20.Dec.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Background details: Microsoft are Stricken
«Crippled due to the cartel case, tantalized by cracker's attacks, and trailed by the general
downwards trend of the PC branch the software giant from Redmond now starts to paddle hectically.
Because the signs are indicating storm: For the first time after ten years and for the second time
in the company's history at all Microsoft had to call out a profit caution for the current quarter.
PC sales in the otherwise so opulent Christmas business are stagnating worldwide, thus the best
income source stops bubbling the way Bill Gates' crew was used to. After all, almost a third of volume of
sales Microsoft draws from the fact that vendors sell PC's along with Windows or other products by Microsoft.»
Complete article under the title link (German).
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20.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Andreas Kleinert makes it possible to sell SView IV with PPC-modules and
the AK datatypes at a special price. SView IV is a program for converting, showing and formating of
pictures in a fast and comfortable way. This special price is valid until 15th of January 2001.
You can find further information under the title link or to SView IV and AK datatypes (PNG,JFIF,TIFF)
under ar-kleinert.de.
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20.Dec.2000
Rolf Tingler via eMail
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Cellular Phones Top Shells with Amiga Design
From now on top shells with Amiga design for Nokia 3310 are available.
You can have a look at the top shells on the website of
Airbrush Paradise Tingler.
Orders can be placed at the shop of Airbrush Paradise.
Furthermore APT is looking for distributors within the EU. If you are interested in this,
please send an e-mail to the sales manager Gabi Tingler.
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20.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
As already reported Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games,
hardware, developer, and websites every year. Under the title link you will find a summary
of votes after the second week.
For applications 'YAM 2.2' still is far ahead; for games &180;Heretic 2' still is
ahead followed by &180;Foundation'; for hardware with 'Mediator' ahead followed by 'AmigaOne'
also nothing changed; for development 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' are still close up.
The only change appeared for websites with amiga-news.de ahead followed by Czech Amiga News. At this
occasion I would like to thank the readers for voting!
Did you already vote? If not, we would be very happy about you
voting for amiga-news.de.
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20.Dec.2000
Gregory Donner
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AmigaOS 3.9 Review by Gregory Donner
Gregory Donner has put an extended review of AmigaOS 3.9 online on his website.
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20.Dec.2000
Stephan Rupprecht
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WBStartEmu Update for OS3.9
Downlaod: WBStartEmu.lha -
readme
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20.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Virus Warning
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will only execute
it self if you have named your hard-disk "DH0" & "DH1". The trojan
is spread in and archive with the name "DKG-BLUM.LHA". If you run
the "DKG-BLUM.exe", the trojan will replace your c:loadwb with
another loadwb (size: 3560 bytes) and replace c:assign with another
assign (size: 2408 bytes), and the screen will tell you that there
is not enough memory, and you will have to restart, then it looks
like the trojan will delete DH1:.
The trojan also adds or replaces 2 other files, "LIBS:asi.library"
& "DEVS:ASI.device".
The cure right now (If you have lost your DH1: to bad......), then
replace the trojan files with clean ones, here is the trojan sizes:
c:loadwb ( 3560 bytes)
c:assign ( 2408 bytes)
libs:asi.library (24548 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)
devs:asi.device ( 2408 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)
Here is some info about the infected archive:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Archive name.. : dkg-blum.lha
Archive size.. : 28.535 bytes (lha packet)
This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....
Thanx to Peter Gordon & Urban for the info and sending the archive
to us........
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20.Dec.2000
BoingWorld
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BoingWorld: Mediator PCI 1200 Review
A Mediator PCI 1200 review has been posted to BoingWorld.
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19.Dec.2000
AmiBroker
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Stock Exchange Sofware: AmiBroker 3.42 Released
Version 3.42 of the stock exchange software ',AmiBroker' has been released.
This version contains important bugfixes. Issue #7 of the AmiBroker newsletter is
online, too.
Supplement:
Sebastian Brylka noted that this is just the
version for Windows. Sorry, I overlooked that. The current version for Amiga is AmiBroker/Amiga
3.37 beta from 24.11.2000.
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19.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Arcadia: New Bubble Heroes Patch
A new patch for the game 'Bubble Heroes' by Arcadia was released. This patch fixes
a bug that caused the random function to produce too much yellow bubbles on some
machines, enhances sound output, and makes the game a little faster.
Download:
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19.Dec.2000
Carsten Scholling via E-Mail
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MUI: NListtree V18.6 Beta 5
Carsten Scholling released beta version V18.6 Beta 5 of the MUI class 'NListtree'. This
class displays data in a tree structure. For this time the update contains bugfixes and
useful enhancements.
- Bugfix: Multiselection bug fixed, which allowed entries to be dropped on thier children entries (crash!)
- Bugfix: Position calculation rewritten. No more accidently deleted entries.
- Bugfix: Drop-Typ "Sorted" never occured
- Bugfix: Renaming the user field wasn't possible.
- Bugfix: MUIV_NListtree_Insert_ListNode_ActiveFallback (see Autodocs).
- Bugfix: Inserting open nodes into one closed leaded to wrong position calculation (reported by Luca 'Hexaae' Longone, thx)
- New: Second find method implemented (user field). This searching function is rather meant as a backup to have different
searching possibilities, if needed. (Hooks must not always be set again).
- New: MUIA_NListtree_ShowTree implemented (tree on / off). Useful for different sorting orders for which a tree structure maybe
isn't wanted.
- New: Spanish localisation by Javier de las Rivas.
- New: New Trigger-Attribute: MUIA_NListtree_SelectChange.
Download: MCC_NListtree18.6b5.lha (306K)
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19.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT
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UAE-JIT: Service Pack for 'Ipswich Town'
On December 15th, 2000 Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a service pack for the
'Ipswich Town' version of 'UAE-JIT' for Linux/386, which is an Amiga emulator.
This Update in general fixes bugs of the previous version. Particulary it was
made more stabel, and portable while speed did not change. So this update in
general addresses those who had problems with the previous version in using
or compiling it. A detailed list of changes made are to find in the
WHATSNEW-JIT-Text.
This version is available as Linux/x86 binary for glibc V2.1 or glibc V2.0 in form of
complete source code or source code patch for the
UAE V0.8.15
Source code. In the source code archive the file 'dirct_access.c' is missing, which should
be downloaded separately in addition.
Download:
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19.Dec.2000
Alexander Wachau on ANF
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TechReview: Ten Passed Technologies
«Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes the
"losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack. Here are
ten examples.»
In the article Amiga is mentioned as third along with the picture of an Amiga 1000.
Nick Montfort talks about the Amiga's good multitasking - but now which is being implemented
in MacOS X - and other good features we don't want to miss on our computers. It is also
mentioned that an new Amiga is already under construction.
New Ermentrud Demo Released !
Timo Kloss on ANF
mailto:Timo@inutilis.de
http://www.inutilis.de
Inutilis Software has released an new demo version of the adventure game "Ermentrud"
for CyberGfx. This demo is ready for download on their website. There are many innovations
compared to the initial demo version due to the entire story control system working now, too.
- Three locations (screens)
- Two dialog partners (shoes)
- Intro pictures
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19.Dec.2000
Jens Troeger on ANF
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New InstallerNG
I have uploaded a new version of InstallerNG to the support page (and to Aminet).
A stupid bug in the message system of the built-in BOOPSI GUI has been fixed, and
new is the CALL-PLUGIN function which allows the user to implement own functions
in InstallerNG by a typed API and to use it from a script. Example source code for
this as well as for all of the other API modules are included.
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19.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Guymay presents version 2.1 of Bubble Stones, the freeware
"Bust a Move" clone! New in this version 2.1:
- New game modes "Hot"
- Keyboard Support
- English manual
- Enhanced gameplay
Now you are able to design the look of the field yourself! If you have own fields,
please send them to me to create a Bubble Stones hompage for fields and high scores.
Please, send suggestions for the game to GuyMay, the develper of Bubble Stones!
Merry Christmas!
Amiga Arena wishes a merry Christmas and all the best for 2001 to all Amiga friends.
Keep The Flame burning!
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18.Dec.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Competitor to Microsoft's new Video Format
«3ivx is to be made available for every platform as there are Windows,
Macintosh, BeOS, Linux, Amiga, and other. A related player is planned as open source
project. Already for now there exists a delta version 1.0d1 of the 3ivx decoder for
MacOS Classic and Windows at the download area of the 3ivix pages. To play the example
videos Apple-Player from version QuickTime 4.0 is needed. Initial tries to use this
decoder with the QuickTime player under Windows leaded to less successful results -
the format wasn't recognized.»
Complete article at the title link (German).
3ivx Homepage for more information about the project.
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18.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
From now on the successor of the 'The Best of Airsoft Softwair' CD-ROM, which
was released by APC&TCP last year, is directly available from Airsoft Softwair.
The Gold Edition is fully filled with 650 MB of data and contains all of the
releases by the user group Airsoft Softwair, again including some full versions exclusively,
e.g. the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG, and Rainboot v3.1. The
other shareware applications of course are there as full versions, too.
The CD-ROM costs just 29.95 DM (20 USD) and can be ordered now.
Owners of the Best of Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM Vol.1 can even upgrade for only 19.95 DM (15 US$).
More information under the title link.
Airsoft Softwair Homepage
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18.Dec.2000
Marc Oberst at ANF
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Science Fiction Encyclopaedia for Amiga
The PKD-Guide, a freeware-encyclopaedia by the American sience fiction
author Philip K. Dick, started in 1994, now has it's 'own' homepage.
They are looking for help to publish an international version of the guide.
They are urgently looking for translators and collectors of informations all over the world.
But people who wants to read the newsletter or talk to others are also welcomed.
The guide is already available in the AmigaGuide-format and a HTML version will
be available, too. Version 4.0 beta is already available form Aminet.
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17.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - Christmas Update
Achim Stegemann wrote:
The Christmas update for DA3 is ready and can be downloaded on the
homepage.
There had some adaption regarding the new OS 3.9 to be done (because of the new
math-libs).
During the installation pay attention to the hints by all means!
Besides that I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium!
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17.Dec.2000
Sven Droege on ANF
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Bonds v1.78 BETA3 with New Homepage
Sven Droege wrote:
The users of the financial software Bonds had to count on long waitstates for
updates. Since today there's a new homepage under the known address
www.programmed-excellence.de
online. Through a server change the access probabily should be improved
drastically. Besides that there's a new update v1.78 BETA3, which only contains
some small bugfixes. Additionally for registered users there's now the tool
"quotations updater", that can be used to update quotations also without Bonds.
The email-address of the author has also changed. It's now
Sven.Droege@programmed-excellence.de.
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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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ppclib.emu v0.8e
On 16. Dezember 2000 Frank Wille has released the version 0.8e of the
'ppclibemu'. This library makes it possible to run PPC programs, that use
the ppc.library made by p5 directly under WarpOS. Added in this version is the
support for DoMethod, DoSuperMethod and CoerceMethod, so that now the Voyager
Flash-PlugIn does also run with the ppclibemu.
Download:
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