21.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Workbench 3.5 Guide by Peter Hutchison
On 20. January 2001 Peter Hutchison has released his
"Workbench 3.5 Guide" in Englisch language.
The guide covers the subject:
Reaction, preferences, Workbench, CacheCDFS, Internet, FastFileSystem,
ROM patches, printer drivers, PowerPC support, colour icons
and third party utilities.
Besides the online version (title link) there's an AmigaGuide version available
for download.
Download: AmigaOS35.lha
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21.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Auction tool: AmiBud for eBay
On their homepage F1
Software announces an eBay client for the Amiga. There are currently no details
released, but a screenshot.
Everybody who has questions or comments regarding the software might mail to
amigastuff@onemain.com.
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21.Jan.2001
ANN
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Finish user group 'Saku' with New URL
The WWW address of the "Finish Amiga Users Group", also known as 'Saku' which is the name
of their magazine, has changed. The address is now:
http://batman.jypoly.fi/~saku/english/.
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21.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Review of the PC Version of Realsoft 3D v4
In the beginning of December 2000 Hyperion und Realsoft had
announced the port
of the 3D software package "Realsoft3D V4" for the Amiga
On 9. January 2001 a
review of the
PC version of Realsoft 3D V4 was released on
Planet3DArt that gives an impression
of the software.
(Real3D was originally developed for the Amiga. There was no update
since a longer period of time.)
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21.Jan.2001
Michael Haider on ANF
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News about Linux-APUS/LinuxPPC
Michael Heider wrote:
As reported at Heise some days ago new kernels in version 2.4.0 are ready for
download at linux-apus.sourceforge.net
As this server might probably be permanently overloaded, I will also make the
precompiled kernel available for download on my homepage.
New to report after reading the .config file is that the driver for the
Cyberstorm MK III controller is included in this kernel.
Furthermore, there are again new programs to be found in the download area that
I have shifted to LinuxPPC.
Among others UAE in the version 0.8.15 (new: 68040 cpu emulation) and
Quanta+, a very good HTML page editor with own preview function.
Besides, there will be new and shifted programs regularly appearing on my homepage,
taken from the Linux user magazine, .
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20.Jan.2001
gamespy.com
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Interview with Ben Hermans
James Hill of gamespy.com had an interesting interview with Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainments
about their Linux ports.
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20.Jan.2001
Bernd Gmeineder on ANF
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Fire & Ice - Now Legal and Free at AMI Sector One
AMI Sector One has the following interesting news:
First of all the company 'Jester Interactive' which owns the copyrights of many older Amiga games,
has granted us permission to post many of the games from the cult company 'Graftgold' for free download on our site:
The first free game that is available is 'Fire & Ice' which should ring a bell to every Amiga-Fan.
Furthermore more commercial games and PD classics like 'Magic Forest 2', 'Seek & Destroy', 'Mayhem', and many more
have been made available. The first version of the new 'Amiga Applications Compendium' has been put online. This allows the
user to search for more than 300 Amiga applications, companies and developers.
Nostalgic disk magazines and cheat disks put a nice finish to this year's first update.
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20.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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'The Best Of The Amiga Scene CD' for Free at mp3.com
Fredrik, also known as ORG* of X-TRADE ^ BoB, and two friends compiled an Audio CD containing the best
Amiga Songs ever five years ago. The CD sold well but now there are only two left and so it was decided
to make the songs available for free download at MP3.
Not all songs are already available, but they will be as fast as possible. Enjoy!
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20.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Looking for AmigaDE-Developers
#Developer needs YOU! If you are a AmigaDE developer come to the IRC channel #Developer on
Amiganet (see title link). If you are sick of off-topic news in mailing lists, but like to
share your knowledge about coding, #Developer is the place to be. More information about IRC and
Amiganet can be found here.
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20.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Top 10 of the Games 2000 Determined
Every year the online gaming magazine 'Amiga Flame' starts a poll to determine the best games of the
year and then compiles a top 10 hit-list. The results of 2000 are now computed. Here now the games in
reversed order:
- 10. Virtual Ball Fighters by Xteam Software Solution
- 09. Tales From Heaven by Darkage Software
- 08. Code Name Squad by Digital Dreams Entertainment
- 07. Foundation: Gold Edition by Paul Burkey (Epic Interactive)
- 06. Exodus: The Last War by Blittersoft
- 05. Bubble Heoes by Arcadia Developments (Crystal Interactive Software)
- 04. Simon The Sorcerer II by Adventure Soft (Epic Interactive)
- 03. Earth 2140 by Topware (Epic Interactive)
- 02. Nightlong by Trecision (clickBOOM)
- 01. Heretic II by Hyperion (Titan Computer)
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20.Jan.2001
Extraterrestrial developers via eMail
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New Crusader-Clone in Development - Demo Available
The team arround 'Extraterrestrial Developing' is currently working on a Crusader clone.
The first demo version 0.2b of the game called 'Silencer' is ready for download.
The game runs on a 640x480 screen with 256 colors and needs 16MB RAM and 15MB on the harddrive.
The team is still looking for a distributor.
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20.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
'Weltendaemmerung' a new strategy game by UAC Design is online. In the game the user plays a character
called Robert Ungar. He must try to stand against the creatures of Dr.Coypu. To achieve this he must
gain control over a army of mutants...
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20.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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WB 2000 Preferences Pics / PlayAmiga Design
On the occasion of the release of WB2000 Images for applications and tools with more than
350 pictures, we have now posted the current archive for preferences with 40 images on our site.
Furthermore there is a preview screenshot in the gallery on our news page of the new design of
Play! Amiga.de.
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20.Jan.2001
Friedbert Baer on ANF
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Another Interview with MeterNet
Greg Wible, CEO of MeterNet held an interview with amiga.topcool. There he talks about
his collaboration with Amiga, amongst others.
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20.Jan.2001
MindIt on ANF
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New Firmware (v1.08) for Plextor PX-R820T
There is a new firmware version 1.08 for the Plextor CD-ROM 'PX - R820T'. Here are the changes in detail:
Added:
- Reading of over-burned Audio discs
Improvements:
- Read of CD TEXT data (Error detection added)
- Initialisation of CD-Extra discs
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20.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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Interview with Greg Wible of MeterNet
Christoph Dietz had an interesting interview with Greg Wible, the founder and CEO of
MeterNet Corp.. MeterNet is the company that delivers, amongst others, the
'SimpleBox'
Greg Wible |
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Amiga-News: Where are you born?
Greg Wible: I was born in Medina, Ohio - a small town in between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. I graduated from University of Cincinnati and moved to Southern California in 1980. BTW, I understand that one primary ancestor Frederick Wible (aka "Weibel") sailed from his home in Rhine Province through Rotterdam in 1751 to relocate and start a new life in Western Pennsylvania in the US... so my family roots can be traced back to your country, Germany.
Amiga-News: How old are you?
Greg Wible: 43...but most days I feel about 28!
Amiga-News: When and where was MeterNet founded?
Greg Wible: Founded in May, 1996 with registered office in Reno, Nevada and sales office in Long Beach, California (near Los Angeles). More company info found at http://meternet.com/mtabout2.htm.
Amiga-News: Your position at MeterNet?
Greg Wible: Founder and President.
Amiga-News: How many employees are working for MeterNet and in which department the most?
Greg Wible: A total worldwide team of 12, evenly divided in sales/admin & development. We also use contract programmers from US and abroad.
Amiga-News: This seems not to be much. How large is the army of contract programmers?
Greg Wible: We are a small company. at any time we use from 0 to 6 contract programmers.
Amiga-News: Is MeterNet a public company?
Greg Wible: Currently private, although in the last two weeks we have received an offer sheet from a public company to acquire MeterNet. If/when this acquisition happens, we will make official news release.
Amiga-News: Can you tell us about investors?
Greg Wible: These are private citizens.
Amiga-News: You just introduced the "SimpleBox wb7500" with "EnReachTV2". What is this EnReachTV2?
Greg Wible: We use the SimpleBox brand throughout our product line covering both entry level and mid-class devices: wb6400, wb7500 and wb8600. Specs for the entire line are found at http://info.simplebox.com. Our MeterNet "mid-class' SimpleBox wb8600 series will be powered by AmigaDE on an x86 platform designed for broadband connection. Our 'entry level' SimpleBox wb6400 series have been shipping since 1999. Its a basic browser device using analog modem on a PA-RISC processor platform from Winbond and a tailored browser SDK from Access in Japan. We are extending our entry level category with the new wb7500 series which is powered by a tailored version of the TV2 browser from Enreach running on a Luxsonor RISC platform with soft modem. Enreach is a Chinese company that has long experience in VCD and is also working hard to promote PVR technology for their next generation TV4. But we are using their proven TV2 solution for the 'entry level' segment. We have no current plans for PVR or other 'bleeding edge' features.
Amiga-News: Do you focus an using AmigaDE in the next future for the SimpleBox?
Greg Wible: Absolutely! Initially in the wb8600 series, plus on a new Internet Radio device slated to be released in late 2001. Bill, Randy, Fleecy, Dean and the entire Amiga team are very long term alliance partners that are crucial for the continued growth of MeterNet. We anticipate mutual success utilizing AmigaDE in our SimpleBox devices.
Amiga-News: When can we expect the SimpleBox with AmigaDE to hit the market and what is the business plan for the SimpleBox?
Greg Wible: Our overall plan is to always offer a series of devices to our US vertical and export markets. We hope to begin shipments of wb8616 in US market by late February, but this depends our DSL partners and on the v1.0 software being ready. In the US we will ship the wb8616 bundled with DSL service as part of the offering. However, our current DSL partner just announced a major reorganization and have pushed back our timeline. We are still studying the best bundle and channel strategy to market in Germany, Europe and other export markets. When we do we ship, all wb8600 series will ship with online update capability, so as the AmigaDE solution continues its development progress we will offer the ability to upgrade to latest version.
Amiga-News: So the consumer only can get the SimpleBox in a bundle with provider? Or can the Set-top box be available without a provider chosen to connect through a self chosen one to the internet?
Greg Wible: In US, it will only be bundled with one provider and user cannot change (like a mobile telephone). As mentioned, we are still studying best strategy for outside US.
Amiga-News: Do you know about the existing Amiga community?
Greg Wible: We continue to learn more and more about the worldwide Amiga community, which is really quite amazing and unique.
Amiga-News: Why do you think the Amiga community is amazing and unique?
Greg Wible: Active/durable/committed/some borderline raging fanatics... and much larger than we ever imagined--especially in Germany & Europe.
Amiga-News: Do you need the Amiga community? If yes, which part of the community is important?
Greg Wible: We recognize that a portion, but not all, of the Amiga user community will be interested in our wb8600 series bundled with broadband service. But we are also targeting other market segments who, while possibly familiar with the Amiga brand and long history, are not active Amiga users. Long term, we expect to offer external hard drive / CD-ROM drive via USB for wb8616 that will come preloaded with some of the rich Amiga content including apps and games. We hope this will appeal to more of the Amiga community, both users and developers.
Amiga-News: Your "last words" to our readers?
Greg Wible: Keep the faith...but never forget the only thing permanent is change.
Amiga-News: Greg, thank you for this interview!
Contact Information MeterNet Corp.
MeterNet Registered Office
100 West Grove Street #360
Reno, Nevada 89509
email: MeterNet Corp.
Long Beach
Telephone: (562) 989-8976
Fax: (562) 424-4964
Reception: 3633 Long Beach Blvd. Suite #207
Correspondence: 4450 California Place PMB#344
Long Beach, CA 90807
email: sales@meternet.com
WWW: MeterNet
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20.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
CNCD-KillerCGX.lha demo/euro 3.0M+CNCD: Killer (CyberGraphX version)
APX-TB3FIX.lha demo/mag 9K+Taboo #3 AGA/CGX - FIX (magazine by Appe
pmDevBas.lha dev/basic 112K+Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic
adasrc1.lha dev/src 7K+Collection of simple Ada-Sources
Aminet-CD-40.lha docs/lists 28K+Aminet CD 40 index and description
Mattonite.lha game/demo 239K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
zab-android.lha mods/hardc 1.3M+DBM 8ch -> Zabba <- strange gabba 266bpm
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 34K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
SamX26.lha mus/midi 400K+Sample-X v2.6 (registered version)
tmathtrans.lha util/libs 2K+Faster FPU mathtrans.library v43.6b
choowin.lha util/wb 17K+Window activation utility
VisualPrefs_PL.lha util/wb 10K+VisualPrefs: Polish catalog
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19.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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New CyberGraphX Mailing List at eGroups
A new mailing list on the topic 'CyberGraphX' was created at eGroups.
You'll find instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing at the title link.
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19.Jan.2001
Crystal Interactive Inc.
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'Aqua' Released by Crystal Interactive Inc.
As reported Crystal Interactive has become distributor of the new adventure
game 'Aqua' and today they announced it has been completed.
In this game you'll find yourself in a mysterious world and will have to find your
way out. More information and screenshots at
Emerald Imaging,
the programmers of the game.
Requirements: AmigaOS 3.x or higher, an 68020 processor (68030 or better
recommended), 8 MB RAM, AGA or graphics board.
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19.Jan.2001
ATC
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New AmiTradeCenter Beta Version Released
A new beta version of the FTP client AmiTradeCenter (ACT) has been released.
You'll find the latest changes here.
Download: ATC_beta_19012001.lha - 280 KB
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19.Jan.2001
Deftone on ANF
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SMSEngineer NEWS
SMSEngineerMUI has been available in version 1.1beta for about a week.
This version contains the beta tester keyfile which enables the full
functionality and the use of the beta version.
We're also looking for someone who maybe has created own SMS-Gateways
(gateway.dat) and could send us these preferences. The requirement is that
it must work. Servers that set cookies don't work with SMSEngineerMUI.
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19.Jan.2001
Martin Merz on ANF
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New Image Sets with GlowIcons Design
Some new archives were released on the MasonIcons homepage:
- 3PMguiMI - a new skin for 3PMgui based on AppMI
- AmiMDCMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for AmiMDC800
- AudioMI - a toolbar imageset for AudioMaster 2k
- DataMI - a complete set of icons and toolbar images for DataM-II
For more information please visit the "projects" page of Mason. Home at the
title link.
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19.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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First Screenshot of 3vix Encoder for Amiga
The Amiga version of the 3ivx encoder will be available soon.
A screenshot of a Workbench on which 3ivx is already running can be found
here.
Supplement 20 Jan 2001:
Christoph Meier wrote:
The author of Frogger
has published a screenshot
of the OpenDivX encoder displaying a movie on his Workbench at 352x288 pixels and 14 frames/sec.
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19.Jan.2001
News agency owi by fax
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Amiga Becomes Handheld PC
On video text page 632 of German TV station RTL2 there's the following news today:
«On the CeBIT the "Smart-Boy®", a new miniature PC in handheld format,
will be presented which is equipped with a touch-screen display, chip- and
credit card reader. A consumer device is supposed to follow this autumn which
will be distributed under the label "Amiga(TM)". In the eighties, the Amiga
was the first fully multimedia capable computer for the mass market.»
Manufacturer is the company Thendic Electronic Components GmbH
from Aschaffenburg, Germany.
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19.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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Simon the Sorcerer 2 - Update 4 Available
As announced, Paul Burkey has released another update of Simon the Sorcerer 2.
Especially in the German version, many bugs have been fixed. French language
support and the F10 feature have been added.
Download: Simon2Upd4.lha
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19.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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NVidia Survey on Preferred Operating System
Amiga wins the NVidia survey on the preferred operating system with 58,4%.
The question was: "Which is your preferred operating system".
4788 people voted:
58.40% - Amiga OS
13.05% - Windows 2000
6.79% - OS2/ Warp
6.29% - Windows 98
4.91% - BeOS
4.47% - Windows Me
3.17% - Linux
0.90% - MacOS
0.40% - Other
0.38% - DOS
0.29% - S-TOS
0.29% - Solaris
0.23% - Windows 95
0.17% - IBMs ROM Basic
0.04% - Windows NT
0.04% - VMS
0.02% - Windows CE
The Amiga vote would be surprising if it were for the fact that almost 60%
of all the voters were referred to the poll from Amiga fan-sites anyway.
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19.Jan.2001
polarBoing
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Creative Amiga Box
'Fisherking' has built his Amiga, after installing the Mediator PCI board,
in a really creative wooden box. Have a look at some pictures of this
beautiful Amiga at the title link.
Supplement:
In the comments to this message on our German page, Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler referred us to this
drawer computer
by Atroxis from Virtual Dimension.
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19.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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New Plugin for ProstationAudio Released
A new plug-in named 'Vinylizer' has been released for all versions of
ProStationAudio. The effects of a vinyl record can be applied to sounds.
Download: Vinylizer.lha
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18.Jan.2001
amigasdk.com on ANF
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Exploring MP-Like Solutions
Fleecy Moss (Vice President - Development - Amiga Inc.)
talks on the AMIOPEN mailing list about the subject Memory Protection (MP)
in the new Amiga. This discussion rose from the amiga-news.de
interview
with Francis Charig from TAO. Hereupon followed several discussions in the
MooBunny forum:
1. Thread Looks (to me) like AmigaDE will never have mp
2. Thread Tao's response to MP in AmigaDE
3. Thread Bill M's response to Tao's response to MP in DE
Also at ANN this subject has been discussed industrious
in a long Thread.
There were many comments at
amiga.org, too.
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18.Jan.2001
Frederic Laboureur via eMail
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PureBasic Version 2.00
Version 2.0 0f the compiler PureBasic has been released. It was completely re-written
and now is 4 to 7 times faster than before. For registered users there is an update
and a demo version for non-registered users available. The website has moved and now
is accessible under www.purebasic.com. Technical
details.
About the compiler:
- Completely rewritten !
- Now, it's 4 to 7 times faster to compile
- Faster procedure handling
- Multi-dimensioned arrays are now supported
- Residents are now saved/loaded in one file
- PowerPC code have been removed (nobody want it ?)
- Some bugs have been fixed
- The switch MC68020 have been added to the command line
About the PureLibraries:
- Rewritten the Sprite library (50% faster) and added several
commands: SaveSprites(), LoadSprites(), RemoveCookie(),
FlushSprite(), SpriteHandle(), CopySprite(), GrabSprite()
- Added 'DisableDebugger' and 'EnableDebugger' to disable the
debugger for some part within a program.
- Added the debugger support for Sprite, Joypad, Chunky and
Sound libraries.
- Added the following commands: Processor(), MMU(), FPU(),
RectsHit(), Hex(), Bin().
- Fixed some commands: ListIndex(), FontID(), DrawingFont()
About the editor:
- Added a keyboard shortcut to close the error window.
Misc (Full version only):
- SpriteGrabber (Allows to get sprites from a picture)
- OpenPureBasic (C/C++ -> PureBasic convertor)
The PureBasic web site has now moved to www.purebasic.com.
The Windows x86 version is available for free to any Amiga registered
users ! Just send us a mail to get it !/li
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18.Jan.2001
QNX
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New QNX Distribution
Today QNX Software Systems released an new QNX® distribution.
This one contains Version 6 of QNY RTOS with new Neutrino® 2.11 mikrokernel, as
well as Photon® 2.0 mircoGUI. Newly added was SCSI support, a packet manager allowing
to update the integrated browser VoyagerTM. The new distribution offers enhanced support for
audio streaming and video in the range of multimedia. More information is to find under
the title link.
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18.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Planet IT: Interview with Bill McEwen
Dave Johnson from Planet IT did an interview
with Bill McEwen, President and CEO at Amiga Inc. on
January 8th, 2001.
Here a small extract from the six-pages interview:
Q: It sounds like you have plans to do a lot of things. Where are you concentrating your effort?
A: In the home. Homes need set-tops, desktop computers, handhelds and cell phones.
Motorola even has a cell phone running the Amiga OS, by the way. The home is our target,
and I think you'll see us first in set-top boxes. We also have some reference designs for
some amazing desktops that we think will blow people away. We won't build hardware ourselves,
but we have reference designs for others to build.
Q: So there could be new Amiga hardware coming out. Will there also be shrink-wrapped
Amiga OS packages to run on Windows?
A: Yes, there will be, but I'm not sure what the timing will be. We're still finishing
up some of the last components, like the 3D renderers. That will all be finished up in
the next new months. Already, we can run very cool 3D animation on a Cassiopeia, and it
is very smooth.
The entire interview is to find under the title link.
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18.Jan.2001
MeterNet
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MeterNet® Press Release
At the bottom of the following press release MeterNet announced the
SimpleBox 8600 series (powered by AmigaDE) to be released late February 2001.
MeterNet® Selects EnReach Technology's Easy Internet Access Platform
for SimpleBox wb7500 Series
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17,2001 PRNewswire --
EnReach Technology, Inc., a global
leader providing infrastructure software for enabling enhanced services on
television, announced today that MeterNet Corporation has selected the
EnReachTV2(TM) Internet access platform to power the new wb7500 series in
its expanding SimpleBox entry-level Internet appliance lineup.
The new SimpleBox wb7500 series will utilize a specially tailored version of
EnReachTV2 that integrates Webmail, TV Lists, and MeterNet's SimpleBox User
Interface. Each SimpleBox wb7500 will ship preconfigured with US Nationwide
access dial-up service for $19.95 per month. Multi-lingual English and
Spanish technical support will also be provided. Initial US shipments are scheduled
for March 2001.
"EnReach's interactive software solution and our new SimpleBox wb7500 series
is an easy to use, low-cost combination that targets 'Late Adopters' seeking a
simple preconfigured alternative to discover the Internet on their home
televisions," said Greg Wible, President of MeterNet.
The EnReachTV2 Internet access software offers companies like MeterNet the
opportunity to supply their customers with a low cost Internet access
solution optimized for television. Advanced smart-fit screen technology and an
embedded browser make this a strong contender in the device marketplace.
"We are pleased to be working with a solution provider like MeterNet, who
was identified as one of the six major stand-alone Internet on TV providers by
The Carmel Group," said Bo Wu, CEO for EnReach."
MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed
solutions to their embedded platforms that target vertical and export markets. Each
device incorporates a tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged
solid-state design hardware with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation
and operation, the SimpleBox UI offers optional integrated Web-based eMail and
TV Listings that are optimized for display on televisions. The new wb7500
series complements the wb6400 series that have been shipping worldwide for the last
18 months and the new broadband wb8600 series that will be released in
February.
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18.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts
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New WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.1
WarpBMP.datatype v44.1 by Oliver Roberts released. The BMP picture datatype
is freeware and available for download for the following processors:
68k, PPC/WarpOS und PPC/MorphOS.
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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Linux Worm Obviously Spreading Rapidly
«An Internet worm named Ramen is attacking servers running under
the Linux distribution by Red Hat and apparently is spreading quite quickly.
It's activities stood out by augmented scans on Remote Procedure Call Services (RPC).
The worm utilizes two security gaps known long before inside of
FTP-Server wuftpd
and the program rpc.statd, which obviously still not have been remove from
many Linux machines. Already in September 2000 the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) gave warning of
augmented attacks
of this kind.»
See title link for the complete article (German).
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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: DivX Successor "OpenDivX" goes Open Source
«The MPEG4 video codec successor "DivX", which derived some stardom from being in
operation for spreading piracy copied movies via the Internet, may hope to be widely supported.
To gain more programmers to participate in the so called "Project Mayo"
the developers around Joe Bezdek, "Director of Product Definition" of Project Mayo decided
to release the current en-/decoder core of the video format as
Open Source.
OpenDivX is only one step on the way to realize greater goals: a versatile video codec -
named "DivX Deux" by the programmers - offering high quality and being free available at the same time
»
See title link for the complete article (German).
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17.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
F1db.lha biz/dbase 109K+Store and manage Formula 1 results
TAdesivi.lha biz/demo 50K+V1.0.5 Ticket editor for TurboGest (ITAL
TProspEd.lha biz/demo 84K+V2.0.1alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
AW2.20-Patch.lha biz/haage 1.0M+AmigaWriter Patch 2.x -> 2.20
BitchX-BIN.lha comm/irc 1.2M+Amiga port of BitchX (console only)
ABS-MIS.lha demo/euro 415K+"Miss" - By Absurd
APT-DM26.lha demo/euro 534K+"Dreams#26", an intropack from Apathy *
APX-TB3AGA.lha demo/mag 2.3M+Taboo #3 AGA magazine by Appendix (polis
APX-TB3CGX.lha demo/mag 3.0M+Taboo #3 CGX magazine by Appendix (polis
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 557K+V2.00 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBas_Up2.00.lha dev/basic 537K+V2.00 - Update for registered users (fro
pmdev.lha dev/gui 339K+PopupMenu.library SDK V10.8.0
Edison.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Patches ISO-image headers from MakeCD/Bu
AmigaOS35.lha docs/help 11K+A guide on Workbench 3.5
saku35.lha docs/mags 1.8M+Saku #35 (1/2001). Finnish e-zine.
SwosGreece.lha game/data 8K+Greek datafile for SWOS 00/01
pmangband.lha game/role 393K+Pern mangband 3.0.9
skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 746K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 386K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
skulpt_wos.lha gfx/3d 1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (PPC (WarpOS) + Warp3D)
VHIStudio.lha gfx/misc 944K+V5.4: DigiCam & Videoboard-soft: Rec, Gr
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 197K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8a)
imdbDiff010105.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Ankhrapt1.lha mods/med 441K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
AntiqueDream.lha mods/med 342K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
Test2long.lha mods/med 84K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
np_feub.lha mods/misc 684K+Noyz Phaktah '001 - Fuk 'Em Up, Buttercu
soo_line.mpg mods/mpg 2.8M+Soo Line Blues Rock Guitar Jam
vampirebride.mpg mods/mpg 4.4M+"Vampire Bride" by Zadoc...and the Night
EP_Swedish.lha mus/play 16K+Catalog files for Eagleplayer V2.01
astrons1.jpg pix/astro 232K+Onsala observatory telescope
astrons2.jpg pix/astro 238K+Another Onsala observatory telescope
OS39w800.lha pix/back 742K+800x600 OS3.9 Wallpapers (Backgrounds Pi
silverskin.lha pix/misc 23K+A smooth silver-skin for CoolCALC
DBrown.jpg pix/vehic 319K+A tractor (David Brown 995)
Fiat580.jpg pix/vehic 241K+A tractor (Fiat 580)
Monkey_Island.jpg pix/views 289K+A picture of Monkey Island
PanosWB.lha pix/wb 163K+Snapshots of my Workbench
VeloxWb.lha pix/wb 262K+My nice Wb with Blizzard Vision in 16bit
MyNotes.lha text/edit 28K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
Typeface124.lha text/misc 170K+Bitmap font editor
CDTVTools.lha util/cdity 446K+Original CDTV tools for your Amiga
GhostBuster.lha util/cdity 10K+Commodity useful for people playing audi
ModePro.lha util/cdity 248K+4.67 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
WarpJPEG.dt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
wavdt41.lha util/dtype 8K+Datatype for wave sounds (41.6)
pmlib.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68000 (.library on
pmlib020.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68020 (.library on
pmlib040.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68040 (.library on
pmlib060.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68060 (.library on
pmuser.lha util/libs 54K+PopupMenu.library V10.8.0
WriteKickDisk.lha util/misc 10K+Makes Kickstart disk from ROM image
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17.Jan.2001
ANN
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Amiga Samba Installation Script
A new installation script for Samba is being developed. Samba is a software which enables connecting
PC to Amiga. The new installation script is to help amateurs to install Samba in a simple way. Please,
have a look at the title link for further information.
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17.Jan.2001
AROS-ML
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AROS News
- Since child windows seem to be patented, Stefan Berger has removed
the support for them again. :-( If someone knows whether this
technology can be used freely, we'd like to know :-)
- Georg Steger has written an ASL Font Requester
- Johan Alfredsson has implemented and improved C:Run, C:NewShell,
C:List, C:Dir, DisplayBeep() and some more.
- Adam Chodorowski has improved our Workbench and began to port
a TCP/IP stack to AROS (ping compiles but there is no code
for the stack, yet).
- Michael Schulz has begun to work on a new AROS i386/Native core
which can load the large AROS kernel. AROS needs GRUB to boot,
now.
- Flavio Stanchina has improved lots of header and build files.
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17.Jan.2001
Benny Kjær Nielsen via eMail
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Allan Odgaard Needs Help
Allan Odgaard, who is known from several MUI-classes, has a serious problem with his hard drive. In order
to solve this problem he needs an identical hard drive. The following type is needed:
Seagate ST3660A with the following parameter: 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB
Those ones who can place this hard drive at Odgaard`s disposal please mail to Allan Odgaard.
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17.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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Vulcan Software Alive
After a long period of abstinence there are some news from Vulcan Software. We remember: An English producer
and developer of moderate Amiga games.
The "Valhalla" series, which was not very successful for the Amiga already, will be continued for the PC.
For the Amiga this game could at least convince by its few spoken sentences, but the first screenshots
of PC-Valhalla makes suspecting a product PC users might gladly leave un-converted.
(ps)
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17.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Linux 2.4 with File-System ReiserFS
«The Linux-kernel v2.4.0 has just been finished at last, and development already goes on. The biggest
change which will be integrated in the next kernel-version 2.4.1 would be including of the Journaling File System
ReiserFS. Already at the beginning of October Linus Torvalds explained in an interview with c`t that he
will not include ReiserFS in kernel 2.4.0, but as soon as possible in the 2.4. line. Obviously the time is right:
kernel 2.4.1-pre7 contains ReiserFS.»
Have a look at the title link for the full article (German).
According to Sourceforge
Apus test-kernels are also available for Amiga Linux.
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17.Jan.2001
Frogger
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Frogger Version 1.64b2 Released
There is a new beta-version 1.64b2 of the MPEG video player 'Frogger' by Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz which
you can download in several processor-versions as usual.
This program is shareware and you can register via the website online (via RegNet) or via transfer of money.
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17.Jan.2001
Boing World
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DOpus4 Version 4.15.4 Released
Because Jacek Rzeuski is not able to go on developing
DOpus4 Paul Huxham will continue and
has finished a new version 4.15.4 which you can download.
Download: DOpus4154.lzx - 425 KB
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17.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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New Version of sKulpt Released
sKulpt is the successor of the legendary 3D software 'Sculpt Animate 3D/4D' of Eric Graham and Byte By Byte.
Some years ago the raytracing program has a lot of friends because it was simple, cheap and effective.
It was made many pictures with this program of amateurs as well as of professional.
The successor sKulpt will be developed completely new by CdBSSoftware
and supports already for now PowerPC and Warp3D.
Have a look at the title link for further interesting information.
Download:
Skulpt_exe.lha - 68K
skulpt_wos.lha - PPC
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17.Jan.2001
Amiga Active
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Amiga Active - Preview for Issue #17
Following an extract from the preview of issue #17 of the English Amiga magazine:
Amiga's Rivals - It's a technological re-rack - but who'll survive the
longest in the 21st century?
Develop on Windows - The latest Amiga SDK reviewed inside.
Linux on Amiga - We show you how.
Amiga Forever 4 - The ultimate Amiga on a PC?
Simon the Sorcerer II - The longest awaited Amiga sequel?
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17.Jan.2001
Amiga Future News
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'The Commodore Billboard' Needs Help
Amiga Future wrote:
'The Commodore Billboard' has a really big problem. The site has 17 new TV-advertising spots
and several other stuff, but has not any possibility to offer that amount to the users on their own server.
Because of that Soren is urgently searching for users to put some files on their servers. If you have
this possibility, please contact Soren via eMail.
Following the complete message:
«The 17 tv-ads require some 70 MB. This will generate more traffic than I'm
allowed to use on my server. I'm currently in contact with a guy who might
be able to host all the files for free. This is obviously the ultimate solution,
but if this fails, I would like to know if some of you die-hard Commodore fans
out there would be willing to help me?
Instead of one server hosting all the video clips, I was wondering if we
could spread the files over several servers. If 17 people would volunteer
and host 1 file each? You would have to provide between 2.2 and 5.5 MB
storage space each. Would anyone be interested? I order to make this work,
I guess it'll have to be all or nothing. If only 5 people volunteer, I think
I'll scratch this hosting idea. As you may have traffic limits on your
accounts I can inform you that The Commodore Billboard has between 30-40
visitors aday. This will of course be higher for a short while, when the
news about the 17 tv-ads reaches the Commodore news sites. But then again,
not all 40 will download 5 MB video clips. And with the audio previews
available, maybe people will be more selective and not just download the
whole lot. This might help decrease traffic. By the way, you have to provide
webspace on fairly decent servers. I wouldn't want people to download the
video clips with a speed of 0.2 KB/sec. ;-))»
Any help in solving the hosting problem is much appreciated.
eMail»
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16.Jan.2001
Christian Rosentreter on ANF
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Pictures from Oldie Party
Under the above title link you can find pictures from the "Oldie Party for Homecomputers" which
was organized by the HTWK Leipzig on Mai 4th, 1999.
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16.Jan.2001
Scalos
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Scalos Module Update
Mike Carter has fixed the path problem in his module 'Execute Command' for Scalos
and now made it available for download as version 1.1.
Scalos-Module_EC.lha - 24 KB
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16.Jan.2001
NewTecniques
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NewTecniques: Bonus
The bonus content of the graphic magazine 'NewTekniques' with many interesting
workshops, articles, and tutorials only accessible for subscribers so far, was now
made openly available. In the issue for Mai/June 2000 e.g. it is in detail describe how to create a
perfectly animated
Boingball
with LightWave.
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16.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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Virus-Help Denmark News
Jan Andersen from Virus-Help Denmark was often asked if he was able to provide
the website of Virus-Help in German and French language, too. Peter Schmidt called his
attention to the possibility to make use of "Translator.go".
So, now via Translator.go the website can be translated by request to German, French, Spanish,
Italian, and Portugese. Andersen is aware of this not to be the best choice, but
better than nothing at all. Base language of the website is still English.
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16.Jan.2001
Innovative on ANF
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VHI Studio 5.4 is Here!
A new version of the reference software in case of video cards and digital cameras on the AMIGA, VHI Studio 5.4,
has been released. The update is free for owners of VHI Studio 5.x. Since v5.2 there are the following
changes:
- Driver for Digita compatible digital cameras (optional).
- Driver for Sony MSAC-SR1 compatible reading devices (optional)
- Save series of pictures directly from camera to HD
- JPEG-Decoding now on PPC (if exists)
- MPEG Encoder now also capable of frame rates uneven 25 f/s
- Bugfix in the DC240/DC280 driver, Update to V1.5
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15.Jan.2001
Matt Sealey via E-Mail
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AmigaOS Change-Logs Release Campaign
Matt Sealey started a petition to find out how big the common interest
in the publishing of change-logs since AmigaOS 3.1 really is.
The change-logs contain changes and add-ons compared to the previous
versions of the AmigaOS. This could be helpful for the development of new software.
The logs for AmigaOS V2.0 up to V3.1 are available on every Developer CD.
According to Matt Sealey Haage & Partner declined publishing their changes on the Developer CD V2.1.
There is the possibility on http://www.starforge.co.uk/petition.html
to sign a petition.
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15.Jan.2001
Amiga-Mania 5
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Pictures of the Amiga-Mania 5
There are some pictures of the user meeting 'Amiga-Mania 5' in Toulouse (France) available at the title link.
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15.Jan.2001
Bright Light Software
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TIDesigner V1.22 Released
TIDesigner is a good help-tool for everyone who wants to create TealInfo folios
for the Palm Pilot easier. The program is shareware.
Download: tidesigner.lha - 34 KB
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15.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Plans for a New Elbox Voodoo-driver
Elbox announced the release of version 1.2 of the Voodoo-driver for the PCI-board for
this week. The new version should contain many improvements. Additional information
is available at the title link.
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15.Jan.2001
Amclust on ANF
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New HTTP-Daemon with Real CGI-support
EasyAccess is a small and stable HTTP-daemon with the following attributes:
- EasyAccess can be made resident
- supports GET and POST method and every kind of CGI (tested with CanDo, Perl, Python and Batch-files)
- support for automated creation of directory content-files, Auth-Scheme RFC 19452 "Basic", Server Side Includes and more.
Download: EasyAccess.lha
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15.Jan.2001
BTTR Team via eMail
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Back to the Roots Update
Back to the Roots is one of the best sources for legal game-downloads. This update contains the
"Championship Manager"-series, "Second Samurai" and "Emerald Mine".
Don't forget to take a look at the other games. There are new scene demos, pictures and sounds taken from Amiga-games.
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