28.Dec.1999
Heise [Newsticker]
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Two articles that get under your skin
Subject on the Chaos Communication Congress: Tron (again)
This year, too, Tron's ghost is spooking the halls of the Haus am Kölnischen Park
in Berlin, where the Chaos Communication Congress closes today. The cause of death of the
star hacker is no longer in doubt after two autopsies. The suicide theory of police and
prosecutors is criticised by the CCC, Tron's parents and their attorney even more than
before, however. "It could not have happened without outer force", Chaos spokesman Andy
Müller-Maghun brings the murder theory to the point after detailed studies of the
autopsy report and prosecutor files. Police research has been focused only on the suicide
theory from the very beginning, Müller-Maghun criticises. Other hints have been
ignored on purpose.
GPS under your skin
According to plans of US manufacturer Applied Digital Solutions (ADS), online shoppers will carry their customer card under their skin in the future. The Florida company has now filed a patent for a maintenance free implant, which is (among others) able to recieve and send GPS signals. The transciever can be implanted in the human body with little effort, says the company in an ad, provided with power by muscle movements. (ps)
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28.Dec.1999
Czech Amiga News
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EXODUS The Last War
You find new screenshots of the
space strategy game. The game is scheduled to be finished between February and April 2000.
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28.Dec.1999
ANN
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ANN celebrates 3rd anniversary :-)
ANN (Amiga Network News) celebrated its third anniversary yesterday. Happy birthday, and
thanks to Christian Kemp, who is studying the newsgroups since 1996, and supplied us with
news from this area.
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28.Dec.1999
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX
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akMPEG version 3.07 for 68k+PPC (25.12.1999)
Download: akMPEG2.lha
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28.Dec.1999
Amiga.org
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Amiga 2K announces the first exhibitors
On April 1st/2nd, 2000, the Amiga 2K show is again taking place in St. Louis. The first
exhibitors have announced themselves, and
Petro Tyschtschenko will have a speech at the show.
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28.Dec.1999
Amiga.org
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Amazing Amiga Computing Magazine closing
With Amazing Amiga Computing Magazine, another Amiga print magazine is closing down. The magazine
was mainly distributed in North America, and now had to file for bancuptcy.
(ps)
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28.Dec.1999
Atéo
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New AteoBusPrefs version 2.310
Download: ateobusprefs.lha
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28.Dec.1999
Detlef Wojtaszkiewicz in ANF
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PPT version 6.18
The freeware image processing program PPT has just been released in version 6.18.
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28.Dec.1999
Oliver Wagner by e-mail
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Voyager 3.0 final released
Download: V3_30.lzx - 1.03 MB
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28.Dec.1999
Olaf Köbnik by e-mail
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Amiga Arena News: redesign finished!
After many delays, the Amiga Arena is online again, and looks forward to a year 2000 with you!
The Amiga support continues! The Amiga Arena wishes all of you a happy new year! :-)
Visit the Arena at the title link. Special offer with GeoWorld online!
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28.Dec.1999
Wegar in dcsam
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AMC-mailbox to be closed
Wegar writes:
The AMC mailbox, and with it the support forum for the Amiga point program TheAnswer
will be closed. The mailbox goes offline December 31st, 1999, at noon.
I will still be
available for contact at wegar@cube.net or my homepage
www.wegar.de.
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28.Dec.1999
John Chandler in aros-dev-ML
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KOSH book list updated
The book list of the
KOSH project has been updated. New
are the following books:
General Programming & Algorithms:
- Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) by J.L. Bentley
Operating Systems:
- Beginning Linux Programming (2nd Edition) by R. Stones & N. Matthew
(New URLs for recommended OS projects:)
- Amiga (German page updated)
- AROS (Amiga Research Operating System)
- Linux for Alpha, PowerPC and 680X0
- MINIX
- PalmOS (main page plus developer area)
- QNX (Amiga Neutrino Support Site updated)
Programming Languages:
- Tcl and Tk Toolkit by J.K. Ousterhout
Web/Internet Development:
- Webmaster in a Nutshell (2nd Edition) by S. Spainhour & R. Eckstein
The book list is availabe at www.snowcrash.u-net.com/kosh/booklist.html
or kosh.convergence.org.
If you are interested to add to the list, preferably with a short review, or want to write
a review for a listed book, send to metaljoe@snowcrash.u-net.com
with "RFB" or "KOSH Books" in the subject line.
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28.Dec.1999
Joerg Deckert in amiga.ger
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Connectline v5.2.beta2
Joerg Deckert writes:
This is an update
for version 5.1 of Connectline. All components are in there, but there was not enough time for
a completely new version, since there was a Y2K bug to fix and the new year is near. For a full
version an updated documentation and complete tests are missing.
New:
- Now Freeware (no keyfile needed)!
- removal of (hopefully) all Y2K bugs.
- completely new Fido part, fully node-/hub enabled
- files are now stored in the filebase carrying their original names.
- mailinglist server for all networks.
- PPP-Login.
- Netcalls over preconfigured providers, depending on time.
- switching some parts of the program to the NList MUI custom class.
Features:
- multi-net support: ZConnect/RFC/Z3.8/Fido incl. gating
- multi-port support. Nine ports. Up to eight ports freely configurable. ISDN, modem, network,
local, etc. + one sysop port
- interactive control of the box, by WWW (with PD WEB Server), by AmigaGuide or by ANSI choice
- clever Cron system. Events can happen, programs be started on any time, by month, weekday, day, hours and minutes
- uses MUI, therefore fontsensitive and freely configurable outfit
- interface to internet (remote telnet login, (C)SLIP/PPP user login)
- configurable routing, by sender and/or reciever. Domain server configurable for multiple domains.
- Developer Pack for C and ARexx available
- very low memory usage with many ports due to clever server-/client-management
- fully optimized for Amiga multitasking, therefore very low ressource usage
- own locale system for language adjustments by domain, and if wanted online for system texts,
error message, and commands
- output of all commands and system messages freely configurable
- online interface is a standard 100% shell, and all online commandos are AmigaOS commands
- whole drives can be mirrored as boards, like including CD-Roms
- user passwords are stored encrypted. Access rights are granted by groups and levels
- big ARexx port with unlimited possibilities for own expansions, with much more than 200 commands
- virtual memory, automatically enabled on memory shortage
- chat system (also available as standalone version) connecting multiple CL systems and points by internet or
Hydra Netcall
- detailed, pictured manual
- and many more
Requirements:
- System: Amiga or compatible, MC68030 or better
- Memory: for box usage minimum 4 MB (recommended: 16 MB)
- Programs:
- MUI 3.8 or better
- NList MUI Custom Class
- (MiamiDX or compatible TCP/IP-stack for internet connection)
Complete source code available on request!
Download: ConnectLine.lha
Fido-Filerequest: Magic "CL" at 2:248/4001 (analog and ISDN).
The website is preliminary
so far, so only the archive is available there for download.
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27.Dec.1999
Marc Albrecht by e-mail
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A.C.T. with new layout
The draft of the new A.C.T. pages is online. The "News" frame carries a time limited special offer for Samplitude Opus Amiga.
(ps)
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27.Dec.1999
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame survey
Vote the top 10 games of 1999 at Amiga Flame.
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27.Dec.1999
Fun Time World
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New Area at FTW: Zone 2000
In this area, Fun Time World lists Amiga programs having a Y2K bug, and offers download tips
for fixing the problem.
(ps)
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27.Dec.1999
AmigaGames.com
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Alltime Amiga Games Top 50 updated
The Top 50 list of all Amiga games ever released has been updated. Currently, "The Settlers" are
ranked 1st, "Monkey Island 1" 2nd and "Civilisation" 3rd.
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27.Dec.1999
Andreas Magerl in ANF
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Wanted: Programmer of "Erben der Erde"
Andreas is urgently looking for the up-to-date address, phone or something else from
the programmer of the Amiga game "Erben der Erde".
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27.Dec.1999
DJ Takka in ANF
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311 techno music tracks for the Amiga
DJ Takka of THE RAVEBUSTERS writes:
We have uploaded all our Amiga modules we could find to
our homepage. Since we were among the top trackers in those Amiga times, a visit could be worth
your while! CU, and merry christmas, and a happy new year!
(ps)
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27.Dec.1999
Stefan Robl by e-mail
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Christmas / New Year greetings
Dear friends, aquaintances and users of my software!
Another year is almost gone, and I want to write what has happened this year from my
point of view.
For one, my studies are doing well (I am in my 5th half-year),
but it takes me more time than I expected. This sometimes causes significant delays in
my coding projects and / or in writing e-mails. I want to say sorry for this, but my
studies have to be top priority.
In the summer break I wanted to use every free
hour for coding - and that's what I did, resulting in good progress in my projects.
At first, the WizardClasses, an object-oriented C++ development system, recieved a
major update, allowing me to develop others more efficiently. I planned to release this
system to the public midtime next year, to make life easier for other programmers.
The first remarkable release this year was my new FrameMachine driver system "FMdriver",
which has been accepted very well by the users of this video board. It is now also possible
with FMdriver to watch TV on Workbench, with full PPC support for super fast color space
conversions.
Afterwards I was planning to finish ArtecScan 2.0 - the scanner driver
for Artec scanners. With my recently updated WizardClasses, I was able to finish it faster
than usual. But then, the worst thing for every coder happened: my system hard drive was
defective, and I lost my complete data (source codes, e-mails and other data). With the
help of Petra Struck (author of the German "AmigaNews"), which published my need for an
identical hard drive, and Hendrik Hanke, who did lend me his hard drive, I was able to
recover my lost data by exchanging the defective controller board. Thanks again!!
Well, this did cost me roughly two weeks work, and by summer brak was over. ArtecScan
was not finished again... :( Of course I tried to continue with the ArtecScan development,
but with this it took some more weeks.
I demonstrated the results of my work on a little computer exhibition, the "Computronika"
end of October in Germany. Afterwards, I released the alpha versions of ArtecScan to the
public on my homepage.
After I released ArtecScan, I wrote a FrameMachine driver
for the hardware independant video driver standard (VHI) by Felix Schwarz.
Two weeks
later, the most important Amiga event of the year took place, the HomeElectronicsWorld'99
in Cologne. Of course I was there, too, and met a lot of people. It was a nice event, and
it made clear that the Amiga will live on!
In the very least I will continue programming
for the Amiga, and use it, and I hope you do, too! If Haage & Partner, Amiga Inc. and
DCE do the right thing, we can have a great new computer by the end of next year!
At the end I wish you all a merry christmas (a little delayed), and a happy new year!!
Yours, Stefan Robl.
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27.Dec.1999
Martin Endres by e-mail
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camd driver for the Triple-Play MIDI interface
Martin Endress writes:
Sometimes we are asked for a camd driver for the Triple-Play MIDI interface.
We are looking for such a driver, or a manual for this interface. The driver will then be released
on the CamX / Camouflage homepage. Contact: endres@work.de.
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