18.Feb.2000
Aminet Recent
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New Aminet Uploads
TFat2DEMO.lha biz/demo 86K+V2.11.0 Amiga Invoice program,(FATTURE I
OpusGIbar3.lha biz/dopus 167K+250 "GlowIcons" for your DOpus Toolbar
TCPhoneBill.lha biz/misc 11K+Tables For German Phone Bill! (V1.3)
A-Fix_150200.lha comm/ambos 12K+AmBoS-Fix Release 150200 (Tuesday 15-Feb
AmBoS-Demo.lha comm/ambos 1.4M+AmBoS 2.98 - Board Bulletin System (comp
cim_v3.lha comm/misc 1.1M+CIM - Caller Id Manager V3 r37 incl HTML
MatavPrefs2k.lha comm/misc 4K+Hungarian mat v prices for MPhone 1.53
AmyDynDNS.lha comm/tcp 3K+ARexx script to update the dyndns.org Dy
MassDL.lha comm/www 27K+Less work on WWW Leching. (AWeb) v1.1
wla_020_2.8.lha dev/cross 49K+WLA - Game Boy Macro Assembler v2.8 (020
SysTracker_src.lha dev/src 70K+Full source code to SysTracker v0.1
fda-upd.lha disk/cache 36K+IDEfix, PatchControl fixes 1.8,2.0->2.2
fda.lha disk/cache 345K+Faster than PFS also installed V2.2
DC60_config.lha disk/misc 17K+DosControl6.0 better fileID+menu V0.4
RDBArc_fr.lha disk/misc 11K+French Catalog for RDBArc 1.75
UnADF.lha disk/misc 13K+V1.2, Extract files out of DOS ADF files
CNCT0200.lha docs/lists 86K+CoNnEcTiOnS: January/February 2000 - UK
Amiga4ever14.lha docs/mags 1.5M+Freewaremag(GERMAN) Ausg.14(Feb-Mar 00)
Muscarine.lha game/role 1.7M+...pretty weird graphic adventure. *FREE
MadMatrix.lha game/think 14K+Hard MUI game with very simple rules.
HBMonopoly.lha game/wb 514K+V2.1 Monopoly now as network game!
IE-shutdown.lha gfx/edit 4K+Image Eng. - Shutdown v1.03
Show040.lha gfx/show 479K+Cybergfx only picture viewer (040) V2.11
ShowPPC.lha gfx/show 462K+Cybergfx only picture viewer (PPC) V2.11
AmiGenerator.lha misc/emu 277K+Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator for Warp
lotolib.lha misc/misc 22K+Lotolib for LOTO v2.3+ (1976 au 12-fevri
adriatic.mpg mods/mpg 3.2M+Adriatic. Hard/Classictrance (MP3) tune
amphetamine.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Made on Amphetamine. Hard/Classic Trance
beer.mpg mods/mpg 3.3M+Beer bottles. Hard/Classictrance (MP3) t
dream.mpg mods/mpg 2.8M+Dream of penguins. Hard/Classictrance (M
eagle.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Eagle Trip. Hardtrance (MP3) tune from E
erase.mpg mods/mpg 2.9M+Erase not possible. Hard/Classic Trance
freedom.mpg mods/mpg 3.4M+Freedom. Hardtrance (MP3) tune from Emul
morkeleb.mpg mods/mpg 3.2M+Morkeleb. Hardtrance (MP3) tune from Emu
ravegirl.mpg mods/mpg 3.1M+Happy rave girls. Hard/ClassicTrance (MP
EP_SoundImages.lha mus/play 4K+EaglePlayer "Sound Images" external repl
PollyCat1.jpg pix/art 127K+"PollyCat-1" created by Antonio De Cicco
PollyCat2.jpg pix/art 114K+"PollyCat-1" created by Antonio De Cicco
PollyCat3.jpg pix/art 117K+"PollyCat-1" created by Antonio De Cicco
RudisCartoon03.lha pix/art 694K+New Hand drawn Pictures with Color Penci
RudisCartoon04.lha pix/art 498K+Special Hand drawn Pictures with Pencils
AP8Recto.jpg pix/misc 263K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 8 Cover Recto
AP8Verso.jpg pix/misc 173K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 8 Cover Verso
collage.jpg pix/misc 608K+JPeg Pic to bring old memorys.
GlowFlags.lha pix/misc 20K+GlowFlags for OS3.5 Locale and Input
fomb502.jpg pix/trace 245K+Vorlon Ship
EvenMore.lha text/show 259K+V0.55 - A lovely textviewer (www.evenmor
Voodoo-X.lha util/arc 58K+V1.1, Brand new unarchiving solution (XA
AntiBlanker.lha util/blank 8K+A tool that disables your screen blanker
MTX.lha util/blank 68K+Matrix Screen Blanker
ALeXcompare.lha util/cli 40K+Compare files/dirs/trees & display diffe
JustComm.lha util/cli 8K+A small utility to justify filenotes
PassCode.lha util/misc 26K+Password Protection for Workbench!
T2S.lha util/misc 94K+Umm, er, see for yourself!?
SysTracker.lha util/moni 23K+V0.1 Experimental Lib/Dev/File/Font trac
Convert35Icon.lha util/sys 26K+Convert35Icon: Convert OS35 icons into N (Translation: mb)
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18.Feb.2000
Scalos
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Scalos: ExecuteCommand.module Update V1.1
Download: Scalos_ECM.lha
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18.Feb.2000
Thomas Frieden in 3DWorld-ML
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Warp3D 3.0 available
The changes are mostly internal, new functions in the API, and support for
a new feature of the Permedia 2 (Chroma keying). For the user, the archive
offers the possibility to use MiniGL compiled programs, like the upcoming
GLQuake. There's also a small MiniGL-compiled demo in the archive, to give
you an idea of what's to come :)
Please note that this is only the user archive, I'm currently putting
finishing touches to the developer stuff, and hopefully this will be
available this weekend (But don't kick me if it isn't :)
If you find any bugs, please let me know. It's been tested mainly with the
CGX 4 driver, and it will probably not work with Picasso96 V2 (there where
some changes in P96 V2 that prevent Warp3D from working), but it should
work with the 1.4x release.
Download: Warp3D-3.0.lha
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18.Feb.2000
AmigaAMP
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AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-3 released
This version of the Real MPEG audio player has several bugs fixed and a
changed configuration file. The preferences are now saved as plain text and
not any longer in binary form, thus older versions of AmigaAMP can't read
the new config file anymore.
Download: AmigaAMP28b3.lha - 448 Kb
(Translation: mb)
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18.Feb.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft in court: Will the Windows sourcecode be made public?
«Bill Gates apparently agrees to make the Windows sourcecode public
if this can make an agreement in the anti-trust-proceedings against Microsoft
possible. At least the American business TV Bloomberg-TV made this claim
after an interview with the ex-Microsoft boss and current Chief Software
Architect of the software company from Redmond. The denial by Microsoft
came immediately: Microsoft spokesman Jim Cullinan rejected the
information as "not true". Gates only said that the company would do its
best to achieve an agreement with the US government.
Bloomberg, though, sticks to its report despite the denial. Bill Gates would
indeed have stated Microsoft would not make the Windows sourcecode public to compete
with other open-source-systems. According to Bloomberg, he emphasized that
the "closed" sourcecode would make Windows more reliable. But he would have
stated in reply to the question what would make a "reasonable" solution for
reaching a settlement out of court: "If we can have an agreement, we will
do our best to achieve it". After the end of the TV recording of the
interview, Gates would have replied to the direct question whether this
would include the disclosure of the Windows sourcecodes explicitely with
"yes". "If that is all that's necessary", Gates added according to Bloomberg
with a smile.»
Full article (in German) see titlelink.
Further links on the topic:
CNet: Could Microsoft open source code to settle?
ZDNet.com: Microsoft on 'Open Windows': Baloney!
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18.Feb.2000
Tao Group
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Tao Group Relationships
In the section "About/Customers" (Titlelink), Amiga International is mentioned
explicitely as partner for Intent.
Intent is the multimedia layer for 'Elate',
Tao's real-time operating system.
See also the press release by Tao about their
intent Font System For Tao's Digital Content Heaven,
in which Tao announces that Intent was once
again considerably improved and now contains a fontsystem.
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18.Feb.2000
StrICQ
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StrICQ becomes Open Source
Douglas F. McLaughlin has decided to release the sourcecode of the current
StrICQ version under the GNU conditions. Douglas won't stop the development
of StrICQ, but will make a new version. Currently, he's planning for version 2.0
which will be called StrICQ+ and which will contain many new features.
Those interested in adding their own improvements or extensions to the
current sourcecode may do this as long as they accept the GNU Public License
conditions. Also, they should put their extensions at the author's disposal.
Douglas will program version 2.0 in C++ and not any longer in C. He cannot
start with it, though, before he finished moving into his new house. Douglas
further declares that at the beginning he intended only to write a small
ICQ client and that he has learned so much in the last two years that he's
now confidential to make with version 2.0, which will be rewritten from the
scrap up, a really good ICQ client.
Download sourcecode: STRICQ_1727_SRC_GPL.lha
(Translation: mb)
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18.Feb.2000
Stefan Ossowski per eMail
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Aminet CD 35 available
The Aminet CD 35 - February 2000 - contains almost a gigabyte (unpacked)
of software in thousands of archives. Since the Aminet 34 CD, more than
500 MB of new software has been added. As a special highlight, the Aminet 35
CD contains a special version of Digital Almanac II.
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18.Feb.2000
Patrick Beerhorst in ANF
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First public update of the Tales of Tamar Demo
With v0.26, the first update for all owners of the AF demo version of Tales of Tamar
is available. The update is about 300 Kb large and, as future versions, can only be
downloaded from within the game, by entering the storeroom and looking for updates
represented by barrels.
A really inventive and funny copy protection for a
change :-) (ps)
(Translation: mb)
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17.Feb.2000
amiga-news.de
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Register Daywatch online now
Daywatch from Allan Odgaard is a program that unites a calendar and a reminder in one.
Since 17.02.200 an online-registration through RegNet is possible.
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17.Feb.2000
AmigArt
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Matric Screenblanker for AGA and CyberGraphX
Download: MTX.lha
(Translation: mb)
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17.Feb.2000
Marko Seppänen by e-mail
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Image Engineer News
Again already registered users of plugins for Image Engineer benefit from free updates.
This time there's new effects in Visual Alpha. Think about it. You can jump on board
anytime you want to, but probably timing matters. Special offer days once in a month
are good days for registering. Shortly, register once and get free updates for lifetime.
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17.Feb.2000
Czech Amiga News
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New drivers for FastATA and Allegro CDFS
Javosoft presents new drivers from 16.02.2000 for:
FastATA1200-5.2 - Download: FastATA'99v52a30.lha
EIDE-3.0 - Download: EIDE'99v30a30.lha
FastATA4000-2.0 - Download: FastATA4000v20a30.lha
(Translation: mb)
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17.Feb.2000
CzechAmigaNews
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WarpPPCStation
This new Website shows news around the PPC, soft- and hardware guidance,
issue oriented linklist and wants to support PPC-users in every way.
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17.Feb.2000
VillageTronic
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ParaGlide status report
According to Village Tronic, two external layouters are now working on ParaGlide PCB and
they hope the new layout would be finished in the midst of March. The manufacturing of
the prototype will then take three more weeks. If everything is okay and with a little
bit of luck this prototype will be completely operational and in the best case they can
begin with the first deliveries at the end of April 2000; in case of errors being found,
this will be delayed for three to four weeks.
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17.Feb.2000
Achim Klopsch by e-mail
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News from FusionPPC
As to hear from Microcode Solutions, some problems occur in WarpOS. But they are
working hard to overcome them so this should be the last hurdle before release. There is
still hope for FusionPPC!
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17.Feb.2000
young monkey studios by e-mail
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Articles of Dhomas Trenn online
Dhomas Trenn wrote many good articles for magazines like NewTekniques, CU Amiga
and Amiga Informer. To avoid these informative articles vanishing, youngmonkey
studios placed them online (see title link).
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16.Feb.2000
Aminet Recent
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New Aminet uploads
A-Fix_130200.lha comm/ambos 11K+AmBoS-Fix Release 130200 (Sunday 13-Feb-
amirsay.lha comm/irc 13K+Uses 'Say' to speak on AmIRC (extra sett
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 211K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Elite-IRCD
SimpleFTP.lha comm/tcp 162K+SimpleFTP v2.10 - Easy to use FTP client
Aakt0200HTML.lha docs/mags 244K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
3DWorld-BestOf.lha docs/misc 36K+The best of the 3D World ML (selected po
3DWorldArc010.lha docs/misc 91K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 01/00
3DWorldArc1299.lha docs/misc 89K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 12/99
HighOctaneExtr.lha game/data 77K+Extra Tracks for High Octane
NicronWormsLev.lha game/data 88K+Extra Levels for Worms
FoundCard-II.lha game/hint 53K+Foundation Card-Hints Miss29-33.
FoundTip29-33.lha game/hint 50K+Foundation Hints Mission29-33 (German)
HBMonopoly.lha game/wb 521K+V2.1 Monopoly now as network game!
AtomUhr14.lha hard/hack 42K+AtomUhr V1.4 - DCF77 Receiver
SpaTra05.lha misc/misc 127K+Spanish Translations Pack 05 v0.7
bO-005.lha mods/techn 372K+#005 bOhema release by spektra (house)
JumpED.lha text/edit 16K+Handy Text editor tool, Jump to Labels v
LvWB_11.lha util/boot 60K+From Nicron Productions
ReSize.lha util/cli 14K+Shell tool to set file size
SIATP.lha util/moni 176K+System Information And Test Program (SIA
VersionWB.lha util/sys 38K+V2.13 AmigaDos Version replacement.
scalospl.lha util/wb 11K+Polish translation for Scalos 1.2a
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16.Feb.2000
Numen in ANF
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Amiga 4ever issue 14 released!
What you can find in the latest Amiga 4ever:
- News about the Amiga
- loads of tests of current software, like Foundation DC, Seaside etc.
- short stories and reviews of Audio CDs and books
- szene demos and picture galery
- AmigaAktuell issue 01/2000
The Amiga 4ever is released monthly (15th) and can be downloaded
from our homepage (title link).
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16.Feb.2000
AROS
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AROS
The Aros website has been changed and improved. The beginning of the page
has a News summary concerning new developments and changes. The autodocs
have been completely relocated.
Also read the press release by Steve Crietzman about the strategic
partnership between Open Amiga Foundation and AROS:
PRESS RELEASE
16 FEBRUARY 2000
Media Contact: Steve Crietzman
President and CEO
Open Amiga Foundation
Tel: +44 (0)1778 393323
OPEN AMIGA FOUNDATION AND AROS ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP
16 February 2000 -- The Open Amiga Foundation and AROS are to
enter into a strategic relationship which they believe will be
of great benefit to their organisations, their members and the
wider Amiga community. In the words of Open Amiga president
Steve Crietzman, "our objectives are compatible, it makes sense
for us to work together."
Under the terms of the deal, the Open Amiga Foundation (formerly
known as Open Amiga/COSA), will become the organisation
responsible for public relations, marketing, business and
legal affairs of the open-source AmigaOS project.
The Open Amiga Foundation, led by Steve Crietzman, will also
oversee the creation and development of Standards Bodies, Working
Groups and Development Teams to focus on the development of modern
standards, and the production of high-quality Amiga software and
applications for an open-source Amiga OS.
The Open Amiga Foundation will also handle general promotion of
open standards, open platforms and open-source software within the
Amiga world.
It is our intention to fill the vacuum left by the disappearance
of Commodore's CATS and Developer Support programme, and the lack
of decent high-quality application software.
The Amiga Research OS project, led by Aaron Digulla, will handle
the actual development of the Amiga Operating System core. As
part of this, OAF have agreed to encourage all our developers
to register with the AROS project, and to delegate Amiga OS core
development to AROS. AROS will continue to operate independently
from Open Amiga, but our relationship nonetheless acts, as Aaron
Digulla put it, "like a symbiosis."
The Amiga Research OS (AKA "AROS") project will, in a sense, become
the Amiga Operating System development wing of the Open Amiga
Foundation, and will focus it's efforts on development of AmigaOS/
AROS, should the Amiga operating system be released as open source,
as we hope it will be (and are working extremely hard to achieve).
Open Amiga will complement this by handling the legal and business
affairs of the project, which Aaron Digulla said was "a big relief
for us here at AROS."
We believe an alliance between the leading open-source OS development
team on the Amiga platform (AROS), and the far-reaching resources of
the Open Amiga Foundation are a match made in heaven, and with our
combined resources, we have the resources and the skills to achieve
great things together.
It is our mutual goal to chart a future for the Amiga operating
system that is ambitious, radical and far-reaching, and gives the
AmigaOS a chance of real survival and growth, as an independent
OS preserving its own unique identity.
And by listening to the Amiga community on the Internet and at
trade shows, we have seen that this what many in the community
WANT. They WANT AmigaOS, not some hybrid, alternative or
"inspired by the Amiga concept" OS. They want AmigaOS, and
they want it to survive, and perhaps more importantly, to grow.
Pure and simple.
Our strategy is to give the community what they want, to address
all of these concerns, and deliver improved, portable and free
versions of the AmigaOS for a variety of next-generation CPUs
and platforms.
People will be able to choose to run AmigaOS on top of another
kernel if that is their wish (in order to benefit from Linux
driver support and such like), but they will not be forced to
do so. AmigaOS will be able to function independently. We
believe this is what a great many people in the community
wants.
Questions and queries regarding the future of AmigaOS as "open
source software" should be directed to Open Amiga, which is
acting in the capacity of an overall parent/public relations
organisation.
Developers wishing to participate, either in the development
of the OS core itself, or in working as part of a development team
to create software or applications for the Amiga, should apply
through Open Amiga Foundation, and you will be put in touch with
the appropriate people managing the projects you are interested in.
Current Working Groups include AROS, led by Aaron Digulla, and
our Streaming Media Working Group, led by Ian Parker. Other
Working Groups, Standards Bodies and Development Teams will be
created in due course.
###
Questions and Answers
QUESTION: Is this a merger between AROS and Open Amiga?
ANSWER: No. Both groups will continue to operate
independently, neither will have operational control
over the other. We are merely pooling our resources,
and dividing up roles between us.
QUESTION: How will this co-operation function in practice?
ANSWER: Both groups will work very closely together, and we
will have very clearly defined roles. We are working on the
same strategy, but we share the various roles, and we are
better at different things. (With regards to AmigaOS:
AROS is the development project, OAF is the business/
organisation.)
QUESTION: What is the likelihood that the AmigaOS will be
released as open source?
ANSWER: At this time, it is not possible to give a straight
answer to this question. We are pursueing all avenues open
to us to make it happen.
QUESTION: I thought Gateway still owned the Amiga patents?
ANSWER: They do, and we are in negotiation with Gateway
already on this matter. We are hopeful that a positive
arrangement can be reached within the next few weeks.
QUESTION: Does Amiga Corporation support what you are doing?
ANSWER: We have their unofficial backing. It is not possible
for legal reasons for them to commit to open-source, since
many legal hurdles prevent them from doing this, most notably
the issue of Gateway's patents.
However, Fleecy Moss and Petro Tyschtschenko of Amiga have
both publicly stated their support for an open-source AmigaOS
in public interviews and forums.
QUESTION: If the AmigaOS is not released as open source,
what happens to AROS and Open Amiga?
ANSWER: We will continue. The source code is not a
necessity for us, but it would be a help.
The main issue for us is access to software patents and
various Amiga trademarks. Providing an adequate deal is
reached with Gateway for access to patents, and a deal
reached with Amiga for access to Amiga trademarks, we can
safely and legally develop a portable clone of Amiga OS.
The source code is unnecessary, but will help us develop
a portable clone of AmigaOS for other CPUs and platforms
in a shorter space of time.
QUESTION: Are you for or against what Amiga are doing re: Tao?
ANSWER: OAF/AROS does not take a position on other Amiga-related
projects including Amiga/Tao or Phoenix/QNX. We support the
right of Amiga users to make their own reasoned judgements
and to choose the solution that is bested suited for them.
We believe it is in the interests of the Amiga community
to be given maximum choice on the path they take, and in that
sense, we support Amiga's creation of a new alternative
option.
QUESTION: I am a developer. I would like to help. What
can I do?
ANSWER: Write to president@amigakernel.org and we will let you
know what groups are looking for more developers, and you will
be invited to join one of our active development teams.
Also bookmark http://www.openamiga.org. Our new, improved
website will be going online within the next few weeks.
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16.Feb.2000
Jan Andersen via Email
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Amiga Virus Gallery
Virus Help Denmark has often been asked by users what a virus "lools" like
or how it can be identified. Since many Viruses actually do print pictures
to the screen, Virus Help Denmark has decided to put up a Gallery of these
pictures. You can find "Gallery" in the left hand menu bar.
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