I've finally got around to finishing off all of my Amiga compiles, and they've all been uploaded. Details below.

News first!

68000 Support
I've decided to drop 68000 support - I'm going by the assumption that if a user has enough memory to play some of these variants, then they will have a better processor than the bog standard one. All variants will now be targetted for the 68020. Demands from some of the Zangband-based variants are increasing, and with the addition of Lua into Angband and Zangband, and inveitably into their offspring, then a basic unexpanded 68000 system just wouldn't be able to cope.

It's been a while since I've had any feedback from a 68000 user - if what I'm doing is such a bad move, please do not hesitate to contact me, and I can put together 68000-targetted executables.

New code
Well, not exactly new code, but all of the variants now use the same Amiga-specific code. Previously, Zangband and it's variants used the most up-to-date code, and Angband was still stuck with some old code that was several years old. Not any more - Angband now benefits from the new code too. I've altered some bits and pieces, but you probably won't notice much of a difference. The main difference is that Angband graphics now work the way they should do, along with masking. Also, if you use the Adam Bolt tiles, these will now work with all versions, not just the Zangband-based ones.

Lua
The Lua-based variants all compile and run successfully for the Amiga. I have compiled all of the Angband alpha releases (2.9.4, 2.9.5, 2.9.6, 2.9.6.alpha2 and 2.9.6alpha3) and all of the Zangband dev releases (2.7.0 Pre-release 1, 2.7.0 Pre-release 2, 2.7.0 Pre-release 3 and 2.7.0 final). If you're eager to take a look, the Zangband dev releases are available below, along with the versions with Shayne Steele's option and branding patches. Angband alphas remain unreleased.

Uploads
These have no long been done, so you'll have to wait for Robert to move them all to their respective locations.

Conglomoband 0.0.1 - conglomoband-001-ami.lha (1437K)

CyAngband 0.3.2 - cyangband-032-ami.lha (506K)

D11-Angband 1.1.0 - d11angband-110-ami.lha (580K)

EyAngband 0.4.0d - eyangband-040d-ami.lha (658K)

Gumband 2.2.0a - gumband-220a-ami.lha (784K)

Hengband 1.0.9r1
There's a little bit of a problem on the graphics for this variant - light doesn't seem to bahave the way you'd expect it to. You won't see the yellow glow around the player, and floors won't light up as you'd expect. Apart from this, it's OK. All lighting behaves properly in ASCII mode.

hengband-109r1-ami.lha (1414K)

NTAngband 0.2 - ntangband-02-ami.lha (1286K)

PernAngband 5.1.1 - pernangband-511-ami.lha (1612K)

UnAngband 0.4.8g - unangband-048g-ami.lha (830K)

Zangband 2.6.2 & Option Patch 1.6 & Branding Patch 1.3
Shayne Steele's patches have been included here - for further details of the patches, check out his site.

zangband-262o16b13-ami.lha (961K)

Zangband 2.7.0 Dev Release
Chance to check out the current stable dev release with Lua scripting.

zangband-270-ami.lha (1184K)

Zangband 2.7.0 Dev Release & Option Patch 1.7 & Branding Patch 1.4
Zangband with the latest versions of Shayne Steele's patches - again, check out the details of the patches at his site.

zangband-270o17b14-ami.lha (1189K)

CD32 (other than English)
Disk version (other than German)

The Amiga Arena talked to Stefan Blixth about his new programs and a very comprehensive comment by Stefan completes the interview. The interview is available in German and English.

PuzzelBOBS news
On the PuzzelBobs support site of the Amiga Arena is the module "Rockers Galore" by "Up Rough System" available for download! Matching the puzzle game this module offers a relaxed dub sound! Just copy it into the directory "Module" of PuzzelBOBS!

Aural illusion V. 3.0 source released
The until now unreleased source code of the unfortunately never published sound sampler Aural illusion V 3.0 by "Blachford Technology" is now available for download and for free continuation of development. According to Nicolas Blachford can this code used without restrictions.

• Improve text Requester:
  More easy to select vectorial font
  Font Path can be changed.
• Bug Fix:
  Control anim requester
  Movie Factory
  pp_CheckBox
  Processing tool: Linked Freehand
• Increase to 50 the number of gadgets usable in arexx dialog
• New Arexx Command:
  pp_ScreenToFront
  pp_PlaceGui
  pp_Convert2RGB
  pp_ScalePicture
  pp_GetLocale.
• AdjustLevels and AutoLevels work well now with Stencil
• Improve AppIcon (add the possibilities to load Icon)
• Jpeg size detection is much faster.
• Add a menu to the undo/redo button:
  Free Current Undo/Redo
  Free All Undo/Redo
• Improve RAW saving, with a requester.
• When PfPaint can't load a picture, it tries to load it as a RAW picture.

This is a 'last resort' plugin, there will be files it will not work on due to formatting differences, but it can be used for files for some files which no plugins exist yet (I tested it on an Outlook 2000 email, worked with no glitches, works with a few glitches on some Mac text files).

Here you will find News, Forums, Downloads, a Web Directory and more.

This site is dependent on you contributing with Amiga News, Downloads, Web Links and your wisdom(!) in the Forums.

This month we take a look at the graphically stunning Descent game Freespace: The Great War and an interactive guide to the upcoming ALT-WOA Amiga show on the 23rd February.

• 08.02.02 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) supports German version too, misc other changes
• 08.02.02 new: Carcharodon - White Sharks (Demonware) done by Galahad
• 06.02.02 improved: Rotor (Arcane) blitter waits added, snoop mode fix
• 06.02.02 new: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) done by Bored Seal
• 06.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) music/sound fixed, blitter waits added and more
• 06.02.02 improved: Cliffhanger (Psygnosis/Spidersoft) Fast-Mem support
• 06.02.02 improved: Alien Breed Story (Team 17) Fast-Mem support, delay added

The latest version finally enables players to annex enemy towns, thus exterminating enemy players. It also allows them to maintain several towns in a country.

You are Feeble or rather you're a down trodden Grenelon who just happens to be called Feeble... Rendered animation, stereo sound and a plot of epic proportions take this adventure into a different galaxy. Witty and humerous but with dark undertones. THE FEEBLE FILES contains acts of betrayal, intrigue, revolution and even a bit of cross dressing. Add to that around 80 locations to visit, six thousand voice lines to interact with, there should be plenty to keep everyone happy without the aid of chemical supplements.

THE FEEBLE FILES for the Amiga comes on 2 CDs and contains both full english and german speech versions. The Amiga version requires either an Amiga with 68060, 4 MByte Gfxboard and 32 MByte RAM or an Amiga with PPC, 4 MByte Gfxboard and 32 MByte RAM.

H&P first will distribute the English version and offer German speaking support via email and phone. The translation of the program is to follow, soon, and will be available for free download to H&P's customers. Translation of the detailed manual is being worked on, too.

Example of patching a save game is included in the documentation. Additionally Akiko has now a real Joypad emulation which means that the user can map every key / joystick button to the CD32's joypad buttons. Akiko also supports the emulation of the language identifier of the CD32 and CDTV now so some games appear now automatically in the language you configured in the Akiko settings. Finally there were some bug fixes and improvements in the single patches as well as an extended documentation.

Channel name: #digiboosterpro
Server: ie.altnet.org
Port: 6667

We'd be very pleased about numerous appearance of active DBPro users and interested people.

Including:

• Very detailed report of last months WIP
• Lots more games dumped, with hundreds still waiting
• Portugese translation (French, Spanish and German on the way)
• New credits section

The license will not include the keyfile-code (removal) and it won't include the right to sell a product under the same name. So the licensee will be able to work out new products based on the sources, without any further relations or obligations. Basic help for getting started with the sources and concepts will be provided.

We're awaiting your offers.

OpenSource projects may obtain FREE licences under certain circumstances. Please contact us.

This offer is limited until 31.03.2001.

• 04.02.02 improved: Pirates! (Gold) CD³² (Microprose) various changes, supports german version too
• 04.02.02 fixed: Magic Boy (Blue Turtle) protection correctly removed, minor other changes
• 04.02.02 improved: Adventures of Robin Hood (Millennium) sound replay fixed, faster
• 04.02.02 improved: No Excuses (Arcana) various changes
• 04.02.02 improved: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin) supports another version
• 04.02.02 improved: Rampage (Activision) keyboard fixed
• 04.02.02 improved: Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (Lucasfilms Games) ingame bug fixed
• 04.02.02 improved: B.A.T. (UBI-Soft) supports french version too
• 31.01.02 Searching the website works again
• 31.01.02 new: Teenage Queen (Ere) done by Psygore
• 31.01.02 new: PGA European Tour (The Dome/Ocean) done by Codetapper

In issue 1 vol. 1 of the Free Software Magazine there's an article that covers among other things the history of VIM.

How to access the IRC channel #AmigaFun:

IRC server (enter WITHOUT "irc."): rollingrock.altnet.org
IRC port: 6667
IRC channel: #amigafun

Should the server fail you can access the channel via this server:

amigafun.ma.cx (please enter again without "irc.").

Further information especially for IRC beginners can be found on the #AmigaFun homepage.

HINT:
The chat can be accessed via HTML chat from the #AmigaFun homepage, Amiga Future homepage and from the amiga-news.de forum. As we can't guarantee an error free functioning of the HTML chat and programs like AMIRC or BlackIRC are anyway nicer to use we recommend to use an IRC client in any way.

Latest changes:

• SimpleMail is converted internal to Unicode
• New localisations added
• Two new columns added in mail list: "POP3 Server" and "Received"
• Little layout changes in mail writing window
• "Content-Description:" field is supported
• Some bugfixes

In order to subscribe the mailinglist please send a mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. For unsubscribing please send a mail to blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie.

Download:
amiblitz2_distro.lha

Original message:
The Blitz2000 site is dedicated to bringing you the best information and resources about the programming language AmiBlitz2 (formerly Blitz Basic 2). It has been updated and a new version of AmiBlitz2 has been released (v2.24 - both an update and a full user-distribution). Loads of other smaller updates have been made (mainly more documentation and source examples).

This concerns all P2P clients using the Morpheus protocoll. See also description of Morpheus on the ASP.

This often enables me to deactivate the respective keys, which respond to a certain pattern. So there are faithful users too - who nevertheless stumble upon such things from time to time - and help program authors to embank pirate copying.

I would like to offer the following to those users:

Who will send me keyfiles for my programs (or the respective generators), up to now not recognized as "pirate keys" by those, will receive an original keyfile at a time. In especially fiddly cases I will charge even more. For multi-transmittal applies: "The first to send in, will win".

Naturally data will be kept in confidence and anonymous if desired (the real name is only required for the keyfile).

Older hardware is, of course, still compatible,

Download: MMKeyboard.lha

• AmiMCDMI - Reworked toolbar for AmiMDC
• AminetIdxMI - New toolbar set for AminetIdx
• AudioMI - Extended toolbar for AudioMaster
• AWebMI - Reworked navigation board for Aweb
• CharonMI - Redesigned toolbar for Charon
• GiambyMI - New toolbar for GiambyNetGrabber
• IBrowseMI - A navigation board for IBrowse with additional images by Kristóph Gruber
• MiamiPhoneMI - Glow icons toolbar set for MiamiPhone
• SimplePostMI - Reworked toolbar for SimplePost
• VideoMI - New toolbar for MUI Video
• VoyagerMI - Extended navigation board set for Voyager

• some at least imaginary MGA hits removed, report if this new Safe causes any MF/MGA hits

• mus/misc/AD516-AHI.lha (12K), Readme
• dev/misc/AD516-Dev.lha (27K), Readme