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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04.Aug.2001
Carsten Schröder (ANF)
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AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 released
The August issue of AMIGA aktuell contains this time even three top reviews:
We take a close look at
- the AmigaDE in the »Party Pack« version,
- the PCI busboard »Prometheus« and
- the soundcard »Repulse«.
Additionally AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 contains
- the second part of the background report about the legendary
»Phoenix« mainboard,
- the second part of the experience report about the emulator package
»AmigaForever«,
- of course extensive information about the latest AMIGA announcements
and much more. AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 can be read online on our website
as well as it can be downloaded in HTML resp. AmigaGuide format.
Attention: As the AMIGA aktuell website is on its way to moving to
another server some services, among others the archived online issues, are
unusable for quite some time. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
Carsten Scholling (ANF)
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The revolution - a fictitious story
The vague information one gets from Amiga Inc. don't allow a continuation of the
story about Amithlon and the forces
of darkness for the moment. But surely later :)
But as I was asked to write something, now for something completely different.
Though not very Amiga related it fits somehow the present situation.
Ciao, Carsten
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Disk magazine: NoCover 89 released
Today the NoCover issue #89 has been released. It can be read online on the APC&TCP
homepage.
The online subscriptions were sent away today. The disk subscriptions will be
brought to the post on Sunday. As usual, the NoCover contains the latest issue of
the 'Amiga Aktuell' magazine.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
Thomas Hoppe (ANF)
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Domain amiga-center.de to give away
For some months now the domain amiga-center.de lies fallow. I don't need it
anymore, and I'm now looking for a new non-commercial user. A permission for
such a non-commercial use was given by Amiga Inc. but would have to be renewed
with a change of the owner and the service.
I give the domain away for free. The costs resulting from a change may be taken
over by the new owner. When interested please send an email to Thomas Hoppe.
For now the domain is looked after by DomainFactory. A change is no problem but
needs a little more time at DomainFactory.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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04.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 04.08.2001
E2140G-FLC01.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/17 *
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04.Aug.2001
AmigArt / Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Alan Redhouse (Eyetech UK) comments AmigaOne, OS4-PPC and Amithlon
»Well apart from unduly cluttering up the AmigaOne mailing list I think
Gary has handled the points raised admirably. Of course a large proportion of
posters appear to have completely ignored his answers and have started
indulging in even greater realms of virtual computing fantasy. I dont
really see it as a particularly good use of my time or the lists bandwith
to comment until the party atmosphere has died down a little.
However, since you ask, this is how I see things, (having first discussed
it with Bill, Fleecy & Gary):
There are currently 4 Amiga-on-PC emulators in existence/under development.:
UAE (Linux/windows); Amiga Forever; Amithlon; and 'x' (as previewed in
AmigaActive but shortly to be released).
All use the same basic 68K emulation process, but have different trade-offs
in terms of speed, chipset emulation (and therefore compatibility), windows
integration and other features. All only run 68K (not PPC) code so cannot
run modern software with PPC code.
All can only run os3.x (for which development has been capped) and will not
be able to run any version of OS4.x , all of which are PPC coded. All will
be irrelevant with OS5.0 (sometime) as this will run native on PPC and x86
(plus possibly some other) hardware.
From Amiga Inc's point of view all these products have a potential benefit
in increasing the overall Amiga user base. The theory is that they will act
as a taster to get old PC-owning Amigans excited again and to give ex Amiga
(who are now PC) dealers a low cost way of re-evaluating the Amiga. The
ultimate goal (in Amiga Inc's eyes) is to get more people to purchase/stock
the new PPC-based Amigas.
I am personally unsure whether this will be successful as:
Virtually all new software will be written to OS4.x and PPC interfaces.
Showing PC users an old unsupported operating system and its associated
68K applications does not - to me - seem the best way to impress them and
get them to change platforms.
(As Ben Hermans from Hyperion says) these emulators will inevitably be
installed on an existing windows machine where more functional - but mainly
more familiar - productivity and games software already exists for these
users.
I personally feel that we have the best chance of winning back old Amigans
with an all new hardware (including case - details available in a couple of
weeks), OS and application software bundle. That is we need a stand-alone
fully functioning solution with sufficient native applications and performance
to impress existing independant PC dealers. Of course this means that we need
some of these new applications ready when os4.2 arrives and that means that
we need sufficient sales of the AmigaOne with OS4.0 to make it financially
attractive for software developers to port their games and
applications. Careful timing is everything - we (Amigans) will only get one
chance to get it right.
Contrary to what many may expect, I actually believe it would be helpful if
OS 4.0 could be made to run on some of the existing PPC platforms (eg on the
Cyberstorm PPC) - albeit at lower performance - to rapidly increase the OS4.0
user base that application developers can write for. As I understand it this
would be possible but would need the cyberstormPPC's flash ROM to be updated
and made available by its author (Ralph Schmidt I believe).
BTW I do think Bills statement at AmiWest that three products (AmigaOne,
OS4.0, and Amithlon) are all to be launched simultaneously in November is
a bit of orator's licence. As far as we are concerned we will be sticking
to the (October) timetable for the AmigaOne and OS4.0 as announced in
Rotterdam in June. Hope this helps.«
(ps)
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UAE Discussion Board (ANF)
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Emulator: UAE 0.8.17 (beta) released
Beta/Development versions of UAE will be available here, as
soon as there are any changes to the code. The current stable
versions are numbered 0.7.x, while the next beta versions of
UAE will be numbered 0.8.x; and finally 0.9.0 once it's stable
again. Previously, the idea was to have a stable version 0.x.0
and beta versions 0.x.y, for y > 0. That didn't work very well:
all versions that appeared in public were rather stable, while the
beta versions mostly remained in a private directory. We'll try a
different model now and see how it works out. You can also check
out the ChangeLog of the latest version here.
Download: uae-0.8.17.tar.gz
(ps)
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04.Aug.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Stardate-BBS again out of business because of flash of lightning
Again is the Stardate during a strong storm affected by a flash of lightning.
In the exchange my port only works for two hours then the Telekom has to reset
the whole router. Again has expensive equipment to be exchanged. I was told that I shouldn't count on this until next week.
So the Stardate is again not accessible via the Internet. All Telnet
points/ boxes please use the access numbers instead (you can find them e.g. here
in the ALD). The http access of the mailbox isn't possible for now, either.
I should like to emphasize that this is (as was the last time) an act of God
(struck by lightning). On my site of the Telekom all pieces of equipment are
secured and there is backup equipment for the case of emergency.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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03.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (e-mail)
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Datatype: akPNG V44.110 released
Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.110 of his akPNG datatype.
As usual there are several processor versions available.
With help of datatypes you can view all kind of files in many programs.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)
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H&P: English PageStream manual released
The English manual for PageStream 4 for Amiga, Windows & Macintosh has
just been released as PDF file. The PageStream customers registered with
us for the online service get the download link by e-mail. If you haven't
signed up yet, you can do this at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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New screenshot of AmigaDE/Sheep
Fleecy Moss has provided a new Screenshot of AmigaDE. An open window shows the sourcecode of a "Sheep" program:
"Sheep" is a scripting language (similar to ARexx) which is part of AmigaDE.
Update (06.12.2012, cg): integrated the screenshot into the news item.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Markus Nerding (e-mail)
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H&P: ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection available now
Haage&Partner write:
Update: we have now opened a special area which presents all effects. Also now the
improved ArtEffect 2.5 is shipped with it since there were problems with the border effects.
Here you will find all
details
on the ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection and
sample pictures for the border effects
(all in all more than 250 borders are contained!). Further an
overview of the effects
with samples was added.
The ArtEffect-Plugins-Collection brings for the first time a comprehensive collection
of sensational effects and postprocessing filters for the bestseller
ArtEffect. The collection is shipped with ArtEffect 2.5 so that you can start
right away.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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Software: RB2Exe v1.5 released
RB2Exe version 1.5 is available now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This
program converts Rainboot multimedia shows into executable programs.
Version 1.5 allows you to use all great features of Rainboot3+ in your
executable shows! Additionally the memory routines have been optimized and
the generated executables' memory usage was reduced by almost 60 percent (!).
Also, the GUI's functionality was improved and bugs were fixed. Online help
is available now too. This version is only available for owners of the
'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM'.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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epic interactive: last status update for 'The Feeble Files' on Amiga
So far we have received 328 preorders for a possible port of the cartoon
adventure 'The Feeble Files' to the Amiga. Required are 400 to make a port of
this great adventure possible. The preorder campaign will run until
12.8.2001. If we have received 400 preorders for this game by then, we will
port it to the Amiga and it should be available within 4-6 weeks.
In order to run The Feeble Files on your Amiga you will need either a 68060
or a PPC CPU, 32 MByte Ram and a 4 MByte gfx board.
You can place your preorder directly with us by sending an e-mail to
order@epic-interactive.com
or the following dealers who will accept preorders for it:
Germany: KDH Datentechnik
Italy: Virtual Works
England: Amiga Games and Eyetech
Netherlands: Computer City
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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03.Aug.2001
Bright Light Software (ANF)
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Development and bugfixing suspended
Frank Fenn writes:
Because of a defect motherboard, the development and bugfixing
is suspended for some time. If anybody should have a RAMSEY
(A3000) in revision 4 and doesn't need it anymore, please contact me.
Affected from this is software as for example Audiomaster,
WBStartup, TIDesigner, AmiMTI and many other small tools.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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02.Aug.2001
Matthias Gietzelt (ANF)
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Programming language: Emperor V4.1
Emperor is an object oriented programming language enabling programming of applications
both for the new AmigaOS 3.9 and for AmigaOS 2.0 in the easiest way. Standard GUI elements,
windows, menus, requesters, ASL requesters, ReAction and GadTools gadgets are integrated just
by mouse-clicks and can be programmed using macro functions and the integrated text editor.
The gadgets can communicate with each other by the so called interconnection maps implemented,
without typing even one line of source code. Creating of locale catalogs and variables, implementing
libraries, etc. is likewise easy.
Emperor has an easy to see though and user friendly ReAction interface and comes with an extended
online manual in ".guide" format. Thus programming the new AmigaOS becomes child's play!
Emperor has the following features:
- Direct visualising available for every element.
- Generates C/C++- source code.
- Integrated text editor
- StormC connection via ARexx
- Generates source code for AmigaOS 2.0, AmigaOS 3.9 or in mixed mode
- Transparent layout
- GIFTWARE
Characteristics of Emperor v4.1:
- French catalog added (written by Olivier Martin - many thanks!).
- Translation for prepared menus and gadgets added.
- Attributes for text editor, speed-bar, and space-gadget added.
- New and specialized type of requester (Reaction style).
- ARexx script changed / problems while project transfer fixed.
- Fix positions for attribute window removed.
- Problem with preview window fixed.
- Array for speed-bar buttons added.
- Problems with arrays fixed.
- Adjustment fields extended with GadTools gadgets.
- Configurable path to includes and libs.
- Main window layout changed (no overlapping gadgets, anymore).
- Requester added, if menu item "New" was chosen.
- Error fixed in menu item "New".
- Error fixed in menu item "Delete".
- Selectable generation of macro functions.
- Generated source code is considerably smaller by omitting unused macro functions (about 40 %).
- Initially opened window for own project can be chosen.
- Error fixed in source code when generated with one gadget only.
- Specific project directory configurable.
- Error fixed while opening old projects containing a slider.
- Creation of locale files selectable.
- Creation of Storm projects selectable.
- Text editor now operates changes made correctly.
- Saving of character lines containing a linefeed ('\n') is no problem, anymore.
- amigaguide.library opened due to starting problems.
Version 4.1 of the program is available from Aminet "dev/c".
Download: Emperor_v4.1.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Golem IT-News für Profis
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Golem: Amithlon - PC emulates Amiga
The new Amiga emulator by Harald Frank and Bernd Meyer for x86 does not only attract
Amiga specific media. Today Golem.de reports about it:
»Amiga Inc. announce Amiga emulator for PC users
On the American Amiga show "AmiWest", which took place in the end of July, again
Bill McEwen presented some news and among those an emulation software by the code
name of "Amithlon". Thanks to fast x86 processors applications shall run definite
faster than on Amiga bolides with Motorola's 68060 processor.«
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)
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First official beta version of the X-Surf PPPoE driver
From now on the first public beta version of the xsurfadsl.device is available for
download at the support section. Only experienced users should try the installation,
since inconvenient patches are necessary because of limitation of the known TCP/IP stacks.
An extended readme file informs you about the details.
Download: dsl-beta.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Andy Silva (ANF)
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Tool: Amiga Filterium - extendable ripper and filetype tool
With the following message Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo introduces his new,
flexible and extendable datatype processor and Ripper.
Short: flexible filetype processor and ripper
Uploader: silva@psi5.com
Author: silva@psi5.com (Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo)
Type: util/misc
Version: 1.1, 7/2001
Requires: - any amiga or uae
- filerequester library like asl, reqtools or arp
- optionally xfd/xpk/xad/xvs...
Distribution: NoCD
features overview:
- knows, rips, converts a total value of
about 400 game/demo scene related file types
(about 100 self, others by accessing libraries)
- find music, pictures, text and much more in memory,
in files like demos/intros, packed files, etc
- decrunch with XFD/XAD/XPK (all modes) recursively
- convert mods back to Protracker (like Prowizard)
- rip loaders and intros from boot loading games/demos
- monitor files or memory as bitplane/hex/asc, mark ranges
- decrypt data with eor
- use your preferred file requester
- check for viruses with XVS
- highly configurable
- interactive and automatically processing by script language
This introduces a _new_ standard of file type identification and ripper
all in one. It works together with standard interfaces like shell (give
arguments in command line), Workbench (set tooltypes), opus, arexx
and appicon.
Highly configurable, for example: you can specify file type specific
save directories and output filename extensions. Macros for custom
processing methods can be defined.
It can invoke external programs, example: send the outputs to Multiview.
Amiga Filterium is based on plugins. Programmers can easily extend the
power of this tool by writing more afilter-plugins. If you are
interested:
The purpose of this release is to motivate YOU to try this out and
maybe join to the development team as author of a plugin, beta tester
or other. Its totally actual and maybe there was never something else
like this. Lets get this chance! Lets make it top and standard!
(ps)
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02.Aug.2001
Scalos
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Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.7)
Beta version 40.7 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released.
The changes made can be taken from the
history.
If you will happend to find bugs, please make an entry in the
bug report.
Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Suite101/John Chandler
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John Chandler: What Are The Odds...?
Monthly John Chandler writes an article about the subject Amiga at Suite101.com.
In the current one Chandler deals with the announcements Amiga Inc. did on the
AmiWest, especially with the new Amiga emulator for x86 platforms 'Amithlon'.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
amiga.org
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AmiWest: Pictures by Harv Laser
Harv Laser of AmigaZone released some
pictures from the AmiWest show. The appendant
readme file
contains picture descriptions.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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02.Aug.2001
Alexander Lohrmann (ANF)
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Amiga Inc.: AmiWest Show Report
Amiga put online the announcements done on the AmiWest show in form of a report:
Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc., made a number of exciting announcements
at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California.
The AmiWest show is organized by the Sacramento Amiga
Computer Club and is one of the largest Amiga shows on the West Coast.
The following products were announced for release by Q4, 2001.
- AmigaOne PPC Computer
- AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
- Amiga x86 (x86 Amiga emulator)
- AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack
AmigaOne PPC Computer
The AmigaOne PPC computer, being built by Eyetech
in the UK, is based on Zico specs published by Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc.'s flagship
next generation desktop continues to advance towards the first real new hardware for the
Amiga community in over 6 years. Excitement is mounting at both the Amiga office and
around the world as Amigans realize that the long wait will soon be over. All partners in
the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 project have been working hard to meet deadlines as the
project moves into its final stages.
Bill also announced that the two week slip in schedule for the Eyetech AmigaOne which
had appeared in June had now been pulled back to just one week. The new Rev B boards are
functioning well, with live PCI and AGP slots and work is now focused on bringing the
board and the CPU cards together. The first week of August will see full system boards
delivered to the AmigaOS4 team for preparations to move AmigaOS4.0 from the test bed
machines.
For more details regarding the AmigaOne, see http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/ or http://www.amiga.com/products/one/.
AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System
The AmigaOS 4.0 project is being managed by Amiga Inc. in partnership with both Haage-Partner (H&P) who are porting the main
portions of the new PPC OS and Hyperion
Software who are doing 3D and Mesa for the new PPC Operating System.
AmigaOS 4.0, which will only run on the Eyetech AmigaOne, is moving forward nicely.
With the help of Amiga partners such as Matay, much of the development work has used a
combination of A3/4000s, Matay Prometheus PCI bridge boards, Cyberstorm PPC Accelerators
and H&P's StormC v4.
This has allowed the project to move forwards without having to wait for an actual
AmigaOne board to become available. Consequently, the new file system and the core of the
TCP/IP stack were completed over two weeks ago. The PPC 68K emulator is being fine-tuned
and the new Amiga PCI library is being profiled against the Eyetech AmigaOne live PCI
slots. The RTG system is being enhanced, with a full PPC implementation of the extended
and most used functions, to allow for stunning 2D and 3D performance. In addition, the
Voodoo 3 drivers have been completed and the G450 drivers are under development, to be
followed by drivers for the new Matrox G550.
While the porting of the 68K elements of the AmigaOS will continue through AmigaOS4.2
and AmigaOS4.5, the first set of libraries ported to PPC will ensure that AmigaOS offers
impressive increases in stability, functionality and speed.
Once the test bed to AmigaOne migration has been completed, Amiga will provide
screenshots and benchmarks of the new system. These reports are aimed at demonstrating the
superiority of the AmigaOne and will give the community an early look at the features of
the product. In addition, Eyetech has commissioned some very impressive case designs that
will give the AmigaOne the looks to go along with its brains.
Amiga x86
Amiga was able to demonstrate a prototype of an x86 emulator for 68K for the
AmigaOS3.x series. This product, codenamed Amithlon, provides only RTG compatibility and
is being targeted at providing a first step from x86 towards the AmigaOne. Amithlon is
self-booting from CD on almost any x86 laptop or PC desktop. It is able to run most RTG
programs at speeds beyond that of a standard Amiga 060 chipset. Several developers at the
AmiWest show tried their applications on Amithlon and commented that they had never seen
such fast run times before on a 68060 Amiga computer. Amithlon is being written by Harald
Frank and Bernie Meyer.
Many Amigans who left when Commodore went bankrupt have been looking for a way to run
their favorite Amiga applications on newer hardware. The purpose of the emulator is to
allow x86 PC owners to experience the benefits of running the AmigaOS and applications
without having to make a potentially risky purchase of an entire machine.
Marketing and community will then slowly draw
these people towards the superiority of an AmigaOne with a full native OS running on it,
along with the latest applications. Amithlon is not a port of the AmigaOS and there are
currently no plans to see the AmigaOS ported to x86.
More details of the Amithlon including feature lists and release dates will be
published shortly.
AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack
AmigaDE 1.0 (based on Elate/Intent by Tao Group)
is being programmed by more than 30 programmers worldwide under the management of Amiga
Inc. There are over 3000 developers currently signed up to produce content for various
digital devices from cell phones, PDA’s, handhelds, and even desktop computers
running AmigaDE 1.0. Amiga also announced the first set of games that is being released
under the moniker “Series Zero” to Sharp for use on the Zaurus handheld devices.
The 5 games that are being released as part of the Series Zero Game Pack are:
Batty by Titan Computers
Boxikon by e.p.i.c. interactive gmbh
Convex by Zeoneo
Linea by Titan Computers
Solitaire by John Harris (ps)
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02.Aug.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)
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Mail client: SimpleMail 0.8 Alpha
I just uploaded the new SimpleMail alpha version. The new features:
- SSL support for POP3 servers. AmiSSL required!
- POP3 servers can be deactivated individually.
- Menu bar in main window.
- A new setting for the reading window allows smilies to be replaced by
pictures (pictures by Richard Kapp).
- Now groups can be deleted, too.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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01.Aug.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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Datatype: akPNG V44.100 published
Andreas R. Kleinert has published version 44.100 of his akPNG datatype. You can download several processor versions.
With the help of so called datatypes you can display different datatypes with different programs.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packets
WHDLoad can install games on the harddrive which were formerly meant to be used on disks. The following new packets have been added:
- 31.07.01 improved: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold)
- 30.07.01 new: Alien Syndrome (SEGA)
- 29.07.01 new: Crystal Hammer (Hannover)
- 29.07.01 new: Pipe Mania (Empire/The Assembly Line)
- 29.07.01 new: Jaws (Screen 7 Ltd/Intelligent Design)
- 29.07.01 new: Huckleberry Hound (Alternative)
- 29.07.01 new: The Halley Project (Mindscape)
- 29.07.01 updated: Pipe Dream (Lucasfilm)
- 29.07.01 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine)
- 29.07.01 new: Morph (Millennium/Flair)
- 27.07.01 new: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
http://www.amiga-news.net (ANF)
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Amiga-News.net online again
From today on Amiga-News.net is online again. Amiga-News.net is not a seperate site but rather a survey of several news-sites. Here you can daily read the headlines of several news-sites. Thus you have a quick overall view about the current news.
Remark: This site was not made by amiga-news.de.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
Oliver Roberts (ANF)
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WarpTIFF-introduction - New TIFF-picture datatype
Oliver Roberts introduces his new WarpTIFF freeware-datatype with the following message. This new datatype can also read pictures which were made under TIFF specifications 5.0 and 6.0. The datatype was optimized for 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS and is of course very fast.
It follows the original message:
The first release of WarpTIFF
is now available - a new freeware datatype capable of
reading 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec images, available in optimized 68k, WarpOS
and native MorphOS versions. Needless to say, WarpTIFF is fast - very fast
in fact :) Full feature list below.
WarpDTPrefs has
also been updated to support WarpTIFF.
- Supports 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec, including Packbits, Thunderscan,
CCITT (fax), Pixar, LogLuv (CIE and SGILog) and Deflate (zip)
encodings, and uncompressed files. LZW and JPEG encodings are
currently unsupported
- Image types supported include RGB (24-bit and 48-bit), palette based
and greyscale (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit)
- Supports image data organized as strips, tiles or separate components
- Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine, and fast TIFF decoder,
resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick TIFF datatype
- Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only),
which speeds up image decoding
- Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060
- PowerPC support with native WarpOS and native MorphOS versions
- Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an
8-bit display
- Specific support for the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype, when available
- The dithering feature of the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype can be
configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays)
- Based on libtiff 3.5.6-beta and zlib 1.1.3
As some of you will know, WarpTIFF has been in development (on and off)
for some time, but it's ready at last :) It already handles a more
comprehensive coverage of various TIFF encodings than other TIFF
datatypes, but if you should find some TIFF images that don't work
properly with WarpTIFF, then please let me know and I'll try to add
support for them. Likewise, if you need support for JPEG encoded
TIFFs, let me know.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 01.08.2001
gkartei.lha biz/dbase 224K+Powerful and easy database.
Regist_II.lha biz/dbase 133K+V0.2A user-administration for programmer
DOpusSpawn.lha biz/dopus 13M+Opus Mangellan 2 - SPAWN - Themes
AmBoS-Demo.lha comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 44K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
YahooGpScan1_2.lha comm/mail 5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.2
cim_v3_update.lha comm/misc 214K+CIM - Caller Id Manager V3.702 r42 - ONL
facts.lha comm/tcp 94K+V4.6 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
netspeechd.lha comm/tcp 7K+Outputs incomming packets to speak:
DKG-Neo2.lha demo/aga 1.0M+Neo2 final version (30/07/01) by Darkage
Eurochart43b.lha demo/mag 804K+The Official Eurochart #43 by DEPTH & IR
Emperor_v4.1.lha dev/c 671K+Object-oriented programming language
fractal.lha dev/c 69K+OpenGL C Source: Mandelbrot and Julia fr
freetype_S4.lha dev/c 458K+Freetype link library for StormC 4
koch.lha dev/c 18K+OpenGL Source: Koch's Snowflake
fd2pragma.lha dev/misc 191K+V2.136 create pragma, inline, ... files
AmigaArena3.lha docs/misc 44K+Amiga Arena News German/English
BraSwos2001.lha game/data 6K+Brazilian league update for swos
ETWBrasil2001.lha game/data 7K+Brazilian league update for Eat The Whis
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (29 July
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 91K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
LyraKeyMap_dk.lha hard/drivr 9K+Danish Lyra PC keyboard layout v1.01
WhirlDisc.lha misc/edu 77K+World Book encyclopaedia viewer. BETA
LC2.lha misc/misc 274K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
Squid.lha misc/sci 95K+A squid's skin simulator
OldSchoolMania.lha mods/hardc 168K+Old School hardcore MOD by REVOLVER DOG
Budbrain1.lha mods/pro 645K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 1
Budbrain2.lha mods/pro 408K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 2
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 125K+A no fuss multiformat audio player.
EP_MMDC.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "MMDC" external replayer
EP_MWalker.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Martin Walker" external rep
EP_RobHubbard.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Rob Hubbard" external repla
EP_TFMX.lha mus/play 10K+EaglePlayer "TFMX" external replayer
QSID.lha mus/play 10K+Small & Simple SID player
raycat.lha pix/misc 186K+[ancor] a new picture
sg-strip_15.lha pix/misc 45K+[ancor] StarGround strip 15
sg-strip_16.lha pix/misc 46K+[ancor] StarGround strip 16
doomicon.lha pix/mwb 66K+Neat MWB icon for Doom (as) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9429
Richard H. Poser has published betaversion 0.9429 of AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with the America Online Instant-messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history of which you can recognize the changes which were made:
- Custom interests can now be set and/or searched for by selecting <custom> and
inputting into the resulting input box. (BTW: Setting AmigAIM would allow anybody
using AmigAIM to search for others :-)
- I think I fixed a problem that could occur if program is told to shutdown via
the Close Gadget while a service/search is logging in.
- Added an Online check capability, it can now check if a named interface is online
and give an error if an attempt to go online is done and the interface is offline.
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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01.Aug.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Installer of SMEG 2 Virus found
The installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus was found. It was found in the faked keyfiles of MiamiDLX but it is possibly included in other files. Now read the details:
»We have now found the installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus. If the
info text from the archive is correct, the 'SMEG 2' virus has been
around since February 2001.
The archive has only been on Elite BBS'es or Elite websites.
Jan Erik Olausen the programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library, has
made a recog for the virus, but is having problems with removing the
virus from memory. As soon as Jan has solved this virus, a new update
of xvs.library will be released.
There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. But with the help of the
program 'Safe v16.2', you can find infected files, but not remove the
virus, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean
files. This virus will infect everything that is executed. And on my
test A1200 over 200 files, was infected in under 5 minutes.
The programmer of 'Safe' (Zbigniew Trzcionkowski) has written this
about the new 'SMEG 2' virus:
Released probably by mistake. Non crypted version of the next one.
Code is almost equal to old SMEG, but this time author invented NEW
WAY of patching PRIVATE routine of device task. This routine handles
receiving of dos packets.
Virus patch is stealing packets and sending them to the supervisor
task called 'SMG'. I have never seen such advanced digging code that
works properly. This means also that no visible changes are seen in
the system beside one new task.
I have noticed that freezing of SMG task stops spreading of the
virus, so at the moment Safe does only that. I will add removal of
the 'magic' patches if I found it necessary.
File repair was as easy as Penetrator files - one move.l 4.w,a6 was
replaced with jump to virus.
Hidden text (decoder was included, but not used by virus code):
Smeg! it's a Hostile TakeOver! (Again!)
And just when you thought it was safe..
Flake and Georg have left the building!
-= On Tour 1995-2001 =-
This is what we know of the virus:
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus name.... : SMEG 2a & SMEG 2b
Virus size.... : SMEG 2a: 1556 bytes & SMEG 2b: 1604 bytes
Archive name.. : MIAMIDLX.LZX
Archive size.. : 3.427 bytes (lzx packed)
There might just be more installers of the 'SMEG 2' virus out
there, so do not install these fake-keys.
Thank to the person that send the archive to Jan Erik Olausen,
and to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for the first test of this virus.« (ps) (Translation: dr)
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31.Jul.2001
Bebits (Seite über BeOS) (ANF)
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New hardware platform for AmigaOS & AmigaDE
Marcel Maurmann wrote:
Here I found a link with an interesting news from Merlancia about a hardware
platform with 1 or 2 G4 PowerPC processors. It should run with: MorphOS, QNX,
BeOS and -AmigaOS-/AmigaDE. The product series is called Merlancia Multimedia
Computer - Torro Series (System name: Apocolyps (Desktop/ASTB)).
Another link: BeGroovy: BeOS on a G4?
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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31.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Rüdiger Hanke
A detailed and interesting interview with Rüdiger Hanke, developer of "Excult"
and several filters, e.g. for PageStream etc., is online in english.
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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31.Jul.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)
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Amiga Inc. with Sharp at IFA
Thomas Nosutta wrote:
Bill McEwen announces in a keynote from Saturday that Amiga, Inc. will be
present together with Sharp on the IFA (Berlin from 25.08.-02.09.2001)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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31.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Status
Cartoon adventure The Feeble Files is now shipping for the Mac. If you want
to find out more about green aliens, the Omnibrain and rebellions please
turn to the projects section of our homepage.
Empire builder Knights and Merchants is now in final beta testing. The game
is running properly with only a few bugs that need attention. We expect this
game to be ready for release by the end of August. Watch out for the
forthcoming demoversion of Knights&Merchants.
RPG/strategy mix Gorky 17 has, after many many frustrating setbacks with
this project, entered beta stages on the Mac. We expect the game to be
finished in September.
The release of Earth 2140 Mission Pack for both Mac and Amiga is scheduled
for late august. The Mission Pack brings over 80 new missions to the
original EARTH 2140 as well as 2 new buildings, 6 completely new units and
one new terrain.
You will find more information on all our games in the projects section of
these pages.
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31.Jul.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)
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PerSuaSiVe SoftWorX: Comment about Amithlon development
Although I've only limited spare time available,
I'm investigating the possibility of doing x86-native
plugins for my software within the Amithlon-context.
Since diversification does not pay in the long term
- especially given the limited time and the outdated
current PPC platform for Amiga (200 MHz without l2-cache)
those x86-developments may replace current PPC-support
in my software completely. Support and testing for
PPC, PPC/MorphOS and x86 would be too much.
Basically there's fewer people than ever ordering and
registering software - this results in two considerations:
first of all, it does not pay to buy a newer standalone
PPC-machine, if it never will pay back. Secondly, if
"no one else" is interested in this x86 stuff, it will be
for my personal fun and needs, in case my 68k/PPC-Amiga
once breaks apart. Amiga 68k/PPC-Software slowly goes hobbyist.
That were my 2 cents - I'd be all for an architectural
elegant PPC architecture, but it did not happen in 6 years,
and now it's too late in my personal opinion.
Nevertheless I've full sympathy for the MorphOS development
and the other PPC-oriented approaches. But remember, I've
been among the very first to support PPC on Amiga - but
doing the same mistake again? No, not this time...
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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31.Jul.2001
Soren Ladegaard, webmaster at commodorebillboard.com (ANF)
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Haage & Partner supports The Commodore Billboard (Update)
As a sign of their continued commitment to the community,
Haage & Partner will now
be hosting more than 25 Commodore TV-ads featured at
The Commodore Billboard.
The Commodore Billboard is the internet's largest archive of Commodore
marketing material such as adverts, brochures, tv-commercials,
merchandise etc.
The Commodore Billboard has had server problems during the past few
months resulting in dead links in the "commercials section".
"Sure we are pleased to help" says Markus Nerding, managing director
of Haage & Partner. With Haage & Partners' solid position in the Amiga
market, the files are guaranteed to be online for a long time for all
Amiga / Commodore fans to enjoy.
Update:
Lots of classic Commodore marketing material has been scanned and added
to The Commodore Billboard.
- A fourty-page Page English Commodore Brochure!
- New Danish Commodore Adverts Section! Two Danish Commodore Adverts.
- New Greek Section! One Greek A500 Brochure
- One German 1541 Brochure
- Two German CDTV Brochures
- Two German CD32 Brochures
- Two German A1200 Brochures
- One German A4000 Brochure
- One Dutch PC Brochure
- One German PC 286 / 386 Brochure
- One German 286 / 386 / 486 / Amiga / C64 Brochure
- Nine New Items In The Miscellaneous Section - Matches, T-shirts And Much More!
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31.Jul.2001
Kaliko (ANF)
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Looking for talented people
Kaliko is a new development-team dedicated to create games for
Amiga, AmigaDE and other platforms. Our first game will hopefully
be published in a couple of weeks and we have many ongoing projects.
We are currently looking for talented people to join our team
and to help us create high-quality games. We are looking especially
for graphicians and coders, but we welcome all interest.
If you are interested, please email fredrik@kaliko.net.
(ps)
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30.Jul.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)
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Tool: SRename V3.0.0 beta1
Constantinos Nicolakakis released the first public beta of his program 'SRename', a feature rich 'rename' for AmigaOS 3.0+. Further details are available at the titlelink. Please mail any bugreport to cnicol@ath.forthnet.gr
Download: SRename3beta1.lzx
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30.Jul.2001
$teveTRSi im Heise Newsticker-Forum (ANF)
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Obituary for Wau Holland
Obituary by the Demoscene
$teveTRSi (30. July 2001 17:00)
The death of Wau Holland caused us to publish a obituary.
Greetings,
Steve
Tristar Red Sector Inc.
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30.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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BigBook of Amiga Hardware Updates
Once again there are some updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:
- NEW ENTRY & PICTURE A1501 RAM Expansion (by Daniele Gratteri)
- NEW PICTURES Blizzard 1230 MK III (by Stephan Neise)
- NEW PICTURES X-Surf (by Stephan Neise)
- NEW ENTRY Elbox 1230-II (by Connie Quist)
- CORRECTION Action Replay (A2000 Version) (by Christophe Decanini)
- CORRECTION Action Replay MK II (A2000 Version) (by Christophe Decanini)
- NEW ENTRY & PICTURE Viper 530 (by Keith Robertson-Turner)
- UPDATE SX-1 Manual (by Kim Tommy and Ludwig Schmitz)
- UPDATE BSC Graffity (by Alexander Kneer)
- UPDATE Akiko (by Maximilian Rehkopf)
- NEW ENTRY & PICTURE Xtra RAM (by Will Swann)
- NEW ENTRY & PICTURE MBX 1200 (by Will Swann)
- UPDATE SSL A5000-16 (by Will Swann)
- UPDATE SSL B5000-25 (by Will Swann)
- NEW PICTURES Commodore A4000T Motherboard
- NEW PICTURE Commodore A4000T Disk Controller
- NEW PICTURE Commodore A3640
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30.Jul.2001
Benjamin Yoris (E-Mail)
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Hyperion Entertainment blasts idea of x86 Amiga OS
Press release: Following the recent article in AmigActive and the announcement of the "Amithlon" product at Amiwest, we received quite a number of e-mails of people asking us our opinion about the desirability of a x86 AmigaOS as opposed to a PPC native OS.
Would we support it? What would be the consequences of a native x86 for Amiga developers?
In one word: disastrous. A native x86 Amiga OS would spell the end of all serious commercial development for Amiga OS.
Before we argue our point, let's get a number of things out of the way here first:
The fact that Hyperion specialises in porting software for Windows has no bearing on our position because the Amiga market is only of marginal economic importance to us.
We moreover do not wish to be drawn into a debate about the respective merits of the PPC versus x86 architectures. Both CPU families deliver the goods in terms of performance and have their respective strengths and weaknesses. Unparalleled multimedia performance (Altivec), low power consumption and a clear 64 bit upgrade path for the PPC family and rapid development, raw horse-power and low price-point for the x86 family.
We also do not want to belittle the technical feats accomplished by VMC: their Amithlon product is technically impressive and very fast.
It also holds the danger of ending all serious commercial development for Amiga.
Why?
Because as soon as a x86 enters the picture, along tags Windows. In essence, the temptation for x86 users to have Windows installed in parallel to a native Amiga OS x86 will be irresistible and we will be seeing «dual boot» systems as we saw on Beos and now Linux x86.
Both Beos and Linux serve as a stern warning about what happens if you try to compete with Windows on the same hardware: you become relegated to a Windows add-on product without any native software to speak of.
Beos, despite being a very impressive OS, failed to get any marketshare, never had any serious applications and Hyperion has more game licenses than there were ever games for Beos.
Take a look at the Linux situation which we experienced first hand. How many native apps and games does Linux have? Despite the very large installed base, Linux only has one serious game developer (Loki) and the number of serious (non-server related) native apps can be counted on one hand.
The reason is simple: why would a software company invest money in porting its software to another x86 OS when it knows people can also boot into Windows or run an «emulator» like Wine or VMWare which allows you to run Windows software under Linux x86 at near native speeds? The costs could never be recuperated through sales.
The result is clear: nobody is buying any product for Linux. A major, brand-new game-title can at best expect to sell a few thousand copies on Linux and several tens of thousands on Mac. Plus on Linux x86 you need to keep your pricing in line with the Windows version (without having the benefits of the economies of scale that the Windows market offers) otherwise you will provide even more incentive for people to buy Windows products.
Linux x86 is currently relegated to the status of a Windows add-on with a lot of software (like the Corel products and media-players) just working on Linux x86 because it uses Windows code in some way or another.
Linux has carved out a very nice niche in the server and embedded systems markets but the desktop market is a joke with all major Linux companies closing down or shedding jobs because nobody was making any money with desktop Linux.
So when somebody asks you: who has the bigger market-share on the desktop, Red Hat Linux or Apple Mac, the answer is: who cares? The real question is: who is making (more) money on the desktop and what desk-top platform has a wider range of native applications and games.
Mac OS X could be brought to x86 relatively easily. The core of Mac OS X already runs on x86 but there isn't a hair on Steve Jobs' head that thinks about giving up his nicely insulated niche-market in favor of head to head competition with Windows on the same hardware. Apple wants its developers to stay in business so they can keep Apple's users happy by providing them with software not available on other platforms.
The resources that large commercial developers on Windows can command and the price-point they can reach by the sheer number of sales cannot be matched by developers on a niche-platform who can only survive in their niche-market if that platform is insulated from the Windows market.
People advocating a native x86 Amiga OS should look beyond the cheap hardware and understand they are condemning the Amiga desktop platform to become an emulation platform for old software with no new native software available.
Nobody but a handful of fanatics will pay more money to run a slower (partially emulated) version of the same or similar software on Windows when they can instead buy a cheaper, faster, native Windows-version which can run on the same hardware.
What good is cheap hardware when you have no software to run on your native x86 OS and you are forced to boot into Windows all the time? How long would it take before the development of such an OS would fall by the wayside because of low sales, which is exactly what happened to Beos?
Ben Hermans
Managing partner, Hyperion Entertainment
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30.Jul.2001
Steffen Nitz (ANF)
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Regist II released in the Aminet
Regist II by Steffen Nitz helps you to manage the users registerd for your program. The topical version is 0.2Alpha and only few features are already implemented.
Steffen Nitz pleases you to give him some feedback (Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de) because he wants to figure out if a further development is needed. Additional Steffen is looking for some one who is able to translate the texts included in the program and the documentation.
Some already available and planned features of Regist II:
- Administration of users of different programs and versions in only one file.
- Storage of informations about the user (name, firstname, address, registration-number, date and so on).
- Automated keyfile, snailmail and email generation and computation of the registration-number.
- Computation of the overall income including currency-conversion.
- 13 different statistics that can be combined and a configurable user list gives you a very good overview over your data.
- Extensive search and sort functions.
- Password protection.
- Support for compression tools for documents.
- All windows are fontsentive
Download: Regist_II.lha (133 KB) -
Regist_II.readme
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30.Jul.2001
Nordic Global
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Holger Kruse is back :)
I am afraid during the last year I have had virtually no time for
Amiga-related things, have not been able to respond to communication
on a regular basis, and my Amigas along with parts of my user and
registration list have been powered down for quite a while. This is
unlikely to change any time soon, although I expect to have some time
during the next two months to at least partially catch up with email
and help with registration-related issues. Whether I will have time for
further development and participation in mailing lists etc. I don't know
yet. Recently users have tried to contact me in very aggressive ways,
e.g. through my employer. Please do NOT do that ! I cannot and will not
respond to any Miami-related query sent to my employer. At best any
emails sent there will be forwarded to my regular email address. Same
for phone calls: my private line is NOT a support line, I only pick up
calls from known callers (caller id), and support-related phone calls
will not be returned. I have neither the time nor the inclination to
come home from work only to deal with even more "computer stuff". I am
sure you understand. For urgent, registration-related issues, bugs etc.
please send email to "miami-support@nordicglobal.com". This is a new
mailbox, so far spam-free, allowing me to respond a little more quickly
than recently. It may still take a week or two though, depending on how
much time I have. Please check this web page for new information.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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30.Jul.2001
Ryan Czerwinski in the Shoutcast stream from the Amiwest 2001 (ANF)
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AmiWest 2001: Merlancia announces new products
Merlancia Industries announced some very impressive products that will be released in August or September.
Merlancia rejects to be a Hoax like IWIN. They hired Dave Haynie lately and are topicaly trying to get Andy Finkel and RJ Mical.
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29.Jul.2001
Bernd ´Bernie´ Meyer (E-Mail)
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Interview with Bernd 'Bernie' Meyer and Harald Frank / Amithlon-FAQ
On the AmiWest 2001 show Amiga, Inc. introduced the 'AmigaOS x86' product,
which is about 'Amithlon' being an Amiga emulator developed by Harald Frank
(VMC) and Bernd Meyer
(UAE-JIT).
We asked Bernd ´Bernie´ Meyer and Harald Frank to give us some information
about their project 'Amithlon' and sent them the following questions via e-mail:
"In our comments section the term of ´Amithlon´ is
accumulating. Gary Peake named Harald Frank for the developer of this Amiga
emulation for x86 in the IRC log-file from the AmiWest show. To deliver our readers
some insight to your project we would be happy if you could account for giving us
a somewhat closer view of your technic.
Of course we are in especially interested in how this idea to develop a new
Amiga emulator for x86 platforms came up, which problems you met in doing it,
how about the status of development, and of course from when and where the
product will be available."
Bernd ´Bernie´ Meyer bothered creating a FAQ answering frequently asked
questions. You will find this FAQ under the title link.
It must be pointed out that this is no official document from Amiga, Inc., but simply
Bernd Meyer's answers to frequently asked questions to thereby clear up misunderstandings.
Supposedly there will be a press release about 'AmigaOS x86' by Amiga published on the
Amiga Inc. website within the next days.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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29.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 29.07.2001
AmBoS-Update.lha comm/ambos 1.2M+AmBoS-Update Rel. 2.98k (Thursday 26-Jul
binbatchpost.lha comm/news 6K+Post binary files with NewsRog
FWControl.lha comm/tcp 152K+Firewallcontrol for miamidx 0.1 *BETA*
DKG-MMFX.lha demo/sound 586K+MultiMegaMix/Kefrens 1oo% fixed and impr
numconv.lha dev/misc 8K+Simple DEC/HEX/BIN/ASC/FLT/OCT converter
MCDP_GldPanel.lha disk/cdrom 29K+Replacement for standard Gold panel for
MyRepulse-2.txt docs/rview 23K+Review of the REPULSE audio card.
MyRepulse2.txt docs/rview 23K+Review of REPULSE audio card. Revision 2
DopeWars-Final.lha game/actio 14K+New version of Dope Wars
slimcdrom_in_a.txt hard/hack 6K+Use Slimline CD/CDR/DVD in your Amiga
anescgfx.lha misc/emu 134K+A/NES CGFX v1.24 - Nintendo emulator
imdbDiff010720.lha misc/imdb 1.8M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
tomaatti.lha mods/chip 6K+Chip DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Void
skobe.lha mods/demo 195K+Demostyle 4ch-MOD by Tripper^Moods^Void
bicycle.lha mods/house 341K+Moods-Onlinecompo DBM mod by Tripper^Moo
boyfunky.lha mods/house 315K+Funkyhouse DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Void
fantasynew.lha mods/house 452K+Demohousetrance DBM mod by Tripper^Moods
monobeats.lha mods/house 343K+Monotonic house,detroit DBM mod by Tripp
upground.lha mods/house 702K+House, Dance DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Vo
washgo.lha mods/house 28K+House 4ch MOD by Tripper^Moods^Void
sjuice.lha mods/jungl 772K+Drum'n'Bass DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
sjuicedit.lha mods/jungl 772K+Drum'n'Bass DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
rollercoast.lha mods/tranc 856K+Trance to monotonic DBM mod by Tripper^M
timedist.lha mods/tranc 844K+Trance, Goa DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
timegate.lha mods/tranc 844K+Trance, Goa DBM mod by Tripper^Moods^Voi
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 170K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
Projector_C4D.lha pix/trace 515K+Projector-scene created with Cinema4D
CoolOS6.jpg pix/wb 245K+WB pic made with DiamondBOX and PfPaint
GhostBuster.lha util/cdity 38K+Automatically hides invalid disk icons
JPEG-DT.lha util/dtype 434K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.6)
JPEG-DT35.lha util/dtype 357K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.4)
PCD-DT.lha util/dtype 141K+Datatype for Photo-CD Images (43.14)
PCD-DT35.lha util/dtype 71K+Datatype for Photo-CD Images (44.3)
RGFX-DT.lha util/dtype 126K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (43.16)
RGFX-DT35.lha util/dtype 50K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (44.3)
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 135K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.22 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 140K+PNG image datatype V44.18 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
GlowAttack.lha util/misc 193K+"Glow" anims for ReqAttack v1.80+
NewHomer.lha util/misc 37K+(bugfixed update) Another talking Homer
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 383K+Report+ 5.0: Multipurpose utility
MiniI17.lha util/wb 820K+Mini-Icone over 540 (as)
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ANN
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AmiWest 2001: Discussion at Slashdot 'An Amiga Round-up'
Under the title link you can find a discussion about the AmiWest 2001 Show at
Slashdot. Focal point is 'AmigaOS for x86'.
(Christoph Meier)
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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29.Jul.2001
Cyborg (ANF)
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Security: Amiga Security Page updated
Cyborg wrote:
Now ASP has new documents about active firewalling, basic hacker discovery,
interactive firewall rules, and introduces initial plans and project for the
near future, in which the sshd port is of highest priority.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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29.Jul.2001
Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Special price, interview with Frank Reibold
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project I
In cooperation with Max Larsson the Amiga Arena enables a special
price for the CD version of 'Digital Universe'.
'Digital Universe' is an astronomy software for both amateur and professional
astronomers. More information are to find under
http://www.syz.com/DU/amigacd.html.
Visitors of the Amiga Arena can purchase the CD version of 'Digital Universe' from
Max Larsson (distribution for Germany) at the special price of 99,- DM until 31. August 2001
(original price 289,- DM).
The developers of 'Digital Universe' told me that development was not stopped. A survey
regarding 'Digital Universe' can be found on the homepage.
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
An extended interview with Frank Reibold, developer of 'MicroPaint' and 'MicroBase' is
online (German / English). Special thank to Christian B. for the translation.
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project II
In cooperation with Frank Reibold the Amiga Arena enables a special price
for both programs 'MicroPaint' and 'Microbase'.
The most important features of 'MicroPaint' are it's functions for
image editing and it's Un*x / Linux compatibility (extract):
- up to 256 colours on AA machines
- IntelliFont support, font styles, draw modes, colour fonts
- all graphic modes of your computer are supported
- flexible spray function
- multi spray: spray with random colours
- invert / colourise graphics
- swap colours
- ARexx port
- lists the lastly used files in the project menu
'MicroBase' offers the following options at the time being (extract):
- Im/export of ASCII files in the formats of
SuperBase Professional 4, BECKERtext III, Documentum 2, ProWrite, TransWrite,
Personal Write; possible adjustment to other formats
- Flexible functions to search and replace field contents, e.g. multiply
field contents by a constant.
- field names can have up to 20 characters and may contain blanks.
- direct access via dataset numbers
- filter function
More information are to find under
www.reibold-online.de.
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project III
The following special price projects will expire, soon:
- LangTool until 31. July 01
- SoundFX until 01. August 01
- XadMaster Lib until 14. August 01
- GeoWorld until 15. August 01
Amiga Arena Full Version
With permission of Per B. (Marble Eys) the reader's CD of the Amiga Future #32
(German Amiga games print magazine) will come with the ego shooter 'Genetic Species'
along with other full versions.
More infos about this issue are to find under
www.amigafuture.de.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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29.Jul.2001
Chaos Computer Club e.v.
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CCC: We mourn for Wau
Wau Holland, co-founder and old age president of the CCC today at the age of 49 died
of the aftermath of a stroke he already had in May.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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29.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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UGN: AmiWest 2001 pictures
Schedule:
- 10:00 am: Begin show
- 11:00 am: Kermit Woodall of NovaDesign
- 12:00 pm: John developer of Series Zero application
- 1:00 pm: AudioLabs
- 2:00 pm: Joe Torre
All times are PDT
(sd)
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29.Jul.2001
Brad Webb (E-Mail)
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Amiga Update Newsletter by Brad Webb
Monthly Brad Webb releases his newsletter 'Amiga Update' reporting about
the most important events regarding the Amiga:
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A M I G A C H O O S E S S T O R M C
A M I G A A N D E D I V I S I O N I N D E A L
P U S H F O R A T A O S T A N D A R D
N E W , F A S T E R P O W E R P C A N N O U N C E D
W O R L D O F A M I G A B A C K - I N T H E U K
A M I G A F E S T 2 0 0 1 A P P R O A C H I N G
A M I W E S T I S S T A R T I N G . . .
A N D T H E R E ' L L B E A D E V C O N T H E R E !
A L M O S T H E R E - A M I G A B B Q , O T T A W A
N E W I N F O R M A T I O N O N S A K U 2 0 0 1
A M I G A S E C U R I T Y W E B P A G E
M E R L A N C I A I N D U S T R I E S I S H I R I N G
G E N E T I C S P E C I E S F O R F R E E !
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
July is often a dry month in this part of the world. Maybe that's why
there hasn't been much Amiga news? Perhaps it's dried up as well.
Regardless, we have enough information to make a newsletter for you
and there are some interesting items in it.
For one thing there are a number of Amiga shows coming up. Two of
them are set to kick off tomorrow (actually, AmiWest gets some
activities underway today). If you're in the area for either, please
attend and show your Amiga community spirit.
We were going to include an article or two on the continuing feud
between Hyperion and Elbox, distasteful as that would have been, but
it appears these two companies may actually have settled matters. On
July 18 there was information to that affect posted to the net. We can
only hope that's true.
You will notice a story below on Merlancia Industries recruiting new
employees. It's good to see an Amiga company expanding and we wish
them well. We also notice that they've apparently already been
rounding up Amiga talent. A quick look at their web site shows Amiga
legend Dave Haynie is now on their staff.
And to round the month out, there's the matter of a new Power PC chip
announced by Motorola. Details are below.
There may not be a lot of news, but what there is, is interesting.
We hope you enjoy this issue.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:
14 Jul 2001
Hello,
I would like first to congratulate you for your efforts to give us
the the information in your e-mag .
Can you tell me if there is still support for Miami ?
I received last year my registred-keyfile for the full package ( from
OS3.5).
I tried since March to receive the MiamiSSL_USA . I send my request
from the register in the Miami-register program for the SSL file . I
received confirmation of my request a week later then nothing .
I send email to kruse@nordicglobal.com two months ago at least ,still
no anwser
.
I download MiamiSSL from Aminet but it needs one of the two en-
cryption librairies which is my request .
Can you help me to have this librairy .
Regards,
N.Renaud (Canada)
~~~~~~
Hello,
As far as I know, there is no more support for Miami. However, it
continues to work fine and the international SSL library, at least, is
available. The difficulty is you are not supposed to use the
international version in Canada, and I believe you can't get the
US/Canadian version from Nordic Global. The international version will
work, of course, but downloading that and using it is not legal in the
US/Canada (Nordic Global's site does provide a link to download this
version for the benefit of non-US/Canadian users)..
Does anyone among the readers have more information on Miami and SSL?
Brad
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A M I G A C H O O S E S S T O R M C
July 14, 2001 - Amiga Inc is pleased to announce that it is
partnering with HAAGE&PARTNER GmbH, of Glashuetten, Germany in order
to provide Amiga developers with a world class development
environment.
Amiga Inc is working closely with HAAGE&PARTNER to provide for the
first their flagship StormC developer package will become the official
Amiga Development System. This will see StormC providing transparent,
language independent support for both the AmigaOS and the AmigaDE.
"Amiga is committed to moving application development forwards to
support our new architecture." said Fleecy Moss, Chief Technical
Officer of Amiga Inc. "This means dynamic, persistent components,
descriptive, location independent interfaces, brokered services and a
complete separation of design from implementation. HAAGE&PARTNER have
spent many years creating a simple, easy to use, yet powerful
development package for the AmigaOS, and we are delighted to be
working with them as we push forwards.
"We are very pleased about the Amiga certification on StormC", said
Jürgen Haage, General Manager of HAAGE&PARTNER GmbH. "This
certification is a quality assurance for Amiga Inc. and guarantees the
Amiga developer community a continuous further development of our
StormC development system. "
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A M I G A A N D E D I V I S I O N I N D E A L
Snoqualmie, WA - July 16, 2001
Edivision LLC announced today that they would create game
applications for the Amiga Digital Environment (AmigaDE). The company
plans to create 3 development labels in the coming year for the
AmigaDE environment. The titles created under these labels will be
distributed through the Sharp Space Town web site for release in Japan
and through other Amiga distribution channels worldwide. Amiga and
Edivision also announced a joint relationship where Edivision would
provide key pieces of technology for the AmigaDE.
The principals at Edivision have more than 30 years of experience in
the computer graphics field. Patrick Roberts created 2D and 3D effects
for Walt Disney's feature animation classic "Dinosaur". He has also
created software and animation for Dreamworks Animation, Disney
Classics and the Disney channel. Jeremy Engelman is one of the finest
3D artists in the world. His best-known work is the artwork for Cyan's
Riven, the sequel to Myst. Steven Haun is an award-winning computer
graphics producer with more than 10 years of experience in the
computer graphics and entertainment industry. His credits include
effects production for Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, ABC, CBS,
and Fox Television.
"This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some exciting
content and an enjoyable experience that they will want to share with
others," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "Patrick,
Jeremy and Steven are longtime supporters of Amiga and we appreciate
their contributions to driving adoption of our software. With their
expertise in gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to
some revolutionary games for the PDA market."
"We are very excited to be working with Amiga to generate compelling
content for the AmigaDE," said Patrick Roberts, one of the founders at
Edivision. "When Amiga announced their relation with Sharp, we saw
this as an opportunity to get in early on a new, exciting gaming
platform. Devices like the Sharp Zaurus and other PDA's offer the
ability to reach a new and different generation of gamers."
Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set of
releases. The company is also negotiating with other content providers
to bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform.
The market for video games in the United States, which includes
arcade, PC, console, and online gaming, is currently estimated to be
worth $11 billion. The AmigaDE platform allows developers to create
game applications that target this market. The binary portable nature
of AmigaDE content allows applications to migrate seamlessly from cell
phones and handheld devices to set-top boxes and up to desktop
machines and servers.
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P U S H F O R A T A O S T A N D A R D
July 14, 2001
World's leading consumer electronics firms push to create premium
contents platform standard. Sharp, JVC, Kyocera and the Tao Group
today announce the launch of the Open Contents Platform Association.
This move, initiated by Japan's consumer electronics giants, will
promote the global standardization of the intent(R) media platform as
a core on home and mobile connected devices, such as PDAs, phones, web
tablets, digital cameras and smart phones.
The OCPA is a response to the proliferation of wired and wireless
devices with a requirement from carriers and broadcasters to deliver
premium contents to users. This trend of more devices has pushed up
development costs and increased application and device time to market
- an inevitable consequence when developing divergent software
implementations on every new product.
The need for a flexible, open environment has become paramount. By
standardizing around Tao's open and pluggable platform, OCPA
manufacturers and developers will create powerful and differentiated
products, at the lowest cost and in the shortest possible time,
capable of running the kind of premium services required by operators
and broadcasters.
Many of the world's leading technology companies, including
electronics manufacturers, content developers and software vendors,
will be joining the Association targeting the first general assembly
in September. Other major manufacturers that have already stated their
support to the OCPA will be announced at that time. Meanwhile, the
following companies have already publicly announced that they would
join the OCPA as of July 12, 2001: Bandai Networks Co. Ltd, Capcom Co
Ltd, Criterion Software Ltd., Digital Hollywood Corp, Espial Inc.,
Fujitsu Prime Software Technologies Ltd, HI Corporation, Justsystem
Corporation, Lineo Japan, Inc., MathEngine, plc., Mediaglue KK.,
Metrowerks Co., Ltd., Mobile Computing Technologies KK, MontaVista
Software Japan, Inc., Plazmic Inc., Prime Atlas, Inc., Sega
Enterprises, Sybergate KK., SSEYO Ltd., Taito KK., Web Soft
International Inc., Zoom Systems KK.
Yoshio Mohri, President and CEO of Fujitsu Prime Software
Technologies Limited stated, "We are very pleased with the
announcement of the establishment of the OCPA. The full binary
portability of intent is undoubtedly now recognized as being the most
effective solution to enable the smooth distribution of enhanced
contents and software."
Kazunori Ukigawa, President and CEO of Justsystem said, "As a member
of the OCPA, I am thrilled to contribute further to the market
development of Tao's open platform for multimedia content. Tao's rich
multimedia technology, based upon its unique virtual processor
technology, gives competitive edges to application and content
providers."
Tao's intent is ideally placed as the core technology on open
platforms. It is independent of underlying hardware, operating system
and language and provides an exceptional high performance and small
footprint, branded multimedia Java(TM) software acceleration
technology authorized by Sun Microsystems. Francis Charig, the Tao
Group Executive Chairman, commented, "The establishment of the OCPA,
utilizing Tao's intent combined with a strong Sun compliant, Java
technology focus, is a response to the need for an open environment
across entire product portfolios. It will succeed in reducing time to
market and cost while enabling high quality, compelling contents on
the current and next generations of devices."
About OCPA
The OCPA will provide a place for open discussion among content
providers, application service providers and hardware manufacturers,
regardless of their business fields. Members can present proposals for
new specifications, which will then be evaluated by working groups
within the Association, before their acceptance as standards, which
will then be openly published. The OCPA will also support verification
of Open Platform applications and contents, and will perform
promotional activities, such as seminars and exhibitions in order to
promote the OCPA specified platform standard.
About Tao Group Limited
Tao has developed intent, a binary portable, language independent,
high performance, multimedia platform that is now used by many of the
world's leading OEMs in their client products for home and mobile
networks. The technology allows these companies to have a single
strategy across all of their platforms, irrespective of operating
system, hardware and function. intent is now being used in products
including smart mobile appliances and digital television. Tao's range
of Java(TM) products have been designed from their inception to
combine the Java language with Tao's multimedia to run real-world
content many times faster than any alternative. The Company was
founded in 1992, has offices in the United States, Europe and Japan
and counts both Sony and Motorola amongst its investors. Tao has a
growing and high value, global patent portfolio and is the recipient
of multiple industry awards, both for its technologies and for the
rate of corporate growth. For more information please see
tao-group.com
{Note: Tao's Intent is a key element of AmigaDE. Brad}
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N E W , F A S T E R P O W E R P C A N N O U N C E D
AUSTIN, TEXAS - July 18, 2001 - Delivering the highest performing
PowerPCTM processor on the market today, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT)
today announced the 867MHz MPC7450 processor with AltiVecTM
technology. Continuing to deliver on Motorola's leading PowerPC
roadmap, the MPC7450 is designed to provide powerful and innovative
solutions for the networking, telecommunications, high-end embedded
systems, scientific computing, and desktop computer markets.
"Our goal is to continually provide our customers with PowerPC
processors that increase levels of real-world performance in both the
embedded and computing markets," said Brian Wilkie, corporate vice
president and general manager of Motorola's Computing Platform
Division. "Motorola's G4 line of PowerPC processors continues to
generate industry excitement, and we're pleased to offer yet another
powerful solution to further enhance our customers' product
portfolios."
"Apple is thrilled that with the new 867MHz PowerPC processor added
to the Power Mac G4 line, Motorola has delivered a high-performance
component that enabled us to boost overall system performance up to
11.8 gigaflops," said Jon Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of
Hardware Engineering. "These continued improvements to the PowerPC
processor further solidify the superfast Power Mac G4 as one of the
most powerful desktop personal computers ever."
The MPC7450 processor has a deep seven-stage pipeline with eleven
execution units and an enhanced AltiVec engine. The L2 cache is
integrated onto the die for greater speed, with a 256-bit datapath to
the L1 cache. The MPC7450 processor also supports a large backside L3
cache with a 64-bit datapath, and provides multiple SRAM options.
Additionally, the MPC7450 processor implements Motorola's
high-bandwidth MPX system bus, capable of achieving sustained
bandwidth performance of 1064MB/sec., which can provide up to 4 times
the bus performance over earlier G3 generation processors.
The PowerPC architecture enjoys the broadest third party tool support
of any RISC microprocessor today. Motorola's MPC7450 has extensive
tool support from compiler, debugger and emulator vendors providing
comprehensive sophisticated development environments.
The MPC7450 PowerPC microprocessor is manufactured in the HiPerMOS 6
(HiP6) 0.18-micron copper fabrication process technology, and features
a low-power design with three power-saving user-programmable modes -
nap, doze (with bus snoop) and sleep - which reduce the power drawn by
the processor.
Pricing and Availability The advanced 867MHz MPC7450 processors are
available today at a suggested unit list price of $435 in quantities
of 1000. The suggested unit list price (1000 quantity) of the 667, and
733MHz versions are approximately $341, and $374 respectively.
For more information about Motorola's family of PowerPC processors
visit: http://www.motorola.com/smartnetworks
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W O R L D O F A M I G A B A C K - I N T H E U K
Time to make a comeback!
On Saturday, 3rd November 2001, Amiga Active magazine -
http://www.amigactive.com will be sponsoring the World of Amiga South
East Show, to be held in Brentwood, Essex, UK.
Exhibitors already confirmed, are as follows..
* Amiga Active
* Eyetech
* Fore-matt Home Computing
* 100% Amiga
* Analogic
* Blittersoft
* Kicksoft
...with more to follow.
We are also very proud to announce that Amiga CTO, Fleecy Moss will
be in attendance to show the latest AmigaOS on the latest hardware.
If that isn't enough, this could be your first opportunity anywhere
in the world to see and even buy the AmigaOne and OS 4.0.
Discounted tickets will soon be available via selected Amiga dealers
and via the show's website, which will be launching soon. Further
details on this, including additional exhibitors and guest speakers,
will follow shortly.
World of Amiga South East, is organised by SEAL, Kickstart, ANT, ASA
and Sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine http://www.amigactive.com from
Pinprint publishing.
This year's planned SEAL-O-RAMA show has evolved into something
bigger!
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A M I G A F E S T 2 0 0 1 A P P R O A C H I N G
July 8, 2001
The time is rapidly approaching . AmigaFest 2001 - The Show Within a
Show at Dayton's Fall Computerfest®. This will be the third year that
AmiTech-Dayton has sponsored an Amiga section within the fall
Computerfest®. We currently have seven Amiga vendors and exhibitors
already committed and we are still working on increasing that number.
The current list includes Compuquick, Dan's Deals, FWD Computing, G&G
Publishing Enterprises (The New Amigans Magazine), E. S. Productions,
Amiga Cafe, and AmiTech-DAyton.
In addition to the Amiga specific exhibitors there will be
approximately 150 other vendors and exhibitors with all kinds of
general equipment and gear you can use on your Amiga at spectacular
prices. If youm live anywhere in the midwest don't miss this show.
The AmigaFest2001 show is held inconjunction with the Dayton
ComputerFest at the Hara Convention Complex in Dayton, Ohio. It will
be held August 25th through the 26th. Pictures and a review of last
years show can be found at:
http://www.coax.net/people/erics/amitech.htm
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A M I W E S T I S S T A R T I N G . . .
6 Jul 2001
AMIWEST 2001 SHOW SCHEDULE
This is a tentative schedule and will be updated. Remember to check
out our website (and encourage all your friends to do the same!) at
www.sacc.org/amiwest.
NEED A RIDE TO AMIWEST? Then visit http://get.to/amiwest if you're
willing to share transportation. Although not a part of our
organization and completely without warranty on our part, it is a
laudable effort to get to the show in the spirit of the Amiga
community.
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2001
6:00 PM Vendors to set up in the main exhibition hall
8:00 PM Bill McEwen speaking on the Amiga One and Amiga DE. Come hear
what Bill has to say about the next step in the new digital
environment world.
SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2001
0930 AM Purchase/pick up tickets
1000 AM Doors open
1015 AM Welcome to AmiWest 2001
EXHIBIT HALL HOURS: 10:00 AM TO 4:30 PM
IN THE EXHIBIT HALL: raffles every hour on the hour by the Raffle
Guy,
Jack McCann.
Seminars in the Lindbergh Room:
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Image FX (and relatives)
PRESENTER: Kermit Woodall, Nova Design
LUNCH
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Amiga DE Developers Conference (DevCon)
PRESENTER: Gary Peake et al.
3:00 PM - 5:OO PM AMIGAZONE class
PRESENTER: Harv Laser
FOR THOSE HOLDING BANQUET TICKETS:
BANQUET 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Fine buffet served by the Holiday Inn
Northeast
SPEAKERS: Bill McEwen and Dr. Alan Havemose
"Amiga and Gateway: What REALLY Happened?"
and the future of the Amiga.
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2001
0930 AM Purchase/pick up tickets
1000 AM Doors open
EXHIBIT HALL HOURS: 10:00 AM TO 4:30 PM
IN THE EXHIBIT HALL: raffles every hour on the hour by the Raffle
Guy,
Jack McCann.
Seminars in the Lindbergh Room:
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: AMIGA ONE Introduction.
LUNCH
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: PAGESTREAM Desktop Publishing
PRESENTER: Todd Gustavson, Extreme Computers
and Northwest Amiga Group
3:00 PM - 4:3O PM Image FX (and relatives)
PRESENTER: Kermit Woodall, Nova Design
4:30 in the Exhibit Hall: the big raffle. Don't miss it!!
AFTER SHOW GATHERING
6:00 PM - ??????? Gathering at a local restaurant to wrap up all
the last-minute impressions. To be announced
at the show on Sunday afternoon.
Plus lots of conversation and meeting new people along with those old
friends.
AND REMEMBER. . .
The only all-Amiga show on the U.S. West Coast is gearing up for July
28-29, 2001 in Sacramento California. So make your plans to attend
now. Favorable room rates are available, as always, so contact the
Holiday Inn Northeast at 1-916-338-5800 or, toll-free direct to the
hotel, 1-800-388-9284 to reserve your rooms. And keep checking our
website for all the latest updates at www.sacc.org/amiwest. Don't be
left out. This should be the biggest and best AmiWest show yet!
WHO'S COMING TO AMIWEST 2001?
Part of the attraction of Amiga shows are the people who attend. Our
community includes some of the most creative and interesting people
around. And as most of already know, those people have been the
catalyst for the continuing re-birth of the Amiga platform.
So who's going to be there? Here's a partial list:
Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. The ever-positive Bill
will give us the latest insights into the "benevolent dictatorship" of
Amiga Inc. and where our platform is heading.
Gary Peake of Amiga Inc. will be with us to do an Amiga DE DevCon.
Kermit Woodall, Nova Design, Inc. Creator of Image FX, Millenium and
all those other fine image-processing software packages.
Randhir Jesrani, Compuquick Media Center. Since 1987, Randy has
supported the Amiga platform. He'll be here to greet old friends with
lots of Amiga classic hardware and software along with new products.
Harv Laser, Amigazone legend. SYSOP of the oldest Amiga site in the
US (and maybe the world), Harv has been around since just about "the
beginning." Now affiliated with Merlancia Industries, Harv will be
with us to give us the latest on AmigaZone.
Ryan E.A. Cerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries. Ryan will be
bringing his new computers in their current state of development for
us to see and (hopefully) order. Also lots of classic Amiga
software/hardware for your examination and purchase.
Joe Torre, Amiga engineer. Joe has just bought his tickets, reserved
his room and in on the way to AmiWest 2001. His email said, in part:
Hey man!
I just finnished getting my flight and room booked. Thanx for the
better rate!
I'm looking forward to chatting about Gateway days with Allan and
doing the Banquet again. . .
Flights are still cheap this far in advance too!
All the best!
JoeT. . . Amiga, BeOS, Linux, QNX, Windoze
So many mice: with so many meanings....
And this is just the beginning! We'll be releasing more names in a
few days. Keep checking our website at www.sacc.org/amiwest for more
updates!
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A N D T H E R E ' L L B E A D E V C O N T H E R E !
2 July, 2001
Amiga Inc. has said to us that they will be presenting an Amiga DE
Developers Conference (DevCon) at AmiWest 2001! Gary Peake is heading
up the effort and will be giving all the latest development
information at the show.
This DevCon is scheduled for Saturday, July 28 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM.
We are trying to predict attendance for this event at AmiWest 2001.
Please email your intentions to bdeneen@infostations.com. Please be
advised that only those holding either a full show pass or a Saturday
pass will be admitted to the DevCon. Passes will be checked at the
door.
So don't be left out! Order your show tickets now! Go to
www.sacc.org/amiwest and fill in the ticket order form on our site.
Then print it out and send it in along with your check or money order
to the address on the form. This will ensure your attendance and let
us know how many will be in attendance.
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A L M O S T H E R E - A M I G A B B Q , O T T A W A
Amiga BBQ
Strathcona Park
Ottawa, Ontario
Sunday, July 29, 2001
12:00pm to 4:00pm
Join us for Amiga.info's first BBQ! Everyone is welcome. Bring your
familly and friends. The BBQ will give local Amiga users the
opportunity to meet each other. We will have news from the Amiwest
show, discuss the Ottawa Amiga Show, and we'll be throwing around some
Boing balls!
Soft drinks and hot dogs will be served, but feel free to bring
food/drinks. We also strongly suggest to bring a lawn chair.
Please RSVP by Friday, July 27 so we know how many hot dogs and soft
drinks to purchase. Send an e-mail to amigabbq@technomages.net to let
us know that you are coming (and how many will be with you).
How To Get There?
1. Take highway 417 (from either direction) to Nicholas Exit.
2. At the first set of lights, turn right. This will put you onto
Laurier heading East (towards the Royal Oak).
3. Turn right onto Range Road (about 1 Kilometer from Nicholas).
There is a large fountain at the entrance of the park. If you get to
the end of Laurier (it turns left just after Range Road) you have gone
too far. ;-)
4. The parking lot is down the hill and to the left.
5. Look for the Boing Balls and we will be there!
Parking?
There is free parking but space is limited. Parking on the street is
also permitted.
Bus?
OC Transpo indicated that the #16 Alta Vista passes close by after
leaving from the Rideau Centre. For details, call OC Transpo
information at 741-4390.
What if it Rains?
If it rains, we will post that the BBQ is cancelled on
http://www.technomages.net/amiga.info/ by 10:00am (on July 29).
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N E W I N F O R M A T I O N O N S A K U 2 0 0 1
July 10, 2001
The tradition of quality guests at the Finnish Amiga Users Group's
Saku events continues as Mr. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of
Development of Amiga Inc., has agreed to attend Saku 2001 and
demonstrate the latest Amiga products such as the AmigaDE and PDA. A
representative of Matay company, the latest co-operative companion of
Amiga Inc., will also be there to present their new PCI bridge for
Zorro III Amigas, the Prometheus.
The Mediator PCI bridge for the Amiga 1200 will also be demonstrated
with a Voodoo3 graphics card. Nova Design Inc. has offered the latest
versions of their quality graphics programs, ImageFX and Aladdin4D,
for demonstration on the show.
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.
Finnish speaking audience can join Saku 2001 discussion on our Web
discussion forum at http://saku.amigafin.org/keskustelu.
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.
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A M I G A S E C U R I T Y W E B P A G E
26 July, 2001
{The following item appears on Czech Amiga News. Brad}
"Thx to Aminet admins, the Amiga has now a Security Webpage. You can
find tools for analysing router- & miami logfiles, a fast workaround
for the birc exploit and ofcourse Amiga`s most advanced portscanner in
a new release. In the Firewall Section we develop a firewallsetup and
will show how to protect your amiga and other`s. We just started so it
will take time to increase tools and documents. I work for a NIDS
System based on MiamiDX (hopefully working on other stacks :) If you
wanne be part of it, mail me."
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/5737/security.html
Czech Amiga News is at:
http://amiga.realdreams.cz/index.html
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M E R L A N C I A I N D U S T R I E S I S H I R I N G
24 July, 2001
Merlancia Industries is currently looking for individuals with skills
in the following areas: Professional graphic design (must be able to
create metallic images) Hardware and software/firmware engineering
Marketing & PR. If you feel that you would qualify for any of the
above positions, please contact Merlancia Industries and/or send your
resúme to: merlancia@merlancia.com
Merlancia Industries
3516A West Cactus Road
Phoenix, AZ 85029 USA
As a note, we would like to mention that for most immediate
positions, your location is largely unimportant. No relocations will
be needed.
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G E N E T I C S P E C I E S F O R F R E E !
June 28, 2001
{Posted to the net by Mikey C}
In case you have missed this elsewhere, former Amiga Publishers,
Vulcan Software and former Amiga developers Marble Eyes have uploaded
the entire hit game, Genetic Species to the Aminet
An excellent review with screenshots is available from Kay Are
Ulvestad Website
Don't forget, Marble-Eyes released a host of update patches, such us
faster graphics, Picture in Picture, Sound and Extended language
support. The files can be downloaded.
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Amiga Update on the net:
All back issues available at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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Fun Time World: Tales of Tamar - programmers wanted
For development of the game Tales of Tamar still talented programmers are
wanted, having the time and motivation to faster push forward the Linux and
Java version. Please send your candidature to
eternity@pride.de.
New versions have been released for Amiga and Mac, which are to find
at the
download section.
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Fun Time World: AmigaOS3.9-FAQ extended
On 27. July 2001 the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ, managed by Greg Donner, got
a new entry 'Disk&File Operation' page:
'HDToolBox
shows my Maxtor hard drive as half its actual capacity. Is there a
solution?'
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Grafik: H&P release ArtEffect Plugin Collection
Haage & Partner released a plugin collection for the image editing
software 'Art Effect' including more than 333 loader modules, frames,
filters, and special effects. H&P wrote about this on their website:
«Finally - the biggest effects and filters collection for ArtEffect is available.
It consists of more then 333 loaders/savers, borders, filters and special effects.
We heavily extended this collection since our first announcement. Now it also contains
AE Superview with about 30 loader and saver modules.
Autolevel is a new filter that automatically corrects the contrast of a picture.
This improves your scanned picture and those taken with a digital camera a lot.
One of the best effects is Shine which adds a shine around objects. This effect
is best know from the Glow icons. We also have a Glow effect that also adds a shine,
but makes the object itself shine too.
It is important to mention, that Shine, Glow and most of the other effects
(e.g. the popular "unsharp mask") will support layers or more specific:
they can deal with the transparency of layers.
As a bonus we added the full version of ArtEffect 2. This version already support
layers and so nearly all effects of this collection can be used. This makes the
collection a full paint package.
This collection is the ideal and inexpensive tool to improve your scanned pictures
and digital photos and to add amazing effects to them.» (sd) (Translation: mj)
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29.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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ANN: Amiga Information Online (AOI) #49
On 28. July 2001 issue #49 of the online magazine
'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was released.
It can be downloaded from the AOI site
and soon from Aminet.
Download: AIOV49.LHA
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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28.Jul.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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CVS 1.11.1p1 - AmigaOS port BUGFIX - update
CVS is a tool for programmers that remarkably simplifies the version control of
source code. More known under Unix/Linux this port to AmigaOS can be of use for
one or another.
Some days after the release of a new version of the AmigaOS port of CVS 1.11.1p1
with ssh there's a new bugfix update on the homepage of the AmigaOS CVS project after some bugreports.
Within this an important bug has been removed that could make it impossible at
times to check in files in remote directories via pserver or ssh.
It is strongly advised to all users of this port to update to this new version. The
latest version can, as always, be downloaded from http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
ANN / Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Game: new Payback PPC screenshots
Christoph Meier wrote:
At Apex-Designs you can find four new screenshots of the PPC version of the game
"Payback".
»The screenshots demonstrate "a new 3D mode to the upcoming PPC version
of the game which rotates the view according to the speed and direction
of the player".« (ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Amiga.org: 3ivx for AmigaDE in development
The creator of the MPEG-4 Codec 3ivx has confirmed
that an AmigaDE version of 3ivx is in the works. Christoph spoke with him
sometime ago and the creator was well informed about AmigaDE which was not only
surprising but a good sign of things to come. It is yet unknown when a
version will be ready for release.
(sd) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (email)
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Amiga Future: Lottery + AF #27 part 3
In issue #31 of the Amiga Future are several lotteries.
One of these was just put online in the area 'INTERACTIVE'. Everybody
can take part here.
A full version of 'Myst' can be won.
Closing date is the 01-Aug-2001.
Besides that the third part of the Amiga Future issue 27 was released
yesterday.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Amiga.org: exclusive interview with Edivision
Amiga.org has interviewed Patrick Roberts, Jeremy Engelman and Steven Haun.
The team of Edivision,
recently named as a partner by Amiga Inc., was questioned by Amiga.org about
their opinions regarding the Amiga and their (Edivision's) future products.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
Marco Lovera (email)
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AmigaPage now with graphics section
One place to go for Italian Amiga users is AmigaPage. Next to news, workshops,
reviews and many more information the maintainer Marco Lovera has set up a new
area for graphics.
In this section you'll find Workbench screenshots, FunArt, rendered and
drawn pictures as well as photos. Everybody may make his/her works, done on the
Amiga, available and participate this way in making this area grow and become
more and more interesting.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schölzel (email)
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CD32 alliance searching for webmaster
Thorsten Schölzel wrote:
After changing to another server with the CD32/CDTV Corner we are now looking
for new webmasters.
Everybody with knowlegde in HTML and CD32/CDTV has the chance to become one.
We ourselves would like to see CD32/CDTV users themselves being involved
here.
Assuming enough users participate the CD32/CDTV Corner could be continued as a homepage not relying on my
person. (ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
Dennis Lohr (email)
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Psyria: new music piece
After a longer period the homepage of Psyria was yesterday updated again. A new
music piece, "Uphold the law", is available for download.
Besides that Psyria is planning a second megamix out of the yet unreleased
debut album "Out of my life". As the first megamix went down well Psyria would
be pleased about feedback to see whether a
second mix is in great demand at all.
Psyria is a music project, that is exclusively produced with the Amiga.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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28.Jul.2001
ANN / Christoph Meier (ANF)
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ANN: AmiWest 2001: Keynote speech online (update 2)
Christoph Meier wrote:
For the greater benefit of the Amiga Community Darren Eveland had placed
(in mp3 format) the AmiWest 2001 keynote speech on his ftp server...
You may download the 9 megabyte mp3 file to hear all the great
announcements made by Amiga Inc.
Highlights:
- Merlancia Industries has exclusive rights to Walker and Amiga MCC
designs.
- Amiga Inc. to release Amiga OS 1.0 X86 November 1st. They showed a
live demo at Amiwest.
- Amiga Inc. to release Amiga OS PPC November 1st. This will run on
the Amiga One, which will also be released November 1st, 2001.
- Much news about Amiga DE and other things...
- server: 24.42.253.120
- username: amiga
- password: amiga
Enjoy this GREAT news!
Darren Eveland - aka. HammerD
Update:
Additional download links for the speech of Bill McEwen:
keynote.mp3 (9 MB)
keynote.mp3 (9 MB)
Update 2:
ANN: Amiga CEO Amiwest Question and Answer session online
Darren Eveland now has made available for download the questions Bill McEwen was asked and
the answers he gave as mp3 file.
Server: 24.42.253.120
User name: amiga
Password: amiga
A maximum of 20 users can download simultaneous.
(ps)
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28.Jul.2001
Dirk Baeyens (email)
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AmiWest 2001: first information in advance (update 2)
For the time being the AmiWest 2001 Amiga show is taking place in Sacramento
(California).
According first information AmigaOS for PPC, AmigaOS for x86 and AmigaOne
hardware for November 2001 were announced. Detailed press material is said to
follow until Wednesday.
Further details can be taken from this (completely uncut)
AmiWest IRC log. As always has UGN made the resources for IRC chats during
the show available. Also the obligatoric WebCam of UGN is already working, though
the time shift has to be taken into account.
Here are three pictures Dirk Baeyens has taken from the WebCam last night:
Update:
Christoph Meier found the following
article at Amiga.org by ´TB´ in which, next
to known details like the announcement of the AmigaOS for PPC, AmigaOS for x86
and AmigaOne hardware for November 2001, the following new details can be found,
too:
AmiWest News Roundup
- 3 Sharp devices including a Cellphone
- Possible Game Boy Advanced type system, but better.
- 6Ghz Equiv design for 3rd party (The info on this is vauge at best)
- Various new content deals
- SHEEP preview with-in 90 days
This information is as accurate as we can get it until Amiga posts the news themselves.
Update 2:
Christoph Meier further posted the following message from amiga.org on ANF, which we give as complete orignal here,
since amiga.org is not accessible at the time being:
Heres the latest information from the show. There is little information but I will try and add more as it becomes available.
- AmigaOS PPC - Nov 1st 2001.
- AmigaOS x86 - Nov 1st 2001 (Demo'ed Live. Played Quake, Ran ImageFX, AIBB (Cel 500 vs 4K060) LineTest 162x Faster, Instuction 143x, WritePixel 804x, Matrix 316x, Sieve 1118x).
- AmigaOne (Needs 1200) - Nov 1st 2001.
- 3 Sharp devices including a Cellphone.
- Psion netBook deal (The netBook is a business device, not consumer. As far as Amiga is aware, the deal is still on).
- Series Zero (We think this is a game pack, 5 games per pack.).
- Merlancia have rights to the Walker and MCC designs.
- Possible Game Boy Advanced type system, but better. Aiming for 200Mhz, Sub 200USD, Xmas release.
- 6 Ghz Equiv computer design for 3rd party (The info on this is vauge at best).
- Deal with one of the worlds largest wireless carriers in next 90 days.
- Various new content deals coming soon.
- Targets - 10Million unit over the next 12 Months, 30Million in the following 12months.
- SHEEP preview with-in 90 days
- AmigaDE Content Network. Will supply content for those who have the PartyPack and DE in the future.
This information is as accurate as we can get it until Amiga posts the news themselves.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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27.Jul.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Power Macintosh G4 with 1 GHz
As already reported
new Macintosh G4 models were presented some days ago at the Macworld Expo New York.
The Japanese Takashi Imai has published some
tuning instructions
on his website to overclock these computers to 1 GHz and more.
German Heise article at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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27.Jul.2001
SixK
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Database: MySQL for Amiga version 3.23.40
At the French website 'SixK' you'll find the AmigaOS port of the MySQL database
system in version 3.23.40, compiled for 68040 processors. Details on the changes
in this release at the title link.
Download: MySqld_32340_040_base.lzx
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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26.Jul.2001
Amiga-Active, English Amiga Magazine (ANF)
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Amiga Active: New Amiga emulator for PC's
I just received the new "Amiga Active" reading about a new Amiga emulator for
PC's using neither Windows nor Linux as it's OS base, but a not mentioned
OS "which is not unalike the AmigaOS".
This emulator was tested by the editors on an 1.2 GHz Atholon, and is said to
easily outshine everything, even the UAE JIT. It reaches multiple of the speed of
the UAE and even of the speed of an 68060/50. Contrary to the UAE the AA emulation
still doesn't work, thus one must widely abstain from games. But programs like
Frogger or even Quake gave results embarrassing the performance of the PPC versions.
The emulator reached their office near shutdown, name and programmer still are secret.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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Update: The Feeble Files for Amiga
Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote:
Last week we received a few more pre-orders for a possible Amiga port of
the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. At this time we have altogether
298 pre-orders, so 102 still are missing, which should be sent either to us
(order@epic-interactive.com)
or to a stockist like KDH Datentechnik, who participate in this project.
This pre-order project will be valid thru 12. August 2001. If there will be less than
400 pre-orders until that date, unfortunately an Amiga version of
The Feeble Files (and probably any further Amiga port by e.p.i.c.) will be impossible
to be done.
Reminder note: The Feeble File requires an Amiga with a 4 MB graphics board,
32 MB of memory, and a 68060 OR a PPC CPU. The game costs 99,95 DM and will
be shipping on 2 CD's with both German and English version.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Jul.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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H&P: Just haggle a bit.....
On 25. July 2001 the German discount law was suspended, so vendors can give
discounts.
Hence Haage&Partner start a project: "Tell us for which price you would purchase
a product and we will see whether we will do business with you".
Enter your name, e-mail address, desired price and a nice reason into a form -
and then we will see.... (ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Jul.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)
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Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9428
Richard H. Poser released beta version 0.9428 of the AIM messenger AmigAIM.
AmigAIM is a client to connect to the America Online Instant Messenger (AIM
service). Following an extract from the program's history to take the
changes from:
- Modified handling of Context Menus in Buddy List Area
- Online list - Selecting with Right Button...
- Online Buddy Name: Will automatically select that name and then open
the Online context menu
- Offline Buddy Name: Does the same as above, but opens the Offline
context menu
- Anywhere Else: Context menu will reflect the already selected Buddy Name,
if one is selected.
- Setup list - Selecting with Right Button...
- On Label or Buddy Name: Will automatically select that label/name and
then open the context menu
- Anywhere Else: Context menu will reflect the already selected Label/Buddy
name
- Modified Away, Online and Idle Time displays
- Now displays time in Days, Hours and Minutes (If you actually get someone that
idles for that long - I know someone that has idled for 2 days straight)
- Found that warning display wasn't being handled correctly, as AIM sends out the
value as a multiple of 10, such that 855 would equal 85.5. The display now
calculates the correct value and rounds as necessary (Up, or down).
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Jul.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - new packets
WHDLoad enables floppy disk only games to be installed on harddisk.
The following new packets have been added:
- 25. July 01 enhanced: Licence to Kill (Domark)
- 25. July 01 new: Hunt for 7th October (Cryptoburners)
- 23. July 01 fixed: Uridium 2 (Graftgold)
- 23. July 01 enhanced: R-Type 2 (Activision)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Jul.2001
The Legacy
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Nostalgia: The Legacy updated
'The Legacy', the games museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC, and
Schneider/Amstrad CPC collected new material, again. Along with
tons of new covers you will also find a test report about the
new Amiga-Classix CD.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Jul.2001
AmigActive
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Print magazine: AmigActive #23 review
The August issue of the English print magazine, available from today, in detail
deals with the following highlights:
- "Here's Looking At Moovid"
Digital video has come a long way since the days of the zoetrope.
- Sleeping With The Enemy
Can't do it on your Amiga? There is another way, you know...
- Back To The Future
Investigating the shiny, brushed-metal world of Merlancia Industries.
- You've Got Mail
Yet Another occurrence of the phrase "Yet Another Mailer"!
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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26.Jul.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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Amiga Security Site online
Marius ´Cyborg´ Schwarz wrote:
Due to problems regarding Aminet I decided to put the programs online directly.
Additionally I've made some documents dealing with firewalling on the Amiga and
security in general, thus the side went online that late.
Now on this website among other things there are the TCPScanner in an even better version than it was
planned for Aminet, a tool to analyse firewall-logs to discover undesirable portscans. I did it
without the possibility to directly strike back, since this wouldn't pay. There is an additional
manual how to create meaningful log-files and the promised protection against the misuse of BlackIRC
from outside.
Anybody wanting to make her/his Amiga more secure is welcome.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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25.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News (ANF)
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iBrowse-vote-site
In order to convince the author of iBrowse to continue developing it and to show him that many users are interested in it a website was created where you can write some words to the programmer. You can find more information under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)
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Amiga Future: Interview with Hyperion Entertainment
To this time an interview with Hyperion Entertainment was published on the Amiga Future homepage.
Besides this the second part of the Amiga Future issue 27 went online.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2001
Michael Böhmer (ANF)
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Hardware: USB Central update
The Amiga USB Central site has been updated: There are some pictures of the Zorro-prototype and also a picture of the certainly final standard model for the clockport of the Amiga 1200.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2001
Oliver Roberts
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Datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype V44.22
With the help of so called datatypes several datatypes can be displayed with different programs. Oliver Roberts has published a new version of his WarpJPEG.datatype.
It is a fast 24bit-JPEG-picture-datatype for computer with 68k, WarpOS or MorphOS.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (135 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2001
Carsten Schröder (E-Mail)
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Handelsblatt: Camgaroo: The second start
Carsten Schröder has drawn our attention to an article in Handelsblatt. The article is from 7th May 2001 and therefore is something old but nevertheless it is very interesting. The article is about the career of Gabriele Lechner which is well-known from her time where she was Amiga-publishing trader and author.
Here is a small part of the article:
»You can certainly still remember the Amiga?", Gabriele Lechner asks as a precaution as she fetches her little old-fashioned book from behind the desk. Only few poeple of the current dotcom-generation know the highly popular homecomputer of Commodore in the 80s. According to Lechner the Amiga was not only a computer - it was the beginning of her career as an employer.
Because her publisher of that time only wants to publish her book about the Amiga very hesitantly she founded her own publishing house overnight.«
You can find the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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25.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 25.07.2001
getnglist.lha comm/news 19K+Downloads newsgrouplists from newsserver
ShoutcastIcons.lha comm/www 74K+Launch Shoutcast streams with nice icons
PSY-CV.lha demo/aga 420K+Prophesy - Cartoon violence demo.
PSY-Hal.lha demo/aga 282K+Prophesy - Halloween demo.
Psy-tt2.lha demo/aga 903K+Prophesy - Retribution (Halloween demo 2
PSY-xmas.lha demo/aga 108K+Prophesy - Christmas demo.
elt-ragg.lha demo/euro 50K+Raggy by Eltech
eph-swap.lha demo/euro 60K+Swaptro by Ephidrena
iris-viv.lha demo/euro 48K+Vivid by IRIS
void-join.lha demo/euro 69K+Jointro by Void
apt-ahar.lha demo/intro 61K+"AHA-Remix" - A 64KB intro by Apathy fro
apt-gore.lha demo/intro 5K+"A500 Gourad" - A 4KB intro by Apathy fr
dnf-mess.lha demo/intro 12K+A small BBS intro by Donut Fetish
dpt-chex.lha demo/intro 64K+"Chexue" - A 64KB intro by Depth from Ki
vbcc_MorphOS.lha dev/c 838K+Optimizing ISO C compiler (MorphOS-nativ
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 24K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
AlanCT152.lha docs/misc 20K+Polish Guide for hand radio ALAN CT 152
obvious.lha game/data 108K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
ImageConvert.lha gfx/conv 27K+ImageConvert 1.9, batch converting with
smoke.mpg mods/mpg 5.8M+Smoke - no comment - just smoke and list
StemFontPic.lha text/font 3K+Shows visible characters in font Stem
mytail.lha util/cli 3K+Tail - shows x lines from end of ascii f
pplib020.lha util/libs 7K+Powerpacker.library 37.8 & PPLoadSeg 020
muFS4510p.lha util/misc 19K+MultiUser patch for OS3.5/OS3.9 FastFile
wbinfo3_pl.lha util/misc 7K+WBinfo3 Locale PL
GHelpDeluxe.lha util/wb 82K+Provides access to all your AmigaGuides
Memicon.lha util/wb 18K+Memory/Screen/Clock/OS display for OS3.5 (as) (Translation: dr)
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24.Jul.2001
Bill Borsari (E-Mail)
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Event: UGN webcast from AmiWest 2001
The UGN invites you to join us at the
AmiWest 2001 show. This year we
will start on Friday 27th at 7:00 PM PST (GMT -7) at 8:00 PM PST we will
webcast a keynote speech by Bill McEwen.
On the 28th and 29th we will have live coverage from the show floor, visit the
UGN website for information on who will be available to chat with.
Like shows in the past the UGN will be using
Shoutcast technology to deliver
live audio to Amiga users round the world. To listen to the audio visit
the AmiNet and grab a shoutcast
compatible program. The UGN recommends the
"StreAmi" program, for more information visit
ugn.amiga.org. For
the webcam images the UGN uses ImageFX
from Novadesign, AmFTP from
Vapor,
and Miami from Nordic Global Inc..
To view the webcam you can use a browser or a webcam viewer from the
AmiNet, see
ugn.amiga.org for more details.
Participating at AmiWest 2001
will be done the same way as Amiga St Louis 2001. During the broadcast
we will have ICQ available, if you can a
question simply send us a message. We ask that you send us your real name
and location so that we can give you credit for the question. For the Amiga
the UGN recommends "STRICQ," it
can be found the AmiNet or from
ugn.amiga.org. To add the
UGN to your ICQ friends list use the
ICQ# 112800234, ICQ nick "UGN".
The UGN would like to thank
Amiga.org, Amiga, Inc.
and AmiWest 2001 for
their support. With out their efforts this would not be possible.
Bill Borsari - Director UGN
tekmage@amiga.org (ps) (Translation: gf)
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24.Jul.2001
Etienne Vogt
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System-Monitor: Sysmon V1.16
Etienne Vogt has released version 1.16 of his system-monitors.
Sysmon is a system monitoring and enhancing package based on a shared library
and Shell based support commands. It requires AmigaOS 2.04 or higher.
Installation of Richard Körber's Identify.library (util/libs/Identify.lha
on Aminet) is recommended if you want the Sysmon monitor to be able to
identify expansion boards.
If your Amiga has a MMU (Memory Management Unit), it is also recommended,
but not required, that you install Thomas Richter's mmu.library, available
from Aminet (util/libs/MMULib.lha).
Download: Sysmon116.lha (140 KB)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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24.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Library: WBStartEmu V45.2a / Datatype: Icon-Datatype V44.3a (Update)
Stephan Rupprecht has updated his programs WBStartEmu (wbstart.library) version
45.2a for OS3.9 and the Icon datatype version 44.3a for OS3.5+, he has added
spanish doc files.
WBStartEmu.lha (8 KB)
IconDT44.lha (8 KB)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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24.Jul.2001
Fr3dY
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Tools: Several updates on Fr3dY
Fr3dy presents many of his programs for free download. These tools are updated:
- 23. July 2001: TekNap Update to v1.3g
- 23. July 2001: Lynx Update to v2.8.4rel1
- 23. July 2001: MPGTX Update to v1.0
- 23. July 2001: Normalize Update to v0.6.1
- 12. July 2001: HTMLDOC Update to v1.8.14
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24.Jul.2001
AmigaGames.com
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Icons: Icon Pack #11 from GameIcons.info
With the release of AmigaOS3.5 in 1999 a new downward compatible Amiga icon
system was introduced. GameIcons.info has released many game icons since then.
Now the Icon Pack #11 with more than 100 game icons of all kind is available
for download.
Download: GameIcons-11_Jul2001.lha
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24.Jul.2001
Directory Opus 4 Research Project
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Filemanager: Directory Opus 4.16 Beta 2
Jacek Rzeuski has released version 4.16 beta 2 of the filemanager 'DirOpus'. This
update contains some improvements (listed in the History).
This beta version only contains files that have changed from version 4.16. you
will find this version and the sourcecode on the download page.
DirOpus is a filemanager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software.
The Windows version is available in version 6.
1999 the sourcecode was released under the GNU license. Jacek Rzeuski has then
started to rework and enhance the program.
Download: DOpus416b2.lzx (223 KB)
Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/
Alternative download: DOpus416b2.lzx
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24.Jul.2001
WHDLoad Mailingliste (ANF)
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WHDLoad Support Page reachable under other URL (Update)
The WHDLoad support page is not reachable under http://www.whdload.org/ since
1-2 days because of a DNS problem. You can reach it temporarily at http://www363.s-w1.webdesign-net.de/.
WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk.
This are the new packages:
- 23.07.01 fixed: Uridium 2 (Graftgold)
- 23.07.01 enhanced: R-Type 2 (Activision)
- 22.07.01 fixed: Putty (System 3)
- 22.07.01 enhanced: OutRun Europe (U.S.Gold/Probe)
- 22.07.01 new: Lothar Matthäus (Ocean/Audiogenic)
- 22.07.01 new: Little Computer People (Activision)
- 22.07.01 enhanced: Hammerboy (Dinamic)
- 22.07.01 enhanced: European Champions (Ocean)
- 22.07.01 new: Double Dragon (Ocean)
- 22.07.01 new: Psychotic (Budbrain)
- 22.07.01 enhanced: BlockOut (California Dreams)
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24.Jul.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)
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CVS 1.11.1p1 AmigaOS-Port SSH-Update released
After two months since the first complete, ixemul.library indpendent release of
the AMigaOS port of CVS the authors (Olaf Barthel and Jens Langner) have released
a new update of the port.
In the last version the SSH support was missing and so some requests for an
implementation are send in. In this update it is fully integrated. So with this
version it is possible via SSH to check in/out directly from CVS servern. This is
needed fo example for Sourceforge-Accounts.
Besides many other important bugfixes since the last version now in this update
are processor optimized versions (020/030/040/060) contained, this should give
enhanced speed performance.
The latest version you will find here: http://amcvs.light-speed.de/
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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23.Jul.2001
Metalmoon-ML
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Game-CD: neo's voyages
Patrick Henz wrote:
neo's voyages includes the German versions of Whale's Voyage I+II, Fightin'
Spirit, Spherical Worlds, Der Clou and Black Viper.
Because of the licences this cd-rom can only be distributed for one year and
only outside the UK.
Price 2,50 Euro.
If you have more questions, I will be glad to answer them.
Orders can be placed on the webpage you will find by following the title link. If you have any questions feel free to send a mail to Patrick Henz (fom@3pyramids.zzn.com).
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23.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: New screenshots of "Schlachtfeld"
There are some new screenshots of some units taken from the game. You will find them by following the link "Informationen zum Spiel".
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23.Jul.2001
Joachim Schmid (ANF)
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Matay: New Warp3D driver for graphic accelerators version 4.2
You can find a new version of the Warp3D graphic accelerator driver by Hyperion for the Voodoo3 2000/3000. This version (4.2) is the final version and fixes all bugs of the predecessor. The archive contains versions for PPC and 68k.
Download: Warp3D-42.lha (1,25 MB)
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23.Jul.2001
Scalos
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Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.6)
Beta version 40.6 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released.
The changes made can be taken from the
history. If you will
happen to find bugs, please enter those to the
bug report.
Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Jul.2001
Massimo Tantingone
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Massimo Tantingone: project page revised
Massimo Tantingone, well known due to a lot of Amiga-programs by him for example VisualPrefs, updated his project page. He made new versions of VisualPrefs (1.5j), WindowToFront (1.9), titlebar.image (40.15), and IconColors (44.1) avaialable for download.
An added section of his homepage now deals with his ideas of the graphical appearance of the upcoming AmigaOS 4/5.
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23.Jul.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)
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H&P: New Wacom pages
During the last days we completely re-designed the Wacom section and now we
are able to deliver almost all of the product line on short call. The professional
graphic tablets by Wacom can be used with almost any kind of computer and operating
system, like Windows, Macintosh, Amiga, Be, Linux, SGI, Solaris. We deliver any
tablet in the Amiga version along with the PC drivers, special Amiga drivers, and
Arteffect SE. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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23.Jul.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register Juli 2001
The "Status Register" is the monthly newsletter by the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important information concerning the Amiga, Macintosh, and the PC as well as news from the computer business.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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23.Jul.2001
Tom Parker
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Browser: AWeb WarpOS Jpeg- and Gif-Plugin
Tom Parker already released some plugins for AWeb. Currently there
are alpha-versions of the WarpOS Jpeg- and Gif-plugin available for
download. Please be carefull when using this versions.
If you want to try them out,
Tom Parker would be very
pleased about any feedback. Further details and the download link can be
found at the title link.
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23.Jul.2001
Morphos Homepage (ANF)
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MorphOS: New version of the PC-Emulator "Bochs"
Nicholai Benalal released a new version of "Bochs", a PC-emulator for MorphOS. Some of the changes made:
- Built-in preference editor
- Improved control over error handling
- New, and more interactive, disk image creator
- Dual hard drive support
- multiple processor emulation (SMP)
- VNC remote viewer mode
- Bugfixes
- Since some people seem to have problems with BIOS-bochs-latest,
I've included the old one as well. Use the one that works best
for you!
Additional information and the download link are available here.
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23.Jul.2001
T.o.T.
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Game: Tales of Tamar V0.36 R5
Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds strategy game by Eternity Entertainment Software
for the Amiga, Atari, Java, Linux, and PC. The Amiga version v0.36 R5 now for the first time
makes it possible to offer private (trade) agreements to other players. Agreement period,
number of goods, and the price can be determined. In not bringing your goods to the official
market you can establish an embargo against other players and make sure that own deliveries of
amours and weapons are sent to certain players, only.
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23.Jul.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)
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New feature of TCPScanner V0.40
Portscanning on the Amiga enters the next level, beside of UDP/TCP scanning the
TCP-Scanner now is capable of identscan, also, hence can learn which user has started
the service scanned. Additionally a rudimentary stealth technic was implemented to
the scan operation, making it difficult for portscan detectors to find portscans.
If the upload will work the program will be for download on Aminet under /comm/tcp/,
from tomorrow.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
UMTS-Report
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Start-up: Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH (smac)
The Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH (smac) is a company newly founded by Siemens
to promote mobile business companies. The company now settled in an office building in
Oberhaching near Munich, Germany, offering 30 jobs for future start-up staffers.
The Siemens Mobile Acceleration GmbH wants to promote the worldwide most attractive
business ideas of mobile business to fast and successful enter the market, and they want
to be one of the top-players of acceleration business, soon.
To achieve this smac makes a wide range of services and infrastructure facilities available to
the companies promoted, from professional management coaching, consulting in questions of strategy and law,
help in employees recruitment, PR, marketing, and advertisement up to resourcing of office rooms and seed
capital. Most of all important for the start-ups are the access to the latest technical innovations in the
globals research compound of Siemens, which also enables extended test simulations. Additionally millions of
customers can be reached via Siemens' worldwide distribution network.
In the first business year the company has 20 millions Euro available for promoting.
After the location in Munich another location in Europe is planned for Stockholm. Offices in Asia and the
U.S.A. are to follow as a next step. It is planned to admit up to ten start-ups per region every year, all in
all 30 per year. At the time being five start-ups are part of the last shortlist.
Interested start-ups will receive more information from the Siemens Mobile
Acceleration GmbH by phone: +49 (0)89 636-29141.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
slashdot.org (ANF)
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PPC Machine: The Yellow briQ Node
'The Yellow briQ Node' is a compact PPC machine of size of a CD-ROM drive
(5,74 x 1,625 x 8,9 Inches) with G3 or G4 CPU and Linux.
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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AGDB: overview of Amiga-Adventures by Sierra
Seppo Typpö and Joachim Froholt have published a detailed article about the
Amiga adventure games by Sierra (Kings Quest, Police Quest, Larry, etc.) on
'The Amiga Games Database' site. This article contains information about the
formation of Sierra, the adventure interpret used, as well as an analysis of
the single games.
Moreover tests of the following games are new on the site:
Testament, Skidmarks, Colonial Conquest V1.0, Mig-29M Superfulcrum,
and Earth 2140.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
Amiga Future
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Security: AmiSSL V1.1
Version 1.1 of the 'amissl.library' is available for download. This
version fixes a bug. The archive contains the installation script.
AmiSSL is an Amiga port of OpenSSL. This library allows secure data transfer
in the WWW.
Note: Version 1.x of the library does not work with
IBrowse v2.2. AmiSSL v2.0 would have come along with IBrowse v2.3.
Beside of the main archive a variety of encryption modules are required, like
Blowfish, DES, IDEA, RC5, etc. Those are available for download on the
homepage.
Download: AmiSSLInstall.lha
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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Matay: Special offer for computer clubs
Matay has a special offer for Amiga user groups located in countries without a
Prometheus distributor. Members of such groups can centralized order the PCI board at a reduced
price directly from Matay. Closer information can be received via e-mail from
Filip Dab-Mirowski (filipdm@matay.pl),
or via phone at: +48 603 78 51 00 or +48 812 94 32.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)
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File Manager: DiskMaster2 V2.5b11
On 20. July 2001 Rudolph Riedel released version 2.5b11 of the file manager
'DiskMaster', as well as 'DM2.guide' v1.96, and 'DM2_deutsch.guide', v1.96 on
his homepage.
The most important innovations:
- Bugfix: 'Swap' runs again
- Bugfix: the Startup.DM buffer wasn't always initialized correctly.
- Changed: 'AddCmd' now also accepts hex-numbers for the colour pen number.
- Bugfix: the colours set by 'Color' are now marked as used under OS3.9+, too.
- New: 'SetX' has got a new parameter: 'UserColors'.
- Changed: only screens with at least 4 colours are opened.
- Changed: the command button colours are swapped now, instead of inverting the colour pen number, as done before.
- Bugfix: up to 200 GB should be viewed correctly, now.
Download:
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22.Jul.2001
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaDE: AmigaDE test
An AmigaDE test was published on amigarticles.tripod.com.
This test discribes the history of the AmigaDE and in short addresses
'RealTime Test', 'Interaction', 'Font Analysis', 'Windows Sizing',
'New Amiga Shell', and 'Java Speed'.
This test is available as HTML and PDF document.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
ANN
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Audio: 'REPULSE' sound card test
On 20. July 2001 Brent Santin published a detailed
test
of the 'REPULSE' sound card by Alien Design on Aminet.
The 'REPULSE' is a 24/16 bit sound card for Amigas with Zorro-II slots.
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 22.07.2001
mSQL-Admin.lha biz/dbase 73K+MSQL-Database Administration Tool (with
PrintMail.lha comm/mail 12K+YAM ARexx script prints header & page
TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 11K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAM_GR.lha comm/mail 7K+Greek locale catalog for YAM
YAT.lha comm/mail 574K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 154K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.4
newscoaster_b.lha comm/news 376K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.4
smbfs.lha comm/tcp 121K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
Aweb_GR.lha comm/www 8K+Greek locale catalogs for Aweb and Awebc
ABF.lha dev/basic 35K+[HACK] Modify on-the-fly the version
AntyDresiarz0s.lha dev/basic 694K+AntyDresiarz Issue #0, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz1s.lha dev/basic 1.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #1, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz2s.lha dev/basic 3.5M+AntyDresiarz Issue #2, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz3s.lha dev/basic 5.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #3, Blitz2 source cod
AntyDresiarz4s.lha dev/basic 5.4M+AntyDresiarz Issue #4, Blitz2 source cod
clockita.lha dev/basic 89K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
yaec.lha dev/e 404K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.8a]. Th
FoxEd.lha dev/gui 152K+Screen Editor. Creates code for FoxGUI
FoxGuiLibs.lha dev/gui 186K+Free Gui Library V5.1
FoxGuiSource.lha dev/gui 169K+FoxGUI Library V5.1 Source Code
titlebar_ic.lha dev/gui 24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 24K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
IBrowse2.2PL.lha docs/help 14K+Polish Locale for IBrowse2.2 v.1.4
SCSI-help.txt docs/help 1K+Help for SCSI and ultra SCSI
Visor-Amiga.txt docs/help 1K+How to connect a Visor (Palm) PDA with
MyRepulse.txt docs/rview 18K+Review of the REPULSE audio card
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (15 July
WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 18K+HD Installer for Uridium II
Emerald.lha game/wb 872K+Graphical effects and games
vcdimager_077.lha gfx/conv 472K+VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Sup
SvIV-1.lha gfx/misc 355K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 1/8
SvIV-2.lha gfx/misc 220K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 2/8
SvIV-3a.lha gfx/misc 142K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 3a/8
SvIV-3b.lha gfx/misc 226K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 3b/8
SvIV-4.lha gfx/misc 43K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 4/8
SvIV-5.lha gfx/misc 60K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 5/8
SvIV-6.lha gfx/misc 120K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 6/8 (op
SvIV-7.lha gfx/misc 127K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 7/8 (op
SvIV-8.lha gfx/misc 222K+SViewIV V9.20 (16.7.2001) - Part 8/8 (op
PicShow.lha gfx/show 10K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
ScanQuixSP.lha hard/drivr 14K+ScanQuix 5.x spanish catalogs v1.1.0
imdbDiff010713.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
bird.lha misc/sci 31K+Small program of flocking birds
fuzzcontr2.lha misc/sci 42K+PID/Fuzzy Control Simulator
LiFun.lha misc/sci 332K+Ant/flee simulation, with a warlike plot
boorang.mpg mods/mpg 6.6M+Dubmusic for the dancefloor 7`12``
False.mpg mods/mpg 4.3M+False - I didn`t knew Aphex Twin at the
Sow.mpg mods/mpg 6.6M+Symphonie of wetness - talkdrum trance b
SpaceDock.jpg pix/trace 52K+Space Dock Star Trek
SpaceDockW.jpg pix/trace 95K+Space Dock Wireframe Star Trek
NoweeBnB.lha pix/wb 507K+Brown Workbench Look by Nowee for Visual
Screen_Pa.jpg pix/wb 247K+Snapshot of Amiga (Voodoo3) Workbench Sc
StemFont.lha text/font 9K+V2 Nice 12-point bitmap font for high-re
alba.lha util/boot 64K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
WinToFront19.lha util/cdity 43K+Replaces ClickToFront, with more options
tail.lha util/cli 3K+Tail - shows x lines from end of ascii f
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 134K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.21 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
PdaLink.lha util/libs 131K+Connect Amiga with Palm PDA (V2.0)
AslToRT.lha util/misc 23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
Anno1.21.lha util/time 23K+Reminder and calendar utility
666PntrEyes.lha util/wb 8K+BNSMWB-palette image file for PointerEye
HitMenu.lha util/wb 83K+Small "software manager" + screeshot
LaunchV3.53.lha util/wb 82K+Nice Scrolling Program Launcher
VisualPrefs.lha util/wb 464K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI! (as) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
NSM-Page
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Midi: camd.library V40, CamdBnp-Tools
The camd library v40 as well as the CamdBnp tools for BarsnPipes were
released on the NSM page.
'camd' is a shared library for midi, which is part of the AmigaOS. Due to
several problems with the original one and because there was no camd.library for
AROS, this library was completely new programmed. This one should work like
the original one and was successfully tested with 'BarsnPipes' 'Radium', and the
'CAMD' toolkit.
An additional driver 'mmp' and a special camd midi driver for WinUAE are
available for download for this library.
The 'camdbnp.lha.zip' archive contains 64 tools for BarsnPipes, which should
simplify the communication with other programs. The 'camd library' is used for
this communication.
'camd40.lha' and 'mmp.lha' contains both binary and source code
(APL, AROS Public License). The includes are part of the AROS source code and
also available via e-mail.
Download:
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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22.Jul.2001
Vapor
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Messenger: AmIRC 3.5.17beta
On 20. July 2001 Oliver Wagner released beta version 3.5.17 of the
IRC client 'AmIRC'.
This version contains several smaller extensions, bugfixes, and DCC support for
IP-NAT gateways without internal DCC support.
Download: amirc_3517beta.lzx (300K),
Readme
(sd) (Translation: mj)
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21.Jul.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: full version and comment
Amiga Arena Full Version
In co-operation with Denis Unger the Amiga Arena makes the release of "Foreign
Language Master V2.3" possible! FLM is a program for foreign languages that can
be used as a dictionary for text translation and to learning of vocabularies.
FLM contains some English-German dictionaries (all in all about 8 MB with about
175,000 entries). Denis Unger continues developing "FLM". For a new version of
"FLM" Denis Unger would be pleased to receive concrete suggestions for improving
the software and to receive feedback!
Further information and data bases for use with "FLM" can be found here, contact: flmdic@gmx.de.
Amiga Arena - comment
I use "FLM" almost daily myself and don't want to miss it anymore!
My call to you - with a short mail to Denis U. everybody would contribute to
further supporting and improving this tool.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jul.2001
Andreas Günther (ANF)
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Spanish catalog files for ScanQuix 5
From now on there are Spanish program texts for ScanQuix 5 available. The
texts were translated by Dámaso D. Estévez and made available on Aminet under
"hard/drivr/ScanQuixSP.lha". Alternatively the archive can be downloaded using
the title link.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jul.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: poll results and font tutorial
On the GFX-BASE you can now find the results of our latest poll. We had 331
votes regarding our question which graphics board you use/own. Have a look
yourself to see which one got the most votes.
Additionally we have a new (English) tutorial. It's all about fonts. We
explain the use of different fonts and font tools as well as the conversion of
different font types that you can use on the Amiga. We also deal with webfonts and
the use of fonts in word processors.
And then we have received again some more entries of games and scene demos that support graphics cards. More to follow soon.
(ps) (Translation: wk)
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21.Jul.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla
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AROS News
As announced, the aros.org domain is temporarily down.
I'll announce it when the routine problems have been
solved. Until then, the mailing lists can be reached
on lists.hepe.com and the CVS server is at sbb.hepe.com
(use updatecvspath in AROS/scripts/ to change it).
Party on :-)
(ps)
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21.Jul.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)
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Genetic Species on 100%AMIGA
100%AMIGA and Marble Eyes are proud to announce that the Amiga's best ever
first person shooter, Genetic Species, will be on the August edition of the
premier Amiga CD magazine. Subscribers getting issue 15 of 100%AMIGA will
get a special 2CD set including the full commercial release of Genetic
Species FREE. 100%AMIGA - 100%BIGGER and 100%BETTER than any other Amiga
magazine. Issue 15 will be available from 5th August. Subscribe Now!
http://www.100PercentAmiga.org
http://www.marble-eyes.dk
(ps)
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21.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Amiga Society says thank you!
97% of the poll participiants want the Amiga-Society to stay alive! For this we
want to thank you very much, as well as we thank all the people who offered us their help
and to whom we will surely come back in the next time.
The site is now available in a light version. The two central points
'Schlachtfeld' and the 'BBoAH' are still online. By the way, there's a poll running
whether a software page (in German) shall be created on the basis of the Big
Book of Amiga hardware. The full functionality will be reached again until
September, but till then it will have changed in content in quite some ways!
(ps)
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20.Jul.2001
Tommy Tamsen (ANF)
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JVC announce OCPA coorperation
At the URL JVC announce the "Open Contents Platform Association to
be Established".
There are many interesting companies listed, e.g. Sega and Taito, to
create content for the intent (Tao) based computers, cell phones etc.,
but Amiga Inc. are not mentioned anywhere...
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
SOL-Invictus (ANF)
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H&P: Toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect
The team Thomas Peterseim, Heinz Andreolla, Marco Schärfchen and Oliver Tacke has
provided Haage&Partner with new toolbars for AmigaWriter and ArtEffect.
Download:
AE-Toolbars.lha - AW220-Toolbars.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF)
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Datatype: New version of DocDatatypes (v40.20)
I have just released a new version of DocDatatypes. New for this version (40.20)
is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs and the fixing of the Mac Write
descriptor. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory
optimisations.
DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported
formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works,
AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word,
Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc(pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write, Mac TeachText
and Mac Text.
There is also a new version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast, easy to use
file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file
type.
Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes.
Also SpitFire, the Palm Desktop
by Ralph Torchia becomes the first application to support Native File Format
Loading and Saving via DocDatatypes. Now convert any supported format and
use it on your Palm.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS: Developer Support Page opened
A support area for developers was opened on the MorphOS website.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
AudioLabs
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AudioLabs: Special offer for ProStationAudio
The Millennium version of the music editor 'ProStationAudio' is currently
being offered by AudioLabs for special conditions.
- ProStationAudio Millennium V4, 16 track / 32 channel non
linear editor for AmigaOS
- all the realtime ALPS plugins for ProStationAudio included
- AudioLab16 processing software for AmigaOS
- unlimited tech support for ProStationAudio
Prices and more details at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
Frank Fenn
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Music: Audiomaster 2000 version 0.77
Version 0.77 of Audiomaster 2000, the sample editor, has been released. The
program uses MUI and supports all AHI devices.
The program by Frank 'Fenny' Fenn is shareware, the demo version does not
allow saving.
Download: audiomaster2k.lha (354 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)
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20.Jul.2001
Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)
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Role-playing game: Exult 0.93alpha4
Rüdiger Hanke writes:
My Exult port for Amiga is available for download on my homepage. Exult is a role-playing
game engine which can interpret Ultima 7 datafiles. Ultima 7 still captivates after many
years with an epic storyline, a vast world and many details. You can find some screenshots
on my webpage.
The story: 200 years have passed in Britannia since your last visit as the Avatar.
Driven by the mockery of a demonic creature calling itself "The Guardian", you travel
once more to Britannia and arrive in Trinsic on a scene of gruesome murder. Maybe the
new organization "The Fellowship", which is gaining more and more influence
in the lands, is involved in it? Or maybe this is just the beginning of a larger plan that might endanger
all Britannia?
Required is an Amiga with FPU and graphics card as well as the original PC game by Origin. Please
note that the files on the disk version are usually packed and have to be installed on an
MS-DOS system to get the required files. Alternately, the uncompressed game is contained on
the "Ultima Collection" CD-ROM. As a small goodie for the Amiga I have included a preferences
program with which you can change all game options with a graphical interface on OS3.5 and above.
An interesting tidbit: While porting the game, I found a sourcecode to read IFF files. Indeed,
some of the Ultima 7 files are in IFF format. Even the chunk lengths are in Motorola and not
Intel byteorder ... (ps) (Translation: rh)
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19.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht (E-Mail)
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Tool: SGrab with PNG format to save
Stephan Rupprecht wrote:
I just released SGrab v1.16 on my homepage. This now offers the possibility
to save screenshots as PNG files.
Download: sgrab.lha - (99 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive: Feeble Ubdate
Thomas Steiding of e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment GmbH wrote:
Update & FAQs about The Feeble Files
As announced last week we require at least 400 pre-orders to enable an Amiga port
of the cartoon adventure The Feeble Files. Including today's entries we received
232 pre-orders and we are hoping, that the following days will bring the rest. The game
can be pre-orders from us (order@epic-interactive.com)
or from any stockist.
With the enclosed FAQ we hope to be able to answers some frequently asked
questions regarding the announcement.
Q: What is The Feeble Files about?
A: The Feeble Files is the official sequel to Simon The Sorcerer II by the
British Adventuresoft company. Feeble is a little green alien having the task to
make circles in grain fields on earth. He lives in a world restrictively ruled by the Omnibrain
and he is an honest citizen never violating the group's big catalog of rules. But one day this kind
hearted gawky stumbles into a full-grown conspiracy against the Omnibrain. As one can see from the
screenshots on our homepage, the characters of this game are fully rendered. The game comes along
with complete German or English spoken samples. The German games magazine PC-Games rated the title
at 80%, then. The German vocals came for example from the German movie voices of Brad Pitt, Whoopi
Goldberg, and Roseanne. More information and topical Mac screenshot are to find on our homepage.
Q: What Amiga do I need for The Feeble Files?
A: The Feeble Files requires an Amiga equipped with a 4 MB graphics board and 32 MB of memory.
Furthermore a 68060 OR a PPC CPU is required. Theoretically the game would run on a 68040/40, but
sure would be very very slow on this configuration.
Q: When will the game be out?
A: As soon as we have received 400 pre-orders (no matter if those were directly ordered
from us or from a vendor - who forwards the orders to us), we will start to port the game to
the Amiga. Due to the porting engine of our leader of development, Paul Burkey, the game
then should be shipping for the Amiga within 6 weeks!!
Q: Will there be more Amiga games from e.p.i.c. interactive?
A: Theoretically it would be possible to port to the Amiga more games currently available for the Apple
Macintosh. But since license fees for other games, e.g. like in case of the Settlers clone
Knights&Merchants or the RPG-mix Gorky 17, are much more expensive (and hence the number of
sales to be expected for an Amiga version must be higher), it is clear: If The Feeble Files port will not
become reality, we don't need to start thinking about more games. (ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Andre Geisler (ANF)
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GRex4000T available from August
Andre Geisler wrote:
This moring I called DCE on the phone. From this call I learned,
that definite there will be a PCI expansion for the Amiga4000T (and A4000D built into a case), which will
be connected to the PPC board's bus, as usual. This would be available from the end of August, the latest
on the Cologne show.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
infinity (ANF)
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Elbox Computer announce mutual consent with Hyperion
After a long time of both official and private discussions Elbox announced on the Mediator mailing list
to sign Hyperion's contract for the Warp3D drivers.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)
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Start of the AmigaFFE project
Michael Asse wrote:
Today I would like to announce the official start of the AmigaFFE project in which
I would like to tackle the port of the 'Frontier First Encounters'
game to the Amiga with help of other interested people.
As a first step I defined preliminary project aims to which you can, may and shall send me
suggestions and tips, etc., since this is my first project and I don't have the specialised knowledge to
do this perfectly.
Please, don't send me any "What should that gain...?" mails. I would not reply.
The provisional time limit to send suggestions for the project aims was set to 31. August 2001.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)
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PowerPC ATX Board
Matthias Muench wrote:
I just happend to find an interesting article on the IBM site, which is about a new PowerPC ATX board.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
T.o.T.
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Game: Tales of Tamar News
Tales of Tamar is an Internet based rounds game by Eternity Entertainment
for the Amiga, Atari, Linux, and PC. Since a few days the first Java version
is available, which later will be available for settop boxes, handheld, and
all other computers not supported native.
New Atari version v0.21
The option screen was ported to the Atari version v0.21, enabling sound,
Internet, and modem settings.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Marco Miljak, c't 14/2001 (ANF)
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AltairBASIC source code by Bill Gates
Under the mentioned URL one can find a very interesting analysis of
the AltairBASIC once programmed by Bill Gates. The British computer
scientist Reuben Harris disassembled and elaborately described it on
his website. There also is an AltairBASIC simulation basing on Java applets.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Library: WBStartEmu V45.2 / Datatype: Icon-Datatype V44.3
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.2 of his WBStartEmu (wbstart.library) for
OS3.9. The icon datatype for OS3.5+ was updated and now is available as v44.3.
Download:
WBStartEmu.lha (5 KB)
IconDT44.lha (8 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Sven Zander (ANF)
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Kult is coming home - News at "com!online" 08/2001
The current issue 08/2001 of the German print magazine com!online mentions
the Amiga in the news on page #20 reading that the Amiga boss Bill McEwen announced
the cult-brand soon to come back. The new One PPC 1200 would be under development
specially for this purpose. If this computer will attract enough customers the
company would found new agencies, yet.
The following interesting wording was used for the Amiga:
"In the long run this box cannot be killed", and, "....for the scuffproofed
veteran...".
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)
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AROS News
As already reported
there were hardware problems with the server hosting the AROS website.
Some good and bad news about that: the good news is, that
the hardware will be replaced, the bad news is, that the machine will be
connected to a new network and thus the page temporary might not be
available, again, due to DNS conversion.
Here the original message with more details:
As you might have noticed, we had a lot of hardware failures
in the last months. Now there are good and bad news. The good
one is that the hardware will be replaced. The bad one is that
the machine is moved to a different network and this means that
we'll have DNS hell all over again ! The "real" name of the
machine on which AROS is hosted is "sebigbos.hepe.com". This
name should work when aros.org doesn't. So when CVS doesn't like
you anymore, check AROS/scripts/updatecvspath to fix the host name
until I have fixed the DNS server (usually takes only several
weeks...hrm :-). The mailing list runs on lists.hepe.com.
The only thing which will not be reachable for the time
being is the web and the ftp site.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: New Schlachtfeld survey
The previously announced Schlachtfeld survey is online.
This survey is about how to differ the units:
- Units in red/green/blue/yellow.
- Units with tactical field signs.
- Units with different textures.
- Units with different textures and tactical field signs.
- Different textures with certain primary colours (red/green/blue/yellow)
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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nrnf: Interview with Matay
There is an interview (English) with Filip Dab-Mirowski of Matay online
on 'no risc no fun'. Learn about the future of the Prometheus.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)
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Stardate-Mailbox back to the Internet
One week after a flashlight caused damage to the DSL connection the Stardate-Mailbox
is available via Internet (http/telnet), again: stardate.2y.net (title link). Also the
Dynamite server of same denominator is running, again.
Background:
While a thunderbolt in Muenster (Germany) and the surrounding area a flashlight hit
the telephone switch and put off my DSL connection. The (German) Telekom repaired
it, now.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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19.Jul.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)
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Upload function for the Aminet on www.aminet-gui.de
Soon there will be an upload function available on the AminetGUI. Thus
it will be possible to upload files of up to 5 MB of size to the Aminet,
without any FTP knowledge. The current script still is beta and is being
reworked.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel (E-Mail)
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RealAudio/Media-Support page updated (Update)
A few days ago Sigbjørn Skjæret
released version 2 of his RealAudio/Media player "RAPlay". New is among other things
the support of the RealMedia format, which could not be played up to now.
More information e.g. about installation as well as download possibilities
are to find under the title link. Of course there also is a PPC version.
Update 19. July 2001:
Thorsten Schoelzel wrote:
As I just was told by Sigbjørn Skjæret,
RealMedia is not supported, yet. But there is a better RealAudio 1 & 2 support.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Tom's Hardware Guide: Corel takes over Micrografx
The Canadian software manufacturer Corel according to Tom's Hardware Guide
is about to take over their American graphics software competitor
Micrografx. This fusion will be established by exchange of shares. Some
32 Millions USD were mentioned for the price.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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18.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware Update
On the 5th of July in 2001 Big Book of Amiga Hardware has been updated. From today the updates are also available at the German mirror.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Diverse
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Apple: Quarterly results Q3/2001
After Apple has published its quarterly profits- and loss results there are some articles in various media. At Macworld Expo which currently takes place in New York some new models are supposed to be showed.
Apple: Apple Reports Third Quarter Profit of $61 Million
Golem: Apple looks optimisticly in the future
Heise: Apple gains hope
Macnews.de: Detailed quarterly results q3/2001 of Apple
Spiegel: Apple: Anxious in the autumn
Stern: Apple finally is profitable again
ZDNet: Apple got profits
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Scalos
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Workbench replacement: New autodocs for Scalos
In the section 'Developers' of the website you can find new autodocs for Scalos. Autodocs are developer-documentations which were made in a standardized way.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Oliver Roberts
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Datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype version 44.21
With the help of so called datatypes various datatypes can be showed
with different programs. Oliver Roberts has published version 44.21 of
his 24-bit JPEG-datatype which is available for 68k, WarpOS and MorphOS.
Some bugs has been fixed and the support for some webcam-pictures has
been added. Besides this the memory management has been optimized and
the PowerPC-version was newly compiled with VBCC 0.8.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (134 KB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: StormC student version (Update)
Because of the immense request Haage&Partner offers a student version of the developer system 'StormC'. It is a cheap full version without any restrictions. It is available for schoolboys and schoolgirls as well as students who send H&P an officially recognized evidence of their school or their university with the order.
Postscript:
If you can prove a valid training contract trainee can order the student version, too. (ps) (Translation: dr)
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18.Jul.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe version 16.2
With the virus scanner 'Safe' you can detect virus but you can not eleminate them. It follows the details to version 16.2 which has been published today:
Name: Safe v16.2
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 37.500 bytes
Release date: 17. Juli 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Required: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER!
IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY
IF POSSIBLE!
New in v16.2
- Added XFD slave to detect and remove PENETRATOR
and two SMEG2 clones from files.
Please use xfdDecrunch to perform cleaning
or VirusZ to see the infected files.
- Added to Safe memory removal for SMEG2 viruses.
Added generic memory removal for PENETRATOR and
other SMEG1 kind infectors.
(ps) (Translation: dr)
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17.Jul.2001
Joerg Rebenstorf, CEO ALiENDESiGN (ANF)
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New web-design at ALiENDESIGN
The web-design of the ALiENDESiGN company was completely reworked.
We think that our web-designer FoX did a very good job, again, as he previously did
with the product pages, and so we would be happy, if you would drop by.
The Repulse sound card still is available from our online shop and the online shop
now is fully integrated to the web-offer. Suggestions are welcome, contact
sales@aliendesign-gbr.de.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 17.07.2001
IBrowseMI.lha comm/www 26K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse
IBrowseSP.lha comm/www 19K+IBrowse 2.x spanish catalogs v2.2.0
MD2MI.lha comm/www 25K+GlowIcons Toolbar for MicroDOT 2
simplehtml.lha comm/www 38K+V0.17 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
lns-hst.lha demo/aga 2.6M+Hotstyle Takeover by Loonies (MS2001 2nd
PhxAss.lha dev/asm 151K+PhxAss V4.40 68xxx Macro Assembler
uncat.lha dev/misc 8K+Create .cd file from running program
PFS3ud.lha disk/misc 124K+PFS3 undelete
qformat.lha disk/misc 6K+Quick format for FFS disks
SyQuest270-ML.lha disk/misc 17K+Mountlist for SyQuest 270MB Drives
f1me.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Formula 1 Manager enhanced
paranoia.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Paranoia Vol.1
psv.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: PSV Football manager
revolution.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Classic Revolution
scorpius.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Scorpius
toons.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: Amiga Toons Vol.1
vt2.lha docs/anno 1K+FreeCD: VideoTracker 2.0
PSX-BlackCheat.lha docs/mags 177K+PSX-CheatBook HTML-Only
CircusLinux.lha game/actio 744K+SDL game compiled for Amiga
Mattonite.lha game/demo 484K+Arkanoid demo game, working in progress
FoundationMan.lha game/misc 256K+Foundation Manual (PDF version)
IChing.lha game/misc 100K+V2.0 of a GUI I-Ching fortune telling pr
PicShow.lha gfx/show 9K+Datatype picture viewer for directory to
DickTracy.lha mods/misc 32K+Custom module from "Dick Tracy"
rno-r063.lha mods/misc 190K+Rno-records release no.63 by tang (triph
NeuralAss.lha mods/pro 100K+Two Protracker mod's from the demo 'Neur
ClassMI.lha pix/gicon 33K+A GlowIconsSet for ClassAction
eNoteMI.lha pix/gicon 9K+A GlowIconsSet for eNote
PlayMI.lha pix/gicon 38K+A GlowIconsSet for PlayGUI
FF9_icons.lha pix/nicon 29K+Great set of FF9 Newicons
HP_Deskjet400C.lha text/print 24K+Deskjet 400C/L Driver for WB 40.10
HP_Deskjet600C.lha text/print 26K+Deskjet 600C Driver for WB V40.12
CheckX.lha util/arc 28K+V1.85 Check for Archive/Packer/Virus
alba.lha util/boot 61K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
JPEG-DT.lha util/dtype 433K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (43.5)
JPEG-DT35.lha util/dtype 357K+New Datatype for JPEG Images (46.3a)
JoinReplace.lha util/sys 17K+V1.20 powerful Join replacement
Easyreset.lha util/wb 18K+EasyReset - system reset utility
Memicon.lha util/wb 17K+Memory/Screen/OS display for OS3.5/OS3.9 (as) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
Da SixK Port Page
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Tool: Webalizer 2.01-06 for MorphOS
With this tool HTML statistics can be created from Apache log-files. This
version is for MorphOS and is faster than the 68k version (1.8 seconds contrary to 11 seconds,
determined using the same Apache log-file).
Download: webalizer-2.01-06_mos.lzx
(ps) (Translation: mj)
[News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 17:48] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)
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Game: New Schlachtfeld pictures
In spite of the turbulences around the Amiga-Society of course development of
the Game Schlachtfeld is being continued.
Edgar Leiding rendered some units for the game's board, again. Thus now there are
nine unit previews available - there will be some changes, of course. There will
be a survey regarding the camouflage: the question is, if the enemies should use
different colours (red, blue, ...) or should differ by different textures and/or
tactical field signs. You can also post your opinion about that in the forum of
the Schlachtfeld website.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
I. Souvatzis (ANF)
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NetBSD-1.5.1 released
NetBSD-1.5.1 is a patch release for the Unix like open source operating
system from now available via FTP.
Since NetBSD-1.5 mainly some enhancements regarding system security were
added. VLAN's (viruel LAN's) support is one of the new features.
Closer information can be found under the title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
[News message: 17. Jul. 2001, 14:33] [Comments: 0]
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17.Jul.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)
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mSQL database administration program
Who ever dealt with SQL database systems soon realized that in fact
only mSQL comes into question for working offline.
mSQL is the most compact and resource sparing SQL-DBMS for the Amiga.
One example to point this up:
The mSQL daemon requires less than 10% of the resources the MySQL
daemon needs and even can react 4-times faster on client requests
via mUSD (unix socks daemon).
The biggest disadvantage of all SQL systems for the Amiga is the lack
of any GUI software for administration and database care.
That's why I wrote a program named mSQL-Administrator, which
contains the operation of the following executables of the "mSQL.bin"
directory:
msql, msql2d, msqladmin, msqldump, msqlexport, msqlimport,
relshow, and mUSD.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
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17.Jul.2001
Richard Körber (ANF)
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Palmiga is now called amiga-pda
The Palmiga Project is a project for all Amiga users that own a PalmOS-PDA
to use with their Amigas.
Palm Inc. wrote to me that the name is violating their trademark, combined with
the request to change it.
Due to this the mailinglist can from now on be reached via "amiga-pda": http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amiga-pda.
Assigned members should post to amiga-pda@yahoogroups.com.
The Pamiga website will be redesigned in the near future available at the URL
http://amigapda.shredzone.de.
I want to let you know they have send their request in a very polite way against
the trend without announcing any lawyers. :)
(ps) (Translation: gf)
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16.Jul.2001
WHDLoad
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Installer: WHDLoad - New packages
By using WHDLoad you can install floppy-based games on your harddisc. Available new packages:
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16.Jul.2001
Sebastian Bauer
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HTML-Offline Browser: SimpleHTML Version 0.17
SimpleHTML (version 0.17) is a HTML offline browser. It lets you quickly display small HTML-files (for example as a MIME-viewer of HTML-files with YAM). But only a small set of HTML-tags is supported. A html.datatype is available, too.
Only OS3.0 is recommended. For dislpaying embeded pictures you need the corresponding datatype.
Download:
simplehtml.lzx (36 KB)
html-dt.lzx (27 KB)
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[News message: 16. Jul. 2001, 21:25] [Comments: 0]
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16.Jul.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Edivision LLC working with Amiga Inc.
Edivision Teams Up With Amiga To Develop Exciting New Content
Snoqualmie, WA - July 12, 2001
Edivision LLC announced today that they would create game applications for the Amiga Digital Environment
(AmigaDE). The company plans to create 3 titles in the coming year for the AmigaDE environment. The games
will be distributed through the Sharp Space Town web site for release in Japan and through other Amiga
distribution channels worldwide. Amiga and Edivision also announced a joint relationship where Edivision
would provide key pieces of technology for the AmigaDE.
The principals at Edivision have more than 30 years of
experience in the computer graphics field. Patrick Roberts
created 2D and 3D effects for Walt Disney's feature animation
classic "Dinosaur". He has also created software and animation
for Dreamworks Animation, Disney Classics and the Disney
channel. Jeremy Engelman is one of the finest 3D artists in the
world. His best-known work is the artwork for Cyan's Riven, the
sequel to Myst. Steven Haun is an award-winning computer
graphics producer with more than 10 years of experience in the
computer graphics and entertainment industry. His credits
include effects production for Warner Brothers, Universal
Pictures, ABC, CBS, and Fox Television.
"This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some
exciting content and an enjoyable experience that they will want
to share with others," said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of
Amiga, Inc. "Patrick, Jeremy and Steven are longtime supporters
of Amiga and we appreciate their contributions to driving
adoption of our software. With their expertise in gaming and the
entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary
games for the PDA market."
"We are very excited to be working with Amiga to generate
compelling content for the AmigaDE," said Patrick Roberts, one
of the founders at Edivision. "When Amiga announced their
relation with Sharp, we saw this as an opportunity to get in
early on a new, exciting gaming platform. Devices like the Sharp
Zaurus and other PDA's offer the ability to reach a new and
different generation of gamers."
Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set of
releases. The company is also negotiating with other content
providers to bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform.
The market for video games in the United States, which includes
arcade, PC, console, and online gaming, is currently estimated
to be worth $11 billion. The AmigaDE platform allows developers
to create game applications that target this market. The binary
portable nature of AmigaDE content allows applications to
migrate seamlessly from cell phones and handheld devices to
set-top boxes and up to desktop machines and servers.
Edivision Press Release
Los Angeles, CA - July ##, 2001
Edivision LLC announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement
with Amiga, Inc. Amiga, Inc. will have world-wide distribution rights on
software titles Edivision will produce using the
AmigaDE operating environment. Also under the agreement Edivision will make
technology it develops for its AmigaDE titles available to Amiga, Inc.
Edivision LLC will create 3 development labels over the next year that run on the AmigaDE platform.
Two labels will be exclusively devoted to entertainment
titles, while the third will provide utilities, drivers, and extended
functionality. Edivision will focus on original titles for its first set
of releases, but the company is also negotiating with other developers to
bring their titles to the AmigaDE platform.
"This relationship with Edivision will offer consumers some exciting content
and an enjoyable experience that they will want to share with others," said
Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc. "With their expertise in
gaming and the entertainment industry, we look forward to some revolutionary
games for the PDA market."
"Titles created for the AmigaDE are capable of running unmodified on a
number of platforms including PocketPC, Zaurus, Windows, and Linux. This
gives us a tremendous advantage in bringing a title to market." remarked
Steven Haun, CFO of Edivision. "It allows us to focus development on the
title itself and not the limitations of cross-platform least common
denominator intrinsics."
About Amiga Inc.
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. The 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 http://www.amiga.com.
About Edivision
Edivision LLC was formed in May 2001 in Los Angeles, CA. Its
founders, Patrick Roberts, Jeremy Engelman, and Steven Haun are
veterans of the computer gaming industry. They have received
numerous awards and accolades for their cutting-edge work in
computer graphics and animation. For more details about
Edivision, visit http://www.e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or contact
Steven Haun at Steven.Haun@e-d-i-v-i-s-i-o-n.com or via phone at
(323) 578-1998.
All Trademarks are the Property of their Respective Owners. All Rights Reserved. ##
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16.Jul.2001
Ben Yoris/Hyperion (ANF)
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Hyperion publishes Voodoo3 vs. Permedia 2 benchmarks
Hyperion Entertainment recently conducted some tests benchmarking the
Permedia 2 based Cybervision PPC against a Voodoo 3 / Prometheus combo.
The test is a timedemo in Heretic II.
Cybervision PPC
640x480: 14.9 FPS
800x600: 9.9 FPS
Configuration:
Cyberstorm PPC 604e/233-060/50, 128 MB of RAM
Voodoo 3 (Prometheus)
640x480: 18.6 FPS
800x600: 18.6 FPS
Configuration: Cyberstorm PPC 604e/200-060/50, 96 MB of RAM
For more detailed informations you may check the Amiga Extreme Web
site.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
Milan Pollé (ANF)
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Genetic Species for Gameboy Advance petition
Milan Pollé (author of the site, but not the petition pages) write:
Seeing the FPS games announced for the Gameboy Advance started me thinking
about the awesome Amiga game Genetic Species, by
Marble Eyes.
This game is an FPS with really great atmosphere and elements borrowed
from the classic 'Paradroid', like being able to take over the bodies
and skills of your enemies.
As this game worked well on low-end Amigas, about three years ago, I
thought it might be possible to port it to the Gameboy Advance. The
developers of this game worked for three years on it and only sold
hundreds or at the most a couple of thousands of copies, as the Amiga
market had shrunk when the game was completed, but also because of
piracy. Needless to say the developers were really disappointed.
I coined this idea in the Gameboy Advance forum on www.ign.com
and people were really interested in this game, so they started
contacting the developers, who were suprised by the sudden attention
this game got. At the moment the developers are looking into the
possibilities of doing a port.
We ask anyone interested in a Gameboy Advance version to sign our
petition. Even if in the end a port won't or can't be done, it will
show the developers that their work is appreciated by a lot of
people. (ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
Webmaster SAUGe.V. (ANF)
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Attention: virus after EBay-auction?
Attention: virus after EBay-auction?
Attention: sellers and byers:
It seems that shortly after the end of an auction some sellers and byers got an e-mail with the sender of the seller or byer that contains a ".exe"-file.
Do not open this file! If you do your Windows-system will be infected with the "W95/Hybris.worm.B"-virus. Maybe this virus makes it possible to attack your system with a subseven program. EBay is allready informed.
(ps) (Translation: sk)
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16.Jul.2001
No Risc No Fun (ANF)
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nrnf: Voodoo3 Speedtest
Fabio Trotta wrote:
The day before yesterday when I wanted to post the Voodoo3-speedtest
I recognized that there was a new version of the display driver.
This was why I trashed all the findings and retested everything with
this new versions of the P96 and W3D drivers.
Now my findings are available at the title link. I compared the speed of
the Voodoo3, the CVPPC, PicassoIV and the AGA-chip. There are some
3D-game-tests and also 2D-graphicfunctions-tests available now. Find
out what a Voodoo3 is able to offer you in your Amiga.
(ps)
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16.Jul.2001
ANN
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Event: Saku 2001 - Website online
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.
Finnish Amiga Users Group is pleased to announce that the Web site for its
fourth Amiga event, Saku 2001, is now open. The Web site features
highlights, directions and other vital information for interested visitors and
exhibitors from Finland and abroad.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Finnish Amiga Users Group Announces Saku 2001 Web Site
VANTAA, FINLAND - July 15, 2001 - Finnish Amiga Users Group is
pleased to announce that the Web site for its fourth Amiga event, Saku 2001,
is now open. The 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.
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. 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.
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.
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit
organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in
Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the group is trying to
accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine.
Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its predecessors have
released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public
gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a
national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.
(sd) (Translation: sk)
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