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09.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 Workbench: Scalos V40.16 Beta
On 9. December 2001 the beta version 40.16 of the Workbench replacement "Scalos" was published. This version rectifies quite a few of the reported bugs.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (200K) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)


 User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #11
The edition 11 of the "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to the subscribers. This is a list of French speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...), which is sent out monthly. At the moment this list cites 621 users.

Via the title link you can find further information and you can add your name to the list. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


 USB: HIGHWAY for Zorro II (Update)
The web pages for the SUBWAY USB controller card for the clockport of A1200, which was introduced at the Amiga trade show in Cologne, have been completely revised. Additionally, the HIGHWAY, a Zorro II based USB controller card, is presented.

The test results regarding the compatibility of SUBWAY and Zorro based clockport solutions are available now. (sd)

appendix 10.12.2001:
A mirror page is available under http://www.vmc.de/usb/ (ps) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Sascha Brandt ("The last Seal")
Olaf Köbnik writes:
Amiga Arena - Interview Action
1999 a demo version of the adventures "The last Seal" was published, developed by the Swiss team "Ancor".

Since a lot of things were announced, yet never realized we're now even more pleased to hear that "The last Seal" has been further developed throughout 2001.

Half of the game has supposedly been rewritten in "C" and "The last Seal" seems to promise a downright crazy adventure. (Let's hope that it will be finished).

The Amiga Arena held a short interview with the developer Sascha Brandt.

Further information is available under Ancor. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
amiga.org


 Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.37
On 9. December 2001 Georg Hoermann and Jan Erik Olausen published the version 33.37 of the virus scanner library "xvs".

Compared to the previous version the following changes have been made:
  • Once more added some new security features to the library. It will now try to self-defend after alien attacks, only if these efforts fail, the library gets disabled.
  • Added recognition for 2 demo files that I call 'Anti-UAE Trojan'. Their code checks for UAE systems and in case it finds one will delete important files. Thanks to Jan Andersen for sending the demos to me.
  • Added recognition for a MS-DOS strain of 'Bastard Installer'. Thanks to Jan Andersen for the file.
  • Added recognition and repair code for 'Bobek 3' linkvirus. Thanks to Zeeball for sending me an infected file, even though it was accidentally :-)
This virus scanner library can be used together with VirusExecutor, VirusChecker II or VirusZ.

Download: xvslibrary.lha (79972 Bytes), Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
ANN


 Magazine: Amitopia
The Amiga magazine "Amitopia" in Norway is still looking for further 23 subscribers from Norway or Sweden in order to publish the current edition. Orders are possible via the title link.

In Sweden the magazine will finally be available from 15. December 2001.

In addition, the publication of the magazine in Denmark has been planned for next year. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
ANN


 Programming Language: PowerD V0.19 Alpha3
On 9. December 2001 Martin Kuchinka published the alpha version V0.19 Alpha3 of the programming language "PowerD". In this early alpha version various bugs were rectified.

Modifications:
  • announced support for OOP4A project
    (more: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/5737/)
  • on some occasions (when no external references used), phxass produced executable directly without the intermediate object file, that PowerD requires
  • all the LIBRARY definition only modules made an error, fixed
  • bugfixes reported by Michel Bagmeijer
    • pr2m: some string fixed and at last translated from E to D :)
    • removed few enforcer hits


Download: alpha.lzx (157K), Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 Game: Walkthrough for Myst
In the interactive section of Amiga Future Olaf Bathke has published a walkthrough (German) for Myst.

The Amiga Future Editorial Department would of course be happy if even more users would write solution paths in order to publish them on the Amiga Future Homepage. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
x-cellence (ANF)


 Games: x-cellence redesigned, Amiga-Team sought for
Jens [bruZard] Henschel writes:
The web page of the game development team "x-cellence" has been completely redesigned. Our latest project, the RPG "God's Light", has made this necessary.

Unfortunately, we can only work on PC-titles at the moment. For this reason we're still (and have been for a year now) looking for a qualified Amiga-Team which will work together with us on the implementation of our titles for Amiga.

This mainly means the implementation of the X-Fire-Engine in Warp3D or OpenGL. On this basis, it would be relatively easy to develop our titles for Amiga and at the same time support this fantastic platform. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


 Magazin: NoCover #93
On 8. December 2001 the APC&TCP published the edition 93 of the disc and online magazine 'NoCover' in German.

The magazine can be read online and can be downloaded.

Download: nocover93.lha (1,7M) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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08.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)


 Amiga Arena: full version of Bangboo
With permission by Michael Taupitz is the game "Bangboo" available for free download in the Amiga Arena. "Bangboo" is a game mixture needing skill and puzzling. "Bangboo" is playable from disk/HD and really recommendable for long winter evenings. Special thanks go to Michael Taupitz and Andreas Magerl. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Dec.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)


 100%AMIGA CD Magzine issue 19
The Christmas issue of 100%AMIGA is out now. Inside the magazine this month we have a totally festive theme for Christmas including some free Xmas games and a whole bunch of seasonal clipart, music and animations. We also show the results of last month's readers survey of the future of Amiga and take a light hearted look at some future Amiga products (mostly fictional) sung to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas. You can also listen to the out-takes in the 100%BLOOPERS drawer. The new Directory Opus/OS3.9 utilities collection D.O.O.N. is shown in the Hot Off The Press section and of course we bring you the top Amiga news stories in the only magazine that has News Presenter reading them to you. More details available from Amiga Online Superstore or 100%AMIGA website.

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08.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


 Collect points in the new topcool club
The magazine amiga-topcool has brought from this day on a new loyalty club into live. The membership is free. Members can collect points for various actions and then change these into CDs. You get points for sending news, writing articles, participating in polls or enlisting new members. (Translation: wk)

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08.Dec.2001
Jan Andersen (ML)


 Virus Help Denmark: two new viruses discovered
1.
Two archives found on Aminet contain a new trojan. They are said to be AGA demos but if you run these demos on a PC using 'WinUAE' your system will be deleted. These demos come from a Polish demo group. Why they would program something like this, I don't know.

This is some info about the two archives:

Trojan name... : AME-DSD Trojan (name might be changed later)
Trojan file... : dsd-main
Trojan size... : 93.924 bytes
Trojan archive : AME-DSD.lha
Archive size.. : 6.927.166 bytes
Archive info.. : Dog Star Descends by Amnesty (CGX&AHI compatible)

Trojan name... : PSL-KMJ Trojan (name might be changed later)
Trojan file... : main
Trojan size... : 49.308 bytes
Trojan archive : PSL-KMJ.lha
Archive size.. : 5.530.365 bytes
Archive info.. : Kiss My Jazz by Pic Saint Loup (AGA/CGX)

In the code for these archives you can read:

------------ Code start -----------------------

Warning!!! UAE System for lamers detected!!! - System will reboot after mouse button... run c:delete s:startup-sequence force quiet >NIL:

------------ Code end -------------------------

It is not legal to release destructive programs to the public, and we will see what we can do with this. In almost every country the programmer of such destructive programs can go to jail for this kind of programming.

The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....

Thanks to 'Urban' for the info about the archive.


2.
A new linkvirus has been found a few days ago, we are not sure if this virus is in the wild. It was send directly to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski (the programmer of Safe). Zbigniew received one infected file. This new virus is a clone of the "Bobek-2" linkvirus and is named "Bobek-3". This is able to disable the antivirus programs.

We do not know if this virus was released in any way, so if you get a requester popping up, telling you that something is trying to disable the xvs.library, please let us know.

This is what we know of the virus:

Virus name: Bobek-3
Virus Type: Linkvirus
Virus size: about 2.000 bytes (uses polmorphic engine)

Well, it looks like the Polish virus group is back in action. But maybe not for long. Things will happen very soon.

Thanks to 'Zbigniew' for sending the archive. (ps)

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08.Dec.2001
Hynek Schlawack (E-Mail)


 Mailer: SimpleMail Version 0.13
Yesterday was released SimpleMail Version 0.13. The changes are:

  • Included a real manual at last. Thanks to David Rey!
  • SMTP over SSL.
  • POP3 connections can be made secure with the STLS command now. (RFC 2595)
  • Primitive ARexx-port.
  • Support for playing sounds.
  • Taglines, the last %t in the signature will be replaced by a tagline.
  • Folders holding unread mails are hilighted now.
  • Localization.
Please note: if you downloaded your archive before 2001/12/08, 0:30 am, there were informations about the taglines missing in the guide so the guide has been replaced just now. If you don't want to download the whole archive again, here is the changeg paragraph:

Tick this box if you want SimpleMail to automatically add a random tagline to every email you write. Simply insert a %t in the signature and it will be replaced by a random tagline found in .taglines when composing a mail.

Sorry for the inconvience.

Download: simplemail.lha - 306 KB (ps)

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07.Dec.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses
"The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses"
"Stefan Robl, author of OS 3.9's AmiDock, has agreed to support the OOP4A project by providing his class system 'WizardClasses' which is extensively used in all of his programs. The class system also contains - among many other classes - a GUI class system. We hope to release a first package sometime in Q1, 2002 - this will enable programs using OOP4A to use GUI in a truly object oriented way as well.
Martin Kuchinka, author of the PowerD programming language, agreed too to support the OOP4A-Project within PowerD.

New features in this weekend's release of OOP4A are argument types and method overloading. These are the last basic oop functions which had to be implemented, so that the next releases will concentrate on building new classes."

OOP4A stands for Object Oriented Programming for All and offers full oop support to nearly any programming language used on the Amiga. Project start was the around the 5.10.2001. German Pages see title link.

English Pages

Marius Schwarz (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Elbox Computer / Wojtek Kozlowski


 Event: Amiga 2001 pictures by Elbox
At the title link you'll find images from the Amiga 2001 fair by Elbox Computer. The images are subtitled in English. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Ralf Steines


 Back2Roots.org: Friday, 7th december offline
On Friday, 7th December 2001, at about 11:00 GMT Back to the Roots will temporarily go offline, since we upgrade the server's harddisks, memory and operating system.

If all performs well it should be back online in less than one day, and should allow our future updates and services to be even more massive :)

Sorry for the inconvenience. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Amiga Inc.


 Amiga board elects Frank Wilde as Chairman of the Board (update)
Update:
Carsten Schröder of Amiga Aktuell explains in a special the following terms:
"First of all for clarification: in American companies the "chairman" is the head of the "Board of Directors", some sort of administrative council which is elected by the company shareholders and decides on the basic company politics as well as announcing the "Executive Officers" who are responsible for daily business. Thus the chairman has - at least formally - a higher influence as for example the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a company."

Wilde brings 18 years of experience in the personal computer industry to Amiga's Board of Directors

(December 6, 2001) The Board of Directors for Amiga Inc. have elected Frank Wilde as its new Chairman of the Board. 

Mr. Wilde will bring his many years of experience and leadership to Amiga to help expand its business into new markets while releasing new products.

Mr. Wilde joins Amiga from Ravisent Technologies where he was President and Chief Executive Officer. Frank was appointed Chief Executive Officer of RAVISENT Technologies Inc. in April of 1998, a year after joining the company as Director and President.  Wilde brings over eighteen years of sales, marketing and business development experience in the computer industry holding key industry positions at IBM, Dell Computer Corporation and Memorex Telex Corporation. He has over 15 years P&L experience and is a veteran of six startup companies and has led or been a team member of companies that have raised over 300 million in venture funding. He strongly believes in developing highly competitive and fast growing organizations that enable individuals and teams to grow and develop their professional capabilities in such a way that shareholder value is maximized. Wilde was instrumental in the planning and execution of the company's transition from a hardware company to a software Intellectual Property licensing company. Under his leadership, RAVISENT was able to raise $18 million in private funding in June of 1998. Wilde also led the company through the IPO process, taking the company public in July of 1999, raising $61.4 million.   RAVISENT's flagship product family, CinePlayer, offers consumers a single look-and-feel PC solution for interactive playback of a wide variety of multimedia formats - including CD Audio, MPEG audio, MPEG video, DVD, Dolby Digital audio, MP3 audio, LPCM audio, digital television (DTV), analog (traditional) television, high definition television (HDTV), and "time-shifted" television broadcasts (so-called digital video recorder files or DVR).

“I had many choices on where I wanted to go next and where the best opportunity for the future was.  Bill McEwen and I had been speaking for many months on business plans and other issues, and after meeting with the team, and viewing the technology and their partners, there was no better choice for me than joining Amiga" said Frank Wilde, Chairman of Amiga, Inc. "The Amiga has an amazing past and is well known at Ravisent, but seeing what I have seen of the technology, they have even a brighter future, and I am pleased to be here".

"Frank brings a level of expertise and knowledge that is second to none. His level of excitement and dedication to Amiga, will be seen shortly as we continue to build and release new products" said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc.   "I look forward to working with Frank, and the two of us working with the community and our partners on building a very solid future".

Over the years, Wilde and RAVISENT received recognition from numerous business and technology organizations. Most recently, RAVISENT was recognized as the #7 in the 2000 Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. He was also recognized as a Technology Pioneer, an award that is developed jointly by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to recognize the world's fastest growing, most technologically innovative companies. In 1999, RAVISENT was named the #1 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. Also, RAVISENT was recognized as the #9 in the 1999 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the United States. In April of 1999, RAVISENT was ranked #8 in the Electronic Business list of Top 20 Small Electronics Companies. Frost & Sullivan granted RAVISENT the 1998 Marketing Engineering Competitive Strategy Award because the company was able to create and implement an effective competitive strategy. 

Wilde received a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Seton Hall University. He is a member of the American Management Association, American Electronics Association, USA Reserves Officers Association, Special Forces Decade Association and the Army Aviation Association of Aviators and Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He has also been named to Who's Who in International Business and awarded the Republican National Committee "Businessman of the Year" award for 1999.

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating system which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com.   Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Joachim Schmid (ANF)


 Freespace demo update 4 released
The fourth update to the demo version of the game Freespace has been released for download on the Hyperion homepage. It removes several smaller bugs (like the bug in the third statistics table) as well as a new option to allow switching voicestreaming on and off.

Also included is a description how you have to connect an analog joystick. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena/Fun Time World: Puzzle BOBS Website online
After the game "Puzzle BOBS" was for the first time presented to the audience on the "Amiga 2001" show, an own website for the game was created at Fun Time World.

Puzzle BOBS was successfully tested under "UAE" and "Amithlon". More and topical information on the game you can find at Nexus Development. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with the Scalos team und special price project
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
With the Workbench replacement "Scalos" a good alternative for the Amiga and your very own desktop. The acitve and steady further development or support makes "Scalos" getting more and more extensive and multifunctional. The Amiga Arena talked to the entire team of "Scalos" about past, present, and future.

Amiga Arena - AmiATLAS 6 Update Special Price
From now on all registered AmiATLAS 5 users can take the special price for AmiATLAS 6 (wihtout the term of the registered additional maps).

The programs "X-Trace", "MicroPaint", and "MicroBase" are available at the respective special price thru 31. December 2001.

Amiga Arena - The fire still burns
After hardware problems and an internal rework of the hompage, now it should not be a problem to display the "Amiga Arena" with the "Voyager" browser, any more. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
A.S.Munde (ANF)


 DocDatatypes Version 40.30 Released
DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.

New for this version (40.30) is the support of reading and writing TEAL Docs and RichReader Docs. MS-Word XP (2002) is also supported. Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes. (ps)

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06.Dec.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


 Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update
Just in time for Santa Clause day there is a tasty thing for all astronomy fans and DA III owners! From today a new version 4.6 was released on Aminet to be installed by every DA III user. This update fixes some more smaller bugs from the prior version and offers the possibility to move the star map with the joystick as a new feature (little marginal gimmick). This is to be the last update for Digital Almanac III for this year. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Innovative (ANF)


 Drawing- and imagemanipulation: fxPAINT Christmas-action from Innovative
Just in time for christmas time we now offer fxPAINT 1.0 for an incredibly low price (see title link). We hope to allow many users a look at the power of fxPAINT at a low price and want to shorten the waiting time for those users that are waiting for Version 2.0 that is currently under development and will again set new standards.

fxPAINT 1.0 is fully updatable to the current V1.5 and Version 2.0 at a low price. This special offer is valid until 31th December 2001 and only as long as enough fxPAINT 1.0 are in stock. You can place your order directly via our online-shop. (ps)

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06.Dec.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)


 Financial software: Bonds Version 1.84 available
Bonds is a financial software for bonds management of any kind, but mainly focuses on shares. This software is specialized for the financial center of Germany and best handles German bonds, since it uses the bond ident number system of the German stock exchange.

The current version again fixes some of the bug, of which a lot still exist, and some innovations have been implemented. The following items are enjoyable:

  • Enhanced installation script, which now asks in advance if the exsample charts shall be installed.
  • The depot manager now got its final form, you can already buy and sale, more actions are planned (share splits, etc.).
  • Slightly enhanced design, more detailed program messages.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
AROS-ML


 AROS News: Success and reverse
»I just got a mail from the kind guys who provide us with free web and ftp space. AROS finally seems to have made it. We had over 10GB of downloads last month and that means, I have to take the FTP space down... (What kind of smiley is suitable for this ???).

So if you have lots of bandwidth to spare, call me :-) Until then, FTP is down. I'm in contact with Urban Mueller of Aminet but I guess he won't want to check in AROS images every night ;-) So maybe there will be an update just once per month or so.

Thanks go to the tireless AROS developers who have made us so attractive and to all the fans who still hold on to their beloved system :-) The images will come back, promised. And you will see the V1.0 of AROS :-)« (ps)

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06.Dec.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: DSPSpeed Version 1.02
AudioLabs have released a benchmark tool for ProStationAudio. This tool named DSPSpeed is avialable as version 1.02 and measures the performance of ProStationAudio on 68k Amigas with AmigaOS and on emulated Amigas as well. More details under the title link.

Download: dspspeed.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Amiga.org


 Event: Amiga Inc. attends the 'University of Washington Career Fair'
From the participants list of the 'University of Washington Career Fair' event one can learn that Sanjay Menon, VP of Engeneering, Amiga Inc., will attend the show, which will take place on 11. April 2002 for the students of the University of Washington. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)


 amigaland.de: Server Problem fixed, Games available again
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Just two games are still missing. All demos, programs, and emulators will be available again within the next days. Special thank to Birdy, webmaster of amigahistory.de, who supported me with his webspace. (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
GameIcons.info


 Icons: New Game Icons by GameIcons.info
The icon packets #09 and #11 by Dr. Zarkov have been restructured and put together and there are many new icons, too. More icon packets under the title link.

Download: GameIcons-2001.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
GFX-BASE


 GFX-BASE: Report about the O.A.S.E. Event
Last weekend most of the members of GFX-BASE have visited the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga South East Europe) in Graz, Austria. Jürgen Schober, the organizer, has shown an official Scala presentation of the promised AmigaOS 4.0 features in his Amiga shop point.design. Furthermore other Amiga highend products were shown like G-Rex and Mediator PCI boards, the AmigaOS XL packet, some new games, and much more.

You will find the report by GFX-BASE in form of a picture gallery with detailed subtitles. Click the thumbnails to read the subtitles. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Dec.2001
SomS Newsletter (E-Mail)


 Game: Deep Silence news to SomS
The team of the action-adventures 'SOMS' has a new member. Her name is Rei from Japan. She is from the Manga-RPG-source at all. For SomS she will compose a part of the music and will synchronize voices. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2001
morphos-news.de


 morphos-news.de: Interview with Ralph Schmidt
The team of morphos-news.de interviewed Ralph Schmidt who is the head developer of MorphOS. Today a summary of the interview has been published. You can read it under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2001
Gary Peake (ML)


 Amiga names Sanjay Menon as vice president of department engineering
press release:
Amiga names Sanjay Menon vice president of engineering

Menon brings 10 years of experience in delivering software solutions to Amiga's hardware agnostic multimedia platform.

Snoqualmie, WA - December 3, 2001 - Amiga Inc., a provider of multi-platform multimedia content solutions, today announced the hiring of Sanjay Menon as their Vice President of Engineering. As Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Menon will be responsible for delivering Amiga solutions on a multitude of platforms.

“Sanjay has several years in the software industry and has a track record of successes with projects he has worked on or managed” said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. “We look forward to having him deliver many different types of solutions both to consumers and developers alike”. “His leadership will help make our Amiga developers be more successful in their roles toward the completion of our vision for the digital world”.

Menon brings more than 10 years of development and management experience to Amiga and is adept at planning and executing development strategies ensuring quality product releases in a timely fashion. His most recent accomplishments were at Microsoft Corporation where he spent 5 years in various management positions. His responsibilities there included shipping portions of the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine which was delivered in the Internet Explorer browser. Previous to his experience at Microsoft, Menon was a Lead Developer for Connectsoft Corporation where, among other things, he delivered advanced communication applications and protocols.

“I am very excited to have this opportunity with Amiga” said Menon. “I believe that Amiga is poised to deliver quality solutions across a wide number of market segments that are in growth areas of communication and computing. I look forward to working with both our Amiga developers and the developers in the Amiga Community who are going to deliver leading edge solutions for numerous different devices”.

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multimedia operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com/. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com/. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2001
Heise News Ticker (ANF)


 Heise: Programming competition for Linux-PDA
Sharp is looking for some applications of the sectors games, entertainment, business-programms, utilities and communication for its LINUX PDA Zaurus SL 5000 and therefore has started a programming competition. You can gain attractive prizes.
Have a look at the title link for the full Heise-article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2001



 neo Award: Intermediate Result - Position #23
As already reported amiga-news.de was nominated for the Internet-Award neo, category "favorit website". At the time being we rank on position #23 what we think to be a huge success. We thank all readers who voted for us! Since you can vote every week, you can vote for amiga-news.de using your password again, this week. Put please, keep being fair and vote only once per week, cause otherwise we would disqualify ourselfves.

One word about data security: The organizer assures explicit that your registering data will be treated strictly confidential. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Future: Interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' Team
Andreas Magerl did an interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' team for the 'Amiga Future' magazine. Schlachtfeld is about a strategy game. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Dec.2001
W.F.M.H. (ANF)


 Electronic Teacher 5 - special offer + new site
W.F.M.H. has launched a new internet site for one of its flagships: Electronic Teacher 5 CD. The multimedia language tutor home can now be found at http://eteacher5.com . Besides, the package can now be ordered at promotional price (even 50% off)!

As publishing house informs, the software is still under heavy development and among tons of new features (including even animation support) then new release will bring us, the two new language data CD are expected to be released as well, with lessons of German and French! Electronic Teacher 6 is expected to be released at the end of April 2002. (ps)

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04.Dec.2001
Christian Hujer (ANF)


 Adobe SVG Viewer for Unix
Since a couple of days Adobe is offering the SVG Viewer for downlaod on the page for unsupported versions as version 3.0 beta 1 in English for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Solaris 8.

The SVG Viewer is a web-browser plugin for displaying vector images of the XML basing W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (see Heise's articel, German). The Windows and Mac versions have an ActiveX interface for the Internet Explorer and a Netscape plugin interface for Netscape 4.x (and by this it is supposed to run with Konqueror and other browsers supporting the Netscape interface at 100%). Contrary to that the Linux version has a Mozilla interface and does not support Netscape's plugin architecture which is poorly documented, anyway.

In a first try this plugin could not be used under SuSE Linux 7.2 with Mozilla 0.9.5 RPM, it was not recognized, but Mozilla 0.9.5 and the plugin still are beta versions. For the final versions a better cooperation of both may be expected.

With the Adobe SVG Viewer available for Linux and Solaris the popularity and use of SVG might increase very much.

Of course the Linux port is available as binary only unfortuantely, meaning that it mainly contains of .so files (libraries) compiled for x86 Linux. That is, though there is a x86 Linux port now, an Amiga port is as far away as ever. Even the efforts of Mozilla.org are promising more remedy. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Dec.2001
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)


 Music: DBPro Mod-Compo - Rules
Plans about a DBM-Compo by the Digibooster Pro Community. But they do not want to make the according rules without requesting the ideas and opinions of the users. Proposals can be made until Friday (7.12.2001) by posting them at the DBPro-Community forum at the title link.

It would be grade if as many as possible users would participate in this discussion and in the upcoming competition. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets
WHD-Load lets you install your floppy-based games on to your harddisc. The follwing packets were updated or newly included:

  • 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
  • 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
  • 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
  • 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
  • 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) joypad support added
  • 30.11.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) supports another version
  • 30.11.01 new: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) done by Psygore
  • 30.11.01 improved: New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) supports another version and some fixes
  • 30.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) supports another version
  • 30.11.01 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) joypad support added
  • 30.11.01 new: Friendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 new: Death Bringer (Empire) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 new: Black Crypt (Raven Software) done by CFOU!
  • 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Amiga.org


 Amiga.org: Interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion
There is an (English) interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainmet available at Amiga.org (title link). (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Håkan Parting


 Instant Messenger: AmiComSys Version 2.1
Håkan Parting released version 2.1 of his program AmiComSys.

Changes:

  • BUGFIX: When all the checkboxes in the Client list settings/Show which information were checked the computer crashed. So if you had that setting in v. 1.34 and tried 2.0 the computer just crashed.
  • BUGFIX: It didn't work to install plugins directly from the plugin installer, by setting the environmental variable ACS_INSTALLPLUGIN.
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)


 DCE makes "Visionary" TV-Software online available
The TV-software "Visionary" for the G-Rex PCI-board is now available at the homepage of DCE. This release includes the skins for this program. A driver for 100MBit network adapters (based on RTL8039) is still beta and will soon be available at the DCE-supportpage. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Oliver Wagner (ML)


 Vaporware: New Regtool with Euro-support
The offline-regtool 'Regtool' by Vapoware is now available with Euro-support and contains all new Vapor-products. All prices can be converted with the help of MUI (short help system). Products can still be paid and registered online by using a credit card and with the help of Silicon Circus Ltd. (UKP).

Download: regtool.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Martin Strojek (E-Mail)


 AMIGA in the media: 'Bild am Sonntag' of 02.12.2001
In the yesterday's issue of the German newspaper "Bild am Sonntag" the Amiga was mentioned in the special column "VIVABamS" on page 3. There is a draw with ATB (André Tanneberger, musician), mentioning the Amiga. Tanneberger said that his first computer was an Amiga on which he made electro songs. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Dec.2001
Andreas Steup (ANF)


 Emulator: Amiga Forever 5 Benchmark
Andreas Steup writes:
In the stated URL you can find a few short Benchmark-Tests for WinUAE-Emulators from the Amiga Forever 5 package.

Result: A 300MHz Pentium is almost enough to emulate a 68040 Amiga with 80MHz, which means double the speed.

The English version of the tests are available. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
ANN


 Workbench: Scalos with new Domain
You can now get access to the website of the Workbench Replacement "Scalos" under the new domain www.scalos.co.uk. This means that all the e-mail addresses have also changed as they now end with "@scalos.co.uk".

We've got outselves a new domain because the previous one Domain expired and was taken over by namezero.com. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Gabriele Greco (sdl-amiga ML)


 Library: SDL V1.2.3 Beta
On 2. December 2001 Gabriele Greco published the Beta-version 1.2.3 of the Multimedia-Library "SDL" for AmigOS and MorphOS. All the improvements and bug fixes of 1.2.3. should have been implemented in this version.

The following amiga-specific improvements have been made:
  • Completely compatible with libnix (the 68k as well as the MorphOS version). Some demos (testsprite, testpalette) show that the libnix-version is 30% faster than the ixemul-version
  • Bugfix: A crash or a corruption of the memory list was possible in the hardware-accellerating and full-screen mode.
  • Modification: General clean up of the CyberGFX-Codes. Maybe this has also removed the Colors-Bug of Picasso 96 (wasn't tested).
Gabriele Greco is hoping to finish the final version by next weekend in order to add the new sources to the official Source and Development-Package on the official site SDL-Site.

The archive contains: include, docs, gcc 68k lib, SAS/C 68k lib and gcc MorphOS PPC lib.

The SDL enables the platform-independent programming of games and multimedia products.

Download: SDL-1.2.3-Amiga.zip (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
V3Portal


 VNC: zvnc V1.0
On 1st December 2001 David Gerber published Version 1.0 of VNC-Clients "zvnc".

This is a small VNC-Client without Display-Support which is supposed to controll a second PC with monitor.

The advantage of "zvnc" is that only minimal data is transferred through the network since there are no graphics. In this way the mouse and keyboard input is very direct.

"zvnc" applies to AmigaOS V2.0 (68000), AmigaOS V3.0 (68020) and MorphOS (PPC).

Download: zvnc_1.0.lha (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Aminet


 XML: Expat as Shared-Library
The porting of the XML-Parser-Library "expat" for AmigaOS was published by James S. Perrin in Aminet. This version is available as Amiga-Shared-Library.

Expat is among other things used by the Web-Browser "Mozilla" for parsing XML-documents.

"Expat" was originally developped by James Clark, who also was technical manager of the XML Working Group of W3C for the drawing up of the XML 1.0 specification.

Download: (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
ANN


 USB: Information about "Subway" (USB about Clockport)
KDH Datentechnik has published Information about the USB-Controller "Subway" for the Clockport of Amiga 1200:

  • compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0.
  • integrated 4 Port-HUB.
  • all ports are protected against over-tension and over-burdening.
  • integrated Power-Management for all ports.
  • energy is saved due to 3,3V Technology.
  • compatible with all 68030/40/060 and PPC-Turbo Cards.
  • no technical problems with Amiga 1200-Busboards.
  • compatible with all Amiga 1200 Tower Casings.
  • Standard Amiga 1200 Clockport-Connection.
  • Highspeed-Clockport-Connection for a quicker transfer of data.
  • Works on every Amiga 1200 compatible clockport.
(sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
ANN


 IRC: AmIRC V3.5.21beta
Oliver Wagner published the beta-version 3.5.21 of the IRC-Clients "AmIRC" on the 30th November 2001. This version solves various little problems.

This update can only be used by registered users. The package contains text input V29.3.

Download: amirc_3521beta.lzx (222K) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: Free classified advertisements relaunched
Daniel Orth writes:
Apart from the new design of our webpage for the Amiga-Magazine "amiga-topcool" we have also designed the section for the classified ads in a new way. The advantage is that you don't have to wait that somebody inserts an advert since this is now done by a small CGI-Script.

It's also now possible to buy advert space by means of an auction. Offers from 1 DM onwards are accepted. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Ralf Hasemann (ANF)


 Trade fair: Amiga Expo announced (Update)
The trade fair "Amiga Expo" takes place in Baltimore, MD USA in the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn on 29th until 31st March 2002.

Further information about the trade fair can be found under the title link.

Appendix 02.12.2001:
date corrected as follows: 2002. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Jens Henschel (ANF)


 BASIC: AmiBlitz User-Site now also for Amiga-Browser
Jens [bruZard] Henschel writes:
I have completely changed the design for the Blitzbasic-Site (www.blitz3d.x-cellence.de) since Amiga-Browser wasn't able to bring it up. From now on problems won't come up any more. Should it nevertheless come to some incompatibilities here and there, please inform me, so that I can solve the problem. Contact address: bruzard@x-cellence.de.

The site and the forum have been enlarged by an AmiBlitz-Section because of wide-spread interest. This will be filled up over the next few days. First, a tutorial for beginners will be published so that the Blitzbasic-Community might increase after all.

happy programming,

Jens [bruZard] Henschel (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Amiga-Society.de: It's all over
Horst Diebel writes:
1.12.2001 - This is the end of the Amiga-Society.de. Why should we create such a site that is of no use at all and that only causes trouble?

This question has occurred to me over the last few weeks more and more frequently.

After our relaunch we had more and more attacks on our site and in particular on my PC, that is to say my e-mail address. A week ago it finally happened that I gradually switched off the e-mail addresses because only virulent e-mails were arriving.

The initiators will know what I mean.... maybe they have reached their objective in this way.

By the end of the year I will have the site switched off! The competition will of course be finished - relevant addresses will be available before the end of the year and approximately until the 6th January 2002. The announcement of the lucky winners will be around mid-January 2002.

After this event I will retire completely. The project "battlefield" will certainly be continued by some of the participants - alternative Internet addresses will probably be announced very soon.

BI would like to thank all the people who have helped create the site.

Bye....

Horst (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Alexander Pfau (ANF)


 Amithlon.net now also in German
Bernd Meyer's Website "Amithlon.net", which accompanies the Amiga-Emulator for x86er-Systems, is now also available in German.

It was translated into German by Alexander Pfau. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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01.Dec.2001
Michael Ulbrich (ANF)


 Amithlon-"Party" in Berlin
An Amithlon event is being planned to be held in a little local Internet Café in Berlin.

More information (German) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Dec.2001
Virus Help Denmark


 Virus Help Denmark: Interim results of the vote
The survey of Virus Help Denmark about the anti-virus programmer who has done the most against viruses is still running for a month. Here are the current results:

  • Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor: 169 votes
  • Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library: 168 votes
  • Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe: 18 votes
  • Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II: 9 votes
  • Heiner Schneegold _ VT-Schutz: 4 votes
  • Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III: 3 votes
Who hasn't participated so far can still vote at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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01.Dec.2001
(ANF)


 Preordering the Show Video CD
Due to not only a few users showed me their interest in my video CD within a short period of time I've put an order form on my homepage, with which you can preoder the CD online. Just enter your name and address an you will receive the CD for free. You'll have to pay postage, only.

If you happen to have problems submitting the order, please send an e-mail with subject 'Video-CD' to me. Of course names and addresses will be treated strictly confidential and deleted after this project.

Best regards,
Falcon (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Dec.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


 C't reports extensively about Amiga
The German computer magazine c't reports in its current issue (issue 25/01 on Monday at the newsstands) extensively on a full page (page 46) about the Amiga 2001 show and the Pegasos board! Also mentioned are AmigaOS XL, Hyperion, PCI boards and the USB port. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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01.Dec.2001
amiga.org (ANF)


 Apex Designs: Payback being ported to AmigaDE and Macintosh
Apex Designs' 'Payback' will be ported to Intent/AmigaDE and Apple Macintosh. The port to the AmigaDE will be done by Apex Designs, the port to MacOS by Vitual Programming. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Martin Kuchinka


 Programming language: PowerD V0.19 Alpha2
Martin Kuchinka has released an update for the alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'. In this version some bugs were fixed and the possibility to insert local objects was added.

Download: alpha.lzx - alpha.readme (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
KDH News (ANF)


 KDH advent calendar with draw (Update)
Between December 1rst and December 24th we will offer you a daily highlight at a special low budget price. Just click on the appropriate door on our KDH advent calendar and enjoy our daily highlight.

We recommend a daily visit to our site and you may see a item you always wanted at an affordable price. Each highlight is valid for two days. All orders submitted via our advent calendar with take part in a draw. The 1rst winner will receive a copy of Descent Freespace, 2nd winner Shogo, 3rd winner Wipeout.

Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik

Update 03. December 2001:
Dear customers, since the draw we have been planning on occasion of our KDH Advent calendar possibly would violate the rules of the competition rights, as it already was pointed out to us, we decided to stop this draw in the interest of a fair and justly unobjectionable competition. Currently it is being investigated to find a legal form to continue the draw.

Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Nov.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: Aggressors put Hompages at Freenet on hold
Due to a hacker's offense currently all user homepages at Freenet.de are not accessible. Freenet is investigating how this attack was done and will try to fix the possibly existing security gap, hence it is not clear when the user websites will be available again.
See title link for Heise's article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Nov.2001
bruZard's blitzbasic[3D][bbb3D] (ANF)


 BlitzBasic PC & BlitzBasic AMIGA
For some weeks the site www.blitz3d.x-cellence.de (title link) is now online. It deals with the topic BlitzBasic on the PC. Since I come from the Amiga BlitzBasic I would like to create a section on this topic as well. Especially now that the development of BlitzBasic for the Amiga continues. It only justifies the efforts though if there are interested people who would appreciate that. So: who has interest in a BlitzBasic AMIGA site should show it by leaving a comment.

There already exists a bulletin board on the site which would also be extended by an Amiga section. I'd like to thank you already for your interest.

Jens [bruZard] Henschel (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium finished
The full version of the audio software ProStationAudio Titanium is now ready and is currently distributed with all plugins for a special price. Also AudioLabs announced a ProStationAudio benchmark tool for next week. The tool measures the performance of ProStationAudio on 68k computers with AmigaOS as well as on emulated Amigas. More details at the title link. (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
Matay


 Matay: S3 Virge PCI graphics cards driver (beta)
Matay today published a beta version of the S3 Virge chip based PCI graphics cards driver for Prometheus. His author, Alexander Kneer, bewares it can still be not fully functional (some overlay problems can appear), yet should work.

Download: Prom-s3.lha (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
ANN


 Programming: JumpED Version 5.0
Bruce Steers today released version 5.0 of his tool JumpED. Jump to functions in your editor via MUI listview. By default it translates source code for ARexx, Amiga_E, AmigaGuides, Javascript/PHP and Perl/CGI. JumpED has editor support for BED, TurboText, GoldED and Quill.

Download: JumpED.lha (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)


 Magazine: Clubbed total Amiga magazine
The trial issues as well as full subscriptions to CLUBBED/TOTAL AMIGA magazine can now be made at the store using our 128 Bit Secure online ordering system (Amiga Online Superstore). (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
Prelude Software (ANF)


 Prelude.library V5.3 released
V5.3 of the prelude.library was released by Thomas Wenzel. Some Enforcer hits were removed.

Download: prllib53.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Gabriele Greco (E-Mail)


 SDL-Amiga mailinglist created
Gabriele Greco has created a new mailing list: SDL-Amiga. This list is dedicated to Amiga SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) programmers. The list will be used mainly to discuss problems of the SDL amiga implementation or related with the development or the porting of SDL applications for Amiga (68k, WOS/PUP, MorphOS).

To subscribe the list you can send an empty e-mail to: sdl-amiga-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to the following URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdl-amiga/join. (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
Macwelt Online / Jorge Pino (ANF)


 Macwelt Online: Bugfixes and G5 speculations
»Bugfixes and G5 speculations:
Due to a report of the British website The Register, Motorola has released two new CPUs. The two chips PowerPC 7451 and PowerPC 7441 are the successors of the G4+-named PowerPC 7450 and the energy-saving PowerPC 7440. The specifications of the CPUs do not differ from their predecessors, according to The Register there were only some bugs fixed in the chips.«
Full article in German at the title link.

More links on the topic:
Heise (German): Apple wants to join the Gigahertz club
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Der Standard / Suka (ANF)


 "Der Standard" reports on Amiga show O.A.S.E.
The online issue of the Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" reports about the Amiga show O.A.S.E. taking place this weekend in Graz/Austria. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001



 amiga-news.de is nominated for the neo Award

neo Award amiga-news.de is nominated for the neo Award (German internet award)! If you want to participate in the awards and support us, please click here. You'll find amiga-news.de in the category "Beliebteste Website" (most popular website). To vote you'll have to register in order to make sure you only vote once.

We are very happy that we were nominated by our readers for this award :-). For voting some nice prices can be won, of which the first prize is a Smart. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Future: Interview with Jürgen Schober of point.design
Anton Preinsack interviewed Jürgen Schober of point.design. for Amiga Future. Jürgen Schober is Amiga dealer in Austria and organizer of the Open Amiga Southeast European Show O.A.S.E. taking place this weekend for the first time. The point.design home show takes place on 1st and 2nd December 2001 in Graz. Anton Preinsack talks with Jürgen about the show and how you struggle through life as the last Austrian Amiga dealer. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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29.Nov.2001
OnyxSoft


 OnyxSoft: DRemind V 1.58 and MultiRen V 1.46
Onyxsoft updated the reminder tool DRemind to version 1.58. MultiRen, a tool for renaming files, now is available as version 1.46. Both of the tools have been programmed by Daniel Westerberg.

Download: dremind.lha - multiren.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Bernd Lachner


 Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
On Bernd Lachner's homepage at the "Amiga Software / UAE - SDL" section you can find the UAE SDL being an extension of the Amiga emulator UAE to let it use the SDL library (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for graphics output and keyboard and mouse input.

Advantages of the SDL version:
  • Display of the UAE Amiga screen in fullscreen mode possible trouble-free for ordinary users, too.
  • Display of the UAE Amiga screen even possible on the frame-buffer console of Linux, that means without X-Windos.
Detailed information (German) and download links are to find under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Amiga Demoscene Archive


 A.D.A.: New Demos from the Demo Scene online
The new website A.D.A. (Amiga Demoscene Archive) containig scene demos for download was completely switched to PHP. Currently the 'Amsterdam Blessing/Mawi' demo was added, which made it to position three on the Mekka Symposium 2001. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Hyperion / Steffen Haeuser (ANF)


 Hyperion: Freespace Demo - Update 3 available
Today, the third update of the FreeSpace demo version was released on our WWW-site, which now fixes the "freeze bug", at last. So there is nothing left to prevent the full version from being released, soon.

We are still busy to fix some little things (also in reply to feedback for the demo version), but this should be finished, soon.

Additionally I will upload the demo version including all bugfixes to Aminet within the next days.

Steffen Haeuser (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


 Event: Big Christmas Festivity of the ACBB
The ACBB is organizing an Amiga Christmas festivity to take part on 16. November 2001. They will take care to have coffee, cakes, Advent songs (MP3) and atmospheric Workbench backgrounds at hand. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
AIO


 Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #53
Issue #53 of the online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was published. AIO uses their own viewer program which runs under AmigaOS.

Download: AIOV53.LHA (ps)

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29.Nov.2001
MorphOS News


 MorphOS-News: RageHard Infos about Multiplayer-Game for MorphOS & Mac
Jürgen Lucas, MorphOS News, talked to Michael Garlich, Titan Computer, about their new multiplayer game (up to 32 players) 'RageHard'. You can find the interview (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Kevin Orme (ANF)


 Amiga University site updates
We have added more than 150 new links, link-checked the entire site, as well as added new pages on Amithlon/AmigaOSXL and Amiga DiskMags (online archives of The Crypt as well as Amiga Information Online).

We have also added a major new site mirror, that of Gareth Knight's Amiga Interactive Guide, as well as the newly replaced mirror of the Blitz Basic 2000 site (David McMinn just redid their entire site, as he announced about 1.5 weeks ago here on ANN). In short, a lot of 'new' and plenty of 'old' for your use and enjoyment.

Kevin Orme
Amiga University
AmigaU (ps)

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29.Nov.2001
AmigaSDL-Pages (ANF)


 Library: SDL V1.2.2 for AmigaOS with OpenGL-Support (StormMesa/Warp3D)
Beta version 1.2.2 of the 'Simple Directmedia Layer' library now is available as versions for Amiga PowerPC/68k with and without OpenGL support (Warp3D/StromMesa). The Amiga port was done by Glenn Hisdal.

The SDL library by Sam Lantiga is available to various other platforms including MorphOS, BeOS, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. It offers fast access to the graphics and audio capabilities of the respective system. With this it allows platform comprehensive development of games and other multimedia products like MPEG players and emulators. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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28.Nov.2001
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)


 Event: AmiGBG 2002
AmiGBG 2002. That's the name of the first Swedish Amiga fair since 1998. AmiGBG 2002 will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The fair will contain both swedish and foreign exhibitors, both companys and user groups.

At AmiGBG 2002 you will get a glimpse of the future Amiga system, both of Amiga OS 4 and Amiga DE. You will also see existing and coming systems with modern hardware from different manufacturers.

Welcome to Gothenburg in 2002! (ps)

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28.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: New xsurfadsl.device with appp update
A new version of the xsurfadsl.device, the PPPoE driver for our networking card X-Surf, can be found in the support-area of our website. For the first time, the archive also contains an updated version of the appp.device that has been licensed from Haage & Partner (see article from November, 12th).

The source code of version 2.7 that we got from Haage & Partner was different from the binary that is being sold with the Genesis package in OS3.9 (V2.3). Questions about the changes between the two versions could not be answered until now. The new version provided by us (V3.1) has been updated mainly on internal structures: The device-base code (the interface to the OS) is completely re-written, so opening up to eight units, and freeing all resources after closing them (especially memory) is ensured. Therefore, we also recommend installing the new appp.device, even if you do not own an X-Surf Ethernet card.

At this point, we want to draw your attention to the ISAcatweasel.device, which allows using the PC-Catweasel under Amithlon. Since we have not been able to run Amithlon on any of our computers, we depend you your help in testing. The new archive is now packed with LHA, so difficulties with unpacking the ARJ archive are eliminated. Adapted Catweasel mountlists should make the installation a lot easier. (ps)

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28.Nov.2001
MorphOS


 Library: SDL V1.2.2 Beta for MorphOS (Update)
On 28th of November 2001 Gabriele Greco has published a beta version 1.2.2 of his MorphOS port from the multimedia-library 'Simple DirectMedia Layer'.

This library is available for a wide range of platforms - AmigaOS, BeOS, Linux, Macintosh and Windows belong to them. The library offers a fast access to the graphic and audio abilities of the corresponding system. It therefore enables to develop games and other multimedia products like MPEG players and emulators at several platforms.

Download: libSDL.a.gz (sd) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2001
Kultpower.de


 Kultpower.de: 12 new ASM-test reports
Kultpower.de has the following 12 new ASM-test reports and the editoral of the ASM 12/89 online:

  • Blockout (Amiga)
  • Chambers of Shaolin (Atari ST, Amiga, C-64)
  • M1 Tank Platoon (IBM PC, XT, AT)
  • Might & Magic 2 (C-64, IBM, Amiga, Apple)
  • North & South (Amiga, ST, PC)
  • Powerdrift (C-64, Amiga, Atari ST, CPC, Speccy) inkl. Werbeanzeige
  • Rings of Medusa (Atari ST, Amiga)
  • Scapeghost (Atari ST, Amiga, Schneider CPC, Spectrum, Apple II, C-64, IBM)
  • Shufflepuck Cafe (Amiga, ST, Apple II, Mac, PC)
  • The Untouchables (C-64, Spectrum)
  • Their finest Hour (IBM)
  • Tiger Heli (PC Engine)
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)


 PNG- and JPEG-generator (V4.50) for SuperView
Yesterday Andreas Kleinert has uploaded version 4.50 of PNG-box and JPEG-box to the Aminet. With these tools you can convert graphic-files either to PNG or to JPEG by the help of SuperView-library. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever 5.0
Cloanto released today version 5.0 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga emulation and connectivity package for PCs. New features include just-in-time (JIT) compiler technology to dramatically increase execution speed, new ROM and operating system files to emulate not only the Amiga computers but also Commodore's CDTV and CD³² game consoles, and Software Manager, a content delivery and management system for one-click news, updates and downloads.

An experimental version of the revolutionary Disk2FDI software, which makes it possible to read Amiga floppy disks on the PC, is provided for the technically inclined. Other improvements include support for new Windows XP and DirectX features and new Picasso96 technology to better map Amiga graphics calls to low-level DirectX functionality and native x86 code, in order to achieve maximum performance without sacrificing compatibility. Cloanto publicly benchmarked the new version of the emulation software to be 30 times faster than the previous version (which already matched the CPU performance of the fastest Amiga 68060 silicon).

Amiga Forever can be installed or run from CD-ROM (no installation or reboot required), and is also available in a downloadable Online Edition. In either case, Amiga application can run side by side with the host operating system and its applications, while taking advantage of features such as virtual memory, advanced power management, digital rights management, NTFS filing system, wireless networking, and thousands of past, present and future drivers for peripherals, specifications and gadgets which the Amiga would otherwise not be able to support. For additional information please refer to the Amiga Forever home page at amigaforever.info. (ps)

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27.Nov.2001
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)


 Play!Amiga: Test of both Quake-Mission-Packs
Though there are no new games for the Amiga, Jürgen Theiner from Play!Amiga has tested games for you. This time it were the Mission-Packs for Quake. Also the new charts are available. You can take place when you send an eMail with your favourite game. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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27.Nov.2001
Simon Neumann (ANF)


 Amiga Speed Update
Amiga Speed has now integrated Bubblefish, a new poll, and some new speedtests. The Heretic2- and the Quake-test were updated and the Actionhit Payback was taken in the 3D game area. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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27.Nov.2001
AmigArt (ANF)


 Hyperion Gives More Info about Amiga OS4
"First of all, the idea is to get the AmigaOS from 68k to the PPC. Of course, there's a lot of code in the system, and lots of code that's beyond our reach (hardware drivers in ROMs, for example). So one of the core components is of course the 68k emulator. The JIT version is already very fast, if you have a 040/25 and a fast 603e, you'll actually be able to run some programs faster than on the physical 040/25...

The second core component will be Exec SG. This is a reimplementation of the original Exec, written in C and placed onto a hardware abstraction layer so that it ports easily from one hardware to the other (remember, we intent to support a lot of different hardware, some of these will not have the Amiga chipset anymore). New features (compared to the old Exec) will be virtual memory. Don't worry, you'll not have to select "Shutdown" from the "Start" menu, you can just switch off ;) We also want to introduce some weak form of memory protection, like protecting code from being overwritten.. Later version will also include resource tracking.

The third mayor (new) building block is the new-style library interface. The cool thing about this is that it enables old 68k libraries to act as new OS4 libraries. To OS4 applications, 68k libraries will look like PPC native libraries. OTOH, new PPC only libraries will look like old 68k libraries to emulated 68k programs. This is achieved by the new library loader: Whenever a library is loaded, the "missing" part of the interface will be generated on-the-fly (by creating so called "stub" functions). So, even though a library is not yet ported to PPC, it can be used as if it were a PPC library, and as soon as it's ported, the program using it will use PPC code, even without recompiling the program (sorry if that comes out a bit complicated....)

For the initial release, we want to have at least the new Exec SG (otherwise, the whole system wouldn't work, anyway), a PPC native DOS, the TCP stack, new file system, and some devices. If there's still time, we'll port as much as possible to native PPC.

I think we have around 20 developers working on OS4.

A solution we're thinking about is loading a kernel image from the hard disk's boot block. The Amiga's disk structure allows arbitraty sized boot blocks, so theoretically, a whole kernel could fit there. We will in any case offer the possibility to use something like SetPatch (including the dreaded reboot). This means that you do not have to reformat your harddrive or even repartition or something like that. As another possibility, we will try to offer the bootblock loading.

We discussed the possibility to include a UAE in the system that will kick in when binaries are executed that require the chipset. That way, running old games could be made transparent

We will apply for BPlan Pegasos developer program, but we will not get special treatment.

We will make as much information as possible available as soon as possible. This includes documents as well as pre-release version of OS 4 for developers. Of course we want as much stuff on OS 4 as possible, so this is going to be a high priority."

- Frieden brothers (ps)

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27.Nov.2001
Matthias Henze (ANF)


 HSMathLibs and stormamiga.lib will be updated
Because I got well again I will develop on HSMathLibs and the stormamiga.lib again. But do not expect wonders, I have not worked on these projects for over eight months and need some time to get back into the source codes. Also there are other important things for me to do. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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27.Nov.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 26.11.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Trivial Pursuit Genus 2 () install script corrected
  • 26.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) many improvements
  • 26.11.01 new: Fire And Forget 2 (Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 26.11.01 new: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) done by Psygore
  • 26.11.01 improved: Buggy Boy (Elite) supports another version, more icons
  • 26.11.01 new: Buck Rogers (TSR) done by JOTD
  • 25.11.01 new: Trivial Pursuit Genus 2 () done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 improved: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) supports another version
  • 25.11.01 new: Metal Masters (Incal Product/Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 new: Logical (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 new: Iron Lord (UbiSoft) done by CFOU!
  • 23.11.01 new: Hostages/Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 23.11.01 improved: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) keyboard handling fixed
(ps)

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27.Nov.2001
polarboing.com (ANF)


 Interview with Tomas 'Tjomp' Jacobsen
The Norwegian Amiga news site polarBoing has an interview with Tomas Jacobsen, one of the guys responsible for AmigaDE's first 4k demo. (ps)

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27.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Pictures from Spoletium 4
On November 24-25, 2001, Cloanto attended the Spoletium 4 event in Spoleto, Italy, providing a wireless webcam service. Pictures are now online at http://cloanto.com/news/20011124spoletium4.html

In a computing world in which hardware and software have exploded beyond imagination, where lone pioneers have been displaced by billion-dollar investments, where programming manuals that used to ship with affordable home computers have been replaced by multi-volume and constantly changing SDKs which are beyond the reach of the average user, the demo scene continues to remind us that writing software can still be a sublime fusion of expression and creativity, of technology and art, a medium in which the germ of talent can be discovered and nourished, where individuals exchange ideas and compete with others, but, as they build universes of which they are to be in full control, are also confronted most of all in an intimate challenge with their inner selves. Thank you, friends at Spoletium, for keeping the flame alive! (ps)

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26.Nov.2001
ISIS


 ISIS comments blocking of websites
On 22. November 2001 the Chaos Computer Club published that the Internet provider ISIS is practicing censorship (we reported about) by blocking particular websites. This was stopped this morning, as the company became aware of this situation. They said, that those blockades were a result of some experiments of one of thier technicians.

The company pointed out, that whatever they would do, they would be the fool, anyway. If they block sites people will complain about censorship, if they don't they are supposed to support radical right-wing content. ISIS declines this technical solution, which offers so much backdors that the expense can't be justified. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Nov.2001
Anton Preinsack (ANF)


 Open Amiga Southeast European Show (O.A.S.E.) in Graz/Austria
The "Open Amiga Southeast European Show (O.A.S.E.)" will be held on the 1.12. and 2.12. in Graz/Austria. The show will open at 10.00 and close at 18.00. This show is organized by point.design. Some of the highlights:

Amithlon, various AMIGA-PCI-devices and maybe a fully useable Pegasos-system. Furthermore there will be a presentation (made with Scala and designed by Ben Hermans) of the upcoming AmigaOS 4.x. The admission is free. Further information is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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26.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Amiga Society News - LBoAS / Schlachtfeld
There are some minor updates of the webpage, for example the 'little book of amiga-software'-page - Horst Diebel would like to say thanks for the provided help.

The work on Schlachtfeld is still proceeding. And there will soon be an update of the homepage and some new pictures.

The ICQ-number, published when the graphics-competition started, is no longer valid due to the spaming of the according email-address. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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26.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 Programming: OOP for All with new Featurs
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Another week is over and again there is a new version of OOP for All (Object Oriented Programming for All or OOP4A). New possibilities now are statistical contexts and methods synchronisation. The compiler backend was enhanced and the documentation got one more page. You can find all this under the above link.

OOP4A offers an OOP interface to non-object oriented programming languages and it's language comprehensive. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Nov.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)


 Instant-Messenger: AmiComSys V2.0
Version 2.0 of the instant messenger "AmiComSys" has been released. This version contains a line of changes including a security bugfix closing the APIPE / AWNPIPE security gap in combination with MUI.

This program runs on AmigaOS V3.0+ and CPU 68020+.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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25.Nov.2001
ANN


 Graphics: Translators for PerfectPaint wanted
Halvadjian Georges, author of the 24-bit paint program Perfect Paint, is looking for people who can help with catalog translations. French and English are not needed, other languages are.

Contact: gothic.fr@chello.fr (sd)

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25.Nov.2001
Amiga Arena


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Florac Roland (AmiCAD)
Olaf Köbnik wrote:
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
The Amiga still offers specialized application software solutions, today, but which unfortunately aren't widely spread due to small usership. "AmiCAD" is one of those programs, which is being developed by Florac Roland. This software is about an editor for creation of electronic wiring diagrams.

The Amiga Arena talked to Florac Roland about developing "AmiCAD" and regrettably it turns out again that there is less than few feedback from the users.

Florac Roland still is urgently wanting users to help him in translating and creating a guide.

"AmiCAD" really is an interesting software and ought to be supported to ensure further development.

Who would like to help with the German localization or manual might write to: Florac Roland (roland.florac@fnac.net. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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25.Nov.2001
Vapor


 PDA: AmigaNCP V2.2 Beta 2
AmigaNCP is an implementation of the Psion link protocol which is e.g. built into the Psion S3/S3a/S3C and Psion S5 palmtop's ROM. It's main purpose is to provide vice-versa nfs-like file access.

This small update (untested, due to lack of Psion), tries to fix the following two reported issues:
  • NCP_LinkRemoteRun() now allows up to 128 chars file names in EPOC32 (S5) mode
  • AmigaNCP-FileSystem now (hopefully correctly) implementes ACTION_SET_DATE; this should fix the "datestamps not set for backup" problems reported by some people
  • fixed file format for Amiga2Psion clipboard functionality (hopefully)
  • now sends a "Clipboard changed" message to the remote clipboard server when a clipboard exchange has been executed (hopefully)
AmigaNCP requires:
  • AmigaOS 2.04 or better (localization supported).
  • the IBM-PC version of the 3-Link cable.


Download: amigancp_22beta2.lha (27K), README (sd)

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25.Nov.2001
CyberGFX


 Mediator: List of 3rd Party Software
The worlds oldest Mediator support page has been updated with the 3rd Party Mediator Software Page. Has a complete list of TV, Scanning software and much much more. If you see a program missing e-mail the information here. (sd)

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25.Nov.2001
Amiga Future


 HTML: Pre-processor HSC V0.922 Beta
Matthias Bethke released beta version 0.922 of the HTML pre-processors "HSC".

This version now has an experimental XHTML support.

This version was released as source code only. The stable version V0.921 (title link) additionally contains the documentation.

Download: hsc-0.922b-source.tar.bz2 (192K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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25.Nov.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 CD³²-/CDTV-Emulator: Akiko released
The CD32/CDTV emulator Akiko for Windows is now available for download on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.

Akiko emulates a CD32 and a CDTV on PCs with Windows with the help of an enhanced version of WinUAE. Akiko does not need the so called extended roms of those consoles, it just requires Kickstart rom 3.1 for CD32 emulation and Kickstart rom 1.3 for CDTV emulation. The enhanced version of the WinUAE is included with the Akiko distribution archive.

The source code of this WinUAE version is available for download on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Akiko is Shareware and the demo version has some limitations. (sd)

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25.Nov.2001
Kicko (ANF)


 MIDI: Tracks & Fields now For Free, Programmer wanted
«It was ages when v1.02 was released and it was shareware (demo). Both authors (Anders & Dick) left amiga so Jonas Hulten has been updating it for me. As he has not much time for it he gave me the last source code so i can search for another coder.

As i can't get in touch with the first original coder Anders Larsson (also made far updated pc version) i can't upload the source for free on aminet but i can give it to a serious coder who want's to continue on it.

So if you are a serious coder and want to continue on tracks&fields please contact me and tell me what programs you made so far. You have to know assembler.

In the package there is a full registered version 1.02 and 1.04. There is a bug that comes more on latest version that crashes when editing patterns so there fore i put up the older v1.02.

- Warning. Backup your old preference as v1.04 saves also screenmode u use and it doesn't work if you change to another gfx card and use the saved prefs from the first card. This should be fixed if i find any coder out there.

History:

1.04
  • Used the 1.02 source instead
  • Ctrl F3-F5: cut-copy-paste only the column the cursor is on
1.03
  • Works on graphics cards - sadly the cursor looks wierd as a result.
  • Doesn't scroll several rows at a time when playing. This is good.
  • Removed writes to address 0 when config was loaded.
  • Minor spelling corrections.
  • Screen mode selection in config.
  • Scaling now autoselects the current position
  • About screen doesn't show up at program start
» (sd)

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25.Nov.2001
H. Ogino, Japan Amiga User Group (ANF)


 Club: JAUG with New Areas
H. Ogino wrote:
Japan Amiga User Group's homepage has now three new areas: "Buy/Sell/Free", "TechAdvice" and "AmiPics".

You can buy and sell or offer for free your Amiga stuff at the "Buy/Sell/Free" area.

At the "TechAdvice" area you can read technical solutions on problems that Amiga computers and hardware have. It is, for instance, about heat problems, etc.

At the area of "AmiPics" there are many vivid and significant pictures of Amiga computers, cards, chips, mice, etc., taken by one of Japan's Amiga power-users. Really beautiful pictures!

Many non-Japanese Amiga users subscribed already to Japan Amiga User Group (JAUG) such as from Germany, U.K. France, Rumania and Mexico. So it is the time for you too to subscribe to JAUG (title link)! The subscribing fee is FREE, of course! (sd)

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25.Nov.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden (ANF)


 Game: Freespace Demo-Version available
On www.hyperion-entertainment.com the demo version of the current Hyperion Entertainment port of "Freespace: The Great War" is available for download, now (download section, about 30 MB).

Freespace runs on any PPC machine (with or whithout 3D graphic board) and on 68060 systems with Permedia2 or Voodoo 3 graphic board. According to the manufacturer the 68k version also runs on Amiga OS XL and Amithlon.

Freespace requires 64 MB RAM on PPC Amigas, and 32 MB RAM with VMM (virtual memory management) on 68k Amigas.

Also new at the downlaod section are two updates of the Hyperion/Freespace demo CD from the Amiga 2001. Some errors with CD32 pads were corrected.

More information and pre-order options are to find at freespace.haage-partner.de or www.hyperion-entertainment.com. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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24.Nov.2001
Der Standard (ANF)


 Der Standard: Alternatives for Windows & Co. - Part II
An article (German) of the Austrian daily newspater 'Der Standard' on ElateOS, AmigaDE, AmigaOS, and MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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24.Nov.2001
Marc "Zito" Oberst (ANF)


 Scenediskmag "Jurassic Pack" Celebrates ist Revival!
The legendary diskmag from the Amiga scene named "Jurassic Pack" celebrates it's revival in the night between 23. and 24. November 2001. After three years of delay issue #8 in English was released, today.

With more than 80 articles, 5 pieces of music, 2 title pictures, and more than 30 cliparts this magazine is intersting not only for so called "sceners", cause for example also discerning articles on the current Amiga situation were added. Interested people will be able to download it from Aminet, soon, or right now at Scenet (dkg-jpo8.lha - 2,9 MB) and from the demo secene BBS "Uphold The Law". Have much fun while reading! (ps) (Translation: mj)

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24.Nov.2001
EvenMore


 Textviewer: EvenMore Version 0.59
The freeware-textviewer 'EvenMore' has been published in version 0.59. With the plugins it is now possible to convert HTML to text.

Download: EvenMore.lha (585 KB)

Recent history:

  • Removed messy filetyping code. Created a plugin which allows filetyping, which can be easily changed using a textfile.
  • Created basic HTML2Text plugin.
  • Created a Linux manual to tex conversion plugin.
  • Updated all plugins with an extra PROC, em_begin(). This is used as a pre-parse PROC, and is needed to tell EvenMore if it is necessary to create a new memory space for the file if the resulting contents from the plugin will be bigger than the original. Older plugins will no longer work properly!
  • Thanks to Raul Silva for the português catalog!
(ps)

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24.Nov.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 22.11.2001)
The website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 22.11.01 new: Wings Of Fury (Broderbund) done by CFOU!
  • 22.11.01 fixed: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) access faults removed
  • 22.11.01 new: Future Wars (Delphine Software) done by JOTD
  • 22.11.01 fixed: Fire and Forget (Titus) icon corrected
  • 22.11.01 new: Feud (Bulldog) done by CFOU!
  • 22.11.01 fixed: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) interrupt handling fixed
  • 22.11.01 improved: Amazing SpiderMan () protection removed
  • 21.11.01 new: Fire and Forget (Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 21.11.01 new: Total Football (Domark/Akklaim) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Syndicate (Bullfrog) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Striker (Rage Software) done by Galahad
  • 21.11.01 new: Sensible Soccer CD³² (Sensible Software) done by Galahad
  • 21.11.01 new: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Prehistorik () done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 new: Monkey Island 2 (LucasFilms Games) done by JOTD
  • 21.11.01 improved: Magic Pockets (Renegade/Bitmap Brothers) minor change
(ps)

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24.Nov.2001
Oliver Roberts


 Datatype: WarpTIFF Version 44.6
Oliver Roberts has released Version 44.6 from his 24-bit TIFF picture datatypes WarpTIFF for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.

Download: WarpTIFFdt.lha (280 KB)

Changes since 44.5:

  • Fixed TIFF descriptor file - no longer mistakes MED modules as TIFFs :)
  • Images in 12-bit (or less) RGB format are now decoded correctly.
(ps)

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24.Nov.2001
Amgia Future


 Amiga Future: AWeb Workshop
Under the title link you will find a workshop for AWeb 3.3+ in German language from Ricco Clemens. (ps)

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24.Nov.2001
Slashdot (ANF)


 Quake and Wolf3D for Linux PDA
Not one, but two classic id games were ported to not one, but two different Linux PDAs! Quake (see screenshots) is available for the Sharp Zaurus and the original Wolf3D is out for the Agenda VR3.

Unfortunately in both of the cases the AmigaDE doesn't play any role. (ps)

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24.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Cloanto Webcam at Spoletium 4
Live camera from the Spoletium 4 demo event, held in Spoleto, Italy.

amigaforever.info (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
DVD


 DVD Press Release on "Black List" Start
The German Vereinigung für Datanschutz e.V (consortium for data protection), short DVD, together with many experts from the fields of IT security and data protection found out that users of websites often got forced to use cookies, JavaScript or ActiveX, because there's no alternative version available.

That's why from now on the DVD publishes a black list as an official directory of such addresses.

"Offerors who cannot tolerate that users want to decide about their security settings on their machines indepentently, should ask themself if they realy are set up for the Internet future. Who thinks to have to punish users for their conscience of security by withholding his pages from those, did not understand what e-commerce and online services actually are about", said Karin Schuler, member of the DVD steering committee. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Nov.2001
GeoWorld®


 Geography Program: GeoWorld® - Update 13 finished soon
The geography program GeoWorld® allows to insight the upcoming update 13. This update, which is expected to be released in December 2001, will consist of two substantial parts:
  1. Update of the main program with some new functions and data update as well.
  2. Release of a "GeoWorld-DeveloperTool" allowing to change and extend existing information texts about countries, towns, an organisations.


Two screenshots showing two of the new features were published on this website. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Nov.2001
Fun Time World


 Image cataloging: PhotoFolio update to version 2.2
PhotoFolio by Steeple Software (Paul Huxham) is a program for managing, viewing and cataloging images which can also create thumbnails. The program can be registered either directly with the author or be ordered from Schatztruhe.

On 16.11.2001 an update to version 2.2 has been released. The patch updates version 2.0 from the CD. The update contains new libraries and modules. You'll find more information about the update here.

Download: PhotoFolio22.lha (476 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh)

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23.Nov.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page


 Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis v1.0.6 / xlHtml v0.3.9.6
You will find an update of the e-mail sender Anubis version 1.0.6 and an update of the convertion tool xHtml version 0.3.9.6, which converts Excel/Powerpoint files to HTML, on Fr3dY's Amiga webpage. Both programs are also available as MorphOS versions. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
ExoticA


 ExoticA: New additions with music
ExoticA and UnExoticA are occupied with the musical capabilities and the history of the Amiga. Yesterday UnExoticA was again updated. New additions include the music from Pac-Land, P.P.Hammer, Toki, Cannon Fodder, Mr. Nutz, Pegasus and many others. For full information about the changes you can read the UnExoticA - Updates Page. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Astronomy pogram: The Digital Universe v1.03
If you haven't yet purchased "The Digital Universe" for the Amiga, now is the perfect opportunity. As long as you are able to download a 11.6 Mb archive from our web site onto your computer, you can now obtain the full V1.03 for a shareware payment. The online distribution is in every way identical to the earlier CD-ROM distribution, other than the change of format and a reduction of price.

The entire user manual is integrated into the software as a context-sensitive help system.
For a full description of the Amiga version of "The Digital Universe", we invite you to our web site at http://www.syz.com/DU/amiga/. There, you will find a description of the features of the software, sample screen snapshots, and an online order form.
If you have moved on to a Macintosh or Windows environment, we are currently shipping a version of the software for the Mac and are at work developing a Windows port.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to write to support@syz.com, or phone us at 780-961-2213. Thanks for your continued support! (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Starmag


 Online-Magazin: Starmag #29
The German online magazine Starmag has released issue #29. Read it online or download the complete zip-archive (1,9 MB). (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
MorphOS


 Editor: CED PPC 4.21b for MorphOS
This is the official MorphOS PPC port of CygnusEd Professional 4.21. You need a properly installed MorphOS release as well as the original CygnusED 4 CDROM to install the PowerPC port, the 68k version of the program won't be modified. After installation you can still use the 68k version of CygnusEd if you plan to install it on the same partition. The updated ed frontend automatically detects if it's run under MorphOS or AmigaOS and uses the proper CygnusEd main binary. Please note that you need the original CygnusEd4 CDROM to apply this patch/ppc update. It is available from various sources including Schatztruhe.

Fixes: Current directory is now correct if launched from WB, the -keepio and -sticky arguments now work properly & printing shouldn't crash anymore.

Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd421b.lha (202 KB) (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter


 3D Chat: Multimediabot MacGuyver Citizen Available for Free
The show- and multimediabot MacGuyver which was developed for the ActiveWorlds® 3DChat-system is now available for free in the version "Citizenbot". It can be downloaded at http://www.VirtualWorlds.de/3DChat/ordere.html. Additional information about the bot and the AW-3DChat itself can be found under the title link.

The ActiveWorlds® 3D chat is the next step to the future of the internet, it brings a virtual 3D-world to your home. Virtual Worlds Productions produces tools and special bot software which enhances these chat software. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
VWP Newsletter


 Audiosoftware: AudioCutter Cinema: English Documentation Available
An English translation of the AudioCutter Cinema's (available for Windows and Linux) documentation is now available as a first draft. It can be found under the title link and will be part of the coming soon version 1.1. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)


 Online magazine: AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German games editor
The online magazine AMIGA-aktuell is looking for a German editor for the games section.

Carsten Schröder wrote:
"After Malte Mende unfortunately was forced to quit his work on the AMIGA-aktuell games part due to lack of time, last month, and regettably his designated successor abandoned his promis because of the same reason, a few days ago, we are now urgently wanting a game knowing Amiga user willing to take over the unsalaried leadership of the game section, along with Jürgen Theiner, and mainly would care for the PD tests rubric and preface and closing words of the game part."

If you are interested or would like to ask questions, please contact Carsten Schröder. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Nov.2001
AmigaPage


 AmigaPage: Workbench-Competition "Amiga Passion"
"Amiga Passion" competiton was born to take you part of the AmigaPage (italian online magazine) life. The target of the competition are all the Amiga users and you'll attend with one or more of your WB Grab (max 3) that will be send to kanuka@ciaoweb.it with "Concorso" as subject.

The competiton goes on till the 31st December 2001. The first four positions will win a copy of the game 'Extreme' donated by DKGStore. In addition AmigaPage offer a mousepad, a brooch and a poster rispectively to 1st, 2nd and 3rd classifier.

The judges are Marco Lovera, Sandra Lovera and Claudio Marro Filosa. After 31/12/01 we'll have the time to take counsel for a unanimous vote. All grabs that you send will be show below and after "Amiga Passion" we'll move all in the "Computer Passion". In conclusion I remind you that all grabs sent since now can't attend to the competiton. After this I'll invite you to take part of the "Amiga Passion" competition. (ps)

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23.Nov.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


 Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
With the extension which is available at the title link the Amiga emulator UAE can now use the SDL library for graphics output under Linux.

SDL stands for Simple DirectMedia Layer. The SDL library is a cross platform library and offers functions for graphics and sound output as well as querying input devices.

The version modified for UAE currently only works under Linux, but there are some benefits from using SDL:

  • It's now possible to use UAE in fullscreen mode as a normal user.
  • The emulator can now be used directly on the console (with activated framebuffer), e.g. without X-Windows.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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22.Nov.2001
AmigaGames.com


 AmigaGames.com: Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia
The Golden Amiga Games Encyclopedia, or in short GAGE, contains information from over 500 games, with compatibility information, cheats, docs, walkthrougs, screenshots, and more. Maintained by Dr. Zarkov since 1998, it is one of the most comprehensive information resources for Amiga Games. (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)


 Tool: SRename Version 3.0.1
SRename is a program which has some more functions as the common 'rename'.

Changes in this release:
  • Fixed bug that caused the "no objects would be renamed" message not to be displayed in some cases with the SIMULATE option.
  • Enabled the simultaneous display of messages related to SELECTED and SIMULATE options in a case that one canceled the other.
  • Internal restructuring and various changes.
Download: SRename3.lzx (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
Haage&Partner


 H&P News: AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list / Show: AMIGA 2001
AmigaOS XL: New FAQs and list
The FAQ list now offers 6 new solutions to frequently asked questions and problems. Thanks to the help of some customers we could add some more items to our list: Aladdin 4D, Audio Evolution, CandyFactory, Diavolo Pro, Digibooster Pro, Magic Menu, MAME, MaxonTOOLS, MaxonTwist, Monzoom 3D, PageStream, Samplitude, Shapeshifter, Superbase 4, TurboCalc, TV Paint, Wordworth and may others. AmigaOS XL site.

Show: AMIGA 2001
This years Amiga show was again very crowded because everyone wanted to see AmigaOS XL working. On three workstations we presented Amithlon and AmigaXL for QNX and answered all questions of the astonished Amiga fans. The resonance was very positive and the people really liked our new design tower very much. There will be more offers around AmigaOS XL the next days. Pictures of the show (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
DeepSILENCE


 Game: New Demo-Engine for SOMS available
The new demo engine is better and faster, furthermore graphics have been enhanced and according to Silvio Kurze contains sound now, too.

SOMS is about an action adventure like never before released for the Amiga. Action devotees well be have fun with the about 100 different enemies, numerous screen filling final enemies and extended levels as well, especially if they get supported by 20 configurable weapons and the same amount of spells!

If the adventure devotee gets horrored by the above, it is to say that combats can be avoided by cleverness, if you deal with the numerous puzzles.

Also the role game devotees, disliking the minimal possiblities to equip the characters in action games, can knock down satisfyed! The variety starts with free naming of the 4 main characters, goes thru the continuous enhancement of features and capabilities of your own character, the detailed multiple-choice dialogs with about 100 persons, the sophisticated weapon system, thru the 10 characters with own tactics, views and goals of life joining the force one by one.

Download: deepsilence.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: New Repulse driver for ProStationAudio
Alien Design has made available a new Repulse driver (analog and S/P-DIF board) for ProStationAudio. You will find the driver at the download area. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
Scalos


 Workbench Replacement: Scalos-Plugins, Moduls, Betaversion 40.15
Scalos added some moduls and plugins for the Workbench replacement Scalos to their download page. Furthermore a little problem was fixed in the WB3.9 plugin. The updated archive can be found at the download area, as well. The current beta version is v40.15. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
VaporWare


 Statement from Oliver Wagner about the "Security Issues in MUI Apps"
Under the title link you will find a detailed statement by Oliver Wagner Vaporware) on the "security issues in MUI applications" recently revieled. He describes and clarifies that not only MUI applications are affected. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)


 SuperView: ImageFX Saver Version 1.4
A potential memory leak in the ImageFX saver for SView was fixed in V1.4 (now on download page on my WWW site). (ps)

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22.Nov.2001
Telepolis


 Telepolis: Under the token of the Boing-Ball
Torsten Kleinz published a German article about the AMIGA 2001 at Telepolis containig a good sumarize of the past years. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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21.Nov.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)


 Sequencer: BarsnPipes version 1.07 published
Version 1.07 of the improved sequencer BarsnPipes has been just published. Many bugs have been fixed and a lot of new functions have been added which were wishes of users from all over the world. You can read on the History which new things have been added.

This super multimedia sequencer for the classic Amiga is a must-have for all midi-musicans. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
amiga-topcool / Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: Interview with Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding the manager of Haage&Partner has been interviewed of amiga-topcool. He speaks about Amithlon, AmigaOS XL, Amiga.Inc, AmigaOS 4, AmigaOS 3.9, iFusion, PageStream and the current situation of Amiga. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Graphic competition: Schlachtfeld
For one month there is the graphic competition to "Schlachtfeld". Today Horst Diebel gave some more details for the graphics to be made.

In contrary to the "old" Schlachtfeld units and background will stand in a relation 1 to 1 that means 64 pixels are ca. 20 m. The size of the pattern will be 64x64 pixels and you can use 256 colours or more. The developer would be very delighted if you took part. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)


 Pegasos-Boards will be produced on DCE SMD-line
Under the title link you can find some pictures of DCE which show how PEGASOS-boards are being placed on the SMD-line of DCE. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
CCC-ML


 Chaos Computer Club: Censorship is being done
A provider from Nordrhein-Westfalen (German county) starts to block Internet sites.

In some sort of hurrying obedience at least one Internet provider in Düsseldorf (Germany), the ISIS company, has constricted access to several Internet sites by changing the DNS entry on the ISIS name server. Yesterday, the Chaos Computer Club got aware of this censorship effort.

On a hearing of the county government of Düsseldorf with diverse Internet providers it was discussed by what means providers would be able to block access to diverse outlandish websites, [1].

This was in main about sites spreading radical right-wing content, but also rotten.com, specialized to collect more or less tastily picture material from the Internet, was condsidered to be dignified to be censored. Rotten.com quote thier extreme photo collection, among other of of casualties, as serious dealing with the manor of freedom of speech.

Philipp Schulte of CCC Düsseldorf in view of this faint-hearted censorship effort said: "It is to assume that the still very short list of objectionable websites will increase very much in the future and other providers will follow the example of censorship outrider ISIS".

To use a different name server appears to be a work-around for customers. eg. 194.246.96.49 (dns2.denic.de), 194.246.96.25 (dns3.denic.de), 194.25.2.131 (dns02.btx.dtag.de).

The Chaos Computer Club's considered opinion is that censorship by technical means is not a suitable way to handle content supposed to be problematic. "The massive restriction of the citizens in exercising their freedom of opinion is beyond the pale", added Jens Ohlig, CCC speaker.

Though the hearing of the county government in Düsseldorf on November 13 ended 'result open', according to numerous particitpants, customers of those providers, who are in hurrying obedience complyed with the governments suggestions, on access to several sites instead of the original notes receive an 'informer form' [2] to announce Internet sites thought to be problematic to the county government NRW.

The county government's approach to filter the Internet offers and by this to attempt to establish censorship is a critical step into the wrong direction in the opinion of the Chaos Computer Club .

"Instead of establishing technical filters, which reconcilableness with the constitutional law at least is questionable and which technical implementation is easy to avoid anyway, the government authorities rather should focus their efforts to sponsor the loom of media competences. More important than technical methods would it be to emerge a social immunity for content thought to be problematic", added Andy Müller-Maguhn, club speaker, to the club's statement. [3]

To what extent other companies in NRW followed the suggestions of the county government, without being legally bound to, is being reviewed. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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21.Nov.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail)


 Newsletter: Amiga Update #011030 from Brad Webb
Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter under the title link. (ps)

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21.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


 EARTH 2140 Missionpack: The Final Conflict shipping now
Missionpack THE FINAL CONFLICT for real-time strategy hit EARTH 2140 is now shipping. The new missionpack brings 80 new single- and 30 new multiplayer missions to the game. In addition there are 6 new units, 2 new buildings and a new terrain. (ps)

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21.Nov.2001
AmigART


 Burner software: MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8
There is a new beta version (MakeCD 3.2d Beta 8) of the burner software 'MakeCD'. In order to use it you have to install version 3.2c first.

Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_8.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Kees Witteveen on amiga.org


 Coding GUI programs in VP - Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow
This is the first in this series of tutorials concerned with writing programs for Tao's intent media environment. This series assumes that you have read the first series on VP coding at this site (even the tutorials I have not written yet!) or at least have a basic knowledge of VP coding.
(ps)

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21.Nov.2001
amiga.org


 Installer: WHDLoad - New URL and packets (until 20.11.2001)
From now on the website of the installers 'WHDLoad' has the new url http://www.whdload.de (title link). With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 20.11.01 new: Atome (Skarla) done by Psygore
  • 20.11.01 new: Makaveli (Essence) done by Psygore
  • 20.11.01 new: Bio Challenge (Delphine) done by CFOU!
  • 19.11.01 new: Cosmic Bouncer (EuroLine/Ready Soft) done by CFOU!
  • 17.11.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version, minor other changes
  • 17.11.01 new: Rome AD 92 (Millennium) done by CFOU!
  • 17.11.01 new: Loom (LucasFilm Games) done by JOTD
  • 17.11.01 new: Killing Cloud (Vektor Grafix) done by John Girvin
  • 17.11.01 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) uses less memory
  • 17.11.01 new: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) done by John Girvin
  • 17.11.01 new: Espana The Games '92 (Ocean/Creative Materials) done by Bored Seal
  • 17.11.01 new: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) done by CFOU!
  • 06.11.01 improved: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) supports another version
  • 06.11.01 new: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
  • 06.11.01 improved: Barbarian 2/Axe of Rage (Palace SoftWare) supports more versions
  • 05.11.01 new: Skweek (Loriciels) done by Psygore
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
Bernd Roesch (ANF)


 Programming language: Beta of Amiblitz2 (formerly Blitz2) version 2.21b1 publis
The site for the programming language 'Blitz' www.blitz-2000.co.uk (title link) now is also the homepage for AB2 (have a look also under Archives/Blitz2). There you can also find the source codes and beta versions and much more information about Blitz2. Currently there is beta version AB2.21b1 ready for download. This version will be not uploaded to Aminet.

Please do not send your bug reports to the uploader but to the Blitz mailinglist in order to avoid double bug reports.

In order to subscribe to the mailinglist please send a mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. In order to unsubscribe please send a mail to blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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21.Nov.2001
VGR Newsseite (ANF)


 SharkPPC is not a development of ELBOX?!
On Sunday 18th of November in 2001 on the VGR-sites (title link) a very interesting news message has been published: The SharkPPC which was introduced by ELBOX at the fair is supposed to be nothing more than a relabeled Sonnet PPC-card. If you will have a look at the Sonnet-product site it will confirm it.

Accordingly ELBOX has not developed "its" SharkPPC for itself. Therefore the introduction of the SharkPPC+ (which is supposed to have IDE-controller, AGP-slot and USB) can be doubted. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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20.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: VarIO Updates
The support-area of our website contains two updates for our interface board VarIO: The new driver archive contains a corrected version of the SetupVarIO command (Enforcer hits removed), and a french catalog. The new file Inside_VarIO.txt describes the final hardware for programmers of other operating systems (Linux and NetBSD for example). (ps)

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20.Nov.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)


 Potos from the Amiga 2001 at Virtual Dimension
On weekend Virtual Dimensions was on the show for you and took pictures from the Amiga 2001 for their new show video. To create the video will take some time. To shorten your waiting time some pictures were put online, already.

Same pictures with English subtitles (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)


 Hyperion: Warp3D support for Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon
Hyperion Entertainment has entered into an agreement with third parties to ensure Permedia 3 and ATI Radeon support for Warp3D, effectively doubling the number of supported chipsets.

"We are thrilled to be able to open up ever more possibilities to users of Amiga PCI busboards", says Ben Hermans, managing partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "The Permedia 3 is around 6 times faster than the Permedia 2 and offers a lot more functionality including full OpenGL compliance. The chipset is still frequently used in high-end 3D workstations. The ATI Radeon family is undeniably state of the art with well-rounded 2D performance and top-notch 3D performance that is on par with anything out there in the Wintel world. Support for the Radeon family will allow Amiga users to enjoy unrivalled performance and functionality."

More details will be disclosed in the upcoming weeks. (ps)

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20.Nov.2001
Yoris Benjamin (E-Mail)


 Hyperion Entertainment brings 3D graphics to PDA's
Hyperion Entertainment is very pleased to announce that it has finalised an initial version of its "Warp3D" technology, a mature, small foot-print, feature-rich yet very fast 3D solution for ElateTM/ Amiga DETM based devices.

Warp3D allows content-creators to effortlessly deploy 3D graphics on low-end devices such as PDA's, web-tablets and 3G phones and is the product of years of development in response to concrete performance challenges and 3D technology.

Hyperion intends to showcase the Warp3D technology by producing several PDA oriented games.

"A lot of the PDA content we are seeing now is a throw-back to the earlier days of entertainment software and whilst this is not necessarily a bad thing, we do believe that users would like to enjoy sophisticated 3D content on these devices as well. Our contract-work for LithTech Inc. also means we were able to incorporate extensive research and expertise in the field of software rendering which resulted in one of the fastest software renderers in the industry - the only viable solution on a non 3D-accelerated PDA. Add to that a highly optimised subset of OpenGL which is nonetheless capable of running industry-standard 3D engines like Quake IITM and LithTechTM and you have a piece of very compelling technology indeed."

Warp3D was already successfully field-tested on the SH3 powered version of Sharp's Zaurus PDA and is due for imminent release.

The technology will remain in continuous development and will be licensed to interested parties.
For the complete press release see title link. (ps)

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20.Nov.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


 e.p.i.c interactive entertainment announces THE FEEBLE FILES for Amiga
Our Mac cartoon adventure The Feeble Files will be ported to the Pegasos/MorphOS as well as the Amiga. The Amiga version comes in fully localised versions for english and german. Required is an Amiga with a 4 MByte gfx board (f.e. B/CVision), a 68060 or PPC and at least 32 MByte RAM. Work on both the Amiga- and the MorphOS is under way and we hope to ship the game before Xmas 2001. (ps)

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20.Nov.2001
Frank Duessel (ANF)


 Event: Exchange for classic video and computer games of the 70th and 80th
The first exchange for classic video and computer games for the following systems is being organized in Germany:
  • Konsolen: Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, Vectrex, Interton, Saba, Philips, Pong und vieles mehr.
  • Computer: C64, Atari, Amiga, SVC etc.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Matthias Bethke (E-Mail)


 HSC (HTML-Pre-Prozessor) V0.921
HSC V0.921 was finished and can be downloaded along with the prefs update for HTML 4.01 at the title link. For the present there are the source codes and documentation only, again. But Amiga binaries for release are welcome. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Petra Struck


 Update for our show report
Since I did not talked to Titan Computer on the show, I called Michael Garlich, today, to be able to add the news from Titan Computer. The details described below have been added to the show report (title link):

Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.

More applications under development:

The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002.

Games under development:

Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.

Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)


 MCP Version 1.35 released
Version 1.35 of MCP (MasterControlProgram) is released. Some bugs removed, the package updated. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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20.Nov.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 Installation manual for SUSE Linux 7.3 PPC for Amiga systems
Michael Heider published a German installation manual under the title link. This manual does not deal with the new "Journaling Filesystems", so far. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
Costel Mincea (ANF)


 Mirror of the 3Sat report about the Amiga World 2001 (MPG-Video)
Stefan Robl captured the report about the Amiga World 2001 in Cologne and created a MPEG video. Since he asked for a mirror I added the video to my short show report. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)


 Amiga 2001: Report and pictures by 'No Risc No Fun'
'No Risc No Fun' published a German show report and pictures of the show. Additonally new Workbench screenshots and small ads have been published. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
3sat (ANF)


 3sat.online: AMIGA 2001 - broadcast of 19. November .2001
A written German version of the show report broadcast by "Neues... die Computershow" at 3SAT (German television station) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Nov.2001
William Bidgood (AmigaOpen-ML)


 AmigaDE: Coding GUI programs in VP - OpenWindow
William Bidgood has published the 'Tutorial 1 - OpenWindow', the first Tutorial of his 'Coding GUI programs in VP' series.

The text describes the opening of a window in VP-Assembler under Tao's Intent-Media-Environment.

At the Overview of his GUI-Tutorials the sourcetexts of the forthcoming parts are available. (sd)

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20.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)


 AmigaPage: MP3 capture of the show report
There is a MP3 capture of the show report about the Amiga 2001 by "Neues... die Computershow" ready for download.

Download: neues5.zip (3,4 MB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Nov.2001
Petra Struck


 AMIGA 2001: Gleanings by amiga-news.de (Update III)
The show AMIGA 2001, which took place on 17th and 18th November 2001, was organized by Falke Media and was held at the Mediapark 6 in Cologne, Germany, on about 718 sq.yd. exhibition space. By our count there were about 1,000 visitors on the show, consuetudinary most of them came on Saturday.

bplan GmbH - Pegasos-System
Very much interesting was the first official presentation of the run capable Pegasos machine by the bplan GmbH, utilizing the operating system MorphOS. Gerald Carda presented a test program to us which displayed plasma effects. Unaccelerated (about the speed of 68050/50) this program generates 4 pictures per second (FPS). The same program compiled for MorhpOS generates 192 FPS.

Thomas Knäbel and Gerald Carda told us about a number of between 100 and 200 developer systems to be available from early January 2002. Interested developers might register using a registration page at bplan, before long. If there will be more registrations than boards available, it will be selected by progam priority. The developers should send bug reports, if there will occur problems.

Machines for end-users will follow about 8 - 12 weeks later. Those machines will cost about 1,000 Euro and are planned to be delivered with the following equipment:
  • 8 MB AGP graphic board
  • 128 MB RAM
  • DVD Drive
  • 20 GB HD
  • Mouse and Keyboard

The interesting point of MorhpOS for sure is, that existing PPC programs can be started directly on this system. Companies like Titan-Computer and Epic interactive will extensively adapt their programs to this system.

Haage&Partner - Amiga OS XL
Amiga OS XL, the new super-fast Amiga emulators for x86 machines were presented on three different computers at Haage&Partner. The speed is impressing and faszinating at the same time.

Amiga OS XL consists of two emulator systems: AMIthlon and Amiga XL for QNX in a bundle. The emulators are similar to each other in many parts, but there are basic differences, too. With this prevalent Amiga 68k applications run 10 - 20 times faster on current PC hardware than on a convetional 68060 systems. This tremendous speed is achieved by a modified and accelerated emulator. With it one gets versions of PageStream, ImageFX, ArtEffect, Cinema4D, Real3D, and any other program fast like turbo.

Haage&Partner's highlight is a x86 machine built into a luxury computer case of noble design and with Amiga OS XL installed. The body of the computer was made of aluminium, the front side is of azure plastic.

While talking to H&P they appeared to be surprised by the allmost all-time positive visitors' response and amazed at the still great demand for information, though there have been many press releases before. Sales could have been better, but satisfied.

Hyperion - AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC
Without doubt the most interesting thing on the second day of the show was our talk to Ben Hermans, Thomas and Hans-Jörg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainment about AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. It was determined and safe by contract that Hyperion will develop AmigaOS 4.0 for PPC. Aspired term of completion of an initial distributing version is February 2002. This distributing version still will have parts of 68k code, which will be handed in later by BoingBag updates when finished.

Hyperion will work together with bplan to make the AmigaOS 4.0 PPC running on the Pegasos machine. Hyperion additionally talked to many other hardware and software developers to make their products compatible, too. This gave a very positive sign, because after a long period of time a joint line and goal is being followed, again.

Titan Computer - Update 20. November.2001

Highlight at the booth of Titan Computer was a video cut software "Motion Studio" for MorphOS capable of reading DV format. The development of the software is expected to be released along with the Pegasos board by bplan. It was presented with a beamer what the video cut software already can do. Unfortunately it is not possible to port the software to AmigaOS, due to firwire being required.

More applications under development:

The office package "Papyrus" was finished at 90% for MorphOS and is to be ported to the AmigaOS 4.0 later on.
Candy Factory II, software to create vidoe titles, logos, and web images for MophOS. The created pictures can be imported by MotionStudio using an interface.
A MorphOS version of Burn-IT Pro (DVD burning software) was presented. Said to be finished until April 2002.

Games under development:

Beside of the above mentioned applications Titan Computer is developing two new games, too. "Rage Hard" is a 3D multiplayer shooter similar to Counterstrike. This game is being developed for MorphOS and the new Amigas. "Alien Nations" is another game for MorphOS and AmigaOS (PPC) under development, a build-up strategy game similar to Settlers.

Titan Comuter will port their current software product line to MorphOS, as much titles as possible.

DCE - G-REX
Thomas Dellert and Michael Göken of DCE presented the PCI busboard G-Rex working in an A4000 with Cyberstrom 604/68060 and AmigaOS 3.9 as well as WarpUP.

An USB card for mouse and keyboard, a Voodoo graphic board (3/3000), a WIN-TV card with radio tuner, and a sound card (Terratec 512i) were working on the PCI board. There are many good reasons for this solution: Graphic speed, wheel mouse and multimedia keyboard, support of the USB card, 100 MBit network card can be connected; all in all it became possible to use cheap generic PC hardware by the PCI busboard G-Rex. The board is being offerd for A4000D/T and A1200.

Elbox - Mediator
Elbox presented their Mediator system. The following models were shown:
  • Mediator PCI ZIV
  • Mediator PCI 1200
  • Mediator PCI 4000
  • Shark PPC G3/G4

Again the reasons mentioned regarding DCE match here. With help of a PCI busboard it is possible to use cheap PCI hardware for various purposes.

Other Hardware-Products

Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers showed us a pre-run model of the interface card VarioIO, which will be available before Christmas, already.

Basing on a Logitech 2 button mouse Schönfeld developed a real Amiga / Atari mouse. Also this production will start next days.

Thorsten Hansen of Kato Development showed us the prototype of the Melody successor. This card will have the functions of the Melody card plus the following specialities:
  • MP3 audio not only can be decoded in real-time, but also encoded.
  • Analog mixer function.
  • Digital in/out (optical / coaxial)

Michael Böhmer showed his USB controller Subway with which you can connect prevalent USB devices to the clock port of the A1200. Up to four devices can be use without an additional USB hub. VMC started to develop drivers, already. Currently drivers for mouse and keyboard are available. Drivers for printers, digital cameras, and scanners are scheduled.

Other Software-Products

Amiga Forever 5.0
Michael Battilana of Cloanto presented the new Amiga Forever 5.0. Amiga Forever is about an official licensed Amiga emulator package for Windows and other platforms. Just put the CD into the drive, click on the icon and it runs. Eight different emulation programs, all of the required Kickstart ROMs, Workbenchs, licenses, as well as an all-around package with useful Amiga sofware are included.
Due to the implemented JIT compiler (just-in-time) version 5.0 is about 30 time faster than Amiga Forever 4. The emulator comes on a CD containing the famous video "The Deathbed Vigil" (1 h, 59 min.) and the video "Jay Miner Speech" (49 min.).
But Amiga Forever 5.0 is available for download as online version, too.

epic interactive - THE FEEBLE FILES
epic announce THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga. This game is about a cartoon adventure. Beside of the MorphOS port there also will be an AmigaOS verison. The Amiga version will be available as entirely localized versions in Engish and German (voice output). An Amiga with 4 MB graphic board, 68060 or PPC, and at least 32 MB RAM is required.
Development of the Amiga version already started and epic hopes to be able to deliver the finished product already before Christmas 2001.

Descent:Freespace
Hyperion showed the new game Descent-Freespace. This game is about a space shooter. The Amiga port of Freespace was finished at 99% and will be available as 68k (with 3D hardware only) and PPC version from H&P, soon. Those who ordered the game on the show got a free demo CD for testing at home, already.

Project Crashsite
Markus Pohlmann (program) and Denis Comtesse (music) are busy developing the science fiction role game Project Crashsite. The place of action in this game is a colonialized second system consiting of two moons. The player takes the part of the "Future Security Corps" which is the system's police.

The game's goal is to stabilize the unstable situation of this system. This is not easy to achieve, due to a big conspiracy defering the relation of potency. The player is sent into the game almost without any background information about the conspiracy to make him choose "pal and enemy" himself, because depending on his choice the game becomes easier or more difficult.

Currently four people are working on this game, thus it is not possible to announce some date of comlpetion at the time being.

PuzzleBOBS
In cooperation with Emanuele Cesaroni of Nexus Development the Amiga Arena and Fun Time World present the game in partnership. PuzzleBOBS is about a "Bust´n Move" clone. From now on a demo version is available on http://www.funtime-world.de/puzzle.html or from the support page at the Amiga Arena.

Technical backgrounds:
  • PuzzleBOBS is completely configurable.
  • Screenmode (AGA / OCS / ECS / Picasso96 or CyberGraphX compatible graphic boards).
  • Bitplanes: up to 16- and 24Bit screens.
  • Playable in three languages (German, Italian, English)
  • Playable from HD, full or partly installation (min. 14 MB)
  • Written in 100% assembler
  • Import of own levels and sounds.

Backgrounds, bubbles, object speed, music and sound effects, explosion style, and masses of other little things, as well, can be configured to match your own personal desire.

The game was programmed to allow different bubbles to have different characteristics. There are bubbles that bounce back form walls, which of course simplifies severity. The game runs in full multitasking on it's own screen or in a window on the Workbench.

When the game's window becomes inactive the game automatically turns to sleep mode, which is a special feature to let you continue your work on the Workbench. In sleep mode even every audio channel and colour palette get's released.

Miscellaneous

GGS Data - Amiga Show
Gunne Steen of the Swedish vendor GGS Data informed us about an Amiga show in Göteborg, Sweden, planned to take place on 2. March 2002 (maybe also on 3. March 2002). The respective website will be online in about seven days. Comanies and user groups are heartily invited to attend the show as exhibitors.

Psyria - Music
Dennis Lohr gave us a CD on the show on which he eternalized his trance song for amiga-news.de. This song also is available for download: Amiga News Theme (ca. 7 MB). Again thank you very much to Dennis for taking the trouble to create this song. This realy is a privilege to us!

Annex - Music
Daniel Schulz of Annex assured us that the music group, known by several Amiga songs, still is alive. Meantime many new pices of music were recored, extracts can be downloaded as MP3.

Still the vocals are missing, because the band still is searching for a female singer. She should have been singing in a band before, come from the dance/trance field, and live in the Rhein-Main area (Germany). Interessted singers might contact Daniel Schulz (include a demo if possible). Two maxi-singles with three songs on each and maybe a long-player with all songs are planned.

Virtual Dimension
The crew of Virtual Dimension did many interviews and took many pictures for their show video. The video is estimated to be published before Christmas.
Furthermore Virtual Dimension introduced the round and text basing space game StarEmpire II by Christian Becker . Up to 32 players are possible.

Airbrush Paradise Tingler
Rolf Tingler prettified diverse things with different motives. Of course mainly motives with BoingBalls were desired. Starting from cell phones thru Swiss pocket knives everything got "boinged" with airbrush technic.

Upshot:

Interesting hard- and software solutions were presented. There was good mood on the show and intensive discussing everywhere. However, it is to be said that in spite of all those innovations and in spite of the positive signs some certain questions were left without an answer, cause neither Amiga Inc. nor Eytech or Escena attended the show. Thats where descriptions regarding the plans of Amiga Inc. for the AmigaOne are required.

Finally one discerning word regarding the organization. The corridors along the "focal points" on the upper floor were way to narrow. Occasionally there were such big crowd that it was hard to get to the booths.

Christoph Dietz, Petra Struck as well as Meike Hilke (photos) were on the show for amiga-news.de.

Update II: 20. November .2001
Link list for pictures and reports regarding the AMIGA 2001 show:

25.11.2001: Sebastien Jeudy Pictures
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (German subtitles)
20.11.2001: Virtual Dimension Pictures (English subtitles)
20.11.2001: Stefan Robl 3SatAmiga2001.mpg (German TV broadcast, 50 MB)
20.11.2001: Amiga Page neues5.zip (Voice record of the above broadcast, mp3 - 3,4 MB)
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Pictures
20.11.2001: No Risc No Fun Report (German)
20.11.2001: 3SAT Text report (German) about the German TV broadcast "Neues... die Computershow" (3Sat)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Show review
19.11.2001: Fun Time World: Pictures
19.11.2001: Costel Mincea Pictures and report (German and English)
19.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 2. day
18.11.2001: amiga-topcool.de Report (German)
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 1
18.11.2001: AUG99 Pictures - Part 2
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pre-report - 2. Tag
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Markus Nerding
18.11.2001: ANN IRC-Log / Michael Garlich
18.11.2001: Elastic Image - Falcon Pictures
18.11.2001: Stefan Popp Report
18.11.2001: amiga-news.de Pictures of the 1. Tages
18.11.2001: Marcus Neervoorts Amiga Page Pictures and report (German)
17.11.2001: amiga-info.net Pictures
17.11.2001: amiga-news.de First pre-report

Update III: 25. November .2001
Pictures from Sebastien Jeudy.(sd) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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 Pictures of the Amiga 2001 by Costel Mincea
There are some photos of the exhibition made by Costel Mincea with some words about the depictured things. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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 AMIGA 2001: pictures of the second day
The second part contains mainly pictures of hardware-devices. A selection of the photos made by Christoph Dietz and Michael Böhmer:


Amithlon on an expensive PC
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Elbox
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Elbox
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Elbox
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Elbox
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Elbox - Mediator
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G-Rex
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G-Rex
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G-Rex
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H&P
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amiga-news.de interview with Hyperion
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....
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...
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...
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... still the same interview
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...
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Pegasos
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Pegasos tower (Vesalia)
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Pegasos
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Pegasos
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USB-Subway (Prototype,
pre series, series build)
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... final product
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VarIO
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Petra congratulating Rüdiger,
who got elected president
of the AC-DE
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(ps) (Translation: sk)

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