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`03.Apr.2001` Ruediger Hanke via eMail	Aladdin Ghostscript 6.50 for Amiga I have compiled Aladdin Ghostscript 6.50 for Amiga. You can download it from my homepage (title link), I will upload it to the Aminet in the next days. There is a 68k- and a PPC-version available. The PPC-version needs the latest WarpOS version (5.0) With Ghostscript you can convert and print Postscript and PDF files. Most interesting is may be the fact that you can convert Postscript files from Pagestream or FinalWriter to PDF, like the Adobe Distiller, Ghostscript 6.50 is the first Amiga program that can handle embedded fonts (PageStream does not (yet!) support font embedding, and 5.10 converts fonts to graphics, which results in huge PDF files in poor quality.) An archive with sources is available, too, but I created Ghostscript with the StormC-Compiler and not with GeekGadgets. This means there are no Amiga-makefiles but only StormC-projects. If you want to recompile please make sure to read the !!!Source.readme in the archive. [News message: 03. Apr. 2001, 20:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Apr.2001` Alfred Sturm	New Aminet Uploads FootballPatch.lha biz/dbase 109K+Patches for Football 2.6 LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 78K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.5.1 Indy5Theme.lha biz/dopus 5.5M+Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2 DCF77update.lha biz/patch 573K+Update for DCF77 3.0-3.10 to 3.11 DCPatch.lha biz/patch 34K+Some Bugfixes and improvements for DosCo YAM22GrkCP.lha comm/mail 4K+Greek charset conversion files for YAM 2 TTimeDeluxe.lha comm/misc 582K+Displays Phonecosts online (Germany only Amster-locale.lha comm/tcp 352K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI Amster-main.lha comm/tcp 199K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI Amster-source.lha comm/tcp 144K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 30K+Translate docs or strings from one langu TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 362K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). TaskiSMS_PL.lha comm/tcp 181K+Polish catalog & documentation for Taski simplehtml.lha comm/www 34K+V0.15 of the simple HTML Offline Browser wpz-impact.mpg demo/file 2.9M+VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Sa Distance2.lzh dev/amos 4K+Computes distances between 2 points on e repos_demo.lha dev/misc 9K+Small demo source of drag`n`drop lib and ScalosDev.lha dev/misc 49K+Scalos Development Kit v3 muimaster020.lha dev/mui 97K+Muimaster.library 020 patch Rel 3 Amplifier2.21P.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for Amplifier2.21 BookCon1.4PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for BookConverter1.4 HardDrive.lha docs/help 14K+The Amiga Hard Disk Guide hmg4ng.lha docs/hyper 61K+AG about Metal Bands - V 4.0 NG NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 777K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 03/2001 (Itali AaktInt0301.lha docs/mags 208K+International infotainment magazine AaktInt0301GFX.lha docs/mags 105K+International infotainment magazine (gra FireballExtr1a.lha docs/mags 843K+German Entertainment Magazine FireballExtr1b.lha docs/mags 834K+German Entertainment Magazine Fireball_2HTML.lha docs/mags 596K+German Entertainment Magazine Fireball_5a.lha docs/mags 741K+German Entertainment Magazine Fireball_5b.lha docs/mags 666K+German Entertainment Magazine mc501.lha docs/mags 386K+German Metal Mag in HTML - May 2001 Issu wtdcsea.lha game/2play 17K+An underwater level type for WormsDC wtdcwb.lha game/2play 32K+A WorkBench 3 level type for WormsDC DopeWars.lha game/actio 46K+Classic game where you go around and buy dynSP_Style.lha game/data 94K+SouthPark Style for dynAMIte MagicSets.lha game/data 34K+3 nice 256 colour sets for MagicNumbers! MOTU_11.lha game/data 30M+Abode of Golgotha 2 - Heretic II Addon obvious.lha game/data 102K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors M-1_Demo1.lha game/demo 1.9M+Game Demo by Marcio Esper playable more sys.lha game/gag 7K+Commodore C64 SYS command emulator pawclaw.lha game/jump 133K+Arcade platformer roper.lha game/jump 467K+Roper SManMOSB2.lha gfx/fract 121K+Mandelbrot generator for MorphOS SManWOSB2.lha gfx/fract 133K+Mandelbrot generator for WarpOS NcodeR_Indy5.lha gfx/misc 145K+Skin for NcodeR V1.5x +++ NcodeR_TD21.lha gfx/misc 217K+Skin for NcodeR V1.5x +++ MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 133K+V0.62 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A ps2m.lha hard/hack 21K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 Wheel Mouse Controll TestGear-Notes.lha hard/hack 7K+Test equipment projects, general notes. TestGear3.lha hard/hack 257K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3. TestGear4A.lha hard/hack 288K+The Oscilloscope Project Disk 4A. TestGear4A.lha hard/misc 288K+The Oscilloscope Project Disk 4A. DarcNES.lha misc/emu 116K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9b031 imdbDiff010323.lha misc/imdb 1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase diru.lha misc/misc 2.9M+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700 diru_nodb.lha misc/misc 85K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700 elu_grav.mpg mods/elbie 5.2M+Elusive Cure - Gravety [Gothic] By ElbiE memory.mpg mods/elbie 2.9M+A Memory of the Past [Electric] by ElbiE crs_apac.lha mods/techn 329K+CRS00059: phase - apache crs_mend.lha mods/techn 968K+CRS00058: jocko - mendes id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 80K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor Episode-II.lha pix/anim 4.8M+Star Wars Ep 2 intro sequence (.mov) GameIcons1.lha pix/gicon 551K+Great GlowIcons for MANY Amiga games. lch-JapIcons3.lha pix/gicon 101K+Japanesque GlowIcons for Os 3.5 pack 3 NetGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 5K+A few GlowIcons for AmigaOS 3.5+ AmigaFINlogo.gif pix/irc 6K+#AmigaFIN Hipsamtab4.jpg pix/misc 53K+More pics of this amazing Amiga. Read .r Hipsamtab5.jpg pix/misc 51K+More pics of this amazing Amiga. Read .r Hipsamtab6.jpg pix/misc 58K+More pics of this amazing Amiga. Read .r Pointers.lha pix/misc 7K+Some cool mouse pointers! sg-strip_10.lha pix/misc 64K+[ancor] StarGround 10 sg-strip_9.lha pix/misc 46K+[ancor] StarGround 9 yoroshii.lha pix/misc 281K+[ancor] a pic with Sandra & Sarah x-not-x.mpg pix/mpg 2.5M+A preview for an upcoming film AKIconzGold.lha pix/mwb 531K+The ALL NEW 32 col. Icon Collection #1 cbm-logo.lha pix/trace 55K+C4D Commodore logo by Hibisch madonna.jpg pix/wb 148K+Hand drawn picture of Madonna wb1200_1.jpg pix/wb 79K+How to make the best out of 2MB Chip-RAM wb1200_2.jpg pix/wb 69K+How to make the best out of 2MB Chip-RAM guideml2.lha text/hyper 54K+Cool AmigaGuide -> HTML converter (V2.2) AutoPDF12.lha text/misc 20K+AutoPDF 1.2 - Convert Postscript to PDF Epson_400.lha text/print 25K+Epson Stylus 400/440/460 Driver for WB V Epson_600.lha text/print 26K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.2 acces1-11B.lha util/app 33K+Multi User system (difrent settings and RemAPollo.lha util/boot 64K+A1200 040\60 MMU Apollo Turboboard Rema titleshadow.lha util/boot 20K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti WoW.lha util/conv 40K+Text converter (Html, Ww6, Rtf, AGuide, ReportPlus.lha util/misc 351K+Report+ 4.4: Multipurpose utility ReqAttack.lha util/misc 635K+Best, configurable requesters for Amiga ReqAttackUpd.lha util/misc 117K+RAPrefsMUI1.74, ReqAttack1.60 SelectOSv.1.1.lha util/misc 11K+Select AmigaOS and/or Linux APUS and/or WheelBusMouse.lha util/mouse 10K+Bus Mouse wheel support ScreenShell.lha util/shell 6K+Opens full size shell on new public scre DRemind_Ger.lha util/time 18K+German catalogs for DRemind 1.57 VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 16K+PatchBrain v1.27 for VirusExecutor v2.xx VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 252K+VirusExecutor v2.09 QuickLens.lha util/wb 8K+A quick lens, any OS, source included ScalosModuleEC.lha util/wb 22K+Scalos 'Execute Command' Replacement ScalosPlugin39.lha util/wb 17K+Scalos 'Workbench 3.9' Plugin ScalosPluginPW.lha util/wb 17K+Scalos 'Persistant Windows' Plugin ScalosPluginTP.lha util/wb 12K+Scalos 'Titlebar PPC' Plugin ScalosPluginVG.lha util/wb 13K+Scalos 'Volume Gauge' Plugin [News message: 03. 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`03.Apr.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	osOpinion: Be and Amiga: Ominous Parallels? »The difference between the two companies lies in the management. Whereas Commodore had faceless suits who were disconnected from the technology, Be, Inc. is run by people who are actually passionate about the operating system.« More: title link. [News message: 03. Apr. 2001, 19:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Apr.2001` Dirk Stoecker on ANF	XAD-System V10 Released The latest version V10 of the archive extracting system XAD is released in the Aminet. There is a new version of XFD, too. New are bugfixes, new archive types and main improvements. The readme contains the complete (and long) list. Attention OS3.9 users: This version is not a special version and should not be installed over the OS3.9 version, if you do not like the annoy requester. OS3.9 users can update for half the price. [News message: 03. Apr. 2001, 12:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Apr.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	Amiga.org Online Again As reported was Amiga.org due to too much traffic caused by the fair pictures and the webcam disconnected by the provider. Now Amiga.org is online again. Amiga.org looks out now for a cheap and reliable provider. [News message: 03. Apr. 2001, 12:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Apr.2001` Martin R. Elsner via eMail	News about ClassAction and MainPrefs News to ClassAction V4.0 is already finished. I am looking for translators, that can create catalog files. A list of catalogs you can find on the homepage. If you are interseted send an eMail. After installation of BoingBag1 the program seems to crash if you open a drawer in the directory "Variablen" (variables). The bug is fixed, the latest version 2.20 with more improvements will be available, if the new translations are finished. [News message: 03. Apr. 2001, 11:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Apr.2001` Martin baute via eMail	Personal Estimation From Martin Baute This article in German My final article - Author: Martin Baute April Fools? One thing before I start, since Sunday morning (2001-04-01), I did only flighty check the situation around Amiga. Perhaps the interview given on this day by Bill McEwen at around 8 AM MEST was a single huge April Fool's joke, and I simply didn't get it. This way or the other, I am angry, upset, and most of all severely disappointed. Very quick something about me as a person. I wasn't an Amiga user since day 0, my "career" as Amigian started 1993 with a second hand A2000. But I was there when Commodore went bust. I have seen the Walker on the CeBit exhibition, and was stunned speechless by the senselessness of the design. I have been through the VIScorp misery, and as news-master of the Amiga News & Stories wrote my articles about it. I have been through the Gateway takeover, rise and fall of Jim Collas, and as "English master" of amiga-news.de wrote my articles about it. I have been through the Amino takeover, and subsequently evangelized the strategy of Amiga, Inc. at best I could, with articles, postings and meetings of the Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers. I was there during the dark years, and I think this makes me an "Amigian". This "being Amigian" found a sudden, surprising, painful end in the morning of April 1st. The scene was set at the St. Louis Amiga Show. With big words it had been announced this show would be a "ground shaking event", a day that would put all previous presentations and announcements to shame. In a way, I think Amiga, Inc. stood up to this promise. Preliminary Amiga, Inc. had targeted a completely new concept, based on the Elate / intent technology of the Tao Group: An operating system (rather, operating environment), that could be deployed independently of the underlying hardware, on almost any architecture (PowerPC or x86 desktops, STB, PDA, server, ...). Additionally, there was the option of being installed "hosted", as a seperate application, under every major operating system. The concept was simple and made sense: Software written for the AmigaDE would run on any operating system, any architecture. No more porting, no more making the wrong decision with the target platform. The capability for "hosted" deployment would have allowed to slowly penetrate the market, step by step drawing in developers and applications, replacing more and more of everyday computing by Amiga software, until the day the host becomes irrelevant. Expectations So I was sitting at my keyboard, hours before dawn, curious for what would come. Did they complete the SDK, including 3D and audio support? Did they convince one of the major Linux distributors to bundle the AmigaDE with their distribution? Did they find a strong financial support? Shortly before the interview started, rumors arose Amiga, Inc. would announce AmigaOS 4.0 PPC native. That would be a bitter pill, I thought, further dividing users, developers and retailers - some focusing on AmigaDE, others on OS 4.0, and both projects failing miserably... On the other hand, I felt sympathetic with the users who did spend significant amounts into their PPC Amigas, and wanted to continue using that hardware. Decisions The decision, when it finally came, was about the hardest blow since Jim Collas left. Bill McEwen officially labeled the AmigaDE "no MP, no VM, for PDAs only". For desktop and server systems, AmigaOS 4.x PPC native would be developed, which would see memory protection being added "in one of the future versions". As a sidenote, this OS 4.0 would not run on existing hardware, but only on AmigaOne systems. Over the time, OS 4.x and AmigaDE would then be merged and Amiga be led into a golden future. Bill McEwen seemed to think this was very funny, as you can easily hear yourself by listening to the MP3 of the question-and-answer session. I was dumbfounded. I felt sick, I was unbelievably angry, and if it wasn't early morning, I probably would have tried to shout at McEwen through the modem cable and shake him violently. So I only shook my head when some hours later I read on various online forums that this decision even found applause among users. Consequences I might be wrong. Amiga might make a furious comeback with this strategy. But I cannot believe in it anymore. What are the consequences of this decision? OS 4.x shall be deployed on servers. Memory protection on desktop systems might be a matter of taste, for servers it is simply a necessity. According to McEwen, memory protection will not be implemented until OS 4.2, which are a minimum of 12 months on Amiga, Inc.'s roadmap. Until then, AmigaOS will not be deployed on production servers, and I even doubt it will after this date: Who can name a company employing servers based on PowerPC CPUs? AmigaOS 4.x will not run on existing hardware. This means OS 4.x can only be sold to those purchasing an AmigaOne. Many "old" users will stick with their present systems. Some will jump to other platforms entirely. Why anybody from e.g. the Linux or Windows community should buy an AmigaOne (that cannot run anything besides OS 4.x and LinuxPPC), is completely beyond me. The people who bought a SDK or even a d'Amiga have been completely left "under fire without air cover" by Amiga, Inc. For the foreseeable future, Amiga's plans for the AmigaDE and the SDK encompass PDAs, STBs and internet enabled laundry machines only. The few remaining programmers, which hungered for an opportunity to write applications like word processors, e-mail clients and 3D games for the AmigaDE, and did invest into what they thought is the first generation of the new Amiga, are now facing the decision to either do a summersault backwards by exchanging their x86 machines for new PPC hardware, or having to wait another couple of years until OS 4.x and AmigaDE finally grow together. Those who buy an AmigaOne can use it under AmigaOS 4.x or LinuxPPC. Should Amiga, Inc. fail with it's current strategy, only LinuxPPC remains. And this for a price tag that easily purchases a x86 PC, offering other options like the better supported x86 Linux, Windows, QNX, BeOS, AROS, WinUAE and over half a dozen other operating systems. Until Amiga, Inc. can stand up to it's promise of providing an operating environment that scales from mobile phone all the way up to servers, independently of the hardware, a minimum of another three years will pass, according to Mr. McEwen. I will not speculate about the chances to penetrate a market that, until then, will be secured by Embedded Linux and Microsoft .NET. This year, perhaps even next year still, capabilities like scalability and binary compatibility could have earned a big success. But what a shame, competition is moving just the same direction, and history proves that superior technology doesn't win the race once Microsoft reaches "full steam ahead". With all generosity, I cannot make sense of the current plans of Amiga Inc. anymore. They force old users as well as the developers on the "bleeding edge" to buy new hardware, they delay the time schedule for their big promises for years to come, and Bill McEwen laughs his head off over it. Sorry, I'm fed up. I wish Amiga Inc. and the remaining community all the best, and it would be a very pleasant surprise to me should I be proven wrong. But since Sunday, April 1st, 2001 my time as an active "Amigan" is over, because in Snoqualmie, they obviously live in a red-and-white checkered padded cell, or an ivory tower, but in any case they seem to have lost any sense for reality. [News message: 03. Apr. 2001, 10:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Dhomas Trenn via E-Mail	Young Monkey Amiga-Software becomes Freeware Young Monkey Studios is proud to announce that our whole Amiga software portfolio is now available for free. This includes the following programs: Commander-ImageFX - Customizable GUI for ImageFX GridLock - 2 player game Modem/NullModem/Ami-TCP HP3PS - PacificPage PS/PCL Mode Changer ImageFX - various loaders/scripts/etc. MSE - MIDI SYStem EXplorer - PatchEditor+MORE SamplerUtility - Disk imager for ProAudio Samplers TextToBraille - Text To Braille Conversion Utility TimeKeep - TimeClock Util for Clients-Projects-Invoices TimeKeepDev - TimeClock Util for Project Development TimeSpeak - Speaks current date or time Additional informations and the downloads are available at the title link. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 21:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001`	amiga.nl with New Design amiga.nl was completely reworked and updated. There are some pictures of the presentation at the Amiga 2001 online. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 21:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF	More Coyote Flux 3D-Engine Screenshots Some more screenshots of the 3D terrain-renderer have been added to the temporary website of Coyote Flux. These are the last screenshots without texturemapping. Since several people asked if the engine is voxel-based, some new screenshots will be released soon to show that this is NOT a voxel. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 21:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Matthias Henze on ANF	Informations about stormamiga.lib and HSMathLibs Due to personal reasons we could not work on the 'HSMathLibs' and 'stornamiga.lib' for a month. Because of this the release of the new versions will be postboned for a month. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 21:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Matthias Muench on ANF	Amiga presentation at the Gateway Computer Show 2001 The presentation by Amiga at the Gateway Computer Show 2001 is now available at our side. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 21:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	Golem: Amiga develop Software for Sharp Linux-PDA Sharp-PDA will be available by christmas in germany. Amiga announced that they co-operate with Sharp to offer content and programs for the upcomming Linux-PDA by Sharp. Sharp plans to ship this new device for Christmas. The whole article is available at the title link. Additional news: The Register: Sharp Linux PDA to be first next-gen Amiga device [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 17:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Patrick Beerhorst	Eternity Computer / Tales of Tamar / Play!Amiga Changing Server We are currently working on the moving of our Internet pages to a new server. We please you to be patient if any of our pages won't be available for some days. This concerns the domains www.eternity-computer.de, www.tamar.net and Play!Amiga. After the moving there will be more space for an increase of the games area of Play!Amiga and for the development of Tales of Tamar. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 16:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Richard Kapp	Update of SendStuff New version (0.6) of SendStuff released. New features: SendStuff now stores the preferences of the send-mode (copy or move). Bugfix: directories will now be moved correct without an error message. Subdirectories will now be moved or copied correct too. SendStuff lets you copy or move files or directories into other directories or devices by using drag'n'drop. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 16:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Wayne Hunt on ANF	Amiga.org Clarification Amiga.org is currently down. This weekend we took over 2.5 million hits to the server, and transferred over 40Gb in two days (mostly because of the Amiga 2001 pictures). As a result, our ISP suspended our service due to scragging their MySQL server. That means for the moment that Amiga.org will be unavailable until they either allow us back online, or I gather the money to move to another ISP. Simple fact of life, Amiga.org is once again a victim of it's own success (for which I humbly thank you guys) and anyone who says the Amiga community is dead, obviously doesn't have to pay for it's bandwidth... :) We'll be back soon I hope Wayne Hunt Amiga.org [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 16:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001`	St. Louis Special - Annotation There will be many reports, pictures and informations concerning the Amiga 2001 Show in St. Louis in the next few days. We will not present every link to every article or snippet of information at the main news page but you will find every link in the special. That's why you should check it daily to find new informations. For the next few days the link to this special will remain on top of the link list but then it will move to the special sections link list. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 14:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Diverse Sources	Software News SimpleHTML V0.15 Sebastian Bauer released version 0.15 of his program SimpleHTML. SimpleHTML is an offline browser that lets you display small files very fast. It supports only a few HTML-tags. There is a html.datatype available too. Download: simplehtml.lzx - 32 kB Amster There is a quickfix for Amster available that fixes a little bug in the localization system. Amster is a client for the well known napster. Download: Amster-main.lha - 199 kB IcoDT - CondenseIcon - ilbmdtPPC Stephan Rupprecht released updates for the following programs: IcoDT.lha - 13 kB - Datatype for .ICO files CondenseIcon.lha - 5 kB - OS3.5 Tool to decrease the size of .info files ilbmdtPPC.lha - 10 kB - ilbm-Datatype for PPC (WarpUP) [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 13:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Matthias Muench on ANF	AUG99: AmigaONE 1200 There are pictures of the AmigaONE 1200 Board by Eyetech available at the title link. We did some notes to the pictures to show what will be available on-board. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 12:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Jan Andersen via E-Mail	Virus Help Denmark News New VEPatchBrain for VirusExecutor: Name: VEPatchBrain v1.27 Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha Archive size: 16.410 Bytes Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen Release date: 31. März 2001 Virus Help Denmark started a survey that asks you if you would pay a shareware fee for anti-virus programs. The poll is available at the polls-link. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 11:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Pawel Filipczak on ANF	TaskiSMS Update Version 2.52 of TaskiSMS were released. TaskiSMS lets you send short messages into 112 countries. News in this release: fixed bug in editor window that caused problems with ghosted buttons when correct number was entered fixed bug in editor window that causes program crashes new plugin ICQ for all countries (in unregistered version length of SMS is limited to 60 chars for that plugin) removed plugin for Czech Republic & Slovakia (D1cz) added new country - Moldova added about 450 networks/operators to the support list added plugin display priority list (check settings window) The demo version is available at TaskiSMS Homepage or at the aminet AmiNet. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 10:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Apr.2001` Eyetech AmigaONE ML / Jorge Pino on ANF	FAQ by Fleecy The following link offers you a complete lists of all questions that were made and the answers of Fleecy. FAQ Thes faq-list was compiled by James Bridge. [News message: 02. Apr. 2001, 03:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` Markus Nerding via E-Mail	Gateway Show Amiga 2001 - Report by Markus Nerding Markus Nerding promised us to send us a live report from the fair if he had the opportunity. He kept his promise and sent us the following report: As during the previous years, the hosts of the the fair, Bob and Diana Sharp have created a magnificent ambient for the biggest of the US fairs. In the celebration hall of the Sharaton hotel, all the famous retailers, manufacturers and Amiga User Groups were present. There are not too many news from this side, so everybody was waiting eagerly for the announcements Amiga Inc. had planned to make at the banquet on Saturday evening. However there were some things to see, and most of all different softwares and hardwares to buy. One novelty was the presentation of the VarIO-Borad by Jens Schönfeld - a multi-IO-card with serial, parallel and PS/2 Port. Grasshopper showed version 4.0.9 of PageStream which is available since last week. At Mr.Hardware there was a PC expansion card that allows full access for the Amiga. The by far biggest stand was owned by Merlancia Industries who had planed to present a PPC-board, but there must have been some obstacle to this. Not present, for the first time in years, was BoXer who had formerly always been praised by AntiGravity, but who had even failed to present a prototype the previous years. At noon on Saturday, Petro invited all Amiga-fans for a pizza. The hotel brought so many Pizza Hut boxes that even hours after that there were still some available. In addition to this, beer was free too: Budweiser and Bud Lite - it is weird that I must think only now about the fact that Dave Haynie was present too. As well as Joe Torre who entertained us once again with uncountable stories. I think he is almost a better entertainer than a hardware developer ;-) Like the previous years, there were a lot of interesting seminars. Gary Peake and Rudi Chiarito talked about the subject "Where we are today" and showed the actual status of the AmigaDE-Developer System. Further seminars talked about ImageFX, PageStream, hardware design, Amiga Forever and some different subjects. We held a seminar about StormC and of course AmigaOS 3.9, where there were of course many questions asked about the future. Saturday night - Petro's Farewell-banquet - first plank: "Petro's Roast". Here people were allowed balance their accounts with Petro and some speakers really invested themselves in this ;-) A very funny matter which ended with many presents give to and by Petro. Petro himself the summarized once again the history of Commodore/Amiga - of course, after 20 years he had a lot to tell. He emphasised however that he will not be definitively gone and that he will attend to one or the other event. Then it was Bill McEwen's turn. By now it was late but he once more was able to wake up the people. The AmigaONE by Eyetech, AmigaOS 4.0 and the use of AmigaDE on the new Zaurus PDAs from Sharp were announced. These were of course the subject Amiga users had been waiting for. The CEO of Eyetech, Allan Redhouse, could already show a fully featured card of the AmigaONE, which however still had some electric defect. However first developer boards should be ready soon and the shipping to the customers will start end of June (2001 of course ;-)). Matched to this was the announcement of AMigaOS 4.0 which will now at last bring the long awaited PPC version of the AmigaOS. The port will be done by Amiga Inc. in association with Haage&Partner and other developers. Details about this will follow soon, however the project is on its way and a high priority to Amiga Inc. The next climax was Bill's presentation of the Zaurus, the new PDA from Sharp, on which ran the famous Boing-Ball-Demo of the AmigaDE. There is a deal with Sharp so in short, it will run on billions of devices. Bill also talked about Psion, who want to use AmigaDE on the laptop-similar Netbook and also about the possibility to use it on any Windows-CE device. All in all an interesting view of the big distribution of the AmigaDE, which will be done in parallel with the AmigaOS 4.0 development and which should merge later on. To sum up, one can say about the fair that there have been for once really interesting news whose repercussions could be fundamental. Obviously, Amiga Inc. is concentrating more on its roots and kernel, which they own, the AmigaOS. All this is looking good, however now it will show in which time these things will become reality for the developers and users. We are very curious about it... We thank Markus Nerding very heartily for this detailed insight and wish a nice Sunday to all of the visitors. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 19:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` Stéphane Campan via E-Mail	Amiga Impact: Special Edition Our French co-site Amiga Impact are currently rebuilding their website completely. On occasion of the Amiga 2001 Show in St. Louis you can find a french-speaking special about the show under the title link. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 18:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` Martin Baute	Audio Records by Martin Baute Martin Baute has send us 2 audio records from the St. Louis-Show, which we gladly make available for download. St_Louis.mp3 - 4,5 MB 010401_IRClog.txt - 118 kB The St. Louis mp3-record has been recorded during the query and answer hour with Bill McEwen this morning between 8:00 and 9:40 o'clock. The IRC-log was logged during the IRC query and answer hour with Bill McEwen on #developer. The log is completely raw and not complete, since Martin wasn't present from the beginning. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 17:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` Reader on ANF	Fleecy Explains the Current Plans of AmigaInc Under the title link you can find a posting by Fleecy Moss, which he posted on the AmigaONE mailing list. In the message, Fleecy explains in detail the plans of Amiga Inc. and answers some questions. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 16:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` Christoph Meier on ANF	individual Computers Produces C-64 hardware In association with members of the C-64 scene a clone of the popular Action Replay has been developed. The new edition has a 128K Flash Rom instead of the 32K Eprom and a 32K Ram instead of a 8K Ram. This makes it possible to use the known Rom versions of the Action Replay as well as the Roms of the SuperSnapshot and the Nordic Power. The Freeze-Logic has been significantly improved. A and an accurate control of the main CPU increase the security while freezing the system. The new Cartridges will be available from June 2001. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 16:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` comp.sys.amiga.misc	"Classic" Amiga OS 4.x PPC will come! Harv Laser, the maintainer of AmigaZone draws an overview of the announcements made on the Amiga 2001, in his posting at comp.sys.amiga.misc and confirms that the Classic Amiga OS PPC will definitively come. Amiga OS 4.x and 5.0 will follow. Petro celebrated his leaving with a banquet and freely gave autographs. Alan Redhouse has shown his board on which the new AMiga-PPC-OS will run. Of course the Sharp announcement is also mentioned. Read the original message under the title link. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 08:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` Quantum Leap on ANF	Amiga Inc. Reveals Partner Quantum Leap - the italian e-zine oriented toward new technologies - was officially authorised by Amiga Inc. to publish information about their new partnerships. The present announcement will be published at 10.00pm (PST) on our website at Quantum Leap. Quantum Leap has released three pictures of a Sharp-Handheld (PDA) with AmigaDE. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 07:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` No Risc No Fun	New PPC OS with AMIGA- and Windows Support On our page there are first pictures of our new project AmiWin (working name), a PPC OS which can run AmigaOS as well as Windows Software. The current version runs on Macintosh hardware and there is a screenshot on the page. In our Workbench-Gallery there are 2 new WB-Shots. Apparently the big domain-dying is on, since our site can't be reached either. I hope that this condition will resolve soon. Otherwise you can always reach us under http://www.trotta.de/club/. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 06:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Apr.2001` Thomas Wuergler on ANF	Payback Review The most comprehensive Payback review anywhere is now on Amigafire.com. There have been other reviews, but none as in-depth as this one. [News message: 01. Apr. 2001, 04:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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