23.Jun.2001
Carl Sassenrath (REBOL-ML)
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REBOL: REBOL/View V1.2.1
REBOL/View 1.2.1 has been released on June 22, 2001. It is recommended that you
upgrade your copy of REBOL/View and View/Pro to this new version.
Among other things has a security bug been fixed in this version. This
release also introduces REBOL/View for the Macintosh. This is a
significant accomplishment.
The following has been changed compared with the previous version:
- Bugfix: Icon DRAW evaluation bug that allowed foreign code to be executed
at the desktop level. That problem has been eliminated.
(Note that this bug did NOT compromise REBOL's built-in sandbox
file protection, as that protection still remained in effect at the
REBOL/View root directory level. Files outside of REBOL's directory
tree were safe.) DRAW is no longer allowed within desktop icons.
- Bugfix: The HTTP POST operation has been fixed to properly ignore line
termination in the transfer. You no longer need to pad out your
HTTP uploads. (This is for read/custom http://... [post "data"]).
- Bugfix: Bugs that caused load/markup and debase to crash in rare cases
have also been fixed.
The current version for different systems can be found in the download area of rebol.com.
(sd)
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23.Jun.2001
ANN
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Magazine: .mag Boing issue #2 released
Issue #2 of the Swedish online magazine .mag Boing has been released today.
(ps)
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23.Jun.2001
Paul Nolan
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Image processing: Photogenics for PocketPC
Paul Nolan, known for his image processing software Photogenics
for several operating systems, has renamed his company to Idruna
Software. Besides that Nolan introduces today his new product Photogenics
for PocketPC.
With this image processing becomes possible even on pocket computers. On the product page
you can find the technical details and further information.
(ps)
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23.Jun.2001
Dirk "Docki" Dockbreyder (ANF)
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Game: 'Genetic Species' full version on Aminet
The Aminet recent-upload-list of today contains the action game Genetic Species
as full version, splitted into 19 archives with around 180 MB in size altogether.
This game is a development by Marble-Eyes Development.
It was distributed by Vulcan Software Limited.
Download: Uploads of the 23.06.2001,
and there is GS-FullGame01.lha - GS-FullGame19.lha for download. (ps)
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23.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 23.06.2001
DOpusCFG.lha biz/dopus 85K+DOpus4.x configuration V2.25, biggest co
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 40K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
ML_Support_Tur.lha comm/mail 5K+ML-Support Turkish Catalog
YAMMiami.lha comm/mail 32K+YAM-->Miami-->Yam2NN, united. V1.01
SMS2D2.lha comm/misc 14K+Send sms to german D2 via modem or ISDN
adt_ixemul.lha comm/tcp 78K+Aminet Download Tool 2.6, AmigaOS
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
CManMI.lha comm/www 3K+GlowIcons Toolbar for CManager
IBrowseMI.lha comm/www 7K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse
mFTPMI.lha comm/www 7K+GlowIcons Toolbar for mFTP-II
NRogMI.lha comm/www 21K+GlowIcons Toolbar for NewsRog
dkg-wtow2.lha demo/aga 638K+Welcome To Our World 2
dkg-boozenow.lha demo/intro 4K+Booze Now - Breeze Now Remix
dkg-trip98inv.lha demo/intro 133K+Trip `98 - The Invitation
BlitzLstMay01.lha dev/basic 133K+Blitz mailing list archives for May 2001
MakeTagBase.lha dev/misc 6K+Make methods and tags bases 1.1 (17.06.0
SettingsWin_Fr.lha dev/mui 9K+French Catalog for Settingswindow_mcc
ChunkyStartup2.lha dev/src 89K+Chunkystartup.asm CGX/AGA/PICASSO useful
RKM2_ASM.lha dev/src 427K+R.K.M codes - Translated into Assembly.
RKM_ASM2.lha dev/src 427K+R.K.M codes - Translated into Assembly.
FindChanges.lha disk/misc 97K+Finds changes made to disk
TSGui_Fr.lha disk/misc 2K+French translation for TSGUI
GS-FullGame01.lha game/actio 7.0M+Genetic Species The Full Game (01/19)
GS-FullGame02.lha game/actio 8.0M+Genetic Species The Full Game (02/19)
GS-FullGame03.lha game/actio 7.7M+Genetic Species The Full Game (03/19)
GS-FullGame04.lha game/actio 7.1M+Genetic Species The Full Game (04/19)
GS-FullGame05.lha game/actio 7.0M+Genetic Species The Full Game (05/19)
GS-FullGame06.lha game/actio 7.2M+Genetic Species The Full Game (06/19)
GS-FullGame07.lha game/actio 7.8M+Genetic Species The Full Game (07/19)
GS-FullGame08.lha game/actio 6.8M+Genetic Species The Full Game (08/19)
GS-FullGame09.lha game/actio 7.6M+Genetic Species The Full Game (09/19)
GS-FullGame10.lha game/actio 15M+Genetic Species The Full Game (10/19)
GS-FullGame11.lha game/actio 13M+Genetic Species The Full Game (11/19)
GS-FullGame12.lha game/actio 11M+Genetic Species The Full Game (12/19)
GS-FullGame13.lha game/actio 11M+Genetic Species The Full Game (13/19)
GS-FullGame14.lha game/actio 11M+Genetic Species The Full Game (14/19)
GS-FullGame15.lha game/actio 11M+Genetic Species The Full Game (15/19)
GS-FullGame16.lha game/actio 12M+Genetic Species The Full Game (16/19)
GS-FullGame17.lha game/actio 13M+Genetic Species The Full Game (17/19)
GS-FullGame18.lha game/actio 13M+Genetic Species The Full Game (18/19)
GS-FullGame19.lha game/actio 4.1M+Genetic Species The Full Game (19/19)
ETWUpdates.lha game/data 181K+Various league updates for eat the whist
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 188K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
WHD_HardDrivn2.lha game/patch 38K+HD Installer for Hard Drivin' II
WHD_StarWars.lha game/patch 38K+HD Installer for Star Wars
dungen3ecs.lha game/role 201K+Dungeon floorplan generator/editor
KC.lha game/role 102K+Programme for RPG players
YambMUI.lha game/wb 49K+Game with dices. (V1.28) *BUGFIX*
Warp3DDev-u.lha gfx/board 67K+Warp3D V4, Autodocs
JP-Guide.lha gfx/conv 130K+Jpeg Converter (V1.1), supports datatype
tga_to_iff24.lha gfx/conv 15K+Convert tga to iff24 (CLI)
DiamondBOX.lha gfx/edit 466K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.10
SvIVFix917.lha gfx/misc 75K+*Fix* for SViewIV V9.17 (19.6.2001)
Ant.lha misc/sci 76K+Another cellular automata
MiraPLOT_Fr.lha misc/sci 2K+French translation for MiraPLOT
irix-lha misc/unix 89K+SGI Mips Irix version of LHA
Mobyle.lha mods/mpg 2.4M+Famous "Mobyle" as MP3
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 146K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
ID3TaglibGUI_F.lha mus/edit 3K+French translation for ID3TaglibGUI
AmiTiMiDiTy.lha mus/midi 14M+Timidity68k/PPC GUS patches - Plays MIDI
SmallPlugin3.lha mus/play 18K+AmigaAMP plugin with fire effect
QuadraMI.lha pix/gicon 302K+Images and Icons for Toolbars and Menues
CoolOS4.jpg pix/wb 43K+Stylish WB-pic made with PerfectPaint
CoolOS5.jpg pix/wb 273K+Stylish WB-pic made with PerfectPaint
Nokiafont.lha text/bfont 2K+The Nokia 51x0/61x0/+++ series font.
scenefonts.lha text/bfont 6K+Three C64/Scene/retro inspired bitmap fo
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 26K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
Bindechex.lha util/conv 21K+Converts Binary<->Decimal<->Hexadecimal
akJFIF-dt.lha util/dtype 216K+AkJFIF-dt V44.99 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/M
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 237K+AkPNG-dt V44.99 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/MOS
akTIFF-dt.lha util/dtype 226K+AkTIFF-dt V44.99 (TIFF, 68000-060, PPC/M
asyncioppc.lha util/libs 23K+Asyncio.library with WarpOS functions (V
GlowAttack.lha util/misc 199K+"Glow" anims for ReqAttack v1.80+
Safe.lha util/virus 33K+*Recognizes BOBEK2 linkvirus!* (v15.9)
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 22K+PatchBrain v1.35 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
AmigaDE_GUI.lha util/wb 98K+VisualPrefs Bitmap set based on the new
GHelpDeluxe.lha util/wb 77K+Provides access to and searching of all
outlinefont14.lha util/wb 5K+Draws outline/shadow on WB 3.5+ icon tex (as)
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23.Jun.2001
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Benelux Amiga Show: first report (update 3)
Otis from the Amiga User Club Bremen has
just given us first details about the show by phone. First of all it has to be
said that the dance school where the event is taking place is overcrowded as many,
many visitors have come. For the promoters of the show in any case a big success.
The event is taking place on two floors with the exhibitors being downstairs and
the LAN party happening upstairs.
During the call I had the opportunity to talk to Martin Schüler from ESCENA who's working on the design of the AmigaOne board by Eyetech. The
AmigaOne board is presented as prototype in second revision. The board isn't
working yet. For now they continue step by step and every step done until now
has worked without any problems. He'll try to give us more technical information during
the day via email.
Supplement:
I just had again the chance to talk to Thomas from the AUC-HB, who gave us more
impressions via telephone about the show. Those will be posted here as short
notes as there'll be a full report done by the AUCB following tomorrow:
Petro Tyschtschenko hold the opening speech.
Interesting was the presentation of the PCI board Prometheus by Matay on which a Voodoo3000 graphics board was
running. A version of the game ´Heretic II´ running on this board was shown
so everyone could convince himself of the board's quality.
Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. presented the SDK (Software Developer Kit) and was at
disposal to answer questions. On this occasion the AmigaOS 5.0 planned for the year 2003 was mentioned.
On a Q&A round Fleecy Moss, Alan Redhouse, Martin Schüler and Jürgen
Haage answered to the questions of the visitors.
Supplement 2:
At Fun Time World you find some photos
of the show, and a comprehensive report will follow.
Supplement 3:
Here's the full report of
Fun Time World. (ps)
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23.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena special discount campaign
In co-operation with Andre Beer the Amiga Arena makes a special price for GeoWorld possible. GeoWorld is the only geography program for the Amiga that is still
in development. Please visit for further information the GeoWorld homepage.
Amiga Arena - GeoWorld call
GeoWorld is one of the very few programs that stand out against the usual Amiga
software. The developers have collected a huge amount of information and data to
make GeoWorld as comprehensive as possible. Despite this such a program
"lives" of its up-to-date data.
To make faster updates possible and offer furtheron an allround program the
developers need your help. The following tasks are available:
- Continuing the recollection of the nature data of the countries.
- A co-operation on the information data of GeoWorld would therefore need an
intellectual reception of the source texts made available (scanned
encyclopedia pages, html/text files taken from the internet, partly in
English) and put them into corresponding texts (e.g. description of a country's nature).
A free full version will of course be made available. Further fees -
participation in sales returns - for appropriate extensive co-operation are
possible but don't expect any wonders. People with interest may please mail to: Andre Beer.
Amiga Arena remark by Olaf Köbnik
Surely many of you wonder why this all?
Sources for information are offered by the internet, and many programs for the PC
do so, too. But I belong to the little number of Amiga users who are "Amiga
only", and I personally think it is very valuable that such programs will be
developed on the Amiga in the future. Additionally it is much more fun for me to
use information sources on the Amiga. I can only ask you to support programs
like AmiAtlas and Geoworld with feedback etc.! (ps)
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23.Jun.2001
Merlancia Industries (ANF)
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Merlancia announces Tsunami Designs
Merlancia Industries has released some concept images of the Tsunami setup, showing a complete "Merlancia MMC Tsunami Setup", the "Merlancia Touchsmart Keyboard" and the "Merlancia Tsunami Tower":
Please see also http://www.gotboing.com and
MISEL Engineering-TORRO/MCC
for further information.
Update: (14.01.2017, 21:00, cg)
Pictures added to the news item. (ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Matay
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Matay news
Warp3D Treiber for Voodoo3
Matay informs that the promised Warp3D drivers for Voodoo3 graphics cards on the
PCI board Prometheus are in the works and has put some screenshots online.
PPC for Prometheus
As many people ask about CPU boards for the PCI board Prometheus, Matay
gives the following statement:
- Matay is not going to produce the PPC card by itself. We will choose
among the CPU solutions available at the market (not necessarily
"Amiga native" only). It would take too much time and concern to
produce such a card, time we can spend providing you with other
Amiga-specifict products. Why to invent wheel again?
- The only problem to solve is software support to make the hardware
cooperate with our PCI bridge. However, with the help of AmigaOS4
developers from Amiga Inc. it is not a problem at all. We will
cooperate with them to make Prometheus+CPU card combo 100% compatible
with the upcoming AmigaOS.
- We are not limiting our support to one CPU card only. You should view
a CPU card expansion the same as - for example - a graphics card expansion.
More than one solution is possible.
- The details will be announced after we finish talks with the CPU cards
manufacturers. As we always state - no promises, only facts, so please
be patient. In meanwhile, you can use Prometheus boards with the
existing Amiga CPU cards. The software, i.e. AmigaOS4, will arrive later
this year, so will our hardware to run it on.
Vacation time
Because of vacation time, the phone number +48 609394778 and the e-mail address
fei@matay.pl won't be available from June 22nd to July 9th, 2001 and from July 21st
to September 6th, 2001. Contact Matay during these times at +48 603785100
and info@matay.pl instead.
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik
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Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena full version: Offensive COLOURS
With permission of Carsten Magerkurth and Andreas Magerl, Amiga Arena
makes the release of Offensive COLOURS possible! Offensive COLOURS
is the exciting synthesis of Tetris and breakout.
You steer a spaceship in the center of the screen; colored blocks grow out of
the screen borders towards you. To stop them, you are armed with a colored
disc with which you can shoot at the blocks.
Should the color of the disc match that of the shot block, your score increases
and the block vanishes. If not, the disc will be thrown back to you and the
colors of block and disc will be exchanged. The new color of the disc then maybe
allows the elimination of another block.
If your disc hits a row of blocks that have the same color, the entire row vanishes.
The first block scores the usual points, any further two times the usual points.
The game ends when the blocks have reached you.
Amiga Arena download: Renegarde
With permission of Wayne Ashworth, the action game "Renegarde" is available for
download. It is a freeware game. "Renegarde" is an "Alien Breed" clone for two
players, fun and the inspired design speak for themselves. (ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Solar (BAUD) (ANF)
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Java on handheld devices - in vogue
Should somebody still question whether it makes any sense to work in the embedded
market with Java - SaveJe brings Java2SE to the ARM/XScale processor.
Planned release of version 1.0 is in september.
This means that who's interested in programming for handheld devices should take
Java into consideration. It also means that Amiga Inc. has to hurry. (Solar)
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (e-mail)
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Event: Amiga Benelux Show - phone service
Tomorrow the Amiga Benelux Show opens its gates at 10 o'clock. The organizers
have set up a phone service through which you can get information on the way to
the event and the like; for example if you should have become lost.
You can reach the phone service on Saturday at the following numbers:
06-20189215 - (International: +31-6-20189215)
oder
06-15407476 - (International: +31-6-15407476)
Address:
Dansschool Wuyster
Hammerstraat 15
Rotterdam-Nord
City map
Route planner
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Sinan Gürkan (e-mail)
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AmigArt with new URL
Please use http://65.108.77.227 for reaching Amigart pages until
www.amigart.com is directed to our new host. Currently www.amigart.com
redirects to another website that has nothing to do with Amiga...
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)
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CD32 Install Kit for Windows
As some emulation sites already posted this news, here's the official announcement
for the Windows version of my CD32 Games Install Kit: It will work in connection with
WinUAE and it will be available quite soon.
The compatibility is very high because every game uses custom patches
(just like in the Amiga version). Additionally you
won't have to install the game, you can run it right from the CD although in some
cases some files have to be copied (which need to be patched). CD audio support is
not supported yet but will be added for sure later. The first version of the CD32
Games Install Kit 4.5 (Win32 1.0) can be expected in one week. But currently it will
be only available for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM.
There are some screenshots of the Windows version available at the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Chip: Amiga: New computer and software
»With AmigaOS 4.0 and the computer AmigaOne PPC 1200, a myth will be brought
back to life within the next weeks. This was announced by Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga,
on Thursday. The owner of the Amiga trademark warned in a press release of an
abuse of the name of the once popular home computer. According to information from
McEwen there's besides the American company headquarter only one more office in Braunschweig.«
Full German article at the titlelink. (ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Thomas Steiding (e-mail)
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e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment: status update
Add-on CD Earth2140 Mission Pack with 80+ new single player missions, 6 new
units, 2 new buildings and 1 new terrain will be available for Mac and Amiga
by the end of July. For Amigaplayers the Mission Pack will bring multiplayer
support to this RTS via LAN.
The MAC version of our cartoon adventure THE FEEBLE FILES is in late beta
stages and will propably go into production next week. You can find some
screenshots taken from the Mac version in the news section of our homepage.
The game will come on 3 CDs and comes in english, french, spanish, german
and italian versions. You will find more information on this game and how
pathetic rebellions really can get in the projects section of our homepage.
Empire builder Knights and Merchants is now in early beta testing on the
Mac. We expect a demoversion to become available by mid July.
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Frank Fenn (ANF)
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Instructions: Amiga & Mac printer sharing
As questions about printer sharing between Mac and Amiga arise ever now and then,
I have attempted to write some instructions on the topic. Required are
the software packages TCP stack, Samba, Turboprint and Ghostscript, as
well as DAVE on the Mac side. (ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Amiga.org
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Amiga.org: problems with PHP-Nuke
Eight months ago, Amiga.org has changed the entire site to PHP-Nuke, an
all-in-one portal package. The portal offers all required functions,
including news, forums and comments.
According to Amiga.org, PHP-Nuke got instable under heavy load which
lead to frequent breakdowns. Wayne Hunt will now rebuild the entire
website and asks for comments or suggestions to
wayne@amiga.org. Especially the
news have highest priority.
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Ray A. Akey (e-mail)
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AMIGA Inc.: News from CEO Bill McEwen (Executive Update)
Greetings To The Amiga Family:
There have been some recent mis-representations that I have recently
received about Amiga, Inc., and our office locations. Amiga is doing very
well, and we are excited about the future of Amiga. The Amiga Family
continues to grow with new partners, new products, and the very near release
of AmigaDE 1.0.
However with all of this activity there have been some out there who have
recently sent out false information about Amiga, and I need to clarify this
now.
Amiga Incorporated is headquartered in Snoqualmie, Washington USA.
Amiga Deutschland is still in business. We have only closed the Langen
office. There are going to be some new additions, and a new office location
announced in the next couple of weeks, but know now that Amiga International
was a Gateway company, and was not and has not been associated with Amiga,
Inc. since 1999. The dealer in Germany that is making claims that they are
Amiga International is completely false, and Amiga Incorporated the parent
company of Amiga Deutschland is going to take legal action against those who
make these false claims.
There is another dealer in India who has started claiming that they are
Amiga in India. This again is also false. Amiga does NOT have any official
representation in India outside of the Amiga dealers who are there. Amiga
Incorporated is currently evaluating an office in India, and other countries
where we do business.
To those of you who continue to try and tear Amiga apart, it is time to
stop. Amiga is moving forward, there are great things ahead, and for the
first time in many years, the Amiga family will have new products, and
choices.
I look forward to a great year.
Kindest regards,
Bill McEwen
(ps)
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22.Jun.2001
Soren Ladegaard (ANF)
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de Volkskrant: "Tulip" reviving the Commodore brand?
It's been reported in a Dutch national newspaper that computer company
Tulip intend to bring the Commodore
brand back to life in some capacity. Tulip spokesman J. van den Berg
claims the company is simply responding to customer calls for Commodore.
Whether this means some real Commodore hardware is on its way or all it
is is simply a line of PCs with the Commodore logo slapped on the outside
is still unclear, but Dutch readers will no doubt find
this article
very interesting...!
(ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Martin Merz (ANF)
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Icons: MI News - QuadraMI 4 and new archive available
QuadraMI 4 is available for download.
A new image archive by the name of QuadraMI 4 is available on Mason.Home and
Aminet. QuadraMI 4 is an extended collection of icons for toolbars and start menus
for applications like Workbench 2000, Toolmanager, Directory Opus Magellan, and many
more. The images are of IFF format and available as ColorIcons. Those were created
in the popular GlowIcons design with a standard colour depth of 32 and a basic size
of 24x24 pixles, but without the glow effect.
Other projects.
Some new and reworked archives are available for download in addition:
- CManMI - new toolbar for CManager by VaporWare
- IBrowseMI - navigation bar for IBrowse with additional images by Kristóph Gruber
- mFTPMI - AppMI basing toolbar set for mFTP-II
- NRogMI - image set for NewsRog with GlowIcons design
Please, visit the "Projects" page of Mason.Home for more information. (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Andrew Bell
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Unpacking-Frontend: Voodoo-X version 1.5 beta 9
Voodoo-X is a MUI basing interface for the archive unpacking system
XADmaster.library by Dirk Stöcker.
Using Voodoo-X you can handily view the content of archive (single files, too).
This beta version might contain crash causing bugs. More details under the title link.
Download: VX1.5.BETA9.lha - 120 kB (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
ASM-One
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Assembler: ASM-One version 1.47
Today, Boushh released version 1.47 of the assembler packet 'ASM-One'.
This version runs on Amigas with the original chip set and on Amigas equipped with
graphic boards (RTG). New is the PPC assembling which enables you to mix 68k/PPC code.
Download: asmonev147.lha - 294 kB
(ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show News
Only two days left until the Benelux Amiga Show in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but still new and
interesting details are arriving:
Radio-Special
A Dutch radio station announced to create an Amiga special on the Show.
VPRO-TV - Amiga Special
The editor board of the TV station VPRO-TV took the task to create an Amiga
special. To make that reality they even will travel to the U.S.A. and also the European
users shall be reviewed. In cooperation with the Dutch print magazine
AmigaScene it will be discussed what is to
report about AMIGA on the Benelux Amiga Show, and first shots will be taken.
Matay will attend, too.
The Polish hardware developer Matay,
at this time well known by the PCI board ´Prometheus´, shortly decided
to attend the show and they sure will have some boards with them.
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21.Jun.2001
GP-Software / Thomas Wölflick (ANF)
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File manager: Directory Opus 6 released
As already reported, yesterday, in the article
File manager: DirOpus V4.15m Beta
the PC version Directory Opus 6 was released at
GP Software.
While rummaging in the Aminet uploads I stumbled upon the following text inside the
DOpus6 readme file (title link):
"ALL REGISTERED USERS OF DIRECTORY OPUS 5 FOR THE AMIGA ARE ENTITLED TO A
25% CROSSGRADE DISCOUNT ON THE PURCHASE PRICE."
This is interesting for Amiga users using a PC, too, and not wanting to miss
their favourite file manager. The 30-days-PC-test-version is available e.g.
here (DOpusInstall.exe).
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21.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Transmeta sales decreasing drastically
»Orders from Japan decreasing
The still fresh processor developer Transmeta now also warns of intelligibly lower
sales in 2Q01. For a reason they mention the bad economical situation which now
spreads to Japan, too - Japan is Transmeta's biggest market place.
Though additional manufacturers to produce their own chips could have been
gained, orders from Japanese Notebook manufacturers are significant low.
Therefore Transmeta adjust their sales expectancy to 40% - 45% below sales
in 1Q01 (18.6 millions USD).«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Computerwoche (ANF)
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HP brings stereos and TV-sets to the Web
»The IT company Hewlett-Packard (HP) from California, U.S.A.,
is about to present a system to connect stereos and TV-sets to the internet, next week in New York.
The "HP Digital Entertainment Center", to be plugged into stereo or TV-set casings, can download,
save and play music videos and digital sound from the Web. The appliance has enough memory to save
up to 750 audio CD's. It is connected to the Internet by simply pressing a button without to
be forced to boot-up a computer.«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)
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21.Jun.2001
Thomas Steidung (E-Mail)
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Games: Amiga Classix 3 released
The game compilation CD Amiga Classix 3 was released at e.p.i.c. interactive,
today. On this CD available for Mac, Amiga, and Windows are to find more than
100 complete and many of them formally commercial games.
Among the commercial highlights on this CD are Der Seelenturm,
XTreme Racing, Obsession Pinball, Fatman, Beneath the Steel Sky, Lure of
the Temptress, Vroom, Wheelspin, Trainer, Ziriax, Sixth Sense Investigation,
Blade, Tactical Manager, Risk, Black Sect, Tanglewood, and Ziriax.
This CD is available from e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment.
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20.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen
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Virus Help Denmark: VEPatch.Brain Version 1.35
A new update has been published of the 'VEPatch.Brain v1.34' for VirusExecutor. Here the details:
- Name: VEPatchBrain v1.35
- Archivename: VEPatchBrain.lha
- Archivesize: 22.161 Bytes
- Date: 20. June 2001
- Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
- Required: VirusExecutor V2.xx
Changes since the last version:
- SysTracker v0.1
- SnoopSetFunction v0.9
- AslToRT v39.2
- OutLineFont v1.3
- imagepool.library v0.8ß
- New recon to explode.library due to virus...
- Remember.. If you have a lot of unknown patches, please let me know so I can
add them to this patch brain :)
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20.Jun.2001
Fr3dy (E-Mail)
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Portings of Fr3dY: New URL
As reported on 11th of June in 2001 Fr3dy has made some ports for 68k and MorphOS and make the tools available on a website.
The url has changed: From now on you can access the website under http://fr3dy.meanmachine.ch/.
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20.Jun.2001
Neodym (ANF)
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User report soundcard "Repulse" and new AlienDesign website
On ANN a lucky man who ordered the soundcard ´Repulse´ in advance has posted a report about it. He seems to be very satisfied.
Besides this Aliendesign seemed to found a GBR because the website can be now accessed under the new url http://www.aliendesign-gbr.de/.
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20.Jun.2001
Eyetech
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Eyetech: AmigaOne 1200/4000 faq updated
The AmigaOne 1200/4000 faq (frequently asked questions) of Eyetech has been updated and some questions and answers has been added.
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20.Jun.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Bill Gates likes Open Source
»Bill Gates recently told that he basicly has nothing against free software: "An ecological system with free and commercial software which leaves the costumer the decision is an important and healthy ecological system". But he criticized the General Public License (GPL) because it forbid commercial enterprises to use work or to build on it which has copyrighted by the "Pac-man-like" character of this licence. What Gates understands under "Pac-man-like" he unfortunately did not told.«
Complete article under the title link. (ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Directory Opus 4 Research Project
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Filemanager: DirOpus V4.15m beta
Jacek Rzeuski has published betaversion 4.15m of the filemanager 'DirOpus'. The update contains some improvements which are listed in the History.
This betaversion only contains the files which has changed compared with 'Directory Opus V4.15'. You can find this version and the corresponding source code on the download-site.
DirOpus is a filemanager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. The DirOpus version for Windows is already available in version 6.
In 1999 the source code of version 4 was released under GNU Public License-conditions. Jacek Rzeuski then started to rework and improve the program.
Download: DOpus415mbeta.lzx - 472 kB
Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/
Alternative download: DOpus415mbeta.lzx
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20.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Event: Benelux Amiga Show news
As already announced several times the Benelux Amiga Show in connection
with a LAN-party will take place on 23th of June in 2001 in Rotterdam
which are organized by the Dutch print magazine called ´Amiga
Scene´ and the trader ´Computer City´.
Premiere
In addition to the already mentioned highlights Hyperion will publicly
demonstrate the Warp3D on a Prometheus PCI-Board with Voodoo3 graphic
board for the first time. Ben Hermans, Hans-Jörg and Thomas Frieden
and Timothy de Groote are pesent.
TV
A Dutch television station will make recordings of the show and will
broadcast it in the programme '7 dagen' ('7 days'). The broadcast
will show people who keep their proper distance to Microsoft and
rather do not want something to do with it. You could not describe
the Amiga community in a better way, could you? :) (ps)
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20.Jun.2001
iFusion Mailingliste (ANF)
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Emulator: iFusion Update V1.3.0
We are pleased to announce the availability of V1.3.0 of iFusion.
This version enables sound on the emulation.
There are three update patches available at the Blittersoft website
iFusion section (www.blittersoft.com)
to update the three current CD releases (V1.0.0, V1.0.1 and V1.2.0).
You will need to have your original CD mounted to patch your program.
Also required are the Mac sound extension (NWEAudio) and revised drivers,
all available for download.
Please note that we are also in possesion of the latest Picasso96 update
that corrects all screen split problems
when used with iFusion. We are unable to make this available as it is beta,
but the Picasso96 team should be releasing this update soon. We were able to
run iFusion with Voodoo III and Prometheus using this new patch.
Also note that the asyncio.library is no longer required by iFusion.
Thanks to Jim/Joe for this update! :-)
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20.Jun.2001
Haage&Partner
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H&P: Opinion poll to PageStream
In order to better get to know the demands of the costumer concerning
PageStream Haage&Partner has prepared a small opinion poll and would be
pleased if you took part.
Because PageStream is currently delivered without example files and
patterns H&P has also given you the opportunity to upload your patterns
to its server. If you have made ones and you want to place it at the
PageStream-users disposal you can transfer the files.
Direct link to the opinion poll and to the upload:
German -
English
You can find the opinion poll under the title link. (ps)
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20.Jun.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 15.9
With the viruschecker ´Safe´ you can look for virus but you can not eliminate them. It follows the details to version 15.9 which has been published today:
Name: Safe v15.9
Archivename : Safe.lha
Archivesize: 33.767 Bytes
Releasedate: 19. June 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Required: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
News in v15.9:
- Added BOBEK2 linkvirus (memory removal and XFD slave to see it in files with VirusZ).
This one was very difficult to handle in memory. File detection is very easy and
shouldn't generate any false positives.
- Kicked out TCPPATCH/S parameter in order to make place for code that kills BOBEK2 in memory.
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20.Jun.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)
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GFX-BASE: Review of HBMonopoly V 2.6, Apps-section and opinion poll
On the site of GFX-BASE you can read a new review. This time we have tested the new version of HBMonopoly. Besides this we have extended our tools-section and renamed it into 'Apps'. In this section you can find software which either only run on graphic boards or at least take strong advantage of it. Our opinion poll is also new: We would like to know which graphic board you use on you Amiga system. We would be pleased if many users will participate.
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19.Jun.2001
3ivx
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3ivx news
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:48:11 +0200
From: Francis Ennekens francis@3ivx.com
Subject: PR: Happy Machines grants 3ivx resellerships to companiesworldwide
For immediate release:
Happy Machines grants 3ivx resellerships to companies worldwide
June 18, 2001- Happy Machines n.v., a leading video technology
company specializing in providing the highest-quality video on CD's,
DVD's and electronic business cards, announced today that ICCIP, a
Dutch company, will be reselling the 3ivx codec in combination with
its products.
This deal will allow ICCIP to prove the viability of high quality
video bundled with CD's, DVD's and electronic business card
duplicating products and services.
"We are excited to be working with ICCIP and to be expanding our
market share in the CD industry" said Dirk Laureyssens, Happy
Machines CEO. "We look forward to making video on CD's available in
Holland."
"ICCIP continues to ally itself with the best technology in the
business," said John Besseling, ICCIP CEO. "By offering the 3ivx
codec together with our products, we guarantee the finest video CD
products available on the market today."
ICCIP will begin selling the 3ivx products, their patented electronic
business cards, long life CD's and labelling kit starting today. They
will also provide customized CD/DVD duplication and labeling robots.
Happy Machines is able to reach unparalleled levels of quality by
combining the MPEG-4v3 specifications with its unique proprietary
algorithms. 3ivx provides a more efficient storage use on CD's in the
areas of business, education and video entertainment. In order to
ensure optimum viewing experience, Happy Machines' video engineers
created an auto-installer that runs automatically on Windows or
Macintosh PC's when you insert a 3ivx CD and installs the 3ivx codec
as appropriate.
About Happy Machines n.v.
Happy Machines n.v. is a Belgian company that represents a creative
team and a large international network of inventors, software and
hardware developers, designers in various fields such as imaging,
satellite communications, artificial intelligence, machinery etc.,
which has contacts with top-manufacturers worldwide. The company is
also a member of the MPEG-group and is an Inmarsat partner. It is
orientated on project development and related intellectual
properties. Headquartered in Antwerp Happy Machines may be reached at
Grote Steenweg 408/19, 2600 Antwerp, Belgium, telephone +32-3-2816858
or 3ivx@3ivx.com. Investor inquiries should be sent to
invest@3ivx.com. More information is available at
http://www.3ivx.com/.
About ICCIP
ICCIP is founded specially to present and sell products related to
data marketing and technology. The company offers unique patent
protected products and marketing solutions and is specialized in
digital content, high-end mass storage of data and the distribution
of data. ICCIP is determined to work right now with technology coming
available tomorrow. More information is available at
http://www.3ivx.com/resellers/.
Contact info:
Francis Ennekens
+32-3-2816858
3ivx@3ivx.com
http://www.3ivx.com/pr/ (ps)
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19.Jun.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)
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Asyncio.library (68k+WarpOS) update
There's a new update for the asyncio.library with WarpOS support (V40.6).
Sadly the last version had the same problems in PPC writing mode than
before. This update fixes these problems so that there shouldn't be any
more lock-ups on writing with PPC.
If there shouldn't be any problems with it, this will be the last version
since there'll be no more optimizations by me that could make the
library more efficient.
Download: asyncioppc.lha
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19.Jun.2001
Amiga Future [News]
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Game: Aqua directly distributed by Emerald Imaging
Emerald Imaging is selling their new game 'Aqua' from now on through CCNow,
an online store that works with the Amiga and accepts all major credit cards.
Amiga dealers will be supplied directly by Emerald Imaging.
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19.Jun.2001
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Aminet Uploads until 19.06.2001
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 105K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.8
AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary
AWebcolor2CED.lha comm/www 5K+Html color selecting from AWeb to CED
Dvn2-Prom.lha demo/aga 151K+Devotion 2 - Promotional Intro
wpz-frozen44.lha demo/aga 550K+Frozen#44 - Underscore Party Edition
Hjb-DVN2.lha demo/mag 1.3M+HJB - Devotion, issue two.
amiga13.lha dev/cross 73K+LUnix SDK (binary distribution)
FindChanges.lha disk/misc 96K+Finds changes made to disk
tsgui.lha disk/misc 31K+Create or write back image files from an
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 24K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
starmagb1_ag.lha docs/mags 391K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
Mattonite.lha game/demo 475K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Warp3DDev-4.0.lha gfx/board 315K+Warp3D V4, Developer archive
ASIE.lha misc/emu 88K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator)
p-interp.lha misc/emu 165K+P-Code interpreter (to run the apple pas
imdbDiff010608.lha misc/imdb 1.7M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Fire_Forget2.lha mods/misc 51K+Custom module from "Fire & Forget II"
dmdev.lha mus/play 136K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
EP_BeathovenSS.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Beathoven Synthesizer" exte
EP_DaveLowe.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Dave Lowe" external replaye
EP_DaveLoweNew.lha mus/play 13K+EaglePlayer "Dave Lowe New" external rep
EP_Soundfactor.lha mus/play 7K+EaglePlayer "Soundfactory" external repl
RAPlay.lha mus/play 256K+Play/decode RealAudio v1&2 files. (w/src
HTMLstrip.lha text/misc 31K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
ltools21_demo.lha text/misc 46K+Dictionary and Document Translator
Move21.lha util/batch 7K+Moves Files, For Use With Shell (as)
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19.Jun.2001
AmiDog
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AmiDog: AMP movieplayer beta page online
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has created a download page for beta versions
of his PPC movie player 'AMP' and offers a current beta version for download.
As soon as there'll be changes to the beta version the more recent versions
will be available from the beta download page.
With 'AMP' you can currently play the following multimedia files:
- MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional)
- MP2/MP3 audio streams
- FLI/FLC
- AC3 streams
Download: AMP2-BETA-010618.lha
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19.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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Golem: Matrox Millennium G550 - Vertex Shader included
»After rumors had been around for months, Matrox Graphics Inc. has now
finally announced their long-awaited graphics card Millennium G550.
The graphics chip G550 working on it integrates as second - after the
much more expensive GeForce3 - a DirectX-8-compatible Vertex Shader.
Matrox nevertheless does not target the card at hardware for game freaks
but rather for online communication and web entertainment.«
Full article in German at the titlelink.
More news on the topic:
AnandTech: Matrox Millennium G550: Matrox's Next-Generation chip arrives
Toms Hardware: Matrox Launches The G550
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19.Jun.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)
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TecChannel: Metabox loses supporting banks
»The multimedia company which has been shaken by scandals has lost two
supporting banks. After the insolvency Merck Finck & Co as well as M.M.
Warburg quitted their cooperation with the company.
With these news a spokeswoman of Metabox confirmed a report of the online
edition of the Manager Magazine. Metabox had, however, found a new bank.
Required for the official quotation however are at least two banks. Metabox
produces settop boxes for using internet by television.«
Full German article at the titlelink. (ps)
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19.Jun.2001
GNU website
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GNU Compiler Collection version 3.0 finished
Version 3.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) has been finished.
Now integrated is a Java compiler that creates native and Java bytecode
and an interpreter for Java bytecode. More information and details at
the titlelink.
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19.Jun.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)
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Amigaland: 17 new games for free download
Amigaland has 17 more games for free download on their website!
These are freeware games like Blade, Spectrum,
One On One, Xenox.
All these games are by Scorpius Software
(Information Software) and were kindly provided for Amigaland.
The Amigaland logo contest with a draw and prices is still running
until July 15th.
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19.Jun.2001
Slawomir Wilk (e-mail)
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Online magazine: Amiga Minus #2
The second issue of "Amiga Minus" - online magazine dedicated to polish
Amiga users has been released! Inside: an interview with Ralph Schmidt
and Eric Schwartz, what people think about war between polish PCI-interface
developers, what is the condition of polish Amiga companies, how did
Commodore
look like under Jack Tramiel's control, what are the plans of game
developers
like Hyperion or Epic Interactive, review of "Dzien, Dejection" - XTD's
music CD
and Amiga Meeting 2001 pre-invitation.
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18.Jun.2001
ANN
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EETimes: Startup says software translates binary code on the fly
The article, published in EETimes, deals with the announcement of an american startup. A short extract:
»LONDON - A spin-off from the University of Manchester, Transitive
Technologies Ltd., is planning to wow engineers at the Embedded Processor
Forum this week in San Jose, Calif., with its dynamic binary-translation
technology.
The San Diego company claims its Dynamite software can take binary code
ready to run on one type of processor and, on the fly, translate it into
the binary code required by another. Transitive also says that because
of optimizing routines within its software, the translated code usually
runs faster and more efficiently than the original native code.
If these claims are substantiated, Transitive could spark dramatic changes
in the way processor hardware is designed and deployed by ending the
architecture-loyalty and legacy-code issues that have dominated for the
last 20 years.«
The whole article is available at the titlelink. (ps)
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18.Jun.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)
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Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Kost
There are a special offer of SoundFX and an interview with Stefan Kost, the developer of SoundFX, available at Amiga Arena
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18.Jun.2001
Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)
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Event: iBox at Benelux Amiga Show (update)
Beside the already reported VIP's and highlights the new IBOX will be presented.
The IBOX is some kind of special tower containing beside the normal PC-hardware an Amiga-mainboard, a modem, and some additional hardware. The PC is able to control and update Amiga-software like Scala/Mediapoint by using a special software. The IBOX is doing what the Amiga does best: loop playback. By using the PC-software everyone can use every possibility offered in the digitalmarket like webcams and digitalcameras.
This concept is currently used by many customers for example for sportbars and tourist information centers. The concept includes the possibility of updating hundrets of these boxes by pressing one button. Even a cellphone with wap-capabilities is able to start this process. A good example for the co-operation of Amiga and PC.
The concept and the IBOX were developed by www.oto-foto.nl and
www.digitalconsult.nl.
Error correction, 19 June 2001:
I misunderstood one item of Marvin's description of the iBox (Info-Box). Contrary to what is described there is no
PC hardware used in the box. It rather is fact that the customers create the info pages on common PC machines
and then those pages will be translated to Amiga language by a 'translator' which makes it possible to use
Amiga hardware in the box.
A text can be sent to the Amiga using a cell phone which then will be displayed as desired due to the background, logo,
and animation preset.
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18.Jun.2001
Aaron Digulla (AROS-ML)
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AROS News
During the weekend, the AROS server was down due to a hardware failure.
The machine will be replaced within the next few weeks :-) Until then,
you can expect the machine to fail again. We are aware of this and we're
working on it. No need to worry.
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18.Jun.2001
AmBoS-Team (Lars Maschmann, Uwe Rosenkranz) (ANF)
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AmBoS-Support discontinued
The support and development of AmBoS, a Amiga-Mailboxprogram, will be discontinued on the 01.07.2001. The service ExecBase will be discontinued at this day to.
Reasons for this decision: low user-interest, the success of the WWW and problems with the timeconsuming support and softwaredevelopment.
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17.Jun.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)
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Amiga: SCSI Driver for AmigaOS4
The AmigaOne specification contain an on-board IDE controller, but
much of the Amiga users use SCSI hardware (harddrives, CD drives, scanners).
That's why Amiga Inc.plans to develop a SCSI driver for the "NCR SCSI scripts chip"
for Amiga OS4.x (today, NCR is a subsidiary company of LSI Logic).
An internal document describing the reasons why these chips have been chosen was
published on the AmigaOne mailing list (title link). The same chip was utilized
in diverse Amiga products (e.g. in newer Phase5 acceleration cards).
These chips are to be of first class at Amiga Inc. at this time, but this decision
might change if a better solution would turn out.
Fleecy Moss
wrote:
".... - don't assume a PCI card is supported until we release the driver for it."
(sd)
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17.Jun.2001
AWeb PPC JPEG Plugin
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Browser: AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin V0.7
On 17 June 2001 Tom Parker has released version 0.7 of the PPC-JPEG plug-in
'AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin' for the WWW-browser 'AWeb'.
In this version notedly reduction of context switches increase the performance.
To install this version the 68k version of the JPEG plug-in is required, too,
which is to find on the
AWeb homepage.
The PPC version then will be copied to the Plugin directory and related settings
will be done.
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17.Jun.2001
Ghandy (E-Mail)
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Game: Land of Genesis Fix
A bugfix for the Turrican oriented action game 'Land of Genesis Fix'
was released. The following has changes since the prior version:
- fixed Intro bug on A4000's
- the intro runs more slow now
- skill level was re-adjusted
- 'Easy' mode is even more easy now
- rockets now clash with walls
- 2-buttons joysticks are supported now
- screen memory option.
- sound effects were softened
- the end picture was changed
The game runs on A1200 with 2 MB FastRAM and better; faster Amigas are supported.
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17.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: Amiga Power #XIV
Issue #14 of the French magazine 'Amiga Power' has been released.
This issue contains previews of iFusion and the GREX 1200, a test of
Payback, and more.
This magazine is issued by the French Amiga assosiation
'AFLE' whom you can draw it from.
(sd)
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17.Jun.2001
Czech Amiga News
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MP3: MAS-Player V1.3e
as an update of the MAS CLI commands.
This software works with both version of the MAS-Player and supports the MAS chip versions G10
and G12. The CLI commands archive contains the source codes of the CLI commands in addition.
'MAS-Player' is a hardware based MP3 player to be plugged to the Amiga's parallel port ('printer port').
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17.Jun.2001
Amiga Extreme
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Warp3D: Voodoo Driver Status
Amiga Extreme has published an e-mail by Thomas Frieden (Hyperion) in which he
reports the current status of the Voodoo driver for Warp3D.
The Warp3D team converted almost everything relating the use of the FIFO command.
As the team was suggested the frame-rate now majorly is independent from the resolution.
The speed at 800x600 is exactly the same as at 320x200.
Heretic 2 is still playable at 1024x768, but the Voodoo card starts to slow down from
this resolution.
Moreover the Voodoo version looks much better than the Permedia version.
(Screenshots (left: Permedia2, right: Voodoo)).
At this time it seems like the Prometheus version of the driver would be finished first.
This might happen next week already. The G-REX and hopefully the Mediator version, too,
will follow soon after.
The Prometheus driver will be the first because of the G-REX prototype had a little
problem preventing FIFO from working. So, development was done on the Prometheus board.
Development of Warp3D now is done using the new gcc basing StormC 4 which creates fine code, already.
Additionally it enables the use of Inline assembler. By some PPC assembler optimizations the Warp3D
team now can almost fill up the bus with data to almost reach the maximum performance.
Supplement 17 June 2001:
Ben Yoris (Hyperion) wrote on
ANN that
Hyperion will do a presentation of their own games on the Prometheus PCI board with
a Voodoo3 plugged in on the Benelux Amiga Show, which will take place on June 23rd, 2001.
(sd)
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17.Jun.2001
Carsten Scholling (ANF)
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MUI: NList.mcc V19.99 and V19.100
Under the title link you will find the long awaited bugfix for NList.mcc
fixing the wordwrap problem.
There are also new betas with noticeable higher speed to find there.
Especially inserting/removing of a lot of entries at once takes much time
in the list-view of NList.
That's why save and management routines were optimized. With some of the
operations NList now is up to 3.5 times faster than the old version.
Even the origin must surrender for some items (factor 1.2 - 1.3). But to
compare directly is not quite fair, since NList offers a lot of features more
and therefore has to calculate more, sometimes.
Furthermore NListtree of course benefits from the new performance.
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17.Jun.2001
Ray A. Akey (E-Mail)
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Amiga Inc. and Matay announce Cooperation for AmigaOS/4
Amiga and Matay Announce AmigaOS/4 Cooperative
Snoqualmie, 16 June, 2001 - Amiga Inc and Matay company are pleased to
announce they are co-operating on a series of initiatives that will see the
AmigaOS4 family of operating systems running on Matay's existing and future
products.
At the St Louis show in April, Amiga announced the continued development of
AmigaOS, with AmigaOS4 moving AmigaOS3 to modern hardware and preparing the
way for AmigaOS5. AmigaOS5 will be targeted at both the home server and the
desktop/workstation markets.
"In developing AmigaOS4.0, we have been making extensive use of the
Prometheus PCI bridge board, to get a head start on developing drivers for
the various sub systems whilst we wait for the Eyetech AmigaOne to be
completed," said Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc. "The quality of both their
product and support, and their commitment to the future of the Amiga has
made working with them a pleasure, and we look forward to this co-operation
intensifying over the next few years."
"We are very excited to work with Amiga Inc., the company that leads our
community into the new technological revolution. In the incoming years, we
will witness a breakthrough in digital home appliances, a trend to abandon a
single computer workstation in favour of several smaller, yet more
user-friendly devices. The revolution is coming, though we need to prepare
for it, like the Amiga market needs transition from our classic computers to
new technologies and standards. Amiga Inc. is the company that foresees
these trends and enters the digital future today. We are proud that our
Prometheus board, the first Zorro III PCI bridge for Amiga, helps them in
making these plans come true," said Filip Dab- Mirowski, CEO of Matay
company. "We will continue co-operation with Amiga Inc., not only providing
them with hardware solutions for today Amiga market but also working
together on products for the future digital market."
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc is a privately held Seattle based digital solutions company that
revolutionised computing in 1984 with the introduction of the A1000, and has
consistently been at the cutting edge of the digital revolution ever since.
Currently it offers a complete solution for digital living, the AmigaDE
(Digital Environment) which provide a device and OS (host) agnostic,
universal, scalable content platform for OEMs and IHVs, consumers, producers
and brokers of digital content, and the AmigaOS, a 68k and PPC based
desktop, workstation and digital server platform for the most demanding of
activities. The AmigaDE is currently being deployed on a variety of major
cell phone, PDA, Set Top Box, Console, Digital Appliance and existing
personal computer platforms. AmigaOS4 is expected to be launched in 3Q2001,
running on the new AmigaOne computer. For further information, please email
press@amiga.com,
support@amiga.com or telephone
(US) 425 396 5660.
About Matay:
Matay company is a privately held computer business oriented company. It was
founded in 2000 as an Amiga-only software dealer and in a very short time
earned trust of Polish Amiga users. With the introduction of Prometheus PCI
bridge for Zorro III equipped Amigas, Matay has extended its offer with
hardware solutions for the Amiga platform and professional electronic design
of printed-circuitboards. Now, with the announcement of close co-operation
with Amiga Inc., Matay enters a domain of digital appliances, which is
predicted to be the future of home and business computing around the world.
For more information, please email info@matay.pl,
fei@matay.pl or telephone
(+48) 609 394 778 or (+48) 603 785 100. (ps)
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17.Jun.2001
Andreas Widdelmann (ANF)
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Game: HBMonopoly V2.6
HBMonopoly by Holger Beer now is available for download as version 2.6 at the
title link.
HBMonopoly is a conversion for the Amiga of the popular board game.
It runs in a Workbench window or on it's own screen and supports many different
languages and specific country versions. Up to eight players, controlled by the
computer or by human players, can take part in one game. From version 2 HBMonopoly
is network capable and can be played via a local network of even via Internet.
Information about the online games are to find on the website of the IRC channel
#AmigaFun.
(ps)
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