Features of the Mirage 4000 Pro:

• Mirage 4000 Tower-case with 300W powersupply
• Mirage A4000 Zorro III/PCI Busboard
• Mediator PCI 4000
• Mediator Multimedia CD

The Scene-event The Gathering takes place in Norway, where our retail partner Data Kompaniet will hand over our contribution to the competition prices.

Furthermore the upcoming update will contain:

• Online-access of GSC-2 catalogue of stars
• Improved zoom-function

This update contains some minor bugfixes of a bug that is not fixed in the original unix version.

• Offline messages are now requested, displayed, and cleared from the server.
• When a message window opens, it will no longer grab the current window focus.
• Message history is now saved. No GUI support for this yet, soon, of course.
• Login packets now match the latest ICQ2001b build 3659 release.

For questions and discussions on personal basis, though, they are still at your disposal.

Here's the complete message in English in which they explain their move:
Recent events have given me the impression that it has become impossible in the Amiga community to speak up in self-defence without someone taking offence in it. Thomas and me have therefore decided (in in fact already did so) to unsubscribe from all amiga-related public mailing lists, newsgroups and web forums, and we have deleted all our Amiga bookmarks.

Work on our projects will not be affected by this. OS 4 will still be developed in the same way it used to be. We're just pulling out of the public.

I'm sorry we have to take such drastic measures, but it simply doesn't work otherwise anymore. You can still contact us personally, we're open for discussion, but no longer in public. Fact is that everything we say will end up on some web page or forum, being dissected to death and commented with all sort of nice wording, so the best solution is obviously to say nothing at all.

Thanks for reading this.

In Payback you are taking on the role of a young driver being on the run. The goal is to become a big gangster boss.

The AMIGAplus 03/2002 that was to be released on March 13th will be delivered because of this printing delay about three days later than planned. We ask for you to excuse this.

That's why I decided to change to YahooGroups. As far as I know not everybody is satisfied to be stored in a YahooGroup so I deleted the old subscriptions completly.

• 07.03.02 improved: Xybots (Tengen) supports another version, minor changes
• 07.03.02 fixed: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) SMC removed
• 07.03.02 updated: Street Racer (Epic) misc changes
• 05.03.02 new: Crack (Linel) done by Psygore

Ian Greenway:
This version has a small amount of code changed in the Z80 core which I was hoping would offer some small speed increase. Despite the fact it is shorter code, fewer clock cycles to execute, and cleaner, it seems to actually run about 5% slower on my '060. :-( Still, the code was optimised for '030, so maybe it will help there!

WinUAE 0.8.21 Release 2 (07.03.2002)
====
- FIXED: custom chipset emulation fixes (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- FIXED: JIT FPU (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: filesystem emulation (Bernd Schmidt, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: PC joystick 2 (me)
- FIXED: mouse 2 emulation (me)
- FIXED: multiple CD32 CDROM and uaescsi.device updates (me)
- FIXED: bsdsocket (Bernd Roesch, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: configuration GUI memory leak fixed (Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: keyboard problems (me)
- FIXED: CD32 pad button emulation
- FIXED: serial port updates (Bernd Roesch, me)
- CHANGED: sound emulation (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- ADDED: CD32 media eject/insert support (me)
- ADDED: CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA-ALT resets and clears chipmemory (me)
- ADDED: "pause emulation while minimized"-option to misc-page (me)
- ADDED: FDI-support is back (me)

Important notes, known bugs and workarounds:

• WinUAE freezes before GUI appears? Delete Configurations/default.uae.
• Check your CPU speed settings, they may not be correct if you load old configuration file.
• Sound buffer size is not comparable with old versions. 3 or 4 is usually the best size.
• When using CD32 emulation, keep "Hard Drives"-tab empty.

However, this problem should be fixed within the next two days. If anyone needs to send an e-mail urgently, there is another address that can be used: sharwin@thendic-France.com.

One thing we would like to mention is that JMiner and the 3D engine are two completely different projects: The 3D objects are compatible with both engines but the renderer is by no means the same. The FPU-based J Miner runs slower when more polygons are added, the integer-based 3D engine will always run at one speed.

AuroraRadio is now officially online and is a Shoutcast radio station dedicated only to quality music. Every style and age of music is played, including Amiga modules and C64 SID music. Currently, the radio station is in its test phase, which means that sometimes the server is down, but under normal circumstances it should be available 24 hours a day...!

Yesterday the following sections were updated:

• Europe
• List of new links
• List of lost links
• History 2002

• New tooltype 'PICASSO96'.
  Use this tooltype if you have problem while displaying brush or text in zoom window. PfPaint will disable the cybergraphics command scalepixelarray_.
• Improve Palette requester and gradient effect when you are using Voodoo and picasso96.
• Fixed a nasty bug with picture <16 pixels.
• New arexx commands:
  • PP_Verbose 0 or 1 (will enable or disable security requester).
  • pp_group N° x y w h stat (will draw box on requester).
• Improve pp_GetLocale.
• Improve Bridge tool, more security, improve tvpaint host, new host tvpaint_layer (by PixelArt).
• Improve Opacity mapping.
• TVPaint's user request: Density mapping can be use as drawing effect.
• Improve Undo-Redo.
• Fix bug with undo and some effect.
• Update PerfectPaint.cd and PerfectPaint.ct.

Actually the C64 is past because it is much too small and too weak for the high demands of the Internet-epoch. Nevertheless some C64 still run on Internet.

Here is the address of a WWW-server (title link) which works with a C64. The only extension being added is an interface card with unbelievelable 38400 bps data transfer rate.

• 04.03.02 improved: Whizz (Flair Software) supports another version, trainer added
• 04.03.02 improved: Vixen / She-Fox (Martech Games) supports another version
• 04.03.02 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) supports another version, some fixes
• 04.03.02 improved: Battle Toads (Mindscape) supports another version
• 04.03.02 new: Archon 2: Adept (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD

It fixes a major bug so please do not use older versions. Also now you can disable the Undo function, on slower machines you will increase the speed.

Download: STRICQv2.lha
Please read the important installation hints.

Changes since last release:

1. Type-4 messages are now parsed and displayed.
2. The menu bar has now been added. The Prefs window no longer opens by default.
3. The Debug window still opens by default (I need it) but it can be closed and re-opened with the menu.
4. The status in all message packets is now sent to the GUI as well.
5. Requesting offline messages doesn't seem to be working.
6. The program no longer crashes Amithlon. I don't know why, but I'm happy.

petra.struck@online-club.de.

Due to the above mentioned problem we are not able to send our newsletter.

Still we do not know how long the repair will take.

The company Klaus Schallhorn Omnisearch proved that Google indicates so-called secure servers (ssl), too. Although they say that they do not. Meanwhile there are more then 3.8 million secure sites indicated by Google.

Even worse: Google announced that they are fully compliant to the robots.txt-standard but they definitly do not when indicating secure servers. The Google-spiders have already executed over 161,000 cgi-programs one or more times.

If you check the search results of corresponding requests you can find servers that forbid via the robots.txt access to the cgi-bin directory even under the top 10 results.

The features:

• High-quality icons in GlowIcon and NewIcon formats covering subjects such as applications, games, drawers, etc.
• GlowIcon style toolbars for some of the most popular programmes (YAM, AmigaWriter, Art-Effect, Directory Opus, IBrowse, Voyager and others).
• GlowIcon style skins for AmigaAmp and CoolCalc
• Workbench backdrops suitable for the GlowIcon look

Download: STRICQv2.lha
Please read the important installation hints.

Changes since last release:

1. Fixed a major error that involved a race condition in the IPC. A receiving task could actually check for data on the message port before that data actually arrived. The IPC now blocks until the message does arrive.
2. Fixed an error in that some messages would actually not be NULL terminated.
3. Now requests offline messages. If there are any, they won't be displayed! Hehehe...
4. I still need enforcer/cyberguard hits!!

• #188: Survival talk
• #189: Double as many stories at the same price
• #190: Mixed characters
• #191: Where are my 5 gnats?

Here is some info about the update:

Name: VirusZ III v0.97
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 50.208
Date : 2 March 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

News in VirusZ III v0.97:

• Fixed bugs in window calculation code that caused the resizeable windows (Vector Check, File Check) to look ugly or to not open up at all. Thanks to Crown/Cryptoburners, DMX, Paracels/Placebo, Jan Andersen and Mad Roger for the bug reports...
• Moved size-gadget in resizeable windows from the right border to the bottom border (looks much nicer and takes less space on small screens) and re-fixed width of these windows.
• Re-added support for ALL disk-based devices to Bootblock Lab on special request from Mikolaj Calusinski. Are you happy now? :-)
• Added disassembler mode to the Bootblock Lab. This should help experienced users/programmers to analyse unknown bootblocks. Note: This feature requires 'disassembler.library' v40.x by Thomas Richter, you'll find it in Aminet...
• Made Bootblock Lab window resizeable as the disassembler output becomes quite big sometimes.
• Changed the file format for saving window positions. Sorry, but if you already had arranged your windows individually, you will have to position them all again and save the prefs afterwards.
• Started adding Sector Check (at least the device selector, the real check is not implemented yet, sorry for that :-(
• Added recognition for mmu.library patches to Vector Check and fixed some smaller problems.
• Finally wrote at least a short documentation for VirusZ III.

• Optimize File Check (output is much too slow, checking archives cannot be canceled at the moment).
• Add a fully working Sector Check.
• Add new features to Vector Check (eg. a brain for known ROMTags, a snapshot function for unknown patches [you can send me those snapshots and I add them to the brain]).
• Add disassembler mode to Memory Monitor.
• Add useful commands to ARexx port.

Furthermore has a new forum been installed. There's a poll in the Amiblitz area regarding this topic. The forum can be used as a place to go for Amiblitz programmers and for people who want to become programmers.

Further planned contents of the section:

• Complete users and reference manual in German.
• Tutorials and courses.
• An own distribution.
• Example source codes and much more.

Planned are extensions regarding the subject software troubles and of course for AmigaXL/QNX. The next thing I'll do is translating the review to English.

Required is much time as a game can take several hours and besides that one hould already know the game a little (or the old Civilisation game) as it is right complex.

The played version is 1.11.x as the 1.12.x for Amiga has too many bugs.

Downloadlinks:
Amiga: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/amiga/freeciv-1.11.0.lzx
PC: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/windows/old/freeciv-1.11.4-win.zip

• 28.02.02 fixed: Emmanuelle (TomaHawk) access fault removed
• 28.02.02 new: Phalanx (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 28.02.02 new: Campaign (Empire) done by Bored Seal
• 28.02.02 new: Railroad Tycoon (Microprose) done by JOTD
• 27.02.02 new: Karate King (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 27.02.02 improved: City Defence (KingSoft) supports another version
• 26.02.02 new: Vixen (Martech Games) done by Psygore
• 26.02.02 improved: Venom Wing (Thalamus/SoftEyes) some blitter delays added
• 26.02.02 new: Theatre Of Death (Psygnosis/Shed Software) done by CFOU!
• 26.02.02 new: Space Harrier (Elite) done by Psygore

Especially for "text processing" the Amiga is not up-to-date, any more. The Amiga Arena talked to Volker Grabbe, who established the "OpenOffice" project and set himself the target to put an end to this nuisance with the open source variant of Sun's "StarOffice 6".

This interview is available in English, too.

Because Volker Grabbe cannot implement such project on his own, he raised a little team and still relies on help from the Amiga community. Everybody wanting to participate in this project, please contact Volker Grabbe for more information.

If MusicCity will allow other Gnutella clients, there would be a better chance again for the Amiga to get MP3s and video files, than it is currently possible with Amster (with the navigator).

First there will be little but useful tools released. The DynDNS client ´AmiDynDNS´ was the first one and is available in version 0.9 at the download section. More sophisticated applications are scheduled.

1. New beta version driver for scanner Primax Colorado Direct 9600 - PrimaxCD9600 v1.2 beta1. PrimaxCD9600 is driver for ImageFX, and use support for devices paralizer_epp.device (PARalizer card) and amth_epp.device (Amithlon)
2. Public beta version driver for Amithlon - amth_epp.device v0.5 beta 1. amth_epp working in EPP mode parallel port.

What sets AuroraRadio apart from ordinary radio station is that its aimed at a musical perspective, this means that infantile commercial efforts such as Britney Spears, Limp Bizkit and Eminem will not be broadcasted. Music with more or less modest attitude and at creativity's beauty. Not aimed at 1 genre but for those who agree each genre whether it's classical music, rock, jazz or house or whatever other can be beautiful when well done. Think in the direction of Ken Ishii, Massive Attack, Studio K7 Dj's, Bjork, Future Sound Of London, Beanfield, The Beatles, Richie Hawtin, Tricky, Tori Amos, The Doors, Vangelis, Sade, The Orb, Sneaker Pimps, Oasis, Sun Electric, Everything But The Girl, Squarepusher and Amiga/c64 artists such as Muffler, CNCD, Matt Gray, Martin Walker etc.

The offer is very varied and covers every timeframe in musical history and mat not suit the genre aimed taste of the mainstreamer. The website will be online in 3 weeks, but before that it's best to search for "auroraradio" on the shoutcast website.

The whole ID3 informations are displayed in a HTML list. "MP3-2-HTML" has many more features, it is a very useful program.

Amiga Arena has talked with the young developer Gareth Griffiths, who is also working on a PD game "ShootOut". How important feedback is and which influence it has on further development of software is shown in this interview.

You can get it from the Aminet or from the title link under "other stuff".

• 25.02.02 new: Venom Wing (Thalamus/SoftEyes) done by CFOU!
• 25.02.02 improved: Times Of Lore (Origin) install package fixed
• 25.02.02 improved: Test Drive (Accolade) better compatibility
• 25.02.02 improved: Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) access fault removed, decruncher speed up
• 25.02.02 improved: Little Computer People (Activision) supports another version
• 25.02.02 new: Fireblaster (Paradox Software) done by Psygore
• 25.02.02 updated: Defender Of The Crown (Cinemaware) reworked, access fault removed
• 22.02.02 improved: Thunder Blade (Sega) supports another version
• 22.02.02 new: P.O.W. (Actionware) done by CFOU!
• 22.02.02 new: Mad TV (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
• 22.02.02 new: Excalibur (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 22.02.02 new: Emmanuelle (TomaHawk) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 new: Times Of Lore (Origin) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 new: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) done by JOTD
• 21.02.02 improved: Last Action Hero (Psygnosis) misc improvements
• 21.02.02 new: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East) done by CFOU!

Some features:

• capable of changing Delfina Lite's internal clock speed
• displays external and internal clock frequences and DSP frequency ratio
• supports any external clock (crystal) frequence in addition to standard 4 MHz external clock
• available frequency range with standard Delfina Lite: 4 MHz - 16.4 GHz!

These are the main points:

• There will be detailed information published at the homepage of Amiga Inc. as well as off Eyetech this week.
• The AmigaOne was developed in Asia on behalf of Eyetech.
• The motherboard contains a Openfirmware compatible BIOS. TurboLinux is currently running on it.
• The production will be started as soon as the betatests of OS4 are successfull. The board will then be available six weeks later.
• The price for the entry-model will be: 350 UKP / 600 Euro (without tax and shipping.)

The registration fee will be 5 UKP.

Further information is available in the archive.

2.5RC2 (02-02-24) 72852 Bytes

• New arguments for 'Font': DIRWIN, MENU, REQTEXT, REQBUTTONS and DIRGAD
• Added font args ("F" & "FS") to NewScreen.
• Replaced arrow-gadget's vector drawings with BOOPSI images.
• Special thanks to Mario Roberto Gruber for providing some example code that made things a bit clearer!
• Added simple but speed-adaptive copy-progress display.
• Various smaller improvements and fixes

Compared to the last version a random play function has been added.

1. Payback
2. Earth 2140
3. Shogo
4. Descent : Freespace The Great War
5. Dynamite
6. Puzzle Bobs
7. Land Of Genesis
8. Aqua
9. Lego Blast
10. Toadies

• Dynamic fullscreen dissolution.
• DATs are now dynamically fed in.
• ISO support.
• Improved NVRAM emulation.
• Joypad emulation can now be completely configured.
• New DATs for:
  • Gulp!
  • Roadkill (revised, has now "full collision")
  • Simon the Sorcerer
  • SubWar 2050
  • The Big 6
  • The Lost Vikings
  • Total Carnage

Last night Toni Wilen released his first version, WinUAE 0.8.21R1.

The WinUAE homepage is available under http://www.winuae.net/ and it is hosted by back2roots.org.

The driver includes a new pci.library:
- pci.library ver.5.1

From version 5.1 on, the pci.library enables simultaneous functioning of the THOR's MMULib package in both modes of pci.library operation (NO_MMU and MMU).

The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver.1.5

The new driver accelerates all the main blitter functions. Overlay support has been added.

The update includes the latest versions of the driver for Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.12

The update includes the a new version of the following drivers:
- tv.library ver. 1.8

Support for S3 ViRGE DX has been added. The list (http://www.elbox.com/mediator_driver_guide.html#TV_TUNER) of cards supported by the tv.library has been expanded. Now tv.library supports 93 TV card models.

"I've just returned from Alt WOA in Huddersfield.

It might interest you that Alan Redhouse received a fully functional AmigaOne motherboard this morning, which he presented at the fair.

It seems that Escena had Linux run on this board (until OS4 is ready). The motherboard seems to be working fine although Alan only managed to get the booting process up-and-running up to the BIOS in the short period of time that was available to him.

The specifications have really been improved compared to earlier versions.

The production of the motherboard begins in six weeks.

But I have changed two issues about the MorphOS part:

• The "original" mouse pointer reappears when mouse is moved outside the window, so you don't have to click blindly somewhere to know where your mouse is ;-)
• Timing has been fixed a bit, so CPU load should decrease and the mouse pointer movements will be less abrupt. It's not perfect, but next version (see below) will have much improved timing handling.

Functions are the recognising and colored highlighting of: program blocks, brackets, special characters, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, JSP, ASP and HSC. The colors can each be set up in the GoldED preferences.

In addition have many bugs of the orginal version and the last version been fixed. The Aminet upload can take some days. On my homepage there's of course always the latest archive available for download.

The port folio contains the PC illustration program XaraX and the PC webgraphics programs Xara Webstyle and Xara3D.

• Moved a few login routines to a new order, may work better for the Search service being started at login. (No idea, really)

This version fixes some issues in WarpSCUMM. Chances in detail:

• Reworked some bits and split up the code into more functions.
• Fixed two OS related issues reported by PatchWorks.
• Fixed a tiny memory leak.
• Subtask signaling tweaked and modified to work better.
• Priorities are now set correctly for WarpOS mirror-subtasks also.

Additional information about ScummVM is available here.

Download: WarpSDL_0.3usr.lha

• 21.02.02 new: Times Of Lore (Origin) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 new: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) done by JOTD
• 21.02.02 improved: Last Action Hero (Psygnosis) misc improvements
• 21.02.02 new: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 improved: Into the Eagle's Nest (Pandora) supports another version
• 21.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) supports another version
• 20.02.02 new: Turrican 2 Demo (Rainbow Arts) done by Psygore
• 20.02.02 new: Misery Dentro 2 (TRSI) done by Psygore
• 20.02.02 new: Darius+ (The Edge/Taito) done by CFOU!
• 20.02.02 improved: Blastar (Core Design) misc changes

Warp3D Voodoo are being released today for the following Mediator models: Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T and Mediator PCI ZIII.

Warp3D drivers prepared by Hyperion Entertainment for Mediator PCI busboards work flawlessly on PPC & 68k processors with:

• Voodoo3 2000/3000,
• Voodoo4 4500, and
• Voodoo5 5500 graphic cards.

MediaPoint RTG
There is a special offer for visitors of tomorrow's Alt-WoA show in Huddersfield, UK. Buyers of MediaPoint at the show will receive a full free upgrade to the upcoming MediaPoint RTG, which will feature RTG support through Picasso96, RTA support through AHI, support for Matrox' Dual-Head capabilities, and much more!

Audio Evolution 4
AE4 will be demonstrated at the Alt-WoA show. More information is also available on the newly opened (but still partly under construction) support website for Sultan Systems & Software, Computer City's software-brand. Of course, more information on Audio Evolution can also be found on the official site. Audio Evolution 4's planned release-date is April 2002.

These changes were necessary as I need scripts and programs in future which my current web hosting service does not offer in a normal hosting package.

• analogue modem
• ISDN
• xDSL
• a different way
• I don't have Internet at home

• GeoWorld, a geography program
• PhotoAlbum/CyberShow, picture management
• DocDatatypes (for MSWord, Wordperfect..)
• Siteway, site and content management
• AMPlifier, hardware based decoder

Two minutes after 8 pm we will have the following date:

20:02 20.02.2002

This is a register with a perfect symmetry and is called "Palindrom".

This has been happened at

10:01 10.01.1001

more than thousand years ago. This will not happen any more because the maximal digital marking of a day is 23:59. On 30.03 3003 this will not be possible because we do not have 30 hours!

See you!

Scenery is a scene-guide which contains data about scene-groups, events and publishments of the demo-scene.

• 19.02.02 new: Holiday Maker (PM Entertainment/Software 2000) done by Wepl
• 19.02.02 new: Elvira - Mistress of the Dark (Horrorsoft/Accolade) done by Wepl
• 19.02.02 fixed: Stunt Car Racer (Microstyle) install script corrected
• 19.02.02 improved: Power Drift (Activision) supports another version and other enhancements
• 19.02.02 improved: Fire And Forget 2 (Titus) supports another version
• 18.02.02 new: Test Drive (Accolade) done by JOTD
• 18.02.02 new: Armageddon Man (Electronic Pencil/Martech) done by Codetapper
• 18.02.02 new: Taekwondo (Anco) done by CFOU!
• 18.02.02 new: Stunt Car Racer (Microstyle) done by Codetapper
• 18.02.02 new: Scrolling Walls (KingSoft) done by CFOU!
• 18.02.02 new: Savage (Probe Software) done by Psygore
• 18.02.02 improved: Rampage (Activision) hiscore saving support added
• 18.02.02 fixed: Kwasimodo (Courbois Software) access fault removed
• 18.02.02 new: Impossible Mission 2 (Epyx) done by CFOU!
• 18.02.02 new: Hägar (KingSoft) done by CFOU!

Whats new:

• English menu updated
• Update-Function added
  (thus you can update from an older version)
• Output of a protocol file
• Minor bugs fixed

Owned and operated by Terry Fike out of Midland, Texas, USA, Turtle Lightning Amiga Software has finally decided to go out of the Amiga business.

Until now you have seen the last update of the news there.

> -- email start --
I already received lots of those bug reports, and I have already found the bug. Dirk increased the window size and didn't test it on plain 640 pixel screens, so VZ 0.96 refuses to work on that resolution. I didn't notice that because I use a 800x600 screen :-
The bugfix is on the way, but I maybe add some other features to VZ first..
- Georg....
> --- email end ---

• Canon S500/630/6300
• Epson Stylus C60,C70,C80, Photo 810
• HP DeskJet 92x, 94x, 96x

"Vollgas - Fullthrottle" and "The Dig" are already planned for the Amiga-version and will probably be included as beta in one of the upcoming versions. There will be a special 256 color version of "Zak Mc Kraken" available, too.

• added checking of some BCPL stuff (which is totally harmless since os37+ anyways).
  • CallGVptr - ROM check
  • EndGVptr - ROM check
  • GlobVecTable - checksumming, that should detect patches of any GV based viri including imaginary ones like GlobVec144 ;) Thanks to Thomas Richter and Holger Hippenstiel for information about GV that helped me a lot...
• added new tooltype 'NoGlobVec' to skip tests described above - it is already set in the icon as nobody beside me needs these checks!
• added notification of LIBS:xvs.library
• added some additional stuff to tc_launch/tc_switch checker
• changed timing routine
• ToolTypes: NoSwitch and NoLaunch are no longer debug only :P
• kicked bonus stuff due to lack of users' interest

Amiga Arena - interview with Nicholas Blachford
Recently Amiga Arena has drawn attention to the sources of the sampler software Aural Illusion. Its further development has been authorized by the author Nicholas Blachford. Amiga Arena's interview with the ex-Amiga developer is by far the most comprehensive interview in the history of Amiga Arena and full of really interesting statements. At the moment the interview is available online in English.

Amiga Arena - interview with Daniel Westerberg
Apart from Stefan Blixth also Daniel Westerberg belongs to OnyxSoft. Programs such as MultiRen, Detris or DRemind are very popular. The interview with Daniel Westerberg is available under German and English.

As already reported are friends of Boris just building up a website named Tronland. Documents, media reports and memories of Tron will be published on this website. In the view of the friends shall the documents proof that the public prosecutor's office is wrong in closing the file.

»Après quelques longues semaines d'absence, votre site Amiga Impact est (enfin) de retour.

Diverses raisons et divers problèmes (la plupart d'ordre privé), ont été à l'origine de cette suspension de la maintenance du site. La situation s'étant aujourd'hui arrangée, il ne devrait donc plus y avoir de gros problèmes à l'avenir.

Amiga Impact va donc pleinement retrouver son allure de croisière dans les jours à venir, avec l'arrivée de nouvelles rubriques.

After the creditor congregation last week in unison agreed to accept the recovery plan of the insolvent old company the newly founded Ascaron Entertainment GmbH can touch-and-go. It has taken over all the rights including the Ascaron brand and also is employer of the present staffers.

The winners:

• 1st prize: Roman Sudlitz (Prizes: Extreme, PuzzleBobs, Mousepad donated by AmigaPage)
• 2nd prize: Jean Yves Auger (Prizes: Extreme, Mousepad donated by AmigaPage)
• 3rd prize: Peter Balogh (Prizes: Extreme, Poster)
• 4th prize: Michael Goken (Prizes: Extreme)

• 10.02.02 new: The Punisher (Digital) done by Psygore
• 10.02.02 new: Wacky Darts (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal & Codetapper
• 10.02.02 new: Spy Vs Spy 3: Arctic Antics (Wicked Software/First Star Software) done by Codetapper
• 10.02.02 new: Spy Vs Spy 2: The Island Caper (Wicked Software/First Star Software) done by Codetapper
• 10.02.02 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) supports two more versions
• 10.02.02 new: Galactic Conqueror (Titus) done by CFOU!
• 10.02.02 updated: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) misc changes
• 10.02.02 new: Escape from Colditz (Digital Magic Software) done by Bored Seal
• 10.02.02 fixed: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) keyboard access in highscores corrected
• 10.02.02 new: Magnetic Dreams (Digital) done by Psygore
• 10.02.02 new: Battle Valley (Hewson) done by Bored Seal
• 08.02.02 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) supports German version too, misc other changes
• 08.02.02 new: Carcharodon - White Sharks (Demonware) done by Galahad
• 06.02.02 improved: Rotor (Arcane) blitter waits added, snoop mode fix
• 06.02.02 new: The Final Battle (Mirrorsoft) done by Bored Seal
• 06.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) music/sound fixed, blitter waits added and more

About the image converter ArtPRO
ArtPRO supports a variety of file formats like ILBM, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and PCX. It can even load more using datatypes. ArtPRO also supports some raw formats like chunky. Images can be saved as bitplane, chunky or truecolor, as binary or source.
ArtPRO's source generator is capable of creating copper lists and sprites. The program offers very fast down calculation of images of very good quality, has a palette optimizer and real time colour bias also working with true colour pictures.

Development to be continued?
ArtPRO was written in 100% assembler. Who seriously would like to continue development might contact Frank Pagels. It really would be a pleasure if someone would do so.

Because all text informations about countries, cities and organizations are saved with special index numbers as filename it was nearly impossible for the user (without knowledge of the program interna) to change/extend the informations by himself.

I've just uploaded the second Amiga release, and the first platform release for 4.1.3. Some minor 4.1 problems may crop up, but I expect this to be a pretty solid release.

4.1.3 for the other 2 platforms will occur over the next few days, bringing everyone up to speed.

The informations stated in an earlier update are still valid. No big breakthroughs in the last week (but none are planned, though ;) ).
The Exec Kernel is running in a Simulator (parallel to the normal system). In this time it is ported to the hardware platform.
The rest of the components is in different states of finishing. Some are finished but are waiting for the final converting onto the new kernel (this means just only a recompilation of it).

This is a hint for those who want to start with developing for OS4: Develop for 68k. The sources will be fixed with minor changes to OS4 (it means only one or two lines are added to the sourcecode). You can use the normal Exec API. We will release a beta version for developers that will document the new functions (about 20). It should be a change to PPC at least.

• BrainTeaser (March/April)
• Kaliko Minigolf (March/April)
• Pirate's Puzzle (April/June)

Other new additions to the games section are: Merchant Colony, Virocop, Impossamole, Darkmere, Fire and Ice, Katakis, Jaguar XJ220, R-Type II and many more.

I've finally got around to finishing off all of my Amiga compiles, and they've all been uploaded. Details below.

News first!

68000 Support
I've decided to drop 68000 support - I'm going by the assumption that if a user has enough memory to play some of these variants, then they will have a better processor than the bog standard one. All variants will now be targetted for the 68020. Demands from some of the Zangband-based variants are increasing, and with the addition of Lua into Angband and Zangband, and inveitably into their offspring, then a basic unexpanded 68000 system just wouldn't be able to cope.

CD32 (other than English)
Disk version (other than German)

The Amiga Arena talked to Stefan Blixth about his new programs and a very comprehensive comment by Stefan completes the interview. The interview is available in German and English.

PuzzelBOBS news
On the PuzzelBobs support site of the Amiga Arena is the module "Rockers Galore" by "Up Rough System" available for download! Matching the puzzle game this module offers a relaxed dub sound! Just copy it into the directory "Module" of PuzzelBOBS!

Aural illusion V. 3.0 source released
The until now unreleased source code of the unfortunately never published sound sampler Aural illusion V 3.0 by "Blachford Technology" is now available for download and for free continuation of development. According to Nicolas Blachford can this code used without restrictions.

• Improve text Requester:
  More easy to select vectorial font
  Font Path can be changed.
• Bug Fix:
  Control anim requester
  Movie Factory
  pp_CheckBox
  Processing tool: Linked Freehand
• Increase to 50 the number of gadgets usable in arexx dialog
• New Arexx Command:
  pp_ScreenToFront
  pp_PlaceGui
  pp_Convert2RGB
  pp_ScalePicture
  pp_GetLocale.
• AdjustLevels and AutoLevels work well now with Stencil
• Improve AppIcon (add the possibilities to load Icon)
• Jpeg size detection is much faster.
• Add a menu to the undo/redo button:
  Free Current Undo/Redo
  Free All Undo/Redo
• Improve RAW saving, with a requester.
• When PfPaint can't load a picture, it tries to load it as a RAW picture.

This is a 'last resort' plugin, there will be files it will not work on due to formatting differences, but it can be used for files for some files which no plugins exist yet (I tested it on an Outlook 2000 email, worked with no glitches, works with a few glitches on some Mac text files).

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