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27.Mar.2001
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Software News
GoldEd Studio 6 SP 17 CD
Dietmar Eilert, author of this genius editor, offers a small stock of GoldED Studio 6 SP 17 CDs at a special price. This version fully upgradeable.

REBOL/Core 2.5
Version 2.5 of REBOL/Core is now released for Amiga and AmigaDE, it contains hundreds of improvements and bugfixes.

Tales of Tamar
The chronicle of the year 75 of the online game Tales of Tamar is now available.

Audiomaster2k
Frank Fenn provides version 0.65 of his MUI sample-editors Audiomaster2k for download.The program is shareware, you can not save with the demo version. Download: audiomaster2k.lha - 274 kb

Ico-datatype V43.5
Version 43.5 of Stephan Rupprecht's ICO-datatype is ready for download. Download: IcoDT.lha - 17 kb

MorphOS software
More and more software is ported to MorphOS. Now SoX (Sound exchange) V12.17.1 and NcFTP V2.4.3 are available for download.

Report+ V4.4
Report+ is one of these small but very useful programs that makes things easier for the user. With Report+ you can create in a simple way bug reports, Aminet readme-files, documentations, and similar reports. The program is freeware and is based upon ReAction and GadTools. Download: report.lha - 350 kb

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27.Mar.2001
AmiBench


AmiBench Needs Beta Testers
AmiBench, the international Amiga blackboard is looking for beta testers for a new version. If you are interested to test the new scripts, please subscribe to the AmiBench-betatest-mailinglist.

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27.Mar.2001
AIO


AIO #45 Released
Issue 45 of the online magazine 'AIO'(Amiga Information Online) is released. Still authors for articles and reviews are wanted. Download: AIOV45.lha

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27.Mar.2001
clixnet


New Virus Menaces Internet
In America experts are warning of a new virus, which uses a security leak of the server software 'Bind'. The worm can disconnect complete networks from the Internet and makes websites non-reachable.

Lion, so the name of the new virus, uses a leak in the software 'Bind', used almost on every Linux domain name server. The software controls the coupling of IP and real address.

In the last two days the quantity of attacks has risen about 500%. But only 1/10 of companies have taken countermeasures. The virus sends password and other information to an email address in China.

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27.Mar.2001
Andreas Kürzinger via eMail


Full Release of AKIconzGold
The Full Release of my icon collection AKIconzGold is now availble from my homepage and in a few days fom Aminet. The collection contains about 300 icons, most of them are game icons, like in AKIconz 1-4.

Description:
The icons are drawn in up to 32 colours, based upon an enhanced MWB/RomIcons/BNSM/Bicons palette. Because they are no New-/GlowIcons they do not need the NewIcons patch nor OS3.5+ but a predefined colour palette for the Workbench.

The preferences for this palette are explained in detail in the now contained guide and gives no disadvantages at all - and is especially for LowSpec-User (030, no gfx board) a colourful (and completely MWB/RomIcons/BNSW/Bicons compatible) alternative to New-/GlowIcons.

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27.Mar.2001
Michael Heider at the ANF


SuSE Linux PPC 7.1 Availble from April
On 23.03.2001 on the homepage of SuSE was announced that SuSE Linux PPC 7.1 is available. You can order online or by telephone at SuSE. Deliveries will begin in April said a spokesman. Like for the previous versions, I will create an installation manual for Amiga and announce it here in the amiga-news.

At this point I want to ask coders and users (testers) about a software project i want to start. This project is about the Mac emulator (PPC) "MacOnLinux", that is available for Macs with LinuxPPC. The aim of the project is to port this Mac emulator to Linux-APUS systems. So I just want to know if there is interest from coders and users.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to me. Please let me know then if you have good knowledge of C and C++ programming for Linux, but all other users are welcome, too. I will inform all of you that are interested the progress of this project so far.

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27.Mar.2001
Ch. DZ at the ANF


TECHNODATABASE00 + DPIXELS CD-ROM Updated
TECHNODATABASE00, 100% Amiga CD-ROM, made with Scala and filled with Techno (400 MB demos, gfx, texts, and music software).

DPIXELS (Compilation of amiga-made creations and utilities) was updated.

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26.Mar.2001
Kai Stegemann on ANF


Server Moving, New Videos Online
`Amiga - The Site` moved to a new server. The new videos are already available. The new colors should make the navigation more easy. The videos are now situated in a special area of the download side.

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26.Mar.2001
Bill Borsari via E-Mail


UGN @ Amiga 2001
The UGN is happy to present live audio, webcam and ICQ from the Amiga St Louis show 2001! This is only possible with the help of Amiga Inc, Amiga St Louis, NovaDesign, National Capital Amiga Users Group and AudioLabs. The planned start time of the webcast will begin Saturday March 31st at 11:00 AM CST (GMT -6) and will end on Sunday April 1st at 5 PM CST. We hope to bring the top amiga personalities through the power of the internet right your Amiga so you can ask the important questions.

How it will work is the UGN staff will get a guest from the show floor and bring them to the UGN booth. Amigan's at home will be able to see the guest through the webcam and listen to guest speak over the internet with shoutcast technology. You can ask questions with ICQ and listen to the answers live over the internet.

Please visit the UGN website at http://ugn.amiga.org for more information. If you have any further questions or comments please email tekmage@amiga.org.

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26.Mar.2001
Sebastian Bauer on ANF


New SimpleMail Alpha Version
New features of the SimpleMail 0.5 alpha:
  • mail preselection before downloading
  • redesign of the reading-window
  • if possible the mails will be send by using 8bit mime
  • button pictures will not reloaded every time
  • support for the SimpleMail User Gallery
  • Bug Fixes


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26.Mar.2001
UAE Discussion Board (ANF)


UAE-JIT/Linux Source Snapshot
A new patch for the Just-In-Time compiler for linux UAE is available at the title link.

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26.Mar.2001
Jens Schoenfeld on ANF


individual Computers at the Gateway Amiga Show 2001
individual Computers will attend the Gateway Amiga Show in St. Louis. Beside the well known products we will present the new prototype of the VarIO zorro-board, the successor of Hypercom.

The new software system by Thore Böckelmann - that replaces HyperIO and Silversurfer.device - will bring new features even to owners of Silversurfer or Goldsurfer.

In co-operation with Cloanto Software - producer of `Amiga Forever` - we will present a Catweasel for the ISA-bus. This offers the possibility to read Amiga floppies with your PC. Furthermore there will be a seminar about the hardware design of Zorro-2-boards.

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25.Mar.2001
amiga.org


Sharp to Use Java Technology in Devices for User Convenience
According to an article at Blomberg.com, Sharp (also manufacturing currently the Zaurus PDAs) will use PersonalJava of the TAO Group in a series of Zaurus PDA devices.

In an article by Golem "Sharp brings Linux-PDA to germany in summer" however, Linux is mentioned as OS for the Zaurus-PDAs.

This is interesting since many are speculating currently (however not confirmed) that the OS used by Sharp could be the new AmigaDE.

More news about the subject:
The Register: Sharp to beat Palm with Linux, Java - official

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25.Mar.2001
Brad Webb via E-Mail


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    Y A C A S   -   M A T H   P R O G R A M   A V A I L A B L E

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 We're almost to the Amiga 2001 show in Saint Louis, USA, and all the
news that has been hinted at. It's hard to believe it could contain as
much earth shattering news as we'd all like, but we do expect some
significant announcements there. We hope a number of our readers can
join us at the show for whatever news will be revealed.
 If you do make it to the show, please be sure to say "hi" if you get
the chance. We'll be there through the entire show, and hope to have a
chance to talk to many of you.
 In the meantime, there's lots of news in the Amiga community to bring
you with this issue. There seem to be changes everywhere, especially
in the software arena, and some interesting changes on the marketing
side of the community as well. This includes saying good-bye to yet
another long-time Amiga supporter.

THENDIC "SMARTBOY" THE ONE ... ?

 There has been a lot of talk on the Net lately about a German
manufacturer bringing out a PDA which uses Amiga DE. Looks like that
company may be Thendic. Here's part of a Thendic press release that
has shown up recently on some sites:

 "With the launch of SmartBoy Thendic will realise a quantum leap. The
b2b version is launched today, a consumer version will be ready for
distribution at the end of 2001. This product will be marketed under
the label of Amiga DE. Thendic secured the rights for this name
recently."

 Thendic`s other product CashBoy will be marketed aggressively in
2001. The CashBoy so far used in Spain, Netherlands, Austria, Turkey,
Brazil and Argentina will be distributed in Asia and USA"

 If this proves to be true, we'll be among those first in line to
purchase one - but only if (brace yourselves for this) it can
synchronize data with a (it really hurts to say this) Windows PC. Why
on earth would we want that? Because, truth be told, a PDA is of very
limited use to most people unless you can use it as an extension of
your business desk top computer. If it can't do that, it won't survive
long.
 I suppose there may be a future for one that can link to Linux
computers or "Star Office", but it's not as likely at the present
time.
 Look at it this way - if it can sync with Windows machines, it
becomes one way to get Windows users to use something Amiga and maybe
learn about a better way to do computing. And if it can link to
Windows, then it can be made to link to your Amiga DE or Amiga Classic
desktop also, just as has been done with Palm Pilots.

LINK TO SUPPORT ST. LOUIS SHOW

 There's still some time to help promote the Amiga 2001 show in Saint
Louis if you have a web page and haven't already gotten "into the
act". This promises to be a show with very important annoucements for
the Amiga community, as we mentioned above .
 If you have an Amiga web page, you can help support the show, and
keep it growing. Clicking on the following link will download an
archive containing a jpeg and sample html code which you can add to
your page. These will establish a link to the show's web site, and
allow Amigans to easily get information on the show. You can see them
in action on the "Amiga Update" links page. Use this URL to download
the archive:

http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/stl.lha

 Please consider adding this link to your web page, as a contribution
to the Amiga Community.
 Those of you involved with other key Amiga shows, please let us know
if you'd like "Amiga Update" to help you distribute similar archives
of links for your shows. We're here to support the Community.
 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:

12 March, 2001

 I was wondering if any of your readers might have a copy of the
colorgadget.library that came with MathVision? I own a legitimate copy
of the program but I deleted the library by mistake & have no backup.
I've tried on more than one occasion to contact the owners of the
MathVision website (www.olympus.net/personal/7seas/7seas.html), but
they never respond to my e-mails. I will happily supply my serial
number to anyone, proving that I own the program (if necessary).

 Thanx in advance,
 Jim
~~~~~~
If anyone knows where Jim could get a legal copy of
colorgatdget.library, please contact us and we'll put him in touch
with you.
 Thanks,
 Brad

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21 Feb 2001
Hi Brad!

 ADUG is a regional User Group, acting as an umbrella organisation and
is open to all members of the Amiga community who reside in Australia
or New Zealand (Australasia)

  -  hence the name Amiga Downunder

 I am Secretary of ADUG, and one of three Australian members of the
Amiga Advisory Council (AAC), and I have long admired your site as a
no-nonsense provider of Amiga news. Consequently, I would like to
direct my ADUG Members to your site for news of, and about, the Amiga
via a link on ADUG's News page (if that's alright by you), but I noted
your comment recently that as there is a paucity of such news, you may
not be publishing your newsletter so often.

 I hope this will not always be so, as I do believe that Bill and his
team are on the right track (both in their push with the Amiga DE and
their continued support of the Classic) and I certainly look forward
to your coverage of the St Louis Amiga Show at the end of March.

 The purpose of this email is to ask whether you could put something
about ADUG on Amiga Update which will direct people who live in
Australia and New Zealand to our site.

 Something like "For more detailed information about the Amiga and the
Amiga community in Australia and New Zealand, check ut Amiga Downunder
UG Inc, the regional User Group for those living `downunder." ...

  ... using "Amiga Downunder UG  Inc" as the link to
http://www.amigadownunder.org?

Check us out.  We'd be very grateful  :))

Best wishes
__
Basil Flinter
Secretary
 <== ADUG - bringing the Australasian Amiga community together ==>
              - the Amiga User Group for All Australasians -
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Basil,
 Thanks for writing - it's always a pleasure to hear from you, and
others who keep Amiga user groups running around the world for that
matter. I thought I'd run part of your letter, as you put your case in
the best words possible and your enthusiasm for the group clearly
shows.
 Readers who live in that part of the planet and who haven't checked
out ADUG owe it to themselves to do so. Help keep this great group
functioning and a strong part of the community.
 We've added an ADUG link to our "Amiga Update" archive site links
page, so those who stop by can find a quick way there.
 Brad
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            A   R E Q U E S T   F R O M   A M I G A

30 Dec 2000

{Didn't see this until just recently. Those in non-English speaking
nations, please forward to any local Amiga clubs you can. Thanks!
Brad}

 If you are a member of an Amiga user group, please go to the
following link to sign your group up.

http://www.amigadev.net/index.php?sid=&subpage=usergroups

Also, can some of you please pass this post to non-English speaking
Amiga newsgroups, web sites,  and publications as well?

Sincerely,
--

Gary Peake
Director - Developer Relations and Support
Amiga Inc.
http://www.amigadev.net
http://www.amiga.com
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   A M I G A   P R O F E S S I O N A L S   A S S O C I A T I O N

26 February, 2001

 In just a few days the Amiga 2001 show will begin in St. Louis. It
will also herald the formation of the Amiga Professionals Association
(APA) - a group formed to serve ALL Amiga professionals; developers,
resellers, publishers and more.

 The first meeting of the APA will be hosted by Kermit Woodall and
will be Friday evening. The meeting is open to all current
professionals in the Amiga market. Topics discussed will include
mutual cooperation, the Amiga market and the Amiga itself! Other
topics are welcome as well.

 There are no admission fees for the meeting of course, and all
developers are strongly urged to be sure they attend. You won't want
to miss this meeting!

Full information on the Amiga 2001 show follows.

Kermit Woodall

Two day admission (Sat. & Sun.)............... $17 ($20 at door)
One day admission (Sat. or Sun.).............. $12 ($15 at door)
Banquet-Petro ROAST & Bill McEwen speaks...... $35 (advance only)

Class tickets sold at show.
Friday is the Developers Conference - Tickets at door.

Please mail your check or money order, in U.S. funds, for tickets to
Amiga2001 and the banquet Saturday evening to this address:

Amigan-St. Louis
c/o Amiga2001
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
U.S.A.

 For hotel reservations, call the Sheraton West Port - Chalet Hotel at
191 West Port Plaza Drive, in St. Louis, MO. at: 314-878-1500. You
must call between 8 am - 10:30 pm CST Monday thru Friday. Ask for the
reservation desk and tell them that you are going to Amiga2001 so that
you get your discount. If you call at any other hours or on weekends,
you will not be able to get ahold of the hotels reservation desk and
the people answering will not know about the Amiga2001 show. So please
call between 8 am - 10:30 pm CST, Monday - Friday.

 The web page http://www.amiga-stl.com is updated, and the prize page
is up. More will be added later, so stay tuned.

Best Regards,

Bob Scharp
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       A M I G A   L E G E N D S   A T   S T .   L O U I S

24 Mar 2001

Amigans,

 Yes, it's true. Not only is Dave Haynie attending the Amiga2001 show,
but now we learn that Leo Schwab another Amiga legend is also
attending Amiga2001.

 Leo Schwab and Dave Haynie are both legends in the Amiga community.
Let's all make them feel welcome.

 If you haven't made up you mind about attending Amiga2001, the
largest Amiga computer show in the Americas, now is the time to do so.
Don't miss this chance to meet some of the finest people in the
computer industry... Amigans.

Best Regards,
Bob

Best Regards,

Bob Scharp,
bscharp@icon-stl.net

Amigan-St. Louis
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
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         C H A N G E S   T O   F R E E   A M I G A   J O B S

 Köln/Erkrath, Germany, 02-Mar-2001 - In April 2000 the team of
amiga-news.de and AMIGAplus founded "Free Amiga Jobs", the free online
employment agency for the Amiga market, filling over fifty jobs in all
fields since its birth and making new Amiga projects possible.

 On March 1st, 2001, we changed the strucure of Free Amiga Jobs.
Employers may now feed their jobs into the new, powerful databank
directly, while employees may search for an appropriate job offer
filling out several search criterias. Furthermore, this online job
agency is of course still free of charges for both employers and
employees.

 "Free Amiga Jobs" is located in the World Wide Web at
"http://www.amiga-news.de/cgi-bin/jobs-db.pl", but may also be
navigated to from the websites "http://www.amigaos.de" or
"http://www.amiga-news.de".
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        J U N O   U S U R P S   Y O U R   C O M P U T E R

Opinion
By Brad Webb

 The huge ISP company Juno has recently changed their Terms of Service
to include conditions that should cause most computer users to think
several times before signing up with them. Here's an excerpt from the
actual terms of their agreement:

 2.5. You expressly permit and authorize Juno to

 (i) download to your computer one or more pieces of software (the
"Computational Software") designed to perform computations, which may
be unrelated to the operation of the Service, on behalf of Juno (or on
behalf of such third parties as may be authorized by Juno, subject to
the Privacy Statement),

 (ii) run the Computational Software on your computer to perform and
store the results of such computations, and

 (iii) upload such results to Juno's central computers during a
subsequent connection, whether initiated by you in the course of using
the Service or by the Computational Software as further described
below ... you agree not to take any action to disable or interfere
with the operation of ... any component of the Computational Software.

 You agree that, as between you and Juno, you shall be responsible for
any costs or expenses resulting from the continuous operation of your
computer, including without limitation any associated charges for
electricity, and that you shall have sole responsibility for any
maintenance or technical issues that might result from such continuous
operation.

 You agree that, as between you and Juno, Juno shall have sole rights
to the results of any computations performed by the Computational
Software, including without limitation any revenues or intellectual
property generated directly or indirectly as a result of such
computations, without further compensation to you. ...[Y]ou expressly
permit and authorize Juno to initiate a telephone connection from your
computer to Juno's central computers using a dial-in telephone number
you have previously selected for accessing the Service ... you agree
that, as between you and Juno, you shall be responsible for any costs
and expenses (including without limitation any applicable telephone
charges) resulting from the foregoing ... You agree that you will not
attempt to reverse engineer any such software, data, or other
materials or transfer or disclose any such software, data, or other
materials, or the results of any such computations, to any third
party.

 You acknowledge that your compliance with the requirements of this
Section 2.5 may be considered by Juno to be an inseparable part of the
Service, and that any interference with the operation of the
Computational Software (including, but not limited to, any failure to
leave your computer turned on at all times) may result in termination
or limitation of your use of the Service.


 All these words boil can be summarized in a few disturbing points.
First, you allow Juno to use your computer for whatever it wishes,
whenever it wishes to use it. You are not allowed to discover what
Juno is doing with your computer. You have to leave your computer
powered up and accessible at all times in case Juno wants to use it.
You pay to have the results of their use sent to them by e-mail. If
anything happens to your computer along the way, that's no concern of
theirs and you can do nothing about it.
 The only good we can find in this at "Amiga Update" is to assume
there may be a laugh or two at Juno's expense the first time they try
to run anything on an Amiga. We bet they have no idea what one is, and
if we're lucky maybe they don't even allow Amigas to connect. Even if
they do, we don't think we'd be interested in taking the risk.
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      S C H A T Z T R U H E   G M B H   T O   G T I   G M B H

Waldshut-Tiengen/Essen, 26th February 2001

 GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH has been active as
distributor for Amiga software since 1987 and supplies a worldwide
network of dealers. Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe Gesellschaft für
Software mbH has been one of the leading publishers of Amiga
productivity software for over than 13 years. The two companies have
co-operated closely and successfully since 1994 and have contributed
to the lasting establishment of the CD-Rom medium within the Amiga
software market.

 With effect from 1st March 2001, both companies have agreed to
intensify their co-operation further, with GTI Gmbh taking over the
operating business of Schatztruhe GmbH. All publishing activities of
Schatzruhe will be re-located to Waldshut-Tiengen and continued in
undiminished scale as a business division of GTI GmbH.

 The change will be handled as simply as possible for customers,
suppliers, and other business partners of Schatztruhe GmbH, only
contact information being changed to the following as from the 1st
March 2001 :

Schatztruhe
GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH
Weihergasse 5
79761 Waldshut-Tiengen
Germany

Telephon:
Telephon: +49-(0)700 - 70 60 50 40
Telefax : +49-(0)201 - 426 00 00

Internet:
   amiga@schatztruhe.de (General Enquiries & Orders)
   support@schatztruhe.de (Technical Support)

http://www.schatztruhe.de/


 Schatztruhe will continue to publish high-quality Amiga software at
attractive prices. A number of new products are already in preparation
for 2001.
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       N A T I O N A L   A M I G A   I S   A L I V E   . . .

28 February, 2001

 National Amiga has not gone bankrupt, has not been bought out by a PC
chain, and has not been abducted by aliens. There have been rumours
floating around for quite some time that National Amiga had bitten the
dust as far as Amiga retail was concerned. Simply not true! The
website has had intermittent connectivity due to a combination of site
upgrades, hardware shuffles, and problems with the broadband internet
provider. The latest incarnation of the website should be up shortly
at www.nationalamiga.com... at the present time it is sub-beta and
still very much under development, but the contact information on the
page is still the same. You see "Archtech Computers" on the banner...
Arch Computer Technology has been the parent company of National Amiga
for many, many years. Similarly, they've been doing multiplatform
retail and service for a very long time. That hasn't changed!
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            . . .   B U T   W O N D E R   I S   G O N E

Press Release - February 23, 2001

 Magma Communications steps in to provide Internet access and email to
 clients of Wonder.ca

 Ottawa, Ontario, February 23, 2001 - Magma Communications Ltd. today
announced that it has agreed to provide Internet access and hosting
services to the customer base of Wonder.ca - an Internet division of
Wonder Computers. Wonder Computers ceased business operations
yesterday. {Wonder Computers had been a long-time Amiga supplier.
Brad}

 The arrangement will ensure that Wonder.ca's 750 customers continue
to receive Internet services. Magma has agreed to honor Wonder.ca's
existing client arrangements.

 "Magma is a recognized leader in the Ottawa and Canadian Internet
communities," said AJ. Byers, Magma's Chief Operating Officer. "Magma
felt a responsibility to step in and help make sure that people
weren't left without their Internet and email access."

 "Within an hour of learning Wonder was going to cease operations,
Magma had determined that it would act to ensure that Wonder.ca's
customers would have continued access to the Internet and email
through Magma," stated Mr. Byers.

 Wonder.ca clients are encouraged to call Magma's customer service
group at (613) 228-3565 to re-activate their accounts. Magma's
technical staff is working around the clock with various Internet
organizations to ensure that there is minimal disruption to
Wonder.ca's clients.

 Magma Communications is Ottawa's leading full-service Internet
Company and employs over 140 people. Founded in 1995, Magma is a
privately owned firm that specializes in providing reliable, High
Speed Internet service throughout Ontario and Quebec. Services include
residential and corporate Internet access, custom web solutions, and a
full range of website and server hosting services. Visit: www.magma.ca
for more details or contact AJ Byers at (613) 228-3565.
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               A S I M W A R E   T O   I O M E G A

 ROY, Utah, March 1, 2001 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global
leader in data management solutions, today announced that it has
acquired the software product line of Asimware Innovations Inc., a
Canadian developer of CD-RW software technology, as an investment in
Iomega's rapidly growing software solutions business.

 "We're pleased to announce this acquisition, which builds additional
core competencies in software needed for the next stage of growth at
Iomega," said Bruce Albertson, president and chief executive officer,
Iomega Corporation. "This acquisition is expected to make tangible
contributions to our software and CD-RW product lines this year."

 Under the agreement, the Asimware software engineering team will
immediately join Iomega's software division. In the fourth quarter of
2001, Iomega expects to introduce full-featured optical drive software
which includes a unique "skins" technology that enables users to
customize the look and feel of their software.

 "Iomega's strategy is to build a broad software business that
supports our existing hardware platforms and generates new stand-alone
retail software products," said Germaine Ward, senior vice president,
software and e-business, Iomega Corporation. "The addition of Asimware
technology and programming expertise fits perfectly into that
strategy. By combining our software competencies, our aim is to create
distinct competitive advantages in our already successful CD-RW
product line as well as contribute new products to our newly developed
portfolio of software products for sale."

 Iomega expects to offer new software using Asimware technology in
future CD-RW software bundles that will be available in the retail
channel. Iomega's current CD-RW software bundles include Roxio, Inc.'s
Easy CD CreatorTM and DirectCDTM software for Windows® PCs, and
ToastTM software for Macintosh® computers.
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        P A U L   N O L A N   O N L I N E   S T O R E

 San Diego, CA.-March 20, 2001- Paul Nolan Software Inc. is pleased to
announce the launch of the Photogenics eStore,
http://photogenics.beyond.com, and the official launch of Photogenics
5.0 for the Amiga, and for the first time, Linux and Windows.
Photogenics 5.0 is now available for immediate purchase and download
via Beyond.com's electronic software delivery technology.

 "Our top priority is to provide our customers with an outstanding
online purchasing experience, which means making it easier for them to
find, buy and receive our products," said Paul Nolan, CEO of Paul
Nolan Software. "Beyond.com's expertise in e-commerce, merchandising,
marketing, and customer service made them the right choice to build
and manage our online store."

 For those unfamiliar with the product, Photogenics is an exciting new
graphics package, delivering unprecedented levels of creativity,
freedom, and flexibility. For a full list of features, please visit
the links below.

 For existing users of Photogenics 4.x, a free upgrade to the Amiga
version of 5.0 is available for download. Customers wishing to
cross-grade from the Amiga version of Photogenics to the Linux or
Windows version may do so at a discounted price for a limited time by
following the links below:

Amiga to Windows cross-grade:

http://photogenics.beyond.com/AF78328-xgrade/Product/
0,1057,3-22-SN107521,00.
html

Amiga to Linux cross-grade

http://photogenics.beyond.com/AF78328-xgrade/Product/
0,1057,3-22-BD70329,00.html

Additional Links:

Photogenics eStore: http://photogenics.beyond.com
Paul Nolan Software Inc.: http://www.PaulNolan.com
Beyond.com: http://www.beyond.com
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                 E L B O X   O N   M E D I A T O R

16 March, 2001

After six months of continuous distribution of Mediator PCI it must
be admitted that Mediator PCI has appeared to be a real hit
on Amiga market. Huge and still increasing number of Mediator users
have an opportunity to appreciate how significantly the
possibilities of the computer have grown due to introduction
of PCI standard cards to Amiga.

Our next step, which is about to take place, is to allow Mediator's
users to extend the computer with the new excellent turbo card
fitted to Mediator PCI busboard - SharkPPC G3/G4.

Those who fail to accept this marvellous product with respect
that should undoubtedly be given concerning its design, try
to underestimate its unquestionable worth by spreading not
true rumour about Mediator. In order to make this situation
clear we feel obliged to answer to this rumour.

Rumour: If your jumper is set on 8MB and you have 'vertical lines'
        trashing on the screen, you may have a buggy board.

No, it is not the true.
The fact of appearing 'vertical lines' on the screen is definitely
not the result of any fault of Mediator's board.
The presence of 'vertical line' is the result of the hardware
protection, which was installed in Mediator's busboards.

In order to avoid 'vertical lines' it is enough to set the
'memory window' jumper to 4 MB according to Mediator User's Manual.

The hardware protection was designed to enable the sell
of commercial software for Mediator's busboard secured by
the hardware key, which was supposed to be available together
with that software.
After the negotiations on WOA 2000 we have changed our plans
as far as the distribution of the graphic drivers with full
hardware acceleration implemented is concerned.
As a result of this decision the protection had been removed
from the Mediators that are being sold after the 13th
December 2000.

We do not plan to offer the upgrade of the MACH chip in which
the protection is placed, as in the forthcoming days we are going
to release the software for the Mediator which enables the reaching
of full busboard's performance independently of the 'memory window'
jumper's setting.

Joanna Mildner
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department

ELBOX COMPUTER
http://www.elbox.com
Krakow, 16 March 2001
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                  G R E X   I N F O R M A T I O N

18 March, 2001

 The G-REX PCI board by DCE offers 5 PCI slots that are PCI 2.1
compatible. This allows supported standard PCI graphic cards to be
use. The picture to the left is the mid-stage prototype, the release
version will have 5 PCI-2.1 compliant slots available. A quick
overview:

 o Extremely fast PCI-Bridge-Design
 o Linear memory without bank-switching
 o Programmable via developer API using the pci library in flash-rom
 o Multi-monitor support with up to 4 graphics cards
 o Power connectors for both AT and ATX
 o DMA support for fast networking- und USB-card support

http://www.vgr.com/grex/
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                A U T O   P D F   F O R   A M I G A

{The following item was spotted on the Czech Amiga News site recently.
http://www.realdreams.cz/AMIGA/index.html Brad}

23 March, 2001

 A statement from Martina Kramer: "Macintosh has a program called
Distiller. This program converts postscript files in a certain source
directory to PDF files in an output directory. We (Amiga) have
Ghostscript to create PDF files. AutoPDF uses Ghostscript to convert
postscript files into PDF files. The nice thing about AutoPDF is that
it will monitor a given directory untill files (or just one) are
copied into it, then it will convert the file to a PDF file placing it
(and the original file) into a given destination directory. Just run
AutoPDF in the background and it will convert any postscript file
placed in the source directory automatically. However, since creating
a PDF file with Ghostscript eats up most of your processor time,
conversion will only start after 'activating' the AutoPDF window.

 The program has been uploaded to Aminet, but if you want to try it
NOW... Hope it is as helpfull for you as it is for us..."
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       D I G I   B O O S T E R   P R O   A D D   O N   C D

3 March, 2001

 Today we are releasing the Digi Booster Pro Add On CD-ROM. The CD is
a collection of high quality samples, modules and programs for Amiga
computers. It was designed for everyone busy with making any kind of
music. Digi Booster Pro is the main program for use with this
collection. It can edit and play all the samples, modles, mp3's found
on this CD. {This short item didn't give information on obtaining the
CD. Contact Amiga dealers for more information. Brad}
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      F O R M A L D I H Y D   2 . 2   I S   A N N O U N C E D

10 March, 2001

 FormAldiHyd is a driver intended for the Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310
graphic tablet and WacomIV compatible tablets. I bought a MD 9310 in
summer 2000, but have been too lazy to write a driver until November
2000. German speaking people are proposed to spell the name of this
software as "From-Aldi-Hütt'" ;)

 This program has been out some time now and has proven to be stable.

It works with:
- AipTek HyperPen 6000 (maybe other boards aswell, still unconfirmed).
- Aldi/Medion MD 9310 and Aldi/Tevion LT 9310.
- Wacom IV compatible (PenPartner etc.) (experimental)
- Sumagraphics compatible boards (unconfirmed).

 Starting with V2.2 it finally works with MFC and IOBlix serial ports!

 This is probably the only tablet driver that correctly works with all
known (MUI) applications and at the same time has full pressure
support.

 Some portions of the code have been ported from the xf86HyperPen.c
source by Roland Jansen <roland@lut.rwth-aachen.de> and Christian
Herzog <daduke@dataway.ch>, who has taken over development of
xf86HyperPen.c.

 The experimental WacomIV support has been ported from the xf86Wacom.c
source by Frederic Lepied <Fredric.Lepied@sugix.frmug.org>.

Short list of features:

 - Comes both as CLI-only/WB (no GUI) and MUI version.

 - Works with Tevion MD 9310 and AipTek HyperPen 6000. Probably works
with other boards aswell (SummaGraphics compatible?).

 - Can be run either in 9600 or 19200 baud mode.

 - Supports pressure, which can be scaled to your requirements (e.g.
with ArtEffect).

 - Versatile support of the functions keys at top of the tablet.

 - Can play sounds on button presses to make clicks audible.

 - Supports a threshold value for the left mouse button.

 - Middle and right mouse button can be swapped for stylus.

 - Mouse and Stylus can use different active areas.

 - Mouse can be used in relative mode. A mode for left handed people
is also available.

 - Automatic detection of stylus and mouse.

 - Tablet orientation can be changed by swapping x and y coordinates.

 - Lots of different resolution can be chosen (up to 3048 LPI!).

 - Fully compatible with MUI applications.

 - Even works with low level software that reads the input events
directly (Cinema4D, MagicMenu, etc.)

Usage
~~~~~

There are two different programs for you to choose:

 FormAldiHyd - tablet driver with MUI interface (interactive) Formalin
- CLI only/Workbench version (argument/ToolTypes driven)

Pressure support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Now this is a sad story. I've done everything the AutoDocs say, but
neither TVPaint, XIPaint nor Photogenics 2 seem to support the
Intuition NEWTABLET messages and therefore readout the pressure value.
ArtEffect however, supports it in various ways (try out 'Tablet:
Intuos' or 'Accupoint').

 Please send me an email if you use this program. Thanks to those who
have done so already.

Future
~~~~~~
Here's a list of stuff that is planned for the next releases:

 - Gamma corrected pressure instead of linear scaling?

 - Adding some functionality to the middle mouse button.

 - Try out if old OS 2.x TABLET messages might help for other
applications pressure support.

 - tablet.library emulation for DPaint pressure support? If anyone has
docs on this library, please send them it!

Contact address
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Any mail, comments or donations welcome:

Chris Hodges                    Account: 359 68 63
Kennedystr. 8                   BLZ    : 700 530 70
D-82178 Puchheim                Bank   : Sparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck
Germany
Tel.: +49-89/8005856            WWW: http://www.platon42.de/
Email: hodges@in.tum.de         IRC: platon42 on EfNet
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           N E W   V E R S I O N   P E R F E C T   P A I N T

 What's New ? V2.5 - March 2001

 Add AppIcon

 - Drop one file, Pfpaint will ask you if you want to load the file as
a picture, brush or anim.

 - Drop several files, and PfPaint will create an anim.

 Improve Undo:

 - Entirely Rewritten

 - add a Real Redo

 - Add Prefs

 little bug corrected with 'Adjust levels'

 Last Jpeg.library is used.

 bug fix with effectbrush and picasso96

 Improve Edit mask: 'Pick color' now have tolerance.

 New Arrex Commands

          pp_GetCurrentFrame
          pp_GetCurrentBuffer
          pp_GetCurrentBrush

          pp_FindEmptyBuffer
          pp_FindEmptyBrush

          pp_SetBuffer
          pp_ClearCurrentBuffer

          pp_AnimGui

 You can have ten buffers, each buffer can have a picture or an anim,
with different depth.

 Improve Scaling anim picture, and scaling anim window

 Improve animation storage: RAM or HD (you can also select a path for
the storage.)

http://gothic.fr.free.fr/amiga/new.html
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     Y A C A S   -   M A T H   P R O G R A M   A V A I L A B L E

22 March, 2001

 Math program like MatLab, v1.0.45 -MorphOS- Author: Fr3dY
(fr3dy@retemail.es) Uploader: Fr3dY (fr3dy@retemail.es) Type:
misc/math Yacas (Yet Another Computer Algebra System) is a small and
highly flexible general-purpose computer algebra language. The syntax
uses a infix-operator grammar parser. The distribution contains a
small library of mathematical functions, but its real strength is in
the language in which you can easily write your own symbolic
manipulation algorithms. Fr3dY

http://www.morphos.de/meanmachine/files/Fr3dY/yacas-mos1045.readme
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25.Mar.2001
Richard H. Poser II via E-Mail


AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9411 Released
The new betaversion 0.9411 of AmigaAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga, is available for download at the usual place.

Here the original message:
AmigAIM 0.9411 Beta (24 Mar 2001)
  • This is a rather small update, compared to what is actually operational (or partially operational) in my latest unreleased version, which will probably never be publicly released, as a complete rewrite is in progress
  • Instant Messages are now sent to the server in V4 format. (shouldn't even be a noticeable change)
  • System login to Server now uses Version 4.1 protocol, this means that the password is now sent using a new protocol which encodes the password before being sent to the server (using an MD5 Hashing scheme), therefore increasing the security during system login.

NOTE: As mentioned on the Mailing List, this will probably be the last release for quite a while, as I started rewriting the entire program from scratch about a week ago

BTW: As of my last internal release before starting the rewrite, I had worked out and implemented several items. File transfer, search by common interest, selection of common interests to send to server for your own profile, etc... Hopefully, all these items will also be implemented in my rewrite :-) - In the last operational internal version, the file transfer code has so many bugs it was deemed easier to rewrite the whole program.

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25.Mar.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert via E-Mail


ak-Datatypes Updates
In the support area of Andreas R. Kleinert's website you can find updates to the following datatypes:

akJFIF - akPNG - akTIFF and akNAIL

The datatypes are as usual available for download in different CPU-versions.

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25.Mar.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail


CD32 Games Install Kit v4.2 NG Released
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.2 NG has been released on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage. Now more Games (for example: Denis) can be installed and there are other, minor improvements, amongst others the use of OS3.9. As all 4.x versions of the CD32 Games Install Kits this version can also only be used and installed by owners of the 'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM'. Those who own a valid registration code may immediately have access to the update in the matching section oh the Airsoft Softwair Homepage.

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25.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
DopJoin.lha          biz/dopus    3K+Join files with DirectoryOpus 4.xx. V1.0
Babelfish.lha        comm/irc     3K+Use babelfish from AmIRC/Shell
GoPortscan.lha       comm/net    93K+V0.1 TCP Portscanner with MUI interface
TaskiSMS_PL.lha      comm/tcp   180K+Polish catalog & documentation for Taski
ApacheMI.lha         comm/www    79K+GlowIcons for Apache Servers
showurl.lha          comm/www    19K+Showurl (program for shell to show url i
srh-vis.lha          demo/ecs   192K+SRH - Vision - **
Syn_darkeye.exe      demo/ecs    59K+Synabytes DaRKeYE **
srh-2day.lha         demo/intro 139K+SRH 2-Day Intro **
srh_love.lha         demo/intro  11K+Social Disease BBS **
syn_sg.lha           demo/intro  52K+Synabytes Sysop Greetro **
Syn_xatari.exe       demo/intro 136K+Synabytes Ex-Atari **
obligement25.lha     demo/mag   729K+Obligement #25 - Famous FRENCH fanzine !
SCL_MS2001Inv.lha    demo/mag   314K+Secretly! - MS2001 Party Invitation
up-ep007.lha         demo/sound 1.6M+UP ROUGH "Another Day EP" feat. Skope
STRPortLib.lha       dev/basic    5K+STRPortLib V1.2  BB2 hardware commands
FD2Pragma.lha        dev/misc   139K+V2.122 create pragma, inline, ... files
GNGrabber1.0PL.lha   docs/help   11K+Polish Locale for GiambyNetGrabber 1.0
T1Engine2.0PL.lha    docs/help   13K+Polish Locale for Type1Engine2.0
Virus_CheckerP.lha   docs/help   11K+Polish Locale for Virus_CheckerII v1.1
Fireball_4a.lha      docs/mags  757K+German Entertainment Magazine
Fireball_4b.lha      docs/mags  597K+German Entertainment Magazine
PaybackDemo.lha      game/actio 2.9M+Payback playable demo (Updated)
PaybackDemoUp2.lha   game/actio 659K+Updates the Payback demo to latest versi
PaybackUpdate2.lha   game/actio 982K+Updates Payback to the latest version
Rattlesnake.lha      game/actio 674K+Beat-em-up game.
ChaosLite.lha        game/board 5.7M+World's Best Board Game! 1-8 players! Fa
AOG_15.lha           game/data  3.7M+Abode of Golgotha - Addon for Heretic II
dynSP_Style.lha      game/data   89K+SouthPark Style for dynAMIte
Hd_Lion_V_M.lha      game/patch  61K+Install_H_D_Virtual_Disk
jst.lha              game/patch 180K+JOTD Startup *FREEWARE* for HD Installs 
ruffhd.lha           game/patch  25K+HD Installer & Fix for Ruff'n'Tumble V1.
zouthd.lha           game/patch  58K+HD Installer & Fix for Z-Out V2.0
GLsokoban.lha        game/think 248K+Sokoban3D in MiniGL (PPC WarpOS Warp3D)
Win95Map_s.lha       hard/drivr   5K+Keymap for Finnish/Swedish Win95 keyboar
ps2m.lha             hard/hack   10K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 Wheel Mouse Controll
Bastards_intro.lha   mods/misc   20K+Custom module from "Bastards" intro
EnglandChamp.lha     mods/misc   50K+Custom module from "England Championship
HQC_intro.lha        mods/misc   23K+Custom module from "High Quality Crackin
VirusKillerV2.lha    mods/misc   29K+Custom module from "VirusKiller V2.0 Pro
id3taglibgui.lha     mus/edit    79K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
EP_StevBarrett.lha   mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Steve Barrett" external rep
comic.lha            pix/art    190K+Comic.pic
BAM_GIcons.lha       pix/gicon   96K+Some OS 3.5/3.9 GlowIcons
AP13Recto.jpg        pix/misc   260K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Recto
AP13Verso.jpg        pix/misc    93K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 13 Cover Verso
SpookyTheme.lha      pix/misc   501K+Spooky theme for NewInstaller
a1200raytrcd.jpg     pix/trace   97K+RayTraced pic of Amiga 1200 
ALEM_0025.lha        text/dtp   212K+ALEM's ZIPdisk template for Wordworth7
AutoPDF.lha          text/misc   18K+AutoPDF - Convert postscript files to pd
HP_Deskjet670C.lha   text/print  43K+Deskjet 670C/680C/690C Driver V40.24
HP_Deskjet870C.lha   text/print  41K+Deskjet 8x0C/9x0C Driver for WB V40.14
Next3.01.lha         text/show   83K+Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
ilbmdtPPC.lha        util/dtype   7K+Ilbmdt for the PPC, running WarpUP (45.1
wavdt41.lha          util/dtype  17K+Datatype for wave sounds 68k+WOS (41.10)
ra.lha               util/libs   78K+RA Remote Access Library (load files int
Type1Engine.lha      util/libs  493K+PostScript Type1 font engine V3.1
BAMReqAttack_e.lha   util/misc   24K+Images and Prefs-file for ReqAttack, OS 
BAMReqAttack_g.lha   util/misc   24K+Images and Prefs-file for ReqAttack, OS 
Draco060-RW.lha      util/moni    1K+SysSpeed Module - Draco060 reworked
SysInfo.lha          util/moni   50K+Gives comprehensive system information
Anno1.20.lha         util/time   23K+Reminder and calendar utility
SetDST.lha           util/time   62K+Adjusts time for Daylight Saving Time


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25.Mar.2001
codepoet.com (ANF)


Status Update for WinUAE 0.8.16
Status Update for WinUAE 0.8.16 from March 24, 2001
  • Now have "direct" mode of JIT working thanks to patches from Bernd Roesch, but this (currently) requires WinUAE to be compiled under VisualC++ instead of GCC/MinGW32, which thus breaks the bsdsocket.library emulation.
  • Now have virtual Picasso96 screens (Bernd Roesch)
  • Merged in many changes from 0.8.16 core UAE tree (Bernd Schmidt). Note: This breaks AGA sprites completely.
  • Investigating DirectSound vs. WaveOut APIs for audio output, due to SB-Live! issues.
  • Support for multiple mice being added, thanks to patches from Andreas.
  • Fixed old floppy-disk writing bugs (Toni Wilen).
  • Removed NT4 support.
  • Removed 24-bit pixels support.
  • gzip.dll support for handling .adz files (no console window popping up anymore)
  • MIDI input support (Bernd Roesch)
  • New serial-port emulation (Bernd Roesch)
  • Cleaning up source-tree in preparation for release.


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25.Mar.2001
Martin Merz in ANF


MasonIcons' Homepage Update
Some new archives have been released on the MasonIcons Homepage:
  • ApacheMI - filetype images for the ApacheServer
  • AudioMI - a toolbar for the newest version of AudioMaster 2k
  • CoolMI - a MI skin for CoolCALC
  • EvenMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for EvenMore
  • FlagsMI - a collection of flags for the Input and LocalPrefs of AmigaOS 3.9
  • PfPaintMI - an icon set for PerfectPaint
  • QuadraMI - a toolbar set for DirectoryOpusMagellan based on AppMI
  • ReqMI - icons, buttons, images and anims for ReqAttack
  • ShowMI - an image set for ShowGUI
  • WB2000MI - an image collection for Workbench2000
  • WorkOnMI - a toolbar image set for WorkOn

For more information please visit the "Projects" page on the homepage.

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24.Mar.2001
Michael Ulbrich on ANF


Forum and Guestbook at SHOPnFUN
As I am just busy with some PHP3 scripts I have put a small guest book and a forum regarding the Amiga on the Amiga page. Visits would please me, already because of the possibility to fix possible bugs.

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24.Mar.2001
Dennis Gronewold on ANF


3ivx Delta 3 Codec Released
On the 3ivx homepage the new 3ivx codec for WarpUP and 68k has been released on the 23.03.2001. The PowerUP version will follow. The codec offers the same high compression ratios as it's predecessor but the movies are played 600% faster.

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24.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF


New Review on the GFX Games Database
On the GFX games database there's again a new review. This time we have tested the WB game 'Mahjongg Tiles'. Have fun while reading.

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24.Mar.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail


Spooky Theme Released
A new theme for the NewInstaller was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. The "Spooky Theme" was made by Kevin Hansen and can be downloaded now. It requires at least NewInstaller version 1.5, which is also contained as a full version on the 'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM'.

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24.Mar.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail


Amiga Arena News
Frogger and Softcinema
Frogger and Softcinema can now be registered at a special discount price directly via Reg.net!

T.U.M.M.Y and T.U.R.R.D
The database T.U.M.M.Y for Magic trading cards and the Relais cards interface software T.U.R.R.D are only available at a special discount price until 31.03.2001!

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24.Mar.2001
ANF


TaskiSMS Version 2.5 Released
Version 2.5 of TaskiSMS is available. With this program you can send short messages (SMS) via handy across 112 countries. The new version was completely new programmed and the plugin for the SMS sending was updated. The program is now shareware. Polish localisation and documentation is also available.

You can download the demo version of TaskiSMS from the homepage via the title link or from Aminet.

Download (Aminet): TaskiSMS.lha

On Aminet there's actually only the old version for now, the new one will be ready for download in the next days.

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24.Mar.2001
Frost and Mason on ANF


ApacheMI Update
ApacheMI is now available on the Aminet. The archive contents 146 file type images for the ApacheServer and a ConfigFile. The Images have a size of 24 x 24 pixels and use the GlowIcons design. The ConfigFile was created by Frön. If you think any file type is missing please contact me.

Download: ApacheMI.lha

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24.Mar.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF


Diamond Box Review and Interview on NoRiscNoFun
You can currently find on our pages a review of the graphics program 'Diamond Box'. Matching this we also deliver an interview with the developer Nikolaj Kiær Thygesen. Have a look at the features of the program and inform yourself about this software's future by reading the interview.

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24.Mar.2001
Andreas Neumann via E-Mail


Text Viewer 'Next' version 3.01 Released
Juergen Klawitter has released version 3.01 of his text viewer "Next". The update contains first of all smaller bug fixes. You can find more information following the title link.

Download: Next3.01.lha (80 kB) and soon also from Aminet.

Besides this a new program by the "Next" programmer Juergen Klawitter will make its appearance on Aminet soon. "Anno" is an easy and intuitive to use organizer and - as "Next" already does - it comes as freeware.

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23.Mar.2001
Bob Scharp via E-Mail


Dave Haynie at the Gateway Show
Dave Haynie will attend the Amiga 2001, the Gateway Computer Show taking place on 30th May/1st April in St. Louis! At the title link, you can find a listing of all participants and exhibitors. Bob Scharp just informed us that Leo Schwab, another Amiga legend, will attend the show.

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23.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
Symphonie Pro
Author Patrick Meng announces on the Symphonie Pro website that there won't be a successor of the music composing software.
Development of SymphonieNG will be continued, but it is not an Amiga-only project. The program will be ported to as many platforms as possible.

iFusion
Blittersoft released some screenshots of the MAC emulator (PPC) 'iFusion' by Microcode Solutions.

Sourcecode of JST available
Jean-Francois Fabre made the sourcecode of his HD install program 'JST' available on his Website. JST allows the installation of games on harddisk and offers patches that improve the compatibility of games on newer Amiga systems. Download: jstsrc.lzx

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23.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF


Forum at the GFX Games Database
A forum was opened at the GFX Games Database. If somebody has questions on the topic graphics board games, wants to know which games can be redirected to graphics board modes, or just wants to chat about miscellaneous Amiga games (hints, tips, cheats, etc.) is invited to post. Also there are some new entries in the database. Have fun!

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22.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
ilbmdtPPC V45.2
Stephan Rupprecht has made version 45.2 of his datatype for ILBM pictures for PPC available for download. Download: ilbmdtPPC.lha - 7 kB

We just got the following warning from Stephan Rupprecht regarding his ilbmdt for PPC:
Version 45.2 of my ilbmdt for PPC unfortunately doesn't work with PlayCD included with AmigaOS 3.9 (crash), at the time being. Unfortunately I don't know the reason why, yet, since PlayCD crashes on my system independent from the ilbm.datatype installed.

wavdt V41.10
Version 41.10 of the Wav sound datatype comes also from Stephan Rupprecht. Download: wavdt41.lha - 17 kB

X11 Server for Amiga
Denis Spach has made available for download version 0.4 of the X11 server for Amiga, Xami. Download: xami040.lha

A/NES CGFX V1.23
Version 1.23 of A/NES, the Nintendo emulator for Amiga is available for download. Download: anescgfx.lha

HP Deskjet 670C (V40.24) and 870C (V40.14) printer drivers
On Peter's Amiga Home Page new versions of his printer drivers for HP Deskjet 670C and 870C are available. Download: HP_Deskjet670C.lha and HP_Deskjet870C.lha

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22.Mar.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail


The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM on CD32
Some users of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM informed me that the CD-ROM also boots on a CD32 and asked if I planned that. Well, the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM works on the CD32 with a nice intro indeed, but it cannot be used completely without an expansion like the SX1 or SX32. If the user has such an expansion he can use the CD-ROM completely otherwise only the intro is shown.


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22.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
YAM22src.lha         comm/mail  419K+MUI Internet mailer V2.2 (source code)
up-rulez.lha         demo/intro  18K+UP ROUGH "Ink" released at Floppy 2001
BlitzLstFeb01.lha    dev/basic   27K+Blitz mailing list archives for February
amigatalk1.7.lha     dev/lang   612K+V1.7 of AmigaTalk (Smalltalk GUI)
BattleDuel1.7P.lha   docs/help   14K+Polish Locale for BattleDuel1.7
obvious.lha          game/data  101K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
PfPaint_V251.lha     gfx/edit   433K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits (update)
a500ide.lha          hard/hack  272K+Connect IDE HDD or CDROM to A500 V1.5
zab-intruder.lha     mods/hardc 1.3M+DBM 8ch -> Zabba <- gabba 220bpm
zab-pilana.lha       mods/hardc 1.8M+DBM 8ch -> Zabba <- gabba 226bpm
mp32html.lha         mus/misc    57K+V2.93 - Converts MP3 directory to HTML.
TinyGICollectn.lha   pix/gicon   49K+GlowIcons - size doesn't matter ;-)
STNexus.jpg          pix/misc    26K+STNexus.jpg - Image Engineer Creation
CoolOS3.jpg          pix/wb     106K+Stylish WB-pic made with Perfect Paint!
MyNotes.lha          text/edit   31K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
DeTar.lha            util/arc    48K+DeTar for Amiga (68000/030) V1.3, incl. 
akPNG-dt.lha         util/dtype 230K+AkPNG-dt V44.96 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/MOS
akPNG-PPC.lha        util/dtype  80K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.96
WarpBMPdt.lha        util/dtype  45K+Windows BMP datatype V44.4 (68k,WarpOS,M
WarpDTPrefs.lha      util/dtype  23K+WarpDT preferences program V44.2
WarpJPEGdt.lha       util/dtype 109K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.18 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype 136K+PNG image datatype V44.13 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
extralib.lha         util/libs  183K+Dynamic buffer system, CRC, text, memory
afilter.lha          util/misc   87K+Flexible filetype processor and ripper
ReqAttack.lha        util/misc  628K+Best, configurable requesters for Amiga
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc   90K+RAPrefsMUI1.72, ReqAttack1.51 - ANOTHER 
VersionWB.lha        util/sys    39K+V2.16 AmigaDos Version replacement.


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22.Mar.2001
Tao Group


Tao Group and PSION Announce New Co-operation for Enterprise Sector
CeBIT, March 22nd, 2001 -- Tao Group and PSION Teklogix today announced a major new relationship to provide enterprise customers with faster and smarter JavaTM applications running on EPOC. This new development will be showcased on the PSION stand at CeBIT, Hall 19, booth D39.

Using Tao Group's innovative intent, JavaTM Java Technology Edition (JTE), developers will now be able to design and run advanced Java applications, never before possible on the EPOC platform. Enterprise applications can now run on a broader range of mobile devices, allowing faster delivery of critical business information - vital in sectors such as field services and mobile sales.

Jamie Bodley-Scott, Market Development Manager, Psion Teklogix, commented: "By developing this platform, we are recognising the vital importance that high performance Java is playing within the corporate environment. intent provides a fully SUN certified implementation of PersonalJava - significantly increasing speed, flexibility and making multi-threading a reality in the mobile enterprise arena."

Francis Charig, Chairman of Tao said: "The importance of EPOC in wireless devices is increasingly in evidence, especially in regions such as Japan. Tao is working with PSION to ensure that the very best multimedia and Java technologies will become available on EPOC-based appliances and to help drive EPOC products into future generations of digital devices."

Tao Group will be joining the PSION stand at CeBIT, Hall 19 Booth D39, from 22nd March to 28th March 2001.

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22.Mar.2001
Mirko Engelhardt on ANF


17 New Games at Amigaland
From today due to obtaining the Black Legend license 17 new games are available for free download at amigaland.de!

Weehlspin - Mega Motion - Hyperian - Kid Pool - Der Trainer - Embryo - Fatman - Football Clory (ECS und AGA-Version) - Tactical Manager - Tactical Manger 2 - Behind the Iron Gate - Der Seelenturm - Tower of Souls - XTreme Racing - Xtreme Racing 2.0 - Xtreme Racing Data Disk - Football Glory Indoor

So, have a lot of fun while downloading!

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22.Mar.2001
Thomas Steiding via E-Mail


EARTH 2140 MAC Version in Progress
EARTH 2140 for the MAC, the classic real time strategy game originally developed for the PC by Topware Interactive, since a couple of days is in progress. Start of shipping is estimated for Wednesday, April 4. Two versions of EARTH 2140 for MAC will be shipped: one completed German and an international variant with English, French, Dutch, and Italian versions. EARTH 2140 play in a world destroyed by wars and ecological disasters. The great powers remained, United Civilised States (UCS) and the Eurasian Dynasty (ED), are fighting the last war for the raw materials remained on earth. More information and a MAC demo version are to find on our homepage.

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22.Mar.2001
Horst Diebel on ANF


Big Book of Amiga Hardware Updates
  • NEW ENTRY and PICTURE Vi1di Amiga 12RT (thanks to Anthony Barbati)
  • UPDATE Surf Squirrel (Thanks to Simon West)
  • NEW ENTRY and PICTURE Super VGAMI (thanks to ZahnCreme)
  • MANUFACTURER Slingshot (thanks to Russ Norrby)
  • NEW ENTRY Deb 2000 (thanks to Russ Norrby)
  • NEW MYSTERY ITEM #8 (thanks to Wolf)
  • BIG UPDATE Inmate (thanks an Pieter Smit)
  • NEW PICTURE A1000 Motherboard (thanks to Leslie Ayling)
  • UPDATE PARalizer (thanks to Artur Gadawski)
  • NEW PICTURE SpeedCOM (thanks to Artur Gadawski)
  • NEW CLUE ITEM #7 (thanks to Jan Dwornizky)
  • NEW CLUE ITEM #6 (thanks to Jason Monk)


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22.Mar.2001
Marco Miljak on ANF


StarGATE Newsletter 03/2001-1
The brand new, entirely reworked website of StarGATE Software was finished and put online and can be accessed at http://www.stargate-software.de/.

The essential changes in very short and quickly:
  1. Entirely new (hopefully better) design.
  2. Easier to use and navigate.
  3. Main focus of the site is now exclusively the "Software" area, both for Classic Amigas and the new AmigaDE and for Java.
  4. The pages have been entirely translated into English language.
  5. StarGATE now has it's own domain.

As a matter of course some software products are available, too. Among those the initial AmigaDE programms by StarGATE. I hope you will like the new pages. Suggestions, critism, enhancement proposals, and hints of course are always welcome.

Finally some words about the software section in general: Since it is measurable that the Classic Amiga has had it's time and the new AmigaDE or AmigaOne are moving forward new developments mainly will be for the AmigaDE.

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22.Mar.2001
Oliver Roberts on ANF


WarpPSD - New Datatype for Adobe Photoshop® Pictures
The first ever datatype allowing Adobe Photoshop® image files to be viewed or read (by any program that supports loading of images via datatypes) on AmigaOS.

Handles Adobe Photoshop® 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 images - most of the available modes are supported, including 24-bit RGB, Greyscale, Monochrome, 256 colour palette-based and CMYK images. Images using RLE compression are also supported.

Optimized versions for 68020, 030, 040 and 060, and native PowerPC (WarpOS and MorphOS) versions available.

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21.Mar.2001
Mario Held on ANF


New Pre-Release Client from distributed.net
At distributed.net a new BETA version of the RC5 client v2.8014 (build 468) is available for testing purposes for all Amiga platforms. In this version percentage display is enabled, again, which didn't work in the previous version.

Download page.

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21.Mar.2001
Apex Designs


Payback Update
The second update for the game Payback is available. Several reported bugs were fixed, and new features were implemented. There also is an update available for the demo version.

A new section with extra maps for Payback has been created on the website.

Playing Payback the player takes the role of a young driver on the run trying to become a big boss of gangsters.

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21.Mar.2001
Johan Samuelsson on ANF


New UP ROUGH Music Disk Out Now!
Finally a new so-damn-fresh Up Rough EP is out! The main code is updated and supports some new cool features. The EP is called "Another Day EP" and it's packed with four groovin' house tunes by Jr Fransisco AKA Skope! Get it now!

Download: up-ep007.lha

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21.Mar.2001
Nikolaj Kiær Thygesen via E-Mail


DiamondBOX Version 1.10
Nikolaj Kiær Thygesen has created a website for his Amiga painting program 'DiamondBOX' which you can access via the title link. The program is GFX compatible and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, 8 MB of RAM, 1 MB free harddisk space, an Amiga with CPU 68020+, and of course a bit of creativity.

Download: DiamondBOX.lha

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21.Mar.2001
Jens [bruZard] Henschel on ANF


X-CELLENCE News
1.) Changes in staffing level:
Our team now exists of 10 staffers. Rico Pook took over the web design for us and we would like to cordially welcome him on this occasion.

2.) Domain:
X-CELLENCE at last could take their domain and is reachable under http://www.x-cellence.de, now.

3.) Cooperative team management:
We separated X-CELLENCE into divisions. Each of the divisions is working on their project independent from the other teams. This allows maximum of flexibility which is especially advantageous in the shrinking Amiga market.

4.) Wanted ....
Due to division of X-CELLENCE we are facing a staffing problem. We still are wanting graphicians and programmers. For those we would prefer people out of the Amiga community. Graphicians should be familiar with 2D/3D tools on AMIGA and/or PC. They would work in the divisions "GOLD" and "EAST".
I.e.: "SCR2K" (FunRacer) and "NYN" (3D ActionAdventure Shooter). We are exclusively wanting programmers for the AmigaDE. The Classic market is no longer taken into account by us.

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21.Mar.2001
Stefan Falke on ANF


SetDST V1.9
On my homepage version 1.9 of SetDST is available for download.

SetDST is a tool to automate the summer/winter time switching which takes place twice a year in many countries.

Moreover different environment variables adapted to the current time zone can be created.

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21.Mar.2001
Kåre Johansen via E-Mail


Is there a Future for 'SerialRipper'?
I need 2 get in reach of ppl that want to take over the project I'm working on.. Or WAS is a better word for it now.. The project I'm talking about is a Multi-Module/Sound ripper for Amiga..

The project goes under the name of SerialRipper.. I'm sure of there are ppl that heard of this project.. Well.. Since I have stopped developing it, I was wondering if anyone wanna continue my work on it?.. I have coded it using AmigaE (by Wouter) and Assembler.. I've been using MUIBuilder for creating MUI's for it.. U as the new coder of it, should have knowledge of coding in E and ASM.. So, if u're up to it..Please let me know.. My email are as follows: kaarej@start.no


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21.Mar.2001
Tom's Hardware Guide on ANF


Alternative: Sony Vaio with Crusoe-CPU
The Sony notebook Vaio Picturebook/C1VE comes out very innovative: it's equipped with a Crusoe CPU and an integrated camera and weighs less than two pounds. Does the notebook worth a price of 4,500DM?

Summary:
This notebook of the Sony C1V line is fast in compared to PDA and quite slow in compared to a 'real' notebook. But the price for it is placed in the notebook range where 4,500DM are not any longer a dram, meantime.

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21.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF


GFX-Base Update
The GFX-Base (database and Online/News-Magazine for games supporting graphic boards) has been strongly reworked. Besides of an enhanced graphical design there also are a game updates section, a links section, and several new entries, now. New reviews will follow shortly, too.

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20.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
aMPEG V4.61
A new version 4.61 of the akMPEG-player fom Andreas Kleinert is available for download. akMPEG4.lha

Audiomaster2k 0.64
Frank Fenn has finished version 0.64 of his MUI-Sample-Editors, which supports AHI-devices. Download: audiomaster2k.lha

PerfectPaint V2.51
Halvadjian Georges has prepared version 2.51 of PerfectPaint, the paint-, animations-, and image processing program, for download. Download: PfPaint_V251.lha

ProStationAudio V4.05
You will find version 4.05 of ProStationAudio at AudioLabs, now with native Repulse driver, better PowerPC support, New Tek Flyer support and a new keyboard shortcut, to move the mouse pointer between two monitors, if necessary. A new demo version 4.05 is available. Download page.

MorphOS News
Again for MorphOS some new programs were released. Besides of an algebra program and volume control tool 'LhA', the known UNIX packer with lh7 mode, was converted to MorphOS. Download page.

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20.Mar.2001
H&P


H&P on the Gateway Computer Show 2001
Also this year H&P will attend the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 in St. Louis, USA (March 30 thru April 1). The new StormC 4 compiler system will be presented, also there will be a seminar about it.

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20.Mar.2001
Paul Nolan via eMail


Online Shop for Photogenics 5.0
Contact:
Paul Nolan, CEO
Paul Nolan Software Inc.
619 839 3803
paul@paulnolan.com

Paul Nolan Software Launches Online Store for Photogenics 5.0 using Beyond.com's eStore technology

San Diego, CA.-March 20, 2001- Paul Nolan Software Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of the Photogenics eStore, http://photogenics.beyond.com, and the official launch of Photogenics 5.0 for the Amiga, and for the first time, Linux and Windows. Photogenics 5.0 is now available for immediate purchase and download via Beyond.com's electronic software delivery technology.

"Our top priority is to provide our customers with an outstanding online purchasing experience, which means making it easier for them to find, buy and receive our products," said Paul Nolan, CEO of Paul Nolan Software. "Beyond.com's expertise in e-commerce, merchandising, marketing, and customer service made them the right choice to build and manage our online store."

For those unfamiliar with the product, Photogenics is an exciting new graphics package, delivering unprecedented levels of creativity, freedom, and flexibility. For a full list of features, please visit the links below.

For existing users of Photogenics 4.x, a free upgrade to the Amiga version of 5.0 is available for download. Customers wishing to cross-grade from the Amiga version of Photogenics to the Linux or Windows version may do so at a discounted price for a limited time by following the links below:

Additional Links:
Amiga to Windows cross-grade
Amiga to Linux cross-grade
Photogenics eStore
Paul Nolan Software Inc.
Beyond.com


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20.Mar.2001
Bob Scharp via eMail


Amiga2001 - 1. April - Tip
Press release: Some of you have commented on our Amiga2001 show falling on April 1st. If you are not familiar, April 1st in the U.S. is called April Fools Day. A day when some pull pranks. To answer your concerns about the last day of the show being held on April 1st, all I can say is...

"The joke's on our competitors. They're going to feel like it's 1985 all over again!"

Anyone familiar with the original release of the Amiga should know how this statement applies.

See you in St. Louis in just over a week. Remember, the Banquet is going to be something special. We only have a few tickets left, so get your orders in now.

Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey

Sheraton West Port - Lakeside Chalet Hotel
St. Louis, MO. USA
Friday March 30 thru Sunday April 1, 2001

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20.Mar.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail


Over 1500 New Binary Packages for NetBSD - 1.5 for M68k Computers
John Klos and Bob Nestor have uploaded Over 1500 new binary packages for NetBSD - 1.5 for m68k computers (eg. Amiga) on the ftp server. This is the result of some month of compiling on their computers.

If someone needs more packages, but can not translate them himself due to technical problems or lack of time please contact John john@sixgirls.org.

The NetBSD-package system for third party software allows the installation of precompiled packages or self-made translations, including the management of interdependences (and specific deleting again, later, or upgrading to newer versions).

More information:
NetBSD package system
list of documented packages
direct download
NeBSD/Aiga

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20.Mar.2001
Piotr Pawlowski


Polish amiga-news.de - First Anniversary
Since one year Piotr Pawlowski and Valwit have been translating our news into Polish language. On the occasion of this anniversary we would like to say "Thank you!"

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19.Mar.2001
Eric Gillé on ANF


SelectOSv.1.1 Update
I uploaded a new update for my program SelectOS to the AMINET. SelectOS lets you choose whether to boot AmigaOS, LinuxAPUS or MorphOS at boot time with a nice GUI. The archive has the name 'SelectOSv.1.1.lha'.

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19.Mar.2001
Martin R. Elsner on ANF


Further Development of ClassAction
The multipurpose program ClassAction will be developed furthermore. After a 3 year delay Martin R. Elsner took over the development from Salim Gasmi.

At the moment the programmer is working on the porting to reaction. A first screenshot is available here. There will be a beta version soon. If you would like to be a beta-tester please send an e-mail to email@martin-elsner.de.

ClassAction is a file-manager.

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19.Mar.2001
Jens Langner on ANF


Bug Reporting for InstallerNG/AmIDE/P96Speed
Since yesterday there is a new bug reporting system for the users and developers of the software-projects InstallerNG, AmIDE and P96Speed available at the following link:

http://bugzilla.light-speed.de/

We are using the bugzilla-system that is also used by Mozilla and RedHat too.

The developers of InstallerNG, AmIDE and P96Speed would prefer that the users would add new bugs in the future.

We will add other programms in the future because this tool to realize a bugwatch-system. The products can be find at the following links:

http://iNG.light-speed.de/
http://AmIDE.light-speed.de/
http://p96speed.light-speed.de/

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19.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  117K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (1.5.4)
fxPAINTDemo.lha      biz/demo   1.5M+THE new image-processing and paint-packa
DopJoin.lha          biz/dopus    2K+Join files with DirectoryOpus 4.xx. V1.0
PGSUniFilter20.lha   biz/patch  833K+PageStream Universal Filter V2.0LE for J
AVSearch.lha         comm/irc     3K+Search Altavista in AmIRC or CLI, New Ve
GGSearch.lha         comm/irc     2K+Search GOOGLE with AmIRC
YAT.lha              comm/mail  519K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
MiamiPhoneHU.lha     comm/tcp     1K+Hungarian pricefile for MiamiPhone (Mat 
wpz-impact.mpg       demo/file  111M+VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Sa
hLA-AP15.lha         demo/mag   1.7M+Amiga Positive no.15, diskmagazine in cz
wla_dx_020_7.1.lzh   dev/cross  336K+WLA DX v7.1 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
htcobpp.lha          dev/misc    86K+Set of COBOL utility programs
fda_DviPS.lha        disk/cache 540K+English documentation DVI, PS, PDF & tex
fda_d_DviPS.lha      disk/cache 575K+German documentation DVI, PS, PDF & texi
JazOS3.9.lha         disk/misc   12K+Iomega Jaz 1GB DOS Drivers/Icons for Ami
JsplitIt.lha         disk/misc   54K+Split & join files between Amiga & IBM w
AmigaFuture29.lha    docs/mags  460K+Great german paper mag preview
PaybackDemo.lha      game/actio 2.9M+Payback playable demo (Updated)
PaybackDemoUp1.lha   game/actio 425K+Updates the Payback demo to the latest v
PaybackUpdate1.lha   game/actio 700K+Updates Payback to the latest version
dynSP_style.lha      game/data   89K+SouthPark Style for dynAMIte
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data    9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (18 Marc
CGXMode3V2.9-I.txt   gfx/board    2K+Italian Catalog for CGXMode 2.9
CreateIndex.lha      gfx/conv    71K+Make HTML picture index with ImageStudio
Iconian298_Dt.lha    gfx/edit     7K+Much improved German catalog for Iconian
PfPaint_ENG.lha      gfx/edit    32K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha      gfx/edit    35K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V25.lha      gfx/edit   1.3M+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
VHIStudio.lha        gfx/misc   944K+V5.4: DigiCam & Videoboard-soft: Rec, Gr
ICS.lha              hard/misc  2.4M+V2.01c LE ICS - professional color corre
AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip   misc/emu   782K+AROS - Amiga Research OS (Beta release)
imdbDiff010309.lha   misc/imdb  1.8M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
LocalePL_OS39.lha    misc/misc  209K+Polish locale OS39 (AmigaPL/ISO-8859-2)
CoolOS.jpg           pix/wb     105K+Stylish WB-pic made with Perfect Paint!
CoolOS2.jpg          pix/wb     175K+Stylish WB-pic made with Perfect Paint!
gazswb.jpg           pix/wb     569K+My Hot WB :)
Voodooshot.jpg       pix/wb     375K+Screenshot of my Voodoo3-WB
DeTar.lha            util/arc    17K+.Tar UnExtracter
RatSalad.lha         util/boot  118K+Displays random image at bootup
wbstartup++.lha      util/boot   22K+Startup program launcher
RV1.57-ITA.txt       util/cli     2K+Italian Catalog for R (Request) 1.57
r_HU.lha             util/cli     1K+Hungarian catalog for "R" v1.55
akJFIF-dt.lha        util/dtype 215K+AkJFIF-dt V44.96 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/M
akJFIF-PPC.lha       util/dtype  56K+AkJFIF-dt PPC plugin V44.96 (JPEG)
Type1EngineHU.lha    util/libs    7K+Hungarian catalog for Type1Engine (Fixed
AmiSearch11Dt.lha    util/misc    5K+V1.3, German catalog for AmiSearch 1.1
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  341K+Report+ 4.32: Multipurpose utility
AntiCron.lha         util/rexx    5K+Deny program execution at certain times 
AmberRAM.lha         util/sys    42K+Replacement RAM disk. Beta. GPL.
AminetAwnpFR.lha     util/wb      5K+French locale for Aminet.awnpipe
DefComp.lha          util/wb     29K+Popup menu program selection for DefIcon
GenePrefsFR.lha      util/wb      7K+French locale for GenesisRAPrefs
WBInfoV2.9-ITA.txt   util/wb      2K+Italian Catalog for WBInfo 2.9


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19.Mar.2001
Digital Amiga Dream


DAD Interview with James Daniels
Digital Amiga Dream interviewed James Daniels, programmer of Payback.

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19.Mar.2001
CUCUG


CUCUG: Status Register March 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important information about Amiga, Macintosh and PC.

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19.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
VersionWB V2.16
Håkan Parting made version 2.16 of VersionWB available for download. The program displays version strings and is easy to use with DirOpus or RO.

akMPEG V.4.60
Andreas R. Kleinert released version 4.60 of this MPEG-player. Download: akMPEG4.lha

JST V4.7
Version 4.7 of JST by Jean-Francois Fabre were released and is now available as freeware! JST lets you install games on your harddisk and offers patches to increase the compatibility to new Amiga-systems. Download: jst.lha

wav-Datatype V41.9
Stephan Rupprecht released version 41.9 of the wav sound datatype (68k + WOS). Download: wavdt41.lha

WHDLoad V14.0
Bert Jahn released version 14.0 of WHDLoad. WHDLoad helps you to install floppy based games on your harddisk. Download: WHDLoad_usr.lha

XBaze
Rafal Kaczmarczyk announced the soon release of version 7 of the database-editor XBaze. The new version will contain localizations and documentations for different languages.

Scalos Plugin
There is a new update of the 'Persistent Windows Plugin' for Scalos available at the Scalos homepage. The plugin remembers opend windows even after a crash of your computer. Download: Scalos-Plugin_PWindows.lha

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19.Mar.2001
BTTR-Team via E-Mail


Back to the Roots Amiga-News #228
There are new games available from our webside. The highlights are the following programs:
  • Air Supply / Magic Bytes
  • Beast Busters / Activision
  • Castle of Dr. Brain / Sierra
  • Death Trap / Anco
  • Fire and Ice / Graftgold
  • Gloom Deluxe, Gloom Special Edition 97 / Acid Software
  • Paradroid 90 / Graftgold
  • Uridium 2 / Graftgold
  • Virocop / Graftgold
  • XTreme Racing / Silltunna Software
  • ...und mehr!

Additionally there are new scene demos, music files and pictures and an interview with Adam 'Scorpik' Skorupa, one of the most famous musicians in the amiga scene.

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18.Mar.2001
Bob Scharp via E-Mail


Amiga2001
As formerly reported several times, the Gateway Computer Show 'Amiga2001' will take place in St. Louis from 03-30-2001 to 04-01-2001. Petro Tyschtschenko will attend a celebration on the occasion of his retirement at the show .

The original message:

»Petro Tyschtschenko is hosting a celebration at the Amiga2001 show. That's right, Petro has been kind enough to provide funding for a little celebration of his retirements. Check out the web pages for this special announcement.

Don't forget, we have a ROAST of Petro lined up for the Banquet. The deadline for advance ticket purchase and the Banquet have been extended to Monday March 26. Banquet tickets are only available in advance this year. So get you check in pronto. Tickets are selling very well.

The Amiga2001 web pages have been updated several times since my last email. If you haven't checked them for venors and prizes lately, you should look again. We'll have more next week too. So check often.

Several companies have been kind enough to donate prizes for our show. Also, the hall is filling up quite nicely, so check and see if you've missed any of the vendors.«

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18.Mar.2001
Dirk Hase on ANF


Which one looks best? Amiga-Boing-Ball or Check-Marks?
Dirk Hase takes interest in the opinion of Amiga-Users. "I have already heard many said that they prefer the Check-Marks over the Boing-Ball. One criterion is the recognition value of the logos. The Check-Marks overrules the Boing-Ball at this in my experience. Has the time come to start a poll about his? Or maybe a graphics contest about this subject? I think that Amiga Inc. should also be informed about this since we can count on a new product, soon."

We can fulfill Dirk's wish about the poll. You can participate by following the title link.

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17.Mar.2001
Amiga-Community on ANF


Amiga-Community.net news
From this day on Amiga-Community.net is split into different sites:
  • Amiga-VIP.net - The user info portal only for AMIGA
  • Amiga-Info.net - The portal for forums, auctions and short adverts around AMIGA
  • Amiga-News.net - The portal for up-to-date news headlines around AMIGA
  • Amiga-faq.net - The forum for questions around AMIGA, and their answers
  • Amiga-***.net - The site that is yet in preparation

P.S.: A sponsor is still wanted!

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17.Mar.2001
Wolf Faust on ANF


Version 2 of the Universal Filter for PageStream
The 'universal' filter allows loading of many additional graphic formats within the PageStream v3.x/v4.x DTP program. Furthermore the loading of already supported graphic formats was considerably accelerated in parts.

Version 2 of the filter is finally released for free on http://www.uni.coloraid.de. Similar to ICS the filter is now using the IRW library for image loading.

The innovations in version 2 are:
  • Now supports <8Bit and CMYK modes in PageStream
  • Faster
  • Almost no memory usage when no image is loaded
  • Loading of 16 bit (converted to 8 bit) and CMYK data is now possible
  • Improved PGM/PBM/PPM/JPEG/BMP/TIFF routines
  • Considerably improved error handling thanks to IRW
  • Locale support
  • Compiled for different cpus
  • MANY small improvements

The supported formats for now are:

BMP, DataTypes, DCX, IFF ILBM, JPEG, PCX, GIF, PGM/PBM/PPM, PNG, Targa, TIFF

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17.Mar.2001
Heise [newsticker]


Heise: Slashdot have to Delete Article about Scientology
On last Friday the news and discussion forum Slashdot announced a premiere the operators might rather not wanted to experience: for the first time the internet service - founded in 1997 they have become one of the most important speaking tubes for the open source scene - had to remove an already published article.

In a message regarding the incident Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot and on the net also known as CmdrTaco, stated that on Saturday last week an anonymous reader had contributed an article containing a text Scientology keeps copyright for. Scientology lay claim on being a church which the US revenue authorities admited.

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17.Mar.2001
Scalos


Scalos News
The website of Scalos, the comprehensive Workbench replacement, had been reworked. Next to new graphics and an improved navigation you can find here the information that a new version with many bugs removed is currently being tested. It is yet unknown when the new version will be publicly available.

Furthermore some subdomains were created:


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17.Mar.2001
DCE


DCE Website: Support Area Extended
DCE, manufacturer of several Amiga expansion cards, has extended their support area with several manuals that are downloadable as PDF documents. A description of the new GREX 1200 PCI interface is available, too.

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16.Mar.2001
amigasdk.com


Espial Escape - Slim Webbrowser for AmigaDE
"Escape is a HTML4.01 webbrowser which just happens to work on AmigaDE thanks to its Java support. Escape is not only small, but fast and loaded with features including HTML4.01, DHTML and more."

On amiga.org you can read about it:

I noticed that the easiest way to install Espials Escape on the AmigaSDK was to simply unzip the *.jar files to the root. Sadly there was no archive on Espials homepage that made it easy for me to get them. So I mailed them about the problem. Now they have added an archive of Escape with the Jar files on their homepage.

Further links on Espial Escape:
Espial Homepage
internet® product watch
devices.internet.com

Espial Escape is a slim webbrowser for smart devices which supports all modern web standards.


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16.Mar.2001
amiga.org


Merlancia Industries and Nova Design: Keynote Address on Amiga 2001 show
Merlancia Industries and Nova Design will both be making some astounding announcements during a joint Keynote Address that will open the Amiga 2001 show on Saturday, March 31st, 2001.

Details are not available in advance, but both companies promise some great news. The Keynote Addresses will begin before the opening of the exhibitor floor on Saturday and are open to all at no extra charge.

Best Regards,
Bob Scharp
bscharp@icon-stl.net
http://www.amiga-stl.com/

Links to the companies:
Merlancia Industries
Nova Design


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16.Mar.2001
Apex Designs


Payback Update
The first update for Payback is available. Several reported bugs were fixed and a screen scaling feature was added for slower processors. Also, new graphics were integrated.

There's also an update of the demo version, which raises the time limit of three to five minutes.

On the Payback website, an FAQ about Payback was opened which answers frequently asked questions. The game can be ordered directly in the online store.

In an interview with the Amiga-Future, programmer James Daniels describes Payback as follows: "The player assumes the role of a young, fleeing driver and attempts to become a big gangster boss. The game is entirely non-linear. To complete a level, the player has to collect a certain amount of points. How he achieves that is entirely up to him. You can follow the advice of the local Kingpin, uncover secret missions, or get into a fight."

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16.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
TermiteTCPDemo.lha   biz/demo   201K+TermiteTCP demo
TTCP110_to_120.lha   biz/patch  162K+TermiteTCP 1.10 to 1.20 patch
Aminet.awnp.lha      comm/www    72K+AWNPipe gui. Searches/Downloads Aminet F
DeluxeMapV2_1.lha    dev/amos   283K+Map editor
Amiga-C-Feb01.lha    dev/c      112K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Febu
dech.lha             dev/e       43K+Deniil's E-Compiler Handler v1.38
m2latex.lha          dev/m2      64K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
adaratio.lha         dev/misc   494K+Hypertext Ada 95 Rationale
TTCP_SDK.lha         dev/misc   121K+TermiteTCP Software Development Kit 1.00
Abbo.lha             dev/src    444K+Source of game written in E
BattleDuel1.7P.lha   docs/help   14K+Polish Locale for BattleDuel1.7
MetalCorner401.lha   docs/mags  357K+German Metal Mag in HTML - April 2001 Is
WarpUp-Feb01.lha     docs/misc   21K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in F
Bdynamite.lha        game/data   96K+Another style/graphics module for dynami
Detris.lha           game/wb     80K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715! v3.1
Emerald.lha          game/wb    1.1M+Simple simplicity in graphical games and
jpeg6bwosutils.lha   gfx/conv   238K+IJG's 6b JPEG utilities for WarpUp
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  86K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
MMKeyboard.lha       hard/hack   82K+V0.35 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
bc-conta.mpg         mods/mpg   3.9M+Contact:  Ambient Electronic Dance
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc    84K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
Bounce3.lha          pix/anim   492K+Some animations and some players 'Bounci
AmigaUnited.mpg      pix/mpg    912K+First Render of the Amiga United Group l
AmigaUnited1.mpg     pix/mpg    912K+First Render of the Amiga United Group l
CoolWb.lha           pix/wb     806K+Patterns, audio and docks for a very nic
ThrymWB.jpg          pix/wb     227K+Thrym's 1024*768*24 bit WB screen
YureWB2.jpg          pix/wb     141K+A beautiful WB screen
QuickNote.lha        text/edit   63K+Notepad for scrap-notes (very handy)
startmeupv1_25.lha   util/boot   31K+Startup files management
MultiRen.lha         util/misc  176K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with 
UntarV1_11.lha       util/pack   16K+Tar files extract util
DRemind.lha          util/time  215K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.57!
trackdisplaycl.lha   util/time   37K+V1.15 Use hardware track display as cloc


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16.Mar.2001
Virus Help Denmark


Virus Help Denmark Presents VTC Hamburg
Virus Help Denmark presents the virus test center Hamburg (VTC) and reports on their anti-virus-scanner tests for Amiga which can also be read online.

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16.Mar.2001
ANF


UAE 0.8.16 (Beta/ Developer Version) Released
A new beta/developer version of UAE, the Amiga emulator, has been released.

Download Version 0.8.16: uae-0.8.16.tar.gz

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16.Mar.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert via E-Mail


akJFIF datatype Version 44.96 Released
On Andreas Kleinert's support site, version 44.96 of the akJFIF datatype for several processors (68k, PUP and MOS) with notable speed enhancements are available for download.

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16.Mar.2001
Stefan Schulze on ANF


New Screenshots of the Real-time RPG "Between the Lines"
Because of a harddisk crash, we have lost all source codes of our games "Crossfire II" and "Between the Lines". At least Crossfire II could partly be recovered, but it'll take several months to fully restore it.

As a compensation and the long time during which nothing happened on our homepage, there are a few new screenshots of the real time RPG BtL.

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16.Mar.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF


Updates of the Warp datatypes and Warp Preferences Available
Oliver Roberts has made available new versions of his Warp datatypes for JPEG, PNG and BMP images on his homepage. Besides some optimizations and bugfixes, a preferences program was added which offers several dithering algorithms.

Download:
WarpJPEG: WarpJPEGdt.lha
WarpPNG: WarpPNGdt.lha
WarpBMP: WarpBMP.lha
WarpPrefs: WarpDTPrefs.lha

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15.Mar.2001
CD³²-Allianz on ANF


CDTV DeveloperKit Released
From now on the CDTV DeveloperKit is available for free download at the CD32-Corner.

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15.Mar.2001
amiga.org


Monkey Island Tones for Nokia 3210 Cell Phone
At Arcadetones you can find new ringtones for your Nokia 3210 cell phone. Worth mentioning in this is that those are to be pices of music from the popular adventure game 'The Secret Of Monkey Island'. Available are music from Ghost Dance, Le Chuck's Theme, Scumm Bar, Title Music, and Voodoo Shop. Those either can be downloaded as .mid files or directly fed to the cell phone with a certain character string.

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15.Mar.2001
amiga.com.pl


What's Faster - G4/733 or Dual G4/533?
Bare Feats have tested what's faster, the Macintosh G4/733 or PowerMac Dual G4/533. You can read the test results generated with different programs under the title link.

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15.Mar.2001
Amster


Amster News
Amster is a program for downloading of authorized MP3 music files from Napster. One also can let the program (client) search for music files made available by other participants or can chat with other participants.

Yesterday the Amster source code was put on SourceForge. Interested developers can participate in further development under 'CVS access' (explanation in addition).

Since it wasn't clear to me what CVS access means I asked about this on our internal mailing list. Ruediger Hanke took the task to give an extended explanation. Because I can imagine our readers to be interested in this, too, I post his answer here:

What is CVS access?

CVS = Concurrent Versions System, a program for source code management. Among other things the program saves old versions of the source code, so one can trace changes from one version to another. Furthermore it coordinates changes in source codes if several developers are working on one single program. Else there would happen situations like follows:
  • developer A loads source ab.c
  • developer B loads source ab.c
  • developer A saves source code ab.c including changes done by him
  • developer B saves source code ab.c including changes done by him and by doing so overwrites the changes of developer A.

CVS cares for changes not to be accidently overwritten by somebody and in the case of need announces conflicts caused by changes. Thus it is essential if several developers are working on one single program.

Amster seems to be under CVS control. "CVS access" in this case means that people wanting to participate in programming Amster can get access to the CVS server managing the program's source codes.

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15.Mar.2001
Michael Mueller on ANF


New Amiga Game for Everybody
A new freeware game for grown-ups and kids. Download Amiga-Superball for free. The game is runnable on any Amiga with 1 MB of Chip-RAM. You can also register for the game info-letter and then directly will receive an e-mail with information if a new game get's available for download.

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15.Mar.2001
Halvadjian Georges on ANF


PerfectPaint V2.5
PerfectPaint V2.5 is available. New in the current version:
  • Add AppIcon
  • Drop one file, Pfpaint will ask you if you want to load the file as a picture, brush or anim.
  • Drop several files, and PfPaint will create an anim.
  • Improve Undo:
    • Entirely Rewritten
    • add a Real Redo
    • Add Prefs
  • little bug corrected with 'Adjust levels'
  • Last Jpeg.library is used.
  • bug fix with effectbrush and picasso96
  • Improve Edit mask: 'Pick color' now have tolerance.
  • New Arrex Commands
    • pp_GetCurrentFrame
    • pp_GetCurrentBuffer
    • pp_GetCurrentBrush
    • pp_FindEmptyBuffer
    • pp_FindEmptyBrush
    • pp_SetBuffer
    • pp_ClearCurrentBuffer
    • pp_AnimGui
  • You can have ten buffers, each buffer can have a picture or an anim, with different depth.
  • Improve Scaling anim picture, and scaling anim window
  • Improve animation storage: RAM or HD (you can also select a path for the storage.)


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14.Mar.2001
IT-Business News No. 11


Plextor Stops SCSI
Plextor Europe will stop production and distribution of SCSI CDRom drives this very year. As reason for this the company named regressive sales figures as well as problems in providing components. In the long term this would also affect the American and Japanese market. One would want to address the DVD market segement with devices with USB and Firewire interfaces in the future.

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14.Mar.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail


Inutilis News
Good news: It has been just uploaded the third demo-version of Ermentrud! It is a new graphic adventure which plays in the Middle Ages.

There has not been many changes to the content but you can finally check out the inventory and dialog system! Do not miss it!

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14.Mar.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


The Register: IBM serves up PowerPCs for Hitachi
»IBM and Hitachi are to jointly design and make a range of selected server and semiconductor components. The plan is to speed up product development.

The agreement covers future versions of IBM's PowerPC processors, selected chips to support Hitachi's VOS operating system, and technologies such as multi-chip ceramic modules and memory cache components for use in IBM and Hitachi servers.

Hitachi will also sell rebadged PowerPC-based servers and embrace AIX 5L as a strategic platform.«

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14.Mar.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


A Ground-shaking Event
Amiga, Inc. announce the Gateway Computer Show 'Amiga 2001' which will take place from March 30th to April 1st, 2001 in St. Louis with the following curious making and hope for something great raising words:

On February 28th, 2001 an announcement was made to a group of employees, and other well known technical people within the Puget Sound region.

Moments later a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the northwest. What was said? What was the possible reason for the sudden shift in the earth? Come to St. Louis and learn the answers.

You can find the link to Amiga 2001 here.

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13.Mar.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail


Amiga Arena News
Preface
Since I cannot affect as much as I would like to on my own I decided to take a chance for a partnership with the Fun Time World! The Amiga Arena homepage will remain what it is, now, and I hope to be able to act even more effective in this partnership than before !
Olaf Koebnik - Amiga Arena

Amiga Arena - Fun Time World Partnership
The shareware market suffered from evaluations of the past years. The amount of new releases decreased very much every year. To stop this evaluation the pages Fun Time World and Amiga Arena agree to a partnership to patronize the shareware market. This partnership's objective is to call user's attention to developments at the shareware market.

This is to serve the purpose of higher sales and to motivate developers to continue to develop new and better programs, at the same time. In the future by a closer cooperation with the developers user's wishes shall be taken into account more than this has been done before. In further steps registration of programs from foreign countries shall be facilitated.

It will be determined from surveys which kind of software is in demand most. Special wishes from now on can be sent to the Fun Time World and to the Amiga Arena. Programmers who would agree to offer their programs at a more cost-effective price for a certain period of time, can contact the Amiga Arena at any time.

Amiga Arena
The Amiga Arena is a shareware / freeware support site with special prices for shareware software, links, interviews, and full versions of shareware software which will not be further developed.

Fun Time World
The Fun Time World page provides the Amiga users with topical news, test of software and hardware, as well as important information since several years. Meantime the service has been extended by adding an online shop as well as auction and forum sections.

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13.Mar.2001
clickBOOM


clickBOOM S-File # 10
In the latest S-File clickBOOM say that all the defective Nightlong-CDs are pressed again. Registered Nightlong-users can fill in a formular at the password protected portal of clickBOOM to receive the new CDs.

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13.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
Football.lha         biz/dbase  583K+*NEW* Version 2.6 - Setup your own leagu
HTMLread.lha         comm/mail  484K+YAM-Plugin to read HTML-Emails
OrangeFTPd.lha       comm/tcp    16K+OrangeFTPd V1.0, freeware FTP daemon.
Tango.lha            comm/tcp   114K+Samba/smb-handler gui. 
NGC-Animatunes.lha   demo/file  1.7M+Animatunes / N.G.C (WHD version)
NGC-ArtParadis.lha   demo/file  1.4M+Artificial Paradise / N.G.C (WHD version
wpz-impact.mpg       demo/file   12M+VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Sa
SceneArchives.lha    demo/mag   1.3M+SASU v1.09: Ultimate Demo CDs-11 CD's (8
clockita.lha         dev/basic   67K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Dorkalize.lha        dev/c      172K+Very powerful localization tool, v0.9
AmiSlateSource.lha   dev/misc   188K+Partial source code for AmiSlate1.4
Amygate1.1PL.lha     docs/help    5K+Polish Locale for Amygate1.1
Virus_ChkII_PL.lha   docs/help    7K+Polish Locale for Virus_CheckerII
starmag26_ht.lha     docs/mags  1.6M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
TheCrypt16.lha       docs/mags  2.1M+Issue 16 of "The Crypt" magazine
Toadies_Interv.lha   docs/misc    3K+Amiga Arena Interview mit Thilo Khler
FA_Talkie.lha        game/2play   6K+Better talkie files for Frontal Assault
Toadies.lha          game/2play 1.0M+Version 8.0 - a real Worms clone !
ChaosLite.lha        game/board 5.7M+World's Best Board Game! 1-8 players! Fa
Inju2CARDS.lha       game/data  253K+Anime Cardset for Soliton
Mattonite_Src.lha    game/demo   37K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
Diamchal.lha         game/misc  248K+Platform: collect diamonds V1.0 !FINAL!
NapalmPL.lha         game/patch  11K+Polish Locale for Napalm
angband.lha          game/role  726K+Angband 2.9.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
World.lha            game/role  199K+"WORLD" text adventure, includes source 
colourlines.lha      game/think 107K+Logical ball game
Now_Pop_Quiz_2.lha   game/think 351K+Quiz for all music fans around the world
Now_Pop_Quiz_3.lha   game/think 486K+Quiz for all music fans around the world
Now_Pop_Quiz_4.lha   game/think 542K+Quiz for all music fans around the world
SmartScale.lha       gfx/conv    17K+A CLI/WB program used for gfx conversion
FlashMandelPPC.lha   gfx/fract  3.9M+The best fractal rendering program for A
FormAldiHyd.lha      hard/drivr 120K+V2.2, Driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/Waco
cpcd2dsk.lha         misc/emu    15K+EmuCPC .CPCD to .DSK format converter
imdbDiff010302.lha   misc/imdb  5.9M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Da_13b.lha           misc/misc  126K+Calorie counter and more, italian versio
atom.lha             misc/sci    78K+Propability densities of  electrons in p
id3taglibgui.lha     mus/edit    77K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
Amoralplay1.5.lha    mus/play   121K+A no fuss multiformat audio player.
Panos3D.lha          pix/trace  203K+Some 3D pictures by Panos
recoilwb02.jpg       pix/wb     206K+*recoilBENCH 2001* 1024x768x16bit Picass
recoilwb03.jpg       pix/wb     280K+*recoilBENCH 2001* 1024x768x16bit Picass
recoilwb04.jpg       pix/wb     179K+*recoilBENCH 2001* 1024x768x16bit Picass
CloudedViews.lha     pix/wfm    2.2M+7 graphix on knowing the heart
QuickNote.lha        text/edit   63K+Notepad for scrap-notes (very handy)
HP_Deskjet870C.lha   text/print  41K+Deskjet 8x0C/9x0C Driver for WB V40.13
BackDrop12.lha       util/boot   26K+Force Workbench 1.3 to run in a normal w
Kill2090.lha         util/boot   14K+Reboot, toggle NTSC/PAL, disable autocon
mathlibspatch.lha    util/boot    9K+Mathffp, ieeesingtrans libs SpeedUp Patc
Wibby.lha            util/boot   19K+Small, quick, and useful taskbar util
HardwareInfo2.lha    util/libs   31K+Library for hardware check and control
Pony3D.lha           util/libs   43K+Library with 3D graphic functions
ReqAttack.lha        util/misc  628K+Best, configurable requesters for Amiga
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc   85K+RAPrefsMUI1.71 - ANOTHER BUGFIX
Lightpen.lha         util/sys     9K+Lightpen-Handler, use lightpen instead o
MegaRamfix.lha       util/sys     4K+Elsat.device fix
SaveROM.lha          util/sys     6K+Save`s ROM to file
QuickLens.lha        util/wb      7K+A quick lens, any OS, source included
SystemReset.lha      util/wb     22K+Simply reset tool
VBRControler.lha     util/wb     18K+Tool to control your VBR location.


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13.Mar.2001
Amiga Support Network


Dave Haynie Describes PIOS One System
Dave Haynie has released on the developer-supportpage of Amiga, Inc. some technical documents which deal with the PIOS One System. The original message:

Open Documets

These are Technical and Informational documents that are either supplied by Amiga or Third Parties, as noted.


  • The PIOS One System Specification - Graciously supplied by Dave Haynie [PDF (33.8 MB)]
  • The PIOS One Open CPU Module - Graciously supplied by Dave Haynie [PDF (729 kB)]
  • Zip file containing both PIOS One documents [zip (2.73 MB)]


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12.Mar.2001
Stefan Blixth via E-Mail


OnyxSoft News
New version : DECH (Version 1.38)
Information : - Removed "Stack of executed programs" and
                replaced it with "Stack of the compiler".
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : Detris (Version 3.1)
Information : - A lot of changes and added features,
                mouse/joystick can be used to control the
                game.
              - Two new draw methods for the background etc.
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : DRemind (Version 1.57)
Information : - Removed a longstanding Enforcer hit.
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : MultiRen (Version 1.44)
Information : - Fixed the MP3-Info plugin (returned wrong
                layer).
              - Enable what entry the program will sort
                (secondly) by.
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : QuickNote (Version 1.4a)
Information : - Fixed the enforcer hits that was
                introduced in 1.4,
                Thanks to Luca "Hexaae" Longone and
                Stefan Ruppert...
------------------------------------------------------------
New version : TheMPegEncGUI (Version 2.07)
Information : - Added some options for BladeEnc.
              - Moved the encoder paths to make the GUI
                smaller.


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12.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
CygnusEd Professional 4.21 for MorphOS
There are a minor update for CygnusED available at the MorphOS-Website. The official CygnusED4 CD-ROM is recommended for this update. Download: ced_mos_ppc-upd421a.lha

WBStartEmu Version 45.1d
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.1d of his wbstart.library for OS3.9. Download: WBStartEmu.lha

Randomizer for the Workbench-background
Stephan Rupprecht released version 39.9 of 'random wbpattern picture selector'. Download: rndwbpix.lha

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12.Mar.2001
amiga.org


New Products for ImageFX by LegacyMaker Inc.
Legacy Maker, Inc. released a tutorial-video named Catalyzer Vol. 3 for ImageFX version 4.0. The video deals with layers, scaning, printing, animation and FXForge.

Version 2 of the Motion Control Plugin PanCanvas, for ImageFX were released.

"PanCanvas 2 lets you take a large image in ImageFX and move a virtual camera over it. You end up with an astonishingly smooth documentary-style animation.
You can output frames, anims, FlyerClips, and even Jstreams for the Broadcaster Elite. The virtual camera can zoom in and out, accelerate and decelerate, and move along a spline curve. You can add motion blur, render fields for video, and run macros on each frame before saving in a variety of formats."

Legacy Maker, Inc. will exhibit at the Gateway Computer Show in St. Louis.

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12.Mar.2001
Jens Schönfeld at ANF


isdnsurfer.device V1.942 Released
Few weeks ago a new programmer took over the work at the ISDN-software and ported the source to a new compiler. Because we could not find any bug in this new version we decided to release it as a public test version but there are no new features or bugfixes.

Download: isdndev.lha

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11.Mar.2001
AmiSource on ANF


Finally Fresh Explosives: dynAMIte is Ready
At the Cologne 'World of Amiga' the AmiSource-Crew had already spread a free preview version of the new network Bomberman clone 'dynAMIte'. Now, three months later, the game is ready and is downloadable as freeware exclusively from the AmiSource website.

French and English documentations are included while the single player mode desired by Petra didn't make it.

Download, log-in and take pleasure in the game. And all for free.

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11.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
ppclibemu
Frank Wille has made version 0.8f of his PPC library emulation ppclibemu available for download. Download: ppclibemu.lzx

HP Deskjet 870C driver
On Peter's Amiga Page you can find a new printer driver version 40.13 for the printer HP Deskjet 870C. Download: HP_Deskjet870C.lha

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11.Mar.2001
Gunter Hinrichsen on ANF


New Version of HTMLread
A new version of HTMLread (v1.1) can be downloaded from the support page.

HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a wonderful mailer, but not capable of displaying e-mails written in HTML code as like as sent by Netscape, Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these e-mails to a HTML viewer.

Some changes were made in the new version:
  • HTML parser rewritten (faster, more compatible, , full «base» tag support),
  • Problems with blank characters in the name fixed.
  • New GIF for condition.
  • Better error handling.
  • HTMLreadPrefs rewritten (now with MUI GUI)


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11.Mar.2001
Gary Peake via E-Mail


AMIGA Inc.: New PDA Projects
As already reported on amiga-news.de, Amiga Inc. is organizing a project for programming software for PDAs. People who want to take part in this project as programmers may announce himself/herself via this page.

Amiga already has contact with companies who like to use the AmigaDE software on their appliances. In this context Gary Peake, director for development and support at Amiga Inc., wrote the following on AMIOPEN mailing list:

We have spent considerable time talking with a company who likes what they see of the Amiga content thus far. They will not be announced until St Louis, but we all know that development needs lead time.

This company has some PDA models coming out real soon now and we have sold them on letting Amiga developers produce their content.

This content will be sold via a web portal and all certification and runnability testing will happen here at Amiga Inc for logistic reasons.

Specs are as follows for two separate units:

Screen Size: 240x320, 65k color3.5" reflective-TFT

Screen Size: 176x220, 65kcolor, 3" reflective-TFT

Both units will be able to handle up to 500k games and applications. Due to CPU speed limitations, code must be tight and efficient as always. This customer prefers VP coding, but won't pass on C, C++, or Java apps.

Examples of content needed:

Hoyle type card games
Chess
Checkers
Armageddon
PokeYman derivatives
No X rated content!


I am sure they would welcome any freeware content, but they are mainly looking for commercial quality content. Details on how the system will work will be released shortly to those who respond to this email.
If you are seriously interested in producing PDA content please send me an email to gary@amiga.com.
You MUST be under NDA AND be a registered Amiga developer before I can release any further information to you so make sure you have a valid NDA on file.

If you have not yet registered and you have a copy of our SDK, please go to www.amigadev.net and register as a developer.

If you do not have a valid NDA with us, simply look at www.amigadev.net under the "legal" menu, grab a copy of the NDA and get it mailed back or faxed back ASAP. Address and fax number is on the NDA.

Only serious need respond as we will be on a tight schedule to meet the first delivery date.

This may be cross posted to Amiga news web sites and other lists.

Gary Peake
Director - Developer Relations and Support
Amiga Inc.
www.amigadev.net
www.amiga.com

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11.Mar.2001
amiga.org


New Development System for PDA Games for the AmigaDE
Ast, by the makers of KDP, is a new PDA game for AmigaDE. The game uses the gm-Engine to give developers easy access to the basic functions necessary for games developement for PDAs.

The release of Ast and gm is still long in coming. But for the meantime there's a picture of an Ast beta version. This imgae was taken before the final graphics set was added.

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11.Mar.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel on ANF


Wordworth Developments
Unfortunately development of Wordworth for the AMIGA has ceased several time ago. The last version 7 indeed contains many features, but also lacks of things like for example a JPEG filter. So you have to convert the wanted JPEG graphic for now into IFF or another format Wordworth supports using a separate program. Another thing completely missing is PPC (WOS) support.

I'd like to call programmers among other things working with Wordworth to program the missing things (I'm mainly about the JPEG filter). Provided that I'd have the needed development tools, compilers etc., and a supporting (teaching!) programmer, I'd do it myself.

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11.Mar.2001
Greg Donner


OS 3.9 FAQ Update Version 1.4
Greg Donner has updated the following parts of his official OS3.9 FAQ (Version 1.4):


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11.Mar.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via E-Mail


AKIconzGold Update
5 days after the latest update there's again one due.: On my homepage can be found the third (and probably the last) "homepage only" preview of the AKIconzGold. There are almost 40 new icons. Additionally the ReadMe was extended by an important part regarding the installation in which the setting of the correct color palette is described that is necessary to display the icons as wanted.

The setting of this color palette gives some more advantages: All icons, no matter whether MagicWB (8 colors), RomIcons (16 colors, often to be found with the installers of WHDLoad and jst) or just the AKIconzGold (and also the similar BNSMWBicons) have always the right colors with this setting. And NewIcons, too, manage with this palette, and even GlowIcons do look relatively appealing on a 32 colors screen!
People who don't want to restrict themselves to one "kind" of icons but want to have the correct color settings for almost all icons should set this palette!

Besides, all sites of the homepage were recreated. Although less the design but especially the colors were chosen completely new. This looks, in my opinion, much better (and is much better matching the homepage title ;-)).

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11.Mar.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via E-Mail


NetBSD/Amiga IOblix - Driver Change
The NetBSD/Amiga - IOBlix-Zbus driver was changed in a way that the quartz frequency is changeable via the kernel variable _iobzclock (with binpatch and reboot) or via the kernel option IOBZCLOCK.

Newer IOBlix cards use a 22.1184MHz quartz that allows more standard baud rates, older ones on the other hand use a 24MHz quartz. Owners of a 24MHz quartz need to set _iobzclock or IOBZCLOCK to 24000000.

Besides this, iobl* at zbus? is now included in the GENERIC configuration.

NetBSD-current testers are asked for review reports, also about the parallel interface. Details about the availability of source code etc. can be found at:

NetBSD in general
NetBSD on Amiga hardware

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10.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources


Software News
QuickNote
At OnyxSoft version 1.4 of QuickNote has been released. As it's name already suggests this program is a virtual notepad. Download: quicknote.lha

Tales of Tamar
For registered users of the online strategy game Tales of Tamar the new version 0.10 for Atari and v0.33_R6 for Amiga with bugfixed trading and further bugs fixed are available for download.

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10.Mar.2001
Elbox via E-Mail


FastATA Version 2.4 Released
FastATA v.2.4 is a common version of software designed for:
  • FastATA 4000 Controller (A4000 Power Flyer) for A4000, A3000 or A1200 with ZORRO III busboard,
  • FastATA ZIV Controller (A1200 ZIV Power Flyer) for A1200 with ZIV busboard.

New in this release:
FastATA software version 2.4 improves HDD reading procedures and the bug in nosplit disk identification process, which could make difficult the change of the way of HDD installation (SPLIT/NOSPLIT), was fixed.

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10.Mar.2001
Mennosto via E-Mail


PC MP3-Player 'Sonique' Planned for AmigaDE
Sonique is an audio player often used on PCs. According to the current Sonique newsletter it is planned to port version 2 - which is under development at the time being - to as much platforms as possible. The interesting thing in this is the AmigaDE being mentioned, too. Further details can be taken form the Sonique 2 FAQ.

This is from the Sonique newsletter, (sonique as you may
know is a rather good MP3-player on the PC)

SONIQUE NEWSLETTER - VOL 2. ISSUE 4. - MARCH, 2001

INTRODUCTION

As promised, this issue is a special update on the
current state of Sonique 2.  Things are progressing
very well and we're wetting ourselves several times
a day from sheer excitement. We have to keep the
entire office covered in plastic.  We've got webvan
delivering rubber pants and huggies directly to our
workstations. Yup, Sonique 2 is really that cool.

(stuff about sonique 2 deleted)

SONIQUE 2 PRIMER

You are probably wondering just what this Sonique 2
thing is really all about.  How is it different than
Sonique 1?  Why should you even care?  Well, first
off, let's talk about the number 2.  The "2" in
Sonique 2 is really less about Sonique VERSION 2.0
and more about Sonique 2, THE SEQUEL.  Sonique 2 is
not just another upgrade of the same old tired software.
No No NO! Sonique 2 is completely different.  Sonique 2
has been in development for over 2 years and shares almost
no code with Sonique 1.  It is based on entirely new
ultra-swoobtastic(tm) technology.  Audio system,
GUI engine, Skinning system, plugin architecture,
visual system, all sparkling new!  Even has that great
"new software" smell.

SONIQUE 2 & MANTIS

Sonique 2 is based on some very nifty technology that
Andrew, Nicholas, and the rest of the Sonique coders
have been developing for the last year called MANTIS.
MANTIS serves two important functions: First, it separates
GUI design from application development, allowing designers
and programmers to work separately on the same app, freeing
designers from the need to program and programmers from the
the need to do GUI design (they hate that).  Second, it
provides an extremely powerful environment for creating and
operating real-time GUI interfaces.  Animation, effects,
layering, font rendering, menu systems, and just about
everything else are handled by MANTIS, giving the GUI
designer supreme control over the look and feel of their
app.  Want to make a fully animated semi-transparent free
floating dockable custom menu with flames shooting out of it?
Want it in 200 languages? MANTIS can do that for you...

OTHER TECHNOLOGY

MANTIS is not the only booty-slappin' body rockin' trick up
our sleeve.  There's also the new audio system.  It features
24 bit audio (just like professional studio gear), support
for DSP effects chains, can easily handle just about any file
format, and is faster than fast.

The plugin system is flexible and powerful.  There are
really no limitations to what you can do.  Plugins can take
advantage of MANTIS and integrate seamlessly. We expect a lot
of really interesting plugins to be developed for Sonique 2.

This is going to be amazing...

(stuff about skins removed)

PLATFORM SUPPORT

Sonique 2 is very portable.  We designed it to be from the
beginning.

Expect Sonique 2 for Windows 9x, ME, NT4, 2K, XP as well as
Mac OSX,

Linux, BeOS, and AmigaDE

LEGACY SUPPORT

Yes, Sonique 1.x Skins and Visuals will work with Sonique 2..

QUESTIONS

If you have questions about Sonique 2, ask them in the forum
(0000,8000,0000 http://forum.sonique.com).
We will go through the threads in the forum every so often
and move common questions onto the FAQ.

The answers that you seek are often available from other users
or Team Sonique members themselves.  We prefer communicating
in the forum to receiving tons of email.  We get enough email
as it is.

CONCLUSION

Sonique 2 is something everyone at Team Sonique cares about
deeply.  We're sure that you are going to love it.  We
certainly do...

BIZ DEV

If you have business related questions about Mantis or Sonique2,
please contact our business development staff at 0000,8000,0000
info@sonique.com or call 415-276-3940.

I hope this is of intrest to you,

Bye M Stormink.


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09.Mar.2001
MorphOS


Morphtris 1.2 Released
Emmanuel Lesueur has released Morphtris Version 1.2 for PPC/MorphOS. It is a simple Tetris clone which is system friendly and runs on a Workbench screen. A 68k AmigaOS and a PPC MorphOS version are available, the correct version is chosen automatically.

Download: Morphris12.lha - 42 kB

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09.Mar.2001
Virtual Dimension


Video of the World of Amiga 2000 Finished
The video on the World of Amiga 2000 by Virtual Dimension is finished! The file is available as MPEG (two versions) or as DivX video (for all those who can play it, it has better picture and sound quality and is only slightly larger). Have fun with it!

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09.Mar.2001
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
Dohodnina00.lha      biz/dbase    8K+Calculates income tax in Slovenia
LocalePL_OS39.lha    biz/dbase   56K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.4
LCR-I.lha            comm/misc   93K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
Cookie_Killer.lha    comm/www    25K+AWeb cookie management (v1.21)
AsmPro.lha           dev/asm    165K+Asm-Pro V1.16i mc680x0 macro assembler
Toadies.lha          game/2play 1.0M+Version 8.0 - a real Worms clone !
Mattonite_Src.lha    game/demo   37K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
SmartScale.lha       gfx/conv    14K+A CLI program used for graphics conversi
FormAldiHyd.lha      hard/drivr 120K+V2.2, Driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/Waco
ECat03.lha           misc/misc   40K+Spanish Catalogs Pack 03
zab-hybrid.lha       mods/hardc 2.7M+DBM 8ch -> Zabba <- acid gabba 224bpm
zab-ves_buduc.lha    mods/hardc 2.2M+DBM 8ch -> Zabba <- psy acidgabba 286bpm
mp32html.lha         mus/misc    47K+V2.9a - Converts MP3 directory to HTML.
Minimalist.lha       pix/misc   242K+Graphics set for Visual prefs & birdie
vd-hew99.mpg         pix/mpg     19M+VD: Videoreport of "Home Electronics Wor
vd-hew99s.mpg        pix/mpg    5.8M+VD: Videoreport of "Home Electronics Wor
vd-neuss2000.mpg     pix/mpg     29M+VD: Videoreport of "World of Alternative
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PetterssonsWB.jpg    pix/wb     164K+Pettersson's CGX workbench in 800x600
CLI_Progs.lha        util/cli    64K+Misc small utilities for CLI use. V1.00
ReqAttack.lha        util/misc  628K+Best, configurable requesters for Amiga 
Fix.backdrop.lha     util/wb     46K+A handy GUI to clean up .backdrop files


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09.Mar.2001
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz on ANF


Frogger 1.64 Released
Frogger 1.64 was released today. Most important improvement is speed increase, 1.64 is up to 25% faster than 1.63. Of course it also includes lot of bugfixes (as usual ;), and some new features. There are binaries for 68k (030, 040, 060) and PPC (PUP, WOS, MOS) available.

Download:
http://frogger.rules.pl or
http://highantdev.de/frogger/

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08.Mar.2001
X-CELLENCE on ANF


X-CELLENCE goes AmigaDE
We will not develop our games (SCR2K, FirePower and New York Nights) for the Classic-Amiga. For us this was not easy to decide, but the limited possibilities of the PPC/3D system the AMIGA can offer for the time being don't meet our requirements.

Since we all are AMIGA users from the very beginning, we didn't want to put down our ambitions regarding the AMIGA, thus we came to the conclusion to develop for the AmigaOne. We hope for your understanding.
Your X-CELLENCE Team

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08.Mar.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Full Version!
In cooperation with Guido Mersmann the keyfile for the best BoulderDäsh conversion of the C64 original BoulderDäsh is available for download exclusively for the Amiga Arena! Some claims to fame:
  • 1:1 Clone of the original game.
  • Runs in multitasking.
  • Online help.
  • Locale support.
  • Commodore Styleguide conformable programmed.
  • Fully graphics board compatible.

The program BoulderDäsh is located at the Aminet. Note: The keyfile comes exclusively from Guido M. registered to the Amiga Arena and may not be offered to others as download or copy!

Amiga Arena - Toadies Project!
Toadies, the Worms-Clone by Thilo Koehler is available for download in version 8.0!
The Toadies survey for development of a computer rival will still be online until 25 March 2001! The English version of this survey is to find on the Toadies homepage.

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08.Mar.2001
AROS


AROS News
Sebastian Heutlin has done some floppy images for AROS (a boot image with the kernel, and a boot floppy with the FFS filesystem enabling you to run 'gtdemo'). The images are ready for donwload at two locations:

ftp://ftp.aros.org/pub/aros/DiskImages/
http://wh2-315.st.uni-magdeburg.de/~sheutlin/aros/

Details on bugfixing and the project's progress are to find under the title link.

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08.Mar.2001
Michael Jurisch on ANF


New Survey - Joystick Adapter
Is there anybody interested in an adapter to connect an Amiga joystick, e.g. for use with UAE, or does anybody know a manufacturer already producing such? An old Amiga freak has developed such adapter and would start a small batch production if enough people will contact. If you are interested, please participate in the survey (click on title link, then on "Umfragen").

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08.Mar.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Microsoft Gives Windows 2000 Source Codes to US Major Customers.
»Microsoft has started to ship the Windows 2000 source code to up to 1,000 of their major customers as like to the PC manufacturer Dell. The company announced this on Tuesday. Microsoft's major customers for the first time would be able to see how Windows 2000 looks like "below the bonnet". But it is not allowed to change the source code. «
Complete article under the title link (German).

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07.Mar.2001



Jikes V1.13
Kriton Kyrimis has released version 1.13 of the open source Java-compiler 'Jikes' for AmigaOS and AmigaDE (AmigaSDK). The compiler distinguishes by high speed and is therefore a good choice for extensive projects.

The compiler has been developed by Philippe Charles and David Shields for alphaWorks-program from IBM. The current homepage of the compiler is situated on IBM - developerWorks.

You can download the different versions for Amiga under the title link. Besides the compiler you need the Java-run-time-classes e.g. from Sun or the open source Java-implementation Kaffe. You can find a Kaffe-version for AmigaOS which also supports under the Geek Gadgets X11-port graphics under Amiga Jikes FAQ from Kriton Kyrimis.

The version of Amiga works without ixemul-library.

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07.Mar.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


Golem: House searching at Met@box
»Public prosecution investigates because of suspicion of investment and share price imposture.
This morning the public prosecution searched the offices of Met@box. This is connected with the investigation which has been done since February of this year against the responsible members of board because of the suspicion of investment and share price imposture as well as the possible insider trade. The company has promised unlimited support to the investigators.«
See title link for full article (German).



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07.Mar.2001
Chris Hodges via E-Mail


FormAldiHyd V2.2
There is a new version of FormAldiHyd which is a driver for Aldi, AipTek Hyperpen and WacomIV compatible graphic trays.

The support of the macro keys as well as the possibility of playing sounds when clicking the pin have been added. FormAldiHyd now finally works with the multi I/O cards MultiFace and IOBlix. Of course a lot of bugs have benn fixed and many minor details added (see readme).

Download

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07.Mar.2001
Ralph Reuchlein on ANF


www.amigaworld.com is Not Down...
Yesterday I was pointed out that AmigaWorld obviously cannot be accessed. But www.amigaworld.com still works only the `international` DNS-entry is missing - according to DENIC "Record last updated on 26-Feb-2001" -.

You can access the site under http://151.189.12.217. If you want to read the programs support sites you have to do it in the following way, e.g for MUIbase: http://151.189.12.217/support/muibase/ (Do not forget the slash at the end!). Ralph Reuchl

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07.Mar.2001
ANF


G-REX 1200
G-REX 1200 PCI boards will be dispatched to customers and resellers on March 9th. Hardware and software have already finished, but writing the documentation is still in progress.

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07.Mar.2001
Christian Effenberger on ANF


New version of SiteWay-modules: WebColor 1.2
WebColor is a helpful tool for creating and editing HTML-colours. You can choose the colour in 24 Bit mode or it can be reduced to the so called "web-palette". The Workbench palette colours can be used and the VGA- and Netscape-colour names are also supported. WebColor is part of the SiteWay project.


WebColor can now adopt each colour from each window or screen using a pipette (...which turned out to be very useful!).

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