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`10.Sep.2000` MorphOS	Frogger 1.62 beta 1 A new beta version of the fast MPEG Video player is available for differnet Amiga-systems (68k, PPC and MorphOS). [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 12:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` Fun Time World	Fun Time World results of Mediator-Poll Fun Time World asked if you will buy the Mediator PCI board and received 676 answers. 120 will buy one, 136 are not interested, 144 are not sure, and 276 are only interested in the A4000-version. The new poll is named "What do you do with your Amiga?" [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 11:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail	Rainboot 3 Rainboot3 has been released at the Airsoft Softwair homepage. It's an extremely expanded Rainboot2-version. Rainboot3 has now many features, that Rainboot-Users dreamed of for a long time: Unlimited anims, modules, cycles, user controls can be used, there are new fade-options, screens can be scrolled in, and much more. [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 10:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` Juergen A. Theiner on ANF	Test of Virtual Ball Fighters There is a test on www.playamiga.de of the Tetris-clone "Virtual Ball Fighters". The game got an evaluation of 89%. [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 09:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` Amiga Fire	Amiga Fire Online Again After a server-crash on September 8 2000 Amiga Fire is back online. All data on the server has been deleted. Most of it has been restored, thanks to backups, but part of the news-section is lost. Amiga Fire offers news, pre- and reviews of Amiga-games. [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 09:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` AmiDog	AMP V2pre2 On September 8 2000 Mathias Roslund released a second preversion of the movieplayer AMP2. Also added were support for AHI and triple buffering (only CGX at the moment). The Shell-interface has been cleaned up and unuseful options have been removed. Download: AMP2pre2.lha [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 09:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000`	Driver-Poll for Mediator There's a poll at the titlelink for the Mediator-board. It is asked which drivers you want to have. There are the categories graphics, sound, ethernet, video, SCSI and ISDN. The poll wants to help developers to find out which drivers are needed. [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 06:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` Czech Amiga News	Amiga RC5 Team needs help This week the dutch team "Dutch Power Cows" overtook the Amiga-Team and will also overtake the OS/2-Team soon. Czech Amiga News bids for support from the users side, who can also use their PCs. The Amiga-Team is now in the RC5-contest for three years. The award is 10 000 Dollars. [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 04:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000`	ALD with Extra Functions Today only good news from Amig Link Directory. In addition to extended search-functions there is a daily randomly choosen website shown at the main site as "Site Of The Day". An entry is useful because this site could awake the interest of users. [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 04:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` Thomas Hoppe on ANF	Official WinUAE V0.8.14R1 Brian King released the officail version 0.8.14R1 of WinUAE. He also informs that Toni Wien, up to now responsible for AGA and NTSC/PAL has overtaken the further developement. Download: Help files are available in nine languages, only the links for german and englich are listed here. WinUAE0814R1.exe help.zip (englisch) help.zip (deutsch) [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 03:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000` Marcel Rohles on ANF	Pegase V1.8d Marcel Rohles writes: Didier Levet released four updates of the MPEG-Layer-2-encoders Pegase between 31.08.2000 and 09.09.2000. In addition to bugfixes and little changes, the audio-model has been improved. Now there is nearly no difference between original and copy with a 160 kbit coded AIFF. Unfortunately there were no responses during the last weeks, so he thinks that noone uses Pegas e anymore or there is no interest in further versions. Especially on pure 68k-Amigas there is in my opinion no alternative to Pegase - MP§-encoding without PPC takes too much time. Pegase offers compression-times of 2:1 on my Cyberstorm MK I (50 MHz) and a really good quality of the encoded songs, often even better than free MP3-encoders. Download: Pegase.lha [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 03:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Sep.2000`	Amiga Link Directory Bad news: While uploading new functions the database has accidentially been overwritten with an older version. Six entries since August 26 2000 are lost. Only the last three entries could be restored from the browser-cache. Please just add your website again. We are thinking of a better backup-method so that such things can't happen in the future again. [News message: 10. Sep. 2000, 01:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` AmigArt	AmigArt with New Layout The Turkisch news-site in English "AmigaArt" has got a new and pleasing layout. Many parts of this website has been rearranged without loss of the already good navigation. Every important link is to reach from the main page. If would have to mark it, this would be a B+ :-) [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 11:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Czech Amiga News	LinuxPPC 2000 - Installer Available The LinuxAPUS team announces the LinuxPPC 2000 installer to be available. Please click inside the title bar of the Linux-Apus site on "Install" to download the files. This archive contains the most recent 000815 kernel image. Amiga PPC users with this will get an alternative OS that runs superb on their hardware. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 10:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` amiga.org	Remembering AMIGA's Glory Days Time for nostalgia? Well, then read this article about the younger days of AMIGA (1992) by Wayne Martin. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 10:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Harald Frank	The fastest Driver for ISDN-boards ever! Harald Frank wrote: Many did not thought it to be possible, any more. After 1 1/2 years there is a new update for the ISDN-boards driver software VMC-ISDN for any Amiga ISDN-board. Due to the partly loss of source code, and some small technical problems we could not release a new version for the ISDN driver over a long period of time. Some customers even suggested that we would have stopped working on it...., but once again we are able to offer to you a masterly achievement of Amiga software, which is only to describe using the words better, faster and turbo. Please, prove us that did not spend so many month full of work for this costly software for nothing, and if you know another one owning an Amiga ISDN-board, so tell him of the new driver, cause we depend on every support from you. It would be a pitty, if would not be able to finace this software any more in default of interest. So, come on and register for the new beta test, now. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 08:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Jeppe Nielsen on ANF	HomeLand Demo Version 3.0 A new demo version (3.0) for the realtime strategy game "HomeLand" was released. This version has many new features. At the titlelink you can find screen shots, and more details. Blittersoft will be distributor of the game. Download: HomeLand.lzx - 1,06 MB At the download area of the website (titlelink) there is a music section at first, where several music can be downloaded. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 08:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Sebastian Bauer's Homepage	SimpleClock (1.5) by Sebastian Bauer Most recent version for the configurable analog clock (OS3.5) by S. Bauer. Special feature of SimpleClock: The transparent clock face (optional). [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Alfred Sturm	New Aminet Uploads Amiga-C-Aug00.lha dev/c 117K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Augu Aakt0900HTML.lha docs/mags 276K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga WarpUp-Aug00.lha docs/misc 86K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in A DiamondBOX.lha gfx/edit 356K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.04 chippendale.lha mods/chip 7K+DBM 4ch mod by Tripper^Stx^Moods years_ago.lha pix/misc 71K+[ancor] Sandra and Sarah young V1.1 [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` individual Computers	Take Part in the Developement of Lyra! Lyra is the joungest child of individual Computers. This is an adapter to use Windows-Keyboards with the Amiga. Though some thing like this alreay exists, but none of the up to now introduced interfaces fulfilled our personel needs. Either some of the key were not used, or others had absolutely insane seizures, and again other had problems when more then one key were pressed at the same time. This interface for the "Bigbox" Amigas (2000, 3000, 4000 and tower-case) easy gets pluged between keyboard and computer. In the case of A1200 it gets impressed to the keyboard processor, which is to find on the A1200 main board. We have spent as much effort as possible to get the seizures very similar to the original Amiga keyboards, and to give reasonable seizures to additional keys. Though, we want to hear the opinions about the seizures of as many users as possible befor we cannot change anything, any more. So, take your time to have close look at the key seizures, and mail us your opinion. The best suggestion will be honoured with some little surprise! Release is planned for the end of October. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 05:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Aminet Games	Aminet Games Schatztruhe released "Aminet Games", a special-CD of the Aminet series. Within more than 1500 archives there are the best of Aminet games. Almost every game can be started from CD and do not need to be installed. Furthermore on "Aminet Games" there are more than 70 commercial games, e.g. "Gloom3", "Max Rally", "XTreme Racing" & "Gamer's Delight 2". Information on other content to find at the titlelink. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 02:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` APT Rolf Tingler	New Amiga Design for Nokia 3210 Mobile Phone Rolf Tingler has already created designs with Amiga look in airbrush for several mobile phone models. Now there's also a shell available for the Nokia 3210. For the Nokia model 8210, a new Amiga design is in the works. The design is a bit complicated as this phone is really small and thus there's only very little space for the design. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 11:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` B. van der Meer by eMail	New issue "AMIGA SCENE" The September/October issue of the Dutch/Flemish print magazine "AMIGA SCENE" has a huge article on the Macintosh emulator "Fusion". [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Fun Time World	AddOn-Programming for PageStream Grasshopper LLC, the distributor of PageStream, published the documentation of IFF and links to the Application Library SDK on their pages. The release allows third parties to write plug-ins for PageStream. Interested developers can find more information here. Supplement, 09-09-2000 by Ruediger Hanke: There is a problem unfortunatly mentioned nowhere as it is. The SDK at the time beeing works solely with SAS/C! If one tries to compile the includes using StormC, he will get a lot of error messages and an endless loop in the compiler, if lucky. The includes also are not the only wattle, the enclosed linker-libraries are too SAS/C specific, too. Fortunatly Deron is very helpful, he promised me to send me the sources of these linker-libraries, so that I can port them to StormC. This is not mentioned on the website. At the end one might take the effort (quite a few) to adapt the includes, just to finde out at the end that the needed linker-library doesn't match. If Deron sends me the sources, and I would manage to get them running with StormC, I will make up a SDK version for StromC programmers. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` SonicPulse	SoundFX 4.1 Preview at the BAUD Meeting At the BAUD meeting in Bielefeld, Germany, an exclusive preview of SoundFX 4.1 will be presented. The new version contains many bugfixes and improvements in the user interface. Another new feature is the new batch processor. For more information and a first test version, follow the title link (German). [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Oliver Roberts	New Warp-Datatypes Oliver Roberts released new versions of his WarpPNG and WarpJPEG datatypes. The WarpPNG.datatype is now available also for 68k Amigas and there's also a native MorphOS version, now. The new version of WarpJPEG.datatype has some bugs fixed and a 4% speed-up for the 68k version. An extensive feature list can be found at the title link. Download: WarpPNG.dt.lha WarpJPEGdt.lha [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Czech Amiga News	REBOL/View pre-beta 5 Released An experimental pre-beta of version 5 of REBOL/View was released. There are especially new features in the VID (visual user interface) and the network functions. Download here. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` playamiga.de	"Middle City" preview and interview Juergen A. Theiner of Playamiga.de has talked with the Italian programmers of the new adventure "Middle City" and created a preview with many screenshots. Here a small excerpt: "Middle City is a classical adventure in the vein of Monkey Island. The setting is a remote village. The goal is to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Linda Patton whose arm was found in the river. Main character is the (not really intelligent) FBI agent Cox who has to work closely with the good-looking Ellen Dow from the local police. All characters are very excentric and thus suspicious. The end will be a huge suprise." [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 05:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Thomas Steiding via eMail	Epic News After a long time, there's some news from Epic: Virtual Ball Fighters, the action game for the Amiga is finally available. VBF requires an Amiga with AGA or graphics card, a 030 CPU and 8 MByte RAM. PPC and soundcards are supported. The successor to MooVID Pro is coming soon: MooVID Pro 2 will be shipped from September 18th on. Beside many optimizations, MooVID now supports the PPC (WarpUP and Power Up). Owners of the previous version get a cheaper update from epic. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 05:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Thomas Frieden on ANF	Hyperion News Follow the title link for a new progress report on Shogo, including some screenshots of the OpenGL version. Hyperion has from now on a support mailing list: EMail subscription: hyperion-support-subscribe@egroups.com or on the web at eGroups [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 03:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Christian Busse	Transcript of the Coyote Interview with Bill McEwen Christian Busse has taken the efforts of creating a transcript from the 2.1 MB MP3 file of the Coyote Flux interview with Bill McEwen: Bill McEwen: Here's Bill! Coyote Flux: Well, good day Mr McEwen, you're speaking with Sharwin - I'm from Coyote Flux, an Amiga only software team and I would like to ask you a few public questions - is that possible? Bill McEwen: Certainly. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you - first of all: I heard a rumour from some magazines that the German office is about to close after the inventory sales of the Amiga 1200 - is this true? Bill McEwen: No...? Coyote Flux: No - OK, thank you. What could you tell me about the AmigaOne? Bill McEwen: Well, nothing publicly at this time - other than this is a new desktop replacement machine. Coyote Flux: OK. Then there was another question: Since half a year the Amiga market has started to shrink a little bit in comparison to what it was before, especially because there are a lot of companies and sceners that rather stay with the original Amigas - we spoke to you at the show in Neuss, the World of Alternatives, about porting the current Amiga OS to PPC, we will have to add the following question: You asked for the business proposal at the show... Bill McEwen: Yes? Coyote Flux: ... and we would like to know: We want to do the Amiga OS PPC port together with a few others at our own cost together, and we would like to know if that is possible as we think that the Amiga makes a bigger chance of surviving when the older machines get a chance as well. Bill McEwen: Yeah, no, again, if you send me the information we're happy to take a look at it - we've been in conversations with Haage & Partner about this, we have received their timing, their proposal how long they think it will take... Coyote Flux: Yes Bill McEwen: ... we've been looking at market trends and designs, so I'm happy to take a look at what you have - we've not made a final decision on that Coyote Flux: OK, so there hasn't been a final decision yet about if an Amiga OS PPC port can or will be made? Bill McEwen: Correct. Coyote Flux: OK, what do you think about the Boxer? Bill McEwen: I don't think it will ever ship. Coyote Flux: And if it WILL be shipped, would you be supporting it? Bill McEwen: Oh, we already have, publicly! Coyote Flux: OK, so it won't ever be a problem, the Classic Amiga range will proceed, and the Amiga will, like, go two seperate ways or something? Bill McEwen: No, I don't see that, because you'll be able to run your Amiga Classic on the new system! Coyote Flux: Aha, I see, but surely the speed will not be as fast as an original chipset... Bill McEwen: Actually it will be FASTER with what we're doing - we're not doing it through emulation. Coyote Flux: OK, cause now it's with the Virtual Processor I suppose? Bill McEwen: U-huh Coyote Flux: Cause I have a copy of the SDK at home, but, taking a look at modern CPUs, taking a look at all the parallel processing units and the caching and memory management, I have the feeling that the Virtual Processor will not be running at the speed it SHOULD be... Bill McEwen: Actually since it's not... the Virtual Processor, since it translates it into native code... Coyote Flux: Yes... Bill McEwen: ... and the overhead is to a minimum, there is, what, a two percent performance hit Coyote Flux: Yes, I understand, but by using a lot of registers that should be emulated or mapped in memory before they can be used, I suppose... Bill McEwen: Exactly translated on the fly. Coyote Flux: It's translated on the fly - but where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Bill McEwen: I'm sorry I didn't hear you. Coyote Flux: Where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Are they taken from memory, or are they taken from hardware registers? Bill McEwen: It depends on the implementation... Coyote Flux: Yes Bill McEwen: ... if there is hardware available, we will utilize the hardware directly... Coyote Flux: Yes Bill McEwen: ... and if we can catch it that way, otherwise if it's not available we will do it in software. Coyote Flux: OK, I see - but that will slow down, I suppose? Bill McEwen: Depending on the application - in a desktop environment in most cases you'll have the proper hardware to utilize it, but in a handheld device you might not have the hardware, so we'll have to do it in software. Coyote Flux: OK, I see, thank you - finally I had a question concerning the SDK: Is it a big success? Bill McEwen: Yes, actually the sales are ahead of schedule and as of this week Red Hat will begin selling it also. Coyote Flux: OK, and how many approximately sold in the time it has been on market? Bill McEwen: Well, we shipped fifteen thousand so far. Coyote Flux: Fifteen thousand. Bill McEwen: Yep. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much! That's actually all I wanted to know! Bill McEwen: Great! Coyote Flux: OK, thank you... Bill McEwen: Yeah, I look forward - in fact I was speaking to someone about you in Sacramento... Coyote Flux: Oh! Bill McEwen: .. that it looked like you might be the team that might have the best opportunity for us, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much... Bill McEwen: OK? Coyote Flux: I will contact you then in the near future, supplying you with the information you might need about how we can port the Amiga OS to PPC, and... Bill McEwen: OK. Coyote Flux: ... yes, please keep up the good work then. Bill McEwen: I thank you very much for your call. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you as well - bye! [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 03:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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