22.Sep.2000
CIS
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Crystal Interactive Software announces Partnership with Blittersoft
Crystal Interactive Software announces that Blittersoft
will take over the worldwide distribution of their software.
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22.Sep.2000
AmigArt
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Workbench2000 Version 1.6 Released
Workbench2000 is a taskbar which you can use to start programs as you know it
from Windows.
Download: WB2000.lha
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22.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer
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FreeCiv Developer Version 1.13 Released
Freeciv is a round-based multiple player strategty game, released under the GNU
General Public License. You can compare it to Civilization II® by
Microprose®.
Download: freeciv_devel.lzx - 821 KB
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22.Sep.2000
Thomas Dellert via eMail
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Press release G-Rex-PCI
We from DCE, leading manufacturer of accelerator
boards and accessories in the Amiga market, are glad to announce to the Amiga
community that we can satisfy the want for faster graphics boards, good and cheap
sound cards, as well as PCI ethernet network cards.
For the entire (German) press release, click on the titlelink.
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22.Sep.2000
Norman on ANF
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One more PCI Board for AMIGA?
On the main page of the DCE website is a so far mysterious product announcement.
As it appears, G-REX is a PCI board for AMIGA and probably compatible to the
Voodoo 3 card. For those interested, there's a PDF file for download. Link see
below.
Stay tuned for some BLACK MAGIC...
Voodoo 3 hits the Amiga!
Prepare for G-Rex, the new PCI board from DCE -
and be ready for Voodoo 3 magic on your Amiga!
Curious? Want to learn more? Have a look at our
VOODOO TEASER (PDF)!
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22.Sep.2000
Amiga Realm via eMail
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AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog,
the website designed by Daniel Hutchinson, where readers can voice their
experiences with Amiga companies and get tips where they can buy their
products cheap, is now at Amiga Realm, the Amiga web directory and will
be continued there.
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21.Sep.2000
DirOpus 4
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Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15a (Beta) Released
Jake Rzeuski has continously developed the free source code of GP Software
and has now released a new beta version 4.15a of the file-manager for download.
In this version NewIcons and GlowIcons are 100% supported and the size informations
of files are listed in KB/MB/GB in listers.
Download: DOpus415JRbin.lha - 334 KB
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21.Sep.2000
Lambda
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Development of Lambda "Pauses"
The status of development of the freetime project "Lambda", a high quality 3D
spacegame development, was set on "pause".
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21.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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The End of ImageEngineer
Czech Amiga News has asked Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer, a gfx-package
for Amiga, why he leaves the Amiga Community. In his
answer Marko said
it would be easy to declare software piracy and bad sells as reasons for this
step or he could tell a long story about the reasons, but he will not, because
he do not want to offend the Amiga Community.
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21.Sep.2000
AmiDog
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AMP 2 version V2pre4 Released
A pre-version of the MPEG-Player AMP 2 was released, in which the problem of not
functioning slides was fixed. The AC3 decoder can now be used for listening AC3Streams
in DVD clips.
Download: AMP2pre4.lha
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21.Sep.2000
BoingWorld
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Fnurr2000 Released
With Fnurr2000, an old, funny and very simple game was released. In this new
programmed game you have to let small pixels explode. (Avoid homing pixels)
Download:fnurr2000.lha - 140 kb
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21.Sep.2000
Anu Seilonen on ANF
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Finnish Amiga User Group Announces User Group Meeting
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 21, 2000 - Finnish Amiga Users Group will host its
annual user group meeting on Saturday, September 30th from 14:00 h to 17:45 h in Espoo,
Finland. The event will start with a formal meeting, and an informal part will
follow after 15:30 o'clock.
An Amiga dealer will be present with various Amiga items for sale. The user group
will also demonstrate the Amiga Software Development Kit on Linux. Other highlights
include various Amiga magazines for reading, demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile
phone covers and plenty of good company. Admission is free of charge and free soft
drinks will be available.
Please visit the titlelink or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/ for
instructions on how to get there, latest news, IRC coverage, webcam and more. E-mail
inquiries may be sent to Anu Seilonen.
About the Finnish Amiga User Group:
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a non-profit organization
for promoting Amiga computing and helping Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku.
After its e-zine the group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings
and by publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga User Group and its predecessors
have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held several public gatherings.
Other accomplishments include the Web site and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network
of Amiga related bulletin board systems.
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21.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF
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MeterNet SimpleBox & TAO Press Release
New, Easy-to-Use, Solid State Internet Device Products Powered By Next Generation
Amiga Technologies include Java® and Media Streaming Support.
Snoqualmie, WA - Reno, NV-September 20, 2000 - Business Wire - Targeting the millions
of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be broadband enabled,
Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a series of broadband SimpleBox
Internet Devices powered by the next generation Amiga.
Tao Group: intentTM Official Support Centre to open in Japan
September 19, 2000 - Berkshire-based Tao Group Limited and Fujitsu Aichi Engineering
Limited (Fujitsu AEL) have agreed to open an intent Official Support Centre in Japan,
to provide technical support services for Japanese corporate users of Tao's intent,
an extremely high performance multimedia JavaTM execution environment.
The JavaTM language is becoming increasingly popular in the Japanese consumer market,
particularly in PDAs, set-top boxes and mobile Internet devices, and Tao's intent
is making inroads due to its minimal memory footprint. intent is also proving
successful because of its system-level binary portability across software and
hardware platforms - a fundamental factor in the embedded market where there are
so many different CPUs and operating systems.
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21.Sep.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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Official Annoucement from Elbox
Contents of this pressrelease is a technical presentation (pro Mediator) vs. the
Predator PCI busboard from Eyetech.
Because none of both PCI busboards is available at present we can not figure out
the truth of this comparison.
Experience reports of users are welcome.
Elbox Computer
Krakow, 21 Sep 2000
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
We, Elbox Computer company, the company involved with microcomputer
technology for over 18 years, the company with the principles of
reliability, honesty and care for our clients, feel obliged to
release this announcement to protect interests of Amiga users.
For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in
a propaganda action against our breakthrough product for Amiga
computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue
views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this
high-end product with their announced device.
It is not our way to comment on others' activities, yet under
the current circumstances we feel obliged to explain this situation
and Eyetech's accusations to Amiga users and to comment on the idea
indicated by Eyetech (or any other company behind the Eyetech
nametag).
BLIZZARD PPC LOCAL BUS LIMITATIONS:
Eyetech announced releasing a product they called competitive to
our MEDIATOR high-end card.
Technical specification of this product has been announced in
such a way that Amiga users would have to misread it.
The idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC
cards gives worse performance than MEDIATOR because:
- This solution is only for owners of Blizzard PPC accelerators.
You have to stick with your Blizzard PPC 603e for ever.
No change, no open structure, no versatility.
- Practical average data transfers over the busboard connected
directly to Blizzard PPC cards will not be higher than achieved
with MEDIATOR - due to technical limitations of Blizzard PPC
cards.
- Connection of a busboard to the connector used for inserting
a BVision card renders further use of the BVision card
impossible.
MEDIATOR OPEN SOLUTION:
The MEDIATOR high-end busboard is the best solution for Amiga
computers to offer high-speed support for PCI cards.
The MEDIATOR busboard is a well-thought product, with long-standing
history of design development and a vision for its lasting
evolution, to give Amiga users power they have not had so far.
Our basic idea is that MEDIATOR is an OPEN solution, capable of
hosting ANY turbo cards from the Amiga market. MEDIATOR is not
reduced to a Blizzard PPC-bound concept. MEDIATOR gives you the
possibility to have any turbo card you want.
MEDIATOR has been designed specifically for all the available
cards and each and every turbo card works with MEDIATOR at the
maximum speed available for the given card.
MEDIATOR PCI may offer transfer of data from/to any Amiga turbo
card at the maximum speed of up to 132 MB/s. The only practical
limitation lies in the design of the specific turbo card.
MEDIATOR is expandable, even more: it is ready for any new Amiga
cards that will be available in the future - this gives you
freedom that you have never had before.
You can use MEDIATOR with any turbo cards: Blizzard 1230,
Blizzard 1240, Blizzard 1260, Blizzard PPC, Apollo 1230, Apollo 1240,
Apollo 1260, Elbox 1230, MTec 1230, etc. and with any future
concepts like Amijoe and more...
MEDIATOR ADVANTAGES:
MEDIATOR has been designed optimised for any turbo card type,
so that the maximum possible performance is obtained in the given
hardware configuration.
MEDIATOR automatically recognises the turbo card type and executes
the best procedures to guarantee the highest performance possible
in this configuration. This is an unrivalled feature.
This approach is much more time- and effort- and money-consuming
than the concept of supporting Blizzard PPC cards only.
Besides, the idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to
Blizzard PPC cards does not give you, the Amiga user, any additional
speed gains when compared with MEDIATOR - you will only feel that
Eyetech's design is simpler and possibly definitely cheaper.
We feel very sorry that Eyetech in this context is apparently
discrediting MEDIATOR's performance while being well aware of their
fallacy.
ABOUT ELBOX:
We have been developing and producing electronic equipment since 1982.
Our superb Amiga designs include:
- E-BOX tower systems and ZORRO busboards for A1200 and A4000
(also known as Power Tower in the UK and Winner Tower in Germany);
- Elbox FastATA controllers for A1200 and A4000 (known also under the
name of Power Flyer in the UK and Winner HighSpeed Controller in
Germany);
- Memory expansion cards for all types of Amiga computers and many
other minor accessories, e.g. PC Mouse interfaces (Mroocheck,
Punchinello), others.
Elbox is also the owner of Twin Spark Soft, a company producing
software for Amiga computers (in the Polish language only).
Besides Amiga devices, we design and produce industrial controllers
(e.g. for injection moulding machines) and many other high-end
devices in the fields of radio- and telecommunications (e.g. call
systems, pagers, speech coding devices).
NEW:
Please look for our further releases about ELBOX products for Amiga
computers to be on sale by the end of this year:
- MEDIATOR evolution line (A4000 and A3000);
- The TOTALLY NEW breakthrough turbo cards for Amiga computers
(A4000, A3000, A1200).
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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20.Sep.2000
Vincent Perkins on ANF
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AmigaNG.com Back Online!
AmigaNG is now back online after a long hollyday away. So please visit the
Number 1 web site for info on the next generation of Amiga!
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20.Sep.2000
Marco Dittmann on ANF
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Future of Warpgate in the Air
As the webmaster Andreas Wendorf told during an IRC interview yesterday, the future
of Warpgate is in the air. He found fault both, the programmers and software companies
acceptance, who only support the Warp9 team with news in an inadequate way.
The English news site all around the subjects of WarpOS and Warp3D, which was put online
in March 1999 was already stopped once, and then was restarted again in February
2000 after numerous user requests.
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20.Sep.2000
Darkage Software
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Darkage Software will Attend the Pianeta Amiga 2000
Darkage Software, the creators of games like "Tales from Heaven", "Powerball", "Extreme", and "Supreme"
will attend the Amiga show "Pianeta Amiga 2000 expo", which will be held in Empoli, Itali, 30th September
30th to 1st October. Darkage will present previews of Powerball, and Supreme and also will introduce
projects under development.
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20.Sep.2000
Apex Designs
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New Payback Status Report
In this new status report the author James Daniels tells that the game now supports two
CD playback modes, he mainly dealt with development of new levels, and new vehicles, and
some bugs were fixed. Furthermore the game engine was optimized to make it faster, and
a lot of graphics were redrawn, professionally.
James Daniels asks, if a support of PSX controllers is of interest, and he would like to get to
know your opinion via eMail.
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20.Sep.2000
AmigaAMP
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AmigaAMP 2.8 BETA-8 Released
Version 2.8 Beta-8 for the MPEG audio player "AmigaAMP" for Amiga was released.
The author Thomas Wenzel notes that this update was done very fast, due to his Amiga
needs to be repaired urgently, and it might take him one or two weeks to reply on
e-mails.
A new config editor by Daniel Westernberg is available.
Download: AmigaAMP28b8.lha - 560 KB
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20.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer
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SimplePac Version 1.2
A new version for the Workbench game SimplePac was released. New is the resizeable game window and
a hiscore list. Furthermore own sounds, keyboard, and joystick are supported, now.
Download: simplepac.lzx - 73 KB
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20.Sep.2000
clickBOOM
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Nightlong at the Duplicators now
In the so called S-File of clickBOOM Sofia announces Nightlong to be at the duplicators now, and
the game to be available soon. Furthermore a movie (7 MB) of the toughest Amiga devotee is available
for download.
Download: tattoo1.avi - 7 MB - The Toughest Amigan Movie
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20.Sep.2000
Michael Luense via eMail
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New Addon for YAM
Michael Luense has finished a new addon for YAM. This is a little Arexx program
which opens several requesters for e-mail editing or viewing and saving of attachments.
The archive comes with both, an English and a German version.
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20.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Explorer Dissuasiveness: Trial and Net Demonstration
«At the county court Duesseldorf, Germany, today from 10 o'Clock the case Stefan Muenz vs Symicron company
will be tried orally. Symicron claims him to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer. Muenz is the
author of the widely spread online manual SELFHTML.»
«Financial support for Muenz comes from Freedom for Links (FFL).
This society build from an internet intiative has already collected 50,000 DM of donations, which shall make possible
a sample case against Symicron and their lawyer Guenter Freiherr von Gravenreuth through all instances.
"Furthermore the FFL organised together with Muenz a net demonstraion. Website carriers are asked to displace their
homepages with a ready made Demo-Site on Wednesday, adverting
the case", said Uschi Hering, speaker of FFL, during a talk with c't. "There is vast reception. We have the impression
that this is the first demonstration in the net working."»
Entire article at the titlelink (German).
Currently there are a number of 428 websites registered to participate. We will report on the case during this day.
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20.Sep.2000
Freedom for Links
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Stefan Muenz Wins a Hop
Stefan Muenz was able to win a hop in the oral trial this morning at the county court
Duesseldorf, Germany. The case is Stefan Muenz vs the Symicron company who charged
Stefan Munez to have violated brand law by putting a link to FTP-Explorer into his
Self-HTML. For details see the previous message on this subject.
The chief judge Dr. Fudickar: "We are tending not to presume a possibility of mistake in name
between Explorer and FTP-Explorer."
Dr. Hans-Jochen Krieger: "So we would like to enforce your opinion."
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19.Sep.2000
Andreas Steup on ANF
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ParaGlide News
According to an e-mail I recieved from Villagetronic, the Amiga section has been
placed into competent hands:
"The Paraglide will be finished and produced by the developers themselves. (...) For
more detailed information please ask burkert@sophisticated-development.de.
So perhaps something will happen within this year for the 3D hardware accelerator for the
PicassoIV. Blittersoft already accepts
preorders for the card.
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19.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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WarpGIF-Datatype Bugfixes
There is a major bugfix for WarpGIF-DT (v40.2), which fixes most of the known bugs.
- corrupted pictures resulted in a crash due to a bug in the program
- transparency now supported, IBrowse displays the correct pictures
- the first frame should be loaded and displayed for most GIF anims
- Only the global color palette is loaded right now, the local color palette is skipped
- the OM_UPDATE method might return an undefined value occassionally, but this doesn't cause
troubles until now
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19.Sep.2000
Thomas-Peter Klug on ANF
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WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1
Download:
WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Win9x/2k (DirectX 5):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx5.zip
WinFellow alpha v0.4.2 build 1 - Windows NT (DirectX 3):
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.2_build_1_directx3.zip
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18.Sep.2000
Martin Merz at ANF
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MI-News: AppMI - 2. Update
AppMI is a collection of images and animations for toolbars that uses the GlowIcons-design.
The second update is completed, now.
The archive contains 64 new or reworked images and 4 new animations.
As an special feature we added the toolbar images for Photogenics.
The archive will be released at the Aminet, too.
Registered users will get the archive via E-Mail.
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18.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Web Survey: Windows Way Ahead
As an exception we are citing the entire article from Heise.
«With the
survey on the best operating system
at MSNBX things turned in a wonderfull way. On Friday morning Linux still was ahead with 28% of 18,500 votes,
as reported, and now the percentage of votes for the
free operating system decreased to 3% of 384,848 votes, untill Sunday evening.
This survey took a curious way: Linux had its grand level at about 03:00 AM with 39%, of the up to that time given 29,100 votes
a number of 11,350 belonged to the free operating system. Within the following 20 hours 126,500 votes more were given, of
which only 800 voted for Linux (0.6%), stunningly. By that the percentage of votes for Windows 95/98/ME, as well as for
NT/2000 was dubbled. Now some are getting suspicious
that there must have happened some manipulation. Don't trust any statistics you didn't faked yourself....
»
Supplement 09-19-2000: Andreas Mixich via eMail
Microsoft accepted that the survey was manipulated and in the meantime it was removed leaving the following note:
EDITOR'S NOTE:
Sept. 18 MSNBC has removed the Live Vote originally published with this story due
to what appeared to be electronic ballot stuffing. The Live Vote, which asked readers
which personal computer operating system they think is the best, received a large
influx of votes in the past few days, skewing the results. MSNBC has removed the Vote
in light of this. MSNBC Live Votes are not scientifically valid surveys.
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18.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha biz/dbase 116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4)
StarBase_CLI.lha biz/dbase 104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.7b)
StarBase_SCR.lha biz/dbase 109K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v2.1b)
DalWatch.lha comm/irc 3K+Interface to Server-side Notify on Dalne
lcr-i.lha comm/misc 109K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
lcr.lha comm/misc 112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
Emperor.lha dev/c 491K+Object-oriented programming language
checkstack.lha dev/debug 33K+CheckStack tool for WarpUP including Sou
FD2Pragma.lha dev/misc 126K+V2.112 creates pragma, inline, ... files
xad_ar.lha dev/src 9K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha dev/src 14K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha dev/src 43K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha dev/src 11K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha dev/src 7K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha dev/src 9K+ZAP xadmaster client
reindeer.txt docs/anno 1K+A distributed rendering project
SameGame.lha game/think 15K+Addictive puzzle game with coloured ball
WBArmy.lha game/wb 211K+Like Scorched Tanks, but in WB window.
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 201K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8)
cutquotes.lha misc/imdb 9K+Cuts 'quotes.list' entries down to Movie
imdbDiff000908.lha misc/imdb 2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
DA3Demo.lha misc/sci 2.6M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
RandomScenery.lha util/boot 15K+More than just workbench backdrops
TurboVal.lha util/boot 17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.9)
Resistor.lha util/misc 50K+Code&Decode the color rings at resistors
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 28K+Identifies your Amiga
Safe.lha util/virus 18K+Safe v14.2 - virus dicovering system
Dynamite.lha util/wb 57K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.
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18.Sep.2000
Amitrix
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AWeb-II News
For a longer time there were no news about AWeb-II, a browser by Yvon Rozijn, distributed by Amitrix Development.
Today there are some.
Michael Lange informed us about some reports about a AWeb 3.4
betaversion at the AWeb-mailinglist. But he has no informations about new features.
You can find a new norwegian version of the AWeb-II localization catalogues and updateted versions of some plugins.
Furthermore they have now an extra page for the AWeb-Mailinglist.
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18.Sep.2000
GoldED
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GoldED Studio 6: Extended Distribution
The following distibutors will offer GoldED Studio:
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18.Sep.2000
Bright Light Software
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Audiomaster2k and AmiMDC800 Updates
At the software area you find updates of Audiomaster2K, a sample editor. The software is shareware and with the
alphaversion 0.52a available for download you will not be able to save your work.
AmiMDC-800 were updated, too. The new release has the version number 1.73. You can use this program to control
your Mustek MDC-800 and transfer pictures to your computer. Because the software is a commercial product you,
will not be able to transfer pictures with the downloadable version.
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18.Sep.2000
MakeCD Support
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MakeCD 3.2d Beta 3 Released
The new public betaversion 3.2d Beta 3 for MakeCD, a CD burning program for Amiga, is available now.
The archive contains only the new binaries. That's why you need version 3.2c for installaling the new version
(have a look at the History).
Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_3.lha
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18.Sep.2000
Olaf Köbnik
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
Amiga Arena presents MusicMan III as a special Amiga Arena version.
Together with Andreas Mair we made a free registration possible (MusicMan III is shareware. 30 DM is the normal price.)
MusicMan III is a software for managing your LP-, CD-, MC- and single collection.
Amiga Arena - E.N.D. Part II
Marko Seppaenen, developer of ImageEngineer,
leaves the Amiga ! So, once again we are loosing a developer!
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18.Sep.2000
Harald Frank on ANF
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ISDN-Mon V4 Available
At the time being Dirk Tietke is not able to maintain his homepage and to fix the known problems with broken links.
Furthermore it is not possible to say when he will be able to access his webserver with his Amiga computer
again, and to provide new updates.
That's the reason why we made the archive available at our own downloadside.
This leads to the download site
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18.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF
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COMA, Is That a Virus?
NO! COMA is the name of the new clubmagazin (German) of the "Allgemeiner ComputerClub Magdeburg" (AccM).
Presumably it will be published on the 7th of october 2000 at our homepage. The first issue will
feature a report about the exhibition in Neuss, a HTML-Tutorial and much more. But it should not
be a AccM-Magazin only, everyone who wants to write something is invited to write articles.
The articles could be about new hardware, commentaries about up-to-date problems, jokes,
comicstrips or what ever you would like to write about.
And because we are a general computer club you do not have to write about Amiga the articles
can even be about PC or MAC or any other computer or OS. The last date for articles for issue
number 2 is the 1st october 2000. But we are still looking for authors for the upcoming issues.
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17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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Pinball Fantasies AGA and advertising games
Among other things you can download original Amiga games at Amiga Land
for which an appropriate license is given.
Newly added ist the pinball game Pinball
Fantasies AGA and the following advertising games:
Bifi-Snack Zone, Bifi 2-Actionin Hollywood
HelicopterMission
Tony and his friends
Tricky Quicky
Sony Game
Karamalz Cup.
Regarding the emulators the up-to-date versions of WinUAE and WinFellow Alpha 0.4.1
have been added.
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17.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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WarpGIF-Datatype
The first GIF datatype for WarpOS is now freely available for all PPC-Amigas.
After datatypes for JPEG and PNG under WarpOS (done by Oliver Roberts and Andreas Kleinert)
this datatype now closes the gap for the widely spread GIF format.
According to Achim Stegemann this GIF datatype is speedwise around twice as fast as the original Gif-DT of the OS 3.5.
At the moment only OS 3.1 and 3.5 are supported. OS 3.0 follows later on.
For further information (and download) see titlelink.
Download: WarpGIF-DT.lha
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17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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Impressions of the d'Amiga
At Fun Time World Robbie Schaefer has published his impressions of the Amiga developer computer d'Amiga.
The report (German) describes the given hard- and softwarecomponents.
Fun Time World is pleased about sendings of further experience reports
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17.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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GBE V0.4.8b
On 17 September 2000 Mathias Roslund has published the version 0.4.8b of his port of the Gameboy emulator GBE for
PPC-Amigas. The emulator itself is developed by Chuck Mason and Steven Fuller.
In this version the memory problem has been solved and triple buffering has been added.
The emulator supports all Z80-Opcodes and the Gameboy Color. It runs on PPC-Amigas with WarpUp V4.0+, 8 MB RAM and
AGA or CGfX.
Download:
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17.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Report about SEAL-O-RAMA
Gary Storm of SEAL has published an extensive report about the SEAL-O-RAMA, in which among other things he talks
about the individual exhibitors. All together around 190 people have visited the show. This number exceeded the desired
number of visitors.
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17.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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PLANET online again
After a break of four months, due to technical problems, the french Amiga magazin "PLANET" is online again.
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17.Sep.2000
Bernd Gmeiner ANF
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AMI Sector One Updated
Bernd Gmeineder writes:
This time we have got permission from the companies "Talking Birds" (known for
football manager games) and "Polarware" (once specialised in adventure games) to
offer their Amiga game on our site for download. Some of the games of these
firms, like "Oo Topos (Adventure, already released in 1986 in the USA) and "Der
Trainer" (german football manager with very good reviews in "Amiga Joker" and
"Amiga Games") are now ready for download.
Further on other games, for example "Dungeon Krampfer", "Thromulus" and others,
have been added.
Besides these credits concerning around 200 more Amigagames were integrated in
the searchable database. The music section was updated with new soundtracks of
Amiga games like "Lethal XCess", and more.
Around 60 hires cover scans of classic Amiga games are finishing this update.
The URL for all this is: http://www.emucamp.com/amiga/.
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17.Sep.2000
SEAL
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Clubbed issue #6 out
On 16 September 2000 SEAL has released issue #6 of their own club magazin.
With 48 pages it is teh biggest issue, yet. It contains among other things a
feature about accelerator cards, reviews of PageStream 4 and Heretic II and a
new hints part.
For details regarding the magazin including where to get follow the titlelink.
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17.Sep.2000
Codepoet on ANF
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WinUAE V0.8.14 R3
On 16. September 2000 version 0.8.14 Release 3 of the Windows port of the Amiga
emulator UAE was released. Compared with the last version the following things
have been changed:
- FIXED: Stupid bug with GUI (F12) when in full-screen mode.
- FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 slow-down in Release 2
- FIXED: Stupid Picasso96 bug with menu painting in Release 2
- ADDED: French GUI DLL to installer
Download: WinUAE0814R3.exe
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17.Sep.2000
Fabio Trotta on AFN
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New Screenshots and Arcadia Interview Translation
Fabio Trotta wrote:
On the pages of No Risc No Fun you can find new screenshots of various games.
The German translation of the English spoken Arcadia interview
is also online. And a small surprise is waiting for you, too.
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17.Sep.2000
HArald Frank on ANF
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VMC's Technical Library is Online
Harald Frank wrote:
Since today our hardware dictionnary is online at last, where every
in our products technical interested user or programmer may find everything what
is needed to write drivers for Linux, NetBSD or other operating systems which
exist for Amiga.
Should there be a lack of important information or you have some ideas and
suggestions concerning these sites, then please write an email to support@vmc.de
If you know a Linux or NetBSD programmer who is capable of porting drivers to
one of these systems or, even better, has already written successfully own
drivers, then inform him kindly about our new dictionnary pages with the request
for a port of the missing drivers. We'll give as much technical help as is possible
to everybody who wants to do this.
I think, with your support we'll be able to point all waiting users to new
drivers for Linux and NetBSD.
This leads you to the Technical
Library.
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17.Sep.2000
Tomás J. Cantó
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Spanish Version of amiga-news.de reworked
The spanish version of amiga-news.de will now be regularly updated, again.
The first collected experiences when doing the translation showed that the
first system chosen to do the work with was not the best suited to keep the messages
regularly up to date. So a new and more dynamic Website was developed.
This can be reached at the known URL:
http://www.amiga.es.org/amiganewsde.html.
For its use a browser with IFRAME-support is needed.
For the creating of this page help is looked for. Everybody with interest in
anticipating on this site can mail to Tomás J. Cantó.
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17.Sep.2000
CD32-Allianz via Email
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AmigaNG Programs Overview Updated
The CD32 Alliance wrote:
And again the AmigaNG programs overview was updated (dated: 17.9.2000) and
contains now all programs that were released since the appearing of the
AmigaSDK.
Since the last update 3 programs were added, so that now 70 NG programs are
registered.
From now on the AmigaNG programs overview will be updated every sunday. I ask you
to consider this.
Urgently german owners of the AmigaSDK are wanted to write reviews about some of
the already released NG programs or to introduce NG programs.
Furthermore we search owners of the new d'AMIGA to introduce this also with a detailed
review.
To speed up the development of programs for the AmigaNG programmers are
wanted who can create a comprehensive workshop about the programming using the
new AmigaSDK.
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17.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Safe V14.2
The virus scanner Safe now exists as version 14.2 and can be downloaded. The
documentation is now in HTML. The following has changed:
- fixed again REBOOT for 040 - I hope for the last time :-P
- selfname detecting system fixed a little bit,
Name : Safe V14.2
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archice size : 17.927 bytes
Release date : 17 September 2000
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info : Needs xvs.library V33.23
Download: Safe.lha
readme
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17.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VirusWarning-Guide V3.1
The VirusWarning-Guide can now be downloaded as version 3.1.
New are all virus warnings of the recent time. Besides that some new things were
added.
Name : VirusWarning.Guide V3.1
Archive name : vht-vg31.lha
Archive size : 86.531 bytes
Release date : 17 September 2000
Programmer : Virus Help Denmark
Download: vht-vg31.lha
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17.Sep.2000
AmigaFlame
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Puzzle Adventure 'BUBBLE HEROES' Out!
A new game for the AMIGA - this has become a very rare event nowadays.
The more pleasant is this message from the british WebZine AmigaFlame: a puzzle
adventure in the style of 'BubbleBobble' was presented by CrystalInteractiveSoft
at this year's SealORama.
Informations about the gameplay, a short summary of the game and some impressive
screenshots of 'BubbleHeroes' are to find at the titltelink.
To everybody who wants to buy the game this page also offers an email link to the
distributor.
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16.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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New Amiga Designs
At the titlelink, some inofficial design references for new Amiga products
by Zenon Olenski are available.
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16.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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Java Developer Tools released by Espial
Espial, a partner of Amiga, releases some developer tools for Java. This should
push software development for mobile systems. Devicetop.com
is meant as portal for developers of Java based applications, especially for mobile
systems. Users can exchange experiences in several forums, for Amiga too.
The following programs have been released:
- Espial Architect v.3.0 is a visual development environment for Java that enables
users to rapidly develop graphically rich applications for smart devices
- Espial Espresso v.3.2 is a rich suite of GUI components targeted for use in the
development of smart device application services and user interfaces
- Espial Escape v.4.5 is a small footprint full-featured web browser for smart
devices that supports all the latest web standards
- Espial Devicetop v.2.0 is a smart device service platform that leverages the
Java language into a powerful service platform
The tools are available for several platforms, and can be downloaded from
Devicetop.com: Tools.
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16.Sep.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF
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Belgium Amiga Newsletter
There is a new version of the newsletter from the "Amiga Club Genk" in
Belgium. It is the acgmail nr. 85 and is in Flemish/Dutch.
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16.Sep.2000
AmigActive
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AmigActive - online is Back
"We must apologise for not updating the web site or announcing anything on
our announcement mailing list recently. We have been extremely busy producing
Amiga Active over the last couple of months, and our on-line presence has had
to take a back seat for the time being."
"Our new web site is taking shape - but again, work on this has had to take a
back seat recently - and you can expect to see it before the end of September.
We hope so."
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16.Sep.2000
Olaf Köbnik via e-mail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - E.N.D.! (Evil Never Dies)
It's more than sad that the few Amiga users still have to face pirate copies, fake keys
etc. taking away the fun! Every pirate copy does it's share in further developments being
cancelled! It's a nuisance that you have (are forced to) face this problem on the Amiga.
This doesn't really improve motivation! Who Cares? :-(
Matrix Hunter - Amiga Arena Version!
In cooperation with Christian Steiner, the registered version of Matrix Hunter is available
for download. Matrix Hunter is a shooter and one of the first games by Christian Steiner,
author of Sharks!
Amiga Arena - Burning Business
The special price for PhotoAlbum / Cybershow has been extended to October 31st, 2000!
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15.Sep.2000
Mick via eMail
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OpusGIBar with own Domain
OpusGIBar now also has an own domain and is accessible at
http://opusgibar.free.fr/, from now.
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15.Sep.2000
Stefan Ossowski
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Aminet Games CD-ROM Released
The Aminet Games includes almost 1 GB (decrunched) of the best games from Aminet inside of
more than 1500 archives. Almost every game can be run directly by a simple click, and do not
need to installed further!
In addition and as further highlight there are 70 commercial games on the CD: Gloom 3, Max Rally, XTreme Racing, and
Gamer's Delight 2.
enthalten: Gloom 3, Max Rally, XTreme Racing und Gamer's Delight 2.
On this sepcial CD of the Aminet series every enthusiastic gamer can find what his heart desires.
An exclusive selection of the best games of all times, of all genres.
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15.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
xtm-twirl.lha biz/dkg 71K+Additional texture for Extreme
CandyPro103b.lha biz/patch 747K+Update CandyFactoryPro V1.03b (15.12.99)
MCP_v1.33_fix.lha biz/patch 2K+MCP v1.33 install fix
TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 9K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
YAT.lha comm/mail 510K+Yet Another collection of Taglines for Y
NullTCP.lha comm/tcp 6K+Amiga<->Win9x TCP/IP using null-modem.Up
T-Rexx.lha comm/tcp 105K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
GuiSGML.lha comm/www 79K+SGML/HTML Templating Tool, Graphical Mar
Lynx.lha comm/www 790K+WWW Browser,v.284dev9 (works with m68k)
qtz-SMOS.lha demo/intro 2K+Quartz-Sensible Moon Of Soccer cracktro
DLL.lha dev/basic 42K+Dynamic Linked List Sources for Blitz
65816_20.lzh dev/cross 189K+65816 (SNES) assembler & disassembler
audio_in_e.lha dev/e 17K+Audio examples using audio and ahi devic
mpega_in_e.lha dev/e 5K+Example how to use mpega.library with Am
ColorWheel.lha dev/gui 27K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.7)
GradientSlider.lha dev/gui 7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.5)
mrq_library.lha dev/src 79K+Fast C2P + CGX procedures for games, dem
gadget45.lha docs/mags 429K+German Freeware Magazine
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (11 Sept
SWOSpl_11.lha game/data 16K+SWOS - Polish League AND some advertisin
Mattonite.lha game/demo 216K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
KC.lha game/role 93K+Create your hero for RPG Krysztaly Czasu
PureBrain.lha game/think 162K+Put back the symbols in the right order.
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 29K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 32K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V22.lha gfx/edit 900K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
Mentat.lha misc/edu 199K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
ChipEm.lha misc/emu 71K+Chip 8 v0.4 Emulator by Balrog Soft
GBE.lha misc/emu 78K+GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for WarpU
lotto-v8.lha misc/misc 94K+UK National Lottery Database v8 inc.
rno-r045.lha mods/misc 562K+Rno-label release no.45 by kure&stefan (
Eldorado.mpg mods/mpg 5.1M+Eldorado County by Vincent & McGahey
rno-r046.mpg mods/mpg 3.3M+Rno-label release no.46 by FarFar (Chill
tek_mtone.lha mods/techn 57K+Monotone - minimalistic stomper
Pegase.lha mus/misc 203K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
rsss.lha mus/misc 75K+Realtime Sound Synthesis System (preview
EP_MFP.lha mus/play 10K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
PlayGUI.lha mus/play 574K+GUI for HIPPO,MPEGA,PLAY16 AND GMPLAY!
Granade.mpg pix/3dani 6.1M+Animation of a hand granade
shoot.lha pix/anim 2.3M+Working on our latest film.
crazyGranny.lha pix/mpg 529K+Mpeg anim of my granny playing football
scene3.lha pix/mpg 2.1M+Scene from the set of an upcoming film.
SarajevoNight.jpg pix/views 54K+768x512, Sarajevo at night (2000)
Zagreb.jpg pix/views 71K+768x512, Zagreb (2000)
FreeEd.lha text/edit 190K+This is a simple text editor. (It has a
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 17K+Converts ASCII to Japanese ASCII
Kill0D.lha text/misc 2K+Remove PC CR+LF End-Of-Lines and replace
DSLT02.lha text/print 20K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 02 v1.
HexShow.lha util/cli 4K+Shows files as Hex
muitoolkit_src.lha util/libs 48K+V1.1 - The MUI Toolkit library SRC (FREE
arc2arc27.lha util/rexx 4K+Convert any archive format easily
cdmp.lha util/rexx 22K+Helps to create mp3 from CD's (german)
BosnianLocale.lha util/wb 27K+Bosnian AmigaOS 3.1 localization v2
CopyIcon44.lha util/wb 6K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.3)
DefIcons44.lha util/wb 64K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.6a)
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 19K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.8
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15.Sep.2000
Harald Frank on ANF
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HyperCOM Magic Update with IOBlix Emulation
Beta-test HyperCOM 2.96B1 Magic-Update
With the new HypeCOM update we are making a lot of new functions official at once, hence there
is a big chance for problems to occur which we did not realise up to now.
As substitute for the old SilverSurfer software we are now officially offering a support via the
hyperCOM1.device from version v2.96B1, which has been enhanced or made faster in all parts compared to
the old silversurfer.device.
On of the most important new functions now is an implemented IOBlix software emulation, which allows some
programs and drivers to be used with the extremely compatible HyperCOM boards, at last.
Here are some examples on what already works:
- ScanQuix5 parallel Scanner-Support
- Camouflage 8x parallel Midi-Interface
- RBM AmStrong USV
- IOBlix ioblixzip.device for IO-Mega parallel ZIP-Drives
Within the next days the technical part of the emulation will be enhanced further, so that
surely even more applications and drivers can be used with the HyperCOM boards.
ATTENTION!
In order to be able to use the IOBlix software emulation the vmcresource.library must be loaded
by one of our drivers (hyperCOMx.device oder hyperPAR.device)!
Download page
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15.Sep.2000
Amidog
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New AMP2-PreRelease
New pre-version for the MPEG-player AMP2 with enhanced search function.
Download: AMP2pre3.lha - 125 KB
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15.Sep.2000
Amiga Future
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New Beta-Version for AmiTradeCenter
A new beta-version for ATC now allows also to save the position of every window.
Furthermore some bugs have been fixed. The titlelink points directly to the download (280 KB).
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15.Sep.2000
AROS-ML
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AROS - Status
AROS (Amiga Research OS), the system independent open source new implementation of the AmigaOS
is now bootable as the native version, and one can already do mouse moving on the screen.
Since there still is no filesystem no programs can be executed. Currently it is being tried to
get the source code of SFS; the author was positive about this idea, but first wants to fix some bugs.
More details, e.g. the trial to port AROS to UAE using JIT, you can find at the titlelink.
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14.Sep.2000
HellCoder of HellHound
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Fighter Model for Virtual Fighting finished
The fighter basic model for the Game "Virtual Fighting" is ready for beta testing. The fighting game runs on Workbench
and needs a PPC, as well as a graphics board with CyberGraphX. At the titlelink there is also a snapshot of the model.
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14.Sep.2000
BTTR-Team via eMail
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Back to the Roots Amiga-News
With the today update at "Back to the Roots" we are proving that this site
is something for everybody worldwide, no matter which land you are from or which
language you are speaking - there is something for everybody who is interested in
Amiga, Amiga emulations or the demo scene!
We are able to present both of the Spanish adventure games, "La Aventura Original" and
"La Diosa de Cozumel" from Aventuras AD. From Denmark comes the funny Troll "Hugo" who
might especially please kids, while the French company Lankhor provides us with both, the
German and English version of the classic "Mortville Manor", and with "Black Sect" they even gave
an absolut rarity in addition. And as a special surprise there now is even the CD32 version
of the classic adventure "Beneath a Stell Sky" for free and legal download. And as always, we
only told about some of the new games.
Of course, as absolute demo freaks we never would forget the demo scene with our updates.
Therefor there are among others two brand-new demos from Scoopex and Spaceballs for the - you
listen and are astonished - Amiga500 for download! Furthermore many classic demos and newer demos
for ECS+AGA Amigas/emulators were added.
For the friends of music among us there is a big Jesper Kyd Special - the well known musician of the
group "The Silents". From Hannes Seifert (Whale's Voyage) or Matthias Stenzhorn (Brainman) comes
music from computer games. We even were able to find a remix of the popular music from Monkey Island 2.
And the graphisc fetishists should have a look at the marvelous pictures by scene artists like Flood,
Nomad or Acryl.
That's all for today. Have a lot of fun with the new "food".
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14.Sep.2000
Soren Ladegaard on ANF
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CommodoreBillboard.com is launched!
The internet's largest collection of Commodore adverts, brochures and
TV-commercials has been launched yesterday. The intention is to preserve
this valuable material from the early days of Commodore computing, before
the originals get lost. High quality, full screen scans only. Great TV-ads
and promotional videos. Material in both English, Italian and Danish.
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14.Sep.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Last Chance to vote for Jay Miner for the Hall of Fame
As amiga-news.de already reported, Jay Miner was nominated for the Computer Hall of Fame. Unfortunatly
he was fallen back to position 16. That would mean that he dropped out! Please, vote for him before it is too late!
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14.Sep.2000
Eyetech Group Ltd on ANF
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Predator PCI / AGP / SDRAM / G3 / G4 expansion board update
We (Eyetech) have released news regarding our Predator board, featuring
PCI, AGP, SDRAM, and a G3 / G4 version. Full details are available on our
website (see titlelink).
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14.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF
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Zophar.Net Poll Finished
The survey on the emulator site Zophar.net was finished. The wish to get information
about emulators for Amiga with 13% of votes came to rank 3. Here the "official" final results:
- Which new area would you like to see at ZD?
- 13% (661 votes) Emulators for Amiga
- 10% (525 votes) Emulators for Palm Pilot
- 11% (551 votes) Computer Hardware Reviews
- 12% (600 votes) Other Music Files (SID, etc.)
- 26% (1297 votes) I would add all of the above!
- 25% (1231 votes) I don't need anything of this, ZD shall reside as it is.
- Votes over all: 4865
The chances are good to get all of the areas added, in future.
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14.Sep.2000
Haage & Partner
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ArtEffect Workshop overworked
Due to further development of ArtEffect there were some little discrepancies in the old workshop, which now
have been fixed. Furthermore the layout was changed completely. 12 chapters are introducing both, interesting functions
and effects of ArtEffect: Workshop.
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14.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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European Parlament are giving a favourable opinion on Software-Patents
«The board of directors of the european parlament (EPA) have given a favourable opinion on an unrestricted possibility to
patent software. According to the Handelsblatt
the authority recommends to withdraw the stipulation that computer applications "as such" are not possible
to patent from the European Patent Agreement.
.»
«Programmers of free software, as well as smaller software companies are against software patents,
cause potential danger of patent suits by big companies would make their work practically impossible.
These a days big American companies are already saving a lot of patents on partly
trivial developments - they are doing so also to
resist against other companies upbraiding patent violation. But free developers and small companies are not in funds to
use such a strategy. Thus they have started an
Allianz against Software-Patents.»
I realy recommend everybody, who is interested in that also small software companies can continue to work without
allways being afraid of patent suits, to participate in the
Petition against Software-Patents by voting. Up to now there have been
38,478 votes! (ps)
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13.Sep.2000
Multiuser Homepage
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New and Cleaned Patch for muFS
Multiuser is the progress of Multiuser Filesystem (muFS).
Sensitive data can be saved from foreign access or from deleting. This patch requires AmigaOS3.5 and
Multiuser v1.8.
Download:
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13.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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Aminet Uploads
attall.lha comm/mail 23K+Infos about attachment in yam e-mail
attinfo.lha comm/mail 24K+Creates a logfile from selected mail
amigalog.lha comm/misc 51K+Simple Amateur Radio Logbook
TcpSpeed.lha comm/tcp 23K+Measure the TCP throughput of a TCP chan
wpz-frozen32.lha demo/aga 616K+Frozen#32 - Fuck Ya Party Edition
wpz-frozen35.lha demo/aga 941K+Frozen#35 - LTP4 Party Edition
znn_lowb.lha demo/aga 123K+Short intro by khaos of zenon
ltx-intros.lha demo/intro 245K+Bugfixed intros from Latex (a must for C
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 572K+V1.60 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBasic_Upd.lha dev/basic 523K+V1.60 - Update for registered users (fro
EuroChamp.lha docs/misc 33K+Statistics of soccer Euro Champs '60-'00
F1Champ.lha docs/misc 59K+Statistics of Formula One '50-'00
WorldCup.lha docs/misc 115K+Statistics of soccer World Cups '30-'98
AtomicTetris.lzh game/2play 198K+AtomicTetris PC clone
bauer.lha game/misc 85K+Farm simulation (German necessary)
vlab_macro.lha gfx/conv 52K+VLab-Macro V 1.1 Convert YUV + VLAB to I
cnetdevice.lha hard/drivr 134K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.4
imdbDiff000901.lha misc/imdb 4.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
tek_pnoia.lha mods/techn 227K+Paranoia - psycho intelligent drum
tek_vacum.lha mods/techn 58K+Vacuum - minimalistic move
Pegase.lha mus/misc 204K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
tek_aos35.lha pix/boot 516K+AmigaOS 35 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_aos35_prv.jpg pix/boot 33K+Amigaos 35 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85.lha pix/boot 1.4M+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85_prv.jpg pix/boot 90K+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
AntiBlanker.lha util/blank 9K+A tool that disables your screen blanker
PPS.lha util/boot 48K+Password Protection for your WB / No mor
Rainboot3.lha util/boot 864K+Multimedia Has Got A Name v3.0
Scheduler.lha util/cdity 33K+Schedule manager and viewer, v1.8
DiskLED1.2.lha util/cli 15K+DiskLED V1.2 + Source(asm), Moves the LE
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 131K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
TransPrefs171.lha util/sys 15K+Translator Prefs (German)
simpleclock.lha util/time 17K+Version 1.5 of the analog clock (OS3.5)
tv-prog.lha util/wb 306K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.80]
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13.Sep.2000
Kickstart
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Pics from the SealORama 2000
The SealORama 2000 - after Neuss, Germany, the second important AMIGA Event this year.
The KICKSTART-UserGroup was there on September, 9th; see some atmospheric photographs
from this hard and software show at which a demo version for the new adventure game 'Gilbert Goodmate'
was presented.
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13.Sep.2000
Halvadjian Georges on ANF
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PerfectPaint V2.2
The update for PerfectPaint V2.2 is available at the titlelink.
With PerfectPaint you can draw, and edit your pictures (1-24Bit) and animations.
New with this version:
- Works well with VisualPrefs and MagicMenu
- Improve ToolBox with Fast color selection and Fast brush selection.
- Little bug corrected with the arexx command: pp_Plot
- Bug corrected when sending picture to TurboPrint
- pp_StencilStat
- pp_StencilOn
- pp_StencilOff
- New Box Arexx Scripts: MotionBlur,RotateBlur,ZoomBlur,Puzzle
- Improve Box Arexx Script: Neon, Ectachrome and Fresco.
- Effect Under/Spare works well with CMAP picture
- Fixed a bug whith perspective when (rotx or roty)=90 or -90
- New function: Fix Brush
- Fixed a small bug with FloodFill
- CMAP Deep Brush is load correctly
- Bug fixed when you use brush+Effect in CMAP mode
- Load and Save: Raw 24bits, Sculpt 24bits or Grey
- Better window detection (more system friendly)
- Improve cloud effect: Range color can be use to create clouds
- New effect: Liquid
- New tools: Rubber stamp, finger, RealTime paint, Sponge, Burn.
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13.Sep.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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S/P-DIF (Digital-Out) for Melody: That's the Way it Works
Only eight low priced components you can purchase e.g. at Reichelt are keeping the Melody1200 from
having digital output (Melody-Z2, CDTV and CD32 would be possible, too).. This is a slightly changed
article from C't 18/2000 (German computer magazine).
At first exclusive for amiga-news: Manual on how
to get the Melody digital output (German).
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13.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Earth 2140
epic interactive announces portation to the Amiga of the successful realtime strategy game "Earth 2140".
epic has got the license from Topware Interactive AG to port one of the most popular realtime strategy game
for Windows to Mac and Amiga. The Amiga version is currently at an early beta state and release is estimated for
early November.
Since Earth runs in 16Bit it requires high level hardware: at least an Amiga with 68040 processor, graphics board and
16MB of RAM. But recommended is an Amiga PPC with graphics board and 32MB of RAM.
Earth plays in the year 2140. The earth is controlled by two competing forces, the Eurasian Dynasty (ED) and the United
Civilised States (UCS). Both are at war with each other fighting for the last remaining raw materials on earth....
The Amiga version comes with different localisations, including German.
Screenshots:
Features:
- 50 Thrilling Missions
- 640x480 or 800x600 with 65.000 Colours
- 70 Different Units and Buildings
- Multiplayer Mode
- Stereo Soundtrack with CD Quality
- 7 Minutes Intro, Breathtaking Inter-Sequences
Up to Oktober, 15th Earth 2140 can be preordered from us.
At Amiga Fire from next week you will find
regular status reports on the beta state of Earth 2140.
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13.Sep.2000
AmigaImpact
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Adventure-Game 'Gilbert Goodmate'
Our French sister-site AmigaImpact announced on September, 10th the presentation of the adventure
'GILBERT GOODMATE' by Crystal Interactive Software
at the 'SealORama' - unfortunatly only a PC version will be presented.
But the distributor endeavours to being able to publish the Amiga version (PPC) within this year.
To observe this plans an additional developer is needed. People who are interested can get in contact
with andy@crystal-software.com.
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13.Sep.2000
AmiDog
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Update for the Gameboy-Emulator GBE at AmiDog
A new version for the Gameboy-Emulator GBE for PPC Amigas was released
at "AmiDog's Emulation Corner". This one supports emulation of sound,
and compatibility was enhanced.
GBE.lha
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13.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III News
Due to some putative bug reports on the DA III pages one page with "Tips and Tricks" has been
added, which makes using DA III more easy.
Because of several problems no demo version for DA III could be placed at Aminet up to now, but
this will be done once more during next days.
With the next issue of Amiga Aktuell
(10/2000) a full version of DA III will be offered as raffle price.
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13.Sep.2000
IrseeSoft
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TurboPrint 7.13beta with Enhanced Drivers
At IrseeSoft a new version for TurboPrint with enhanced printer drivers was released.
This version 7.13 still is beta and only available in English.
New with version 7.13:
- Enhanced Driver for Epson Stylus Photo, Photo700, PhotoEX (1440dpi)
- Enhanced Driver for HP DeskJet 890 and 895 (also working with DJ 810, 830, 840, 880)
- Better Duplex Support for HP DeskJet 970
For download see title link.
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13.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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Amster News
At the Amster homepage the new IP addresses of the Napster server were published.
An Arexx script matched to these,
MakeServerList.rexx,
is available for download. With Amster you have the possibility to access many MP3 files.
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13.Sep.2000
Mark Wilson
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AmiBench News
From now AmiBench is accessible at several domains:
http://www.AmiBench.com
http://www.AmiBench.net
http://www.AmiBench.org
http://Ami.Bencher.org
All of theses domains are online and working, you can choose. By this we say
thank you to Tudo Davies for his support.
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13.Sep.2000
Marvin Droogsma
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Petro's Aspect of the Story...
AmigaScene from the Netherlands has asked Petro Tyschtschenko on the start of his company
and put his answers on ANF to notify:
«First of all many greetings from AmigScene and AGGF from the Netherlands!
We stumbled upon the story of your new company and the relating comment from Bill McEwen.
We sure just could publish this, but befor doing so we want to have your story on this.
Also if you cannot say anything about it, we ask you for reply. Regards from your dutch
followers! Marvin Droogsma»
Petro Tyschtschenko's reply:
«I do not intent to leave my beloved Amiga and to flee from the community by this.
It is right that I have taken a 50% share in the Power Service GMBH as an inactive partner
to spend my evening of life in financial independence, as I hope so at least.
After all I am already 57 years old and so one have to think of this. Still my entire strength
belongs to the Amiga and I have not done anything unlawful at the expense of Amiga, at all.
It is no crime to take a financial share in a company in whose targets I believe, isn't it.
In this sense, your Petro»
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12.Sep.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Mirror of the Frogger MPEG Player homepage online
Due to problems with routing the domain to Germany, Marco Frischkorn offered
the programmers of Frogger webspace, so the site and downloads are more easily
available; think of this as a mirror.
Fact is: the page is now also available at
www.highantdev.de/frogger/.
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12.Sep.2000
Jean-Marc Mossu on ANF
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L'Amiga? une passion, c'est tout...
For our French readers this hint to a French Amiga site:
Venez voir ce site, si vous êtes Amigaïstes. traductions, articles, news...
En français..
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12.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via e-mail
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Epic Marketing Germany is restructuring
On 30. September 2000, Epic Marketing Germany will say good-bye after four years in the Amiga market,
and will start two new companies on 1. October 2000. Due to this, the homepage is reworked and
will be reposted in early October.
The company will be split into two areas on 1. October 2000:
epic interactive will turn towards the
gaming market, and primarily port and develop games for the Apple MacIntosh. Support for
the systems Milan and Amiga One is targeted as soon as those are available
on the market.
Informations on our upcoming Mac titles "Gorky 17", "Earth 2140", "Simon The Sorcerer 2",
"Dafel: Bloodline" and all other titles will be available soon on www.epic-interactive.com.
For the Classic Amiga, we will soon present the games Simon The Sorcerer 2, Earth 2140 and
Dafel: Bloodline. If this platform will be continuously supported depends on the success of
these three products, "Earth 2140", which is in beta phase, can be preordered until
15. October 2000 at a special price.
epic multimedia will be about the distribution
of games, info- and edutainment titles for different platforms (Mac, Win, Linux etc.).
As a goodbye from Epic Marketing Germany, numerous of our Amiga titles are available at
special prices until 30. September 2000.
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12.Sep.2000
AmigArt
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AmigArt Looking for Editors
AmigArt is looking for honorary editors willing to write news articles about Amiga. The
news will be edited in the web, and posted to the homepage directly. If you think you can
write news about games, software, business, websites etc. concerning Amiga, contact the
webmaster with a short e-mail. New editors will
recieve a free e-mail acount and will be listed on the masthead.
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12.Sep.2000
MorphOS Home Page
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IXEmul/Tools update
On the MorphOS homepage updates are available for many IXEmul programs and PPC tools.
More details at the titlelink.
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12.Sep.2000
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Amiga Link Directory with Special Aminet Search Function
In recent months, the Amiga Link Directory became one of the most favourite search
engines and AMIGA directories thanks to its unique features. Now we add yet more!
Starting immediately, you can search the Aminet for WWW adresses and files. Enter the
name of a program whose homepage you are looking for, and just cannot find in the ALD.
ALD will scan all files on Aminet matching the search string, and look in the .readme files for
WWW adresses. The result of this scan will be listed in a table. To get you results
quickly, every link will only be listed once, even if given in several .readme files.
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12.Sep.2000
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Petro Tyschtschenko Starts a New Company
We found an interesting new entry in the German Central Register of Companies. According
to this entry, Petro Tyschtschenko, Vice President of Amiga Inc., Germany, has founded
together with Frank Basta a new company named "Power Service GmbH". Here's the entry (Translator:
Rüdiger Engel):
Federal legal gazette Item 0161, Date: 20000826
Zentralhandelsregister-Beilage
51 Handelsregister
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Power Service GmbH
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| Street: | Wittelsbacher Allee 58 |
| City: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Company-Nr.: | 60256HRB50102 |
| District Court: | 60256 Frankfurt am Main |
| References: | HRB 50 102 - 08. 08. 2000 |
| Kind of entry: | 20 new entry |
| Date of entry: | 20000808 |
| Year of entry: | 2000 |
| Text: | HRB 50 102 -- 08. 08. 2000: Power Service
GmbH ,
Frankfurt am Main (Wittelsbacher Allee
58, 60385 Frankfurt).
Subject of the enterprise is: Mediation of foreign and native persons at
companies within the area of software development, the care of these persons
(accomodation, food supply) in conjunction with the mediation etc. as a
so-called "all-in-one-service"-offer. Capital stock: 25,000,- EUR. Managing
director: Petro Tyschtschenko, born 16.04.1943, Roedermark; Frank Basta,
born 23.11.1969, Frankfurt/Main. Limited Company (so-called "GmbH" in
Germany). The articles of association were finalized on May, 30th, 2000. The
managing directors Petro Tyschtschenko and Frank Basta have sole agency
right. They are justified, with itself in the name or as representant of
third, to finalize legal transactions with the company. (§ 181 BGB).
Not entered: Proclamations of the company are only stated in the federal
legal gazette.
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Supplement:
Bill McEwen, CEO Amiga, Inc. made the following statement
to the above:
"I would be shocked and personally hurt to find out that Petro has not been making Amiga his
first priority, and that he has been using his Amiga paid trips to India for his own personal
gain. We pay him a wonderful salary, we pay for his Mercedes, his cell phone, and his beautiful
offices. He has never spoken to me about any issues or problems, and if he has truly been using
our money and time to promote his own company I will be extremely disappointed. I hope that
Amiga-News is wrong in their findings."
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12.Sep.2000
Thomas Hoppe on ANF
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New UAE JIT Patch Available
"Just a quick note --- there is a new "bleeding edge" patch for UAE-JIT for Linux.
It fixes some minor problems, and adds some important changes to the JIT compiler.
If you had stability problems in the past, you might want to try this one. I have
made a source patch and a few pre-built binaries available. Please understand that
this is more or less a snapshot of work in progress, not a full "release" (can't
have a release --- the Premier League had last weekend off due to an international
;-), and as such requires you to know what you are doing.
I am fairly confident that the source compiles, and that the binaries are actually
built for what they claim to be built form, but that is about as far as I'll go....
;-)
If you haven't used UAE-JIT before, and plan to download one of the new binaries,
PLEASE also download the "patch against pristine sources" from the Derby County
release. You don't want the patch, but you *definitely* want the documentation that
comes with the same archive!
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12.Sep.2000
Thomas Hoppe on ANF
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WinUAE 0.8.14 Release 2 Available
At the title link, release 2 of the WinUAE version 0.8.14 is available. With WinUAE, you
can emulate an Amiga on your PC.
New in release 2:
- FIXED: Picasso96 screen-modes weren't being drawn/updated correctly.
- FIXED: Sound-buffer slider gets disabled when no audio output is selected.
- FIXED: German GUI DLL is accurate now. (Thanks Georg)
- ADDED: Flicker-free Amiga screen updates when full-screen. Doesn't affect Picasso96 screens, though.
- CHANGED: Sound output tweaked again, should be "slightly" better.
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11.Sep.2000
2IDs on ANF
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Domains for SoundFX and SymphoniePro
From now on you find SymphonyPro at http://www.SymphoniePro.de/
The SoundFX-Support pages were redesigned, too. You find them at
http://www.2IDs.de/Support/SoundFX/.
We will upload additional presets in the near future. If you got soundpresets
feel free to email them to us.
Another news is a own domain for the 2IDs iNETstore. The domain is
http://www.Planet2IDs.de. We worked on it and now it should be
easier to order. Furthermore there are
some new CDs.
Presumeably in October 2000 we will launch at www.DigitalArtGrafix.de a very special Galerie. It will be a
exhibition for grafixworker from around the world. Exclusive Artworx, extravagant design and many more.
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11.Sep.2000
Alexander Fritsch on ANF
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New SSTV-Software for Radio Amateurs
At the link comm/misc/af_mksstv.lha a test version
of a program for sending pictures through SSTV (narrow band television) is for download. At the moment you only can send
pictures by using
the modus Martin M1. No special hardware is required. The output is realized over the audio output of the Amiga -
you will hear a 114 seconds long whistle. The recommended hardware is a A1200 with OS3.0, but a faster one would be better.
User comments, bug reports and suggestions are welcomed. A further development depends on the user respond.
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11.Sep.2000
Atéo Concepts
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SCSI-Controller for AteoBus
SCSI-controler for the AteoBus released. The add-on board offers an external (SUB-D25) and an internal SCSI-connector
(50 Pin). The controler is useable e.g. for connecting CD-ROM, CD-writer, ZIP drive or a scanner.
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11.Sep.2000
Felix Schwarz via eMail
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Innovative reveals Plans for the Future
This press release contains an announcement of Innovative fxSCAN V3.0 with text recognition and deals with the future
of the AMIGA-development and the exciting plans of the company for the future with a new technology (InNT) !
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11.Sep.2000
AmigArt
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LinuxPPC2000 Installer
The LinuxPPC2000 installer enables you to install LinuxPPC2000 on a PPC Amiga. Download at the titlelink.
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10.Sep.2000
MorphOS
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Frogger 1.62 beta 1
A new beta version of the fast MPEG Video player is available for differnet Amiga-systems
(68k, PPC and MorphOS).
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10.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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Fun Time World results of Mediator-Poll
Fun Time World asked if you will buy the
Mediator PCI board and received 676 answers. 120 will buy one, 136 are not interested,
144 are not sure, and 276 are only interested in the A4000-version.
The new poll is named "What do you do with your Amiga?"
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10.Sep.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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New Screen shots, Polls and Webcam at NoRiscNoFun
The Screenshots-section at
NoRiscNoFun has been enlarged. Now shots of the following games are online: Battalion,
Foundation GOLD, Genetic Species, GLQuark, Heretic II, Myst
and Wipe Out 2097. Shots of more games are announced for the next days.
Two new polls named
"Which price do you find acceptable for games?" and "What kind of Computer do you
want to own in the future?" are available.
You can also see NoRiscNoFun at work via webcam, since now.
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10.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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Rainboot 3
Rainboot3 has been released at the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
It's an extremely expanded Rainboot2-version. Rainboot3 has now many features, that Rainboot-Users dreamed
of for a long time: Unlimited anims, modules, cycles, user controls can be used, there are new fade-options,
screens can be scrolled in, and much more.
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10.Sep.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Test of Virtual Ball Fighters
There is a test on www.playamiga.de of the
Tetris-clone "Virtual Ball Fighters". The game got an evaluation of 89%.
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10.Sep.2000
Amiga Fire
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Amiga Fire Online Again
After a server-crash on September 8 2000 Amiga Fire is back online. All data on the
server has been deleted. Most of it has been restored, thanks to backups, but part
of the news-section is lost.
Amiga Fire offers news, pre- and reviews of Amiga-games.
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10.Sep.2000
AmiDog
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AMP V2pre2
On September 8 2000 Mathias Roslund released a second preversion of the movieplayer AMP2.
Also added were support for AHI and triple buffering (only CGX at the moment).
The Shell-interface has been cleaned up and unuseful options have been removed.
Download: AMP2pre2.lha
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10.Sep.2000
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Driver-Poll for Mediator
There's a poll at the titlelink for the Mediator-board. It is asked which drivers you want to have.
There are the categories graphics, sound, ethernet, video, SCSI and ISDN.
The poll wants to help developers to find out which drivers are needed.
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10.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga RC5 Team needs help
This week the dutch team "Dutch Power Cows" overtook the Amiga-Team and
will also overtake the OS/2-Team soon. Czech Amiga News bids for support from the users side,
who can also use their PCs. The Amiga-Team is now in the RC5-contest for three years. The award is 10 000 Dollars.
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10.Sep.2000
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ALD with Extra Functions
Today only good news from Amig Link Directory. In addition to extended search-functions there is a
daily randomly choosen website shown at the main site as "Site Of The Day".
An entry is useful because this site could awake the interest of users.
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10.Sep.2000
Thomas Hoppe on ANF
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Official WinUAE V0.8.14R1
Brian King released the officail version 0.8.14R1 of WinUAE. He also informs that Toni Wien,
up to now responsible for AGA and NTSC/PAL has overtaken the further developement.
Download:
Help files are available in nine languages, only the links for german and englich are listed here.
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10.Sep.2000
Marcel Rohles on ANF
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Pegase V1.8d
Marcel Rohles writes:
Didier Levet released four updates of the MPEG-Layer-2-encoders Pegase between 31.08.2000 and 09.09.2000.
In addition to bugfixes and little changes, the audio-model has been improved. Now there is nearly no
difference between original and copy with a 160 kbit coded AIFF.
Unfortunately there were no responses during the last weeks, so he thinks that noone uses Pegas
e anymore or there is no interest in further versions.
Especially on pure 68k-Amigas there is in my opinion no alternative to Pegase - MP§-encoding without
PPC takes too much time.
Pegase offers compression-times of 2:1 on my Cyberstorm MK I (50 MHz) and a really good quality of
the encoded songs, often even better than free MP3-encoders.
Download: Pegase.lha
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10.Sep.2000
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Amiga Link Directory
Bad news: While uploading new functions the database has accidentially been overwritten
with an older version. Six entries since August 26 2000 are lost. Only the last three entries could be
restored from the browser-cache. Please just add your website again.
We are thinking of a better backup-method so that such things can't happen in the future again.
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09.Sep.2000
AmigArt
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AmigArt with New Layout
The Turkisch news-site in English "AmigaArt" has got a new and pleasing layout.
Many parts of this website has been rearranged without loss of the already good navigation.
Every important link is to reach from the main page.
If would have to mark it, this would be a B+ :-)
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09.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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LinuxPPC 2000 - Installer Available
The LinuxAPUS team announces the LinuxPPC 2000 installer to be available.
Please click inside the title bar of the Linux-Apus site on "Install" to download
the files. This archive contains the most recent 000815 kernel image. Amiga PPC users
with this will get an alternative OS that runs superb on their hardware.
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09.Sep.2000
amiga.org
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Remembering AMIGA's Glory Days
Time for nostalgia? Well, then read this article about the younger days of AMIGA (1992) by Wayne Martin.
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09.Sep.2000
Harald Frank
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The fastest Driver for ISDN-boards ever!
Harald Frank wrote:
Many did not thought it to be possible, any more. After 1 1/2 years there is a new update for
the ISDN-boards driver software VMC-ISDN for any Amiga ISDN-board. Due to the partly loss of source code, and
some small technical problems we could not release a new version for the ISDN driver over a long period of time.
Some customers even suggested that we would have stopped working on it...., but once again we are able to offer
to you a masterly achievement of Amiga software, which is only to describe using the words better, faster and turbo.
Please, prove us that did not spend so many month full of work for this costly software for nothing, and if you know
another one owning an Amiga ISDN-board, so tell him of the new driver, cause we depend on every support from you.
It would be a pitty, if would not be able to finace this software any more in default of interest. So, come on and
register for the new beta test, now.
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09.Sep.2000
Jeppe Nielsen on ANF
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HomeLand Demo Version 3.0
A new demo version (3.0) for the realtime strategy game "HomeLand" was released. This version has many new features.
At the titlelink you can find screen shots, and more details. Blittersoft will be distributor of the game.
Download: HomeLand.lzx - 1,06 MB
At the download area of the website (titlelink) there is a music section at first, where several music can be downloaded.
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09.Sep.2000
Sebastian Bauer's Homepage
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SimpleClock (1.5) by Sebastian Bauer
Most recent version for the configurable analog clock (OS3.5) by S. Bauer.
Special feature of SimpleClock: The transparent clock face (optional).
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09.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
Amiga-C-Aug00.lha dev/c 117K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Augu
Aakt0900HTML.lha docs/mags 276K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
WarpUp-Aug00.lha docs/misc 86K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in A
DiamondBOX.lha gfx/edit 356K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.04
chippendale.lha mods/chip 7K+DBM 4ch mod by Tripper^Stx^Moods
years_ago.lha pix/misc 71K+[ancor] Sandra and Sarah young V1.1
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09.Sep.2000
individual Computers
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Take Part in the Developement of Lyra!
Lyra is the joungest child of individual Computers. This is an adapter to use
Windows-Keyboards with the Amiga.
Though some thing like this alreay exists, but none of the up to now introduced interfaces fulfilled our
personel needs. Either some of the key were not used, or others had absolutely insane seizures, and again
other had problems when more then one key were pressed at the same time. This interface
for the "Bigbox" Amigas (2000, 3000, 4000 and tower-case) easy gets pluged between keyboard and computer.
In the case of A1200 it gets impressed to the keyboard processor, which is to find on the A1200 main board.
We have spent as much effort as possible to get the seizures very similar to the original Amiga keyboards,
and to give reasonable seizures to additional keys. Though, we want to hear the opinions about the seizures
of as many users as possible befor we cannot change anything, any more. So, take your time to have close look
at the key seizures, and mail
us your opinion. The best suggestion will be honoured with some little surprise! Release is planned for the end of October.
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09.Sep.2000
Aminet Games
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Aminet Games
Schatztruhe released "Aminet Games", a special-CD of the Aminet series. Within more than 1500 archives there are
the best of Aminet games. Almost every game can be started from CD and do not need to be installed. Furthermore
on "Aminet Games" there are more than 70 commercial games, e.g. "Gloom3", "Max Rally", "XTreme Racing" & "Gamer's
Delight 2".
Information on other content to find at the titlelink.
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08.Sep.2000
APT Rolf Tingler
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New Amiga Design for Nokia 3210 Mobile Phone
Rolf Tingler has already created designs with Amiga look in airbrush for
several mobile phone models. Now there's also a shell available for the
Nokia 3210. For the Nokia model 8210, a new Amiga design is in the works.
The design is a bit complicated as this phone is really small and thus
there's only very little space for the design.
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08.Sep.2000
B. van der Meer by eMail
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New issue "AMIGA SCENE"
The September/October issue of the Dutch/Flemish print magazine "AMIGA SCENE" has
a huge article on the Macintosh emulator "Fusion".
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08.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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AddOn-Programming for PageStream
Grasshopper LLC, the distributor of PageStream, published the documentation
of IFF and links to the Application Library SDK on their pages. The release
allows third parties to write plug-ins for PageStream. Interested developers
can find more information here.
Supplement, 09-09-2000 by Ruediger Hanke:
There is a problem unfortunatly mentioned nowhere as it is. The SDK at the time beeing
works solely with SAS/C! If one tries to compile the includes using StormC, he will get
a lot of error messages and an endless loop in the compiler, if lucky.
The includes also are not the only wattle, the enclosed linker-libraries are too SAS/C specific, too.
Fortunatly Deron is very helpful, he promised me to send me the sources of these linker-libraries, so
that I can port them to StormC.
This is not mentioned on the website. At the end one might take the effort (quite a few) to adapt the
includes, just to finde out at the end that the needed linker-library doesn't match. If Deron
sends me the sources, and I would manage to get them running with StormC, I will make up a SDK version
for StromC programmers.
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08.Sep.2000
SonicPulse
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SoundFX 4.1 Preview at the BAUD Meeting
At the BAUD meeting in Bielefeld, Germany, an exclusive preview of SoundFX 4.1
will be presented. The new version contains many bugfixes and improvements
in the user interface. Another new feature is the new batch processor.
For more information and a first test version, follow the title link (German).
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08.Sep.2000
Oliver Roberts
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New Warp-Datatypes
Oliver Roberts released new versions of his WarpPNG and WarpJPEG datatypes.
The WarpPNG.datatype is now available also for 68k Amigas and there's also
a native MorphOS version, now.
The new version of WarpJPEG.datatype has some bugs fixed and a 4% speed-up
for the 68k version. An extensive feature list can be found at the title link.
Download:
WarpPNG.dt.lha
WarpJPEGdt.lha
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08.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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REBOL/View pre-beta 5 Released
An experimental pre-beta of version 5 of REBOL/View was released. There are
especially new features in the VID (visual user interface) and the network
functions.
Download here.
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08.Sep.2000
playamiga.de
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"Middle City" preview and interview
Juergen A. Theiner of Playamiga.de has talked with the Italian programmers
of the new adventure "Middle City" and created a preview with many screenshots.
Here a small excerpt:
"Middle City is a classical adventure in the vein of Monkey Island. The setting
is a remote village. The goal is to solve the mystery of the disappearance of
Linda Patton whose arm was found in the river. Main character is the (not really
intelligent) FBI agent Cox who has to work closely with the good-looking
Ellen Dow from the local police. All characters are very excentric and thus
suspicious. The end will be a huge suprise."
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08.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Epic News
After a long time, there's some news from Epic:
Virtual Ball Fighters, the action game for the Amiga is finally available.
VBF requires an Amiga with AGA or graphics card, a 030 CPU and 8 MByte RAM.
PPC and soundcards are supported.
The successor to MooVID Pro is coming soon: MooVID Pro 2 will be shipped from
September 18th on. Beside many optimizations, MooVID now supports the PPC
(WarpUP and Power Up). Owners of the previous version get a cheaper update
from epic.
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08.Sep.2000
Thomas Frieden on ANF
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Hyperion News
Follow the title link for a new progress report on Shogo, including
some screenshots of the OpenGL version.
Hyperion has from now on a support mailing list:
EMail subscription: hyperion-support-subscribe@egroups.com
or on the web at eGroups
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08.Sep.2000
Christian Busse
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Transcript of the Coyote Interview with Bill McEwen
Christian Busse has taken the efforts of creating a transcript from the 2.1 MB
MP3 file of the Coyote Flux interview
with Bill McEwen:
Bill McEwen: Here's Bill!
Coyote Flux: Well, good day Mr McEwen, you're speaking with Sharwin - I'm from Coyote Flux, an Amiga only software team and I would like to ask you a few public questions - is that possible?
Bill McEwen: Certainly.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you - first of all: I heard a rumour from some magazines that the German office is about to close after the inventory sales of the Amiga 1200 - is this true?
Bill McEwen: No...?
Coyote Flux: No - OK, thank you. What could you tell me about the AmigaOne?
Bill McEwen: Well, nothing publicly at this time - other than this is a new desktop replacement machine.
Coyote Flux: OK. Then there was another question: Since half a year the Amiga market has started to shrink a little bit in comparison to what it was before, especially because there are a lot of companies and sceners that rather stay with the original Amigas - we spoke to you at the show in Neuss, the World of Alternatives, about porting the current Amiga OS to PPC, we will have to add the following question: You asked for the business proposal at the show...
Bill McEwen: Yes?
Coyote Flux: ... and we would like to know: We want to do the Amiga OS PPC port together with a few others at our own cost together, and we would like to know if that is possible as we think that the Amiga makes a bigger chance of surviving when the older machines get a chance as well.
Bill McEwen: Yeah, no, again, if you send me the information we're happy to take a look at it - we've been in conversations with Haage & Partner about this, we have received their timing, their proposal how long they think it will take...
Coyote Flux: Yes
Bill McEwen: ... we've been looking at market trends and designs, so I'm happy to take a look at what you have - we've not made a final decision on that
Coyote Flux: OK, so there hasn't been a final decision yet about if an Amiga OS PPC port can or will be made?
Bill McEwen: Correct.
Coyote Flux: OK, what do you think about the Boxer?
Bill McEwen: I don't think it will ever ship.
Coyote Flux: And if it WILL be shipped, would you be supporting it?
Bill McEwen: Oh, we already have, publicly!
Coyote Flux: OK, so it won't ever be a problem, the Classic Amiga range will proceed, and the Amiga will, like, go two seperate ways or something?
Bill McEwen: No, I don't see that, because you'll be able to run your Amiga Classic on the new system!
Coyote Flux: Aha, I see, but surely the speed will not be as fast as an original chipset...
Bill McEwen: Actually it will be FASTER with what we're doing - we're not doing it through emulation.
Coyote Flux: OK, cause now it's with the Virtual Processor I suppose?
Bill McEwen: U-huh
Coyote Flux: Cause I have a copy of the SDK at home, but, taking a look at modern CPUs, taking a look at all the parallel processing units and the caching and memory management, I have the feeling that the Virtual Processor will not be running at the speed it SHOULD be...
Bill McEwen: Actually since it's not... the Virtual Processor, since it translates it into native code...
Coyote Flux: Yes...
Bill McEwen: ... and the overhead is to a minimum, there is, what, a two percent performance hit
Coyote Flux: Yes, I understand, but by using a lot of registers that should be emulated or mapped in memory before they can be used, I suppose...
Bill McEwen: Exactly translated on the fly.
Coyote Flux: It's translated on the fly - but where are the registers taken from if I may ask?
Bill McEwen: I'm sorry I didn't hear you.
Coyote Flux: Where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Are they taken from memory, or are they taken from hardware registers?
Bill McEwen: It depends on the implementation...
Coyote Flux: Yes
Bill McEwen: ... if there is hardware available, we will utilize the hardware directly...
Coyote Flux: Yes
Bill McEwen: ... and if we can catch it that way, otherwise if it's not available we will do it in software.
Coyote Flux: OK, I see - but that will slow down, I suppose?
Bill McEwen: Depending on the application - in a desktop environment in most cases you'll have the proper hardware to utilize it, but in a handheld device you might not have the hardware, so we'll have to do it in software.
Coyote Flux: OK, I see, thank you - finally I had a question concerning the SDK: Is it a big success?
Bill McEwen: Yes, actually the sales are ahead of schedule and as of this week Red Hat will begin selling it also.
Coyote Flux: OK, and how many approximately sold in the time it has been on market?
Bill McEwen: Well, we shipped fifteen thousand so far.
Coyote Flux: Fifteen thousand.
Bill McEwen: Yep.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much! That's actually all I wanted to know!
Bill McEwen: Great!
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you...
Bill McEwen: Yeah, I look forward - in fact I was speaking to someone about you in Sacramento...
Coyote Flux: Oh!
Bill McEwen: .. that it looked like you might be the team that might have the best opportunity for us, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much...
Bill McEwen: OK?
Coyote Flux: I will contact you then in the near future, supplying you with the information you might need about how we can port the Amiga OS to PPC, and...
Bill McEwen: OK.
Coyote Flux: ... yes, please keep up the good work then.
Bill McEwen: I thank you very much for your call.
Coyote Flux: OK, thank you as well - bye!
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07.Sep.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF
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Public-Opinion Poll at www.zophar.net
At www.zophar.net, supposed to be the biggest emulators-site online, there is currently
a public-opinion poll to find at the top of the right menue board, on what useres would
wish to see on the page in future. Among other things there is also the possibility to
vote for "Emulators for the Amiga". If you are interested in this, you should set your
vote there, cause there are only about 10% of votes for Amiga at the moment.
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07.Sep.2000
Rudolph Riedel via eMail
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New DiskMaster Beta Version 2.5b8 Available
For the known filer DiskMaster there is the next Beta Version 2.5b8 available, after
some problems.
New with this version:
- 2.5b8 (00-09-07) 68744 Bytes
- "Parent" still did not work correctly with assigns
- "LoadConfig" released it's buffer too early
- Uppercase/lowercase is no longer discerned when Auto-Commands compare contents
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07.Sep.2000
Olaf Koebnik
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Amiga Arena News
JST V4.0 at half price.
JST V4.0, the game installer by Jean-Francois Fabre
is available at half price at the Arena. JST makes it possible to start almost every game from HD, and to
save scores.
Amiga Arena Interview Project
New interviews with Damir Ahr (Ballmaster) and Felix Schwarz (fxPaint) online.
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07.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: The Mac inside the PC - for nothing
«Anybody who always wanted to check out if Mac OS indeed makes less problems than
Windows now can test this directly on the PC: Emulators Inc. offers the Macintosh emulator
Fusion PC for free download,
from now on. Emulators too over this sofware, which only runs under DOS (Window's DOS-Box does not
fit), last month. Next month they want to release the entire source-code, due to their own statements.
This shall become content of a tutorial on emulator programming.»
For full article, see titlelink (German).
As already reported here on 05-24-00, Microcode Solutions
gave Fusion PC license to Emulators, Inc. to have more free developer recources,
and more fund available.
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07.Sep.2000
Amiga, Inc.
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Wildfire at First - and now Taifun
As already reported, Taifun is the successor product to the award-winning video and animation special effects software
Wildfire7\PPC. The new software product is currently being developed using the Amiga Software Development Kit (SDK)
and is making great progress. Read the press release of Amiga, Inc. at the titlelink.
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07.Sep.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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Linux Format Reports on AmigaSDK
In the new September issue of the 'Linux Format' magazine there is to find an article on both, the Amiga SDK and Elate.
Among other things the multimedia platform 'intent', and functionality of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine)
is suggested. Nick Veitch reminds his readers on the Amiga SDK even inside the editorial.
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07.Sep.2000
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF
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Coyote Flux interviews Bill McEwen
At the titlelink you will find an interview with Bill McEwen done by Coyote Flux. This intervies
is provided as a MP3-file at the size of 2.1MB to find for download at the download-area of the temporary website of CF.
Further on there is a new example for PPC680x0 available: The freeware program "The Guru" was
ported to PPC using PPC680x0 within less than 30 minutes.
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07.Sep.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF
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New AmiTradeCenter Beta Available
Once again it happend, a new beta version for the FTP-client AmiTradeCenter was released.
05.09.2000 public beta
- Added a "t" to one of the "direcory" strings which was missing.
[ExoBuZz]
- Fixed a bug when pressing the local "parent" button while connecting
which caused garbage in the local string gadget.
[ExoBuZz]
- After a transfer the transferred file, bytes, filelength and the cps are
now displayed in the ftplog.
[Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
- Double entries in the .batchtmp are now filtered, so the list won't
replicate itself several times after several crashes.
[Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
- Reselection of files when revisitting a directory is now done by
comparing the filenames with the list instead of just selecting the files
by numbers, which could have led to wrong selected entries, when a
directory was reloaded after an upload.
[Roland "Ronni" Hopfer]
- The trader now won't try to reconnect to a server, when the servermanager
is quitted and therefore also all traders (depends on "auto reconnect" and
"closemethod of servermanager" settings).
- Loginwindow which is opened if neither the username or the password is
given didn't work. Fixed.
[Ingo Musquinier]
Download: ATC_beta_05092000.lha
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07.Sep.2000
Sven Dröge on ANF
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BondsV1.78 on Aminet, at last
After some upload problems now the most recent archive with the stock-market software is available for
downlaod at Aminet, at last.
New with this version:
- Group editor for creating object lists after your fancy
- New conception of the depot manager
- Extension of the default objects, many new shares, subscription
warrants, as well as European indizes (thanks to Wolfgang Bauer, too!)
- Complete adaptation to the "GlowIcons" style (thanks to Martin Merz!)
- Many bug-fixes
Known bugs:
- The DEPOTMANAGER is not ready yet, but one can already "play around" with it a little bit.
- The group editor was newly implemented; there still might occure errors while using it.
Download: BondsV178.lha
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07.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Safe Version 14.0 Released
Name: Safe v14.0
Archivname: Safe.lha
Archivgröße: 20.665 Bytes
Releasedatum: 7. September 2000
Programmierer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Braucht xvs.library v33.23
New with v14.0 :
v13.4 - 7000, RENRAM parameter renames Ram disk: to Ram: now (requested by Oscar Hdez)
NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER!
IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY
IF POSSIBLE!
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07.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert via eMail
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TWinIFF Version 1.03 Released
TWinIFF 1.03 for AmigaOS, Win9x/NT/2k and Linux/x86 is available, now.
Download: twiff103.zip
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07.Sep.2000
Markus Nerding via eMail
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Haage & Partner News
H&P increases personnel
In October of the past year, we already hired a new programmer, namely
Markus Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on
AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker was found, Ute
Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robel has
just finished a practical period for his computer studies, in which he
created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the beginning of
September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two new co-workers.
Their main concern is support, and managing of new projects.
Further co-workers wanted.
For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we are
looking for an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge of
English grammer etc. is essential.
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07.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert
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Computer-Zeitung: Politicians supporting Linux in the fight against patents
The German Computerzeitung issue 36 from 09-07-00 is carrying the subject of software patents:
They are titeling (small): "Software Inventions"
(big) "Politicians are supporting Linux with the fight against patents"
This all is to find big and not ot overlook pivotal on the front page citing Joerg Tauss, MdB (member of the
Bundestag) contra, and Dai Rees pro SWPAT.
Additional a big picture along with the subtitle "The [EPA] in Munich denys any private financial interest [...]"
At the left another contra SWPAT
comment (German) of
an editor, and at the lower right the Intel/Broadcom quarrel is suggested. So, about half of the front page
today only on the subject of patents.
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07.Sep.2000
Stefan Robl via eMail
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AmigaMPEG-Player 1.02 and writepixel 1.05
For all SDK users:
AmigaMPEGPlayer is now up to 25% faster (!) than the initial version, and has got a file-requestor in addition, too.
writepixel was completely overworked, is now definite faster than previeous versions, and has got a scalable window.
Furthermore the colour fade now changes corresponding to mouse position and time.
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06.Sep.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF
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clickBOOM: Nightlong
Nightlong has been enabled by Trecision, which means the betatests have passed positively. Now only the CDs, and
packings are to be produced, and then the game will be available soon.
Nightlong is a graphically costly point-and-click game which at first was published by Team 17 for the PC,
and became a big success. The background of the game is a conspiracy anno 2099 which the player has
to clear up.
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06.Sep.2000
Markus Holler
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Markus Holler: MP3-account Opened
From today Markus Holler, who is well-known by his songs for Amiga games, has offically opened his account at
MP3.com. At http://www.mp3.com/atroxis you can download not only
the known files, but some new songs, too. Enjoy the music! :)
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06.Sep.2000
The World Foundry
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TWF no longer Responsible for Expolrer2260, and Main and Mangle
On the website of "The World Foundry" there is a short statement saying that TWF is not longer
responsible for production of the games "Explorer2260" and "Main and Mangle". For more details of
development and the team there soon will be an official statement.
The same statement you can read at CEG-site (Collins Encyclopedia Galactica).
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06.Sep.2000
GamesZone
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Test Report of Matrox G405 at hartware.net
hartware.net has examined the new graphics board Matrox Millennium G450. This one was not made for the
home user but for business user and customers of companies. Nevertheless we have had a look at the
Millenium G450 with regard to the use for games. Maybe this card is a reasonably alternative for the
private user? See titlelink for full article (German).
At amiga.org we have found a link to a review of AnandTech as well:
Matrox Millennium G450. And this one is
in English. -)
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06.Sep.2000
AmigArt
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UAE PPC 0.8.6 for MorphOS
David 'Zapek' Gerber has ported UAE 0.8.6 to MOrphOS. More information you can find in the
UAE_MorphOS.readme.
Download: uae_0.8.6.lzx
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06.Sep.2000
IrseeSoft
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Turboprint 7.12beta Released
Version 7.12beta for Turboprint was released containing improved drivers for HP DeskJet 930, 950, 970 (1200 / 2400dpi).
The drivers for Canon BJC 1000, 2000, 6xxx, 7xxx have been made faster. For Epson there are new drivers.
Download: tp712beta.lha
At turboprint.de you can download a new version (0.60) of
Turboprint for Linux with many new drivers as well.
Download: turboprint_0_60.tgz
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06.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DOpus415JRbin.lha biz/dopus 329K+Great filemanager from GP Software
DOpus415JRsrc.lha biz/dopus 707K+Great filemanager from GP Software
datatypes4442.lha biz/patch 11K+AmigaOS 3.5 datatypes.library V44.42
DalWatch.lha comm/irc 3K+Script to reduce load on Dalnet
attinfo.lha comm/mail 23K+Creates a logfile from selected mail
ML-Support.lha comm/mail 57K+Tool to manage MLs, 2.1, MUI
ML-Support_Src.lha comm/mail 23K+C Sources for ML-Support
TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 8K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 361K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
facts.lha comm/tcp 81K+V4.1 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
YGM.lha comm/tcp 138K+Checks POP3 mailboxes for new mail
Apt-sbs.lha demo/euro 72K+A smashing intro from APATHY
Apt-vote.lha demo/euro 42K+Vote Now! By Apathy In 2000
Itc-fri.lha demo/euro 61K+An intro by INSTINCT
Itc-fri2.lha demo/euro 80K+A small intro by INSTINCT
MWI-Overview02.lha demo/slide 2.8M+"Overview #02" party slideshow by Madwiz
RNO-Go.lha demo/slide 2.8M+RNO&Homies: "Go Stockholm&Helsinki" [sli
3DEngine.lha dev/amos 54K+3D Engine (WB window) - Balrog Soft
BitmapPrint.lha dev/basic 16K+A routine for printing text to bitmaps
ScrollText.lha dev/basic 46K+Simple scrolling text routine
PTR_Play.lha dev/e 46K+Module Player using PTReplay.library
FD2Pragma.lha dev/misc 125K+V2.111 creates pragma, inline, ... files
mrq_library.lha dev/src 68K+Fast C2P + CGX procedures for games, dem
CDAudioList.lha disk/cdrom 8K+A shell command to list CD audio tracks
SCSISnoop.lha disk/moni 7K+Snoops accesses to SCSI devices and othe
BuffyGuide.lha docs/hyper 309K+Buffy The Vampire Slayer Guide v2.1 (79)
BuffyHTML.lha docs/hyper 389K+Buffy Guide HTML edition v1.1 (79)
Aakt0900GFX.lha docs/mags 459K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0900GUIDE.lha docs/mags 105K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Ami4ev17_LOW.lha docs/mags 233K+Amiga 4ever 17 (GERMAN), no gfx
Amiga4ever17.lha docs/mags 2.0M+Issue 17 (SEP `00) of GERMAN Freewaremag
NoCover70.lha docs/mags 1.9M+Great german diskmagazine
NoCover71.lha docs/mags 1.6M+Great german diskmagazine
NoCover72.lha docs/mags 1.9M+Great german diskmagazine
NoCover73.lha docs/mags 2.3M+Great german diskmagazine
NoCover74.lha docs/mags 1.8M+Great german diskmagazine
NoCover75.lha docs/mags 3.1M+Great german diskmagazine
NoCover76.lha docs/mags 2.8M+Great german diskmagazine
spaceball2000.lha game/actio 142K+Futuristic sport game.
vchess_dt.lha game/board 12K+German catalog (v1.2) for VChess 4.1
AKSoliton.lha game/data 40K+Simple Soliton card set (from sol.lha)
Skulpt_exe.lha gfx/3d 318K+Sculpt3D clone (68k + Warp3D)
Skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 213K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k + Warp3D)
cnetdevice.lha hard/drivr 133K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.3
DarcNES.lha misc/emu 135K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9a090
imdbDiff000825.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
quotes000825_f.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Fix for quotes.list crash in MovieMUI 3.
32bc_drunk.mpg mods/32bit 2.6M+New tune by salty/32bit - 8 drunk gods
Pegase.lha mus/misc 208K+Hi-Q MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
ac3dec.lha mus/play 44K+AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoder. (PPC)
OS35InputImg.lha pix/misc 99K+OS3.5 Input Prefs remplacememt images
OS35LocaleImg.lha pix/misc 78K+OS3.5 Locale Prefs remplacememt images
sYn_deathplane.lha pix/misc 72K+Death planet - pixel by sYntic/Teklords
sYn_derzeldako.lha pix/misc 44K+Der zelda konflikt - pixel by sYntic/Tek
sYn_otaku.jpg pix/misc 51K+Otaku - composed pic by sYntic/Teklords
sYn_cdgroove.mpg pix/mpg 1.5M+Cd-groove XX - mpg by sYntic/Teklords
sYn_escape.jpg pix/trace 223K+Escape - trace by sYntic/Teklords
sYn_fernsehzim.jpg pix/trace 118K+Fernsehzimmer - trace by sYntic/Teklords
sYn_hkommblase.jpg pix/trace 246K+Hyperkommunikationsblase - trace by sYnt
sYn_lifeanddea.jpg pix/trace 62K+Life and death - trace by sYntic/Teklord
sYn_marstrip.lha pix/trace 86K+Marstrip - composed pic by sYntic/Teklor
Amitex_3.25.lha text/edit 290K+Text editor (French and english versions
Dutch_dict.lha text/edit 1.2M+Dutch dictionary for Ispell and GoldEd
GED_Hexedit.lha text/edit 234K+Hexedit Environment for GOLDED V1.50
CheckX.lha util/arc 28K+V1.79 Check for Archives/Packers/Viruses
ExChanger.lha util/arc 45K+Helps converting lha and zip files to lz
UnRAR250_wos.lha util/arc 119K+UnRAR 2.50 for WarpOS
xadmaster.lha util/arc 392K+V8.0 Powerful unarchiving system
BlizKick.lha util/boot 228K+MapROM tool for phase5/DCE turbos. V1.23
BPPCFixFix.lha util/boot 5K+BlizzPPC 0x0 & ppc library disk loadable
loadppclib.lha util/boot 13K+Blizzard PPC libs loaders V1.0.0
APT-WBOpen11.lha util/cli 14K+Use CLI/req. to open WB-drawers/files (w
DiskLED.lha util/cli 6K+Moves the LED buttons to a window.
rebootscript.lha util/cli 4K+Reboots and runs script or exe file.
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 102K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
xfdmaster.lha util/pack 151K+Rel1.34 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
addrexx11.lha util/rexx 3K+Small & fast addressbook (And envvar ed)
arc2arc26.lha util/rexx 3K+Convert any archive format easily
2b_mv_os2.lha util/sys 74K+OS 2.0+ MultiView replacement - full ver
2b_mv_os2_src.lha util/sys 55K+OS 2.0+ MultiView replacement - sources
RAWBInfo.lha util/sys 91K+ReAction based icon information (1.18)
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 217K+VirusExecutor v2.04 beta
CopyIcon44.lha util/wb 3K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.2)
Ico2Info.lha util/wb 5K+Converts .ICO to .info (44.4)
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 17K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.5
mainprefs.lha util/wb 39K+OS 3.5 Preferences GUI
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06.Sep.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Bill and the judge
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06.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert via eMail
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SView C++ Image Loaders
SView class-library was ported to Linux x86 (GCC) successfully. Originally it based on Watcom/C++ 11 for
Win32 (Win9x, WinNT, Win2000) and now can be compiled from the same source-tree for each Linux-platform,
as well. This also would make possible porting back to ADE 68k, PPC or MorphOS, as well as porting
to Linux 68k or AInc's VP.
In future it will be possible to give licences for binary or sourcecodes. Do not hesitate to inquire
in time.
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06.Sep.2000
MooBunny Forum
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New (unofficial) WinUAE version V0.8.15 Released
On MooBunny Forum we have found a hint for a new but unofficial version of WinUAE. It was ported by
Vasyl Tsvirkunov. For further information have a look at the titlelink.
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06.Sep.2000
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Software is Looking for Developers
Trogladite Software is currently looking for more developers. We are
not funded in any way, and you will be generally working for free
communicating with the other members over the internet. We need people
who have a fair amount of free time as we will be coming up with various
new projects to create very soon. If you're interested, email
neil@trogsoft.org.
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06.Sep.2000
AmiDog
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AmiDogs Movieplayer AMP2
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has opened an AMP2-site where you can find the current updates for the
Amiga-Movie-Player AMP 2. Version V2pre1 of the 5th of September 2000 is the most recent one. But this version probably
has still a couple of bugs and therefore should be tested with caution, as the author says. Please, read
information on the AMP2-site carefully.
Download: AMP2pre1.lha
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06.Sep.2000
DOpus Support Page
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Directory Opus 4.15 Released
Jacek Rzeuski has continued developing the released sourcecode of the filemanager Directory Opus 4
and released version 4.15 yesterday. The changes since version 4.14 you can read up in the
history. There are too much to be written down here.
Download: DOpus414JRbin.lha
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05.Sep.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF
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PlayGUI Version 3.0 Available
PlayGUI, developed by Richard Kapp, is an AddOn for both, the modulde-player HippoPlayer and the
sample-player Play16. PlayGUI offers a new user interface for these programms, which trouble-free can be
displaced by other graphics (so called skins).
PlayGUI v3.0 from now is available at the titlelink. New with this version among other things are MPEG and
MIDI support, help texts for all settings, graphics inside the settings windows, and many more. By the way,
of course there are also some new skins for PlayGUI and PLone (PlayGUI AddOn).
Download: PlayGUI.lha und
plone.lha
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05.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmiBid - Amiga Auctions
AmiBid is an online auction exclusive for Amiga offering all the functions of bigger online auctions, and
moreover offering other features. AmiBid is free of charge for shoppers and offerors.
There were some login problems from the start, which have been solved. If you have problems using the direct link
to AmiBid, you can enter the site by using
http://sol.spaceports.com/~amibid/index.html. If this
doesn't work too, please send an e-mail to amibid@ukonline.co.uk.
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05.Sep.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF
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New SDK Site
From Belgium this new SDK site is comming with many interesting information all around the SDK (Software Developer's Kit).
The webmaster summarizes discovered informations in a predictable way.
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04.Sep.2000
VirusHelp Denmark via eMail
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New Antivirus-Programs
Dirk Stöcker has been very productive. There are new updates for CheckX, XFDMaster.library
and XADMaster.library.
here is some info about the new updates:
- Name: CheckX v1.79
- Archive Name : CheckX.lha
- File Size: 29.061 Bytes
- Programmer: Dirk Stoecker
- Release Date: 3. September 2000
- Minimum Requirements: xadmaster.lha, xvslibrary.lha, xfdmaster.lha, xpk_User.lha
- The following updates are very important, because nearly every antivirus-program uses them for
decoding and archiving purposes befor and after the viruscheck.
- Name: XFDmaster.library v11.34
- Archive Name:xfdmaster.lha
- File Size: 151 kb
- Programmer: Dirk Stoecker
- Release Date: 3. September 2000
- Name: XADmaster.library v8.0
- Archive Name: xadmaster.lha
- File Size: 392 kb
- Programmer: Dirk Stoecker
- Release Date: 3. September 2000
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04.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
Trekkie.lha biz/dbase 925K+Star Trek Database, V2.19final Data V2.2
OpusMIupd.lha biz/dopus 585K+GlowIcon DOpus Images (Final)
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
attinfo.lha comm/mail 22K+Creates a logfile from selected mail
AMarquee.lha comm/net 313K+V52.0 TCP Data Broadcast System (library
ftp4all-3012.lha comm/tcp 406K+FTP4ALL, a FTP server
Pns-plas.lha dev/amos 1K+Plasma Source For AMOS
ActiveWindow.lha dev/basic 12K+Sample code for auto activating window
AIOtao.lha docs/anno 1K+Questions wanted for AIO interview with
MemoryCard_PSX.lha docs/help 4K+Table for managing PSX memorycards in FW
lotolib.lha misc/misc 22K+Lotolib for LOTO v2.3+ (1976 au 30-sept.
AmigaFuture.lha mods/misc 105K+Roger Hartig's private mod creations
Hardmetal.lha mods/misc 877K+HeavyMetal by MadMan/FunDesign
ILoveYou.lha mods/misc 165K+Roger Hartig's private mod creations
July.lha mods/misc 98K+Roger Hartig's private mod creations
JulySun.lha mods/misc 79K+Roger Hartig's private mod creations
Softrock.lha mods/misc 615K+SoftMetal by MadMan/FunDesign
SunshineRain.lha mods/misc 35K+Roger Hartig's private mod creations
DJH_GRM.lha mods/pro 50K+Remix of the Galaga Theme tune (Protrack
HaleBopp.mpg pix/anim 50M+Wild demo from The Gathering 1997
Tp7pics.lha pix/misc 612K+Photos From The Party 1997
R-P-G_NewIcons.lha pix/nicon 403K+Newicon Drawer images in RPG style.
ThrymWB.jpg pix/wb 178K+Thrym's 1024*768*24 bit WB screen
xfdmaster_dev.lha util/pack 168K+Rel1.34 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
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04.Sep.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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Elbox Statement on MEDIATOR PCI Rumours
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 06:04:39 +0200
From: ELBOX press@elbox.com
Organization: ELBOX COMPUTER
Subject: Elbox dispels rumours on MEDIATOR PCI
ELBOX COMPUTER
04 September 2000
The breakthrough product developed by us: the MEDIATOR PCI,
has caused many changes in the Amiga world. Changes for better,
one has to admit.
People who cannot approach this excellent product with honour
and respect due to its design, spread rumours, which give false
information to Amiga users.
In order to make this situation clear and show our respect to
all those dedicated users of Amiga computers, we feel obliged
to clarify the information.
Below you find our answers to such rumours:
1. *** MEDIATOR PCI 1200 can only have access to 8 MB address
area, so the latest Voodoo III cards with 32-64 MB address
area could not be used. ***
Answer: Not true.
Elbox MEDIATOR PCI 1200 enables access to the entire 4 GB
PCI Memory Space and to all the required I/O space.
Execution of access to the full memory area in PCI (4 GB)
through the 8 MB Amiga memory window is done with MEDIATOR's
hardware on the basis of the MEDIATOR offset registers.
2. *** Designing MEDIATOR PCI 1200 in such a way that
it works with all the existing turbo cards for Amiga 1200
(i.e. within the 8 MB address window) will result
in modern graphics cards major crippling in the transfer rate
between the processor and graphics card. ***
Answer: Not true.
Data exchange between the processor and graphics cards
within the 8 MB address window does not affect transfer rate.
E.g.: Writing to a graphics card of 32 MB of data within
the 8 MB address window means execution of just 3 additional
writing operations for over 8,000,000 writing operations.
In practice, transmission over 8 MB of data to a PCI graphics
card is very rare, as majority of modern PCI graphics cards
memory is allocated for storing textures.
Current data exchange is thus executed within the one 8 MB
window, anyway.
3. *** PCI graphics cards themselves are now increasingly hard
to obtain and will be obsolete in a few months time. ***
Answer: Not true.
Many new graphic chipsets are and will be produced in both
the PCI standard and the AGP Intel standard.
This is clear, as PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect)
is an industry standard independent of the processor platform
by definition. Graphic cards in this standard may work
equally well in PC, Mac or Amiga computers.
4. *** Elbox will produce a PCI/AGP busboard to be directly
connected to the expansion connector on the BlizzardPPC.
It will come equipped with 3xPCI slots, 1xAGP slot and a
socket for SDRAM. ***
Answer:
Who came up with this one?
Preparing such a busboard, connected directly to the
BlizzardPPC card in the place of the BVisionPPC card,
would require redesigning the BlizzardPPC card.
Replacing one PCI slot with an AGP slot in the busboard
for A1200 does not result in any major benefits.
Instead of SDRAM memory in the busboard, we will offer
a far better solution, to which MEDIATOR PCI 1200 is
totally ready, of which we will write more in one of our
coming announcements.
Best regards,
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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04.Sep.2000
amiga.org
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AmiPak - New default Archive-Format for the AmigaOE
Patrick Roberts and Wayne Martin are working on a new filecompression standard for the new AmigaOE.
The new program will be called AmiPak (file-extension: .amp) and it will have many advantages compared to the ones used now.
This format will be availabel for other platforms, too. Additional there will be a GUI which can also handle formats like bzip,
gzip, tar, zip and lha. A betaversion will be available next month.
Please follow the titlelink for further information.
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04.Sep.2000
Fun Time World
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YaQuZa - New PlayStation Emulation for Amiga
A new PlayStation emulation called "YaQuZa" is under development for the amiga. Versions for PowerUp, WarpOS
and MorphOS were announced. The statusreport says that the PowerUp-versions is already working. The emulation will be
released in a few weeks.
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04.Sep.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail
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Andreas Kleinert: Completion to the MorphOS-Statement
Some authentic questions that reached me by email as reaction on the MorphOS-Statement (i summarized the answers):
- Q: Read today that you do not want to write datatypes for the MorphOS. It is a pity.
- A: Maybe I produce something different for MorphOS.
- Q: I hope that you do not have the intention to turn away from the amiga.
- A: I am still using my Amiga. At the moment.
- Q: You wrote that there are nearly no registrations for your datatypes at the moment.
I know why. [...] If there would be an easy way to register I really would like to do it and use the DT.
But for doing this I will never apply for a credit card or waste my time by clicking through english pages. [...]
The easiest way would be a money transfer.
- A: Money transfer is available since, I do not know when. It is explained in the documentation.
And about generall things
- Q: All together I want to praise you for your products and I hope you are developing them.
Versions for Windows (under development), Linux, maybe Amie (if it will be released some day) and maybe as a
PPC-plugin for AWeb & Co would be greate.
- A: I will not port anyone of my programs to Amie in the near future. Windows is in a early alpha-stage and
Linux is interesting too.
There won't be PPC-plugins [refer to akMPEG] but it is possible to integrate them in the actual version.
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04.Sep.2000
Michael Heider on ANF
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Inexpensive Entry to SuSE Linux PPC for Amiga
If you follow the titlelink, you find an evaluations CD of SuSE Linux 6.3 for Amiga.
The installation is possible from CD. The package includes a german and english installation guide.
An upgrade to SuSE 6.4 PPC is possible, too.
At the titlelink there are also reports about Linux m68k, Linux-APUS and SuSE Linux PPC.
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04.Sep.2000
Sylvio Kurze
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New cartoon: dream or reality?
The new cartoon was made by Sylvio Kurze :-).
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03.Sep.2000
Matthias Henze on ANF
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PPC-version of stormamiga.lib stopped
Matthias Henze wrote:
Because interrest on stormamiga.lib for AmigaOS/PPC and StormC is extremly low, developement is stopped.
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03.Sep.2000
ANN
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PS/2-Mouseadaptor "Mr. Mysza"
Merlancia Industries offers the
PS/2 mouseadaptor "Mr. Mysza" for Amiga-Computers. It makes it possible
to use PS/2 mice for IBM-compatibles on the Amiga. It supports up to
four mousebuttons as well as scroll-mice - the corresponding driver is
being shipped with the hardware.
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03.Sep.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
SHARKS (ECS) full version!
Working together with Christian Steiner Amiga Arena exclusively
presents SHARKS 1.3 as a full registered version.
Sharks is a skill-game.
Get treasures off the ocean's ground but be aware of the sharks making
your life not an easy one. Have fun with Sharks - Amiga Arena - The
Fire Still Burns!
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
Working together with Christian Steiner Amiga Arena offers a special price for the SHARKS AGA and CD32 version.
Amiga Arena Interview Action!
New interviews with Stefan B. (OnyxBase) and Thorsten P. (StartAmPlan) online!
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
The PhotoAlbum/Cybershow-packet is only available up to September, 10th 2000 for a special price at the Amiga Arena.
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03.Sep.2000
Thomas Hoppe on ANF
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New UAE-JIT-Patch available
Bernd Berny Meyer released the third version of his Just In Time compilers for UAE. This version bases on UAE V0.8.15.
Sourcecode-patch and two different binaries are available for download via the titlelink.
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03.Sep.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusExecutor V2.04 beta
On September, 3rd 2000 Jan Erik Olausen released the betaversion V2.04 of the viruskiller "VirusExecutor".
This beta was in use for quite a long time, so it should run stable. The update has following news:
- Bugfix: There was a bug when closing the screen.
- New: "File watch" has been added to the menu.
- New: The release-date of the xvs-library is shown in the about-window.
- Change: "CPU speed..." has been removed because this feature contained too many bugs and is not very important.
Name : VirusExecutor v2.04 beta
Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 222.197 bytes
Release date : September 3 2000
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
Download: VirusExecutor.lha (222 197 Bytes)
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03.Sep.2000
Andreas R. Kleinert via eMail
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Probably no akDatatypes for MorphOS
Contrairy to the original plans there will probably be no akDatatypes especially for MorphOS. The reasons are:
- Andreas Kleinert has not enough time, because he is busy with other - non free time- projects.
- The akDatatypes support many platforms at the moment but the SAS/C-Source-Tree needs some changes to become crosscompatible
with gcc (or vbcc), because SAS/C is not available for MorphOS and also isn't the best choice for the PPClib any longer.
- To involve other programmers in the developement, e.g. by CVS and the opening of the sources to a closed group of people,
could help but surely the interest is way too low.
- The Warp-datatypes were already ported to MorphOS and are free.
- At the moment there are no more registration-request for the akDatatypes. This is another clear sign.
Andreas Kleinert suggests the MorphOS-Users to use the Warp-datatypes instead.
It is possible that programs of Andreas Kleinert are ported to MorphOS.
There will be annoucements when the product is available.
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03.Sep.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail
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AudioCutter Cinema version 0.89 for x86-Linux
The AudioCutter Cinema is now available as another preview version for linux. Besides new effects and functions
the calculation of the complex 24 bit surround tracks has been acclerated significantly. More information and a
download-possibility are available here.
Neue versions for PPC-Linux and Windows will follow.
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03.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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JST V4.0 beta
On September, 1st 2000 JST V4.0 beta has been released. This version has the MMU-Tooltype-Bug removed.
Download: jst.lha
[News message: 03. Sep. 2000, 06:28] [Comments: 0]
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03.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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suite101.com: Then There Were Two
John Chandler has a look at Amiga SDK and the prerelease of QNX RTP in his column.
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03.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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WarpJPEG.datatype V44.13
On September, 2nd 2000 Oliver Roberts released version V44.13 of his WarpJPEG-Datatype. Besides WarpOS this
version also supports MorphOS and 68k-Amigas (68020+) - with optimised versions for 020, 030, 040 and 060.
Additionally a bug has been removed that could crash the system in case of low memory.
Download: WarpJPEGdt.lha (102K)
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03.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Additional Information for Predator
Eyetech has released additional
information about the PCI-Board "Predator".
The Board will be available for A1200 (in Tower-case) and A4000 Desktops. If request is high enough a version for
A4000T will be made, too. The Board is connected directly to the expansionport of BlizzardPPC and CyberstormPPC boards
so the whole 4GB-adress-space of the PPC can be used. It offers 3 PCI and one AGP slot. The slots are clocked
with 66MHz and 32bit-wide bus. In addition there is a SD-RAM-socket on-board (PC100DIMM) for up to 256MB of RAM.
This memory is available for the PPC-processor and graphics boards in the AGP slot. The bus is completely PCI 2.1 compatible
and offers busmastering and DMA. The A4000-version of the board also has an A4000 video slot.
A 3D-driver for Voodoo 5 which is supposed to be shipped with the board is under developement.
The release date is set to late September/early October.
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03.Sep.2000
Rudolph Riedel via eMail
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DiskMaster version 2.5b7 Available
Version 2.5b7 of DiskMaster 2 is available using the titlelink. There are also new versions of DM2.guide and DM2_deutsch.guide.
Download: DM2beta.zip und
DM2docs.zip oder
DM2docs_D.zip
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02.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Mailinglist on Samba for Amiga
For the Amiga port of Samba, a mailinglist
has been created at eGroups.
Subscribe by e-mail to: amigasamba-subscribe@egroups.com
Unsubscribe by e-mail to: amigasamba-unsubscribe@egroups.com
Send mail to list: amigasamba@egroups.com
List owner: amigasamba-owner@egroups.com
Information on Samba for Amiga can be found at http://www.amigasamba.org/
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02.Sep.2000
CZech Amiga News
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StormC 4 in Betatest
According to Steffen Haeuser, the next version of StormC dubbed "StormC 4", not to be
confused with StormC V4, is in beta testing phase. This update will offer the following
new features:
- Aside from the traditional StormC Code Generator now also gcc can be used as Code Generator.
gcc will replace the old Code Generator for all future versions.
Though it is internally gcc, you can use project files and all that like usual.
- For PPC a new port of gcc for WarpOS is used. This is the first gcc-WarpUP which actually
runs fully in PowerOpen, and does not switch "on-the-fly" between PowerOpen and System V.
- StormC 4 runs on 68k and PPC machines, and produces output for 68k and for WarpUP machines.
- The "StormC-gcc" can link together with Linkerlibs and object files from the "old" StormC
and it directly produces Amiga Executables (no elf2exe2 needed anymore !!!).
- It supports all features of StormC which gcc did not support up to now (including MixedBinary
and easy creation of Shared Libraries)
- It is possible to compile through the network, so that with 4 Amigas, compilation is 4x faster.
(Currently only Envoy-Network, but TCP/IP planned)
- CVS Support integrated
- Major enhancements in the editor and the help-system
- A tool to keep track of open bugs/todo-stuff was added
- First gcc-implementation which simply installs using an Installer-Script :)
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02.Sep.2000
Pär Boberg by e-mail
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Famous Amiga Uses
The list of Famous Amiga Uses has been updated.
Download: FamousAmigaUses.lha
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02.Sep.2000
Oliver Hummel on ANF
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Foundation Homepage moved
The Foundation homepage is now available at www.shoecake.com.
Paul Burkey's e-mail address has changed accordingly to paul@shoecake.com.
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02.Sep.2000
Alexandros Pourikas by e-mail
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hittp.com - Cross-Platform News
hittp.com is a new site on Amiga, Mac, PC, Linux and
game consoles. It offers up-to-date news, information, ads, and e-letters for all platforms.
For the Amiga, amiga.gr has been integrated into hittp.com, so amiga.gr now has a very fast
server platform.
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02.Sep.2000
amiga.org
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Amiga Cartoons by Scott R. Kurtz
Kermit has supplied amiga.org with some links to
older PVP cartoons by Scott R. Kurtz, on the subject of the Amiga as "alternative"
system. The three cartoons were published in August 1998, and are available at the
titlelink. Click the "next" link to... well... see the next one! ;-)
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02.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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REBOL/View Pre-Beta 5
REBOL has released the Pre-Beta 5 of REBOL/View.
Currently this beta is available for Linux and Windows systems.
In addition to REBOL/Core, REBOL/View offers a graphical interface, with
all features of REBOL/Core being contained in REBOL/View. With this update, the REBOL
dialect VID (Visual Interface Dialect) for using the GUI elements has been improved.
The documentation on the REBOL
Developer Site is scheduled for an update. An older version of REBOL/View is also
available for download (Amigas with 68020+ CPU).
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