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24.Sep.2000
Timm S. Mueller on ANF


www.neoscientists.org Online again
The website of Neoscientists is online again.

In the section "binary distillery" there are freeware tools and libraries ready for download. Among others the latest versions of render.library, guigfx.library, mysticview.library and neuralnet.library. Smaller updates exists for the picture viewer Mysticview (1.04) and the mosaic renderer Flickwerk (0.0.4).

The group is now developing more intensively for the new operating system and has established a subsection where first downloads, announcements and developer support is offered.

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24.Sep.2000
ANN


AIO Issue 39 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 issue 39 of Amiga Information Online has been released.

Download: AIOV39.LHA

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24.Sep.2000
ANN


Amihoo Magazine #2 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 the second issue of the Amihoo-Magazine has been released. It covers the following topics:
  • Review: Bubble Heroes from Crystal Interactive Software.
  • Report: SEALORAMA Show Report.
  • Editorial "Half of Amiga Owners are tight fisted misers"
  • Ross Vumbaca. (Australian Correspondant) Talks about the forthcoming ACE 2k Show in Australia
  • Talkback Let off Steam about the anything Amiga. We want your views! Win £20 for it too!

In addition to this there's a poll regarding the subject "Are the Majority of Amiga Owners tight fisted Misers?".

Amihoo is a link directory especially for the Amiga.

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24.Sep.2000
David Connolly via email


Amiga Survivor Update
There appeared technical problems for the Amiga Survivor Magazine:

Amiga Survivor update

Unfortunately the delicate machinery which hosts Amiga Survivor was severely damaged in transit when it was on its way to our layout artist. The result of that is an unavoidable delay while the A4000 that hosts Amiga Survivor is patched up. We are trying to arrange the layout files to be sent to our experienced graphic designer as soon as possible, and two issues are ready to go out when the machinery is repaired. They are Issue 9 (scheduled for August 10th) and Issue 10 (October 10th issue). We are also working on a Christmas special at the moment.

I am happy to have Amiga Survivor on the books and I'm looking forward to producing many fine issues. As soon as is humanly possible we will begin to release issues of AS.

To help the Amiga games scene I am pleased to announce Amiga Survivor will be carrying a coverdisk every issue with a free copy of a recent hit, all for the same price of £3.99 UK, £4.99 Europe or £5.99 Rest of World. We hope to help the existing Amiga games market by working with current publishers and offering them a good income when sales through the conventional routes may have dried up. As a former Amiga games publisher CS&E will offer Max Rally with Issue 9 and the previously unseen Cosmo's Fun Class with Issue 10. Single issues of Amiga Survivor will be available from all good Amiga dealers, while subscriptions are exclusively available directly from CS&E.

Kind Regards,

David Connolly
Publisher, Amiga Survivor.
http://welcome.to/amigasurvivor
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum, Oxford Business Park, Oxford, OX4 2JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481 421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481 482

http://www.CSandE.co.uk

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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog is now part of Amiga Realm. AmigaWatchDog makes it possible for users to rate retailers, so it is easier to find a good retailer using the collected data. AmigaWatchDog was founded by Daniel Hutchinson.

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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


BlueBlackSolution is Looking for Speakers
BlueBlack Solution is looking for speakers for their real time strategy game "Operation Counterstrike". In detail the following voices are needed:
  • man: russian accent, english and/or german language
  • man: english/american accent, english language
  • woman: english/american accent, english language


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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


New Amiga Games Site
Epic Direct Ltd., not to mix up with Epic Marketing, offers on www.amigagames.co.uk games news which are also sent via mailing list, a data base including a search function with a multitude of games and more than 500 games on disc and 250+ games on CD for sale.

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24.Sep.2000
Olaf Koenig via email


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Interviews!
New interviews with Peter Arman (Legend of the Elves) and Elmar Plischke (Klotz) online!

Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
The following shareware programs can be obtained for a special bargain at the moment.

The special bargain is valid until 30.09.2000
Software: JST
Developer: Jean-Francois Fabre
Price: 10 DM

The special bargain is valid until 31.10.2000
Software: PhotoAlbum/Cybershow Paket
Developer: Helmut Hoffmann
Price: 35 DM

The special bargain is valid until 28.02.2001
Software: AmiATLAS
Price: 79 DM

The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: SHARKS AGA and Multi
Developer: Christian Steiner
Price: 5 DM

Software: SHARKS CD32 Version
Price: 20 DM

The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: Boulderdäsh
Developer: Guido Meresmann
Price: 10 DM

The Amiga Arena doesn't gain any fee from the developers etc.
Only for You - Amiga Arena NON Profit Shareware Support!

New actions to follow!

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24.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF


The AccM Asks for Your Help
Manfred Rauer wrote:
The AccM is not only a simple computer club where technic enthusiastic computer freaks meet to talk about games. We rather make an effort to develope useful software (and games) and to put them to everybody's disposal.

The club has only one small big problem. They don't have enough capacities in the areas of programming, music, graphics & animations, and 3D modeling.

Therefor we're searching all the time for capable people, who want to support us. But we also want to offer something for this. Everybody who has an idea regarding a project may register it here. It will be presented here, and others not involved have the possibility to take part in it. It shall be a kind of a meetin-place where as many as possible shall take part. It's free and nobody is forced to aquire a membership.

It would be sad and also a big loss for us if nobody could be won over this cool idea. This would mean "Say good bye" to this plan, and again a good thing and a main part of our base idea of which our club is the result would disappear from the scene.

Everbody with questions may write to the POI (Manfred Rauer) and ask for more informations.

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24.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF


Meternet - Press Release from Amiga
Regarding the Simplebox by Meternet there's a longer press release from Amiga Inc.

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24.Sep.2000
Stefan Martens at ANF


Official HBMonopoly Online Gaming at #AmigaFun
Stefan Martens wrote:
On #AmigaFun IRC channel a HBMonopoly online gaming is taking place on Oktober, 1st. The programmer himself will be online too, and he's very interested in your ideas.

Everybody interested in taking part in the game should get by on Sunday evening at around 18:00 h. Please download the latest verion of HBMonopoly from http://hbmonopoly.home.pages.de. It may well be that V2.5 will be released in the next few days. This one is a must then to take part. And you should also already have a look at HBMonopoly and possibly play it OFFLINE against the computer. All further things we'll tell you on Sunday on #AmigaFun! #AmigaFun is to find at:
  • irc.germany.net
  • #AmigaFun
  • Port 6667


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24.Sep.2000
Paplo on ANF


TaskiSMS V2.0
A new version of TaskiSMS has been released. Many new functions are added in version 2.0. Now the program can send SMS to 826 cellular telephone networks in 120 countries worldwide thanks to new plugins.

Download: TaskiSMS.lha, readme

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24.Sep.2000
David Cross on ANF


Amiga auctions: AmiBid Version 2.0 online |
AmiBid is an auction platform free of charge specially for the Amiga and now online in version 2.0 - the first version made some problems and some features were missing.

The following has been changed:
  • improved layout.
  • improved cathegories.
  • improved information concerning the pieces on auction.
  • improved forum.

With this update the URL has also been changed. AmiBid can now be accessed at http://server2039.virtualave.net/amibid/cgi-bin/auction.cgi and should be accessible with every browser.

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24.Sep.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF


Manga@Amiga-Page with New Layout
The Manga@Amiga-Page is engaged in Manga connected with the Amiga. So there are not only graphics and wallpapers ready for download but there's among others a list with Amiga games within the bounds of Manga.

Now this site has got a complete new layout and is accessible via a new domain. It's: http://amiga.2xs.net/. Because of the move there may be some empty links caused by the server. Because of this Sylvio asks to inform him about such links.

To suppress advertising windows Sylvio suggests switching off Javascript.

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23.Sep.2000
Deflone on ANF


SMSEngineerMUI is now E-Mailware
SMSEngineerMUI 1.0.2 has just been uploaded to the Aminet. We have decided to let people register our software for free, because we believe that coding should be fun, now shouldn't it? The same is true for SMSEngineerMUI :), it is fun; and why should anybody have to pay to have some fun.

We are still looking for translators for our software, so please contact us. Comments and ideas for improvement are welcome of course.

Download: smsengineermui.lha

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23.Sep.2000
Schatztruhe


Aminet CD39 - 10/2000 to be Available soon
Aminet CD 39 - Oktober 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 38 over 500 MB of new files have been added. As a special highlight, Aminet 39 contains the fantastic pinballs Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The three pinballs can be run from CD or harddrive.

News since release 33 and once more updated: The popular News-Archive amiga-news.de by Petra Struck is now part of every Aminet-CD (in german and english) and may be directly viewed from the readme-file with the included browser. We thank all of their participants for their great informational work for the Amiga-Users worldwide.

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23.Sep.2000
Amiga Impact


A-Zone CD magazine Nº 1 to be Available soon
The first CD-magazine of our french partner-site Amiga Impact will be available for end of september. A complete overview of the contents, which is full of french news, reviews, workshops, demos and much more can be found at the titellink.

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23.Sep.2000
Blittersoft


Bubble Heroes was Finished
Bubble Heroes, a game distributed by Crystal Interactive Software was finished and is available at the stores.

What is this game all about?

Once upon a time... The magical world of Radya is in serious danger. The peacefullness and the joy of this realm is threatened by a dark, evil knight named Gonzul and his bunglers, arrived on floating islands from unknown parts of the universe. Gonzul's aim is to conquer and enslave the world: to gain this objective he abducted the four Nimphs, sources of power and pillars of peace and richness, bleeding their energy and life. The Queen of these Nimphs, Adora, during her kidnapping had spread by her mental powers a message to all the heroes of Radya: to rescue the Nimphs.

All together, the four Nimphs can unite their forces in order to activate a magical weapon, which is the only hope to destroy Gonzul and his floating realm saving the entire world from his evil shadow. Will you be able to follow the heroes in this desperate mission?

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23.Sep.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS News
There are new archives available for MorphOS, an emulation for Amigas equipped with PPC. In detail:
  • Update: ixemul-dev.tgz
  • New release: dvidvi-1.1-bin.tgz, wget-1.5.2-bin.tgz, unixtex-6.1b-bin.tgz, texinfo-3.11-bin.tgz
  • IXEmul Tools and Programs: IXEmul Directory. Make sure to read the IMPORTANT.README file!! NOTE: This section is PPC only files. You must read the IMPORTANT.README file.


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23.Sep.2000
Ron Goertz


FWCalendar Update Version 4.05
Ron Goertz has overworked his Arexx-scripts for creating calendars with FinalWriter.

Download: FWCalendar.lzx and also Installation tips.

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23.Sep.2000
Richard H. Poser by eMail


AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9391 Available
The new betaversion 0.9391 of AmigaAIM, the AOL Instant Messanger for Amiga, is available for download. Changes are listed in the following list:
  • Added Menu Item for starting another copy of AmigAIM
  • Modified Mail Window for Context Menu to select Individual or Several Addresses to be checked or cleared.
  • Mail window can now be set to not open and/or pop to front while Away
  • Added Script capability for Mail checked with Mail on Server
  • Removed problem with receiving one Mac AIM version's Instant Messages
  • Removed bug with ScreenName prefs, should modify on first start after upgrade
  • Added Prefs item to keep Buddy List on top, if open and a Requester isn't opened (Buddy List on top would prevent the Requester from ever being seen)
  • Removed bug with receiving IM from Buddy not on Buddy List, shouldn't crash now.
  • Removed bug with the Idling prefs being totally unused.


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22.Sep.2000
CIS


Crystal Interactive Software announces Partnership with Blittersoft
Crystal Interactive Software announces that Blittersoft will take over the worldwide distribution of their software.

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22.Sep.2000
AmigArt


Workbench2000 Version 1.6 Released
Workbench2000 is a taskbar which you can use to start programs as you know it from Windows.

Download: WB2000.lha

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22.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer


FreeCiv Developer Version 1.13 Released
Freeciv is a round-based multiple player strategty game, released under the GNU General Public License. You can compare it to Civilization II® by Microprose®.

Download: freeciv_devel.lzx - 821 KB

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22.Sep.2000
Thomas Dellert via eMail


Press release G-Rex-PCI
We from DCE, leading manufacturer of accelerator boards and accessories in the Amiga market, are glad to announce to the Amiga community that we can satisfy the want for faster graphics boards, good and cheap sound cards, as well as PCI ethernet network cards.

For the entire (German) press release, click on the titlelink.

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22.Sep.2000
Norman on ANF


One more PCI Board for AMIGA?
On the main page of the DCE website is a so far mysterious product announcement. As it appears, G-REX is a PCI board for AMIGA and probably compatible to the Voodoo 3 card. For those interested, there's a PDF file for download. Link see below.

Stay tuned for some BLACK MAGIC...
Voodoo 3 hits the Amiga!
Prepare for G-Rex, the new PCI board from DCE -
and be ready for Voodoo 3 magic on your Amiga!
Curious? Want to learn more? Have a look at our
VOODOO TEASER (PDF)!

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22.Sep.2000
Amiga Realm via eMail


AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog, the website designed by Daniel Hutchinson, where readers can voice their experiences with Amiga companies and get tips where they can buy their products cheap, is now at Amiga Realm, the Amiga web directory and will be continued there.

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21.Sep.2000
DirOpus 4


Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15a (Beta) Released
Jake Rzeuski has continously developed the free source code of GP Software and has now released a new beta version 4.15a of the file-manager for download. In this version NewIcons and GlowIcons are 100% supported and the size informations of files are listed in KB/MB/GB in listers.

Download: DOpus415JRbin.lha - 334 KB

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21.Sep.2000
Lambda


Development of Lambda "Pauses"
The status of development of the freetime project "Lambda", a high quality 3D spacegame development, was set on "pause".

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21.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News


The End of ImageEngineer
Czech Amiga News has asked Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer, a gfx-package for Amiga, why he leaves the Amiga Community. In his answer Marko said it would be easy to declare software piracy and bad sells as reasons for this step or he could tell a long story about the reasons, but he will not, because he do not want to offend the Amiga Community.

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21.Sep.2000
AmiDog


AMP 2 version V2pre4 Released
A pre-version of the MPEG-Player AMP 2 was released, in which the problem of not functioning slides was fixed. The AC3 decoder can now be used for listening AC3Streams in DVD clips.

Download: AMP2pre4.lha

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21.Sep.2000
BoingWorld


Fnurr2000 Released
With Fnurr2000, an old, funny and very simple game was released. In this new programmed game you have to let small pixels explode. (Avoid homing pixels)

Download:fnurr2000.lha - 140 kb

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21.Sep.2000
Anu Seilonen on ANF


Finnish Amiga User Group Announces User Group Meeting
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 21, 2000 - Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its annual user group meeting on Saturday, September 30th from 14:00 h to 17:45 h in Espoo, Finland. The event will start with a formal meeting, and an informal part will follow after 15:30 o'clock.

An Amiga dealer will be present with various Amiga items for sale. The user group will also demonstrate the Amiga Software Development Kit on Linux. Other highlights include various Amiga magazines for reading, demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile phone covers and plenty of good company. Admission is free of charge and free soft drinks will be available.

Please visit the titlelink or our mirror site http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/ for instructions on how to get there, latest news, IRC coverage, webcam and more. E-mail inquiries may be sent to Anu Seilonen.

About the Finnish Amiga User Group:
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku. After its e-zine the group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga User Group and its predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related bulletin board systems.

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21.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF


MeterNet SimpleBox & TAO Press Release
New, Easy-to-Use, Solid State Internet Device Products Powered By Next Generation Amiga Technologies include Java® and Media Streaming Support. Snoqualmie, WA - Reno, NV-September 20, 2000 - Business Wire - Targeting the millions of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be broadband enabled, Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a series of broadband SimpleBox Internet Devices powered by the next generation Amiga.

Tao Group: intentTM Official Support Centre to open in Japan

September 19, 2000 - Berkshire-based Tao Group Limited and Fujitsu Aichi Engineering Limited (Fujitsu AEL) have agreed to open an intent Official Support Centre in Japan, to provide technical support services for Japanese corporate users of Tao's intent, an extremely high performance multimedia JavaTM execution environment.
The JavaTM language is becoming increasingly popular in the Japanese consumer market, particularly in PDAs, set-top boxes and mobile Internet devices, and Tao's intent is making inroads due to its minimal memory footprint. intent is also proving successful because of its system-level binary portability across software and hardware platforms - a fundamental factor in the embedded market where there are so many different CPUs and operating systems.

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21.Sep.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail


Official Annoucement from Elbox
Contents of this pressrelease is a technical presentation (pro Mediator) vs. the Predator PCI busboard from Eyetech.

Because none of both PCI busboards is available at present we can not figure out the truth of this comparison.

Experience reports of users are welcome.

Elbox Computer
Krakow, 21 Sep 2000

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

We, Elbox Computer company, the company involved with microcomputer technology for over 18 years, the company with the principles of reliability, honesty and care for our clients, feel obliged to release this announcement to protect interests of Amiga users.

For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in a propaganda action against our breakthrough product for Amiga computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this high-end product with their announced device.

It is not our way to comment on others' activities, yet under the current circumstances we feel obliged to explain this situation and Eyetech's accusations to Amiga users and to comment on the idea indicated by Eyetech (or any other company behind the Eyetech nametag).

BLIZZARD PPC LOCAL BUS LIMITATIONS:

Eyetech announced releasing a product they called competitive to our MEDIATOR high-end card. Technical specification of this product has been announced in such a way that Amiga users would have to misread it.

The idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC cards gives worse performance than MEDIATOR because:
  1. This solution is only for owners of Blizzard PPC accelerators. You have to stick with your Blizzard PPC 603e for ever. No change, no open structure, no versatility.
  2. Practical average data transfers over the busboard connected directly to Blizzard PPC cards will not be higher than achieved with MEDIATOR - due to technical limitations of Blizzard PPC cards.
  3. Connection of a busboard to the connector used for inserting a BVision card renders further use of the BVision card impossible.

MEDIATOR OPEN SOLUTION:

The MEDIATOR high-end busboard is the best solution for Amiga computers to offer high-speed support for PCI cards.

The MEDIATOR busboard is a well-thought product, with long-standing history of design development and a vision for its lasting evolution, to give Amiga users power they have not had so far.

Our basic idea is that MEDIATOR is an OPEN solution, capable of hosting ANY turbo cards from the Amiga market. MEDIATOR is not reduced to a Blizzard PPC-bound concept. MEDIATOR gives you the possibility to have any turbo card you want.

MEDIATOR has been designed specifically for all the available cards and each and every turbo card works with MEDIATOR at the maximum speed available for the given card.

MEDIATOR PCI may offer transfer of data from/to any Amiga turbo card at the maximum speed of up to 132 MB/s. The only practical limitation lies in the design of the specific turbo card.

MEDIATOR is expandable, even more: it is ready for any new Amiga cards that will be available in the future - this gives you freedom that you have never had before.

You can use MEDIATOR with any turbo cards: Blizzard 1230, Blizzard 1240, Blizzard 1260, Blizzard PPC, Apollo 1230, Apollo 1240, Apollo 1260, Elbox 1230, MTec 1230, etc. and with any future concepts like Amijoe and more...

MEDIATOR ADVANTAGES:

MEDIATOR has been designed optimised for any turbo card type, so that the maximum possible performance is obtained in the given hardware configuration.

MEDIATOR automatically recognises the turbo card type and executes the best procedures to guarantee the highest performance possible in this configuration. This is an unrivalled feature.

This approach is much more time- and effort- and money-consuming than the concept of supporting Blizzard PPC cards only.

Besides, the idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC cards does not give you, the Amiga user, any additional speed gains when compared with MEDIATOR - you will only feel that Eyetech's design is simpler and possibly definitely cheaper.

We feel very sorry that Eyetech in this context is apparently discrediting MEDIATOR's performance while being well aware of their fallacy.

ABOUT ELBOX:

We have been developing and producing electronic equipment since 1982. Our superb Amiga designs include:
  • E-BOX tower systems and ZORRO busboards for A1200 and A4000 (also known as Power Tower in the UK and Winner Tower in Germany);
  • Elbox FastATA controllers for A1200 and A4000 (known also under the name of Power Flyer in the UK and Winner HighSpeed Controller in Germany);
  • Memory expansion cards for all types of Amiga computers and many other minor accessories, e.g. PC Mouse interfaces (Mroocheck, Punchinello), others.

Elbox is also the owner of Twin Spark Soft, a company producing software for Amiga computers (in the Polish language only). Besides Amiga devices, we design and produce industrial controllers (e.g. for injection moulding machines) and many other high-end devices in the fields of radio- and telecommunications (e.g. call systems, pagers, speech coding devices).

NEW:

Please look for our further releases about ELBOX products for Amiga computers to be on sale by the end of this year:
  1. MEDIATOR evolution line (A4000 and A3000);
  2. The TOTALLY NEW breakthrough turbo cards for Amiga computers (A4000, A3000, A1200).

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department

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20.Sep.2000
Vincent Perkins on ANF


AmigaNG.com Back Online!
AmigaNG is now back online after a long hollyday away. So please visit the Number 1 web site for info on the next generation of Amiga!

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20.Sep.2000
Marco Dittmann on ANF


Future of Warpgate in the Air
As the webmaster Andreas Wendorf told during an IRC interview yesterday, the future of Warpgate is in the air. He found fault both, the programmers and software companies acceptance, who only support the Warp9 team with news in an inadequate way.

The English news site all around the subjects of WarpOS and Warp3D, which was put online in March 1999 was already stopped once, and then was restarted again in February 2000 after numerous user requests.

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20.Sep.2000
Darkage Software


Darkage Software will Attend the Pianeta Amiga 2000
Darkage Software, the creators of games like "Tales from Heaven", "Powerball", "Extreme", and "Supreme" will attend the Amiga show "Pianeta Amiga 2000 expo", which will be held in Empoli, Itali, 30th September 30th to 1st October. Darkage will present previews of Powerball, and Supreme and also will introduce projects under development.

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20.Sep.2000
Apex Designs


New Payback Status Report
In this new status report the author James Daniels tells that the game now supports two CD playback modes, he mainly dealt with development of new levels, and new vehicles, and some bugs were fixed. Furthermore the game engine was optimized to make it faster, and a lot of graphics were redrawn, professionally.

James Daniels asks, if a support of PSX controllers is of interest, and he would like to get to know your opinion via eMail.

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20.Sep.2000
AmigaAMP


AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-8 Released
Version 2.8 Beta-8 for the MPEG audio player "AmigaAMP" for Amiga was released. The author Thomas Wenzel notes that this update was done very fast, due to his Amiga needs to be repaired urgently, and it might take him one or two weeks to reply on e-mails.

A new config editor by Daniel Westernberg is available.

Download: AmigaAMP28b8.lha - 560 KB


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20.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer


SimplePac Version 1.2
A new version for the Workbench game SimplePac was released. New is the resizeable game window and a hiscore list. Furthermore own sounds, keyboard, and joystick are supported, now.

Download: simplepac.lzx - 73 KB

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20.Sep.2000
clickBOOM


Nightlong at the Duplicators now
In the so called S-File of clickBOOM Sofia announces Nightlong to be at the duplicators now, and the game to be available soon. Furthermore a movie (7 MB) of the toughest Amiga devotee is available for download.

Download: tattoo1.avi - 7 MB - The Toughest Amigan Movie

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20.Sep.2000
Michael Luense via eMail


New Addon for YAM
Michael Luense has finished a new addon for YAM. This is a little Arexx program which opens several requesters for e-mail editing or viewing and saving of attachments. The archive comes with both, an English and a German version.

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20.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Explorer Dissuasiveness: Trial and Net Demonstration
«At the county court Duesseldorf, Germany, today from 10 o'Clock the case Stefan Muenz vs Symicron company will be tried orally. Symicron claims him to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer. Muenz is the author of the widely spread online manual SELFHTML

«Financial support for Muenz comes from Freedom for Links (FFL). This society build from an internet intiative has already collected 50,000 DM of donations, which shall make possible a sample case against Symicron and their lawyer Guenter Freiherr von Gravenreuth through all instances. "Furthermore the FFL organised together with Muenz a net demonstraion. Website carriers are asked to displace their homepages with a ready made Demo-Site on Wednesday, adverting the case", said Uschi Hering, speaker of FFL, during a talk with c't. "There is vast reception. We have the impression that this is the first demonstration in the net working."»
Entire article at the titlelink (German).

Currently there are a number of 428 websites registered to participate. We will report on the case during this day.

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20.Sep.2000
Freedom for Links


Stefan Muenz Wins a Hop
Stefan Muenz was able to win a hop in the oral trial this morning at the county court Duesseldorf, Germany. The case is Stefan Muenz vs the Symicron company who charged Stefan Munez to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer into his Self-HTML. For details see the previous message on this subject.

The chief judge Dr. Fudickar: "We are tending not to presume a possibility of mistake in name between Explorer and FTP-Explorer."

Dr. Hans-Jochen Krieger: "So we would like to enforce your opinion."


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19.Sep.2000
Andreas Steup on ANF


ParaGlide News
According to an e-mail I recieved from Villagetronic, the Amiga section has been placed into competent hands:

"The Paraglide will be finished and produced by the developers themselves. (...) For more detailed information please ask burkert@sophisticated-development.de.

So perhaps something will happen within this year for the 3D hardware accelerator for the PicassoIV. Blittersoft already accepts preorders for the card.

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19.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


WarpGIF-Datatype Bugfixes
There is a major bugfix for WarpGIF-DT (v40.2), which fixes most of the known bugs.
  • corrupted pictures resulted in a crash due to a bug in the program
  • transparency now supported, IBrowse displays the correct pictures
  • the first frame should be loaded and displayed for most GIF anims
  • Only the global color palette is loaded right now, the local color palette is skipped
  • the OM_UPDATE method might return an undefined value occassionally, but this doesn't cause troubles until now


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19.Sep.2000
Thomas-Peter Klug on ANF


WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1
Download:

WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Win9x/2k (DirectX 5):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx5.zip

WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Windows NT (DirectX 3):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx3.zip

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18.Sep.2000
Martin Merz at ANF


MI-News: AppMI - 2. Update
AppMI is a collection of images and animations for toolbars that uses the GlowIcons-design.

The second update is completed, now.

The archive contains 64 new or reworked images and 4 new animations.

As an special feature we added the toolbar images for Photogenics. The archive will be released at the Aminet, too.

Registered users will get the archive via E-Mail.

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18.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Web Survey: Windows Way Ahead
As an exception we are citing the entire article from Heise.

«With the survey on the best operating system at MSNBX things turned in a wonderfull way. On Friday morning Linux still was ahead with 28% of 18,500 votes, as reported, and now the percentage of votes for the free operating system decreased to 3% of 384,848 votes, untill Sunday evening.

This survey took a curious way: Linux had its grand level at about 03:00 AM with 39%, of the up to that time given 29,100 votes a number of 11,350 belonged to the free operating system. Within the following 20 hours 126,500 votes more were given, of which only 800 voted for Linux (0.6%), stunningly. By that the percentage of votes for Windows 95/98/ME, as well as for NT/2000 was dubbled. Now some are getting suspicious that there must have happened some manipulation. Don't trust any statistics you didn't faked yourself.... »

Supplement 09-19-2000: Andreas Mixich via eMail
Microsoft accepted that the survey was manipulated and in the meantime it was removed leaving the following note:

EDITOR'S NOTE:
Sept. 18 MSNBC has removed the Live Vote originally published with this story due to what appeared to be electronic ballot stuffing. The Live Vote, which asked readers which personal computer operating system they think is the best, received a large influx of votes in the past few days, skewing the results. MSNBC has removed the Vote in light of this. MSNBC Live Votes are not scientifically valid surveys.

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18.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4)
StarBase_CLI.lha     biz/dbase  104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.7b)
StarBase_SCR.lha     biz/dbase  109K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v2.1b)
DalWatch.lha         comm/irc     3K+Interface to Server-side Notify on Dalne
lcr-i.lha            comm/misc  109K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
lcr.lha              comm/misc  112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
Emperor.lha          dev/c      491K+Object-oriented programming language
checkstack.lha       dev/debug   33K+CheckStack tool for WarpUP including Sou
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   126K+V2.112 creates pragma, inline, ... files
xad_ar.lha           dev/src      9K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha         dev/src     14K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha          dev/src     43K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha         dev/src     11K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha          dev/src      7K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha          dev/src      9K+ZAP xadmaster client
reindeer.txt         docs/anno    1K+A distributed rendering project
SameGame.lha         game/think  15K+Addictive puzzle game with coloured ball
WBArmy.lha           game/wb    211K+Like Scorched Tanks, but in WB window.
Nostalgia.lha        misc/emu   201K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8)
cutquotes.lha        misc/imdb    9K+Cuts 'quotes.list' entries down to Movie
imdbDiff000908.lha   misc/imdb  2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
DA3Demo.lha          misc/sci   2.6M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
RandomScenery.lha    util/boot   15K+More than just workbench backdrops
TurboVal.lha         util/boot   17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.9)
Resistor.lha         util/misc   50K+Code&Decode the color rings at resistors
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   28K+Identifies your Amiga
Safe.lha             util/virus  18K+Safe v14.2 - virus dicovering system
Dynamite.lha         util/wb     57K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.


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18.Sep.2000
Amitrix


AWeb-II News
For a longer time there were no news about AWeb-II, a browser by Yvon Rozijn, distributed by Amitrix Development. Today there are some.

Michael Lange informed us about some reports about a AWeb 3.4 betaversion at the AWeb-mailinglist. But he has no informations about new features.

You can find a new norwegian version of the AWeb-II localization catalogues and updateted versions of some plugins. Furthermore they have now an extra page for the AWeb-Mailinglist.

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18.Sep.2000
GoldED


GoldED Studio 6: Extended Distribution
The following distibutors will offer GoldED Studio:


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18.Sep.2000
Bright Light Software


Audiomaster2k and AmiMDC800 Updates
At the software area you find updates of Audiomaster2K, a sample editor. The software is shareware and with the alphaversion 0.52a available for download you will not be able to save your work.

AmiMDC-800 were updated, too. The new release has the version number 1.73. You can use this program to control your Mustek MDC-800 and transfer pictures to your computer. Because the software is a commercial product you, will not be able to transfer pictures with the downloadable version.

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18.Sep.2000
MakeCD Support


MakeCD 3.2d Beta 3 Released
The new public betaversion 3.2d Beta 3 for MakeCD, a CD burning program for Amiga, is available now. The archive contains only the new binaries. That's why you need version 3.2c for installaling the new version (have a look at the History).

Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_3.lha

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18.Sep.2000
Olaf Köbnik


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
Amiga Arena presents MusicMan III as a special Amiga Arena version. Together with Andreas Mair we made a free registration possible (MusicMan III is shareware. 30 DM is the normal price.) MusicMan III is a software for managing your LP-, CD-, MC- and single collection.

Amiga Arena - E.N.D. Part II
Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer, leaves the Amiga ! So, once again we are loosing a developer!

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18.Sep.2000
Harald Frank on ANF


ISDN-Mon V4 Available
At the time being Dirk Tietke is not able to maintain his homepage and to fix the known problems with broken links. Furthermore it is not possible to say when he will be able to access his webserver with his Amiga computer again, and to provide new updates.

That's the reason why we made the archive available at our own downloadside.

This leads to the download site

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18.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF


COMA, Is That a Virus?
NO! COMA is the name of the new clubmagazin (German) of the "Allgemeiner ComputerClub Magdeburg" (AccM). Presumably it will be published on the 7th of october 2000 at our homepage. The first issue will feature a report about the exhibition in Neuss, a HTML-Tutorial and much more. But it should not be a AccM-Magazin only, everyone who wants to write something is invited to write articles. The articles could be about new hardware, commentaries about up-to-date problems, jokes, comicstrips or what ever you would like to write about.

And because we are a general computer club you do not have to write about Amiga the articles can even be about PC or MAC or any other computer or OS. The last date for articles for issue number 2 is the 1st october 2000. But we are still looking for authors for the upcoming issues.

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