02.Aug.2000
Martina Jacobs on ANF
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Amster version 0.7a Released
The Amiga Napster client "Amster" as version 0.7a is now available at Aminet.
Napster is a project for sharing MP3 files using a special client with special
features such like chatting, searching, download, newsletter and more. Among other this client version for
Amiga offers multithreaded downloads with the opportunity of selecting priorities. The application requires
AmigaOS3.x, MUI 3.8+, MCC_NListtree 19.97+ and MCC_Lamp 11.1+.
Download: Amster.lha - 472 KB -
Amster.readme
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02.Aug.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Sweet dreams
Bill McEwens's announcement of Amiga going public next year gave Torsten the inspiration for this new caricature.
By the way, our opinion poll concerning the cartoons is still going on
because we want to recognize your wishes in a better way.
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02.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga news
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AmiBench Moving
Caused by a switchin to another server AmiBench currently is reachable at http://amibench.nop.org.uk/.
The usual URL http://www.amibench.org/ is accessible after changing the Domain Name Server in the next days.
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02.Aug.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS Starts with Public Betatests
In order to participate on the public betatests, fill out the form at the titlelink,
download the MorphOS archive, install it and studiously write us bugreports, if you find any bugs.
Requirements: Reading the documentation and the following system equipment:
System Requirements:
- OS3.1
- 32 MB RAM
- A1200 / A3000(T) / A4000(T)
- CyberStorm PPC or Blizzard PPC
Recommended:
- 64 MB RAM (more won't hurt)
- CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC with CGX4 installed for maximum performance
- Fast PPC since 680x0 companion CPU does not have any impact on system performance
(ps)
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01.Aug.2000
Charon Page
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Charon Version 1.4 Released
Version 1.4 of the download manager "Charon" is ready for download. Charon is shareware
an can get registered online at the titlelink.
Download: Charon.lha
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01.Aug.2000
AROS-ML
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AROS Status Update
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:00:20 +0200
To: AROS Announce mailto:aros-announce@aros.org
Reply-To: aros-announce@lists.hepe.com
Subject: [AROS-Announce] Status update
BGUI has been completely ported to AROS, now. This means that the library
can be compiled and that all demos run. Cudos go to Stefan Berger.
Michael Schulz is working on making mice work on AROS Native/i386.
This includes work on a PCI.HIDD, an IRQ.HIDD, the VGA.HIDD and the
Serial.HIDD plus an IDE driver. Trackdisk is there, too, so the
next thing is to find a filesystem to use. We try to get SFS because
it seems one of the best filesystems for the Amiga at this time.
The SFS developers seem to be very positive to this, we'll see what
comes from it.
As for the Sowatec AG hiring
developers for AROS, all I can say at this time is that we had several
job interviews and things look quite good. The only thing that might
break it at this time (as I see it) is that we get not enough people.
We figured that we need four developers and last I looked, we had three
and one interview still open. Don't hold your breath but press your
thumbs :-)
Nils Henrik Lorentzen has begun to write a framebuffer.HIDD which
uses Linux' framebuffer for rendering. Right now, it's mostly for
debugging (it's a synchronous interface instead of X11s' asynchronous
one) but maybe, there will be a AROS Native/linux-i386, ie. a
version of AROS that will boot with the help of a Linux kernel
but without the need to install a complete Linux system. We'll
see what can be done here.
And I'm diving into the depths of Ami, the SDK for the next Amiga
by Amiga Inc.. As it looks, the
SDK is a bit disappointing because it's very rough and has lots of
holes but on the positive side, Amiga's crew is very helpful and
the developer support is just great. *sigh* Had we just had such
a support in the old C= days. Many thanks for their effort go to
Ray A. Akey and Gary Peake and all the members of the
Tao and Amiga
support staff that I'm bombing with EMails ;-) If they can keep this
attitude, then I have no doubt that in five or ten years, people
will name Ami in the same breath as Windows, EPOC and Linux.
Something really to look forward to.
As for stats, I'm proud that we made 40k hits on our web page and
this year has also been very productive from the EMail side: Last
year, there were about 300KB mails/month in the developer list.
This year, we have 1MB mails/month ! Thanks go to all those
members of the development team that have not been mentioned here
but who do important stuff, nonetheless (in no order): Henning
Kiel and Lars Bischoff for reporting bugs, Georg Steger for
cleaning up after the other developers have raged through the
code and calling me back to earth when necessary, Jaime Dias for
asking "stupid" questions that make us think what we're doing,
Manuel Lemos for trusting us with BGUI, Requin Frederic for
helping Michael Schulz, Tobias Seiler for continuing the NetBSD
port, Bernardo Innocenti for bugging people to allow us to port
their software to AROS and last but not least all those people
who I forgot :-) Thanks to you all; it's your
work that makes this possible.
And at the end, a short note to all those people who started own
ports of the AmigaOS: Good luck to you all. I think you will find
out soon enough why AROS took soo long. The AROS team is still
willing to share their knowledge and code with everyone out
there. And we can do this because of the MPL, the only true Open
Source license :-)
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Sowatec AG, CH-8330 Pfäffikon (ZH)
Witzbergstr. 7, http://www.sowatec.com
Tel: +41-(0)1-952 55 55
Fax: +41-(0)1-952 55 66
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Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla, digulla@sowatec.com
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AROS-Announce mailing list
AROS-Announce@lists.hepe.com
http://www.aros.org/mailman/listinfo/aros-announce
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01.Aug.2000
Grabbe via eMail
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ANN: Amiga Laptop
According to Joe Torre, the BoXeR development team is also working on a laptop Classic
Amiga (about time we got one of those!).
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01.Aug.2000
VMC
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VMC: 5D+ Internet Mouse shipping at last!
From today the long hoped for 5D+ Internet Mouse
is sent to all the people who preordered and to the vendors. This new model is consequently custom-made
enhanced version of the popular 4D+ Internet Mouse.
Since we are able to distribute any desired number of units of this model, at last we are in the position
to provide specialized trade with it, too. With this we apologize to every Haage & Partner customer, as
well as KDH customer who was forced to wait for a longer period of time.
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01.Aug.2000
LinuxInfo.de via eMail
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Initial Testing and Preview: RedHat 7.0 Beta
After the release of the new RedHat 7.0 beta we took a lot at this and report on the first
installation and give a perspective on the new features. The report is to finde at the
report section (German). More informatin at the titlelink.
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01.Aug.2000
amiga.org
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Tech Extreme: Matrox & Amiga in the Shack
Another interesting article in a non-amiga media. By the way, we are collecting such articles centrally for you on
our special site External Articles, so you are able to recover interesting articles even
after a longer period of time without problems. This link otherwise is to find at "Special Pages".
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01.Aug.2000
Czech Amiga News
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ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
At Albert Parkt in Melbourne, Australia, the ACE 2000 (The Alternative Computer Expo) will take place on
21./22. October 2000. The website on this event is online, now.
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01.Aug.2000
Frank "Morn" Grochut on ANF
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StrICQ 0.1731 Released
The latest version of the Amiga ICQ client is online for free download.
- Re-Compiled for 68020/+ processors
- Removed Debug option so the executable is only 521ko (200ko gain)
- Updated the version numbers (nomore "1600 series")
- Enabled cut and paste in Chat and History
- StrICQ now uses it's own icon (PROGDIR:STRICQ) as app-icon and no longer Env:sys/Def_STRICQ
- A lot of fonts are now FIXED so that cut/paste work with MCP
- Re-worked prefs window: now resizable
- Updated a lot of borders to ReadList type instead of String to give a closer
AmIRC look for chat and list, it is also more MUI styled now and you can
configure their look without messing up the input field borders.
- Improved the look of some frames
Download: stricq1731.lha
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01.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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"Publius" - The Web against Internet Censorship beeing Tested
«"Share and rule" - the classic formula to ensure one's power now apparently is turning against
the governing people. Initiated by computer scientists from AT&T and the New York University a two month lastig
experiment of a "censorship resident" publication system starts. On Tuesday 02. August 2000 the distribution
of the proxy server shall start up, on 7. August 2000 the testing of the client software will begin.
The Publius named system ensures the promulgation of web releases
similar to FreeNet by putting them on numerous servers using the
peer-to-peer technique, and under some circumstances this will be done by splitting the files. Hence it becomes harder for
potential or existing censorship offices to close documents in this system by carrier liabilities. More over that Publius
relies on multible endcoding: It is only possible to decode the pages after all the splitted framents has been put
together again. For the carrier of a server those pages are unreadble. For this reason the carrier cannot be hold
responsible for content he/she is not able to know.»
The entire article at the titlelink. (German)
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01.Aug.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Mojo Nation: Another new System for File Sharing
«While Napster and Scour (after music the movies) are fighting for their future and one of the
atlernative share servers, CuteMX, had closed for the time beeing waiting for the smoke to disapear,
which came from the injunction against Napster, which was suspended again in the meantime, Mojo Nation
started their test run and touts for users with an amount of features most of the competitors could not offer,
yet. E.g. the software even supports it's own micropayment feature, as no other does by now.»
«Those seven cypherpunks believe that they have created the next "killer application" for the
internet whith their sophisticated system. "We are a mixture of Napster and eBay", blew Jim McCoy,
CEO of Autnomous Zone Industries, his big role models to Wired News.»
Entire article at the titlelink. (German)
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01.Aug.2000
ATC
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ATC: Official Beta Available
An official beta of the ftp program AmitTradeCenter is available for download. For this version
a lot of little bugs have been fixed and enhancements have been added. Please, get details from this
text.
Download: ATC_beta_31072000.lha - 266 KB
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01.Aug.2000
DOpus4 Support Page
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Official Directory Opus 4 Manual Available
Dr. Greg Perry from GP Software granted to make the official Directory Opus 4 Manual as AmigaGuide available
for donwnload.
Download: DopusManual.lha - 100 KB
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31.Jul.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail
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RegNet-Registration
RegNet informed me, that they'd be releasing a new site
and that the transfer should be smoothly - however
due to an obvious IP address change, http://www.regnet.net
currently points to some completely different site
(after first only containing an error message and then
being down for a while).
I would expect, that the DNS server entries get updated
soon and would be be glad, if people that have not been
able to register since 26th/27th of July would try
again in a few days.
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31.Jul.2000
Olaf Köbnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena presents: BallMaster Keyfile Special !
The keyfile for the puzzle game "BallMaster" (AGA, ECS) is now online available.
Attention: The keyfile is registered to "AMIGA ARENA VISITOR" and therefor determined just for Amiga
Arena visitors ! You are not allowed to distribute this file in any way !
We wish you much fun with BallMaster, Damir A. (Developer) and Olaf K. (Amiga Arena) !
Amiga Arena Interview Special!
There are new interviews with Achim Stegemann (Digital Almanac) and Guido Mersmann (Boulderdash) online available.
Imperium Terranum 2
With the permission of Michael Pfeiffer (VWP) we offer you a free download of the archievs IT2 and Star Trek.
Imperium Terranum 3
If you are interrested in developing IT3 you can contact Michael P.
Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition!
An other review of the Amiga Arena CD-ROM is published in the actuall issue of Amiga Times.
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31.Jul.2000
Aminet Recent
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New Aminet Uploads
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 773K+V1.50 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBasic_Upd.lha dev/basic 640K+V1.50 - Update for registered users (fro
MR_Classes.lha dev/gui 184K+Reaction classes
CopyLockDecode.lha disk/misc 10K+V1.34 Rob Northen Copylock Decoder
Track2File_src.lha disk/misc 31K+V1.22 file ripper from NDOS & DOS disks
fu_psv-e.lha docs/hyper 67K+Large info about famous football club (E
fu_psv-e_pic-1.lha docs/hyper 5.3M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-2.lha docs/hyper 5.6M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-3.lha docs/hyper 5.5M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-4.lha docs/hyper 5.5M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
fu_psv-e_pic-5.lha docs/hyper 5.9M+Pictures to English version of "PSV Guid
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 10K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (30 July
GlowMopoly.lha game/data 141K+Gfx for HBMonopoly 2+ (AME/DEU/ENG)
PictrisDemo.lha game/demo 2.6M+Demo of an addictive new puzzle game
IT_2_StarTrek.lha game/misc 2K+Star Trek version of IT2, german
nts_slamtiltcd.lzh game/patch 2K+Play SLAMTILT with CD32 JoyPad !!
ICS.lha hard/misc 1.6M+V1.10 ICS - professional color correctio
mamegui.lha misc/emu 68K+MAME GUI
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N24-Metabox.lha misc/misc 2.7M+(german) N24 Met
bass.lha mods/blkha 282K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
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bO-027.lha mods/techn 1.1M+#027 bOhema release - SPEKTRA.
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clip.lha util/cli 6K+Manipulate the clipboard from shell (w/s
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Gurus2000_1807.lha util/wb 615K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
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31.Jul.2000
Igor Sereda on ANF
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Concerns to all Voyager 3.2.12 beta Users
On the 1st August you won't be aible to launch the Voyager (3.2.12) beta. I discovered this by surprise because
I had set the system time wrong.
We contacted Oliver Wagner and he assured that he will offer a download to switch the timeout off.
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31.Jul.2000
Jürgen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga.de is back !
Caused by a harddiskcrash www.playamiga.de was not updated the last two weeks. Now I am back again to supply you
with new game information. ACTUAL: The time to enrol for the SWOS tournament ends in the last days of august.
PS: Due to the harddiskcrash I lost all of my online-datas. If you wait for a reply on your mail, please
send this mail once more.
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