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as soon as
possible.
The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish a happy new year 2001 to all of
you.
APC&TCP wish a happy new year 2001
to all of the Amiga users. You can look forward to next year because APC&TCP
is planning to release a whole lot of new Amiga products next year.
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30.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOLbits Newsticker
We wish a happy new year to all of our customers!
Our shop will be closed until 07.01.2001.
Martin Strobl writes:
I have build the Elbox-Mediator PCI Board into my showroom tower and I am very
pleased with the VooDoo 3000/16MB graphicsboard I also build in, since this
duo is faster than my private CybervisionPPC.
(showroom tower: Blizzard 1260, Private: CyberstormPPC 233/060/50).
A question concerning this subject: Is there interest to buy the Mediator-PCI
Board/ PCI graphics board directly with a licensed version of the Picasso96
drivers? If you are interested please send an email to
martin@coolbits.de. If there is enough
interest I will contact the makers of the drivers to ask for the price of such
a deal.
By the way, here is a tip for all those who own EXODUS in combination with a
CybervsionPPC (maybe also other graphics boards:
The game ran extremely slow on my computer until I removed the program
"PREPAREMUL" of Shapeshifter from my startup-sequence.
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30.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke in ANF
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EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.6 Released
This millennium's final release of the classic edition of EZP@gerNG has
now also been released. It is as always available in the download section.
The changes of this release are similar to those of the full version 1.3 of
EZP@gerNG, as far as the CE-version supports the different features. All the
changes of
this release.
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30.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga Closing it's Doors...
Juergen A. Theiner wrote:
On 01.01.2001 I will close playamiga.de. But only to be back for you (at the
latest) in February. And then with a lot of new features:
- New layout
- More tests and previews
- Release list
- The possibility to order games directly on the site.
- Monthly column about the Amiga and its world
- Charts and, and, and ...
If you want to continue to participate actively in the creation of the page, I
would like to ask you to send me the names of your favourite games so I can
create the charts (eispirat@home.ivm.de).
Important: The Payback Work in Progress
Report will stay online and will be renewed soon.
Happy new year!
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30.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino in ANF
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News from Infomedia Network
Fun Time World wrote:
"The homepage of Amiga's partner has been completely reworked. There aren't a
lot of news, but the first pictures of the Set-Top-Bow TVision based on Amiga
technology have been released."
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30.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena - Special Price Deal
The special price deal of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow will be maintained until the
31.01.2001.
I wish everybody a happy new year and success for 2001!
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30.Dec.2000
AmiDog
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AMP2 Version 2.00 Released
Version 2.00 of the movie player AMP2 has been released. In this version there
are a lot of new features. The author tried to make this version as stable and
bugfree as possible. However if you have MPEG movies that don't work or make
AMP 2 crash, the author would be happy to receive a message from you by
eMail.
Download: AMP200.lha
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Amiga Sound Standards and How to Destroy Them (Part 1)
Joern Plewka wrote:
In the past Katodev had to fight the fact that internally there wasn't enough
menpower available. That's why it was impossible for us to participate in
certain discussions. The things that head towards us now (criticism about
AMPlifier) is from our point of view hard and "generated".
Katodev and others are trying to support all of the existing standards those
usable from concept. We'd like to point out that the mpeg.device has been
released 1993 by Commodore (picture and sound). All cards with hardware
MPEG-support that were released after that have used this driver. CD32-FMV,
Peggy+, Melody-Z2, Melody1200 series and also the Delfina series.
For the later even the source code is available on Aminet. Those who are
now still not capable of writing a correct driver for their hardware should
simply ask for help or make their hardware layout available for everyone!
AMPlifier supports this standard. Those who create a driver for their hardware
can use this software unlicensed. AMPlifier is part of OS3.9 or available on
our homepage (unrestricted shareware) in Rev. 2.21. Those who don't like the
software should write their own, but please support the standards!
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Silversurfer does NOT Work with Melody1200
Joern Plewka wrote:
Since the Cologne fair previous to this year's fair the Silversurfer in it's
original state doesn't work correctly with Melody1200 since the complete
clockport is blocked, which is in contradiction with what the manufacturer
states at his homepage. This information isn't even available to users when
they ask for support. Katodev is fed up with fixing Silversurfers without
complaining, by now. Currently it seems that even the software does NOT work
with Melody1200 anymore.
If Silversurfer and Melody1200 can't work together simultaneoulsy it means
that Melody can die from bus-collisions, sooner or later. Please get a guaranty
on purchase that Silversurfer does the things you require or use Twister1200.
This makes you preventing a lot of anger, port and time for you and us.
We have reconstructed the layout of the Silversurfer now. This shows that the
IRQ runs over a diode. Those having problems due to this "trick" should
replace the diode by a transistor (e.g. BS170).
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29.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New Informationen on New Trojan
I have received some new info about the new trojan that was found
on the 27'th of December. It is spread in an archive with the name
"dcs-4k.lha". But the demo group have nothing to do with this new
trojan. We have also been told that it is a guy from England and
that he also made the "dkg-blum.lha" trojan, his name and address is
known to Virus Help Denmmark. Thanks to Mikko for the new info.
Here once more the full information on the new archive (we had posted
these on 12/27/2000 already):
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your
"sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus
programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will
be known.
The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then
you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv,
AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.
Here is some info about the infected archive:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name....: 4KIntro.exe
Trojan size....: 4096 bytes (packed with StoneCracker 4.04)
: 6072 bytes (un-packed)
Archive name.. : dcs-4k.lha
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)
This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....
Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..
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29.Dec.2000
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Visitor #2,000,000 on amiga-news.de
Last night, the 2,000,000th visitor came to our website. Joe has sent us a
screenshot of the 'event'. A proud number for 27 months. This
turns out about 74,074 visitors per month, with rising tendency.
Currently, between 6,000 and 8,000 readers visit us per day!
This is the opportunity to thank you for this great acceptance. We are
very happy, especially about the fact that more and more programmers,
developers, and readers take the chance to enter news in our
Amiga News Forum (ANF) themselves.
As you certainly know, we are a team of Amiga users
who invest a large amount of their spare time in this project. That's exactly
why we are happy about your feedback and of course most of all about every support, as without all your
help, amiga-news.de wouldn't have emerged to what it is today: one of the best news services
for the Amiga :).
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29.Dec.2000
ANN
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Jay Miner Millennial Memories Video
A new video from Kermit Woodall is available for download at Nova Design.
Download: jayminermm.mpg - 23,4 MB
Also, there's a 30 second video extract at Nova Design, which was produced from a video for
Bob Scharp's Bounce Back Videos.
The idea behind the 'Bounce Back Videos' is to give Amiga user groups the
opportunity to convey background knowledge on several projects to the users.
Download: novacomm.mpg - 6 MB
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29.Dec.2000
Richard H. Poser II via eMail
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AmigAIM BETA version 0.9406 released
A new beta version 0.9406 of AmigaAIM, the client for Amiga to participate
in the AOL Instant Messenger Service, was released. It's available for download at the usual places.
Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
AmigAIM 0.9406 Beta (28 Dec 2000)
- Fixed problem with ARexx command "login", was supposed to use last logged in
name if user is not specified. Now acts as originally planned.
- Added Notes section for each buddy for user to keep private data about buddies,
accessed via Contextmenu (Edit Notes) in "Online" as well as Chat Menu in
Chat Window.
Download: AmigaAIM_BETA.lha
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29.Dec.2000
Lars Maschmann on ANF
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New AmBoS-Support-Homepage
A new support homepage is available for the Amiga mailbox program "AmBoS".
It can be found at http://ambos.regiodata.de
and contains information and downloads (current updates and a complete demo archive).
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29.Dec.2000
Carlos on ANF
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PalmBackup 1.9 Released
PalmBackup is the Amiga software for PalmPilot/Visor/ThinkPad (and derivatives)
users that allows backup/restore of databases held on your handheld computer,
new software installation, and advanced database management. Since 1.9 PalmBackup
was released as free software (the full source code is also available). The
project has a new homepage at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmbackup
where the latest news, and releases can be found.
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29.Dec.2000
S&R Raghoebardayal on ANF
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CoyoteSound: Early Beta Released as Freeware
An early beta-version of CoyoteSound has been released as freeware.
This version is still very limited but since development has continued
a little while ago, it might change very soon.
If you want to see more development on this program, please contact the
authors (coyoteflux@chello.nl) and tell
them why. CoyoteSound will remain freeware.
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29.Dec.2000
Rafal Kwasny on ANF
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New 16 Bit Amiga Sound Card under Development
A new 16 bit sound card called 'Martina' for the Amiga is under development.
Specifications:
- 1x stereo out 16bit, max 96kHz
- 2x stereo in 16bit, max 96kHz (sampler)
- expansion port for MPEG modules (MP3 layer decoding, MPEG-1 for clock port
version)
- no pass through (card is blocking clock port)
- AHI drivers, audio.device overtake function, MPEG decoder handling possible
in the future by mpga.library,
- mixing audio from Paula and CD-ROM devices
- 24bit, MPEG-2 ROM-mounted version (for BVision and FastAta users),
compatible with a4000 (a3000 possible)
More information and a screenshot of the prototype are to find at the title link.
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