30.Apr.2001
amiga.org
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Game: Payback for WarpOS
James Daniels, of Apex Designs, plans to release a WarpOS version of
'Payback'. The work will be finished within 1 or 2 months and will be
available for free to owners of the original 'Payback'.
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30.Apr.2001
bplan GmbH
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Pictures of the Pegasos-Board
There are first pictures of the
Pegasos-Baord by bplan GmbH
at the title link.
As already reported,
this new device will offer the advantages of an open system like Linux and support for existing Amiga Software.
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30.Apr.2001
AmigArt
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Unofficial iFusion-FAQ - Part 2
AmigArt put together an unoffical FAQ concerning the new Mac-PPC-emulator for Amiga -
called 'iFusion' - and published part two today.
Part 1 was released on the 18th of April 2001.
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30.Apr.2001
The Register
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The Register: Red Hat Partners on Linux GUI for PDAs
There are some information about a GUI, supposed to be intended for the
Zaurus PDA. It seems to be an embedded version of Gnome.
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30.Apr.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF
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stormamiga.lib/HSMathLibs-Mailing Lists closed
Due to the inactivity of the users of the mailing lists about stormamiga.lib
and HSMathLibs, these two lists will be closed. Further information is available at the title link.
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30.Apr.2001
Peter's Amiga Homepage
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Peter's Amiga Homepage: Programming
Peter mainly deals with the development of drivers for printers and give some advice
about emulators. Now, there is a new area called 'Programming'. This new part gives
you a glimpse on the basics of Amiga-programming.
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30.Apr.2001
Paul Nolan via E-Mail
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Paul Nolan: Photogenics Trademark Trouble
Due to legal problems Paul Nolan is looking for owners of 'Photogenics' in the USA who has got
their copy before 1998. Details are available in the press release at the title link.
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29.Apr.2001
AmigArt
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Instant-Messenger: Jabber for Amiga
'JabberWocky' is an instant messenger
being developed for the AmigaOS using the Jabber technology.
AmigArt released a
screenshot
of the JabberWocky about requester (AmigaOS 3.x, 68k, MUI).
More information about the program hasn't been released, yet.
The Jabber technology is open source. XML is used for data exchange.
It is possible to connect to the AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN
Instant Messengers, Yahoo messenger, and IRC clients via so called
'transports'. SMS support is planned, too.
The system is planned to offer more peer-to-peer services in the future.
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29.Apr.2001
amiga.org
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WinUAE: Kaillera Beta 1 - Gaming via the Net
First off
WinUAE-Kaillera was developed by Sane and Thrill. The original WinUAE was developed by Brian King, based on
the original UAE. Brian King has no part whatsoever in the development of WinUAE-Kaillera, therefore do not send
him any questions about this beta-release, as he can't answer them. Kaillera, the engine on which this product is based,
is developed by Christophe Thibault, who also has nothing to do with the actual development of WinUAE-Kaillera. See
at the end of the document for related websites. Bug-related questions should go to poopy@postmark.net .
Description
WinUAE-Kaillera enables users of this great emulator to play against another person over a TCP/IP network, such as
the internet. For this it uses the Kaillera-Engine,
a program developed specifically for enabling emulators to achieve
netplay. As Kaillera itself already has proven its merits on emulators such as Mame and Bliss, this was the perfect
choice for the development of this program. In this first BETA release there is support for (shared) keyboard and
joystick. Mouse does NOT work yet (we're working hard on that one :). Do not expect this BETA release to work
flawless. This version uses the source code as released on the WinUAE page, v0.8.14. As there are new versions out
already, it could be that this version does not work on your computer. Do not send bug reports/questions about this
please.
Usage
First of all: netplay requires a fast and good internet connection. A typical ping to the other player should not exceed
150 ms, otherwise the game could become difficult to handle. In theory there is no reason you can't run it on a 56K
modem, apart from the fact that modems sometimes prove to be unreliable. Judge for yourself. When you start
WinUAE-Kaillera you will notice a few changes over the original WinUAE. On the 'Configuration'-tab there is an
extra button 'Start Kaillera', furthermore the 'Gameport'-tab has three extra buttons 'Remote 0', 'Remote 1' and
'None' (default).
Before playing, both players should first acquire the exact same configuration-file. Any differences in these can/will
cause the game to 'desync'. Ofcourse the game/kickstart should also be the same.
The 'Remote X' buttons must be configured prior to any netplay. They decide who is using what joyport on the remote
end. If you are using joystick 0 in port 0, and the remote player is using joystick 0 in port 1, you should enable 'remote 1'.
The remote player should do exactly the reverse and enable 'remote 0'. Furthermore make sure your joystick settings
are right. Each player should use joystick 0 on its local port, and have joystick 1 configured for the remote port. See
screenshots for clarification.
After you both verified your settings are correct on both ends, press 'Start Kaillera' on the 'Configuration'-tab. The
Kaillera-window will now be opened, and you can use a server from the list that appears on the screen or enter an IP
of another Kaillera- server. If you are both on the server, one player creates a game using 'create game' on the bottom.
After that, the other player can simply join the game, by selecting it and pressing 'join'. If you are both ready, the player
that created the game starts it by pressing 'start game', and off you go!
Finally, the local player can start the game, after which both emulators will start loading the game.
The emulator will now sync up (this takes a little while) and the game will be loading. You can now play just as you
would play on a single computer, with the extra addition that the keyboard is shared. You can both press keys on it to
choose extra options. For clarity and fair play, it is recommended that you decide beforehand who is handling the
keyboard.
Close information about how to use it including screenshots and hints how to solve problems
are available in the
documentation.
This is about a beta release which still might contain bugs. Bug reports can be sent to
poopy@postmark.net
Download: WinUAE-Kaillera_b1.zip
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29.Apr.2001
Titan SoftwareDev via E-Mail
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Game: 'Shogo MAD' Available from Monday
The 3D shooter 'Shogo MAD' has been finished and will be shipping from Monday, 30 April 2001.
Shogo requires an Amiga with PowerPC, at least 64MB of RAM, a graphics board, CD-ROM drive, and
400 MB of free harddisk space. More information about Shogo are available under the title link or
on Hyperion's homepage.
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29.Apr.2001
Amiga Flame
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AmigaDE: 'Cyberoxygen' Company
Cyberoxygen is developing software for the AmigaDE. They envisage a new generation of
digital appliances spreading to all parts of life. So Cyberoxygen will develop products
for desktop computers, PDA's, digital TV-sets, up to computer supported cars and
refrigerators.
Java[TM] API's, PDA/desktop games, as well as the sound editor, player and converter 'Sounds Cool'
belong to their current projects.
'Sounds Cool' will support different audio formats, such like
Microsoft's RIFF WAVE PCM (.wav), AIFF, MP3 (import), Ogg Vorbis (.ogg),
and music modules (import, mod, .s3m).
Ogg Vorbis is about an audio format offering
similar opportunities like those of MP3. The Ogg Vorbis format is open source and
not patented.
On the Cyberoxygen site there is a link to
jorbis - being an
Ogg Vorbis decoder for Java[TM].
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29.Apr.2001
Amigaharry on ANF
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Startup-Tool: BindAssigns
BindAssigns is a tool enabling the replacement of 'makedir' and 'assign' calls
inside of both, startup-sequence and user-startup.
Download: bindassigns.lha
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29.Apr.2001
ANN
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Magazine: Amiga Information Online #46
Issue #46 of the English online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' has
been released.
Among other things this issue takes a critical look on AROS.
AOI is looking for a new
editor for the games section. People interested in writing game tests for AOI might
e-mail to general@aioworld.com
using the subject 'Games Editor Position'.
Download: AIOV46.LHA
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29.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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GFX-BASE: Interview, WBGags, New URL
You can read an interview with Ronald van Dijk, the author of SameGame.
SameGame
is a think-game about removing bowls of different colours from the game's board.
Additionally there is a new section called WBGames, an new extended link list, a fresh and
better forum, and last but not least a new and hopefully easy to remember URL:
http://www.gfxbase.de.vu/.
GFX-BASE offers overviews and other information about games and demos running on
graphic boards.
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29.Apr.2001
Andreas Guenther on ANF
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ScanQuix 5 Homepage
Since February this year the popular scanning software "ScanQuix 5" is no longer
distributed by rbm digitaltechnik. Production and distribution now is done by
Vesalia-Computer.
Please, contact Vesalia Computer regarding questions about ScanQuix.
Recently a ScanQuix 5 homepage was
created. There you will find information about the program's features and
a list of supported scanners. Furthermore you have the opportunitiy to online register yourself
as ScanQuix 5 user. This is to find out about how many active ScanQuix users still exist. Since
data of already registered users were not handed down by rbm, these users should register for
Vesalia, once more.
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28.Apr.2001
Faces of Mars on ANF
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FOM: Three New Freeware CDs Assembled
'The Faces of Mars' has assembled three new CDs:
- Paranoia: playable versions of Doom, Genetic Species, Brainkiller,
Charly the Mercerer and Cyber Games. Further on there are many add-ons for Doom
and Quake on the CD.
- Scorpius: the complete collection of Scorpius Software, beginning with their
early works up to Blade and Burnout.
- Classic Revolution: German and English version of the first class dark future
graphics adventure Beneath a Steel Sky. Tested under OS 3.9 for CD, hard
disk and disk. There can further Lure of the Temptress in the disk version
be found on the CD.
The price per CD is DM 5.- plus p&p and you can get them directly from FOM.
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28.Apr.2001
Blittersoft
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Mac emulator: iFusion v1.1.1
Blittersoft makes two different updates to version v1.1.1 for the Mac emulator
iFusion available that fix some reported bugs (CD mountlist, direct mode on hard
drives, and memory issues). Before downloading, please verify the version of
iFusion on your CD and then download the needed update for 1.0.0 or for
1.0.1. Further details can be found under the title link.
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28.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via email
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Amiga Arena Special Discount Offer: SViewIV, akMPEG
In co-operation with Andreas R.
Kleinert the Amiga Arena makes a special discount for SViewIV and akMPEG
possible. SViewIV is an Amiga picture viewer and processing program, akMPEG
is a MPEG video player. The bundle is available until the 31.05.2001 for a
unique special price! Further information regarding the registration can be
found in the Amiga Arena in the area "Aktionen".
TaskiSMS special price!
The SMS sender for the Amiga is only available at the special price until 10 May 2001!
[News message: 28. Apr. 2001, 19:35] [Comments: 0]
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28.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via email
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Virus check: VirusExecutor v2.16
Virus Help Denmark reports the availability of VirusExecutor v2.16. Here the
details:
- Name: VirusExecutor v2.16
- Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
- Archive size: 267.132 Bytes
- Release date: 28. April 2001
- Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
- Requires: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library
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28.Apr.2001
Amiga Alternative Audio Page
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MP3 encoder: LAME v3.89 alpha
Alpha version 3.89 of the MP3 encoder LAME by Sigbjørn Skjæret has been released.
Download: LAMEbeta.lzx
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28.Apr.2001
BTTR team
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Back To The Roots Amiga News 229
'Back to the Roots' is a website that offers old Amiga classic games
for download with the agreement of the copyright owners. New added are the two
great games 'Carrier Command' and 'Battle Command'. Those
can be downloaded for free from "Back to the Roots". Besides these two, there are
also 'Valhalla 2', 'Garfield', 'Hattrick!',
'Soldier of Light', 'Detroit' and many other games available.
For friends of effects there were tons of brilliant demos at the annual Mekka Symposium
demo party. The best of those were added to the BTTR archive. New pixel art
works by artists like Critikill or Acryl can be admired. Great screenshots of
the 3D action game Genetic Species, the Turrican clone Land of Genesis and the
classic Disposable Hero are waiting in the picture gallery, too. For music
friends there are 115 new pieces.
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27.Apr.2001
Amigan Software
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Tool: Report+ V4.51
Report+ Version 4.51 was released. With Report+ bug reports, Aminet readme files,
documentations and similar reports can be easily created. The program is freeware
and bases on ReAction and GadTools.
Download: report.lha - 381 kB
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27.Apr.2001
Google
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Google: Entire Usenet Archive Available Now
In February the search engine Google took over the Usenet service from Deja.com
(Dejanews), but only integrated parts of it into the search engine.
Google now has integrated the entire Usenet archive beginning from 1995 and by that
enables searching in 650 million of messages (over 1 terabyte of communication).
Until the middle of May it should be possible to post messages to single news groups on
the Usenet via Google Groups.
Some links to AMIGA relating news groups:
alt.amiga
alt.emulators.amiga
alt.sys.amiga.uucp
comp.sys.amiga.misc
comp.sys.amiga.games
comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
comp.sys.amiga.programmer
comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
comp.sys.amiga.emulations
comp.sys.amiga.hardware
comp.sys.amiga.networking
comp.unix.amiga
comp.sys.amiga.applications
de.comp.sys.amiga.misc
de.comp.sys.amiga.tech
de.comp.sys.amiga.unix
de.markt.comp.hardware.misc
fido.ger.amiga
ger.amiga
z-netz.rechner.amiga.allgemein
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27.Apr.2001
AmigArt
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New Caricature by Eric Schwartz
The new caricature was named 'The AMIGA that wouldn't die!'
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27.Apr.2001
ANN
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Amiga HTTP-Server hserv V26.0
Alfonso Ranieri has released version 26.0 of his ARexx HTTP server 'hserv'.
'hserv' is a HTTP/1.1 server for Amiga, which can run on it's own or as an
inetd service. It is capable of GET, HEAD, and POST. More technical details under the title link.
Download page.
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26.Apr.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail
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NewInstaller 2 Announcment
Press Release
Soon a big update of NewInstaller, the NewInstaller 2, will be released.
This version will be capable of being used for standard installer (Sys:C/Installer)
including all of the advances like background pictures, sounds, Internet integration,
etc.
An exclusive preview version of this revolutionary tool will be made available for
users of The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM in a few days. The final
version will be made available in full version for owners of the CD-ROM, too.
The NewInstaller 2 will set new standards, since for the first time it will enable
complete software packets to be offered as one single exe-file (as it is
usual on other systems, longest). More details will be announced, soon.
Who is not owner of The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM, but however wants
to inspect the NewInstaller version 2, already, will be able to have a look on some
screenshots on the Airsoft Softwair homepage, next Monday.
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26.Apr.2001
ADR (BAUD) on ANF
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MP3-Encoder: Lame V3.88 for WarpOS
Version 3.88 of the MP3 encoder Lame by Jarmo Laakkonen for WarpUp has been released.
Download: lame.lha
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26.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha biz/dbase 117K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (1.5.6)
Even_more_ksm.lha comm/irc 7K+5 more ksm filesfor kuang ksmaster say
nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 150K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
newscoaster_b.lha comm/news 372K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
newscoaster_be.lha comm/news 372K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 421K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
TaskiSMS_GR.lha comm/tcp 13K+Greek documentation for TaskiSMS v 2.5
TaskiSMS_PL.lha comm/tcp 216K+Polish catalog & documentation for Taski
Lynx.lha comm/www 968K+Great WWW Browser,v284dev20 with SSL
MassDL.lha comm/www 39K+Less work on WWW pages file leching. (AW
rno-lhti.lha demo/slide 3.2M+RNO: "Goes Lahti" a RNO&DCS Meeting part
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 147K+How to use Mildred+BBasic with AGA/RTG
GetCRC.lha dev/c 23K+V1.15 calculates different checksums
COP.lha dev/debug 159K+Low Level Debugger
MuForce.lha dev/debug 270K+The V40 Enforcer, detects illegal RAM ac
MuGuardianAngl.lha dev/debug 292K+MungWall superset, detect accesses to no
MuLink.lha dev/misc 120K+Memory protect selected hunks of binarie
MuScan.lha dev/misc 117K+Print the MMU tree layout.
vahunz.lha dev/misc 304K+Make source code un-/more legible.
AmigaFuture30.lha docs/mags 601K+Great german paper mag preview
MuManual.lha docs/misc 787K+Tutorial, examples, includes, (auto)docs
kamband.lha game/role 949K+Kamband 2.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
VideoEasel.lha gfx/misc 611K+THE flexible Cellular Automata (LIFE...)
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 127K+MuLib driven ShSh driver for ECS,AGA,P96
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 288K+THE Multi-Emulation system (2.0a)
NallePUH.lha mus/misc 161K+Redirects any (hw-banging) sound program
MathVision.lha pix/back 658K+24Bits Backgrounds for your WB made with
BTopaz.lha text/bfont 24K+Bulgarian Cyrillic Topaz font + Keymap (
ltdic_engesp.lha text/misc 232K+English-Spanish dictionary for LangTools
ltdic_enghun.lha text/misc 2.6M+English-Hungarian dictionary for LangToo
ltdic_gerhun.lha text/misc 516K+German-Hungarian dictionary for LangTool
ltdic_huneng.lha text/misc 3.1M+Hungarian-English dictionary for LangToo
adfzip.lha util/arc 1K+ADF file compression utility
MiraWizARC11b.lha util/arc 166K+NEW GUI for LHA-LZX-ZIP-TAR-GZIP-DMS
MuFastChip.lha util/boot 116K+Chip memory cache mode fine tuning tool
MuFastRom.lha util/boot 116K+MuLib conformal ROM to RAM remapper
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 132K+MuLib Zero Page remapper, FastExec/Prepa
MuLockLib.lha util/boot 110K+Lock the mmu.library in memory on startu
MuOmniSCSIPtch.lha util/boot 114K+Make the omniscsi.device MMULib aware
MuProtectModul.lha util/boot 115K+MuLib ROM Modules Write Protection
MuSetCacheMode.lha util/boot 119K+MMU tree adjustment tool for experts
PatchRAM.lha util/boot 19K+Patch Os 3.9 RAM-Handler to show right s
WinToFront18.lha util/cdity 62K+Replaces ClickToFront, with more options
SimpleSplitter.lha util/cli 49K+Easy file split/join v1.0 (Ami,PC,Linux)
xlhtml.lha util/conv 167K+Convert Excel/PowerPoint files to HTML,
DisLib.lha util/libs 17K+A library based MC68K disassembler
MMULib.lha util/libs 527K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 54K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
Utilities.lha util/libs 20K+Handle strings and numbers V1.1
beer2001.lha util/misc 137K+Calculates the cheapest alcohol drink fr
SnoopDos.lha util/moni 133K+SnoopDos 3.7, the well known system moni
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 256K+SnoopDos 3.7 sources
FastIEEE.lha util/sys 143K+Speed up your mathieee libraries!
Mu680x0Libs.lha util/sys 327K+MuLib aware 68060, 68040, 68030 and 6803
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 261K+VirusExecutor v2.15
ccskins.lha util/wb 148K+6 Skins for CoolCALC
classaction.lha util/wb 228K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager
Help.lha util/wb 77K+V45.1, AmigaDOS System Help Command
JotNote.lha util/wb 178K+Simple no-nonsense sticky notes!
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26.Apr.2001
KDH News
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AmigActive Issue 20 Available at KDH
The latest issue of the English print magazine AmigActive
is available at KDH Datentechnik,
from today. The magazine comes with a CD full of software.
Issue 20 contains a.o.t.:
Extended G-REX PCI board test
Tests of Photogenics 5.0 and the game Earth2140
What will the future be for the Amiga (a foresight)
St Louis 2001 (an extended show report)
Report about the plans of Ideas2Realty
Linux on the Amiga (Workshop)
OS3.9 (Workshop)
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26.Apr.2001
Willerts Homepage
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CompressHTML V0.85
Thorsten Willert has released version 0.85 of CompressHTML.
Using CompressionHTML you can compress HTML, AmigaGuide, and Arexx files.
Download: CompressHTML.LZX,
Documentation of CompressHTML
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26.Apr.2001
DocDatatypes
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DocDatatypes V40.0
Yesterday, Amarpreet Singh Munde has released version 40.0 of his DocDatatype.
New are Mac text file support and saving of Palm db TEXt documents, as well as
MS Word support. Additionally a new and faster and easier file finder is included in the
archive, which offers file search by name, size, date, and file type.
Download: docdatatypes.lzx - 46 kB
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25.Apr.2001
Dirk Stoecker via E-Mail
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Improve XAD and Win OS3.9 CD
As already known by many people one can register the decrunching system
XAD for a new archive format
by writing an own client. Since XAD is also distributed along with OS3.9, now,
Dirk Stoecker offers a little extra item.
Somebody doing something valuable for XAD (as Stuart Caie, Andrew Bell or Ronald van Dijk
already did) will receive a free OS 3.9 CD (and of course an own keyfile, too).
This work can be such like new and valuable clients, a great new program or ......
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25.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena: Image/Visuell Engineer at Special Price
Image/Visuell Engineer CD-ROM Special Price Project
In cooperation with Fun Time World
and Marco Seppaenen
the Amiga Arena is able to offer 'Image Engineer/Visuell
Engineer as CD-ROM Edition' at a special price.
Image Engineer is supposed to be the most popular image editing software. It offers a
variety of possibilities for image editing. Please visit the
Image Engineer homepage
for more information. To enable this special edition Marko Seppaenen recommends at least
30 orders!
The Image Engineer CD-ROM is being created by Fun Time World exclusively and will
include all of the additional programs as like as Visuell Engineer, Arexx scripts,
manuals, homepage, tutorials, and much more! The CD-ROM Edition special price of
49,- DM would be possible for two month.
If you would like to purchase this CD-ROM, please fill in the binding pre-order on
this page:
Image Engineer Bestellung.
Contact:
Image Engineer -
Mail: Marko Seppaenen
Amiga Arena - Mail:
Olaf Koebnik
Fun Time World - Mail:
Sebastian Brylka
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25.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V2.15
'Jan Erik Olausen' has published version 2.15 of "VirusExecutor".
This version can remove the new 'BOBEK' virus.
- Name: VirusExecutor v2.15
- Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
- Archive size: 267.036 Bytes
- Release date: 25. April 2001
- Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
- Requires: xvs.library (enthalten), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library
Meantime the installer of the link virus 'BOBEK' was found.
It is about the archive OozeAGA.lha (460.510 bytes), which was removed from
aminet, meanwhile. The installer is to be the oozeaga/boardmak file at 23.484 bytes.
If you have installed this archive named to be a "very cool freeware game", you can
remove the virus using VirusExecutor v2.15.
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25.Apr.2001
Tales of Tamar
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50 Additional Beta Testers for T.o.T. Wanted
50 additional beta tester are being looked for Tales of Tamar,
which is an internet-based round game for Amiga, Atari, Linux
and PC developed by Eternity Entertainment Software. With the new
version v0.35 the player is able to "annex land" for the first time.
By annexing land your empire becomes larger and the proportion between
raw material and population will change enormously. We will see that the
high prices for weapons and arming will go down at the markets and will
even out on a normal level. And we will see how countries will be formed
and rulers occupy Tamar.
Annexing is nothing different than leading war which is the fight against
the original inhabitant of a country. To that function Tales of Tamar offers
an efficient fighting machine. It assesses armed forces in over 50 points and
then let the armies fight against each other to the rules of the mediaeval
fighting strategy.
That fighting machine take note of the following aspects:
- Arming
- Weapons
- Second weapons
- Experience
- Training
- Cavalry
- Armies with missiles
- Ratio of troops
- Morality
- Surroundings
- Race
- Exhaustion
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24.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS V2.55
The new version v2.55 of TaskiSMS is released. New in this version:
- Jumpy plug in added (Italy)
- errors in the bug report routine removed
- doc updated
With this program you can send short messages (SMS) into 160 countries of the world.
You can get it from the TaskiSMS-homepage or from the
Aminet.
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24.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V2.14
With this update of VirusExecutor V2.14 the new virus "BOBEK" can be deleted from
memory and detected in files. But there is actually no routine to repair infected
files. That means you have to replace the infected files.
More information:
- Name: VirusExecutor v2.14
- Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
- Archive size: 266.569 Bytes
- Release date: 24. April 2001
- Coded by: Jan Erik Olausen
- Requires: xvs.library (enthalten), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library
News in v2.14
- Fixed enforcer hit when adding files from SYS:WBStartup
- When Enforcer or CyberGuard is running the MMU: text turns blue.
- Using xadmaster.library for extracting archives.
- Improved Bastard file checking a bit
- Added memory checking and file checking for Bobek link virus. Please wait
for a new update of the xvs.library for removals of the Bastard and Bobek virus...
- Shows only the diskdrives that you have.
- Removed the requester 'VirusExecutor is already running'. When starting VE when
VE is already running the screen just comes to front and gets active.
NOTE!
Because of the new Bobek virus I had to release this version of VirusExecutor. Hope it
works with the xadmaster.library ;)
Remember to join the Amiga anti-virus mailing list for free. Just send an empty email to:
vht-dk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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24.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: New Link-Virus Found
A new link-virus has been found, the installer is still unknown, we are looking
for it. This new virus will add 460 bytes to every file that is opened or executed.
That also means that even an antivirus program (that the virus is unknown to),
will infect every file it checks for virus. The new virus patches dos.library
ExNext function to spread it self. The new virus has been given the name "BOBEK",
this is the text you can read in the end of every infected tile.
Okay, here is what we know so far:
Archive name : ?
Archive size : ?
Virus name : BOBEK
Virus size : 460 bytes
Infection : dos.library ExNext
At this time no anti-virus program can find this new virus, so take big care out
there. We are right now testing a beta version of the anti-virus program
VirusExecutor, that will be able to find the virus and to remove it from memory.
If you find or have the installer for this virus, please send it to me.
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24.Apr.2001
Czech Amiga News
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PPC Mac-Emulator: iFusion Update
As Paul Lesurf from Blittersoft wrotes in a note on the iFusion-mailing list in
the next days registered users of iFusion will receive an update, because the delivered
CD does not contain the latest version of iFusion.
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24.Apr.2001
Richard H. Poser via E-Mail
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Update: AmigAIM 0.9414 Beta
A new beta version 0.9414 of AmigaAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger for Amiga from
Richard H. Poser, is now available.
Download: AmigaAIM_Beta.lha
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24.Apr.2001
SixK via E-Mail
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MySQL for Amiga website moved
The website of SixK, who wrote a SQL-port for Amiga, has moved can now be
reached under http://sixk.maniasys.com.
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23.Apr.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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ilbm-Datatype for PPC V45.6
Stephan Rupprecht released version 45.6 of the ilbm-datatype for PPC (WarpUP).
Download: ilbmdtPPC.lha - 14 kB
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23.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
EZPagerMI.lha comm/misc 10K+GlowIcons Toolbar for EZPagerNG
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 93K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
LCR.lha comm/misc 112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
ZyxelControl.lha comm/misc 121K+Bandwith Control Program
CharonMI.lha comm/net 15K+GlowIcons Toolbars for Charon
nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 192K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 372K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
AWebMI.lha comm/www 63K+A GlowIcons Collection for AWeb
IBrowseMI.lha comm/www 4K+GlowIcons Toolbar for IBrowse
KidHTML1_26.lha comm/www 374K+Easy Homepagemaker Fullversion/German an
RoundTheme.lha comm/www 181K+A stylish theme for Voyager 3.2.x
TaskiSMSMI.lha comm/www 12K+GlowIcons Toolbar for TaskiSMS
VoyagerMI.lha comm/www 9K+GlowIcons Toolbar for Voyager
weblint.lha comm/www 47K+Syntax and minimal style checker for HTM
NCE-SHD2.lha demo/aga 1.5M+Nuance "Subtle Shades 2" - 5th place at
wpz-frozen42.lha demo/aga 641K+Frozen#42 - Mekka&Symposium Party Editio
wpz-frozen43.lha demo/aga 497K+Frozen#43 - The Gathering Party Edition
Nature-Zeon.lha demo/intro 128K+Zeon, #2 64k intro at MS 2001
scl_boom.lha demo/intro 5K+Secretly! - 4k-intro, 1st at ms2001
c++2latex.lha dev/c 95K+LaTeX files from C++ and C sources
Z80Simulator.lha dev/cross 131K+Watch your Z80 assembly code from a GUI.
SystemViewer.lha dev/moni 328K+View & change OS components (source incl
GHAS.lha docs/lists 198K+Maintenance Update: database of nearly 1
Awaking.lha game/2play 348K+German Quiz Game AGA/ECS
PaybackUpdate3.lha game/actio 1.1M+Updates Payback to the latest version
MaP_Music5.lha game/data 1.6M+New cardset for MarryAmPic
Dbdemo.lha game/demo 1.1M+Demo of a WIP game named The Deathbird-H
WormWars.lha game/misc 786K+WormWars 6.6: Advanced snake game
kangband.lha game/role 853K+Kangband 2.9.2r2 - Roguelike solo RPG
pmangband.lha game/role 405K+Pern mangband 3.1.3
Emerald.lha game/wb 1.1M+Graphical effects and games
MiraPLOT13.lha gfx/3d 232K+Fast 3D Surfaces Editor for Imagine -MUI
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 121K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/Wac
isopldkeymap.lha hard/drivr 1K+ISO-PL keymap for german keyboards
opencnet.lha hard/drivr 3K+Open cnet.device to fix a problem (sourc
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 241K+THE Multi-Emulation system (2.0)
AmiPCB_1.02.lha misc/sci 192K+PCB vectorial electronics program
NP_OutN.lha mods/misc 373K+Noyz Phaktah '004 - Out Numbered by Pion
SkiOrDie.lha mods/misc 109K+Custom module from "Ski Or Die"
scl_spectLight.lha mods/tranc 327K+Secretly! - Spectral Light, 9th at ms200
EP_HowieDavies.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Howie Davies" external repl
EP_TomyTracker.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Tomy Tracker" external repl
MASMPegDevice.lha mus/play 129K+CBM compat. device for MAS MP3 Player
kns_Enak5.jpg pix/trace 130K+Ray-traced '99 picture by KoNuS.
kns_RedPack.jpg pix/trace 87K+Ray-traced '98 picture by KoNuS.
kns_TB1.jpg pix/trace 98K+Ray-traced '99 picture by KoNuS.
kns_TwistOFF.jpg pix/trace 162K+Ray-traced picture by KoNuS.
kns_WPZ1.jpg pix/trace 242K+Ray-traced '97 picture by KoNuS.
kns_WPZ_LoGo.jpg pix/trace 55K+Ray-traced '97 picture by KoNuS.
PanosNewIconWB.lha pix/wb 304K+Snapshots of my Workbench
voodoo_MB42.jpg pix/wb 211K+Grab of my WB under Voodoo3
MiraWizARC11a.lha util/arc 166K+NEW GUI for LHA-LZX-ZIP-TAR-GZIP-DMS
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 375K+Report+ 4.5: Multipurpose utility
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 254K+VirusExecutor v2.13
classaction.lha util/wb 226K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager
MemoryRemV1-15.lha util/wb 79K+Clock-Replace, shows actual RAM & Larges
WB2000_NO.lha util/wb 14K+Norwegian catalog for Workbench2000 1.9
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23.Apr.2001
Amigan Software
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Game: Worm Wars V 6.6
Version 6.6 of the game Worm Wars out now. The new version contains
11 new creature types. OS 2.04+ and PAL/DblPAL is required.
Download: wormwars.lha
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22.Apr.2001
Thomas Siegel on ANF
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Mod-Competition: mOOdS Online Module Compo Results
The winners of the online module compo by MOODS-Moduleplatform
were determined:
- 1. Psycho mit "m.O.O.d.S."
- 2. tHONK bROS. mit "hONKY tHONKs fAT ASS"
- 3. bLASA mit "mOOdS cAFè".
All of the results and an small bonus are to find under the title link.
Thanks to all participants! Thomas Siegel aka d!RT!E of mOOdS
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22.Apr.2001
Amiga Apache Homepage
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Web-Server: Apache V1.3.19, PHP V4.0.4 pl 1
Version v1.3.19 of the web-server including the script language modules
PHP V4.0.4 pl 1 for the AmigaOS are available for download under the title link.
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22.Apr.2001
Amiga Active
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Survey: Best-of of the commercial Amiga programs
The British Amiga magazine Amiga Active (title link) started a survey
to determine the top 10 of all-time commercial Amiga software.
Under the title linke one will find a form to enter one's favourite software.
Applications, useful utilities, games, and other software can be named.
Freeware, shareware or similar excluded.
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22.Apr.2001
Czech Amiga News
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iMac-Emulator: Blittersoft Obtian iFusion Rights
Paul Lesurf of Blittersoft announced on the iFusion mailing list that
Blittersoft obtained the rights for the Amiga version of the iMac emulator
iFusion'
by
Microcode Solutions.
These rights include the opportunity to port the emulator to Elate (AmigaDE).
Blittersoft aim the continuous further development of the Amiga version in cooperation
with Microcode Solutions.
An enhanced version of the emulator is under development.
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22.Apr.2001
Chris Hodges
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Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd V2.3
Chris Hodges has released version 2.3 of the graphics tablet driver
'FormAldiHyd'. Besides of Aldi, Tevion, Aiptex, and WacomIV compatible
graphics tablets, now also SummaGraphics and AceCad are supported.
The WacomIV modes was improved.
Changes in this version:
- Bugfix: The WacomIV mode was improved in many ways, but might remain
problems with mouse buttons or f-keys. To fix those bug reports were needed.
- New: An experimental support of SummaGraphics and AceCad compatible tablets
was added.
Download: FormAldiHyd.lha (121K),
Readme
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22.Apr.2001
Chris Hodges
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MP3: MASMPegDevice V1.3
Chris Hodges has released version 1.3 of the MASMPeg-device, a
Commodore compatible mpeg.device for the MAS-Playeer (MP3/2 hardware audio player)
by Dirk Conrad. The device enables the MAS-Plyer to be uses together with software
supporting the mpeg.device standard, such like AMPlifier, Frogger, and MPEGMovie.
New in this version:
- Change: the interrupt interval is now set to 5.5 / 4ms.
The previous dynamic variant was removed due to too many troubles it caused.
- Bugfix: In BootUpMP3 an AbortIO() call was missing
The device runs on 68020+.
Download: MASMPegDevice.lha (129K),
Readme
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22.Apr.2001
Ian's Homepage
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ZX Spectrum-Emulator: ASp V0.79b
Version 0.79b of the ZX Spectrum emulator was released. In this version a
bug relating the ROMPATH option was fixed.
Main focus of the emulators running in multitasking are easy handling
an a true emulation of the original computer. For example all of the
undocumented commands of the Z80 processor are supported.
Graphical display works in a window or an a RTG screen and it has
a ARexx port. Complete feature list.
The emulator requires the MuLib by Thomas Richter.
Download:
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22.Apr.2001
Martin R. Elsner via E-Mail
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File Manager: ClassAction v4.1
Martin R. Elsner has released version 4.1 of the file manager
'ClassAction.
LHA and ZIP archives are supported, now, and the file lister was enhanced.
Changes in this version:
- New: LHA and ZIP archive support.
- Change: Improved lister with date, protection bits, and sort option.
- Change: Newly designed pop-up window.
- Change: copying .info works proper, the same for "move as".
- Bugfix: WBInfo now also shows devices correctly.
ClassAction recognizes more than 40 file formats (gif, jpeg, iff, mods,...),
so actions such like show, start, edit, and convert can be executed automatically.
New file types can be defined and actions can be added.
The current version runs on AmigaOS V3.5+
Download: classaction.lha (231K)
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22.Apr.2001
Richard Small via E-Mail
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Schatztruhe: CyberGraphX 4 for G-REX, Soon
Within a short time there will be an updated version of CyberGraphX 4 for G-REX available
containing brandnew drivers. The popular tools included in CGX4 and the video overlay features
of the respective graphic board will be supported. The case of the Voodoo cards there will be
a better graphic acceleration performance. For the time being PCI graphic board drivers for
S3 ViRGE (DX), Voodoo3 2000/3000, Voodoo4 4500 will be included. More information about
the G-REX expansion and CGX4 are to find at www.vgr.com/g-rex.
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21.Apr.2001
JST
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Installer: JST v4.7b
On the 16. April had the version 4.7b of JST been released. JST allows the
installation of games on the harddisk and offers patches that improve the
compatibility of games on later Amiga systems.
Download: jst.lha
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21.Apr.2001
Frank Wille
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ppclibemu 0.8h
ppclibemu is an emulation of the ppc.library and the PowerUp kernel under
WarpOS by Frank Wille. An own ELF-LoadSeg patch is contained and therefore
allows it many (some?) PowerUp applications to start like under the original
environment. Programs that work don't show any significant speed loss. Some are
indeed faster than on the original kernel.
Download: ppclibemu.lzx
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21.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Danmark Needs Your Help
Virus Help Denmark is searching for the installer of the new link virus
"Bastard". Until now it is not clear which program or archive installs the new
link virus. Should you find an infected file or even better the installer, please
send the file to Virus Help Denmark. Only "VirusExecutor v2.13" and "Safe v15.3"
can find the new virus yet. Further details can be found under the title link.
[News message: 21. Apr. 2001, 19:25] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Ilbm datatype for PPC v45.5
Stephan Rupprecht has released version 45.5 of his ilbm datatypes for PPC (WarpUP).
Download: ilbmdtPPC.lha - 14 kB
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21.Apr.2001
AmigAIM
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Update: AmigAIM 0.9.413 Beta
There's the new beta 0.9413 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger compatible
messaging software for Amiga by Richard H. Poser, available.
Download: AmigAIM_Beta.lha
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21.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VHT-DK: Virus detector Safe 15.3
Virus Help Denmark reports the availability of the version 15.3 of
'Safe', the program that lets you track down viruses but doesn't
eliminate them. Here the details:
- Name: Safe v15.3
- Archive name: Safe.lha
- Archive size: 30.953 Bytes
- Release date: 21. April 2001
- Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
- Info: needs xvs.library v33.24
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21.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mmail
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Amiga Arena: 'AFind' Full Version
In co-operation with Guido Mersmann the Amiga Arena makes the registered full
version of AFind available. AFind is a tool tat simplifies data research on
Aminet CDs.
The Amiga Arena special discount campaign for the software Frogger/Softcinema is
only valid until the 22.04.2001 whereas TaskiSMS can be registered until the
10.05.2001 for the special discount.
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21.Apr.2001
Richard Small via E-Mmail
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Schatztruhe: Payment via PayPal Possible
Schatztruhe now offers, next to the known payment possibilities (cash on delivery,
remittance, debit, credit card) another form of cashless payment: PayPal. You
find more information about the PayPal system on www.paypal.com. Furtheron Schatztruhe has many
new Amiga and PC software included in their sales program.
[News message: 21. Apr. 2001, 17:27] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2001
Horst Diebel on ANF
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John Sinclair Lexicon for Amiga?
Some time ago the publishers at BASTEI released a lexicon CD-ROM about the most
successful horror series in the world, "Ghost hunter John Sinclair" by Jason
Dark. The CD-ROM bases on HTML and would therefore for AMIGA users interesting,
too. Indeed many changes would have to be done in the source code so that
'Amiga Society' likes to find out via a poll
whether there's existing enough interest in this fantastic CD-ROM and whether
the AMIGA browser optimization would be worth it.
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21.Apr.2001
Rene Steljes via E-Mmail
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Users help users: AmigaHelpGuide
IAll users who'd like to help other users may let themselves get an entry into
the AmigaHelpGuide. The list was again updated and is ready for download in the
version of the 20.04.2001
Newly created was the AmigaHelpGuide subscription service. Everybody who wants
to get the list via subscriptionmay send an email with the subject "AHG-ABO"
to Rene Stelljes.
Download: AmigaHelpGuide.lha
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21.Apr.2001
Rene Stelljes via E-Mmail
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Tomorrow: Chat with Petro Tyschtschenko
As Petro couldn't take part in our last meeting on the #amiweb channel because
of a computer problem the team from AmigaHelpGuide has made a replacement date
for the 22.04.2001 at 19.30 h on the channel #amiweb. The channel can be reached
via the following IRC servers:
Server: phoenix.altnet.org (IP: 12.30.169.83)
Port: 6667
Channel: #amiweb
Server: ie.altnet.org (IP: 24.161.108.176)
Port: 6667
Channel: #amiweb
Server: allpurpose.altnet.org
Port: 6667
Channel: #amiweb
Server: showme.altnet.org (IP: 12.30.170.61)
Port: 6667
Channel: #amiweb
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21.Apr.2001
Martin Merz on ANF
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Reworked Image Sets in GlowIcon Design
Some reworked archives can be obtained from the MasonIcons homepage and
from Aminet:
- AWebMI - new default images, toolbars and animations in the GlowIcons design
- CharonMI - a reworked toolbar image collection for Charon
- EZPagerMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for EZPager
- IBrowseMI - a new designed navigation button bar for IBrowse
- TaskiSMSMI - a reworked toolbar for TaskiSMS based on AppMI
- VoyagerMI - an image set for Voyager in the GlowIcons design
Please visit the "Projects" page of MasonIcons for further information.
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21.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipzak
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TaskiSMS v2.54
the new version 2.54 of TaskiSMS has been released.
New in this version:
- For registered users: Drag&Drop for SMS messages
- HandyLand Plug-In updated
With this program you can send short messages (SMS) to handys in 160 countries
all over the world. The program is downloadable either from the TaskiSMS homepage or from Aminet (from
tomorrow on).
[News message: 21. Apr. 2001, 15:34] [Comments: 0]
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21.Apr.2001
Christoph Meyer on ANF
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PCI Busboard: Predator SE Available from Eyetech
Eyetech announces in the press release the availability of the PCI busboard
'Predator-SE' for PPC equipped A1200s. The board is connected to the
expansions port pf the BlizzardPPC card.
Predator-SE offers five PCI slots. Drivers are included for the following cards:
- S3 Virge (only 2D)
- Permedia2 (only 2D)
- Voodoo3 (Warp3D drivers will follow later)
- Voodoo4 (only 2D)
- Voodoo5 (only 2D)
- Realtek 8029 networking card
It is planned to deliver more drivers in the future. Please take further
technical information from the press release.
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20.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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GFX-BASE Website Updated
The GFX-BASE has been updated and turned into a kind of web portal on which you will
not only find news on games, but also on scene demos. The GFX-BASE has been turned
into an entertainment site for Amiga users with graphics cards, which the new
logo is supposed to make clear. I would appreciate your comments and ideas for
improvements in the forum.
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20.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Gateway still Deep in The Red
»The American computer manufacturer Gateway was end of last year one of the
first companies in the PC business which was driven into the red by the weak
Christmas sales. So far, the company apparently didn't recover: in the first
quarter of 2001, Gateway entered an operative loss of 81 million US$, the total
loss was 503 million US$ compared to a gain of 120 million US$ in the previous year.
The sales shrunk by 15 percent to 2,03 billion US$.«
Entire article (German) at the title link.
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20.Apr.2001
amiga.org
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Adventure Game: 'Aqua' Demo Version 1.1
The update version 1.1 has been released for the adventure 'Aqua'
which supports AHI sound and fixes a bug in opening and closing of screens. The
game from Emerald Imaging is distributed by
Crystal Interactive.
Download:
AquaDemo.lha - entire archive
AquaDemoUP.lha - update only
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20.Apr.2001
Stéphane Campan via E-Mail
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MySQL for AmigaOS
On the French website 'SixK', you can find an AmigaOS port of the MySQL database system
in Version 3.23.36.
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19.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VirusExecutor Update V2.13
Virus Help Denmark announce the new version 2.13 of the
virus checker VirusExecutor to be available. More
details:
- Name: VirusExecutor v2.13
- Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
- Archive size: 259.657 Bytes
- Release date: 19. April 2001
- Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
- Requires: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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19.Apr.2001
Webmaster amiga.ca
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Important news to all ...@amiga.ca WebMail users
Important news to all ...@amiga.ca WebMail users:
Amiga.ca email servers will be moving on April 24, 2001. The new
service is Amiga friendly and will remain free with no advertising.
Please backup all your important email documents before the change!
Use this link to reactivate your existing account ...
http://amiga.ca/email.html
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19.Apr.2001
Roland Wintgen via E-Mail
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Golem: Amiga- und C64-Sounds now On CD
»Audio CD by Chris Huelsbeck available
Who has gambled either-game on the C64 most probably experienced the art of sounds
by Chris Huelsbeck. Now the most popular of his compositions him were remixed and are
available on CD.«
Complete article under the title link.
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19.Apr.2001
Alfred Strum
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New Aminet Uploads
The last 7(!) day's uploads.
StarBase_SCR.lha biz/dbase 116K 0 Star Trek Style Database (4.1.0)
STEP_Txt.lha biz/dbase 777K 0 Star Trek StarBase-Text (633.3)
3DaDiCtTheme.lha biz/dopus 8.8M 0 Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2
DCPatch15.lha biz/patch 41K 0 Some Bugfixes and improvements for DosControl (Ger
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 412K 0 Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Skyper,Cityr
YAMSync.lha comm/misc 44K 0 YAM Sync for Spitfire
GoPortscan.lha comm/net 104K 0 V0.3 TCP Portscanner with MUI interface
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 20K 0 V1.7, YAM2-like Toolbars for TaskiSMS 2.53 + bette
AmDynDNS.lha comm/tcp 9K 0 ARexx script to update/change account at DynDNS.or
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 33K 0 Translate docs or strings from one language to ano
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 371K 0 Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
nah-mgc.lha demo/file 3.4M 0 Magic by Nah-kolor Demo Mekka/Symposium2001
wpz-impact.txt demo/file 3K 0 VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Satellite&am
MWI-SDV31.lha demo/mag 1.1M 0 SAVE DA VINYL #31 - packmag by Madwizards edited b
obligement26.lha demo/mag 804K 0 Obligement #26 - The Famous FRENCH fanzine !
BlitzLstMar01.lha dev/basic 35K 0 Blitz mailing list archives for March 2001
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 141K 0 How to use Mildred+BBasic with GFXCards
PgmAsst1.7.lha dev/c 85K 0 A GUI for various text editing & formatting to
d65.lha dev/cross 51K 0 A symbolic 65xx disassembler
yaec.lha dev/e 392K 0 Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.5a]
feelin.lha dev/gui 184K 0 Brand new and powerful OOP GUI using nothing then
Comal.v3.4.lha dev/lang 521K 0 Comal v3.40
m2latex.lha dev/m2 65K 0 LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sources
ArtConvert1.6P.lha docs/help 8K 0 Polish Locale for ArtConvert1.6
BlackIRC1.1PL.lha docs/help 11K 0 Polish Locale for BlackIRC1.1
IBrowse2.2PL.lha docs/help 14K 0 Polish Locale for IBrowse2.2 v.1.3
Lupe1.9PL.lha docs/help 9K 0 Polish Locale for Lupe1.9
saku36.lha docs/mags 1.7M 0 Saku #36 (2/2001). Finnish e-zine.
Spy3dgame.lha game/2play 133K 0 3D game beta for WB (Balrog Soft)
PaybackDemo.lha game/actio 3.0M 0 Payback playable demo (Updated)
PaybackDemoUp3.lha game/actio 748K 0 Updates the Payback demo to latest version
Bdynamite.lha game/data 510K 0 A significantly improved style/graphics module for
Blade_GermanLo.lha game/data 14K 0 Blade German Locale / Blade Deutsche Version!
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 9K 0 2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (15 April)
obvious.lha game/data 102K 0 DynAMIte style with obvious colors
AquaDemo.lha game/demo 2.6M 0 Aqua demo version V1.1 adds AHI sound + bug fix
AquaDemoUP.lha game/demo 38K 0 Updates Aqua demo to V1.1 adds AHI sound + bug fix
eyangband.lha game/role 795K 0 EyAngband 0.3.1b - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha game/role 956K 0 Gumband 2.1.4a - Roguelike solo RPG
OozeAGA.lha game/think 450K 0 *Very cool game is freeware now!*
Iconian298_Dt.lha gfx/edit 7K 0 V1.1, German catalog for Iconian 2.98
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 723K 0 V1.60 PSX MemoryCard Reader
ps2m.lha hard/hack 45K 0 Ultimate Amiga PS/2 WheelMouseController
ps2m_example.lha hard/hack 153K 0 PS/2 WheelMouseController - PCB photos
smif.lha hard/hack 88K 0 Cheap SmartMedia interface + sourcecode
DIGIOchmann09.lha misc/edu 131K 0 Versatile and user friendly vocabulary driller.
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 143K 0 V0.79 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 81K 0 V0.79 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
HexCon.lha misc/math 16K 0 Simple Hex <-> Dec <-> Bin converter
MoonDial.lha misc/sci 32K 0 Graphically shows the moons phase. V1.5
smoothlick.lha mods/demo 162K 0 By Racoon/C!S & FCN, from Seenpoint #10
sprawl.mpg mods/elbie 5.3M 0 Sprawl Pneumatique [electro] by ElbiE^t13n!
KINO_PlanMP3.lha mods/mpg 560K 0 The Plan.mp3 (for planakurov, drugtakers - =A.N.A.
Kocmutron3beta.lha mus/misc 14K 0 Realtime Bassline softsynth (requires 060)
dmdev.lha mus/play 136K 0 Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
GameIcons2.lha pix/gicon 548K 0 Great GlowIcons for MANY Amiga games.
lch-JapIcons4.lha pix/gicon 78K 0 Japanesque GlowIcons for Os 3.5 pack 4
OS3.9GlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 34K 0 12 GlowIcons you REALLY need
jd_DevelopTool.jpg pix/illu 75K 0 My developer tool (800x600)
jd_Matches.jpg pix/misc 89K 0 A nice photo of matches (800x600)
mattaki.lha pix/misc 214K 0 [ancor] just a practise
MS_Parodies.lha pix/misc 1.0M 0 Mircosoft Parodies
badday_s.mpg pix/mpg 416K 0 BADDAY mpeg - from M$ company.. ;)
big_deal.lha pix/trace 75K 0 "Big Deal" Would You Swap? MS DOS Classic <->
kns_Grilowanie.jpg pix/trace 73K 0 Ray-traced picture by KoNuS.
kns_ibisekcja.jpg pix/trace 97K 0 Ray-traced picture by KoNuS.
kns_wpz.jpg pix/trace 113K 0 Ray-traced picture by KoNuS.
jd_Torun.jpg pix/views 108K 0 Torun by night, POLAND (800x600)
DarkNowee12.lha pix/wb 395K 0 Dark Workbench Look by Nowee for Visualprefs
OFS044.jpg pix/wfm 596K 0 What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
ltdic_enghun.lha text/misc 2.6M 0 English-Hungarian dictionary for LangTools
ltdic_gerhun.lha text/misc 516K 0 German-Hungarian dictionary for LangTools
ltdic_huneng.lha text/misc 3.1M 0 Hungarian-English dictionary for LangTools
ltools157_demo.lha text/misc 76K 0 Dictionary and Document Translator
CheckX.lha util/arc 30K 0 V1.84 Check for Archives/Packers/Viruses
BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K 0 Very fast Replacement for the OS chunky pixel func
fblit.lha util/boot 171K 0 V3.73a Use CPU in place of the blitter.
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 134K 0 JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.20 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 140K 0 PNG image datatype V44.15 (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
killAGA2.5.lha util/misc 4K 0 Run old demos on A1200/4000 hard drives.
NewHomer.lha util/misc 34K 0 Another talking Homer for your WB! ;)
NewHomer_DATA.lha util/misc 2.6M 0 Data files for NewHomer.lha
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 355K 0 Report+ 4.4a: Multipurpose utility
ReqAttack.lha util/misc 701K 0 Best, configurable requesters for Amiga
ReqAttackGfx.lha util/misc 59K 0 Logos & patterns for ReqAttack
ReqAttackUpd.lha util/misc 183K 0 RAPrefsMUI1.76, ReqAttack1.70
Safe.lha util/virus 28K 0 V15.2 *added NEW linkvirus and 4EF9 trojans inform
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 22K 0 PatchBrain v1.31 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 256K 0 VirusExecutor v2.12
freakbar.lha util/wb 2K 0 Toolbar. V1.2.
SendStuff.lha util/wb 117K 0 Windows-like Send tool for the AmigaOS
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19.Apr.2001
KDH News
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iFusion Support
After a long time of waiting the iMac emulator iFusion
is available, now. With this the entire world of software a for the iMac
opens to the Amiga users. To be able to use iFusion an Amiga PPC-card
and a 'new world' MAC operating system is required. iFusion
along with the operating system MAC OS9.1 can be delivered at a special price.
KDH Datentechnik is distributor of iFusion in Germany.
To ensure smooth distribution KDH Datentechnik and
Eternity are co-operating.
Eternity took the task of iFusion support in Germany.
Applications and games for the iMAC will be tested by
NoRiscNoFun and
play!Amiga and both will determine
if such are runnable under iFusion.
Test results will be published and summarized in a iFusion compatibility list.
iFusion, the tested MAC games and applications will be available at the
online shops of Eternity and
KDH Datentechnik.
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19.Apr.2001
Crystal Software
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Crystal Software becomes ClearWater Interactive
Crystal Software, known by games like 'Bubble Heroes' or 'Land of Genesis'
reorganized and now is named 'ClearWater Interactive'. Along with the reorganization
the website was completely reworked and is available under the new domain
cw-i.com, from now on.
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19.Apr.2001
AmigArt
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Unofficial iFusion-FAQ
AmigArt has created an unofficial English FAQ (frequently asked questions) for the new
Mac PPC emulator for the Amiga 'iFusion'.
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19.Apr.2001
Haage&Partner
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STL for StormC 4
Raymond Zarling has ported the standard template library (STL) to StormC 4.
This library is an extended collection of algorithms and data structures which
can facilitate very much the creation of programs. It is also stated to be
part of the current C++ standard.
The Amiga sources are to find at Aminet, original sources are to find at
stlport.org, and documentations are at sgi.com:
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18.Apr.2001
Sven Ottemann via E-Mail
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Amiga Port of LhA1.14i for Unix
There are new versions of the Amigaport of LHA1.14i for Unix for
download. There are versions for 68000, 68020+ and PPC (WarpOS).
The following bugs have been fixed:
- Wrong data when compressing and extracting
- Rename across devices (This error results in failing of making
archives on other drives than RAM:.
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18.Apr.2001
Christian Effenberger on ANF
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Web-Tool: New SiteWay-Module Published
PicBase (beta v0.98) is a complex tool to library pictures
for the Web. The program completely automatically generates web-suitable catalogue
sites, navigation inclusive. It uses patterns for decorating (e.g.
for slide-frames) and navigating and has a completely new GUI-system,
preview-engine inclusive.
Currently the following datatypes are being supported: BMP, GIF, IFF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PBM, PSD, SUN, TGA, TIF.
Download:
PicBase.lha - 1,5 MB
Screenshot - 80 kB
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18.Apr.2001
Voyager Mailinglist
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Aminet: Flash-Update for PPC-Cards a Fake
The flush-update of PPC-cards (flashupdates.lha, size 940kbyte) which
was uploaded on April 17th, 2001 is a fake which was not written by Ralph
'Laire' Schmidt being the author of PPC-software as he confirmed.
Ralf: "No..i haven't uploaded it. I notified the aminet admins to remove it."
Matthias Scheler, who is the co-admin of the Aminet, confirmed to amiga-news.de
that the supposed ppc-update has been removed.
Each user who downloaded and installed the flash update is advised to remove it
and to control the integrity of the software by using a current anti-virus-software
because it is possible that it is a virus or a Trojan.
Ralph Schmidt furthermore confirmed that he would never upload PPC-updates to the Aminet.
The only sources for his Flash-Updates are:
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18.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News: KidHTML Full Version
In co-operation with Marcio Esper Amiga Arena makes possible the unlimited
use of the full version 1.26 of KidHTML. With KidHTML you can create
HTML-documents without having a lot of experiences.
KidHTML stays being shareware and can be registered over
Fun Time World
which is the partner of Amiga Arena. This modus has been chosen so that many users
do not have to send smaller amounts to the author to Brasilia but a total amount can
be sent. Amiga Arena wants to support foreign authors with it and appeal to the
honesty of the users. You can find further information in the download area under
"Vollversionen".
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18.Apr.2001
Amiga Fire
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Amiga Fire: AmigaGames top 20
Amiga Fire regularly makes an opinion poll concerning the most
favourite Amiga-games.
The results of March/April has been established. The list is being
led by Quake, Napalm and Payback as expected.
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18.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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POING: Killer of Tediousness at NoRiscNoFun
On our site you can find a test of the fantastic breakout-clone POING. This
version provides some really extraordinary features. The results of the opinion
poll of the 30th of March are also available. Of course there are two new opinion
polls concerning "What do you like of Amiga/What do you hate of Amiga". Please
participate on it. And last but not least a shot has been added to the WB gallery.
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18.Apr.2001
Martin R. Elsner via E-Mail
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Tools: Choowin V1.1 Available
There is a an improved version v1.1 of Choowin. The design of the menus has been
reworked and sub-menus have been added to the start-menu. Other characteristics can
be now configured above all the background pattern and the aligment of the text.
Download: choowin.lha - 32 kB
Choowin is a small help program starting programs and putting windows to the foreground
and activating them. It is comparable with a task-manager. You simply push one of the
buttons in a corner of the Workbench-window and then choose either the program or the
window title in the appearing list.
With the tooltypes you can define the position of Choowin and the size of the appearing
window and can decide which windows are to be displayed. The programs in the start-menu
are also defined with tooltypes. Choowin is freeware and requires at least AmigaOS 3.5.
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18.Apr.2001
Marvin Droogsma - AmigaScene on ANF
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Amiga Show Benelux Planned
We are looking for exhibitors, clubs, Amiga-freaks and so on for a planned AmigaDE show in
Rotterdam - Netherlands, which is supposed to take place in June 2001. If you have
something to exhibit then please mail to:
m.droogsma@wxs.nl.
It will become a great show with a lot of new hardware and software, demos, VIPs and fun.
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18.Apr.2001
Ruben Monteiro on ANF
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Software producer for the AmigaDE
cyberoxygen is a new AmigaDE software creator. Projects include java APIs,
PDA/desktop games and the "Sounds Cool" sound editor/player/converter.
cyberoxygen aims to create a variety of software for AmigaDE enabled devices.
Please visit the website for more information, and subscribe to the newsletter,
so you can be up to date with the news. We have more projects in the
pipeline which will be announced soon. Also distributing "Immortal" -
The Amiga game music CD.
Ruben Monteiro
www.cyberoxygen.com
Software for a digital world
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18.Apr.2001
Joecard.com
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Met@box Stops Producing PC-Card-Projects
As you could already assume on March 30th in 2001 the announcement of
Met@box giving up "non-strategical-parts" results
in consequences in the fields of PC-card-development.
(We have already reported (German)).
On the website joecard.com which is specially made for PC-cards by Met@box you can now
officially read what this have to mean:
»In the procedure of restructuring of Met@box AG to a producer of Set-Top-Boxes the
departments of Macintosh and Amiga has been closed down with effect from March 30st in
2001. All developments has been closed down.«
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18.Apr.2001
Jan Devos via E-Mail
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3ivx News
In future licence fees will be charged for using 3ivx as the following press release
supposes. Private users pay 10$, commercial users pay 400$. 3ivx is a
video-compression-format for MPEG4 which is used by some Amiga-programs as SoftCinema and MooVId.
Press Release: 3ivx, solving the streaming video problem
Truly multi-platform MPEG-4 video means encode anywhere, play everywhere
April 17, 2001 - Happy Machines releases its third preview version of
the 3ivx codec. 3ivx takes video compression to a higher level. This
is the first release which includes a free personal test encoder as
well as a version for MacOS X.
<http://www.3ivx.com/>
<http://www.hollywood.org/3ivx/>
"Streaming video is very important for our customers," says Marcel
Bor of On The Road, an Equant Service Provider "That's why I am
extremely pleased with the quality of 3ivx movies, even better than
Real 8!"
This release includes a lot of enhancements resulting in improved
video playback while maintaining small file sizes and low bit-rates.
Technically this translates into:
- Scheduled Asynchronous Decompression
- Advanced frame queue management
- FrameCache and Flextime Frame management
- Hardware Accelerated YUV Output
The encoder and the decoder are available on the site for immediate
download. There are 3 versions of the codec available, a free test
codec, a $10 version for personal use and a $400 version for
commercial use.
3ivx is a natural video compression system that is compliant with
MPEG-4v3. The strengths lay in its open architecture, multi-platform
approach (Windows, MacOS, Linux/Unix, BeOS and Amiga) and it's high
compression ratio which compresses video's and moving images to one
thirteenth (1:13) of the size of a DVD or MPEG-2 movie while
maintaining approximately the same quality.
Happy Machines is a Belgian company that represents a creative team
and a large international network of inventors, software and hardware
developers, designers in various fields such as imaging, satellite
communications, artificial intelligence, machinery etc., which has
contacts with top-manufacturers worldwide. The company is also member
of the MPEG-group and is an Inmarsat partner. It is orientated on
project development and related intellectual properties.
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17.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VEPatch.brain for VirusExecutor V1.31
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.31
Archive name : VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 22.469 Bytes
Release date: 17. April 2001
Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes since last update:
WB2Fast v1.0
PowerWB v0.8
PrintManager 39.31
CleverWin 37.9
RAWBInfo 1.24
RAWBInfo 1.28
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17.Apr.2001
AROS-ML Aaron Digulla
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AROS Website with New Layout
The website of AROS was completely reworked and has now added an easy navigation,
so all informations ca be found fast and easy.
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17.Apr.2001
Andre Jansen on ANF
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Software for Studying Languages for the AMIGA
At the title link you will find software to learn: Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Russian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with the AMIGA (CD-ROM)
This software is not new, it is more like a sales out, but there is no such
software then so it is worth to mention. I have bought this software and like it.
This is a training for vocabulary and speaking (with digitalized voices), and for
Asian and Russian languages with the special letters.
The vocabulary is presented by pictures, the computer prints on a click on a
thing the respective word (with translation if wanted) and plays a sample of the
word. A training/quiz is available, too.
Also there is a short summary of the most important rules of grammar (in English).
For the version to learn Japanese you can download a demo version from the website.
The programme is available in different versions for OS1.x and OS 2.x and higher,
but even this is some years old, so it will open on PAL or NTSC screen. You can
promote it without any problem to any screen mode you like, it runs even on a 68060
and with OS 3.9 and MagicMenu.
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17.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Scalos News
For the Workbench substitute Scalos is a DefIcon-plugin as replacement for
the FileType-plugIn for download available. The "Persistant_Window"-plugin was updated.
Download:
Scalos-Plugin_DefIcons.lha - 12 kB
Scalos-Plugin_Persist.lha - 19 kB
MAS mpeg.device Version 1.2
Chris Hodges has released the version 1.2 of his MAS MPegDevice.
It is a standard device for the MAS-Player of Dirk Conrad
Download: MASMPegDevice.lha - 129 kB
GameIcons.info
At AmigaGames.com you can find a new archive with 100 game icons in
NewIcons style on the GameIcons.info-page. All icons
are made in the standard size 120*96 pixel and contain a second icon that appears if you click on it.
Download page.
New style for Dynamite
You can play "Dynamite" in different styles. At Amisource the new style bdynamite for
the Online-Bombermann/Dynablaster clone is available.
Download: BDynamite.lha - 522 kB
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17.Apr.2001
Boingworld
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Mekka-Symposium 2k+1 Results
The team of Boingworld has been in Fallingbostel, Germany and has taken part
in the Mekka-Symposium 2001, the Amiga-Scene-Demo-Party at the last weekend. The
crew, very happy but really tired, has returned to Sweden and promises to write
a complete report after getting some sleep. Most impressed was the team about
the 20 shown Amiga-demos. The winner of the demo contest is the group Black Lotus
(TBL) with its demo "Perfect Circle". An overview on the results you will find
here.
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16.Apr.2001
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New amiga-news.de main page
You sure realized by coming here today, we implemented our English news page to the same
PHP-system already used for our German page, since some time.
Now you are able to chose your preferred and private settings for displaying the start page.
There are several possibilities you can chose from the buttons above. You can determine if the page
should be displayed showing complete news messages (standard button) or with a compact version of
each message on it (compact button). You can also determine the number of messages shown or if you
rather want a titles only version (titles only button), and all that for a certain number of days.
Just play around with the buttons and press 'Show' to find out what meets your needs, best. Default
setting is 'Per page 3 days - titles only'. Furthermore you can chose if you only want messages
regarding Amiga to be displayed or if you want to see other messages, too. Just tag/untag the
respective check-box.
Once you found your preferred settings you can update your bookmark to have this available all the time.
You can also use the cookies function to have a cookie saved with your settings (check-box).
If you prefer the prior display use
amiga-news.de/en/news/standard/ for
your bookmark.
One more feature is the possibility for you to comment news messages. To do so click on the "Comments:" link
below any news message or on the number below the comments item to the right of the respective message
in the title only version.
We hope you like the new possibilities. Have fun!
Supplement 03 June 2001
Sorry, the system doesn't work properly, by now. For example it is not possible to change settings.
Be sure, we are working on it.
And sorry for the wrong date of this message, too. We are also working on that problem. We ask you for
your understanding.
Supplement 03 June 2001
Everything seems to work now, incl. changing settings for the start page. There's just this date thing left, but
only for this message. I'm currently not able to post messages for the English page, only. This might change
in the future. If you encounter any problem using the new start page, please mail me or post
a comment to this message.
Update 01.05.2002:
Accepting cookies new and updated messages will be presented in bold stamp.
Update 04.01.2003:
Here you will find more changes.
Update 25.03.2004: voluntary registry in the comment area
More details see in the following messages: 09.03.2004,
19.03.2004 and
24.03.2004.
Please, tell us what do you think about the new features!
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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New Reviews by GFX-GAMES-DATABASE
This time we examined the new Workbench-game MagicNumbers and we made MacOSX-like imageset available.
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16.Apr.2001
AROS-ML - Aaron Digulla
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AROS News
Since there has been some confusion, here are some reliable
infos about the relationship between AROS and MorphOS.
MorphOS wants to provide an Amiga clone and they need some
code to fill gaps in their emulation (for example, parts of
Intuition). They asked us if they could use our work and,
being an open source project, we "allowed" them to port
parts of AROS to MorphOS.
This is exactly the same what we did when Haage&Partner
approached us whether they can use our Colorwheel gadget
in OS 3.9 which we "allowed", too.
I say "allowed" because that is essentially what we want
them to do :-) AROS is meant as a test laboratory to develop
new technologies which might prove useful for the next
versions of the AmigaOS. We do this independently of
Amiga Inc, MorphOS and H&P but always with the goal to
provide them with something useful as well as providing
adventurous Amiga users with something that feels quite
familiar.
So AROS and MorphOS have not "joined forces" or become
one project. MorphOS just uses part of our work which
is what our work is meant for.
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16.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 96K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.6-full
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 412K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 19K+V1.5, YAM2-like Toolbars for TaskiSMS 2.
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 33K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
MWI-SDV31.lha demo/mag 1.1M+SAVE DA VINYL #31 - packmag by Madwizard
BlitzLstMar01.lha dev/basic 35K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 140K+How to use Mildred+BBasic with GFXCards
d65.lha dev/cross 51K+A symbolic 65xx disassembler
Comal.v3.4.lha dev/lang 521K+Comal v3.40
m2latex.lha dev/m2 65K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 132K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
BlackIRC1.1PL.lha docs/help 11K+Polish Locale for BlackIRC1.1
Lupe1.9PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for Lupe1.9
saku36.lha docs/mags 1.7M+Saku #36 (2/2001). Finnish e-zine.
Spy3dgame.lha game/2play 133K+3D game beta for WB (Balrog Soft)
GS650-68k.lha gfx/conv 816K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 68k binary
GS650-Data.lha gfx/conv 1.9M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 data archive
GS650-Fonts.lha gfx/conv 2.6M+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50 fonts archive
GS650-PPC.lha gfx/conv 905K+AFPL Ghostscript 6.50r2 WarpOS binary
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 90K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 723K+V1.60 PSX MemoryCard Reader
Dictionar.lha misc/edu 207K+Vocabulary trainer for Your data
DIGIOchmann09.lha misc/edu 127K+Versatile and user friendly vocabulary d
HexCon.lha misc/math 16K+Simple Hex <-> Dec <-> Bin converter
sprawl.mpg mods/elbie 5.3M+Sprawl Pneumatique [electro] by ElbiE^t1
TheX0XPackage1.lha mus/edit 44K+A set of editors for the TR-X0X & TB303
mattaki.lha pix/misc 214K+[ancor] just a practise
BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K+Very fast Replacement for the OS chunky
fblit.lha util/boot 171K+V3.73a Use CPU in place of the blitter.
killAGA2.5.lha util/misc 4K Run old demos on A1200/4000 hard drives.
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 253K+VirusExecutor v2.10
freakbar.lha util/wb 2K+Toolbar. V1.2.
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16.Apr.2001
V³ Portal
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V³ Beta Image Decoder Version 18.1
Oliver Wagner released a new betaversion of the image-decoder for Voyager 3.3.
The decoder is available for
AmigaOS and
MorphOS.
Attention: This release is only works with Voyager 3.3 (not 3.2 or 3.2.13 !!!).
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16.Apr.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Update 3 Released
Apex Designs released the third update for the game
Payback.
The update is available here.
The current demoversion can be found here.
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16.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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URL of PlayGUI Changed
The PlayGUI-support page is now available at http://playgui.tsx.org.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Finnish Amiga Users Group has a New URL
The website of the 'Finnish Amiga Users Group', which is also known as online-magazine
'Saku', is now available under this more easy to remember URL
http://saku.amigafin.org/english/.
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15.Apr.2001
ANN
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Interview with Hans-Joerg Frieden
An interview with Hans-Jörg Frieden (Hyperion) has been released at Digital
Dream Arena. The interview contains information about several areas. At the beginning
Hans-Joerg Frieden describes how he started put with programming and then how he made his way
to learn 3D programming. The following paragraph talks about the creation of Hyperion and the
port of Heretic II and Shogo for the Amiga, which is close to finishing now.
At the end, the interview describes the motivation to develop Warp3D and MiniGL for the Amiga as
well as a statement about AmigaOS V4.x and AmigaDE.
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15.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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VirusExecutor V2.12
On April 15th 2001, Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.12 of the virus killer
'VirusExecutor'. Compared to former versions, the following changes have been
made:
- The'Bastard'-Link virus can now be recognized and removed.
(Thanks to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski for analysing this virus.)
- The 'TeamMOS TCP'-Trojan has been renamed to 'Zakahackandpatch'.
Furthermore a small error in the decrypting code has been removed.
Name : VirusExecutor v2.12
Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 262.139 bytes
Release date : 15 April 2001
Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen
Requires : xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
Download: VirusExecutor.lha (256K),
Readme
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15.Apr.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Graphic Adventure Engine 'INGA'
The graphic-adventure-engine 'INGA' now has got a homepage at
Inutilis which contains technical information as well
as the current development status.
'INGA' is an engine for graphic-adventures (Amiga) like Monkey Island 3, which has been
developed for graphic boards. There is already a game which is being developed using this system,
Ermentrud,
and more are planned.
The engine includes also a comfortable developer-package which is also presented at the homepage.
This will allow everyone to design their own adventures.
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15.Apr.2001
CyberGFX
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Warp3D: Voodoo3 Status
Thomas Frieden(Warp3D, Hyperion) has posted information about the status of the Voodoo3-driver
for Warp3D to the
Amiga-Mediator-Mailinglist.
The driver is now stable - even after 3 hours of continuous graphics output it didn't crash.
The command-FIFO does not work yet, so the speed is still bad.
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
On April 14th, 2001 the 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' has been
expanded.
Following new entries have been added:
- ISDN Surfer
- Amigo Ethernet
- Amigo Serial
- Shuffleboard
In addition to this there are different, smaller updates, new pictures and
correction of a link. The complete list of changes can be found
here
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15.Apr.2001
Fun Time World
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Spitfire²: YAMSync V1.0
Version 1.0 of the YAMSync-Plugin for the Palm-Desktop 'Spitfire²' by Ralph Torchia has
been released. This version is only available for registered users. Additionally, the
whole website has been reworked.
Spitfire² offers different possibilities to communicate with Palm-PDAs from 3Com, including
data-synchronisation with the Amiga.
Download:
YAMSync.lha (44K)
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15.Apr.2001
amiga.org
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Interview with Peter Molyneux (Populous, Black&White)
In MeriStation-Magazine an interview with Peter Molyneux has been released in Spanish.
Peter Molyneux is the game designer of Populous, Black&White and other successful games.
During the interview, Commodore and Amiga are named.
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15.Apr.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Magazine: Obligement #26
The current issue of the french Amiga-Online-Magazine 'Obligement' is available
for download.
Issue #26 contains amongst others a report about the fair in St. Louis, interviews
with Fleecy Moss, Oliver Roberts and Georges Halvadjian(Author of Perfect Paint), tests of
Earth 2140 as well as Payback and much more.
Download:
obligement26.lha (804K)
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15.Apr.2001
Martin McKenzie via E-Mail
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Imagine 3D Support-Website with New URL
The support-website of Imagine 3D will be available from now on under the following, newly
registered domain http://www.cadtechnologies.co.uk
.
This is why the E-Mail adresses have changed too. Please use the following from now on:
sales@cadtechnologies.co.uk
support@cadtechnologies.co.uk
comments@cadtechnologies.co.uk
webmaster@cadtechnologies.co.uk
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15.Apr.2001
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Happy Easter Holidays!
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15.Apr.2001
#AmigaZeux in EuIRC on ANF
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dynAMIte CD-Edition Needs Pre-Orders
When we distributed 150 preview disks at the World of Amiga 2000 in Cologne,
we didn't know how the Amiga community would accept the then still very young
project of a TCP/IP-Dynablaster. During March 2001 we have made dynAMIte available
for free download after a long beta test stage. Our website recorded 8000 visitors
since December and there are 326 players recorded in the general database, which
have played several 10.000 games on different servers.
The success of dynAMIte has encouraged us to improve the game even more : A cd-version
with many special features, especially for fans of the explosive rods and a very
affordable price is in preparation.
However we have a small problem with the realisation at the moment:
dynAMIte is Freeware and it will remain freeware - however we can't offer the CD-Version
and its extras for free. Since the project includes a financial risk for us, we would be
very happy to receive binding pre-orders - the price will be approximately 30,- DM (15 Euro)
including shipping with prepayment. To be able to realize the project we need 100
pre-orders from private customers.
Those who are interested to give us their money in exchange of a fancy silver disk with even
more distinguished contents, can report this here.
You can however only report your general interest there.
Retailers can bindingly order the game exclusively at AMISOURCE and will obtain a discount,
there is no retail at GTI (as long as they don't order at our place themselves).
Retailers please use this form!
We thank all the persons that supported us
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: Apple brings Darwin to x86 CPUs, too
»Foundation of MacOS X now also as a x86 Version
With version 1.3.1 Apple now puts a new version of Darwin online,
the MacOS X core. With this for the first time an official ISO image
for x86 systems exists. The Darwin core bases on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0
technologies and offers "protected memory" and "pre-emptive multitasking".
Darwin runs on PowerPC based Macintosh machines as well as on x86 compatibles.
«
Complete article (German) under the title link.
Apparently Apple has recognized that almost everybody has an x86 at home and
offer their OS for them.
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14.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: IBM brings PowerPC for Internet Appliances
»The days of 'one-size-fits-all' for PC micro processor are gone", claimed
Scottie Ginn, Vize President of "Pervasive Technology" at IBM
Microelectronics. Reason for this wholehearted announcement: the presentation
of a system-on-a-chip solution for Internet appliances such as Web-Pads or
Surf-Terminals. The so called PowerPC Internet Appliance Platform (IAP) builds
on a PowerPC CPU and implements memory, LCD interfaces, as well as an Touch-Screen
interface together in that chip. According to IBM the chip is considered to cost
about 60USD as for OEM quantities.
«
Complete article (German) see title link.
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14.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark Report Infected Archive
A new infected archive was found. The archive was infected by "Hitch-Hiker 4.11".
Here are the details:
Archive name: FlySwatter.lzx
Archive size: 219772 Bytes
Archive description: AmiTCP/IRC/War Client
Archive info: Flyswatter is an IRC assault program for AMITCP...
Be sure to read the program history
This is the Digital Corruption release of FlySwatter
This release has barely been tested.
Infected files: WarToolz/fakemailer (23.504 Bytes)
WarToolz/mflash ( 9.444 Bytes)
WarToolz/qmail_exploit (11.364 bytes)
All common anti-virus programs can detect the HitchHiker 4.11 link virus.
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14.Apr.2001
Achim Klopsch on ANF
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iFusion is Shipping
As a pre-orderer after 18 month of waiting I received the iFusion today, at last.
The longish longed for PPC version of the MAC emulator for my AMIGA.
A for now Cybergfx 3 and 4 are supported. There is no "direct" support for Picasso96, yet.
A "new world class" MAC OS version is needed. The OS included with the MACs was said not
to work. In contrast to that the version available from the vendors was said to work.
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13.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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New VEPatch.Brain for VirusExecutor Version 1.30
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.30
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 22.057 Bytes
Release date: 13. April 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Changes since last version:
fastlayers.library v40.48
rtg.library 40.3945 + 40.3992
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13.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Version 2.53 Released
The new version 2.53 of TaskiSMS has been released.
New in this version:
- bugfixed ICQ plug-in and ICQ UIN/password preferences added
- reduced stack usage for "about" window
- some bugs in the program functions fixed
- updated Lycos plug-in
- HandyLand plug-in added
- "do not wait for server response" added so that the sending of SMS is speeded up
- 50 new countries added to the support list
- some missing bubble helps added
- Jumpy plug-in deleted
This program allows you to send SMS to mobile phones in 160 countries of the world. The program
can be downloaded either from the TaskiSMS-homepage or
from Aminet Aminet.
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13.Apr.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Executive Update by Bill McEwen
Bill McEwen - April 12, 2001
Greetings to one and all:
What a wonderful time it was for us in St. Louis. I must thank our hosts Bob and Diana Scharp
and all of the members of the Gateway Amiga Club. They once again outperformed and kept things rolling.
I want to make very clear what the announcements were and what it means for Amiga and the rest of the Amiga Family.
- Amiga has made NO change in strategy with AmigaDE. Things are going great, as expected, and
we have some impressive new customers; Sharp being the first.
- Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond was announced. This is a staged series of releases that will bring a native
port of the AmigaOS to the PPC. This is NOT about WarpOS, vs. anybody. It is an Amiga Inc. port
of the OS. You may infer nothing else from this.
- AmigaOne A1200 is the first new hardware, for the Amiga, and we are still planning a standalone ATX
board and other new pieces of hardware. AmigaOne for the A1200 will be out this summer. We are then
looking at releases later in the year, for the new standalone designs.
Summary:
- AmigaDE doing great and on target with the goals that we set forth and we will continue development efforts.
- AmigaOS 4.0 out this summer with the first of the AmigaOne Zico specification machines.
- Sharp is a new partner of Amiga Incorporated. More will soon be released about our relationship.
- There will be more partners and more announcements soon.
- This is a great time to be part of the Amiga Family.
- For more in-depth information there is a new technical update to be posted later today.
I thank you all for your support and look forward to a very exciting year before us!
Sincerely,
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the team at Amiga, Inc.
Update:
As promised in McEwen's Executive Update, meanwhile technical details are available:
Technical Update Part 1
Technical Update Part 2
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12.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 15.2 Released
Version 15.2 of Safe was released. Viruses can be detected by Safe, but not removed from the system.
Here the details:
Name: Safe v15.2
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 28.873 Bytes
Release date: 12. April 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: needs xvs.library v33.24
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12.Apr.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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WarpJPEG V44.20 & WarpPNG V44.15 Datatypes Available
On Oliver Robert's homepage new versions of his JPEG & PNG datatypes for 68k and WOS were
released.
Download at the title link.
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12.Apr.2001
Lars Decker on ANF
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Amiga under QNX
Here the Amiga is mentioned as multitasking system, shortly.
It is interesting that the Amiga used runs under QNX.
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12.Apr.2001
Elbox
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Elbox Website with New Design
The Elbox website has got a completely new look enabling easy navigation, now.
But the site seems to be under construction, yet. Most of the buttons still don't
contain any information. For example under 'Download' there isn't the driver software
expected for download.
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12.Apr.2001
Raymond Zachariasse via E-Mail
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The GUI Research (TGR)
At TGR at this time a survey on the new AmigaDE's graphical user interface (GUI)
is organized. Under 'Survey' you can find more details and the queries.
Bringing the next UI design and engineering into the new millennium
....your vote could change the future of Amiga's GUI...
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12.Apr.2001
AMIPRESS-ML
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Amiga Inc. and Elbox Announce Relationship
April 11, 2001, Snoqualmie, Washington, USA.
Amiga Inc and Elbox working together for Amiga OS 4.0 and beyond
Amiga Inc is pleased to announce a long term relationship with Elbox
Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland. Amiga Inc announced the development
of AmigaOS4, the latest version of the high performance, user friendly
operating system that introduced multimedia to the world at the St Louis
trade and user show on the 31st March 2001. To support AmigaOS4, Amiga
Inc also released the Zico hardware specification targeted at PowerPC
processors. Elbox Computer Ltd are working closely with Amiga Inc to
ensure that their existing and future products will gain Zico
certification, and thus provide a perfect platform for AmigaOS4.
'St Louis marked the beginning of the future.' said Bill McEwen,
President and CEO of Amiga Inc. 'Key to that is the Amiga community
moving forwards in a single direction, united and determined. With
Elbox as a partner, another key Amiga company has joined the drive
forwards towards success.'
'Our long-term commitment to computer technology is now giving tangible
results in the Amiga market,' said Maciek Binek, CEO of Elbox. 'Now,
with the Amiga Inc. initiative, we can see a clear sign of future-oriented
thinking and strategy, a breakthrough for this computer. We hope Amiga will
soon again become the common word.'
'Elbox have taken a major role in not just supporting the existing Amiga
market with their many products but also in providing a path forwards.'
said Fleecy Moss, CTO of Amiga Inc. "Our relationship with them will
ensure that their existing customers can benefit from AmigaOS4 whilst
new users coming to the Amiga will have additional excellent choices in
the hardware that they can buy.'
AmigaOS4 is currently under development and will ship in Summer 2001.
Elbox products can already be purchased from all major Amiga dealers,
and their next new product, the SharkPPC+ will be available along with
the premiere of the AmigaOS4 system.
About Amiga:
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware
agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group
of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE (*¹) based
applications
can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000,
R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run
hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4.
Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has
offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga
on the web at http://www.amiga.com.
About Elbox:
Elbox Computer Ltd of Krakow, Poland is a privately held company that
has been in business since 1982, and has grown rapidly from its
industrial systems roots, now having a significant presence in
peripherals, multimedia systems, high performance motherboards,
enclosures, application software and general computer subsystems.
Its products are used throughout the world and set a new standard
in price, performance and customer satisfaction. For further
information, please send an email to
info@elbox.com or visit
Elbox website at http://www.elbox.com
*¹Was corrected from AmigaOS into AmigaDE by Amiga Inc..)
Translations: Spanisch von SAUG
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11.Apr.2001
Haage&Partner
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Update Patches for StormC4
There is a first update for StormC which solves several problems and improves
as well as completes the support of Mixed Binaries and Shared Libraries.
Download site.
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11.Apr.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak via E-Mail
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Elbox: S3 ViRGE Driver for Mediator
Elbox announces of having completed the official driver for S3 ViRGE PCI-cards
which can be used on the Mediator Busboard. According to Elbox the drivers are 100%
compatible to Picasso96 and support the complete 2D-hardware of the cards.
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11.Apr.2001
scenet.de
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Amiga Music Preservation - Major Update
Amiga Music Preservation (AMP) has got a new design and a lot of new information.
AMP which has been founded by Curt Cool and Crown is a powerful collection of modules of
demo scene musicians meanwhile on 16 (!) CDs in all which additionally offers information
to well-known scene musicians as well as over 200 interviews!
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11.Apr.2001
Martin Elsner via E-Mail
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FTPMount Version 1.3
In addition to ClassAction I have uploaded FTPMount on my homepage.
This is an improved version (1.3) of the program which was developed by Evan Scott and Thies Wellpott.
With FTPMount you can handle FTP-sites just like directories on a harddrive.
Download: ftpmount.lha -
137 kB
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11.Apr.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via E-Mail
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AKTaskiSMS v1.5
On the homepage of Andreas Kürzinger you can download version 1.5 of AKTaskiSMS from now on.
It is a German catalog for TaskiSMS2.5 as well as two alternative toolbars in YAM2-style
(MWB- as well as RomIcons-colours) and an icon in 32-colourful AKIconGold-design.
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11.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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NRNF: Interview with Oliver Smiles (Abode of Golgotha)
At No Risc No Fun you can find an English interview with Olvier Smiles. He created the great
Abode of Golgotha Saga (H2 AddOn) which we have recently tested for you. The TaskiSMS 2.52
review at our site is also rather new. We have added 120st screenshot to our WB gallery. Come
and find out how you can design your system more beautiful.
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11.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Chip: First Details to Matrox G550 Graphic Chip
»On the English spoken hardware-website there are specifications and details
to the new graphic chip by Matrox for the first time. The next Matrox-graphic card is
to be called G550 and have the following features:
- Made in 0,18 micrometer-process
- 1x, 2x and 4x AGP
- 360 MHz RAMDAC
- 32 MByte DDR SDRAM
- OpenGL- and DirectX-API-Support
- 256-Bit DualBus-Architecture
- Matrox Extended Dual-Head-Function
- Vibrant Color Quality2 Rendering-Technique
- Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping (EMB)
- Matrox Skinning
- Displacement Mapping
- Ultra Sharp DAC
- Integrated TV-out DAC
- High-quality DVD-Playback
Reactor critical refers to an "unofficial" source, but which is supposed to be very reliable.«
See title link for full article.
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11.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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The Register: PowerPC G5 to hit 2GHz (Update)
»Motorola is pushing ahead with the design of the PowerPC 7500 -
aka G5 - company sources have claimed, according to a report over at
MacOS Rumors.
We're sure they are, but we're not so sure the report's claims are
entirely accurate except in a very broad sense. The report's information
is a little too close to the details displayed on Motorola's last publicly
released roadmap, dating back to September 1999.
According to the report, the G5 will boast speeds of 2GHz and up,
"full-performance backward-compatibility", 512KB of on-die L2 cache a new
memory architecture and a modular design allowing the company to offer
multi-core chips. It will be fabbed at 0.1 micron using silicon-on-insulator
construction.«
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11.Apr.2001
Benjamin Yoris via E-Mail
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Hyperion Entertainment welcomes Amiga`s OS4 Strategy
In the aftermath of the recent announcement by Amiga Inc. that the Classic
Amiga OS would be ported to PPC, many users have asked us to comment on the
technical merit of Amiga's OS 4 strategy and what it would mean for games
and 3D graphics.
Prior to Amiga's announcement, senior software engineers of Hyperion
Entertainment identified the key bottlenecks in the Amiga OS which hampered
the performance of our games: the slow 68K based filesystem, the 68K based
RTG system, the lack of virtual memory and the dual CPU architecture of the
current PPC boards which generates performance-crippling context switches.
Amiga OS 4 will address all these issues and do much more.
We can confidently predict that with Amiga OS 4, users can look forward to
performance levels never before seen on the Amiga.
Hyperion Entertainment has therefore signed on to develop the 3D API for
Amiga OS 4 and provide a fully featured OpenGL(tm) implementation through
Mesa 3.4.
All our current and future game-titles will take full advantage of
everything that OS 4 has to offer.
Unlike some who unashamedly claim that « games don't play an important role
anymore in the current Amiga market », we are committed to once more make
the name « Amiga » synonymous with top-quality entertainment software.
Senior staff-members of Hyperion Entertainment will continue to work with
Amiga Inc. to ensure that Amiga OS 4 will provide everything game-developers
need to accomplish the goal of putting Amiga back at the forefront of gaming
and 3D graphics.
Ben Yoris
Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com
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10.Apr.2001
Fabian Zaengel on ANF
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New Infos about AmigaOne
You will find new pictures of the AmigaOne in an Amiga- and ATX-towercase and
the latest FAQ and information for dealers at the title link.
At http://www.egroups.com/messages/amigaone
you can find an interesting forum
where Fleecy (Amiga, Inc.), Eyetech, and Hyperion are answering questions about
the AmigaOne and AmigaOS4.x. A homepage for the operating system is planned for
this week.
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10.Apr.2001
VirusHelpDenmark
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New Link Virus Found
A new linkvirus was found. Until now it is not known which archive installs the
virus, but "Safe V15.1" is able to find it. More details at the title link.
Download: Safe.lha
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10.Apr.2001
VirusHelpDenmark
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VirusExecutor v2.11 Released
Version 2.11 of VirusExecutor, the virus killer, is released. This update can
handle the TCP-trojan (we reported). Details:
name: VirusExecutor v2.11
archive: VirusExecutor.lha
archive size: 258.521 bytes
release date: 10. April 2001
coder: Jan Erik Olausen
needed: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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10.Apr.2001
Thomas Steiding via E-Mail
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e.p.i.c. ports "The Feeble Files" to MAC and MorphOS
e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment gmbh has signed a license agreement to port
Adventuresoft's cartoon adventure "The Feeble Files" to the MACINTOSH.
The game puts you to play an alien called Feeble who works for the crop circle
division of a dictatorial government but somehow get involved in a rebellion to
overthrow the system. But you will quickly learn that Rebellion really has never
looked so pAtHeTiC.
The MAC version will require a 180 Mhz PPC CPU, MacOS 8.6 or higher and 32 MByte
Ram. The game is scheduled for release in May 2001. You will find more detail on
the game in the projects section of our homepage.
A version for the alternative PPC OS MorphOS is also planned.
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10.Apr.2001
Thorsten Will via E-Mail
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"SECRETLY!"(DemoScene) Looking for GFX Artist
"SECRETLY!" is looking for some gfx artists for future projects (demos and so on).
If you are interested, send some examples of your work and a little bit about
yourself to twill@gmx.de or to
mr.vain@secretly.de.
Some information about the group you will find at the title link.
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09.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
QuickNote V1.5 Beta 1
OnxySoft released version 1.5 (Beta 1)
of the program 'QuickNote' by Stefan Blixth. Download:
quicknote15b0408.lha
Tales of Tamar Amiga Client V0.34r2
There is a new version (V0.35 R2) of the Amiga-client of
Tales of Tamar for registered beta testers available
here.
Shogo:MAD
As already reported Hyperion Software
uploaded a demo of Shogo:MAD to the Aminet. Download:
ShogoDemo.lha or
ShogoDemo.lha
Ghostscript 6.50
Rüdiger Hanke announced that
he released version 6.50. The download is available at his
Homepage.
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09.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
SKF13Theme.lha biz/dopus 7.1M+Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2
ListbrowserPch.lha biz/patch 10K+Fixes AWeb popup problems with OS3.9 BB1
ShogoDemo.lha biz/titan 36M+Shogo: Mobile Armor Division demo versio
fnews10.lha comm/misc 50K+Free configurable News Display Tool for
daytimedemo.lha comm/tcp 9K+Daytime client/server example + source (
smbfs.lha comm/tcp 120K+SMB file system client; complements Samb
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 362K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
mbs-oldskool.lha demo/ecs 300K+Oldskool Fools by Mandel Bros.
dln-1st.lha demo/intro 140K+First intro by Deadline SF
dln-dentro.lha demo/intro 102K+Dentro by Deadline SF
dln-mustro.lha demo/intro 146K+Mustro (2nd intro) by Deadline SF
Message.lha demo/intro 88K+An Old-School Demo by HCS 90
upstream1.lha demo/mag 579K+Upstream 1 diskmag by Balance
upstream10.lha demo/mag 436K+Upstream 10 diskmag by Balance
upstream8.lha demo/mag 645K+Upstream 8 diskmag by Balance
dln-notelines.lha demo/sound 803K+Notelines musicdisk by Deadline SF
deepcore.lha demo/track 406K+Deepcore trackmo by Balance
JMildred_ScrMd.lha dev/basic 18K+Example of using Mildred with AGA and RT
devpic.lha dev/cross 95K+PIC16 development package
FD2Pragma.lha dev/misc 144K+V2.124 create pragma, inline, ... files
muimaster020.lha dev/mui 97K+Muimaster.library 020 patch Rel 4
IICopier2.0PL.lha docs/help 9K+Polish Locale for IconImageCopier2.0
jAnimator1.0PL.lha docs/help 10K+Polish Locale for jAnimator1.0
MagellanIIPL.lha docs/help 39K+Polish Locale for MagellanII
Aakt0401GUIDE.lha docs/mags 89K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0401HTML.lha docs/mags 267K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
rusfaqs.lha docs/misc 94K+Amiga FAQs, in Russian
SuddenDeath.lha game/actio 50K+4 player tron
F1GP_2001.lha game/data 9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (1 April
obvious.lha game/data 102K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
MUI_HLed.lha game/misc 71K+Map editor for HistoryLine 1914-1918
PerOneMine1.lha game/misc 249K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine2.lha game/misc 362K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine3.lha game/misc 363K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine4.lha game/misc 345K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine5.lha game/misc 336K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
PerOneMine6.lha game/misc 372K+AGA/ECS Emerald Mine game with 81 levels
gse1.lha game/patch 17K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
WHD_JWSnooker.lha game/patch 30K+HD Installer for Jimmy White Snooker
WHD_PDroid90.lha game/patch 17K+HD Installer for Paradroid90
WHD_RAMHamster.lha game/patch 8K+HD Installer for Rockstar Ate My Hamster
WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 14K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer
WHD_Zeewolf.lha game/patch 25K+HD Installer for Zeewolf
WHD_ZeewolfII.lha game/patch 24K+HD Installer for Zeewolf II
eyangband.lha game/role 789K+EyAngband 0.3.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha game/role 953K+Gumband 2.1.3b - Roguelike solo RPG
kangband.lha game/role 843K+Kangband 2.9.2r1 - Roguelike solo RPG
oangband.lha game/role 900K+Oangband 0.5.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
Connect4.lha game/think 64K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
MagicNumbersDt.lha game/think 2K+V1.1, German catalog for MagicNumbers v1
MentalBlokz.lha game/think 405K+Puzzle game that will drive you mental f
Warp3D-4.0.lha gfx/board 980K+Warp3D V4
SoftCinema.lha gfx/show 403K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.12
FMdriver.lha hard/drivr 356K+FrameMachine drivers, TV on WB, Videos a
FMdriverVHI.lha hard/drivr 15K+FMdriverVHI - VHI-FrameMachine drivers
ps2m.lha hard/hack 23K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 WheelMouseController
mathdrill.lha misc/edu 50K+Math Drill Flashcards Program
imdbDiff010330.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
vdo_whit.lha mods/vdo 802K+Valkoinen [xm 14ch]
DelfMPEG.lha mus/play 161K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
dmdev.lha mus/play 135K+Mpeg.device for Delfina DSP
MASMPegDevice.lha mus/play 129K+CBM compat. device for MAS MP3 Player
AMIGirl.lha pix/misc 321K+Picture of Death - The AMiGA Girl ;) by
BareED.lha text/edit 279K+Simple text editor which supports propor
AutoPDF14.lha text/misc 26K+AutoPDF 1.4 - Convert Postscript to PDF
ltools157_demo.lha text/misc 70K+Dictionary and Document Translator
CheckX.lha util/arc 30K+V1.83 Check for Archives/Packers/Viruses
ilbmdtPPC.lha util/dtype 11K+Ilbmdt for the PPC, running WarpUP (45.3
WarpDTPrefs.lha util/dtype 27K+WarpDT preferences program V44.3
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.19 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 140K+PNG image datatype V44.14 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
cookietool.lha util/misc 67K+Clean up your fortunes database, V2.5
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 498K+V1.44 - WB graphics benchmark
WheelBusMouse.lha util/mouse 12K+Bus Mouse wheel support
ScreenShell.lha util/shell 9K+Opens full size shell on new public scre
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 19K+PatchBrain v1.29 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
aafont.lha util/wb 4K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.1)
choowin.lha util/wb 19K+Start and Window activation utility
classaction.lha util/wb 190K+AmigaOS multipurpose filemanager
CondenseIcon.lha util/wb 6K+Os3.5 tool to make .info files smaller (
mainprefs.lha util/wb 86K+AmigaOS Preferences GUI
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09.Apr.2001
Thomas Würgler on ANF
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Trojan Warning (Update II)
Some sort of trojan (apparently the newly uploaded stackattack.lha on
Aminet) has caused SMTP bombing of haage-partner. The file is this: StackAttack.lha
util/boot 68K 0 V1.2b Kills GURUs (stack problem). It's on the
German Aminet mirror.
Could there be hidden loopholes in MorphOS? Read the link and consider
for yourself.
Frank Niewiedzial informed us that other
files could be affected too.
"Do not download and install safe.lha and fblit.lha. They are fakes and send hatemails to H&P."
Silivio K. told us that the current version of 'BlaceWCP' could be concerned too.
"The current version of BlaceWP, available from the aminet, opens the port 113 (auth) of your
computer and connects to the H&P web- and ftpserver! The program itself is not a product of H&P.
Thats why it could be possible that it is a trojan too.
The following logs were recorded:
tcp 0 0 pD9042BA5.dip.t-.auth haage-partner.co.61797 TIME_WAIT
16:00:46.081940 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net.2865 > haage-partner.com.smtp
16:02:08.530618 pD90427BC.dip.t-dialin.net > 217.5.107.165: icmp: echo request
"
Annotation of editor's:
Haage & Partner confirmed that at the moment 15 e-mails arrive at H&P every minute. Juergen Haage:
"Do not panic. No normal mail will get lost."
The MorphOS-Team has nothing to do with the virus and dissociate from this! "Lowest level, this is
not our way of competition".
Even Georg Steger, the original author of StackAttack dissociates him self in his commentary at
ANN.
Virus Help Denmark and the admin of the aminet Matthias Scheler are informed and they will check the
files and maybe delete them.
At the title link there is a tool available that removes the task from the ram. After reboot it will
be there again and you have to restart the tool.
Annotation: Messsage of the day from Aminet
- TROJAN HORSES FOUND ON AMINET. The following four archives on Aminet were
unfortunately infected: util/boot/StackAttack.lha, util/boot/BlazeWCP.lha,
util/virus/Safe.lha and util/boot/FBlit.lha. They contain faked releases
of the original software linked with a Trojan horse which sends out
abusive e-mails. On infected systems a process called "zakahackandpatch"
will show up. If your system is infected deleted the software listed abover
or replace it with older versions and reboot. As a protest against this
abuse of Aminet we will shut down our services on "us.aminet.net" and
"de.aminet.net" until Friday.
- DE3.AMINET.NET NOW COMPLETE. The mirror in Erlangen, Germany now stores all
Aminet files.
Annotation 10.04.2001:
Following the official message by Virus Help Denmark. They are
offering the old alten Archives at there homepage.
Four new 'TCP' trojans was found today on Aminet. If you installed
one of these archives, please delete the files. We hope to have a
cure for these trojan within the next 24 hours.
The TCP trojan will send an email to 'Haage & Partner', with a very
stupid text.
Here is what we know so far:
Virus Type.... : TCP Trojan
Trojan name....: zakahackandpatch
Archive name.. : Safe.lha Archive size.. : About 20 kb
Archive name.. : Fblit.lha Archive size.. : 142.086 bytes
Archive name.. : BlazeWCP.lha Archive size.. : 32.862 bytes
Archive name.. : stackattack.lha Archive size.. : About 32 kb
Thanx to Frank Niewiedzial, Kev Harrison, Luca Longone and many more
for your information about these archives.....
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09.Apr.2001
Greg Donner
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Update of the Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ
Since our last message about the official OS3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner there were many
updates in different parts of the FAQ.
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09.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Prerelease!
We made ArTKnoid by Thilo Koehler (developer of Toadies) available at our side.
The program is a arkanoid-clone.
Amiga Arena TaskiSMS annotation
The registration for the special-price for TaskiSMS is now possible via snail-mail.
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09.Apr.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III - News
After a longer brake there are now some new news about Digital Almanac III (DA 3).
The English version is available now! The German update will be available within a few days.
These are the main changes since version 2.0:
- Improved stability
- Corrected times of the rising and setting of the moon.
- PixelCheck-function does not longer crash with CGX-15/16/24Bit-Screens.
- Times of moon eclipses in the calendar are now in local time.
- and much more...
Furthermore there are about 100MB of videos concerning astronomy and science-fiction.
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09.Apr.2001
Markus Fellhauer on ANF
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AmigAIM 0.9412 Beta Released
Betaversion 0.9412 of AmigaAIM by Richard H. Poser is available for download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha
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09.Apr.2001
Jens Troeger on ANF
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InstallerNG
I released a small update of InstallerNG. I only changed the runtime error handling: you are
able to switch of the error requestors via tooltypes.
There will be version 2 out in some weeks. If you have any wishes for the new version just
send me a mail.
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09.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun on ANF
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Abode of Golgotha Saga at NoRiscNoFun
We have a review of the Abode of Golgotha Saga. These games are based on the Heretic II engine.
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08.Apr.2001
Michael Garlich via E-Mail
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Titan Computer Support MorphOS
Press release from Titan Computer, Software Development, 08.04.2001
Titan Computer is happy to announce that we have decided to now also support
MorphOS in the future.
One of our first projects will be the video-editing software Motionstudio,
which will be developed by the company with the same name, who have already developed
software like Elastic Dreams and Artstudio Pro.
Motionstudio will be released in 4/Q exclusively for MorphOS.
The software supports non-linear video-editing, PlugIn interface, more
than 40 video- and audio effects, innovative GUI as well as Firewire support
(e.g. B-Plan Pegasos Computer).
Take a look at one of the first
screenshots (201 kB)
of the GUI.
Kontakt:
Titan Computer
Mahndorfer Heerstr. 80 A
D-28307 Bremen
Tel.: +49/(0)421/48 16 20
Fax : +49/(0)421/43 88 29
E-Mail: MacFly@TitanComputer.de
WWW: http://www.Titan-Computer.com
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08.Apr.2001
RELEC im ANF
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Prometheus in Switzerland & France
Prometheus in Switzerland & France!
RELEC Software & Hardware AMIGA become exclusive distributor in Switzerland and France.
More informations and FAQ in French at
relec.prometheus.html.
Note from the editor:
'Prometheus' is not the BBS-software, but the
PCI-Board by Matay with the same name.
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08.Apr.2001
Jens Schönfeld on ANF
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Mekka & Symposium 2001 co-sponsored by individual Computers
As during the past years we support the now nearly legendary scene-party
Mekka & Symposium with prices for about 1100,- DM.
The fourday party is held every year on easter in Fallingbostel (between Hamburg and
Hannover
(our report).
In the Mid 80's the first "European style demos" came to the C-64.
Intro-Coders broke with the Cracker-scene to let their creativity develop freely. In the
90's this programming style evolved on all of the computer systems, for example Amiga, C-64
and PC, to an style of art, which we think is worth supporting.
The programming (coding) of demos has become a lifestyle for some people:
Even the proposal of marriage of a well known C-64 coder to his girlfriend had to
shown as a demo over the "big screen" - supported by the applause from several thousand
scene-members.
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08.Apr.2001
Martina Jacobs
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Sven Drieling's Evaluation now also in English
Martina Jacobs has translated the evaluation by Sven Drieling
entitled "St. Louis 2001: Nothing has changed".
St. Louis 2001: nothing has changed - 05.04.2001
Translator: Martina Jacobs
Last weekend Amiga published their current plans in St. Louis
which beforehand were announced to be a ground shaking event.
According to what I have read about that in the Internet since
Sunday it seems to me that nothing has changed.
Amiga's long term target further on is a portable, independent
running AmigaDE combined with TAO's Elate. New is that the plan
to develop AmigaOS v5 including memory protection, SMP, and
other features as an further foundation component for this
system was added. Furthermore there is Sharp featuring a
cooperation to develop applications for Sharp's Zaurus PDA
basing on AmigaDE.
Unfortunately no changes happened to Amiga's information policy,
too, thus it is very hard to understand, what Amiga's plans are
about and I'm not quit sure if I realized their plans correctly.
Indeed it effects me if Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss are talking about
one single plan, but concentrating on opposite tails. Bill McEwen
is focusing on short term targets (AmigaOS for PPC, PDA, hosted AmigaDE)
and Fleecy Moss is focusing on the long term targets (independent running,
portable AmigaOS v5 + AmigaDE for hardware from PDAs through servers
including the desktops). Those two different focal points might be
one reason for the current confusion. A second reason might be
that Amiga didn't publish any contiguous texts clearly stating
their future plans, by now - a.o. still almost nothing is known
about the AmigaDE.
As I've got it the plans are now as follows, whereas I'm absolutely
not sure, if my version is correct, since it is very hard to read
what Amiga now actually wants to do from the input coming from
Amiga and there is range for personal interpretations.
Short term targets are the AmigaDE hosted on Linux and WindowsCE for
PDAs, an an AmigaOS v4.x plus the hosted AmigaDE for PPC computers,
which meet the Zico specification. For example this applies to the
AmigaOne 1200 by Eyetech.
The long term target is a portable, independent, run-anywhere OS
basing on the AmigaOS and combined with TAO's Elate and the AmigaDE.
That OS will offer memory protection, virtual memory, SMP, and similar
and will be available scalable for from PDAs through servers.
In this there are no changes in plans for and further development of
AmigaDE. It still will offer the VP, the Sheep language, OpenGL,
and the other planned and still unknown features and it
will run hosted on other systems, as well as it will be available
as an independent system, on the long run.
The d'Amiga also might still will act as a computer for software
development with an advanced SDK. I don't think/hope that Amiga
will nominate the Zico-PPC for the only development computer for AmigaDE.
By that and 15 month after their foundation Amiga should now
meet the wishes of both, the people wanting an AmigaOS for PPC
as well as the people recommending AmigaDE, and not at the
expense of any of these groups.
It is completely incomprehensible to me, why Amiga is not capable to
put this across the public.
What makes me bothered by St. Louis
Calamitous information policy
Amiga finally has to
realize that it is absolutely impossible for outsiders to understand and
to comprehend what Amiga actually is planning and for what reason. This is
due to all of the necessary information published only bit by bit on
account of tempered reactions from Amiga users, who were completely
confused and misinformed after the announcements in St. Louis.
What sill is missing are texts illustrating Amiga's plans clearly,
understandable, comprehensible, and without contradiction - on amiga.com.
Such would not only be helpful for the Amiga users, but even for
Amiga's staffers, who again got a flood of tempered reactions
lavished on them after St. Louis, while they could have spent their
time doing more suggestive things.
No new SDK
Contrary to what was anticipated by many of us there was no new
version of the SDK presented in St. Louis already containing e.g. OpenGL,
a glimpse on Sheep, and offering other elements. That might have been a
reason for the impression that Amiga now would disregard the AmiaDE and
instead would put their focus on AmigaOS.
Neglect of current AmigaPPC computers
In the beginning disregarding the AmigaOS and concentrating on
the AmigaDE. There even wasn't the definite statement that a third-party
company will port AmigaDE to the current AmigaPPC machines and that
AmigaDE will contain a Classic Amiga emulation right from start
(with accentuation on definite statement). Because of such statements
one could have purchased hard- and software for the existing Amigas
in peace of conscience, since one would have known that one would be
able to use those components together with AmigaDE in the future.
That way Amiga companies and distributors could have continued to
transacted their businesses from early 2000.
That's why I don't understand why Amiga makes the same mistakes,
again. AmigaOS v4.x was announced for Zico PPC machines, but there
is no definite statement that AmigaOS v4.x also will be available for
existing PPC-Amigas. Equipped with a PCI board plus adequate FireWire
cards, and similar, these computers would meet the Zico specification,
moreover.
I understand that Amiga themselves is focusing the easier to handle AmigaOne.
With this Amiga will not forfeit time and they can concentrate on their
real target in a better way. But I cannot understand why the possibility for third-party
companies to port the AmigaOS v4.x for AmigaOne to the existing PPC-Amigas
wasn't mentioned in one single announcement. Though somewhere Fleecy Moss
denoted that possibility, there doesn't seem to be any definite
statement on that.
Amiga would not deteriorate by such a port, but probably there would
be some 1,000 AmigaOS v4.x users more. Nobody would mope because of the
expensive PPC hardware suddenly becoming useless, though this hardware would be proper for
the AmigaOS, and Amiga companies and Amiga vendors could earn money with
PCI boards, and similar, already now, instead of being forced to wait for the AmigaOne
in summer.
Neglect of desktops
Regarding the AmigaDE Amiga first put their focus on PDAs.
Due to the existing cooperation with Sharp and - as I think -
because it is easier to gain a secure market position in the PDA
section than in the desktop section, they are doing it right.
But since AmigaDE must be available for desktop machines (developer machines),
and because one certain point in case of PDAs is the easy data transfer
between PDA and desktops, in my opinion nothing objects to talk about desktops
in one breath. Since just AmigaDE would make it possible to execute one single
application on PDAs as well as on desktops. The desktop variant then would
run hosted on the widely spread Windows and Linux machines, and in addition
on AmigaOS v4.x on PPC-Amiga computers.
Conclusion
With AmigaDE plus applications for PDAs and AmigaOS plus the PPC-hardware, in
my opinion Amiga takes two ways on which Amiga, as well as third-party companies,
could have gains in a short term, already. Additionally Amiga now meet the
wishes of the PPC and AmigaDE backers, without changing the initial targets.
I don't know why Amiga now reclaims the AmigaOS. Reasons for that might have been the
claims to further develop the AmigaOS, and that Amiga learned to know reality during
the last month and while that learned that yet it takes some time to transform own ideas,
no matter how good these are.
The Zico PPC computers are still a very small corner of the market only addressing the
existing Amiga users, for the first time. With a LinuxPPC for those machines the ring of
users can be extended with another hand full of people, who then might become aware of
AmigaOS and AmigaDE, too. But in my opinion it will not be possible to address a bigger
market with that. But this might be possible by a hosted AmigaDE for PDAs and
desktops. While I still don't know what AmigaDE is about in detail, so I absolutely have
no idea how much interesting this system would be for users of other systems.
But if there would be an independent running AmigaDE, already yet, that would represent only
a small part of the AmigaDE systems installed, cause most of AmigaDE systems probably would run
hosted on another system, as I think. Because this way users were able to use the system and
software they know and additionally the new system with the run-anywhere software. They would not be forced
to switch to another system, overnight.
Because I don't have any details about the AmigaDE, I cannot estimate Amiga's future chances, at the
time being. But I think they now have put their plans on stable ground, thus they have good conditions
in the beginning.
But in my opinion a possible breakthrough will not come overnight, but will yield over the years.
One important thing in this then will be the portable AmigaOS v5, in which assumedly AmigaOS and
AmigaDE will melt together as one, making Amiga independent from other systems.
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08.Apr.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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AmiNET-Gui Available under www.aminet-gui.de
The AmiNET-Gui is, at last, once again reachable under a .de-domain.
The Domain aminet-gui.de will in the next hours once again link to the amiNET-Gui.
Shortly the page will be redesigned , as soon as http://www.aminet.de
will be connected once again.
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08.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
V³ 3.3.95beta
The browser Voyager
is now available in 2 versions, one for AmigaOS and one for MorphOS. Which changes have been
made can be read in the
Readme.
Download:
AmigaOS:
v3_3395beta_amigaos.lzx
MorphOS:
v3_3395beta_morphos.lzx
Choowin V1.0
Martin Elsner
has released version 1.0 of his Workbench-Tool 'Choowin'.
Choowin is a small tool to start programs and bring windows to the front and activate them,
similar to a task-manager. Version 1.0 now has a startmenu, a new tooltype-filter and
a new look
Download:
choowin.lha - 20 kB
SoftCinema V0.12 beta
Total Vision
has released beta-version 0.12 of SoftCinema, the movie and animation player for the Amiga.
The program ist shareware, an unregistered version plays only 30 seconds. You can register
the program online at RegNet or, if you don't have a credit card, order at
Fun Time World.
Download:
SoftCinema_012.lha
CondenseIcon V44.5
Stephan Rupprecht
released version44.5 of CondenseIcon, which lets you shrink .info-files.
Download:
CondenseIcon.lha - 6 kB
Mapeditor V1.01
At Peter Weigoldt
you can find version 1.01 of his map editor for the game 'Schlachtfeld'.
Download:
Karteneditor.lha - 72 kB
Turboprint V7.17beta
At IrseeSoft version 7.17Beta of the
printer driver system 'Turboprint' is available for download.
Download: tp717beta.lha
VEPatchBrain V1.29
AT
Virus Help Denmark you can find the new PatchBrain version 1.29 for the
virus checker 'VirusExecutor'.
Here the details:
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.29
Archivename:
VEPatchBrain.lha
Archivesize: 19.658 Bytes
Releasedate: 8. April 2001
Coder: Jan Erik Olausen
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08.Apr.2001
A.C.T. on ANF
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Prelude Programmer-Infos
A.C.T. have made available the first version (currently only in German) of the information for
programmers, which will allow to write Prelude drivers. This makes it also possible to
develop Linux drivers for both Preludes (Z2 and 1200).
Knowledge about the used sound chips is also necessary.
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08.Apr.2001
Daniel Reichen via AMIPRESS-ML
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Send Convalescent Wishes to John Zacharias
As we already reported on our Special St. Louis page John Zacharias, author of AEMail and
organizer of the AmiWest, happened to have a stroke on the St. Louis Show. Meantime he's on the
mend. Send him your convalescent wishes with the greeting card under the title link, created especially for that on
Northwest Amiga Group.
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08.Apr.2001
Stefan Robl on ANF
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FMdriver und FMdriverVHI V1.25
After a long delay at last I released the two FrameMachine drivers v1.25, today.
New in FMdriver the possibility to save different configurations to have optimal
source regarding settings at hand. This is very helpful especially if one uses different
players for passing data (e.g. 16:9, 4:3, DVD, etc.), but wants to have removed those
ugly black borders right from the start. Moreover it now is possible to create time laps
recordings in a very simple way.
The VHI driver FMdriverVHI was generally reworked and mate with my new driver conception
for the FMdriver packet - now performance together with VHI should be much better.
Something else on personal cause: unfortunately that I'll have to strongly reduce my
programming and hardware activities this year, due to my studies and final year project.
Due to this I ask you for your understanding, if it will take me some more time to
reply on an e-mail! At all events I will try to release more new versions, even though
the time famine.
And now, have a lot of fun with the new versions of the programs!
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08.Apr.2001
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Play!Amiga: Shogo-Demoversion Review
What took a long time, at last became fine! Shogo demo version available!
After a long waiting period now there is the Shogo demo. The game is supposed to be
finished next month. Of course there's one probing question: what will the game look
like on my computer? It is about to download simply 40 MB as well as Warp3D v4 and one
can get a first impression. That's what Play!Amiga has done for you.
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08.Apr.2001
Dynamite Team on ANF
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Dynamite 1.2 Released for Download
1. There is an update file for updating Dynamite v1.1 to v1.2 for download.
Dynamite is an Bomberman like online game.
2. There are some innovations in the HTTP section.
- The "Stylorama", the page for new graphics sets, now is working and contains
the current versions. Look for "Stylorama" down right below "The empereors new clothes".
- A Dynamite forum was opened. If you want to express yourself or just would like to
praise the people involved in Dynamite, you can do it there.
Download:
Update: dynAMIte_update.lha - 216 kB
Complete Archive: dynAMIte.lha - 1757 kB
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07.Apr.2001
Frank Herfurt alias Master 3 on ANF
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Invitation for Chat
Channel #miggy.de invites Amiga & PC users to chatting. Everybody with
questions or problems regarding his/her Amiga or PC should address to this place.
The channel #miggy.de has always an open ear.
Server: de.arcnet.vapor.com
Channel: #miggy.de
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07.Apr.2001
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Development of BATTLE Stopped
Already in November HighAnt Development announced a turn in direction (we reported). Today Marco
Frischkorn informs us that the development of the remaining game
'Battle' had definitively been dropped, too.
Frischkorn: "Game Over! You get to see this normally only at the end of a game
but in this case it's also valid for BATTLE. Because of private things (I'll
become father for the second time) and the general situation we have decided to
finish the development of BATTLE and to let the game and the development kit
die."
Read his full statement under the title link.
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07.Apr.2001
Horst Diebel on ANF
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New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since the 1. April there are again new entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware:
- New entry and pictures: Amiga Desktop Video Master (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New picture: Micronik A1200 busboard (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New entry and picture: BSC Ram expansion (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New entriy and picture: Xpert flicker fixer (thanks go to Michael Guenseich)
- New pictures: Rocket Launcher (thanks go to Jorge Santillan)
- New pictures: Access 32 (thanks go to Jorge Santillan)
- New pictures: A3500[T] (thanks go to an DJ)
- New entry and pictures: MTec 1230/28RTC (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky)
- New entry and pictures: Mastercard (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky)
- New pictures and update: Megamix '2000' (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky and Jens Schönfeld)
- Generous update: A2024 (thanks go to Ralph Ewers)
- Update: ATonce Plus (thanks go to Jani Kultanen)
- New mystery: Item #8 (thanks go to Kepp)
- Mystery solved: Item #7 (thanks go to Jan Dwoenizky and Jens Schönfeld)
- New entry: VarIO (thanks go to Jens Schönfeld)
- Manufacturer reports: (thanks go to Jens Schönfeld)
- New entry and picture: Prometheus
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07.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via email
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VEPatch.Brain for VirusExecutor v.1.28 Released
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.28
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 21.052 Bytes
Release date: 6. April 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
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07.Apr.2001
FOM on ANF
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Amiga Easter Card
From the FOM website you can now send an easter webcard of the known Amiga
cartoonist Eric Schwartz.
Amiga no Brasil
You can also find a collection of sundry programs of Brazilian Amiga users on
the CD-ROM Amiga no Brasil.
Games, internet, tools, animations, mods and more. It can
be obtained for DM 5.- plus porto and package from me.
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07.Apr.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden on ANF
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Warp3D v4 was Released
Warp3D V4 was released. The fourth release of the 3D-hardware driver system now
can be downloaded under the title link.
Warp3D needs a compatible 3D-graphics card. The archive contains drivers for
ViRGE and Permedia 2. The drivers for the Voodoo 3 aren't present in this
actual version yet.
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06.Apr.2001
Thomas Frieden on ANF
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Shogo Demo on Aminet
The long wait finally has an end: the demo of Hyperion's story-based shooter
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division should appear soon on Aminet.
The game runs on PPC (WarpUP) and requires at least 64 MB RAM.
For hardware acceleration, Warp3D V4 is required, which should be available
from Aminet at the same time.
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06.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Audiomaster 2000 v 0.66
At Frank Fenn, you can find a new
version of his MUI sample editor 'Audiomaster 2k', which supports all
AHI devices. Saving is not possible in the demo version.
Download: audiomaster2k.lha - 276 kB
AWeb popup problem
If you have after installation of OS3.9 boing bag 1 a problem with AWeb that
cycle gadgets with less than three options show only the first option correctly,
you can find at Tom Parker
a small patch which solves the problem by patching the 'listbrowser.gadget'. Download:
ListbrowserPatch.lha
Aminet CD 42
Aminet CD 42 is now available at Schatztruhe.
The April CD contains more than 800 MB (unarchived) software in almost a thousand archives.
As a special highlight, the full version of the SuperView Productivity Suite is included,
with a cheap upgrade option to SuperView Productivity Suite II.
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06.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail
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Amiga Arena News
In cooperation with Pablo F., the Amiga Arena makes a special price for TaskiSMS possible!
TaskiSMS is an easy to use SMS sender for the Amiga. The special price is 50% of the regular
price and is only valid until May 10th, 2001. You can register at Reg.net.
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06.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
DopJoin.lha biz/dopus 5K+Join files with DirectoryOpus 4.xx. V1.0
DopJoin5.lha biz/dopus 5K+Join files with DirectoryOpus 5.xx. V1.0
ListbrowserPch.lha biz/patch 10K+Fixes aweb popup problems with OS3.9 BB1
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
YAT.lha comm/mail 518K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
GoPortscan.lha comm/net 99K+V0.2 TCP Portscanner with MUI interface
T-Rexx.lha comm/tcp 106K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
titlebar_ic.lha dev/gui 24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
plDPurpleGUIDE.lha docs/hyper 49K+Polish Deep Purple guide V0.1
Aakt0401GFX.lha docs/mags 266K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
AmigaOS39revie.txt docs/rview 12K+A short review of AmigaOS3.9
diceset.lha game/data 13K+A dice-set for the WBgame MagicNumbers
WHDParadroid90.lha game/patch 17K+HD Installer for Paradroid90
WHDRockstarHam.lha game/patch 8K+HD Installer for Rockstar Ate My Hamster
WHDWhiteSnook.lha game/patch 31K+HD Installer for Jimmy White Snooker
WHD_UridiumII.lha game/patch 14K+Uridium II Hard Drive Installer
MagicNumbers_d.lha game/think 2K+German catalog for MagicNumbers v1.0
AmiCAD_2.08.lha gfx/edit 691K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
CMNDR-ImageFX.lha gfx/ifx 136K+Customizable GUI for ImageFX
yav172.lha gfx/show 396K+PowerPC support. Shows bitmap pictures o
FDDx2toInt.lha hard/hack 21K+How to connect two PC FDD to internal po
MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 140K+V1.00 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
unlzx.c.gz misc/unix 9K+Unlzx - decompresses LZX archives on mul
GroundMind.lha mods/blkha 421K+16 channel DBM by blakkhar
Chiba_el.mpg mods/elbie 5.9M+Chiba_Electronique [electro] by ElbiE^t1
rno-r059.lha mods/misc 748K+Rno-records release no.59 by kure/rno (h
crs_tilo.lha mods/techn 596K+CRS00060: phase - timelock
MSE.lha mus/midi 193K+MIDI SYStem EXplorer - PatchEditor+MORE
madonna.jpg pix/art 148K+Hand drawn picture of Madonna
AutoPDF13.lha text/misc 22K+AutoPDF 1.3 - Convert Postscript to PDF
xadmaster000.lha util/arc 261K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68000
xadmaster020.lha util/arc 263K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68020
xadmaster060.lha util/arc 267K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68060
xadmasterdev.lha util/arc 153K+V10.0 Powerful unarchiving system (DEVEL
WinToFront17.lha util/cdity 62K+Replaces ClickToFront, with more options
idle1_3.lha util/moni 15K+A (working) cpu monitor
xfdmaster.lha util/pack 155K+Rel1.35 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
xfdmaster_dev.lha util/pack 175K+Rel1.35 Decrunch packed files (exe/data)
ScreenShell.lha util/shell 6K+Opens full size shell on new public scre
TimeKeep.lha util/time 50K+TimeClock Util for Clients-Projects-Invo
TimeKeepDev.lha util/time 35K+TimeClock Util for Project Development
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 21K+PatchBrain v1.28 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
IconMaster.lha util/wb 24K+Icon copier with some nice features V1.1
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06.Apr.2001
BoingWorld
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amiga.org.yu Moved!
After one year without activity, the Yugoslavian news site 2Amiga Jugoslavija"
has taken up its news service again under the name "Amiga Pager News". The page
has moved and can now be found at
http://www.geocities.com/kenguar/index.html.
All articles appear in Serbian language.
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06.Apr.2001
CyberGraphX
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Klaus Burkert passed away
Klaus Burkert, known for excellent Amiga hard- and software development died
two days ago from a heart attack.
We offer our sincerest condolences to his family and friends. May they find
the strength to get over this loss.
Posted on the official P96 mailing list: "Silence,
I just want to inform you guys out there that yesterday, after a major
heart attack on Monday, one of the greatest developers of Amiga hard-
and software who was my best friend and mentor Klaus Burkert has died.
It was a really big shock for me and so it will be for others.
I don't know what else to say, there are not really words to fit the
situation... Bye Klaus, cu on the other side" - Tobias Seiler
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06.Apr.2001
Jens Schönfeld on ANF
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isdnsurfer.device V1.943 Online
The new version of the ISDN card driver can be found in the support area
of the Individual Computer homepage and offers two new features:
- EOF Mode: This more efficient method of communication between TCP/IP stack
and isdnsurfer.device should give a notable performance boost.
- NSD (New Style Device) commands: Adaption to the newest OS versions.
Further, a multitasking bug was fixed which led to performance losses. The
development continues, with the next update there will finally be Sync-PPP!
Download: isdndev.lha
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06.Apr.2001
Olaf Koebnik on ANF
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena full version!
With permission of Thomas Dorn, the TruePaint HD version, the 24 bit painting
program, is available for download! TruePaint is the predecessor of XiPaint!
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06.Apr.2001
René Stelljes on ANF
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New IRC Amiga Channel: #amiweb
On April 8th, the new Amiga chat channel #amiweb will officially open. Most of
you will probably think that there are so many channels and that another channel
won't make any sense. However, #amiweb won't be an ordinary channel, but rather
a possibility for the average user to chat with programmers and other important
people on the Amiga.
On April 8th from 7:00 pm on, #aminet will be officially opened. Invited for
the "opening ceremony", we have among others Petro Tyschtschenko and Matthias
Böcker, author of DynAMIte and ATC, and the Amiga dealer "Black & White".
The server data:
Server: showme.altnet.org (IP is 216.87.208.170)
Port: 6667
channel: #amiweb
So now just think up some questions, and then we'll read us on April 8th!
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06.Apr.2001
Fabio Alemagna on ANF
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Bill McEwen Interviewed
Quantum Leap, the Italian
e-zine devoted to new technologies is proud to publish an exclusive
interview
with Bill McEwen, president and CEO of Amiga Inc.
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05.Apr.2001
Sébastien Jeudy via E-Mail
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Interview with Fleecy Moss
Sébastien Jeudy, author of l'Annuaire Amiga Francophone and editor at Planet 100% Amiga has done this little interview and permitted amiga-news.de to publish it:
Sébastien Jeudy: Following the announces of Saint-Louis, here are some questions concerning AmigaOS vs MorphOS: The next AmigaOS (4.0 to 5.0) will upgrade to full PPC and include the AmigaDE part. Now AmigaOS and MorphOS are really in competition. How will you react?
Fleecy Moss: We work to forward the Amiga, as always. How our company reacts depends upon too many things to go into here.
Sébastien Jeudy: What do you think about MorphOS?
Fleecy Moss: I think it was a brave attempt by people to continue the AmigaOS when it looked as it no one else was going to. I think the people working on it are all highly skilled, and I have spent a large period of the last few months trying to get them to work with Amiga to forwards the Amiga. I am always open to talking to them.
Sébastien Jeudy: Do you think that you (Amiga Inc.) and the Ralph Schmidt Team could work together? (MorphOS has already some interested PPC parts...)
Fleecy Moss: Amiga Inc. will work with anyone who wants to work with us, but they have to understand that in doing that, Amiga will also work with others and that that is our choice, not theirs.
Sébastien Jeudy: Have you contacts with the Ralph Schmidt Team?
Fleecy Moss: I met them in Cologne, I have spoken to Ralph a few times and have spent much time dealing with intermediaries.
Sébastien Jeudy: Will you stop their works or will you let them to continue their MorphOS development?
Fleecy Moss: I would be very happy to involve them in the team advancing the Amiga. If they chose to do their own thing and are doing nothing illegal, then they should have nothing to worry about.
Sébastien Jeudy: Don't you think that this competiton will divide our little community ? :-(
Fleecy Moss: Consumers, dealers and developers must follow their hearts. I can guarantee them that we will do our utmost to provide the best solution for them, and for all those out there who should have their lives improved by the Amiga experience...but I cannot, and would not force them.
Sébastien Jeudy: bPlan has said that their Pegasos will run with MorphOS. Can you confirm us that the Pegasos will also run with the future AmigaOS (i.e. the full PPC + AmigaDE version)?
Fleecy Moss: Last time I checked, bPlan still said they wanted to produce an AmigaOne. I shall be checking again this week.
Sébastien Jeudy: Thank you very much Fleecy and Best regards, Sebastien Jeudy.
Fleecy Moss: Thanks Sebastien, and a big hello to all the french.
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05.Apr.2001
Sven Drieling on ANF
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St. Louis 2001: Nothing has Changed
On the 5th of April 2001 Sven Drieling published his estimation of
Amiga's currently published plans. Excerpt:
»Last weekend Amiga published their current plans in St. Louis which were
announced beforehand to be a ground shaking event. According to what I have read
about that in the Internet since Sunday nothing has changed.
Amiga's long term target further on is a portable, independent running AmigaDE
combined with TAO's Elate. New is that the plan to develop AmigaOS v5 including
memory protection, SMP, and other features as an further foundation
component for this system was added. Furthermore there is Sharp featuring a
cooperation to develop applications for Sharp's Zaurus PDA basing on AmigaDE.
[-snip-]
By that and 15 month after their foundation Amiga should now meet the wishes of
both, the people wanting an AmigaOS for PPC as well as the people recommending
AmigaDE, and not at the expense of any of these groups.
It is completely incomprehensible to me, why Amiga is not capable to put this
across the public.
«
The entire text (German) is to find under
http://olis.north.de/~indy/NichtsGeändert.html.
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05.Apr.2001
Michael Ulbrich on ANF
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IDE-SCSI-Adapter Available
From now on we provide the IDe-SCSI adapter by the Hantz company.
This adapter makes it possible to connect cheap IDE harddisks to
a SCSI host. Reasonable useable with the SCSI-Kit for Blizzard cards,
BlizzardPPC, FastlaneZ3, WarpEngine, 4091, a.s.o.
Up to now it was Successfully tested with FastlaneZ3, Blizzard-Kit on 1230/4, CSPPC.
The transfer rates achievable are impressing: more than 17MB/s on a CSPPC, close to
8MB on FastLaneZ3 or the Blizzard-Kit.
Connection of the adapter is trouble-free, cause it is completely transparent for the host,
meaning there is no additional software needed. Just plug it in, start any HD installation
program and configure the disk.
Compared to a SCSI harddisk one absolutely can save several hundred Dollar! One advance
compared to common IDE solutions is the observable lower CPU charge due to the DMA
possibility of the usual SCSI host adapters.
Answers to questions are to find under the title link inside of the forum of SHOPnFUN (German).
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05.Apr.2001
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Metabox Selling ICS
Metabox selling ICS
As it became known from management circles Metabox AG, manufacturer of set-top-boxes,
currently are in negotiations regarding the sale of their 100% subsidiary ICS. ICS
produce bargain cash systems and was able to gain sales at the value of 2.29 USD in
1999. But meantime ICS has made application for insolvency at the district council
of Hildesheim, Germany.
No certain reason was given. According to press reports staffers did not get payed
since about two months and a preponderant part of them do not go to work, anymore.
Currently Metabox shares are dealt at the price of 1,40 Euro. The 52-weeks-high is at
45,80 Euro. The current price represents the 52-weeks-low.
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05.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Warp-Datatypes
Oliver Roberts has updated the
following of his datatypes:
WarpJPEG.datatype V44.19 - (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) -
WarpJPEGdt.lha - 133 kB
WarpPNG.datatype V44.14 - (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) -
WarpPNGdt.lha - 140 kB
WarpDTPrefs V44.3 - preferences program for Warp-Datatypes -
WarpDTPrefs.lha - 27 kB
BoingBag3.9-1
Since 04-04-2001 there is an updated BoingBag3.9-1 archive on the
OS3.9 support site containing
minor changes. The current file size is 5.254.174 bytes. So, who has downloaded
BoingBag3.9-1 before 04-04-2001 might get it once more. The following changes
were made:
1. German localisation of IconEdit now is okay.
2. The commodities Blanker, CrossDOS, Exchange and FKey are now really included as
their latest versions.
.plan by David 'zapek' Gerber
In his .plan
David, author of CVS Management and co-author of many programs like e.g. Voyager3,
describes why he bets on MorphOS.
IJPEG Tools V6.2B PPC-MorphOS Port
Fr3dY has ported "Independent JPEG Group's
JPEG Software tools" to MorphOS.
Download: ijpeg62b-mos.lha - 187 kB,
It is vital to also read the readme.
ClassAction V4.0 und MainPrefs V2.20
Martin Elsner provides updated versions
of ClassAction and MainPrefs for download. With MainPrefs now also variables can be
entered and deleted and assigns can directly be added to the user-startup or deleted from it.
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05.Apr.2001
Digital Amiga Dream
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DAD: Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn
Digital Amiga Dream (DAD) has interviewed Andreas Falkenhahn from
Airsoft Softwair. Read the interview under
the title link.
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05.Apr.2001
Thorsten Will via E-Mail
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Invitation for MS2001 Party Published
Mekka & Symposium, the traditional demo scene party, on which
many demo workers introduce their demos each year, is coming and
the organization enters the final lap. The best demos will be honored
with price money. The MS2001 will take
place from 13th to 16th of April 2001 in Fallingbostel, Germany, in the
Heidmark-Halle.
Mr.Vain of Secretly! (aka Thorsten Will) has done the invitation
(unofficial mekka^symposium-invitation) including directions and map and an indication of the
youth hostel. Download:
scl_ms2001inv.lha - 320 kB.
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05.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail
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Narr-Site News
From today you can download a theme for Voyager from my site.
This again is about a stylish Netscape like image set containing all of the
important buttons. There is also included in the archive a matching MacOSX like
background pattern. There is a screenshot on the 'Projects site'. Furthermore
a page for SendStuff was created containing screenshots and a small description
of the program.
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05.Apr.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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ahi.device 5.6 Available
Martin Blom has published the new version 5.6 of the ahi.device for 68k and
PPC Amigas on his homepage.
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05.Apr.2001
Michael Burkhardt (IOM) on ANF
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Red Zac General Meeting with Amiga 1200
On Monday the Red Zac (also known as Interfunk) general meeting took place in
Nuernberg, Germany. On two screens 16 ft. of width Powerpoint presentations
and live video from 6 cameras were shown. On customer's demand the computer's
name should be faded in the video pictures. This cries for Amiga technology, downright.
IOM took the task of preparation and presentation of these so called 'tummy bandages' using
a simple Amiga 1200, acceleration card 1230/40, Scala MM 300, 16 MB RAM, and Sirius II Genlock
by electronic design. From my point of view this event was a full success. The Amiga
worked trouble-less and it was just fun to admire the Workbench on such a big screen.
And as usual, if an Amiga gets set up anywhere, the same things happen:
somebody catches sight of her, recognizes her, and calls out, "hey, an Amiga".
After that a small group of people come together, who
a) have owned an Amiga themselves
b) are deeply impressed of this little thing, and
c) are interested in the current situation regarding Amiga.
But if you set up an PC anywhere this isn't anything special, even not if
Windows crashes or the computer doesn't do what it is supposed to do.
Conclusion: I love "the spirit of Amiga".
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04.Apr.2001
Thomas Siegel on ANF
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Online Music Module Compo started well!
Online-Module-Compo which started on March 1st 2001 has now 17 participants and
you cannot send modules any longer. From now on you can download and vote the
modules which were all made from the same sample-set. Just download, vote and listen to it - have fun!
Thomas Siegel aka "d!RT!E - organiser&websitter of mOOdS"
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04.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Turboprint for Linux V1.0
You can order version 1.0 of the printer driver software
Turboprint for Linux at IrseeSoft.
It contains printer driver (beta) for Canon S400, 450, 4500, 800;
Epson Stylus Color 680, 880, 980 und Photo 790, 890, 1290.
Scalos News
There is an updated version of the 'Persistent Windows Plugin'. of
Scalos which is a full replacement of the workbench. Download:
Scalos-Plugin_PWindows.lha - 19 kB
iFusion
According to Paul Lesurf from Blittersoft on Fusion mailing list iFusion is being just duplicated.
Distribution will start during this week. iFusion is a PPC-Mac-emulator for PPC-Amiga of
Microcode Solutions.
ilbm-Datatype
Stephan Rupprecht has published version 45.3b of his
ilbm-datatype for PPC(WarpUP). Download:
ilbmdtPPC.lha - 11 kB
AmigaAMP
AmigaAMP-mailinglist has moved to
amigaamp@amigaamp.de.
All members has been entried to the new list automatically.
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04.Apr.2001
Neodym on ANF
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Sharp Zaurus Really Exists!
Because many reports at least doubts the existence and availability of Zaurus-PDA I kept my
eyes opened and went shopping in Tokyo. Zaurus does really exist! Two of them I held in my hands.
It is written all in Japanese but the device gives a very solid and good impression. The silver metal
housing (there were just dummies of the white and lilac variant) looks very fine and feels good (just like Palm V).
The display is very comfortable: Big, colourful and white lighted as well as rather sharp and well
readable. Zaurus is just as thick as a PalmVx in its metal case.
I have taken away a Japanese flyer. If anybody should be interested in it I will try to scan it or to
take a photo.
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04.Apr.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New Caricature online: Doc Fleecy
Dr.Fleecy Moss, "chief-psychiatrist" at Amiga Inc., calms the people`s Amiga feelings...
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04.Apr.2001
Brad Webb via E-Mail
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Amiga Update - Newsletter of Brad Webb
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O U R " T A K E " O N T H E S H O W
A M I G A , S H A R P Z A U R U S , A N D O T H E R S
S O M E D E T A I L S F R O M G A R Y P E A K E . . .
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Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Below are items pertaining to the just completed Amiga 2001 show held
in St. Louis, USA, over the past weekend (March 30 - April 1). Due to
the importance of the show, and the buildup before it, we thought
we'd put together a small special issue to get information to you.
As with most things, the true significance of events will probably
not be known for some time.
Brad Webb,
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O U R " T A K E " O N T H E S H O W
3 April, 2001
By Brad Webb
It was billed as "1985 all over again". In some ways, for some
people, it probably was.
It was definitely the changing of the guard.
It had it's usual share of organizational problems.
It was fun, and the place to be this last weekend.
The most important news from the point of view of our readers may be
that there will be additional versions of AmigaOS, and they will be
Power PC native!
The most important news from the point of view of the Community and
its continuation is that there are once again good ways to make money
as an Amiga developer!
Logistics
~~~~~~~~~
There were problems with getting classes and seminars started and
ended on time, and there was a terribly long wait to enter the banquet
hall Saturday night. These things seem endemic to many Amiga shows and
can often be traced to the small number of people willing to help. We
hope as the new market develops and grows, more people will be
available to help run Amiga shows. In the meantime, those who worked
on Amiga 2001 did a fine job given the circumstances, and those in
attendance were able to deal with the minor logistical problems and
get real benefits from the events.
The Sales Floor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The sales floor was well attended, especially on Saturday, and there
seemed to be a good amount of buying. The number of vendors was not
real high (about 14 or 15 key Amiga stalwarts), but the large booth
belonging to Merlancia seemed determined to make that up by itself. It
looked as if all the stock ever assembled by Amiga International was
there to be purchased. They also had a nifty assemblage of items in a
sort of mini-museum of Commodore and Amiga memorabilia. The two large
vats of free bottled beer on Saturday didn't hurt matters, and went
well with the incredibly huge pile of pizza in boxes brought in by
Petro for his retirement luncheon. The pizza itself was first rate.
There were only a few new products, the most interesting of which was
a PC on a card from Mr. Hardware Computer. We haven't seen it in
operation, but hope to have more information in the future.
Petro
~~~~~
Genuine emotions and deep appreciation were everywhere in evidence
for Petro throughout the weekend as his retirement was was both
celebrated and regretted. The roast, which certainly had its
hilarious moments, ran quite long as many in the Community wanted to
share their affection and memories. It might well have been an event
by itself on another night, so much needed to be said. A standing
ovation for Petro was just one of many clearly deeply felt attempts to
express appreciation. And just because he's retiring, don't be
surprised if you see him very much in attendance at future Amiga
shows.
The Future
~~~~~~~~~~
When Bill McEwen finally got to the main presentation during the
banquet, he tried to compress his remarks to save time. As it turned
out, he had a lot of good things to say, and anything that had to be
left out was covered later during the weekend.
Much applause greated the statement that Amiga OS is planned out
through vresion 5.0 and they're not going to stop there! The OS will
become native PPC, beginning by moving OS 3.9 to PPC. Eventually, at
version 4.2, the "old hardware" will no longer be needed and
standalone machines can be built. Once again, emphasis was made that
Amiga will not be making hardware itself.
For the short term, a completed Amiga ONE board for the 1200 was
shown. We discussed the status of an Amiga ONE for the A4000 the next
day with Alan Redhouse of Eyetech. He tells us it's still firmly in
the plans, but must be a money-maker to remain there. If it doesn't
see the light of day, it will most likely be due to completion taking
longer than Amiga OS requires to reach 4.2, when it will no longer be
needed. It all depends on how fast the new versions of Amiga OS come
along.
The Amiga ONE is headed into beta in the June/July time frame and
just might (no promises) be ready in time for the west coast Amiga
show in Sacramento, California, at the end of July.
The other key point made by Bill McEwen during his banquet
presentation is that there is now, finally, a new and huge potential
market for Amiga developers, where they can actually make money! This
is where the comparison with 1985 has some merit. In 1985, Commodore
created a new market for developers with the original Amiga. Now, the
new Amiga Inc. has created another new market for developers with
Amiga DE.
New Market
~~~~~~~~~~
Bill pointed out that the cell phone and handheld markets are
starving for content. This content needs to be small games and
utilities of the kind Amiga developers are well equipped to create.
The Amiga DE provides a single solution for this new Java-centric
small appliances world. In Japan, the Sharp Zaurus is already
Amiga-able. More are coming, and coming to the rest of the world as
well. We have a press release below which should answer most questions
you have. Bill did point out there were over 1800 new Amiga developers
now due to this new market.
Bill noted that after the Zaurus comes the Psion, and that's just the
beginning.
It's a simple market. The user of the cell phone or PDA downloads an
application / game / ringer sound / what-have-you and pays for it
on-line. Price is perhaps $10 for a small game. 60% goes to the
author, 40% to the distributor. There are no boxes, no shelves full of
inventory, no manuals to take care of, and no returns. Simple,
elegant, and with millions of potential customers.
New Amiga OS Versions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bill also stated that Amiga DE would roll into the Amiga OS as it
goes forward. During discussions Sunday morning, Bill explained the
reason for going forward with Amiga OS was a business one, which means
there's a good chance it will actually happen close to plan. The
business reason is simple - the new Amiga needs server machines it can
control for use as it's home server. There's nothing better for the
job than the existing Amiga OS. A second, but very important reason,
is that Amiga knows a number of the talented developers in the
Community won't develop on anything else.
There are a couple words of caution. At this point, it's not clear
how compatible existing PPC based machines will be with the future
standards. Compatibility will not be ignored, we're sure, but of
course can't stand in the way of success for the future.
In addition, this does mark a change in direction for Amiga from what
was announced in the past. The Amiga DE was supposed to be scalable
from PDAs to servers. Now it seems it is not, due primarily to its
lack of memory protection as we understand it. A change in direction
is not all bad when it's fine tuning an overall strategy. The problem
is the Amiga community has seen little other than changes in direction
in the past, with no direction lasting long enough to produce growth
and meaningful product. This change doesn't seem to be in the same
category as previous ones, but we're not surprised Amiga is being
taken to task in postings on the net by long term disillusioned
Amigans. As we've said so often in the past, "time will tell" - but
we're inclined to be more reassured than frightened by this change.
The Transition
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It might have escaped notice by some, but this event marked a
significant transition for Amiga. Petro's retirement was one element
of this, though mostly symbolic. The second is more subtle, but more
important for the future. Amiga Inc. is now taking a firmer guiding
hand. In the past, Amiga OS 3.5 and 3.9 (for example) were pretty much
farmed out on a "bring us something" basis. From now on, Haage and
Partner and other key contributors will be functioning more as project
managers within an overall strategy maintained by Amiga. This will
give the market some much needed direction and should be a help to all
who depend on it. It's a sign of the maturing of the company, and is
quite welcome.
Interestingly, Bill McEwen stated Amiga enters this new state with a
new Vice President of Engineering, a person he would not identify yet
to spare him loads of e-mail, but who came from MicroSoft. The
operating system side of development is being handled by Fleecy Moss
and his team.
Word Pictures
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There's always so much more to an Amiga show than the speaches and
sales. We'd like to share a few "word pictures" with you from the
weekend.
40 or 50 Amigans talking about every Amiga topic under the sun at
Amiga's Hor's D'overies party Friday night. We finally got to meet
Phil Vedovatti, the man behind New Icons, and found him delightful.
Living in yet another hotel with strange floor arrangements. Last
year's Henry VIII was torn down due to airport expansion, but this
Sheraton maintains its spirit. We entered on the ground floor, then
took an elevator down two floors to our room on the first floor.
There, we had a door out onto a ground level patio. Shades of
"Castrovalva" from Dr. WHO.
Getting tossed out of the dining room along with "Mrs. Brad", JoAnn,
Florence and John Zacharias (of "AE Mail" fame) when they closed it
for the night. There was a lot to be gone over, so we just moved on
...
The first day, the phones didn't work. Not just in the hotel, but all
over this section of St. Louis. Someone cut a key cable somewhere. It
was NOT a MicroSoft plot to keep the word from getting out.
The Mardi Gras beads being handed out by Kermit Woodall of "Nova
Design". No, we're not going to tell you what you had to do to get
some. Yes, we do have some. They were everywhere in evidence, all
weekend long.
Seeing Dave Haynie and Leo Schwab again, Leo in full medieval costume
as in days of old. Wonder where he gets the hats? "Schwabbies"
(remember them?) might be just "the thing" for the new small appliance
market.
Rollie and his clarinet, performing "A Very Good Year" for the
banquet crowd. Actually kept everyone quiet in appreciation of the
music, no small task! High marks for the organizers for this one!
The dancing Petro baby during the Petro roast video. Not to mention
the speach by video from Bill Gates - or a darn good rendered
likeness, anyway.
The stories of Petro's driving. It's a good thing he's skilled at it,
or we might be short a large number of Community members.
The UGN folks in the corner, doing their best to get the word out to
the world. We didn't get to discuss the phone failure and how it
affected them, but it can't have been a help.
The many good restaurants, bars and shops in the West Port area right
outside the hotel. Definitely an improvement over the old venue. There
are a lot of word pictures to come from events in a few of the bars,
which we won't be bringing you.
The collision of the Amiga crowd waiting to enter the sales floor on
Saturday morning and 100 or so children with parents heading through
the same area on their way to an early Easter Egg hunt. Can't blame
the organizers for this one. Incidentally, the wandering Canada geese
outside the hotel seemed slightly confused by all the colored eggs
lying about.
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A M I G A , S H A R P Z A U R U S , A N D O T H E R S
ST. LOUIS, MO, March 30, 2001 - Amiga Incorporated, a pioneer in the
development of multi-media and content, today announced a long-term
partnership with Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of
innovative products and core technologies in electronics, in which
Amiga will develop content for next-generation Sharp handheld
computing devices.
In March, Sharp announced its plans to market the Zaurus PDA in the
United States and Europe as one of the world's first Linux-based
handheld device. The Linux operating system is gaining wider
acceptance in the computer server market because its underlying code
is freely distributed on the Internet. Easily adaptable for different
hardware devices, the Sharp handheld will be able to run software
written in Sun Microsystems' versatile Java software language that
supports different operating systems.
In this partnership, Amiga announced that its developer community
would either develop new content or adapt existing content for PDA
applications, using their reputation for innovation and leadership in
gaming, 2D, 3D, animation, video, and music applications.
Amiga-developed content can be downloaded directly through wireless
networks, using desktop computers, or ported directly into the new
device.
"By working with Amiga as one of our content partners we are able to
expand the applications and content available for our new devices,"
said Dr. Hiroshi Uno, Ph.D. Division General Manager - Mobile Systems
Division, Communications Systems Group, Sharp Corporation Japan.
Amiga has an outstanding reputation for software development. We
anticipate that the alliance with Amiga will create a lot of momentum
for the Zaurus PDA."
"Amiga is excited to be part of the Zaurus PDA project, and we look
forward to bringing the excitement, brilliant content and magic of the
Amiga community to Sharp," said Bill McEwen, President/CEO of Amiga
Incorporated. "Amiga is adding new dimensions of content for the next
generations of computing devices, and we see the new PDA platform as
an important area of strategic business growth and applications for
the Amiga community. We intend to develop some really great
applications as consumers more fully understand the great potential
and skill set of the Amiga community."
About Sharp Corporation
Sharp Corporation, a worldwide developer of the core digital
technologies that are playing an integral role in shaping the next
generation of mobile computing products for consumer and business
needs. Since creating the Wizard(R) electronic organizer in 1989,
Sharp has led the market in introducing innovative handheld computing
products. Sharp is also the global leader in LCD technology, which is
incorporated into leading-edge LCD monitors and projectors. From the
small office/home office (SOHO) to large corporate environments, Sharp
provides a variety of innovative, computer-related solutions designed
to help increase productivity while providing functionality to meet
customer demand. Dedicated to improving people's lives through the use
of advanced technology and a commitment to innovation, quality, value
and design, Sharp Corporation employs approximately 60,200 people
worldwide in 30 countries. More information is available at
http://sharp-world.com/index.html.
About Amiga
Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting
applications to a new multi-media operating systems which is hardware
agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group
of Reading England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications
can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000,
R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The Amiga OS can run
hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and
QNX4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and
has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit
Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com.
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S O M E D E T A I L S F R O M G A R Y P E A K E . . .
{The following items were found posted on the net and should help
clarify the announcements from Amiga 2001. Brad}
3 April, 2001
As has been discussed here several times, AmigaDe has no
memory protection. This and a couple of other issues are
the reasons for the announcement.
Basically, here is what we are doing and why:
1. Developers are starving to death and will leave
unless we find a way to help them make money fast.
Dealers have the same problems. We need more oomph to
take advantage of higher fps games, etc. This IS a
multimedia platform community after all. My mail box
tells us developers and dealers need something quickly.
We can get AmigaOne and OS4.0 out by summer without
losing any time developing the DE. This is with our
thanks to Haage & Partner and Eyetech who have agreed to
meet PRD's we set before them. We could not implement
this plan so quickly without their valued help. Also we
should include Hyperion who is assisting our team with a
level of GL and video capability that will enhance game
developers potential.
2. Users want new hardware. Amigas are starting to fail
and frankly it is just too expensive to start R&D for
new (modified) chips in the amounts we would probably be
able to sell and just as expensive for fabbing the older
chips as well. So, off the shelf, open designed, new
machines based on PPC is the most inexpensive way to get
the Amiga user onto a newer platform.
3. Amiga users have always been partial to PPC. Dean
Brown, Dave Haynie, Mick Tinker, and Joe Torre (four of
THE best and brightest Amiga minded hardware gurus I
know) are all for a PPC based platform advance. Dave had
the PiosOne design that he allowed us to release openly
to help people see what can be done with an open
hardware design based around PPC. We did not release
Dave's specs the week before the announcements by
accident. It was to open people's minds to what can be
done by thinking outside the box. Dave Haynie doesn't
know what a box is. Remember, we already run on a bog
standard PC. :)
4. Our Zico base specs are an open spec based around
PPC. Alan Redhouse at Eyetech has a full plan, knows
when to freeze the design and ship, and has met our
Product Requirements Document. Dean Brown has approved
his design. Dave Haynie saw it in St Louis and thought
it was cool. Joe was there also and while I didn't ask
Joe specifically for his ideas, he is open enough to
have said if he thought the design was bad. Haage &
Partner have met our PRD's on the software side. Both
have excellent reputations for actually meeting
deadlines and shipping product when they say they will.
While they are contracting to us, these projects are
being managed by us now.
5. Amigade provides us with binary compatibility,
distributed processing capabilities and many other
things we can get no where else. This line of
development will continue as previously planned. Note:
There are NO changes to what you have been told we plan
to do with AmigaDE.
6. We intend, as we have stated all along, to cover
everything from PDA's and cell phones, set top boxes,
and servers. This plan allows us to do that with ease.
7. AmigaOS will continue to be developed and will be
merged into or under AmigaDE so that we eventually have
our own familiar base to play on and it will be a full
AMIGA base that is server capable and cell phone capable
as well. But we will not drop Windows and Linux
compatibility either. Think of this as adding yet
another playground for AmigaDE. It is no different from
deciding to also play on top of Be or any other OS out
there. We will continue to find playgrounds that provide
us, our developers, and dealers even more opportunities.
8. As far as splitting the community and the developers:
We have over 2,000 developers currently involved with
us. Another 30 added themselves today after the news
from St Louis. My mailbox is so full I spent all day
JUST answering new mails from developers and companies
wanting to come to Amiga and play and I didn't get them
all answered yet. Half of the developers are firmly in
the PDA, cell phone, and set top box camp. The other
half are either desktop oriented or want to do both.
This gives everyone a place to utilize their talents and
make money.
9. Most notable request from developers I have
is "please also give us a desktop". As Bill noted in his
banquet speech, he made certain promises to me based on
what Team AMIGA members (6000 plus) and others in the
community have said they want from whomever has the
Amiga name. I took this job based on those promises.
Bill keeps his promises.
10. This is a business and this is fun. We do what we do
because we want to and we can. If someone tells us we
can't, we do it just to show them we can. This is also a
family. This was very evident over the weekend. I hugged
more people in St Louis than I do at a family reunion.
Bill had tears in his eyes as he talked about us losing
Bob Cosby. We care. We have to make sure our friends and
family can finally make money but we have to do it in
ways that keep us afloat as well from a business
standpoint.
11. Tao Group is a great partner and is providing Amiga
with opportunities we have never been able to land
before. Good business means taking advantage of this
opportunity they provide and we intend to do that with
their help and asistance.
12. Listen to the facts and ask questions here and in
other Amiga forums where we are there to answer your
questions truthfully. Don't listen to the naysayers, the
hype, the conjecture, and the innuendo of people who
have no clue. We will tell you the truth. Bad or good,
you get the truth.
13. We have taken flak from certain people because they
say we provide no value. Our value is in uniting as many
people as we can into a formidable force. We can not do
what we plan alone. It takes unity, solidarity, team
work. All of us must work together and together we will
slowly conquer the world ... just because we want to.
Sincerely,
Gary Peake
Amiga Inc.
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{Also found on the net, and dealing with things at a bit more
technical level, are these notes from Amiga's CTO, Fleecy Moss. We
found this as a posting from Alexander Lohrmann and answers from
Fleecy, which we indicated with *s. Our thanks to Mr. Lohrmann for
asking the questions! We've removed a few things for clarity but added
nothing beyond the *s. Brad}
Apr 1, 2001
Will there be any improvements over OS3.9 like:
- A really integrated TCP/IP-stack
*Brand new, written from scratch.
- Memory Protection for new apps (I know it is impossible for old
ones)
*Virtual Memory will come in OS4, which will make a big difference.
MP is much harder and will be done in OS5.
- recource tracking
*the Amiga Component Model will give you that.
- SMP
*OS5
- A new datatypes-system, especially for streaming and anims
*The ACM and streaming system will give you that.
- a new and better soundsystem, with support for surround and 3D
*The Audio system will be the best of any system out there. We have 5
of the best audio people in the world working on it.
- 2D and 3D APIs, integrated into the gfx-system instead of hacked-in
like now
*Already underway, and with our close alliance with Matrox, there
will be not only standard high level APIs but GLIDE like low level
APIs to really take advantage of Matrox cards.
- a new Workbench
*OS4.5
- an improved intuition.library (we really need one !)
*OS4.5
- hardware-independancy
*OS4.2
- a new filesystem
*OS4.0 -
- a good printer-system with drivers for more printers
*Probably OS4.2, waiting for USB, and for the full benefits, OS5, the
PDP media system.
2) AmigaDE
We always heard that the AmigaDE will run on everything from PDAs to
servers. I think you have left this idea behind, I have understood it
that way that it will run on STBs and PDAs and the new AmigaOS 4. Is
this right
*That's correct.
? Do you think that there will be a really native version for x86 &
co, I mean a real desktop-os, later in the future ?
*It will integrate into existing desktop OSs. That is what all of our
big customers tell us is necessary for success.
What I liked about the AmigaDE as it was announced in the past was
the fact that (as I understood it) developers would have the
possibility to write an application or a game for the AmigaDE and
contribute some kind of runtime-environment including all necessary
stuff like the translator, the Elate-kernel, GUI, Sound and 3D-APIs or
whatever is needed by the product for every supported operating system
with it. This could bring developers to the AmigaDE and if there is a
version of AmigaDE hosted (or really part of) on AmigaOS 4 then there
would be many new apps and games and then maybe there will be some new
(or old ? :-)) users. Will this still be possible ?
*Yes.
Will the AmigaDE still contain stuff like OpenGL, a sound-API or some
gui-stuff ? Or will it only contain things PDAs need ? If it would
contain everything needed by big apps like office-packages or games I
think many developers would come along, even companies, because they
could increase their sales from let's say only Windows-users to Mac,
Linux and AmigaOS 4 users without the need to make several version.
Write once run everywhere
*The AmigaDE has a capabilities system which dynamically matches
requests to capabilities. If you are on a desktop, you can use AmigaDE
desktop apps.
P.s.: Will AmigaOS 4 run on existing PowerUP-hardware ? I think this
is a must-be, otherwise many users will feel traited ... (Is this the
right word ?)
*At the moment no 8-( Anyone who has bought PPC accelerators
understands the drag the architecture has placed on those products. To
code an AmigaOS4 around that solution is to condemn it before it even
begins. The new AmigaOnes will be cheap enough and expandible, and
will be orders of magnitude faster than the existing products. It is
hard, but this is the first Amiga certified hardware in over five
years - the line has to be drawn somewhere, and this is it.
*There is a possibility of a software compatability layer, but the
performance would most likely kill its usefulness compared to an
AmigaOne.
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04.Apr.2001
Sven Ottemann via E-Mail
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LHA 1.14i for UNIX Amiga-port
Sven Ottemann has compiled LHA1.14 for UNIX for AmigaOS. This version supports -lh6- und -lh7-.
You can download versions for 68000, 68020+ and PPC (WarpOS) under the title link.
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04.Apr.2001
FORE-MATT via E-Mail
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100%Amiga issue 11
The English software distributor 'Fore-Matt' has published a new Amiga magazine. The magazine
is called '100% Amiga' and is distributed exclusively on CD-ROM. It has a seperate surface which
leads the reader through the magazine.
Current issue 11 which is being just pressed contains mainly a report about St. Louis Show. Furthermore the
CD contains a report about WoA Show of Fleecy Moss, a review of Payback, a first view on 'Silencer',
the topic datatypes and much more.
Contact:
FORE-MATT Home Computing (Dept e)
PO Box 835
Wootton Bassett
Swindon
SN4 8RX
Tel: +44 (0)8700 11 22 34
E-Mail: sales@forematt.idps.co.uk
Web: www.forematt.free-online.co.uk
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04.Apr.2001
Rainer Benda on ANF
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Finance Online: Chairman of Met@Box Resigned
»Today Met@Box which is quoted on the New Market announced that chairman Geerd-Ulrich Ebeling resigned.
Private reasons were named for that. There will not be a successor
because the company is going to name a new chairman as a financial chairman.
Further more the company informed of selling off its shares of Interzart AG 3D Commerce. The share finished
at 1,82 Euro.«
Source: Finance Online 03.04.2001 23:50
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04.Apr.2001
ADR (BAUD) on ANF
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Amiga Apache 1.3.19 - PHP 4.0.4 pl 1 Published
You can download the new patch-level of webserver Apache version 1.3.19 - PHP 4.0.4 pl 1.
Everybody who is interested in the topic Amiga-Apache can find three articles online at
Amiga-Magazin:
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04.Apr.2001
Thomas Dellert via E-Mail
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DCE Microserver G3/G4 - Press Release
Product-info "DCE Microserver G3/G4"
Starting from Q3/2001, DCE Computer Oberhausen will offer a G3/G4 PowerPC®
based PCI card. The so-called "DCE Microserver G3/G4" will give you the
complete functionality of a Server System. The PCI card can be either used
as Master or Agent. By this flexibility there are several possible
configurations for this machine to fit the user's personal convenience.
Possible options are:
- usage in a DCE PCI expansion as Amiga PowerPC® card
- using a passive backplane to build a complete standalone system
- creation of a PowerPC® cluster system in conjunction with the
Pegasos mainboard (www.bplan-gmbh.de)
- industrial use as single pcb high end solution
Due to the highly optimized design of "DCE Microserver G3/G4", the price of
this solution without CPU will be in the range of backplane-only expansions.
Technical information:
- G3/G4 CPU 450-733 MHz 1-4 MB Cache
- up to 1 GB 133 MHz SDRAM
- 100 Mbit Ethernet
- optional Firewire
- PCI 2.1 Master/Agent
DCE MicroServer G3/G4, GREX 1200/4000 as well as the existing PPC board user
base will be supported by MorphOS. This will guarantee that Amiga users can
use most of their software with that system. In the near future there will
be a JIT (Just in time) emulation included in MorphOS that will allow
execution
times of 68K software far beyond current 68060 50MHz level even on the
existing Phase5/DCE hardware.
Furthermore, MorphOS opens the door to real PPC OS software, like
- CyberGfx
- SFS
- Datatypes
- MUI
- AmiTCP V5
- Voyager
- YAM
- CED
- Bochs (Windows-Emulator)
- Office-Paket Papyrus of Rom-Logicware, which was ported by Titan.
- Many more important programs are being ported right now.
Thomas Dellert
R&D Department
thomas.dellert@dcecom.de
http://www.dcecom.de
DCE Computer Service GmbH
Kellenbergstr. 19a
D-46145 Oberhausen
Phone:+49-208-660673
Fax: +49-208-630496
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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Elbox publishes MediatorUP2.1
There is an update of the driver software of the Mediator-PCI-board of Elbox. The file is 60 kB
and you can download it at the usual places or order it from Elbox.
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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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MakeCD 3.2 beta6 with Video CD Support
It has been announced version 3.2d public beta6 (videoCD-edition) of the writing software MakeCD.
All CD-RW-driver has been updated. You can now import .toc (cdrdao) images which are generated
with VCDTools and .cue (CDRWin) images which are generated with VCDGear. Please have a look at
History for further information.
Download: Is still not possible.
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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Cinemaware offers TV Sports Football and -Baseball for Download
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response from the last offering,
Cinemaware proudly presents these two innovative classics! Take a
nostalgic journey back to the birth of the modern sports craze!
The TV Sports franchise was original and new in that it presented
the game like it was an actual television broadcast.
They're only going to be available for a limited time, so run to
the Vault quickly to download TV Sports Football
and TV Sports Baseball.
Don't forget to stop by at the forums
and tell us which other classic titles you'd like to see made available.
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04.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Meternet Reworking Hardware of their SimpleBox
Meternet informed of reworking the hardware of its SimpleBox (Set-Top-Box) which is supposed
to run on AmigaDE in order to produce SimpleBox still cheaper. It is possible that there will
be news still this month.
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03.Apr.2001
Ruediger Hanke via eMail
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Aladdin Ghostscript 6.50 for Amiga
I have compiled Aladdin Ghostscript 6.50 for Amiga. You can download it from my
homepage (title link), I will upload it to the Aminet in the next days. There
is a 68k- and a PPC-version available. The PPC-version needs the latest WarpOS
version (5.0)
With Ghostscript you can convert and print Postscript and PDF files. Most interesting
is may be the fact that you can convert Postscript files from Pagestream or FinalWriter
to PDF, like the Adobe Distiller, Ghostscript 6.50 is the first Amiga program that
can handle embedded fonts (PageStream does not (yet!) support font embedding, and
5.10 converts fonts to graphics, which results in huge PDF files in poor quality.)
An archive with sources is available, too, but I created Ghostscript with the
StormC-Compiler and not with GeekGadgets. This means there are no Amiga-makefiles
but only StormC-projects. If you want to recompile please make sure to read
the !!!Source.readme in the archive.
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03.Apr.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FootballPatch.lha biz/dbase 109K+Patches for Football 2.6
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 78K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.5.1
Indy5Theme.lha biz/dopus 5.5M+Theme for DirectoryOpus5 Magellan 2
DCF77update.lha biz/patch 573K+Update for DCF77 3.0-3.10 to 3.11
DCPatch.lha biz/patch 34K+Some Bugfixes and improvements for DosCo
YAM22GrkCP.lha comm/mail 4K+Greek charset conversion files for YAM 2
TTimeDeluxe.lha comm/misc 582K+Displays Phonecosts online (Germany only
Amster-locale.lha comm/tcp 352K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Amster-main.lha comm/tcp 199K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Amster-source.lha comm/tcp 144K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
BabelDoc.lha comm/tcp 30K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 362K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
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simplehtml.lha comm/www 34K+V0.15 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
wpz-impact.mpg demo/file 2.9M+VHS demo by Whelpz+Potion released at Sa
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repos_demo.lha dev/misc 9K+Small demo source of drag`n`drop lib and
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HardDrive.lha docs/help 14K+The Amiga Hard Disk Guide
hmg4ng.lha docs/hyper 61K+AG about Metal Bands - V 4.0 NG
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AaktInt0301.lha docs/mags 208K+International infotainment magazine
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FireballExtr1a.lha docs/mags 843K+German Entertainment Magazine
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Fireball_2HTML.lha docs/mags 596K+German Entertainment Magazine
Fireball_5a.lha docs/mags 741K+German Entertainment Magazine
Fireball_5b.lha docs/mags 666K+German Entertainment Magazine
mc501.lha docs/mags 386K+German Metal Mag in HTML - May 2001 Issu
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wtdcwb.lha game/2play 32K+A WorkBench 3 level type for WormsDC
DopeWars.lha game/actio 46K+Classic game where you go around and buy
dynSP_Style.lha game/data 94K+SouthPark Style for dynAMIte
MagicSets.lha game/data 34K+3 nice 256 colour sets for MagicNumbers!
MOTU_11.lha game/data 30M+Abode of Golgotha 2 - Heretic II Addon
obvious.lha game/data 102K+DynAMIte style with obvious colors
M-1_Demo1.lha game/demo 1.9M+Game Demo by Marcio Esper playable more
sys.lha game/gag 7K+Commodore C64 SYS command emulator
pawclaw.lha game/jump 133K+Arcade platformer
roper.lha game/jump 467K+Roper
SManMOSB2.lha gfx/fract 121K+Mandelbrot generator for MorphOS
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NcodeR_Indy5.lha gfx/misc 145K+Skin for NcodeR V1.5x +++
NcodeR_TD21.lha gfx/misc 217K+Skin for NcodeR V1.5x +++
MMKeyboard.lha hard/hack 133K+V0.62 Use entire Multmedia Keyboard on A
ps2m.lha hard/hack 21K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 Wheel Mouse Controll
TestGear-Notes.lha hard/hack 7K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
TestGear3.lha hard/hack 257K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
TestGear4A.lha hard/hack 288K+The Oscilloscope Project Disk 4A.
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DarcNES.lha misc/emu 116K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9b031
imdbDiff010323.lha misc/imdb 1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
diru.lha misc/misc 2.9M+English <-> Russian dictionary (near 700
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GameIcons1.lha pix/gicon 551K+Great GlowIcons for MANY Amiga games.
lch-JapIcons3.lha pix/gicon 101K+Japanesque GlowIcons for Os 3.5 pack 3
NetGlowIcons.lha pix/gicon 5K+A few GlowIcons for AmigaOS 3.5+
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03.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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osOpinion: Be and Amiga: Ominous Parallels?
»The difference between the two companies lies in the management. Whereas Commodore
had faceless suits who were disconnected from the technology, Be, Inc. is run by
people who are actually passionate about the operating system.«
More: title link.
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03.Apr.2001
Dirk Stoecker on ANF
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XAD-System V10 Released
The latest version V10 of the archive extracting system XAD is released in the
Aminet. There is a new version of XFD, too. New are bugfixes, new archive types
and main improvements. The readme contains the complete (and long) list.
Attention OS3.9 users: This version is not a special version and should not be
installed over the OS3.9 version, if you do not like the annoy requester. OS3.9 users
can update for half the price.
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03.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Amiga.org Online Again
As reported was Amiga.org due to too much traffic caused by the fair pictures
and the webcam disconnected by the provider. Now Amiga.org is online again.
Amiga.org looks out now for a cheap and reliable provider.
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03.Apr.2001
Martin R. Elsner via eMail
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News about ClassAction and MainPrefs
News to ClassAction
V4.0 is already finished. I am looking for translators, that can create catalog
files. A list of catalogs you can find on the homepage. If you are interseted
send an eMail.
After installation of BoingBag1 the program seems to crash if you open a drawer
in the directory "Variablen" (variables). The bug is fixed, the latest version 2.20 with more
improvements will be available, if the new translations are finished.
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03.Apr.2001
Martin baute via eMail
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Personal Estimation From Martin Baute
This article in German
My final article - Author: Martin Baute
April Fools?
One thing before I start, since Sunday morning (2001-04-01), I did only flighty check the situation around Amiga.
Perhaps the interview given on this day by Bill McEwen at around 8 AM MEST was a single huge April Fool's joke, and
I simply didn't get it. This way or the other, I am angry, upset, and most of all severely disappointed.
Very quick something about me as a person. I wasn't an Amiga user since day 0, my "career" as Amigian started 1993
with a second hand A2000. But I was there when Commodore went bust. I have seen the Walker on the CeBit exhibition,
and was stunned speechless by the senselessness of the design. I have been through the VIScorp misery, and as
news-master of the Amiga News & Stories wrote my articles about it. I have been through the Gateway takeover,
rise and fall of Jim Collas, and as "English master" of amiga-news.de wrote my articles about it. I have been
through the Amino takeover, and subsequently evangelized the strategy of Amiga, Inc. at best I could, with articles,
postings and meetings of the Bielefeld Amiga Users & Developers. I was there during the dark years, and I think this
makes me an "Amigian".
This "being Amigian" found a sudden, surprising, painful end in the morning of April 1st.
The scene was set at the St. Louis Amiga Show. With big words it had been announced this show would be a "ground shaking
event", a day that would put all previous presentations and announcements to shame. In a way, I think Amiga, Inc.
stood up to this promise.
Preliminary
Amiga, Inc. had targeted a completely new concept, based on the Elate / intent technology of the Tao Group: An
operating system (rather, operating environment), that could be deployed independently of the underlying hardware,
on almost any architecture (PowerPC or x86 desktops, STB, PDA, server, ...). Additionally, there was the option of
being installed "hosted", as a seperate application, under every major operating system.
The concept was simple and made sense: Software written for the AmigaDE would run on any operating system, any
architecture. No more porting, no more making the wrong decision with the target platform. The capability for
"hosted" deployment would have allowed to slowly penetrate the market, step by step drawing in developers and
applications, replacing more and more of everyday computing by Amiga software, until the day the host becomes irrelevant.
Expectations
So I was sitting at my keyboard, hours before dawn, curious for what would come. Did they complete the SDK,
including 3D and audio support? Did they convince one of the major Linux distributors to bundle the AmigaDE
with their distribution? Did they find a strong financial support?
Shortly before the interview started, rumors arose Amiga, Inc. would announce AmigaOS 4.0 PPC native. That
would be a bitter pill, I thought, further dividing users, developers and retailers - some focusing on AmigaDE,
others on OS 4.0, and both projects failing miserably... On the other hand, I felt sympathetic with the users
who did spend significant amounts into their PPC Amigas, and wanted to continue using that hardware.
Decisions
The decision, when it finally came, was about the hardest blow since Jim Collas left. Bill McEwen officially
labeled the AmigaDE "no MP, no VM, for PDAs only". For desktop and server systems, AmigaOS 4.x PPC native would
be developed, which would see memory protection being added "in one of the future versions". As a sidenote, this
OS 4.0 would not run on existing hardware, but only on AmigaOne systems. Over the time, OS 4.x and AmigaDE would
then be merged and Amiga be led into a golden future. Bill McEwen seemed to think this was very funny, as you can
easily hear yourself by listening to the MP3 of the question-and-answer session.
I was dumbfounded. I felt sick, I was unbelievably angry, and if it wasn't early morning, I probably would have
tried to shout at McEwen through the modem cable and shake him violently. So I only shook my head when some hours
later I read on various online forums that this decision even found applause among users.
Consequences
I might be wrong. Amiga might make a furious comeback with this strategy. But I cannot believe in it anymore. What
are the consequences of this decision?
- OS 4.x shall be deployed on servers. Memory protection on desktop systems might be a matter of taste, for servers
it is simply a necessity. According to McEwen, memory protection will not be implemented until OS 4.2, which are a
minimum of 12 months on Amiga, Inc.'s roadmap. Until then, AmigaOS will not be deployed on production servers, and
I even doubt it will after this date: Who can name a company employing servers based on PowerPC CPUs?
- AmigaOS 4.x will not run on existing hardware. This means OS 4.x can only be sold to those purchasing an AmigaOne.
Many "old" users will stick with their present systems. Some will jump to other platforms entirely. Why anybody from e.g.
the Linux or Windows community should buy an AmigaOne (that cannot run *any*thing besides OS 4.x and LinuxPPC), is
completely beyond me.
- The people who bought a SDK or even a d'Amiga have been completely left "under fire without air cover" by Amiga, Inc.
For the foreseeable future, Amiga's plans for the AmigaDE and the SDK encompass PDAs, STBs and internet enabled laundry
machines only. The few remaining programmers, which hungered for an opportunity to write applications like word
processors, e-mail clients and 3D games for the AmigaDE, and did invest into what they thought is the first generation
of the new Amiga, are now facing the decision to either do a summersault backwards by exchanging their x86 machines for new
PPC hardware, or having to wait another couple of years until OS 4.x and AmigaDE finally grow together.
- Those who buy an AmigaOne can use it under AmigaOS 4.x or LinuxPPC. Should Amiga, Inc. fail with it's current strategy,
only LinuxPPC remains. And this for a price tag that easily purchases a x86 PC, offering other options like the better
supported x86 Linux, Windows, QNX, BeOS, AROS, WinUAE and over half a dozen other operating systems.
- Until Amiga, Inc. can stand up to it's promise of providing an operating environment that scales from mobile phone all
the way up to servers, independently of the hardware, a minimum of another three years will pass, according to Mr. McEwen.
I will not speculate about the chances to penetrate a market that, until then, will be secured by Embedded Linux and
Microsoft .NET. This year, perhaps even next year still, capabilities like scalability and binary compatibility could
have earned a big success. But what a shame, competition is moving just the same direction, and history proves that
superior technology doesn't win the race once Microsoft reaches "full steam ahead".
With all generosity, I cannot make sense of the current plans of Amiga Inc. anymore. They force old users as well as
the developers on the "bleeding edge" to buy new hardware, they delay the time schedule for their big promises for years
to come, and Bill McEwen laughs his head off over it.
Sorry, I'm fed up. I wish Amiga Inc. and the remaining community all the best, and it would be a very pleasant surprise
to me should I be proven wrong. But since Sunday, April 1st, 2001 my time as an active "Amigan" is over, because in
Snoqualmie, they obviously live in a red-and-white checkered padded cell, or an ivory tower, but in any case they seem
to have lost any sense for reality.
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02.Apr.2001
Dhomas Trenn via E-Mail
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Young Monkey Amiga-Software becomes Freeware
Young Monkey Studios is proud to announce that our whole Amiga software
portfolio is now available for free. This includes the following programs:
- Commander-ImageFX - Customizable GUI for ImageFX
- GridLock - 2 player game Modem/NullModem/Ami-TCP
- HP3PS - PacificPage PS/PCL Mode Changer
- ImageFX - various loaders/scripts/etc.
- MSE - MIDI SYStem EXplorer - PatchEditor+MORE
- SamplerUtility - Disk imager for ProAudio Samplers
- TextToBraille - Text To Braille Conversion Utility
- TimeKeep - TimeClock Util for Clients-Projects-Invoices
- TimeKeepDev - TimeClock Util for Project Development
- TimeSpeak - Speaks current date or time
Additional informations and the downloads are available at the title link.
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02.Apr.2001
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amiga.nl with New Design
amiga.nl was completely reworked and updated. There are some pictures
of the presentation at the Amiga 2001 online.
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02.Apr.2001
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF
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More Coyote Flux 3D-Engine Screenshots
Some more screenshots of the 3D terrain-renderer have been added to the
temporary website of Coyote Flux. These are the last screenshots without
texturemapping.
Since several people asked if the engine is voxel-based, some new
screenshots will be released soon to show that this is NOT a voxel.
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02.Apr.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF
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Informations about stormamiga.lib and HSMathLibs
Due to personal reasons we could not work on the 'HSMathLibs' and
'stornamiga.lib' for a month. Because of this the release of the new
versions will be postboned for a month.
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02.Apr.2001
Matthias Muench on ANF
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Amiga presentation at the Gateway Computer Show 2001
The presentation by Amiga at the Gateway Computer Show 2001 is now available at our side.
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02.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: Amiga develop Software for Sharp Linux-PDA
Sharp-PDA will be available by christmas in germany.
Amiga announced that they co-operate with Sharp to offer content and programs for the
upcomming Linux-PDA by Sharp. Sharp plans to ship this new device for Christmas.
The whole article is available at the title link.
Additional news:
The Register:
Sharp Linux PDA to be first next-gen Amiga device
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02.Apr.2001
Patrick Beerhorst
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Eternity Computer / Tales of Tamar / Play!Amiga Changing Server
We are currently working on the moving of our Internet pages to a new server. We please you to
be patient if any of our pages won't be available for some days. This concerns the domains
www.eternity-computer.de, www.tamar.net and Play!Amiga.
After the moving there will be more space for an increase of the games area of Play!Amiga and
for the development of Tales of Tamar.
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02.Apr.2001
Richard Kapp
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Update of SendStuff
New version (0.6) of SendStuff released. New features:
- SendStuff now stores the preferences of the send-mode (copy or move).
- Bugfix: directories will now be moved correct without an error message.
- Subdirectories will now be moved or copied correct too.
SendStuff lets you copy or move files or directories into other directories or devices by using drag'n'drop.
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02.Apr.2001
Wayne Hunt on ANF
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Amiga.org Clarification
Amiga.org is currently down. This weekend we took over 2.5 million hits
to the server, and transferred over 40Gb in two days (mostly because of
the Amiga 2001 pictures).
As a result, our ISP suspended our service due to scragging their MySQL
server. That means for the moment that Amiga.org will be unavailable
until they either allow us back online, or I gather the money to move
to another ISP.
Simple fact of life, Amiga.org is once again a victim of it's own success
(for which I humbly thank you guys) and anyone who says the Amiga community
is dead, obviously doesn't have to pay for it's bandwidth... :)
We'll be back soon I hope
Wayne Hunt
Amiga.org
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02.Apr.2001
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St. Louis Special - Annotation
There will be many reports, pictures and informations concerning the Amiga 2001 Show in St. Louis
in the next few days. We will not present every link to every article or snippet of information at
the main news page but you will find every link in the special. That's why you should check it daily
to find new informations.
For the next few days the link to this special will remain on top of the link list but then it will move
to the special sections link list.
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02.Apr.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
SimpleHTML V0.15
Sebastian Bauer released version 0.15 of his program
SimpleHTML. SimpleHTML is an offline browser that lets you display small files very fast. It supports only
a few HTML-tags. There is a html.datatype available too.
Download: simplehtml.lzx - 32 kB
Amster
There is a quickfix for Amster available that fixes a little bug
in the localization system. Amster is a client for the well known napster.
Download: Amster-main.lha - 199 kB
IcoDT - CondenseIcon - ilbmdtPPC
Stephan Rupprecht released updates for the following programs:
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02.Apr.2001
Matthias Muench on ANF
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AUG99: AmigaONE 1200
There are pictures of the AmigaONE 1200 Board by Eyetech available at the title link.
We did some notes to the pictures to show what will be available on-board.
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02.Apr.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail
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Virus Help Denmark News
New VEPatchBrain for VirusExecutor:
Name: VEPatchBrain v1.27
Archive name: VEPatchBrain.lha
Archive size: 16.410 Bytes
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Release date: 31. März 2001
Virus Help Denmark started a survey that asks you if you would pay a shareware fee for anti-virus programs.
The poll is available at the polls-link.
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02.Apr.2001
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Update
Version 2.52 of TaskiSMS were released. TaskiSMS lets you send short messages into 112 countries.
News in this release:
- fixed bug in editor window that caused problems with ghosted buttons
when correct number was entered
- fixed bug in editor window that causes program crashes
- new plugin ICQ for all countries (in unregistered version length of
SMS is limited to 60 chars for that plugin)
- removed plugin for Czech Republic & Slovakia (D1cz)
- added new country - Moldova
- added about 450 networks/operators to the support list
- added plugin display priority list (check settings window)
The demo version is available at
TaskiSMS Homepage or at the aminet
AmiNet.
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02.Apr.2001
Eyetech AmigaONE ML / Jorge Pino on ANF
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FAQ by Fleecy
The following link offers you a complete lists of all questions that were made and the answers of Fleecy.
FAQ
Thes faq-list was compiled by James Bridge.
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01.Apr.2001
Markus Nerding via E-Mail
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Gateway Show Amiga 2001 - Report by Markus Nerding
Markus Nerding promised us to send us a live report from the fair if he had the opportunity.
He kept his promise and sent us the following report:
As during the previous years, the hosts of the the fair, Bob and Diana Sharp have
created a magnificent ambient for the biggest of the US fairs.
In the celebration hall of the Sharaton hotel, all the famous retailers, manufacturers and
Amiga User Groups were present. There are not too many news from this side, so everybody was waiting
eagerly for the announcements Amiga Inc. had planned to make at the banquet on Saturday evening.
However there were some things to see, and most of all different softwares and hardwares to buy.
One novelty was the presentation of the VarIO-Borad by Jens Schönfeld - a multi-IO-card with serial,
parallel and PS/2 Port. Grasshopper showed version 4.0.9 of PageStream which is available since last week.
At Mr.Hardware there was a PC expansion card that allows full access for the Amiga. The by far biggest stand
was owned by Merlancia Industries who had planed to present a PPC-board, but there must have been some
obstacle to this. Not present, for the first time in years, was BoXer who had formerly always been
praised by AntiGravity, but who had even failed to present a prototype the previous years.
At noon on Saturday, Petro invited all Amiga-fans for a pizza. The hotel brought so many Pizza Hut
boxes that even hours after that there were still some available. In addition to this, beer was free too:
Budweiser and Bud Lite - it is weird that I must think only now about the fact that Dave Haynie was present too.
As well as Joe Torre who entertained us once again with uncountable stories. I think he is almost a better
entertainer than a hardware developer ;-)
Like the previous years, there were a lot of interesting seminars. Gary Peake and Rudi Chiarito talked
about the subject "Where we are today" and showed the actual status of the AmigaDE-Developer System.
Further seminars talked about ImageFX, PageStream, hardware design, Amiga Forever and some different subjects.
We held a seminar about StormC and of course AmigaOS 3.9, where there were of course many questions asked
about the future.
Saturday night - Petro's Farewell-banquet - first plank: "Petro's Roast". Here people were allowed
balance their accounts with Petro and some speakers really invested themselves in this ;-)
A very funny matter which ended with many presents give to and by Petro. Petro himself the summarized once
again the history of Commodore/Amiga - of course, after 20 years he had a lot to tell. He emphasised however
that he will not be definitively gone and that he will attend to one or the other event.
Then it was Bill McEwen's turn. By now it was late but he once more was able to wake up the people.
The AmigaONE by Eyetech, AmigaOS 4.0 and the use of AmigaDE on the new Zaurus PDAs from Sharp were announced.
These were of course the subject Amiga users had been waiting for.
The CEO of Eyetech, Allan Redhouse, could already show a fully featured card of the AmigaONE, which however
still had some electric defect. However first developer boards should be ready soon and the shipping to the
customers will start end of June (2001 of course ;-)).
Matched to this was the announcement of AMigaOS 4.0 which will now at last bring the long awaited PPC version
of the AmigaOS. The port will be done by Amiga Inc. in association with Haage&Partner and other developers.
Details about this will follow soon, however the project is on its way and a high priority to Amiga Inc.
The next climax was Bill's presentation of the Zaurus, the new PDA from Sharp, on which ran the famous
Boing-Ball-Demo of the AmigaDE. There is a deal with Sharp so in short, it will run on billions of devices.
Bill also talked about Psion, who want to use AmigaDE on the laptop-similar Netbook and also about the
possibility to use it on any Windows-CE device. All in all an interesting view of the big distribution of the
AmigaDE, which will be done in parallel with the AmigaOS 4.0 development and which should merge later on.
To sum up, one can say about the fair that there have been for once really interesting news whose
repercussions could be fundamental. Obviously, Amiga Inc. is concentrating more on its roots and kernel, which
they own, the AmigaOS. All this is looking good, however now it will show in which time these things will
become reality for the developers and users. We are very curious about it...
We thank Markus Nerding very heartily for this detailed insight and wish a nice Sunday to all of
the visitors.
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01.Apr.2001
Stéphane Campan via E-Mail
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Amiga Impact: Special Edition
Our French co-site Amiga Impact are currently rebuilding their
website completely. On occasion of the Amiga 2001 Show in St. Louis you can find a french-speaking special
about the show under the title link.
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01.Apr.2001
Martin Baute
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Audio Records by Martin Baute
Martin Baute has send us 2 audio records from the St. Louis-Show, which we gladly make available for download.
St_Louis.mp3 - 4,5 MB
010401_IRClog.txt - 118 kB
The St. Louis mp3-record has been recorded during the query and answer hour with Bill McEwen this morning between
8:00 and 9:40 o'clock.
The IRC-log was logged during the IRC query and answer hour with Bill McEwen on #developer.
The log is completely raw and not complete, since Martin wasn't present from the beginning.
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01.Apr.2001
Reader on ANF
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Fleecy Explains the Current Plans of AmigaInc
Under the title link you can find a posting by Fleecy Moss, which he posted on the AmigaONE mailing list.
In the message, Fleecy explains in detail the plans of Amiga Inc. and answers some questions.
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01.Apr.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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individual Computers Produces C-64 hardware
In association with members of the C-64 scene a clone of the popular Action Replay has been developed.
The new edition has a 128K Flash Rom instead of the 32K Eprom and a 32K Ram instead of a 8K Ram.
This makes it possible to use the known Rom versions of the Action Replay as well as the Roms of the
SuperSnapshot and the Nordic Power.
The Freeze-Logic has been significantly improved.
A and an accurate control of the main CPU increase the security while freezing the system.
The new Cartridges will be available from June 2001.
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01.Apr.2001
comp.sys.amiga.misc
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"Classic" Amiga OS 4.x PPC will come!
Harv Laser, the maintainer of AmigaZone draws an overview of the
announcements made on the Amiga 2001, in his posting at comp.sys.amiga.misc and confirms that the Classic Amiga OS
PPC will definitively come. Amiga OS 4.x and 5.0 will follow.
Petro celebrated his leaving with a banquet and freely gave autographs.
Alan Redhouse has shown his board on which the new AMiga-PPC-OS will run.
Of course the Sharp announcement is also mentioned.
Read the original message under the title link.
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01.Apr.2001
Quantum Leap on ANF
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Amiga Inc. Reveals Partner
Quantum Leap - the italian e-zine oriented toward new technologies - was officially authorised by Amiga Inc.
to publish information about their new partnerships.
The present announcement will be published at 10.00pm (PST)
on our website at Quantum Leap.
Quantum Leap has released
three pictures of a Sharp-Handheld (PDA) with AmigaDE.
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01.Apr.2001
No Risc No Fun
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New PPC OS with AMIGA- and Windows Support
On our page there are first pictures of our new project AmiWin (working name), a PPC OS which can run AmigaOS as well
as Windows Software. The current version runs on Macintosh hardware and there is a screenshot on the page.
In our Workbench-Gallery there are 2 new WB-Shots.
Apparently the big domain-dying is on, since our site can't be reached either. I hope that this condition will
resolve soon. Otherwise you can always reach us under http://www.trotta.de/club/.
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01.Apr.2001
Thomas Wuergler on ANF
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Payback Review
The most comprehensive Payback review anywhere is now on Amigafire.com.
There have been other reviews, but none as in-depth as this one.
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31.Mar.2001
amiga.org
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St. Louis Images by amiga.org
amiga.org has a collection of pictures of the Gateway Computer Show taking place
in St. Louis put into the WWW.
There are also pictures by Christophe Decanini
of ANN online.
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31.Mar.2001
AMIGA Inc.
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Boing Bag #1 for OS 3.9
Just in time for the Gateway Computer Show Amiga 2001 Amiga Inc. and
Haage&Partner make the new Boing Bag #1 for Amiga OS 3.9 available for free download.
The most important innovation is surely AsyncWB that allows simultaneous
copying and deleting on the Workbench. Next to many improvements GenesisPrefs, HDToolBox, AMPlifier, ViNCEd, WBRun, UnArc,
RAWBInfo and BenchTrash have been revised. Further details can be taken from the
readmes.
Download: BoingBag39-1.lha - ca. 5 MB
- BoingBag-1.readme -
As there had been no further news from St. Louis besides this I have taken the
time and installed the new Boing Bag and naturally immediately tested it.
ASyncWB, allowing you to copy and delete with the Workbench at the same time,
works terrific. This is especially good when copying or deleting big
directories.
It's brilliant that you can now give search paths for Find via drag'n drop. So
you don't have to search through a whole device but can reduce the search to
single directories. Very practical.
Also very good is the new function in RAWBInfo. When you press the Shift key in
the program information and double click on a tooltype, it gets toggled
(activated becomes inactive and vice versa).
When you view text files with Multiview it's now possible to search the text for
terms using the new "navigation menu". The function was indeed already there but
only accessible via keyboard input.
The WBClock has got many beautiful designs in the Presets to choose from.
Some of them I do really like very much.
That's all for the moment as I couldn't test more for now. Everybody who like to
may write about further useful "discoveries" in the comments :-).
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31.Mar.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
AROS News
On the website of AROS you can find a status
update in which the willing reader finds answers to the question which parts
have already been ported. Right now 138 registered developers are busy with AROS
and have already completed 75% of the original AmigaOS. The source codes cover 55
MB including all changes. Further 38,5 MB can already be filled with ported
software and there are some MB with several screenshots.
Pagestream V4.0.9
At Grasshopper LLC (formerly Softlogik)
has Pagestream version 4.0.9 for Amiga, Macintosh and Windows been released.
The new versions are ready for download for registered users in the password
secured area. Pagestream is a Desktop Publishing Program (DTP) that is used to
design publications of any kind.
Bochs for MorphOS
Nicholai Benalal has released Bochs
2000_0329b for MorphOS. Bochs is an
emulator for x86 hardware.
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31.Mar.2001
Stefan Martens on ANF
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SecondSpin v2.16 beta
A new version of SecondSpin has been released. SecondSpin is a tool to convert
audio CDs to MPEG audio 1, 2 or 3. Additionally further formats like AIFF and
WAV are supported. For MPEG encoding is a modified version of LAME V3.87+ needed.
The v2.16 beta solves the problem that SecondSpin had difficulties reading the
CD information from CDDB.com. But beware, on the homepage there is written that
the latest version is the 2.15 beta. This is not correct. Just ignore it and
download. You'll get the latest version ;-).
History:
v2.16 - Changed OS recognition code. It may have failed under some
VERY, VERY rare circumstances. Changed the www.cddb.com support to
freedb.freedb.org! This should fix the CDDB problems! (12/Mar/2001)
Download: SecondSpin_Install.lha -
Readme
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31.Mar.2001
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St. Louis Special
Because of the Gateway Computer Show in St. Louis we have set up a special
page on which we summarize all information we find on the WWW.
As soon as new reports or images are available the page gets updated.
For the lasting of the show there's a link in the title area pointing to the
special page.
In case you find further information on the net, images or reports regarding the
show not contained in the list, please send a short mail with URL to ps@amiga-news.de.
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31.Mar.2001
Juergen Theiner on ANF
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And the Winner is... Play!Amiga Comparing Review
There's a big review at Play!Amiga comparing Napalm, Earth and Exodus. Read
who gets the best rating. Besides you get the chance to vote for the charts;
would be nice if you'd use it.
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31.Mar.2001
Håkan Parting on ANF
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AmiComSys Looking For a New Server
Håkan Parting, the author of AmiComSys, is looking for a new server for
his Amiga buddy and chat program. The program works similar to the known ICQ but
exists only for Amiga computers for now. Up to now around 200 people use this program.
Wanted is an Amiga online 24h, so it could work as a server. Everybody who could
help may write to hakan@parting.nu.
Here's the original message:
AmiComSys is a shareware program to find Amiga buddies on the Internet, chat and send files.
It's rather similar to the famous ICQ but currently only for Amiga. AmiComSys was born April 1997.
My plan is to release version 2.0 of this software this year.
The reason for writing is that I need a new full time server, because the current server at
ACS.hostile.cx isn't up anymore.
The server software AmiComSys connects to is named AMarqueed, which is a part of the AMarquee-package.
You may find information about it at the following URL:
http://parting.nu/AMarquee/
AmiComSys have about 200 users, of about at this time ten is online at the same time. This means that the
server won't need very much bandwidth.
So if you have an Amiga that is connected to the Internet 24 hours a day, I would very much appreciate if
you could let me use it for the server.
The AmiComSys home page is located at http://parting.nu/AmiComSys/
Please contact me at the email address mentioned below for more information.
Best regards,
Håkan Parting, author of AmiComSys, AMarquee, JAMarquee, VersionWB and GlossTask.
e-mail: hakan@parting.nu
web: http://parting.nu
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31.Mar.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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New Review on the GFX -GAMES-DATABASE
You can find a review of the WB game WBSteroids following the title link.
Besides, the 'About' page has been reworked, games add-ons have entered the
database and much more has taken place.
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