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12.Jan.2002
Spiegel

Spiegel: Kimble on the run
Kim Schmitz, known to the Amiga scene since his "Hacker times", understands it perfectly to put himself in the limelight in one or another way. This time he feels abandoned by the German authority of the state and mocked by the press. He turns disappointed Germany his back with a good bye on his website.

Spiegel: »Now he's gone. Up and away. Like Graf Zahl from the Sesame Street with sensation, fireworks and much artificial fog. The most shimmering person of the New Economy has left the German Republic. «
Full article see title link.

Update:
Other articles:
Die Kimble-Doku von Torsten Kleinz
Telepolis: Kimble ist ausgewandert
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Jan.2002
onlinekosten.de

onlinekosten.de: big T-DSL chat
»Telekom answered questions about the broadband/satellite access and Fastpath

Yesterday, on Januar 2002 10th, had a big, presented T-DSL chat been held where Telekom employees answered questions from 14:00 to 17:00 o'clock about the Telekom's own broadband access. "In the big DSL live chat answered the experts for three hours the questions of the customers regarding connection, hardware installation, costs or modem installation. The responce to the experts chat was so big that during the three hours not all questions could be answered.", so the Deutsche Telekom. We want to give you a short overview about the most important questions and answers.«
Full article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Jan.2002
stern.de

Stern poll: What was your first computer?
In the section Computer&Netze the German print magazine Stern runs a poll asking about your first computer. Possible answers are:

Amiga
Atari ST
Commodore C64 (or VC20, C128 etc.)
Macintosh (or other Apple computers)
PC
none of the above mentioned

For the time being 705 visitors have taken part in the poll and the C64 is leading with 36.9%. To see the current results click here. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Jan.2002
tecChannel.de tecChannel.de: Virus: JS.Gigger.A@mm deletes hard disks
People using a PC next to their amiga should read this (German) article of tecChannel. According to it there's a new computer virus named 'Gigger' underway that can have desastrous effects. The virus is written in Javascript and spreads via email and IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

When the virus comes to work it deletes the contents of all files ending with .asp, .htm and .html on your hard disk, all that resides is a file with 0 bytes. Additionally the virus places the command to format the hard disk after a restart of the computer in the start file "autoexec.bat".

Further (German) articles regarding this topic:
Golem: Neuer HTML-Wurm formatiert die Festplatte
Heise: Neuer Virus zerstört Dateisystem unter Windows
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Jan.2002
Amiga Update Newsletter: Amiga Update by Brad Webb #011230
Brad Webb monthly publishes his newsletter 'Amiga Update' in which he writes about the most important Amiga events. Read the December newsletter under the title link. (ps)

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12.Jan.2002
OnyxSoft

OnyxSoft: several software updates
OnyxSoft begins the new year with all in all seven software updates and a new program by Daniel Westerburg. Besides, there's now a tutorial by Stefan Blixth been added dealing with the creation of logos. Here the software titles listed one by one:

Update for 8SVXtoXXX (version 1.3)
Update for BackUp (version 1.3)
Update for Cathedral (version 1.3)
Update for CDDAtoAIFF (version 1.2)
Update for DRemind (version 1.59)
Update for MultiRen (version 1.47)
Update for TheMPegEncGUI (version 2.09)
New program: LPFilter (version 1.0)

(ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Jan.2002
Matthias Münch (ANF) AUG99: present poll
Because of demand and as counter part to the Kultpower poll we have started a corresponding new poll. We want to find out here the most popular Amiga print magazine of the currently existing ones. The poll can be found right here. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Jan.2002
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)

Telepolis: Buried in New Mexiko
According to an investigation of the Telepolis editor Konrad Lischka had the company Atari bought the computer producer Amiga. In the third last paragraph it is written that: "After Tramiel had bought Atari the company concentrated on the home computer market. To enter into the market for respectable business clients Atari took over the Computer producer Amiga.

This is not correct.
1984: Amiga, then represented by the chief developer Jay Miner (formerly chief developer of Atari) had in his financial need already got a private credit from Jack Tramiel (who was the founder of Commodore Business Machines, but then parted from the company because of differences, and afterwards bought the clapped-out game console producer Atari). A takeover of Amiga through Atari had already been negotiated. This takeover was avoided in the last moment through a better offer by Commodore (remember: Tramiel had already left Commodore) what led also to a repayment of Jack Tramiels private investment. The takeover had cost 27 millions dollars. To be looked up in the History of the AMIGA. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)

Elbox: Mediator Multimedia-CD Update 1.12
The MM CD 1.12 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has been released by ELBOX Computer.

The MM CD UP 1.12 includes the following updates:

tv.vhi ver. 1.1

VHI Studio now works on PowerPC and on 68k processors in both MMU and NO MMU pci.library modes.

Voodoo.card ver. 4.13

An incorrect change in the border colour has been eliminated in the Voodoo.card driver, which could occur in ver. 4.12 driver when 8-bit screen was switched to any other colour depth. (ps)

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11.Jan.2002
LinuxToday LinuxToday: Linux in Korea
Linux PR announce in a press release that the Korean government decided to start to switch to Linux and has ordert the first packets. The product is "HancomLinux Deluxe 2.0" combining the MS compatible Office Suite and LinuxOS. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Jan.2002
Bernhard Wörner (ANF)

Audio processing tool "Amplify" in version 1.0 online
Bernhard Wörner:
Version 1.0 of my audio processing tool "Amplify" is available on my homepage since today.

You can for example do the following things:

set recording level to 0dB
fade in and out
cut off silence at beginning or end

The program will also appear on Aminet in the next days. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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11.Jan.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF) "Open Letter" from Matay
You can find an "open letter" from Filip Dab-Mirowski (CEO) on the new Matay homepage. In this letter he announces that there is a new, free firmware upgrade for the "Prometheus" PCI bridge with which drivers for e.g. Fast Ethernet, TV cards and soundcards will be released.

The "Prometheus" boards ordered from now on will be shipped with the new firmware, further the program "English Teacher 5" is added as a bonus.

Also, the game Boing'em for AmigaDE is already available. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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11.Jan.2002
Bright Light Software SB 128 sound mixer AC97 version 1.3 for Amithlon
Frank Fenn has released version 1.3 of the SB 128 sound mixer for Amithlon. Currently supported are ES1370, ES1371 and CT5880 chip sets. The program allows volume and balance control for MASTER, AUX, CD, PCM as well as MUTE. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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11.Jan.2002
Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail) Elbox: Mediator Driver Guide Update
Elbox Computer website has been updated today.
In the SUPPORT / Mediator Driver Guide section the current list of PCI cards has been placed which are supported with drivers for Mediator PCI busboards for Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000. (ps)

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11.Jan.2002
Shaun Bebbington (ANF)

Magazine: Retro Computing Today
Retro Computing Today - What is the big idea?

There seems to be a growing interest in computers and technology of yesteryear. With very few publications actually acknowledging this, it is left to a handful of small magazines to fill the gap, with profitable publications such as Computer and Video Games dedicating less than 4 pages to "The Old School". Retro Computing Today aims to be the one of the first professional publication to cover all topics regarding this very subject matter, instead of concentrating on one particular computer or platform, as Commodore Scene does, Retro Computing Today aims to cover as many topics as there are interests for. For instance, those people who choose to use a Vic 20 to view web sites through to the Amiga classic/AmigaOne platform.

Obviously, the more support a particular platform receives, the more of the magazine will be dedicated to covering it, however, we would hope to provide some sort of balance, unlike at least 90% of current publications, whom tend to concentrate on the Windows/XBox platform.

Do you have big ideas yourself?

Details are sketchy at the minute, as the publication is still in early planning stages. We can confirm the following:

Launch issue for early May 2002.
8 copies a year (1 every 6 weeks). If there is enough demand, we will move towards 10 copies a year (1 every 5 weeks).
Website launched soon.
A sample issue will be available to download.
Special edition no. 1 will be available to pre-order soon.

So, if you would like to shape this publication, please email me with your suggestions or comments.

If you would like to write any articles for the launch issue, please forward them in .txt format, with the subject matter as Submissions 092246. We would appreciate greatly any help we can get.

Thank you for reading,

Shaun/Retro Computing Today - retrocomtoday@aol.com. (ps)

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10.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Interview with Grzegorz Tanski (Kray Raytracer)
From the beginning of this year a new freeware "scene" raytraycer is under development - "Kray". The Amiga Arena talked to Grzegorz Tanski about why this development was started and what we may expect for the future. There are other programs and interesting demo versions of a 3D soccer game on his homepage. As the Amiga Arena came to know, Grzegorz Tanski really is interested in developing high quality software, if there is qualified hardware. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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10.Jan.2002
Norman Thiel of Heise [Newsticker] (ANF) Heise: Macworld: Two new graphic boards for the Mac
The ATI Radeons now also exist in PCI versions for MACs. If those boards would also work in AMIGAs, soon?
See title link for the Heise article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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10.Jan.2002
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page Mailprogramm: Anubis 1.1.0
Anubis an anonymous mail sender supporting WinGate, encrypted TSL/SSL, anonymous remailing, news posting, and much more. The program was released in version 1.1.0 and is also available for downlaod in a MorphOS version:

Download:
anubis.lha - anubis-mos.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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10.Jan.2002
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)

Today: IRC-Meeting of the DigiboosterPro Community
The DigiboosterPro Community invites to attend the second IRC meeting. On Thursday, 10. January, 2002 starting from 20:00 CET a DBPro Community channel is available under:

Server: ie.altnet.org
Kanal: #digiboosterpro
Port: 6667

We would be happy about numerous chatters. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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10.Jan.2002
Peter Eriksson (ANF) AROS Update
Over at the AROS website, another news update has been made. In summary, some bugs have been dealt with, AROS for PalmPilots and the PCI hardware interface are moving along, some fixes for AROS/Native have been made and AmiTCP is currently being ported. (ps)

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10.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Individual Computers: First release version of xsurfadsl.device
The first release-version of the PPPoE driver for our networking card X-Surf, as well as a new version of the appp.device for Genesis/AmiTCP can be found in the support-area of our website. The communication between the two devices has been speeded up again.

The installer-script is still in beta-phase. It helps you configuring a T-DSL broadband internet connection, but other providers are also supported. (ps)

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09.Jan.2002
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)

The Kickstart Archives V1.3
With permission of Alex Lupták, Gregory Donner and Ian Chapman you can now also browse through the newest versions of hardware reference Lex Site (ca. 80 MB), the Workbench Nostalgia and the Big Book of Amiga Hardware (ca. 90 MB) offline.

Changes:

updated: Workbench Nostalgia of Gregory Donner (07/01/2002)
updated: The Big Book of Amiga Hardware of Ian Chapman (27/12/2001)
updated: Lex Site of Alex Lupták (21/11/2001)
added: Haynie's Garage Sale!
added: User Guides, Manuals, Service Manuals as PDF-files
- Commodore A590 Service Manual
- Commodore A1060 User's Guide
- Commodore A2088/2286 Manual
updated: Search index for client offline search engine

Dave Haynie gave the permission using the pictures and texts of his eBay-offer "Haynie's Garage Sale!". These sites contain interesting background information of many products and prototypes of the Commodore's developing department.

Amiga, Inc. (Vince Pfeifer) and MacroSystem Digital Video AG (Ibrahim Tertemiz) gave the permission to publish manuals of their products as PDF-files on the CD. Manuals of XiPaint, Samplitude and MovieShop of MacroSystem are not included. The first manuals are included but more producers and manuals will follow.

The index of the search engine allows you search for headwords of all new sites which were added. For using it you must have a browser with full JavaScript support. This function offers none of the presently available Amiga browsers. Therefore you have to use different operating systems. Of course the link page works fine on each system. Unfortunately under Linux there are some restrictions because at the beginning the use of small/capital letters when creating files has been neglected.

You can look at all PDF-files on Amiga with the help of the current version of Apdf. THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES costs USD/EUR 10,- (without transport costs, Germany EUR 1,50, Europe EUR 3,- and worldwide USD 3,- normal and USD 5,- air mail). You have to pay USD/EUR 5,- (without transport costs) for updating your old version. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2002
WHDLoad

Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets (until 09.01.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were originally made for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:

09.01.02 new: War In Middle Earth (Melbourne House/Synergistic) done by CFOU!
09.01.02 new: Robin Hood: Legend Quest (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
09.01.02 new: Kwik Snax (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
09.01.02 new: Kwasimodo (Courbois Software) done by CFOU!
09.01.02 improved: Invest (Starbyte) supports another version
09.01.02 new: Fantastic Dizzy (Codemasters/Purple Haze) done by Bored Seal & Abaddon
09.01.02 new: Carnage (Zeppelin Games/Warped Minds) done by Bored Seal
08.01.02 new: Transartica (Silmarils) done by CFOU!
08.01.02 new: Conan the Cimmerian (Synergistic/Virgin) done by CFOU!
08.01.02 new: Bobo (Infogrames) done by CFOU! (Info)
07.01.02 new: Wacky Races (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
06.01.02 new: Yogi Bear and Friends in The Greed Monster (Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
06.01.02 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) supports two more versions
06.01.02 fixed: Horror Zombies from the Crypt access fault removed
06.01.02 new: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin) done by Galahad

(ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2002
Patrick Beerhorst (ANF) A.D.A. Demoarchive with new design and more functions
During the last days the layout of A.D.A. (Amiga Demo Archive) site has been substantially improved and the database has been changed. Besides this you can now find a search option which e.g. allows you to discover which graphic artist has created demos. Wouter who is the administrator of the database will upload several updates in the next days add reviews and further information to each demo. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian

Elbox: Mediator UP2.8
The MediatorUP 2.8 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users has been made available today. The update includes the latest versions of the driver for Voodoo card family:

- Voodoo.card ver. 2.11

The new driver release eliminates background graphics errors, which could appear in certain specific situations with the previous version. (ps)

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09.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail) Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD 1.11
The MM CD 1.11 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has also been released by ELBOX Computer.

The MM CD 1.11 update includes the new VHI Studio software driver: - tv.vhi

Using the VHI Studio program, Mediator users may now grab and edit snapshots and video sequences from their TV tuner cards.

The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:

- tv.library ver. 1.6
- Voodoo.card ver. 4.12

The list of 48 TV cards supported by the tv.library has been expanded with support for 28 more cards.

In practice, it means support for all the PCI-standard TV cards now available in the market. (ps)

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09.Jan.2002
Sven Ottemann (ANF) VideoCD: VCDImager version 0.7.12
Under the title link you can download the newest version 0.7.12 of VCDImager. VCDImager is a program for creating VideoCD-images. There are versions for 68020+ and WarpOS.

Video CD 1.1 and 2.0, Super Video CD 1.0 as well as PBC (playback control) are supported. VCDImage generates .bin/.cue files. Afterwards the image file can be burned with BurnIT or MakeCD. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jan.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: AmiFIG 3.1 full version
With permission of Andreas Schmidt the registered version of AmiFIG is available at Amiga Arena. AmiFIG is a universal vector drawing program based upon the UNIX program Xfig of Supoj Sutanthavibul and other known ones. This version is nearly compatible to Xfig 3.1.

The surface is partly build with GadToolsBox 2.0b of JaBa Development. AmiFIG has several drawing and editing functions and is one of the most powerful vector drawing programs on the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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08.Jan.2002
EnuZone.net (ANF) New Amiga CD32 Emulator for Windows - Project32
A beta version (1.0) of the first non commercial CD32 emulator Project32 had been released on 22.12.01 - barely noticed by public - and supports about 20 games of the CD32. The author promises a new version in the next fortnight, that fixes some problems with Windows2000 and offers an english localization. The homepage demonstrates the features and abilities of the emulator with screenshots from Gunship 2000, Dark Seed and James Pond 2. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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08.Jan.2002
Harald Frank (ANF) Amithlon-Tester for TV-card software needed
Harald Frank writes:
Michael Ulbrich is looking for testers for his Amithlon TV-card software. More information about the neede equipment you will find here.

If you are interested in Amithlon development notes to create your own projects write to Harald Frank with a little description of your planned project so we can join people with same interests or provide more informations. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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08.Jan.2002
Markus Nerding (E-Mail) AmigaOS XL: Revised compatibility list and new addendum
The addendum "Using PC floppy disks with Amithlon" describes the usage of PC floppy disks to transfer data from the Amiga to Amithlon.

Thanks to the help of some customers (e.g. Heinz Gyrole, Udo Gaßner, Paul de Vries, Günter Wirth) we could add some more items to our software compatibility list: ADM, ArtStudio, Digibooster Pro, Elastic Dreams, Fantastic Dreams, Octamed Soundstudio, PhotoFolio, Photogenics, Picture Manager, X-Trace, Xi-Paint und ZShell.

If you have tested a program that it not on the list yet, we would be pleased it you would tell us about that. Please use our form. Thank you very much. (ps)

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08.Jan.2002
SixK

Webserver: Amiga Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.1.1
On the 'SixK Port Page' is the version V1.3.20 (incl. PHP V4.0.5) of this webserver for AmigaOS (version for 68040) to use with the official Amiga Apache archive available.

Download: apache1320_php411_040.lzx (ps)

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08.Jan.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail) Elbox: VHI Studio - Mediator drivers
Elbox Computer is happy to announce availability of new drivers for the Mediator busboard.

For users of the Mediator PCI for Amiga 1200 and Mediator PCI for Amiga 4000 busboards with the Mediator Multimedia CD package, drivers have been released as of today for the VHI Studio software. These drivers have been prepared by Elbox Computer programmers.

VHI Studio produced by Innovative, is a video-editing and snapshot-software including webcam- and timelapse-support and featuring (PPC-supported) highspeed-MPEG-compression and realtime-preview-facilities. It currently supports all major digitizer-boards and DigiCams on the AMIGA and is the most popular digitizing and recording-software on the AMIGA-market.

Using the VHI Studio program, users of TV cards in Mediator may now grab and edit snapshots and video sequences from broadcast and cable TV and any other signal sources connected to the input of the TV tuner card, for example: video cameras, TV SAT tuners, DVD players and VCR players.

All you need is:
Mediator PCI busboard
TV tuner card
Voodoo graphic card
VHI Studio software

Enjoy snapshots and videos to your heart's content. More creativity. More fun.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (ps)

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08.Jan.2002
Helmut Hoffmann (ANF) PhotoAlbum V6.6 und CyberShow V9.5a
Helmut Hoffmannrites:
After a longer break I have released new versions of my shareware programs "PhotoAlbum" and "CyberShow". The most important new features in both programs (PhotoAlbum 6.6 und CyberShow 9.5a) are functions to rotate pictures +/- 90° or 180°. For users of a Sony-CyberShot digital camera an automatical rotation detection is integrated.

Both programs are available in the Aminet (gfx/misc/photoalbum66.lha - gfx/board/cybershow95a.lha) and on my homepage (title link).

The shareware prices are adapted to EURO. For all internet users ordering online (order and delivery via email) a reduced price of EUR 20,- is valid. Ordering via mail and delivery on disks will cost you EUR 30,-. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Jan.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)

News on Amiforce
On Amiforce you can find:

At the download area you can find an Euro calculator and the gag program Speaker.
The dynAMIte.styles Alienoid and PacMan are updated.

The poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz is still running. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Jan.2002
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)

H&P: Freespace: at last available
Haage&Partner wrote:
At last we get the official permission to ship 'Freespace'. The advance orders are allready shipped.

Freespace was proted by Hyperion Entertainment and is surely the best the space-battle-simulation that was ever available for the Amiga. It offers a unique mixture of phantastic graphics, complex plot and an outstanding gameplay.

Freespace can be used with every Amiga with PPC-CPU and 64MB RAM or Amigas with 68060 and a 3D-accelerator-board (like Voodoo3, Permedia 2).

Additional information is available at the titlelink. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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07.Jan.2002
Marcel Rohles (ANF)

Downloadmanager: Charon V1.98
Well, believe it or not, it's been released. Available from my homepage or from Aminet in a couple of days.

Version 1.98 (6.1.2002)

Introduced the concept of groups. Now each URL can belong to a group and will take that group's settings as its default settings. A new URL is by default placed in the group in which the active entry indicator is currently found.
Completely rewritten URL parsing routine which resulted in a large speed up. This speed up would be even larger, but the URL comparison routine was changed from simple string compare to full-blown URL comparison routine which works properly.
Rewritten detection of duplicates in the list. The code is now much faster and works for any number of duplicates, unlike in the last version.
Charon now remembers the length of the file on server and shows it all the time (if it is available).
Many improvements and some fixes in the HTML parsing routine.
Addressed some security issues.
There's now a special treatment for %2F URL escape code (/) because there are some filesystems that allow / in a filename.
Added support for ftp://.../file;type=x URLs.
When automatically creating filenames from the URL, %xx sequences are now decoded.
There's a new section in the documentation describing some "hidden" features. Charon's tooltypes/arguments (LOG and SETTINGS) are documented there.
It is now possible to log all HTTP headers that were sent or received through Charon for debugging purposes. More about this in the advanced section of the manual.
There's a new configuration option which tells Charon not to read the size of the files on the disk during the startup thus speeding it up. More about this in the advanced section of the manual.
DOS requesters are now blocked while the list of entries is being loaded in order to prevent a bunch of the "Please insert ..." requesters from a appearing if one of your drives is dismounted.
New gadget "Move & start" in HTML links and Internet search windows.
Changed the way Charon shortens the filenames when "Max filename length" option comes into action.
Changed the way the "Directory structure" option works. It now also takes into consideration the name of the host.
When a file is downloaded and Charon needs to check if there are any queued files to be started, they are first searched for in the same group in which the downloaded file was.
Some changes in ARexx interface as a result of introduction of groups.
Updated some and removed some searches from Internet search window. Ideas for possible additions are welcome.
Fixed a bug in parsing dates in HTTP headers.
Fixed a rare bug in display of percentage of the downloaded file.
Too long FTP paths would cause a crash while sending a request. Fixed.
Fixed a small memory leak during that occured only when Charon was started from the shell.
Charon would report that it couldn't resume a transfer when a file had already been downloaded fully.
SET Arexx command wasn't working properly for ages, fixed.

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07.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Individual Computers: Old links re-activated, VarIO online manual
While analyzing our webserver-statistics, we have seen that there are a couple of hundred accesses to pages that have been renamed with the re-launch of the site in May 2000. These accesses are now re-directed to the corresponding URLs of the new site.

The online-manual of the VarIO interface board is now available in two languages, and the last missing part of the hardware documentation is available in the insider-section of the support area.

Users of Microsoft Internet-Explorer (Version 5.0 and higher) that bookmark our site will see a fragment of our company logo as an icon next to the URL in the favourites list. (ps)

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07.Jan.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF) Matay: New homepage
Matay, producer of the well-known PCI-bridge "Prometheus" from Poland, relaunched theire homepage with a new design. A new and easy to use navigationbar lets you faster find the information you are looking for. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2002
Vapor

Library: vapor_toolkit V15.13
Version 15.13 of the "vapor_toolkit.library" was released for AmigaOS and MorphOS. This library offers support functions used by most Vapor applications to reduce code size. The library's functions include the procedure of registration and watching for new versions at vapor.com. Changes in this version:

Changed: Every character of an URL greater than 127 are regocnized as end mark. This should solve the AmIRC URL problem with the French catalog.
New: URLs without scheme within quotation marks now are recognized ["www.blah.com"].
Changed: Default memory needs of URL recognition reduced.

Download:

vapor_toolkit_1513.lzx (20K)
vapor_toolkit_morphos_1513.lha (42K)

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06.Jan.2002
Virus Help Denmark

Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.7, Integrity V1.2
Version 17.1 of the virus detector "Safe" by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski was released. "Safe" recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible.

Safe contains a bugfix and the packet was splitted into three parts: "Safe", "Integrity" und "WatchDog".

Changes:

Bugfix: Fixed "mislooks" in VECS, SAVEMEM and DIS anyway, seems only I use these options...

"Safe" runs on AmigaOS 2.04+ and requires xvs.library.

"Integrity" is a disk tool displaying any file added, deleted or changed since the last time "Integrity" was launched. This is helpful to discover viruses / trojans in the system, but information also can be used to remove recently installed but not desired files, such like fonts, libraries, etc..

"Integrity" runs on AmigaOS v2.04+, the MMU version requires mmu.library.

Download:

Safe.lha (19 236), Readme
Integrity.lha (15.661), Readme

(sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN Unix: NetBSD-Port for Pegasos suggested
At the "Suggested Ports" section of the open source unix system "NetBSD" a NetBSD port for the Pegasos PPC system (bplan) is listed. Who is interested in such port might contact Allen Briggs (briggs@netbsd.org). (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN FAQ Amiga Francophone
The current version of the "FAQ Amiga Francophone" is available under the title link.

This French FAQ answers general questions about the Amiga, e.g. about emulators, PCI, USB, and more.

Vincent Alloy (scanx@wanadoo.fr) maintains it. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN Audio: Ogg Vorbis-Libraries for AmigaOS
On the Da SixK Port Page quick done ports of the libOgg and libVorbis were released. The Ogg Vorbis format is an open source audio format being an alternative for MP3.

The release of this developer kit is to encourage people to program a new player or an Ogg Vorbis plugin for AmigaAmp.

The libVorbis directory contains examples for the use of the Ogg Vrobis libraries. There also is "decode_example", a Ogg Vrobis to PCM decoder, contained.

There is also an example for how to code files to Ogg Vorbis format, but this does not seem to work properly.

Ogg Vorbis developer site: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/.

Download: libOGG+libVorbis_dev.lzx (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
CD³²-Allianz (ANF) Magazine: CD32 Outside No.4 released
The CD32 Outside No.4, German CD32 magazine, is available for free download.

Download: CD32outside4.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN Amiga: NDK V3.9 released
Since Friday the update of the native developer kit on AmigaOS 3.9 is available for download at the AmigaOS 3.9 area of amiga.com.

The NDK v3.9 bases on the NDK 3.5 released on "Amiga Developer CD 2.1" and is in part identical with this.

The example programs are mostly the same, as well as the tutorials and tools. C headers and assembler headers, linker libraries, autodocs, and ARexx interface documentaions for the Workbench have been updated. New are the "release note files" and the so called "sfd files".

amiga.lib stubs, clib prototyp header-, pragma header, and .fd files are all generated by the sfd files.

As an example tool for processing sfd files "sfd" is included in the tools directory - but, one can also use third-party tools like "fd2pragma" (by Dirk Stöcker). Note: sfd files of this release have been "sanified", meaning protected and internal data are left out.

C header files have been cleared and their syntax were verified again. They now compile problemless with SAS/C and GCC, even if all compiler warnings are enabled.

This release contains no specific GGC header files, but this might change in future updates.

As of this writing, the specific requirements for GCC on the native 68k and on the PowerPC platforms are still somewhat uncertain. To the best of our knowledge, the compiler specific header files would have covered the ROM interface, that is, the pragma header files only. As the "sfd" files are provided with this distribution, you should be able to rebuild your platform specific header files yourself, or obtain a set from your compiler vendor.

This NDK update also represents a milestone regarding the assembler header files. With this release these are no longer guaranteed to by synchron to their counterparts in C.

Questions, bugreports, and wishes regarding the NDK 3.9 should be send directly to that person, who created this updated: Olaf Barthel.

Thanks to all who contributed to this update, including Martin Blom, Don Cox, James Jacobs, Gunther Nikl, Alastair M. Robinson, Matt Sealey, Steven Solie, Martin Steigerwald, Dirk Stöcker, Neil William, and others!

(Other sources: Stefan Kleinheinrich und MichaelV on ANF)

Download: NDK_3.9.lha (2,9M) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF) USB: Poll about SUBWAY / HIGHWAY started
During preperations for the first line of SUBWAY or HIGHWAY cards unfortunately we happend to have some delays. We cannot fix delivery problems on the semiconductor market, but we would like to take the resulting delay to match our product with users' wishes, again.

That's why a poll was put online, today, where you can enter your wishes and suggestions.

We hope for active participation from the Amiga community. We are interested in your serious opinion. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Ingo Schmitz (amiga-forum.de) (ANF) Amiga-Emulator: Sources of UAE 0.8.12 (WarpOS)
Ingo Schmitz of amiga-forum.de writes:
From today we are offering the specific source codes of UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS in addition to the binaries. But remember that you will need the original source codes of UAE, too. More information can be found under the title link.

Download: uae-0.8.12-R1WOS_src.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future

Comic: Sabrina Online.de with Strips 181-184
The German issue of Eric W. Schartz's comic series "Sabrina Online" was updated. The following was added:

181: The porno stars are allways the first to know, somehow
182: mind games
183: Employees are to be attacted by taffy
184: Taffy continues

(sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future Magazine: Starmag stopped
The German disk and online magazine "Starmag" was stopped on 5. January 2002. The website is reading the following note:

So, the magazine is offline now. If the "Starmag" would be revived some day depends on the Amiga market getting well or not. But at the moment this is not to be assumed :-( (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN Amiga-Emulator: Amithlon explained by Bernie Meyer
In August 2001 Bernd Meyer has visited the Amiga User Group in Australia and performed the third official presentation of the Amiga emulator "Amithlon" there (the first one was done in St. Louis (Bill McEwen), the second one with MAUG). He described the basics of the linux mini kernel and how AmigaOS was put on top.

Tony Mulvihill of the "Amiga User Group of Melbourne" has recorded this presentation with his video8 camera. Craig Hutchinson then has digitized the video and splitted it into 18 MPEG files, which are available from Aminet under /pix/mpg/Amithlon#?.mpg. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail) amigapage.de: Amiga-History 2001
Marcus Neervoort has completed the Amiga-History of 2001 on his website.

Petro Tyschtschenko was disbanded on the Gateway 2001, the AmigaOne, AmigaOS 4.0, as well as AmigaDE for Sharp Zaurus was announced.

In October the Amiga emulators AmigaOS XL and Amithlon were released.

In November the Pegasos board by bplan and the USB controller Subway by Michael Böhme, and more were presented. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail) Amiga Future: Interview with Markus Pohlmann about "Projekt Crashite"
"Projek Crashsite" is about a science fiction role game in which the player takes the part of some kind of police force in a colonialized solar system. Beside of Markus Pohlmann there are Daniel Hartlehnert (graphic rendering), Denis Comtesse (music), and Fredrike Schmitt (character drawing) working on development.

Markus Pohlmann answers questions about himself in person, the history of development of the game, and the Amiga's situation.

Note: The editorial board of the Amiga Future is urgently wanting users able to unsalaried translate texts for the homepage from German to Englisch and vice versa. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Kultpower (ANF) Kultpower.de: Amiga-Magazin with Covers and more
There are additonal cover scans and editorials of the German print magazine Amiga-Magazin online at Kultpower.de. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)

Magazin: AMIGA aktuell 01/2002 published
Carsten Schröder writes:
The (German) January issue of the AMIGA aktuell magazine contains among other things:

test report about the new version 6 of the route planner AmiATLAS
test of the »Earth 2140 Mission Pack«
review of the facturing software MT-Rechnung III
background article about memory protection and virtual memory
second part of the C++ workshop

AMIGA aktuell 01/2002 can be read online on our website or you can download it in HTML or AmigaGuide format for offline reading. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jan.2002
PCTip PCTip: new Amiga computers - a myth on the way to its comeback?
Christian Bütikofer wrote in his (German) article extensively about the Amiga scene. »They still exist, the Amiga users. And soon they could start to become some more again. If all goes as planned, the Amiga, next to Atari THE cult home computer of the 80's and 90's, will celebrate a resurrection in the new year!«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena Amiga Arena: interview with Jürgen Reinert (TTime Deluxe)
With the version 3.19 the phone costs counter software "TTime-Deluxe" became freeware. Amiga Arena talked to Jürgen Reinert about the new version of "TTime-Deluxe" as well as about the future of the program "Dragon Tools" and about the features he likes most on the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Amig@lien (ANF)

Free-lance worker for Payback update CD wanted
Amig@lien has got the permission for a Payback update CD. Now we are looking for some map designers who'd like to invest some time. Interested people may mail to payback@amigalien.de. Thank you.

Ricco Clemens
Responsible at Amig@lien (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Nico Barbat (email)

barbat media and falkemedia: employees wanted
For several commercial and non-commercial projects are barbat media and falkemedia at the moment looking for the following staff:

Translator English - German
- full time job with fixed salary
- very good English and German knowledge
- good knowledge of EDP and of the general games market
Editors
- full time job or as free lance
- very good knowledge of the games and /or Amiga area
- good knowledge of language
Web designer
- work on a voluntary basis on a new project in the demo scene area

For further information or if interested please contact directly Nico Barbat.

barbat media - AMIGAplus (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Heise newsticker Heise: study is said to deliver ammunition against Linux
In the magazine The Register has an internal email of the Microsoft vice president Brian Valentine been released that caused a fuss as the mail reveals that the marketing strategy of Microsoft are obviously directed against Open Source.
Heise article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Kilian Servais (ANF) NoCover issue 94 released
Kilian Servais wrote:
Today has issue 94 of the freeware magazine NoCover been released. This is available via Aminet (docs/mags), ACP&TCP homepage or via email from me. A free email subscription is possible any time. We're always pleased about feedback etc. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Dirk Stöcker (ANF) XAD-System Version 11
After a long time again a new release of archive extractor system XAD. This system supports 93 filearchive, diskarchive and filesystem formats nowadays (LZX, LhA, DMS, CAB, Zip, Rar, Ace, Arj, Wrapster, HA, ADF, ...). The most important new formats may be StuffIt, MacBinary, BinHex, C64 filesystems and the SmartFileSystem. Thanks a lot to my three most active supporters. XAD is still (relatively cheap) shareware. And there is still a special price for OS 3.9 users wanting to update. (ps)

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05.Jan.2002
ANN Payback Update 7 Released & Apex Website Redesigned
Apex Designs have released Payback Update 7. Amongst other things, the new update fixes several bugs and improves the appearance of the water when running under hardware acceleration. The 680x0 version is also significantly faster.

Secondly, Apex have extensively redesigned their website and are encouraging people to drop by and take a look. Finally, they've also posted an updated map on the Extra Maps page. (ps)

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04.Jan.2002
WHDLoad

Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.01.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

03.01.02 new: Terry's Big Adventure (Grandslam) done by Codetapper & Galahad
03.01.02 new: Puffy's Saga (UBI-Soft) done by Codetapper
03.01.02 new: WWF Wrestlemania (Ocean) done by Codetapper
03.01.02 improved: Skweek (Loriciel) trainer added
03.01.02 new: Round the Bend (Zeppelin) done by Bored Seal
03.01.02 fixed: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) access fault removed
03.01.02 improved: Panza Kickboxing (Loriciel/Futura) supports another version, fastmem support
03.01.02 new: Off Shore Warrior (Titus) done by CFOU!
03.01.02 new: Ninja Spirit (Mediagenic) done by CFOU! & JOTD
03.01.02 new: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel) done by Abaddon
03.01.02 new: Monty Pythons Flying Circus (Core Design/Virgin) done by CFOU!
03.01.02 improved: Mega Phoenix (Dinamic) supports another version, trainer added
03.01.02 new: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
03.01.02 new: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) done by Abaddon & CFOU!
03.01.02 new: Horror Zombies from the Crypt () done by Abaddon
03.01.02 new: Hellraider (Atari) done by Bored Seal

(ps)

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04.Jan.2002
Stiftung Warentest Stiftung Warentest: Computer monitors: Flat, good, expensive
»Flat screen or ordinary monitor? Modern flat screens mostly are better. The tested TFT displays provide pin sharp pictures. They are compact, eye friendly and save energy. Disadvantage: Flat screens are expensive. Price starts at 445 Euro. A good ordinary monitor can be obtained for a price of 255 Euro, already. «
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jan.2002
SPIEGEL online SPIEGEL: Tops and flops of the year
In his article Jochen A. Siegle describes the tops and flops of the year 2001. Listed as a flop is Windows XP by Microsoft while the new website Wayback Machine, which allows a journey through time to websites from the beginning of the internet is highlighted as website of the year.
German SPIEGEL article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Dennis Lohr (e-mail)

Psyria: Defender of the Crown title song for mobile phones
Dennis Lohr of Psyria has received the permission of Jim Cuomo to convert the title song of Defender of the Crown for mobile phones. Everyone with a phone with note editor can now enter the melody of Defender of the Crown:

4C5, 8C.5, 16D5, 2C5, 4G5, 8G.5, 16A5, 2G5, 4F5, 4E5, 4D5, 4C5, 4E5, 8B.4, 16B4, 2B4, 4C5, 8C.5, 16D5, 2C5, 4G5, 8G.5, 16A5, 4G.5, 16F5, 16E5, 8F5, 8E5, 8D5, 8C5, 8F5, 8E5, 8D5, 8C5, 4E5, 8B.4, 16B4, 2B4, 4F5, 8F5, 8F5, 8G5, 8G5, 8A5, 8G5, 4C6, 8C.5, 16C5, 4C5

The first number is the note type:
1= full
2= half
4= quarter
8= quaver
16= sixteenth

The letter stands for the note itself (long with a "." where necessary). The third number stands for the note height (octave). You are usually in octave 5 after starting the editor.

The user should choose the speed for the piece himself since every mobile phone varies the speed differently. For a Siemens mobile phone for example the optimal speed would be "03". (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News Golem: Gigabyte counts on ATI graphics chips - NVidia is out
»Graphics cards with Rage 128 Pro, Radeon 7000E and Radeon 7500LE announced
The Taiwanese hardware manufacturer Gigabyte has removed his graphics cards with NVidia chips - among them a GeForce2 Ti 200 and GeForce3 Ti 500 - from their program in favor of graphics cards with ATIs Radeon graphics chips of the 7000 series.«
Full German article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Heise [Newsticker] Heise: Expensive free domains
Who has registered a free second level domain of Trinidad and Tobago (for example www.amiga-news.de.tt) at TopNic should read their terms and conditions more closely. According to them, in case of inactivity of 40 days a deactivation fee applies. If your domain generates no traffic over a course of 40 consecutive days, a deactivation fee of Euro 29,-- has to be paid immediately."
Heise article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Freedom For Links FFL: Tim Berners-Lee: What is a link?
»Tim Berners-Lee is regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web. 1990 he developed hyperlinks at the Swiss core research establishment CERN in Geneva hyperlinks - fast connections between a variety of documents. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser editor under NeXtStep) and the first WWW server in connection with the communication software which defined URLs, HTTP and HTML defined.«
Read at the title link his thoughts on the nature of hyperlinks. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Ralph Debusmann Music player: EasyPlayer version 1.12
Version 1.12 of the music player EasyPlayer (EYP) has been released. With this program Ralph Debusmann offers a user-friendly graphical interface for shell-based programs such as mpega, GMPlay or SIDPlay. The program is universally usable for all shell-based music player software.

Requirements are AmigaOS 2.04 (V37) or higher, reqtools.library version 38 or higher, amigaguide.library version 34 or higher and a shell-based music player program.

Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin (107 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
dynAMIte Game: dynAMIte SouthPark style improved
Oliver Tacke has improved his SouthPark style for the network game dynAMIte, a Bomberman clone, and made it available for download in the area "styl'o'rama". (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF) Amiga Speed with new tests
New speed tests have been added to the Amiga Speed. For the first time there are tests with an A4000 equipped with a G-Rex PCI card and a Voodoo3. So have a look at the items Heretic2, Q***e and Voodoo3 (2D GFX). (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (e-mail) Individual Computers: website partly updated
Besides a new price list and payment conditions for customers from foreign countries there have been some cosmetical changes in the product descriptions (especially VarIO). (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail) Amiga Future issue #34 released
Issue #34 of the German print magazine Amiga Future is shipping. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Dreamolers-CAPS Tool: ReqAttack Version 1.96
This tool by Georg Steger to pretify system requesters is being further developed by Jaca/Dreamoler-Caps and is available in version 1.96 under the title link. This version comes with optimized code and a newly integrated PatchControl replacing CyReg. Furthermore images for nlisttree in RAPrefsMUI were added and a version for 68040 processors was compiled.

Download: ReqAttackUpd.lha

Dreamolers completely redesigned their website, the ´Group´ section is not available yet.

Jaca/D-CAPS moreover are working on a new MCPPrefs program, which currentliy has alpha status. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
ANN Kerneltrap: Interview with Matthew Dillon
You can read an interesting interview with Matthew Dillon at Kerneltrap. He has programmed a lot for FreeBSD an is very well known by the Amiga scene from his C compiler 'Dice'. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)

Instant-Messenger: StrICQ Version 0.2106
new:

Released at The Party 2001 (MAJOR feature!)
Fixed the no expire ignore impossible bug.
Flowers are now selectable in the options-window
(Hopefully) removed the possibility to exploit NList etc by sending escape-codes in messages, no definet promises though.

(ps)

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03.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News Golem: Foundation planned to revive the Atari/TOS software market
»xTOS-Team is about to establish "Atari/TOS Software Foundation"

Similar to the Amiga fans owners of Atari home computers have been fighting with a continuously decreasing software market for the TOS operating system, during the last years. For this reason some steadfast Atari users are about to establish some kind of Atari/TOS Software Foundation to revive software development - especially with view on the xTOS machine being under development.«
See title link for complete article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Paul J. Beel (ANF) Pagan Games Interviewed by GetBoinged!
Pagan Games was kind enough to take time from their busy schedule to be interviewed by GetBoinged! Go to title link to check out the interview! (ps)

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03.Jan.2002
Amiga Future Amiga Future: Poll about the Amiga's future
On the Amiga Future homepage a poll was started about: "Where do you see the Amiga's future?". The results of the poll about the Amiga 2001 show were published. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Kleinheinrich (AmiDraw)
With "AmiDraw" a new 2D vector basing GFX program is being developed by Stefan Kleinheinrich. The software currently is at beta stage. The Amiga Arena talked to Stefan Kleinheinrich about the future of "AmiDraw" and more. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Ingo Schmitz (amiga-forum.de) (ANF) UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS
With permission of Sam Jordan we are now offering UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS for download. An archive containing the source codes will follow later on.

Download: uae-0.8.12-R1WOS.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Jan.2002
Elvis (ANF)

Encyclopedia mentiones the Amiga
The "Multimedia-Encyclopedia 2002", which can be purchased at Aldi (German discounter), is reading about the Amiga:

»Amiga
Home computer developed in the 80th by the company Amiga, then distributed by Commodore with Motorola processors. Popular home computers of the Amiga line are the models Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000. More efficient versions of the Amiga also could be utilized for more challenging projects (Amiga 2000 and Amiga 4000).

Amiga was taken over by the German trade chain Escom, then by the US company Viscorp, and finally by the company Amino, but though several announcements were made no new Amiga products were launched, so far.« (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Jan.2002
Marc "Zito" Oberst (ANF) Amiga-musicans wanted!
Moods - the platform for Amiga music has published some new songs (more than 150 songs have been already uploaded) on their website under www.moods.2xs.de or www.moodymusic.de.vu as well as offers some interesting specials, e.g. a funny MekkaSymposium- and PrivatParty-Gallery. Besides this they are still looking for some new musicans. Simply write a mail to the organizers. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Marc "Zito" Oberst (ANF)

AGC failed
Unfortunately there has not been much interest in my attempt to found the AGC (Amiga Guide Community). I intended to create a common basis for all those who like to work with the AmigaGuideFormat. I was also going to create a website which should have contained all publications of the AmigaGuideFormat that have been ever written.

Some of the active AmigaGuide writer answered very pleased but nobody could help me realizing the project so I stopped it in summer 2001.

Up to now I did not have the time to publish this sad message. Sad because the AmigaGuideFormat is underestimated of most of the Amiga users although it is used very often. However, maybe there is somebody who is interested in. I still have not thrown away my notices of this project. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Blockhead II full version
Amiga Arena - "Blockhead II" full version
With permission of "Applaud Software" Amiga Arena presents the release of "Blockhead II". This is the second and last part of the puzzle game which has an improved graphics and new features.

Amiga Arena - Internal
I wish all of you a happy and successful 2002 and hope you continue using the offers of the Amiga Arena.

Amiga Arena - Special price
Up to the 31.01.2002 you can register "VisualPrefs" for a special price. Additionally the programs "Siegfried Soft Tools", "Docdatatypes", "AMPlifier" and "Siteway" are still also available for a special price. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Dieter Groppé (ANF) Tool: Download MCP V1.36 of a new server
MCP 1.36 is available from a different server and I hope all problems of downloading it may be solved. Additionally the 1.36-update archive was uploaded again because some files were missing. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)

SmileFonts go Euro!
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
I have added the € EURO-symbol to my widely popular SmileFonts :-). Until the archive will uploaded to the Aminet you can download it from:

SmileFonts.lha - SmileFonts.readme

Happy New Year!
Mario (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Patrick Henz (ANF) freeCD: cerpheus enhancer
CD-ROM 'cerpheus enhancer' is meant for all those who have the Amiga OS XL packet which also contains Windows but also for high-end Amigas. It contains acoustic and graphical improvements like themes, backgrounds and sounds. Users of Windows also find a playable shareware version of Elite 2 and 3. You can order the CD for 3 Euro under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Frank Fenn (ANF)

SB 128 Sound Mixer for Amithlon
Wish you a healthful and successful 2002!

Today I have uploaded the first version of the SB 128 Sound Mixer for Amithlon to my homepage. Currently ES1370, ES1371 and CT5880 chipsets are supported. AC97 onboard-sound support will follow. The program allows you to regulate the volume and balance of MASTER, AUX, CD, PCM as well as MUTE.

Greetings from Calgary
Frank 'fenny' Fenn (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)

Virus Help Denmark: Antivirus Poll 2001 ended
Happy New Year to all of you.

The vote for the antivirus programmer that has done the most for the Amiga scene is over now, and we have got a winner. The winning program is xvs.library programmed by Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann. The 100 US Dollar prize money will be split in two, and 50 US Dollars will be send to Jan and Georg.

Here is how the votes was placed:

Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library: 296 votes
Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor: 239 votes
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe: 57 votes
Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II: 20 votes
Heiner Schneegold - VT-Schutz: 17 votes
Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III: 14 votes

Total votes: 643 votes

Thanks to all who have placed their vote in this poll. (ps)

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02.Jan.2002
dynAMIte

Game: dynAMIte Version 1.9
On 31.12.2001 version 1.9 of the Bomberman-clone 'dynAMIte' which you can also play via Internet has been published. Many bugs have been fixed as well as an offline-mode for playing it against the computer has been added.

Download:
dynAMIte.lha (1,7 MB) - dynAMIte.readme
dynAMIte_update.lha (449 KB) - changes.txt (ps) (Translation: dr)

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02.Jan.2002
Chris Perver (ANF) Text viewer: EvenMore Updates
New updates in the EvenMore archive. Now when you search for text using the search files function, you can double click a file in the list to open it at the place where your match was found (Only for plain text files though). Fixed a bug in the new colour setup, EvenMore would sometimes loose other colours when getting new ones. You will need to reconfigure your EvenMore config file. Also fixed an enforcer hit when closing the window, was freeing the gadgets twice ;/.

Alfred Vaust has also created a deutsch catalog for EvenMore, along with a template for creating new catalogs and a catalog compile script for users to create their own catalogs easily. (ps)

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02.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF) Browser: Voyager³ 3.3.120 Beta published
Both a new AmigaOS and a new MorphOS version of V³ are available at the V³ Portal. As with the previous release time, it's a full release archive, including all required modules and libraries, and with an Installer script. (ps)

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02.Jan.2002
Uwe Ryssel (ANF) Transfer program for Casio graphical calculators
Uwe Ryssel wrote:
I have uploaded ACas c0.2beta which is a transfer program for the Casio graphical calculator CFX-9850G to the Aminet.

With the help of the program you can send and receice all data of the calculator. These data can be saved and loaded as CAT-format. The CAT-format is used by the original transfer program of Casio and is the most frequent format with which these data (e.g. programs) are handled.

Download: ACas.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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01.Jan.2002
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)

IRC-Kanal for AmigaOS XL-User
To relief other channels and to give a quick assistance for problems there will be an own IRC channel:

Channel: #AOS_XL-Help
IRC-Server: irc.belwue.de
Port:6667

This is not a steady channel and I cannot promise that you will find every time someone there. But I will keep it open as long as I am online. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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01.Jan.2002
Matthias Münch (ANF)

DJBase: Soundtrack for dynAMIte
On time for the new year and the latest version of dynAMIte there is a soundtrack from me. The track can be downloaded from here: letsdynamite.mp3.

A Happy New Year to everybody! (ps) (Translation: gf)

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31.Dec.2001 amiga-news.de Wish You a Happy New Year!

© 2002 by Rolf Tingler (ps)

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31.Dec.2001
OSNews (ANF) OSNews: AmigaDE article by Mike Bouma
There is an article about the AmigaDE by OSNews at the title link. Beside other information there is a link with some screenshots of the AmigaDE player running different games. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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31.Dec.2001
amiga-topcool.de / Daniel Orth (ANF) amiga-topcool: Interview with Ralph Schmidt
Under the title link you can read the english translation of the interview with Ralph Schmidt, developer of MorphOS. (ps)

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30.Dec.2001
CyberGFX AmigaOS V4: G-Rex Support
David Scheibler said on the G-Rex mailing list that Hyperion intends to implement support for the G-Rex PCI boards in AmigaOS V4. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
ANN SSH: OpenSSH 3.0.1
Eric Chernoff released an Amiga port of "OpenSSH 3.0.1" on his homepage.

OpenSSH with "ssh", "scp", and "sftp" offers secure alternatives for "telnet", "rcp", and "ftp". The unsecure versions send passwords and data over the Internet as plain text.

Download: amiga-openssh.lha (1,2M), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
V3Portal

VNC: zvnc V.1.1
David Gerber has released version 1.1 of his VNC client "zvnc" on 28. December 2001. Following the changes:

Bugfix: Port- and cx_priority arguments were not observed.
New: Documentation extended with more FAQ entries.

"zvnc" is a small VNC-Client without display support (for controlling a second machine with monitor). The advantage of "zvnc" are a minimum of data to be send via the network, because the graphics data are not applied. That makes control by mouse and keyboard very straight.

The archive contains versions for AmigaOS 2.x / 3.x, and MorphOS.

Download: zvnc_1.1.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
Amiga Flame AmigaDE: Bubble Heroes and Payback
Virtual Programming, who recently took over Blittersoft, announce "Bubble Heroes" and "Payback" to be ported to AmigaDE.

"Bubble Heroes" by the Italian developer Arcadia Developments is a puzzle / adventure game in the style of "Puzzle Bobble" or the "Bust A Move" series.

Payback by James Daniels is a game in the style of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) available as 68k and PPC versions with Warp3D support for Amigas, so far. Beside of the AmigaDE version a Macintosh port was already announced. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #54
On 29. December 2001 issue #54 of the English online magazine "Amiga Information Online" (AIO) was published. This issue contains an interview with Zeneo and more.

The magazine uses its own display program running on AmigaOS.

Download: AIOV54.LHA (459K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News AmigaDE: Interview with Matthew Kille ("Planet Zed")
On 28. December 2001 Jérôme Senay published an interview with Matthew Kille, author of the AmigaDE game "Planet Zed", on his homepage. "Planet Zed" is about a vertical scrolling shoot'em-up game.

Matthew Kille has been using the Amiga since 1989 and in the interview talks about his company, the game "Planet Zed", and his working methods. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News Aminet: Aminet CD 46 - 12/2001
On 19. December 2001 Schatztruhe released Aminet CD 46 containing almost 600 MB (uncompressed) of software in more than 600 archives. More than 450 MB of new stuff have been added since Aminet CD 45.

This CD also contains the full version of the game "Virtual Karting 2". (sd) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
Ingmar Poerner (ANF) Quake Movie on the Amiga
"Quake redone Quick" has been released as a seperate Amiga version yesterday. This is a slick movie build upon the Quake-engine, and which shows an amazing run through the game on the highest skill-setting, additionally refilmed and polished with gags and some music.

You will require a registered version of Quake and 40/64 Mb harddisk-space to watch it. For more info visit planetquake.com.

Aminet-mirror will be available within a few days. (ps)

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30.Dec.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)

Tool: MCP V1.36 (Update II)
Version 1.36 of the MasterControl program (MCP) was released on 29. December 2001.

Along with numerous bugfixes performance was enhanced a little, too.

The update archive only contains the changed files. The v1.35 data are required in addition.

Download:

mcp1_36u.lha (45K)
mcp1_35.lha (79K)

(sd)

Update 30. December 2001:
To download the files press and hold the left shift key (LSHIFT) before clicking the links.

Update 31. December 2001:
Dieter Groppé apologizes for the download problems, which are due to server overload.

He is asking if someone knows about an efficient server to maybe mirror his files free of charge. Who can help with this, please send an email to dgroppe@web.de. (mj) (Translation: mj)

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30.Dec.2001
Michael Böhmer (ANF) USB: First results according compatibility of the HIGHWAY
First results according compatibility of the HIGHWAY USB controller card are available (busboards, CPU cards, other Zorro cards). Results for further systems (especially A1200 busboards) are to follow the next week. (sd)

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29.Dec.2001
Telepolis Telepolis: Lifelong imprisonment becaus of distribution of unused machine time?
In this article Birgitte Zarzer reports about the system administrator David McOwen, who provided unused machine time of several computers of the University of Georgia to distributed.net, and thereby catched harshly trouble in return. He will face court in January and possibly will catch very long lasting imprisonment.

There are also many Amiga users helping distributed.amiga.org to crack the RC5 key. This worldwide competition is about to crack a 64bit key by calculating all of the 18.4 trillons of possibilities. One can provide unused computing capabilities of the own machine for this matter by using some specified software.

In case you are utilizing "foreign" machines for this, after reading this article you appear to be adviced to raise a written permission.

See title link for the Telepolis article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Dec.2001
Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail) clickBOOM: Defender of the Crown - S-File 15
Defender of the Crown (for Windows and MAC) is basically finished. It is currently being tested against bugs. In the last few weeks we added a whole new type of game play to it -- missions. Basically, if you accept, and fulfill a mission, you get a reward during the game. Missions range from defeating a certain lord, to rescuing damsels, etc. Rewards can be additional gold, soldiers, and more. It plays very nice and adds a whole new dimension to the tried and tested original Defender game play. (ps)

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29.Dec.2001
Da SixK Port Page

Database: MySQL for Amiga (040) Version 4.0.1
Version 4.0.1 of MySqld archive for 040.
Note that changes made for amiga are now commited in the official source archive. Some modifications to configure and makefiles are still missing in the official archive, so if you need to compile MySql, contact me at sixk@ifrance.com. For those who wants to use special character set, just have a look at the startmysqld script and mysql:language/charsets/ directory.

Downlaod: MySqld-4.0.1-Alpha.lzx (ps)

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29.Dec.2001
CUCUG CUCUG: Status Register December 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry. (ps)

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29.Dec.2001
(ANF) AmiGathering 4: The Flickering Party
For the fourth time since 1997, the most prominent Amiga user meeting in Greece will take place, this time in Thessaloniki (Perseos 2 str, Ano Poli), on January 4, 5 and 6 2002.

Attendance is free and everybody is encouraged to bring his computer along (anyone wishing to do so should contact kaliviotis@mac.com to reserve desk space).

Attendees have the chance to win keyboard and mouse adaptors in the Shogo, Heretic 2 and Sensible Soccer tournaments. Presentations include the G-Rex, MorphOS, Mediator and Hyperion's latest game, Freespace: The great war. Crash courses include Amiga to PC/Amiga networking (Samba, VNC, Envoy).

Anyone wishing to sell his used hardware of software is welcome to do so. For hotel reservations please visit www.031.gr. For more information please email kaliviotis@mac.com. (ps)

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28.Dec.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)

Audio: AHI 5.20 beta including alpha version for Amithlon
On 21st December 2001 beta version 5.20 of the popular soundcard driver system AHI has been released. Besides a version for 68k Amigas and MorphOS there is now a first alpha version for Amithlon.

Attention: before using the Amithlon version you should make a backup of the old version. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Dec.2001
APC&TCP Computer club: APC&TCP dissolved (Update)
On 23rd December 2001 APC&TCP announced officially that the computer club APC&TCP was dissolved. The APC&TCP distribution continues to exist. (ps) (Translation: rh)

Update 31. December 2001:
Kilian Servais, issuer of the APC&TPC disk magazine NoCover (German) wrote to the German comments on this article:

Hi!
Dissolving of the club in deed is not that tragical, because the only service, which alwas has been taken consequently, was the NoCover. Meantime this became freeware and everybody, who would like to, can registert to the email distribution list free of charge - just send an email to kilian@apc-tcp.de! In the times of Internet and email a club, like the APC&TCP has been, only makes sense in a very limited way, anyway, cause the Community will stay alive in any case. All users without Internet account can get the NoCover on floppy disk, as well. Due to the club dissolving the yearly charge slipps, but though we will try to offer as much services as possible.

So, at heart dissolving of the club is no step back but a step forward. The NoCover can get well as freeware, Andreas can concentrate on the Future (German Amiga games magazine), etc., etc.. So people: We'll keep at it!! What ever may come!!

Kilian Servais / Hersg. der NoCover
(mj) (Translation: mj)

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28.Dec.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)

Audio: RAPlay update (support of Realmedia streams)
The well-known audiostream player RAPlay has been released in the final version 3.0 and is available for download at the title link. Also, the player will appear soon on Aminet.

What's interesting about this player is not only the support of RealAudio 1-2 streams but now also the support of RealMedia in the codec versions 1, 2 and 3. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Dec.2001
Quantum Leap / Luca Diana

Quantum Leap: Pictures from a visit at Amiga Inc.
Luca Diana from the Italian online magazine 'Quantum Leap' has visited Bill McEwen last month in the bureaus of Amiga Inc. in Snoqualmie and put some pictures of his journey online. He came back with the impression that Amiga has chosen the right path.

At the title link you'll find the pictures with English and Italian subtitles. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Dec.2001
Techno

Phone costs: TTimeDeluxe version 3.19
With TTimeDeluxe you can keep track of your online costs. This update of version 3.18 to 3.19 makes TTimeDeluxe ready for the Euro. The switch to Euro should not be made before 01.01.2001 or there may be rounding errors otherwise. TTime is now Freeware.

IMPORTANT: TTime just changes the currency name and updates the TTime logfile. You'll have to change the prices in the preferences and the saved projects yourself. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Dec.2001
Titan Computer (ANF)

BurnIT: New master driver for CDR writer
There are new master drivers for current CDR writers available for download for the CDR recording software 'BurnIT' by Titan Computer. The following models are supported:

Yamaha2100
Plextor1210S
Ricoh7200A+S
Traxdata2410
Yahama8824S

(ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)

Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBS update
An update for the demo version of "PuzzleBOBS" is online. The update contains some new features as well as bug fixes. Also, an FAQ is contained in the archive of "PuzzleBOBS". The update for the full version follows.

Distribution: Fun Time World
Contact: Sebastian Brylka - FunTime@t-online.de

Support: Amiga Arena
Contact: Olaf Köbnik - olaf.koebnik@online-club.de

Developer: Nexus Development
Contact: Emanuele C. - emacesa@tin.it (ps) (Translation: rh)

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28.Dec.2001
Vlad Vinogradov (E-Mail) Amiga Information Center: Russian Amiga News Site celebrate 2nd birthday
The most famous Russian language news site for amigans - Amiga Information Center (title link) celebrate the 2nd birthday. Please review this event by yourself. Congratulations! (ps)

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28.Dec.2001
Telepolis

Telepolis: Mail for you!
An initiative wants to retaliate upon AOL - they return one million CDs to sender.

In his article Torsten Kleins talks about the return of one million AOL CDs planned by Nomoreaolcds from a completely different point of view.

»Christmas is the time for giving. Our cupids get extensively packed presents from indoctrinated salespersons, donation collectors leave houses with filled collecting boxes, even postmen and garbagemen - sorry: post deliverers and garbage technicians become the target of our lordliness.
But there are only a few companies as involved with the latter two professional guilds as AOL is. What the fist one puts into our postpoxes in exhausting legwork the second one comes to pick it up shortly after: AOL CDs. It is the time to say thank you to the friendly provider from America. Let us send a parcel to AOL.«
See title link for the complete Telepolis article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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28.Dec.2001
Pawel Filipczak (ANF)

New TaskiSMS
New (2.59) version of TaskiSMS has been released.
News in this release:

updated DiAx plugin
updated ICQ plugin
updated Idea plugin
updated EraGSM plugin
updated PlusGSM plugin
added 12sms plugin
added VLF plugin

Using this program you can send SMSes to cellular phones to over 160 countries around the world. You can download demo version from TaskiSMS home page or from AmiNet. (ps)

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28.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Individual Computers: xsurfadsl.device Snowflake-Bugfix
A new update of the PPPoE-driver for our networking card X-Surf can be found in the support-area of our website. The last bug in the core routines has been removed, so a connection to the internet is stable at full transfer rates for several hours. Since this version has only been tested shortly, it remains in beta state. The archive contains an English readme file for the first time.

The driver is free for owners of the X-Surf ethernet card. It lets you connect to DSL and cable modem services that use the PPPoE-standard without the need to buy expensive additional software. In Germany DSL is marketed as T-DSL by the Deutsche Telekom, but smaller providers like 1&1, Hansenet and some local services also offer this broadband technology.

We want to remind our German customers of the new terms and conditions at the Telekom: If you order DSL before January 1st, you'll get the DSL modem for free. After that, you'll have to pay 119,95 EUR for the modem! (ps)

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27.Dec.2001
gene of kultpower (ANF) Event: Mekka & Symposium 2002 at Fallingbostel
Announcing mekka & symposium 2002!
The MS organizer team wishes you a Merry Christmas! As a Christmas present, please find enclosed the definite, first official announcement that we're going to hold a mekka & symposium 2002 for sure! As if this hadn't been clear from the beginning :-)

The date is March 29 to April 1, and the location is again Fallingbostel. Everything else worth knowing will be put up on the webpage within the next couple of weeks. See you at the The Party, then! (ps)

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27.Dec.2001
Jan Andersen (ML)

Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.6
First we would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas, and an even better Happy New Year....

Now to the news part. A new update of "Safe" has been released today. Here is some info about the archive:

Name: Safe v17.6
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 40.427
Date : 27 December 2001
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

Changes in the archive:

Safe v17.6: - nothing

WatchDog v1.5:
- Harrier generic memory removal
- Vaginitis clones generic memory detection

Integrity v1.0: - first working GUI-based version of integrity checker

Download shortcut (ps)

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27.Dec.2001
Amiga Future Amiga Future: Interview with Eric Schwartz
Today on the Amiga Future homepage an interview with Eric Schwarz was published (for the English version please have a look at here). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2001
Peter Eriksson (ANF)

AROS Update
Although nothing much has been heard from the AROS Development Team for a while, the team is making progress. More on this can be found over at the AROS website (http://www.aros.org/). In summary of the more recent work, some bugs have been dealt with, the Palm port of AROS is gaining momentum, the new AROS object oriented framework is evolving and hardware access to PCI busses is shaping up.

Merry Christmas everyone! (ps)

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26.Dec.2001
Amiga Future Amiga Future: Interview with Eric Schwartz
The Amiga Future (German Amiga magazine) published an interview) with Eric Schwarz on their homepage. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Dec.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF) AUG99 Homepage Update
The homepage of the Amiga User Group 99 got switched to PHP, entirely. We hope that no bugs happened. If something does not work, we would be happy about a short email to the webmaster. Furthermore we would like to remind you of links to be set only to the .de domain, cause the .com address will be disabled, soon.

Due to the holidays and vacation time our next club night will not take place in January but in February, while initial organizations regarding the next "Amiga Inside Party" is being done. More inforamtion to follow in time.

In this sense have nice holidays and a Happy New Year. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Dec.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)

DJBase: X-MAS 2001 song
Matthias Münch:
Indeed, Christmas has already started but I have composed a little song with my Amiga and the program DigiBoosterPro which fits to the season.

You can download the song here: X-MAS.mp3

I hope you enjoy this kind of music. ;-) Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF) amiga-topcool: Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko
Petro Tyschtschenko who was formerly the second chairman of Amiga talks to the amiga-topcool-editing about his past under Bill McEwen. Besides this he gives a statement to AmigaOne and Pegasos and reports also about his impressions of the Amiga 2001 which took place in Cologne. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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26.Dec.2001
Chris Perver (ANF) Textviewer: EvenMore Updates
I have reworked the GUI pens code to allow the user to select which colours they want for each part of the window using slider gadgets instead of the old pens method. EvenMore will automatically allocate these and shaded pens of that colour for the bevelled edges of the GUI.

I have created a new ProWrite2text conversion plugin. All plugins are now updated, to now show which plugin is being used for the current file using the keyword %pl in the info bar string.

Also, Russian and Portugues catalogs now available courtesy of Raul Silva and Vitaliy Chepeleff! Download now for free at www.evenmore.co.uk (title link)! (ps)

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25.Dec.2001
The Internet (ANF) LucasArts Scumm games port for MorphOS
Rüdiger Hanke writes in the forum:
At first Merry Christmas to all of you :-))
I do not want to release something for MorphOS before there is a stable running beta version of it but now it is Christmas and because of that I released a little SDL-port.

I discovered it a few days ago was excited about this project, and maybe you too, if you like the old style adventures and who are annoyed of the 3D-boom and the it-is-a-joke-but-it-has-rendered-gfx-games are not the ones you like: http://www.muenster.de/~tomjoad/svm.html.

You cannot reach it from the main page because I want keep the MorphOS pages separeted from the Amiga pages and the MorphOS pages are not finished yet.

ScummVM is an interpreter for the great old LucasArts SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) adventures. Games currently reported to work include the Amiga classics The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, plus Day of the Tentacle and (very incomplete - just for a first look) my own favorite Sam & Max Hit the Road, which have never been available on the Amiga. The ScummVM team is apparently working on support of The Dig and Full Throttle as well. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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25.Dec.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF) Amigakult wishes Happy Holidays
Afterwards I wish all of you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Since yesterday, there is a new poll about our page design on the Amigakult homepage. I hope for active participation.
Thomas Wolf (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Dec.2001
Kieron Wilkinson (ANF) Abandoned Places 2: A Christmas Gift from CAPS
Abandoned Places 2 - The "remastered" edition - a CAPS Christmas gift to the Amiga community. This is a special recompiled version of the game from the original author. In other words, he has now made it available for free download! - He also happens to be the founder member of CAPS... (ps)

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25.Dec.2001
S³awomir Wilk (E-Mail)

Magazine: "Amiga Minus" No. 3
The third issue of the Polish e-zine "Amiga Minus" has been released on 24th November, 2001.

Issue content:

Report about Amiga viruses and antivirus software.
Descriptions of Exodus, Payback and Chimera (music album by Amiga musician).
Reports about the Amiga Meeting 2001, and the Symphony Festival scene party.
Interview with Bernd Meyer - author of Amithlon.
Poll results: what polish users think about the new Amiga and PCI cards and slots.
Reviews of AminetCD and PurePasic.
Some competitions for readers with prizes like Amiga games, books and CDs.

The magazine can be read online following the title link. A zip compressed offline version is available for download, too.

Download: aminus.zip (452 KB) (mj)

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24.Dec.2001
Marco Lovera (E-Mail) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from AmigaPage
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from AmigaPage. I want remember you that AmigaPassion Competition is going to the end with the last day of this month. If you want to participate simply, send a grab of your workbench desktop to kanuka@ciaoweb.it. (ps)

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24.Dec.2001
Innovative (ANF) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Innovative
We wish every user, customer, friend and business partner a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Looking back, we have to admit that there were not many news about us. But we were far appart from being idle and we are looking forward to the next year that will show you the results of our work. Please be patient and avait a year full of inovations and many news!

If you do not want to miss any of the upcoming news just register for our newsletter (at the top of our newspage). (ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Dec.2001
Martin Steigerwald (E-Mail)

Tool: WBTools Version 1.1
Martin Steigerwald:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

I released a new version (1.1) of WB-Tools.

WB-Tools is a collection of arexx-scripts for adding additional functions to the workbench. These scripts are described in my workshop "Komfortabel: Workbench mit ARexx erweitern" published in issue no. 1/2002 of the Amiga-Magazin. WB-Tools is a invitation for programming your own addons. It is easy to install and to use it.

Features:

Simple keyboardfunctions via WB-Keys: DEL delets the selected object, Enter opens the selected object, Backspace moves to the parent window, Escape closes the current window, furthermore there are the arrow-keys at the numberblock (with and without the shift-key). I do not reveal theire functions but these functions make the Workbench complete.
Menu-functionen via WB-Menus: fix all open windows, Store and restore the psoitions of the open windows, close all windows.
AmiDock-functionen via WB-Toolbar: compression of selected items (lha, lzx, zip), display the content of a lha-, lzx- or zip-archive, create a new drawer, rename.

Further details can be found in the readme at the title link.

Download: WB-Tools.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Dec.2001
Matthias Henze (E-Mail)

Merry Christmas from Cyberdyne Systems
Matthias Henze:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2002 from the team of Cyberdyne Systems.

Available versions of HSMathLibs and stormamiga.lib:

HSMathLibs 881/82 V.44.50 beta 1 (14.02.01)
HSMathLibs 040 V.44.50 beta 7 (27.01.01)
HSMathLibs 060 V.44.50 beta 7 (27.01.01)
stormamiga.lib for StormC V.45.00 beta 6 (22.12.01)
stormamiga.lib for SAS/C V.45.00 alpha 5 (02.03.01)

(ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Dec.2001
BTTR-Team Back to the Roots Amiga-News 235
BTTR-Team write:
This time we are happy to announce the biggest update in the history of Back to the Roots! After upgrading our system a bit we can offer you some additional services, this update's highlights are an Aminet full mirror and an anonymous FTP server.

Due to extending our team we are able to present you more than 500 (!!!) new games in our download archive. We can't list all titles here, but please visit BTTR if you'd like to play games like Airbus A-320, Armour Geddon, Blue Max, Chambers of Shaolin, Karate Kid II, Lethal Xcess, Ports of Call, Skweek, Pinball Dreams, Car-Vup, Subwar 2050 and hundreds of other software pearls.

As usual for each update you can download lots of new AGA, ECS and PC demos as well as tons of new music files and pictures (this time cover scans!). There are more surprises, so just come by and see! (ps)

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24.Dec.2001
Stefan Robl (E-Mail)

Christmas Greetings from Qbic System - Stefan Robl
Stefan Robl:
"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Because I am currently not able to write every single person I published a small summary of what had happend the last year at my homepage.

Available at the title link (German and English verion). (ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Dec.2001
Hynek Schlawack (E-Mail)

Mailprogram: SimpleMail Version V0.14
Hynek Schlawack writes:
One year ago we released the first alpha version and now we are proud tho announce the release of the first beta version of SimpleMail. Furthermore we wish every user a Merry Christmas and would like to thank you for the support we get from them.

We wish Petra and the whole amiga-news.de team a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, too.

Changes:

ARexx: added lots of commands.
Signatures can now be stripped when replying.
Folder names are now rendered in bold when containing new mail.
Improved the wordwrap while quoting.
Option to not quote empty lines.
Your address is filtered out when replying a multiple recipient email.
Modified the STARTTLS code following the suggestions from Jörg Strohmayer.
Every folder can now have a default recipient address.
Can now import address books from YAM.
Implemented CC support in the Compose Message window.

Download: simplemail.lha (334 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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24.Dec.2001
BeGroovy (ANF) Dave Haynie (Merlancia) on the end of the Be era
Dave Haynie, CTO of Merlancia Multimedia Systems, posted a little prospective history of his own with BeOS. For those of you out there that might not remember, Dave Haynie was _very_ involved with the Amiga, to say the least, and Merlancia plans on releasing some pretty impressive PPC systems out there that will run, among other things, BeOS R5 PPC. Read the complete article at title link. (ps)

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24.Dec.2001

The amiga-news.de Team wishes you a Merry Christmas

ARABIC: Saiid yom al-milaad wa senat jadiida
ARMENIAN: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
AZERI-AZERBAIJAN: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
BASQUE: Zorionstsu Eguberri. Zoriontsu Berri Urte
BULGARIAN: Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo. Tchestita Nova Godina
CATALAN: Feliç nadal i bon any nou
CHINESE-CANTONESE: Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
CHINESE-MANDARIN: Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan
CZECH: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
DANISH: Glædelig jul og godt nytår
DUTCH: Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
ENGLISH: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
ESTONIAN: Roomsaid Joulu Phui ja Uut Aastat
FINNISH: Hyvää Joulua. Onnellista Uutta Voutta
FRENCH: Joyeux Noel et heureuse Anne
GAELIC-IRISH: Nollaig mhaith Dhuit Agus Bliain Nua Fé Mhaise
GAELIC-SCOT: Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur
GERMAN: Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr
GREEK: Kala Khristougena kai Eftikhes to Neon Ethos
HAWAIIAN: Mele Kalikimake me ka Hauloi Makahiki hou
HEBREW: Mo'adim Lesimkha
HUNGARIAN: Boldog Karacsonyl es Ujevl Unnepeket
ICELANDIC: Gledlig jol og Nyar
INDONESIAN: Selamah Tahun Baru
IRISH: Nollaig shona diobh
IROQUOIS: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut
Ojenyunyat osrasay
ITALIAN: Buon Natale e felice Capo d'anno
JAPANESE: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
KOREAN: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
LATVIAN: Priecigus Ziemas Svetkus un Laimigu Jauno Gadu
LITHUANIAN: linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu
LUXEMBURGHISH: Schéin Chrëschtdeeg an dudden
Rutsch an d'néit Joer
MANX: Ollick Ghennal Erriu as Blein Feer Die
Seihil as Slaynt Da'n Slane Loght Thie
NORSE-DANISH: Gledlig jul og godt Nytt Aar
POLISH: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego
Nowego Roku
PORTUGUESE: Feliz Natal e prospero Ano Novo
RAPA-NUI (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi
Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
ROMANIAN: Sarbatori Fericite. La Multi Ani
RUSSIAN: Pozdrevly ayu sprazdnikom Rozhdestva Khristova
is Novim Godom
UKRANIAN: Veselykh Svyat i scaslivoho Novoho Roku
SAMOAN: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
SLOVAK: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
SERB-CROATIAN:Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
SINGHALESE (Ceylon/Sri Lanka): Subha nath thalak Vewa
Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
SLOVENE: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
SPANISH: Feliz Navidad y prospero Ano Nuevo
SWEDISH: God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År
TAGALOG (Filipino): Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
TURKISH: Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun
WELSH: Nadolic Llawen. Blwyddn Newdd Dda

(ps)

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24.Dec.2001
ID-Software (ANF)

Source Code of Quake2 released
ID-Software has released the source code of their 3D action shooter Quake2 on 21. December 2001. This source code is under GPL and makes possible to port this game to other platforms. The original version of Quake2 was only available for Windows and MacOS, so far. An AmigaOS version (WarpUp/Warp3D) is already being worked on. There already was a first screenshot of Quake2 PPC published at AmigArt.

Download: quake2.zip (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Amiga Inc.

Bill McEwen: Holiday Greetings, Progress Report, AmigaDE Videos, etc.
After more than 6 months a new Executive Update is being released, written by Bill McEwen, CEO of Amiga Inc. He is aware of the long delay and apologizes for the long lasting silence. But he says more and even shows something up.

Executive Update - 23. Dezember 2001 - Happy Holidays!

I know that it has been months since you have read something official from the Amiga team. This is not because of lack of activity; in fact, far from it. Whether it is raising money in the US, joint development with partners in the Far East, or developing Ami2D in Sweden and New Zealand, Amiga is truly a global, 24 hours a day company.

First, we would like to say thanks to every one of you for your continued support. It has been a challenging year and Amiga continues to fight battles in this depressed technology market. However, even in these tough times, the true spirit of Amiga and the community has come shining through. We are very happy with our partners and are looking forward to a great future together in the year ahead.

There has been confusion regarding the future of Amiga. Some members of the community are spreading rumors and even going to the extent of hacking web sites, to post false information. Remember, if you do not read it on the official Amiga website or on the developer website, consider it rumor and regard it with appropriate suspicion. If you have any concerns, contact the team or me directly. Let us address any issues that you might have. We will answer. It might not be what you want to hear, but we will address your concerns.

Amiga is here to win! We will win big by attacking segments of the market, where there is a clear opportunity for us to have a significant impact and achieve defendable business. The opportunity for Amiga is stronger than ever. With our two-pronged strategy, of AmigaDE as the universal content system and the AmigaOS as our desktop, workstation and server, we can offer a complete solution for the home, the office, the school or wherever digital computing needs exist.

The Amiga team and I are in this for the long haul, as we know that Amiga can succeed. All of our marketing contacts, our business contacts and, our developer contacts are telling us that this is the time for Amiga. We have seen potential partners, content producers and even companies, in our own business park, disappear. However, Amiga is still in business. As the US economy begins to recover, we are leaner and stronger than we have ever been.

One of the strengths of Amiga is that the Amiga team really extends far out into the world through the users, developers, and dealers. Success for Amiga is success for all of you as well. For too long, the Amiga community has not had anything to be proud of. However, with the launch of our first AmigaDE based products, it is time for the whole Amiga team to work together again. At the end of this update, I am going to ask for some help from everyone because only by working together can Amiga move forwards.

For those of you hungry for specific news, here are some updates:

Amiga Digital Environment™:

The Amiga DE™ Player1.0 for both Windows and Linux is now ready and shipping! We have a new website for AmigaDE, which will in the not-so-far future become a user focal point for everything AmigaDE and we encourage you to visit, participate, and spread the word.

The AmigaDE™ Player is the first step towards our vision of the Digital Habitat™, being the launch product for the AmigaDE (Digital Environment), a set of technologies that brings users and their content together regardless of the digital device they choose to use. The AmigaDE™ has been targeted directly at the user who wants to be able to experience content on any of their digital devices, without having to worry about which of those devices work with that content. Whether the content is an application, a game, music, video, email, or whatever, with the AmigaDE ™ Player the answer is that they all do.

In the coming weeks, many more applications will be released. Third party developers are currently working on products that will scale up to and expect desktop capabilities. Bittersweet, Edivision, e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment, Kaliko, Matay, Pagan Games, Ruksun Software, Technomages, Titan Computer, VecTrace, Zeoneo, some companies yet to be announced as well as many individuals, are all working hard to take advantage of the DE opportunity.

We are looking forward to seeing more people join the ranks of the more than 3000 developers already developing for Amiga. Amiga and our partners will be issuing press releases over the next few weeks as the momentum builds. We will be introducing these new and existing companies. For more information, see the developer website.

What does this really mean? Many of you ask the really important question "When can I buy one of these new AmigaDE enabled devices?" I can tell you that Sharp will soon be shipping their device. Tao Group and Sharp have selected Amiga to provide all developer support for intent™ on the Sharp SL5000D. For more information on how Sharp, Tao and Amiga are working together see the intent-sharp website.

I have also just signed a contract with one of the largest Set Top Box companies in the world. Unfortunately, I will not be able to give out the name until the second week of January, but you will be pleased.

AmigaDE is now running on numerous other devices. Many of these vendors are working with us on making these products a reality, in the first quarter of 2002. Here are some sample MPEG videos of just a few of the products, with AmigaDE running on them. Click on a screenshot to download/view the MPEG video.

Sharp Collie	Gateway
iPaq	Linux
myfriend	Psion
Vadem	Windows

AmigaDE SDK 1.1

With the AmigaDE moving forward and the AmigaDE Players released, we can now concentrate on moving all of the developed technology into the new SDK. Many of these technologies are already in beta and are being tested by members of the Amiga Developer Network.

For instance, our new Ami2D services have been available to a select few for two months now. In fact, Pulsar Interactive's new AmigaDE game, Gobbler, was written using this technology. Ami2D is a very exciting development, and I believe that it will give DE developers a definite advantage over what other products can offer.

Even more exciting, working closely in conjunction with our partners at Hyperion, Ami3D is advancing towards the release stage. I have seen screen shots of the new Ami3D in action, and have stared at screens throwing solids around and bouncing off walls. This is great news because with the portability of DE application and the new 2D and 3D services, AmigaDE developers will be able to demonstrate their creativity.

There is great excitement here concerning some of our new scaling technologies that are going to provide Amiga applications with even more flexibility and more capabilities than ever before.

I know many of you have read about the progress of SHEEP, our next generation programming language. Yes, it is a scripting language but it is also far more than that, and can be used to do anything, from writing small scripts and macros all the way up to creating full fledged applications. It will be a great addition not just to the DE, but also to application development in general and we are very proud of it.

Add to this a new look interface, intelligent icons, new development environments, an amazing descriptive interface service called Prism™ and a boatload of other stuff, and the new SDK will provide developers with a real taste of the future.

While contract negotiations are always under Non Disclosure Agreements, I can say that with the OEM's that we are working with, and the soon to be released devices that will utilize DE technology and content, then it could well be a merry AmigaDE Christmas.

Amiga Desktop Progress and a new Surprise

AmigaOS

The AmigaOS is a crucial part of our future. I have emphasized this sentence because I want the Amiga community to repeatedly read it and burn it into their hearts and minds. We will passionately and vigorously develop AmigaOS into a world-beating product. Moreover, we passionately and vigorously will defend it against anyone who would try to damage, demean, or seek to take illegal advantage of AmigaOS for their own ends.

I want to apologize for announcing in St Louis that new AmigaOS products would be available on November 1. I did this with the best intentions but many factors have contributed to this slipping, some bad, such as the financial squeeze, compounded by the September 11 atrocity, some unexpected, such as the announcement of the G5, and some good, such as the advances in the next generation development that have made us rethink our transition.

The transition between the AmigaOne and the succeeding generation of the platform requires careful management. We have studied transitions on other platforms to ensure that we try to do what others did right and not do what others did wrong. The transition requires in depth knowledge of AmigaOS3.x software and the classic Amiga hardware and we are relying heavily on our partners, as you will see below.

Another team is developing the next generation Amiga entirely and its design and information is being kept a secret. This is to keep down the rumors and keep the teams focused on getting AmigaOS 4.0, AmigaOne, and AmigaDE to either their first ship or next release.

Hyperion, Eyetech and the other teams in this partnership are very busy and there is a great deal for all of us to do. Believe me there is no better-dedicated team in the world on getting it all done. With this said and in order to alleviate the long periods of silence that may result because of this, the executive updates will start to appear once a month, so that we can share what we can with you.

However, in order to let you know that this is not just noise, Amiga has engaged a partner company from the outside that brings us incredible depth, and has a long history of creating the best of the best in designs. The company is Design Genetix, and the team has already proved to us to be a great fit for our next generation designs in hardware, and will assist us with third party manufacturing.

Design Genetix has garnered over 400 product awards, while launching hundreds of portable, desktop and server products. They have experience in growing product lines from $2.4 billion to over $17 billion over five years.

AmigaOne

Eyetech and their team are making excellent progress with the AmigaOne board. We have seen the work that is being accomplished on the case design for an AmigaOne and an A1200. This project is entering its final stages, and we are delighted to be a participant. Yes it has been a long wait for the next generation of Amiga capable hardware but be in no doubt that the AmigaOne is very real, will be a product that you can buy, and on which Amiga will grow into something of which we can all be proud. For AmigaOne information, see Eyetech's website.

AmigaOS 4.0

AmigaOS4.0 will see the software environment moved onto the AmigaOne where it will be enhanced to take full advantage of the new hardware capabilities. AmigaOS4.0 will offer exceptional performance increases, due to removing a large number of the physical dependencies on the A1200/A4000, increased stability, due to a 'from scratch' hardware design and great new features that will allow developers to leap forwards in terms of offered applications.

To allow Amiga Inc to concentrate on the next generation AmigaDE, and because of the tight integration of AmigaOS 4.0 with the Eyetech AmigaOne product, we have outsourced the project management of AmigaOS4.0 to Hyperion Entertainment, one of the most respected software development companies in the Amiga community. For OS 4.0 information, see Hyperion's website.

They will work closely with Eyetech, Haage and Partner and all our AmigaOS partners in the project, ensuring that the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.0 combination reaches the market in a timely manner and as a quality product. For Haage-Partner information, see the Haage & Partner website.

Conclusion

Newcomers to the software industry are often unaware of the impact that Amiga had on the computing industry. But with the launch of the DE Player, and seeing all the new content, as well as the AmigaOne and OS4.0, this is starting to change. We are working hard to accelerate this process and each of you can play your part in ensuring that your computer and your community are successful.

I say this to you because I need your help. I need all of you to remember those who used to come to the meetings. I need you to remember those in your office, or neighborhood who run Windows or Linux. I need you to look in your local papers and see who writes the business sections, and who writes the technology sections, and I need you to tell them about AmigaDE.

I need you to tell them about a technology that allows the same content to run without change on various devices. I need you to tell them about how they can use Linux or Windows, and run Amiga content on either machine. I need you to remind them that most of the current content is for PDA's and to ask them to compare what they have seen on PDA's and other handheld gaming systems to what the Amiga community has been building. In addition, I need you to support the developers who are creating content for Amiga in every way possible.

I know there are thousands in the Amiga community who want to help. I get email messages daily asking how you all can help. Well the AmigaDE Player is a big step for us, and for the many developers who have created content for it. Thousands more are working on new content! For those who have the DE Player … buy a game, and then give us feedback. This is the first step in our journey forward, and our first step together towards that future.

There are many amazing things happening at Amiga, and over the next six months, all our hard work will slowly start to emerge into the world. I want you to know so much, but for many reasons, I simply cannot tell you the bulk of what is going on. Just be assured that my team and I are putting our lives and our souls into Amiga and that your patience and loyalty will be rewarded.

For now, I need your help in spreading the good news about the AmigaDE Player. Its simplicity makes it ideal for senior citizens, parents, and children, people who have a computer, enjoy games but who are terrified of the technology. Its portability makes it perfect for developers who want to reach as many markets or as wide an audience as possible.

Go to Amiga's website, purchase some of the games, and then tell everyone you know how Amiga is binary portable; scalable, and able to provide the same content on numerous different devices and products, there is no one else that can show a product like this anywhere. Be Proud and show it off.

I promise you that it will not be another 6 months before you hear from me again, but it was only because there are only 24 hours in a day and we have been putting in 36 hours a day making it all happen.

Merry Christmas, God Bless, and bring on 2002!

Bill McEwen und der Rest das Amiga-Teams
http://www.amiga.com
http://www.amigadev.net
http://www.de.amiga.com
http://intent-sharp.amigadev.net (mj) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)

Paintprogram: PerfectPaint V2.8
Version 2.8 of the paint and animations program "PerfectPaint" was released. This program supports colour depths of 1 to 24 bit. The following has changed since the prior version:

New catalogs (Russian, Polski, Deutch,latvian, Norsk ...)
New effects: Relief, Sharpen, Fiber, Stone, Glass.
New text effect: Stamp, Stamp2 and FlatShade (from Markus Castro)
New Arexx Box script: CreatePlanete.rx (from Markus Castro)
New picture effect: Rotate any Angle
New tools: Correct Picture Rotation
New 'Movie factory' effect: Blur, Horizontal BLur, Vertical Blur
Improve some effects: Much faster
Improve antialiasing: Much faster and better aspect
Improve Polar Coordinates
Fix an EnforcetHit with the requester palette and PopupMenu
Stone, Fiber and Liquid can use now Color Gradient with transparency.
Fix some bug with animation.
Improve Control requester: Much Faster, New mode: Maximum, Minimum, threshold, Multiply, Screen and Exclusion.
Improve VisualPrefs compatibility (I think I fix the problem, on some configuration, about garbage in main window when you resize it from a reduced view to the original size)
With the help of NewIcon.library, PfPaint can now load standard Icon; load and save NewIcon.
You can change the amount of transparency of the popupmenu.
Fix a bug with the TTF font (and the TTFlib).
Fix a bug with the 'Page size' requester.
All effects are now stored in an asynchron window, it's much easy to select an effect.
Brush can be saved in PPM and sculpt format (separate raw alpha,red,green and blue file)
In Zoom mode, picture is always centered.
Saving with thumbnail newicon works well now.
Arexx command to save Icon: pp_SaveIconFor file type.

The program can be downloaded following the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail) Tool: MRE - StartMenu, ProcessManager, SystemSettings
Martin R. Elsner finished the initial parts of MRE just in time to provide a Christmas surprise.

"StartMenu" (previously "Choowin"), "ProcessManager" (new prozess manager tool as replacement for CLI commands "status" and "break"), and "SystemSettings" (previously "MainPrefs") are available for download, installation and use. These tools can be used either all together or as single tools.

Some parts are still missing: "Locale-Archive" (will be available as single archives), and the manual.

You can download the tools by following the title link or at Aminet.

Martin R. Elsner wishes the worldwide Amiga-Community Merry Christmas and a happy new Year. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail) Amigapage.de: Book Disks for Amiga Books
Marcus Neervoort wrote:
A new chapter of Amigapage.de just went online. Now you can download book disks for Amiga books.

Furthermore I wish all of you Merry Christmas, and a good start into the new year ...!

So, have much fun until the next update. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
chaos-update-ML 18. CCC: Freedom Rights in the Data Net
Chaos Computer Club e.V.

23.12.2001

Press information on the 18th Chaos Communication Congress,

27.-29. December, 2001 in Berlin, Germany, Haus am Köllnischen Park

"Hacking is not a crime"

For the 18. year the Chaos Computer Club e.V. is organizing the Chaos Communication Congress between Chritsmas and new year's day in Berlin, Germany. This event with the subtitle "the European hackers party" during the last years became a significant meeting of about 2,500 European net activists, on which beside of dealing with topical technology developments also the social effects and parameters of the information community allways play part.

After the serious incidences of this year and numerous laws the congress' motto "hacking is not a crime" especially indicates dealing with the freedrom rights in the data nets.

"This year numerous legal arrangements have been done in a time marked by terror attacks and war propaganda, regardless of the net users and aspects of data security", Andy Müller-Maguhn, CCC speaker, illustrated the meeting's background. Especially legalizing almost unresticted rights for intelligent services to access Internet and phone connections is one of the focal points of the this year's congress.

The international participants of the this year's congress will also deal with the lack of knowledge of computer security aspects with politicians. With the Cybercrime-Convetion passed by the European Council - virtual unrecognized in the shadow of the impacts of September 11th - a law got passed which e.g. punishes the spread of computer viruses. "Until now, the Chaos Computer Club did not see any computer virus worrying about laws, in spite of intensive investigations done", Jens Ohlig, club speaker, commented this law.

"But, an alarming fact is, that already the release of attacking methods and the spread of tools for testing security arrangements in data nets shall be punished in the future. This would restrict the free and required dealing with the problems regarding computer security and hence this would prevent development of solution possibilities", explained CCC speaker Müller-Maguhn the club's objections.

On the this year's congress beside of the usual lectures about technic developments, workshops, and podium discussions for specially there will be two strategy workshops, too, in which European net activits will deal with the question of a better cooperation and strategies regarding public relations. Especially the desiderative consideration of the rights of informational self-determination and the public access to information within the scope of the amendment of copyright laws appear to make this required.

The alignment of the congress' content is rounded by traditional elements such like the hack center / data freeport, and a laboratory for electronic experiments, public archive, and several project presentations. In the scope of the presentations there will also be an explaination of the still open installation Blinkenlights of the Chaos Computer Club, which will can be seen on the "Haus des Lehrers" on the Alexanderplatz, until the end of February.

More information about the congress can be found under
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2001/

Blinkenlights on the "Haus des Lehrers", Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany, or
http://www.blinkenlights.de/

On Wednesday, 26. December 2001 there will be a press conference at 14:00 MET on the congress in the "Haus am Köllnischen Park". (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
ANN AmigaDE: AmigaDE-Player for Windows V1.1 - SDK Updates
The new version 1.1 of the AmigaDE Player for Windows was released. This version is available for download via the own account at the AmigaDE-Shop.

Installation: Run the AmigaDE-Player installer once to remove the prior version of the player, then run the installer a second time to install the new version. Press the help button on the AmigaDE Shop website for additional help.

On amigadev.net some updates for the SDK were released.

The website itself now also supports HTTP resume to continue canceled downloads, as far as the download client supports this (Getright, GoZilla!, Caitoo, Aminet: HTTPResume etc.). (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Oliver Wagner (vapor-announce-ML)

Internet: NetInfo II V2.11
Version 2.11 of the Internet information tool "NetInfo II" was released. This tool unites the functions of TRACEROUT, PING, WHOIS, and FINGER in one GUI.

Following the changes since version 2.10:

fixed deadlock problems with multiple PING responses
improvements for dealing with the new V3 RIPE database
improvements in WHOIS network prefix lookup tables

NetInfo utilizes MUI 3.8 and the "NList" class by Gilles Masson. It works with Genesis, Miami, Roadshow (so far unreleased TCP/IP stack by Olaf Barthel), and AmiTCP.

TCP/IP stacks basing on the "socket.library as for as225r2 are not supported. Contrary to the whois and finger functions the tracerout function does not work via SOCKS.

Download:

netinfo_211.lzx (163K)
netinfo_211.lha (198K)

(sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Cj-Stroker (ANF) Amiforce: Poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz
Amiforce just started a poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz asking if there is interest in an extensive section on this subject.

E.g. a tutorial and many other things are being planned.

With this a media is inteded to be built to enable many Amiga users to learn this language the Amiga Community lately lost sight of.

Amiforce wish all users Merry Christmas. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News AROS: Graphics, Palm, OOP
Georg Steger fixed some bugs in the graphics.library.

He is working on the AROS port for Palm Pilots.

Adam Chodorowski fixed other bugs in the Python code and did impressing work in updating the AROS copyright notes.

Fabio Alemagna is working hard on the new OOP frame work, and Johan Grip is working on a PCI driver system. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
ANN MorphOS: c.s.a.morphos elected at 178:31
The election for the organisation of the usenet group "comp.sys.amiga.morphos passes" was closed on 20. December 2001 with a voting result of 178 for yes and 31 for no.

If there will not be no reliable reclamation during the 5 days lasting discussion term from the election board, this group will be established by the news.announce.newgroups moderator shortly after this term expired.

More information including a list of the votes given are to find under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News CD: MakeCD V3.2d Beta 9
Beta version 3.2d beta 9 of the CD burning software "MakeCD" was released.

The archive now contains the binaries. Version 3.2c is required for complete installation. Details on the changes can be taken from the history.

Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_9.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News Magazine: The Cryptmas #21
On 22. December 2001 issue #21 of the Englisch disk and online magazine "The Crypt" was released.

This Christmas issue contains a report about Vision Design who are working on a new Amiga Classic.

You can read the magazine via the title link and downlaod it, too. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF) amiga-topcool: Poll about Website
Daniel Orth wrote:
Participate in our poll. This is about our website. You don't need to spend much time. Every participant will receive 100 points as a thank you. Those points then can be exchanged for all kinds of nice things. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: "Blockhead I" Full Version
Olaf Köbnik wrote:
Merry Christmas and Full Version
I wish all of you Merry Christmas and I would like to say thank you to all users who supported me this year!

"I wish all of us a peaceful Christmas time and hope that there will be light at the end of the tube for all of us TOGETHER in the future!"

The fire still burns! - Your Olaf

"Blockhead I" Full Version
With permission of "Applaud Software" the Amiga Arena enables the release of every software title from "Applaud Software".

For Christmas time there is the first part of the puzzle / mind game "Blockhead I". (sd) (Translation: mj)

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23.Dec.2001
(ANF)

Video: SoftCinema V0.16 Beta 1
On 22. December 2001 version 0.16 beta 1 of the video player 'SoftCinema' was released.

Following the changes:

Fixed AGA display for YUV221111 based codecs.
Fixed display scaling on CGFX for YUV221111 based codecs.
Added support for MP3 hardware decoders, added MP3HW CLI/tooltype argument.
Added PUBSCREEN CLI/tooltype argument.
Fixed 8-bit window display for YUV221111 based codecs.
DITHER is now default direct color emulation mode for 8-bit display.
VIDEOCHANNEL and AUDIOCHANNEL CLI/tooltype arguments.
Some speed improvements in DivX;-) codec.
Added DEPTH24 CLI/tooltype argument for 24-bit output on fullscreen.
Few bugfixes in QT parser.
Fixed crash on last frame on animation.
Fixed some problems in RainbowRunner codec.

You can download the program via softcinema.amiga.pl and highantdev.de/softcinema/. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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22.Dec.2001
musikmachen.net / Jorge Pino (ANF) Musikmachen.net portal reports about demo scene/Amiga
»All began with the Commodore C-64 and the successor Amiga whose popularity came from the fact that there was an almost unmanageable number of games for these computers. In addition were their technical characteristics for graphics and sound far superior to those of a PC of that time - and all this for a childroom compatible price.«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Dec.2001
Christoph Dietz

NEO Award on 13.12.2001
The NEO Award, for that amiga-news.de was also nominated, was awarded on 13.12.2001 in Stuttgart in the Mercedes Forum to several websites. Christoph Dietz has taken part for amiga-news.de in the awarding and has taken some photos. Read now the summary of his impressions.

The NEO Award was a successful event - even though we as amiga-news.de "only" made the 12th place in the cathegory ´most popular website´. But with altogether more than 500,000 registered users and with more than 2.5 million votes within a period of four weeks this ranking is for us as a news site for a marginal group a remarkable result. It's you, the readers, who fully deserve the thanks for this.

In the Stuttgart Mercedes Forum had the people arranging the NEO Award not only taken care for many people - including of course the nominees in the different areas - but also for the matching ambiente with food and drinking.

Through the show led Frauke Ludowig, presenter of the RTL programme "Explosiv", again and again kindly interrupted by the asides of Mirco Nontschew, entertainer from the "RTL Saturday Night". Numerous musical interludes, beginning with the ones of "Glashaus", always ensured a good atmosphere in the hall and were a good frame for the award.

Most of the awarded NEOs were named by a prominent jury, though it does not neccessarily make a name for itself in the sphere of the Internet.

The Special Award for great contribution to the new media went to Prof. Karlheinz Brandenburg, deputizing for his team, with which he had created the music compression standard MPEG3 (short: MP3). This price was presented by Dr. Christoph-E. Palmer, minister of state of Baden-Württemberg.

The price for the best Online advertising went to the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, commented by them in the speech of thanks with not having expecting to win this price with RTL and VIVA belonging to the sponsors and jury members. In the background could the laudator of the Award be seen, the voice of "Robert T-Online".

As best sports site on the net was the one of Formula 1 racing driver Michael Schuhmacher elected. The price for this was taken by Kai Ebel, presenter of the Formular 1 broadcast of RTL. The site of the soap "Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten" ("Good times, bad times") was winner of the award for the best series site. The heavy weight "NEO" was presented to three actors of the series who all reacted indifferent towards the winning of the price and at the same time announced the (already happened) relaunch of the site. Both sites are btw. designed and supervised by RTL News Media, as is well known presented as member of the jury by their manager Dr. Thomas Hesse.

The group Glashaus was for this evening not only engaged as live act but also won the award in the area "best music site".

Radio on the Internet, the most popular website here is the "Chart Radio".

"Der Schuh des Manituh" is not only one of the most successful films in German cinemas but also the winner of the NEO for the best film site.

"geizkragen.de" got the public price for the most popular website, presented by Heidi Klum. Geizkragen.de surprised with the announcement that "much is to be expected" and meant with this the television. This made the laudator ask spontaneously whether the "dot.com-Domain is already reserved".

Electronic postcards can be sent most innovative at "edgar.de" and for this it gave the second public NEO of the evening.

A flat after-taste remains for exactly these two awards, though, because in the participation terms under point 17/5, paragraph 5, sentence 3 it is written as follows:

"The organisator reserves for himself to change the result when the vote results aren't a good advertisement."

Unfortunately we won't ever experience whether the winning sites made it to the top because of the participiants or because of effectiveness. We hope for the former!

A winner for the offered Smart wasn't drawn on this event, we wait impatiently for the naming of the lucky one.

More than words speak our further pictures of the event for themselves:

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(ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email) Amiga Arena: interview with Heinrich Tillack (AStarC)
New PD or shareware games can be found more and more seldom on the Aminet. The more pleasing it is that with "AStarC" a clone of the Arcade classic "Star Castle" by Cinematronics released in the year 1980 gives a welcome change! Heinrich Tillack, the developer, answered the questions of the Amiga Arena. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Dec.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)

VHT: The antivirus poll 2001
Hi all...

Okay, the poll for voting for the antivirus programmer who has done the most for the Amiga antivirus scene in 2001, has only 10 more days to go. Here are the current vote statistics:

Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library : 254 votes
Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor : 213 votes
Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe : 46 votes
Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II : 19 votes
Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III : 11 votes
Heiner Schneegold _ VT-Schutz : 8 votes

(total 551 votes)

You can vote here.

Please do us the favour, and place your vote......

Kind regards

Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
(ps)

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22.Dec.2001
Oliver Wagner (Vapor-ML)

AmigaNCP 2.2
AmigaNCP is an implementation of the Psion link protocol which is e.g. built into the Psion S3/S3a/S3C and Psion S5 palmtop's ROM. It's main purpose is to provide vice-versa nfs-like file access. AmigaNCP features:

-- the "amigancp.library" providing all the network I/O functions.
-- the AmigaNCP-FileSystem providing transparent access to Psion files from the AmigaDOS environment. Includes transparent charset translation feature and possibility to store icons on the Amiga side for full workbench integration.
-- the AmigaNCP-FileServer providing transparent access to Amiga files from the Psion side with optional on-the-fly character conversion.
-- a print server allowing to print directly from your Psion to a printer connected to your Amiga.
-- full developer documentation and associated material to faciliate NCP services from within your own applications.

AmigaNCP requires:

-- AmigaOS 2.04 or better (localization supported).
-- the IBM-PC version of the 3-Link cable.

Changes from Release 2.1 to 2.2

-- Amiga to Psion clipboard transfer now working (S5/EPOC32 mode only)
-- fixed ACTION_SET_DATE and ACTION_SET_PROTECT for S5/EPOC32 mode

New releases will be put on AmiNet. Also, you might directly visit the support site:

WWW: http://www.vapor.com/
FTP: ftp.vapor.com, /pub/amigancp/

There is also a support mailing list for AmigaNCP. To subscribe, write to

amigancp-request@vapor.com

and put "SUBSCRIBE" in the mail body. Put "HELP" in the mail body to get full instructions on how to use the list server.

=== Bug reports: ===

Please report any bugs via E-Mail to amigancp-bugs@vapor.com. Please enclose a detailed description of the bug and the bug generation procedure, together with a description of both your AmigaOS and Psion setup. (ps)

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22.Dec.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail) SViewIV PPC 25.4 - Error during upload to Aminet
Unfortunately something went wrong when uploading the SViewIV PPC modules V25.4 to Aminet - only a textfile went there. Until the upload-delay of 10 days is over, I'll provide the archive for download on my website. (ps)

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22.Dec.2001
Paul J. Beel (ANF) GetBoinged has new Amiga news section!
GetBoinged! has created a small news section called "Weekly Amiga News Round-Up!" where selected news items will appear. This section will feature up to ten news items for each week. So if you only have time to check the news once a week, you only have to go one place. To check it out point your browser here. A link off the home page will take you to the new section. (ps)

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22.Dec.2001
Mr. B.B.C. (ANF) Complete documentation of FinalBASIC available
Mr. B.B.C. wrote:
Just in time befor the new year I may announce that the documentation of FinalBASIC is finally completed. FinalBASIC is once again a BASIC dialect. But the special about it is the fact that it is developed as OpenSource and allows easy platform independant programming. With this it will be in strong competition with Java though its capabilitites are comparatively limited.

Because of the conception can FinalBASIC deliver a quite usable performance and could one day shake off Java. FinalBASIC, too, bases on compact bytecode files that can additionally be compiled to machine code programs, though, then being platform dependant, of course.

FinalBASIC is especially oriented towards client operating systems on slow computers. Therefore could also "exotics" like AmigaOS get new software.

Under www.finalbasic.org you can get a complete documentation of the bytecode in its current state.

The first version of FinalBASIC is a more primitive console version for Linux that already offers mouse support, graphics and sound. Later on a complex GUI development shall be added that moves FinalBASIC, apart from many direct hardware resp. memory accesses, to the squad of the professional developing tools.

The project still needs capable C programming people under Linux, but people interested in porting the language may also already register. All information can be found on the website. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Dec.2001
CD³²-Allianz (ANF) CDTV review writers wanted
CD³²-Allianz wrote:
As we want to extend our review section in the near future we are looking for people who would be willing to write from time to time some reviews of released CDTV titles. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Dec.2001
Matthias Henze (ANF)

stormamiga.lib V.45.00 beta 6 for StormC
Matthias Henze wrote:
As a little Christmas gift from me there's now a new version of the stormamiga.lib. It's just a small update. Here's a short overview about the changes:

All known errors removed.
The functions getpid, flock, cot and pow2 added.
The functions strtol and strtoul rewritten.
Better support of StormC V4.
Support of StormC V2 removed.
Some changes in the include files done.
Guide and installer script revised.
Some other small things done.

(ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Dec.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)

Elbox: MediatorUP 2.7
The MediatorUP 2.7 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users has been made available today. The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:

pci.library ver.5.0
MediatorNET.device ver.2.4 (Ethernet 10Mbps PCI cards)
Voodoo.card ver.2.10 (Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3/4/5 PCI graphic cards)
Virge.card ver.1.4 (S3 ViRGE, S3 ViRGE DX PCI graphic cards)

All the above drivers have been redesigned so as to automatically detect the busboard type and to provide the appropriate support. (ps)

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21.Dec.2001
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)

Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD UP 1.10
The MM CD 1.10 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been released by ELBOX Computer.

The update includes the new versions of the following drivers:

sb128.audio ver.4.5 (SoundBlaster PCI128 sound cards)
Voodoo.card ver.4.11 (Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 PCI graphic cards)
mixer.library ver.1.3 (SB128, FM801, SB Live!, SB Audigy sound cards)
tv.library ver.1.5 (TV tuner cards)
FastEthernet.device ver.1.4 (10/100Mbps FastEthernet cards)

All the above drivers have been redesigned so as to automatically detect the busboard type and to provide the appropriate support. (ps)

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21.Dec.2001
Michael Heider (ANF) Journal File System EXT3 for Linux-APUS
Michael Heider writes:
Besides JFS the Journal File System EXT3 for use with Linux-APUS is now also available at the title link. Among the files available on my homepage are besides a precompiled kernel version 2.4.9 and the EXT3 patch a kernel patch of version 2.4.9 which can be applied to the original sources. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Dec.2001
Michael Herrmann (ANF)

AMCLUST: To the AMIGA community
Dear AMIGA community,

in the coming year the AMCLUST (Amiga Club Steinfurt, Germany) celebrates its 15th year. When I founded the club with two friends in September 1987 I wouldn't have thought that we would still stick with our "old" AMIGA 15 years later. And I am not alone, even if the number of members has decreased rapidly in the last years. Remaining is the "hard core" for which it's worth to steer the AMCLUST towards its 20th year.

With Christoph "Chriskay" Kirsch and Marco Wilka we have sadly lost two very good programmers last year, both have stopped their work on AMIGA projects (DataM-II, CROSS) and have switched to Linux.

On the other side we still have very active developers with Christian Effenberger and Guido Mersmann and some optimism is certainly justified.

In any case we will celebrate the 15th year of the AMCLUST, how and when is not decided yet, but we are already making plans.

Without the AMIGA community the AMCLUST certainly wouldn't be existing anymore, so a wholehearted thank you to all of you out there. A special thanks to Petra Struck and her team for the first-class amiga-news.de.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year, we'll see, read and hear us in the new year...

- mice - (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Dec.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF) The ACBB wishes ...
... all Miggys in this world a Christmas without stress and a successful year 2002. May the next year make the world of the Amiga a bit friendlier again. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Dec.2001
Andreas Magerl (e-mail) Amiga Future: Vote on Amiga 2001
On the Amiga Future homepage has been a vote since some time "How did you like the Amiga 2001?". Voting will be closed in a couple of days. It would be nice if some more users would participate. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Dec.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF) BoingBag 3.9-2 with Euro next year
According to a mailing by Martin Steigerwald, Haage & Partner, on the AOS3X mailing list there will be an AOS 3.9 update in the coming year which will be released as Boing Bag 3.9 #2. With this update the Euro will be supported on AOS. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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20.Dec.2001
morphos-news.de Redaktion (ANF) morphos-news.de: Problems with MorphOS - we'll help
Did you happen to have problems installing MorphOS, is your computer on strike again or you cannot launch programs? No problem, the morphos-news.de editorial team is there for you with advice and aid in our forum. You can just try it under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Individual Computers: Our .com domains are moving
The domains jschoenfeld.com and siliconsonic.com are moving to a new registrar, and to a new provider. Should you encounter any problems using one of those domains during the next 48 hours, please try jschoenfeld.de and siliconsonic.de. (ps)

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20.Dec.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF) TweakPC: CeBIT 2002 without Matrox
Today, the Matrox company announced that they will not attend the CeBIT 2002 show as an exhibitor. As reasons the "uncertainty of how the general economic situation will evolve" an the "worldwide negative trend regarding the amount of visitors and exhibitors of IT shows" were mentioned.
Complete article see title link.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Harald Frank/VMC (ANF)

ProStationAudio Amithlon-Benchmarks online
AudioLabs have published the first benchmarks of the new dspspeed tool running under Amithlon, and still is wanting more users who would like to participate in creating a complete table with all Amiga models.

More information can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: PuzzleBOBS News
Now the English graphics guide for creating own levels and graphics for "PuzzleBOBS" is available for download. Who would like to translate this manual into the German language or has made own levels might contact Olaf Koebnik. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Gabriele Greco (E-Mail) MorphOS Uploads to Aminet from Gabriele Greco
If someone is interested I've uploaded some MorphOS related files to Aminet on Sunday and they are finally available:

A nice vertical scroll shooter that runs in true color 640x480 with parallax scrolling, really nice gfx. Very playable here on MorphOS, it was almost implayable on 060...
Dowload: gammapatrolmos.lha

Port of ZIP/UNZIP, with crypt support, about 1.5 faster than the powerup version.
Dowload: ZipMOS.lha

Port of the unix lha. VERY fast, use the unix syntax instead of the Boberg's lha one.
Dowload: LhA-mos.lha

Version 1.2.3 of SDL, also available in .zip format at http://www.libsdl.org.
Dowload: SDL-Amiga.lha (ps)

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20.Dec.2001
Dennis Lohr (ANF) DigiboosterPro Community HomePage Update & IRC-Meeting
On the DigiboosterPro Community homepage (title link) something's going on, again. For one a wishlist was published containing the extensions most often demanded by the participating users. For second both the German and English forums have been pooled together. So, who comes to the English mask will automatically be forwarded to the mutual forum, now.

Furthermore the Digibooster Community invites you to attend the IRC meeting. On Thursday, 20. December, 2001 at 20:00 CET a DBPro Community channel will be ready under:

Server: ie.altnet.org
Channel: #digiboosterpro
Port: 6667

We would be happy about great participation. In the case of valuable response we will keep this channel. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Unicornis (ANF)

New Christmas Levels for WormsDC
Since Worms Armageddon for the Amiga appears to take another few years :-), I've finished two nice Christmas levels for Worms Directors Cut (WormsDC), just in time. Have much fun playing the levels and Merry Chritsmas!

Download: xmaswrm.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Amiga-Info.net (ANF) Christmas Project at Amiga-Info.net
You can win at Amiga-Inof.net! You just have to look out for a false headline. If you happened to find this, send an e-mail containing your name and quoting this false headline to: xandiy@amiga-info.net.

In the case of more than one proper answer we will choose the winner by lot! You can win the Aminet 46 CD (on its release). This project will be valid thru 26. December, 2001 (date of e-mail).
Much luck! (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Michael Böhmer (ANF) Zorro II USB Controller: HIGHWAY Beta Testers wanted
HIGHWAY beta testers with busboards wanted.
The initial bigger tests of the new HIGHWAY cards (zorro II USB controller) turned out that especially non-Commodore busboards behave crucial in connection with the HIGHWAY card. To prevent our customers from being disappointed, we are now looking for beta testers having a busboard (A1200 / A4000) and living in or near Munich.

Interested people might contact subway-hardware@e3b.de. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Dec.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF) Amigaland - News
Amigaland beside of games (legal thanks to permission of the manufacturers) also offers demos, emu-tools, and emulators for download. The 'Demos' rubric is accessible again, located on the Tripod server. Furthermore there is a new game on the homepage. With 'Ports of Call' you will find a real classic game at Amigaland! (ps) (Translation: mj)

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19.Dec.2001
Willy Trautsch (ANF) 1 Million AOL CDs are supposed to be collected
One million AOL-CDs are supposed to be collected to empty then them before the AOL central office. The action is meant against the aggressive advertising campaign of AOL and the waste of valuable resources. Up to now 7,808 CDs have been already collected. You can find more details e.g. to the national collective places which have been established under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2001
Aminet (ANF)

PPClib.emu V0.9 available on Aminet
The PPClibemu is an emulation of the ppc.library and of the PowerUp kernel under WarpOS. The author of this emulation is called Frank Wille.

Changes since the last Aminet-release (v0.8d):

Three environment variables from ENV:ppclibemu will be recognized: IgnoreNOCACHEM68K, Debug, NoFreePatch and NoELFPatch (set != 0 to activate).
Library init swaps to an own 16K stack, to prevent problems with limited ramlib stack size.
Fixed bugs in __floatdidf, __floatdisf, __floatunsdidf and PPCDivs64/PPCDivs64p/__divdi3.
PPCGetTaskAttr() supports more tags: PPCTASKTAG_NAME, PRIORITY, STACKSIZE, INPUTHANDLE, OUTPUTHANDLE, ERRORHANDLE, ELFOBJECT.
New utility "ppclibemu_install" to load library into memory, replaces LoadSeg.
PPCCreateTask() behaves like exec.library's CreateTask() now.
PPCMsgPort is more similar to a real MsgPort.
PPC task termination routine will no longer free all memory.

Download: ppclibemu.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2001
Payback (ANF)

Payback: Update 6 now available (Update)
Under the title link you can find update 6 of the game ´Payback´. Payback is a game in the style of GTA and supports 68k- and PPC-processors (WarpUP) as well as hardware-3d-rendering (Warp3D). The following things are new in update 6:

Vehicles can now be added to custom maps.
Added high score tables to rampage mode.
Improved vehicle textures.
In multiplayer mode, your kills will now go negative if you commit suicide with zero kills.
Added sparks when two vehicles scrape against each other.

Download: PaybackUpdate6.lha (link corrected). (ps) (Translation: dr)

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19.Dec.2001
Blick - Schweizer Tageszeitung (ANF)

Blick Online: Defender of the Crown - Comeback after 18 years
Peter Glauser has found this article on the most important Swiss newspaper 'Blick':
»There is a reason for hope: The classic «Defender of the Crown» will be published as a reworked version already next spring. For all those who do not know this game: In «Defender of the Crown» the C64- or Amiga-player had to win the rule over England.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article.

On autumn the game will be published by Cinemaware for Xbox, PS2 and PC. (ps)

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19.Dec.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF) Video of fair 'Amiga 2001' ready
Virtual Dimension has completed its fair report about the Amiga 2001. The crucial points of the video are AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS. Ben Hermans of Hyperion and Gerald Carda of bplan report about the status and visitors of the fair are also asked.

Besides this the video which lasts 25 minutes reports about the newest hard- and software and short report about the Atari-park has also been added.

Additionaly this up to now most extensive fair report will be available in English.

Download:
amiga2001s.mpg (160x120 pixel, 25:07 min., 39 MB)
amiga2001.mpg (352x288 pixel, 25:07 min., 139 MB)
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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18.Dec.2001
Timo Kloss (E-Mail)

Graphics Adventure Engine: Update of 'Inga'
A new udpate of the graphics adventure engine "Inga" is available on the Inga homepage (title link), from now on. The following has changed:

The sound plugin now enables voice and sound output via AHI.
RAM cache system reworked.
CLI programs can be executed with the "Extern" command.
Single character animations are only loaded if required.
Animations now appear as fast as if the engine would run at 20 fps (no frames skipped)
The scroll text in sequences now also moves with constant speed, independant of the actual number of fps.
No more mouse pointer in sequences, anymore.
Characters can be displayed that far on top of the screen, that e.g. only the feet are visible (this would have caused graphic erros in the past).
Running characters will reach their target point accurate on pixel (previously only roughly).
Animated objects can be displayed as still picture, whereas the single picture to be viewed can be set using Inga-Skript (see compendium under "Objekt-Standbild").
Objects "bound" to the mouse pointer are now displayed along with thier animation.
PlugIn system reworked (safer now).
PlugIns can be disabled by thier options (tooltypes).
Miscelleanous little bugs fixed.

So, only audio CD support is still missing, now. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Dec.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail) Image Editing: PNG-Box V 2.51 and SViewIV V 9.25
Andreas Kleinert has placed PNG-Box version 2.51 and SViewIV version 9.25 in the Aminet. With PNG-Box you can convert graphic files via the SuperView-Library to PNG. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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18.Dec.2001
Amiga Future (E-Mail) Amiga Future: Interview with Andrzej Bugajny (Exodus)
Amiga Future has made an interview with Andrzej Bugajny, the coder of Exodus. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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18.Dec.2001
Amiga Arena (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: Interview with Darius Brewka
There are some startmenus for the Amiga, but non of those are currently being further developed. With "AmiStart" recently a new version was released on Aminet, which development leads back to 1998. The Amiga Arena talked to the author Darius Brewka about the relaunche of the development of AmiStart as well as about Amiga Inc., Amithlon and the future of "AmiStart". (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Dec.2001
PC-WELT PC-WELT: Beware of Exploding CDs
The article of "PC-Welt" (German computer magazine) reports that CD-ROMs starting from 48x speed under certain circumstances get in that much strain that these explode inside the drive.
This also happened to the St. Andrews University in Edinburgh, England. Read the University's advices on this subject: Exploding CDs?. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Dec.2001
Charlene of Virus Help Team Canada (ANF)

XAD Unpacks ZIP Archives For VirusChecker To Test
For quite some time, VirusChecker has been unable to unpack and virustest any ZIP archives. I have now managed to unpack .zip archives quite nicely with Dirks XAD shareware package. Please remember to support all our excellent Amiga programmers, even if their particular program has gone from shareware to freeware. You may not realize what a God-send they are, until something goes wrong. Thanks!

These directions will always be available on the VirusChecker links page.

a) get the XAD package (remember this is shareware)
b) install xadmaster.library and accompaning files
c) place the c: directory files in c:
there will be a file called 'c:xadunfile'
d) start VirusChecker-II and go to the prefs
e) add/edit for ZIP:
Name: ZIP
Offset: 0
Data: PK
Command: c:xadunfile "%s" "%s"
f) save your settings, and you will be finished

(ps)

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17.Dec.2001
Charlene of Virus Help Team Canada (ANF)

XAD Unpacks ZIP Archives For VirusZ To Test
For quite some time, VirusZ has been unable to unpack and virustest any ZIP archives. I have now managed to unpack .zip archives quite nicely with Dirks XAD shareware package. Please remember to support all our excellent Amiga programmers, even if their particular program has gone from shareware to freeware. You may not realize what a God-send they are, until something goes wrong. Thanks!

These directions will always be available on the VirusZ links page.

a) get the XAD package (remember this is shareware)
b) install xadmaster.library and accompaning files
c) place the c: directory files in c:
there will be a file called 'c:xadunfile'
d) start VirusZ and go to the archive options
e) add/edit for ZIP:
Name: ZIP
Offset: 0
Data: 'PK'
Command: c:xadunfile %f %P
f) save your settings, and you will be finished

(ps)

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17.Dec.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)

NetInfo Version 2.10 released
Today, the new version of the network information tool NetInfo was released. Popular helping programs are integrated into NetInfo such as "Tracerout", "Ping", "WhoIs", and "Finger".

Features:

"quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick succession to get a route overview very fast, then does accurate timings for the individual hops
"ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host to measure network latency and stability.
graphical display of hop min/last/max timings for TRACE
graphical display of ping times for PING
integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo determines the WHOIS host to query.
automatically retrieves WHOIS network information for hosts
automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP server versions
history for all queried hosts
integrated FINGER client
integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
ARexx port

(ps) (Translation: mj)

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16.Dec.2001
John Harris (Amiga Open-ML) AmigaDE: VP Starter code
On 14 December, 2001 John Harris released the current version of his VP-Starter-Codes for AmigaDE. This update contains bug fixes and improvements.

The archive contains examples and helpful routines in VP. They are supposed to help you get started with the VP applications or they might provide further support for those of you who are already experienced.

Apart from the examples it contains routines to set up the AVE and application window, manage events and cycling processes, embed 16-bit compressed graphics, and draw graphics and text on screen.

Download: VP_Starter.zip, Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Basil Flinter (amigaone-ML) Fair: ADUG-Stand planned at the IT COMDEX in Sydney
Following the great success of the Amiga Downunder (ADUG) Stand at the IT/Expo + COMDEX mainstream IT exhibition in Melbourne last September the Sydney Amiga User Group (SAUG) is now planning an ADUG Stand at the IT COMDEX & NetWorld+Interop Exhibition to be held in Sydney fom 5-7 March, 2002.

Just as in Melbourne, The ADUG Stand in Sydney is supposed to present products which are relevant to Amiga, including Amithlon and AmigaOne.

We need help urgently. No matter where you live you can become involved in the project by means of running the stand or by financial and/or product support. If you are interested, please contact one of the following addresses: secretary@amigadownunder.org, www.amigadownunder.org.

The complete press report with additional information in the original version can be found via the title link. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Amiga Future WWW: SiteWay-Bundle "Web-Tools" V1.01
On 14 December, 2001 Christian Effenberger released version 1.01 of the SiteWay Bundle "Web-Tools". SiteWay is a content management system and a collection of tools for the creation and maintenance of web sites.

In the archive various tools have been put together. A list of the tools including descriptions and screenhots is available via the title link.

Download: SiteWay.lha (1,2M) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Aminet Aminet: New Interface
There is a new WWW-Interface available on the Aminet site US-Site.

The Interface has a white background. On the left-hand side there's a narrow blue command panel and on the right-hand side the chosen information is presented. On the homepage these are the uploads of the last seven days.

In the command panel you'll find the search option, links to information about Aminet as well as links to each single category. After having clicked on a particular category, its content will be shown on the righ-hand side and at the top the subcategories will appear, by which means a quick search is possible. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Chaos Update (Mailingliste) CCC: 18. Chaos Communication Congress
The CCC writes:
Hi,
The 18th Chaos Communication Congress is about to take place: as usual at 'Haus Am Köllnischen Park' in Berlin from 27 until 29 December 2001

The 18th Chaos Communication Congress
"18C3: Hacking Is Not A Crime"
Haus Am Köllnischen Park
Am Köllnischen Park 2-6
Berlin Mitte

All information about the congress is available at the following web site address: www.ccc.de/congress/2001/.

We're still working on the schedule Congressfahrplan, but it will soon be available on the web pages.

Whoever would like to take part in the congress Hackcenter, should quickly register on our pages about the 'Hackcenter'. Only the people who register and receive a confirmation via e-mail will be able to participate.

The Congress is an event which is organized by volunteers. As a so called 'chaos angle' everybody can get involved. If there's anybody out there who would like to become a 'chaos angle', please contact us under: www.ccc.de/congress/2001/engel.

Have fun
Chaos (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail) Amiga Arena: CLMV V2.1" Full Version
In cooperation with Steffen Nitz Amiga Arena has released the full version of the data bank "CMLV V2.1".

CMLV manages CDs, MCs, LPs and such media. For each entry within a project it's possible to state per CD/MC/LP the name, a comment, the date of purchase, the category, the type of music, up to 4 pages with 30 songs each time (e.g. a pack of four CDs), the length of the songs and their musicians.

Olaf Köbnik wishes everybody a nice Sunday in Advent- Amiga Arena (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Oxygenic (E-Mail) Audio: AudioCutter Cinema V1.1, 3D-Chat
The "AudioCutter Cinema" of Virtual Worlds Productions is now available in all the variations of version 1.1.

The AudioCutter Cinema HOME for non-commercial use can be downloaded free of charge. For commercial use the AudioCutter Cinema PRO is now also available in version 1.1. All variations have been tested on the various hardware platforms (Intel-compatible, PPC based Amiga, Mac). In addition the compatibility of the Linux versions with the weakest Window managers has been tested (fvwm2, KDE, KDE2, Gnome).

The AudioCutter, a tool for the adaptation, generation and manipulation of the sound and, in particular, of the sourround sound, is as usual available in versions for Windows® and PPC as well as x86-Linux. You can find further information and downloads under: www.AudioCutter.de.

3D Chat: Shaman- und Guardian-Bot can be downloaded free of charge
For the 3D-Chat, which is based on ActiveWorlds®, the Bots "Shaman" and "Guardian" can now be downloaded free of charge. The operating instructions are only available in German at the moment. You can find information about these Bots, the 3D-Chat and the download options under www.VirtualWorlds.de/3DChat/ (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
amiga.org MP3: mp3Play V2.01
On 15 December 2001 Carl Svensson published version 2.01 of his minimalistic GUI "mp3Play" for the MP3-Player "MPEGA".

The GUI has been made with ARexx and the rexxreqtools.library. It calls up "MPEGA" in such a way that the player needs only 25 per cent of the CPU time on a 50 Mhz 68060 CPU, according to DashBoard.

Compared to version 2.0 a standard C= installer script and the ID3 tag viewer has been added.

Download: mp3Play.lha (14K), Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News CDTV: "C= CDTV Information Center" 1 year old
On 15 December 2000, exactly a year ago, the website "The Commodore CDTV Information Center" went online. This site gives detailed information about the history, the possiblities, new developments and the software of the CDTV.

Just in time for its anniversary, the site has been redesigned, 90 per cent of which has been finished. The new site "Using a CDTV" can't be uploaded yet, as there're still some things missing. 15 per cent of the CDTV-User-Clubs site, which is also new, has been finished (Icons, background) and 50 per cent of the upgrades section has been completed. Therefore you can still find the previous sites in some places.

The CDTV-User-Clubs site contains CDXL files, installation guides, trouble fixes and a monthly electronic magazine. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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15.Dec.2001

amiga-news.de poll: Which hardware broke last?
On proposal by Deepsilence (Silvio Kurze) we have started a new poll in which we ask for your hardware that broke last. We'd be very pleased about big participation.

Update: (30.04.2011, cg)

For archiving reasons, the results of the survey are added to this news item:

Damage                               Votes

Netzteil - power supply              48     (8.42%)
Festplatte - hard disk               70    (12.28%)
Hauptplatine - mainboard             33     (5.79%)
Turbokarte - accelerator card        24     (4.21%)
Grafikkarte - graphic card           11     (1.93%)
Tastatur - keyboard                  16     (2.81%)
Maus - mouse                         36     (6.32%)
Diskettenlaufwerk - floppy           24     (4.21%)
Monitor - monitor                    26     (4.56%)
Kabel - cable                         7     (1.23%)
A3000                                 7     (1.23%)
Bhudda A4k                            1     (0.18%)
nix Glückspilz ;-)                   39     (6.84%)
CD Brenner                           15     (2.63%)
RAM                                   5     (0.88%)
CDROM, ZORRO BOARD, BUDDHA            4     (0.70%)
CONTROLER, A1200 MOTHERBOARD
Daughterboard                         1     (0.18%)
Hauptplatine - Eigenverschulden       7     (1.23%)
Scanner                               2     (0.35%)
A4000                                 9     (1.58%)
Nothing!                             19     (3.33%)
A1200                                 8     (1.40%)
ZIP-Laufwerk                          5     (0.88%)
PPC 604                              20     (3.51%)
Flickerfixer A3000                    1     (0.18%)
iMac                                  1     (0.18%)
FlickerFixer A4000 von COMP SERV      1     (0.18%)
Glühbirne                             4     (0.70%)
Zorro IV-Board                        3     (0.53%)
catweasel zorro2                      1     (0.18%)
Uhren-Akku                           14     (2.46%)
silversurfer                          1     (0.18%)
CDROM                                14     (2.46%)
G-Rex 1200                            2     (0.35%)
Grafikkarte-Eigenverschulden          3     (0.53%)
Hypercom 3+                           3     (0.53%)
PC-Mainboard                          1     (0.18%)
Drucker                               4     (0.70%)
X-Surf                                2     (0.35%)
A2000 Mainboard (Eigenverschulden)    2     (0.35%)
Floppy-Disk                           2     (0.35%)
BlizzPPC Flashrom                     2     (0.35%)
floppy buffer chips on A4000 mboard   1     (0.18%)
IOblix 1200PAR                        1     (0.18%)
IDN-Blaster durch Blitzschlag         2     (0.35%)
Idefix...                             3     (0.53%)
BlizzPPC Board                        7     (1.23%)
Mainboard 1200 + FastATA              1     (0.18%)
(mit BVision kurzgeschlossen)
CyberstormPPC                        11     (1.93%)
Lyra Tastaturinterface                1     (0.18%)
Ariadne2                              1     (0.18%)
serial device - Blitzschlag           1     (0.18%)
zukunft des AMIGA                     7     (1.23%)
CPU FAN for 604                       1     (0.18%)
Mroocheck                             1     (0.18%)
keine                                 7     (1.23%)
Trackball                             4     (0.70%)
Mein A4000/40 machte nie Zicken       1     (0.18%)
seit Jahren kein Hardwareschaden     11     (1.93%)
Hardwareschaden? Was ist das?         4     (0.70%)
2 A500, 1 A1200 + 1 A4000PPC -
alles funktioniert immer noch
problemlos! (Verschleißteile
wie Joysticks & Mäuse nicht
mitgerechnet)
Wackelige Joystick-Buchse             1     (0.18%)
im A2000 hat aufgegeben...
A4000 Paula                           1     (0.18%)
Interface Ateo for keyboard           1     (0.18%)
A590                                  1     (0.18%)
Oktagon SCSI (Hitzetod)               1     (0.18%)
Tandem CD+IDE-karte                   1     (0.18%)
Iomega Jazz 1GB SCSI                  1     (0.18%)

(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
David Brunet (E-Mail) Magazin: Obligement 30 is now out (Special 5 years birthday issue!)
Issue 30 of the famous french e-zine is now available. You can read in this issue: latests Amiga news, interviews of Gilles Bourdin (ex-Amiga Technologies) and José Grilliere (from Amigazette), report of the Koln Amiga Show 2001, article about MorphOS and Pegasos, review of Earth 2140 Mission Pack and lots of others interestings articles! Download it from the website: http://obligement.free.fr/. (ps)

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15.Dec.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (email) Datatypes: new akPNG, JFIF, TIFF and NAIL datatypes V44.131
On the website of Andreas Kleinert you can find version 44.131 of the following ak-datatypes: PNG, JFIF, TIFF and NAIL. These datatypes were also uploaded to the Aminet. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Daniel Miller (ANF)

Call: vote for setting up of comp.sys.amiga.morphos as newsgroup
Daniel Miller is right now establishing a new newsgroup in comp.sys.* for MorphOS as comp.sys.amiga.morphos. For this are some votes still needed. Normally, the language spoken in comp.sys.* groups is English but in the statutes of comp.sys.amiga.morphos is written that articles in other languages are allowed, too, when (d) for German, (f) for French etc. is named in the subject. Please give us your vote! You can participate in the vote until 20.12.2001.

If you want to know more about the vote's details you find them here.

If you want to participate directly in the vote you should follow these steps:

Write an email to vote@Lugoj.com
Enter the following in the first line of the text field:
"I vote YES on comp.sys.amiga.morphos"
Enter the following in the third line of the text field:
Voter name: [your first name and surname]
Send email

Please don't enter the quotation marks or the brackets. As subject you may enter for example "comp.sys.amiga.morphos Ballot" (again without quotation marks). After some hours you'll receive a confirmation via email. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Tel. Alan Redhouse Eyetech site hacked
On the website of Eyetech is written today that Eyetech will go into bankruptcy from tomorrow on. That is wrong, the site has been hacked. Alan Redhouse is already on his way to the bureau to get the site right. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Logain (ANF) Netscape for AmigaDE in the works
Logain wrote:
While searching through the Mozilla site I came across two interesting pages. The first one can be reached via the title link and is the page of the AmigaDE port of Mozilla that is developed by James Russell. The project is in a very early state and he is still looking for strong support.

The other one's here, the site about the new "revolutionary" browser engine of Netscape that is said to have a platform independant architecture and is the main part of Netscape 6.1. As possible platform for a port they mention, next to several Unix systems, BeOS and OS2/Warp, the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik Amiga Arena: Full version of 'Bürgermeister V2.78'
Amiga Arena - "Bürgermeister v2.78" full version
In co-operation with Steffen Nitz the Amiga Arena makes exclusively the download of the full version of the economy simulation "Bürgermeister v2.78" available. The goal of the game is to reach as many points as possible within 10, 25 or 50 years or to become the capital city. It's a registered full version exclusively for the Amiga Arena. Steffen Nitz has ceased the development as the source code got unfortunately lost.

Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena talked with Steffen Nitz, the developer of "Bürgermeister II", "CMLV II" and "Regist II" about his software products and about the possibility of new developments in the future. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Bernhard Wörner

Bernhard Wörner: new website
Bernhard Wörner introduces on his new website his self developed programs. For the time being you can find there for example a program with which you can split big files into several smaller ones. Or Amplify, with which you can edit audio files.

As his website is quite new the author would be very pleased about feedback and suggestions. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
EvenMore

Textviewer: new plugin for EvenMore version 0.59
Chris Perver has programmed a new plugin for his freeware text viewer 'EvenMore' with which documents created with the word processors 'FinalWriter' and 'FinalCopy' can be converted into pure text documents. EvenMore is right now available in version 0.59.

Download: finalwriter2text.plugin - EvenMore.lha (585 KB) (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
WHDLoad

Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 14.12.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

14.12.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) key to display codes added
14.12.01 new: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
14.12.01 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) another version added, save player fixed
14.12.01 new: Alfred Chicken (Twilight/Mindscape) done by Codetapper

(ps)

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15.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF) Individual Computers: New xsurfadsl.device and appp.device
A new archive with the PPPoE-drivers for our networking card X-Surf can be found in the support-area of our website. The CPU-load has been lowered, and some parts of the appp.device have been prepared for further debugging. The performance is already a bit more stable on some setups, so we can release this last version before Christmas for a public test. (ps)

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15.Dec.2001
IrseeSoft

Printer drivers: Turboprint version 7.21 beta
Version 7.21 beta of the printer driver package 'Turboprint' has been released. It contains updated drivers for:

Canon S500/630/6300
Epson Stylus C60,C70,C80, Photo 810
HP DeskJet 92x, 94x, 96x

Download: tp721beta.lha (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
tarbos (ANF) Registration site for Pegasos developer system online
On the website of bplan GmbH exists since yesterday the possibilitiy to register as developer for the first series of the Pegasos mainboard via a form. The developer system contains the Pegasos mainboard including CPU card + MorphOS developing environment. The shipping will probably start in January 2002 and will take place in order of the registration. The needed additional equipment is not included (casing, power supply, memory, keyboard, mouse, harddisk, CD Rom, floppy, graphics card).

Information about the price and the CPU of the developer system are unfortunately not publicly available but will be sent to the interested developers via email.

The registration is no order of the above listed developing environment but an inquiry. After successful and accepted registration you'll receive an offer via email that contains price, date of delivery and conditions. This must be returned within 14 days after receiving via mail or FAX back to bplan GmbH and then counts as non transferable order. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Dec.2001
Jörg Rebenstorf (ANF) Repulse sound cards: price reduction
ALiENDESiGN lowers the price for their Repulse sound cards. Orders for the new price are possible in ALiENDESiGN's online shop and soon also from your dealer. Merry Christmas! (ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Dec.2001
Jim Steichen (ANF) AmigaTalk V1.8 (Update)
An updated version (1.8) of AmigaTalk, the best port of Little Smalltalk for the Amiga was uploaded by the author Jim Steichen on 14-Dec-2001. AmigaTalk is a little smalltalk interpreter that utilizes more of the AmigaOS than any other smalltalk dialect for the Amiga. There is a large amount of documentation included with the distribution, so check it out!

Download: amigatalk.lha
Attention: Archive not yet available on Aminet! (ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Dec.2001
ANN Hyperion: Ben Yoris no longer PR manager
PR manager Ben Yoris is leaving the software company Hyperion Entertainment for personal reasons. The PR will be managed in future by the owner Ben Hermans. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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13.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)

Amiga Arena: Interview with Emanuele Cesaroni (PuzzleBOBS)
The Amiga Arena talked to Emanuele Cesaroni, Nexus Development, about his current game "PuzzleBOBS".

"PuzzleBOBS" is a puzzle Bobble clone being completely configurabel and having a very funny game mode and more. One game mode of cooperative style, where two players stay in the same level and shoot at the same bobbles.

The interview.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Amiga.org NAG: AmigaOS XL Review
Rick Ruge of the user group 'Northwest Amiga Group' from Oregon, U.S.A., has written a review of AmigaOS XL, which you can find in the "December 2001" rubric. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Michael 'Das MCP' Göken (ANF) GRex IRC Channel closed for the time being
Michael Göken, who presented DCE's PCI board GRex on the Amiga 2001 show, has established a support channel for GRex users on 27. October 2001 (we reported about). Now, after about six weeks this channel was put on hold until further notice.

Michael Göken: "I neither have the time nor the money to perform support while DCE does not support me in doing this. After hundreds of miles and masses of sparetime spend on it, I still haven't got a run capable A4000T beta board from DCE.
Thus for the time being I will not answer any questions regarding the GRex PCI board, any more. Please, if you have questions contact T. Dellert in person." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Chaos Computer Club CCC: 18. Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin - 27./29. December 2001
From 27. to 29. December the 18. Chaos Communication Congress will take place in the 'Haus Am Köllnischen Park' (HAKP) in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual symposium of the Chaos Computer Club e.V. (CCC). This three-days congress will be about technology, community, and utopias. The congress will offer lectures and workshops about a variety of subjects all around information technologies, computer security, Internet, cryptography, the discerning and inventive use of technogies, and discussions about how technological progress effects society.

The congress can be attended as permanent or one-day guest. The admission charges are staggert. A standard one-day ticket will cost 30DM. More details under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Blitz 2000 Programming language: AmiBlitz Version 2.21
Blitz2 has been updated and is now released under GPL. It's now called AmiBlitz2 and has lots of new features including optimisations, faster compiler, PPC and FPU assembly and many bugfixes. A full distribution will be worked out soon, but for now you will need to get this and use some files from a previous Blitz installation (the demo might work).

Please, send bugreports for the program to the Blitz mailing list, rather than to the uploader, to prevent double reports.

To subscribe to the mailing list send an e-mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. To unsubscribe send an e-mail to blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
SonicPulse

Sample Editor: SoundFX - Status of V4.2
SoundFX is an editor for digitized audio data (samples). SoundFX was built modular and has a comfortable GUI. You can add digital effects (which are unique on the Amiga) to samples and edit them. Currently the programmer is working on version 4.2 and gives the following status report:

Stefan Kost: "The changes of the saving API were finished, so one now also can save to areas. Now I will adjust the savers. Furthermore I have added some new menu items (help menu). Of course some bugs had to bite the dust, too, and the documentation is progressing as well (FAQ almost finished)." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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