• Totally new motherboard design
• 80321 XScale 32-bit ARM processor. This processor runs at 600MHz and is a system-on-a-chip, containing all the necessary interface electronics for things like PCI under the hood.
• RISC OS 5 in FlashROM (Rewritten for 32 bit, equivalent to RISC OS 4.02 with added fun including updated font manager with unicode support and new icon set too)
• 128MB 64-bit DDR RAM for high speed access at 200MHz
• UDMA 80GB Hard Drive
• Support for industry standard interfaces:
  • 2 64-bit PCI slots, 2 32-bit PCI slots
  • 4 USB 1.1 sockets
  • 2 RS232 serial ports
  • 10/10/1000baseT networking port
• Dedicated high performance graphics card, nVidia GeForce2 MX400 (up to 2048x1536 in 16 million colours)
• CD quality 16-bit Soundblaster support
• CD-ReWriter (48x speed)
• 240 Watt PSU with two near-silent fans
• Wide range of bundled 32-bit software: Writer+ (word processor with enhanced Word import and export), Fireworkz (spreadsheet with Excel import and export), Oregano 2 (web browser), Messenger Lite (email client), PDF (for reading PDF files), Zool (game), CDBurn (CD writer). Also, USB printing support.

• bplan GmbH (Pegasos)
• Bernd Meyer & Harald Frank (Amithlon)
• E3B - Michael Böhmer (Highway)
• Eternity Computer (Tales of Tamar)
• Eyetech (AmigaOne)
• Grasshopper LLC (PageStream)
• Hyperion Entertainment (Freespace u.a.)
• IOSPIRIT (fxSCAN u.a.)
• ZeoNeo (Planet Zed)

• AmiATLAS-Team (AmiATLAS)
• AWeb-Team (AWeb)
• Chris Hodges (Poseidon)
• Gabriele Greco (SDL)
• ScummVM-Team (ScummVM)
• SixK (diverse Portierungen)
• VHT-DK-Team (Anti-Viren-Software)
• WHDLoad-Team (WHDLoad)
• WinUAE-Team (WinUAE)
• YAM-Team (YAM)

• Best Amiga hardware 2002
• Best Amiga software 2002
• Best Amiga game 2002

• Fixed UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE encodings, now byte order mark ($0000FEFF) is skipped properly.
• Added low endian (UTF-16LE and UTF-32LE) and auto detect (UTF-16 and UTF-32) Unicode encodings.
• Added UTF-8 encoding (conforming to RFC 2279).

Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20021127140602.01ffd840@192.168.1.5>
An: amigaone@yahoogroups.com
Von: Eyetech Group Ltd 
Datum: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 14:39:40 +0000
Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Some answers

> > > The AMR 'was' there in May, now gone!  
> >
> > The answer was "this has still not been decided yet". That's not the same
> > as
> > "is gone". I agree that the answer was late and is far from being
> > satisfying, but I don't see a need to start panicking  


After having some feedback from the A1 dev list the AMR card issue has now 
been decided.

The G3-SE boards will not come with an AMR riser card as we have not been 
able to source these at a sensible price. However Ole-Egil is rolling into 
production soon with and audio-only in/out card for the AMR slot and those 
AmigaOneG3-SE purchasers that want one will be able to buy one directly 
from him ad a very reasonable price. (If we were to sell them then the 
additional margin, VAT and shipping that we would have to add would mean 
that it would have to cost considerably more to the end user). However the 
G3-SE boards will be shipped with (small, quiet) cpu fans and modified ATX 
I/O backplates within the published price (ie ukp360/euro580/usd580 ex-VAT) 
which I hope helps.

We did not consider the loss of the modem to be too important as most Amiga 
users will have external modems - or ethernet broadband connections - anyway

For those that require an entry-level sound card to get going we can supply 
the Creative labs Vibra 128 card for UKP10/euro16/usd16 ex VAT.

The production version of the AmigaOne-XE boards (now in manufacture) will 
come with an onboard codec etc and audio sockets in the usual positions on 
the ATX I/O knockout - and no AMR slot.

A list of tested hardware is being assembled by people on the A1-dev list 
and will be made public shortly. Clearly as far as graphics and other 
PCI/AGP cards are concerned these should be chosen from the OS4 support 
targets, and not just those that are supported by PPCLinux. The Articia 
northbridge uses server-type registered RAM and a list of tested, supported 
RAM manufacturers/part numbers will also be included. Quite a few 
non-registered SDRAM DIMMs will also work, but only as singles (ie you can 
only have one slot populated) These also will be available types will be 
included on the list as well.

For the 'Earlybird' systems the SuSE Linux PPC installer is now complete 
and comes with a licenced UAE PPC + ROM image. We will be shipping bare 
boards with this installer disk and a minimal SuSE linux distro, but unless 
you are experienced with Linux we recommend that you buy the full SuSE 
LinuxPPC distro with 8 CD's and manuals either from us or elsewhere.

Finally we have been unable to find out from Escena what, if any, progress 
that they have made on their PCI-A1200 bridge card so I think that it is 
fair to assume that this is unlikely to materialise. However the benefits 
of that approach - over networking a 1200 to the A1 and using the latter as 
a file etc server - are in my view minimal anyway. This is because most 
non-retargetable (eg games) software will get no advantage by running on 
the G4 (rather than the A1200+accelerator), and the keyboard and monitor 
would have needed switching with either approach. We do still have some 
Mk4/5 EZTowers available for anyone who would like to have their A1 and 
A1200 networked together in the same case.


Hope this helps

Alan

• Quake 060 main exe (300 Kb)
  (optimized for 060 CPU) quake/060.lha
  
  NAPALM
• main exe v1.4 update (75 Kb) n1.4.lha
• update info
• update to the manual
• rankings page
• cheats
  
  T-ZER0
• v1.01 main exe (360 Kb) T0v1.01.lha
• update to the manual
  
  NIGHTLONG
• main exe update v1.2 for 68K nl1.2.lha
• main exe update v1.1 for 68K NL1.1.lha
• Italian translation of the manual
  (courtesty of Claudio Marro Filosa) Italian manual
• Barbone
• Eva

• Recompiled with newest FreeType 2.1.3 sources. After some research I've decided to leave bytecode interpreter turned on by default (it is turned off in default FreeType config). Autohinter seems to be not that good as FreeType authors advertise.
• Two wersions of TTEngine are now distributed. One full featured and one without bytecode interpreter. Both have 100% compatible API and can be interchanged by just replacing library file. The "light" version of the library may be interesting for commercial applications authors, since bytecode interpreter uses some patented things.
• TTEngine now supports all ISO-8859 encodings (from 1 to 16, except 12 which probably does not exist), also UTF-16BE and UTF-32BE.
• Application programmer can specify custom 8-bit to Unicode character mapping.
• A few more precise global metrics attributes have been added.
• Added some example programs and "ViewISO" tool showing all ISO-8859 encodings for a font face.

• AMIGAplus readers CD 18 - contents
• Co-operative software development, part 1
• WHDLoad: Interview with Bert Jahn
• Workshop ProStationAudio, part 2
• Workshop Pretty Good Privacy, part 2
• Amiga Status Report: Calm before the storm
• Show report WoASE 2002
• Review AMHuhn
• Preview AMIGA + Retro Computing 2002
• Interview with ARKTIS/OASE
• Short reviews: Hardware and shareware
• and much more

• 24.11.02 improved: Indianapolis 500 (Papyrus Design Group) now uses fastmem, reworked install
• 24.11.02 new: Joe Blade 2 (Players) done by Codetapper
• 23.11.02 improved: Joe Blade (Players Software) supports another version, new icons
• 23.11.02 new: Roller Coaster Rumbler (Tynesoft) done by Psygore
• 21.11.02 new: Risk (Virgin) done by JOTD
• 21.11.02 fixed: Populous (Bullfrog) sound corrected
• 21.11.02 improved: Overdrive (Team 17) new imager, other improvements
• 21.11.02 improved: North Sea Inferno (Parsec Software) audio fixed
• 21.11.02 improved: Loom (Lucasfilm Games) better compatibility
• 21.11.02 new: Classic Board Games (Merit Software) done by JOTD

• DagensTV version 1.1 is ready for download. The program processes information of TV shows that is sent via email from http://www.dagenstv.com/. Download: dagenstv.lha
  
  
• A new betaversion( 3.2 Beta 7) of the Tetris clone Detris has been released. Download: detris.lha
  
  
• Mit DRemind lets you remember your important appointments. The main program is at version 1.63, and the Prefs (settings) at version 2.63. Download: dremind.lha
  
  
• The MPegEncGUI is a GUI for the MPEG Audio Encoder. The program is available at version 2.22. Download: thempegencgui.lha

• abcm2ps v3.1.14: converts ABC to music sheet in PostScript (142550 Bytes)
  
• anubis v3.6.1: outgoing mail processor. (1437594 Bytes)
  
• autotrace v0.31.1: convert bitmaps to vector graphics (935789 Bytes)
  
• curl v7.10.2: transferring files with URL syntax (893005 Bytes)
  
• muhstik v4.0.4: bounce to IRC servers from open proxies... (88378 Bytes)
  
• scmxx v0.6.2: handle all I/O of Siemens mobile phones. [not tested!] (103704 Bytes)

• fd2pragma Version 2.158
• GetCRC Version 1.16
• CLib-SDI Version 1.1

• Ports-tab crash fixed
• joystick handling fixes
• hard drive configuration save fixed (trailing spaces are now removed from HD ID-string)
• fixed stuck keys when switching between WinUAE and Windows
• sprite fix (some games had flashing sprite garbage)
• thread priority tweaks
• setupapi.dll error when running under Windows 95 (not confirmed yet)

• implemented harddisk and CD-leds that flash during HD/CD access

• 16.11.02 new: Silent Service 2 (Microprose) done by JOTD
• 16.11.02 new: Populous (Bullfrog) done by Psygore
• 16.11.02 new: The Guild of Thieves (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
• 16.11.02 improved: Future Wars (Delphine Software) protection and sound fixed
• 16.11.02 new: Fish (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
• 16.11.02 improved: Cruise for a Corpse (Delphine Software) supports German version, music improved
• 16.11.02 new: Corruption (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad

• 24Bit-Skins (can also be used with 256 colors or less)
• AHI-Sound
• 100% system friendly
• Adjustable framerate, for example 100 cycles per second for "smooth" Gameplay also on graphic cards

• pci.library

• FastEthernet.device

• Add Ons: Brazilian leagues by Ronaldo Figueiró for Eat the Whistle, Goal and SWOS.
• Disks: ADF-versions of Five-A-Side-Soccer, Football Glory AGA, Tactical Manager, Airball and Amiga Soccer. Thanks to Incagold and Brad Design.
• Games: Anstoss (thanks to Incagold ), Anstoss-WM (thanks to Incagold), BManager, Football Indoor (thanks to Incagold), Football Business, Football Glory (thanks to Incagold), FSV Santa Monica (thanks to Frey United), Hallenturnier (thanks to Frey United), On The Ball (thanks to Incagold), On The Ball - World Cup (thanks to Incagold), PSV Eindhoven Manager (Light Version) (thanks to Frey United), PSV-Guide, Ruhrpott-Fussball Manager, Airball (thanks to Brad Design).
• Information: Guides to the European Championships and the World Cup from Pasi Ylinen.
• Tools: ADF, ELFC, FLeagues, Football, Gol, Leagues and Liga 4.
• Online-Games: Football-O-Rama by Frey United.

• 1982: Ant Artic Adventure, Arcadia, Asteroids (Disaster), Bally (Ballist), Break Out (Aquanoid, Web Breaker), Bruce Lee, Choplifter (Airlift Rescue), Commando, Defender (Abductor), Galaga (Bugs), The Great Giana Sisters (spm2), Helicpoter Attack, LCD-Games (Banana Mania, Bartender, Be a Slayer, Cronch, Dunk Candidate, Gasoline, Madman, Peanut, Smackdown, Soccer, Sydney to Hobart, Uaaah), Lode Runner, Missile (Warhead), Pac Man (Applegather, Pac Man), Paperboy (DnDelivery), Pong (Cmash), River aid (River), Robotron (Bendertron), Shanghai (Shanghai Dynasty, Ultra Blast), Space Invaders, Subscan, Tetris (Bubbles, Flashblox), Trix (Ballist), Tron (Lcycle), Worms (Nibbles, Stanley).
• Fantasy: Games (Cutie Quake, E-Gon 1-3, EgoBoo, Elf Bowling, Reptar, Samurai Asshole, Sumocarrier Xena BraskOut).
• Games: Action Supercross, Bike Flyer, Black Jack, Bzzz!, Cavity Crusade, Duel, Final Fighter, Flashgolf, Flashracer, Fun Run, Gubble 2, Hit Him, Super 1 Karting, Rockpaper, Save the Goldfish, Snowcraft, Speedway, Virtual Startton.
• Internet: ICQ 2002, Mozilla, Zone Alarm.
• Mixed: Banja, Bored Meeting, Stress.
• Science Fiction: Games (Ace Speeder, Backtrak, Canopia, Deadlive, Deadly Weaponz, Frontier 2400, Probe n Poke, Trick Style, Road Wars, GL Tron, Splatterfish, Starship, UniBall, Freeride Trash, Horum).
• Space: Celestia.
• Star Wars: Wonder Dweeb, X-King.

• EvenMore.lha (800K), Readme
• PluginSrc.lha - AmigaE Plugins source codes (45K)

• has extended stringbuffers internally, so module names can be longer
• detailed text output in the case of syntax errors in the configuration files
• xfd plugin does a 'missing header trick' to check for crunchers that lost their decrunch header
• example sourcecode xad.asm is in the archive

• Name: Mill
• Version: v0.79
• Archive name: Mill.lha
• Archive size: 222.067 bytes (lha packed)
• Release date: 14 November 2002
• Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - zeeball@interia.pl

• 0. Better late than never :)
• 1. Please begin from one of 'Readme'. You can choose English, Italian, Polish, German, Spanish, Greek, Czech and Bosnian version of this file.
• 2. You can choose sample to play when virus is found from another archive called 'mill-media.lha'...
• 3. Get TestVirus.lha to see how MILL deals with viruses...
• 4. "How about Safe?"
  - Integrity and/or Notifier (used well) beat Safe.
  - Safe is frozen due to lack of bugreports/ideas...
• 5. Please get from Aminet newest xvs, xad and xfd!
• 6. VHT-DK is online again! Temporarily in quite limited form, but it's back!
• 7. I am looking forward to see your bug reports. Especially bugreports concerning:
  - filerequester of MILL (is there any problem?)
  - strange quarantine behaviours
  - crashing on file-check even with XFD slaves OFF...
  
  Fixes from previous public version:
  - added Czech doc - thanks to Boleslav Kristen and Vaclav Kalas
  - added Magyar catalogs - thanks to Marton Dosa
  - added French catalogs - thanks to Pascal Rullier of ATO
  - MILL: removed About gadget from GUI
  - MILL: tried to fix known bugs
  (reported by Voytec and Michael 'DMX' Bagmaijer)
  - added OS35 style icons (thanks to Martin Mertz!)
  - MILL: removed internal Neurotic installer detection
  (included in xvs - thanks to Georg Hoermann)

• Kickstart 1.3 RDB and regular hardfile autoboot/automount support. KS 1.3 regular (non-RDB) HDF autoboot requires FastFileSystem from WB1.3:L in KS roms-directory.
• Keyboard/mouse/joystick handling rewritten for DirectInput. Windows keys are now 100% usable as an Amiga keys and SHIFT-keys don't get stuck anymore.
• Mouse speed configuration.
• All keyboard keys (even special "multimedia keys") are available in input-tab configuration window.
• Configurable floppy drive type (3.5"DD/3.5"HD/A1010 5.25"SD).

• "Unlimited" hardfile size (2G limit removed), uaehf.device now supports TD64 and NSD -style 64-bit addressing. NTFS filesystem required for >4G hardfiles (FAT32 max file size is about 4G). WARNING: Make sure installed AmigaOS is new enough (OS 3.9 recommended).
• Ability to mount real harddisks with full RDB automount/autoboot support.
• Amithlon partition support.

• Slow harddisk, CDROM, etc.. performance in non-CPU idle mode.
• CPU idle tweaks, defaults to off, config file support.
• Disk emulation improvements.
• Added missing configuration file entries.
• Better compatibility with old config files.
• 68000 "more compatible"-checkbox works again.
• Fixed uaehf.device crash with older HDToolBox versions.
• Custom chipset fixes (Chaos Engine AGA/CD32, Obliterator, Terrorpods etc..).
• GUI's screenshot-button was always disabled.
• State file restore fixes (CPU type is automatically restored correctly and more).
• Switch from fullscreen/no-vsync to vsync-mode crash fixed.
• Filesystem "ghost"-file bug fixed (but filesystem emulation still have some bugs left..).
• Bsdsocket emulation compatibility fixes.
• Fixed serial and printer port defaults.

• Title screen reconverted. Antialiasing improved
• Diplomacy: Personal messages can be sent and received
• Cheat protection for ARMY, SHIP and MOVE chunk
• Fonts have been reworked by Damaso Dominguez
• Spanish characters are now shown correctly
• ToT is now running on MorphOS for Amiga and Pegasos
• new BardsTale stories
• Ruines added
• new map images for town level 2 to 4
• CGX V5 is now recognized

• first level town had incorrect number of inhabitants
• plundered trade ships left their loaded figure in the water. Fixed
• loss of capital caused problems
• fallback mode for screen mode rewritten
• output in FTP routine and diplomacy removed
• Bugfix in chunkmachine
• Bugfixes in stringinput
• Bugfixes in TaverneOfflineChat
• resources display under AGA fixed
• some bugfixes relating to ships
• repair routines for ship
• building screen updated
• gotcha changed from hardware to software
• fadein and fadeout is in software on the Pegasos now
• CGX V5 check
• MorphOS is now detected correctly
• BardsTale now completely in German available

1. admit, that the code was in their driver,
2. admit, that they have constantly lied to the users,
3. have placed a public apology for the first time in their life,
4. and have removed any malicious code.

• Two new functions: TT_GetPixmap() and TT_FreePixmap() for text pixelmap extraction. Pixelmap is 8 bit per pixel, 256 gray levels. Then the pixmap may be further processed. Useful for e.g. painting and image processing software.
• Antialiasing is now based on pixel luminance and hue (RGB correction is applied as well). Gives even better text quality especially on contrasting background (e.g. red text on green).
• New text styles: underline, double underline, overstrike, double overstrike.
• Fixed bugs in JAM2, INVERSVID and COMPLEMENT draw modes.
• Colours of text can be now specified directly as RGB via TT_Foreground and TT_Background tags.

• 11.11.02 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) supports another version
• 11.11.02 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) more stable, support for EZMouse
• 11.11.02 improved: Mig-29 Soviet Fighter (Code Masters/Rapier Design) small fixes, supports another version
• 11.11.02 improved: Midwinter 2 (Maelstrom Games) supports another version
• 11.11.02 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
• 11.11.02 improved: Campaign 2 (Empire) supports another version
• 11.11.02 new: Blazing Thunder (Hi-Tec Software) done by Galahad
• 07.11.02 improved: SAS Combat Simulator (Code Masters) supports another version
• 07.11.02 improved: Populous 2 (EOA/Bullfrog) miscellaneous changes
• 07.11.02 improved: Midwinter 2 (Maelstrom Games) supports German version
• 07.11.02 improved: Campaign 2 (Empire) supports another version
• 05.11.02 improved: Monkey Island 2 (Lucasfilms Games) miscellaneous changes

• Added size check to bootblock virus recognition in xvsCheckFile(). Any files bigger than 2048 bytes will no longer be tested for bootblock viruses to avoid fake recognitions inside disk-images.
• Finally fixed the last MuForce hit ($c0.w) in xvsSurveyMemory(). Thanks to Sensei again for the report and Zeeball for further suggestions on this topic.
• Fixed severe bug in 'Illegal Access' recognition code that caused crashes on any files with virus-like hunklengths. Thanks to Zeeball for the report and the example files.
• Added 'NoName (196 Bytes)' linkvirus and 'XFD Infiltrator' virus. Thanks to Zeeball for sending them.
• Fixed problems with native MorphOS applications that directly call xvs.library functions. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the report and for further help.
• Implemented custom Disable() function that prevents loss of data on the serial port during xvsSurveyMemory() calls. Thanks to Christian of CAPS (www.caps-project.org) for the report and the excessive beta-testing!
• xvsSurveyMemory() now closes TCP ports opened by several viruses. These currently are: 1666, 2000, 2001, 2227, 2333, 2421, 2551, 4097 and 9876. Please note that closing an open port doesn't cause a virus report, it just happens!
• Once again improved the internal security stuff for less timing problems with sensitive software (serial.device still has trouble with 115200 baud on a MC68030, use 8n1.device instead!).
• Added 'Neurotic Death' viruses (6 versions) to xvsSurveyMemory() and the installer files to xvsCheckFile().
• Added new developer files created by Dirk Stöcker. Thanks a lot and sorry that I forgot to add them to the last release.
• Added installer script written by Dave 'Targhan' Crawford. Thanks a lot for this contribution.

• New: Loop-Play-Option.
• New: PPC-version for WarpOS (WOS)
• Changed: improved Makefiles

• gfx/show/swfplayer.lha (291K), Readme
• gfx/show/swfplayersrc.lha (388K), Readme

• 204 - Straßenraub als Pointe
• 205 - Das Stinktier-Einmaleins
• 206 - Taktvolles Mädchen
• 207 - Angst hat heute Verspätung

• The previous archive (AG2 BETA 14.10.2002) was defective.
• Internal module for UAE + GeForce2 Ti.
• Load/Save module in development.

• fixed (u)word/(u)byte shifts/rotates under PowerPC
• fixed an old bug in PowerPC support, that made executables about 5%-10% longer!
• added support for functions pointers in variables:
  DEF a:() // define the variable as a function pointer (no args here)
  a:=&func // assign a function address to the variable
  a() // launch the function addressed in variable a
  
• fixed static lists containing doubles under PowerPC
  
• added some examples written by Philippe van Calsteren
• basic OOP again started to work :) (see oop.html)
• bugs reported/fixed by Marco Antoniazzi
• shared library support is now working better and safer!

• alpha.lzx (305K), Readme
• dmod_ahi.lzx (21K), Readme

• Bugfix: Now the highscore should let you enter stuff even if it's full, given that you are better then the worst that is.
• The auto-resize of the window should work better now.

• Double ScreenWidth and Double ScreenHeight now are exactly the double of the Text-Overscan of the current choosen screenmode, equal, which dimensions you have had defined in the screenmode-requester before.
  NB.:Text-Overscan is the size of the screen, which fits exactly the visible range on the monitor.
  ATTENTION !
  These values are not stored anywhere. If you want to go back to these values, you must:
  1. uncheck the Double Width and Double Height gadgets
     
  2. "Choose" - screenmode and insert your values into the Width and Height integer-gadgets in the screenmode-requester and resume
     
  3. after that you may click "Save" or "Use", like you want
     
• Changed the method of altering a value with the mouse in the List-Editor in "Magic-Wand"-mode
• Changed the colorization in the song-construction-window. Now the marked and shifted range is more "colored". (Not in the "classic" version)
• MIDI-Defaults now defineable for each MIDI-channel separate, and they may be saved and loaded in separate files

• more than 60 commands
• a choice of 128 tracks
• 255 available sample locations
• DSP echo
• and much more

• MOD (Protracker/Noisetracker)
• DIGI (Digibooster 1.x)
• XM (FastTracker)
• S3M (ScreamTracker)
• MED (Octamed & OctamedSoundStudio).

• cvs-1.11.2.lha (1,1M)
• cvs-1.11.2.lzx (984K)

• anubis v3.6.0
• abcm2ps v3.1.13
• pipeviewer v0.2.6
• ringtonetools v2.01
• SHighlight v1.6.1

• a "small tools" special about the audio compression format "Ogg Vorbis",
• the sixth and last part of an introduction in the ReAction programming,
• a background article about data types and their recognition,
• a workshop about programming a note book in PHP with mySQL,
• a review of the German version of the graphics adventure "Aqua",
• the most important news and press releases regarding Pegasos & MorphOS, AmigaOne & AmigaOS 4.0 and Amithlon,
• a comment about the supposed quarrelsomeness of the Amiga community,
• reports from the Amiga events in Graz and Grebenstein,
• a note about the future proceeding with a lack of sent contributions,
• and much more.

• 14th: ScummVM Downloads and Mailing Lists will be unavailable between approximatly 16:00 Pacific Time (GMT-8), till 19:00.
• 17th: The main ScummVM site, and CVS tree, will be unavailable from 10:00 Pacific. This may last up to 12 hours, but hopefully less!

• ChaosDM - one of the best Deathmatch mods for Quake 2
• Star Trek - contains the entire Enterprise as a level (and new weapons)
• Bots - "Battle of the Sexes" - a CTF Mod, based on classes, in which a male team and a female team go up against each other.

• The unusual "VideoMicrowave" is a remodeled steel microwave with an LCD display as the door and a Pegasos board on the inside. You'll find information at http://www.videomicrowave.net.
• The "Development Suite" is a developer package for the Pegasos, Eclipsis, and Pegasos server stack.
• The "Pega-shush" is a home-server for the long-endurance business of integrating with other entertainment electronics. The communications occur over a 802.11b network card.
• The "Games Package" is an offer especially for friends of good game value. More details will be announced at http://www.pegasosppc.com.

• Zak McKracken (FmTowns 256 Color Version)
• Monkey Island (VGA Floppy and Enhanced CD)
• Monkey Island II
• Loom (CD Talkie version)
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• Day of the Tentacle
• Sam and Max Hit the Road
• The Dig
• Simon The Sorcerer 1

• Simon The Sorcerer 2
• Full Throttle
• Indiana Jones and Last Crusade (256 color version)

• available with the AmigaOneG3-SE (750CXe G3 cpu @600MHz) or AmigaOne-XE (7451 G4 cpu @800MHz) motherboard
• 20 GB HD
• 56x CD-ROM
• 128 MB RAM
• CPU Cooler
• Floppy Drive
• Soundblaster Live Soundcard
• ATI or Similar low-end graphic card, AGP, Linux and OS4 compatible
• PS/2-Keyboard and Mouse
• 7-bay Midi ATX-Tower
• SuSE Linux PPC Distribution inc. Instructions
• LinuxPPC & UAE Preinstalled
• OS4-specialized BIOS (& OS4-License with Earlybird-Systems that are ordered and paid for before 31st December, 2002)
• Onboard-Ethernet and USB
• Bundled, Tested, and Assembled

• available with AmigaOneG3-SE (750CXe G3 cpu @600MHz) or AmigaOne-XE (7451 G4 cpu @800MHz) motherboard
• 80 GB HD
• DVD-ROM
• CDRewriter
• 512 MB RAM
• CPU Cooler
• Floppy Drive
• Soundblaster Live Soundcard
• ATI Radeon 8500 Graphic Card
• PS/2-Multimedia-Keyboard
• Optical, Cable-less, Unencumbered Mouse
• 7-bay Midi ATX Tower
• SuSE Linux PPC Distribution inc. Instructions
• LinuxPPC & UAE preinstalled
• OS4-specialized BIOS (& OS4-License with Earlybird-Systems that are ordered and paid for before 31st December, 2002)
• Onboard Ethernet and USB
• Bundled, Tested, and Assembled

• 4 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible) and 3 Zorro III/II slots
• 66/33 MHz PCI clock (transfer rate up to 264 MB/s)
• 32-bit PCI datapatch
• 4GB PCI memory space
• Busmastering/DMA in all PCI slots and DMA to A4000 motherboard space
• Compatible with all 68030/040/060 and PPC processor cards
• Ready for SharkPPC(+) G3/G4 cards
• Fits in a standard A4000 desktop case (replace the Commodore daughter board)

• the bulk out procedure corrected,
• speed improvements.

• 04.11.02 new: The Pawn (Magnetic Scrolls) done by Galahad
• 04.11.02 improved: Pirates! (Microprose) supports another floppy version
• 04.11.02 improved: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) new imager, minor other fixes
• 04.11.02 new: Midwinter 2 (Maelstrom Games) done by JOTD
• 04.11.02 new: Explora (Infomedia) done by Psygore
• 01.11.02 improved: Secret of Monkey Island (Lucasfilm Games) miscellaneous changes
• 01.11.02 new: Armour Geddon 2 (Psygnosis) done by Galahad

• Fully 24bit enhanced!
• Transparent windows are possible
• Over 50 transition effects for objects, pictures and texts
• Graphics can be scrolled smoothly
• Smooth and fast animation play back
• Support for transparent graphics and animations
• Functions for using textures
• Support for datatypes
• Support for true type, bitmap and color fonts
• Scaling of graphics is possible
• Application can open on Workbench or own screen
• Integrated easy Undo system
• Fully independent from the enviroment e.g. does not matter if user runs Picasso96 or CyberGraphX or AGA or ECS/OCS

• Support for audio samples
• Full control over the audio channel playback
• Support for various music module formats
• Volume and pitch of samples can be modified during playback
• Sample size is not limited to 128 kilobyte
• Full Stereo playback

• Variables, arrays and different data types (long, float, string)
• Conditions and loops can be used
• Easy handling of variables (no initialization, declaration)
• Functions for manipulating strings and doing math operations
• Compiler and linker to convert your script to an executable
• Inbuilt error handler that does all the error handling work for you
• Functions for debugging your script
• Labels that are fully integrated into the user interaction mode
• Plugins can be used to enhance Hollywood's functionality

• Buttons can be defined
• Hollywood buttons support mouse click and mouse over events
• Keyboard input can be monitored
• System keys can be monitored
• Window events (window is moved, sized, closed etc.) can be monitored with ease

• Read from and write to files
• Easily read whole directories into an array
• Various file operations
• Many functions to handle files and work with them
• Query the Amiga system for information (e.g. CPU, Kickstart etc.)
• Retrieve information about hard disks, memory...
• Enhance your program to use different languages by using Hollywood's locale.library support
• Many time and date functions

• pegasos.zip
• morphos.zip

• dynAMIte_update.lha (374K), Changes
• dynAMIte_update22a.lha (from 2.2 to 2.2a) (218K), Changes
• dynAMIte.lzx (full version) (1809K), Readme

1. The office is moving and we will have the new address, and contact information up in the next week. So there is no need to worry about what is happening with the office, the change has been good for us. We needed to move into an area that is closer to the services and to the companies that we are working with.
2. AmigaOne is ready to fly, and I have attached the news from Eyetech here with this update. So congratulations to all and the community for your new Amiga hardware.
3. OS 4.0 is almost complete, and the Hyperion team is working very hard to get everything ready. They were delayed by having to complete some low-level work on the AmigaOne, and with their work completed they are ready to crank out the last remaining bit of work to provide a stellar achievement and package.
4. There will be some announcements coming in the next couple of weeks from third parties who are now creating versions of their software for OS 4.0 and I have agreed not to steal their thunder but will have them make their own announcements first and then we will carry them on our site after they have made them.
5. Amiga Games Pocket Paks will be available around the Thanksgiving holidays through several resellers in the US and in England, including CompUSA and mmO2 in England. Yes, what you are reading is correct. Amiga Games Pocket Paks volumes one and two will be shipping and ready this year at 29.95 each from several authorized retailers in the US and through mmO2 retail locations in England. These Pocket Paks include 4 game titles each, and we have two more packs following. This is great news as thousands of new customers here and in England are going to be able to experience Amiga Content on their Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition devices.
6. Amiga is also making available for release before Christmas Amiga SmartPhone Packs. These will be similar to the Pocket Paks, but targeted for the new SmartPhones coming out this year. As you know they will run on the new Sendo Z100, and they will be available for the new phones being offered by Orange also.

• Pegasos
• Amithlon (version with newest drivers, AmithlonTV)
• G-Rex (e.g. A4000T-Modell 1. serie-model)
• Mediator 4000D
• Prometheus
• MMKeyboard
• Keyboard-adapter
• Mouse-adapter with Wheel-support
• Amiga-museum of Dirk Hase from A1000 to A4000T

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      W O R L D   O F   A M I G A   S O U T H E A S T   N E W S 

     M O R E   O N   O T T A W A   A M I G A   S H O W   2 0 0 2 

            A M I G A   U N I V E R S I T Y   U P D A T E

      T H E   ' D E A T H   B E D   V I G I L '   O N   D V D ! 

       P E R F E C T   P A I N T   2 . 8 3   A V A I L A B L E 

                M O O V I D   1 . 6   R E L E A S E D 

  C A T W E A S E L   M K 3   " F L I P P E R "   A V A I L A B L E

             N E W   " D Y N A M I T E "   I S   V 2 . 2 

         P O S E I D O N   U S B - S T A C K   O N - L I N E 

 Q U A K E 2   F R O M   H Y P E R I O N   E N T E R T A I N M E N T
 
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Happy Halloween to those who celebrate the holiday! It may be
appropriate that this issue of "Amiga Update" goes out tonight since
Halloween is the day for frightening "things" and in some ways we
might call this past month a frightening month. We didn't see much in
the way of Amiga news to send your way. A lot of what we did find
related to upcoming planned projects, beta releases and utilities
designed for specialized uses. There was no Executive Update from
Amiga either. I like it much more when the Amiga community makes a lot
of interesting noise. Silence is scary.
 However, as is usually the case, there are interesting things going
on in the Community. We have stories on many of them below.
 There's also some potentially interesting news from IBM. On the 15th
of the month, IBM announced the 1.8GHz Power PC 970 at the
Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California. This new chip has the
potential of bringing true 64 bit desktop computing to the Amiga
community down the road in the Amiga1 line. We'll have to see how
this develops. Right now, I'd just be happy for readily available,
complete Amiga1 machines ... haven't seen them yet.
 We hope you enjoy this issue, and we also hope for much more to
report to you next time around. Time will tell.

 Brad Webb,
 Editor
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    W O R L D   O F   A M I G A   S O U T H E A S T   N E W S 

25 Oct 2002 

 Typical, you wait ages and then you get new games to buy all at once.
 
 With only one week to go to, we have the pleasure to announce that
there will be THREE new Amiga games releases for you to buy at the
World of Amiga Southeast Show 2002.
 
 (In alphabetical order)
 
 Quake II. - Hyperion-Entertainment/ID Software. A game that needs no
introduction. Yes! Not only will you be able to play QUAKE II at WOASE
on the Amiga Area, but thanks to some nifty work by the guys at
Hyperion, you will be able to buy it as well! Copies are being sent by
special courier from Germany to the UK, in time for the show! Be
amongst the first to own Quake II on the Amiga.
 
 Software Tycoon - Epic Interactive. It's 1982. Small computer games
companies are springing up in the bedrooms around the world. A new
business beckons, where everything is in your hands. You have total
control, from creating the original concept, through hiring staff and
packaging design, to the development of massive marketing campaigns.
Do you have the skills to create and use new technologies and become a
Software Tycoon?
 
 Tales of Tamar - Eternity Software. An internet based roundgame for
various computing platforms. You live in a world far away from our
civilization, comparable to the Middle Ages. In this world there
exists man, dwarves, dragons, and a lot of other races. There is
magic, there are druids and dungeons. You can fight, trade,
investigate, build cities, raise taxes and make peace contracts. Your
aim is to reign your empire and to survive against other opponents.

 Just one week (THAT'S FROM THE 25TH!) to go! - Get your credit cards
ready!

***

 World of Amiga Southeast 2002 is pleased to announce its final
Exhibitors line up for this year's Show:

100% Amiga Magazine
Amiga (OS4/Quake II Demo's)
Cloanto (Amiga Forever)
Eyetech (AmigaOne)
Fore-Matt Home Computing
Kicksoft
Mediator Support Team
The Crypt Magazine
Thendic France (PegasOS/MorphOS)
Total Amiga Magazine
Weird Science
ZeoNeo 

The Following Amiga User Groups will be in attendance:

Amiga North Thames
Amiga Support Association
Blackpool Amiga Club
Huddersfield Amiga User Group

 Please visit http://www.worldofamiga.com or
http://www.seal-amiga.co.uk/woase for more information, including an
exhibitor layout plan for your convenience. Advanced tickets, priced,
£3.50 each, are available from: Fore-Matt Home Computing or Kicksoft.
 
 World of Amiga Southeast 2002 takes place on Saturday 2nd of November
2002 at Poplars Hall, Shenfield, Brentwood, Essex, UK.
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     M O R E   O N   O T T A W A   A M I G A   S H O W   2 0 0 2 

30 Oct., 2002

 What's going on?
 
 The Ottawa Amiga Show will have Amiga retailers selling products and
developers showing off their latest programs.
 
 The retailers are Cinereal of Ottawa, Downtown Amiga from Montreal,
and Livewire Systems of Ottawa. Livewire systems has indicated they
will have 2 Amithlon systems, some Elbox hardware products, Quake two
and more! Cinereal will be demonstrating Matrox video editing
solutions as well as selling Amiga software and hardware.
 
 ACK Software Controls from Niagara Falls will be demonstrating the
AmigaOne, the first new Amiga hardware since 1993, and a modified
Amiga 4000T, the last classic Amiga model produced.
 
 Admission to the show is free.
 
 Technomages will be on hand demonstrating their latest AmigaDE/AA
titles including Eric Schwartz Puzzles, Memory and others.
 
 ZEE4 of Toronto will be on-hand demonstrating their brand new Amiga
DE offerings.
 
 There will be several systems running demonstrations of Amiga Digital
Environment content.
 
 After the show ends, there will be a post-show supper at the Royal
Oak, the regular meeting place of Amiga.info open to everyone who
wishes to attend. As usual, we will take over the basement.
 
 We will likely have a webcam for those of you who can not make it to
Ottawa. Once it is ready, we will post the address.

When is the show?

 The Ottawa Amiga Show is taking place on November 9, 2002. Doors open
to the public at 11:00am, and the show ends at 4:00pm. People should
arrive at the Royal Oak for around 5:30pm.

 Where is the show?

 The show is quite easy to get to from just about everywhere. The map
page will show you how to get to the show.

 Why have a show?
 
 There are two reasons - the first being that the Amiga computer and
operating system may have fallen from the mainstream, but to this day
there are dedicated users to use the Amiga for a wide range of uses,
including email, surfing the web, video editing, graphics work, and
many others.
 
 Amiga Inc's new Digital Environment (DE) is an excellent platform for
developing software that needs to run everywhere - on PCs, on PDAs, on
cellphone and a myriad of other devices. Programming for DE is written
once, in either Java, C, or VP Assember, and from there will run on
any AmigaDE enabled device.

Any questions about the Ottawa Amiga show can be directed to
amigashow@technomages.net.
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           A M I G A   U N I V E R S I T Y   U P D A T E

04-Oct-2002

 Some great stuff now online, and hopefully a few more cool new things
in the immediate future, too (stay tuned) :) http://www.amigau.com
 
 We've got some cool new stuff online for you:
 
 Site Mirrors: (http://www.amigau.com/sitearchives.htm)
 
 - Amiga Source is now mirrored on our site, thanks Scott!
 
 - we still maintain site mirrors of the excellent Blitz Basic,
Samplitude Opus (with software downloads) and Amiga Interactive Guide
sites, too.
 
 Site Archives:
 
 We have added two GREAT Amiga site archives from the somewhat recent
past:
 
 - National Amiga tech pages: these are full of great tech
information, including pinouts, motherboard configs and lots of
accelerator information - These were originally done by Greg Scott and
used to be on National Amiga's website - thanks to Larry S. and Joe at
Archtech in London, Ontario!
 
 - Spock's Logical Amiga Pages: As many of you may remember, this was
a great site that has been offline for some time, unfortunately due to
its author, Eric Robertson, passing on last fall. Thanks to Donald
Sowell for providing this data as hopefully a little memorial to
Eric's fondness for the Amiga and his excellent site.
 
 - Amiga Realm archive mirrors (12 of them) - Thanks to Paul Andrews
for providing data to mirror their site archives!
 
 Additional stuff:

 303Tracker - this is a cool Roland TB303 emulator you can run on your
Amiga - software downloads included - thanks to Jeroen Schellekens for
his site archive and software (http://www.amigau.com/c-music/303t.htm)

 Events page:
 
 We have added an easy to find Events page for upcoming Amiga events &
shows, and we pledge to keep it current! :) If you have an event or
show coming up anywhere in the world, let us know so we can post it
immediately. (http://www.amigau.com/events.htm)
 
 Thanks, keep on coming back and if you have additional Amiga sites
for us to help you mirror or archive (to preserve them), just let us
know when/how. :)

kevin orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
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      T H E   ' D E A T H   B E D   V I G I L '   O N   D V D ! 

22 Oct., 2002

 DVD edition of 'The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst' 

 Dave Haynie is in the final stages of the preparation of a DVD
edition of 'The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst'. For
those who've been living, well, in the normal mainstream of modern
life and don't know this, this is the film he made about the end of
Commodore.
 Says Dave: "As usual with DVDs, I've been trying to think of some
useful, interesting, or fun 'extra stuff' to put on the disc. I have
too much stuff, basically, but in my continual search for meaning and
all that crap, I came up with the idea of 'IMPACT '. Basically, with
the Amiga as we know it pretty much moved from the single most
revolutionary personal computer in history to more of a footnote in
history, just what WAS its impact. I can play with words, but the
question is too large, and too personal, for just one input. So I've
decided to solicit answer to this basic question: what was/is the
Amiga's impact. On you, on the industry, on life on earth. I know a
piece of it. Some of you may have more to add. So, here's the game.
Think of it as a contest, or whatever. Simply put, you write up a
paragraph; something succinct, or you'll get edited, even if I like
what you said. It needs to fit on one 4:3 TV frame at NTSC resolution,
in quasi-readable type.
 "Send whatever you like to me at dhaynie@jersey.net. Put "[DBV]" in
the subject, and your preferred name at the end. I'll put the best
ones on the DVD."


{Taken from the Czech Amiga News site. Pay them a visit at:
http://amiga.czex.com - Note the new URL! Brad}
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       P E R F E C T   P A I N T   2 . 8 3   A V A I L A B L E 

29 Oct 2002

PerfectPaint V2.83 is available

 * New Arexx command:
 
 o pp_Sharpen
 
 o pp_Glass
 
 o pp_Colorize
 
 o pp_Convert2CMAP
 
 o pp_bmsave
 
 o pp_invbrushstencil
 
 o pp_AddShadow
 
 * Fix a bug with the cloud and gradient palette
 
 * Fix a bug with Arexx
 
 * New Tools under the Boing Icon:
 
 o Borders & Edges (Include 16 script, edge and some picture found in
the Net)
 
 o KATalysator © by Saint & Antibike Lets you create Album for the
web.
 
 * New asynchron window: History (All loaded and saved picture are
stored with info and thumbnail)
 
 * New Arexx Box Script: Cloud II
 
 * For the Fun: New General Script: Snake (a game in arexx with
PfPaint)
 
 * Load and Save ClipBoard
 
 * Improve script: Funny border with Filled Rounded boxes
 
 * Improve Save PNG: PNGtool is used to save PNG picture Current mask
can be used to create the alpha chanel of the png picture. Alpha
Chanel of the brush can be used to create the alpha chanel of the png
picture.
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               M O O V I D   1 . 6   R E L E A S E D 

28 Oct., 2002

 MooVId AVI/MOV player with GUI, 3ivX, Divx, MPEG4, QT3-4-5-6, INDEO
and PPC  support for Amiga computers

                       Last version: 1.6 (30.09.2002)
Required hardware:

Kickstart 3.0 (3.1 Recommended)
MC68020 or better (68040 recommended for bigger AVI/MOVs)
ECS or AGA chipset (on ECS the playback is only 16 grayscale)
1 MB of free memory
PowerPC processor for PPC codecs

Required software:

Reqtools.library
z.library - for QuickTime streams
CyberGraphX or Picasso96 for GFX-Board playback
Installed WarpOS (PPC)
3ivxcodec.library for 3ivX playback (from www.3ivx.com)
avcodec.library/avcodecwos.library for divx, mpeg4, sorenson playback
(included)

Recommended hardware:

 MC68040/060 or PPC and ZorroIII graphicsboard (for bigger
animations), but MooVId can play 240x180 truecolor AVI/MOV at 15FPS
(without skipping) in perfect (!) colors on 030/50 AGA.

MooVId features:

 o AVI (Video for windows) and MOV (Quicktime) player in one file
 
 o Support the video overlay (PIP) of the CV/BVPPC, CV64/3d, PIV,
Voodoo boards (+)
 
 o Support MPEG4 codecs (MP41, MP42, MP43, DIV1, MPG4)
 
 o Support ALL divx variants (Divx ;-), OpenDivx, Divx4, Divx5.x)
 
 o Support Sorenson Video (SVQ1)
 
 o Support 3ivX
 
 o Support QuickTime3+ streams, QuickTime 64bit fileformat till
QuickTime6
 
 o Support INTEL Indeo 3.1 & 3.2 (IV31 & IV32)
 
 o Amithlon compatible
 
 o 100% assembly coded PPC codecs (WarpOS supported)
 
 o 100% assembly coded (fast & short)
 
 o Buffered I/O handling (direct playback from CD-ROM or HDD)
 
 o Timer Based frame skipping method
 
 o FULL AGA support (256 color/gray or ham8) (+)
 
 o Bugfree "18bit" gfx on AGA Amigas
 
 o Special (fast & very good ham8) STORM dither on AGA Amigas (+)
 
 o ECS Support (16 grayscale)
 
 o 16 grayscale Window playback
 
 o Full support of the CD32 akiko chip
 
 o Synchronized audio playing
 
 o On-fly selectable frame rate
 
 o Fully system friendly
 
 o Direct p96 support (no CGFX "emulation")
 
 o Direct CGFX support
 
 o Accelerated decoders for ZorroII gfxboards
 
 o Full GUI (check the screenshoot)


Supported codecs:

Video for Windows (.avi)


Supported video encoders:

Codec Name FourCC code Depth
Cirrus Logic AccuPak CLJR 24 bit
DivX ;-)(+) DIV3 24 bit
DivX4/OpenDivx(+) DIVX 24 bit
DivX5.xx(+) DX50 24 bit
Intel Indeo IV31/IV32 24 bit
MPEG4/MPEG4 V1(+) MPG4/MP41/DIV1 24 bit
MPEG4 V2(+) MP42 24 bit
MPEG4 V3(+) MP43 24 bit
Microsoft RGB RGB 8/16 bit
Microsoft Video 1 CRAM/MSVC 8/16 bit
Motion JPEG(+) MJPG 24 bit
Radius Cinepak(+) CVID 16/24/32 bit
Run Length Encoded RLE 8 bit
Intel RAW YUV9 16/24/32 bit


Supported audio codecs:

Audio format Channels Bits
DVI-ADPCM MONO/STEREO 4 bit (16bit)
PCM MONO/STEREO 8/16 bit
MPEGI-Layer2(+) MONO/STEREO
MPEGI-Layer3(+) MONO/STEREO
MS-ADPCM MONO/STEREO 4 bit (16bit)


Quicktime (.mov, .qt)


Supported video encoders:

Codec Name FourCC code Depth
3ivX Delta 2(+) 3IV1 24 bit
Apple Animation(+) RLE 8 bit (color/gray)
Apple Graphics(+) SMC 8 bit (color/gray)
Apple Video RPZA 16 bit
Intel Indeo IV31/IV32 24 bit
Joint Picture Experts Group(+) JPEG 24 bit
Radius Cinepak(+) CVID 16/24/32 bit
Sorenson Video(+) SVQ1 24 bit


Supported audio encoders:

Audio format Channels Bits
RAW MONO/STEREO 8/16 bit
TWOS MONO/STEREO 8/16 bit
IMA-ADPCM MONO/STEREO 4 bit (16 bit)
MACE 3:1 MONO/STEREO 8 bit
MACE 6:1 MONO/STEREO 8 bit
MPEGI-Layer3(+) MONO/STEREO


(+)=PPC accelerated
MPEG1/2 and AC3 audio support is in progress...

MooVId status:


 MooVId is SHAREWARE. You can check it's limited version in the OS3.9
(called Action) to reference.
 
 The registration fee is $10 or 10Euro for 68k only version, PPC+68k
version registration fee is $20 or 20Euro and after you will get free
updates too (when you have email address)
 
 Special registration fee for East European Amiga users (like Russia,
Poland, Hungary, Czech, the ex-communist countries): just 8Euro (68k
only version) and 15Euros (68k+PPC)!


http://www.dfmk.hu/~torokl/MooVId.html
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  C A T W E A S E L   M K 3   " F L I P P E R "   A V A I L A B L E

26 Oct., 202

Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper

four-in-one controller for
emulation support


 The third generation of Catweasel controllers shows again that
Catweasel has always been a bit more than just a floppy controller. If
you have started an emulator on a modern computer, you'll know that a
lot of things are different from the original machine. The new
computer can't read the original disks, the old joysticks don't fit,
and the keyboard has a lot of keys in a place that you're not used to.
Once you have adjusted to the new situation, bad sound effects or
music that just doesn't sound like what you've heard over and over
again more than ten years ago spoils the party.
 
 Catweasel MK3 solves all of these problems.
 
 As the name already tells, it's a PCI board for modern PCs, MACs and
the new computers AmigaOne and Pegasos. The surname "Flipper" suggests
that there's more to this interface. The new Catweasel is a so-called
flipcard, it can be plugged into the Zorro-slot of a classic-Amiga.
Even if you don't have one of these bus systems, there's another
connector for the clock-port of an Amiga 1200 - a small pin header on
the
 
 motherboard of the computer that's connected with a cable.
 
 The main purpose of the Catweasel has always been to allow access to
non-standard disks using normal PC-diskdrives, even if you usually
need a completely different computer for that. The capacity of the
drive does not matter in this case: A 5,25 inch drive with 1,2MByte
capacity will read and write a C-64 disk with 170KByte as well as a
3,5 inch drive with 1,44MByte can access a 1,76MByte Amiga disk.
Together with a company that has specialized in data recovery, we're
working on the implementation of more than 1100 different disk
formats, and it does not matter that this has been classified
impossible by others before. Even the 800KByte disks from older
Macintosh computers can be used in standard 1,44MB drives, although
the original drives have rotated their disks at variable speeds. You
can get a complete overview over the supported formats in the
technical data. Even if the format you desire is not yet supported, it
only requires a driver update to get new features out of the
controller.

 To bring the real feeling of the old games to new computers, the
Catweasel MK3 has two connectors for so-called digital joysticks. This
is the type of joystick that has been used by many computers of the
80s like C-64, VIC-20, Atari and Amiga. The connector was the same on
all these computers: A 9-pin Sub-D. Analog joysticks of that time
(so-called paddles) can also be used.
 
 Emulation does not necessarily mean to bring nostalgia to your
computer. AmigaOS XL and Amithlon bring an operating system to the
PC-world that is superior to the mainstream systems in many respects.
A lot of users of that software wanted to use real Amiga keyboards on
the PC, that's why the Catweasel MK3 has a mini-DIN connector for an
A4000 keyboard. If you want to use an A2000 or A3000 keyboard, this
can be done with a PS2 adapter that should be available in good
PC-shops.
 
 Last but not least, the Catweasel MK3 has an option to use the
original soundchip of the Commodore C-64, also known as SID (Sound
Interface Device). This part of the board has been carefully designed
in order to produce exactly the same sound that the C-64 produced.
There have been other attempts to bring this chip to the PC-world, but
none of them was really satisfying.
 
 Catweasel MK3 does not accept compromise in this matter. Even direct
comparative tests with a real C-64 reveal nearly no differencies. This
is also caused by a real Commodore-Chip that is being used to generate
the SID clock frequency. Luckily, we have a good quantity of these
chips in stock. An additional circuit that is contained on all
Catweasel MK3 can output a fourth voice even out of the later versions
of the SID (type 8580) that could be activated by a software trick on
the old version (type 6581). If you connect the Catweasel MK3 to the
internal CD-connector of your soundcard, you can hear the fourth voice
on a separate channel if you like.

Prices:

Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper: 84,90 EUR
special cable for Amiga 1200: 5,- EUR
Soundchip 6581 or 8580: 20,- EUR

 All prices include the German VAT of 16%. We'll start shipping on
november 25th, 2002.

individual Computers
Roermonder Str 228 | 52072 Aachen | Fax: +49 241 12088
www.jschoenfeld.de

http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/cwmk3_e.htm
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            N E W   " D Y N A M I T E "   I S   V 2 . 2 

26 Oct., 2002

Requires: 

 Amiga with 68020 or better OS3.x, TCP/IP stack, CyberGraphx/P96 or
AGA with BlazeWCP, MUI3.8, AHI, identify.library 13.x, NList.mcc,
BetterBalance.mcc (optional), XPK V4.0 (optional)
 
 dynAMIte is a bomberman/dynablaster-clone that can be played (only)
over the internet (TCP/IP) by up to 8 players!
 
 This game runs on your WB and thus multitasks happily with all your
other programs, so just try it and become addicted! =)

---------------

 o Fixed a silly bug where a player could have had more than one
remotebomb resulting in hit-galore and serious other problems.
 
 o Active powerups are now displayed in an additional window. See Menu
-> Windows -> Active Power-Ups.
 
 o dynAMIte did not load a newly selected sampleset. Fixed.
 
 o DServer now resets teammode and brings in initial amount of bots
after the last player left the server.
 
 o DServer now also does highscores for teams.
 
 o Added another ARexx command to stop a running game called STOPGAME.
 
 o Added a new ARexx command called DOCHATLINE to DServer. DOCHATLINE
handles the passed string as if it was typed into the chat string
gadget.
 
 o DServer now uses MUI's built in ARexx interface instead of an own
implementation. Because of this I had to change the MUI-Application
base-name to match the old Arexxport name. You have to snapshot some
windows of DServer again.
 
 o Added an option to skip drawing of explosionanimation for blown up
powerups. See "graphics"-menu.
 
 o Added an option to skip redrawing of powerups every 3 frames. See
"graphics"-menu
 
 o Readded SKIPANIMS (skips drawing of bomb explosions) which is now
available from "graphics"-menu.
 
 o dynAMIte crashed on custompuppets if xpkNUKE.library was missing.
Fixed.
 
 o Did some cosmetical changes to DServer prefs.
 
 o Added a button to DServer to log in bots.
 
 o Dead players can't switch slots anymore to get resurrected.
 
 o From now on, dynAMIte uses its own network code
(dynAMIteNET.library) in favour of amarquee.library.
 
 o It's now possible to deactivate any powerup from within DServer.
 
 o If a player used a custompuppet in teammode, the puppetgfx was used
for the whole team the player was in (only in loginscreen). Fixed.
 
 o Removed timestatistics from the bottom of the gamewindow because of
its general usefulness.
 
 o It's now possible to disable smokeeffect used for laser and
kickbombs.
 
 o I've finally rewritten keyboard handling code and removed
dependency on lowlevel.library/GetKey(), so that it's now possible to
control the game from a keyboard connected to a Pegasos. This may also
fix some problems with some keyboard adapters for wintel keyboards.
 
 o Games with one human and n bots caused the gamecounter to be always
decreased by one for every game. Fixed.
 
 o Applied the same changes for timerstuff also to dynAMIte.
 
 o DServer will now save the highscores in a fixed timeinterval
instead of after every game.
 
 o Bots in DServer are now handled by an external client (detonator),
taking load off of DServer.
 
 o When a player logged off during a game, the bombs of this player
left some gfx on the playfield. Fixed.
 
 o Fixed a silly bug in DServer that caused enforcerhits when a user
tried to log into a full/offline server.
 
 o Rewritten timer stuff for DServer to get back some sigs for other
things.
 
 o Shield and other things never ran out for bots. Fixed.
 
 o Observers got games/wins accounted for highscore. Fixed.
 
 o dynAMIte crashed when one of the needed libraries wasn't found.
Fixed.
 
http://amisource.de/dynamite/
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5 Oct., 2002 

 Poseidon USB-Stack now available as onlineversion from IOSPIRIT

 Chris Hodges and IOSPIRIT have signed a contract on the
online-distribution of the Poseidon USB stack. Thanks to the extensive
distribution infrastructure of IOSPIRIT, the worldwide availability of
Poseidon and various payment options are now guaranteed.
 
 The Poseidon USB stack unleashes the power and possibilities of the
Universal Serial Bus (USB) to you. With Poseidon you can now use
modern and low-priced USB-devices such as mice, keyboards, tablets,
joysticks, printers, scanners, webcams, digicams, flashcard-readers,
ZIP- and floppy-drives, harddisks and many more!

http://www.iospirit.de/
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9 Oct., 2002

 Hyperion Entertainment completes Quake 2 Amiga port 

 Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the completion of its
highly optimised Quake 2 port for the Amiga.
 
 A bundle containing the full PC version and a separate CD with the
Amiga executable, the Quake 2 installer, GUI and over 600 MB of
(compressed) extras such as (nearly 40!) Quake 2 mods, levels and
models, will be available shortly from your lo cal dealer. Pricing may
vary.
 
 The game complies with all the usual quality standards for which
Hyperion has become known in the Amiga market. Users can register
their copy of Quake 2 on the Hyperion website to obtain support and
download further mods and updates as they be come available.

System requirements are as follows:
- PPC equipped Amiga (WarpOS)
- 64 MB of memory (more recommended for certain mods)
- graphics-card (3D acceleration supported but not required)

 Dealers interested in distributing this product may contact
Timdg@hyperion-entertainment.com.
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