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Archive 01/2004

`05.Jan.2004` Cloanto (ANF)	Amiga Forever RSS-Newsfeed from Cloanto After a few weeks of testing Cloanto announced the public access URL for its RSS news feed at amigaforever.com, covering Amiga and emulation news: http://www.amigaforever.com/rss.xml The feed already contains a few hints about the news which will follow this month, and later during 2004 and beyond. At the same time, the Amiga enthusiasts at Cloanto would like to take this opportunity to wish a healthy, happy and prosperous continuation of 2004. (nba) [News message: 05. Jan. 2004, 01:20] [Comments: 3 - 20. May. 2004, 09:22] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jan.2004` AmigaWorld.net (website)	OS4: Screenshots of a "Wolfenstein" port At AmigaWorld.net, Steven Fuller has released screenshots of the game "Castle Wolfenstein" ported to AmigaOS 4.0: picture 1, picture 2, picture 3 Steven Fuller is a developer of the team which is porting Gorky 17 to Linux and AmigaOS4. (snx) [News message: 03. Jan. 2004, 18:23] [Comments: 7 - 05. Jan. 2004, 14:50] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jan.2004` MorphZone (forum)	MorphOS: GUI for MLDonkey available Attention Software have created a Graphical User Interface for the P2P filesharing program MLDonkey (amiga-news.de reported). An alpha version (12 KB) can be downloaded from their homepage. (snx) [News message: 03. Jan. 2004, 18:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jan.2004` Philippe Bourdin (ANF)	Some details about the OS4 SDK At AmigaWorld.net, Hans-Jörg Frieden announced further details about the AmigaOS4 SDK which will be included on the Developer Pre-Release CD: GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 3.4 have been ported to OS 4 native (and as a cross compiler for Linux/x86, Linux/PPC, Windows/Cygwin, Darwin/PPC, AmigaOS 3.x/m68k) The SDK will also contain gdb, the Gnu Debugger. Then there's vbcc. vbcc is Frank Wille's contribution, I don't know if it will be contained in the SDK directly, but it will in any case be downloadable. The SDK also contains a number of additional utilities, among them "fdtrans", which is a program to convert old-style SFD files into next-gen XML files. XML files are used by the program "idltool", which is a program that converts these XML files into all sort of output files (much like fd2pragma or SFD before). idltool is primarily used to generate all required include files for an OS 4 style library, but it can also generate a skeleton source code for a library, so that a programmer only has to write an XML file, turn it into source code, and add the functions to it. This should make it easier to write libraries in OS 4. (snx) [News message: 03. Jan. 2004, 17:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jan.2004` DENIC (website)	DENIC: Ten years of domain administration From 1.000 to seven millions in ten years: this number shows the successful work of the DENIC on the field of the domains. On the 1st of January in 1994 started the DENIC in an institutionalised form as a project financed from third-party funds at the University of Karlsruhe. Read more about the DENIC and their work on their website. (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. Jan. 2004, 16:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jan.2004` Andreas Kleinert (email)	Graphics: SView5 v1.40 released The graphics viewer and converter SView5 has been released in version 1.40 and can be downloaded as a demo version from the website of the developer Andreas R. Kleinert under the title link. The package contains the eight distribution archives and the plug-in for ImageFX. (New) Features: SView5: the powerful main program that allows to access all options and settings, allows to load, save, process and convert images - not only via the GUI but also using ARexx and so on. Includes a RTG-compliant screen-grabber! BatchProcess: Batch conversion tool, for applying upto 4 image processing operaters to a number of graphics by wildcards and save them in a different file format, e.g. load a bunch of JPEGs, then resize, dither and save them as PNG files. SVProPics: Ulrich Falke's "SVProPics" batch-processing ARexx script now is part of the SView5 archive PNG-Box5: dedicated tools for creation of graphics for JPEG-Box5 JPEG-Box5: WWW usage (HTML pages) with progressive/interlacing and transparency support WinSlide: for viewing images in a window on public screens, using as few memory as possible - smooth scrolling inclusive! Supports 8 through 24 bit displays. ScrollSlide: like WinSlide but using its own screen, for best colors even on 8 bit displays CyberSlide: like viewing images from SView5 using a CyberGfx SV5Driver with 16/24 bit capability, but implemented as small standalone program SuperSlide: like CyberSlide but for AGA screens and screen modes, additionally dithering is done when necessary SVPrefs: for changing settings of SView5-Library modules easily. also: JPEG2000 support, lots of new SVOperators, bugfixes, ... (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. Jan. 2004, 14:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Jan.2004` Dennis Lohr (ANF)	Music: New track on the Psyria homepage A new year, new chances: With this in mind Psyria tries to go their way to the top. To be successfull with this Psyria's homepage got a new design due to the third anniversary of their Internet presence and this is not all: right at the beginning of the year the fans get something for their ears: "Until Dawn", a chill out track for quiet moments, is available from now on and exclusively in the download area. Psyria wishes a Happy New Year all their fans and all the Amiga users! (nba) (Translation: wk) [News message: 03. Jan. 2004, 00:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jan.2004` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark celebrates 10th anniversary The Virus Help Team Denmark (VHT-DK) celebrates its 10th anniversary during these days. The editorial staff says "Happy Birthday". Lars P. Kristensen who works for Virus Help Denmark has gathered some information about the history of this honorary organization: Many people have asked us why and for what? We haven't really been able to respond to this question other than "it's a hobby". Well then some others says, "this must cost you a great deal of money". Actually not, I don't think our lives - so fare - would have been without a computer anyway. Our families have somehow accepted our interest. Then what have we gained from all this. A lot of friends and many contacts. I think this in general goes for most of us in VHT-DK. Shortly after the appearance of the Amiga, the "evil viral" showed their ugly faces. Most of us went from the old Commodore C64 to Amiga, with all it's advanced graphic, audio and like, some of us didn't even thought of the risks from the viruses before it was all too late, it was just a "phenomenon" one could read had happened to somebody else. The "phenomenon's" became known with names like "ByteBandit" and "BSG9", these were among many others of the early boot block virus. The virus installed itself right into the boot block and normally easy removed, by simply installing a standard boot block, however as "piracy" also is a "thing" to deal with, many software houses tried to protect their work by changing the sync value or other tricks to prevent "disk swapping". To do that it required a special boot block installed and when the virus infected the boot block, the entire disk was destroyed. Well, we haven't seen a new boot block virus for some time, because they are easily detected with the programs available today. Later the file- and link virus appeared. The programs Virus Help Denmark distribute is only share- and freeware - Virus Help Denmark runs non-profit. It is a fact that all attempts to make a commercial virus killer for the Amiga has failed. They were outrunned by people who simply had their heart at the right place. Combined with the fact that programming of such software isn't just a nine to five job - it simply needs true dedication. Who is Virus Help Denmark and what do they do - a simple presentation: Jan Andersen: Webmaster, keeps track off what's going on, supporting Amiga users. Torben Danoe: PC-guy. Jan Nielsen: PC-guy, works with Torben and supports PC-users and the PC-Disk. Henrik Lauridsen: Internet supporter. Lars P. Kristensen: Amiga user supporter, translator, and "PR"-guy. Jan Erik Olausen: Programmer of VirusExecutor and Amiga support. This is a very short description, most off us are still having an Amiga, but the time between the use of it, is getting longer and longer, we all have daily jobs and families to support as well. I could fill pages, with lots of stuff concerning what the five of us has overcome since the early ninety's. I would rather prefer telling the history behind VHT DK, and this started for me at the summertime 1991. The summer I got attacked by a simple virus named ByteBandit. I found a coverdisk which contained a few shareware programs - mainly from the "Fish Library" - every Amiga guy should know Fred Fish and the tremendous work he did to get programmers and users closer. However I found this disk and ZeroVirus, I quickly read the documentation and stumbled over a name - a Danish name: Erik Løvendal Sørensen. Erik had had a similar situation to my own. But - differently - he started to collect the viruses and mailed them to authors of antivirus programs, which didn't yet, supported the virus he mailed. Then he put "The New Superkiller" (TNS) together. By the time I got it, it was stuffed with antivirus programs to the limit. A day during Easter 1992 I was down to visit Erik. Then I met Jan Andersen and Torben Danø. I have seen Jan shortly (he can't remember - he's just getting older) talking to Erik about how he had shown the TNS to some pupils at an evening school and taught them how to use it. A month or so after Easter, the two guys forming RVC-DK wished to leave to pay a greater attention to their study. I had had a wish to join the center from the day I started in SHI - now that possibility was in reach. Erik thought it was better if I stayed at "my post", however he hadn't any complaints when Jan was pointed at as a new RVC leader. What the heck. I called Jan and fortunately he lived just 25 km's from me. The next month Jan and I redesigned the whole set of disks. Time demanded a Kick2.0 disk and we first tried different versions of "softkick's" (Jan had a hard drive - lucky him). Well, we equipped Jan's A500 with a Kick2.0 ROM and that gave us a lot of new possibilities, one was to use the entire 880KB of a disk. Shortly after Jan and I teamed up, Jan Nielsen (Jan-Jan), Torben Danø and Henrik Lauridsen joined to be part of the action. Soon Jan established SHI BBS. First he figured out the MAX BBS system but soon he changed to - and learned to master - the STARNET BBS system (the prior system to MEBBS net) under which the system performed to the end. The system almost killed Jan, he wanted the system to be no less than 100 percent secure and he actually took a bet with another SHI guy, who claimed he could hack the BBS. As fare as I know, Jan is still waiting to collect the bet. However, Jan also did a heck off a job in keeping the BBS up to date, he actually "haunted" every corner of all the great BBS-sites and nets to seek new updates all the time. One more thing, Jan is also the author of the "VirusWarning.guide", a news-guide about virus, what archives they were spread in and where they were found - actually he is still updating it today. However, by the end of 1993 the five of us performing under SHI in the RVC known as "SHI Team Denmark" discovered that SHI in general took a different path, we decided to resign from SHI and keep on the path we had followed so fare. There were many reasons that lead us to this conclusion and it wasn't easy for any of us to leave. As fare as I know SHI doesn't exist anymore, however, lots of friends met each other in SHI and lots of new great ideas evolved from the endless brainstorms we had. From the start of 1994 Virus Help Team Denmark took off - the name had slightly changed as the words "Team Denmark" is copyrighted, today we function under the name "Virus Help Denmark". By that time the Internet hadn't evolved into this communicator it is today, then there were nets like FIDONET, a local net in Denmark and AMIGANET, a world wide net for the Amiga community. It could take up to a fortnight to get a reply from fare places like Australia or South America and it wasn't right to mail virus around those nets, as executables in archives, attached to personal letters, could be opened and executed by accident. Security on the Internet has been improved dramatically and today virus can be mailed via the net instead of on disks in letters. When the Internet started to spread among normal users, Jan could see from the log file that users who earlier logged on to the BBS on regular basis, became more and more rear. From my point of view he closed the BBS in the right time, everybody who has a modem, can connect to the Internet and get the updates from the VHT-DK homepage. The link is: www.vht-dk.dk If you were a regular visitor on the former BBS, then pay this site a visit and you'll find that everything is back, the homepage was actually up and running some time before he closed down the BBS. I know that Jan still keeps the old STARNET system - just in case. Since the beginning of 1994 Virus Help Teams has been started in Norway, Holland and Canada, some of the guys in those centers are also earlier SHI-guys. In Canada, 'Charlene' has done so much for the VHT all over the world (Thanx for everything Charlene). Last but maybe the most important thing we want to say is a big 'Thank You' to the antivirus programmers that have supported us in the last 10 years, and hopefully many years in the future: Georg Hoermann - VirusZ & xvs.library Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor & xvs.library Markus Schmall - VirusWorkshop Heiner Schneegold - VT-Schutz John Veldthuis - VirusChecker Alex Van Niel - VirusChecker & VHT Holland Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe & Mill Soenke Freitag - For great support Charlene - VHT Canada Virus Test Center Hamburg : Great support and help Dirk Stoecker - xfdaster.library & CheckX And anyone we might have forgotten...... Kind Regards The team behind: Virus Help Denmark (Written by Lars P. Kristensen - Virus Help Denmark) (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. Jan. 2004, 21:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jan.2004` jockl (ANF)	Found: A MP3-player made by "Commodore" Our reader jockl has seen a MP3-Player made by "Commodore". He writes: Actually we have nothing to do with Commodore no more and Commodore has nothing to do with us and Commodore has also nothing to do with Commodore no more. Therefore actually it is not interesting if someone has found a device made by "Commodore" which trade mark changes from American to British and to German. But what I found here, on the Australian hardware site "DansData", is not only a review of a "Commodore" device (same label, same logo). Last but not least maybe it is interesting what can happen with the label "Commodore". Above all when it seems to be a German company which uses the trade mark but offers the products oversea. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. Jan. 2004, 19:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jan.2004` Andreas Magerl (ANF)	Online magazine NoCover: Issue 118 published Issue 118 of the popular online magazine NoCover has been published and sent to all subscribers via email. We wish all readers of the online magazine much fun and hope you will participate much more because NoCover is a magazine from readers for readers. Without "Writers" "Readers" have nothing to read. ;-) On the homepage of NoCover and on the homepage of APC & TCP you can read the current issue online. Furthermore you can get the magazine on Aminet or on the CD-ROMs of the Amiga Future. Much fun wish you Wolf Zimmer, Cord Hagen and Andreas Magerl. (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. Jan. 2004, 18:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jan.2004` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	VHT: Website accessable again You can access the website of Virus Help Team Denmark under the known URL http://www.vht-dk.dk. The alternative URL http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/ will be closed soon. Please change your bookmarks. The Virus Help Team wish you a Happy New Year. (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. Jan. 2004, 18:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jan.2004` TerAtoM (ANF)	GamePark32: Handheld with adapted ScummVM-version The GamePark 32 combines the qualities of a mp3 and video player with a retro emulator and handheld games because there is still a GP32 optmized version of the popular "ScummVM" tool with which you can play Monkey Island, Indiana Jones or Day of the Tentacle. There are also emulators for Atari 2600, Atari ST, C64, Neo Geo, NES and Master System. But there is not an Amiga emulator (UAE?). You can get further information here: http://www.pcgamesportal.de/index.php?site=gp32 http://www.gp32europe.com (in preparation) (snx) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. Jan. 2004, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Jan.2004` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	Mailer: SimpleMail v0.22 The new version 0.22 of SimpleMail has been published. These are the changes: You can now set seperate signatures for each folder. (bgol) Index files of the aim folder are not loaded no more during the move operation. The SimpleMail-team wish you a happy and healthy new year 2004! (nba) (Translation: dr) [News message: 02. Jan. 2004, 14:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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