24.Mar.2000
Stephan Rupprecht per eMail
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Program updates
As the Aminet server is currently down I would like to remind that all my
software projects are available for download on my website (title link).
Some programs were updated (e.g. RAWBInfo, PrintManager, IcoDT,...) since
the server was down.
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24.Mar.2000
Thomas Kisner in ANF
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Launch of www.amigan.com
On April 3rd http://www.amigan.com will launch. My work DNS server just
picked it up this morning, so do not be distressed if it does not come up,
it exists I assure you :) (look at www.qwhois.com to see). This is web site
is owned by the newly formed Grapevine Computers Inc., and will eventually
include many features, at this point I'm not sure which ones will be
operational at launch date. It is being run on a fully Pearl/CGI enabled
Linux web server with a secure site certifcate for secure online purchases.
The idea behind this corporation is that it will be 100% owned by Amiga
users, and at launch date users may purchase shares of stock no matter where
in the world they live (We've contacted the IRS on how to do this). We want
to compete with the very few online vendors of Amiga products that have a
monoply like effect selling upgrade parts and replacement parts for very
high prices for classic Amiga. We will also be a dealer for the new Amiga.
I've contacted Bill McEwen but I haven't heard back from him (he's a busy
guy I'm sure), to get the offical Amiga blessing. All shareholders will get
a discount on items for sale, and right now were planning on members of the
board of directors getting products at cost. Shares of common stock will be
sold for $1 US, and anyone can purchase a few as one share. It is a
privately held close corporation, in in will operate pursuant to the Texas
Close Corporation Act (my lawyer talking there).
We're also looking for a couple people. One, someone to translate the site into German
and and server as a coordinator and contact for operations for German.
Second, someone to serve as a cordinator and contact for operations in
England. Stock will be traded in consideraton for these positions, and they
will eventually will be paying positions when we get off the ground. This
is by no means full time (it's not going to be full time for me either, even
though my girlfriend sure thinks it is). Interested persons can e-mail
president@amigan.com . If their DNS servers are not updated yet, they can
e-mail tom@grapevinecomputers.com .
Further details will be released on April 3rd on the website. Anyone having quesitons can e-mail me.
Thanks, Tom Kisner, President/CEO, Grapevine Computers
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24.Mar.2000
Herbert Markart in ANF
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300 gigabyte harddisk comes
«The harddisk manufacturer Seagate has achieved a new record regarding
data density. The company succeeded in saving a density of 45 gigabit per
inch square [7 gigabit per centimeter square]. Converted to a regular harddisk
with five metal drives this results in a harddisk size of 300 gigabyte.»
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24.Mar.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail
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New ak-Datatypes
In the support area are
new ak-Datatypes. Make use of the bundle offers which you can register directly
through Regnet. Also
updated was the PRESS FEEDBACK page.
(Translation: mb)
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24.Mar.2000
Designburo.nl via eMail
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Graphical Artists Competition
APRIL GRAPHICAL ARTISTS COMPETITION
OOSTERHOUT (NB)-NL -- 24/3/00 -- C&C · Logo and Design, an innovative and
Benelux based designing company, is looking for a Graphical Artist by ways
of competition.
Up to the 30th of April 2000 we welcome any graphical artist, who is
interested in doing some parttime work for our company, to join the
contest.
All the details can be found at our website http://www.designburo.nl
(Translation: mb)
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24.Mar.2000
Steven Flowers via eMail
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Alive Mediasoft website down
Within 6 hours of Alive's new web site being launched, we have exceeded our
monthly traffic allowance! As we are already on our providers premium gold
account we cannot increase the bandwidth any further with them. The site is
still there but many people are find it impossible to get on as it's just
too busy. We are in contact with several larger internet providers to find
someone to cope with the traffic. As soon as we find one we'll move the
site and hopefully see no more problems.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but do keep trying - you never know it may
calm down in the next few day!
(Translation: mb)
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24.Mar.2000
Olliweb
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Testkernel 2.2.3pre1 for m68k Linux
A compiled testkernel 2.2.3pre1 for m68k Linux is available in the download area.
(Website in German)
(Translation: mb)
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24.Mar.2000
Amiga.org
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Mitchy back online!
After the server move, the link directory of Amiga.org Mitchy is back online
with many improvements and new layout. Mitchy now has its own domain and can
be reached directly under http://search.amiga.org/.
(Translation: mb)
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24.Mar.2000
Sebastian Bauer
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New FreeCiv Version 1.9 released
Download: freeciv.lzx - 735 Kb
SimplePost Version 0.1 released
SimplePost is a postscript previewer for Amiga. Currently there's only some kind
of beta version as some important features as e.g. printing are still missing.
OS3.0 and MUI are required.
Download: simplepost.lzx - 645 Kb
(Translation: mb)
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23.Mar.2000
Oliver Wagner by e-mail
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AmTelnet 2.3 released
Download: amtelnet_23.lzx - 264 Kb
(Translation: mb)
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23.Mar.2000
ANN
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Fusion 68k v3.2 released
This version is the final upgrade for the 68k version, before the PPC version
(which is close to completion) will be released.
Order Fusion.
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23.Mar.2000
Apex Designs
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New Payback status report
Despite new features being implemented in Payback, the game will not be released
before end of May.
(Translation: mb)
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23.Mar.2000
Stefan Robl by e-mail
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Wanted: Information about CDTV!
To continue development, or to re-engineer the CDTV released 1990, I am looking
for contacts to the manufacturer / the programmers of the CDTV software. Sadly, the
manufacturer company seems to be out of business, so I ask the readers.
This is what I know:
Manufacturer: Digital Creations
Programmers involved:
Bill Barton, John Botteri, Randy Jongens, and David
Porter
If anyone has informations about this, it would be great if you'd contact me
at stefan.robl@tirnet.de!
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23.Mar.2000
Joachim Nink by e-mail
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IBrowse 2.2 released
Download: IBrowse directory of HiSoft
(Translation: mb)
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23.Mar.2000
Holger Beer by e-mail
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HBMonopoly 2.3
In the new version 2.3 of the networking Monopoly game, you can choose between
several board graphics. Download from the official homepage at the title link.
(Translation: mb)
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23.Mar.2000
Steven Flowers by e-mail
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Alive Mediasoft with new website
Alive new web site is finally open with a host of new features, new games,
new hardware, and serious software. As a special welcome back present,
for a limited period Alive's game Blade will be available for free
download. (Please read the legal terms before downloading).
So now all you have to do is go and have a look...
But be warned - the site is experiencing very heavy traffic, and although
we've increased our band width to the largest account available, you may
still get a request for a time-out. If this happens, please come back later.
NEW Pulse Soon
The Pulse Issue 12 is just around the corner. We are giving you an advance
opportunity to request your copy now, as all 2500 copies of issue 11 were
requested in advance and went on the day they arrived from the printers.
As we've had a good response from issue 11, we may consider increasing this
run to 3000 if demand is high enough, but we must know within the next week.
(Translation: mb)
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23.Mar.2000
Thomas Steiding by e-mail
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Epic Marketing: Simon The Sorcerer II by end of April
Simon The Sorcerer II for Amiga is currently in beta testing. There are some
bugs to fix before the game can be produced. We are looking for a release date
by the end of April 2000.
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23.Mar.2000
Urban Müller by e-mail
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New Aminet uploads
We are currently relocating the main site to us.aminet.net. On the first
mirror, there already are new files; by the time this article is posted,
everything should be back to normal. de.aminet.net will be down two more weeks,
however.
Konwerter2.16.lha biz/misc 138K+Convert files from Metastock and Omega t
GoFetch.lha comm/net 337K+V1.2 Specialised FTP/HTTP Client designe
BeneathSS-SOL.lha game/hint 8K+Beneath A Steel Sky Solution (ITALIAN)
Loom-sol.lha game/hint 7K+Loom Solution (ITALIAN)
SpaceQuest4SOL.lha game/hint 5K+Space Quest 4 Solution (ITALIAN)
awinquake.lha game/shoot 990K+68k and PPC ports of winquake, v0.9
awinquake_src.lha game/shoot 1.7M+Source code of awinquake 0.9, a68k/ppc
twig_neve.lha mods/med 323K+NeverFinished, a tune by DJTwiglet
SH-Decay.mpg mods/mpg 1.4M+Industrial/EBM by MatriX Wired
SH-NeuroDreams.mpg mods/mpg 1.5M+Industrial/EBM by MatriX Wired
SH-Perform.mpg mods/mpg 1.5M+Industrial/EBM by MatriX Wired
sufo_wfafc.mpg mods/mpg 3.0M+'Wind from a Free Corner' by phineas
Scotland.jpg pix/art 10K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
lch-JapIcons.lha pix/nicon 30K+Japanesque GlowIcons for Os 3.5
MiraWizARC_PL.lha util/arc 2K+Polish catalog for MiraWizARC v1.0
LimitWhite.lha util/misc 23K+V1.0 Stops colour flicker on some Amigas
VisualGuide_PL.lha util/misc 1K+Polish catalog for VisualGuide v2.77
FreeWheel11a.lha util/mouse 50K+Tool for WheelMice + functions of FreeMo
CAF.lha util/rexx 3K+CommentAminetFiles - Rexx script to help
parsclk.lha util/time 30K+Amiga Persian Clock (Solar Hejri Date)
autogui.lha util/wb 110K+Automatically create Guis for Cli comman
Dynamite.lha util/wb 66K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.
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23.Mar.2000
Achim Stegemann in ANF
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Digital Almanac II Final Version
For all registered users of Digital Almanac II, the real final version of the
program (v1.8.11) is available for download on the author's homepage. This
puts an end to DA II.
Ideas and suggestions for improvements are accepted by the author anytime, but
will only be implemented in DA III. News and screenshots of DA III will be
released regulary on the homepage. An Aminet upload is currently not possible.
(Translation: mb)
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23.Mar.2000
Peter Sander in ANF
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Amiga lowering prices
Starting immediately, Amiga Corp. loweres
the prices for Amiga 1200 computers. Among others, AS-WebShop (title link)
therefore lowered prices significantly.
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23.Mar.2000
Pierre Prestel in ANF
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.Amiga too long as a domain ending!
The article has been removed, since it seems to be an early April Fool's joke. (mb)
Regarding the article above, we recieved the following counter-reply from Pierre Prestel, which we
release unchanged:
Pierre Prestel [http://Amiga.Ac]
Admin@Amiga.Ac [mailto:Admin@Amiga.Ac]
30. March 2000
COUNTER-REPLY!
On the internet site "/archiv/news0003.shtml",
my article from March 23rd, 2000 was changed by the Amiga-News.De editors,
to make the following incorrect claim:
Post Scriptum 28.03.2000:
Article removed, since it seems to be an early April Fool's joke.
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Herewith I make use of my right to have a counter-reply published!
My article, where I promised a free .pc domain including unlimited
webspace to the first 50 people sending in an e-mail, has been removed
to make the incorrect claim that it seems like an early April Fool's
joke. This is a FALSE claim which probably was intended to reduce my
creditibility and the status of the Amiga search engine http://Amiga.Ac.
Once again I want to confirm that all of the first 50 people sending in
an e-mail (which have not been reached so far) will recieve the promised
domain including unlimited webspace.
Pierre Prestel
System-Administrator
Note from the editors:
1. ICANN "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number" -
Authority for CCTLDs (CountryCodeTopLevelDomain) - has only accepted a single new CCTLD since it's
founding, "ps" standing for Palestina. There are no informations about accepting a "pc" CCTLD.
2. IANA "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" - Authority in IP
issues - maintains the list of all valid CCTLDs for the ICANN, and also does not list an CCTLD "pc".
3. Only the name server available at amiga.ac lists the CCTLD "pc". None of the worldwide, centralized
name servers on the internet knows this CCTLD. This means that persons who want to surf to a subdomain
of the CCTLD "pc" have to tell their TCP/IP stack to use the nameserver amiga.ac first.
For the above reasons, we (the editors) don't think that a claim for counter-reply is valid. In the
interest of finding the truth, we of course accepted the text above for official release. (Translation: mb)
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