25.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: poll and raffle
In the section Interactive of the Amiga Future homepage had a poll been
started. The editor staff likes to know which parts of the Amiga Future homepage
are good or bad and what should be changed. The participiants giving their
opinions (no flames) can win 1 x Myst and 1 x Sixth Sense. Deadline
is the 01.09.2001.
Beside of that the status and jobs pages have been updated.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
AmigaOnlineGames (ANF)
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Website: 'AmigaOnlineGames' updated
AmigaOnlineGames has made it their task to inform their readers about
Amiga games that can be played via network (that is online). For this purpose
has a database been built that is growing on and on.
As promised seven games have been added on the website.
These ones are:
Jet, Matrix, Overdrive, Perfect General, Tracon 2, Turbo and Wild Wheels.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: software page updated
Today the 'Little Book of Amiga Software' got an update again.
It's mainly a mystery list that contains around 200 games and applications that
weren't assigned to a rubric until now. Furtheron some rubrics have been added
und during the day some cover scans will be uploaded.
The announced update for the 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' will not happen before
next week.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Innovative (ANF)
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Poll: Innovative survey 2001
To suit our service and our future product policy better to the market we have
put together a little poll to get a more realistic view of the actual market and
demand situation after the many turbulances of the past months in the AMIGA
market. So we would be very pleased about a good participation.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Merlancia Industries
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Merlancia: website revised
The American dealer and developer 'Merlancia Industries' has revised their
website and partly new designed.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Golem
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Golem: Met@box: one more investors group cancels
»Member of the board of directors White resigned
A second group of investors told the Metabox AG yesterday not being
interested in an investment under the given circumstances. Negotiations about
alternative ways of financing, among others from shareholders' side, are said to
be not finished yet.«
For the complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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25.Aug.2001
Amiga Support Network
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Amiga: Internet shop for AmigaDE software from September on
In September Amiga Inc. will open an Internet shop for AmigaDE software. The
products there will be presented by Amiga and can be paid via credit card or
PayPal. So, next to the 'Sharp Space Town', there'll be an Amiga own online shop
available.
Further information is available via the title link, or look at
http://www.amiga.com/corporate/amigadeshop.shtml.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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24.Aug.2001
Alexander Klauke (ANF)
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IFA: Allrounder: Sharp Personal Mobile Tool SL-5000
»The Japanese Sharp company will introduce their new pocket sized Personal Mobile Tool SL-5000
on the IFA 2001. The most important tools of this little allrounder are web-browsers, mobile phone,
e-mail, and a MP3 player. Quick operation of any business task is guaranteed by the 206 MHz Intel
StrongARM processor, 32 MB SDRAM for memory, as well as the operating system Linux OS (kernel 3.4).
The users are forced to access the in many cases unfamiliar display keyboard, since below the operating front,
which can be pulled off, there is a QWERTZ keyboard. Operating time basically is not limited, the different
battery packs can be recharged separately. The SL-5000 can be extended with SD or multimedia cards and
compact flash memory cards. Even a video camera module can be connected to it. But the Personal Mobile Tool
was not made for business purposes only: The cooperation with Amiga Inc. and their wide range of games
make it a small games machine. The device is said to be available at the vendor's from December.« (ps) (Translation: mj)
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24.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: New WHDLoad packages
Games which were intended for playing from disk only can be installed to
harddisk thanks to WHDLoad. The following packages have been added or updated:
- 23.08.01 improved: Uridium 2 (Graftgold)
- 23.08.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark)
- 23.08.01 improved: Rockstar Ate My Hamster! (Colin Jones/Codemasters)
- 23.08.01 new: No Excuses (Arcana)
- 23.08.01 new: International 3D Tennis (Sensible Software/Palace)
- 23.08.01 improved: Ikari Warriors (Elite)
- 23.08.01 new: Hong Kong Phooey (Hi-Tec)
- 23.08.01 improved: Hard Drivin' 2 (Domark)
- 23.08.01 improved: Hard Drivin' (Domark)
- 23.08.01 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog)
- 23.08.01 new: Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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24.Aug.2001
Bernd (e-mail)
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Computerwoche: Multimedia allrounder: Sharp's new Zaurus
In an article by Computerwoche online Sharp's new mini computer
"Zaurus MI-E21" is described which is equipped with 32 bit RISC processor and
32 MByte RAM and is able to read Compact Flash and SD-cards (Secure Digital).
Its display is 3.5" diagonally, a miniature keyboard can be pulled out.
Highlighted are the multimedia capabilities of the Zaurus. The Linux-based device
is supposed to be published end of this year internationally.
German Computerwoche online article at the title link.
More articles on the topic:
The Register: Sharp launches next-gen Zaurus, promises 3G wireless version
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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24.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe v16.4
A new version 16.4 of the virus detector 'Safe' has been released. Here are the
details:
Name: Safe v16.4
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 36.313 bytes
Release date: August 23rd, 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
Changes:
- Totally reworked VECS option, which now allows to see the most
interesting task fields!
- Finally fixed all BUGS with 000 processors.
- HitchHiker 5.0 is on the wild!
Please wait for more detailed information and AV-software from Vht-Dk.
Markus Schmall said he will take a look at this one.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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23.Aug.2001
CarstenSiegner (ANF)
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At last a DVD software player for Amiga?
At last a DVD software player for Amiga? Is it true? Yes, it's AMP2.
"Old stuff!", some of you will say since you have been watching DVD's
using AMP2 or Frogger.
But it's hardly known that the latest beta version of AMP2 has got
direct DVD support including free choice of the video sequence to be played and
the language for sound and sub-titles. All that get's configured by requesters
which pop up one by one, but only works if AMP2 was started from CLI.
Syntax:
ram:AMP window overlay vcddevice scsi.device vcdunit 2 dvd
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Aug.2001
AmigaOnlineGames
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Website: 'AmigaOnlineGames' updated
AmigaOnlineGames took the task to inform their readers about Amiga games
playable via network. Therefore a database was created becoming bigger and bigger.
Information about the following Amiga games were added:
Doom, Gloom, Populous, Populous 2, Powermonger, Skidmarks, Skidmarks 2,
and Tornado.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Aug.2001
John Chandler bei Suite101
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KOSH News
For a long time there were no news about the 'KOSH' organisation
[Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware] founded by Fleecy Moss.
As John Chandler wrote KOSH still does exist and was formal registered
in England by the name of Kommunity Systems Limited in May 2001.
Late this year Kommunity Systems Limited will release a
'cross-platform development package':
»Kommunity Systems Limited will be working towards an initial
cross-platform development package for later this year, using
off-the-shelf open source tools. Kommunity Systems Limited is pleased
to announce this will be undertaken in support of hardware developer
Ideas2Reality.« (ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Aug.2001
Idruna Software
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Image editing: Photogenics Tutorials online again
Paul Nolan, known by his image editing software Photogenics available
for different operating systems, renamed his company to Idruna Software
as already reported. At the new domain idruna.com
which then was created all of the Photogenics tutorials now are online again.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Aug.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register August 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter by Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group.
This newsletter deals with topical and important information regarding the Amiga,
Macintosh, PC, as well as the computer industry.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Aug.2001
Matay
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Matay: Hardware survey
You will find a hardware survey by the hardware developer Matay under the title link.
Matay developed the PCI bus board 'Prometheus', among other things. The company
wants to investigate with this survey what hardware currently is in demand and
should be developed next.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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Emulator: ASp Version 0.81 (Sinclair ZX Spectrum)
Version 0.81 of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for the Amiga 'ASp' was released.
Download: ASpV081.lha (87 KB) -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Aug.2001
ANN
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Hyperion: Interview concerning Shogo on Linux
On 18th of August in 2001 an interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainment has been published on 'A.T.Hun's Haus of Shogo'.
The main focus of the interview are the sales figures and sales opportunities of Shogo on Linux. Additionally the Amiga market and the Macintosh market are compared.
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2001
Rolf Tingler (E-Mail)
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Nailart: Boingball on fingernail
Our airbrusher Rolf Tingler has thought out a very special thing for the female Amiga-fans. Under the title link you can find under 'Airbrush-Motive' the probably only fingernail of the world with boingball :-). Of course there are many other nice motives if you consider how small is such a fingernail. You need a calm hand to brush the motives right on the nail.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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Graphicer wanted
I am looking for a graphicer which can help me to create geographical maps. Besides continental maps I also need state maps. You can get more details after contacting me.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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MUI tutorial
Richard Kapp writes:
Because some users have contacted me because concerning my MUI-configuration and because I asked myself what I have used for it and how I have preferenced it I have decided to put a MUI tutorial online.
In this tutorial I introduce my personal configuration called 'CoolMUI'. Fonts, images and patterns are assumed which you can download from this site. But what I want to achieve with it is that the users may create their own MUI-designs. This tutorial is also meant as a creative motivation. But all those who enjoy the 'CoolMUI'-look of course can assume it.
In addition to it on the site there are useful hints to MUI, useful links and downloads (e.g. patterns which are related to the 'CoolMUI'-configuration and which you can only find on this site). You can also download the tutorial as a LZX-archive for offline reading. Have fun!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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22.Aug.2001
Kultpower (ANF)
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Kultpower.de after 10 days breakdown online again
After 10 days breakdown because of an update of the nameserver Kultpower.de is now online again - for the first because the provider could only offer an temporary solution of the problem.
Currently the following updates can be looked at:
- New ASM-test reports from the ASM 8/86: DragonsLair (C64, Schneider,
Spectrum), LeatherGoddessesofPhobos (C-64, Amiga, AtariST, Schneider),
NuclearEmbargo (C-64), TheBardsTale (C-64/128, Apple II) original advertisement inclusive.
- New packets of cult-games: Ambermoon, Siedler 3, Populous.
- Interesting link for Powerplay-fans about the history
of Powerplay.
Kultpower.de offers test reports, stories, user-charts and other specials for fans of old cult-game-magazines like Powerplay, ASM, Videogames and Amiga Joker Cover.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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21.Aug.2001
Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)
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Music: Developmet of SerialRipper continues
Kåre Johansen, coder of the AHX-Ripper, has decided after a period of time
to continue the development of SerialRipper, a multiformat music ripper. For this
he is looking for betatesters; if you are interested send a mail to kaarej@start.no. (ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Aug.2001
Oliver Roberts
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Datatypes: WarpDTPrefs and Datatypes from O. Roberts updated
Oliver Roberts has updated the full range of his WarpDatatypes and the WarpDTPrefs,
the preferences program, and the new versions are available on his website.
In detail:
WarpDTPrefs Version 44.6
Preferences program for WarpJPEG, PNG, BMP, PSD & TIFF
WarpJPEG.datatype Version 44.23
JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpPNG.datatype Version 44.19
PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpTIFF.datatype Version 44.3
TIFF picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Aug.2001
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ Version 5.02
With Report+ from Amigan Software you can easily create bugreports, Aminet readmes,
Autodocs, and other reports. It is freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction
and GadTools.
Changes since version 5.01:
Several bugfixes and the Aminet-Readme-Editor is updated.
Download: report.lha (382 KB)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Aug.2001
Matay
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Matay: Prometheus-News
First Prometheus utility from an independent developer
PromInfo is a MUI combination
of PrmScan and RomDump executables that can be found in the Prometheus
software package. This small utility was written by
Daniel Eriksson. You can find it
in the Files section
and at his homepage
http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~daner964/.
The author will appreciate any input from other Prometheus users.
Fixed Voodoo drivers, more cards supported!
In the Files section
you can find fixed Picasso installation package (should stop the "no
suitable screenmode" problem). The Picasso Team reports that it should
support not only Voodoo3 2000/3000 cards but also Voodoo4 4500.
The files are as follows:
Network driver beta 0.17 available
A RTL8029 based network cards driver for Prometheus is available from
Files section. It is still
beta, yet should be stable and useful. Any found bugs please report to
krashan@matay.pl.
We would also like to inform our customers that Blittersoft (United
Kingdom), Vesalia Computer (Germany) and Virtual Works (Italy) have
joined our distributors network in Europe. From now on, you can buy
Prometheus PCI bridge also from them.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9432
Richard H. Poser has released the betaversion 0.9432 of AmigAIM. It is a client
to connect wth the AmericaOnline Instant Messenger (AIM service).
Changes (excerpt from the history):
AmigAIM 0.9432 Beta (21. August 2001)
- When program quit, should just close all the windows without reopening the
Startup window.
- Modification to the Login system as I found that I was using the MOTD for doing
some final login routines and was getting the MOTD twice (and having a screwed up
login due to it - didn't stop from logging in though)
- Adjusted Relogin/Reset systems to show Reconnected in the Activity window, as I had
intended some time ago (Error was related to the MOTD bug above)
Richard H. Poser schreibt außerdem:
BTW: I'm starting back to school full time (started yesterday, actually),
so I may be slow on updating/adding new functions from now on (As at
least one person wants me off the computer so I will do more studying).
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Aug.2001
Yahoo-Group Amiga-Mediator (ANF)
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Game: New screenshots of Payback (W3D)
New screenshots of the Warp3D version of Payback are available on the Apex-Design
website. Also the update 4 was announced to be released soon and containing
Warp3D support.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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21.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Virus
It seems like this new Linkvirus "Hitch-Hiker 5.00" virus is a bit
smarter than we thought. It can change in size, and look. And we
has not aware of this, but we are working hard to get the problem
solved. As soon as we have solved the problem, a new update of
the xvs.library will be released. So stay tuned........
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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20.Aug.2001
BTTR-Team
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Back to the Roots: Amiga-News 232
"Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) is far
away from being dead. We are happy to announce that our
traffic problems are fixed, as we now have a dedicated
server in norway. A new problem which occured, ISDA the
site terminators, tried to shut us down behind our back.
We believe we fixed that issue, but unfortunately they
don't have the culture to respond email communication
they initiated themselves, so we decided to update and
not let you all wait for them further. Read more about
their attack on our news page.
Two new companies are supporting our project. From Soft
Enterprises we can offer you the addictive puzzle games
"Brain Artifice" and "Cube-X". Nightmare Productions
are the creators of the rpg game "Antares". Other new
games are: The entire "Premier Manager" series, Venus
the flytrap, Switchblade 2, Colossus Bridge X, Alien
Syndrome and more.
60 new scene demos from groups like Fairlight, Haujobb,
Scoopex, Ambrosia, Cocoon or The Black Lotus have been
added, while 150 new brilliant scene and game pictures
were included to our pics-archive.
We're pleased to announce, that the famous games
musician Andrew Barnabas has agreed to make his classic
tunes (e.g. SWIV or Double Dragon III) available in our
music section. And there are over 100 other new tunes
from various composers ready for download. And last but
not least we'd like to notify you about two new reviews
of Melcom's great Audio CDs.
Respects from yours
Back to the Roots Team
Bobic + Hippie2000
http://www.back2roots.org
info@back2roots.org
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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APC&TCP: New Amiga CD-ROMs
Brave New World CD-ROM
It´s a Brave New World! This CD contains hundreds of Amiga programs in the following categories: 1982 (classic Amiga game), Babylon 5, esoteric, fantasy, faces of Mars, games, Internet, languages, mathematics, misc, music, pictures, science, science fiction, space, star trek and star wars. All programs are tested with AmigaOS 3.9 thus there should be no problem by using a new computer.
The Scene Archives #11 Double-CD-ROM
This Volume contains Disks 9751 to 10730 of the "The Scene Archives"
collection. There are myriads of interesting Scene Productions on this
CD, including the following categories: Animations, Dentros/Demos, Digis,
Intros, Magazines, Menus, Miscellaneous, Music Demos, Demo Packs, Slideshows
and Trackmos. Now Includes "Scene Archives Search Utility" (SASU),to make
"The Scene Archives" even easier to use.
Both CD's are available from APC&TCP. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Aug.2001
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)
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Scenet event-calendar
Due to the upcoming visit of the 100.000 visitors of Scenet, a online magazin and gateway for the os-independent computer demoscene, is proud to present a new area to you.
Here you can find an up-to-date event-calendar containing details about more then 800 upcoming and past parties and exhibitions including reports and invitations.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Aug.2001
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal (ANF)
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Coyote Flux moves to Paris
Since early July 2001 we have moved to Paris to live and do some classified (Amiga) projects. This doesn't mean that our previous projects are discontinued, but like expected these projects are slightly delayed. PPC680x0 2.0 is reaching the final state of development, with several big improvements and bug-fixes in the Floating Point engine and all the additional features from the PPC680x0 page.
The 3D engine is our main focus at the moment, developed to be a games engine as well as professional photogrammetry/mapper software. More information on the 'Mapper' (which is finished) will be released soon as well as some screenshots. Little note about the speed: Both the 68060 (80-bits FPU) and PPC604 (64-bits FPU) versions are written in optimized assembly language and the 604/233MHz runs the same program 15 times faster than the 68060/60MHz which is quite an improvement. The 64-bits FPU 3D engine renders 3 million "real" depthcued polygons in less than 4 seconds using several realtime correction filters.
We are working on an Amiga hardware project as well, although this is currently strictly confidential. Details will be released soon... :-) (ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Aug.2001
Kickstart (ANF)
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Game: New move for H2
Some weeks ago I discovered a new move in H2. I think that this one is not very well known out there. It is a Wirnelattack using the bladecrook.
Just run and beat (you allready know this) and press one of the side-step keys at the same time. This looks realy cool :)
P.S.: To enter the tubes in the swamp just go right and climb to the top of the liana. Turn right and jump onto the trees. Then walk to the end of the trees and use the bladecrook to jump in one of the tubes.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview mit ClearWater Interactive
Amiga Future published an interview with ClearWater Interactive (the former Crystal
Interactive Software). They are well known for the games "Bubble Heroes" and "Land of Genesis".
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20.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library update
The xvs.library (External Virus Scanner Library) has been updated today.
Remember if you use VirusExecutor, VirusChecker II or VirusZ, you MUST
install this library in you libs: dir, if not, your anti-virus program can't find the
new viruses. It is very important, we get email from users that has not updated
this library for 2 years ??????????????
Here is some info about the release:
Name : xvs.library v33.30
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size : 57.295 bytes
Release date : 20 August 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
E-Mail: virusexecutor@c2i.net
xvs.library size: 58.140 Bytes
News in version 33.30:
- Added Jode Capullos 2 Trojan file virus
Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for the file
- Renamed MKG to Jode Capullos 1
- Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Installer file virus
This is the same for all three link viruses
- Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Link virus
Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00a Link virus
Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00b Link virus
Thanks to Jan Andersen for the HH5 files.
Remember to join the Amiga antivirus maillist for free. Just send
an empty email to: vht-dk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To leave the maillist, just send an empty email to: vht-dk-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
You can find this update at Virus Help Team's websites, and on Aminet within the next
24 hours.....
PS: If you think that Jan Erik Olausen is doing one hell of a job, with keeping you Amiga
secure for viruses, then send him a little donation. I know that xvs.library and VirusExecutor
is freeware, but Jan has done one hell of a job in the last 6 month, to add new virus recog.
in VirusExecutor and now with xvs.library. Send him 4 or 5 US-$, a postcard and even
flowers, if you think he is doing a great job, and would like to keep the xvs.library alive......
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V2.20
A new update of VirusdExecutor has been released today.
Here is some info about the update:
Name : VirusExecutor v2.20
Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 281.228 bytes
Release date : 20 August 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library,
xadmaster.library
Changes since last version
2.20
- VE doesn't need the VirusExecutor: assign anymore, so you can delete
some lines in s:user-startup.
IMPORTANT!
All files that comes with VE must be in the same directory where the
main program are located! (Not libraries and catalogs).
- Recoded 'View patch memory'... It's quite similar to the memory
monitor in VirusZ.
- Thanks to Harry, VE do get the right opcodes when checking for
patched functions.
- Added decoding of 4 shell-scripts.
The DKG-Blum and Jode Capullos virus was hiding in such scripts.
- Fixed some 'out of address' bugs while checking memory.
- Added AHI device channel 0 right.
- Fixed small bug in the vector check window, that could cause
strange characters to be displayed.
- Fixed bug when removing a deleted file from the watch list.
- Added close gadget to the prefs window.
- Added 'Fast file checking' to the prefs window.
Activating this flag will disable all text output, memory checking
and some error messages during file checking...
- When the 'Skip encrypted files'-flag are set, encrypted arhives
are also skipped.
- Added LVO names to device functions.
- Fixed text out of range bug when viewing memory.
- Fixed Enforcer hit in 'View KickMemPtr/KickMemPtr'.
- When VE is infected with a virus it says it is modified and quits.
Stupid, cause when a virus is around, VE should not quit! Fixed.
- Added powerpc.library recog to 'Soft Int'
- Added COP to memory recog.
Thanks to Harry Sintonen and Joerg Riemer for reporting bugs/hits
and for all suggestions and help...
Remember to join the Amiga antivirus maillist for free. Just send
an empty email to: vht-dk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
You can find this update at Virus Help Team's website's now,
and on Aminet within the next 24 hours.....
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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20.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: New trojan 'Muahaha'
A new trojan has been found today. The trojan will delete every file
that has the "key" in the name of the file. This trojan is just like
the that has found of the 15'th of August, named MZ-Makey trojan. But
this trojan was found on Aminet, but removed now.
This is what we know of the trojan:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan size... : 39.048 bytes
Archive name.. : Muahaha.lha
Archive size.. : 39.217 (lha packed)
Archive info.. :
Short: muahaha ss-intro
Type : demo/mag
Desc : a intro msg for the ppl interesed... >;)
Thanks to 'JEO' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the test of
the archive. (sd) (Translation: sk)
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19.Aug.2001
Martin Tauchmann (E-Mail)
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Programming: Crossgcc/AmigaOS-68k for Linux/x86 V2.95.3-3 (update)
Martin Tauchmann
released version 2.95.3-3 of gcc for AmigaOS/68k as a cross compiler for
Linux/x86 on Aminet.
This cross compiler allows to compile Amiga programs - ANSI-C and C++ -
for 68k Amigas under Linux/x86. AmigaOS includes are required additionally,
which are to find on the Deverloper-CD, Geek Gadgets CD Vol. 2 or FrozenFishCD,
for example.
This compiler was compiled with the mpentiumpro option and requires a 686 compatible
CPU.
Download: crossgcc_linux.tgz (5,3M),
Readme
Update 22. August 2001:
Since there where no version of the above mentioned Crossgcc containing the
'-fbaserel'- and '-fbaserel32' bugs on Aminet the following sentence
was deleted from this message: 'This version fixes the '-fbaserel' and '-fbaserel32'
problems.'.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Benchmark - DECbench
Patrick Roberts released version 1.0rc1 of the 'DECbench' benchmarks for
the AmigaDE SDK v1.1.
'DECbench' is an extendable benchmark test written in C. This test suits for the AmigaDE system, but
was developed with regard to the PDA games section. This benchmark tests resolution and preciseness of
timers as well as memory stats, zlib decompressing and miscellaneous AVE functions.
Download: util/misc/DECbench.zip (833K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: 3D-Demo - kellerballs
Fank Pagels and Timm S. Müller released the metaballs 3D routine 'kellerballs' for
the AmigaDE SDK on 15. August 2001. This routine uses the marching cube algorithm.
The source code is not optimized and not good enough to be a release. It presumeably will
be part of one of the upcoming TEKlib releases of Example-Suite.
Download: kellerballs.zip (59K),
Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Game - Etch-a-Sketch Clone
Nicolas Mendoza released version 1.0 of the Etch-a-Sketch clone
'etch' (game) for the AmigaDE SDK on 14. August 2001.
He wrote this little game to learn how to program the AmigaDE - it is about his first C program.
Ronald Hof's GM was very helpful to him, which simplifies
game programming.
The 'etch' source code can be used for free.
Download: game/etch.zip (21K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
Scalos (ANF)
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Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.10
Beta version 40.10 of the alternative Workbench 'Scalos' was released.
This release in particular fixes several bugs.
Changes since prior version:
- Repaired bug in updateicon which sometimes caused icons to appear in incorrect windows
- Duplicating/cloning items now pops up the file copying progress window
- Dragging multiple icons now shows one or two text lines under pointer telling how many files and
drawers are being dragged
- Fixed severe bug in wbl.c: WBNode's were allocated with AllocVecPooled() and freed with FreeVec()
- Added a varargs version of SCA_ScreenTitleMsg()
- Added flag to switch between Flag: old dragging (all icons visible) and new "icon stack"
- Added new SCA_ScalosControl() tags SCALOSCTRLA_GetOldDragIconMode and
SCALOSCTRLA_SetOldDragIconMode
- IconWinCheckUpdate() now correctly updates INF_DefaultIcon flag and INF_SupportsLeaveOut
attribute
- Missed a CurrentDir() when renaming objects, leading to a directory lock getting never UnLock()ed
- When D&D copying or moving icons, "Replace All" and "Abort" now should work correctly
Message strings "xxx already exists" are now different when moving and copying objects
- When moving icons inside window and new position overlaps other icon, the moved icons now jump
back to their original positions
Bugs can be reported using the
bug report site.
Download: ScalosBeta.lha (180K),
History
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
Matt Parsons (AROS-User-ML)
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AROS: IBM-PC/native on one single floppy disc
Matt Parsons released a new native version of
AROS for IBM-PC compatibles,
which can be installed to one single floppy disc for direct
booting.
This version contains a working format command and allows to
install AROS to a harddisk or partition. With the boot disk
this harddisk installation can be used.
The graphical output still is very simple, so don't expect AROS
to benefit from the speed of your board, at this time.
The readme included to the archive describes how to create
a boot disk under Windows 95+ or Linux.
AROS is an open source project to implement a portable version
of AmigaOS v3.1.
Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (680K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Event: Amiga user groups on the Australian COMDEX
'The joint Australian Amiga User Groups' have cooperate to present the Amiga on their
own booth on the ITExpo/COMDEX, which will take place from 05. to 07. September 2001
in Melbourne, Australia.
The user groups ADUG, MAUG, AUG, ESEUG are expected to attend the show. They will
exhibit the AmigaSDK, Amithlon (Amiga emulator), PPC equipped Amigas with Mediator
boards, and A4000's cases.
With luck and if Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) will have enough time, he maybe will fly
to Australia to attend the show.
This show will be a combination of ITExpo and COMDEX. Additionally the NetWorld+Interop
will take place a the same location. More than 30,000 visitors are expected to
visit the show to meet more than 200 exhibitors there.
Any Amiga hardware or software company wanting to have their products present at
the booth may get in contact with the booth organizers. Contact person is
Michael Czajka from the 'Melbourne Amiga Users Group' (MAUG).
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
Emerald Imaging (ANF)
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Game: Aqua now with AHI sound
There is an update with AHI sound support for the full version of
the adventure game 'Aqua' by Emerald Imaging.
Download: game/patch/AquaAHI.lha,
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga-Society: 'Little Book of Amiga-Software' updated
Some updates to the Little Book of Amiga-Software are available, since
yesterday, but up to now there just are some cover scans. At the time being
there is less time for texts, etc. due to the Society's main page soon shall be
available again, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
Ralf Hasemann (ANF)
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Interview: Dave Haynie (Merlancia Industries)
On c-fmr.com an interview with
Dave Haynie done by Fabrice Mansat was published, yesterday.
Dave Haynie was asked how he came to Merlancia Industries, if Merlancia Industries'
products planned have something to do with the PIOS One, and how he rates the
Be company's BeOS. Furthermore special questions about Tsunami and the
Internet appliances market in general.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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19.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Virus warning II
Here we go again....... Yet, again another installer of the new virus
'Hitch-Hiker 5.00'.
Again there is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find
infected files, you will have to replace the infected files with
new clean files. This installer will install the 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00'
virus will add 3748 bytes to every infected file, and place it self
in memory, so you will have to watch out for that as well. This virus
will infect anything that it can get into.
There is a way to see if the archive you download is an installer of
this virus, all you have to do is to unpack the archive, read the
file in an text editor (eg. CygnusEd), and search for this text string
in the code (THIS IS ONLY FOR THE INSTALLER):
-=COVAH=-
If you find -=COVAH=- in the code, that is an installer of this virus
then please send he archive to us.
The virus size has change this time, now it is 3748 bytes.
In the code (decoded), you can read:
Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00)
Featuring the Hitcher's Advanced Versatile Optimizing Codemix Engine
A welcome present for Jan Erik by xxxxxx/xxx!
-= On Tour 1995-2001 =-
(VHT-Denmark removed the names of the programmer handle, and replaced
it with 'xxxxxx')
If this is a welcome present for Jan Erik Olausen, the programmer of
VirusExecutor & xvs.library, I think that he would rather have a cold
beer. But he will surely put recog. for Hitch-Hiker 5.00 in the new
update of xvs.library...
The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but it has been removed now.
(Thanks Urban).
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium)
Virus size.... : 3748 bytes
Archive name.. : S-Exec12.lha
Archive size.. : 9.905 bytes (lha packed)
Installer name : LibBase3.10
Installer size : S-Exec
Archive info.. : Compress executables.
There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus
out there, we have found 3 archive in 2 days. If you find anything
please send it to us.
The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as
soon as possible. In the mean time, take care...
Thanks to D. Olsen for the info about the archive and to Ronald Dijk
for sending the archive to us.
(ps)
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18.Aug.2001
Directory Opus 4 Research Project
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Filemanager: DirOpus v4.16 beta 3
Yesterday Jacek Rzeuski has released the version 4.16 beta 3 of the filemanager
'DirOpus'. This update contains some improvements that are listed in the history.
This beta version does only contain the files that have changed compared to
'Directory Opus V4.16'. This version and the source code are available on the
download page.
DirOpus is a filemanager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software.
In 1999 was the source code released under GNU Public License conditions.
Jacek Rzeuski had then begun to revise the program and to improve it.
Download: DOpus416b3.lzx (316 KB)
Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/
Alternative download: DOpus416b3.lzx
New added are the following mirror sites:
home.enitel.no/dopus (Per Martin
Iversen, Norway)
perso.wanadoo.es/d.rey/DOpus4 (David Rey, Spain)
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Aug.2001
Rüdiger Engel (ANF)
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Server software: 68020 version of AmiVNC available
Rüdiger Engel wrote:
Unfortunately the Amiga version of the VNC server AmiVNC was compiled for the 68060
and therefore doesn't run on slower Amigas. I had asked the author, Stéphane
Guillard, to create a version for 68020 processors but unfortunately couldn't
contact him. So I have compiled a version for the 68020 and made it available
for download.
Download: AmiVNC-020.lzx
The archive has been taken over completely from Stéphane Guillard, the new files
only carry the appendix "-020" in the name.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Aug.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (email)
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The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Nr. 1 in USA
Just now some statistics have been released on the Airsoft Softwair
hompage regarding the ´The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition
CD-ROM´. Among other things the different systems of the users have been
evaluated, but also e.g. the countries the CD-ROM has already been sent to. The
most CD-ROMs went to the USA, followed by Great Britain and Germany.
Looking at the systems the most often mentioned one is the A1200, regarding the
processors the 68060 was numbered out by the 68030 narrowly. All
statistics can be viewed on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Aug.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)
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Elbox explains their price policy for driver software
As already reported,
Elbox has announced on the 16.08.2001 a CD with driver software you have to pay
for.
This has led to big and extensive discussions. In the following email Elbox
explains their price policy:
ELBOX Computer explains its policy about driver pricing
1. The purpose of MEDIATOR
To ENABLE the POSSIBILITY of using a wide range of standard
PCI cards.
'The MEDIATOR PCI busboard line is designed to enable expanding
the Amiga with a wide range of standard PCI cards like Graphic
cards, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards,
ISDN cards, USB and SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards:
TV tuner and MPEG-2 hardware decoders.
Expanding the Amiga with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard opens the way
to employing the power of the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors
in Amiga, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are based.'
However, it does not mean that we will prepare ALL the possible
drivers for ALL the possible devices and their different versions.
We want to enhance Amiga's effectiveness and give Amiga community
access to low-cost, good and widely-available PCI cards.
As a starter, we have included some drivers in the initial pack
of the Mediator busboard:
PCI Graphic cards: Voodoo5 5500 64MB, Voodoo4 4500 32MB,
Voodoo3 3000 16MB, Voodoo3 2000 16MB, Voodoo Banshee 16
MB, S3 ViRGE 86C325 2MB, S3 ViRGE 86C325 4MB, S3
ViRGE/DX 86C375 2MB, S3 ViRGE/DX 86C375 4MB
PCI Ethernet cards: Winbond 89C940F, RealTek RTL-8029, NetVin
NV5000S.C., Holtek HT80232, Holtek HT80229, Compex RL2000,
SureCom NE34, KTI ET32P2, Via 86C926.
These drivers have never been free. Their price was included in
the original design costs.
New drivers have to be calculated separately because...
2. No commercial software is free
Writing good and versatile software (e.g. Mediator drivers) requires
time and effort, which ultimately means programmers have to receive
good salaries. If users want to be supported in the long run by
any company, they have to pay for its products. Money collected allows
generating new ideas, new designs and new products.
3. Free alternative approach (which we do NOT follow)
Yes, we could offer software for free. We could have bought hundreds
of old-fashioned PCI sound cards just a few Mark per piece
(like e.g. SB Pro). Then we could write drivers to this specific
batch of cards. Easy way, supporting one chipset, one specific card,
branded with our name and marketed as unique. As these cards would
be unique, they would have to priced high enough, say at DM 100.
With "free" drivers, of course.
What's the result? You would buy an OUTDATED low-featured
no-longer-supported card, paying mega-bucks not for the card but
for quick software and huge extra profits for the "manufacturer."
4. Instead we give...
RESPECT. The basic rule with Elbox is that we FIRST develop, design
and test and only when everything is ready and in the final stage
do we announce new products. In other words, we take the risk and
full cost of the designing stage. We do not demand from users making
pre-payments, placing pre-orders, etc. In other words, we respect
the users as full-scale Customers, who deserve to be offered a
final-stage product to choose whether to take it or not, depending
on their needs.
Another basic rule for us is that we prepare universal drivers,
i.e. drivers supporting various chipsets. This ensures faulty-free
support for many different versions of the same card. Writing
software with this prerequisite in mind takes much more time and
tests than writing drivers for one specific chipset/card. But what
we offer is UNIVERSALITY and PERFORMANCE.
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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18.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (email)
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Datatypes: akJFIF, akPNG and akTIFF updated
Andreas R. Kleinert has updated the following datatypes on the 14.08.2001
and made them available on his website for download. As always the datatypes are
available in versions for several processors.
With datatypes you can display different data types in different programms
without having to write your own display routines for these types.
akJFIF.datatype - V44.112 - (68k+ optional PPC/WOS)
akJFIF.datatype V44.112 - (PPC plugin)
akJFIF.datatype V44.112 - (WOS plugin)
akPNG.datatype V44.112 - (68k+ optional PPC/WOS)
akPNG.datatype V44.112 - (PPC plugin)
akPNG.datatype V44.112 - (WOS plugin)
akTIFF.datatype V44.112 - (68k+ optional PPC/WOS)
akTIFF.datatype V44.112 - (PPC plugin)
akTIFF.datatype V44.112 - (WOS plugin)
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18.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (email)
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Virus Help Denmark: virus warning!
We have found another the installer of the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00'
linkvirus.
Again there is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find
infected files, you will have to replace the infected files with
new clean files. The 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00' virus will add 3732 bytes to
every infected file, and place it self in memory, so you will have to
watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it
can get into. Again I ran a test on my A1200 and it infected will
over 400 files, in under 3 minutes.
There is a way to see if the archive you download is an installer of
this virus, all you have to do is to unpack the archive, read the
file in an texteditor (eg. CygnusEd), and search for this text string
in the code (THIS IS ONLY FOR THE INSTALLER):
-=COVAH=-
If you find -=COVAH=- in the code, that is an installer of this virus
then please send the archive to us.
The virus size has change this time, now it is 3720 bytes. That tells
us that the virus uses polymorph routine, that means that the virus
can change in size.
This virus comes from Poland again, just like the other viruses that
we have found in the last 6 month. But why don't you guy's program
something usefull, that everyone can enjoy?
In the code (decoded), you can read:
Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00)
Featuring the 1's Advanced V8sA Op'miz Code
A welcom user of VRU!
-= 1995-2 =-
-= HAVOC =-
The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but it has been removed now.
(Thanks Urban).
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium)
Virus size.... : 3720 bytes
Archive name.. : LibBase310.lha
Archive size.. : 47.711 bytes (lha packed)
Installer name : LibBase3.10
Installer size : 42.304 bytes
Archive info.. : Scans Memory for Libs/Tasks etc
There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus
out there, today we found 2 archives. If you find anything please
send it to us.
The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as
soon as possible. In the mean time, take care...
Thanks to Petra Struck & Alfred, for sending the archive to us.
Editorial:
As the system of Alfred Sturm, who's responsible for the Aminet uploads here at amiga-news.de,
has been infected yesterday with this aggressive virus through
installing LibBase310.lha and trying it there'll be no updates of the Aminet
uploads in the near future.
The virus has unfortunately not only infected his main partition but also the
partition with his backup. Some infected files are even not deleteable. He's
now forced to install his system from scratch. This may take a while as
laboriously self written scripts have passed away and everything has to be
collected together again. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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17.Aug.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Game: New Freeciv version
The new Freeciv version has just been released. It is now based on version 1.12.0.
Freeciv is a free Civilization clone which can be played on the internet with
multiple players or alone against the computer.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Petr Krenzelok (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: Virtual Office Project
On August 16th 2001 Petr Krenzelok has released screenshots and some information
on Etienne Alaurent's 'Virtual Office Project'.
The aim of this software is a personal virtual bureau which is accessible from
everywhere in the world through the internet. In this bureau people can use
certain rooms and areas together and thus share information and data.
(sd) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Hitch-Hiker v5.00 linkvirus found
We have found the installer of the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' linkvirus.
There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find infected
files, but you will have to replace the infected files with new clean
files. The 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00' virus will add 3732 bytes to every
infected file, and place itself in memory, so you will have to
watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it
can get into. And on my test A1200 over 400 files were infected in
under 3 minutes.
This virus comes from Poland again, just like the other viruses that
we have found in the last 6 month. But why don't you guys program
something useful that everyone can enjoy?
In the code (decoded), you can read:
Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00)
Featuring the 1's Advanced V8sA Op'miz Code
A welcom user of VRU!
-= 1995-2 =-
-= HAVOC =-
The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but we stopped the archive before
it got online for reel. (Thanks Urban).
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium)
Virus size.... : 3732 bytes
Archive name.. : WBCycle21.lha
Archive size.. : 25.818 bytes (lha packed)
Installer name : WBCycle
Installer size : 22.756 bytes
Archive info.. : Cycles a single WB colour to pretty up Windows.
This is a fake archive. The programmer of 'WBCycle', Steve Hargreaves
has not released an update of WBCycle since v1.0.
There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus
out there. If you find anything please send it to us.
The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as
soon as possible. In the meantime, take care ...
Thanks to Thomas Klein for sending the archive to us.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Digital Almanac III - update announcement and news
There are some news on the popular astronomy program Digital Almanac III: in the
next time (very vague - summer holidays, vacation!) there'll be a new update. Due
to the many new features it will become version 4.0. Here is an overview of the
most important changes.
Bugfixes:
- moon shadow on Earth at eclipse was slightly wrong since last version
- drawing of parabola-like orbits was corrected
- error in PHA check corrected
- positions of Martian moons corrected (wrong reference level)
- improved position calculation of the Galilean Moons (very exact over a long course of time)
New features:
- new moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (!) and Pluto (!)
- partially renewed calculation kernel
- more maps of Mars, Venus and the Galilean Moons
- filtering functions for planets/moons, deep sky objects and constellations.
They allow to set drawing parameters for each single object or groups of objects
- reworked textures
- telescope can be controlled now also with numeric pad in the main and telescope window
- import of comet orbit data directly from the internet!
- for future versions there's now an automated update from the internet available.
The annoying Shell command line procedure is history.
- Online information from the internet on planets/moons, Messier objects and
constellations (through OpenURL).
Because of the many changes the update archive will be several MByte in size. Alternately
the update can be ordered for a small contribution towards expenses directly from Achim
Stegemann. The CD contains not only the update but also big textures as well as numerous
new pictures for your image collection.
More news:
Currently an OpenGL output (through StormMesa and Warp3D) is being worked on. This is
purely experimental though, and it is not certain whether Achim Stegemann will have the
time to complete it.
A GL version would speed up the graphics output, especially textures, considerably.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads
AMINET was down for a week - that's why there haven't been new uploads before today.
(as)
Update 18.08.2001:
The Aminet was not down. The HD from ´wustl´ was full. Therefore new uploads weren´t possible.
YAM-Rexx.lha comm/mail 3K+ARexx Scripte zum Ausdruck neuer Mails
lynx.lha comm/www 978K+Great WWW Browser,version 284rel1
rpf-firenice.lha demo/intro 3K+Fire n Ice Cracktro from RPF
SceneryA120.lha demo/mag 1.4M+Scenery - Scene History Book V1.20
LGUI_Tagalog.lha dev/misc 241K+LGUI_Tagalog - A Language for LGUI.
AaktInt0701.lha docs/mags 165K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0701GFX.lha docs/mags 169K+International infotainment magazine (gra
ExamIntProgSol.txt docs/misc 1K+Solution of a Programming Exam of my Uni
E2140G-MENU1.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Menu.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/5 *
gumband.lha game/role 971K+Gumband 2.1.7b - Roguelike solo RPG
diru.lha misc/misc 0K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700
diru_nodb.lha misc/misc 85K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700
sap.lha misc/misc 655K+Polish-English-Polish dictionary
THORfont.lha text/bfont 4K+Bitmapped font for email/news reading
alba.lha util/boot 65K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
cvs-1.11.1p1.lha util/gnu 719K+CVS 1.11.1p1 - Concurrent Versions Syste
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 24K+PatchBrain v1.36 for VirusExecutor v2.xx (ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)
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Mailbox: Uphold The Law BBS online again!
The pure demoscene BBS "Uphold The Law" is after two days delay
and the restoration of the destroyed user data online again.
Especially a lot of German callers who had seen the IP in the
Amiga News asked for access to the illegal areas of the mailbox.
Those don't exist here, and they will never exist! Those looking
for pirated software or not willing to leave their phone number
can save the effort asking. With the private phone number, the
sysop tries to protect himself from anonymous crackers.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)
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GFX-BASE: Review of the ArtEffect Plug-In CD-ROM and more
At the GFX-BASE you can read a review of the newly released plug-in CD-ROM
for ArtEffect. We have taken a look at the new possibilities, describe the
installation and the use of the plug-ins in practice (including a hint for
WinUAE users).
There have been other changes to the GFX-BASE as well: it's now possible to
search through our news archive and all tutorials published so far were
translated into French by our new member, Alexandre Balaban.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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17.Aug.2001
Darkage Software
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Darkage Software website with new layout
The Italian software developers Darkage, known for games such as
'Tales from Heaven' and the 'Amiga Classix' CDs have entirely redesigned
their website and updated the product pages at the same time.
There are some first screenshots of 'Supreme', the new Amiga video titling
program which is scheduled for release in September.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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16.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.29
xvs.library, an external library for virus checkers, was updated.
For example this library is used by VirusExecutor, VirusChecker, VirusZ, and
Safe to discover viruses.
More details:
News for 33.29:
- Added MKG Trojan File virus
Thanks to Golds for the file.
- xvs.library has changed name...
from: The eXternal Virus Support Library
to: The eXternal Virus Scanner Library
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Aug.2001
Telemar (ANF)
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Tip for Monzoom users and raytracers
To all who use the raytracing software Monzoom. The site
'3dlinks.com' is for rendering people what amiga-news for Amiga information is.
Free objects, textures, etc., etc..., drop by.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus: New Trojan virus found
A new trojan has been found today. This trojan says that it will make
a key-file that will work with over 250 programs. Well, I guess that
there are someone that will fall for this kind of program. The trojan
will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file, in
your S:, Libs:, Devs: and L:.
This is what we know of the trojan:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name... : MZ-MAKEY trojan
Trojan size... : 34.548 bytes (packed with StoneCracker)
Trojan size... : ? (we have not been able to unpack the file)
Archive name.. : MZ-MAKEY.lha
Archive size.. : 34.734 bytes (lha packed)
Archive info.. :
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
Master Key Generator!
=====================
make keys for all
programs you want
100% tested with more
of 250 programs!
xxxxx
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
(VHT-DK has removed the name and replaced it with 'xxxxxxxxx')
Don't trust programs like this, use your common sense before you
try stupid programs like this.......
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Golds' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the
test of the archive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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16.Aug.2001
Colin Hirsch (ANF)
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Individual Computers "Offline"
Jens Schönfeld, known to many Amiga freaks by his "Individual Computers" company,
was involved to a serious road accident, this morning.
It is to expect that support questions, etc. will not be replied for some days or weeks.
After convalesce he will report his return himself, which hopefully will be soon.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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16.Aug.2001
SixK
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Database: MySQL for Amiga Version 3.23.41
On the French website 'SixK' you will find the AmigaOS port of the MySQL
database system v3.23.41, compiled for 68040 CPUs. History details are to find
under the title link.
Download: MySqld_3.23.41_040.lzx
(ps)
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16.Aug.2001
Schatztruhe
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Schatztruhe: Aminet CD 44 - 08/2001
The Aminet CD 44 - August 2001 - contains over 1 GB (unpacked) of software in
more than 650 archives. Since the Aminet CD 43 more than 900 MB of innovations
have been added. The full version of the game Genetic Species is the highlight of
Aminet 44.
(ps)
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16.Aug.2001
ELBOX Computer
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ELBOX: Sound & TV in Mediator PCI
ELBOX Computer released sound and TV board drivers for the Mediator
PCI board on a CD named 'Mediator Multimedia CD'.
Some details:
This CD has been prepared to provide you with the selection of
drivers for PCI sound cards, TV tuner cards and graphic cards for
Mediator PCI busboards for Amiga 4000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga
1200 computers.
The basic features of the Sound, TV & Graphic drivers:
- The AHI-standard drivers for music cards to provide support for
Sound Blaster PCI128 cards based on ES1371, ES1373, CT5880
and EV1938 chipsets.
- The Sound Blaster PCI128 card makes use of the PCI bus in the
Mediator busboard as the busmaster performing DMA operations
to/from the external memory.
- With 8- and 16-bit mono and stereo playback and 16-bit stereo
recording plus user-selectable sampling rates from 5kHz to 48kHz,
the Sound Blaster PCI128 produces precise audio fidelity.
- Possible connection of 2 or 4 (optional) speakers for an engulfing
3D-surround sound experience.
- Two independent stereo DACs for simultaneous playbacking of two
stereo PCM channels.
- Mixer: All inputs can be mixed together. Simultaneous recording from
all the inputs is possible. The volume and balance can be changed
independently for each input and output.
TV tuner drivers:
- Drivers for TV tuner cards provide support for tuner cards based
on the Bt878 Video Decoder.
- The TV screen is rendered in the graphic card screen in a user-scalable
window (PIP).
- The TV tuner cards make use of the PCI bus in the Mediator busboard
as a busmaster performing DMA operations to the graphic card memory.
- TV tuner card running in the Mediator PCI busboard does not enforce
any extra load on the Amiga's processor at all.
- When full-screen TV image is generated, data transfer over the PCI
bus between the TV tuner card and the graphic card is executed
at 44MB/s.
Graphic drivers:
- Enhanced drivers for the Voodoo graphic card family.
- In the case of Mediator PCI 1200, the package allows using the memory
window jumper set to 8MB independently of the Mediator PCI 1200
busboard series.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Aug.2001
Thomas 'Gojira' Nosutta (ANF)
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Gallery: "My Computer @ Home" at ACBB
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
From now on in our web-gallery we will publish pictures of computers of
users under the motto 'My Computer @ Home'. If you want to eternalize
your computer there then you only have to send your pictures to nosutta@web.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus: New Trojan found
A new trojan has been found today. This trojan says that it will make
a key-file that will work with over 250 programs. Well, I guess that
there are someone that will fall for this kind of program. The trojan
will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file, in
your S:, Libs:, Devs: and L:.
This is what we know of the trojan:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name... : MZ-MAKEY trojan
Trojan size... : 34.548 bytes (packed with StoneCracker)
Trojan size... : ? (we have not been able to unpack the file)
Archive name.. : MZ-MAKEY.lha
Archive size.. : 34.734 bytes (lha packed)
Archive info.. :
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
Master Key Generator!
=====================
make keys for all
programs you want
100% tested with more
of 250 programs!
xxxxx
ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ
(VHT-DK has removed the name and replaced it with 'xxxxxxxxx')
Don't trust programs like this, use your common sense before you
try stupid programs like this.......
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Golds' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the
test of the archive.
(ps)
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15.Aug.2001
Bernd Bernie Meyer (E-Mail)
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Emulator: Today UAE-Jit celebrates 1. anniversary
Today Bernd 'Bernie' Meyer writes on c.s.a.m.:
I did not want to elapse the anniversary completely unnoticed...Today it is one year ago when I announced the very first, slow and rather hacked version of UAE-JIT on comp.sys.amiga.misc which additionally was very bugy. You can find the original posting on Google.
What a year...
Celebrating the day I have composed a site with Amithlon-benchmarks.
It is very interesting to compare the amounts of that time with the ones of today. Now the Celeron333 is a pure developing computer which works under the Celeron566 in the computer room via M-JPEG-Card as a video recorder and therefore I could unfortunately not use both computers for benchmarking...
Take the champagne, celebrate and a threefold hurrah for UAE-JIT...
Bernie
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Maarten Koopmans (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: Rugby 4 (Request Broker)
Maarten Koopmans and Ernie van der Meer have published the Requester
Broker 'Rugby 4' for REBOL-System.
With 'Rugby 4' you can send requests (messages) to other REBOL-processes
which sends back a result (LDC: Lightweight Distributed Computing). The
processes may run on a local computer or on a computer in the Internet.
The communication can be done encoded. Compared with the last version the following things have changed:
- Change: 'poll-for-result' removed. Instead of it there are 'result-available?' and 'get-result' (see documentation for further information).
- Change: The Serialization was improved and works now noticeably better.
- New: 'sexec' supports now the options '/oneway' and '/deferred'.
- New: Rugby-servers support now generation of Stub-code which can be automatically imported of clients with 'get-rugby-service <url>'. Thus for all Rugby-service-functions which are available for <url> Wrapper-functions can be dedicated. Therefore it is possible you only have to write 'echo "lala"' instead of 'rexec [ echo "lala" ]'.
- New: The main archive contains the source code of Rugby in the modul form.
- New: Documentation (update of the Rebol Zine-article)
Download: rugby4u.tar.gz
(sd) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Heise [Newsticker] / Volker Grabbe (ANF)
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Heise: SIGGRAPH: Khronos Group introduces OpenML 1.0
As an addition to OpenGL-API OpenML is supposed to set up a platform undependable standard for multimedia-applications with graphic-, audio- and video-data.
You can read the full article under the title link.
Currently in Los Angeles the SIGGRAPH takes place. The Khronos Group which is an industry-association consisting of several graphic companies has published the specifications of OpenML 1.0 there.
Another link to this topic:
Heise: SIGGRAPH: New specification for OpenGL
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
AdvoGraf
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AdvoGraf: At full trottle into the grit
Michael Schumacher, the popular Ferrari race driver, queues to the squad of
admonishers. He considers the domain
michas-formel1-site.de,
carried by Michael "Micha" Stanka, to violate his name rights.
AdvoGraf smugly wrote: "At first the questions is, which part of name
is to be violated, cause "Michael" rather is a collective term for male
Germans than an individual identity feature - and to call someone Michael
"Micha" neither is much inventive nor seldom. And that the Ferrari pilot has
"Formel 1" for his second (first) name at least was hidden from the author, up to now."
Complete AdvoGraf article (German) under the title link.
More links on this subject (German all):
Golem: Michael Schumacher lässt Domainnamen abmahnen
internetWORLD: Abmahnung: Schumi nimmt Web ins Visier
ZDNet: Schumacher lässt Teenager abmahnen
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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15.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Textviewer: EvenMore Version 0.58
The freeware-textviewer 'EvenMore' has been published in version 0.58. With the plugins it is now possible to read MSWord-files (95/2000).
Besides this it can be programmed seperate plugins for 'EvenMore' (with each programming language which can create Amiga-libraries). You can find further information under the title link.
Download: EvenMore.lha (300 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Marco Frischkorn (ANF)
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Publication of data of the game BATTLE
Marco Frischkorn writes:
After considering the issue I have decided to publish a part of the data and of the texts of the suspended game BATTLE. Originally the texts of "The great NewsPaper" should be complemented each week to bypass the time until the game has published. Furthermore it was meant as a introducing story.
The story itself represents a small part of the things which you had experienced in the introduction and later in the game itself. Should I meet my former graphicer then I will try to get some Whiteboards for the introsequences.
Furthermore there is a small choice of graphics of the game respectivly of its parts. You can also find screenshots of one or another tool. As soon as I will find a little bit more time I will also add some comments to the most important pictures.
If anybody should ask for the source code...NO WAY!
And now have fun with the things you can find here!
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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15.Aug.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)
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Finnish Amiga Users Group announces Saku 2001 Theme
Finnish Amiga Users Group is proud to announce the theme song for its
Saku 2001 event. Bass Cadet's "Saku 2001 Theme" is available for
download as 128 kbps and 192 kbps versions from the official web site
at http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001/.
A special audio CD will be available for purchase at the venue with
extended mixes of the theme.
Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Amiga Inc., will attend the show and
demonstrate the latest Amiga products such as the AmigaDE. A representative
of Matay company will present their new PCI bridge, the Prometheus. The
Mediator PCI bridge will also be demonstrated with a Voodoo3 graphics card.
Latest versions of Nova Design's ImageFX and Aladdin4D are available for
testing. Cloanto's president Michael C. Battilana demonstrates newest
versions of Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer. Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle
Eye Ky offers a variety of Amiga products to buy at the venue. Other
highlights and competitions are planned.
Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science
Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00
and end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge. The Saku 2001 Web
site features highlights, directions and other vital information for
interested visitors and exhibitors from Finland and abroad. Two webcams
will be available from the venue. We are also planning an IRC channel.
Please stay tuned for more details as the planning progresses. For further
information, visit Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at
http://saku.amigafin.org or
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/.
E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson
(terho.henriksson@kopteri.net).
Please also contact Terho if you or your company have products that you
would like to demonstrate or advertise in Saku 2001.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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14.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: VEPatch.Brain Version 1.36
A new update for the 'VEPatch.Brain v1.36' is released. Here are the details:
- Name: VEPatchBrain v1.36
- Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
- Archive size: 24.329 Bytes
- Date: 14. August 2001
- Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
- Needed: VirusExecutor V2.xx
Changes since the last version:
- ppc.library v44.36
- OutLineFont v1.4
- Sashimi v1.7
- powerpc.library v16.0
- WipeOut v1.30
- COP v1.85
- 68060.library v46.7
- Two more patches to MCP v1.33
- Two more patches to multiuser.library v39.166
- One more patch to Birdie 2000
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Aug.2001
Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)
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New uploads at Scenet
Interested demo freaks can get picky new releases from the international
Amiga demo scene at the download area of Scenet. New: Whelpz Frozen Pack Number 45 with all
intros of the Finnish demo party Assembly, an much more.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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14.Aug.2001
I.T.
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I.T.: Bernie's lost in time (Update)
There is a detailed issue about the emulator 'Amithlon' from Bernie Meyer and
Harald Frank available from the Australian online magazine I.T..
Remarks from Bernd 'Bernie' Meyer:
a) The price is stated in *AUSTRALIAN* Dollars (ca. A$2=US$1)
b) I do not know where the price is from - it may be in the right dimension,
but the price is not fixed till now.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Aug.2001
Golem
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Golem: Radeon 8500 - ATIs GeForce3-competitor comes in October
Radeon 7500 replaces Radeon 64 MB VIVO, FireGL 8800 complets FireGL 4
ATI announces three new gfxboards, especially the GeForce competitor Radeon 8500
and the professional variant FireGL 8800 are very interesting. Also new is the
Radeon 7500, based upon the old Radeon gfx processor, but thanks to production in
0.15 micron has higher clock frequencies.
Complete article see title link (German).
More informations:
The Inquirer: ATI to attack Matrox market
The Inquirer: ATI threatens Nvidia
Heise: ATI-Grafikkarten mit Radeon 8500 im Oktober
Chip: Offiziell: ATI stellt neue Radeon-Grafikkarten vor
The Register: ATI unveils Radeon 8500, 7500
The Register: Nvidia lost 13% marketshare in Q2
Tom's Hardware: GeForce 3 Under Attack: ATi's Radeon 8500 Previewed
(cm) (Translation: gf)
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14.Aug.2001
Scalos
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Workbench-Replacement: Scalos StackWindow-Plugin
This plugin will allow you to stack your Scalos desktop windows
so they appear a little neater on the screen.
Download: Scalos-Plugin_StackWindows.lha (9 KB)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Aug.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Onlineshop 'AmigaMall' closed
Amiga Inc. has closed the onlineshop 'AmigaMall' and refers to the dealers index to look for
a dealer to get Amiga products.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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14.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Jools Smyth
On the Amiga Future homepage an interview with Jools Smyth, the webmaster
of the popular site
"Exotica", was released.
On this site you can find information about Amiga games, music,
game box scans, Amiga demos scene information, some old utilities,
disk mags, and much more. A must see for real Amiga devotees.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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13.Aug.2001
GoldED
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Editor: GoldED Studio 5 free download
Dietmar Eilert, programmer of GoldED, offers a free download of an
older version of GoldED Studio 5 for a limited period of time.
GoldED Studio 5 is a feature rich editor. The additional functions can
be added by using add-ons. Plain text, html files and source code can
be edited with these plugins.
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13.Aug.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)
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AROS News: aros.org online
After a long time, aros.org is back :-) So undo all your bookmarks,
CVS entries and mail addresses and point them back to aros.org. Until this
happens again, that is... I'm still working on it, though ! I hope that
the domain is transferred to me or a friend of mine who owns the DNS and
the site on which aros.org runs in the next few months.
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13.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.28
Yesterday, Jan Erik Olausen released version 33.28 of the 'xvs.library'.
Changes:
- Fixed bug in the memory check routine for Smeg2.
Thanks to Luca, Harry and Dirk for telling me about this
bug. It will not happen again!
ToDo:
- Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory.
Details:
Name: xvs.library v33.28
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 56.483 Bytes
Release date: 12. August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
E-Mail: virusexecutor@c2i.net
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13.Aug.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)
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Elbox and Hyperion: Licenseagreement for Warp3D Voodoo3-driver
Elbox Computer and Hyperion Entertainment are proud to announce
that they have entered into a license agreement.
Hyperion will support Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV,
Mediator PCI 4000 and Mediator PCI ZIII busboards with
fully-featured Warp3D Voodoo3 drivers for 68k and PPC processors.
Warp3D Voodoo3 drivers will be available for registered
users of Mediator directly from Elbox.
Drivers for Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busboards
will be released first, to appear within 3 weeks.
For Your Enjoyment
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
http://www.elbox.com
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13.Aug.2001
Frank Sievertsen (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: profiler V1.0.3
Frank Sievertsen released version 1.0.3 of his profiler 'Profiler' for the REBOL-System.
The profiler displays the amount of time each function needed to complete its operations. This helps you to discover wich part of your program needs the highest amount.
The profiler is available at the REBOL-desktop at REBOL/Sites/FX5/Profiler.
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13.Aug.2001
Robert M. Münch (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: make-doc-pro V0.96
Robert M. Münch released version 0.9.6 of his documentation tool 'make-doc-pro' for the REBOL-Sytem. 'make-doc-pro' is an extended version of 'make-doc' by Carl Sassenrath.
Changes:
- Bugfix: Usage of 'EN' instead of 'US' for language-selection.
- Bugfix: The browse()-function now gets a correct URL.
- New: Markings for indents ('**', '***' and so on)
- New: The floating-text now uses blockquote (CSS: 'justify').
- New: Underline, italic and bold are now supported inside of a paragraph.
- Change: 'make-doc-pro' now uses XYZstart, ... , XYZend-markings, for marking a special area for a certain format.
Download: make-doc-pro.zip
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13.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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Event: Date of the Ottawa Amiga Show
The Ottawa Amiga Show will be held on the 17th and 18th of November
2001 at the Travelodge Hotel Ottawa. Additional details are available
at the title link.
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13.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - Version 14.4
A new archive (version 14.4), containing WHDLoad and all available
installers, is now available for download.
The following installers are new or updated:
- 11. August 01 new: The Deep (Cream Corp/US Gold)
- 11. August 01 new: Project X (Team 17)
- 11. August 01 new: Motorhead (Virgin)
- 11. August 01 new: Fire Force (ICE)
Download: WHDLoad_14.4_usr.lzx (120 KB)
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13.Aug.2001
Individual Computers
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Controller: Shipping of "CLeo" delayed
Cleo is a controller that makes Amiga formated floppy-discs, and other formats to, available for other computers. It is based on the Catweasel by Individual Computers.
Merlancia Industries licensed this technology from Individual Computers for selling it with the name Cleo for Tsunami developer-devices and other Pegasos-based computers.
Due to some internal problems the shipping of the controller will be
delayed for some time. Further information can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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13.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9431
Richard H. Poser released version 0.9431 of his AIM-messengers AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for the AOL instant messenger service.
Some changes:
AmigAIM 0.9431 Beta (12. August 2001)
- Found and removed bug in Single Window mode when Timestamps are selected.
- Buddy List window now has different settable size for Single Window and
Standard modes.
- Timestamps now default to the correct values as set in prefs.
- Changed the 'Always view time stamp' to 'Display time stamp by default' for
prefs item text.
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12.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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Datatype: WarpTIFF V44.2
Oliver Roberts released version 44.2 of his WarpTIFF datatype, which
runs on both 68k and PPC Amigas under WarpOS and MorphOS.
Changes since prior version:
- New: Multi image TIFF files support. Applications can select the picture
to be displayed via PDTA_GetNumPictures- and PDTA_WhichPicture tags.
- New: CMYK graphics support.
- Bugfix: PixarLog decompression did not work.
- Bugfix: Files missing the StripByteCounts tag don't cause crashes, any more.
- Bugfix: Files missing information about samples per pixel now are loaded
without problems.
- Bugfix: Fixed problems while operating pictures without separate colour components.
- Changed: Error operation and error code return have been reworked and enhanced.
- Changed: Several code not needed any more was removed.
More information available under the title link.
Download: WarpTIFFdt.lha (204K)
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12.Aug.2001
Amiga Future
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PCI: Prometheus-SDK V1.50
Matay released version 1.50 of the Prometheus SDK.
Changes since prior version:
- New: Header files for GCC, VBCC, SAS/C, and StormC.
- New: Source code examples now can be compiles using the above mentioned compilers.
- New: The 'developer.guide' was extended with a description of the PCI interrupt handling.
- Bugfix: A little bug in the 'prometheus.library' was fixed; PrmScan ended up in an endless loop if
there was no PCI board installed.
Download: prometheus150.lha (177K)
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12.Aug.2001
GameDev.net
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Programming: Tutorials for BlitzBasic
Blitz Coder is a new website dealing with the
Basic dialect 'BlitzBasic' among other things
is suited for programming of games.
Currently several tutorials are on this site, which first induct you into programming in general
and then address programming of games.
'Blitz Basic' initially was released for the Amiga and now is available for Windows, too, but
at least the general tutorials might be useful as an entrance to 'Blizt Basic' programming
using one of the elder Amiga versions.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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12.Aug.2001
René Stelljes (E-Mail)
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User: Amiga-User-List (AUL) V11.01 SE
René Stelljes wrote:
From today version 11.01 SE (05.08.2001) of the AUL is on our homepage.
This version was created for the compuer party of the Amiga user from Göttingen, Germany.
The Amiga-User-List again is available at
http://www.amiga-user-liste.de/.
Unfortunately there still are problems with the online form, because of this still isn't online.
A prepared ASCII form is part of the guide-version's archive. (sd) (Translation: mj)
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12.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Handicrafts: Pictures of an A500 desktop
Under the title link the A.C.E. user group released
pictures of an A500 built into
a desktop like case and equipped with an external keyboard.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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12.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: Game - drillbohrer V5.04.27
On 09. Agust 2001 Timm S. Müller has released version v5.04.27 of
the Arcade game 'drillbohrer' for the AmigaDE SDK.
'drillbohrer' is a 'oils well' clone, which was released for the C64 in 1983.
The game was written regarding AMIGA's PDA specifications, e.g. the game's window
was limited to a PDA specific size.
This version offers additional music and sound effects. It requires the
'libknpmod sound library'.
The VP assembler source code is part of the archive.
Download: drill_snd.zip (70K),
Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)
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12.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: bin2h - file to C source conversion
On 10. August 2001 Patrick Roberts has released version 0.91 of the tools 'bin2h'
for the AmigaDE SDK. 'bin2h' converts any file to a C header file, compressed or
uncompressed.
The existing zlib of the AmigaDE is used for compression. This library also can
be used to uncompress the files in your own program.
Download: bin2h.tgz (2K),
Readme
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11.Aug.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - interview campaign
An interview with Sebastian Bauer, the developer of, among other things,
SimpleMail and FreeCiv is online. (main focus: FreeCiv)
Amiga Arena - full version
In co-operation with K.-P. Koljonen the Amiga Arena makes the release of
"HippoPlayer v2.38" available! The HippoPlayer is a module player
for the Amiga that supports a big number of formats.
Some facts about the HippoPlayer:
- Screamtracker I, Fasttracker 1 & 2, Taketracker, Multitracker, 1-32
channels
- "SID-Emulation" by Håkan Sundell & Ron Birk (runs with Kickstart
1.2, too)
- "TFMX modules" (the normal ones as well as the 7-channels version)
- Some 4 to 8 channels sample & synth formats
- Easy-to-use 3D-Interface
- Completely controlled via keyboard
- AppWindow: simply drag icons into the window of HiP
- ARexx
- Public Screen support
- Internal multitasking
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Aug.2001
Stefan Instinske (email)
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Event: Maxpo 2001 cancelled
We got yesterday evening information by Stefan Instinske via mail that the Maxpo
2001 is cancelled. As already reported
Falke-Media wanted to hold the "AMIGA WORLD 2001" at this fair.
Talks with Falke-Media showed that they work with high pressure on finding an
alternative location for the Amiga fair. Detailed information about this can be
found at the beginning of next week at amiga-messe.de.
Here's the complete mail of Stefan Instinske (translated from German):
++++
| 22:56 | Friday - 10. August 2001 |
What was already in several forums broadcasted as rumor seems now to be official:
the Maxpo 2001 in Cologne won't take place this year. Though the organizers
have not officially commented on their webseite yet it seems definitely that
all exhibitors have been written to and informed about the fair's
cancellation. Not least the following message from Arktis makes clear that this year's exhibition
falls through:
»As the MAXPO in Cologne unexpectedly won't take place this year ARKTIS
holds on the 21. and 22. September a big MAC DAY in the ARKTIS company building
in Rosendahl. Detailed information about participiants and supporting programme
will follow soon...«
Reason for the cancellation of the fair may well be the withdrawings of some big
exhibitors and financial losses resulting from this for the organizers. As soon
as we have further and more definitive information we will announce them here of
course.
++++
Further link about this topic:
Heise: Macintosh-Messe
Maxpo cancelled (German only)
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11.Aug.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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Event: more pictures from Göttingen
On the 4. and 5. August the G.A.U. & APC&TCP
meeting took place in Göttingen.
The computer club ACBB wasn't idle at the meeting
and shot many photos (see title link). Have fun watching them and recognizing. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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11.Aug.2001
REBOLforces
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Magazine: REBOL/Zine Issue 4 Vol 1
On 3. August 2001 Jeff Kreis has released the 4. issue of the
REBOL/Zine magazine and made it today online available.
This English online magazine covers the REBOL
system. The current issue contains articles regarding the following subjects:
- REBOL Header is alive - accessing header entries of a script
- Plain text to HTML.. in one line - inserting of P tags using the Parse command
- Look ma, just one face! - example for the Pane function
- RUGBY - sending commands via the network to REBOL processes (Distributed Computing)
- It's Alive!!! - Several practical hints for REBOL
- Basic Make-doc - short introduction into the document format of 'Make-doc'
- Get-Word! - correction referring to the mail filtering article (mbox) in
the REBOL Zine 1
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10.Aug.2001
David Brunet (e-mail)
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Magazine: Obligement 28 is now available
The 28th issue of the famous French e-zine Obligement is now available.
You can read in this issue an interview with Gary Peake (Amiga Inc.) and
Bernard Noel (author of the game Imperator), a review of Land of Genesis,
reports of the Amiwest and Amiga Benelux Show, an article about the
Prometheus PCI card and much more!
You can download it at the address:
http://obligement.free.fr
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10.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (e-mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: New team member
The members in "Virus Help Denmark - Amiga Team" have now grown 100% ...
now we are 2 persons in the Amiga team. :-)
Jan Erik Olausen (programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library) has now joined as a
full member of Virus Help Denmark. This will help you all of you, if one of us is away
you can always contact the other member of the "Amiga Team".
Jan Andersen
Jan Erik Olausen
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10.Aug.2001
Golem - IT News for experts
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Golem: Speedball comeback
»Bitmap-Brothers classic soon available in new version
Game freaks who once owned an Amiga will remember well the popular developer
team Bitmap Brothers and their
excellent sports game Speedball.
As the team announced, they are currently working on a sequel to the classic.«
Full German article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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10.Aug.2001
Lionel Thillot (ANF)
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New information web site for french people
While waiting for the return of Amiga Impact, Amedia Software opened a
section 'current events' for knowledge of the current events of
the world Amiga in Frenchman.
En français:
En attendant le retour d'Amiga Impact, Amedia Software a ouvert une
section 'actualité' pour que vous puissiez connaître toute l'actualité
actuelle du monde Amiga en français et quotidiennement.
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10.Aug.2001
no risc no fun (ANF)
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nrnf: Monzoom3D special summer sale
Together with Oberland Computer,
'no risc no fun' makes a special price for the current version 4.3 of
Monzoom3D for AMIGA possible.
This program is the direct successor of the popular Reflections and
offers countless useful features. The sale continues until end of October.
Prices and ordering information are at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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10.Aug.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: Merlancia buys Amiga Walker and MCC designs
Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the purchase of the legendary Amiga Walker
and MCC designs.
The Walker and MCC designs (created by Frogdesign and Pentagram respectively) are now
owned exclusively by Merlancia Industries. These designs will be implemented in
Merlancia's MMC/Torro line of multimedia PowerPC products.
The Walker case, designed in 1995-6 by Frogdesign for Escom AG will be implemented in a
Space Conservative Desktop unit; expressly useful for offices and cramped desks. The
Walker design, currently Merlancia Radian, will feature a PowerPC G3 or G4 (750 and 7410
resp.) processor with an advanced graphics chipset and will be targeted for sale around
the $1500 to $2000 price point.
The MCC case, designed in 1999 by Pentagram was planned as Amiga's Multimedia
Convergence Console. Merlancia will be implementing this design for its Apocalypse DT and
ST series systems, based on the PowerPC 7xx and 8xxx series processors. The MCC design
will be implemented in set top box and low cost desktop packages based on the X-Casting
Broadband Video delivery method next year for prices ranging between $699 and $1299.
Dr. Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries comments "We anticipate
minor styling changes and modifications, as needed for the implementation of our hardware,
none of which will effect the beauty or harmony of the case designs. We will be producing
the cases out of stainless steel, with the possibility of other materials being available
as well."
Bill McEwen, President & CEO of Amiga, Inc said "As Amiga has transformed
itself to a Software company, having Merlancia build new products based on these designs
is exciting, and we look forward to seeing more great products from the Merlancia
team".
About Merlancia
Merlancia Industries is a technologies company
specializing in the design and
manufacture of industrial and consumer multimedia and internet appliances and
workstations. Merlancia Industries is a privately held Corporation with offices in
Phoenix, AZ USA and Frankfurt Germany. PR Contact: Malcolm J. Brenner -
m.brenner@merlancia.com
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a
new multi-media 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, SH3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux,
Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. 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 www.amiga.com.
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10.Aug.2001
Cinemaware
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Game: 'Defender of the Crown' for free download
Cinemaware kept their promise to make more game classics freely available and offers
the game ´Defender of the Crown - The Age of Chivalry!´ for free download.
A time of lusty wenches and black hearted villains. King Richard has been
murdered and England is thrown into civil war! Amidst the ringing clash of
steel and the thunder of charging steeds the bold Saxon knights have
chosen you to lead them into battle against the hated Normans. Victory
will not come easy. To save England your skills as swordsman and military
leader will be severely tested. But should you succeed you'll win the
Crown of England and the love of many a beautiful damsel!
- Heart pounding action as you rescue your lady from a foul Norman prison.
- Majestic tournaments where you joust for fame, fortune and land.
- Heroic battles featuring castle shattering giant catapults!
- A unique blend of role playing and strategy combined with dazzling arcade style sequences.
- Easy-to-use mouse or joystick controls. No typing required!
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09.Aug.2001
Fun Time World
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Blittersoft: Future development of iFusion
The future development of iFusion
We are pleased to announce agreements with several partners to bring new
features and enhance iFusion. This is part of our commitment of continued
development.
Microcode Solutions
When Blittersoft purchased iFusion, we did so with an agreement to allow
Microcode Solutions to add new features for us. We are pleased to say
that we have now agreed the following news features to be added:
- Direct SCSI - Allowing direct CD-ROM, Scanners, etc. (with appropriate Mac drivers)
- Networking - Allowing networking between iFusion and another computer
- Parallel/Serial support - Allowing printing and modem use.
Merlancia Industries
We have signed a developer agreement with Merlancia Industries. This will
initially provide a new GUI for iFusion, but other features are possible
in the future.
Haage & Partner
We have signed a developer agreement with Haage & Partner. This is to devote
more time to the Blizzard PPC problem with iFusion. Other features are also
possible.
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09.Aug.2001
DCE Computer Service GmbH
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DCE: Warp 3D GREX-PCI Voodoo3 VGA board drivers released
DCE have released the Warp 3D GREX-PCI drivers for Voodoo3 VGA boards and made
them online available for any GREX user.
Furthermore DCE is reworking their website.
There was a flash update released for Blizzard PPC containing the PCI library v1.3.
Any GREX user is recommended to use this version.
Download:
Warp3D-4.2a.lha
BlizzPPC_1_3.lha
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09.Aug.2001
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)
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Game: RekoNet online again
After a long break the RekoNet is online again, at last.
Rekonet is a playing card collection for the popular Klondike AGA
Solitair variant (also for PC). Interested people might drop by and get
some card sets. Card sets still not included are welcome.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
The Register
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The Register: Gateway pulls out of UK and Ireland
As already reported for several times, the American PC manufacturer Gateway - who
obtained AMIGA in 1997 and sold it again in late 1999 - this year is deep in the red.
After the closing of 27 US stores and the announcement to close their German offices, now
the closing of their European headquarter in Dublin as well as their English office
was confirmed, too. Only for Ireland and England 1,200 people will loose their jobs.
See title link for The Register article.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software
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Eternity News: New Eternity1 offers and packets
Since some time Eternity Hard- and Software offers a PC named 'Eternity1'
with an Amiga emulator pre-installed. Since 01. August 2001 they changed the
distribution concept for the Eternity1 to offer two different basic machines.
Moreover the software is delivered separately (meaning no pre-installed software,
anymore). This should better meet future offers of different alternative Amiga
systems.
At the time being Eternity offers the following computer configurations:
1. Eternity One Economy
- Midi-Case 300W
- AMD Athlon 1Ghz
- Quantum Fireball QML 30000 30 GB
- GeForce 2 MX-200
- 128 MB SD-RAM
- CD-ROM BTC 52x
- Gigabyte Mainboard GA7ZX (5 PCI/1 ISA/1 4xAGP)
- Keyboard, Mouse
2. Eternity One Business
- Midi-Case 300W
- AMD Athlon 1,4 Ghz (266 FSB)
- Seagate Barracuda III 40 GB 7200 rpm
- GeForce 2 GTS
- 256 MB DDR-RAM (266 FSB)
- DVD-ROM LiteOn 52x
- Gigabyte Mainboard DA7DXR (5 PCI/1 4xAGP) incl. Raid-Controller (266 FSB)
- Network Card 100 Mbit
- Keyboard, Mouse
3. Eternity One Amiga-Software Packet 1
- Amiga-Forever
- WinUAE-JIT
- Amiga OS 3.9
More details and prices are to find under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Tool: SGrab Version 1.18
Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.18 of his screen grabber SGrab.
With this program you can create screen grabs and save them in different formats.
Download: sgrab.lha (97 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Satra Systems
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Database: SatraDB for AmigaOS
Satra Systems develops a new database management system for AmigaOS 3.5
called SatraDB. 85% of the design have been finished, development progress is
at 66%. More details under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Fr3dY
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Tool: xlHTML for MorphOS Version 0.2.9.11
Fr3dY has written loads of useful tools for the AmigaOS and MorphOS.
On 07. August 2001 he has released version 0.2.9.11 of xlHTML. This
program converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML.
Download: xlhtml.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: News from the Bitboys - XBA about to outplay GeForce3
»Extreme bandwith due to embedded DRAM within the graphics chip
Since 1998 the Finnish graphics chip manufactures Bitboys are working on
their Xtreme Bandwith Architecture (XBA), a memory architecture embedding
fast eDRAM directly into the graphics chip and thus is said to offer
noticeable higher bandwith than GeForce3 and similar. Now the Finns have
released some new information: Their upcoming "wonder graphics chip" now will
have integrated 12 MB instead of 9 MB eDRAM and additionally will be capable
to address up to 64 MB external SDRAM.
«
For complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Chip: ATI Radeon 2 - Samples of the new 3D board
»Initial samples of an ATI graphics board with Radeon-2 chip have shipped in
Korea. The hardware magazine "Brainbox" contains pictures of a Radeon-2 board with
64 MB DDR-RAM at 4 ns access time.«
See title link for complete article.
More messages about this subject:
The Register: ATI Radeon 200 debuts on Web
Brainbox: ATi R200 (incl. pictures)
The Register: ATI R200, R300 roadmap spied
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Borut Zivkovic (ANF)
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Game: Heretic II patch (especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this)
Hyperion Entertainment released a patch for Heretic II for download.
Especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this one;
BilzzardPPC users with 040/25 CPU will experience significant more
speed. Moreover now the so called "wheel mouse" is supported and visual
effects have been enhanced.
The innovations are:
- Speed. The new version is up to 25% faster depending on the hardware.
Especially users with relatively weak hardware (BlizzardPPC with 040/25) will notice a significant speed-up.
- Mouse Wheel support. Heretic II now supports mouse wheel adaptors that map to rawkeys 122/123 (newMouse etc.).
- Improved visual effects: "new" Permedia 2 additive blending mode (requires Warp 3D V4.2)
(see before and after screenshots) and full Voodoo 3 support.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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09.Aug.2001
Ben Yoris / Hyperion (ANF)
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Hyperion Entertainment: Website moved and has got new features
Hyperion Entertainment is very proud to announce our webmaster has completely
revamped our website and migrated it to a more powerful server.
The new website can be reached on www.hyperion-entertainment.com.
Key-sections of the site including the general FAQ and the corporate info
have been updated.
Apart from a new progress report on Freespace, the new site now also has a
download section where users can register their copies of Heretic 2 and
Shogo:MAD.
Registered users will be able to download updates of Heretic 2 and
Shogo:MAD which will address certain issues with the Voodoo 3 drivers,
squeeze out more performance and boost visual quality.
Registered users will moreover enjoy further priviliges such as early
access to new versions of Warp3D and be eligible for beta-testing of
our future titles.
Please take the time to register your copy of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: First version of Opera-browser for QNX
»Unicode-support for Opera-versions announced
The strategy of Opera supporting as many as possible operating systems continues: The Norwegian programmers has now published Opera 5.2 for QNX. The QNX-version supports Unicode as the first Opera-browser.«
You can read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: New open-source-competition for DivX and Co.
»On2 Technologies releases TrueMotion VP3.2 video compression technology
The small software company On2 Technologies which is situated in New York has released its powerful video compression algorithm TrueMotion VP3.2 as open-source. With this step the company which formerly has been known as Duck Corporation wants to offer a powerful competition to DivX and the ISO-standard MPEG-4 which has to be licensed.«
Read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Ralf Berg (ANF)
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Tool: New alpha-version of IFFAnzeiger
Ralf Berg writes:
Today I have uploaded a new alpha-version of the IFFAnzeiger on my homepage. IFFAnzeiger can also display oversized pictures directly of the harddrive.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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ASP: e-mail address changed
Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz wrote:
At eanet.de there is probably a problem with forwarding of mails.
Because of that I have changed the email address. All those who have
sent me mails in the last week and who did not get any response please
send it again to the new mail address.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Corel wants to take possession of SoftQuad
»Enterprises signed taking possession
Corel wants to take possession of the enterprise SoftQuad Software which is specialized for XML-solutions. The enterprises informed that a corresponding agreement has been signed. According to it Corel will take possession of SoftQuad by buying of shares.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
M0rpheus (ANF)
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New Amiga-website for hard- and software news
M0rpheus writes:
I have created this website to confirm my existing interest in the Amiga-computer. At the moment only one project is online which is a new Amiga-online-game based on the board game RISIKO!
I hope you will enjoy this site and the content :)
Respects M0rpheus
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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08.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.27
Yesterday Jan Erik Olausen has published version 33.27 of 'xvs.library'. This version contains the following changes:
- Added Penetrator 2001 Link virus
Thanks to Krzysztof Duda for the files.
- Added CCCP Clone Bootblock virus
Thanx to Mr Yoard for sending me this bootblock
- Fixed bug in recognition code for DKG-Blum file virus again!
Thanks to Urban Mueller for reporting this.
- Added Smeg2a Installer File virus
Thanks to Antonio De Cicco for the file.
- Added Smeg2a Link virus
- Added Smeg2b Link virus
Thanks to Zeeball for the files.
To be done:
- Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory.
Name: xvs.library v33.27
Archive name : xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 56.483 Bytes
Release date: 7. August 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
eMail: virusexecutor@c2i.net
xvs.library program length: 56.828 Bytes
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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07.Aug.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)
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AROS reachable at new URL
As reported earlier there was a hardware problem
with the server hosting the AROS website. In the meantime you can get to the
website with this URL: http://www.hepe.com/aros/
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Emerald Imaging
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Game: Demoversion of Aqua released
A demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is released. In this game you will find
yourself in a mysterious world and have to try to get a way out.
Download:
AquaDemo.lha -
Readme
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Assembly
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Event: Assembly 2001
At the Finnish Demoparty Assembly 2001, that has happen not long ago in Helsinki,
MatureFunk has won the first place with the Amiga demo Lapsuus.
This demo and other you will find under the title link for download.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk.
These are the new packages:
- 05.08.01 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts)
- 05.08.01 new: Missiles Over Xerion (Kingsoft/Cycletech)
- 05.08.01 new: Garfield: A Winter's Tail (The Edge)
- 05.08.01 enhanced: Fly Harder (Starbyte)
- 05.08.01 new: Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 new: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17)
- 04.08.01 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software)
- 04.08.01 new: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision)
- 04.08.01 new: Castle Vania (Konami)
- 01.08.01 enhanced: IK+ (Archer MacLean)
- 31.07.01 enhanced: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 07.08.2001
YAT.lha comm/mail 577K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
crossgcc_linux.tgz dev/gcc 2.8M+Crossgcc linux to AmigaOS
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 952K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2001 (Itali
Aakt0801GFX.lha docs/mags 542K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801GUIDE.lha docs/mags 73K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0801HTML.lha docs/mags 218K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
HBible.lha docs/misc 1.2M+Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillatio
ChaosHeavy.lha game/2play 16M+World's Best Magic Game! 1-8 players! Fa
AquaDemo.lha game/demo 2.5M+Aqua demo version of great new adventure
mhi_MASPro.lha hard/misc 10K+MHI MAS Player Pro driver
ASIE.lha misc/emu 45K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
mhi_dev.lha mus/play 56K+MHI Dev - The new standard in MPEG audio
mhi_MASStd.lha mus/play 9K+MHI MAS Player Standard driver
PlayGUI.lha mus/play 785K+Skinnable multi-format player-GUI
PlayGUIShot.jpg mus/play 172K+Screenshot of PlayGUI 3.2
arcadesnookeri.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Arcade Snooker
doomicon.lha pix/mwb 65K+Neat MWB icon for Doom
quakeicon.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Quake
Robot.jpg pix/trace 20K+Raytraced Robot
StarRacker.jpg pix/trace 36K+Futuristic Rocket Car
Alecos-WB-1.jpg pix/wb 141K+A nice desktop 800x600 16 Bit by Alecos
Ital301.lha text/misc 566K+English to Italian Translator v. 3.1
GS-JAnim.lha util/batch 7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species)
2b_Spiral.lha util/boot 3K+A little toy to make Your Workbench look
e-bin.lha util/cli 72K+Port of "e", a full expression evaluator
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 122K+WarpDT preferences program V44.5
WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 209K+TIFF datatype V44.1 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
AslToRT.lha util/misc 23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
envhandler.lha util/sys 14K+A happyenv replacement (1.10)
Safe.lha util/virus 35K+Virus detector v16.3
FlagsWB3.9_GR.lha util/wb 3K+WB 3.9 Flags, Country files for Greece,
sgrab.lha util/wb 95K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.17) (as) (Translation: gf)
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07.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9430
Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9430 of the AIM-client AmigAIM. It
is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger. Here is an
excerpt of the history where you can see the changes:
- Found bug in Mail Checking routine that could cause the program to go into
an infinite busy loop under certain circumstances.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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06.Aug.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Project: AmigaFFE status
I would like to give a short update of the topical status of the
AmigaFFE-project. Due to the fact that the release of the source code
of Frontier-First Encounters (quotation: "..when it's done.") I would
like to suggest a small project that deals with Frontier, too.
Maybe some of you know the game "Elite - The New Kind". It is a Elite
version, that looks slightly better then the original Amiga version.
The Allegro-library (used for the new version of First Encounters, too)
is used for the programming of this game (for Windows). Here is my
question: Is out there any interest in a port of this game (for practice)?
Furthermore, I get an email containing the info that Alive Mediasoft
already had a running version of First Encounters that was never finished.
Does someone out there have any contact information (e-mail, snailmail)
of one or more former employee of Alive? Because I would like to ask them
if we could finish this version.
Additionally:
The analysis of the actual situation will be seperated in two parts:
- Technical information concerning the game (shortkeys, engine, and so on)
- Some kind list about what we can do and what we can not concerning the port.
In the near future I will put some impressions for example pictures on my page. I will publish the soundtrack (MIDI and maybe MP2 version, too.
If you did not hear anything about the AmigaFFE-project here are some information:
The AmigaFFE-project wants to port the game Frontier First Encounters, the successor of Frontier Elite II, to the Amiga.
This is an "Everyone's Invited"-project. That means that everyone is
welcomed to join the team wether he/she wants to program or 'just'
write the documentation. Further details are available at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Amiga Security Page (ANF)
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Information about SMH.com.au: 6000 Hacks a Week
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Because of the
article
(6,000 attempted hacks a week gets home user a bit annoyed) at
smh.com.au I put together
a small compilation of information concerning this topic.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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Filemanager: DiskMaster 2.5b12
Rudolph Riedel released DiskMaster 2.5b12 and DM2.guide 1.97. It is available at the Archive-section of his homepage.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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06.Aug.2001
Amiga. Inc.
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Amiga Inc.: e.p.i.c. about to produce programs for the AmigaDE
The well known software house
e.p.i.c. interactive
entertainment
will produce games for the AmigaDE. These games will be released
for PDA's and micro-computers like the Sharp Zaurus. The first three
games will be "Boxikon", "Piles O' Tiles" and "Pegger". The whole
press release can be found at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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05.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.3
Virus Help Denmark released version 16.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes
them if possible.
Changes since last version:
- fixed ReadArg() template in order to remove wrong
message on machines which users didn't noticed that TCPPATCH is dead!
- optimization
- small fix in xfd slave for new SMEGs
- added analyse of SMEG2 viri
Name : Safe v16.3
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 36.032 bytes
Release date : 05 August 2001
Compilation date: 30. July 2001
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires : Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
Download: Safe.lha (35K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Richard Hackelbusch (ANF)
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Game: Spaceward Ho! for free download
Richard Hackelbusch wrote:
While searching for signs of life of one of the best Amiga games
(Spaceward Ho!, AmigaMagazin rated it "very good, 10,2", issue 9/94),
which even runs on graphics boards, I happened to find the homepage of
the author who has ported Spaceward Ho! to the Amiga,
(http://www.bebbosoft.de/), and it
turned out that with permission of the manufacturer
(Delta Tao Software) he has put the
game online for free download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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Developer tool: CVS V1.11.1p1
Version 1.11.1p1 of the AmigaOS port of 'CVS' has been released.
This update among other things fixes another Enforcer hit, which occurred
along with an error message when using the internal SSH client.
Beside of this bugfix two more new features have been added to simplify
working with cvs and ssh a bit or to make it more compatible with the
prior version.
Jens Langner advises any developer to get the latest version at the following
and well known address:
http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
During the following days this update should be on Aminet, too.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: cnvtools V0.99a Beta
Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.99a of his 'cnvtools'.
The archive contains four tools for image and audio formats supported
by the ave/cnv tools, including cpm and rpm. Using these tools you can
convert the formats, get information about audio or image files, and more.
The tools' source codes are part of the archive.
Download: util/conv/cnvtools.tgz (29K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
amigadev.net
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AmigaDE: playsound V0.96 Beta
Patrick Roberts released 'playsound' for the AmigaDE SDK v1.1.
Playsound plays audio samples and supports all AVE-CNV formats.
Download: unclassified/playsound.tgz (425K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Fun Time World
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Graphics: ImageFX V4.5 Introdution
Nova Design introduced version 4.5 of the image editing and
effects software 'ImageFX' on the AmiWest 2001 show.
New drawing modes and a new animations system were added. This
animations system can load GIF animations, ANIM's, ANIM brushes, as
well as a set of single frames and can operate those using keyframe
animation.
Follow the title link for the full press release.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Bernd Gmeineder (ANF)
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AMI Sector One: Update with additional games
Bernd Gmeineder wrote:
'Paradox Software' and 'Hartwerk' are two more companies allowing us to
make their software available for free at AMI Sector One. Some of the
games and applications, which now can be legally downloaded, are 'ST-Protector',
'War Zone', and the translation software 'Translate It'. Beside of these there
is also Ed Scio's futuristic flight simulation 'Armour-Geddon'. Various interesting
public domain games and new Emerald Mine clones round out this little update.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AmiWest 2001: 9 minuts movie from the show
On http://emrl.com/amiwest/ a 9 minutes movie from the
AmiWest 2001 show was released. This movie shows the responsiveness to AmigaOS x86, views on
the Boxer, AmigaDE programming, Amiga tatoos, and SOCK PUPPETS.
It shows Kermit Woodall, Joe Torre, Dr. Ryan of Merlancia Industries, and many more.
There are two versions of the movie, one of low (8,795k) and one of high (25,567k)
resolution MPEG-1 video format.
A copy of this movie, the MP3 files of the speeches, and the Sheep screenshot are also
available from http://amiga.mc-kenna.org/.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.8
On 4. August 2001 beta version 40.8 of the alternative Workbench 'Scalos' was
released. This release in particular fixes several bugs and makes it easier to
handle the different preferences formats of Scalos.
Now Scalos tries to load the latest format, at first. If not available it falls back to
prior formats, but always uses the latest format for saving.
All changes can be taken from the
history.
You can report bugs using the
bug report page.
Download: ScalosBeta.lha (210K)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Kevin Orme (ANF)
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Website: Amiga University updated
OK. We've done quite a bit of work since the last
update, and while that was too long ago (mid May, blame
too much work travel! :) we've got some cool stuff up
there now for you!
1) New Pages. Not only have we gone back and
re-verified links throughout the site (we are up to ~2,000
links, probably only about 15% of those are 'within site')
we have added new AmigaDE, Draco, and TVPaint
pages as well as a huge slew of REBOL links to the
'rebol on the web' page in our programming section.
There are many other new links throughout the site in its
various sections as well, please let us know if we missed
*your* site. If it has to do with Amigas and especially
learning how to use them, enjoy them, etc., we're all
ears. :)
2) Site Mirrors and Archives. We are pleased to
announce that thanks to Bob Maple, Paul R.
Santa-Maria and Marc Albrecht we have been able to
'preserve' three Amiga sites otherwise having been
taken down, namely 'Zip Drives and the Amiga',
'Motorola 68000 Resources' and the former
Amiga-software.com website. Take a look from the 'site
archives' link off the home page.
Even cooler is the generosity of David McMinn, who is
allowing us to mirror his 'Blitz Basic 2000' site. This is
still an active and growing site, even though at the
moment he's changing servers on the home site in the
UK, thus not all his content is online at the moment but
that will soon change. Check it out!
3) Downloads. As you may or may not already know,
we've had Bars & Pipes available for download for a long
time, probably almost a year now. But we are pleased to
announce that due to the generosity of NewTek, (who
released Amiga TVPaint a while back as freeware),
TVPaint is also now free to be distributed by other sites
as well. We have created a ~4MB zip archive containing
all you'll need to install this premier Amiga paint package
(you'll need UnZip from Aminet as well as a graphics
card, however, to use TVPaint - UAE/Amiga Forever
users can also use it because they employ Picasso96
within the emulation). To help thank NewTek for their
continued support of the Amiga community, if you use a
PC, buy a copy of Aura, their newest and incredibly
powerful paint/graphics package - you won't be
disappointed.
In sum, come on back and check us out, we've got lots to
offer and hopefully will have another large site update
next month to announce. In the meantime, enjoy! (sd)
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05.Aug.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: New units for "Schlachtfeld"
Horst Diebel wrote:
Again, there are new unit pictures as in-game graphics by Eddy for the strategy game
'Schlachtfeld'. This should almost complete the vehicle fleet. Please, use the forum
of the page to post any suggestions about the final design or textures.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM with new WWW and download addresses
The WWW and download addresses have changed for the instant messenger 'AmigAIM' by
Richard H. Poser II to use the AOL messenger service.
The new addresses are:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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05.Aug.2001
Robert Williams, Editor Clubbed Magazine (E-Mail)
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SEAL: Clubbed Issue 8 Now Available
A brand new issue of Clubbed, South Essex Amiga Link's (SEAL) quarterly
subscription Amiga magazine, is available now. All subscriber copies
have been posted and should be received in the next week.
We are also happy to announce that you can now buy your Clubbed
subscription online from at Kicksoft
using a variety of credit and debit cards.
Highlights of issue 8 include:
Networking Explained: Find out how you can connect several Amigas or
integrate your Amiga into a network with other platforms. This feature is
complemented by a tutorial on setting up network printing with Samba.
Photogenics 5: What did we think of the latest release of this well known
art and image processing package?
DrawStudio Tutorial: We guide you through combining bitmap and structured
elements in this recently re-released drawing package.
Plus much more (including our first Reader's Wives section!)
If you'd like to know more visit our website
for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues.
Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication.
(mj)
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