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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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