This years show is shaping up to be one of the most exciting Amiga events the community has seen in years! Amiga Expo will host everything from battling Robots to new systems for running the Amiga operating system. And YOU will be able to see and hear it all from your home through the UGN's webcasting technologies.

The xvs.library contains all the virus recognition and removal code that was formerly included in VirusZ. This step has been taken for one major reason: VirusZ, Virus_Checker, Virus_Executor and all the other antivirus software can be updated quickly without releasing the whole packages every time a new virus appears.

So simply install the xvs.library from this archive to your LIBS: drawer to get 100% protection against the latest viruses.

To be able to check if the library in this archive really came straight from one of the authors, you can use the public key with the .sig files in the archive. If you are not sure or do not trust the included key, then you can always request the original straight from one of us (by email) or get it from the VHT-Denmark homepage.

Here is some info about the update:

Name: Xvs.library v33.38
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 81.516 bytes
Date: 19 March 2002
Programmer: Georg Hoermann & Jan Erik Olausen

News in xvs.library v33.38 (size: 59.040 bytes):
Just had to fix two problems with the security code:

• a. Timing has been improved to avoid interference with some music software. Thanks to Paracels/PCB for the report and testing.
• b. Expunge of library caused access to deallocated memory in some rare cases. Thanks to Mikolaj Calusinski for the report and the excessive beta-testing ;)
• Fixed (hopefully all) MuGuardianAngel hits in the SurveyMemory() routine. If anyone detects some more, please send me the logs. Thanks to Thomas Richter for his suggestions about mmu.library, but I finally found an other solution. And thanks to Sensei for reporting all his hits.
• Improved speed of SurveyMemory() drastically by skipping similar recognition routines in just one step if their common requirements are not available.

With version v0.42 the remaining city levels have been added. A city can now consist of up to 240 different buildings within four several levels: Village, town, city and metropolis.

At the same time Eternity dares to give a statement: "Now some things like settlers, cavalry, artillery and the statistics screen are missing and then the basis set for ToT has finally finished! But not to raise false hopes: Nevertheless ToT is tested for two years then we will add another two months of intensive tests in order to fix also the last bugs. Massive multiplayer games like ToT are very complexe programs and therefore have to be tested in this way.

What will happen afterwards? Already now we have carefully planned the future. ToT will be continued developing after the basis set, permanently improved and extended. ToT players can integrate with corresponding wishes in the project. All that which is meaningful and feasible we will add. Already now there are plans:

• Building castles
• Online-knights competition like archery, lances pang a.s.o.
• Pedigree-management for the players
• Specialists (clerics, wizards)
• Royal secret service
• Spying, saboteurs
• Library with extensive documentations of ToT
• 3D-card in ToT-fashion
• Battlescreens

As always the software is in an early beta phase and the GUI is still provisional. At the moment it is interesting if the tv-card is recognized. Definitively the following ones should work:

• WinTV PCI/FM - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, radio, ext. Video/S-Video-In with sound.
• WinTV Go - picture, tuning, tv-sound.
• Medion (ALDI) last version - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, Radio, ext. Video/S-Video with sound.
• miro PCITV picture, tuning, ext. Video, sound.

• Fixed avi palette handling. (bug introduced in 0.17)
• Optimizations in OpenDivx decoder.
• DivX 5.0 codec supported.
• Angel Potion codec supported.
• Added support for several different motion jpegs codecs.
• Few bugfixes in AVI parser.
• Introduced external plugins, only few converted to new API so far.
• Crash when NOVIDEO option was used. Fixed.

Download:
http://amiga.pl/softcinema/

At the weekend I have checked the upper half of the Europe map and removed 48 invalid links. Als some URLs are updated.

BlitzKick Version 1.24rc1
The homepage of Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen is now back online. Beside of Blitzkick there are some other updated programs (for example cnet.device) available.

New card sets for Klondike
Dirk Stöcker made some new card sets for the Klondike card game RekoNet available at his homepage. Further details can be found here.

AmiBlitz2 is the name for the free version of Blitz Basic 2.

A full list of updates to the Blitz2000 site can be found at http://news.blitz-2000.co.uk.

• wordperfect2text.plugin
• rtf2text.plugin

• Do you have thoughts on quantum computing?
• What importance do you give to the design of efficient algorithms, and what emphasis do you suggest giving this area in the future?
• Can you give us an outline for computer science, some milestones for the next ten or twenty years?
• What is the relationship between God and computers?
• What is your thinking about software patents?

• Bugfix: The processing of HAM pictures didn't work.

• New: Can now add numeric (only) UINs to the contact list.
• Modification: Online/offline status changes are now updated for those contacts that are permanently in the 'Not in List' group. To be permanent, a message must have been sent/received or the contact was added manually.
• Modification: Some may have noticed that in the previous version the system beep came up on incoming messages.
• Modification: The versioning system now works according to the normal Amiga scheme: version.revision.

• It's now possible to add UINs manually. Searching for Name/Nick/E-Mail is not yet supported.
• If you have used ICQ2001b before, STRICQ V2 will import your contact list from the server.
• If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it/them to Douglas F. McLaughlin. Make sure you use <pre></pre> tags.
• You'll need the latest versions of NList, NListtree, and TextInput. Links for download are available on the STRICQ homepage.

The distribution of Amiforce will follow as soon as the last remaining problems have been fixed.

A German mailing list is planned as well. As addition there's already the forum available.

All interested people are kindly invited.

The HTML format can be viewed on all computer systems provided an Internet browser is installed.

• 4 x PCI slots + 1 x AGP slot on 2 buses
• 10/100Mbps ethernet
• 2 x USB connectors + 2 more on headers
• 2 x UDMA 100 channels (4 devices)
• Open firmware-compatible BIOS with OS4.0 extensions & NV memory
• PS2 mouse & keyboard connectors
• Sound, modem & gameport I/O via the AMR header
• Parallel, serial & floppy (PC FDD controller) connectors
• Real time clock
• 2 x SDRAM sockets for up to 2 GB of main memory

The DigiboosterPro-Community seeks to find your Web address to your homepage where you can find music in the DBM or other formats.

For More Information, Contact: Bill McEwen, Amiga Inc.
425-396-5660 (x226 ) (voice) - 425-396-5671 (fax)

Amiga® To Provide Content For Next Generation Windows CE .NET-Based Devices

Amiga Games and Productivity Applications Will Target Windows CE .NET

San Francisco, CA - March 12, 2002 - Amiga, Inc. announced the release and distribution of Amiga applications targeted at the Microsoft Windows CE .NET operating system. The applications will run on any of the range of Windows CE .NET-based devices including handhelds, smart phones, web pads, and set-top boxes.

Amiga has a rich history of gaming and multimedia and has been delivering rich, compelling applications since 1985. The new breed of Amiga applications have been written to run on the entire range of Windows Powered products including PDA's, Cell Phones, and Set Top Boxes. Amiga provides a middleware portability layer, which allows Amiga applications to be written once and run across a range of Windows Powered devices without change. More than 100 applications will be made available initially and many more are being created by Amiga developers worldwide.

"We are pleased to be able to deliver content that is optimized to run on the Windows CE .NET Platform", said Bill McEwen President/CEO of Amiga Inc. "Amiga developers are world renowned for their abilities to create amazing multimedia content with a small footprint. This gives us the ability to deliver a robust and exciting experience for even the smallest devices."

"As the number and variety of small- footprint and mobile Windows Powered devices continues to grow, ISVs want to ensure that their applications are able to run on as many of these different devices as possible," said Keith White, senior director of marketing for the Embedded and Appliance Platforms Group at Microsoft Corp.  "Amiga Anywhere enables application developers to easily take advantage of the rich application and multimedia support in Windows CE .NET to write gaming applications that will run on a broad range of smart Windows Powered devices."

Amiga for Windows Powered Products is expected to ship in April this year. More information can be found on the Amiga Anywhere web site at http://www.amiga-anywhere.com/.

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. Amiga Anywhere, powered with intent(TM) from the Tao Group, enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM, StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, OMAP, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Windows CE .NET, Windows 9x, 2000, Windows XP, Linux, and Embedded Linux. AmigaDE Player and applications can be purchased at www.amiga-anywhere.com. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.«