03.Jan.2001
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF
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Cult Magazines
Because PC-Joker will be delivered for the last time I want to give you the hint that at
kultpower.de the PowerPlay-archives was expanded very much.
Current state: 281 test results, 113 complete test reports as scans, 35 scanned advertising for games,
57 PowerPlay-covers. You can search through the database of PowerPlay very comfortably.
Besides this you can admire 53 ASM-covers from the current software-market.
So you are right at kultpower.de if you want to indulge in memories and to read test reports of cult
games like Turrican, Monkey Island, Battle Isle or Lemmings.
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03.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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SecondSpin Beta-Tester Wanted
You can transform audio-CDs to MPEG-audio 1,2 or 3 with SecondSpin. Additionally further formats like
AIFF and WAV are supported.
Author Lauri Ahonen has finished his military service and will now take care more intensively of the
development of SecondSpin. Because of that he is looking for some new beta tester.
Please contact him via eMail if you are interested in.
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03.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Mediator News: Soundblaster Driver for AHI
Mr. Wajda has posted in
Mediator mailing list that he
was informed by ELBOX that the Soundblaster-driver for PCI-board 'Mediator' will
make use of the sound system AHI. It is not known when the driver will come to release.
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03.Jan.2001
KDH
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Upgrade AWebIISE to the Full Version
Expand your limited special version of Amiga internet browser AWEBII SE which was
delivered with Amiga OS3.5 and OS3.9 to the full version.
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03.Jan.2001
Amiga Inc.
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AmigaOS 3.5 Boing Bag #2 Released
Today the Boing Bag #2 has appeared as update to AmigaOS 3.5.
Download: BoingBag2.lha - 1,2 MB
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03.Jan.2001
BlitzEngineers
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BlitzEngineers News
You can now access the website of BlitzEngineers (SMSEngineerMUI) under its own domain of
http://www.blitzengineers.de/. It was completely new rewritten.
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03.Jan.2001
Wolfgang Kalaene on ANF
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PC Joker Closes Down
You can read at Gamesmania.de the following lines:
PC Joker (note: successor of Amiga Joker) will be closed down
«Sad message for all Joker-fans. The PC-magazine will be closed down right before its
hundredth issue. The subscriptions will be taken over by IDG-publishing house`s GameStar. The deliveries
of these subscriptions contain a explanation of Joker-chief editor Michael Labiner. This is the second
magazine dinosaur after PowerPlay which has passed.»
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03.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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3PMGUI Released
You can download the first version of 3PMGUI under the title link.
(The program is stored in the Amiga/Projekts site).
3PMGUI gives the MP2/3 Shell-Player MPEGA a small surface with most important functions.
Because MPEGA as well as the GUI make use of the CPU very economically 3PMGUI is suited to
Amiga user which has got a small CPU.
Features:
- small, fast and easily configurable
- graphical button surface exchangeable
- Shell commands for MPEGA configurable<
- Help functions and possibility of saving of MP2/3s
Postscript to 3PMGUI: The error that 3PMGUI do not find the pictures at the beginning has been cleared.
You can download the new version (still always 0.1) under the title link. Sorry.
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02.Jan.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench News
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, the maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international
free small ads, reports in his year summary about the adverse conditions capable to make
a webmaster's life really hard, sometimes. AmiBench was hunted by bad luck last year:
scripts which weren't finished; the service provider got hacked; the server played yoyo;
the web account was closed by mistake; no feedback from the readers; ....
I can comprehend well that such conditions are very annoying and motivation goes to zero sometimes.
Give Mark positive feedback to give his motivation a boost. :)
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02.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Worm Wars Version 6.5 Released
Version 6.5 of the Game 'Worm Wars' has been released.
Download: wormwars.lha - 775 KB
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02.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
ON.lha comm/irc 12K+ON function for AmIRC
ClipWatch.lha comm/misc 181K+Tool to call Clip/WIT remote surveillanc
samba_2.0.7.lha comm/tcp 6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
nms-spaceqst1e.lha demo/intro 16K+Space Quest 1E. cracktro from Nemesis
pvt-cafe.lha demo/slide 2.3M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 1999-200
BallMasterSrc.lha dev/basic 48K+Source for BallMaster V1.2
powerd.lha dev/e 723K+New powerful programming language v0.16
yaec.lha dev/e 235K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.1.1 Bet
catcheck.lha dev/misc 23K+Amiga catalog tester, v1.0
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 81K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha disk/misc 68K+DVD-RAM RDB, MountList and DOSDrivers Ma
msd95v16.lha disk/misc 40K+MS FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 Filesystem handler
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 582K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 12/
amiuserlist.lha docs/lists 65K+AmigaUserList V10.96 of Germany, Switzer
amigazette_00.lha docs/mags 81K+AMIGAzette (italian magazine)
amigazette_01.lha docs/mags 167K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (20.06.1999) (itali
amigazette_02.lha docs/mags 633K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (10.08.1999) (itali
amigo6_2.lha game/board 88K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
Mattonite.lha game/demo 237K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha game/misc 776K+WormWars 6.5: Advanced snake game
Powerdrive.lha game/patch 40K+HD-Installer for Powerdrive V1.0
Viz.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for Viz V1.0
WorldCricket.lha game/patch 33K+HD-Installer for World Cricket V1.0
gumband.lha game/role 930K+Gumband 2.1.2a - Roguelike solo RPG
BallMasterAGA.lha game/think 1.4M+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
BallMasterECS.lha game/think 934K+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
Pishti.lha game/wb 106K+Popular Turkish card game. (v1.01)
centipede.lha gfx/3d 682K+Futuristic 3D font for Maxon Cinema 4D
chair.lha gfx/3dobj 130K+Steel Chair Object for Maxon Cinema 4D
jpeg2mov.lha gfx/conv 30K+Creates a QuickTime-Movie
AMP.lha gfx/show 188K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AVI,QT/MOV,FLI/FLC,NSF pla
AMP2.lha gfx/show 146K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AC3 player v2.00 (001229)
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 59K+V1.3, Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aipt
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 542K+V1.56 PSX MemoryCard Reader
ICS.lha hard/misc 2.4M+V2.01LE ICS - professional color correct
imdbDiff001222.lha misc/imdb 1.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
af-bassic_tune.lha mods/techn 231K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 143bpm
af-vklop.lha mods/techn 984K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 140bpm
GMP-G.lha mus/midi 123K+GUI for GMPlay V1.3(a)
SDT_MSR.lha mus/misc 4K+Sound Ripper
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 121K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EasyMOD.lha mus/play 14K+Simple shell-based MOD-player
EasyPlayer.lha mus/play 90K+The alternative music player, v1.04
CGXBootPic39.lha pix/boot 164K+CGXBootPic.library for OS 3.9
jcIconsII.lha pix/icon 130K+Os3.5,os3.9 Icon package II
no_shower.lha pix/misc 189K+[ancor] a pic with Sarah and her sister
sg-strip_2.lha pix/misc 80K+[ancor] strip 2 of the comic
sg-strip_3.lha pix/misc 66K+[ancor] strip 3 of the comic
AW-Filter.lha text/dtp 50K+AmigaWriter filter for PageStream
Word8-Filter.lha text/dtp 7K+Word 8 filter for PageStream
titleshadow.lha util/boot 4K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
PowerTools.lha util/moni 11K+Power failure logger
fastbar.lha util/wb 32K+FASTBAR1.07b, another screen-manager for
TransAGA.lha util/wb 32K+TransAGA, Transparent Workbench3x menu f
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02.Jan.2001
ModePro
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ModePro Millennium Edition
A millennium edition of the screen manager ModePro has been released.
The program was completely recompiled in December.
Download: ModePro.lha
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02.Jan.2001
BoingWorld
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BallMaster Source Code Available under GNU
Damir Arh, author of several games for Amiga computers has released the
source code of the game BallMaster under GNU Public License. Also two versions of the game
itself are available for free download.
Download:
BallMasterAGA.lha - 1,4 MB
BallMasterECS.lha - 934 KB
BallMasterSrc.lha - 48 KB
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02.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Several Software Updates
In the new version of JST v4.3b a save error was fixed. With this program you
are able to copy many of the disk games to harddisk and then start the games from
there.
Download: jst.lha
Version 2.0.7 of the open source network software 'Samba' was released.
Download: samba_2.0.7.lha
powerd v.0.16 is a completely new programming language, but similar to AmigaE. You can find closer information
in the documentation.
Download: powerd.lha
'yeac' is the beta version of a completely new AmigeE compiler.
Download: yaec.lha
Two new plugins by Ruediger Hanke for the DTP software PageStream were released. The Word8 filter
allows to import even text saved with Word97 / Word2000. You can import documents saved with
AmigWriter using the AmigaWriter filter.
Download:
Word8-Filter.lha
AW-Filter.lha
With 'DVD-RAM' you can connect DVD drives to the Amiga. Using the DVD-RAM software
2.6 G and 4.7 G (per side) medias are recognized.
Download: DVD-RAM.lha
In the patch archive for the browser AWeb the installer was extended by installation of language.
A Russian catalog has been added to the catalogs archive.
Download:
AWeb3x34pch.lha
cats34.lha
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01.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Graphics Boards Page: 7th Anniversary
Congratulations! The graphics boards page where you can find informations
dealing with graphics boards for Amiga computers celebrates 7th anniversary.
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01.Jan.2001
AmiHoo
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AmiHoo Magazin No. 3
Issue number 3 of the AmiHoo magazine published.
This issue contains news, reviews and a contest.
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01.Jan.2001
Grasshopper LLC
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Grasshopper LLC
Grasshopper, publisher of 'Pagestream', wish you a happy new year and tells that
within the first week of the year phone calls will not be answered, but e-mails.
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01.Jan.2001
VaporWare
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AmIRC 3.5.6beta
Beta version 3.5.6 of AmIRC released for that v3.5.5 beta timed out on 1st of January.
Download: amirc_356.lzx
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01.Jan.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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Some new URLs for amiNetGUI
I applied some new URLs for amiNetGUI:
http://aminet.x2.nu
http://aminet.cs.nu
http://aminet.cc.nu
http://aminet.wls.net
http://aminet.tiz.net
http://aminet.pc5.org
http://aminet.x15.org
http://aminet.0am.org
http://aminet.foren.org
http://aminet.home-page.nu
http://fly.to/aminet
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01.Jan.2001
Marcel Rohles on ANF
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New FreeCiv Beta Version
A new beta version of Freeciv, a 'Civilization II'-like multiplayer strategy game,
is available for download at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Jochen Rhein on ANF
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New Version of ICS Released
From ICS, the free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software is a
major new ICS upgrade V2.01 now available. Following new features have
been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF,
TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling
- Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also
a retry function
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats
- Also, memory requirement was reduced.
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01.Jan.2001
Allister Brimble via eMail
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Amiga Music Website
Allister Brimble published his own webside at mp3s.com. He is well
known for his work for Alienbreed, Project X, Bodyblows and Superfrog.
He is still working for the software industry and he is composing music for Driver,
Driver 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Some songs he did are available at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox Wish Happy New Year
Elbox sent in new year greetings which should not be taken too seriously according to what they stated.
The Not-So-Serious Inside Story Announcement
Crack-off, 31 December 2000
The pi-pi-Castro Task Force is proud to promote the latest technique
of advertising.
The pi-pi Castro Task Force hereby authorise everybody to read
the secrets of their latest technology of collecting money
in advertising and to disclose this secret to enyone on the way:
- We, the world-famous pi-pi Castro Task Force,
produced the world-famous graphic system
for the world-dominant computer platform of the Ah-miga.
Sure, we did some work. Nobody paid us for that :-(
- Then we saw some people get big in the Ah-miga world.
- We thought: "Why don't take money from them?"
- We noticed Err-box produced their hardware (el mediatore).
- Err-box produced their software (the pi-pi driver).
- We did not help them (why should we?)
- So we thought we could ask Err-box for money for using
our world-famous name of pi-pi 96
- Therefore we are world famous. Proved.
- Err-box did not want to pay us.
- We asked other friends to persuade Err-box.
- Franco Mariacchi managed to get computers
and Special-Delusion-Kit documents
from Err-box - FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- Hi-period managed to get some hardware from Err-box
plus the same paperwork. FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- We did not manage to get a single pfenig from Err-box.
And we need paper too.
- Franco Mariacchi and Hi-period are laughing at us.
- Therefore we are suckers.
And our friends are laughing at us. Proved.
- Aha. A painting family wants us to pay DM 6,000
for using the "Pi-pi-Castro" name.
- Therefore we wanted Err-box to pay it for us.
- As Err-box are discussing the issue behind the curtain,
and we need cash badly, we demand Ah-miga users
to register our pi-pi system immediately
and pay us for their being happy.
- If nobody pays us, we will cry out
that any other soap-ware worldwide is ill-egg-all.
(Apart from our pi-pi-castro, sure enough.) Proved.
Err-box Komm-puter was happy to find
the appropriate name for this
new method of advertising: the REVERSE ADVERTISING.
Danke mucho, err-boxie.
Please remember that you have to pay us DEM 5.00 or
USD 10.00 every time you use the word "advertising".
The Pi-Pi-Castro Task Force
Courtesy of Err-box Komm-puter
De-pression De-partition-ment
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There is a popular custom in Poland to make jokes
on colleagues and fellow people in the end of the year,
to summarise the most prevalent features
of their behaviour during the year.
Here is our summary of what has transpired
between the P96 team and ELBOX Computer during that time.
Please take it with a bit of reserve,
as we do not intend to offend anyone,
just to introduce a pinch of humour into the issue,
which seemed to be so tense and serious in the Amiga world.
Happy New Year!!!
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31.Dec.2000
Starmag-Team on ANF
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Jubilee-Starmag #25 is Online
Das Starmag-Team wrote:
Hello, dear people!
We wish the Amiga-News-team a happy new year and of course our
readers,too.
Issue #25 is out and ready for download and online reading on our
website.
Greetings,
Your Starmag-Team
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31.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail
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Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd v1.3
On 31. December 2000 Chris Hodges has released the version 1.3
of the graphics tablet driver 'FormAldiHyd'. The driver supports the graphics
tablets Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310. From the Readme
you can draw the changes against the older version. Among other things this
Millennium edition contains a fireworks demo.
Download: FormAldiHyd.lha (59 K),
Readme
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31.Dec.2000
ANN
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ANN Celebrates 4. Birthday
On 28. December 2000 the news service Amiga Network News
by Christian Kemp became 4 years old.
Under the title link Christian first lets the ANN year 2000 pass in review to
have a look into the future afterwards. Looking back he can reference to almost
2 millions registered page views this year with around 50 GB transferred files.
Against the year 1999 with 700 000 page views this is more than a doubling.
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31.Dec.2000
Andreas Wendorf on ANF
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Photos of 'The Party 2000'
Warp9 has put some photos of 'The Party 2000 / Denmark' into the web.
'The Party 2000' is a scene/demo party that attracts around 4,000 people every
year in Aars in northern Denmark.
Supplement: 01.01.2001:
Juergen Beck via eMail:
There were several new amazing Amiga demos and intros. Among them well done
demos of the demo groups Haujobb, and Ephidrena.
Download: demos
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31.Dec.2000
frost on ANF
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AOG-News with New Website
frost wrote:
The AOG site has been completely redesigned.
And we wish everybody a happy new year.
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31.Dec.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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News on the PlayGUI Website
Richard Kapp wrote:
As Rolf Roth has unfortunately no more time to attend the official PlayGUI site,
I (author of PlayGUI) have now taken over this task. The site shines now in a
complete new design and besides, there are again three new skins, a funny theme
and also other news. I wish you all a happy new year 2001!
(PlayGUI is a graphical interface for Hippoplayer, Play16, GMPlay
and MPEGA, that uses skins and themes. By this it is possible to play GUI, MODs,
MIDIs, MP2/3s and samples with one single (ex)changable GUI.)
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report #17
On 30. December 2000 James Daniels has released the status report #17 regarding
the game 'Payback'. The game now offers additionally a multiplayer deathmatch
mode for up to 4 players. To do this much had to be changed in the source code
and therefor much work had to be put into this mode as the game wasn't design
for supporting a multiplayer mode first. But the work was, according to James
Daniels, worth it. Screens of the multiplayer mode are released on the screenshots page.
The latest photos there also contain the improved textures.
Besides that the game now supports also the CD32 controller, and several bugs
have been fixed.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Scalos: Iconsystem, Updates of WB3.9 Plugin and VolumeGauge Plugin
The new iconsystem for Scalos supports the normal and the AmigaOS 3.5 icons as
well as the NewIcons.
Regarding the WB3.9 plugin and VolumeGauge plugin of Scalos updates have been released
which fix bugs. The WB3.9 plugin allows under AmigaOS 3.5+ the use of newer
features like 'AmiDock'. The VolumeGauge plugin equips all root volume windows
with a fill gauge in the left window border in the AmigaOS v3.5 style. This
plugin runs on AmigaOS V3.0+.
The following bugs were fixed:
- VolumeGauge: on iconifying of windows problems appeared.
- WB3.9: There are additional system checks so that the plugin runs now more
stable. Besides that the AmigaOS V3.5+ preferences are now loaded from workbench.prefs.
Download:
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar: FAQ and Crincles of 55
Regarding the move based online strategy game 'Tales of Tamar' a German FAQ and the
chronicles of the year 55
were released. The FAQ answers the most important questions regarding the game
and gives a hint how to play 'Tales of Tamar' on the Amiga emulator 'UAE'.
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31.Dec.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Vote for the Game of the Year 2000
As in the past years you can vote for the game of the year at Amiga
Flame this year again. There are 12 games (adventures, real time strategy and
other genres) for voting.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Auctions on Fun Time World
Since several days there's the possibility to purchase resp. to sell soft- and
hardware by auction on Fun Time World.
Directly on the homepage there's also a text box listing the up-to-date version
numbers of the latest software titles or updates for the Amiga.
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31.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM
'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW
that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga
in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical),
official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox,
Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems,
accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware),
support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.)
and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).
All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found
on the homepage.
Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success
of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS -
The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.
And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and
successful year 2001.
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31.Dec.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden in the Forum
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Warp3D and PCI Graphics Boards
Recently Hans-Jörg Frieden has expressed himself in our
forum regarding the topic driver
software for PCI graphics boards under Warp3D:
«Unfortunately the number of e-mails regarding Warp3D and PCI cards
accumulates for Thomas and me. Almost every time it is "I have purchased a card
of the brand XXX, when will you have 3D drivers ready?"...
Regarding this I want to say the following: Warp3D is and will continue to be a hobby project
that is cooking on smaller flame as for now, because of the time consumption
of Hyperion. If possible we'll write drivers. Nevertheless I will explicitly
point out, that the buying of a graphics card is no cogent reason for us to produce a
driver for it - as that takes quite some time. There will probably be no
driver for Voodoo 5 (V4 is questionable but more likely), none for GeForce, Riva TNT,
ATI Rage or whatever else, especially when there exists no chip documentation.
Neither we will attempt to recycle a Linux driver.
In the case that somebody could get some chip documentation (legal!) and make it
available for us the chances for a driver increase but this is no guarantee
either.»
Via email Hans-Joerg adds that this is no kind of arbitrariness but only a
hint that people shouldn't waste their money for graphics cards that can't be
supported simply because of the lack of time or documentation...
We are getting mails all the time from people asking for GeForce support or
Voodoo 5 but for those documentation isn't accessible. We have tried it even at
NVidia, without success, even not against NDA... :-(
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30.Dec.2000
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Happy new year from amiga-news.de!
© 2001 by Rolf Tingler (ps)
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30.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
MicroBase_500d.lha biz/dbase 830K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN
MicroBase_500e.lha biz/dbase 439K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH
Videomat1.7.lha biz/dbase 56K+Video cassette management system
OS3.9NOupd.lha biz/misc 2K+Bugfix for Norwegian translation of Amig
yaec_fix.lha dev/e 0K+Fixes stupid archive error in yaec.lha (
Progr_Langs_v6.lha dev/misc 71K+Comparison of progr. langs
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Mattonite.lha game/demo 234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Tankista_v0.3b.lha game/demo 105K+Buggy betaversion action game for 2 play
MicroPaint208.lha gfx/edit 492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
Keyswitch.lha hard/hack 13K+Automatic keyboard&mouse switch (German)
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 133K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 72K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ECat01.lha misc/misc 15K+Spanish Catalogs Pack 01
psY_srY.lha mods/blkha 87K+REvENgE - Nachfolger PT mod by blakkhar
BoingRays.jpg pix/back 152K+Boing Ball peeking out of dark clouds
AP12Recto.jpg pix/misc 128K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Recto
AP12Verso.jpg pix/misc 74K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Verso
dau-cdrom.jpg pix/misc 29K+How might a CD-ROM for dummies look like
titleshadow.lha util/boot 3K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
iFlush.lha util/cli 13K+Flushes UnUsed MemBlocks() Librarys() ,
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 289K+Report+ 4.21: 10-function utility
MicroRexx202.lha util/rexx 50K+ARexx Intuition extension
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30.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Advertising at Amiga Future
Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine
proposes a "commercial" advertising for "non commercial" products in Amiga
Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to shareware
developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that
are interested in this offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as soon as
possible.
The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish a happy new year 2001 to all of
you.
APC&TCP wish a happy new year 2001
to all of the Amiga users. You can look forward to next year because APC&TCP
is planning to release a whole lot of new Amiga products next year.
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30.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOLbits Newsticker
We wish a happy new year to all of our customers!
Our shop will be closed until 07.01.2001.
Martin Strobl writes:
I have build the Elbox-Mediator PCI Board into my showroom tower and I am very
pleased with the VooDoo 3000/16MB graphicsboard I also build in, since this
duo is faster than my private CybervisionPPC.
(showroom tower: Blizzard 1260, Private: CyberstormPPC 233/060/50).
A question concerning this subject: Is there interest to buy the Mediator-PCI
Board/ PCI graphics board directly with a licensed version of the Picasso96
drivers? If you are interested please send an email to
martin@coolbits.de. If there is enough
interest I will contact the makers of the drivers to ask for the price of such
a deal.
By the way, here is a tip for all those who own EXODUS in combination with a
CybervsionPPC (maybe also other graphics boards:
The game ran extremely slow on my computer until I removed the program
"PREPAREMUL" of Shapeshifter from my startup-sequence.
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30.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke in ANF
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EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.6 Released
This millennium's final release of the classic edition of EZP@gerNG has
now also been released. It is as always available in the download section.
The changes of this release are similar to those of the full version 1.3 of
EZP@gerNG, as far as the CE-version supports the different features. All the
changes of
this release.
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30.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga Closing it's Doors...
Juergen A. Theiner wrote:
On 01.01.2001 I will close playamiga.de. But only to be back for you (at the
latest) in February. And then with a lot of new features:
- New layout
- More tests and previews
- Release list
- The possibility to order games directly on the site.
- Monthly column about the Amiga and its world
- Charts and, and, and ...
If you want to continue to participate actively in the creation of the page, I
would like to ask you to send me the names of your favourite games so I can
create the charts (eispirat@home.ivm.de).
Important: The Payback Work in Progress
Report will stay online and will be renewed soon.
Happy new year!
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30.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino in ANF
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News from Infomedia Network
Fun Time World wrote:
"The homepage of Amiga's partner has been completely reworked. There aren't a
lot of news, but the first pictures of the Set-Top-Bow TVision based on Amiga
technology have been released."
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30.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena - Special Price Deal
The special price deal of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow will be maintained until the
31.01.2001.
I wish everybody a happy new year and success for 2001!
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30.Dec.2000
AmiDog
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AMP2 Version 2.00 Released
Version 2.00 of the movie player AMP2 has been released. In this version there
are a lot of new features. The author tried to make this version as stable and
bugfree as possible. However if you have MPEG movies that don't work or make
AMP 2 crash, the author would be happy to receive a message from you by
eMail.
Download: AMP200.lha
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Amiga Sound Standards and How to Destroy Them (Part 1)
Joern Plewka wrote:
In the past Katodev had to fight the fact that internally there wasn't enough
menpower available. That's why it was impossible for us to participate in
certain discussions. The things that head towards us now (criticism about
AMPlifier) is from our point of view hard and "generated".
Katodev and others are trying to support all of the existing standards those
usable from concept. We'd like to point out that the mpeg.device has been
released 1993 by Commodore (picture and sound). All cards with hardware
MPEG-support that were released after that have used this driver. CD32-FMV,
Peggy+, Melody-Z2, Melody1200 series and also the Delfina series.
For the later even the source code is available on Aminet. Those who are
now still not capable of writing a correct driver for their hardware should
simply ask for help or make their hardware layout available for everyone!
AMPlifier supports this standard. Those who create a driver for their hardware
can use this software unlicensed. AMPlifier is part of OS3.9 or available on
our homepage (unrestricted shareware) in Rev. 2.21. Those who don't like the
software should write their own, but please support the standards!
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Silversurfer does NOT Work with Melody1200
Joern Plewka wrote:
Since the Cologne fair previous to this year's fair the Silversurfer in it's
original state doesn't work correctly with Melody1200 since the complete
clockport is blocked, which is in contradiction with what the manufacturer
states at his homepage. This information isn't even available to users when
they ask for support. Katodev is fed up with fixing Silversurfers without
complaining, by now. Currently it seems that even the software does NOT work
with Melody1200 anymore.
If Silversurfer and Melody1200 can't work together simultaneoulsy it means
that Melody can die from bus-collisions, sooner or later. Please get a guaranty
on purchase that Silversurfer does the things you require or use Twister1200.
This makes you preventing a lot of anger, port and time for you and us.
We have reconstructed the layout of the Silversurfer now. This shows that the
IRQ runs over a diode. Those having problems due to this "trick" should
replace the diode by a transistor (e.g. BS170).
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29.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New Informationen on New Trojan
I have received some new info about the new trojan that was found
on the 27'th of December. It is spread in an archive with the name
"dcs-4k.lha". But the demo group have nothing to do with this new
trojan. We have also been told that it is a guy from England and
that he also made the "dkg-blum.lha" trojan, his name and address is
known to Virus Help Denmmark. Thanks to Mikko for the new info.
Here once more the full information on the new archive (we had posted
these on 12/27/2000 already):
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your
"sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus
programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will
be known.
The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then
you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv,
AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.
Here is some info about the infected archive:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name....: 4KIntro.exe
Trojan size....: 4096 bytes (packed with StoneCracker 4.04)
: 6072 bytes (un-packed)
Archive name.. : dcs-4k.lha
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)
This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....
Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..
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29.Dec.2000
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Visitor #2,000,000 on amiga-news.de
Last night, the 2,000,000th visitor came to our website. Joe has sent us a
screenshot of the 'event'. A proud number for 27 months. This
turns out about 74,074 visitors per month, with rising tendency.
Currently, between 6,000 and 8,000 readers visit us per day!
This is the opportunity to thank you for this great acceptance. We are
very happy, especially about the fact that more and more programmers,
developers, and readers take the chance to enter news in our
Amiga News Forum (ANF) themselves.
As you certainly know, we are a team of Amiga users
who invest a large amount of their spare time in this project. That's exactly
why we are happy about your feedback and of course most of all about every support, as without all your
help, amiga-news.de wouldn't have emerged to what it is today: one of the best news services
for the Amiga :).
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29.Dec.2000
ANN
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Jay Miner Millennial Memories Video
A new video from Kermit Woodall is available for download at Nova Design.
Download: jayminermm.mpg - 23,4 MB
Also, there's a 30 second video extract at Nova Design, which was produced from a video for
Bob Scharp's Bounce Back Videos.
The idea behind the 'Bounce Back Videos' is to give Amiga user groups the
opportunity to convey background knowledge on several projects to the users.
Download: novacomm.mpg - 6 MB
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29.Dec.2000
Richard H. Poser II via eMail
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AmigAIM BETA version 0.9406 released
A new beta version 0.9406 of AmigaAIM, the client for Amiga to participate
in the AOL Instant Messenger Service, was released. It's available for download at the usual places.
Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
AmigAIM 0.9406 Beta (28 Dec 2000)
- Fixed problem with ARexx command "login", was supposed to use last logged in
name if user is not specified. Now acts as originally planned.
- Added Notes section for each buddy for user to keep private data about buddies,
accessed via Contextmenu (Edit Notes) in "Online" as well as Chat Menu in
Chat Window.
Download: AmigaAIM_BETA.lha
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29.Dec.2000
Lars Maschmann on ANF
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New AmBoS-Support-Homepage
A new support homepage is available for the Amiga mailbox program "AmBoS".
It can be found at http://ambos.regiodata.de
and contains information and downloads (current updates and a complete demo archive).
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29.Dec.2000
Carlos on ANF
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PalmBackup 1.9 Released
PalmBackup is the Amiga software for PalmPilot/Visor/ThinkPad (and derivatives)
users that allows backup/restore of databases held on your handheld computer,
new software installation, and advanced database management. Since 1.9 PalmBackup
was released as free software (the full source code is also available). The
project has a new homepage at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmbackup
where the latest news, and releases can be found.
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29.Dec.2000
S&R Raghoebardayal on ANF
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CoyoteSound: Early Beta Released as Freeware
An early beta-version of CoyoteSound has been released as freeware.
This version is still very limited but since development has continued
a little while ago, it might change very soon.
If you want to see more development on this program, please contact the
authors (coyoteflux@chello.nl) and tell
them why. CoyoteSound will remain freeware.
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29.Dec.2000
Rafal Kwasny on ANF
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New 16 Bit Amiga Sound Card under Development
A new 16 bit sound card called 'Martina' for the Amiga is under development.
Specifications:
- 1x stereo out 16bit, max 96kHz
- 2x stereo in 16bit, max 96kHz (sampler)
- expansion port for MPEG modules (MP3 layer decoding, MPEG-1 for clock port
version)
- no pass through (card is blocking clock port)
- AHI drivers, audio.device overtake function, MPEG decoder handling possible
in the future by mpga.library,
- mixing audio from Paula and CD-ROM devices
- 24bit, MPEG-2 ROM-mounted version (for BVision and FastAta users),
compatible with a4000 (a3000 possible)
More information and a screenshot of the prototype are to find at the title link.
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28.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF
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StrICQ v0.1734 Released
On the StrICQ support page v0.1734 has been released which should fix
some bugs in version v0.1733.
Download: stricq.lha - 222 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Tobias Abt via eMail
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Picasso96 Driver for Mediator
Sufficient demand for Picasso96 drivers for Mediator provided, that is about 300 registered
users (specify Mediator for purpose when registering), in case of need we will purchase
a complete developer- and test-system with our own funds, and then create own drivers
for diverse PCI graphics boards. This drivers will then be of quality known form
us.
But Elbox mentioned to us that they already would have shipped two systems to Germany for other
driver development (CGX). Well, it would be in our terms to provide us one of these. To charge
UPS with delivery cannot cost the world.....
Another problem would be accessing the API of the Mediator system's pci.library. Elbox provides
this only for NDA, though they don't feel themselves to be bound to such concinnities, see their
unauthorized Voodoo3-P96 driver...
If they would refuse us to access this, of course this would raise a certain problem which could
lead to slightly delays.
Supplement 12-29-2000:
Tobias Abt via eMail:
Afterwards we got the information that this developer system provided to the CGX team was
distributed by Vesalia, but financed by Elbox.
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28.Dec.2000
Amiga Club Steinfurt
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New SiteWay-Modul: EasyAccess
EasyAccess is a helpful tool in creating and editing CGI scripts. Using this local
server one can test his sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI). EasyAccess is part of
the SiteWay project.
Download: EasyAccess.lha - 405 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner
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MainPrefs Version 2.02 Released
Who wants to change environment variables, handily edit configuration files as like s:startup-sequence or
start OS preferences tools in a predictable way can do that using MainPrefs V2.02, now. The program
requires OS3.5 because of its Reaction-GUI.
Download: mainprefs.lha - 65 KB
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28.Dec.2000
B. van der Meer on ANF
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Amiga-news Now Also At AmigaScene.nl
We have integrated amiga-news.de in Dutch on our website, now. Our thanks to Dirk Baeyens and Petra Struck.
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28.Dec.2000
Matthias Muench
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DCE with New Homepage
DCE has got a new homepage. There are also to find a few new information on G-REX for Amiga 4000.
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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VaporWare 2000: Winners Published
The US magazine Wired again has published the award winners for announced but not released
computer products. Hundreds of voters again participated. This year award seems to hit
Apple (a hard year for Apple since Steve Jobs had to concede profit caution and errors).
Another link on this subject:
Heise: Vaporware 2000: Die Gewinner (German)
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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New Roadmap for Mozilla
ProLinux wrote:
"Plans for future versions of Mozilla up to v1.2 has been published on the Mozilla project's
website".
Might become a subject for the future AmigaDE.
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Amiga.com opens User Group Database
One can register for the database on the developer site of Amiga.com (see link).
Amiga dazu:
«We will also have a UBB message board, a searchable User Group database,
and mailing lists so that User Groups world wide may communicate
together. All of this will be available from links off this main page.
If you are a User Group member and have other suggestions, please send
feedback to: support@amiga.com».
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