• ApacheMI - over 150 filetype images for Apache Servers
• CutNPasteMI - small brush anims for CutNPaste (DOpus Magellan)
• muiMI - an image set for MUI 3.8 (based on VisualMI)

As promised there would be some details announced considering the "Supercomputer" system that we have said we are working on. In this case there has to be said that the system that has been referred to is the Pegasos from bplan. Our company Thendic-France has retained bplan to miniaturize the Pegasos to make a handheld "Supercomputer".

Rakesh & Sharwin

Amiga Inc. announces the Amiga® Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1 for Pocket PC, Pocket PC 2002, Windows CE 3.0, and Windows CE .NET-based devices.

Rich multi-media applications designed for handheld systems to be released on April 15th, 2002

At the Amigashop of KDH Datentechnik a new business simulation for Amiga is promoted. This one is a port of Software Tycoon, which is at E.p.i.c. Interactive in work. The website of Software Tycoon is reachable via the title link.

Bugreports and suggestions might be sent to following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl.

• 08.04.02 improved: Full Contact (Team 17) misc changes
• 05.04.02 new: Worms (Team 17) done by JOTD
• 05.04.02 new: Motor Massacre (Gray Matter/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
• 05.04.02 fixed: Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) correction
• 05.04.02 improved: Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers (Activision) supports another version, other changes
• 05.04.02 new: Arctic Fox (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
• 05.04.02 new: Airborne Ranger (Microprose) done by Bored Seal

Server: irc.phat-net.de
Port: 6667
Channel: #digiboosterpro

In this article he describes in a general and simple way the advantages of the SIMD programming (Single Instruction Multiple Data) against the computing with single values. He also shows the AltiVec support of the gcc with short examples like vector addition with vec_add().

Press releases:

• Jörg Tauss - Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
• Heise: Düsseldorfer Demonstration gegen Netzkultur

• http://www.hws.claranet.de/demo-duess/Thumbnails.html
• http://www.wichtig.de/zensur/

• http://www.ccc.de/censorship/
• http://www.netzzensur.de/
• http://www.odem.org/

1. The 2.3 release is "not far off at all".
2. The feature set is frozen and the remaining bugs are being fixed now.
3. The 2.3 upgrade will be a free release, available on Aminet.
4. It should work on a standard Amiga running OS 3.0/3.1/3.5/3.9.

For more information, please contact Ron van Herk at info@compcity.nl.

To give the users and developers an overview on the state of the software, please read these facts.

A demo version should be available in the forseeable future. Check the Aseq site: www.aseq.de regularly for updates etc. The site is for the time being quite simple. I am open to any suggestions, wishes, donations etcetera =)

Versions are planned for the Amiga and a variety of other platforms, like linux, QNX, (dr)dos and Mac OSX.

Feature list:

• Easy to use and fast interface
• Intuitive sequencing method(x0x), no steep learning curve
• Fully integrated usage of both midi sounds and native audio (samples)
• Hardware indepedant OS friendly coding
• Does only need little resources
• No fixed pattern length
• Easy to use gui for many controller functions in midi
• Patch editor, programmable with your own midi and midi sysex messages
• Midi event editor, so you can edit every midi message/event yourself
• more ....

Detailed changes:

• The version string is back. [Hexaae]
• Fixed AGA screen depth and improved performance with FBlit. [Hexaae]
• Fixed P96 screen depth. [kakace]
• Should work without NoJoyCheck on systems where it was necessary before (A4000 with nothing plugged in joy port 1, for example).
• AntiBlanker feature: you can create a ENV:AntiBlanker.cfg file which contains a list of tasks that prevent blanking. [ChaoZer]

The new archive can be downloaded under the title link.

Intellectual property rights related to GoldED Studio, including source codes, documentation, distribution rights, the web site etc., are available for sale.

There are no plans to release the source code under the GPL or in a similar form or to make the software or its source code available free of charge.

What will happen to the BASIC interpreter?
Expect the source code to be made available under the GPL in the near future (in a nutshell, a GPL is a public domain license).

If you have a look at their Easter nest you'll find games like Rings of Medusa, Super Cars 1+2, Genetic Species Heimdall 2, Larry 1 Remake, Sherman M4, Pinball Magic and many others. Besides that many scene demos from the fantastic Mekka+Symposium 2002 demo party have been added, more music from the demoscene came online and the picture galleries are now containing some extremely colorful little eggs.

• HIGHWAY Production is on a roll
• Software Developer Kit is available
• VHI Studio is a solution for DigiCams
• TurboPrint printer driver
• Network module NORWAY (10MBit) is an option

The new board will be distributed in Europe by individual Computers, so it will be available from all our trade partners mentioned on the contact page.

From the Readme is to gather that those new versions should not be installed over the old 3.2 versions, because some subsystems are not compatible. Please read the readme files observant.

For which hardware will you go?

Possible answers:

• A1G3SE with AmigaOS 4.x
• A1G3SE with MorphOS
• Pegasos with MorphOS
• Pegasos with AmigaOS 4.x
• I´ll make my decision after sales start
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with AOS4
• I am waiting for faster CPUs (>=G4) with MOS
• I will change to an emulator
• I will still use my old hardware
• I wil change to another system

There was to ascertain that the Amiga-demos do not need to hide in any way for the superior PC-demos. At least they seemed more dynamic and more interesting. The most impressive was the 64k-demo "Planet Potion" of group "potion", this one was confirmed inside the hall with huge applause.

Furthermore there were beside the PC-demos some C64- and (sadly) any very few some Atari-demos. Shown were as well some demos for the Gameboy and for the TI83 calculator, which was very impressive.

In Eric Schwartz Puzzles, the object of the game is to piece together beautiful images in as few moves as possible. This addictive game features never before seen images from Eric, free style and challenge play modes, 7 difficulty modes, unlock pictures, saved scores, help, and much more.

The good news is that I have uploaded an updated kernel image (based on linux 2.4.19pre4) and a bunch of patches; You can grab that stuff from http://www.amithlon.net/en/amithlon_updates.shtml.

I hope it comes in useful for someone.

I know this is going to cause a great deal of discussion and speculation. I would like to ask everyone to please be reasonable, and stick to the known facts, as well as to polite forms of discourse. The situation is bad enough as it is, nothing at all can be gained from aggravating anyone involved.

It's TEMPORARY home is at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~yttrium/amiga/ Please note that the current layout is very much not going to be the final look of the page. I've got it how it is so that I can easily and quickly add pages and information without the need to work on the nitty-gritty of looks - I'm no website designer but please don't send ideas for how you think I can make it look better, I'll come to that when I've got enough information to warrant having a page in the first place. What I'd like to request is that anyone who feels they can contribute, please do so by emailling me information and pages to include. This is not intended as a news site so I don't want information about upcoming events and that sort of thing, just straight info. I'd appreciate it if you send me whole pages to just slot in where appropriate that you design them with no javascript, frames, or scripting of any kind - just straight and plain HTML with links - also if you could keep images to an absolute minimum as I only have 10MB webspace with my ISP and don't intend on moving it to a real server until it's complete enough to be the kind of place I'd be happy to point people for more information. My 10MB should be plenty if we can keep it to being pure text and key images only. If you take a look at what I've got there at the moment, you'll see the general kind of things I want. My AmigaOne page is probably about the most complete at the moment, but I could very much do with more technical information linked off the AmigaOne specs (most of those links I've written about one or two lines only at present).

The general idea is that anyone of any level can look at the site. People click on the AmigaOne link and see basic information. Techie types say, I want to know more about xxx, and click on that link for more tech info. Any information that is implied or suggested but not directly stated anywhere by someone "official" should be marked as such. I know you might mean well, but unsubstantiated rumors are NOT the intended goal of the site. I'm going to be putting a lot of my personal time and effort into maintaining the information and keeping it all as up to date as possible and I'd appreciate not having to wade through mountains of rumor and misinformation. Information regarding anything to do with Amiga is welcomed, but no "this is better than that" without hard fact to back it up. Presently I'm mostly interested in information on AmigaOne, AmigaOS4, Classic Amiga (history), Amithlon and AmigaDE (Anywhere), however if someone wants to write something about MorphOS, UAE, Pegasos, Merlancia, pOS, Classic Amiga expansions, software issues or anything else relevant, I won't reject it (if it's factual, unbiased and contains useful information of course).

Also, obviously, if anyone sees anything on the page that they think is incorrect, let me know and I'll investigate it further.

You can download it from http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/download.html. Maybe some1 on this list can try to port the server program to the AmigaDE??

About 80% of all participants have shown their interests in the AmigaOne and Pegasos board. But most of them want to wait how the market will develop before they decide to buy one of the boards.

AmiDynDNS is now a CLI/Commodity hybrid program. So you can use it as before from the CLI and from the workbench with a little GUI.

The Commodity mode is interesting for server users who must know the latest host. AmiDynDNS is running in the background after startup and checks in free chooseable intervall the stated host and updates if necessary.

Also two options are added, you can choose paths for log- and configfile.

The most important new features in this release are:
The argument NOQUIT has been added to tell YGM not to quit an already running instance of YGM if it is started again. Modified the places where YGM looks for different files to better support running YGM from the WBStartup drawer. Mailbox login now supports APOP for transmitting username and password more safely. REPEAT values may now be specified in seconds too.

Some interesting snippets of information, posted by SlimJim:

• Screenshots of Amiga OS 4.0 will be published in the first part of April.

• Magic Menu and Birdie (among others) will be seamlessly integrated into the OS 4.0 interface.

• The new OS 4.0 GUI will look quite different (i.e it will not just look like a fast OS 3.9).

• Opus Magellan 2 has been licensed for OS 4.0 (details unknown).

• For the moment, the new printer system is not due to arrive until Boingbag/OS 4.1.

• The _latest_ MUI source code will be used (there was a question about this)

• IBrowse2.3 will be quite some beast. It will be enhanced for OS4.0. Not just some Aminet update. It will still miss some features of Netscape/IE though. There is not time to fix all to OS4.0. Flash is planned to be implemented. IB will be _much_ more stable than it is now.

• The guy that did the Warp-datatypes seems to be doing the new PPC-datatypes.

• The datatype system as a whole is to get a complete overhaul later. There is not enough time to do that to initial release.

• An office suit (Open office if I remember correctly) is being worked on. This is a 'high priority' for inclusion. (although it was not clear to me if it would be shipped initially)

• The development of software -independent of company size- is difficult to predict. But Mr. Hermans seems quite confident of an end-user release in May.

Next, I will re-write the chapter about "Patches for Amithlon".

Olivier Fabre
Olivier Fabre has released Matrix version 1.9 for 68k/MOS. Matrix is s screenblanker.
Download: Matrix_1.9.lzx - Readme

Tales of Tamar - Amiga version 0.42 R4
With Version V0.42 R4 the artillerie is introduced. there are light, middel and heavy artillerie made of 4 different siege engines: small and big ballista, catapult and warcatapult. The siege engines are thebest weapons to conquer cities and castles.

EvenMore Version 0.60
The textviewer EvenMore was released in version 0.60. With this new version the preferences were changed this means that new settings are required.
Download: EvenMore.lha

Different to former "successors", which were in truth only common 486 pcs with an C64 emulation, this one will be a completley new design, as most as possible compatible to the C64. Interesting is that, different than the Aone, this will use custonchips again.

I have converted these images to 800x600 JPEG and made them available for download as LhA and zip archives.

At Emaculation it says, conversely, that Microcode Solutions has taken legal steps against Emaculation. However it does not explain why.

"We get Lawsuits!
In case you are wondering, Microcode Solutions and the makers of their hardware card have threatened legal action against the operators of this website.

I will not be reporting on or promoting Microcode products in the future.

Any questions?"

On top of that, the Altnet admins were not going to let more than 5 users on the HTML chat, utilized by amiga-news.de and amigafuture.de. At Phat-Net 15 users are allowed, and on request this number may be raised, for example for special events. So there will be fewer problems with the use of the HTML chat. Not to mention that PhatNet has services. Unfortunately I can't control the fact that everyone who has registered a nickname must register it again. This should present only a minor problem though, ask us and we'll be happy to help you with it.

Advantageous to everyone: Phat-Net is a German server, located right in the middle of Germany.

Current entry data for your IRC client:
IRC Server: irc.phat-net.de
Port: 6667
Channel: #amigafun

Windows chatters who don't want to install an IRC client will find on this homepage, since a while ago, a functional IRC Java client. You just have to enter your nickname and you can participate in the chat.

The source code of BarsnPipes has been released on 25th of May 2001 by Todor Fay. Since Alfred Faust has continued developing this program it became freeware.

These are the improvements:

• Screenmode requester
• GadTools-gui
• You can use most of the requester with the help of the keyboard.
• CAMD-library
• New 32-colour-design
• Localisation (German catalog included)
• and much more

Now this program is also useable for users of Amithlon (until now this did not work because of the "old" screen pop-up.

• 26.03.02 new: Formula 1 Grand Prix (Cirrus Software/Tynesoft) done by Codetapper
• 25.03.02 improved: Wanted (Infogrames) filesystem compatibilty
• 25.03.02 improved: Rugby the World Cup (Domark) misc changes
• 25.03.02 new: Minskie - The Abduction (Binary Emotions) done by JOTD
• 25.03.02 new: International Ice Hockey (Impulze/Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
• 21.03.02 new: Hacker 2: The Doomsday Papers (Activision) done by Codetapper
• 21.03.02 improved: Flashback (Delphine Software) misc changes
• 21.03.02 fixed: Joyride (Phenomena) color signal
• 20.03.02 new: Nippon Safes Inc (Dynabyte) done by CFOU!
• 20.03.02 updated: Mad TV (Rainbow Arts) minor changes
• 20.03.02 new: 1000 Miglia (Simulmondo) done by CFOU!
• 20.03.02 new: Mental Images Game Disk 2 (Mental Images) done by Abaddon
• 18.03.02 new: Campaign 2 (Empire) done by Bored Seal
• 18.03.02 new: Archon (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD
• 18.03.02 new: Air Support (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
• 18.03.02 new: The way of the Little Dragon (Parsec Software) done by Psygore

With ?Sid4Amiga? a comfortable player for these unforgettable C64-sounds is available! Paul Heams, the developer of "Sid4Amiga", talks about the further development of his programs and in really positive way about the AmigaDE; he is awaiting his pre-ordered AmigaOne SE. You will find the interview here.

Paul Heams is looking for beta testers for the new version of ?Sid4Amiga?, if you are interested, send an eMail to Paul.

The following are the major features of FlashMandelWOS:

• Full functional program for rendering Mandelbrot & Julia fractals with different exponents.
• Support for ECS/AGA/RTG and 68020+/PPC Amiga computers or compatible systems.
• Uses new Reaction GUI, Arexx port, Localization, and has an Installer script also to easy update or uninstall the program.
• C & Asm 68k/PPC sources included !
• It's really fast even on old Amigas and should be also compatible with all new Amiga clones ;-)
• It's really cool and free ;-)

The major feature of the new 2.0 version is the ability to make animations and save them in an easy way using the new arexx port, some example scripts and a guide about all Arexx commands of FlashMandelWOS was created.

What's changed in 2.0 update:

• Added an ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
• Created a new guide to explain all features of FlashMandelWOS ARexx port. (Edgar Schwan)
• Created some example Arexx scripts. (Edgar Schwan)
• Compiled a special no 68k fpu version for owners of Blizzard MC040LC/PPC603e, it runs also on other systems without an FPU.

The AMIGAplus 03/2002 contains the following subjects among other things:

• AmigaOS 4: Interview with Ben Hermans
• Status Report: AmigaOS 4 decoded
• New: Pro Station Audio 5
• Who ist nun who: AMIGAplus-Redaktion
• Workshop: Web encoding with .htaccess
• Workshop: QNX for beginners
• Shareware Special: The best on 6 pages
• Scenish: Mad Wizards
• u. v. m.

• LOWERCASETAGS/XHTML now also applies to ENUM attribute strings
• XHTML now implies QUOTESTYLE=double
• removed some unused debug code

• Fixed V45 exec.library of AmigaOS 3.9 BoingBag2. It uses quite crude hack to enable it, you'd better have true 32bit memory that doesn't go away at reset for this to work. Works on my BlizzPPC, Wizor's & SMF^'s Blizzard 1260, Cyber2th's CSMkII and Zerohero's Blizzard 2060 at least. YMMV. Note that this hack automatically fixes some buggy programs that peek $f80000 for version information. Thanks to my impatient betatesters: Wizor, Jagge, Cyber2th, Zerohero, SMF^ and Lizard. Special thanks to Lizard for bugging me about this. Also thanks to everyone who mailed me about the problem.
• Improved romfixes module: No longer fails whole module if some sub-patch fails. Now it should be possible to use romfixes as the last module.
• Modified files since 1.24rc2: BlizKick.readme BlizKick/BlizKick BlizKick/BlizKick.ASM BlizKick/Modules/romfixes BlizKick/Modules/romfixes.ASM

The shareware software enables a connection to a Palm computer by 3Com or compatible devices. The program offers among other things HotSync functions between Amiga and Palm.

The announcement of the AmigaOne has motivated him to start again on the development of his program. The next version of 'Sid4Amiga' will contain the following enhancements:

• Reverb - 10 presets with variable return levels.
• A new PlaySid emulation library for use with Delitracker, PlaySid etc..
• An updated GUI for the new reverb settings. (Mixing desk)
• Bug fixes and a reworked library.

microATX mainboard, 133 MHz processor slot, 600 MHz G3 PowerPC up to Dual G4 PowerPC, PC133 memory with two banks, AGP slot, PCI subsystem with three slots, IEEE1394 (Firewire) with 100/200/400 MBit transmission rate, 10/100 MBit network, USB, AC97 sound subsystem, IRDA, ATA100 and more.

The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.14

The update includes the latest version of the driver for the Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.14

The new driver includes the workaround to the P96 system to prevent graphic corruption when graphic card memory overflow occurs.

The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver. 1.6

Werner Heuser: "Remarkable in the document are the insults at the end, which don't seem usual for writings from lawyers. The legal trouble is documented since its beginning at the MobiliX webpages and is discussed in many mailing lists and news groups. This seems to have impressed the plaintiffs. They now accuse MobiliX of inventing "a new kind of electronical terror", and are ready to sentence MobiliX. It will be interesting to know, which sentence the plaintiff will invent against critical discussion in newsgroups."

Despite the announcements of the plaintiffs, the case goes on: The court in Munich (Germany) has set the date for the first hearing to June 12th 2002.

Tireless, beyond-the-call-of-duty efforts are needed to translate the many daily articles, but this goes without saying. One must be involved often with various issues, and this certainly cuts into one's free time. So at this time we want to give a great "hurrah" and a big, heartfelt "thank you!"

• U.K. - Power Computing
• Germany - Vesalia or KDH Datentechnik
• Sweden - GGS-Data
• Other countries: see Elbox-dealers

The interview is on my homepage under the heading "User-Ecke." Here is a direct link: Interview.

This years show is shaping up to be one of the most exciting Amiga events the community has seen in years! Amiga Expo will host everything from battling Robots to new systems for running the Amiga operating system. And YOU will be able to see and hear it all from your home through the UGN's webcasting technologies.

The xvs.library contains all the virus recognition and removal code that was formerly included in VirusZ. This step has been taken for one major reason: VirusZ, Virus_Checker, Virus_Executor and all the other antivirus software can be updated quickly without releasing the whole packages every time a new virus appears.

So simply install the xvs.library from this archive to your LIBS: drawer to get 100% protection against the latest viruses.

To be able to check if the library in this archive really came straight from one of the authors, you can use the public key with the .sig files in the archive. If you are not sure or do not trust the included key, then you can always request the original straight from one of us (by email) or get it from the VHT-Denmark homepage.

Here is some info about the update:

As always the software is in an early beta phase and the GUI is still provisional. At the moment it is interesting if the tv-card is recognized. Definitively the following ones should work:

• WinTV PCI/FM - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, radio, ext. Video/S-Video-In with sound.
• WinTV Go - picture, tuning, tv-sound.
• Medion (ALDI) last version - picture, tuning, stereo/2-channel-sound, Radio, ext. Video/S-Video with sound.
• miro PCITV picture, tuning, ext. Video, sound.

• Fixed avi palette handling. (bug introduced in 0.17)
• Optimizations in OpenDivx decoder.
• DivX 5.0 codec supported.
• Angel Potion codec supported.
• Added support for several different motion jpegs codecs.
• Few bugfixes in AVI parser.
• Introduced external plugins, only few converted to new API so far.
• Crash when NOVIDEO option was used. Fixed.

Download:
http://amiga.pl/softcinema/

At the weekend I have checked the upper half of the Europe map and removed 48 invalid links. Als some URLs are updated.

BlitzKick Version 1.24rc1
The homepage of Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen is now back online. Beside of Blitzkick there are some other updated programs (for example cnet.device) available.

New card sets for Klondike
Dirk Stöcker made some new card sets for the Klondike card game RekoNet available at his homepage. Further details can be found here.

AmiBlitz2 is the name for the free version of Blitz Basic 2.

A full list of updates to the Blitz2000 site can be found at http://news.blitz-2000.co.uk.

• Do you have thoughts on quantum computing?
• What importance do you give to the design of efficient algorithms, and what emphasis do you suggest giving this area in the future?
• Can you give us an outline for computer science, some milestones for the next ten or twenty years?
• What is the relationship between God and computers?
• What is your thinking about software patents?

• Bugfix: The processing of HAM pictures didn't work.

The distribution of Amiforce will follow as soon as the last remaining problems have been fixed.

A German mailing list is planned as well. As addition there's already the forum available.

All interested people are kindly invited.

The HTML format can be viewed on all computer systems provided an Internet browser is installed.

The DigiboosterPro-Community seeks to find your Web address to your homepage where you can find music in the DBM or other formats.

Pferderennen offers:

• Entertainment for up to eight players
• Detailed "horsepowers" ;)
• Up to 30 stables with respective up to 50 horses
• A horses editor
• Possibility of saving game scores

The update includes the following things:

• Inga-engine version 1.0/6 (beta)
• Audio-CDs can be played (via cdplay.library).
• New script commands: pre-loading, clearing, ilkabove, ilkdown, "LadeLaufkarte", "AusDieMaus", "Leistensperre", "LeistensperreAus" and menu.
• The two mouse colours were changed to be equal to the workbench-standard.
• Developer modus integrated. Thus it is possible to load old game scores with processed script versions. Besides this the inventar and the variables can be changed during the game.

Many thanks to Christian Busse for translation and follow the call of Mathias Roslund - send feedback, a feature request or simply a good joke!

1. Fixed the '*** NULL POINTER ***' text some people reported showing up in the contact list. It was caused by sending or receiving a message to/from a UIN in the 'Not in List' group.
2. Now that the above bug is fixed, sending or receiving a message to/from a UIN will cause that UIN to remain in the contact list even after restarting STRICQ. However, there will be no status changes for those UINs.
3. When a UIN shows up in the 'Not in List' group, STRICQ will now request that UIN's short info and display the Nick in the contact list.
4. Fixed a long-standing bug in the contact list display that would cause a crash if the existing nick was changed after the UIN was already inserted into the contact list.