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`30.Oct.2001` Dieter Groppé (ANF)	MCP with new version From 21. October I've taken over further development of MCP (MasterControlProgram). Since there was no development for more than two years and I must become acquainted with the code, at first, the first update isn't perfect, yet. But many of the 'surrounding' things, like installer script, German Guide and catalog, icons, history, and of course MCP and MCP commodity have been updated and should work now. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Oct. 2001, 22:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Oct.2001` Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)	File manager: DiskMaster 2.5RC1 Rudolph Riedel wrote: I have uploaded DiskMaster2.5RC1, DM2.guide and DM2_deutsch.guide on my homepage. News in short: 2.5RC1 (01-10-30) 71932 bytes DM2 is now localised! German, french and dutch DM2.catalogs are included (english build in) Translators wanted (DM2.cd also included) COPY and MOVE have a WARN option, so DM2 ask before overwriting files. SELECT knows a new option: COMMENT OPENWINDOW has now a ZOOM option for alternative windowsize and -position Many small improvements Several bugfixes (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 30. Oct. 2001, 17:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Oct.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (bis 29.10.2001) Thanks to WHDLoad games you normally only play from disk can be installed on HD. The following packages are added or updated: 29.10.01 new: Amazing SpiderMan () done by JOTD 29.10.01 fixed: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) install script corrected 29.10.01 new: Carthage (Psygnosis) done by CFOU! 28.10.01 new: Wanted (Infogrames) done by Codetapper 28.10.01 new: Vector-Balls Demo (Tom Soft) done by Psygore (Info,Image) 28.10.01 new: Major Motion (Microdeal) done by Codetapper 28.10.01 new: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) done by CFOU! 28.10.01 new: Pro Tennis Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal 28.10.01 new: Obvious Disaster (Phenomena) done by Psygore (Info,Image) 28.10.01 new: Mystical (Infogrames) done by CFOU! 28.10.01 new: Forgotten World (Arc Developments/Capcom) done by CFOU! 28.10.01 new: Cosmic Relief (Grandslam) done by Bored Seal 26.10.01 new: Sex Vens () done by JOTD 26.10.01 new: Pub Trivia Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal 26.10.01 new: Operation Wolf (Ocean) done by Codetapper 26.10.01 new: Murders in Space (Infogrames) done by CFOU! (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 30. Oct. 2001, 16:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Oct.2001` Michael Asse (ANF)	Betaversion of new FFE-Page Michael Asse wrote: From today the new reworked homepage of the AmigaFFE project is online (title link). It is a beta version, so if there are broken links or anything else, just send a mail to me. In about two weeks the address of the domain will be adapted. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 30. Oct. 2001, 10:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Oct.2001` http://cloanto.com (ANF)	Cloanto licences Picasso96 software (Update 3) Press release: Cloanto is proud to announce that it licenced both the "Picasso96" software from Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt, and Brian King's "UAEgfx" Monitor implementation, for use in Amiga Forever. A shareware version of Picasso96 has been providing RTG (Amiga retargetable graphics) functionality to the emulation software which is part of Amiga Forever since 1997. With the new license Cloanto would like to acknowledge the precious contribution of the Picasso96 Team to the ease of use, compatibility and speed which made Amiga Forever so successful, and further contribute to the future development of the Picasso96 software. The new license replaces the shareware status of the Picasso96 software included in Amiga Forever. Support and upgrades will continue to be provided by Cloanto as part of the Amiga Forever product. Thanks to the Picasso96 implementation in the Amiga emulation, when an Amiga program makes a function call to open an RTG screen, or to otherwise read or change its contents, that functionality is in most part executed as native and very fast x86 code. Furthermore, the Windows versions of the emulation programs included with Amiga Forever (i.e. WinUAE and WinFellow) fully exploit the latest versions of Microsoft DirectX, which is normally used by games and multimedia applications to provide maximum performance by providing low-level access to specialized hardware features, without having to re-write hardware-specific code. In practice this means that while other emulation programs only offer proper support for a handful of display cards, Amiga Forever has been running fine and will continue to run fine with hundreds of different display cards, including most graphics card currently available, and those which will be released with Windows drivers in the future. The combination of Picasso96 and DirectX technologies provides palette-based, hi-color, true-color and multi-monitor screen modes well beyond the functionality and speed of the original Amiga hardware. Also, while other emulation packages do not even support simple peripherals such as a USB mouse, keyboard, joystick and speakers, DirectX includes DirectInput and DirectSound, which allow the emulation as included in Amiga Forever to support all popular input and sound devices. The Picasso96 software is just one of the many components which have been carefully selected, preinstalled and tested for compatibility in Amiga Forever, to make Amiga emulation a simple one-click experience which works on the widest possible range of different PCs. Hundreds of other items, including for example GIF/LZW code used under license from Unisys Corporation (and not available in the version of Personal Paint included on Aminet), ColorFonts and AnimFonts by Kara Computer Graphics, and anything from entire software packages to single icons are carefully listed in the Copyright and Credits sections of the Amiga Forever documentation (which includes 8 KB of text only to list the individual third-party contributions). In spite of increasingly difficult times Cloanto keeps improving its own software technology and licensing valued third-party contents to constantly improve Amiga Forever and offer continued support and compatibility to the Amiga community. Cloanto is grateful to all of its valued customers for supporting these efforts. LINKS: Picasso96 Home Page Amiga Forever Home Page Cloanto Home Page Update: (04.04.2018, 14:30, cg) Mike Battilana (Cloanto) asked us to add the following clarification: The new license discussed in this press release only covers the 2001 version and minor updates - no upgrade privileges for future major versions. Update 2: (31.12.2018, 15:30, cg) As requested by Mike Battilana, we replaced "the 2.x version" in the first clarification (refer to previous paragraph) with "the 2001 version". Also, the following paragraph was added to the original press release on amigaforever.com: "At the time of this writing in 2001, the Picasso96 project was owned by its original developers Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt. Updates released by a new Picasso96 ownership were neither envisioned nor intended to be included in Amiga Forever under this license." Update 3: (18.02.2019, 23:00, cg) To counter allegations made by Jens Schönfeld, Cloanto has added copies of their 2001 correspondence with Alexander Kneer and a scan of a cash transfer receipt. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 29. Oct. 2001, 17:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Oct.2001` Georges Halvadjian (ANF)	Paintprogram: PerfectPaint V2.75b A new version of PerfectPaint V2.75b is now available. What's new: New TOOLTYPE: 'CLASSIC', by default, this tooltype is disable. This Tooltype will change the WorkSpace of Perfectpaint. Disable 'Classic' will show you only the zoom window (like other Processing software). Enable 'Classic' will show you for each picture the main window (always 100%) and optionally the Zoom window (like other version of PfPaint). PopUp menu can have transparency. Improve palette buffer: Add Icons / Allow Drag & Drop / Show the Current stencil / See Doc for more info. New Arexx Commands. New Picture tool: Insert Picture. New Processing tool: linked freeHand. Redraw the anim control requester. New effect Blur, Horizontal Blur, Vertical Blur and the Arexx Command. New Wrap effect: Silver. New text effect: Candy. Redraw Font requester with a Bold option for CGfont, add a menu. A lot of small improvements and some small bug corrected. New tool under the boing icon: Alchemy: Here you can find all processing script with preview. New Alchemy script: FlowerPaint. Improve Density mapping requester with Load and Save Points. Add two new item in Stencil menu: Density mapping and clear Stencil. Improve 'Brush to Picture' and 'Picture to Brush': Stencil is respected. Download: PfPaint-V275b.lha (1,9 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 29. Oct. 2001, 11:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Oct.2001` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	Digital Almanac III: Little error inside update Unfortunately a little error happened to find it's way into the DA III update to V4.2, which mercifully has no consequences. A file containing the Internet links for planets is missing in the archive. That causes the program to always ask for the CD-ROM. This missing file can be downloaded: http://members.tripod.de/achimste/download/url_planet.data and must be copied to the 'User' directory of DA III. The Aminet archive will be corrected and replaced at the next opportunity. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 28. Oct. 2001, 20:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Oct.2001` CyberGFX	CGX: Snapshots of CyberGraphX V4.3 Snapshot of RadioX on a CGX V4.3 screen [Friday 26-Oct-01] (585K) Here is a snapshot of CyberGraphX V4.3 Workbench with most of the Multimedia software running. RadioX (under AmigaAMP), Visionary, TeleText software and the ForteMedia801 SoundMixer software. Click on the thumbnail to the left for the 1280x1024x16bit full size grab. CyberGraphX V4.3 driving 2 screens: G-Rex [Wednesday 24-Oct-01] (492K) Here is a picture of CyberGraphX V4.3 (not out yet) driving 2 17" Monitors. On the left is a Voodoo4 based card gfx with Workbench running Visionary with TV/Video in the background. A quick peek at RadioX. Screen #2 is on a ViRGE based card and has AmIRC and AmigaAMP running, with the same TV/Video in the background. Both screens are 1024x768x16bit and watching "The Arrival". Click on the thumbnail to the left to see the full shot. (sd) [News message: 28. Oct. 2001, 18:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Oct.2001` Amiga Future	Workbench: WBStartEmu V45.2b On 25. October 2001 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 45.2b of 'WBStartEmu' being an AmigaOS V3.9 version of the 'wbstart.library'. The following has changed since version 45.2: Bugfix: Now all path problems (program not found, program cannot find own icon) should be solved. Thanks to Andreas Kürzinger for testing. New: Spanish translation. Thanks to D.Dominguez. Changed. New version of the wbrun command with a better deficons support: Note: This is the wbrun version from AmigaOS V3.9 which does not require both, neither AmigaOS V3.9 nor 'wbstartemu'. Download: WBStartEmu.lha (8K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 28. Oct. 2001, 17:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Oct.2001` Alexander Kurtz (ANF)	The amiNET.GUI has a forum again The amiNET.GUI has a forum, again, available via the menu item [interaktiv]. There you can ask or answer questions and discuss with people. Unfortunately at this time there's only a German version. At last the Spanish, Italian, and French versions of the amiNET.GUI got the category descriptions and menu texts translated. The same for the English version. The Recent-Uploads are available so far, again, and the amiNET full text search was implemented. Any file now can be rated inside of the directories. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 28. Oct. 2001, 16:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Oct.2001` Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail)	Tools: ClassAction V4.3, Choowin V1.11, StopMenu Martin Elsner has released new versions of the filemanager 'ClassAction' and the tool 'Choowin'. A new version of 'StopMenu' is being worked on. ClassAction V4.3 - Poppping Uppp The new version of the filemanager carries the sub-title 'Poppping Uppp', because of the new popup-menus like known from 'MagicMenu'. Those replace the old action-list, the main menu, and the drop-down list. Additionally the following has changed: Both lists of same functionality. New edit menu. Directory buffering. Updating on disk change. Path buttons. Cut'n paste. Search. ClassAction is aware of more than 40 file formats (gif, jpeg, iff, mods, ...), what makes possible to automatically start operations by just clicking on a file - view, start, edit, translate. It is possible to define new file types and add operations. Choowin V1.11 This little help tool can start programs, put windows to front and activate them - similar too the Task-Manager. You click on one of the buttons in one corner of the Workbench screen and chose the program or window title from the list displayed. 'ClassAction' and 'Choowin' both require AmigaOS V3.5+. StopMenu Development of the start menu 'StopMenu' progresses, but still needs more time. A release date within next week wasn't determined, yet. StopMenu is a small help tool to start programs and put windows to front and activate them, similar to Windows' start menu. Download: classaction.lha (444K) choowin.lha (36K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 28. Oct. 2001, 14:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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