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Archive 07/2001

`07.Jul.2001` Richard H. Poser II	Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9427 The latest version has been uploaded to the normal locations, on the webpage and descriptions on the links section of the mailing list have been changed. History Extract of AmigAIM... AmigAIM 0.9427 Beta (7 July 2001) Found a bug in the Instant Message Windows color system, it wasn't being told to turn on the colors, as it didn't have access to the prefs structure. Also made a small cosmetic change in a couple items having to do with returning from away via the Dock Window's contextmenu. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with America Online's (AOL) AIM service. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 22:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Andreas Falkenhahn	Emulation: CD32 emulation for Windows (update) The first CD32 emulator for Windows, the CD32 Games Install Kit, was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This emulator works in connection with the famous WinUAE. Exactly like in the Amiga version, patches are applied to every single game. This gives a very good compatibility. Even digital CD audio is already supported. However you will require a custom version of the WinUAE which can be downloaded from my web page. Currently the CD32 Games Install Kit for Windows is only available for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM (download it in the protected update area!). Update 08. July 2001: Andreas Falkenhahn wrote in the German comments on this message: I have had implemented some functions for CD audio handling in the custom version of WinUAE. Indeed those only can be utilized by my sub-system Install2001 which runs on the Amiga part, thus I don't know if the WinUAE team would like to have those functions in every official release. I will inquire it, anyway. But like already told, without Install2001, so without the Install Kit, those functions are just useless.... (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 22:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Suite101.com	AmigaOS: AmigaSDL The cross platform handling of games and multimedia applications is often very difficult. There's a great number of libraries that are supposed to close this gap. Among them SDL (Simple Directmedia Layer) seems to come out as the probably most elegant and best supported project of this kind. Thanks to the latest work of long standing Amiga developer Gabriele Greco there's now an AmigaOS port of SDL available. In his article (title link) John Chandler wrote on Suite101.com why SDL may probably be the best solution in cross platform programming for the AmigaOS and delivers some links. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 21:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` SixK	Webserver: Apache 1.3.20 binary for Morphos The Amiga webserver Apache (v1.3.20) is available as binary for MophOS and can be downloaded at SixK. This binary was not compiled with the PHP module but there's a version with PHP in the work. This MorphOS version is for use with the official Apache archive that can be found on amiga-apache.org. To be able to use Apache several more packages of the Geekgadgets project are needed. Please look at the hints on the download page of amiga-apache.org. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 19:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Martin R. Elsner	Tools: ClassAction v4.2 (update) After a long waiting time it's now time to let the users enjoy: ClassAction V4.2 - The Next Generation! Many proposals have been implemented, such as configurable icons, more images, better archive handling, easy configuration, many many new options, ... You will find ClassAction on my homepage and soon in Aminet. This will not be the last version - I have a list of other features that will be found in V4.3. But for today, accept this version - you can't loose! Many thanks to all who have contributed to this version - betatesters, translators, and of course all users for their good proposals and encouraging words! Update 08. July 2001: ClassAction is a multifunctional file manager for the AmigaOS. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 19:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Olaf Köbnik	Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena full version! In co-operation with Christian Steiner the Amiga Arena makes the release of "Sharks Multi Version 1.5 Final" possible! SHARKS! is a skill game playing underwater. Our brave diver is away to search the sea ground for treasures. The area in which he is is full of sharks, though ..., so: BE CAREFUL !!! Collect as many treasues as possible and be aware of the sharks! Because of too little feedback by the users the further development has ceased! Amiga Arena "File Cutter" code! Stefan Berge has made the code of File Cutter available to the Amiga Arena! File Cutter serves to split files. You can e.g. split a file of 8MB (animation, LHA archive) into several small files so that you can put this file with no problem shared over several disks for further transport. On another computer these files are put together to the original complete file again. Amiga Arena full version Beneath a Steel Sky: With permission by Revolution Software Ltd. (thanks to Tony W.) the readers CD of the Amiga Future 31 contains the original sales version of the presumably best action adventure for the Amiga until today. Very special thanks to: Jürgen B. who made the archive available to me. (mj) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 18:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Rene Stelljes	Amiga users list updated Rene wrote: "The Amiga users list was again updated and is now available in version 11.00 on my homepage. The version change from 10.00 to 11.00 was made because I got erroneously an old version of the list when taking over the AUL. All entries that were made in the last Amiga users list by Stefan Martens are now contained in the new version, too. From the next version on I'll update the AUL, therefore I'll verify the entries and delete all non up-to-date entries without replacement! Everybody already listed should check his/her entry and tell should something have changed meanwhile." (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 18:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	Simulation:new Freeciv beta version A new Amiga Freeciv beta version has just been released on the freeciv page of my homepage. (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 16:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` Rüdiger Hanke (ANF)	Fonts: new Fontutility ports / dictionaries wanted On my homepage (and soon on aminet, too) can two new ports of font utilities be found that will be of use for the DTP interested and the font freaks. "ttf2pt1" converts TrueType fonts into the Postscript format for use in Pagestream, FinalWriter, Drawstudio, etc. and bases on the latest source codes. "afm2pfm" converts between Postscript fontmetric files. Despite the archive's name it's also possible to convert from PFM files to AFM files. Both programs can be found in the "Font Utilties" area of my website, additionally there's a PowerPC version for WarpOS available of "ttf2pt1". Furthermore I'm looking for German language dictionary files of all kind (term definitions, thesaurus, foreign word dictionary, ...) for my new project. In contrary to the English there seems to be a real lack in the German speech area, at least regarding free, documented formats. If anybody owns such files or some Duden software out of the PC library series (or something similar) I'd be thankful if he/she would contact me via email. (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 16:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Jul.2001` (ANF)	Software: The Other Amiga World Biggest public collection of Amiga demo-scene material. Available via www.amigascne.org ftp.amigascne.org uk.amigascne.org ftp.uk.amigascne.org (cd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 07. Jul. 2001, 16:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Andreas Magerl (e-mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Matay An interview with Matay was published today on the Amiga Future homepage. The English translation can be found in the English section of the homepage. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 21:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` DirOpus 4	File manager: DirOpus 4.16j Jacek Rzeuski has released version 4.16j of the file manager 'DirOpus'. DirOpus now contains the following localizations: Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. The most recent changes and improvements can be found in the history. DirOpus is a file manager, programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. The Windows version is now available in version 6. The sourcecode of version 4 was released 1999 under the GNU Public License. Jacek Rzeuski then started to work on the program and improve it. Download: DOpus416JRbin.lha (873 KB) Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/ Alternative download: DOpus416JRbin.lha (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 21:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Czech Amiga News	Action: Interview with Rob Northen Action has made an extensive and interesting interview with Rob Northen. Rob Northen wrote the copy protection for dozens of Amiga games. Action will make more interviews with VIPs from the Amiga scene. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Sven Ottemann (e-mail)	Tool: Contextswitch Sven Ottemann writes: A new version of Contextswitch is available at the titlelink. This tool is monitoring the number of context switches between PPC/68k on WarpOS. It was originally developed by Haage & Partner and is contained for example on the StormC4-CD. Download: ContextSwitch.lha (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Richard Kapp (e-mail)	GFX-BASE:Interview with the programmer of DiamondBOX Richard Kapp writes: Yesterday, Nikolaj Thygesen has released a new version of his excellent layer-based paint program 'DiamondBOX'. Maybe you have already downloaded the program - but maybe you want to learn more about the author. Just at the right time you can now read a current interview with Nikolaj. He reveals and explains the new features of the current version, talks about new plans, the creation of DiamondBOX and much more. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Jul.2001` Richard H. Poser (e-mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM 0.9426 beta The new beta version 0.9426 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga by Richard H. Poser, is available. All AmigAIM text files such as AmigAIM.guide, custom.txt and history.txt were updated and are available for download as well. Changes: Implemented the apparently forgotten about Notify menu items... Added a Reset Connection menu item. Download: AmigAIM_Beta - full archive AmigAIM.lha - update AmigAIM.guide (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 06. Jul. 2001, 10:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Nikolaj Thygesen (E-Mail)	Paint program: DiamondBOX Version 1.12 Nikolaj Thygesen has released version 1.12 of his Amiga paint program 'DiamondBOX'. This program is CGFX compatible and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, 8 MB RAM, 1 MB harddisk space, an Amiga with 68020 CPU and of course a little creativity. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 22:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 05.07.2001 DOpus416JRsrc.lha biz/dopus 981K+Great filemanager from GP Software DigiCamGUI.lha comm/misc 6K+TritonRexx based GUI for DigiCam v1.01 PinkFloyd.lha demo/intro 1.7M+Vidi_Pink_Demo vbcc.lha dev/c 3.6M+Optimizing ISO C compiler (68k/WarpOS/Po SetFileSize.lha disk/misc 14K+Truncate or expand a file AIOV48.lha docs/mags 560K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 48 (June eyangband.lha game/role 808K+EyAngband 0.3.3 - Roguelike solo RPG gumband.lha game/role 975K+Gumband 2.1.7a - Roguelike solo RPG psiangband.lha game/role 741K+PsiAngband 1.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG vcdimager_077.lha gfx/conv 535K+VCDImager 0.7.7 Beta (WarpUP and 68k Sup amifig31.lha gfx/edit 308K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa amifig31_68k.lha gfx/edit 338K+Structured drawing tool v3.1, Xfig compa mouseps2.lha hard/hack 12K+PS/2 Mouse conv. No drivers needed! v1.0 mamevg37b16.lha misc/emu 2.5M+MAME Visual Guide 37b16 Addendum - PDF I sg-strip_13.lha pix/misc 48K+[ancor] strip 13 of the online-comic sg-strip_14.lha pix/misc 41K+[ancor] strip 14 of the online-comic ReqToolsLib.lha util/libs 195K+V39 reqtools.library w/src (AROS back po ACE-Startup.lha util/wb 15K+WBStartup-Prog for ACE-Progs MemoryRemV1-18.lha util/wb 57K+Clock-Replace, shows actual RAM & Larges (as) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 20:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Scalos	Workbench replacement Scalos: New Plugin 'Device Filter' A new module named 'DevFilter' for the extended Workbench replacement Scalos was released. With this plugin drive icons can be blinded out from the Workbench. Unfortunately the download page currently is not available. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 17:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` CodePoet	Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.16R4 released (Update) Version 0.8.16 Release 4 of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K, and WinXP, was released. The following has changed: FIXED: 50Hz/60Hz switching (B.C. Kid) works again. (Toni Wilen) FIXED: Various Picasso96 issues. (Bernd Roesch) FIXED: F11 should be back-slash again. ADDED: .GZ support in floppy dialog. (Timothy Roughton, aka Inner) CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will be less choppy. CHANGED: Tweaked the exception-handling code for JIT. (Bernie Meyer) REMOVED: icon1.ico from the source-code archive. Download: WinUAE0816R4.exe - help.zip (German) - help.zip (English) Update: This version was created on 03. June 2001, already. Sorry for this double message, must be due to the heat ;-). (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 17:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Green-Hosting / Ragonsoft (E-Mail)	Web-space: Cheap Hosting for Amiga Sites From now on Amiga users, devotees, etc. can host their websites at Green-Hosting. There are deductions from regular offers and even free web-space (e.g. for www.yourname.de): Free web-space 50 MB for Amiga relating sites (banners in return). Deduction of 20-30% from existing offers! This offer applies to Amiga users and Amiga sites. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 17:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Wolf Faust (ANF)	Universal-Filter V2.1 Update for PageStream 3.x/4.x A new version 2.1 of the PageStream universal filter was released. This free universal filter enables PageStream to load many graphic formats, BME or HHV. This new version fixes a v2.0 filter problem in loading pictures with colour palettes, which could crash PageStream or HHV. It is strongly suggested to install this update. Beside of the above fix some more small things were enhanced (e.g. new pnglib, lower stack requirement). Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to finish the support for the PhotoShop format. :-( (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` FORE-MATT Home Computing (E-Mail)	Magazine-CD: 100%AMIGA Issue 14 Issue #14 of the Amiga magazine '100%AMIGA' was released - the magazine you don't need to read, but can watch from CD. Read the original message: »The July edition of 100%AMIGA is now available for sale. This month's magazine features the start of our new monthly "Easy to Understand" Assembly Programming Tutorial. So you think there is not enough Amiga programs? Then write your own or brush up on your skills with this non-technical guide to technical things! Alternatively, browse a great new collection of icons or just sit back and let us take you through a visual tour of the recent K4 Show, Land of Genesis from Clearwater Interactive as well as our usual news and latest previews.« (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 12:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Jul.2001` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update V3.8 The update to V3.8 of the astronomy program 'Digital Almanac III' was released. Again this time some new features were added and wishes of users were taken into account. The update can be downloaded from the mailing list by Yahoo members. It already was uploaded to the Aminet and should appear there, soon. (ps) [News message: 05. Jul. 2001, 09:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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