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Archive 01/2004

`15.Jan.2004` Charlene/VHT (E-Mail)	Anti-Virus Software: xvs.library Version 33.41 Georg Hörmann released an update to version 33.41 of the xvs.library. You may download the library from the website of the Virus Help Team and soon from Aminet as well. Program Name: Xvs.library v33.41 Programmer: Georg Hörmann Release Date: 15th of January, 2004 Archive Name: xvslibrary.lha Archive Size: 93,522 Bytes Change in v33.41: Added AmigaE/libraries/xvs.m developer file. Thanks must go to Ronald van Dijk for this contribution. Once again rewritten taskscanner in xvsSurveyMemory() to avoid Disable()s lasting longer than 250µs. Thanks to Christian again for reporting the problems with his FastEthernet card. Fixed bootblock recognition of "GXTeam" bootvirus to avoid false alarms. Thanks to Ronald van Dijk for the example file. Fixed problem in xvsCheckFile() that caused Enforcer hits under certain conditions with damaged executables. Thanks again for the example files to Ronald van Dijk. Added "ASS Protector 1.0" bootvirus clone and its installer and modified recognition for the original virus. Fixed recognition of "Liberator 1.21" filevirus to avoid false alarms. Thanks once more to Ronald van Dijk for the report and example files. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 15. Jan. 2004, 23:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2004` Kultpower.de (ANF)	Kultpower.de: New Starkiller Sequel Online In the Starkiller section of the retro website "KultPower" the eleventh Starkiller sequel is online: "Starkiller: the Prisoners of Zelda," as always with exclusive commentary from Heinrich Lenhardt! Beyond that there is also a cool Kult editorial with photos of the notorious ASM Crew and the prime ASM special editions, sent in by Dominik. And then something else quite special: Powerplay fan art! A Powerplay wallpaper from Martin. And then also issue one and two of the 1996 Sega magazine, scanned by Vitek. Many thanks to you all! (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 15. Jan. 2004, 23:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2004` Marc Cloppenburg / AMIGAplus (ANF)	IBM Holds PowerPC Seminar at AmiGBG 2004 The Amiga convention AmiGBG 2004 is to take place on the 3rd of April 2004 in the Swedish city of Göteborg. The show organizers are expecting Mikael Haglund, a technical expert from IBM Sweden, who will present a treatise on the future of the PowerPC platform. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 15. Jan. 2004, 23:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2004` Cloanto (ANF)	Announcement: Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 Cloanto announced today that Amiga Alpe Adria 2004 will take place on Saturday, July 3rd. The provisional event home page, which includes pictures from last year's event, is at 0xAA.org. Planned features include the latest Amiga news, a selection of items of historical interest, a contest (with a C65 computer as the first prize), an excursion by boat (on Monday), and of course Amiga friends from all over the world. Other cultural events taking place in Udine at the same time include the Sunsplash music festival. Cloanto would like to thank Amiga, Inc. for granting permission to use the "Amiga" trademark in the name of the event. (nba) [News message: 15. Jan. 2004, 22:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2004` David Brunet (E-Mail)	Amiga Games Hit Parade: Vote in January and February 2004 The organizers of Amiga Games Hit Parade are calling for a vote of games for January and February 2004. You may take part in the vote by sending a list of up to 20 of your favorite games to David "Daff" Brunet or participate online at hitparade.amigames.com. You may include any type of game you like (commercial, freeware, old, new etc.). The final results will be released at the start of February, 2004. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 15. Jan. 2004, 18:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Jan.2004` Amiga Arena (ANF)	Amiga Arena Presents "HollyRecord" In collaboration with Telemar Rosenberger, Amiga Arena presents "HollyRecord" for AmigaOS and MorphOS. With "HollyRecord" you can record the animations and presenations you have created with Hollywood. To do this you also need the tool SGrab by Stephan Rupprecht. "HollyRecord" can save your presentation in PNG, JPG, or ILBM format pictures, which may then with a program of your choosing be processed and joined into an animation or an mPeg video. You'll find "HollyRecord" under the "free commercial - utilities" logo at Amiga Arena. (nba) (Translation: dm) [News message: 15. Jan. 2004, 18:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2004` anonym (ANF)	Strategy game: News about "Schlachtfeld" The beta test of the strategy game "Schlachtfeld" has begun now. Currently documentation is under improvement, later on the game will be made available to a bigger user base. (cg) (Translation: ub) [News message: 14. Jan. 2004, 23:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2004` Carsten Siegner (ANF)	Skinplayer: Professional skins for Frogger, AmigaAMP and others Skinplayer is a GUI programm for Frogger, AmigaAMP, Mplayer and other audio tools which are capable of using professional skins. Those are available here in terms of freeware. Skinplayer supports the buttons only currently, sliders, state displays or fonts are not supported by now. More information is available within the readme. Because of an error within Hollywood's brush refreshment the position of the skinplayer has been fixed by the author, i.e. the window cannot be moved. It is possible to disable the fixed window within the tool types but then the buttons will not be updated until they are clicked on. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 14. Jan. 2004, 22:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2004` karibu@gmx.net (ANF)	Novell publishes correspondence with SCO according the Unix law suit Novell, Inc. emphasize their copyright claim of Unix. In a chronologic, German summary the company published the correspondence between them and the SCO group since May 2003 as well as many Unix copyright registries, which should bring evidence that Novell are the holders of all Unix rights. (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 14. Jan. 2004, 22:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2004` Golem IT-News (Website)	Golem: SCO supplies evidences SCO announces in a press release they delivered the evidences asked by IBM according the order by judge Brooke C. in time. SCO said the papers aren't complete and not public. Further news regarding this issue: Golem: Novell: We hold the copyright of UNIX Golem: SCO wants to cancel SGI's Unix license Golem: SCO brings first evidences Golem: Initiation to fine SCO Golem: Interim order against SCO Golem: Microsoft licenses Unix by SCO Golem: SCO wants to fight against Linux users now (nba) (Translation: ub) [News message: 14. Jan. 2004, 13:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Jan.2004` ANN (Website)	LAME: Update of the MP3 encoder to version 3.95.1 The LGPL MP3 encoder LAME is now available at amiga.sourceforge.net in version 3.95.1 (702 KB). Changes include the wipe out of that bug crashing the program if used with vbr-new and the ReplayGain reference level was set to 89 dB. (snx) (Translation: ub) [News message: 14. Jan. 2004, 09:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jan.2004` Thomas van Spitjoud (E-Mail)	First screenshot of "Civilisation - Call to Power" for OS4 Thomas van Spitjoud is currently working on the port of the strategical "Civilisation - Call To Power" to be released for the upcoming AmigaOS 4.0. On his webpage under the title link he pusblished the first public screenshot of the alpha-version ctp2 v0.1 so people can see it is real. For now the game only runs in window-mode, there is no sound yet and of course the overall stability is quite bad so a first beta version is expected to be released not earlier than in a few weeks. (nba) (Translation: nba) [News message: 13. Jan. 2004, 21:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jan.2004` ANF	SystemPatch: Version 2.2 published Sante Nocciolino's SystemPatch, which is patching many different system routines for getting a better performance on Amiga computers (68020 or better) ist published now in the version 2.2. The RemIBob-Patch was cancelled, because he had bugs. Also an installation script is installed. Download (27 KB). (snx) (Translation: gf) [News message: 13. Jan. 2004, 18:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jan.2004` MaxWorld (ANF)	HomeBank v3.0 beta for testing released With the shareware programm HomeBank you are allowed to manage your finances, f.e. you can count the costs of your car. The new version, which is available now in the beta version will publish following new features: subroutines payment receiver budgets a few standard improvement a few news (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 13. Jan. 2004, 12:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jan.2004` Christian Hviid (E-Mail)	IRIS published Eurochart 47 and new 3D-Matrix-Screensaver Better late than never. The demo scene group IRIS published the 47th edition of the legend Eurochart which you can download under the title link. This edition was processed by Darkhawk/IRIS, Dr. Doom/IRIS und Zerox/Gods. You can read an interwiev with Darkhawk in the new edition of AMIGAplus 01/2004. Also a new version of a screensaver "3D-Matrix" was released, which is now compatible to graphic cards with 3D-chip and AmigaOS 3.9. The IRIS homepage is getting a new design with new contents shortly. So please look there in the next few months! (nba) (Translation: gf) [News message: 13. Jan. 2004, 11:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Jan.2004` Cloanto (ANF)	Cloanto licenses MPEG-4- and HighMAT-technologies Cloanto announced today that they entered into a licensing agreement with MPEG LA, LLC to use MPEG-4 Visual technology, and with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and Microsoft Corporation to use HighMAT technology in its products. Cloanto plans to use MPEG-4 to produce high quality cross-platform encodings of a new series of Amiga Forever videos, and HighMAT for quick access and indexing of such video files on the next version of the Amiga Forever CD-ROM. The growing list of third-party items already licensed for use in Amiga Forever includes the portfolio of Amiga patents, copyrights and trademarks, technology such as GIF/LZW by Unisys Corporation (used in Cloanto's Personal Paint) and hundreds of contributions such as Amiga applications and other items of historical interest. (nba) (Translation: nba) [News message: 13. Jan. 2004, 03:13] [Comments: 3 - 14. Jan. 2004, 09:05] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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