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`21.Aug.2001` Christian Rosentreter (E-Mail)	Music: Developmet of SerialRipper continues Kåre Johansen, coder of the AHX-Ripper, has decided after a period of time to continue the development of SerialRipper, a multiformat music ripper. For this he is looking for betatesters; if you are interested send a mail to kaarej@start.no. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 21. Aug. 2001, 21:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2001` Oliver Roberts	Datatypes: WarpDTPrefs and Datatypes from O. Roberts updated Oliver Roberts has updated the full range of his WarpDatatypes and the WarpDTPrefs, the preferences program, and the new versions are available on his website. In detail: WarpDTPrefs Version 44.6 Preferences program for WarpJPEG, PNG, BMP, PSD & TIFF WarpJPEG.datatype Version 44.23 JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) WarpPNG.datatype Version 44.19 PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) WarpTIFF.datatype Version 44.3 TIFF picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 21. Aug. 2001, 17:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2001` Amigan Software	Tool: Report+ Version 5.02 With Report+ from Amigan Software you can easily create bugreports, Aminet readmes, Autodocs, and other reports. It is freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools. Changes since version 5.01: Several bugfixes and the Aminet-Readme-Editor is updated. Download: report.lha (382 KB) (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 21. Aug. 2001, 17:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2001` Matay	Matay: Prometheus-News First Prometheus utility from an independent developer PromInfo is a MUI combination of PrmScan and RomDump executables that can be found in the Prometheus software package. This small utility was written by Daniel Eriksson. You can find it in the Files section and at his homepage http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~daner964/. The author will appreciate any input from other Prometheus users. Fixed Voodoo drivers, more cards supported! In the Files section you can find fixed Picasso installation package (should stop the "no suitable screenmode" problem). The Picasso Team reports that it should support not only Voodoo3 2000/3000 cards but also Voodoo4 4500. The files are as follows: Picasso96_Prometheus.lha - Picasso96 full fixed installation package V3_Aug17.lha - archive containing only fixed library and driver P96API_fix.lha - fixed Picasso96API.library EMU_fix.lha - fixed emulation.library Network driver beta 0.17 available A RTL8029 based network cards driver for Prometheus is available from Files section. It is still beta, yet should be stable and useful. Any found bugs please report to krashan@matay.pl. We would also like to inform our customers that Blittersoft (United Kingdom), Vesalia Computer (Germany) and Virtual Works (Italy) have joined our distributors network in Europe. From now on, you can buy Prometheus PCI bridge also from them. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 21. Aug. 2001, 17:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2001` Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9432 Richard H. Poser has released the betaversion 0.9432 of AmigAIM. It is a client to connect wth the AmericaOnline Instant Messenger (AIM service). Changes (excerpt from the history): AmigAIM 0.9432 Beta (21. August 2001) When program quit, should just close all the windows without reopening the Startup window. Modification to the Login system as I found that I was using the MOTD for doing some final login routines and was getting the MOTD twice (and having a screwed up login due to it - didn't stop from logging in though) Adjusted Relogin/Reset systems to show Reconnected in the Activity window, as I had intended some time ago (Error was related to the MOTD bug above) Richard H. Poser schreibt außerdem: BTW: I'm starting back to school full time (started yesterday, actually), so I may be slow on updating/adding new functions from now on (As at least one person wants me off the computer so I will do more studying). (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 21. Aug. 2001, 10:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2001` Yahoo-Group Amiga-Mediator (ANF)	Game: New screenshots of Payback (W3D) New screenshots of the Warp3D version of Payback are available on the Apex-Design website. Also the update 4 was announced to be released soon and containing Warp3D support. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 21. Aug. 2001, 10:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`21.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Virus It seems like this new Linkvirus "Hitch-Hiker 5.00" virus is a bit smarter than we thought. It can change in size, and look. And we has not aware of this, but we are working hard to get the problem solved. As soon as we have solved the problem, a new update of the xvs.library will be released. So stay tuned........ (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 21. Aug. 2001, 10:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` BTTR-Team	Back to the Roots: Amiga-News 232 "Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) is far away from being dead. We are happy to announce that our traffic problems are fixed, as we now have a dedicated server in norway. A new problem which occured, ISDA the site terminators, tried to shut us down behind our back. We believe we fixed that issue, but unfortunately they don't have the culture to respond email communication they initiated themselves, so we decided to update and not let you all wait for them further. Read more about their attack on our news page. Two new companies are supporting our project. From Soft Enterprises we can offer you the addictive puzzle games "Brain Artifice" and "Cube-X". Nightmare Productions are the creators of the rpg game "Antares". Other new games are: The entire "Premier Manager" series, Venus the flytrap, Switchblade 2, Colossus Bridge X, Alien Syndrome and more. 60 new scene demos from groups like Fairlight, Haujobb, Scoopex, Ambrosia, Cocoon or The Black Lotus have been added, while 150 new brilliant scene and game pictures were included to our pics-archive. We're pleased to announce, that the famous games musician Andrew Barnabas has agreed to make his classic tunes (e.g. SWIV or Double Dragon III) available in our music section. And there are over 100 other new tunes from various composers ready for download. And last but not least we'd like to notify you about two new reviews of Melcom's great Audio CDs. Respects from yours Back to the Roots Team Bobic + Hippie2000 http://www.back2roots.org info@back2roots.org (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	APC&TCP: New Amiga CD-ROMs Brave New World CD-ROM It´s a Brave New World! This CD contains hundreds of Amiga programs in the following categories: 1982 (classic Amiga game), Babylon 5, esoteric, fantasy, faces of Mars, games, Internet, languages, mathematics, misc, music, pictures, science, science fiction, space, star trek and star wars. All programs are tested with AmigaOS 3.9 thus there should be no problem by using a new computer. The Scene Archives #11 Double-CD-ROM This Volume contains Disks 9751 to 10730 of the "The Scene Archives" collection. There are myriads of interesting Scene Productions on this CD, including the following categories: Animations, Dentros/Demos, Digis, Intros, Magazines, Menus, Miscellaneous, Music Demos, Demo Packs, Slideshows and Trackmos. Now Includes "Scene Archives Search Utility" (SASU),to make "The Scene Archives" even easier to use. Both CD's are available from APC&TCP. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Nico Barbat (E-Mail)	Scenet event-calendar Due to the upcoming visit of the 100.000 visitors of Scenet, a online magazin and gateway for the os-independent computer demoscene, is proud to present a new area to you. Here you can find an up-to-date event-calendar containing details about more then 800 upcoming and past parties and exhibitions including reports and invitations. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal (ANF)	Coyote Flux moves to Paris Since early July 2001 we have moved to Paris to live and do some classified (Amiga) projects. This doesn't mean that our previous projects are discontinued, but like expected these projects are slightly delayed. PPC680x0 2.0 is reaching the final state of development, with several big improvements and bug-fixes in the Floating Point engine and all the additional features from the PPC680x0 page. The 3D engine is our main focus at the moment, developed to be a games engine as well as professional photogrammetry/mapper software. More information on the 'Mapper' (which is finished) will be released soon as well as some screenshots. Little note about the speed: Both the 68060 (80-bits FPU) and PPC604 (64-bits FPU) versions are written in optimized assembly language and the 604/233MHz runs the same program 15 times faster than the 68060/60MHz which is quite an improvement. The 64-bits FPU 3D engine renders 3 million "real" depthcued polygons in less than 4 seconds using several realtime correction filters. We are working on an Amiga hardware project as well, although this is currently strictly confidential. Details will be released soon... :-) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Kickstart (ANF)	Game: New move for H2 Some weeks ago I discovered a new move in H2. I think that this one is not very well known out there. It is a Wirnelattack using the bladecrook. Just run and beat (you allready know this) and press one of the side-step keys at the same time. This looks realy cool :) P.S.: To enter the tubes in the swamp just go right and climb to the top of the liana. Turn right and jump onto the trees. Then walk to the end of the trees and use the bladecrook to jump in one of the tubes. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 21:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Interview mit ClearWater Interactive Amiga Future published an interview with ClearWater Interactive (the former Crystal Interactive Software). They are well known for the games "Bubble Heroes" and "Land of Genesis". (ps) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 09:52] [Comments: 1 - 06. Jul. 2018, 17:23] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library update The xvs.library (External Virus Scanner Library) has been updated today. Remember if you use VirusExecutor, VirusChecker II or VirusZ, you MUST install this library in you libs: dir, if not, your anti-virus program can't find the new viruses. It is very important, we get email from users that has not updated this library for 2 years ?????????????? Here is some info about the release: Name : xvs.library v33.30 Archive name : xvslibrary.lha Archive size : 57.295 bytes Release date : 20 August 2001 Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen E-Mail: virusexecutor@c2i.net xvs.library size: 58.140 Bytes News in version 33.30: Added Jode Capullos 2 Trojan file virus Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for the file Renamed MKG to Jode Capullos 1 Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Installer file virus This is the same for all three link viruses Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Link virus Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00a Link virus Added Hitch-Hiker 5.00b Link virus Thanks to Jan Andersen for the HH5 files. Remember to join the Amiga antivirus maillist for free. Just send an empty email to: vht-dk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To leave the maillist, just send an empty email to: vht-dk-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com You can find this update at Virus Help Team's websites, and on Aminet within the next 24 hours..... PS: If you think that Jan Erik Olausen is doing one hell of a job, with keeping you Amiga secure for viruses, then send him a little donation. I know that xvs.library and VirusExecutor is freeware, but Jan has done one hell of a job in the last 6 month, to add new virus recog. in VirusExecutor and now with xvs.library. Send him 4 or 5 US-$, a postcard and even flowers, if you think he is doing a great job, and would like to keep the xvs.library alive...... (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 09:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V2.20 A new update of VirusdExecutor has been released today. Here is some info about the update: Name : VirusExecutor v2.20 Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha Archive size : 281.228 bytes Release date : 20 August 2001 Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library Changes since last version 2.20 VE doesn't need the VirusExecutor: assign anymore, so you can delete some lines in s:user-startup. IMPORTANT! All files that comes with VE must be in the same directory where the main program are located! (Not libraries and catalogs). Recoded 'View patch memory'... It's quite similar to the memory monitor in VirusZ. Thanks to Harry, VE do get the right opcodes when checking for patched functions. Added decoding of 4 shell-scripts. The DKG-Blum and Jode Capullos virus was hiding in such scripts. Fixed some 'out of address' bugs while checking memory. Added AHI device channel 0 right. Fixed small bug in the vector check window, that could cause strange characters to be displayed. Fixed bug when removing a deleted file from the watch list. Added close gadget to the prefs window. Added 'Fast file checking' to the prefs window. Activating this flag will disable all text output, memory checking and some error messages during file checking... When the 'Skip encrypted files'-flag are set, encrypted arhives are also skipped. Added LVO names to device functions. Fixed text out of range bug when viewing memory. Fixed Enforcer hit in 'View KickMemPtr/KickMemPtr'. When VE is infected with a virus it says it is modified and quits. Stupid, cause when a virus is around, VE should not quit! Fixed. Added powerpc.library recog to 'Soft Int' Added COP to memory recog. Thanks to Harry Sintonen and Joerg Riemer for reporting bugs/hits and for all suggestions and help... Remember to join the Amiga antivirus maillist for free. Just send an empty email to: vht-dk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com You can find this update at Virus Help Team's website's now, and on Aminet within the next 24 hours..... (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 09:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`20.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: New trojan 'Muahaha' A new trojan has been found today. The trojan will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file. This trojan is just like the that has found of the 15'th of August, named MZ-Makey trojan. But this trojan was found on Aminet, but removed now. This is what we know of the trojan: Virus Type.... : Trojan Trojan size... : 39.048 bytes Archive name.. : Muahaha.lha Archive size.. : 39.217 (lha packed) Archive info.. : Short: muahaha ss-intro Type : demo/mag Desc : a intro msg for the ppl interesed... >;) Thanks to 'JEO' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the test of the archive. (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 20. Aug. 2001, 00:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Martin Tauchmann (E-Mail)	Programming: Crossgcc/AmigaOS-68k for Linux/x86 V2.95.3-3 (update) Martin Tauchmann released version 2.95.3-3 of gcc for AmigaOS/68k as a cross compiler for Linux/x86 on Aminet. This cross compiler allows to compile Amiga programs - ANSI-C and C++ - for 68k Amigas under Linux/x86. AmigaOS includes are required additionally, which are to find on the Deverloper-CD, Geek Gadgets CD Vol. 2 or FrozenFishCD, for example. This compiler was compiled with the mpentiumpro option and requires a 686 compatible CPU. Download: crossgcc_linux.tgz (5,3M), Readme Update 22. August 2001: Since there where no version of the above mentioned Crossgcc containing the '-fbaserel'- and '-fbaserel32' bugs on Aminet the following sentence was deleted from this message: 'This version fixes the '-fbaserel' and '-fbaserel32' problems.'. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 18:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` amigadev.net	AmigaDE: Benchmark - DECbench Patrick Roberts released version 1.0rc1 of the 'DECbench' benchmarks for the AmigaDE SDK v1.1. 'DECbench' is an extendable benchmark test written in C. This test suits for the AmigaDE system, but was developed with regard to the PDA games section. This benchmark tests resolution and preciseness of timers as well as memory stats, zlib decompressing and miscellaneous AVE functions. Download: util/misc/DECbench.zip (833K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` amigadev.net	AmigaDE: 3D-Demo - kellerballs Fank Pagels and Timm S. Müller released the metaballs 3D routine 'kellerballs' for the AmigaDE SDK on 15. August 2001. This routine uses the marching cube algorithm. The source code is not optimized and not good enough to be a release. It presumeably will be part of one of the upcoming TEKlib releases of Example-Suite. Download: kellerballs.zip (59K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` amigadev.net	AmigaDE: Game - Etch-a-Sketch Clone Nicolas Mendoza released version 1.0 of the Etch-a-Sketch clone 'etch' (game) for the AmigaDE SDK on 14. August 2001. He wrote this little game to learn how to program the AmigaDE - it is about his first C program. Ronald Hof's GM was very helpful to him, which simplifies game programming. The 'etch' source code can be used for free. Download: game/etch.zip (21K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 16:51] [Comments: 1 - 21. Aug. 2001, 01:25] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Scalos (ANF)	Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.10 Beta version 40.10 of the alternative Workbench 'Scalos' was released. This release in particular fixes several bugs. Changes since prior version: Repaired bug in updateicon which sometimes caused icons to appear in incorrect windows Duplicating/cloning items now pops up the file copying progress window Dragging multiple icons now shows one or two text lines under pointer telling how many files and drawers are being dragged Fixed severe bug in wbl.c: WBNode's were allocated with AllocVecPooled() and freed with FreeVec() Added a varargs version of SCA_ScreenTitleMsg() Added flag to switch between Flag: old dragging (all icons visible) and new "icon stack" Added new SCA_ScalosControl() tags SCALOSCTRLA_GetOldDragIconMode and SCALOSCTRLA_SetOldDragIconMode IconWinCheckUpdate() now correctly updates INF_DefaultIcon flag and INF_SupportsLeaveOut attribute Missed a CurrentDir() when renaming objects, leading to a directory lock getting never UnLock()ed When D&D copying or moving icons, "Replace All" and "Abort" now should work correctly Message strings "xxx already exists" are now different when moving and copying objects When moving icons inside window and new position overlaps other icon, the moved icons now jump back to their original positions Bugs can be reported using the bug report site. Download: ScalosBeta.lha (180K), History (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 15:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Matt Parsons (AROS-User-ML)	AROS: IBM-PC/native on one single floppy disc Matt Parsons released a new native version of AROS for IBM-PC compatibles, which can be installed to one single floppy disc for direct booting. This version contains a working format command and allows to install AROS to a harddisk or partition. With the boot disk this harddisk installation can be used. The graphical output still is very simple, so don't expect AROS to benefit from the speed of your board, at this time. The readme included to the archive describes how to create a boot disk under Windows 95+ or Linux. AROS is an open source project to implement a portable version of AmigaOS v3.1. Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (680K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 15:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Czech Amiga News	Event: Amiga user groups on the Australian COMDEX 'The joint Australian Amiga User Groups' have cooperate to present the Amiga on their own booth on the ITExpo/COMDEX, which will take place from 05. to 07. September 2001 in Melbourne, Australia. The user groups ADUG, MAUG, AUG, ESEUG are expected to attend the show. They will exhibit the AmigaSDK, Amithlon (Amiga emulator), PPC equipped Amigas with Mediator boards, and A4000's cases. With luck and if Bill McEwen (Amiga Inc.) will have enough time, he maybe will fly to Australia to attend the show. This show will be a combination of ITExpo and COMDEX. Additionally the NetWorld+Interop will take place a the same location. More than 30,000 visitors are expected to visit the show to meet more than 200 exhibitors there. Any Amiga hardware or software company wanting to have their products present at the booth may get in contact with the booth organizers. Contact person is Michael Czajka from the 'Melbourne Amiga Users Group' (MAUG). (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 13:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Emerald Imaging (ANF)	Game: Aqua now with AHI sound There is an update with AHI sound support for the full version of the adventure game 'Aqua' by Emerald Imaging. Download: game/patch/AquaAHI.lha, Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 13:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Amiga-Society: 'Little Book of Amiga-Software' updated Some updates to the Little Book of Amiga-Software are available, since yesterday, but up to now there just are some cover scans. At the time being there is less time for texts, etc. due to the Society's main page soon shall be available again, too. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 11:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Ralf Hasemann (ANF)	Interview: Dave Haynie (Merlancia Industries) On c-fmr.com an interview with Dave Haynie done by Fabrice Mansat was published, yesterday. Dave Haynie was asked how he came to Merlancia Industries, if Merlancia Industries' products planned have something to do with the PIOS One, and how he rates the Be company's BeOS. Furthermore special questions about Tsunami and the Internet appliances market in general. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 11:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`19.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Virus warning II Here we go again....... Yet, again another installer of the new virus 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00'. Again there is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find infected files, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. This installer will install the 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00' virus will add 3748 bytes to every infected file, and place it self in memory, so you will have to watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it can get into. There is a way to see if the archive you download is an installer of this virus, all you have to do is to unpack the archive, read the file in an text editor (eg. CygnusEd), and search for this text string in the code (THIS IS ONLY FOR THE INSTALLER): -=COVAH=- If you find -=COVAH=- in the code, that is an installer of this virus then please send he archive to us. The virus size has change this time, now it is 3748 bytes. In the code (decoded), you can read: Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00) Featuring the Hitcher's Advanced Versatile Optimizing Codemix Engine A welcome present for Jan Erik by xxxxxx/xxx! -= On Tour 1995-2001 =- (VHT-Denmark removed the names of the programmer handle, and replaced it with 'xxxxxx') If this is a welcome present for Jan Erik Olausen, the programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library, I think that he would rather have a cold beer. But he will surely put recog. for Hitch-Hiker 5.00 in the new update of xvs.library... The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but it has been removed now. (Thanks Urban). This is what we know of the virus: Virus Type.... : Linkvirus Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium) Virus size.... : 3748 bytes Archive name.. : S-Exec12.lha Archive size.. : 9.905 bytes (lha packed) Installer name : LibBase3.10 Installer size : S-Exec Archive info.. : Compress executables. There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus out there, we have found 3 archive in 2 days. If you find anything please send it to us. The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as soon as possible. In the mean time, take care... Thanks to D. Olsen for the info about the archive and to Ronald Dijk for sending the archive to us. (ps) [News message: 19. Aug. 2001, 00:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Directory Opus 4 Research Project	Filemanager: DirOpus v4.16 beta 3 Yesterday Jacek Rzeuski has released the version 4.16 beta 3 of the filemanager 'DirOpus'. This update contains some improvements that are listed in the history. This beta version does only contain the files that have changed compared to 'Directory Opus V4.16'. This version and the source code are available on the download page. DirOpus is a filemanager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. In 1999 was the source code released under GNU Public License conditions. Jacek Rzeuski had then begun to revise the program and to improve it. Download: DOpus416b3.lzx (316 KB) Mirror: http://dopus.free.fr/ Alternative download: DOpus416b3.lzx New added are the following mirror sites: home.enitel.no/dopus (Per Martin Iversen, Norway) perso.wanadoo.es/d.rey/DOpus4 (David Rey, Spain) (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 21:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Rüdiger Engel (ANF)	Server software: 68020 version of AmiVNC available Rüdiger Engel wrote: Unfortunately the Amiga version of the VNC server AmiVNC was compiled for the 68060 and therefore doesn't run on slower Amigas. I had asked the author, Stéphane Guillard, to create a version for 68020 processors but unfortunately couldn't contact him. So I have compiled a version for the 68020 and made it available for download. Download: AmiVNC-020.lzx The archive has been taken over completely from Stéphane Guillard, the new files only carry the appendix "-020" in the name. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 20:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Andreas Falkenhahn (email)	The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Nr. 1 in USA Just now some statistics have been released on the Airsoft Softwair hompage regarding the ´The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM´. Among other things the different systems of the users have been evaluated, but also e.g. the countries the CD-ROM has already been sent to. The most CD-ROMs went to the USA, followed by Great Britain and Germany. Looking at the systems the most often mentioned one is the A1200, regarding the processors the 68060 was numbered out by the 68030 narrowly. All statistics can be viewed on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 20:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)	Elbox explains their price policy for driver software As already reported, Elbox has announced on the 16.08.2001 a CD with driver software you have to pay for. This has led to big and extensive discussions. In the following email Elbox explains their price policy: ELBOX Computer explains its policy about driver pricing 1. The purpose of MEDIATOR To ENABLE the POSSIBILITY of using a wide range of standard PCI cards. 'The MEDIATOR PCI busboard line is designed to enable expanding the Amiga with a wide range of standard PCI cards like Graphic cards, Ethernet and Fast Ethernet network cards, Modem cards, ISDN cards, USB and SCSI cards, Sound cards and Multimedia cards: TV tuner and MPEG-2 hardware decoders. Expanding the Amiga with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard opens the way to employing the power of the latest PowerPC G3/G4 processors in Amiga, around which SharkPPC and SharkPPC+ cards are based.' However, it does not mean that we will prepare ALL the possible drivers for ALL the possible devices and their different versions. We want to enhance Amiga's effectiveness and give Amiga community access to low-cost, good and widely-available PCI cards. As a starter, we have included some drivers in the initial pack of the Mediator busboard: PCI Graphic cards: Voodoo5 5500 64MB, Voodoo4 4500 32MB, Voodoo3 3000 16MB, Voodoo3 2000 16MB, Voodoo Banshee 16 MB, S3 ViRGE 86C325 2MB, S3 ViRGE 86C325 4MB, S3 ViRGE/DX 86C375 2MB, S3 ViRGE/DX 86C375 4MB PCI Ethernet cards: Winbond 89C940F, RealTek RTL-8029, NetVin NV5000S.C., Holtek HT80232, Holtek HT80229, Compex RL2000, SureCom NE34, KTI ET32P2, Via 86C926. These drivers have never been free. Their price was included in the original design costs. New drivers have to be calculated separately because... 2. No commercial software is free Writing good and versatile software (e.g. Mediator drivers) requires time and effort, which ultimately means programmers have to receive good salaries. If users want to be supported in the long run by any company, they have to pay for its products. Money collected allows generating new ideas, new designs and new products. 3. Free alternative approach (which we do NOT follow) Yes, we could offer software for free. We could have bought hundreds of old-fashioned PCI sound cards just a few Mark per piece (like e.g. SB Pro). Then we could write drivers to this specific batch of cards. Easy way, supporting one chipset, one specific card, branded with our name and marketed as unique. As these cards would be unique, they would have to priced high enough, say at DM 100. With "free" drivers, of course. What's the result? You would buy an OUTDATED low-featured no-longer-supported card, paying mega-bucks not for the card but for quick software and huge extra profits for the "manufacturer." 4. Instead we give... RESPECT. The basic rule with Elbox is that we FIRST develop, design and test and only when everything is ready and in the final stage do we announce new products. In other words, we take the risk and full cost of the designing stage. We do not demand from users making pre-payments, placing pre-orders, etc. In other words, we respect the users as full-scale Customers, who deserve to be offered a final-stage product to choose whether to take it or not, depending on their needs. Another basic rule for us is that we prepare universal drivers, i.e. drivers supporting various chipsets. This ensures faulty-free support for many different versions of the same card. Writing software with this prerequisite in mind takes much more time and tests than writing drivers for one specific chipset/card. But what we offer is UNIVERSALITY and PERFORMANCE. Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 19:08] [Comments: 1 - 21. Aug. 2001, 00:05] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Andreas R. Kleinert (email)	Datatypes: akJFIF, akPNG and akTIFF updated Andreas R. Kleinert has updated the following datatypes on the 14.08.2001 and made them available on his website for download. As always the datatypes are available in versions for several processors. With datatypes you can display different data types in different programms without having to write your own display routines for these types. akJFIF.datatype - V44.112 - (68k+ optional PPC/WOS) akJFIF.datatype V44.112 - (PPC plugin) akJFIF.datatype V44.112 - (WOS plugin) akPNG.datatype V44.112 - (68k+ optional PPC/WOS) akPNG.datatype V44.112 - (PPC plugin) akPNG.datatype V44.112 - (WOS plugin) akTIFF.datatype V44.112 - (68k+ optional PPC/WOS) akTIFF.datatype V44.112 - (PPC plugin) akTIFF.datatype V44.112 - (WOS plugin) (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 12:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`18.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (email)	Virus Help Denmark: virus warning! We have found another the installer of the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' linkvirus. Again there is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find infected files, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. The 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00' virus will add 3732 bytes to every infected file, and place it self in memory, so you will have to watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it can get into. Again I ran a test on my A1200 and it infected will over 400 files, in under 3 minutes. There is a way to see if the archive you download is an installer of this virus, all you have to do is to unpack the archive, read the file in an texteditor (eg. CygnusEd), and search for this text string in the code (THIS IS ONLY FOR THE INSTALLER): -=COVAH=- If you find -=COVAH=- in the code, that is an installer of this virus then please send the archive to us. The virus size has change this time, now it is 3720 bytes. That tells us that the virus uses polymorph routine, that means that the virus can change in size. This virus comes from Poland again, just like the other viruses that we have found in the last 6 month. But why don't you guy's program something usefull, that everyone can enjoy? In the code (decoded), you can read: Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00) Featuring the 1's Advanced V8sA Op'miz Code A welcom user of VRU! -= 1995-2 =- -= HAVOC =- The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but it has been removed now. (Thanks Urban). This is what we know of the virus: Virus Type.... : Linkvirus Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium) Virus size.... : 3720 bytes Archive name.. : LibBase310.lha Archive size.. : 47.711 bytes (lha packed) Installer name : LibBase3.10 Installer size : 42.304 bytes Archive info.. : Scans Memory for Libs/Tasks etc There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus out there, today we found 2 archives. If you find anything please send it to us. The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as soon as possible. In the mean time, take care... Thanks to Petra Struck & Alfred, for sending the archive to us. Editorial: As the system of Alfred Sturm, who's responsible for the Aminet uploads here at amiga-news.de, has been infected yesterday with this aggressive virus through installing LibBase310.lha and trying it there'll be no updates of the Aminet uploads in the near future. The virus has unfortunately not only infected his main partition but also the partition with his backup. Some infected files are even not deleteable. He's now forced to install his system from scratch. This may take a while as laboriously self written scripts have passed away and everything has to be collected together again. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 18. Aug. 2001, 11:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	Game: New Freeciv version The new Freeciv version has just been released. It is now based on version 1.12.0. Freeciv is a free Civilization clone which can be played on the internet with multiple players or alone against the computer. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 19:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001` Petr Krenzelok (REBOL-ML)	REBOL: Virtual Office Project On August 16th 2001 Petr Krenzelok has released screenshots and some information on Etienne Alaurent's 'Virtual Office Project'. The aim of this software is a personal virtual bureau which is accessible from everywhere in the world through the internet. In this bureau people can use certain rooms and areas together and thus share information and data. (sd) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 19:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (e-mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Hitch-Hiker v5.00 linkvirus found We have found the installer of the new 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' linkvirus. There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. You can find infected files, but you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. The 'Hitch-Hiker v5.00' virus will add 3732 bytes to every infected file, and place itself in memory, so you will have to watch out for that as well. This virus will infect anything that it can get into. And on my test A1200 over 400 files were infected in under 3 minutes. This virus comes from Poland again, just like the other viruses that we have found in the last 6 month. But why don't you guys program something useful that everyone can enjoy? In the code (decoded), you can read: Hitch-Hiker Millenium (5.00) Featuring the 1's Advanced V8sA Op'miz Code A welcom user of VRU! -= 1995-2 =- -= HAVOC =- The archive was uploaded to AmiNet, but we stopped the archive before it got online for reel. (Thanks Urban). This is what we know of the virus: Virus type.... : Linkvirus Virus name.... : Hitch-Hiker 5.00 (Millenium) Virus size.... : 3732 bytes Archive name.. : WBCycle21.lha Archive size.. : 25.818 bytes (lha packed) Installer name : WBCycle Installer size : 22.756 bytes Archive info.. : Cycles a single WB colour to pretty up Windows. This is a fake archive. The programmer of 'WBCycle', Steve Hargreaves has not released an update of WBCycle since v1.0. There might just be more installers of the 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' virus out there. If you find anything please send it to us. The 'xvs.library' (external Virus Scanner library) will be updated as soon as possible. In the meantime, take care ... Thanks to Thomas Klein for sending the archive to us. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 19:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	Digital Almanac III - update announcement and news There are some news on the popular astronomy program Digital Almanac III: in the next time (very vague - summer holidays, vacation!) there'll be a new update. Due to the many new features it will become version 4.0. Here is an overview of the most important changes. Bugfixes: moon shadow on Earth at eclipse was slightly wrong since last version drawing of parabola-like orbits was corrected error in PHA check corrected positions of Martian moons corrected (wrong reference level) improved position calculation of the Galilean Moons (very exact over a long course of time) New features: new moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (!) and Pluto (!) partially renewed calculation kernel more maps of Mars, Venus and the Galilean Moons filtering functions for planets/moons, deep sky objects and constellations. They allow to set drawing parameters for each single object or groups of objects reworked textures telescope can be controlled now also with numeric pad in the main and telescope window import of comet orbit data directly from the internet! for future versions there's now an automated update from the internet available. The annoying Shell command line procedure is history. Online information from the internet on planets/moons, Messier objects and constellations (through OpenURL). Because of the many changes the update archive will be several MByte in size. Alternately the update can be ordered for a small contribution towards expenses directly from Achim Stegemann. The CD contains not only the update but also big textures as well as numerous new pictures for your image collection. More news: Currently an OpenGL output (through StormMesa and Warp3D) is being worked on. This is purely experimental though, and it is not certain whether Achim Stegemann will have the time to complete it. A GL version would speed up the graphics output, especially textures, considerably. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 19:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001`	Aminet Uploads AMINET was down for a week - that's why there haven't been new uploads before today. (as) Update 18.08.2001: The Aminet was not down. The HD from ´wustl´ was full. Therefore new uploads weren´t possible. YAM-Rexx.lha comm/mail 3K+ARexx Scripte zum Ausdruck neuer Mails lynx.lha comm/www 978K+Great WWW Browser,version 284rel1 rpf-firenice.lha demo/intro 3K+Fire n Ice Cracktro from RPF SceneryA120.lha demo/mag 1.4M+Scenery - Scene History Book V1.20 LGUI_Tagalog.lha dev/misc 241K+LGUI_Tagalog - A Language for LGUI. AaktInt0701.lha docs/mags 165K+International infotainment magazine AaktInt0701GFX.lha docs/mags 169K+International infotainment magazine (gra ExamIntProgSol.txt docs/misc 1K+Solution of a Programming Exam of my Uni E2140G-MENU1.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Menu.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/5 * gumband.lha game/role 971K+Gumband 2.1.7b - Roguelike solo RPG diru.lha misc/misc 0K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700 diru_nodb.lha misc/misc 85K+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700 sap.lha misc/misc 655K+Polish-English-Polish dictionary THORfont.lha text/bfont 4K+Bitmapped font for email/news reading alba.lha util/boot 65K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG cvs-1.11.1p1.lha util/gnu 719K+CVS 1.11.1p1 - Concurrent Versions Syste VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 24K+PatchBrain v1.36 for VirusExecutor v2.xx (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 18:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001` Lars "Ghandy" Sobiraj (ANF)	Mailbox: Uphold The Law BBS online again! The pure demoscene BBS "Uphold The Law" is after two days delay and the restoration of the destroyed user data online again. Especially a lot of German callers who had seen the IP in the Amiga News asked for access to the illegal areas of the mailbox. Those don't exist here, and they will never exist! Those looking for pirated software or not willing to leave their phone number can save the effort asking. With the private phone number, the sysop tries to protect himself from anonymous crackers. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 15:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001` Richard Kapp (e-mail)	GFX-BASE: Review of the ArtEffect Plug-In CD-ROM and more At the GFX-BASE you can read a review of the newly released plug-in CD-ROM for ArtEffect. We have taken a look at the new possibilities, describe the installation and the use of the plug-ins in practice (including a hint for WinUAE users). There have been other changes to the GFX-BASE as well: it's now possible to search through our news archive and all tutorials published so far were translated into French by our new member, Alexandre Balaban. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`17.Aug.2001` Darkage Software	Darkage Software website with new layout The Italian software developers Darkage, known for games such as 'Tales from Heaven' and the 'Amiga Classix' CDs have entirely redesigned their website and updated the product pages at the same time. There are some first screenshots of 'Supreme', the new Amiga video titling program which is scheduled for release in September. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 17. Aug. 2001, 01:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.29 xvs.library, an external library for virus checkers, was updated. For example this library is used by VirusExecutor, VirusChecker, VirusZ, and Safe to discover viruses. More details: Name: xvs.library v33.29 Archive name: xvslibrary.lha Archiv size: 56.611 Bytes Release date: 16. August 2001 Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen E-mail: virusexecutor@c2i.net News for 33.29: Added MKG Trojan File virus Thanks to Golds for the file. xvs.library has changed name... from: The eXternal Virus Support Library to: The eXternal Virus Scanner Library (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 16. Aug. 2001, 21:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2001` Telemar (ANF)	Tip for Monzoom users and raytracers To all who use the raytracing software Monzoom. The site '3dlinks.com' is for rendering people what amiga-news for Amiga information is. Free objects, textures, etc., etc..., drop by. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 16. Aug. 2001, 20:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus: New Trojan virus found A new trojan has been found today. This trojan says that it will make a key-file that will work with over 250 programs. Well, I guess that there are someone that will fall for this kind of program. The trojan will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file, in your S:, Libs:, Devs: and L:. This is what we know of the trojan: Virus Type.... : Trojan Trojan name... : MZ-MAKEY trojan Trojan size... : 34.548 bytes (packed with StoneCracker) Trojan size... : ? (we have not been able to unpack the file) Archive name.. : MZ-MAKEY.lha Archive size.. : 34.734 bytes (lha packed) Archive info.. : ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ Master Key Generator! ===================== make keys for all programs you want 100% tested with more of 250 programs! xxxxx ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ (VHT-DK has removed the name and replaced it with 'xxxxxxxxx') Don't trust programs like this, use your common sense before you try stupid programs like this....... The xvs.library package will be released very soon..... Thanks to 'Golds' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the test of the archive. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 16. Aug. 2001, 20:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2001` Colin Hirsch (ANF)	Individual Computers "Offline" Jens Schönfeld, known to many Amiga freaks by his "Individual Computers" company, was involved to a serious road accident, this morning. It is to expect that support questions, etc. will not be replied for some days or weeks. After convalesce he will report his return himself, which hopefully will be soon. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 16. Aug. 2001, 17:46] [Comments: 1 - 17. Aug. 2001, 02:55] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2001` SixK	Database: MySQL for Amiga Version 3.23.41 On the French website 'SixK' you will find the AmigaOS port of the MySQL database system v3.23.41, compiled for 68040 CPUs. History details are to find under the title link. Download: MySqld_3.23.41_040.lzx (ps) [News message: 16. Aug. 2001, 16:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2001` Schatztruhe	Schatztruhe: Aminet CD 44 - 08/2001 The Aminet CD 44 - August 2001 - contains over 1 GB (unpacked) of software in more than 650 archives. Since the Aminet CD 43 more than 900 MB of innovations have been added. The full version of the game Genetic Species is the highlight of Aminet 44. (ps) [News message: 16. Aug. 2001, 16:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`16.Aug.2001` ELBOX Computer	ELBOX: Sound & TV in Mediator PCI ELBOX Computer released sound and TV board drivers for the Mediator PCI board on a CD named 'Mediator Multimedia CD'. Some details: This CD has been prepared to provide you with the selection of drivers for PCI sound cards, TV tuner cards and graphic cards for Mediator PCI busboards for Amiga 4000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 1200 computers. The basic features of the Sound, TV & Graphic drivers: The AHI-standard drivers for music cards to provide support for Sound Blaster PCI128 cards based on ES1371, ES1373, CT5880 and EV1938 chipsets. The Sound Blaster PCI128 card makes use of the PCI bus in the Mediator busboard as the busmaster performing DMA operations to/from the external memory. With 8- and 16-bit mono and stereo playback and 16-bit stereo recording plus user-selectable sampling rates from 5kHz to 48kHz, the Sound Blaster PCI128 produces precise audio fidelity. Possible connection of 2 or 4 (optional) speakers for an engulfing 3D-surround sound experience. Two independent stereo DACs for simultaneous playbacking of two stereo PCM channels. Mixer: All inputs can be mixed together. Simultaneous recording from all the inputs is possible. The volume and balance can be changed independently for each input and output. TV tuner drivers: Drivers for TV tuner cards provide support for tuner cards based on the Bt878 Video Decoder. The TV screen is rendered in the graphic card screen in a user-scalable window (PIP). The TV tuner cards make use of the PCI bus in the Mediator busboard as a busmaster performing DMA operations to the graphic card memory. TV tuner card running in the Mediator PCI busboard does not enforce any extra load on the Amiga's processor at all. When full-screen TV image is generated, data transfer over the PCI bus between the TV tuner card and the graphic card is executed at 44MB/s. Graphic drivers: Enhanced drivers for the Voodoo graphic card family. In the case of Mediator PCI 1200, the package allows using the memory window jumper set to 8MB independently of the Mediator PCI 1200 busboard series. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 16. Aug. 2001, 13:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` Thomas 'Gojira' Nosutta (ANF)	Gallery: "My Computer @ Home" at ACBB Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes: From now on in our web-gallery we will publish pictures of computers of users under the motto 'My Computer @ Home'. If you want to eternalize your computer there then you only have to send your pictures to nosutta@web.de. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 22:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus: New Trojan found A new trojan has been found today. This trojan says that it will make a key-file that will work with over 250 programs. Well, I guess that there are someone that will fall for this kind of program. The trojan will delete every file that has the "key" in the name of the file, in your S:, Libs:, Devs: and L:. This is what we know of the trojan: Virus Type.... : Trojan Trojan name... : MZ-MAKEY trojan Trojan size... : 34.548 bytes (packed with StoneCracker) Trojan size... : ? (we have not been able to unpack the file) Archive name.. : MZ-MAKEY.lha Archive size.. : 34.734 bytes (lha packed) Archive info.. : ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ Master Key Generator! ===================== make keys for all programs you want 100% tested with more of 250 programs! xxxxx ØØØØØøøøøøøøøØØØØØØØØ (VHT-DK has removed the name and replaced it with 'xxxxxxxxx') Don't trust programs like this, use your common sense before you try stupid programs like this....... The xvs.library package will be released very soon..... Thanks to 'Golds' for sending the archive, and to JEO for the test of the archive. (ps) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 20:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` Bernd Bernie Meyer (E-Mail)	Emulator: Today UAE-Jit celebrates 1. anniversary Today Bernd 'Bernie' Meyer writes on c.s.a.m.: I did not want to elapse the anniversary completely unnoticed...Today it is one year ago when I announced the very first, slow and rather hacked version of UAE-JIT on comp.sys.amiga.misc which additionally was very bugy. You can find the original posting on Google. What a year... Celebrating the day I have composed a site with Amithlon-benchmarks. It is very interesting to compare the amounts of that time with the ones of today. Now the Celeron333 is a pure developing computer which works under the Celeron566 in the computer room via M-JPEG-Card as a video recorder and therefore I could unfortunately not use both computers for benchmarking... Take the champagne, celebrate and a threefold hurrah for UAE-JIT... Bernie (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 18:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` Maarten Koopmans (REBOL-ML)	REBOL: Rugby 4 (Request Broker) Maarten Koopmans and Ernie van der Meer have published the Requester Broker 'Rugby 4' for REBOL-System. With 'Rugby 4' you can send requests (messages) to other REBOL-processes which sends back a result (LDC: Lightweight Distributed Computing). The processes may run on a local computer or on a computer in the Internet. The communication can be done encoded. Compared with the last version the following things have changed: Change: 'poll-for-result' removed. Instead of it there are 'result-available?' and 'get-result' (see documentation for further information). Change: The Serialization was improved and works now noticeably better. New: 'sexec' supports now the options '/oneway' and '/deferred'. New: Rugby-servers support now generation of Stub-code which can be automatically imported of clients with 'get-rugby-service <url>'. Thus for all Rugby-service-functions which are available for <url> Wrapper-functions can be dedicated. Therefore it is possible you only have to write 'echo "lala"' instead of 'rexec [ echo "lala" ]'. New: The main archive contains the source code of Rugby in the modul form. New: Documentation (update of the Rebol Zine-article) Download: rugby4u.tar.gz (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 18:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` Heise [Newsticker] / Volker Grabbe (ANF)	Heise: SIGGRAPH: Khronos Group introduces OpenML 1.0 As an addition to OpenGL-API OpenML is supposed to set up a platform undependable standard for multimedia-applications with graphic-, audio- and video-data. You can read the full article under the title link. Currently in Los Angeles the SIGGRAPH takes place. The Khronos Group which is an industry-association consisting of several graphic companies has published the specifications of OpenML 1.0 there. Another link to this topic: Heise: SIGGRAPH: New specification for OpenGL (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 14:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` AdvoGraf	AdvoGraf: At full trottle into the grit Michael Schumacher, the popular Ferrari race driver, queues to the squad of admonishers. He considers the domain michas-formel1-site.de, carried by Michael "Micha" Stanka, to violate his name rights. AdvoGraf smugly wrote: "At first the questions is, which part of name is to be violated, cause "Michael" rather is a collective term for male Germans than an individual identity feature - and to call someone Michael "Micha" neither is much inventive nor seldom. And that the Ferrari pilot has "Formel 1" for his second (first) name at least was hidden from the author, up to now." Complete AdvoGraf article (German) under the title link. More links on this subject (German all): Golem: Michael Schumacher lässt Domainnamen abmahnen internetWORLD: Abmahnung: Schumi nimmt Web ins Visier ZDNet: Schumacher lässt Teenager abmahnen (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 12:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` amiga.org	Textviewer: EvenMore Version 0.58 The freeware-textviewer 'EvenMore' has been published in version 0.58. With the plugins it is now possible to read MSWord-files (95/2000). Besides this it can be programmed seperate plugins for 'EvenMore' (with each programming language which can create Amiga-libraries). You can find further information under the title link. Download: EvenMore.lha (300 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 11:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` Marco Frischkorn (ANF)	Publication of data of the game BATTLE Marco Frischkorn writes: After considering the issue I have decided to publish a part of the data and of the texts of the suspended game BATTLE. Originally the texts of "The great NewsPaper" should be complemented each week to bypass the time until the game has published. Furthermore it was meant as a introducing story. The story itself represents a small part of the things which you had experienced in the introduction and later in the game itself. Should I meet my former graphicer then I will try to get some Whiteboards for the introsequences. Furthermore there is a small choice of graphics of the game respectivly of its parts. You can also find screenshots of one or another tool. As soon as I will find a little bit more time I will also add some comments to the most important pictures. If anybody should ask for the source code...NO WAY! And now have fun with the things you can find here! (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 00:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.Aug.2001` Anu Seilonen (ANF)	Finnish Amiga Users Group announces Saku 2001 Theme Finnish Amiga Users Group is proud to announce the theme song for its Saku 2001 event. Bass Cadet's "Saku 2001 Theme" is available for download as 128 kbps and 192 kbps versions from the official web site at http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001/. A special audio CD will be available for purchase at the venue with extended mixes of the theme. Fleecy Moss, Vice President of Amiga Inc., will attend the show and demonstrate the latest Amiga products such as the AmigaDE. A representative of Matay company will present their new PCI bridge, the Prometheus. The Mediator PCI bridge will also be demonstrated with a Voodoo3 graphics card. Latest versions of Nova Design's ImageFX and Aladdin4D are available for testing. Cloanto's president Michael C. Battilana demonstrates newest versions of Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer. Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle Eye Ky offers a variety of Amiga products to buy at the venue. Other highlights and competitions are planned. Saku 2001 will be held on Saturday September 1st 2001 at the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, near Helsinki. The event will open at 12:00 and end at 18:00. Admission will be free of charge. The Saku 2001 Web site features highlights, directions and other vital information for interested visitors and exhibitors from Finland and abroad. Two webcams will be available from the venue. We are also planning an IRC channel. Please stay tuned for more details as the planning progresses. For further information, visit Finnish Amiga Users Group's Web Site at http://saku.amigafin.org or http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/. E-mail inquiries may be sent to Terho Henriksson (terho.henriksson@kopteri.net). Please also contact Terho if you or your company have products that you would like to demonstrate or advertise in Saku 2001. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 15. Aug. 2001, 00:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: VEPatch.Brain Version 1.36 A new update for the 'VEPatch.Brain v1.36' is released. Here are the details: Name: VEPatchBrain v1.36 Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha Archive size: 24.329 Bytes Date: 14. August 2001 Coder: Jan Erik Olausen Needed: VirusExecutor V2.xx Changes since the last version: ppc.library v44.36 OutLineFont v1.4 Sashimi v1.7 powerpc.library v16.0 WipeOut v1.30 COP v1.85 68060.library v46.7 Two more patches to MCP v1.33 Two more patches to multiuser.library v39.166 One more patch to Birdie 2000 (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Aug. 2001, 22:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2001` Lars 'Ghandy' Sobiraj (ANF)	New uploads at Scenet Interested demo freaks can get picky new releases from the international Amiga demo scene at the download area of Scenet. New: Whelpz Frozen Pack Number 45 with all intros of the Finnish demo party Assembly, an much more. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 14. Aug. 2001, 22:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2001` I.T.	I.T.: Bernie's lost in time (Update) There is a detailed issue about the emulator 'Amithlon' from Bernie Meyer and Harald Frank available from the Australian online magazine I.T.. Remarks from Bernd 'Bernie' Meyer: a) The price is stated in AUSTRALIAN Dollars (ca. A$2=US$1) b) I do not know where the price is from - it may be in the right dimension, but the price is not fixed till now. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Aug. 2001, 16:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2001` Golem	Golem: Radeon 8500 - ATIs GeForce3-competitor comes in October Radeon 7500 replaces Radeon 64 MB VIVO, FireGL 8800 complets FireGL 4 ATI announces three new gfxboards, especially the GeForce competitor Radeon 8500 and the professional variant FireGL 8800 are very interesting. Also new is the Radeon 7500, based upon the old Radeon gfx processor, but thanks to production in 0.15 micron has higher clock frequencies. Complete article see title link (German). More informations: The Inquirer: ATI to attack Matrox market The Inquirer: ATI threatens Nvidia Heise: ATI-Grafikkarten mit Radeon 8500 im Oktober Chip: Offiziell: ATI stellt neue Radeon-Grafikkarten vor The Register: ATI unveils Radeon 8500, 7500 The Register: Nvidia lost 13% marketshare in Q2 Tom's Hardware: GeForce 3 Under Attack: ATi's Radeon 8500 Previewed (cm) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Aug. 2001, 15:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2001` Scalos	Workbench-Replacement: Scalos StackWindow-Plugin This plugin will allow you to stack your Scalos desktop windows so they appear a little neater on the screen. Download: Scalos-Plugin_StackWindows.lha (9 KB) (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Aug. 2001, 12:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2001` Amiga Inc.	Amiga Inc.: Onlineshop 'AmigaMall' closed Amiga Inc. has closed the onlineshop 'AmigaMall' and refers to the dealers index to look for a dealer to get Amiga products. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 14. Aug. 2001, 12:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.Aug.2001` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Jools Smyth On the Amiga Future homepage an interview with Jools Smyth, the webmaster of the popular site "Exotica", was released. On this site you can find information about Amiga games, music, game box scans, Amiga demos scene information, some old utilities, disk mags, and much more. A must see for real Amiga devotees. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 14. Aug. 2001, 10:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` GoldED	Editor: GoldED Studio 5 free download Dietmar Eilert, programmer of GoldED, offers a free download of an older version of GoldED Studio 5 for a limited period of time. GoldED Studio 5 is a feature rich editor. The additional functions can be added by using add-ons. Plain text, html files and source code can be edited with these plugins. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 22:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)	AROS News: aros.org online After a long time, aros.org is back :-) So undo all your bookmarks, CVS entries and mail addresses and point them back to aros.org. Until this happens again, that is... I'm still working on it, though ! I hope that the domain is transferred to me or a friend of mine who owns the DNS and the site on which aros.org runs in the next few months. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 21:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.28 Yesterday, Jan Erik Olausen released version 33.28 of the 'xvs.library'. Changes: Fixed bug in the memory check routine for Smeg2. Thanks to Luca, Harry and Dirk for telling me about this bug. It will not happen again! ToDo: Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory. Details: Name: xvs.library v33.28 Archive name: xvslibrary.lha Archive size: 56.483 Bytes Release date: 12. August 2001 Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen E-Mail: virusexecutor@c2i.net (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 21:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox and Hyperion: Licenseagreement for Warp3D Voodoo3-driver Elbox Computer and Hyperion Entertainment are proud to announce that they have entered into a license agreement. Hyperion will support Mediator PCI 1200, Mediator PCI ZIV, Mediator PCI 4000 and Mediator PCI ZIII busboards with fully-featured Warp3D Voodoo3 drivers for 68k and PPC processors. Warp3D Voodoo3 drivers will be available for registered users of Mediator directly from Elbox. Drivers for Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV busboards will be released first, to appear within 3 weeks. For Your Enjoyment Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department http://www.elbox.com (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 21:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` Frank Sievertsen (REBOL-ML)	REBOL: profiler V1.0.3 Frank Sievertsen released version 1.0.3 of his profiler 'Profiler' for the REBOL-System. The profiler displays the amount of time each function needed to complete its operations. This helps you to discover wich part of your program needs the highest amount. The profiler is available at the REBOL-desktop at REBOL/Sites/FX5/Profiler. (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 20:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` Robert M. Münch (REBOL-ML)	REBOL: make-doc-pro V0.96 Robert M. Münch released version 0.9.6 of his documentation tool 'make-doc-pro' for the REBOL-Sytem. 'make-doc-pro' is an extended version of 'make-doc' by Carl Sassenrath. Changes: Bugfix: Usage of 'EN' instead of 'US' for language-selection. Bugfix: The browse()-function now gets a correct URL. New: Markings for indents ('', '*' and so on) New: The floating-text now uses blockquote (CSS: 'justify'). New: Underline, italic and bold are now supported inside of a paragraph. Change: 'make-doc-pro' now uses XYZstart, ... , XYZend-markings, for marking a special area for a certain format. Download: make-doc-pro.zip (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 20:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` amiga.org	Event: Date of the Ottawa Amiga Show The Ottawa Amiga Show will be held on the 17th and 18th of November 2001 at the Travelodge Hotel Ottawa. Additional details are available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 17:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - Version 14.4 A new archive (version 14.4), containing WHDLoad and all available installers, is now available for download. The following installers are new or updated: 11. August 01 new: The Deep (Cream Corp/US Gold) 11. August 01 new: Project X (Team 17) 11. August 01 new: Motorhead (Virgin) 11. August 01 new: Fire Force (ICE) Download: WHDLoad_14.4_usr.lzx (120 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 17:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` Individual Computers	Controller: Shipping of "CLeo" delayed Cleo is a controller that makes Amiga formated floppy-discs, and other formats to, available for other computers. It is based on the Catweasel by Individual Computers. Merlancia Industries licensed this technology from Individual Computers for selling it with the name Cleo for Tsunami developer-devices and other Pegasos-based computers. Due to some internal problems the shipping of the controller will be delayed for some time. Further information can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 16:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Aug.2001` Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9431 Richard H. Poser released version 0.9431 of his AIM-messengers AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for the AOL instant messenger service. Some changes: AmigAIM 0.9431 Beta (12. August 2001) Found and removed bug in Single Window mode when Timestamps are selected. Buddy List window now has different settable size for Single Window and Standard modes. Timestamps now default to the correct values as set in prefs. Changed the 'Always view time stamp' to 'Display time stamp by default' for prefs item text. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 13. Aug. 2001, 11:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Aug.2001` Amiga Future	Datatype: WarpTIFF V44.2 Oliver Roberts released version 44.2 of his WarpTIFF datatype, which runs on both 68k and PPC Amigas under WarpOS and MorphOS. Changes since prior version: New: Multi image TIFF files support. Applications can select the picture to be displayed via PDTA_GetNumPictures- and PDTA_WhichPicture tags. New: CMYK graphics support. Bugfix: PixarLog decompression did not work. Bugfix: Files missing the StripByteCounts tag don't cause crashes, any more. Bugfix: Files missing information about samples per pixel now are loaded without problems. Bugfix: Fixed problems while operating pictures without separate colour components. Changed: Error operation and error code return have been reworked and enhanced. Changed: Several code not needed any more was removed. More information available under the title link. Download: WarpTIFFdt.lha (204K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Aug. 2001, 19:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Aug.2001` Amiga Future	PCI: Prometheus-SDK V1.50 Matay released version 1.50 of the Prometheus SDK. Changes since prior version: New: Header files for GCC, VBCC, SAS/C, and StormC. New: Source code examples now can be compiles using the above mentioned compilers. New: The 'developer.guide' was extended with a description of the PCI interrupt handling. Bugfix: A little bug in the 'prometheus.library' was fixed; PrmScan ended up in an endless loop if there was no PCI board installed. Download: prometheus150.lha (177K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Aug. 2001, 19:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Aug.2001` GameDev.net	Programming: Tutorials for BlitzBasic Blitz Coder is a new website dealing with the Basic dialect 'BlitzBasic' among other things is suited for programming of games. Currently several tutorials are on this site, which first induct you into programming in general and then address programming of games. 'Blitz Basic' initially was released for the Amiga and now is available for Windows, too, but at least the general tutorials might be useful as an entrance to 'Blizt Basic' programming using one of the elder Amiga versions. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Aug. 2001, 18:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Aug.2001` René Stelljes (E-Mail)	User: Amiga-User-List (AUL) V11.01 SE René Stelljes wrote: From today version 11.01 SE (05.08.2001) of the AUL is on our homepage. This version was created for the compuer party of the Amiga user from Göttingen, Germany. The Amiga-User-List again is available at http://www.amiga-user-liste.de/. Unfortunately there still are problems with the online form, because of this still isn't online. A prepared ASCII form is part of the guide-version's archive. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Aug. 2001, 16:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Aug.2001` Czech Amiga News	Handicrafts: Pictures of an A500 desktop Under the title link the A.C.E. user group released pictures of an A500 built into a desktop like case and equipped with an external keyboard. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Aug. 2001, 11:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Aug.2001` amigadev.net	AmigaDE: Game - drillbohrer V5.04.27 On 09. Agust 2001 Timm S. Müller has released version v5.04.27 of the Arcade game 'drillbohrer' for the AmigaDE SDK. 'drillbohrer' is a 'oils well' clone, which was released for the C64 in 1983. The game was written regarding AMIGA's PDA specifications, e.g. the game's window was limited to a PDA specific size. This version offers additional music and sound effects. It requires the 'libknpmod sound library'. The VP assembler source code is part of the archive. Download: drill_snd.zip (70K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Aug. 2001, 10:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Aug.2001` amigadev.net	AmigaDE: bin2h - file to C source conversion On 10. August 2001 Patrick Roberts has released version 0.91 of the tools 'bin2h' for the AmigaDE SDK. 'bin2h' converts any file to a C header file, compressed or uncompressed. The existing zlib of the AmigaDE is used for compression. This library also can be used to uncompress the files in your own program. Download: bin2h.tgz (2K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Aug. 2001, 10:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Aug.2001` Olaf Köbnik (email)	Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena - interview campaign An interview with Sebastian Bauer, the developer of, among other things, SimpleMail and FreeCiv is online. (main focus: FreeCiv) Amiga Arena - full version In co-operation with K.-P. Koljonen the Amiga Arena makes the release of "HippoPlayer v2.38" available! The HippoPlayer is a module player for the Amiga that supports a big number of formats. Some facts about the HippoPlayer: Screamtracker I, Fasttracker 1 & 2, Taketracker, Multitracker, 1-32 channels "SID-Emulation" by Håkan Sundell & Ron Birk (runs with Kickstart 1.2, too) "TFMX modules" (the normal ones as well as the 7-channels version) Some 4 to 8 channels sample & synth formats Easy-to-use 3D-Interface Completely controlled via keyboard AppWindow: simply drag icons into the window of HiP ARexx Public Screen support Internal multitasking (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 11. Aug. 2001, 19:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Aug.2001` Stefan Instinske (email)	Event: Maxpo 2001 cancelled We got yesterday evening information by Stefan Instinske via mail that the Maxpo 2001 is cancelled. As already reported Falke-Media wanted to hold the "AMIGA WORLD 2001" at this fair. Talks with Falke-Media showed that they work with high pressure on finding an alternative location for the Amiga fair. Detailed information about this can be found at the beginning of next week at amiga-messe.de. Here's the complete mail of Stefan Instinske (translated from German): ++++ \| 22:56 \| Friday - 10. August 2001 \| What was already in several forums broadcasted as rumor seems now to be official: the Maxpo 2001 in Cologne won't take place this year. Though the organizers have not officially commented on their webseite yet it seems definitely that all exhibitors have been written to and informed about the fair's cancellation. Not least the following message from Arktis makes clear that this year's exhibition falls through: »As the MAXPO in Cologne unexpectedly won't take place this year ARKTIS holds on the 21. and 22. September a big MAC DAY in the ARKTIS company building in Rosendahl. Detailed information about participiants and supporting programme will follow soon...« Reason for the cancellation of the fair may well be the withdrawings of some big exhibitors and financial losses resulting from this for the organizers. As soon as we have further and more definitive information we will announce them here of course. ++++ Further link about this topic: Heise: Macintosh-Messe Maxpo cancelled (German only) (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 11. Aug. 2001, 15:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Aug.2001` Thomas Nosutta (ANF)	Event: more pictures from Göttingen On the 4. and 5. August the G.A.U. & APC&TCP meeting took place in Göttingen. The computer club ACBB wasn't idle at the meeting and shot many photos (see title link). Have fun watching them and recognizing. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 11. Aug. 2001, 13:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Aug.2001` REBOLforces	Magazine: REBOL/Zine Issue 4 Vol 1 On 3. August 2001 Jeff Kreis has released the 4. issue of the REBOL/Zine magazine and made it today online available. This English online magazine covers the REBOL system. The current issue contains articles regarding the following subjects: REBOL Header is alive - accessing header entries of a script Plain text to HTML.. in one line - inserting of P tags using the Parse command Look ma, just one face! - example for the Pane function RUGBY - sending commands via the network to REBOL processes (Distributed Computing) It's Alive!!! - Several practical hints for REBOL Basic Make-doc - short introduction into the document format of 'Make-doc' Get-Word! - correction referring to the mail filtering article (mbox) in the REBOL Zine 1 (sd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 11. Aug. 2001, 12:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Aug.2001` David Brunet (e-mail)	Magazine: Obligement 28 is now available The 28th issue of the famous French e-zine Obligement is now available. You can read in this issue an interview with Gary Peake (Amiga Inc.) and Bernard Noel (author of the game Imperator), a review of Land of Genesis, reports of the Amiwest and Amiga Benelux Show, an article about the Prometheus PCI card and much more! You can download it at the address: http://obligement.free.fr (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 10. Aug. 2001, 21:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (e-mail)	Virus Help Denmark: New team member The members in "Virus Help Denmark - Amiga Team" have now grown 100% ... now we are 2 persons in the Amiga team. :-) Jan Erik Olausen (programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library) has now joined as a full member of Virus Help Denmark. This will help you all of you, if one of us is away you can always contact the other member of the "Amiga Team". Jan Andersen Jan Erik Olausen (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 10. Aug. 2001, 19:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Aug.2001` Golem - IT News for experts	Golem: Speedball comeback »Bitmap-Brothers classic soon available in new version Game freaks who once owned an Amiga will remember well the popular developer team Bitmap Brothers and their excellent sports game Speedball. As the team announced, they are currently working on a sequel to the classic.« Full German article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 10. Aug. 2001, 18:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Aug.2001` Lionel Thillot (ANF)	New information web site for french people While waiting for the return of Amiga Impact, Amedia Software opened a section 'current events' for knowledge of the current events of the world Amiga in Frenchman. En français: En attendant le retour d'Amiga Impact, Amedia Software a ouvert une section 'actualité' pour que vous puissiez connaître toute l'actualité actuelle du monde Amiga en français et quotidiennement. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 10. Aug. 2001, 16:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Aug.2001` no risc no fun (ANF)	nrnf: Monzoom3D special summer sale Together with Oberland Computer, 'no risc no fun' makes a special price for the current version 4.3 of Monzoom3D for AMIGA possible. This program is the direct successor of the popular Reflections and offers countless useful features. The sale continues until end of October. Prices and ordering information are at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 10. Aug. 2001, 12:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Aug.2001` Amiga Inc.	Amiga Inc.: Merlancia buys Amiga Walker and MCC designs Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the purchase of the legendary Amiga Walker and MCC designs. The Walker and MCC designs (created by Frogdesign and Pentagram respectively) are now owned exclusively by Merlancia Industries. These designs will be implemented in Merlancia's MMC/Torro line of multimedia PowerPC products. The Walker case, designed in 1995-6 by Frogdesign for Escom AG will be implemented in a Space Conservative Desktop unit; expressly useful for offices and cramped desks. The Walker design, currently Merlancia Radian, will feature a PowerPC G3 or G4 (750 and 7410 resp.) processor with an advanced graphics chipset and will be targeted for sale around the $1500 to $2000 price point. The MCC case, designed in 1999 by Pentagram was planned as Amiga's Multimedia Convergence Console. Merlancia will be implementing this design for its Apocalypse DT and ST series systems, based on the PowerPC 7xx and 8xxx series processors. The MCC design will be implemented in set top box and low cost desktop packages based on the X-Casting Broadband Video delivery method next year for prices ranging between $699 and $1299. Dr. Ryan E. A. Czerwinski, CEO of Merlancia Industries comments "We anticipate minor styling changes and modifications, as needed for the implementation of our hardware, none of which will effect the beauty or harmony of the case designs. We will be producing the cases out of stainless steel, with the possibility of other materials being available as well." Bill McEwen, President & CEO of Amiga, Inc said "As Amiga has transformed itself to a Software company, having Merlancia build new products based on these designs is exciting, and we look forward to seeing more great products from the Merlancia team". About Merlancia Merlancia Industries is a technologies company specializing in the design and manufacture of industrial and consumer multimedia and internet appliances and workstations. Merlancia Industries is a privately held Corporation with offices in Phoenix, AZ USA and Frankfurt Germany. PR Contact: Malcolm J. Brenner - m.brenner@merlancia.com About Amiga Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at www.amiga.com. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 10. Aug. 2001, 10:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Aug.2001` Cinemaware	Game: 'Defender of the Crown' for free download Cinemaware kept their promise to make more game classics freely available and offers the game ´Defender of the Crown - The Age of Chivalry!´ for free download. A time of lusty wenches and black hearted villains. King Richard has been murdered and England is thrown into civil war! Amidst the ringing clash of steel and the thunder of charging steeds the bold Saxon knights have chosen you to lead them into battle against the hated Normans. Victory will not come easy. To save England your skills as swordsman and military leader will be severely tested. But should you succeed you'll win the Crown of England and the love of many a beautiful damsel! Heart pounding action as you rescue your lady from a foul Norman prison. Majestic tournaments where you joust for fame, fortune and land. Heroic battles featuring castle shattering giant catapults! A unique blend of role playing and strategy combined with dazzling arcade style sequences. Easy-to-use mouse or joystick controls. No typing required! (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 10. Aug. 2001, 10:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Fun Time World	Blittersoft: Future development of iFusion The future development of iFusion We are pleased to announce agreements with several partners to bring new features and enhance iFusion. This is part of our commitment of continued development. Microcode Solutions When Blittersoft purchased iFusion, we did so with an agreement to allow Microcode Solutions to add new features for us. We are pleased to say that we have now agreed the following news features to be added: Direct SCSI - Allowing direct CD-ROM, Scanners, etc. (with appropriate Mac drivers) Networking - Allowing networking between iFusion and another computer Parallel/Serial support - Allowing printing and modem use. Merlancia Industries We have signed a developer agreement with Merlancia Industries. This will initially provide a new GUI for iFusion, but other features are possible in the future. Haage & Partner We have signed a developer agreement with Haage & Partner. This is to devote more time to the Blizzard PPC problem with iFusion. Other features are also possible. (ps) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 23:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` DCE Computer Service GmbH	DCE: Warp 3D GREX-PCI Voodoo3 VGA board drivers released DCE have released the Warp 3D GREX-PCI drivers for Voodoo3 VGA boards and made them online available for any GREX user. Furthermore DCE is reworking their website. There was a flash update released for Blizzard PPC containing the PCI library v1.3. Any GREX user is recommended to use this version. Download: Warp3D-4.2a.lha BlizzPPC_1_3.lha (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 21:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Dirk Stöcker (ANF)	Game: RekoNet online again After a long break the RekoNet is online again, at last. Rekonet is a playing card collection for the popular Klondike AGA Solitair variant (also for PC). Interested people might drop by and get some card sets. Card sets still not included are welcome. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 16:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` The Register	The Register: Gateway pulls out of UK and Ireland As already reported for several times, the American PC manufacturer Gateway - who obtained AMIGA in 1997 and sold it again in late 1999 - this year is deep in the red. After the closing of 27 US stores and the announcement to close their German offices, now the closing of their European headquarter in Dublin as well as their English office was confirmed, too. Only for Ireland and England 1,200 people will loose their jobs. See title link for The Register article. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 16:18] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Eternity Hard- und Software	Eternity News: New Eternity1 offers and packets Since some time Eternity Hard- and Software offers a PC named 'Eternity1' with an Amiga emulator pre-installed. Since 01. August 2001 they changed the distribution concept for the Eternity1 to offer two different basic machines. Moreover the software is delivered separately (meaning no pre-installed software, anymore). This should better meet future offers of different alternative Amiga systems. At the time being Eternity offers the following computer configurations: 1. Eternity One Economy Midi-Case 300W AMD Athlon 1Ghz Quantum Fireball QML 30000 30 GB GeForce 2 MX-200 128 MB SD-RAM CD-ROM BTC 52x Gigabyte Mainboard GA7ZX (5 PCI/1 ISA/1 4xAGP) Keyboard, Mouse 2. Eternity One Business Midi-Case 300W AMD Athlon 1,4 Ghz (266 FSB) Seagate Barracuda III 40 GB 7200 rpm GeForce 2 GTS 256 MB DDR-RAM (266 FSB) DVD-ROM LiteOn 52x Gigabyte Mainboard DA7DXR (5 PCI/1 4xAGP) incl. Raid-Controller (266 FSB) Network Card 100 Mbit Keyboard, Mouse 3. Eternity One Amiga-Software Packet 1 Amiga-Forever WinUAE-JIT Amiga OS 3.9 More details and prices are to find under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 15:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Stephan Rupprecht	Tool: SGrab Version 1.18 Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.18 of his screen grabber SGrab. With this program you can create screen grabs and save them in different formats. Download: sgrab.lha (97 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 14:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Satra Systems	Database: SatraDB for AmigaOS Satra Systems develops a new database management system for AmigaOS 3.5 called SatraDB. 85% of the design have been finished, development progress is at 66%. More details under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 14:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Fr3dY	Tool: xlHTML for MorphOS Version 0.2.9.11 Fr3dY has written loads of useful tools for the AmigaOS and MorphOS. On 07. August 2001 he has released version 0.2.9.11 of xlHTML. This program converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML. Download: xlhtml.lha (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 13:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Golem: News from the Bitboys - XBA about to outplay GeForce3 »Extreme bandwith due to embedded DRAM within the graphics chip Since 1998 the Finnish graphics chip manufactures Bitboys are working on their Xtreme Bandwith Architecture (XBA), a memory architecture embedding fast eDRAM directly into the graphics chip and thus is said to offer noticeable higher bandwith than GeForce3 and similar. Now the Finns have released some new information: Their upcoming "wonder graphics chip" now will have integrated 12 MB instead of 9 MB eDRAM and additionally will be capable to address up to 64 MB external SDRAM. « For complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 11:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Chip: ATI Radeon 2 - Samples of the new 3D board »Initial samples of an ATI graphics board with Radeon-2 chip have shipped in Korea. The hardware magazine "Brainbox" contains pictures of a Radeon-2 board with 64 MB DDR-RAM at 4 ns access time.« See title link for complete article. More messages about this subject: The Register: ATI Radeon 200 debuts on Web Brainbox: ATi R200 (incl. pictures) The Register: ATI R200, R300 roadmap spied (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 11:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Borut Zivkovic (ANF)	Game: Heretic II patch (especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this) Hyperion Entertainment released a patch for Heretic II for download. Especially weaker Amigas will benefit from this one; BilzzardPPC users with 040/25 CPU will experience significant more speed. Moreover now the so called "wheel mouse" is supported and visual effects have been enhanced. The innovations are: Speed. The new version is up to 25% faster depending on the hardware. Especially users with relatively weak hardware (BlizzardPPC with 040/25) will notice a significant speed-up. Mouse Wheel support. Heretic II now supports mouse wheel adaptors that map to rawkeys 122/123 (newMouse etc.). Improved visual effects: "new" Permedia 2 additive blending mode (requires Warp 3D V4.2) (see before and after screenshots) and full Voodoo 3 support. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 11:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Aug.2001` Ben Yoris / Hyperion (ANF)	Hyperion Entertainment: Website moved and has got new features Hyperion Entertainment is very proud to announce our webmaster has completely revamped our website and migrated it to a more powerful server. The new website can be reached on www.hyperion-entertainment.com. Key-sections of the site including the general FAQ and the corporate info have been updated. Apart from a new progress report on Freespace, the new site now also has a download section where users can register their copies of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD. Registered users will be able to download updates of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD which will address certain issues with the Voodoo 3 drivers, squeeze out more performance and boost visual quality. Registered users will moreover enjoy further priviliges such as early access to new versions of Warp3D and be eligible for beta-testing of our future titles. Please take the time to register your copy of Heretic 2 and Shogo:MAD! (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Aug. 2001, 11:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Aug.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Golem: First version of Opera-browser for QNX »Unicode-support for Opera-versions announced The strategy of Opera supporting as many as possible operating systems continues: The Norwegian programmers has now published Opera 5.2 for QNX. The QNX-version supports Unicode as the first Opera-browser.« You can read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2001, 22:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Aug.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Golem: New open-source-competition for DivX and Co. »On2 Technologies releases TrueMotion VP3.2 video compression technology The small software company On2 Technologies which is situated in New York has released its powerful video compression algorithm TrueMotion VP3.2 as open-source. With this step the company which formerly has been known as Duck Corporation wants to offer a powerful competition to DivX and the ISO-standard MPEG-4 which has to be licensed.« Read the full article under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2001, 22:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Aug.2001` Ralf Berg (ANF)	Tool: New alpha-version of IFFAnzeiger Ralf Berg writes: Today I have uploaded a new alpha-version of the IFFAnzeiger on my homepage. IFFAnzeiger can also display oversized pictures directly of the harddrive. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2001, 22:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Aug.2001` Marius Schwarz (ANF)	ASP: e-mail address changed Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz wrote: At eanet.de there is probably a problem with forwarding of mails. Because of that I have changed the email address. All those who have sent me mails in the last week and who did not get any response please send it again to the new mail address. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2001, 21:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Aug.2001` Christoph Meier (ANF)	Golem: Corel wants to take possession of SoftQuad »Enterprises signed taking possession Corel wants to take possession of the enterprise SoftQuad Software which is specialized for XML-solutions. The enterprises informed that a corresponding agreement has been signed. According to it Corel will take possession of SoftQuad by buying of shares.« Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2001, 13:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Aug.2001` M0rpheus (ANF)	New Amiga-website for hard- and software news M0rpheus writes: I have created this website to confirm my existing interest in the Amiga-computer. At the moment only one project is online which is a new Amiga-online-game based on the board game RISIKO! I hope you will enjoy this site and the content :) Respects M0rpheus (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2001, 10:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.27 Yesterday Jan Erik Olausen has published version 33.27 of 'xvs.library'. This version contains the following changes: Added Penetrator 2001 Link virus Thanks to Krzysztof Duda for the files. Added CCCP Clone Bootblock virus Thanx to Mr Yoard for sending me this bootblock Fixed bug in recognition code for DKG-Blum file virus again! Thanks to Urban Mueller for reporting this. Added Smeg2a Installer File virus Thanks to Antonio De Cicco for the file. Added Smeg2a Link virus Added Smeg2b Link virus Thanks to Zeeball for the files. To be done: Remove Penetrator 2001 from memory. Name: xvs.library v33.27 Archive name : xvslibrary.lha Archive size: 56.483 Bytes Release date: 7. August 2001 Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen eMail: virusexecutor@c2i.net xvs.library program length: 56.828 Bytes (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 08. Aug. 2001, 10:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2001` Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla (E-Mail)	AROS reachable at new URL As reported earlier there was a hardware problem with the server hosting the AROS website. In the meantime you can get to the website with this URL: http://www.hepe.com/aros/ (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 07. Aug. 2001, 22:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2001` Emerald Imaging	Game: Demoversion of Aqua released A demo version of the adventure "Aqua" is released. In this game you will find yourself in a mysterious world and have to try to get a way out. Download: AquaDemo.lha - Readme (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 07. Aug. 2001, 21:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2001` Assembly	Event: Assembly 2001 At the Finnish Demoparty Assembly 2001, that has happen not long ago in Helsinki, MatureFunk has won the first place with the Amiga demo Lapsuus. This demo and other you will find under the title link for download. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 07. Aug. 2001, 20:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - New packages WHDLoad allows to install games you only can play from disks on harddisk. These are the new packages: 05.08.01 new: F/A-18 Interceptor (Intellisoft/Electronic Arts) 05.08.01 new: Missiles Over Xerion (Kingsoft/Cycletech) 05.08.01 new: Garfield: A Winter's Tail (The Edge) 05.08.01 enhanced: Fly Harder (Starbyte) 05.08.01 new: Alien Breed Tower Assault (Team 17) 04.08.01 new: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) 04.08.01 fixed: Fears (Bomb Software) 04.08.01 new: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) 04.08.01 new: Castle Vania (Konami) 01.08.01 enhanced: IK+ (Archer MacLean) 31.07.01 enhanced: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold) (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 07. Aug. 2001, 19:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 07.08.2001 YAT.lha comm/mail 577K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM crossgcc_linux.tgz dev/gcc 2.8M+Crossgcc linux to AmigaOS NotizieAmiga.lha docs/lists 952K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 07/2001 (Itali Aakt0801GFX.lha docs/mags 542K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga Aakt0801GUIDE.lha docs/mags 73K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga Aakt0801HTML.lha docs/mags 218K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga HBible.lha docs/misc 1.2M+Hebrew Bible with vowels and cantillatio ChaosHeavy.lha game/2play 16M+World's Best Magic Game! 1-8 players! Fa AquaDemo.lha game/demo 2.5M+Aqua demo version of great new adventure mhi_MASPro.lha hard/misc 10K+MHI MAS Player Pro driver ASIE.lha misc/emu 45K+ASIE (AMIGA Space Invaders Emulator) mhi_dev.lha mus/play 56K+MHI Dev - The new standard in MPEG audio mhi_MASStd.lha mus/play 9K+MHI MAS Player Standard driver PlayGUI.lha mus/play 785K+Skinnable multi-format player-GUI PlayGUIShot.jpg mus/play 172K+Screenshot of PlayGUI 3.2 arcadesnookeri.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Arcade Snooker doomicon.lha pix/mwb 65K+Neat MWB icon for Doom quakeicon.lha pix/mwb 7K+Nice MWB icon for Quake Robot.jpg pix/trace 20K+Raytraced Robot StarRacker.jpg pix/trace 36K+Futuristic Rocket Car Alecos-WB-1.jpg pix/wb 141K+A nice desktop 800x600 16 Bit by Alecos Ital301.lha text/misc 566K+English to Italian Translator v. 3.1 GS-JAnim.lha util/batch 7K+Join&Spare space on HD (Genetic Species) 2b_Spiral.lha util/boot 3K+A little toy to make Your Workbench look e-bin.lha util/cli 72K+Port of "e", a full expression evaluator WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 122K+WarpDT preferences program V44.5 WarpTIFFdt.lha util/dtype 209K+TIFF datatype V44.1 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS) AslToRT.lha util/misc 23K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT envhandler.lha util/sys 14K+A happyenv replacement (1.10) Safe.lha util/virus 35K+Virus detector v16.3 FlagsWB3.9_GR.lha util/wb 3K+WB 3.9 Flags, Country files for Greece, sgrab.lha util/wb 95K+Screen grabber with GUI (1.17) (as) (Translation: gf) [News message: 07. Aug. 2001, 16:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Aug.2001` Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9430 Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9430 of the AIM-client AmigAIM. It is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger. Here is an excerpt of the history where you can see the changes: Found bug in Mail Checking routine that could cause the program to go into an infinite busy loop under certain circumstances. Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 07. Aug. 2001, 13:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2001` Michael Asse (ANF)	Project: AmigaFFE status I would like to give a short update of the topical status of the AmigaFFE-project. Due to the fact that the release of the source code of Frontier-First Encounters (quotation: "..when it's done.") I would like to suggest a small project that deals with Frontier, too. Maybe some of you know the game "Elite - The New Kind". It is a Elite version, that looks slightly better then the original Amiga version. The Allegro-library (used for the new version of First Encounters, too) is used for the programming of this game (for Windows). Here is my question: Is out there any interest in a port of this game (for practice)? Furthermore, I get an email containing the info that Alive Mediasoft already had a running version of First Encounters that was never finished. Does someone out there have any contact information (e-mail, snailmail) of one or more former employee of Alive? Because I would like to ask them if we could finish this version. Additionally: The analysis of the actual situation will be seperated in two parts: Technical information concerning the game (shortkeys, engine, and so on) Some kind list about what we can do and what we can not concerning the port. In the near future I will put some impressions for example pictures on my page. I will publish the soundtrack (MIDI and maybe MP2 version, too. If you did not hear anything about the AmigaFFE-project here are some information: The AmigaFFE-project wants to port the game Frontier First Encounters, the successor of Frontier Elite II, to the Amiga. This is an "Everyone's Invited"-project. That means that everyone is welcomed to join the team wether he/she wants to program or 'just' write the documentation. Further details are available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 06. Aug. 2001, 22:36] [Comments: 2 - 07. Aug. 2001, 18:40] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2001` Amiga Security Page (ANF)	Information about SMH.com.au: 6000 Hacks a Week Marius Schwarz wrote: Because of the article (6,000 attempted hacks a week gets home user a bit annoyed) at smh.com.au I put together a small compilation of information concerning this topic. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 06. Aug. 2001, 11:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2001` Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)	Filemanager: DiskMaster 2.5b12 Rudolph Riedel released DiskMaster 2.5b12 and DM2.guide 1.97. It is available at the Archive-section of his homepage. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 06. Aug. 2001, 11:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Aug.2001` Amiga. Inc.	Amiga Inc.: e.p.i.c. about to produce programs for the AmigaDE The well known software house e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment will produce games for the AmigaDE. These games will be released for PDA's and micro-computers like the Sharp Zaurus. The first three games will be "Boxikon", "Piles O' Tiles" and "Pegger". The whole press release can be found at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 06. Aug. 2001, 11:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.3 Virus Help Denmark released version 16.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible. Changes since last version: fixed ReadArg() template in order to remove wrong message on machines which users didn't noticed that TCPPATCH is dead! optimization small fix in xfd slave for new SMEGs added analyse of SMEG2 viri Name : Safe v16.3 Archive name : Safe.lha Archive size : 36.032 bytes Release date : 05 August 2001 Compilation date: 30. July 2001 Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Requires : Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended) Download: Safe.lha (35K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 22:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Richard Hackelbusch (ANF)	Game: Spaceward Ho! for free download Richard Hackelbusch wrote: While searching for signs of life of one of the best Amiga games (Spaceward Ho!, AmigaMagazin rated it "very good, 10,2", issue 9/94), which even runs on graphics boards, I happened to find the homepage of the author who has ported Spaceward Ho! to the Amiga, (http://www.bebbosoft.de/), and it turned out that with permission of the manufacturer (Delta Tao Software) he has put the game online for free download: Disk 1 - HO!1.DMS Disk 2 - HO!2.DMS (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 19:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Jens Langner (ANF)	Developer tool: CVS V1.11.1p1 Version 1.11.1p1 of the AmigaOS port of 'CVS' has been released. This update among other things fixes another Enforcer hit, which occurred along with an error message when using the internal SSH client. Beside of this bugfix two more new features have been added to simplify working with cvs and ssh a bit or to make it more compatible with the prior version. Jens Langner advises any developer to get the latest version at the following and well known address: http://amcvs.light-speed.de/. During the following days this update should be on Aminet, too. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 19:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` amigadev.net	AmigaDE: cnvtools V0.99a Beta Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.99a of his 'cnvtools'. The archive contains four tools for image and audio formats supported by the ave/cnv tools, including cpm and rpm. Using these tools you can convert the formats, get information about audio or image files, and more. The tools' source codes are part of the archive. Download: util/conv/cnvtools.tgz (29K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 18:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` amigadev.net	AmigaDE: playsound V0.96 Beta Patrick Roberts released 'playsound' for the AmigaDE SDK v1.1. Playsound plays audio samples and supports all AVE-CNV formats. Download: unclassified/playsound.tgz (425K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 18:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Fun Time World	Graphics: ImageFX V4.5 Introdution Nova Design introduced version 4.5 of the image editing and effects software 'ImageFX' on the AmiWest 2001 show. New drawing modes and a new animations system were added. This animations system can load GIF animations, ANIM's, ANIM brushes, as well as a set of single frames and can operate those using keyframe animation. Follow the title link for the full press release. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 18:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Bernd Gmeineder (ANF)	AMI Sector One: Update with additional games Bernd Gmeineder wrote: 'Paradox Software' and 'Hartwerk' are two more companies allowing us to make their software available for free at AMI Sector One. Some of the games and applications, which now can be legally downloaded, are 'ST-Protector', 'War Zone', and the translation software 'Translate It'. Beside of these there is also Ed Scio's futuristic flight simulation 'Armour-Geddon'. Various interesting public domain games and new Emerald Mine clones round out this little update. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 17:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Czech Amiga News	AmiWest 2001: 9 minuts movie from the show On http://emrl.com/amiwest/ a 9 minutes movie from the AmiWest 2001 show was released. This movie shows the responsiveness to AmigaOS x86, views on the Boxer, AmigaDE programming, Amiga tatoos, and SOCK PUPPETS. It shows Kermit Woodall, Joe Torre, Dr. Ryan of Merlancia Industries, and many more. There are two versions of the movie, one of low (8,795k) and one of high (25,567k) resolution MPEG-1 video format. A copy of this movie, the MP3 files of the speeches, and the Sheep screenshot are also available from http://amiga.mc-kenna.org/. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 17:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Czech Amiga News	Workbench: Scalos Beta V40.8 On 4. August 2001 beta version 40.8 of the alternative Workbench 'Scalos' was released. This release in particular fixes several bugs and makes it easier to handle the different preferences formats of Scalos. Now Scalos tries to load the latest format, at first. If not available it falls back to prior formats, but always uses the latest format for saving. All changes can be taken from the history. You can report bugs using the bug report page. Download: ScalosBeta.lha (210K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 17:21] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Kevin Orme (ANF)	Website: Amiga University updated OK. We've done quite a bit of work since the last update, and while that was too long ago (mid May, blame too much work travel! :) we've got some cool stuff up there now for you! 1) New Pages. Not only have we gone back and re-verified links throughout the site (we are up to ~2,000 links, probably only about 15% of those are 'within site') we have added new AmigaDE, Draco, and TVPaint pages as well as a huge slew of REBOL links to the 'rebol on the web' page in our programming section. There are many other new links throughout the site in its various sections as well, please let us know if we missed your site. If it has to do with Amigas and especially learning how to use them, enjoy them, etc., we're all ears. :) 2) Site Mirrors and Archives. We are pleased to announce that thanks to Bob Maple, Paul R. Santa-Maria and Marc Albrecht we have been able to 'preserve' three Amiga sites otherwise having been taken down, namely 'Zip Drives and the Amiga', 'Motorola 68000 Resources' and the former Amiga-software.com website. Take a look from the 'site archives' link off the home page. Even cooler is the generosity of David McMinn, who is allowing us to mirror his 'Blitz Basic 2000' site. This is still an active and growing site, even though at the moment he's changing servers on the home site in the UK, thus not all his content is online at the moment but that will soon change. Check it out! 3) Downloads. As you may or may not already know, we've had Bars & Pipes available for download for a long time, probably almost a year now. But we are pleased to announce that due to the generosity of NewTek, (who released Amiga TVPaint a while back as freeware), TVPaint is also now free to be distributed by other sites as well. We have created a ~4MB zip archive containing all you'll need to install this premier Amiga paint package (you'll need UnZip from Aminet as well as a graphics card, however, to use TVPaint - UAE/Amiga Forever users can also use it because they employ Picasso96 within the emulation). To help thank NewTek for their continued support of the Amiga community, if you use a PC, buy a copy of Aura, their newest and incredibly powerful paint/graphics package - you won't be disappointed. In sum, come on back and check us out, we've got lots to offer and hopefully will have another large site update next month to announce. In the meantime, enjoy! (sd) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 16:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Game: New units for "Schlachtfeld" Horst Diebel wrote: Again, there are new unit pictures as in-game graphics by Eddy for the strategy game 'Schlachtfeld'. This should almost complete the vehicle fleet. Please, use the forum of the page to post any suggestions about the final design or textures. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 15:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM with new WWW and download addresses The WWW and download addresses have changed for the instant messenger 'AmigAIM' by Richard H. Poser II to use the AOL messenger service. The new addresses are: Webpage - http://amigaim.missingpiece.com/index.html Full Archive: http://amigaim.missingpiece.com/downloads/AmigAIM_BETA.lha Executable - http://amigaim.missingpiece.com/downloads/AmigAIM.lha (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 15:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Aug.2001` Robert Williams, Editor Clubbed Magazine (E-Mail)	SEAL: Clubbed Issue 8 Now Available A brand new issue of Clubbed, South Essex Amiga Link's (SEAL) quarterly subscription Amiga magazine, is available now. All subscriber copies have been posted and should be received in the next week. We are also happy to announce that you can now buy your Clubbed subscription online from at Kicksoft using a variety of credit and debit cards. Highlights of issue 8 include: Networking Explained: Find out how you can connect several Amigas or integrate your Amiga into a network with other platforms. This feature is complemented by a tutorial on setting up network printing with Samba. Photogenics 5: What did we think of the latest release of this well known art and image processing package? DrawStudio Tutorial: We guide you through combining bitmap and structured elements in this recently re-released drawing package. Plus much more (including our first Reader's Wives section!) If you'd like to know more visit our website for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues. Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication. (mj) [News message: 05. Aug. 2001, 14:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001` Carsten Schröder (ANF)	AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 released The August issue of AMIGA aktuell contains this time even three top reviews: We take a close look at the AmigaDE in the »Party Pack« version, the PCI busboard »Prometheus« and the soundcard »Repulse«. Additionally AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 contains the second part of the background report about the legendary »Phoenix« mainboard, the second part of the experience report about the emulator package »AmigaForever«, of course extensive information about the latest AMIGA announcements and much more. AMIGA aktuell 08/2001 can be read online on our website as well as it can be downloaded in HTML resp. AmigaGuide format. Attention: As the AMIGA aktuell website is on its way to moving to another server some services, among others the archived online issues, are unusable for quite some time. We apologize for the inconvenience caused. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 23:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001` Carsten Scholling (ANF)	The revolution - a fictitious story The vague information one gets from Amiga Inc. don't allow a continuation of the story about Amithlon and the forces of darkness for the moment. But surely later :) But as I was asked to write something, now for something completely different. Though not very Amiga related it fits somehow the present situation. Ciao, Carsten (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 22:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001` Andreas Magerl (email)	Disk magazine: NoCover 89 released Today the NoCover issue #89 has been released. It can be read online on the APC&TCP homepage. The online subscriptions were sent away today. The disk subscriptions will be brought to the post on Sunday. As usual, the NoCover contains the latest issue of the 'Amiga Aktuell' magazine. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 18:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001` Thomas Hoppe (ANF)	Domain amiga-center.de to give away For some months now the domain amiga-center.de lies fallow. I don't need it anymore, and I'm now looking for a new non-commercial user. A permission for such a non-commercial use was given by Amiga Inc. but would have to be renewed with a change of the owner and the service. I give the domain away for free. The costs resulting from a change may be taken over by the new owner. When interested please send an email to Thomas Hoppe. For now the domain is looked after by DomainFactory. A change is no problem but needs a little more time at DomainFactory. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 18:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 04.08.2001 E2140G-FLC01.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/17 * E2140G-FLC02.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 2/17 * E2140G-FLC03.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 3/17 * E2140G-FLC04.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 4/17 * E2140G-FLC05.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 5/17 * E2140G-FLC06.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 6/17 * E2140G-FLC07.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 7/17 * E2140G-FLC08.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 8/17 * E2140G-FLC09.lzh game/patch 0K+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 9/17 * E2140G-FLC10.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 10/17 E2140G-FLC11.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 11/17 E2140G-FLC12.lzh game/patch 0K+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 12/17 E2140G-FLC13.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 13/17 E2140G-FLC14.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 14/17 E2140G-FLC15.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 15/17 E2140G-FLC16.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 16/17 E2140G-FLC17.lzh game/patch 0K+German Flc.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 17/17 E2140G-FONT1.lzh game/patch 16K+German Font.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/1 * E2140G-GAME1.lzh game/patch 463K+German Game.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/1 * E2140G-GRAPH1.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Graph.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/2 E2140G-GRAPH2.lzh game/patch 69K+German Graph.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 2/2 E2140G-LEVEL1.lzh game/patch 1.0M+German Level.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/1 E2140G-MENU2.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Menu.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 2/5 * E2140G-MENU3.lzh game/patch 0K+German Menu.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 3/5 * E2140G-MENU4.lzh game/patch 0K+German Menu.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 4/5 * E2140G-MENU5.lzh game/patch 1.6M German Menu.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 5/5 * E2140G-MIX1.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Mix.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/4 L E2140G-MIX2.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Mix.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 2/4 L E2140G-MIX3.lzh game/patch 0K+German Mix.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 3/4 L E2140G-MIX4.lzh game/patch 96K+German Mix.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 4/4 L E2140G-PIRO1.lzh game/patch 379K+German Piro.wd for Earth 2140 Disk 1/1 * E2140G-SAMPLE1.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Samples for Earth 2140 Disk 1/4 * E2140G-SAMPLE2.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Samples for Earth 2140 Disk 2/4 * E2140G-SAMPLE3.lzh game/patch 1.7M+German Samples for Earth 2140 Disk 3/4 * E2140G-SAMPLE4.lzh game/patch 928K+German Samples for Earth 2140 Disk 4/4 * akPNG-PPC.lha util/dtype 55K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.100 (as) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 15:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001` AmigArt / Christoph Meier (ANF)	Alan Redhouse (Eyetech UK) comments AmigaOne, OS4-PPC and Amithlon »Well apart from unduly cluttering up the AmigaOne mailing list I think Gary has handled the points raised admirably. Of course a large proportion of posters appear to have completely ignored his answers and have started indulging in even greater realms of virtual computing fantasy. I dont really see it as a particularly good use of my time or the lists bandwith to comment until the party atmosphere has died down a little. However, since you ask, this is how I see things, (having first discussed it with Bill, Fleecy & Gary): There are currently 4 Amiga-on-PC emulators in existence/under development.: UAE (Linux/windows); Amiga Forever; Amithlon; and 'x' (as previewed in AmigaActive but shortly to be released). All use the same basic 68K emulation process, but have different trade-offs in terms of speed, chipset emulation (and therefore compatibility), windows integration and other features. All only run 68K (not PPC) code so cannot run modern software with PPC code. All can only run os3.x (for which development has been capped) and will not be able to run any version of OS4.x , all of which are PPC coded. All will be irrelevant with OS5.0 (sometime) as this will run native on PPC and x86 (plus possibly some other) hardware. From Amiga Inc's point of view all these products have a potential benefit in increasing the overall Amiga user base. The theory is that they will act as a taster to get old PC-owning Amigans excited again and to give ex Amiga (who are now PC) dealers a low cost way of re-evaluating the Amiga. The ultimate goal (in Amiga Inc's eyes) is to get more people to purchase/stock the new PPC-based Amigas. I am personally unsure whether this will be successful as: Virtually all new software will be written to OS4.x and PPC interfaces. Showing PC users an old unsupported operating system and its associated 68K applications does not - to me - seem the best way to impress them and get them to change platforms. (As Ben Hermans from Hyperion says) these emulators will inevitably be installed on an existing windows machine where more functional - but mainly more familiar - productivity and games software already exists for these users. I personally feel that we have the best chance of winning back old Amigans with an all new hardware (including case - details available in a couple of weeks), OS and application software bundle. That is we need a stand-alone fully functioning solution with sufficient native applications and performance to impress existing independant PC dealers. Of course this means that we need some of these new applications ready when os4.2 arrives and that means that we need sufficient sales of the AmigaOne with OS4.0 to make it financially attractive for software developers to port their games and applications. Careful timing is everything - we (Amigans) will only get one chance to get it right. Contrary to what many may expect, I actually believe it would be helpful if OS 4.0 could be made to run on some of the existing PPC platforms (eg on the Cyberstorm PPC) - albeit at lower performance - to rapidly increase the OS4.0 user base that application developers can write for. As I understand it this would be possible but would need the cyberstormPPC's flash ROM to be updated and made available by its author (Ralph Schmidt I believe). BTW I do think Bills statement at AmiWest that three products (AmigaOne, OS4.0, and Amithlon) are all to be launched simultaneously in November is a bit of orator's licence. As far as we are concerned we will be sticking to the (October) timetable for the AmigaOne and OS4.0 as announced in Rotterdam in June. Hope this helps.« (ps) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 13:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001` UAE Discussion Board (ANF)	Emulator: UAE 0.8.17 (beta) released Beta/Development versions of UAE will be available here, as soon as there are any changes to the code. The current stable versions are numbered 0.7.x, while the next beta versions of UAE will be numbered 0.8.x; and finally 0.9.0 once it's stable again. Previously, the idea was to have a stable version 0.x.0 and beta versions 0.x.y, for y > 0. That didn't work very well: all versions that appeared in public were rather stable, while the beta versions mostly remained in a private directory. We'll try a different model now and see how it works out. You can also check out the ChangeLog of the latest version here. Download: uae-0.8.17.tar.gz (ps) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 10:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Aug.2001` Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)	Stardate-BBS again out of business because of flash of lightning Again is the Stardate during a strong storm affected by a flash of lightning. In the exchange my port only works for two hours then the Telekom has to reset the whole router. Again has expensive equipment to be exchanged. I was told that I shouldn't count on this until next week. So the Stardate is again not accessible via the Internet. All Telnet points/ boxes please use the access numbers instead (you can find them e.g. here in the ALD). The http access of the mailbox isn't possible for now, either. I should like to emphasize that this is (as was the last time) an act of God (struck by lightning). On my site of the Telekom all pieces of equipment are secured and there is backup equipment for the case of emergency. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 04. Aug. 2001, 09:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Aug.2001` Andreas R. Kleinert (e-mail)	Datatype: akPNG V44.110 released Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.110 of his akPNG datatype. As usual there are several processor versions available. With help of datatypes you can view all kind of files in many programs. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 03. Aug. 2001, 22:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Aug.2001` Markus Nerding (e-mail)	H&P: English PageStream manual released The English manual for PageStream 4 for Amiga, Windows & Macintosh has just been released as PDF file. The PageStream customers registered with us for the online service get the download link by e-mail. If you haven't signed up yet, you can do this at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 03. Aug. 2001, 22:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Aug.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	New screenshot of AmigaDE/Sheep Fleecy Moss has provided a new Screenshot of AmigaDE. An open window shows the sourcecode of a "Sheep" program: "Sheep" is a scripting language (similar to ARexx) which is part of AmigaDE. Update (06.12.2012, cg): integrated the screenshot into the news item. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 03. Aug. 2001, 22:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Aug.2001` Markus Nerding (e-mail)	H&P: ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection available now Haage&Partner write: Update: we have now opened a special area which presents all effects. Also now the improved ArtEffect 2.5 is shipped with it since there were problems with the border effects. Here you will find all details on the ArtEffect-PlugIns-Collection and sample pictures for the border effects (all in all more than 250 borders are contained!). Further an overview of the effects with samples was added. The ArtEffect-Plugins-Collection brings for the first time a comprehensive collection of sensational effects and postprocessing filters for the bestseller ArtEffect. The collection is shipped with ArtEffect 2.5 so that you can start right away. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 03. Aug. 2001, 18:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Aug.2001` Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)	Software: RB2Exe v1.5 released RB2Exe version 1.5 is available now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. This program converts Rainboot multimedia shows into executable programs. Version 1.5 allows you to use all great features of Rainboot3+ in your executable shows! Additionally the memory routines have been optimized and the generated executables' memory usage was reduced by almost 60 percent (!). Also, the GUI's functionality was improved and bugs were fixed. Online help is available now too. This version is only available for owners of the 'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM'. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 03. Aug. 2001, 16:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Aug.2001` Thomas Steiding (e-mail)	epic interactive: last status update for 'The Feeble Files' on Amiga So far we have received 328 preorders for a possible port of the cartoon adventure 'The Feeble Files' to the Amiga. Required are 400 to make a port of this great adventure possible. The preorder campaign will run until 12.8.2001. If we have received 400 preorders for this game by then, we will port it to the Amiga and it should be available within 4-6 weeks. In order to run The Feeble Files on your Amiga you will need either a 68060 or a PPC CPU, 32 MByte Ram and a 4 MByte gfx board. You can place your preorder directly with us by sending an e-mail to order@epic-interactive.com or the following dealers who will accept preorders for it: Germany: KDH Datentechnik Italy: Virtual Works England: Amiga Games and Eyetech Netherlands: Computer City (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 03. Aug. 2001, 14:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Aug.2001` Bright Light Software (ANF)	Development and bugfixing suspended Frank Fenn writes: Because of a defect motherboard, the development and bugfixing is suspended for some time. If anybody should have a RAMSEY (A3000) in revision 4 and doesn't need it anymore, please contact me. Affected from this is software as for example Audiomaster, WBStartup, TIDesigner, AmiMTI and many other small tools. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 03. Aug. 2001, 09:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Matthias Gietzelt (ANF)	Programming language: Emperor V4.1 Emperor is an object oriented programming language enabling programming of applications both for the new AmigaOS 3.9 and for AmigaOS 2.0 in the easiest way. Standard GUI elements, windows, menus, requesters, ASL requesters, ReAction and GadTools gadgets are integrated just by mouse-clicks and can be programmed using macro functions and the integrated text editor. The gadgets can communicate with each other by the so called interconnection maps implemented, without typing even one line of source code. Creating of locale catalogs and variables, implementing libraries, etc. is likewise easy. Emperor has an easy to see though and user friendly ReAction interface and comes with an extended online manual in ".guide" format. Thus programming the new AmigaOS becomes child's play! Emperor has the following features: Direct visualising available for every element. Generates C/C++- source code. Integrated text editor StormC connection via ARexx Generates source code for AmigaOS 2.0, AmigaOS 3.9 or in mixed mode Transparent layout GIFTWARE Characteristics of Emperor v4.1: French catalog added (written by Olivier Martin - many thanks!). Translation for prepared menus and gadgets added. Attributes for text editor, speed-bar, and space-gadget added. New and specialized type of requester (Reaction style). ARexx script changed / problems while project transfer fixed. Fix positions for attribute window removed. Problem with preview window fixed. Array for speed-bar buttons added. Problems with arrays fixed. Adjustment fields extended with GadTools gadgets. Configurable path to includes and libs. Main window layout changed (no overlapping gadgets, anymore). Requester added, if menu item "New" was chosen. Error fixed in menu item "New". Error fixed in menu item "Delete". Selectable generation of macro functions. Generated source code is considerably smaller by omitting unused macro functions (about 40 %). Initially opened window for own project can be chosen. Error fixed in source code when generated with one gadget only. Specific project directory configurable. Error fixed while opening old projects containing a slider. Creation of locale files selectable. Creation of Storm projects selectable. Text editor now operates changes made correctly. Saving of character lines containing a linefeed ('\n') is no problem, anymore. amigaguide.library opened due to starting problems. Version 4.1 of the program is available from Aminet "dev/c". Download: Emperor_v4.1.lha (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 20:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Golem IT-News für Profis	Golem: Amithlon - PC emulates Amiga The new Amiga emulator by Harald Frank and Bernd Meyer for x86 does not only attract Amiga specific media. Today Golem.de reports about it: »Amiga Inc. announce Amiga emulator for PC users On the American Amiga show "AmiWest", which took place in the end of July, again Bill McEwen presented some news and among those an emulation software by the code name of "Amithlon". Thanks to fast x86 processors applications shall run definite faster than on Amiga bolides with Motorola's 68060 processor.« Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 13:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Jens Schönfeld (ANF)	First official beta version of the X-Surf PPPoE driver From now on the first public beta version of the xsurfadsl.device is available for download at the support section. Only experienced users should try the installation, since inconvenient patches are necessary because of limitation of the known TCP/IP stacks. An extended readme file informs you about the details. Download: dsl-beta.lha (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 12:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Andy Silva (ANF)	Tool: Amiga Filterium - extendable ripper and filetype tool With the following message Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo introduces his new, flexible and extendable datatype processor and Ripper. Short: flexible filetype processor and ripper Uploader: silva@psi5.com Author: silva@psi5.com (Andreas 'da Silva' Szabo) Type: util/misc Version: 1.1, 7/2001 Requires: - any amiga or uae - filerequester library like asl, reqtools or arp - optionally xfd/xpk/xad/xvs... Distribution: NoCD features overview: knows, rips, converts a total value of about 400 game/demo scene related file types (about 100 self, others by accessing libraries) find music, pictures, text and much more in memory, in files like demos/intros, packed files, etc decrunch with XFD/XAD/XPK (all modes) recursively convert mods back to Protracker (like Prowizard) rip loaders and intros from boot loading games/demos monitor files or memory as bitplane/hex/asc, mark ranges decrypt data with eor use your preferred file requester check for viruses with XVS highly configurable interactive and automatically processing by script language This introduces a _new_ standard of file type identification and ripper all in one. It works together with standard interfaces like shell (give arguments in command line), Workbench (set tooltypes), opus, arexx and appicon. Highly configurable, for example: you can specify file type specific save directories and output filename extensions. Macros for custom processing methods can be defined. It can invoke external programs, example: send the outputs to Multiview. Amiga Filterium is based on plugins. Programmers can easily extend the power of this tool by writing more afilter-plugins. If you are interested: The purpose of this release is to motivate YOU to try this out and maybe join to the development team as author of a plugin, beta tester or other. Its totally actual and maybe there was never something else like this. Lets get this chance! Lets make it top and standard! (ps) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 12:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Scalos	Workbench replacement: Scalos 1.3 Beta (Version 40.7) Beta version 40.7 of the extended Workbench replacement Scalos 1.3 was released. The changes made can be taken from the history. If you will happend to find bugs, please make an entry in the bug report. Download: ScalosBeta.lha (140 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 12:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Suite101/John Chandler	John Chandler: What Are The Odds...? Monthly John Chandler writes an article about the subject Amiga at Suite101.com. In the current one Chandler deals with the announcements Amiga Inc. did on the AmiWest, especially with the new Amiga emulator for x86 platforms 'Amithlon'. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 11:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` amiga.org	AmiWest: Pictures by Harv Laser Harv Laser of AmigaZone released some pictures from the AmiWest show. The appendant readme file contains picture descriptions. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 11:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Alexander Lohrmann (ANF)	Amiga Inc.: AmiWest Show Report Amiga put online the announcements done on the AmiWest show in form of a report: Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc., made a number of exciting announcements at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California. The AmiWest show is organized by the Sacramento Amiga Computer Club and is one of the largest Amiga shows on the West Coast. The following products were announced for release by Q4, 2001. AmigaOne PPC Computer AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System Amiga x86 (x86 Amiga emulator) AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack AmigaOne PPC Computer The AmigaOne PPC computer, being built by Eyetech in the UK, is based on Zico specs published by Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc.'s flagship next generation desktop continues to advance towards the first real new hardware for the Amiga community in over 6 years. Excitement is mounting at both the Amiga office and around the world as Amigans realize that the long wait will soon be over. All partners in the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 project have been working hard to meet deadlines as the project moves into its final stages. Bill also announced that the two week slip in schedule for the Eyetech AmigaOne which had appeared in June had now been pulled back to just one week. The new Rev B boards are functioning well, with live PCI and AGP slots and work is now focused on bringing the board and the CPU cards together. The first week of August will see full system boards delivered to the AmigaOS4 team for preparations to move AmigaOS4.0 from the test bed machines. For more details regarding the AmigaOne, see http://www.eyetech.co.uk/amigaone/ or http://www.amiga.com/products/one/. AmigaOS 4.0 PPC Operating System The AmigaOS 4.0 project is being managed by Amiga Inc. in partnership with both Haage-Partner (H&P) who are porting the main portions of the new PPC OS and Hyperion Software who are doing 3D and Mesa for the new PPC Operating System. AmigaOS 4.0, which will only run on the Eyetech AmigaOne, is moving forward nicely. With the help of Amiga partners such as Matay, much of the development work has used a combination of A3/4000s, Matay Prometheus PCI bridge boards, Cyberstorm PPC Accelerators and H&P's StormC v4. This has allowed the project to move forwards without having to wait for an actual AmigaOne board to become available. Consequently, the new file system and the core of the TCP/IP stack were completed over two weeks ago. The PPC 68K emulator is being fine-tuned and the new Amiga PCI library is being profiled against the Eyetech AmigaOne live PCI slots. The RTG system is being enhanced, with a full PPC implementation of the extended and most used functions, to allow for stunning 2D and 3D performance. In addition, the Voodoo 3 drivers have been completed and the G450 drivers are under development, to be followed by drivers for the new Matrox G550. While the porting of the 68K elements of the AmigaOS will continue through AmigaOS4.2 and AmigaOS4.5, the first set of libraries ported to PPC will ensure that AmigaOS offers impressive increases in stability, functionality and speed. Once the test bed to AmigaOne migration has been completed, Amiga will provide screenshots and benchmarks of the new system. These reports are aimed at demonstrating the superiority of the AmigaOne and will give the community an early look at the features of the product. In addition, Eyetech has commissioned some very impressive case designs that will give the AmigaOne the looks to go along with its brains. Amiga x86 Amiga was able to demonstrate a prototype of an x86 emulator for 68K for the AmigaOS3.x series. This product, codenamed Amithlon, provides only RTG compatibility and is being targeted at providing a first step from x86 towards the AmigaOne. Amithlon is self-booting from CD on almost any x86 laptop or PC desktop. It is able to run most RTG programs at speeds beyond that of a standard Amiga 060 chipset. Several developers at the AmiWest show tried their applications on Amithlon and commented that they had never seen such fast run times before on a 68060 Amiga computer. Amithlon is being written by Harald Frank and Bernie Meyer. Many Amigans who left when Commodore went bankrupt have been looking for a way to run their favorite Amiga applications on newer hardware. The purpose of the emulator is to allow x86 PC owners to experience the benefits of running the AmigaOS and applications without having to make a potentially risky purchase of an entire machine. Marketing and community will then slowly draw these people towards the superiority of an AmigaOne with a full native OS running on it, along with the latest applications. Amithlon is not a port of the AmigaOS and there are currently no plans to see the AmigaOS ported to x86. More details of the Amithlon including feature lists and release dates will be published shortly. AmigaDE 1.0 and Series Zero Game Pack AmigaDE 1.0 (based on Elate/Intent by Tao Group) is being programmed by more than 30 programmers worldwide under the management of Amiga Inc. There are over 3000 developers currently signed up to produce content for various digital devices from cell phones, PDA’s, handhelds, and even desktop computers running AmigaDE 1.0. Amiga also announced the first set of games that is being released under the moniker “Series Zero” to Sharp for use on the Zaurus handheld devices. The 5 games that are being released as part of the Series Zero Game Pack are: Batty by Titan Computers Boxikon by e.p.i.c. interactive gmbh Convex by Zeoneo Linea by Titan Computers Solitaire by John Harris (ps) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 10:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Aug.2001` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	Mail client: SimpleMail 0.8 Alpha I just uploaded the new SimpleMail alpha version. The new features: SSL support for POP3 servers. AmiSSL required! POP3 servers can be deactivated individually. Menu bar in main window. A new setting for the reading window allows smilies to be replaced by pictures (pictures by Richard Kapp). Now groups can be deleted, too. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 02. Aug. 2001, 00:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Aug.2001` Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)	Datatype: akPNG V44.100 published Andreas R. Kleinert has published version 44.100 of his akPNG datatype. You can download several processor versions. With the help of so called datatypes you can display different datatypes with different programs. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 22:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Aug.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: WHDLoad - new packets WHDLoad can install games on the harddrive which were formerly meant to be used on disks. The following new packets have been added: 31.07.01 improved: Italy 1990 Winner's Edition (U.S.Gold) 30.07.01 new: Alien Syndrome (SEGA) 29.07.01 new: Crystal Hammer (Hannover) 29.07.01 new: Pipe Mania (Empire/The Assembly Line) 29.07.01 new: Jaws (Screen 7 Ltd/Intelligent Design) 29.07.01 new: Huckleberry Hound (Alternative) 29.07.01 new: The Halley Project (Mindscape) 29.07.01 updated: Pipe Dream (Lucasfilm) 29.07.01 improved: Operation Stealth (Delphine) 29.07.01 new: Morph (Millennium/Flair) 27.07.01 new: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 20:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Aug.2001` http://www.amiga-news.net (ANF)	Amiga-News.net online again From today on Amiga-News.net is online again. Amiga-News.net is not a seperate site but rather a survey of several news-sites. Here you can daily read the headlines of several news-sites. Thus you have a quick overall view about the current news. Remark: This site was not made by amiga-news.de. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 20:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Aug.2001` Oliver Roberts (ANF)	WarpTIFF-introduction - New TIFF-picture datatype Oliver Roberts introduces his new WarpTIFF freeware-datatype with the following message. This new datatype can also read pictures which were made under TIFF specifications 5.0 and 6.0. The datatype was optimized for 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS and is of course very fast. It follows the original message: The first release of WarpTIFF is now available - a new freeware datatype capable of reading 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec images, available in optimized 68k, WarpOS and native MorphOS versions. Needless to say, WarpTIFF is fast - very fast in fact :) Full feature list below. WarpDTPrefs has also been updated to support WarpTIFF. Supports 5.0 and 6.0 TIFF spec, including Packbits, Thunderscan, CCITT (fax), Pixar, LogLuv (CIE and SGILog) and Deflate (zip) encodings, and uncompressed files. LZW and JPEG encodings are currently unsupported Image types supported include RGB (24-bit and 48-bit), palette based and greyscale (1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit) Supports image data organized as strips, tiles or separate components Highly optimized datatype dispatch engine, and fast TIFF decoder, resulting in a very efficient, compact and quick TIFF datatype Asynchronous file i/o and double buffering techniques (WarpOS only), which speeds up image decoding Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060 PowerPC support with native WarpOS and native MorphOS versions Alter the pen allocation precision when images are remapped to an 8-bit display Specific support for the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype, when available The dithering feature of the OS 3.5/3.9 picture.datatype can be configured to your liking (e.g. disabled for 15/16-bit displays) Based on libtiff 3.5.6-beta and zlib 1.1.3 As some of you will know, WarpTIFF has been in development (on and off) for some time, but it's ready at last :) It already handles a more comprehensive coverage of various TIFF encodings than other TIFF datatypes, but if you should find some TIFF images that don't work properly with WarpTIFF, then please let me know and I'll try to add support for them. Likewise, if you need support for JPEG encoded TIFFs, let me know. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 19:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Aug.2001`	Aminet Uploads until 01.08.2001 gkartei.lha biz/dbase 224K+Powerful and easy database. Regist_II.lha biz/dbase 133K+V0.2A user-administration for programmer DOpusSpawn.lha biz/dopus 13M+Opus Mangellan 2 - SPAWN - Themes AmBoS-Demo.lha comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive DalHelper.lha comm/irc 44K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo YahooGpScan1_2.lha comm/mail 5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.2 cim_v3_update.lha comm/misc 214K+CIM - Caller Id Manager V3.702 r42 - ONL facts.lha comm/tcp 94K+V4.6 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI netspeechd.lha comm/tcp 7K+Outputs incomming packets to speak: DKG-Neo2.lha demo/aga 1.0M+Neo2 final version (30/07/01) by Darkage Eurochart43b.lha demo/mag 804K+The Official Eurochart #43 by DEPTH & IR Emperor_v4.1.lha dev/c 671K+Object-oriented programming language fractal.lha dev/c 69K+OpenGL C Source: Mandelbrot and Julia fr freetype_S4.lha dev/c 458K+Freetype link library for StormC 4 koch.lha dev/c 18K+OpenGL Source: Koch's Snowflake fd2pragma.lha dev/misc 191K+V2.136 create pragma, inline, ... files AmigaArena3.lha docs/misc 44K+Amiga Arena News German/English BraSwos2001.lha game/data 6K+Brazilian league update for swos ETWBrasil2001.lha game/data 7K+Brazilian league update for Eat The Whis F1GP_2001.lha game/data 10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (29 July BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 91K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan LyraKeyMap_dk.lha hard/drivr 9K+Danish Lyra PC keyboard layout v1.01 WhirlDisc.lha misc/edu 77K+World Book encyclopaedia viewer. BETA LC2.lha misc/misc 274K+Aussie Lotto checker/database. Squid.lha misc/sci 95K+A squid's skin simulator OldSchoolMania.lha mods/hardc 168K+Old School hardcore MOD by REVOLVER DOG Budbrain1.lha mods/pro 645K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 1 Budbrain2.lha mods/pro 408K+Mod's from the demo 'Budbrain Megademo 2 Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 125K+A no fuss multiformat audio player. EP_MMDC.lha mus/play 9K+EaglePlayer "MMDC" external replayer EP_MWalker.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Martin Walker" external rep EP_RobHubbard.lha mus/play 8K+EaglePlayer "Rob Hubbard" external repla EP_TFMX.lha mus/play 10K+EaglePlayer "TFMX" external replayer QSID.lha mus/play 10K+Small & Simple SID player raycat.lha pix/misc 186K+[ancor] a new picture sg-strip_15.lha pix/misc 45K+[ancor] StarGround strip 15 sg-strip_16.lha pix/misc 46K+[ancor] StarGround strip 16 doomicon.lha pix/mwb 66K+Neat MWB icon for Doom (as) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 17:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Aug.2001` Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)	Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9429 Richard H. Poser has published betaversion 0.9429 of AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with the America Online Instant-messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history of which you can recognize the changes which were made: Custom interests can now be set and/or searched for by selecting <custom> and inputting into the resulting input box. (BTW: Setting AmigAIM would allow anybody using AmigAIM to search for others :-) I think I fixed a problem that could occur if program is told to shutdown via the Close Gadget while a service/search is logging in. Added an Online check capability, it can now check if a named interface is online and give an error if an attempt to go online is done and the interface is offline. Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 14:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Aug.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Installer of SMEG 2 Virus found The installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus was found. It was found in the faked keyfiles of MiamiDLX but it is possibly included in other files. Now read the details: »We have now found the installer of the new 'SMEG 2' linkvirus. If the info text from the archive is correct, the 'SMEG 2' virus has been around since February 2001. The archive has only been on Elite BBS'es or Elite websites. Jan Erik Olausen the programmer of VirusExecutor & xvs.library, has made a recog for the virus, but is having problems with removing the virus from memory. As soon as Jan has solved this virus, a new update of xvs.library will be released. There is "NO" cure for this virus right now. But with the help of the program 'Safe v16.2', you can find infected files, but not remove the virus, you will have to replace the infected files with new clean files. This virus will infect everything that is executed. And on my test A1200 over 200 files, was infected in under 5 minutes. The programmer of 'Safe' (Zbigniew Trzcionkowski) has written this about the new 'SMEG 2' virus: Released probably by mistake. Non crypted version of the next one. Code is almost equal to old SMEG, but this time author invented NEW WAY of patching PRIVATE routine of device task. This routine handles receiving of dos packets. Virus patch is stealing packets and sending them to the supervisor task called 'SMG'. I have never seen such advanced digging code that works properly. This means also that no visible changes are seen in the system beside one new task. I have noticed that freezing of SMG task stops spreading of the virus, so at the moment Safe does only that. I will add removal of the 'magic' patches if I found it necessary. File repair was as easy as Penetrator files - one move.l 4.w,a6 was replaced with jump to virus. Hidden text (decoder was included, but not used by virus code): Smeg! it's a Hostile TakeOver! (Again!) And just when you thought it was safe.. Flake and Georg have left the building! -= On Tour 1995-2001 =- This is what we know of the virus: Virus Type.... : Linkvirus Virus name.... : SMEG 2a & SMEG 2b Virus size.... : SMEG 2a: 1556 bytes & SMEG 2b: 1604 bytes Archive name.. : MIAMIDLX.LZX Archive size.. : 3.427 bytes (lzx packed) There might just be more installers of the 'SMEG 2' virus out there, so do not install these fake-keys. Thank to the person that send the archive to Jan Erik Olausen, and to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for the first test of this virus.« (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 01. Aug. 2001, 14:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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