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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28.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF
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StrICQ v0.1734 Released
On the StrICQ support page v0.1734 has been released which should fix
some bugs in version v0.1733.
Download: stricq.lha - 222 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Tobias Abt via eMail
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Picasso96 Driver for Mediator
Sufficient demand for Picasso96 drivers for Mediator provided, that is about 300 registered
users (specify Mediator for purpose when registering), in case of need we will purchase
a complete developer- and test-system with our own funds, and then create own drivers
for diverse PCI graphics boards. This drivers will then be of quality known form
us.
But Elbox mentioned to us that they already would have shipped two systems to Germany for other
driver development (CGX). Well, it would be in our terms to provide us one of these. To charge
UPS with delivery cannot cost the world.....
Another problem would be accessing the API of the Mediator system's pci.library. Elbox provides
this only for NDA, though they don't feel themselves to be bound to such concinnities, see their
unauthorized Voodoo3-P96 driver...
If they would refuse us to access this, of course this would raise a certain problem which could
lead to slightly delays.
Supplement 12-29-2000:
Tobias Abt via eMail:
Afterwards we got the information that this developer system provided to the CGX team was
distributed by Vesalia, but financed by Elbox.
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28.Dec.2000
Amiga Club Steinfurt
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New SiteWay-Modul: EasyAccess
EasyAccess is a helpful tool in creating and editing CGI scripts. Using this local
server one can test his sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI). EasyAccess is part of
the SiteWay project.
Download: EasyAccess.lha - 405 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner
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MainPrefs Version 2.02 Released
Who wants to change environment variables, handily edit configuration files as like s:startup-sequence or
start OS preferences tools in a predictable way can do that using MainPrefs V2.02, now. The program
requires OS3.5 because of its Reaction-GUI.
Download: mainprefs.lha - 65 KB
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28.Dec.2000
B. van der Meer on ANF
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Amiga-news Now Also At AmigaScene.nl
We have integrated amiga-news.de in Dutch on our website, now. Our thanks to Dirk Baeyens and Petra Struck.
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28.Dec.2000
Matthias Muench
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DCE with New Homepage
DCE has got a new homepage. There are also to find a few new information on G-REX for Amiga 4000.
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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VaporWare 2000: Winners Published
The US magazine Wired again has published the award winners for announced but not released
computer products. Hundreds of voters again participated. This year award seems to hit
Apple (a hard year for Apple since Steve Jobs had to concede profit caution and errors).
Another link on this subject:
Heise: Vaporware 2000: Die Gewinner (German)
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