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31.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via E-Mail


 Amiga Arena: Special price for SoundFX
In cooperation with Stefan Kost the Amiga Arena makes possible a special price for SoundFX valid from 01 June to 01 August 2001 for orders placed via the Amiga Arena.

SoundFX is an editor for digitized audio data (samples), built modular with a comfortable GUI.

With SoundFX you can add digital effects (which are unique on the Amiga) to samples and edit them. Following a list of some features:
  • More than 50 effects with many parameters and various possibilities to modulate them.
  • SoundSynthesis (AM, FM, ...)
  • 3D Cube Parameter Modulation (mix, equalize)
  • Effects: e.g. reverberation, echo, delay, chorus/phaser, morph, pitchshift
  • Operators: e.g. Resample, ZeroPass (FadeIn/FadeOut), Middle, Plify, Mix, DeCrackle, ConvertChannels
  • 2D/3D Spectrum analyzis
  • Very good Sehr gute resonance capable filters and boosters
  • Mono, stereo, quadro
  • Sample data are held in RAM and on harddisk at 16bit quality.
  • AHI player (for sound card owners)
  • System conform coded (tested with Cyberguard, Wipeout, and Blowup)
More information are to find at SonicPulse. (ps)

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31.May.2001
SoftCinema


 Movie-/Animplayer: SoftCinema with Open DivX Decoder V 1.5
There is an OpenDivX decoder v1.5 available for the movie and animation player 'SoftCinema', now too. The plug-in can play OpenDivX files 0.48 and 0.50. Download: opendivx_1.5.lha (ps)

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31.May.2001
amiga.org


 Nova Design Newsletters: New Reviews
Nova Design, known by software products like ImageFX and Aladdin 4D, have extended the often used tutorial area with a 'Reviews' sector. Currently there are to find some reviews of ImageFX video tutorials. (ps)

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31.May.2001
Blittersoft


 Blittersoft and Merlancia announce iFusion cooperation
As reported in April this year the English vendor Blittersoft took over the iFusion (iMac emulator) rights from Microcode Solutions. Blittersoft now announce cooperation with the American company Merlancia Industries. Merlancia Industries obtains exclusive distribution rights for the USA, Canada, India, Poland, and Italy. Additionally Merlancia Industries together with Blittersoft will work on several new features for iFusion. Details will be announced, soon. (ps)

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31.May.2001
Vapor (ANF)


 IRC-Client: AmIRC 3.5.14 Beta
The new beta version of the IRC client 'AmIRC' is available for registered users. Version 3.4.14 contains numerous bugfixes of the GUI, Arexx commands, etc. (ps)

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31.May.2001
ExoticA


 Icons: Exoticons V 1.0
ExoticA have made NewIcons and OS3.5/3.9 icons from 1,500 pictures of game boxes and probably created one of the biggest Amiga icon collections for games. The original scans are to find in the gallery under the title link.
Download: Exoticons35.lha - 17 MB (ps)

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30.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via E-Mail


 Amiga Arena: Full version of arcade-game "Action Cat"
With permission of Horst Spierling Amiga Arena makes possible the free download of the arcade game called "Action Cat"! Action Cat is a game like "Ruf'n'Tumble" and convinces by nice levels, choice of weapons, teleporter and puzzles. Olaf Köbnik: "Seldom I was so delighted by an arcade game of the shareware sector". Playable on HD (runs on 060) or of discs from A1200 on. (ps)

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30.May.2001
Dirk Baeyens via E-Mail


 Event: JavaOne in San Fransisco, Kalifornien
On the 'JavaOne' conference, which will take place from 4 June to 8 June in San Francisco, California, the Tao Group will present it's intent®. More details are to find in Tao's press release. (ps)

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30.May.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Cooperation between Petsoff and individual Computers
After a long time the efficient Delfine soundcard continues being produced with a DSP (digital Signal processor) at individual Computers. The card was reworked on the Zorro-site to increase the performance to a level which has never been there with unchanged Z-II buses: "Delfina Flipper edition" gains more than 5MB7sec! This speed can be used to play more channels than it has ever been possible on a different Z-II soundcard or to reduce the cpu-using while playing single channels. All known DSP functions and programs for the Delfina also work with the new cards inclusively the most interesting application which is playing MP3 files with minimal cpu-use. Thus an Amiga without a turbo board is able to play MP3 in best quality!

With the help of the Toccata emulation and of the AHI software interface the Delfina can be used by each software which needs a soundcard. A midi expansion connects the Delfina to midi-expanders, synthesizers and keyboards.

By reworking the Delfina s oundcard by individual Computers the costs could be enormously reduced. The new cards will be probably available in summer 2001. Petsoff website (ps)

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30.May.2001
Stefan Martens (ANF)


 Online game: Official HBMonopoly game led by #AmigaFun
After a long time IRC-channel #AmigaFun on ie.altnet.org organizes an official HBMonopoly game again. The programmer of HBMonopoly will be present, too. You need HBMonopoly 2.5.

On #AmigaFun channel the servers are called which have to be preferenced in HBMonopoly. Important: You must know how HBMonopoly works. We only explain what you have to do to log in.

We guess that you have played at least one or two times against the computer. In future we will more often lead a HBMonopoly game. There will be an intern #AmigaFun highscore list which you can admire on #AmigaFun homepage. It will contain the top-5 of all HBMonopoly games which we will organize in future.

It might be possible that there will be a surprising for the best player after some games. The first HBMonopoly game will start on Saturday 2nd of June 2001 at 6 p.m. Please note that Monopoly may last a few hours. Therefore a full version of TCP-client (Miami, Genesis) would be advisable.

You can find our #AmigaFun channel in the following way:
You need am IRC-client; for Amiga there are AmIRC (shareware), BlackIRC (freeware) und EpicIRC (freeware). On our homepage you can find links for download. You have to type the following lines:
Server: ie.altnet.org
Port: 6667
Channel: #amigafun

In case of breaking down of the server you can access over the following server: 12.30.169.83 (Please type without "irc."). You can find more information on the homepage of #AmigaFun. You can choose between German and English. (ps)

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30.May.2001
Scenet (ANF)


 Magazine: Scenet 36 published
Yesterday issue 36 of the demoscene-magazine Scenet has been published. The ascii-Version contains all eMails, links and ICQs of the online-version which additionally offers an article-, interview- and news-section. (ps)

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30.May.2001
Richard de Rivaz (ANF)


 Update to INET DIAL v3.842 and release of CD version
INET DIAL v3.842 has been released. The upgrade now includes support for both online (TaskiSMS) and offline (EZP@gerNG) SMS messaging.

INET DIAL is a Home Server for the Amiga computer with X-10 control and is now also available on CD from Kicksoft. The CD version includes APACHE, GEEKGADGETS and YAM for easy install.

Download upgrade: inet_dial.lha (ps)

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29.May.2001
Tom Parker


 Browser: AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin V0.4
Tom Parker has written a PowerPC JPEG plugin for the internet browser AWeb. Actually this software is beta. If you want to test the plugin you will find more information and latest version 0.4 following the title link. (ps)

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29.May.2001
Elbox via E-Mail


 Hyperion and Elbox: Negotiations about Warp3D V4
Elbox Computer and Hyperion Entertainment have started negotiations about Warp3D V4 support for the Mediator PCI board (ps)

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29.May.2001
T.o.T.


 Game: Tales of Tamar V0.35 R4
Tales Of Tamar is an internet based game for Amiga, Atari, Linux, and PC from Eternity Entertainment Software. For registered beta testers are now updates for Amiga, Atari, Linux, and Mac from the download page available. The latest version is V035 R4.

Atari alpha testers need from now on the main archive and the update and will need then only to download the latest updates. (ps)

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29.May.2001
Amigan Software


 Tool: Report+ Version 4.63b
With Report+ from Amigan Software you can create in an easy way bug reports, Aminet readmes, autodocs, and similar reports. The program is freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.Download: report.lha - 380 kB (ps)

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29.May.2001
SixK


 Webserver: Amiga Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.0.5
On the 'SixK Port Page' is the version V1.3.20 (incl. PHP V4.0.5 )of this webserver for AmigaOS (version for 68040) to use with the official Amiga Apache Archive available. Download: apache1320_php405-040.lzx (ps)

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29.May.2001



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eNote1.4PL.lha       docs/help   10K+Polish Locale for eNote1.4
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AmigaArenaNews.lha   docs/misc   82K+Amiga Arena Interviews/Previews in Germa
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data   10K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (27 May)
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D-Flip.lha           game/think  83K+Tile-flipping puzzle by DawnBringer
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29.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail


 Interview: GFX-BASE talks to Gareth Murfin of Alpha-Software
The GFX-Base has interviewed Garteh Murfin. He talks about his games (like Gloom 3), the state of his Resident Evil clones The Dead Walk, and about new software projects that will be released for the new Amiga DE. (ps)

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29.May.2001
WinUAE Homepage (ANF)


 Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.16R3 released
WinUAE, the Amiga-Emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP, is released in Version 0.8.16 Release 3 with new rtg.library.

  1. FIXED: GUI DLL loader is no longer fixated on Deutsch.
  2. FIXED: Selecting 68000 CPU from a JIT config doesn't result in error message.
  3. ADDED: Sprite-collisions can be enabled/disabled during emulation, not just at startup.
  4. ADDED: Patched rtg.library added to package, which should fix the mouse trails. (Thanks to Tobias Abt and Alexander Kneer of P96, and Bernd Roesch). This file (rtg.library) will end up in the "Amiga Programs/" directory under the "WinUAE/" directory where you install to.
  5. ADDED: German keymap (UAE_German)
  6. ADDED: UAE disk change utility
  7. ADDED: French and German DLLs updated, Italian DLL added. (Thanks Georg V, FagEmul, and Daniele G)
  8. CHANGED: Tweaked the sound code again, memory-leak should be gone, performance should be better - expect a speed decrease when using JIT and sound.
  9. CHANGED: Graphics glitches caused by NOVSYNC flipping should be gone in full- screen mode.
  10. REMOVED: Turkish DLL, as it was out-of-date
Download: WinUAE0816R3.exe (ps)

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29.May.2001
BTTR Team via E-Mail


 New games on 'Back to the Roots'
With the latest update of "Back to the Roots" are now many new games for free download available: Pinball Illusions, Benefactor, Skidmarks 2, Football Glory, Mad News - just this few mentioned - are making addicted.

Music lovers can enjoy many new mods. In the games music section you will find many pieces of work from Barry Leitch, who has composed for Lotus 2 and Humans. If you like the music of the demo scene you can download about 80 mods that were used in demos like Odyssey or Jesus on E's.

And do not forget: You will find new impressive material in the pictures and demo section (ps)

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28.May.2001
Kickstart Show 2001


 Event: Pictures of the Kickstart Show 2001
There is a collection of pictures of the Kickstart 4 at the title link. (ps)

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28.May.2001
Thomas Steiding (e.p.i.c. interactive) via E-Mail


 New Multiplatform-CD: Amiga ClassiX 3
The Multiplatform-CD ´Amiga ClassiX 3´ will be available on the 6th June 2001. This CD will contain more then 100 classic games. For example:

Der Seelenturm, Lure of the Temptress, Wheelspin, Crystal Dragon, Ziriax, Der Trainer, Tactical Manager, Pinball Obsession, Fatman, Embryo, Sixth Sense Investigation, Kid Pool, Xtreme Racing, Blade, Virtual Karting II and many more.

´Amiga ClassiX 3´ will be available for Amiga, Macintosh and Windows. Additional information is available on the webpages of Darkage Software. (ps)

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28.May.2001
Hans-Jörg Frieden via E-Mail


 Hyperion Entertainment changes status of Warp3D V4
Hyperion Entertainment changes status of Warp3D V4

We would like to inform you that after extensive deliberation, Hyperion Entertainment has decided to upgrade the status of Warp 3D V4 from a freeware product to a commercial OEM product which will offered to Amiga hardware developers for a moderate license fee.

This decision was prompted by two major reasons:
  1. Hyperion Entertainment has reached an agreement with Amiga Inc. to incorporate Warp3D V4 into Amiga OS 4.x on a per unit royalty basis. Producers of zico compliant hardware (Amiga One etc.) will be required to license Amiga OS 4.x and will as such be paying indirectly for Warp 3D V4 drivers. It would be unacceptable to both Amiga Inc. and these hardware producers that they would be required to pay royalties for a product which other hardware producers would receive free of charge.

  2. Warp 3D started out as a freeware product developed by non-commercial developers to support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. Compared to current chipsets, the Virge and Permedia 2 are extremely primitive and feature-poor. The effort and time needed to adequately support modern chipsets such as the Voodoo 3 and Matrox G450 with their rich and advanced feature-set is far greater than the effort required to support the Virge and Permedia 2 chipsets. Combined with the fact that there are currently no less than 7 different PCI product from three different manufacturers, it's clear that the effort required to support modern chipsets on all the different PCI hardware available goes far beyond the scope of a freeware project.
As the original Warp 3D developers have now moved on to commercial development, maintaining Warp 3D as a freeware product would entail that development of new Warp 3D drivers and extension of the Warp 3D API would be very slow as development could only take place "after hours".

This is not only not in the interest of Amiga users but it is also not in the interest of hardware producers and resellers who rely on the availability of Warp 3D drivers to successfully market their Amiga hardware.

Hyperion Entertainment fully understands that the company has a responsibility towards the Amiga community including the hardware producers because of its control over the Warp 3D API and no attempt has ever been made or will be made to exploit this position unfairly.

We have already successfully negotiated agreements with Matay and DCE regarding Warp3D V4 support for the Voodoo 3 on their respective PCI hardware. We are therefore happy to report that Voodoo 3 drivers for these PCI solutions will be available shortly.

A similar proposal was made to Elbox but so far we have not received any reaction.

Users considering purchase of a PCI solution for Amiga and who are interested in high-performance 3D graphics should investigate the availability of Warp3D drivers prior to making their decision to opt for one or the other PCI solution.

It should also be noted that Warp3D will remain free for end users. (ps)

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28.May.2001
Oliver Roberts


 Datatypes: WarpDTPrefs V44.4a
Version 44.4a of the preferences-program for the datatypes by Oliver Roberts is now available. This program lets you change the preferences of the following datatypes: WarpJPEG, WarpPNG, WarpBMP and WarpPSD.

This version now contains a Portuguese catalog and documentation. Download: WarpDTPrefs.lha - 122 kB (ps)

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28.May.2001
Thrill (ANF)


 Emulator: WinUAE-Kaillera Release 1 released
The newest version of WinUAE-Kaillera was released today. This modification of the well known emulator offers the possibility to play over the net.

Further information is available at the title link Download: WinUAE-Kaillera_r1.zip (ps)

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28.May.2001
PerfectPaint


 Paint program: New modules for PerfectPaint V2.6
There are new modules for saving and opening of jpeg-files. Download: modules.lha (ps)

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28.May.2001
Brad Webb via E-Mail


 Newsletter: Amiga Update by Brad Webb
Brad Webb is publishing a monthly newsletter, 'Amiga Update', that deals with news concerning the Amiga. Read the newsletter at the title link. (ps)

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28.May.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


 Press conference by Lineo about co-operation with Sharp on Friday
Lineo announced that they will hold a press conference on the 1st June 2001. This press conference will deal with the co-operation of Lineo with Sharp for the Zaurus-device by Sharp. (ps)

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28.May.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 Icon-Designer for DirectDos wanted
Marius Schwarz is searching a graphician who could 'just' paint about 1,200 icons. Those Icons shall be used to identify datatypes in DirectDos, so it isn't really about 1,200 icons, but might be only 300 to 400 - so it's an absolutely practicable task :-). At this time 166 (more or less good) icons exist. If you are interested, please mail to Marius Schwarz. (ps)

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28.May.2001
AIO


 Magazin: AIO issue #47 published
AIO is still looking for authors of articles and reviews. They are especially looking for some one who is able to write 2-3 game-reviews per month. Download: AIOV47.LHA (ps)

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28.May.2001
Andreas Magerl via E-Mail


 APC&TCP: LOM 2.0 - Science Fiction CD
Version 2.0 of the CD-ROM 'Lights over Mars' was released. An update will be available, if you own the original CD, for 5 DM.

The CD-ROM contains a big archive of the most well-known science fiction visions. Additional information is available at the title link in the 'support'-area. (ps)

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27.May.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Survey on the Airsoft Softwair Homepage
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
The Airsoft Softwair Homepage was completely reworked on this weekend and also a poll was added which will contain a recent vote from time to time. The first poll has just been added: Many users told me that they would prefer paying by credit card for my programs (especially users from overseas). So I'm asking now if there are really people out there who want this method of payment. If you do not order any of my programs or the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM just because you cannot pay with credit card please vote now on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. But please vote honestly! Thank you! (sd)

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27.May.2001
Richard Kapp (E-Mail)


 GFX-BASE: Test of 'WordHunt', Search, Links
Kevin Hansen has released an English test of the think-game 'WordHunt' by Robert/Bob Dickow on GFX-BASE.

'WordHunt' is about finding words hidden in a box full of characters.

Moreover the website was extended at other areas:
the search function has been strongly enhanced, so among other things searching inside of the scene demo database is now possible, too.

New links as well as game and scene demo entries were added and some days ago the GFX-Base introduced the last week's Aminet highlights. (sd)

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27.May.2001
Czech Amiga News


 File manager: DirOpus V4.15k Beta
Jacek Rzeuski has released beta version 4.15k of the file manager 'DirOpus' on 25 May 2001. This update contains some small enhancements listed in the history.

This version outputs debug information to the serial interface which can be redirected to a Workbench window using Sushi/Sashimi.

This beta version only contains changes since 'Directory Opus v4.15'. That version and the source code are to find on the download page.

DirOpus is a file manager, coded by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software. The source code was released under the terms of GNU public license in 1999. Jacek Rzeuski then started to rework and enhance the program.

Download: DOpus415kbeta.lzx, History (sd)

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27.May.2001
Grzegorz Juraszek (ANF)


 PCI: Matay and Elbox (Update)
Matay published an official statement about the letter Elbox Computer sent to Fabio Trotta. The letter by Elbox bears on Fabio Trotta's test of the Prometheus board on NoRiscNoFun and is part of the statement.

Supplement 27 May 2001
Elbox accused Matay to use graphics board drivers by Elbox without permission, whereas Matay refers to an existing contract with the Picasso96 team. (Desiatox) (sd)

Supplement 28 May 2001
Today also the Picasso96 team piped up to definitively invalidate the accusation, "we, the Picasso96 team, just want to straighten out that the Voodoo boards driver utilized for the test was written by ourself. After all we have experiences with this chip-set since the MacPicasso850. Furthermore Matay are respectable business partners of ours. From our point of view all of the accusations launched by Elbox are completely weak and of unbelievable bad style". Entire message here. (ps)

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27.May.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Amiga Flame: Problems with British Server
Philip Cosby at the time being has no possibility to access the British Amiga Flame website, due to the carrier of the web-server is closing business. That's why this site cannot be updated. He does not think this problem to be solved in short term.

But the US mirror still is available under http://www.geocities.com/~amigaflame/. The Amiga Flame website contains current news messages and tests regarding Amiga games. (sd)

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27.May.2001
REBOL


 REBOL/Command V2.0
On 25 May 2001 version 2.0 of REBOL/Command was released. This version supports HTTPS, SSL, FastCGI, external libraries, as well as several encryption systems like Blowfish, RSA, and DSA. REBOL/Command/View is an additional part of the packet.

In the case of databases Oracle 8 (Windows, Solaris Sparc, and Linux libc6), and MySQL 3 are supported. The ODBC interface was tested with Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL.

REBOL/Command V2.0 is runnable on 30 platforms including:
  • Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME
  • BSD Unix: BSDi, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD for several CPU's.
  • Linux libc5 and libc6 for several CPU's.
  • Other: Sun Solaris, BeOS R5, HP-UX, Amiga, IRIX, QNX RTP, Mac OS/X.
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27.May.2001
László Török


 AVI/MOV-Player: MooVId and PIV-MooVId version 1.5
László Török announced on his website that versions v1.5 of the AVI/MOV players 'MooVId' and 'PIV-MooVId' have been finished. Registered users should mail him to get the updates. (ps)

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27.May.2001
Apex Designs


 Game: New Extra-Maps for Payback
In the ´Extra-Maps´ area there are new towns for the action game »Payback« by Apex Designs. In one or two month there also will be a PPC version (WOS) for the game in which you can rise from a nobody to a gangster's boss. (ps)

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27.May.2001
Håkan Parting


 Amiga-Buddy and Chat Program: AmiComSys 1.34
Håkan Parting has released version 1.34 of his Amiga-Buddy and chat program ´AmiComSys´. This program functions similar to the popular ICQ, but only exists for Amiga computers, at this time. Currently about 200 users are using this program. The central server moved to Sweden and now is available under amicompsys.dhs.org, port 2957. (ps)

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26.May.2001



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rxsocket.lha         comm/tcp   162K+Rxsocket.library TCP/IP ARexx library
clockita.lha         dev/basic   68K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Rkm_asm.lha          dev/src    272K+My own translations and codes of the R.K
ReCatItPro_PL.lha    docs/help   11K+Polish Locale for ReCatItPro1.0
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JumpingAround.lha    game/demo  188K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
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HTMLstrip.lha        text/misc   24K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
MiraWizARC_HU.lha    util/arc     2K+Hungarian catalog for MiraWizARC11b
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26.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via email


 Amiga Arena News: interviews and updates
Amiga Arena Interview campaign
The Amiga Arena talked to Markus Pohlmann about the present state of the development of his game "Projekt Crashsite" which is a science fiction role playing game (RPG). The interview can be found in the section "Aktionen". Markus Pohlmann is urgently looking for users supporting him in rendering. If you're interested please send an email to: Markus-Pohlmann@t-online.de.

Amiga Arena preview and updates
For FBase were German short instructions added. In the area ´PD links´ you can find the German translation of the preview of the Snake clone Krsnaked Preview. In the area ´Aktionen´ is the English translation of the interview with Dirk Stöcker online. Special thanks go to Kilian Server and Kai Stegemann for the translations. (ps)

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26.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via email


 Amiga Arena: full version of "Pferderennen"
With permission from Markus Pohlmann the Amiga Arena makes the use of the full version of "Pferderennen" available. ´Pferderennen´ is, as the name already suggests, a bet game in which you can place a bet on one out of six race horses. The game is available for download in the section "Vollversionen".

"Pferderennen" offers:
  • entertainment for up to 8 players
  • detailed "horse powers" ;)
  • 30 stables with a maximum of 50 horses each
  • a horse editor
  • saveable scores
(ps)

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26.May.2001
amiga.org


 Event: 28./29. July: Ottawa Amiga Show, Canada
Amiga.info organizes after three years the first Amiga Show in Canada. The 'Ottawa Amiga Show' will be held on the 28. and 29. July 2001. The place of the event hasn't been fixed yet. Information regarding this will be made known as soon as possible on the website (title link). (ps)

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26.May.2001
Matay


 Developers: free SDK for Prometheus PCI card
Company Matay offers to all developers who want to write drivers for Matay's Prometheus PCI card a free Software Developer Kit (SDK). In case you need some help or have questions, please contact the Prometheus designer and programmer Grzegorz Kraszewski. For general questions and comments Grzegorz Juraszek is at your disposal. (ps)

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26.May.2001
Fun Time World


 MPEG player: Frogger 1.65rc5 for PowerPC released
A new version of the Amiga MPEG animation player ´Frogger´ for PowerPC computers has been released. With this it is now possible to select several animations at once that are then played one after another.

The graphical user interface (GUI) has been revised and causes less often a system crash. The speed was also part of the revision and much has been improved.

In case that the original Frogger website (title link) is too slow, you can use this mirror site for downloading, too. The program is shareware and can be registered either directly at the author Sebastian Jëdruszkiewicz in Poland or for German readers at Fun Time World. (ps)

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25.May.2001
Ralph Ewers


 New pictures and report from the 'Japanese Business Show 2001'
As already reported, Sharp Corporation presented the Sharp Zaurus pocket computer with AmigaDE as application for the first time at their booth at the 'Japanese Business Show 2001' in Tokyo. Ralph Ewers, an amiga-news.de reader currently living in Tokyo, has visited the show for us and sent us more pictures and a small report.

Ralph Ewers had the chance to talk to Sharp's planning manager and obtain the following information:

The Zaurus is supposed to be available in America this autumn running Linux (in English) instead of the Japanese ZaurusOS. The American version will most likely contain some improvements: in the same case, a faster CPU may be built into (the current CPU was at times indeed slow running the DE), a battery with longer life and a keyboard with larger keys is planned as well. Whether AmigaDE will be included depends on the licence fees which are currently not decided yet. A first prototype of the English Zaurus may be seen at the Java-One taking place in early June in America.

At least, Bill McEwen (here only called "Mister Bill" since it's easier to pronounce for the Japanese) has had some successful meetings with a Sharp manager (these personal meetings are very important!). He's at least in e-mail contact with the "planning manager" I spoke to.

Amiga is definitely seen "only" as "content provider". A native DE hasn't been thought about so far. (At least that's the official reply!)

Other "highlights":

The color display of the Palm m505 is at least in the default configuration rather ugly and strongly reminds of the PalmIIIc. It also reflects awfully (it has that - sadly - in common with the Zaurus). Regarding this, the Cassiopeia s700 (or was it i700) impressed me very much. Subjectively not any heavier than a Palm V (slightly deeper) and a great display with higher resolution.

Logitec plans to release a DVD-R/RW (yes, "R") drive with FireWire in June, the price is interesting: 120,000 Yen (plus 5% tax here in Japan).

Bluetooth was a big topic. Panasonic for example has presented miscellaneous hardware; some kind of Gameboy, headphones, expansion cards for the memory card slot and so on, and there's also a lot of choice for the Zaurus.


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25.May.2001
Alfred Faust (ANF)


 Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c source code available
Alfred Faust wrote:
»Today, Todor Fay gave me the permission to make the source code of Bars&Pipes Professional 2.5c available to the public.

He asked me to spread this information as far as possible. Thus I ask you to pass on this information to all those who are interested.

A group of programmers looked at the source, completed it and cleaned as many errors as possible; made it compliant to the new ANSI-C standard (as far as possible and necessary), adapted it to several compilers (CompilerSpecific.h was built in), tested it with SAS/C 6.50 and DICE 3.16.

Any commercial distribution is prohibited. A release on Amiga CDs is no problem. Distributors of Amiga CDs who want to release the source code on a CD are asked to contact me.« (ps)

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25.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: what you always wanted to know about the GPL
»The GNU project has put an extensive FAQ online. Here Richard M. Stallman, initiator of the GNU project, president of the Free Software Foundation and prominent advocate of free software, answers many questions about the GNU general public license.«
Full article (in German) at the title link. (ps)

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25.May.2001
ANN


 New pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard
At the title link, you'll find new pictures of the AmigaOne motherboard. The pictures were shot in France at a meeting to which Alan Redhouse of Eyetech had invited Adam Carrano of APS, Ben Yoris of Hyperion and Christophe Decanini of ANN. (ps)

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25.May.2001
Amigan Software


 Software: Amigan Software's Worm Wars and Report+ updated
Version 6.7 of the game 'Worm Wars' and version 4.63a of Report+ have been released. Report+ allows you to easily create bug reports, Aminet readme files, documentation and similar reports. The ReAction- and GadTools-based program and is freeware.

Donwload:
wormwars.lha - 730 kB
report.lha - 380 kB (ps)

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25.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


 Software: SGrab and EnvHandler updated
The screen grabber SGrab has been compiled entirely with StormC4 and is now available in version 1.15. Stephan's EnvHandler has been released in version 1.6.

Download:
sgrab.lha - 55 kB
envhandler.lha - 12 kB (ps)

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24.May.2001
jami0003 (ANF)


 New PowerPC Roadmap from IBM
IBM announced their updated PowerPC roadmap. Future IBM PPC CPU's among other things would have a multimedia unit and direct SMP support. If that multimedia unit is about to be the Altivec engine developed by Motorola neither was repudiated nor confirmed. The next generation will be produced in 0,13µm - 0,10µm technic. (ps)

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24.May.2001
Amiga Future


 Interview: Amiga Future talked to Thomas Knaebel (bplan GmbH)
Amiga Future (Anton Preinsack) did an interesting interview (title link) with the CEO of the bplan GmbH about the PPC platform 'Pegasos' being developed. (ps)

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23.May.2001



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SMS2D2.lha           comm/misc    9K+Send sms to german D2 via modem or ISDN
facts.lha            comm/tcp    89K+V4.5 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
js_umsrfc.lha        comm/ums   147K+Umsrfc update (1.7)
hungarian.lzh        demo/euro  124K+Another simple demo
rno-min4.lha         demo/intro  53K+RNO: "MiNUS 4" a 64k intro from TP2k
PowerAmiga1.lha      demo/mag   481K+Power Amiga. Russian Amiga E-Magazine, i
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powerd.lha           dev/e      806K+New powerful programming language v0.17
Lgui.lha             dev/src    173K+My own translations and codes of the R.K
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starmag26_ag.lha     docs/mags  339K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine AmigaGuide-
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pbcomplete.lha       game/actio  31K+A viewable demo of me completing Payback
RiVA.lha             gfx/show    36K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
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HTMLstrip.lha        text/misc   23K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
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23.May.2001
amiga.org


 amiga.org: Interview with Ruben Monteiro (SoundsCool)
Wayne Hunt from amiga.org interviewed Ruben Monteiro from CyberOxygen. Monteiro is the programmer of Sounds Cool which is a sound-editor tool for AmigaDE. Read the interview under the title link. (ps)

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23.May.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)


 WebTool: New SiteWay-Modul 'SiteCatcher'
SiteCatcher is a simple tool for easy downloading of full websites. It only offers the absolutely most necessary possibilities of preference. Therefore it is easy to use. (ps)

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23.May.2001
NewOS (ANF)


 New OS for AMIGA: NewOS
As it seems soon we can be pleased about another OS for the Amiga. NewOS is already available for Intel-platforms and for the Sega Dreamcast-console. Porting this operating system which was written by a former BeOS-kernel developer to Amiga 3000 - M68040 is standing on the fourth place of a so called ToDo-list. We may be curious to know what will be come there. (ps)

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23.May.2001
Dirk Baeyens via E-Mail


 Amiga Inc.: Sharp shows AmigaDE application
Today in Tokio, Japan Sharp Corporation shows Sharp Zaurus handheld computer with AmigaDE as application publicly for the first time. You can look at the first pictures under the title link. The fare continues going until 25th of May. Over 400.000 visitors are be expected.

Read also the message at the ´Amiga Support´ area, and the press release of Sharp.

(ps)

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23.May.2001
Torsten Dudai


 New cartoon: Metatrash




"Metabox AG, Hildesheim" applies for a insolvency proceedings after a turbulent year (suspicion of deception and manipulation of market value, invented profits, decline of the share). (td)

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22.May.2001
Tom Parker


 Software: AWeb PowerPC JPEG Plugin
Tom Parker has written a PowerPC JPEG plugin for the internet browser AWeb. For now the software has alpha status and contains known bugs. If you want to test the plugin follow the title link for more informations and the latest version. (ps)

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22.May.2001
CLICKFISH.com


 Article about amiga-news.de at CLICKFISH.com
Torsten Kleinz has written an article about amiga-news.de: "Amiga strikes back". Read the complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)

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22.May.2001
Vladimir Chikov aka djv (E-Mail)


 Game: Amerikan Chajnik In Russia
This game dedicated to all "Simpsons" cartoon fans. But now Homer Simpson adventures are in Russia. The word "chajnik" in title mean "dummy" (it's Russian slang). This is first (not last, I hope) big game project from Russia. Autor -- Vladimir Berezenko aka Q-Master. Original version of this game was developed by Vlad Scherbakov and Renat Farhulin (aka Mr. Gluk) for ZX-Spectrum (yea, this computer still popular here in Russia).

There are English text strings in the game - you have to click on "AMERIKA" on the title screen to play in English instead of Russian.

There also is an English text version of this game. To play this you have to click on "Amerika" on the title screen. (ps)

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22.May.2001
Michael Jurisch (ANF)


 Update: "Big Book Of Amiga Hardware"
The BBOAH is a localization of information about Amiga hardware in pictures and documentations. The following sections are updated:

  • NEW MYSTERY #12 (thanks to Robin Pillow)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE BCD 2000A Video Control System (thanks to Robin Pillow)
  • UPDATE Kickstart (thanks to Gregory Donner)
  • MANUFACTURER ADDED Vector (thanks to Rainer Schreurs)
  • UPDATE DeInterlace 2000 (thanks to Rainer Schreurs)
  • PICTURE Altais (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE DracoMotion (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Eltanin (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Rastaban (thanks to Pascal Sallan)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Amiga Teletext (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE OverDrive CD (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW PICTURE CD1221 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW PICTURE CD1252 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW PICTURE CD1253 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW PICTURE CD1301 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE Commodore 1MB (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE YC Genlock (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE MTec AT 500 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • IMPROVED PICTURE KCS Power PC 500 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • IMPROVED Rockey RG320C (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • NEW ENTRY AND PICTURE 2061 (thanks to Iggy Drougge)
  • UPDATE EasyL (thanks to Calum Tsang)
  • UPDATE G-Force 040 A3000 (thanks to Wade McIntyre)
  • NEW ENTRY "Sega Development Unit" (thanks to Rude Cow)
  • NEW ENTRY Mastercard (ZII) (thanks to Frank Ciesiewicz)
  • NEW MYSTERY #13 (thanks to Serge)
(ps)

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22.May.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


 Hardware: New Mediator PCI Boards
On the homepage of KDH are informations about the new PCI boards from Elbox available.

MEDIATOR PCI 4000 is the most advanced version of the Amiga-related PCI busboard. The card is dedicated for working in E/BOX 4000 tower systems (also known as Power Tower 4000). The card is installed in the special slot of the Elbox Zorro III/PCI 4000 busboard. MEDIATOR PCI 4000 combines the most advanced electronic solution with a special perfect mechanical design enabling use up to six Zorro III cards simultaneously with up to five PCI cards. Here are some MEDIATOR PCI 4000 features:
- supports 5 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- enables simultaneous operation of Zorro III/II cards
- works with all the turbo card models for A4000 computers
- ready for installation of the SharkPPC G3/G4 and SharkPPC+ G3/G4 turbo cards
- up to 1GB continuous PCI memory space

Mediator PCI ZIII
MEDIATOR PCI ZIII is a PCI busboard in the Zorro III card form. MEDIATOR PCI ZIII is dedicated for all the models of Amiga computers fitted with Zorro III slots: A4000T, A4000D, A3000 and A1200 equipped with the ZorroIII busboard. Here are some MEDIATOR PCI ZIII features:
- supports 4 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible)
- enables simultaneous operation of Zorro III/II cards
- works with all the turbo card models for A4000 computers
- ready for installation of the SharkPPC G3/G4 and SharkPPC+ G3/G4 turbo cards
- up to 512 MB continuous PCI memory space

Mediator PCI ZIV
M EDIATOR PCI ZIV is dedicated for Amiga 1200 computers fitted with the Zorro IV busboard. It is connected to one of two of the ZIV connectors in the Zorro IV busboard. Here are some MEDIATOR PCI ZIV features:
- supports 4 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible) - enables simultaneous operation of devices connected to the Clock Ports in the ZIV busboard
- works with all the turbo card models for A1200 computers
- ready for installation of the SharkPPC G3/G4 and SharkPPC+ G3/G4 turbo cards

All PCI boards are available from June 2001 (ps)

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22.May.2001
Marvin Droogsma - AmigaScene (ANF)


 Event: Benelux Amiga Show - AmigaOne comes to Europe
In Rotterdam, Netherlands will take place a unique Amiga Show on 23rd of June. The Benelux Amiga Show will present many VIPs and the latest hardware, including the AmigaOne! This show will show that Amiga is alive and will have a good future. One of the VIPs will be Petro Tyschtschenko and maybe he will talk freely about the history of Amiga. (ps)

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22.May.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Software: isdnsurfer.device V1.944 now with Sync-PPP!
A converter from async-PPP to sync-PPP that enables the using of the Windows standard sync-PPP is added. The new device can be found in the support section.

Download: isdndev.lha (ps)

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22.May.2001
AudioLabs


 Audio: ProStationAudio Update - 24bit Import
Beyond 16bit audio.

The current trend in the audio industry is to propose alternatives to 16bit audio storage. Efforts are targeting opposite directions: uncompressed high resolution (24bit/96KHz) and high compression ratios (MPEG).

In order to keep up to date in handling data generated by latest Mac and Windows audio applications the new ProStationAudio 4.10 now can import and convert to 16bit for multitrack editing from:
  • 24bit/96KHz (packed data, mono and stereo) AIFF (Macintosh)
  • 24bit/96KHz (packed data, mono and stereo) WAV (Windows)
  • Raw MP3 files
  • WAV MP3 files (0x55 format)
  • WAV MP3 files (0x50 format)
  • Shoutcast live streaming MP3
Enhancements over 4.05 include a mouse-over capability that allows to inspect objects' attributes by moving the mouse pointer over the timeline, and fixes. The product is ready now, there's no new public demo for 4.10.

ProStationAudio 4.10 will also be available to current customers in a few days, free update as always.

ProStationAudio runs on AmigaOS (classic only) systems (Amigas and Dracos). An additional version for Windows is in the works. (ps)

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21.May.2001
Chris Green via E-Mail


 Event: Kickstart Amiga Show News
AmigaOne exhibition at the Kickstart Amiga Show K4 The Kickstart Amiga User Group announced that Eyetech, the sponsor of the Kickstart Amiga Show, will present the new AmigaOne-Computer.

Details:
  • K4: The Kickstart Amiga Show in co-operation with Eyetech and Analogic
  • When: Saturday, 26 May 2001
  • Where: Banstead Youth Centre, The Horeseshoe, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2BQ, England
  • Time: 12:00 h - 17:00 h (local time)
  • Homepage: www.kickstartshow.co.uk
The Kickstart Amiga Show will offer you the possibility to take a look at the new computer and to talk with the Eyetech-team. Further details are available at our homepage. You can find there a detailed discription of how to find the exhibition, too.

Contact
  • Requests about and reservation of an stand: Ray McCarthy, Show organizer, Tel.: 0044 1737 215432
  • All other requests: Chris Green, PR-co-ordinator, Tel.: 0044 7971 273850
Games-Arena

Register online for the Kickstart Show Games Competition! There will be competitions with new and classical games. Visit our homepage and register for one of our competition. You can register at the show, too. Remember that there are only a restricted number of competitors.

Sensible Soccer
'Sensible Soccer' will be one of the games of the competition presented by the Blackpool Amiga User Group.

Shogo
The second game will be 'Shogo Death Match' presented by SEAL. At least there will be 16 places for each of the mentioned games. Additional information is available at the title link. (ps)

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21.May.2001
AMIPRESS (ML)


 Amiga Inc.: AmigaDE and AmigaOS Beta Testers Wanted (Update)
Amiga Inc. announced on the AMIPRESS mailing list following official news concerning the beta tests of AmigaOS 4.0 and AmigaDE. 

From:     Ray A. Akey 
To:       press@lists.amiga.com
Subject:  AMIPRESS: FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLICATION
AmigaDE and AmigaOS beta testers wanted
Date:     Mon, 21 May 2001 04:11:50 -0400

Beta Testers and Developers

Amiga Inc. is looking for beta testers to test AmigaOS
4.0 and AmigaDE third party applications for Amiga
developers. Payment for all beta testers will be one
licensed copy of whatever you test.

Please follow the procedure below:

To be considered, you must point your browser to
http://www.amigadev.net. Look to the right hand menu bar
and click the link that says "Join Amiga Support".

Fill in the form as completely as possible. In the text
block, list any Amiga applications you have beta tested.
Once the form is completely filled in, click "save".

Then, log in to the amigadev site using your new ADxxxx
number that you will receive from filling in the form.
Look to the right hand menu bar under "Legal" and grab a
copy of the Amiga Inc. NDA. Fill in the NDA and fax to
425-396-5660 Attn: Gary or mail to:

Amiga Inc.
Attn: Gary
34935 SE Douglas #210
Snoqualmie, Wa 98065

Amiga Inc. is also requesting all active AmigaOS and
AmigaDE developers to follow the above procedures with
the exception of filling in the form as a "developer"
rather than a "beta tester". Send us a copy of the NDA.

Once a developer has his AD number and NDA in to Amiga
Inc. proper permissions will be set so that you can
reach NDA areas of the web site.

If you have properly installed the AmigaDE SDK you will
already have an AD number.

This one number is good for any and all installations
and testings.

For immediate publication.
--
Gary Peake
Amiga Inc.


Supplement: Christoph Meier wrote: Unfortunately the fax number was wrong. The correct one is : 001-425-396-5671 (ps)

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21.May.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)


 Emulator: WinUAE Version 0.8.16R2 released
WinUAE, an Amiga-Emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K und WinXP, now released as version 0.8.16 Release 2. The following changes were made:
  • FIXED: Stupid shift-key issue (Brian)
  • FIXED: Should be back to 50Hz at A500 speed emulation, so audio latency should be reduced or non-existant. (Brian)
  • FIXED: Graphics-updates may work now on Voodoo cards (Toni, Brian)
  • FIXED: Updated file-version info in WinUAE.exe resource. (Georg)
  • FIXED: Bug with version-number checking and GUI DLLs (Georg)
Download: WinUAE0816R2.exe (ps)

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20.May.2001
AmigaArt


 Game: Shogo - Patch
Hyperion Software have released a patch for Shogo.

This patch fixes installation problems reported by some people. You can determine if you need the patch as follows: got to the 'SOUNDS/VOICES' directory inside of your Shogo directory. If there is no file called 2371.wav, you'll need the patch. How to install the patch was described by Hyperion in this message. (sd)

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20.May.2001
Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena News: Greatkartei, SViewIV/akMPEG
Amiga Arena Special Price Project
Amiga Arena in cooperation with Michael Wagner make possible a special price for Greatkartei.

Greatkartei is a very complex but easy to use data management software, satisfying almost every wish. Almost every kind of file can be 'created' and managed.

Advancements:
  • Useful for any kind of data management, due to it's flexibility.
  • Programmed StyleGuide conform according to the rules of Commodore.
  • Supports locale.library.
  • Plain text, sound, and graphics may be assigned to each record.
  • Each file can be password protected.
  • Each file can be updated to a certain status (time referring).
  • Every changes in a file can be traced.
  • Each of the important functions can be used via keyboard, menu, and buttons.
Amiga Arena Special Price Projec
The special price for the SViewIV-/akMPEG bundle is valid thru 31 May 2001. (sd) (sd)

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20.May.2001
Alan Redhouse (ANN)


 Eyetech: Price for AmigaOne not announced, yet
Alan Redhouse of Eyetech has posted to the comments of ANN a comment about the mentioned price for the AmigaOne boards. He said that Eyetech did not announce prices for their own AmigaOne computer, yet. This is also applies to price declarations for vendors.

The price independently mentioned by 'epic/amigastuff' he thinks to be for testing purposes to find out about market reactions.

«1. no dealers have yet been announced
2. no pricing has yet been announced to any dealers
3. epic/amigastuff are just guessing to test the market reaction IMO.
4. none of this helps anybody.


Alan / Eyetech» (sd)

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20.May.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Magazine: LKA #6
Issue #6 of the Hungary Amiga magazine 'LKA' was released. It offers a new design, many articles, and raytracing pictures in the gallery.

The magazine now is available under the new URL http://lka.revai.hu/. However, the prior address works on (http://amigos.amiga.hu/lka/). (sd)

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20.May.2001
Fun Time World


 Game: Tales of Tamar V0.35R3
Updates for 'Tales of Tamar' for Amiga, Mac, and PC were released. 'Tales of Tamar' is an Internet based bout game by Eternity Entertainment Software.

Amiga version
The 'holiday mode' for the grain shelf was activated. This makes it easy to pause Tales of Tamar for 2 or three days. But the masters of Tamar should be warned! Neighbours may take advantage and start an attack in the meantime.

Mac version
Version 0.02 was released.

PC version
The research screen was activated and bugs in the ToT-API were fixed in version 0.18.

There are updates available for registered testers at the download area. (sd)

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20.May.2001



 Aminet Uploads until 20.05.2001
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19.May.2001
Frank Seidel via E-Mail


 ARexx: Selection Script for Miami
Everybody who wants to save money and therefore assigns his online times to several providers, knows the problem having to call in Miami the cheapest provider for the time being via "Load settings" every time. Frank Seidel has written a small ARexx script to simplify this.

If you call the script for example via the Toolmanager Miami is started (if not already running) and then you can immediately choose via button the wanted settings file. There are four buttons available:

| Standard | Mon - Sat | Sun + holiday | Choose yourself |

Clicking on ´Choose yourself´ opens a file requester in the Miami directory, and you can choose the file yourself. After that Miami goes online.
Download: Miami.lha (ps)

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19.May.2001
CUCUG


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

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19.May.2001
Innovative (ANF)


 Graphics Tool: Ultraconv v4.1 - Free Update
Ultraconv v4.1 is from now on available as free update from version 4.0. New features among others are:
  • a bluebox plugin for the Anim-Publisher
  • support of the Stargate interface of fxPAINT
  • support of the fxANIM video format of fxPAINT
  • Ultraconv now works with VisualPrefs
  • bugfixes
In order to be able to download the update you have to register online at Innovative. Only when you are registered we can help you with problems and estimate the efforts of further development we'll put into Ultraconv. Please support us with your registration.

To form/Download
To form/Download (SSL encrypted)

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19.May.2001
HCS Lange


 HCS Lange Now Online, too
For more than 10 years now the company HCS Lange in Detmold (Germany) is busy with the service for COMMODORE and AMIGA products. This still includes the cult computer C 64 and its peripheral.

The new German only online presence of HCS Lange, which you can find under http://www.amiga-repair.de/, offers a full overview of their products and repair possibilities. Under ´Original-Werbung´ there's the possibility for collectors to get old brochures.

The website has a clearly arranged navigation and is hold in the classic Commodore colors red and blue. By the way, you shouldn't miss the ´crash course´ ;-). (ps)

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19.May.2001
Amiga Impact


 Microcode Solutions announces PowerPC Hardware
Microcode Solutions announces PowerPC hardware for PC's and new Amigas, along with Power Macintosh emulation!
Jim Drew from Microcode Solutions wrote on the 18.05.2001:
Today, Microcode Solutions finalized preparation for the production of PowerPC hardware to be used in PC compatibles and next generation Amiga machines.

The hardware will come with software to emulate a Power Macintosh (tm) computer. More information concerning the emulation will be released in the near future.

Specifications for the hardware will not be released until the hardware is ready to ship. However, we can say that the hardware will have some astounding features designed around simplifying 3rd party development, including emulation technology.

Microcode Solutions will be offering free developer hardware to qualified companies and 3rd party developers (including freeware/shareware). Microcode Solutions will also be releasing a complete SDK for the hardware to the public, and provide technical support to anyone interested in developing software for this hardware. (ps)

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19.May.2001
AmigArt


 AmigaOS4.0 Beta Testing
Fleecy Moss's looking for beta testers for AmigaOne/OS4. People who want take part in the beta testing may send an email to Gary Peake with his/her system configuration and his/her skills. Those persons will have to sign a NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). Read the original message below:

"Whilst I know we all want to beta test the AmigaOne/OS4, we do have code ready to test that can be run on existing Amigas. If anyone is interested in doing this, please send an email to gary@amiga.com, giving your machine configs and testing skills.

You will have to sign an NDA to do the testing, but it will really help to iron out any problems and speed OS4.0 on its way."

- Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc. (ps)

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19.May.2001
SixK


 Apache for Amiga ported to MorphOS
Using the title link you can download a MorphOS version of the webserver Apache for Amiga in the version 1.3.19.
Download: apache_1.3.19_Mos.lzx

For people more deeply interested in the subject there are three online articles regarding the subject Amiga-Apache at Amiga-Magazin (German only):
(ps)

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19.May.2001
Sascha Ludwig (ANF)


 WinUAE Version 0.8.16R1 Released
WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP, is available in version 0.8.16 release 1. A detailed list of the improvements and changes can be found following the title link.
Download: WinUAE0816R1.exe (ps)

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18.May.2001
Carl Sassenrath in REBOL-ML


 REBOL: Skript-Library on Desktop
The script library of REBOL.com can now be accessed from the View desktop. With the help of its library drawer, upload and updating of scripts is also possible.

Currently, the library is at beta 1 status. For future versions, there are ideas like a browser for better viewing of the library, a history icon which informs about changes and an additional field in the REBOL header which states in which environment (CGI, REBOL/View, ...) the script works and whether it produces output which is for example not the case with includes that merely import functions. (sd)

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18.May.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


 Digital Almanac - Mailing List Created
Due to the positive feedback to the astronomy software Digital Almanac III, a mailing list has been created at YahooGroups in which all registered users can communicate. There you'll also find all updates of DA III released so far and of course all future ones!

On the homepage (see title link) is a link for subscribing to the mailing list. An invitation has already been sent to all registered users. All support for DA III will take place only on the mailing list from now on. If you haven't subscribed yet, now is about time!

Currently, version 3.5 is in development which will feature even more GlowIcon images by Martin Merz (MI-Icons). (ps)

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18.May.2001
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)


 PerfectPaint V2.6
Version 2.6 of PerfectPaint, the paint and image processing program, has been released and is available for download at the title link. Read here what has changed:

  • New Tooltype: NO_STARTUP_WINDOW
  • Improve Bridge tool
    you can communicate easily with all programs having an arexx port. Each program is decribe by an ASCII file (in PerfectPaint:rexx/Bridge/Host). The available hosts are:
    ADPro,ArtEffect,FinalWriter,FxPaint,Image Engineer,ImageFx,MovieShop,PageStream,Photogenics and TVPaint.
    You can exchange pictures, brushes, palettes and animations.
  • Sometimes PfPaint crash on exit when you manipulate a lot of buffers, it's fixed.
  • pp_Setbuffer, PP_findemptybuffer and pp_FindEmptyBrush works well now.
  • Improve pp_SetBrush and pp_SetBuffer
  • Add an Arexx shell.(right mouse button on arexx button)
  • PfPaint can now load and save AnimTransfer for Aweb, Ibrowse and Voyager.
  • Little bug corrected with the compose requester
  • Fix a nasty bug when you save a 24 animation with more than 100 frame.
  • Improve Animation:
    Add a new subitem 'Effects' with:
    • Clone Anim
    • Join Anim
    • Inverse Anim
    • Make Ping-Pong
    • Fade to
    • A new version of Slim Anim
    • Movie Factory: Lets you make transitions between two frames in the current animation. Available Operators are:Displace,Fade,Mosaic,Perspective,Spray, Tunnel, Twirl and Wave.
    • Dissolve: Same function than Movie factory, but transitions are made with a mask. 16 Operators are available.
    • Motion blur
    • Ghost frame
    • Shaker
  • Fix a bug with the tool 'Box' when it was used on very big picture.
  • Fix a bug with the floodfill algo.
  • Fix a bug while creating animation
  • New Arexx commands:
    • PP_StencilOn, pp_StenciOff, pp_Mosaic
    • PP_SavePPM, pp_Liquid, pp_InvStencil
    • PP_SSave ; Save Stencil
    • PP_SLoad ; Load Stencil
    • PP_Dissolve, pp_BufferGui, pp_SetPath, pp_GetPath
  • Improve Antialiasing line
  • New scripts: 3dGrid (box tool), Clock (circle tool)
  • Improve Palette requester with Load and Save Gradient
  • Right mouse button on the line button and you can change the pattern of your line.
  • several small improvements
(ps)

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18.May.2001
Olaf Koebnik via E-Mail


 Amiga Arena: Special Price Offer
About two weeks ago, the Amiga Arena offered in cooperation with Fun Time World to get the package ´Image Engineer´ and ´Visual Engineer´ for a special price of DM 49,-; on the condition that we would get more than 30 orders. Sadly, we couldn't reach even half of that so far.

We'll leave the order form online until Sunday and hope for many orders. Maybe we'll manage to the special price for the collective order from the programmer. (ps)

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18.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


 Virus Help Denmark: Safe V15.6
With the virus scanner ´Safe´ you can find but not eliminate viruses. Here the details on the new version 15.6 released today:

Name: Safe v15.6
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size: 29.728 bytes
Release date: 18th May 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)

New in v15.6:
  • fixed muForce hit with VECS/S
  • moved memory detection and removals of 4ef9 trojans to
  • added GREAT ABILITY! Since this version Safe is able to remove EVERY PATCH from:
    Open - Write - Lock - UnLock - Examine - ExNext - LoadSeg - NewLoadSeg - PutMsg - DoIO -
    IT IS POSSIBLE EVEN WHEN THE ADDRESS WAS LOST!
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/safe/safe.htm. (ps)

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17.May.2001
Tao


 Tao: intent® V1.1
On 14 May 2001 Tao Group released version 1.1 of its multimedia platform intent®. The system contains new multimedia extensions and an upgraded JavaTM VM.

intent® specifically targets at the home and mobile connected device market - e.g. mobile phones and digital TV-sets which can be extended with multimedia features using intent®, as for example for media players there is a streaming technology available, now.

The JavaTM virtual machine now supports PersonalJava 1.2 specifications, as specified at the heart of the DVB's Multimedia Home Platform definition for Digital TVs.

This version of intent® is also the first from Tao to include technology from one of its engine partners Sseyo® with its 'Koan' interactive audio software.

The intent® 1.1 SDK is available from Tao Group for both Windows and Linux. intent® is supported on a wide range fo embedded processors, including ARM 6/7/9, Thumb, StrongARM Power PCTM, MIPS R3/4/5xxx, SH3/4, and ST40. (sd)

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17.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: Tribute to Originator of the Web
»The British computer engineer Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN, was admitted to the patriarchal Royal Society. The British academy of science has elected 42 new members.«
Entire article (German) see title link. (ps)

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17.May.2001
Oliver Roberts


 Datatypes: WarpDTPrefs V44.4
The preference program for datatypes by Oliver Roberts was updated and is available in version 44.4, now. This program can be used for individual settings of the following datatypes: WarpJPEG, PNG, BMP, and PSD.
Download: WarpDTPrefs.lha - 113 kB (ps)

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17.May.2001
Shawn (ANF)


 AMIGAONE Yahoo Chat
Shawn (aka Amigaone) has created a chat with subject ´AmigaOne´ at Yahoo. To take part a JavaTM capable browser is required and you will have to register for the chat at Yahoo. On Saturday, 9 June (7 pm) a live chat will start where users will be able to discuss theire wishes, criticism, and suggestions for the AmigaOne. The log-file will be forwarded to both Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss. Who would like to receive the log-file, may contact amigaone@powerh.net.

Supplement:
Since we were advised by many people that the initiator is about to be somebody who lacks seriousness, we suggest to read the comments, too.

Original message with more details.

This chat will include voice. Just get your mics and plug them in. Or at least turn the voice on. First go to yahoo. Then click on the Chat link. Register as a user if you haven't done so. Don't download the messenger because its windows unless you have a windows machine then come early and download yahoo messenger.

Once logged in, click on the start chatting button, its java so it best to use a Java capable browser. Go to AMIGAONE room and I AMIGATHEONE will be there. Along with many others.

Starting SAT JUNE 9th, 7pm central and lasting till whenever there will be a live chat on the new AMIGA. All may truly express their feelings on what they dislike and this log will be submitted to Bill and Fleecy.

You may contact me at amigaone@powerh.net to get the log of the show. I personally invite people who wrongly believe in the pci and agp solution. IF they aren't there it only proves that they are wrong and cant put up. This is an enlightening forum for truth and helpfulness. Nothing else. Absuses will not be tolerated and anybody doing so will be booted by me or my assistance whom I trust. (ps)

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17.May.2001
Wap it out Newsletter (ANF)


 Nokia wants Linux Games - New Multi-Platform Standard
Nokia wants Linux-Games
Nokia, one of the biggest companies in the consumer electronic branch, brings an independent page to the net targeting to bring together Linux developers to develop games and other software. OSTdev.net is the address unveiled by Nokia. Nokia hopes this address to become the focal point for the Linux community's energies. (ps)

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17.May.2001
Christian Effenberger (ANF)


 Webtool: SiteWay-Modul 'ImageEditor' Version 1.33
Christoph Poelzl of RMS Communications advised me that more and more digital cameras (e.g. Canon EOS D30, Olympus E10, Kodak DCS 760....) are using a raw format, which apparently no Amiga software can read. Utilizing the two new loaders ´RAW Grey´ and ´RAW Color´ the ImageEditor in principle can read any raw formatted picture (e.g. sculpt), now.

Download: IE_Update.lha - 240 kB (ps)

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17.May.2001
Gerd Kautzmann (aka AC-Eule) via E-Mail


 'Business Cards' of Chip Designers
Any Amiga user is aware that hardware and software designers like to leave some personal remarks (easter eggs) in their work. More difficult is to find such 'business cards'. Those reside on silicon chips and can be made visible only by using a microscope (or even an electron microscope).

Here are two pictures from Motorola PowerPC chips:
Motorola XPC 750
Motorola XPC 603 (ps)

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17.May.2001
DynAMIte


 New Style for DynAMIte: Bdynamite
For the online game 'DynAMIte', a Bomberman/Dynablaster clone, a new style called 'Bdynamite' was released. In this game you can online play against a maximum of eight players. More information under the title link. (ps)

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17.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail


 GFX-Base: KRSnake Review
On GFX-BASE you can read a review of the (probably best) Snake clone, KRSNAke. (ps)

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17.May.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via E-Mail


 NetBSD/Amiga: 1.5.1_BETA2 Test Snapshot
NetBSD/Amiga Version 1.5.1_BETA2, a test snapshot, is available under the title link.

If you have the possibility to do so, please test this snapshot and then report problems on the port-amiga mailing list or via the NetBSD error database.

NetBSD-1.5.1 will be a patch release mainly fixing problems and errors in NetBSD-1.5. I would like to thank Matthias Scheler, who created this snapshot! (ps)

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17.May.2001
Andreas Magerl (ANF)


 Amiga Future: Interview with Andy Kellet
At the 'interactive' section of the Amiga Future website an interview with Andy Kellet of F1 Software was released. (ps)

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16.May.2001
Matthias Gietzelt (ANF)


 Programming Language: Emperor Introduces Itself
Emperor is an object-orientated programming language which enables the user in a most simple way to write applications and tools for the new AmigaOS 3.9 as well as for AmigaOS 2.0.

Standard-GUI-elements like windows, menus, requesters, ASL-requesters, ReAction- and GadTools-gadgets are integrated by clicking the mouse and can be programmed with the help of macro functions and integrated text editor. The gadgets can communicate by implementing of so called Interconnection-maps without typing a single line of source code. It is also very easy to create locale-catalogs and variables, to integrate libraries and so on. Emperor has an easily understandable and user-friendly ReAction-Gui and a detailed online-handbook in the ".guide"-format. Programming the new AmigaOS becomes a pushover!

Emperor is available in the completely reworked version 4.0 and has the following features:
  • Immediate visualizing of each element available
  • Generating C/C++-source code
  • Integrated text editor
  • StormC-connection via ARexx
  • Generating source code for AmigaOS 2.0, AmigaOS 3.9 or in mixed modus
  • Memory use drastically reduced (requires: 3 to 4 MByte)
  • Fixed some minor bugs of the previous version
  • Extended handling of GadTools-gadgets
  • Understandable layout
  • More complex menus
  • FREEWARE
You can download version 4.0 of the program on Aminet-directory "dev/c".

Download: Emperor_v4.0.lha (ps)

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16.May.2001



 Aminet Uploads until 16.05.2001
TrolanSrcs.lha       comm/cnet  336K+Source to the CNet utils I wrote
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   472K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
simplehtml.lha       comm/www    35K+V0.16 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
preass154b.lha       dev/asm     42K+Preass update 
FPSPSnoop.lha        dev/debug    7K+Trace unimplemented 68040 or 68060 instr
MuForce.lha          dev/debug  272K+The V40 Enforcer, detects illegal RAM ac
MuGuardianAngl.lha   dev/debug  295K+MungWall superset, detect accesses to no
MuLink.lha           dev/misc   122K+Memory protect selected hunks of binarie
MuScan.lha           dev/misc   120K+Print the MMU tree layout.
muimaster020.lha     dev/mui     97K+Muimaster.library 020 patch Rel 5
MagellanIIPL.lha     docs/help   38K+Polish Locale for MagellanII
MuManual.lha         docs/misc  788K+Tutorial, examples, includes, (auto)docs
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data    9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (13 May)
Gallery_music1.lha   game/data  4.1M+Archive with 3 great music samples for G
Gallery_music2.lha   game/data  5.5M+Archive with 3 great music samples for G
gametracker.lha      game/misc  1.1M+Gameserver browser for QW/Q/H2/Sin/Shogo
GRACUser1.lha        game/role  390K+Extra stuff for GRAC users
gumband.lha          game/role  962K+Gumband 2.1.5b - Roguelike solo RPG
oangband.lha         game/role  897K+Oangband 0.5.1b - Roguelike solo RPG
666MagNumbers.lha    game/think   9K+V1.2, MagicNumbers v1.1 images + German 
Connect4.lha         game/think  70K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
MagicNumbers.lha     game/think 138K+A small but good mind game V1.1
Piggy.lha            game/wb      8K+One player dice game written in Arexx.
pdhfic.lha           gfx/conv    89K+Convert images from Datatypes to Spectru
MuEVD.lha            misc/emu   129K+MuLib driven ShSh driver for ECS,AGA,P96
AGReader.tgz         misc/unix   95K+AmigaGuide file reader, for Unix system.
absolution.lha       mods/med   656K+"High Energy" executable OSS module
absolution2.lha      mods/med   509K+"High Energy" executable OSS module
cruising.lha         mods/med   223K+"High Energy" executable OSS module
gdammerung.lha       mods/med   300K+"High Energy" executable OSS module
np_initm.lha         mods/misc  716K+Noyz Phaktah '005 - I'm Not In The Moog!
id3taglibgui.lha     mus/edit   110K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
PT4_Beta2_src.lha    mus/edit   509K+Protracker V4.0 Beta 2 full source code
Play16_1.9.lha       mus/play   190K+Multi format sound player, supports AHI
GamesIcons01.lha     pix/nicon  609K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons03.lha     pix/nicon  652K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons04.lha     pix/nicon  663K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons05.lha     pix/nicon  654K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons06.lha     pix/nicon  647K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons07.lha     pix/nicon  632K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons08.lha     pix/nicon  624K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons09.lha     pix/nicon  651K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons10.lha     pix/nicon  641K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons11.lha     pix/nicon  629K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons12.lha     pix/nicon  631K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons13.lha     pix/nicon  621K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons15.lha     pix/nicon  630K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons16.lha     pix/nicon  612K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons17.lha     pix/nicon  635K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons18.lha     pix/nicon  646K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons19.lha     pix/nicon  641K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons20.lha     pix/nicon  623K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons21.lha     pix/nicon  640K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons22.lha     pix/nicon  618K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
GamesIcons23.lha     pix/nicon  112K+OS3.5 256 color icons for games
eaqua.lha            text/misc   45K+A Aqua (MacOs X)-like imageset for ENote
HTMLstrip.lha        text/misc   23K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
XDM20.lha            util/arc    56K+DMS like disk packer using LZX v2.0
LoadModule.lha       util/boot    9K+Install Libs/Devs reset-proof, ROM-Updat
MuFastChip.lha       util/boot  118K+Chip memory cache mode fine tuning tool
MuFastRom.lha        util/boot  118K+MuLib conformal ROM to RAM remapper
MuFastZero.lha       util/boot  134K+MuLib Zero Page remapper, FastExec/Prepa
MuLockLib.lha        util/boot  112K+Lock the mmu.library in memory on startu
MuSetCacheMode.lha   util/boot  121K+MMU tree adjustment tool for experts
PatchRAM.lha         util/boot   19K+Patch Os 3.9 RAM-Handler to show right s
Wibby.lha            util/boot   34K+Small, quick, and useful taskbar util
akNAIL-dt.lha        util/dtype 120K+AkNAIL-dt V44.12 (NAIL, 68000-060)
akPNG-dt.lha         util/dtype 236K+AkPNG-dt V44.98 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/MOS
MMULib.lha           util/libs  530K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha            util/libs   55K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  379K+Report+ 4.62: Multipurpose utility
ReqAttack_fin.lha    util/misc   34K+RAPrefsMUI finnish catalog
Mu680x0Libs.lha      util/sys   329K+MuLib aware 68060, 68040, 68030 and 6803
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16.May.2001
SixK


 Database: MySQL for Amiga Version 3.23.38
You can find an AmigaOS-port of MySQL database-system version 3.23.38 (binaries for 040) on the French website of 'SixK'. This version was compiled and optimized by Gcc 2.95.3. New: MySql client and MySqlCheck.
Download: MySQLd3.23.38_040bin.lzx (ps)

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16.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: Karlsruhe judges Future of Domain Names
»Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe will effect a Domain hearing on Thursday which is considered to be trend-setting for handling general describing web-addresses. First the conflict about the domain www.mitwohnzentrale.de had exercised judiciary of Hamburg. In the end of 1999 regional court of appeal allowed the suit of the roommate center compound HomeCompany and had forbidden the defendant Ring Europaeischer Mitwohnzentralen (REM) to continue using the domain because of anticompetitive action. The use of terms without individual additives would interfere competition at the expense of competitors. This would lead to an "interception" of possible customers just wanting to explore the tender at the market section by 'hit or miss'-typing the Domain name. Because of that they would accidently come to the defendant's sites and would stop searching for other competitors and therefore would not compare other services.«
See title link for complete article (German). (ps)

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16.May.2001
Centro Amiga per E-Mail


 Centro Amiga with new E-Mail Addres
Because of several problems with the mail server the Portuguese dealer 'Centro Amiga' has changed its E-Mail address. From now on please use still only the following addresses: (ps)

[News message: 16. May. 2001, 13:11] [Comments: 0]
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16.May.2001
Gerd Kautzmann (aka AC-Eule) per E-Mail


 Heise: IBM WebPAD
IBM will publish a WebPAD with QNX Neutrino as OS and Opera as WWW-browser. A customer also has been found, yet. If the device contains a PPC or a x86 processor was not mentioned in the message. IBM had announced PPCs for Internet appliances (just like this one) where graphics chips and parts of the periphery will be integrated on the chip.

And if anyone wonders why this message belongs to the newsticker, here one hint: "This could have been the AmigaNG (QNX+Opera+[PPC ?])".
Article of Heise see title link (German). (ps)

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16.May.2001
Sébastien Jeudy via E-Mail


 French User List: Annuaire Amiga Francophone
Sébastien Jeudy has updated his user list 'Annuaire Amiga Francophone'. Currently 509 French users from France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec are on the list. Subscribe and find contacts in your region. (ps)

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15.May.2001
Felix Schwarz (ANF)


 Ultraconv Online Registration
Already early this year we took over distribution of Ultraconv, formerly distributed by RBM. Due to the last release took place some time ago, we can hardly determine if there is sufficient demand for a new version, again. To find out about the number of active Ultraconv users, we decided to raise a registration project for Ultraconv. We ask all of the Ultraconv owners to register online. It's understood that your data will be kept in confidence and will not be handed down.

Registration form
Secure registration form (SSL encrypted) (ps)

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15.May.2001
OnyxSoft


 OnyxSoft: Software Updates
Detris Version 3.11
Version 3.11 of the Tetris-clone Detris from Daniel Westerberg is released.
Download: detris.lha

MultiRen Version 1.45
MultiRen is a tool from Daniel Westerberg, that you can use to change the names of more than one file at the same time. Now version 1.45 was released.
Download: multiren.lha (ps)

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15.May.2001
Onyxsoft


 QuickNote V1.5 Beta
Beta version 1.5 of QuickNote, the electronic note-pad from Stefan Blixth, is released. Now it is possible to change the font whenever you want. Also the iconify function (sleep mode) and some minor improvements are added.
Download: quicknote15b0514.lha (ps)

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15.May.2001
Richard Kapp per E-Mail


 GFX-BASE: Tutorials and New Features
Ricard Kapp wrote:
On GFX-BASE some changes took place last days! A search function for the games database was included, new links and entries were added and now there is a tutorial area where you will find workshops and FAQs in English.

The first tutorial is online and is a FAQ with pictures about anim formats. We are presenting anim players for the Amiga and explain how to display special formats on gfx boards. (A tool to play the famous animations from Eric Schwartz on gfx boards is included in this explanations)

If you wish to translate this tutorials into German, write a mail. Have fun! (ps)

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15.May.2001
Orange Juice (ANF)


 Gag: Workbench HTML-Emulator :)
"HTML-emulation" of the Workbench :) (ps)

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15.May.2001
Patrick Beerhorst (ANF)


 WB2000 Images V1.6
Also the archive for WB2000 (Startbar for the Workbench) is now updated to the latest version. 50 new mini-pics are added to the archive. If you wish more mini-pics or MiniGlowIcons, that are not included, yet, please send an e-mail with the info-file to me. About 1000 downloads in the last days show me you like the archives. So, do not be lazy, send me your icons to convert, so there will be more updates then! (ps)

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14.May.2001
Pawel Filipczak (ANF)


 TaskiSMS V2.57
There is a new version of TaskiSMS (V2.56) available, now. This program lets you send SMS to mobile phones in 160 countries all over the world. The download is available at the TaskiSMS home page or on Aminet.

Changes:
  • fixed auto close send window option (now it closes it only when message was successfully sent)
  • added abort of SMS sending process
  • SMS creation date is now stored in SMS file, not only in folder index (useful with rebuild folder index)
  • updated Lycos plugin
(ps)

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14.May.2001
Sebastian Bauer


 HTML-Offline-Browser: SimpleHTML V0.16
SimpleHTML lets you display small HTML-files. It only supports some HTML-tags.

To use the program you only need OS3.0 and, to display images, the respective image-datatype.

Download:
simplehtml.lzx - 33 kB
html-dt.lzx - 27 kB (ps)

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14.May.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 LinuxPPC: New Programs and Kernel
New programs and a new precompiled kernel (version 2.4.4) for Linux-APUS are available for download. (ps)

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14.May.2001
WarpSNES


 SNES-Emulator: WarpSNES V6 Beta (Update)
WarpSNES emulates a SNES. WarpSNES for PowerAmiga runs on the WarpOS-kernel and is based on Snes9x.
The beta version were completely revised. Additional details are available at the title link.
Download: WarpSNES60Beta.lha - 335 kB (ps)

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14.May.2001
Petra Struck


 Meeting of *AC# - Additional Pictures
Every year there is a meeting of the members of Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet. This year the meeting took place in Hildesheim, Germany.

The pictures available here show the cosy atmosphere of the meeting. I am looking forward to the next meeting.


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13.May.2001
Fun Time World


 AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated
Greg Donner has updated the AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ. Point # 3: 'Are there any special options in colorwheel.gadget v45.0 (or higher?)' on the page 'undocumented features' was enhanced. (sd)

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13.May.2001
AmigaArt


 Instant-Messenger: JabberWocky Status
Development of the instant messenger 'Jabberwocky' utilizing the Jabber-Technology which uses XML, is proceeding. For the time being the author is working on file send/receive support.

Sinan Gurkan has published a screenshot on AmigaArt showing several windows opened in the running Amiga port. A XML console and a window for message entries are among those windows.

More information:
(sd)

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13.May.2001
amiga.org


 Magazin: The Crypt #17
Issue # 17 of the English disk magazine 'The Crypt' was published.

This issue is about tests of Aqua, dynAMITE, and MooVID Pro 2, a walk-through for 'Simon the Sorcerer 2', an interview with Ian Greenway (Amiga Spectrum Emulator), and much more. (sd)

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13.May.2001
Fun Time World


 Interview with Deftone (SMSEngineerMUI)
On the Amiga Future website an interview (title link) with Deftone, the author of SMSEngineerMUI, was published.

Deftone talks about how he started programming, what he likes on the Amiga, and what is being planned for future versions of SMSEngineer. An ARexx-port of which 90% have been finished belongs to this plans , and maybe to part program and GUI to make it possible to support other GUI systems. (sd)

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13.May.2001
Fun Time World


 Amiga: Web-Interface for Mailing Lists
Amiga has created a Web-Interface for the mailing lists. According to the message this will enable easy subscribing to the lists. (sd)

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13.May.2001
Czech Amiga News


 USB: Unified Amiga USB Development Effort
At the time being several USB solutions for the Amiga are being developed. According to Robert Tsien and Thomas Graff Thoger it would be vital to get the 'Unified Amiga USB Development Effort' together in one open USB system Software, because of complexity.

Robert Tsien and Thomas Graff Thoger are working on a software architecture to be introduced, soon. (sd)

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13.May.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Instant-Messenger: STRICQ V0.1732 Beta
Douglas F. McLaughlin has released beta version 0.1732 of the instant messenger 'STRICQ'. According to the author STRICQ runs trouble-free, now.

Download: STRICQ.lha (sd)

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13.May.2001
Alfred Sturm


 New Aminet Uploads
popcheck.lha         comm/mail   44K+Choose what mail to delete from POP serv
YAMGenesis.lha       comm/mail   23K+Start & stop Genesis from YAM2. V1.04
YAMMiami.lha         comm/mail   22K+Start & stop Miami from YAM2. V1.00
GoPortscan.lha       comm/net   107K+V0.4 TCP Portscanner with MUI interface
AmiDiction.lha       comm/tcp    24K+Online Dictionary
BabelDoc.lha         comm/tcp    33K+Translate docs or strings from one langu
pproxy.lha           comm/tcp     5K+Little Proxy with cache
GnsSyntex.lha        demo/aga   855K+Fixed version of a good old-school demo 
UP-7-001.lha         demo/sound 1.4M+UP ROUGH "Automatic Gear Single" feat. S
BlitzLstApr01.lha    dev/basic   43K+Blitz mailing list archives for April 20
Emperor_v4.0.lha     dev/c      708K+Object-oriented programming language
ixenv.lha            dev/gg      27K+Ixemul environment needed for most ixemu
m2latex.lha          dev/m2      67K+LaTeX files from Modula-2 and Pascal sou
FindChanges.lha      disk/misc   90K+Finds changes made to disk
mc601.lha            docs/mags  311K+German Metal Mag in HTML - Juni 2001 Iss
gametracker.lha      game/misc  1.1M+Gameserver browser for QW/Q/H2/Sin/Shogo
AmazonInstall.lha    game/patch 127K+HD-installer for Flight of the Amazon Qu
DescentAmiPt15.lha   game/patch 186K+Amiga compatible patch for Descent V1.0 
OldtimerInstal.lha   game/patch   3K+HD-Installer for Oldtimer CD version
cthangmulti.lha      game/role    8K+Manages multiple savefiles for Cthangban
mangband.lha         game/role  324K+Mangband 0.7.0 beta - client
Go_Ahead.lha         game/think  74K+- Who wants to be a Millionaire - like Q
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  723K+V1.61 PSX MemoryCard Reader
imdbDiff010504.lha   misc/imdb  1.8M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
AmTelnetIISpa.lha    misc/misc    3K+Spanish translation catalog for AmTelnet
PhoneSpell.lha       misc/misc  136K+Decodes phone numbers into words
Rioback.jpg          pix/back   242K+Photo background
fommisc10.jpg        pix/henz   264K+Colonial Viper (Battlestar Galactica)
Cosmoration.jpg      pix/misc    30K+Cosmic picture drawn with DiamondBOX!
CrazyRichard.jpg     pix/misc   145K+Photo of me manipulated with DiamondBOX!
Explosion.jpg        pix/misc     5K+Cosmic picture drawn with DiamondBOX!
HTMLstrip.lha        text/misc   23K+HTML stripper which can also replace HTM
BootManager.lha      util/boot   24K+Multiple startup-sequence manager
AslToRT.lha          util/misc   19K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition/RT requester to RT
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  373K+Report+ 4.61: Multipurpose utility
trackdisplaycl.lha   util/time   37K+V1.16 Use hardware track display as cloc
Safe.lha             util/virus  28K+V15.5 of virus dicovering system
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  18K+PatchBrain v1.34 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutorS.lha   util/virus   6K+Spanish translation catalog for VirusExe
MiniI16.lha          util/wb    766K+Mini-Icone over 400
(as) (Translation: as)

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12.May.2001
Dennis "Psyria" Lohr (ANF)


 R-Type Title Song as Ringing Sound for your Cell Phone
Dennis Lohr, aka Psyria, has got another licence from Chris Huelsbeck to convert one of his songs into cell phone format. This time it's the title melody of "R-Type".

For everybody who doesn't need a picture, here's the notation sequence:
4G#4, 4D#5, 4G#5, 8D#6, 2C#.6, 8C6, 8A#5, 4C.6, 8G#5, 4D#.5, 8G#5,
2C#.5, 8D#5, 8F5, 4D#5, 4D#5, 4G#4, 4D#5, 8D#6, 2C#.6, 8C6, 8A#5,
4C.6, 8G#5, 4D#.5, 8G#5, 2A#.5, 8G#5, 8A#5, 4G#5, 8G#5, 1P

First number: kind of the note (full, half, quarter, ...)
Letter : note height (if need be with "#" + ".")
Third number: Octave (note height)

People who'd rather see a picture can find this at Psyria on the homepage (title link) at the download area. On "www.mp3.com/huelsbeck" you can find the old pieces of Chris Huelsbeck in studio quality.

The next conversion for the handy will be "Giana Sisters". Be anxious. ;)

Psyria wrote: You have to set the speed for the song for yourself!
This is needed because every cell phone producer uses a different way for the speed display. For example: for Siemens cell phones it's 1 = slow to 30 = fast and for Nokia cell phones it's in bpm.

On Siemens cell phones it would be 7 or 8 ;) (tested on S25 & S35) (Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
Dynateam (ANF)


 Dynamite Version 1.3 Released
The version 1.3 of the Bomberman clone "Dynamite" has been released today.

The most important improvements are:
  • A new watch mode for pausing players.
  • Heavily reduced CPU usage, improved "scrolling", smoother game (a 040/40 is still recommended).
  • Free definable bubble content (Doh!, Eeek!, Igetya, etc.).

Download page
Supplement 13 May 2001:
ToDi wrote: A bug in DServer was removed. The DServer is now available for download in the archive on the download page (v1.3a)!

Excerpt from the 'changes':
  • 13.05.2001 V1.3a: Fixed a nasty divide by zero bug that was introduced with the new winquotient.
(Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
Computer City via E-Mail


 Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party

Press release: Benelux Amiga Show and Amiga LAN Party
On June 23rd 2001 the Dutch Amiga magazine Amiga Scene and Computer City are organising a double-event: The Benelux Amiga Show and the Amiga LAN Party.

The location is Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Many new Amiga products such as the VSS Sound Card, Prometheus and -last but not least- the Eyetech AmigaOne will be shown! Also, several Amiga VIPs will attend the show! You will find more information on the following websites:

Benelux Amiga Show
Amiga LAN Party

For more information please contact Bruno de Klerk at Amiga Scene or Ron van Herk at Computer City.

For more information on the Amiga LAN Party please contact Mathieu Burgerhout.

Supplement:
Xanidy wrote on ANF that there's a possibility to gather people for driving at www.amiga-info.net. People who want to join or start car-pools are at the right place there. (Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
REBOL ML


 REBOL: Function Dictionary, Sound Support, VID FAQ
Function dictionary
On the 10. May 2001 has REBOL Technologies released an update of the 'Function Dictionary' where the functions of the REBOL system are described. The functions are sorted by categories and alphabetically. The dictionary is available as HTML file (almost 900 KB) and in the REBOL desktop via 'REBOL.com/Ref-Make'. This script loads around 40 KB from the REBOL site and generates the file '/public/www.rebol.com/view/docs/dictionary.html' within the REBOL directory.

Sound support
REBOL/View/Pro supports from the version 1.2 on the output of sound samples. For the loading of samples is a subset of the WAV format (PCM samples with 8 or 16 Bit) supported.

The sound output is possible on the systems AmigaOS (AHI, audio.device), BeOS, Linux/x86 (Open Sound System) and Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000.

Further information can be taken from the REBOL sound documentation.

VID-FAQ
A faq regarding the REBOL GUI dialect 'VID' can be found via the REBOL desktop on http://www.compkarori.co.nz/index.r within 'VidWiki'.

Information: REBOL
REBOL is a cross platform system developed by Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec) that was first released in November 1997. The REBOL programming language allows an easy use of the internet including the programming of CGI scripts and the easy creation of GUIs.

On 24. April 2001 was REBOL/View V1.1 released. From this version on REBOL offers the REBOL desktop. This makes it possible to put REBOL scripts on every web server, so that these scripts can be called and executed via the desktop. Herewith REBOL offers similar possibilities as Java does. The examples listed on REBOL include games like Tetris and Minesweeper and tools like a pocket calculator and a script for sending e-mails. (Translation: sd)

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12.May.2001
Ruediger Engel


 First Pictures of the Annual *AC# Meeting Online
The annual club meeting of the "Amiga-Club in Btx & Internet" is in motion since Thursday. Today we've thrown together all the pictures we've made till now, made a small preselection and uploaded this to the server of the *AC#. Just follow the title link.

Greetings from Hildesheim from all Clubbies! (Translation: ps)

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12.May.2001
Torsten Kleinz (ANF)


 Douglas Adams has Passed
Douglas Admas has unexpectedly died because of a heart-attack. The author became world famous for his novel series "Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy". He died on Friday in Santa Barbara (California). Douglas Adams was 49 years old. (Translation: ps)

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12.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail


 Web Browser Voyager: New Button-Set
Richard Kapp wrote:
I have once again created a new theme for Voyager. This time it's a button set drawn in the MacOS X (Aqua) look with a matching background pattern which makes the buttons appear transparent. The set is quite big and therefor especially good for use with high resolutions.

Download: aquatheme.lha - 32 Kb
Screenshot: aquavoyager.jpg (Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
ANN


 Amiga port of SiN Finished, but...
From a posting of Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainment it is evident that the Amiga port of the game 'SiN' is ready but the actual Amiga hardware isn't enough to cope with the requirements of the game. The port will be hold back until the AmigaOne hits the market.

Hermans said that particularly the lower-end Blizzard acceleration cards couldn't offer the CPU speed needed for 'SiN'. (Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
diff.org


 Interview: Developers Talk About The Future of AmigaOS 4
Andrea Vallinotto has asked Jürgen Haage of H&P, Olaf Barthel, Hyperion Entertainment and Tobias Abt of the Picasso 96 team about their opinions about AmigaOS 4. Besides the English version of the interview (title link) there's an Italian version. (Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
amiga.org


 mozAmiga Site Updated
The mozAmiga site at mozdev.org has been updated. Interested programmers can find there a summary of the project and of the developers resources.

Amiga Inc. themselves want this port but for the time being there's only a reworked project manager available for the project. If you own the Amiga SDK and you'd like to bring some C++ code into the right form for the new system and want Netscape on the AmigaDE then have a look. (Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
amiga.org


 Aminet: Full Brazilian Mirror Online
The AmigaBR User Group and MMA Internet & Sistemas announce the first full Aminet mirror in Latin America. It's set in Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia, Brasilia, and can be reached via http://br.aminet.org/~aminet (title link). (Translation: mj)

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12.May.2001
amiga.org


 Intel: Itanium Set in May
Intel plans the release of the first batch Itanium chips for the end of this month. It is expected that two or three versions of this chip will arrive. One with 733 Mhz and a 800-Mhz version with 2 MB cache. A 800-Mhz version with 4 MB cache is said to come, too. Amiga should now mention whether an Itanium compatible translator (VP) is planned.

Itanium chips are 64Bit processors that can among other things manage 32 GB memory. Enough for complete websites or the content of big harddrives. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and other big computer distributors will soon present computers with 2, 4 and even with 16 processors that for the first time will have the 64 bit Itanium chip. (Translation: mj)

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11.May.2001
Jan Andersen


 VEPatch.Brain v1.34 and Safe V15.5
A new update of the 'VEPatch.Brain v1.34' for VirusExecutor and a new update of 'Safe v15.5' have been released today, here is some info about the two releases:


VEPatch.Brain v1.34:
  • Name : VEPatchBrain v1.34
  • Archive name : VEPatchBrain.lha
  • Archive size: 22.469 bytes
  • Release date: 10 May 2001
  • Programmer : Jan Erik Olausen


New in this update:
  • FPPrefs v40.22
  • HDOff v1.40
  • AppChange v1.0
  • WinSpeed v1.0
  • MagicFrames v0.3
  • FakeTopaz v1.18
  • PatchRAM v1.11
  • MuForce v40.27
  • mmu.library v42.8
  • MuGuardianAngel v40.41
  • DefIcons v37.15
  • One more entry of Snoopdos
  • Four more entries of DynamicCache
  • MathLibsPatch v1.2b (v1.33)
  • CyberGuard v2.2 (v1.32)
Download: VEPatchBrain.lha - 18 KB, Readme: VEPatchBrain.txt

Safe v15.5:
  • Name: Safe v15.5
  • Archive name : Safe.lha
  • Archive size: 29.786 bytes
  • Release date: 10 May 2001
  • Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
  • Requires: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library strongly recommended)
New in v15.4 - 7000
Finished parameter DIS/S. It is equal to SAVMEM/S, but saves disassembled block of memory instead of binary block. This option requires disassembler.library by Thomas Richter.

Download: Safe.lha 29 KB, Readme: Safe.txt

Safe informs about viruses in memory and removes them where possible. Safe can not remove viruses from infected files on devices. (mj)

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11.May.2001
MorphOS


 MorphOS News
AROS demos ported to MorphOS
Nicolas Sallin has achieved a masterpiece porting the AROS demos to MorphOS. "Enjoy fast bump mapping, gouraud shading and other nifty effects".
Download: AROSDemos.lha

The next version of MorphOS will contain an updated version of the graphics card software CyberGraphX which will run the demos a bit faster due to the optimized WriteLUTPixelArray().

More ports to MorphOS

xlhtml 0.2.8 PPC-MorphOS port by Fr3dY - converts Excel and Powerpoint files to HTML files.
Download: xlhtml028-mos.lha

ncftp 3.0.3 PPC-MorphOS by Fr3dY - update of the port of the FTP program NCFTP
Download: ncftp303-mos.lha

lynx 2.8.4dev20 PPC-MorphOS - Fr3dY has ported the text-only browser 'Lynx' to MorphOS.
lynx284dev20-mos.lha

bladeenc 0.94.1 PPC-MorphOS - MorphOS Port by Fr3dY of the MP3 encoder bladeenc with excellent quality and high bitrates.
Download: bladeenc0941-mos.lha (ps)

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10.May.2001
Scalos


 Scalos-Forum at amigaforums.org
A forum for questions about the Workbench replacement 'Scalos' was created at amigaforums.org. (ps)

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10.May.2001
Haage&Partner


 H&P: PageStream Website Started
From today the new PageStream websites are available at www.pagestream.de. The entire content was reworked and a new navigation created. During the following weeks H&P will extend that area. Most of all layout patterns and workshops shall be offered. (ps)

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10.May.2001
SonicPulse


 SoundFX Version 4.1
SoundFX is an editor software for digitized audio data (samples). SFX was modular built and has a comfortable GUI. With SFX you can edit and give samples digital effects (which are unique on the Amiga). The program is shareware.

Today SoundFX v4.1 was released containing the following innovations:
  • New design for (almost) all windows.
  • Many dialouges were cleaned.
  • Smaller improvment in some FX (e.g. AnalyseSpect2D) and a new FX (Distorsion).
  • Batch processing.
  • HTML based help.
(ps)

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10.May.2001
TEK Neoscientists


 MysticView for MorphOS
The picture viewing software MysticView by Timm S. Mueller was ported to MorphOS by Sigbjørn Skjæret. The program requires MysticView fully installed, the current version of the mysticview.library (v5), and guigfx.library (v19). (ps)

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10.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


 Virus Help Denmark: Appeal
Virus Help Denmark wrote:
Hi all....
We have to try and stop the spreading of viruses, we know that it is almost impossible, but we must do something. We will make a list of the internet providers that have virus pages, and try to have them removed. Your name and email be kept a secret.

For report virus site go here.

Kind regards......
Jan Andersen
Virus Help Denmark
E-mail
WWW
(ps)

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10.May.2001
Richard Kapp (ANF)


 NARR-Site: New URL and CoolCALC Skins
Richard Kapp wrote:
Since some time the NARR site is available under http://narr.ohgo.com, so please, don't forget to change your bookmarks. Moreover there are some new CoolCALC skins (four of those are not on Aminet). A new version of CoolCALC is already planned. (ps)

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10.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


 Tool: HappyEnv Replacement V1.3b
Stephan Rupprecht has released ENV-Handler V1.3b to be a HappyEnv replacement.
Download: envhandler.lha - 12 kB (ps)

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10.May.2001
BlitzEngineers


 BlitzEngineers Homepage Completely New Design
The online presence of BlitzEngineers (SMSEngineerMUI) was completely new and dynamically designed. (ps)

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10.May.2001
Christoph Meier (ANF)


 Chip: Rumour: Matrox Introducing G550 Graphics Chip Next Week
»Alegedly Matrox will announce a new graphics chip, next week. This was announced by the Internet magazine "The Register" on Thursday. The chip by the name of G550 will be the successor of the current graphics processor G450 and is supposed to be brought to the market by June. «
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)

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10.May.2001
Amigan


 Tool: Report+ Version 4.6
With Report+ by Amigan Software you can easily create bug reports, Aminet readme files, autodocs, and similar report files. The program is freeware and supports ReAction and GadTools GUI systems.
Download: report.lha - 373 kB (ps)

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10.May.2001
clickBOOM


 clickBOOM News
The AMIGA games factory clickBOOM is wanting graphic artists for new projects. In their current so called S-File #11 all of the clickBOOM games including Nightlong are offered at special prices. (ps)

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10.May.2001
ANN


 Library: Amiga SDL V1.2.0
Gabriele Greco has released version 1.2.0 of the multimedia library 'Simple DirectMedia Layer' for AmigaOS/68k.

This library is available for many platforms as like for BeOS, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. It offers fast access to the graphics and audio capabilities of the respective system. The library enables platform comprehensive development of games and other multimedia products as like MPEG players and emulators.

One of the most popular SDL applications is the Linux game port of "Civilization: Call To Power". Lists of more games, demos, and applications are to find on the SDL website.

The current Amiga version is available as link library (SAS/C and GCC) for 68k Amiga's. This version contains almost all features of SDL.

Versions for PowerUP (ppcemu compatible) MorphOS have been announced.

Download: AmigaSDL.lha - 1,2 MB, Readme (sd)

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10.May.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


 Digital Almanac - Homepage Back Again
The homepage of the astronomical program "Digital Almanac" is back again. Due to a change in the redirect server the old URL has to changed a bit.

The changed URL is:
http://soft-ware.de/dalmanac
Alternative URL: http://members.tripod.de/achimste (ps)

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09.May.2001
AmigArt


 AmigArt: Shogo Review
(ps)

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09.May.2001
Stéphane Campan per E-Mail


 CyberGraphX4: G-Rex Update at Schatztruhe
There is a G-Rex update for the graphic board software CyberGraphX in the section "free updates". The update is meant to be used by G-REX-owner who have got a CyberGraphX4-CD (which is needed for installing). You have to extract the archive into the RAM and to install it from it. (ps)

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09.May.2001
Christian Effenberger


 SiteWay-modul "PicBase" Final Version Published
With PicBase you can easily generate HTML-catalogs-sites. The program automatically makes complex and web-suitable picture catalogs of picture directories. If needed recursive and with navigation and META-tags inclusive. It uses patterns for decorating (e.g. dia-frames) and navigating.

PicBase supports the following picture-types via DataTypes: BMP, GIF, IFF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PBM, PSD, SUN, TGA, TIF

The file archive contains 16 topics of decoration, 5 topics of buttons and 92 patterns of backgrounds.


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09.May.2001
Blittersoft


 Mac-Emulator: iFusion Version 1.2
There are two different updates to version v1.2 for registered users of the PPC-Mac-emulator 'iFusion' from Blittersoft which fixes some reported bugs.

You can find the download site under the title link in the section 'Updates'. First of all please check your version of iFusion which is on your CD before you then download the corresponding update for 1.0.0 or 1.0.1. You can find further details under the title link. (ps)

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09.May.2001
Amiga Extreme


 Freespace Screenshots at Amiga Extreme
Hyperion Software has sent some screenshots of the game 'Descent: Freespace' which is still in development to Amiga Extreme where you can see how Freespace runs on an Amiga with Voodoo3 graphics board. (ps)

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09.May.2001
Fun Time World


 Burning Software: MakeCD3.2d - beta 7
It has been published version beta 7 of the CD burning-software MakeCD 3.2d. Some bugs in the graphical layout and the SCSI3_ATAPI-drivers have been fixed.
Download: MakeCD32d_public_beta_7.lha (ps)

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09.May.2001
Dennis Lohr (Psyria)


 Turrican 2-Song as Ringing Sound for Cell Phones
Who does not know this? You sit on the train and suddenly a cell phone is ringing. The ringing sound often is a simple sound or some usual song. Dennis Lohr of Psyria has got the permission of Chris Huelsbeck to convert the title melody of Turrican 2 to cell phones. Each one who has got a cell phone with a notes editor can type the melody of Turrican 2. Dennis has kindly provided the required notation to us. (ps)

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09.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail


 GFX-Base: Interview with Jakub Brzezniak
GFX-Base has interviewed Jakub Brzezniak (Magic Software) where he talks about his last projects (MagicNumbers, Commander and his useful utilities.library). Besides this a new section has been created which introduces the best Aminet-software of the week. And last but not least there is GFX-Base wallpaper for download or simply to look at of the online magazine. (ps)

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08.May.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail


 Inutilis Graphics Adventure Developerkit "Inga" Nearly Finished
Inga is an engine to develop graphics adventure like Monkey Island 3. With this developer kit you can comfortably create games by yourself. The programs of the developer kit are nearly finished. They are fully functional and support the locale-library.

The release date is earlier than planned, only the manual is missing, first it will be available in German, later in English, too. (ps)

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08.May.2001
GameSpy (ANF)


 Interview with Cinemaware
On GameSpy you can find is an interesting interview with Lars Fuhrken-Batista of Cinemaware. The company, well known to any Amiga fan, was revived a few months ago after its death in 1991 and is now working on a remake of the classic "Defender of the Crown" - only for Windows-PCs. But also for Amigans there are some interesting views in the history of Cinemaware and its games. Also said in the interview that the next remake might be "Rocket Ranger". (ps)

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08.May.2001
Patrick Beerhorst (ANF)


 MiniGlowIcons V1.6 - 400 Icons
The latest version of the MiniGlowIcons with more than 400 icons for Amiga OS 3.5/3.9 desktop and start menus (like DirOpusII) you can find on our homepage. Added since the last version are for example the new icons for the Boinbag of OS 3.9. Also you can find desktop themes for your workbench. The archive for WB200 users (toolbar) will be updated in the next days. (ps)

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08.May.2001
Chris Green (ANF)


 K4 Kickstart Amiga Show
The Kickstart Amiga User Group in association with EYETECH and ANALOGIC is pleased to announce the final exhibitor line-up for K4 - The Kickstart Amiga Show. Further information can be found on the show web site.
  • The Date: Saturday May 26th 2001
  • The Place: Banstead Youth Centre, The Horseshoe, Banstead, Surrey, SM7 2BQ
  • The Time: 12pm-5pm
  • Admission: £2
HOT NEWS
Come see the first public demonstration in the UK of iFUSION, the long awaited PowerPC Mac emulator from Microcode and Blittersoft.

EXHIBITORS USERGROUPS DIRECTIONS TO THE SHOW
From the M25: Exit at Junction 8 of the M25. Follow the A217 (Brighton Road) northbound into Banstead, then take the A2022 (Winkworth Road) and take the first right. Follow this street until you pass a school then turn right into 'The Horseshoe' to find Banstead Youth Centre. Ample free parking is available at the venue. This route will be fully signposted on the day.

CONTACTS
For show enquiries and stand bookings please contact Ray McCarthy (Show Promoter) at ray@kickstart-amiga.co.uk or call (01737) 215432.
For all other enquiries, please contact Chris Green (PR Co-ordinator) at chris@kickstart-amiga.co.uk or call (07971) 273850.
More information will be posted regularly to the show web site.

PLEASE NOTE:
All software sold by anyone at the show must be original and proof of ownership may be required from vendors before entrance to the sale is permitted. The Kickstart Amiga User Group reserves the right to refuse entrance to any person, regardless of a booking. The Kickstart Amiga User Group cannot accept responsibility for any goods purchased at the show. Entry to the show is at your own risk. Kickstart reserve the right to add or remove events from the show without notice. (ps)

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08.May.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Fotos: Prometheus PCI-Board von Matay
Matay presents in combination with technical specifications some pictures of its PCI-board Prometheus (in this case placed in an A4000 Escom tower. Shipping date was delayed about two weeks because of lacking some parts from Taiwan. (ps)

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08.May.2001
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 John Chandler: May Update
John Chandler writes monthly an issue about Amiga on Suite101.com. The latest issue deals with the announcements of Amiga, Inc. at the St. Louis Show and the after-effects. (ps)

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08.May.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail


 CD32 Games Install Kit v4.3NG
A new update of the CD32 Games Install Kit for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. The version 4.3 NG of the Install Kit supports now many more games (177 in total !!). Additionally there were some optimizations made and also a small bug was fixed.Version 4.3 can be downloaded now from the protected area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage that can only be accessed by owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM. (ps)

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08.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


 VHT: VirusExecutor V2.18
  • Name: VirusExecutor v2.18
  • Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
  • Archive size: 265.367 Bytes
  • Release date: 8. Mai 2001
  • Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
  • Requires: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library
(ps)

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07.May.2001
Amiga Update


 Amiga Update - Newsletter by Brad Webb
(ps)

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07.May.2001
Amiga Impact


 WarpSNES: Survey
WarpSNES emulators, a Super Nintendo Entertainment System on PowerAmiga. Currently there is a survey by the programmers about the interest in a new version. The new version would contain a improved sound-emulation but this would cause a slowdown of the whole program. You find the survey on the title link in the 'News'-section. (ps)

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07.May.2001
Thomas Wenzel (ANF)


 New Beta Version of AmigaAMP v2.9 Available
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
I have made a very early version of the new beta of AmigaAMP v2.9 available for download. Due to some serious problems with my own Amiga I am currently not able to spend much time on developing the new version. (ps)

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07.May.2001
Eternity/T.o.T.


 Tales of Tamar News and New FAQ
Tales of Tamar is an internet based strategy game for Amiga, Atari, Linux and PC by Eternity Entertainment Software. Version 0.35R2 is now available for registered testers.

This new version introduces middle and heavy infantry. Furthermore there are improvements of the map and some requesters. (ps)

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07.May.2001
WHDLoad Support Page


 Installer: WHDLoad V14.2
Version 14.2 of the harddisk-install-tool WHDLoad released. WHDLoad enables you to install many floppy based games onto your harddisk. Download: WHDLoad_14.2_usr.lzx - 119 kB (ps)

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07.May.2001
amiga.org


 GameSpy: Interview with Andy Kellett
There is an interview by GameSpy with Andy Kellett of F1 Software. (ps)

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07.May.2001
Virtual Dimension


 Virtual Dimension: Exhibition Video
Virtual Dimension published a video, filmed at the 'World of Amiga 2000', on their webpage. There are two different versions available. One MPEG-version for Amiga-player and a DivX-version for other systems. (ps)

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07.May.2001
CUCUG


 CUCUG: Status Register April 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter by the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with news about Amiga, Macintosh and PC. (ps)

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07.May.2001
Apex Designs


 Game: New Maps for Payback
There are some new extra-maps for the game »Payback« by Apex. A PPC-version of this game will be available by June or July. (ps)

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07.May.2001
Exotica Team (ANF)


 Exotica: New Pictures in Gallery
We added 38 new scans of old games to the 'Games Gallery'. (ps)

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07.May.2001
Alexander Fritsch, Selco (ANF)


 New Version of jpeg2avi
New version of jpeg2avi released. The new version works faster as its predecessor. jpeg2avi lets you join JPEG-files and AIFF-files into one AVI-file. You do not need any additional library.
Download: jpeg2avi.lha (ps)

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07.May.2001
Thomas Wolf (ANF)


 Picture Gallery at amigakult.de
Thomas Wolf wrote:
72,55% of our visitors voted for a picture gallery. You can visit our new gallery by following the title link. (ps)

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06.May.2001
amiga.org


 CDTV Information Center
The website of 'The Commodore CDTV Information Center' is available under http://www.cdtv.org.uk/, now. Additionally information were extended and a new forum was created.

The site contains huge information and help on the CDTV by Commodore; things worth knowing about the CDTV history, pictures of the CDTV CR prototype, FAQ's, and easter eggs. (sd)

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06.May.2001
Amiga-VIP.net im ANF


 Amiga-VIP.net Available again
Amiga-VIP.net gives you the opportunity to express your opinion about hardware and software products, websites, and dealers. After a little face lifting now the page is available, again.

Now it is possible to suggest products you are interested in or which stem from yourself.

At the time being more than 120 products, websites, and dealers are listed. Also relevant links can be added to the lists (e.g. a workshop for a product on your homepage).

For further questions a FAQ was created. (sd)

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06.May.2001
amiga.org


 amiga.org Moving
amiga.org will move to another server within the next days. This might lead to problems, but after moving amiga.org will have better possibilities to offer their services; topical and commentable messages from the Amiga sector, as well as different discussion boards.

amiga.org apologize for trouble that might happen due to their move. (sd)

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06.May.2001
ANN


 Amiga Network News more Comfortable
Christian Kemp did a technical extension of the Amiga Network News website (ANN), re-activated the notify service, and changed the HTML code.

Now the page optionally supports cookies. If cookies are active the current settings, own name, and e-mail address is saved to cookies. This facilitates entering of comments.

The notify service was re-activated, so subscribers are automatically informed about updates, again.

The layout was reset to the previous version and all of the MS Internet Explorer specific changes has been removed, since it seemed to be impossible to request all of the Amiga browser variants, which indeed announce themselves as CSS2 capable browsers via spoofing, but do not support every CSS2 feature.

Amiga Network News offers commentable topical messages from the Amiga sector. (sd)

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06.May.2001
Fun Time World


 New Entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
The 'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' was updated. These are the changes:
  • New: entry - DigiLab (thanks to Robert Maruszak)
  • New: pictures - A600 Motherboards (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
  • New: pictures - Personality Module + HD (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
  • New: entry + picture - Kickswitch (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
  • New: entry + picture - Pro-Agnus SS2 (thanks to Andrew Lindsay)
  • New: entry + picture - H530 StormBringer (thanks to Frank Ciesiewicz)
  • New: picture - A1011 Floppy Drive (thanks to Richard Wagenfuehrer)

The ´Big Book Of Hardware´ is an extended hardware reference website with information about many Amiga hardware products. (sd)

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06.May.2001
Achim Stegemann


 Digital Almanac: Homepage Not Available
The homepage of the astronomic program "Digital Almanac" is not available under the known address www.soft-ware.de/dalmanac indefinitely, due to a server problem not located, yet.

In any case you can use http://members.tripod.de/achimste/ (title link) which is generally an alternative URL. (sd)

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06.May.2001
Andreas Magerl


 DAD: Interview mit Laszlo Torok (MooVId)
Digital Amiga Dream had published an interview with Laszlo Torok, developer of the video player 'MooVId'.

Laszlo Torok answered questions about him in person and about his work in the Amiga sector. Furthermore he talked about his Amiga collection and future plans.

Under the title link you can find the interview in English and Slowene. (sd)

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06.May.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel


 CD³²: MP3 Track of the Start Sound
The CD³² console by Commodore plays a sound on start up. This start sound is available for download as MP3 file at the CD³²/CDTV-Corner of the CD³²-Allianz, now.

Download: CD32Start.mp3 (155K) (sd)

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06.May.2001
AmiSource on ANF


 dynAMIte CD Version News
The recently started dynAMIte CD project is progressing in some way, but unfortunately not as fast as we had hoped. We are on a good way to it, but still need some pre-orders to achieve a minimum of 100. We got some questions about the content of the CD:
  • dynAMIte (the game itself will stay freeware!)
  • New dynAMIte Gfx-Styles
  • New dynAMIte Sample sets
  • At least 100 new levels
  • Extended manual in any imaginable language
  • Big Intro
  • CD sound track
  • and some more surprises which we hopefully will be able announce, soon.
We are looking forward to more pre-orders! (ps)

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06.May.2001
Torsten Dudai


 New cartoon: Partners




A bit late (due to A-level examination), but topical: the graphical comment on Amiga/SHARP partnership. (td)

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05.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via E-Mail


 Amiga Arena: Special Price for VideoEasel
In co-operation with Thomas Richter Amiga Arena makes VideoEasel available at a special price. The special price is valid until the 31.06.2001. You can find the special price campaign in the section "Aktionen"!

About VideoEasel:
It is tricky to describe this program, it's best described as a "mathematical toy", entertainment on the highest level.

Maybe Conway's "Game of Life" is known, a cellular automaton that can be used to imitate "biological looking" processes. At its time this "game" went through the press, with its variations. Indeed VE can deal yet more; things like the kinetic gas theory, oscillating chemical reactions, simulated circuits, diffusion processes and more can be simulated. Own automatons can be developed, VE is programmable.

The idea is simple: the screen is divided in cells (the screen pixels), the condition of a grid pixel at the time t+1 then depends on the condition of the cell itself and their neighborhood at the time t via a simple (programmable) rule. You can here already simulate very complex processes with very simple rules, and the results aren't always easily predictable. some of the automatons have serious applications and are used as models in the statical physics ( grid gas, Ising model of the ferromagnetism), partly it's just an interesting toy (Game of Life, Brian's Brain, many more).

VE comes with a manual that contains several dozens experiments next to example data starting points. Just test out the demo version. Further information can be found at Thor Software. (ps)

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05.May.2001
Diverse Sources


 Software News (Update)
QuickNote v1.5 - beta2
At OnyxSoft is version 1.5 (Beta2) of QuickNote by Stephan Blixth being published. This program is, as the name already suggests, a virtual notepad.
Download: quicknote15b0501.lha

Report+ 4.6 beta 2
With Report+ by Amigan Software bugreports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports can be created in an easy way. The programm is freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: 4_6beta2.lha - 382 kB

Sysmon V1.16
Etienne Vogt has made version 1.16 of his system monitor available for download.
Download: Sysmon116.lha - 140 kB

WinFellow alpha v0.4.3 build 1
Of the Amiga emulator WinFellow has version alpha v0.4.3 build 1 for Win9x/2k (DirectX 5) and Windows NT (DirectX 3) been released.
Download:
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.3_build_1_directx5.zip
winfellow_alpha_v0.4.3_build_1_directx3.zip

New libraries for MorphOS
Timm S. Müller of binary distillery has ported the guigfx.library and mysticview.library to MorphOS. Both libraries simplify graphical operations.
Download:
guigfxlib.lha - 245 kB
mysticlib.lha - 125 kB

ENVHandler
Stephan Rupprecht has released the version 1.3 of his HappyEnv replacements 'ENVHandler'.
Download: envhandler.lha - 7 kB

SecondSpin v2.17 beta
Beta version 2.17 of SecondSpin is available. This is a tool to convert audio CDs to MPEG audio 1, 2 or 3. Additionally further formats like AIFF and WAV are suppported. For the MPEG encoding you need a modified version of LAME.
SecondSpin_Install.lha (ps)

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05.May.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF


 Digital Almanac III - Update and News
There's again an update of the astronomical program ´Digital Almanac III´ with new features and improvements. The new version is numbered 3.3.

Highlights this time are:
  • Calculation of "Killer asteroids" (so called PHAs). Who comes nearest to the earth?
  • IFF ANIM compression now also in the PPC mode. For animations and pictures only the actual star map is saved, not the whole screen anymore.
  • Extended toolbar with buttons in the GlowIcon style by Martin Merz.
  • The DA III screen has now a name, so that some commodities (for example MCP) can access it. With a new menu item you can now fade in the screen bar with depth gadget.
Bugfixes:
  • The ways of several small bodies was drawn wrong because of a false Perihel calculation.
  • The printout was unfortunately distorted since several versions. This error was unfortunately discovered just now.
As usual, the update will be sent to all registered users via email.

Remarks to WinUAE and MorphOS:
DA III runs perfectly under the new WinUAE JIT version in the 020/FPU mode. Under older UAE versions (for example: Cloanto's latest version in the AmigaForever v4) DA III is only usable with the non-FPU version in the pure 020 mode, as the FPU emulation here is still buggy. DA III in all versions does not run under MorphOS. It seems that not all FPU instructions are correctly emulated. Only the 020 version runs with restrictions. A special MorphOS version will definitely not happen. When the WarpOS version of DA III runs stable under MorphOS, a special MorphOS version becomes unnecessary.

PC port?
DA III won't be ported to Windows, Linux or another OS. Previous requests for such a port had unfortunately to be refused. DA III is and keeps an Amiga program. Especially under Windows there's a big number of similar programs of high value. (ps)

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05.May.2001
KATO Development Group


 AMPlifier V2.26
AMPlifier is in the first line a comfortable player program for MP3 (MPEG) audio, but can also play different 16-bit sound formats (AIFF, MAUD, WAV, RAW). AMPlifier supports hardware based MPEG audio decoder as much as software decoding via MPEGA.library. The graphical design can be fit to everybody's own likings via so called 'skins'. As the same system as in WinAMP is used there are several thousands ready skins available.

Now AMPlifier is available in a new version with several new functions.
  • Shoutcast/Icecast MP3 streaming ('.m3u' and '.pls')
  • ID3v2 tag support
  • new AREXX instructions
  • 8-bit WAV support
Download: amplifier226.lha (ps)

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05.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


 VHT: Amiga Virus Encyclopedia
Virus Help Denmark has opened the worldwide first reference-book for Amiga viruses.Four weeks have VHT worked on the creation of the site that will be regularly updated in the future and enhanced with further ideas. For now there's a problem with the search function, but that will be solved, soon. (ps)

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05.May.2001
Leser on ANF


 c't issue 10/2001: Amiga-Comeback?
On page 32 of the latest c't (German computer print magazine), the following can be read:
»Amiga Comeback?
Despite otherwise read rumors Sharp's for the end of the year announced Zaurus PDA will not run with a new developed Amiga OS. Instead of this a specially adapted version of RedHat-Linux will be used. Amiga Incorporated, the remainder of the same named computer manufacturer with rich traditions, will indeed develop numerous Java applications for the organizer, so that the GUI may indeed remind of old Amiga times. (dal)« (ps)

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05.May.2001
amiga.org


 AmigaDE on OEM Basis
Bill McEwen on the occasion of the Photogenics/CE thread at amiga.org: "AmigaDE runs and it is for the time being available for PocketPC, WinCE, Win98, Win2000, WinNT, Epoc, iTron, Linux, Zaurus, and others. AmigaDE is right now available on an OEM basis, the first devices will be delivered from May 30th." (ps)

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05.May.2001
Dennis Lohr via E-Mail


 Psyria: New Piece of Music
Psyria produces its music exclusively on the Amiga. Two days ago Psyria has released a new megamix which is ready for download only for a short time!

"Psyria in the Mix" is an almost 30 minutes long megamix out of 6 songs. It contains also still unreleased music pieces which will be found on the coming album (presumably summer 2001).

To give not only DSL and cable users the possibility for downloading the whole thing comes in two versions. Once in high quality (around 33 MB in size) and once as low quality (around 20 MB in size). All those who want to gather more information about the project Psyria can subscribe to the newsletter or simply send an e-mail. (ps)

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04.May.2001
Davy Wentzler via E-Mail


 Audio Evolution V3.20
Davy Wentzel has released update v3.20 for Audio Evolution which mainly contains bugfixes and minor enhancements. The HD recording software for recording, editing, and playing of audio tracks is distributed by Computer City and surely well known by many users by it's old name 'PlayHD'. Registered users will automatically receive the update via e-mail.

Details of this update:
  • 'Grid Display' for MIDI bars/beats display
  • 'Snap-to-grid' function
  • Filesave bug fixes
(ps)

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04.May.2001
Olaf Köbnik via E-Mail


 Amiga Arena: F-Base V2.4 Full Version
F-Base V2.4 Full Version
By agreement of Frederic Laboureur (developer of "PureBasic") the Amiga Arena makes the unlimited and registered version of F-Base v2.4 available for download. F-Base is an easy to use database software. Detailed information about F-Base can be taken from the English documentation.

Appeal
Who wants to write a short manual or preview on F-Base or KidHTML, please e-mail to Olaf Koebnik. I would be happy about your contributions. (ps)

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04.May.2001
Nikolaj Thygesen via E-Mail


 Paint Program: DiamondBOX Version 1.11
Nikolaj Thygesen as released version 1.11 of his Amiga paint program ´DiamondBOX´. This program is CGFX compatible and requires at least AmigaOS 3.0, 8 MB RAM, 1 MB harddisk space, an Amiga with at least 68020 CPU, and of course a bit of creativity.
Download: DiamondBOX.lha (ps)

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04.May.2001
Richard Kapp via E-Mail


 GFX-Base: Interview with James Daniels
You can read an interview with James Daniels, the developer of the GTA clone Payback. He uncovered some details of the upcoming PPC version and it's possible new features and improvements.

GFX-Base has created a new tools section which might interesting especially for users of graphics boards. (ps)

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03.May.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: New Microsoft Push against Open Source
»Today's speech of Craig Mundie, vice president and software analyzer of Microsoft, invoked some discomposure in advance. According to the New York Times Mundie is about to deepen the contra open source arguments of Microsoft's head, Jim Allchin, who said that open source would endanger software development. A few days later Microsoft said his statement was a disaccord.«
Complete article (German) under the title link. (ps)

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03.May.2001
Michael Wilps im ANF


 DirectoryOpus 4.15j (Beta)
Jacek Rzeuski has made available version 4.15j. This version still is a beta release, but a new major version 4.16 is about to be released as soon as the ATO translators have finished their work.
Download under the title link. (ps)

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03.May.2001



 Aminet Uploads until 03.05.2001
LocalePL_OS39.lha    biz/dbase   96K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.6.1
LauncherUpd.lha      biz/titan   34K+ShogoLauncher Update (Demo and Retail)
ShogoDemoUpd.lha     biz/titan  394K+Shogo Demo Multiplayer fix
ReKeyIt_GR.lha       comm/mail    4K+Greek locale for ReKeyIt
YAT.lha              comm/mail  519K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
tv-prog.lha          comm/misc  420K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v1.00b
AmiMUD.lha           comm/net   211K+Version 3.5 of THE Amiga MUD Client.
ftpmount.lha         comm/tcp   134K+Handler to use FTP as real directory
TaskiSMS.lha         comm/tcp   421K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI).
http_post.lha        comm/www    45K+Send POST query to HTTP server
MassDL.lha           comm/www    41K+Less work leching on Web pages. (AWeb)
APX-Melba.lha        demo/aga   134K+Melba by Appendix, released at Melba/Sym
PSL-KMJintro.lha     demo/aga   657K+Kiss My Jazz intro by Pic Saint Loup
DKG-ST16.lha         demo/mag   2.7M+The Long-Awaited SHOWTIME #16 By Darkage
Z80SimulatorDo.lha   dev/cross   94K+Documentation for Z80Simulator.
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   118K+Print the MMU tree layout.
systemviewer.lha     dev/moni   302K+View & change OS components (source incl
acdb_pch.lha         disk/cdrom  18K+Patch to make ACDB (CDDB client) work
LowDiskSpace.lha     disk/moni   16K+Small commodity to watch for low disk sp
2PatchList.lha       docs/help    3K+List with patches and information.
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/hyper 823K+Mailing-list NotizieAmiga 04/2001 (Itali
AaktInt0401.lha      docs/mags  256K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0401GFX.lha   docs/mags  323K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AIOV46.lha           docs/mags  1.1M+Amiga Information Online, Issue 46 (Apri
MuManual.lha         docs/misc  787K+Tutorial, examples, includes, (auto)docs
LegoBlast.lha        game/2play 1.0M+Dynablaster-Like game
Risiko.lha           game/board 443K+"Risk" Fullversion German/English
F1GP_2001.lha        game/data    9K+2001 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (29 Apri
WHD_JetSetWly2.lha   game/patch  19K+HD Installer for Jet Set Willy II
WHD_ScoobyDoo.lha    game/patch  17K+HD Installer for Scooby & Scrappy Doo
WHD_TowerBabel.lha   game/patch  19K+HD Installer for Tower of Babel
WHD_Zeewolf.lha      game/patch  25K+HD Installer for Zeewolf
WHD_ZeewolfII.lha    game/patch  24K+HD Installer for Zeewolf II
drangband.lha        game/role  853K+DrAngband 2.9.8 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha          game/role  956K+Gumband 2.1.5a - Roguelike solo RPG
pmangband.lha        game/role  405K+Pern mangband 3.1.3
Piggy.lha            game/wb      7K+One player dice game written in Arexx.
ps2m.lha             hard/hack   45K+Ultimate Amiga PS/2 WheelMouseController
SMIF.lha             hard/hack  140K+Cheap SmartMedia interface + sourcecode
MuEVD.lha            misc/emu   127K+MuLib driven ShSh driver for ECS,AGA,P96
antique_dream.lha    mods/med   342K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
plastikk_tripp.lha   mods/med    65K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
Boulderdash.mpg      mods/mpg   918K+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
BubbleBobble.mpg     mods/mpg   2.2M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
CrazyComets.mpg      mods/mpg   3.2M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
Fairlight.mpg        mods/mpg   1.9M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
GhostsGoblins.mpg    mods/mpg   4.3M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
GreenBeret.mpg       mods/mpg   2.7M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
himnoalpcero.mpg     mods/mpg   492K+A mod maked in bcnparty 2k
IK99.mpg             mods/mpg    13M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
InternationalK.mpg   mods/mpg   3.8M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
SanxionLoading.mpg   mods/mpg   6.5M+C64 improved version of a classic 64 the
id3taglibgui.lha     mus/edit    92K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
NallePUH.lha         mus/misc   187K+Redirects any (hw-banging) sound program
SerialRipper_s.lzh   mus/misc   813K+SR - Multi Module Ripper - Sourcecode
lch-JapIcons5.lha    pix/gicon   99K+Japanesque GlowIcons for Os 3.5 pack 5
jd_Boulevard1.jpg    pix/views  310K+Boulevard in Torun, POLAND (1024x768)
jd_Boulevard2.jpg    pix/views  192K+Boulevard in Torun, POLAND (1024x768)
jd_Ciasna.jpg        pix/views  163K+Ciasna Str in Torun, POLAND (800x600)
jd_Podmurna.jpg      pix/views  196K+Podmurna str in Torun, POLAND (1024x768)
rexx-mode1_1.lha     text/edit   55K+Mojor mode for emacs19/20
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
MuOmniSCSIPatc.lha   util/boot  115K+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
ReadDevice.lha       util/cli     2K+Reads data from any device, e0r's util
adTOag.lha           util/conv   18K+AdTOag - Autodocs TO Amigaguide. V1.4
DiaryConv.lha        util/conv   10K+Converts files between Digita's Organise
cvs-1.11.1p1.lha     util/gnu   1.6M+CVS 1.11.1p1 - Concurrent Versions Syste
MMULib.lha           util/libs  527K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha            util/libs   55K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  381K+Report+ 4.51: Multipurpose utility
Sysmon116.lha        util/moni  139K+System monitor and enhancer based on a s
BRLE.lha             util/pack    1K+XFD external decruncher, e0r's util
xPackBest.lha        util/pack   18K+Pack using XPK, adaptive, recursive
Pan0_9.lha           util/rexx  1.7M+Pans image, producing video frames
RexxPatchErrGR.lha   util/rexx    5K+Greek locale for RexxPatchError
Mu680x0Libs.lha      util/sys   327K+MuLib aware 68060, 68040, 68030 and 6803
NewDate2.lha         util/sys    55K+Replacement system date command
Safe.lha             util/virus  28K+V15.4 of virus dicovering system
VirusExecutor.lha    util/virus 261K+VirusExecutor v2.17
Commander.lha        util/wb     30K+Execute commands with pleasure V1.0
Commander_dt.lha     util/wb      1K+V1.0, German catalog for Commander v1.0
YerFawt2.lha         util/wb      3K+Yer Fawt Version 2! fault strings for "y
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03.May.2001
AmigaLand


 AmigaLand News
AmigaLand makes elder games available for download by agreement of the authors. Ikarion agreed to the economy simulation ´Hattrick´ to be offered for download for private users.

Mirko Engelhardt is working on a new design for the AmigaLand website and offers a preview to be discussed. Please, send opinions and/or suggestions via e-mail to Matt@amigaland.de. (ps)

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03.May.2001
Czech Amiga News


 New Clock Port Sound Card VSS for A1200
Ferenc Valenta from Hungary introduces his new sound card named VSS under the title link, which is connected to the A1200 clock port. Respective driver software is ready for download, too. (ps)

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03.May.2001
SixK


 MySQL and Webalizer for AmigaOS
SixK released version MySql_Dev_3.23.37 for 68040 of his MySQL Amiga port.
Download: MySql_Dev_3.23.37.lzx

There also is a tool (Webalizer 2.01-06) available for creating HTML formated statistics from Apache log files.
Download: webalizer_2.01-06.lzx (ps)

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03.May.2001
Oliver Roberts


 Datatype: WarpPNG V44.17
Oliver Roberts released version 44.17 of his WarpPNG datatype which now uses libpng 1.0.11.
Download: WarpPNGdt.lha - 140 kB (ps)

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03.May.2001
Thorsten Willerts Homepage


 GoldED Webworld - Menue Extended
Thorsten Willert has extended the GoldED Webworld Menue with the commands of his HTML preprocessor and fixed two minor bugs in the two preprocessors. Who uses CompressHTML for managing HTML projects will appreciate this extention of the Webworld Menue.
Download: WebWorld_Ext.LHA - 3 kB (ps)

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03.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


 VHT: VirusExecutor V2.17
  • Name: VirusExecutor v2.17
  • Archive name : VirusExecutor.lha
  • Archive size: 267.716 Bytes
  • Release date: 2. May 2001
  • Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
  • Requires: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library, xadmaster.library
(ps)

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03.May.2001
R. Cresente via E-Mail


 Webring AmigaXchange leaves, RagonVote comes
The webring 'AmigaXchange' founded by Ragonsoft will be shut down due to lack of interested hompage carriers.

Now there is RagonVote2.0 instead. This is about a survey system which can be used without advertisement by carriers of Amiga websites under the following conditions:
  • Website has at least 50 visitors per day.
  • Website must be concerned with the Amiga or the owner must admit to be an Amiga devotee.
  • A Ragonsoft banner must be place at another or fair (collusion) location.
(ps)

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02.May.2001
Mirko Engelhardt on ANF


 Spiel: 'Hattrick!' on amigaland.de
On 2 May 2001 a new game was published on amigaland.de. It is the economic simulation 'Hattrick!' by company Ikarion.

On amigaland.de full versions of Amiga games are being offered for download, if there are the corresponding licences. (sd)

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02.May.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF


 The Register: IBM extends PowerPC roadmap to 2GHz+
IBM has updated its PowerPC roadmap. It contains plans to extend its G3-processor to 2 GHz and more.
You can read the complete article over the title link. (sd)

Another link to the topic:
IBM: IBM's New PowerPC Strategy Roadmap (sd)

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02.May.2001
Matthias Scheler on ANF


 NetBSD-Amiga 1.5.1 BETA Test Version
You can download a beta snapshot of the forthcoming version 1.5.1 of NetBSD/Amiga via FTP. The NetBSD team waits for the test reports of the NetBSD-mailinglist or the bug-database. (ps)

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02.May.2001
No Risc No Fun


 Interview: Martin Schueler of ESCENA
On the sites of NoRiscNoFun you can find an interview with Martin Schueler of ESCENA. There you can find out how the Brainstorm-project is making progress and what something else we can expect. (ps)

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01.May.2001
AmigArt


 'Haus of Shogo' Website for the Game
On the website 'Haus of Shogo' you will find many detailed informations about the 3D-Shooter 'Shogo', also available for Amiga now. The Amiga version was ported by Hyperion Entertainmet. (ps)

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01.May.2001
Jan Andersen via E-Mail


 Virus Help Denmark News
Installer of linkvirus ´Bastard´ found
The linkvirus ´Bastard´ was found in the following Aminet archive, which is removed now:
  • Archive name: Pointers.lha
  • Archive size: 6.874 Bytes
  • Installer name: Install
  • Installer size: 4.748 Bytes
  • Virus name: Batstard linkvirus
  • Virus size: ca. 2100 Bytes (uses polimorphic engine)

Safe V15.4
Version 15.4 of Safe released. You can find viruses with Safe, but you can not eliminate them.
  • Name: Safe v15.4
  • Archive name: Safe.lha
  • Archive size: 29.983 Bytes
  • Release date: 1. May 2001
  • Coder: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
  • Requirements: Amiga with OS 2.04+ (xvs.library should be used)
(ps)

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01.May.2001
Pawel Filipczak im ANF


 TaskiSMS V2.56
New (2.56) version of TaskiSMS has been released.
New in this release:
  • new, faster SMS move routine
  • updated ICQ plugin
  • added some missing operators for Denmark and Norway
  • added option to auto close sending window after send (only for registered users)
  • added iconify app icon
  • fixed bug which causes not loading content of "Outgoing" folder during program starts

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

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01.May.2001
AROS


 AROS News
On the AROS homepage are detailed informations about the progress of the AmigaOS compatible open source operating system released. (ps)

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01.May.2001
amiga.org (ANF)


 PPC-Mac Emulator: iFusion Update V1.1.2
The update version 1.1.2 of the iMac-emulator 'iFusion' is now available at Blittersoft's update area. Some minor bugfixes were done. (ps)

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01.May.2001
Amiga Future


 Interview: Hans-Joerg Frieden
Digital Amiga Dream has interviewed Hans-Joerg Frieden of Hyperion Entertainmet. (ps)

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01.May.2001
WHDLoad Support Page


 Installer: WHDLoad V14.1
WHDLoad, the harddisk install package, is released in version 14.1. With WHDLoad you can install many older floppydisk games on harddisk.
Download:WHDLoad_14.1_usr.lzx - 118 kB (ps)

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01.May.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


 Tool: HappyEnv-Ersatz V1.1
Stephan Rupprecht has released ENV-Handler V1.0 as replacement for HappyEnv.
Download: envhandler.lha - 7 kB

Stephan Rupprecht wrote:
env-handler v1.1 is now available on my hp. If encounter problems with the first version please try the new one. Thanks to all Amigans sending bug reports to me (ps)

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01.May.2001
Amiga.org (ANF)


 OpenQuicktime not only for Mac and Windows
The coders of "3ivx" are working on a new OpenQuicktime-system. This will enable later any user to en- and decode 3ivx and Quicktime formats. (ps)

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01.May.2001
Jambo! on ANF


 Amiga Emulator for Linux: XFellow V0.0.2
Dan Sutherland (ADFOpus) has ported Fellow, the Amiga emulator, to Linux and releases the first XFellow version 0.0.2 for download.
Download: xfellow-0.0.2.tar.bz2 - 464 kB (ps)

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