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`15.Jun.2001` Stefan Martens (ANF)	#AmigaFun: HBMonopoly online game The #AmigaFun IRC channel on ie.altnet.org organizes and manages the second official HBMonopoly game of this month. It will take place on June 16th starting 6:00 pm. The programmer of HBMonopoly will participate as well. HBMonopoly 2.6 is required. This version will be available from some people on the #AmigaFun channel should it not already be on the homepage. The server which have to be configured in HBMonopoly will be named on the #AmigaFun channel. Important: you have to know how HBMonopoly works. We'll only explain how to log in. We'll assume that you have played at least one, two times against the computer. In future we'll organize more HBMonopoly games. There's already a #AmigaFun-internal highscore list which you can have a look at on the #AmigaFun homepage. It will also contain the top 5 of all HBMonopoly games we'll organize in the future. It is possible that after some games there'll be a surprise for the best gamer. The first HBMonopoly game starts Saturday June 16th, 2001 at 6:00 pm. Please note that Monopoly may take several hours, so you should have a full version of your TCP client (Miami, Genesis). You'll find our #AmigaFun channel as follows: You need an IRC client. For the Amiga there are AmIRC (shareware), BlackIRC (freeware) and EpicIRC (freeware). On our homepage, you'll find download links. You just have to enter: Server: ie.altnet.org Port: 6667 Channel: #amigafun Should the server be down you can get access through the following server: 12.30.169.83 (please enter without "irc."). You can find more information, especially for IRC novices, on the #AmigaFun homepage. On this occasion I'd like to say that the homepage was entirely redesigned. You can choose between German and English language. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 23:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)	Demoscene disk mag: Devotion#2 released Last night the second issue of the English Amiga demoscene disk mag "Devotion" has been released. Experts of the scene will compare this issue with the 'Creme de la creme' and find that Devotion has everything which made classics like RAW, ROM or GENERATION special. For novices and those interested in the demoscene the magazine is recommended also. SCENET has the magazine available for download since it's available nowhere else. Download: hjb-dvn2.lha (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 23:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	Music: DARKAGE releases fix for LEGALIZE IT 2 The group Darkage, known in the Amiga demo scene for their intros, demos and their disk mag Showtime, released yesterday a fix for the music disk "Legalise it". This music disk was originally released in the early nineties by the lengendary group Anarchy. The programmer Reinhold "Stingray" Kloth has reworked the entire sourcecode and allows owners of modern Amigas to experience the feeling of the demo scene from 1992. SCENET hosts also the sixteenth issue of the English disk mag 'Showtime' which is available here. Download: DKG-LIFX.lha (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 23:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Thomas Tavoly (e-mail)	RC5-64 contest: Half-time! (Update) The Amiga RC5 team participates now for four years in this worldwide contest to crack a 64 bit key. That requires calculating up to 18,4 trillion possible keys. Half of the total key count has now been calculated. The Amiga RC5 team did not get lucky after 1331 days, but are currently advancing 2,5 times faster than the average for the first half, and chances of finding the key before the whole keyspace is searched are progressively getting better and better. The Amiga RC5 team is on rank 7 of thousands of teams and has more than 2500 participants with more than 5000 computers. Read the entire press release for more details. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 21:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Ray A. Akey on Amipress-ML	Party Pack: new URL for direct order Ray A. Akey of Amiga Inc. announced on the Amipress mailing list that contrary to the original message (titlelink) you should from now on use the following URL for direct order of the Party Pack: Direct order through Amiga Mall (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 20:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Heise [Newsticker]	Heise: 3D game engine for mobile devices »Finnish developers are working on a 3D engine X-Forge which is supposed to allow platform-independent games on mobile phones, smartphones, PDAs and other mobile devices. The company Fathammer founded in October 2000 aims at realizing cheap 3D games for wireless devices.« (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 19:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Bjarke Viksoe (ANF)	PC: ADF view The ADF View is a Shell Namespace extension, which opens up the .ADF file extension. ADF files are Amiga Disk Files, or image dumps of AmigaDOS formatted disks. These files are used by most Commodore Amiga emulator software. Because ADF View is a namespace extension, it is integrated right into the Windows Explorer. Double-clicking on an ADF file brings up the familiar folder view, where you can copy, move, delete, recover and rename files as you would usually do with normal PC files. You can also drag'n'drop files from any Windows folder to an ADF folder, and back. ADF View works with Amiga floppy images and hard disk images. It even detects Amiga hard drives attached to your computer and adds a new drive icon to the "My Computer" folder under Windows NT/2000. New and empty disk images can be created using a Wizard under the Shell New commands (The File/New sub-menu in the Windows Explorer). Download: adfview.zip - 96 kB (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 19:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Andrew Bell	Unarchiver frontend: Voodoo-X version 1.5 beta 8 Voodoo-X is a MUI-based GUI for the unarchiver XADmaster.library by Dirk Stöcker. With Voodoo-X you can easily view the contents of the archives (also single files). This beta version may still contain bugs which may lead to crashes. More details at the titlelink. Download: VX1.5.BETA8.lha - 110 kB (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 15:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` AmigArt	Images and icons for JabberWocky sought As already reported, there now exists an Amiga client for the Instant Messenger Jabber. Author Gürer Özen is now looking for graphics artists, who want to create nice graphics and icons for this new program. Application icons for WB: One for the jw's .info file. Three for online, offline, message states of the iconification (this works now, just put some icons under Icons dir with names like Jabberwocky_online.info, Jabberwocky_offline.info...) Small status icons for roster: Available, Unavailable, Away, XAway, DoNotDisturb, FreeForChat and Message. Several sets with different sizes would be good for people with different resolutions. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 15:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Schatztruhe (e-mail)	Schatztruhe: Aminet 43 available Aminet CD 43 - June 2001 - contains more than 900 MB (unarchived) of software in almost 700 archives. Since Aminet CD 42 many MB of new software have been added. As special highlight, Aminet 43 contains the full version of Wildfire 5 with the possibility to cheaply upgrade to Wildfire 7. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 15:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Scalos	Workbench replacement: Scalos beta V1.3 A new beta version 1.3 of Scalos, the extensive Workbench replacement, has been released. This version contains many bugfixes. Should you find bugs, please submit a bug report. Download: ScalosBeta.lha - 140 kB (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 15:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)	CD32 Games Install Kit v4.41 NG The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.41 NG is now available for owners of the Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition at the Airsoft Softwair homepage. A major bug was fixed and thus every user should install this update. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 13:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Marvin Droogsma (ANF)	Party Pack also available at the Benelux Amiga Show We have if asked Amiga Inc. if we may sell the Party Pack for a week longer, i.e. on the B.A.S. - and we may. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Amiga starts with delivery of the "Party Packs" According to a posting of Gary Peake (see titlelink), Amiga has begun last Thursday with delivery of the "Party Packs". (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 12:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` René Thol (ANF)	(New) informations on GREX 4000 and MicroServer René Thol has received some interesting informations from DCE on the G-Rex 4000 board and summarizes: the GREX 4000 is ready, they're waiting only for the boards from the manufacturer. the GREX 4000 replaces the the daughterboard (ISA-, ZIII- and videoslots) on the motherboard and is connected with the port for the CVPPC on the Cyberstorm board. the TV board drivers for the GREX are still in the works and are thus no longer mentioned in the GREX advertising since only finished drivers are advertised there. AGP extensions are not planned. The AGP slots of the AmigaOne will also work only through PCI with the resulting speed. The planned DCE Microserver will be plugged later in one of the PCI slots and features two SDRAM slots with 133 MHz bus speed. It can be used as busmaster and has access to the entire Amiga hardware. Sadly, a Cyberstorm board already working in the Amiga has still to be used and its processors can not access the SDRAM (buswidth through PCI too narrow). Because of a CPU socket, more current CPUs than the G3/G4 can be used later. Existing PPC applications won't run immediately on the new CPUs (due to addressing and such) but have to be be adapted through (minor) changes in the sourcecode and a special library. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 12:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jun.2001` Marvin Droogsma (e-mail)	Event: Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party As already announced, the Benelux Amiga Show takes place on June 23rd, 2001 in Rotterdam together with a LAN party which are organized by the Dutch print magazine ´Amiga Scene´ and the dealer ´Computer City´. Besides the already mentioned highlights and VIPs there are the following confirmations: Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainment Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers Alan Redhouse of Eyetech will present two AmigaOne with a colleague. Discount on admission To make the trip to Holland from neighbor countries more appealing, a discount of 50% on the admission is granted to everyone who comes from outside Holland. (ps) [News message: 15. Jun. 2001, 12:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Heise: mp3PRO: MP3 Successor joining the Race »Since today, 14th June, the first official demo version of the designated MP3 successor mp3PRO is available for free download on Coding Technologies' website. The "RCA Demo mp3PRO Player/Encoder 1.0" plays Mp3(PRO) files as well as wav-files. The latter can also be converted to the new mp3PRO format at a non-varying bit-rate of 64 kbit/s. The new and downwards compatible format augurs a substantial better quality of sound at low bit-rates, due to "spectral band replication" (SBR). « Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps) [News message: 14. Jun. 2001, 14:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2001` Nico Barbat	Event: Autumn Show appointment determined Autumnal there will be a show organized by the Falke-Verlag, again. Meantime the time-frame was determined: The "AMIGA WORLD 2001" will take place on 20th and 22nd September 2001 with the maxpo 2001 jointly at the fairgrounds of Cologne. More information will follow, soon. (ps) [News message: 14. Jun. 2001, 04:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2001` BTTR-Team (E-Mail)	Back to the Roots: Download Hours Fixed BTTR downloads now disabled 2/3 of each day! Our archive files will only be available for download from 06:10 to 13:10 GMT (may vary), but they should work at full speed then. We are not happy about this, but unless we find some sponsors, we have to prevent our archive from being closed down by this action. If we find we can extend the times outward more, we will. The entire content of the site (except all downloads, full-size pictures and the mod player) will continue to work the entire day. The same applies to the Aminet downloads, as they are not stored on these servers. If you are willing to help us by either donating money to pay parts of our traffic, by purchasing targeted advertising at our site or by providing us a fast dedicated *nix server somewhere else, please contact traffic@back2roots.org. Several thousand people visit this site each day, and create the enormous traffic together. Some download more, some download less. It would be nice if a few of you could also help us to keep this monster comfortable for people of all time zones. Many of you have surely noticed that most of the gaming archive sites were closed down recently. These sites all paid their traffic by advertising. So did we. However, this does not work for archive sites anymore, since advertising prices dropped horribly worldwide. We have several ideas in the queue to find an income to finance this site for your convenience. Just none which will work fast enough. So please also contact us if you want to provide temporary help. To all companies who have licensed games to be offered at our site for free: BTTR will continue to be a non profit project, and we did never earn a single pence with it, and we will continue to do so. (ps) [News message: 14. Jun. 2001, 04:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	New Screenshots of the AmigaDE GUI Under the title link there is a posting by Fleecy Moss (AmigaOne mailing list) along with several pictures attached to the mail. Matt Chaput (together with other people) in deed has been authorized to design the new GUI. Fleecy explained that "of course these still are prototypes and eventually will be 'skinnable' (configurable with skins). But the pictures should give a good impression of where things are going". Update: (08.08.2012, cg) Added the two screenshots mockups that could still be found on the net. (ps) [News message: 14. Jun. 2001, 03:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jun.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 13.06.2001 TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 10K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi YAMGenesis.lha comm/mail 24K+YAM-->Genesis-->Yam2NN, united. V1.05 FlushHeaders.lha comm/news 32K+FlushHeaders for Yam2NN_087 V1.00 Yam2nnSpa.lha comm/news 4K+Spanish translation catalog for Yam2NN AmiDiction.lha comm/tcp 26K+Online Dictionary factsSpa.lha comm/tcp 2K+Spanish translation catalog for FACTS Jabberwocky.lha comm/tcp 185K+Jabber/ICQ/AIM/MSN/Yahoo/IRC client pproxy-mos.lha comm/tcp 6K+Little Proxy with cache -MorphOS- Artifictional.lha demo/aga 1.3M+Secretly! - artifictional,demo at ms2001 PureBasic_Upd2.lha dev/basic 661K+V2.32 - Update for registered users (fro DragnDrop14a.lha dev/gui 129K+Update of dragndrop library - got new fu MCC_NListtree.lha dev/mui 264K+MUI list tree class for NList stormgcc_binut.lha dev/src 5.2M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD stormgcc_cvs.lha dev/src 1.8M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD stormgcc_gcc.lha dev/src 11M+Sources of StormGCC from Dec. 2000 CD TsGuiSpa.lha disk/misc 1K+Spanish translation catalog for TsGUI AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 31K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine WHDIDemos.lzh game/patch 2.0M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesA-B.lzh game/patch 2.1M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad WHDIGamesC-D.lzh game/patch 1.7M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad Stato.lha game/shoot 2.5M+Statoscuro-overhead shoot'em-up.GIFTWARE vpeg.lha hard/drivr 13K+Hardware mpeg-player for Peggy+ and simi dissa.lha misc/emu 91K+Pc-Engine Roms Tools V1.77+Gui Benelux-show.jpg pix/art 19K+Jpg picture with fxPaint and C4D htmldoc-mos.lha text/misc 679K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.12 htmldoc.lha text/misc 612K+Convert HTML to PDF,PostScript...v1.8.12 muReset.lha util/cli 3K+Reset command with muFS support, check i PopScreen.lha util/cli 2K+A small popscreen utility for scripts V1 AslToRT.lha util/misc 21K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT ReqAttackUpd.lha util/misc 52K+RAPrefsMUI 1.81 ReqAttack_deu.lha util/misc 38K+RAPrefsMUI german catalog & docs(1.80) RxSPack.lha util/rexx 2K+Spanish translation catalogs for RxMUI,R xvslibrary.lha util/virus 53K+External Virus Support Library v33.25 (as) [News message: 14. Jun. 2001, 00:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Haage & Partner	H&P: ArtEffect Plugins Collection The ArtEffect Plugins Collection for the first time brings an extended collection of sensational effects and editing filters for the image editing software ArtEffect. As highlights among the effects there are Glow and DarkGlow maken objects "glowing", Solar, Neon, and Alien to mutate images, classics like PageCurl curling one edge of a picture, as well as OilPainting creating a perfect painting from a photograph or scanned picture. System requirements: ArtEffect 2, 3 or 4 (will not work with v1.5 or SE version). The collection will come along with ArtEffect 2, so you can start right away. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 22:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Heise [Newsticker]	Heise: "Trojan horse" disguise as folder A new virus disguise as Windows-folder - while opening it shows a directory but in the background it installs a "Trojan horse". [...] The mail has the subject-line "Welcome you to" and it contains an attachment "iwantyou.exe". [...] In order to get rid of the virus you should delete the files "angel.exe" and "angel.dll" in the Windows/system-directory and reboot the computer. For full article see title link. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 16:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Ron Goertz	ARexx: FWCalendar 4.14 and FWCAddEvent v3.97 FWCalendar of Ron Goertz is an ARexx-script (macro) for FinalWriter V4+ or Pagestream V3+ which enables you to easily create calendars. The script contains over 100 variables which can be preferenced by the user and is therefore useful in many different ways. With the macro FWCAddEvent you can easily enter dates in the created calendar. Download: FWCalender.lha - Please note the Installation hints! (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 15:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Richard H. Poser (E-Mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM 0.9415 beta The new betaversion 0.9415 of AmigaAIM which is the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga of Richard H. Poser is available. Changes: Modified Away System to reply correctly when using the %n, %t or %d replacements when set (Info display also properly shows when replaced and the person is away). Added text in Add/Edit Away section to indicate the replacements. Download: AmigAIM_Beta - full archive AmigAIM.lha - Update (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 14:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Golem: Powerful PDA-processors of Motorola »With two new chips of the DragonBall-family which uses less current Motorola starts a new round concerning PDA-processors. The DragonBall MX1 is the first processor of Motorola based on a ARM-core while DragonBall Super VZ puts one its trust on 68k-architecture. The predecessor the DragonBall VZ is used in PDAs by Palm, Handspring, Sony and HandEra.« For full article see title link. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 14:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Roland Wintgen (E-Mail)	Golem: Amiga delivers pre-version of AmigaDE Golem - IT news for pros reports about AmigaDE: »Beta-version with SDK and example applications for 100 US-dollars For a short time Amiga offers software packets for Windows and Linux with which users and developers can test slowly growing up Amiga Digital Enviroment (AmigaDE). Those ones who buy a party pack until the 16th of June will get a beta version of AmigaDE with which AmigaDE-software can be used directly under Windows or Linux as well as free updates for one year.« For full article see title link. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 14:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Jens Schönfeld (comment)	Driver: New details to X-Surf driver In a comment (see title link) to the topic of ADSL Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers told some interesting details to his driver for the network-card 'X-Surf' which is still in development. "Currently there is a driver for the X-Surf in development with which you can implement PPPoE based DSL in each TCP/IP stack (also the "ordinary" Miami, Genesis and AmiTCP). Currently the driver is in the alpha-phase but will be adapted to each possible PPPoE-implementation". For full article see title link. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 01:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Marvin Droogsma (E-Mail)	Event: Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party As already announced on 23th June 2001 Benelux Amiga Show and LAN-party will take place in Rotterdam which is organized by the Dutch print magazine ´Amiga Scene´ and the trader ´Computer City´. Additional to the already mentioned highlights and vips Jürgen Haage of Haage & Partner will take part, too. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 01:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena news Amiga Arena full versions With permission of Stefan Berge Amiga Arena publishes the full version of "FileCutter". "FileCutter" enables you to divide files of any size into as many pieces as you like. Because of that it is possible to transport a 4 MB big file which you cannot archive to spread on 5 disks (720 kb). In the newest version it works with files which were divided by NortonCommander on a PC. A great thanks to Andreas Magerl who placed the full version at your disposal. Amiga Arena pre-release The popular Workbench-game "ArTKanoid" (breakout clone) of Thilo Köhler is exclusively online in version 1.2 right before Aminet. Amiga Arena updates "Blade" which is an action-RPG-game of Mark Sheeky is ready for download in the harddrive-version. Exclusively in the German version. Amiga Arena - "The Boss": German catalog The German locale for "The Boss" was created by Richard Kapp and is in the archive. Amiga Arena special price action In co-operation with Nemeth Miklos Amiga Arena makes a special price for "LangTools" possible. With "LangTools" you can translate texts. You can easily load a text and simultaneously translate the text with an editor. You can choose between several languages and more will follow. "LangTools" is already in development and author Nemeth is looking forward to your feedback. Amiga Arena interview action At the same time an interview with Nemeth Miklos which is the developer of "LangTools" went online. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 00:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jun.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Matt Chaputs notions to GUI-design for AmigaDE Under the title link you can find a document called AmigaUI Look. It was created by Matt Chaput which is the GlowIcon-designer. Looking at the first paragraph you can only suppose that Matt concerned with the GUI for AmigaDE at least in October 2000. In section "Work" of his website you can also find the site Amiga GUIs which contains some screenshots of his notions: Screen mock-up #1 Screen mock-up #2 Single window- and control elements If Matt Chaput did it on behalf of Amiga Inc or just for fun and if he concerns with it today is unfortunately not known. (ps) [News message: 13. Jun. 2001, 00:15] [Comments: 2 - 14. Jun. 2001, 00:23] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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