16.Nov.1999
Alexander Kurtz by e-mail
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Update of Aminet GUI
The Aminet GUI now offers a chat. Right now this is sadly unavailable for the current
Amiga browsers! I hope the new versions of the NG browsers fix this shortcomming!
Additionally, there is a guestbook, where everyone is free to leave news, ideas or
criticism for me. For all who like discussing with other users, I added a forum. Here
you can discuss about the Amiga, and you are free for asking for and giving advice
about Amiga problems. Everyone who has a problem can ask, and everyone in the know
can answer. So get to your keyboards... A small change has been applied to the mirror
list. A small flag stands in front of each server, stating the host's country...
Finally, the GUI can now be downloaded as LHA or LZX archive, to make Aminet access
yet faster. The files can be found under Service/Downloads, and are about 880 kByte
in size.
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16.Nov.1999
Stefan Robl by e-mail
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CGXBlanker update
Version 1.20 of CGXBlanker is now configurable with a preferencer, offers some new
features compared to the last version, and a very nice new blanker ("Flower") has been
added. More details at the title link.
PS: In the old archive, I forgot the 020 version of the blanker, only a 040 version was
included... archive 1.21 now contains a 020+ and a 040+ version, and I have added an
Installer script for easy installation.
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15.Nov.1999
Alexander Kurtz by e-mail
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Aminet GUI
The Aminet GUI is available at the new URL www.aminet.de
starting immediately...
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15.Nov.1999
Oliver Wagner by e-mail
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AmigaNCP 2.1
AmigaNCP is an implementation of the Psion link protokoll, which is used in Psion S3/S3a/S3C,
Psion 55 Palmtop ROMs and others. Download: amigancp_21.lzx
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15.Nov.1999
PowerOS
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PowerOS news
Claus Herrmann writes in the news:
The HEW (Home Electronics World) is over now. I want to send a quick thanks to the
users who visited me and asked me all those questions! At the same time, I want to
make an announcement: PowerOS will also be implemented for the AmiJoe by Met@Box!
I cann tell you I am proud (and so far only) owner of an AmiJoe 1200 G3. A big thanks
to Met@Box for this! Details (specs and photos) soon on my homepage on a seperate page.
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15.Nov.1999
diverse
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More pictures from HEW '99
Dennis Pauler writes that there
are commented pictures of the Cologne show
available from Virtual Dimension.
Thomas Graf informed us that the Home
Electronics World Area at AmigaNation has photos of the show and MPEG's of the Annex
live performance. Show report and
Annex performance.
Yet more pictures are available from javasoft Computer.
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15.Nov.1999
Rene Koenig by e-mail
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Amiga Hard Hacks
Amiga Hard Hacks now has an own domain, www.hardhacks.de. On this page,
you find pinouts, hardhacks, and and and... everything about Amiga hardware.
Questions to: webmaster@hardhacks.de.
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15.Nov.1999
Oliver Tacke by e-mail
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GlowIcons CD-ROM
Oliver Tacke writes:
Dear Amiga community, in Cologne we (Heinz Andreolla and myself) have given away
CD-ROMs with numerous GlowIcons. Sadly we now have to say it is very bugged. I did
a bad mistake, so most of the icons are too small - only a little bit, but enough to
make a real clean-up with drawers containing lots of icons impossible.
Another problem is that during the stress during the last days before
the show, several binaries were copied to the CD-ROM. I consider it unfair to blame
Heinz as software pirate for this, like some people did. It was a mistake, really,
and if I hadn't delivered the icons only a few days before the show started, Heinz
would have had enough time to avoid this mistake.
Short: we beg your pardon. Consider the distributed CD-ROM as a demo
version. I will now sit down at my system to correct everything as fast as possible.
Moreover, I will do some improvements and expansions, like correctly adjusting the
drawer colors to OS3.5. Considering the number of icons, I beg your pardon for not
being able to do this in one week. I will hurry, anyways.
A first fixed archive with roughly 250 icons is finished and will be
available shortly. The final version will probably be included in the Aminet CD-ROM
Nr. 35, and, if wanted, on Aminet or the reader's CD of the amigaOS.
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14.Nov.1999
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Pictures from Cologne
Some of the pictures Petra and myself took at the Cologne show:
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14.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Autodoc Viewer Lite v1.13 - 2.0 beta
The autodoc viewer by Ronny Tennebekk runs with OS3.0+ and a 68020 CPU. The
programm is in development since 1994. The new, reworked version 2.0 is currently
in beta state and implements numerous wishes by users of the program.
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14.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Gameboy Emulator "GBE" for WarpUp
On the emulator page by AmiDog, the new
Gameboy/Gameboy Color emulator GBE
can be found.
The emulator runs on all PPC Amigas with WarpUP. It supports all Z80 opcodes,
the CD32 pad and more. To correctly support all colors of the Gameboy Color,
the programm offers 15bit support.
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14.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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JST v2.8b
The degrader "JST" has been released in version 2.8b
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14.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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NetInfo-II v2.4 released
Vapor has released version 2.4 of the internet information tool "NetInfo-II". This
version includes an ARexx port, printing functionality and an external TLD/WHOIS-table.
Download: NetInfo-II
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14.Nov.1999
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga no longer on Opera website
At the Project Magic Page of the Opera
web browser, all informations about an Amiga port have been removed. Still listed are
BeOS, EPOC, MacOS, Linux and OS/2.
(ps)
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14.Nov.1999
AWD [News]
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United Amigans
United Amigans stands for
the idea to make contact with Amiga Inc./Gateway as a group.
On the mission page, Amiga Inc./Gateway is blamed for the current situation,
but on the other hand it is critizised that there was no clear, definite and common
statement of all Amiga users towards Amiga. So, John
Groothof writes that we are ultimately responsible where Amiga will be heading.
United Amigans wants to be a plattform for individuals who want to speak
as one community.
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13.Nov.1999
Amiga.org
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UGN IRC logs
The link above leads to the logs of the IRC conferences organised by the UGN during
the Cologne show. Attendants were:
Aaron Digulla, AROS
Steve Crietzman, COSA
Mick Tinker (BoXeR), Paul Lesurf, Blittersoft
Michael Garlich, Titan Computers
Petro Tyschtschenko, Amiga
KOSH
Phoenix Plattform Consortium
Haage & Partner
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13.Nov.1999
Heinz Andreolla
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New GlowIcons
At the Cologne show, Heinz Andreolla gave us a CD with absolutely new, so far unreleased
GlowIcons, which he created together with Oliver Tacke. He gave us permission to offer
a collection of them for download. Many thanks for this :-).
Download: glow_new.lha - 1.1 MB
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12.Nov.1999
Ralph in ANF
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MakeCD 3.2c and Flashrom 1.2 released
Small bugfixes (like long filenames and file lists), detection of the Ricoh MP7040
fixed. Flashrom is a firmware flasher for Plextor and Yamaha drives.
(ps)
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12.Nov.1999
Dennis "Hurrican" Pauler in ANF
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"Bombsquare" finished
"Bombsquare", our Minefield clone with one- and two-player modi (and of course
many more features) is ready and available for download on our homepage.
(ps)
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12.Nov.1999
amiga-news.de
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Preliminary Show Report
A first report by Petra Struck from the Cologne show, written on Friday evening.
I suffered from a raging headache on Friday evening and the better part of Saturday,
please excuse the delays (again) :-( (mb)
Show Report - Day 1
by Petra Struck, translated by Martin Baute
When I reached the hall 11.2 yesterday morning at about 8:45 AM, last adjustments
were made everywhere, and so I had the chance to take my time and have a first
look at the show. Of course it was obvious that many of the big Amiga companies
were not present this year, which could already be seen from the
list of exhibitors
of the HEW'99. For one, this is due to some companies already having withdrawn
from the Amiga market, but also due to financial ressources being insufficient to
fund an expensive exhibition booth. The hall was much less full than last year.
The exhibition was opened on time at 10:00 AM, and the booths of AMIGA, Schatztruhe,
Haage & Partner, RBM Digitaltechnik, COOLbits, Epic-Marketing and APC & TCP
were at once beleagured for the latest software. The many smaller booths of developers
like KATO, individual computers, DCE and Eyetech saw many visitors. People visited the
booths of the different Amiga clubs, too, where discussions were held the whole day.
Together with Martin Baute, I spend the whole day collecting many informations about
news and updates. Since we didn't visit all booths today, I will concentrate on the
atmosphere in today's small report. The description of the seperate booths I will
collect in a exhibition special after the show, and I can already promise you some
interesting news.
About atmosphere, I could write it mas mixed, but that wouldn't get it. Bothered,
depressed would be better. It's simply the lack of a clear path, if and how things
will go on. On the other side, it is astounding with how much enthusiasm the remaining
developers, programmers and distributors carry on. Even more astounding to see a
PPC G3 (400 MHz) developer board by Haage & Partner at the AMIGA booth, which could
possibly mark the beginning of the next Amiga generation.
Here, you can see the first pictures.
13.11.1999:
I must have been very tired yesterday, because I didn't mention that I very much
enjoyed the show, and that the user's moods is very enlightened despite the situatuin.
At the Amiga-Club booth, which is of course our "basis camp", there was always a
crowd of users. As every year, questions were asked about any possible subject;
moreover, there was Aaron Digulla presenting AROS. Details will follow in the
exhibition special.
One hint in advance: The new Developer CD version 2.1 includes the StormC 68k C/C++
compiler version 3.0.
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25.Oct.1999
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon: Change of policy
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