The good news is that I have uploaded an updated kernel image (based on linux 2.4.19pre4) and a bunch of patches; You can grab that stuff from http://www.amithlon.net/en/amithlon_updates.shtml.

I hope it comes in useful for someone.

I know this is going to cause a great deal of discussion and speculation. I would like to ask everyone to please be reasonable, and stick to the known facts, as well as to polite forms of discourse. The situation is bad enough as it is, nothing at all can be gained from aggravating anyone involved.

It's TEMPORARY home is at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~yttrium/amiga/ Please note that the current layout is very much not going to be the final look of the page. I've got it how it is so that I can easily and quickly add pages and information without the need to work on the nitty-gritty of looks - I'm no website designer but please don't send ideas for how you think I can make it look better, I'll come to that when I've got enough information to warrant having a page in the first place. What I'd like to request is that anyone who feels they can contribute, please do so by emailling me information and pages to include. This is not intended as a news site so I don't want information about upcoming events and that sort of thing, just straight info. I'd appreciate it if you send me whole pages to just slot in where appropriate that you design them with no javascript, frames, or scripting of any kind - just straight and plain HTML with links - also if you could keep images to an absolute minimum as I only have 10MB webspace with my ISP and don't intend on moving it to a real server until it's complete enough to be the kind of place I'd be happy to point people for more information. My 10MB should be plenty if we can keep it to being pure text and key images only. If you take a look at what I've got there at the moment, you'll see the general kind of things I want. My AmigaOne page is probably about the most complete at the moment, but I could very much do with more technical information linked off the AmigaOne specs (most of those links I've written about one or two lines only at present).

The general idea is that anyone of any level can look at the site. People click on the AmigaOne link and see basic information. Techie types say, I want to know more about xxx, and click on that link for more tech info. Any information that is implied or suggested but not directly stated anywhere by someone "official" should be marked as such. I know you might mean well, but unsubstantiated rumors are NOT the intended goal of the site. I'm going to be putting a lot of my personal time and effort into maintaining the information and keeping it all as up to date as possible and I'd appreciate not having to wade through mountains of rumor and misinformation. Information regarding anything to do with Amiga is welcomed, but no "this is better than that" without hard fact to back it up. Presently I'm mostly interested in information on AmigaOne, AmigaOS4, Classic Amiga (history), Amithlon and AmigaDE (Anywhere), however if someone wants to write something about MorphOS, UAE, Pegasos, Merlancia, pOS, Classic Amiga expansions, software issues or anything else relevant, I won't reject it (if it's factual, unbiased and contains useful information of course).

Also, obviously, if anyone sees anything on the page that they think is incorrect, let me know and I'll investigate it further.

• Lit-Word!
• Discovering The forgotten DRAW dialect (PART #1)
• More than one way to... (Skinning, Effects)
• Bigger than a pixel - working with sections of an image!
• Bits & Pieces
  • How can I change the title text of a window?
  • Did you know?
• Pick of the List - Everything is a Value
• Get-Word! (Send in the contributions)

You can download it from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html. Maybe some1 on this list can try to port the server program to the AmigaDE??

About 80% of all participants have shown their interests in the AmigaOne and Pegasos board. But most of them want to wait how the market will develop before they decide to buy one of the boards.

AmiDynDNS is now a CLI/Commodity hybrid program. So you can use it as before from the CLI and from the workbench with a little GUI.

The Commodity mode is interesting for server users who must know the latest host. AmiDynDNS is running in the background after startup and checks in free chooseable intervall the stated host and updates if necessary.

Also two options are added, you can choose paths for log- and configfile.

Name: VirusZ III v0.99
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 57.211
Date : 1 April 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires: AmigaOS 2.04 or better
util/libs/ReqToolsUsr.lha
util/virus/xvslibrary.lha
util/pack/xfdmaster.lha
util/arc/xadmaster.lha (recommended)
util/libs/DisLib.lha (optional)

News in VirusZ III v0.99:

• Improved window calculation code to avoid rendering bugs when you have installed sysihack-like programs. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the bug report and screenshot.
• Splitted the single 'About' request in a 'Technical Info' request and a new 'About' request and added some more information to them.
• Fixed bug: 72 bytes of memory disappeared during every program startup, this seems to be a problem with special CreateNewProc() tags. After two nights of debugging I still couldn't locate the bug exactly, so I did some workaround instead, now there are at least no more memory losses.
• Added the first vector snapshots sent by David Oakes, Ian Chapman, Fulvio Peruggi and Harry Sintonen. Thanks guys!
• Fixed minor rendering problem with VirusZ's main window. This one only appeared if you have modified the top_border size with tools like MCP. Thanks to Luca Longone for the report/screenshot and sorry for my angry email :-)
• Added full support for NSD-64-bit devices. Now the bootblocks of partitions located higher than the old 4GB-border will finally be accessed correctly.
• Improved disassembler output in the bootblock lab. The first three longwords now always get displayed as 'dc.l' lines and disassembly starts at offset $000c, the real entry point of a bootblock. This avoids strange interpretations of the bootblock's checksum and the two other fields.
• Added some more vector snapshots sent by Dariusz Krzempek. Thanks!

The most important new features in this release are:
The argument NOQUIT has been added to tell YGM not to quit an already running instance of YGM if it is started again. Modified the places where YGM looks for different files to better support running YGM from the WBStartup drawer. Mailbox login now supports APOP for transmitting username and password more safely. REPEAT values may now be specified in seconds too.

• DBase (db.lha) (251K)
• AmigaArenaDBaseSource.lzx (211K)

Some interesting snippets of information, posted by SlimJim:

• Screenshots of Amiga OS 4.0 will be published in the first part of April.

• Magic Menu and Birdie (among others) will be seamlessly integrated into the OS 4.0 interface.

• The new OS 4.0 GUI will look quite different (i.e it will not just look like a fast OS 3.9).

• Opus Magellan 2 has been licensed for OS 4.0 (details unknown).

• For the moment, the new printer system is not due to arrive until Boingbag/OS 4.1.

• The _latest_ MUI source code will be used (there was a question about this)

• IBrowse2.3 will be quite some beast. It will be enhanced for OS4.0. Not just some Aminet update. It will still miss some features of Netscape/IE though. There is not time to fix all to OS4.0. Flash is planned to be implemented. IB will be _much_ more stable than it is now.

• The guy that did the Warp-datatypes seems to be doing the new PPC-datatypes.

• The datatype system as a whole is to get a complete overhaul later. There is not enough time to do that to initial release.

• An office suit (Open office if I remember correctly) is being worked on. This is a 'high priority' for inclusion. (although it was not clear to me if it would be shipped initially)

• The development of software -independent of company size- is difficult to predict. But Mr. Hermans seems quite confident of an end-user release in May.

Next, I will re-write the chapter about "Patches for Amithlon".

Olivier Fabre
Olivier Fabre has released Matrix version 1.9 for 68k/MOS. Matrix is s screenblanker.
Download: Matrix_1.9.lzx - Readme

Tales of Tamar - Amiga version 0.42 R4
With Version V0.42 R4 the artillerie is introduced. there are light, middel and heavy artillerie made of 4 different siege engines: small and big ballista, catapult and warcatapult. The siege engines are thebest weapons to conquer cities and castles.

EvenMore Version 0.60
The textviewer EvenMore was released in version 0.60. With this new version the preferences were changed this means that new settings are required.
Download: EvenMore.lha

Different to former "successors", which were in truth only common 486 pcs with an C64 emulation, this one will be a completley new design, as most as possible compatible to the C64. Interesting is that, different than the Aone, this will use custonchips again.

I have converted these images to 800x600 JPEG and made them available for download as LhA and zip archives.

At Emaculation it says, conversely, that Microcode Solutions has taken legal steps against Emaculation. However it does not explain why.

"We get Lawsuits!
In case you are wondering, Microcode Solutions and the makers of their hardware card have threatened legal action against the operators of this website.

I will not be reporting on or promoting Microcode products in the future.

Any questions?"

On top of that, the Altnet admins were not going to let more than 5 users on the HTML chat, utilized by amiga-news.de and amigafuture.de. At Phat-Net 15 users are allowed, and on request this number may be raised, for example for special events. So there will be fewer problems with the use of the HTML chat. Not to mention that PhatNet has services. Unfortunately I can't control the fact that everyone who has registered a nickname must register it again. This should present only a minor problem though, ask us and we'll be happy to help you with it.

Advantageous to everyone: Phat-Net is a German server, located right in the middle of Germany.

Current entry data for your IRC client:
IRC Server: irc.phat-net.de
Port: 6667
Channel: #amigafun

Windows chatters who don't want to install an IRC client will find on this homepage, since a while ago, a functional IRC Java client. You just have to enter your nickname and you can participate in the chat.

The source code of BarsnPipes has been released on 25th of May 2001 by Todor Fay. Since Alfred Faust has continued developing this program it became freeware.

These are the improvements:

• Screenmode requester
• GadTools-gui
• You can use most of the requester with the help of the keyboard.
• CAMD-library
• New 32-colour-design
• Localisation (German catalog included)
• and much more

Now this program is also useable for users of Amithlon (until now this did not work because of the "old" screen pop-up.

• 26.03.02 new: Formula 1 Grand Prix (Cirrus Software/Tynesoft) done by Codetapper
• 25.03.02 improved: Wanted (Infogrames) filesystem compatibilty
• 25.03.02 improved: Rugby the World Cup (Domark) misc changes
• 25.03.02 new: Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) done by JOTD
• 25.03.02 new: International Ice Hockey (Impulze/Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
• 21.03.02 new: Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers (Activision) done by Codetapper
• 21.03.02 improved: Flashback (Delphine Software) misc changes
• 21.03.02 fixed: Joyride (Phenomena) color signal
• 20.03.02 new: Nippon Safes Inc (Dynabyte) done by CFOU!
• 20.03.02 updated: Mad TV (Rainbow Arts) minor changes
• 20.03.02 new: 1000 Miglia (Simulmondo) done by CFOU!
• 20.03.02 new: Mental Images Game Disk 2 (Mental Images) done by Abaddon
• 18.03.02 new: Campaign 2 (Empire) done by Bored Seal
• 18.03.02 new: Archon (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
• 18.03.02 new: Air Support (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
• 18.03.02 new: The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) done by Psygore