27.Feb.2001
Thorsten Schoelzel on ANF
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Nemac 4 Homepage Online Again
I want to announce that the Nemac 4 support page is online again. This homepage
is my tribute for a very good AMIGA game that is developed from PD level. This
page is for everyone who likes this game.
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27.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
SoftCinema
For registered users is a new beta version 0.12 of the movie player available for
download. It provides you an optimized OpenDivX decoder and supports MPEG audio
layer II/III for decoding AVI- and Quicktime files. Download:
SoftCinema_012b.lha
RC5-client
Amiga RC5 Team Effort:
The client version 2.8012(build 466) contains a bug, that
maybe gives wrong results of the keys.
»Obviously there is a bug in all 2.8012 clients (build466) that put out wrong results.
D.Net recommends to use version 2.8010(build 463). It is unknown if this bug is
in RC5, OGR, or both. It is also unknown if the latest Amiga client 2.8011 contains
this bug, too. At this time I recommend to use build 463 from this
download area.
More information will follow wen available.«
SecondSpin
Version 2.15 beta of SecondSpin was released.
Many minor and some major bugs were removed but the prefs window will still cause
a system crash on some systems. SecondSpin is an audio converter to convert several
audio formats to MPEG. Also you can convert MPEG-files to AIFF format with it.
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27.Feb.2001
Haage&Partner
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Haage&Partner News
New Colleague
We almost forgot to tell - since the beginning of the year we have a
new staffer. Martin Steigerwald, known fom the organization of OS3.5 and 3.9 beta tests,
is now responsible for several projects and their beta tests.
The H&P Team
GNU sources of StormC
The new StormC compiler system version 4 uses especially customized versions of
GNU projects GCC and CVS. The source code for these projects is available for download.
GNU Sources
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27.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
Unfortunately my number code for the recent upload list again failed, meantime;
therefore today only a part of the new uploads since February 23rd can be listed.
Spitfire2.lha comm/misc 787K+Palm Desktop for the Amiga!
facts.lha comm/tcp 89K+V4.4 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
Nature-Grid2f.lha demo/intro 87K+Grid 2 final, winner 64k at TP2000
MCC_NListtree.lha dev/mui 260K+MUI list tree class for NList
AaktInt0201GFX.lha docs/mags 305K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AIOV44.lha docs/mags 319K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 44 (Febr
Awale.lha game/think 56K+Awal game for Amiga (french version)
MemoTecV2.lha misc/edu 156K+MemoTec - mind trainer (polish)
apple2000e.lha misc/emu 38K+Apple2000 with 2e extensions!
MyBVisionWB2.jpg pix/wb 252K+A screenshot of my WB...please check it
Epson_400.lha text/print 40K+Epson Stylus 400/440/460 Driver for WB V
SubStr.lha util/cli 7K+Returns a substring from a given string
DefComp.lha util/wb 26K+Popup menu program selection for DefIcon
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26.Feb.2001
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New AmigaPlus-Forum
There is a new forum at AmigaPlus. Now there is a second possibility, beside of the amiga-news.de
forum, to discuss the future of the Amiga or to look for and find cheats and solutions for your favorite game.
Check it out!
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26.Feb.2001
Steéphane "SteaG" Campan via E-Mail
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AmigaImpact.com Changing Server
Due to a moving of AmigaImpact.com to a new server the site will not be online for a few days.
If you want to contact us please mail to amigaimpact@ifrance.com.
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26.Feb.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Inutilis News
There are to new links concerning Gothic at the Records
area of Inutilis. Also there are some interesting facts about
Moonlight. Moonlight now has a own email-address,
Moonlight@inutilis.de, and a Norwegian radio-dj mailed
me and asked me if he could use moonlight-material for broadcasting. This special broadcast about
Gothic has nearly 300,000 listeners.
I decreased the photo gallery out of order because
my memory on the server is running out.
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26.Feb.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New Caricature: Up high

The new caricature is about a 'new' innovative firm with interesting plans... You are invited to publish your oppinion about the caricature at the forum.
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26.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Software for MorphOS
There are two new programs at the filearea of the MorphOS-Project
ColorWheel 45.5 by Sigbjørn Skjæret -
ColorWheelPPC455.lha - 34 kB
NList 0.90 by Gilles Masson & NListtree 18.7 by Carsten Scholling - Download
Aqua
The new adventure Aqua by
Emerald Imaging is available now.
Crystal Interactive is the
distributor of this new game.
Aqua requires a 68020 cpu, 8 MB ram, AGA or graphic accelerator and a CD-ROM-Drive.
DirOpus 4.15i (Beta)
Jacek Rzeuski released the beta-version 4.15i of DirOpus.
DirOpus is a filemanager by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry of GP Software.
In 1999 the sourcecode of version 4 were released under the GPL. Downlaod:
DOpus415ibeta.lzx - 360 kB
Image2Icon
Stephan Rupprecht released version 1.16a of Image2Icon.
The program offers the posibility to convert pictures to icons. Download:
Image2Icon.lha - 57 kB
PureBasic
Fantaisie Software released verison 2.10 of PureBasic for
Windows x86. Version 2.00 is the topical version for the Amiga. PureBasic is a compiler.
WOW
There is a new unstable beta-version (0.08) of WorkbenchOnWin
available for download. WOW gives you the look & feel of the Amiga on every Windows-desktop.
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26.Feb.2001
alt.WoA
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Pictures of alt.WoA
Pictures of alt.WoA.
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26.Feb.2001
AIO - Amiga Information Online
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AIO Issue #44
Issue #44 of the AIO-magazin (Amiga Information Online) is available for download.
Download: AIOV44.LHA
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26.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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NARR-Site and GFX-Database Changing Server
Due to some storage problems there are two important server changes:
The NARR-page is now available at:
http://wald.heim.at/wienerwald/550185/
and GFX-database at:
http://wald.heim.at/sherwood/530180/.
Both pages are still available at http://narr.tsx.org and
http://gfxbase.tsx.org.
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26.Feb.2001
Stefan Kost at ANF
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SoundFX 4.1 Nearly Finished
The important new feature is the batchprocessor. It makes it possible to convert whole directories.
Something I want to know - is there anybody out there who is still using SoundFX without a
math-coprocessor? If you do so (that means that you have a 68000, 68020, 68030 without 68881/882)
please mail me.
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26.Feb.2001
Juergen A. Theiner at ANF
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Play!Amiga - Server Problems
Due to some serverproblems Play!Amiga was not available the last two days. Now everything should work
fine again. Thanks for your understanding.
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26.Feb.2001
Olaf Koebnik im ANF
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Toadies campaign!
In co-operation with Thilo Koehler there is a special about Toadies with a big interview, the
update and a Toadies-survey. Toadies is one of the best 'Worms'-clone available.
Amiga Arena - Toadies Computer enemy survey!
Unfortunately Toadies only has a two-player-mode but Thilo consent to develop a computer-enemy if
there are enough interested users.
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25.Feb.2001
Alexander Perez via E-Mmail
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Install SAMBA v2.2
Install SAMBA is available in version 2.2. It can be found for members of
the Yahoo/AmigaSamba group in the
files section
of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AmigaSamba/.
Further information can be taken from the readme there. It is now
more than only an installer.
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25.Feb.2001
Sebastian Bauer
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SimpleMail v0.4alpha
On 25. February 2001 Sebastian Bauer has released the alpha version 0.4
of the email client 'SimpleMail'. Among other things SimpleMail now supports
several POP3 servers in this version.
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25.Feb.2001
Vapor
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AmIRC v3.5.9beta
On 25. February 2001 Oliver Wagner has released the beta version 3.5.9
of the IRC client 'AmIRC'. This version contains various bugfixes and can only
be used with keyfile. Compared with the version 3.5.6 the following has been
changed among other things:
- Bugfix: GUI - fixed text scrolling up 1 line too much in certain
circumstances leaving a blank gap (Entity).
- Bugfix: GUI - fixed crash on quitting with seperate user list(s) open
(Entity).
- Bugfix: Cmd - /DCC commands now no longer require specifying the nickname
when they are typed in a query window (Entity).
- Bugfix: GUI - fixed enforcerhit on opening userlist contextmenu (classic style)
when there's more than 2 users activated (Entity).
- Bugfix: Cmd - fixed buffer overflow caused by /HELP (and other things) (Entity).
- Bugfix: GUI - fixed bug in text display class minwidth calculation
resulting in the layouter eating all available memory and screw up bigtime (Entity).
- Bugfix: GUI - fixed crash on entering 512 chars or more in the topic gadget
(Entity).
- Bugfix: Cmd - /QUERY <nick> <text> now causes <text> to appear in the newly
opened query window instead of the window the command was issued in (Entity).
</text></text></nick>
- Bugfix: GUI - mode changes won't alter the topic string anymore when it is
being edited, really this time (Entity).
- Change: General - recompiled with full optimization (Olli).
- Change: General - Packaged new TI and vapor_toolkit.library (Olli).
- Change: General - raised beta timeout to 1.6.2001 (Olli).
All changes can be taken from the Readme.
Download: amirc_359beta.lzx (296K),
Readme
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25.Feb.2001
Schatztruhe ML
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GTI Takes Over the Operating Business of Schatztruhe
Waldshut-Tiengen/Essen, 26th February 2001den 26.02.2001
GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH has been active as distributor for
Amiga software since 1987 and supplies a worldwide network of dealers.
Stefan Ossowski's Schatztruhe Gesellschaft für Software mbH has been one of
the leading publishers of Amiga productivity software for over than 13
years. The two companies have co-operated closely and successfully since
1994 and have contributed to the lasting establishment of the CD-Rom medium
within the Amiga software market.
With effect from 1st March 2001, both companies have agreed to intensify
their co-operation further, with GTI Gmbh taking over the operating business
of Schatztruhe GmbH. All publishing activities of Schatzruhe will be
re-located to Waldshut-Tiengen and continued in undiminished scale as a
business division of GTI GmbH.
The change will be handled as simply as possible for customers, suppliers,
and other business partners of Schatztruhe GmbH, only contact information
being changed to the following as from the 1st March 2001 :
Schatztruhe
GTI Grenville Trading International GmbH
Weihergasse 5
79761 Waldshut-Tiengen
Germany
Telephone:
Telephone: +49-(0)700 - 70 60 50 40
Telefax: +49-(0)201 - 426 00 00
Internet:
amiga@schatztruhe.de (Allgemein & Bestellungen)
support@schatztruhe.de (Technisches Support)
http://www.schatztruhe.de/
Schatztruhe will continue to publish high-quality Amiga software at
attractive prices. A number of new products are already in preparation for
2001.
Richard Small Stefan Ossowski
Managing Director, GTI GmbH Partner, Schatztruhe GmbH
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25.Feb.2001
ANN
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Album '2000 B.C' by Bobby Clark
For those of you who were into the module scene a few years ago, you might
remember B.C. (aka Bobby Clark, the guy who filled up Aminet mods/med with
heaps of music) ... B.C. now has recorded a debut album, which is purchasable
at http://www.mp3.com/2000bc
The debut album is titled 2000 B.C. It features mainly electronic and new age
based tracks, as well as a couple of re-makes of aminet Octamed classics.
The album may be purchased online from http://www.mp3.com/2000bc, and there
are sample mp3 tracks on the site which may be streamed or downloaded.
The album was made with the help of an Atari 1040ST running Steinberg 12, and an
Amiga 1000 (YES! A 1000!!!) running good old Octamed 4.0!
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25.Feb.2001
Boingworld
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Boingworld: Payback review
On 24. February 2001 Adam Waldenberg has released a comprehensive review of the
game 'Payback' by Apex Designs on Boingworld. among other things, the review
enters into the points graphics, sound, stability and the playability.
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25.Feb.2001
PerSuaSiVe SoftWorx
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akDatatypes v44.95
On 23. February 2001 Andreas Kleinert has released the version 44.95
of his datatypes. Updated were akJFIF.datatype (JPEG), akPNG.datatype and
akTIFF.datatype.
Via the title link you can download the 68k and PPC versions. The PPC version
runs with the ppclibemu
by Frank Wille under WarpOS.
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25.Feb.2001
Rudolph Riedel via E-Mail
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Diskmaster v2.5b10
On 24. February 2001 Rudolph Riedel has released the version 2.5b10
of the directory utility 'DiskMaster' as well as the DM2.guide v1.95 and
DM2_deutsch.guide V1.95.
Against the previous version the following has changed among other things:
- Many corrections since the last beta.
- Can be compiled with SAS/C unter STRICT & ANSI without warnings.
- Even the last remaining assembler parts were removed.
- New requester.
- String buffer functions.
- At last now uses memory pools.
- Support of long file names.
Precise information about the changes are contained in the file 'DM2beta.readme'
of the beta archive.
Download:
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24.Feb.2001
Ralph Torchia on ANF
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Spitfire² - Palm Desktop for Amiga Version 1.5 Released
The latest version of Spitfire², the Palm Desktop for Amiga, has been released.
This version will hopefully cure the crashes with Hot Syncing, which have plagued previous versions.
Please see the included archive documents for a complete summary of changes.
The archive can be downloaded from:
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24.Feb.2001
Paul Nolan
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New Windows and Linux Demo of Photogenics Available
There are new demo versions of Photogenics, the popular picture editing software,
available for download for Windows and Linux users.
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24.Feb.2001
Carsten Scholling on ANF
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NListtree Final! Version 18.7 final
After many beta versions now the new version of NListtree is available under
the title link. NListtree is a MUI class basing on NList capable of
predictable displaying data in a tree pattern in different ways.
Among other software NListtree is utilized by
AmiTradeCenter, NewsCoaster, Charon, RxMUI, Workbench 2000,
SimpleMail, etc. This list is continuously growing.
For faultless function the latest version of NList v0.90 (19.98)
is needed, which is available under the title link form today, too.
NListtree works only constricted or not at all with elder versions of
NList.
And now an appeal: I would be happy about information which other programs are using
NListtree.
Have fun with it,
Carsten Scholling
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24.Feb.2001
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Award Winners Determined
The winners of this year's Trogladite Software Award have been determined.
All in all there were five awards give for the following categories:
Applications: YAM 2.2
Games: Heretic 2
Developers: MorphOS
Hardware: Mediator
Websites: Amiga.Realm
Congratulations to all of the winners!
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24.Feb.2001
bplan GmbH
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bplan GmbH: Pegasos First Hardware
bplan announce the first hardware platform to be available.
bplan GmbH announce the first
Pegasos prototypes
to be available. The fist hardware line is currently in progress at
DCE and after technical clearance will be
utilized for system software verification purposes.
According to bplan a first official presentation of a working system is to be expected
for early May, already. At the same time developer systems for software companies will be
available. As for possible operating systems for those machines
Linux as well as
MorphOS are supported directly.
In those systems the bplan GmbH for the very first time makes a platform available
including the virtue of an open system like Linux, as well as direct support for existing
Amiga® software.
Contrary to alternative basic approaches MorphOS is capable of running existing Amiga®
programs in a native PowerPC environment. The synergy effects between
both operating systems (Linux/MorphOS) as a result of this let the Pegasos systems be
interesting for both, developers and users.
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24.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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GFX-Database Now With Own URL
The GFX-DATABASE (a database for games and demos supporting Amiga graphics boards)
now is accessible an own URL and has got own server space. So who wants to find
out if one ore the other game or demo also runs on graphic board, just would
type in the easy to learn URL http://gfxbase.tsx.org (title link) in the future.
The site also has been reworked and some link problems have been fixed.
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23.Feb.2001
Crystal Interactive Software
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Land of Genesis Available from Dealers
The new game 'Land of Genesis' by Crystal Interactive Software is available
from dealers! In this game, you play the role of Jan, a government special
forces agent, who is sent to Mars to eliminate any trace of a secret
experiment where test subjects were cloned and genetically modified.
The experiment was performed on Mars and the manipulated humans have taken
over the planet.
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23.Feb.2001
Dirk Baeyens via E-Mail
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Amiga SDK Survey
There's a survey on the Amiga SDK website which asks you what kind of
modem you are using for internet access. Currently, 33.6/56k baud modems
are leading, followed by ISDN.
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23.Feb.2001
AmigActive
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AmigActive News
The popular English print magazine AmigActive has put a distribution list
online from which you can see where in the world you can get AmigActive.
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23.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 51K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.3
u9fs.lha comm/net 27K+Free Unix implementation of Plan 9 files
Cookie_Killer.lha comm/www 25K+AWeb cookie management (v1.2)
Table_gc.lha comm/www 5K+Correctss HTML files that don't print we
Xre_bong.lha demo/aga 477K+Weird AGA Demo
stormamiga_lib.lha dev/c 229K+Small and fast linker lib for StormC (de
liprgmsrc.lha dev/moni 43K+Place a GUI in front of OpenLibrary() ca
IBrowse2.2PL.lha docs/help 37K+Polish Locale for IBrowse2.2
MUIExchangePL.lha docs/help 3K+Polish Locale for MUIExchange
stccg.lha docs/hyper 1.8M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
YambMUI.lha game/2play 47K+Best YAMB game ever for any platform
FreeCivExpand.lha game/data 219K+GFX Expansion for the Nativ Amiga-Port o
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 32K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
NapalmPL.lha game/patch 4K+Polish Locale for Napalm
Sebels_Picross.lha game/think 1.5M+Sebel's Picross (german) - Strategy game
SvIV-1.lha gfx/misc 354K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 1/8
SvIV-2.lha gfx/misc 220K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 2/8
SvIV-3a.lha gfx/misc 142K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 3a/8
SvIV-3b.lha gfx/misc 222K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 3b/8
SvIV-4.lha gfx/misc 43K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 4/8
SvIV-5.lha gfx/misc 60K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 5/8
SvIV-6.lha gfx/misc 120K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 6/8 (op
SvIV-7.lha gfx/misc 127K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 7/8 (op
SvIV-8.lha gfx/misc 222K+SViewIV V9.17 (13.2.2001) - Part 8/8 (op
SvIV-PPC.lha gfx/misc 649K+Update for SViewIV/PPC V25.1 (PPC)
SvIV-WOS.lha gfx/misc 1K+Note on SViewIV/PPC modules (WOS)
RiVA.lha gfx/show 33K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
TestGear-Notes.lha hard/hack 7K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
uklotto.lha misc/misc 110K+UK National Lottery Database.
DieSuppe.lha mods/blkha 224K+PT mod by blakkhar
Filterit.lha mods/blkha 165K+PT filter mod by blakkhar
newedition.lha mods/blkha 324K+DBM mod with DSP by blakkhar
Rawline.lha mods/blkha 157K+PT HC mod by blakkhar
TheWaiter.lha mods/blkha 18K+8 channel DBM (DSP used) by blakkhar
Zuckerfrei.lha mods/blkha 167K+DBM mod with DSP by blakkhar
move.lha mods/med 152K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
mp32html.lha mus/misc 47K+V2.9 - Converts MP3 directory to HTML.
PlayGUIUpd.lha mus/play 22K+PlayGUI Update 3.b -> 3.c
ForeverFriends.jpg pix/views 102K+A Poem with pic background.
WordWorth_GR.lha text/edit 8K+Greek locale catalog for Wordworth 5.0
akJFIF-dt.lha util/dtype 215K+AkJFIF-dt V44.95 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/M
akJFIF-WOS.lha util/dtype 0K+AkJFIF-dt WOS note (JPEG)
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 227K+AkPNG-dt V44.95 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/MOS
akPNG-PPC.lha util/dtype 79K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.95
akPNG-WOS.lha util/dtype 0K+AkPNG-dt WOS note
akTIFF-dt.lha util/dtype 226K+AkTIFF-dt V44.95 (TIFF, 68000-060, PPC/M
akTIFF-WOS.lha util/dtype 0K+AkTIFF-dt WOS note
WarpBMPdt.lha util/dtype 42K+Windows BMP datatype V44.3 (68k,WarpOS,M
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 104K+JFIF-JPEG datatype V44.17 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+PNG image datatype V44.12 (68k,WarpOS,Mo
Type1Engine.lha util/libs 491K+PostScript Type1 font engine V3.0
ObjectView_GR.lha util/misc 2K+Greek locale catalog for ObjectView
InstallerNG.lha util/sys 534K+C= Installer 100% compatible replacement
mainprefs.lha util/wb 83K+AmigaOS Preferences GUI
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22.Feb.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Microsoft would like to Sell Their Corel Shares
»According to an announcement at the U.S. market supervision (SEC) Microsoft
obviously would like to sell their Corel shares. The U.S. software giant obtained
25 % of the Corel shares at the price of 135 mio. USD last October, thus saved
the Canadian company from crashing.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
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22.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
AHI pre5
Already several time ago
AHI pre5 by Martin Blom
was released for MorphOS.
AHI is a hardware independent audio system for Amiga.
Report+
Report+ has been released in version 4.3.
With Report+ you can easily create bug reports, readme files for the Aminet,
documentations, and similar. The program is freeware and bases on ReAction and
GadTools.
Download: report.lha - 279 kB
Tales of Tamar
Version v0.33 R4 for registered beta testers of the online game
Tales of Tamar has been released containing
bug fixings for the trading screen and new sounds.
Image2Icon and wav.datatype
Stephan Rupprecht has made available
for download new versions fo Image2Icon and his wave datatypes on his homepage.
With Image2Icon you can create thumbnail icons from pictures. Both programs
are available in versions for 68k and PPC processors.
Download:
Image2Icon.lha - 56 kB
wavdt41.lha - 15 kB
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22.Feb.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register February 2001
The Status Register is the monthly released newsletter of the
Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group dealing with current and important information
regarding Amiga, Macintosh, and PC, as well as the computer industry.
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22.Feb.2001
AIO
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AIO - Amiga Information Online
The disk magazine 'AIO - Amiga Information Online' will publish thier
new issue #44 on the alt.WoA which
will take place this weekend (24.2.2001) in Huddersfield, UK.
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22.Feb.2001
Ray McCarthy via E-Mail
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Kicksoft News
In their branch Kicksoft the user group
Kickstart now also offers software
for sale. No on offer were taken the MPEG Player 'RIVA' and the program 'Spitfire2'
for Palmtop desktops.
Kicksoft will be present on the alt.WoA on
Saturday.
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22.Feb.2001
FORE-MATT via E-Mail
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100%AMIGA @ alt.WoA
The CD-Rom magzine ´100%AMIGA´ for the first time will be officially presented on the
alt.WoA. The magazine you will not need to read, but
you will be able to hear and see. Read the original press release:
100%AMIGA - The magazine you don't have to read, will be making it's Amiga
Event debut at the alt.woa (alternative world of amiga) Show this Saturday
24th February. The new magazine will have it's first presentation to the
Amiga public as well as having the March edition available for sale. The new
March edition will have all the very latest news and previews as well as
containing demos of Payback and Octamed Soundstudio 2 and much much more...
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22.Feb.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via E-Mail
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The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold EditionCD-ROM
All of the programs on The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold EditonCD-Rom are
qualified for update.
More and more often people ask me, if they can use future
versions of Airsoft Softwair programs uncrippled if they own
the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM. This
is true! A personal keyfile is generated by the CD-ROM if the
owner enters his personal registration code. With this keyfile
all future versions of our Shareware programs can be used
uncrippled!
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22.Feb.2001
Bob Scharp via E-Mail
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Amiga2001 - Press Release
There are still tickets for the Amiga show taking place from March, 30th to April, 1st in
St. Louis, USA. Read the complete press release by Bob Scharp, the organizer of the show:
Press Release
Amigan-St. Louis
Amiga2001© Computer Show
February 21, 2001
"When future generations talk about where they were when specific Amiga
events took place. In computer annals, all previous events will pale.
This will mark the beginning. This will be the epic Amiga event that all
Amigans will relate to. Previous Amiga shows, will pale in comparison
when all is revealed at the Amiga2001 show. This will give you something
to brag about for years. Something to tell your grandchildren about. Don't
miss Amiga2001. This is the show where dreams come true." Order your
tickets today!
Two day admission (Sat. & Sun.) ... $17 ($20 at door)
One day admission (Sat. or Sun.) ....$12 ($15 at door)
Banquet-Petro ROAST & Bill McEwen speaks ... $35 (advance only)
Class tickets sold at show.
Friday is the Developers Conference - Tickets at door.
Please mail your check or money order, in U.S. funds, for tickets
to Amiga2001 and the banquet Saturday evening to this address:
Amigan-St. Louis
c/o Amiga2001
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
U.S.A.
For hotel reservations, call the Sheraton West Port - Chalet Hotel
at 191 West Port Plaza Drive, in St. Louis, MO. at: 314-878-1500. You
must call between 8 am - 10:30 pm CST Monday thru Friday. Ask for
the reservation desk and tell them that you are going to Amiga2001
so that you get your discount. If you call at any other hours
or on weekends, you will not be able to get ahold of the hotels
reservation desk and the people answering will not know about the
Amiga2001 show. So please call between 8 am - 10:30 pm CST,
Monday - Friday.
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22.Feb.2001
Timo Kloss via E-Mail
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Query about Double-Buffering
These are no true Inutilis news, but it's a cry for help. I'm just about to
change the double-buffering system of the game Ermentrud. Unfortunately I'm
not that skilled in that, so my question:
Does anybody know the ropes of the intuition functions
AllocScreenBuffer,
ChangeScreenBuffer,
and anything along with these? Who ever has coded an intuition-friendly double-buffering,
please contact Timo@inutilis.de.
If you cannot help even, but know somebody knowing about that, it would be kind, if you
would forward this message to such person. I appreciate every reference.
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21.Feb.2001
Innovative on ANF
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Innovative: Important Changes
Innovative has new telephone and fax numbers as well as a new bank account. Please use exclusively these
numbers in the future because the old ones and the old bank account will expire soon.
New fax number: 049 9132/73284-3
New telephone number: 049 9132/73284-4
New bank account:
Account number: 7060971
Bank code: 20090500
Bank: Netbank Hamburg
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21.Feb.2001
Martin R. Elsner on ANF
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New version of MainPrefs
Version 2.1 of the preferences program MainPrefs was released. Besides of some bug-fixing many new features
have been added which offer new possibilities or make the use still easier.:
For example appwindow-function, extended program- and file list, better editing possibilities for variables,
extended help, compatibility with HappyENV.
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21.Feb.2001
Brad Webb via E-Mail
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Amiga Update Newsletter
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F E B R U A R Y E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E
D E V E L O P E R S - P D A T O R U N A M I G A D E
L A T E S T O N A L T W O A
A M I G A S E R V E R R I N G P R O J E C T
A M I G A T E F O R A M I N E T
F R E E G O O D I E S A T C I N E M A W A R E
F R O G G E R 1 . 6 4 B 3 A V A I L A B L E
Y A M S C R I P T T O S T R I P A D S
S O F T C I N E M A F U L L R E L E A S E
P A Y B A C K O N S A L E O N N E T
H T M L R E A D V 1 . 0 0 A V A I L A B L E
T R O G L A D I T E A N N O U N C E M E N T S
X 1 1 P R O G R A M X A M I A T 0 3 0
E L B O X V O O D O O G R A P H I C S
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Maybe it's the thought of spring finally coming - about 2 to 4 weeks
away in these parts - that's affected my mind, but I'm feeling rather
optimistic about the Amiga's future. I think the stories below will
explain why better than I can. Amiga Inc. has survived a year or so,
and while they're not as far along as I'd like (I'd like dominance of
the computer industry ...), they're actually doing pretty well by new
startup company standards. This is especially true given all the bad
press the high tech industry has been getting lately.
Then again, maybe it's just the thought that anything can happen if
Commodore can be revived in the US. See http://www.commodore2000.com
if you're curious. Our understanding (which may be wrong) is this is a
US company which bought the rights to the Commodore name from Tulip in
Denmark.
There's even a rumor that Jack Tramiel, the original founder of
Commodore, is involved in the revival. We haven't checked that out.
Whatever the case, we're reasonably sure there will be no joining of
the new Amiga and new Commodore down the road ... though there's no
reason why one of the Commodore PCs couldn't be configured to run the
Amiga DE ... hmmmmm.
LINK TO SUPPORT ST. LOUIS SHOW
Besides answering questions for our readers (see E-mail to the
E-ditor) , Bob Scharp is the force behind the Gateway Amiga shows in
Saint Louis, USA - one of the premier shows of the Amiga year.
As the February Executive Update below indicates, there may be some
very interesting news available there from Amiga Inc. If you have an
Amiga web page, you can help support the show, and keep it growing.
Clicking on the following link will download an archive containing a
jpeg and sample html code which you can add to your page. These will
establish a link to the show's web site, and allow Amigans to easily
get information on the show. You can see them in action on the "Amiga
Update" links page. Use this URL to download the archive:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/stl.lha
Please consider adding this link to your web page, as a contribution
to the Amiga Community.
Those of you involved with other key Amiga shows, please let us know
if you'd like "Amiga Update" to help you distribute similar archives
of links for your shows. We're here to support the Community.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:
31 Jan 2001
Hi, just a note to say that as discouraged I am regarding the state
of the Amiga market and (lack of) devleopment, I still look forward to
receiving your Amiga Update news reports. I will continue anxiously
await them, and also to use my (accelerated) A1200 for as long as I
can get spare parts (or spare A1200s!)
Best wishes, and please keep on with your efforts
on behalf of the Amiga!
Rich
~~~~~~
Rich,
Sometimes hard to not be discouraged. We do have some interesting
news in this issue that looks to the future in a positive way. I
suspect there may be more after the St. Louis Amiga show in April.
We'll keep you up to date, regardless.
Thanks for the kind words,
Brad
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30 Jan 2001
Hello AUsubscribers@yahoogroups.com
On 29-Jan-01, you wrote:
>Over on Amiga.org, there's a lot of talk the last day or two about a
>new "Coldfire" processor model from Motorola. Pegged at 100% 68060
>compatible and running at 300Mhz, it's generating a lot of excitement
>from Classic Amiga users. As nearly as we can tell, this isn't all
>that new news, seeming to go back originally to an article that
>appeared in "EE Times" on October 17 last.
>Whatever the case, does it really matter? We don't think so. The
>future of the Amiga is the new DE. The old 68K market is almost dead.
Aren't you overlooking something here. The new DE is supposed to be
portable to almost any OS. Amiga Inc. dismissed porting it to the
classic Amiga because current processors lack the horsepower to host
it. I think a 300Mhz Coldfire would do the trick though. Wouldn't a
68xxx compatable processor running classic Amiga and hosting the new
DE be a more elegant transition solution that having 2 processors ie
68xxx and PPC? Amiga Inc. may want to rethink porting to 68xxx if
someone produces Coldfire accelerators.
Regards, Jeff
~~~~~~
Jeff,
You're right as far as you go. However, I don't think it's very
likely we'll see the DE ported to older Amigas. For Coldfire to be of
much help to us, we'd need the port and a Coldfire board of some kind.
It could happen, and we'd be happy if it did. We just don't think it
likely.
Brad
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2 Feb 2001
Brad,
Just to say thanks for continuing to send the Amiga Newsletter along.
Lee
~~~~~~
Lee,
You are entirely welcome, and we're pleased to have you with us.
Brad
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01 Feb 2001
Hello Brad,
Was interested to see the query from one of your readers regarding
SBase (SuperBase). I too am an SBase4Pro user, and received the
following reply from Russ Norby re. SBase, which may be of help to
your readers:
> Hello Ernest,
>
>
> The upgrade to SBase4 Pro 1.36 is $50 US the new manuals are also
> available for $50 for the set.
I am finding that version 1.30n, which is currently I what I have
now, is not compatible with the OS 3.5's printer.device. The Form
Designer is also not compatible with the printer.device. SBase4 itself
will still let you open the program, open files and work with files,
but locks up when you attempt to print. But the Form designer locks up
immediately when launched. (Could be that something on my system is
causing this, but I don't think so).
The form designer locks up because it attempts to open the
printer.device on startup. As a work-around I was successful with
either of the following:
1)rename the printer.device, then launch the form designer. That way
form designer complains that it can't open the printer, but still
opens and lets you edit and save forms. Of course, you can't print
with OS3.5 drivers...
OR,
2)put the OS3.1 compatible printer.device and printer drivers back in
service. I have decided to settle for this option.
So, I'm wondering -- if I make the system upgrade to Workbench 3.9,
will SBase4 run happily with that?
For whatever help it may be to your SBase-user readers, I am
attaching a couple of ".ini" files I modified for the HPDeskjet_842C
printer I recently acquired. I experimented until I got the result you
see in these files. The nice part about the HP_Deskjet842 is that it
lets you print in landscape page orientation with character-based
printer input from the Amiga.
These .ini files may not work for 1.36 (or any other version without
modification) -- for example, I had to configure the initialization
string so that CR=CR, LF=LF and FF=FF. That's because SBase4 version
1.30 generates CR+LF for end of lines, instead of LF only for
end-of-line as the Amiga system printer.device expects.
Ernest
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Ernest,
Thank you for a very informative letter. I regret having to edit it
to make it fit. I also regret that we can't put your .ini files in the
the newsletter for a variety of reasons. I would _strongly_ encourage
you to put them up on Aminet where everyone can benefit from them.
I also suspect that whatever works for you under 3.5 will continue to
work under 3.9, though I can't be 100% sure. I'm pretty sure you would
continue to have the same issues with printer drivers.
Please see also the next letter.
Brad
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28 Jan 2001
Brad,
Here are some comments on your story.
> We'd love to run such information, and will if we get any stories or
>press releases that cover these products. SuperBase - most recently
>SBase 4 Pro or Personal - is still the database manager I use when I
>want to get real work done.
The best information I have is this...
SuperBase is now SBase 4 Pro. It is alive and kicking at Mr.
Hardware. Call or ask him, or better yet, come to the Amiga2001 show
and see it in person. (Check out our web site at:
http://www.amiga-stl.com)
Russ Norby (the new Mr. Hardware) has released updates to SBase 4
Pro, and is actively working on it. In regards to Joe (the original
Mr. Hardware), he is deceased. His wife Pam did programming on SBase 4
Pro until turning it over to Russ.
Mr. Hardware (Russ), is the seller of SuperBase on the Amiga. The
original developers went to the ibm. Pam had been doing some of the
programing and has now gone to other committments. So Russ Norby is
your man. He is Mr. Hardware now. You can reach Russ at
1-631-821-2364. You you can also check his web site at
http://www.li.net/~hardware Mr Hardware Computersf is located at 38
Pearl Rd. RockyPoint NY 11778.
Bob Scharp
~~~~~~
Bob,
Thanks very much for the information. It's pretty obvious to me that
SuperBase, in any incarnation, is still one of the most formidible and
popular programs on the Amiga. We hope Mr. Hardware can keep it around
for a long time, and make the jump to Amiga DE at some point.
I'm looking forward to seeing you in St. Louis - wouldn't miss the
super shows you run there for anything!
Brad
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F E B R U A R Y E X E C U T I V E U P D A T E
Bill McEwen - February 06, 2001
Executive Update - St. Louis and Beyond
Greetings to the Amiga Family:
In Melbourne this last year, I was able to surprise many of you with
several announcements that were unexpected, and we delivered on each
of those.
Now we have a new show coming up in St. Louis. In a few weeks we will
all learn...
Where is the AmigaOne? Will Cringley finally eat his words about a
new Amiga? What about AmigaDE on PDA's, Set Top Boxes, Internet
Appliances, or even desktops? Will Tom and Nicole stay together or is
it over? Is there life for the AmigaOS after 3.9?
Contrary to the rumors and what many people are saying about our
demise, or that we are going to have the same fate of the others
before us, we have a big surprise for all of them.
I look forward to visiting with all of you in St. Louis, and I look
forward to taking over the Hotel, and the surrounding area with the
Amiga Spirit, and Community.
I hope to see many of you there.
There is still time, and in 6 weeks, it will all be known.
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the Amiga Team
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D E V E L O P E R S - P D A T O R U N A M I G A D E
1 Feb 2001
(Amiga Inc.) There is tremendous potential for distribution of your
applications, games and other content for one of the world's largest
manufacturers of PDA hardware. The projection is for more than 7
million units to be sold by the end of 2001 and there are already
several million units on the market at this time. There will be
specific requirements as far as style, type of applications,
distribution rights and certification of content. Matt will have more
details on this in the near future.
If you are interested in developing PDA applications and games for a
specific manufacturer who will use Amiga Inc. for content delivery,
please contact Matt Fontenot, Amiga's Product Manager, as soon as
possible. This is a serious project for those with an interest in
providing content and we will open a new mailing list for it.
This project is for both open source and commercial content
providers, so no matter what your choice of development is, you are
cordially invited to apply. To get further details, though, you must
have a signed NDA on file with Amiga. You can get an NDA form from
http://www.amigadev.net under the legal menu, right hand menu bar.
Just fill it out and fax it to Gary Peake's attention at
425-396-5671. Then send an e-mail to projects@amiga.com that says "I
am interested." You can also contact Gary at gary@amiga.com or Matt at
matt@amiga.com
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L A T E S T O N A L T W O A
6 February, 2001
Eyetech Group are co-sponsoring the alt.WoA show organised by HAUG
(Huddersfield Amiga User Group), to be held on the outskirts of
Huddersfield on Saturday 24th February. The show will be situated in
The Old Cornmill, which is less than one minutes drive from Junction
25 of the M62 motorway. Tickets will be £1.50 on the door, or just
£1.00 when obtained in advance from Eyetech.
New products which will be demonstrated (and available to buy) at the
show from Eyetech include the MP3 MAS-Player, EZCam PCMCIA solid state
media adapter and EZMouse PS/2 adapter (and scroll mice). All of our
most popular software & hardware will be available too, such as STFax
4.5, OS 3.9, EZTower-Z4s, Cybervision 64/3Ds, BVision graphics cards
and Blizzard SCSI kits. If you are attending, and there are any
specific products you wish Eyetech to bring, please email us and let
us know.
Eyetech's games division, Eye-Play, will also be present with all the
releases from their Platinum range, including new titles such as Simon
the Sorcerer 2, Earth 2140 and Nightlong.
A presentation will be given on the AmigaOne board by Eyetech's
Managing Director - Alan Redhouse, and Fleecy Moss from Amiga Inc.
This will cover all technical aspects of the new board, and a time for
questions will be available at the end. All seminars will be held in a
separate room from the show, and will commence at 5pm.
For more information, visit the alt.WoA website.
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A M I G A S E R V E R R I N G P R O J E C T
14 February, 2001
Hello,
One news from a new Italian Project: Amiga Server Ring
Hello everyone. The project name is Amiga Server Ring. The idea is to
group all the Amigas used as servers on the net under a common flag.
With the Amiga Server Ring (ASR) we want to create a net among Amiga
servers, in order to offer services to Amigans worldwide, advertise
the Amiga as server/workstation and help the AmigaOS sys
administrators and all the users that need it. There are no
requirements to satisfy to join our team, anyone who wants to help us
can do it, either providing a little bit of their bandwidth, or "only"
their experience. Since the project has just started, webmasters,
graficians, DTP designers, translators, experienced SysOPs,
betatesters, willing Amigans are welcome. Talking about the practical
aspect and about the implied benefits, ASR could accomplish to many
tasks, think about a Quake server for Amiga users only, or to a mail
account @ASR.org (it's only an example, we have no domains at the
moment), or think about your site hosted on an ASR server without the
obligation to show annoying ads banners (apart from the ASR banner of
course :-), or fast web and ftp site mirrors, or a shoutcast radio
with Amiga news and good music, a enthralling MUD for adventurous, a
stable and secure irc server, a powerful AmigaDOS shell via telnet for
ircbots, etc. Keep in mind that all these things depend on you!
If you want to contact us: encelo@amiworld.it, specifying "Amiga
Server Ring" in the subject, please.
There is a special channel on IRCnet: #AmigaServer
Regards,
Marco Lovera
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A M I G A T E F O R A M I N E T
13 February 2001
Short: THE Aminet download manager V1.1
Author: Pietro Ghizzoni (ghizzo@agonet.it)
Uploader: Pietro Ghizzoni (ghizzo@agonet.it)
Type: comm/net
Replace: comm/net/AmyGate.lha
Introduction
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AmyGate is the first internet client with full support for all the
services offered by Aminet. You usually need many programs to have
full access to Aminet: for instance a web browser to surf easily
through the various directories and files, a ftp-client to upload your
files, an email-client to rate a program or un/subscribe the mailing
list... and so on. AmyGate can do all these things in the most
confortable and easy way for the user, with integrated support of
HTTP, FTP and SMTP protocols.
AmyGate supports:
- Aminet Mailing List
- Recent Uploads
- Last seven days uploads list
- Upload(not yet full workring) and Download (...with resume transfer)
- Search of a file
- Aminet CHARTS
- Rating programs
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F R E E G O O D I E S A T C I N E M A W A R E
February 12 , 2001
King of Chicago and Lords of the Rising Sun Disk Images available for
Download!
Of course you remember these Cinemaware classics! As thanks for your
continued and unwavering support, Cinemaware is offering these classic
titles as free downloads! Relive your memories as Mob Boss in King of
Chicago, or take up your katana and rule feudal Japan in Lords of the
Rising Sun.
They're only going to be available for a limited time, so run to the
Vault quickly to download King of Chicago and Lords of the Rising Sun
Don't forget to stop by the Forums and tell us which other classic
titles you'd like to see made available.
http://www.cinemaware.com/
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F R O G G E R 1 . 6 4 B 3 A V A I L A B L E
February 17, 2001
· Frogger is the ultimate fast MPEG video player, with MPEG-2 layer
support for AMIGAs with fast 68k CPUs (68040/60) or PowerPC equipped
Systems.
The MPEG1/2 decoder is based on mpeg2decode created by MPEG Software
Simulation Group.
· Frogger was originally relased by Miloslaw Smyk, recently (well,
more then one year ago ;), the development has been taken over by
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz.
· To use Frogger you will need an Amiga with 68k CPU (68030, 68040,
68060), a PPC equiped Amiga with at least 4MB of RAM, or any other
computer with Linux (PPC or x86) installed.
http://frogger.rules.pl/
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Y A M S C R I P T T O S T R I P A D S
2 Feb 2001
I see since Yahoo have taken over eGroups they have decided to
re-introduce ads into distributed e-mails - it was only a matter of
time... I just thought I'd like to let you know I have updated my YAM
script to now work with yahoogroups. The update can be found at:
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/comm/mail/YahooGpScan1_1.lha
Short: Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.1
Uploader: Steve Bowman (Steve & Ulli Bowman <stevebow@hotkey.net.au>)
Author: ©2000 Steve Bowman (Steve & Ulli Bowman
Version: 1.1 (30-Jan-2001)
Type: comm/mail
Replaces: comm/mail/eGroupsScan1_0.lha
Requires: YAM 2+, AWNPipe: & ClassAct if you have OS3.1 or earlier.
About 80% of my incoming mail comes via YahooGroups. When they took
over eGroups, the advertising disappeared - for a short time. Now it
has returned. This script is only an update to the V1.0 eGroups script
to take into account the changes YahooGroups have made since the
takeover. The only change for existing users is to change you YAM
ARexx setting to the name of the script, now YahooGroupsScanner.rexx.
This started out as a very basic script, but I just kept adding and
adding to it. :^) I have done extensive testing, and although it works
fine on my setup it may not on yours. Please report any problems.
FEATURES:
· Reaction (ClassAct) GUI with progress bar and info on number of
messages scanned and adverts stripped.
· Will locate the Incoming Folder regardless of its actual name or
postion in the folder list or language (I hope...) YAM is running in.
· Will only scan mails flagged as New in the Incoming Folder - because if
you're anything like me you will usually have ~50 Read mails in your
incoming folder waiting to be manually archived. :^)
· If no new mails are downloaded from the server, no scanning at all
takes place. If there are new mails downloaded, only these new mails
are scanned.
· Intelligent scanning - if any new messages are not YahooGroup messages,
they will be skipped.
· After updating Incoming Folder index, returns you to your previous
folder/state before script exits. For example, if you have selected a
number of messages to be deleted in a folder and the script starts
after a download, you will be restored to that folder with the messages
reselected when the script terminates.
Some people have queried my method of handling the Incoming folder
externally of Yam instead of going through Yam's ARexx port. I tried and
tested both methods and found that for most (but not all) cases,
analyzing the Incoming folder was quite a lot slower than doing it
directly via AmigaDOS commands.
INSTALLATION:
To install, simply copy this script to YAM:Rexx. Now open YAM's
Config panel and go to the ARexx section. Hilite the "After getting
new mail" item and load "Rexx/YahooGroupsScanner.rexx" into the Script
gadget. Double check the Pop-up selector is on ARexx and not AmigaDOS.
Leave "Open console window unchecked, but (IMPORTANT) make sure "Wait
for termination" is checked ON. Click on Save, and that's it.
Important - The AWNPipe: device must be installed! Download the
latest AWNPipe: from http://web.ukonline.co.uk/awnpipe
If you do not have OS3.5, you will need ClassAct. AFAIK the final
ClassAct archive prior to OS3.5 can be found at
http://members.home.com/taston/classact but this is quite old compared
to the more recent replacement found in OS3.5, Reaction.
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S O F T C I N E M A F U L L R E L E A S E
Short: Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.11
Author: Jacek Cybularczyk (noe@webnet.pl)
Uploader: Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz <elf@frogger.rules.pl>
Type: gfx/show
Requires: PowerPC, AHI, AGA or CGFX
SoftCinema is Movie/Animation player for PowerPC based Amigas.
For more information please refer to SoftCinema_English.guide.
Features:
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- supports QuickTime Movie (QT/MOV) and Video for Windows (AVI)
file formats
- supports a lot of video and audio codecs
(Intel Indeo up to 5.0 is supported!)
- fast video and audio playback
News:
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v0.11 full release
- a-LAW audio codec bugfixes.
- a-LAW support in QT movies.
- Completly new AsyncIO. much faster, and also
fixes problems with running two or more SC at the same time.
- Optimized CCITT H.263 decoder (up to 30%).
- Optimized OpenDivX decoder (up to 25%).
Status:
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SHAREWARE. Please read SoftCinema_English.guide for more info about
registering.
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P A Y B A C K O N S A L E O N N E T
15 February 2001
You can now buy Payback from Apex Design's on-line shop using your
credit/debit card or by cheque/check. We have also added a FAQ for the
demo and full versions of Payback. Please read it if you've had any
problems getting the game or demo running.
True or high colour display recommended
"Payback is a really impressive piece of work..It has a good sense of
humour, a lot of clever features, and some smart level design..it has
been quite a while since I've seen a new Amiga originated title with
this much promise."
Andrew Korn, editor of Amigactive
If you'd always wondered what it would be like to be a master
criminal, then Payback is the game for you. It's entirely non-linear -
to complete a level you simply have to obtain a certain number of
points - how you get those points is entirely up to you; you can do
what the local kingpin tells you, uncover secret missions or just go
on a mad killing spree. There are lots of hidden surprises to
discover, so you'll have to play the game through several times to
find all the extras.
As you'll have probably guessed, the game is inspired by Grand Theft
Auto, but every effort is being put in to make sure that Payback beats
GTA in every way. The game engine supports perspective correct texture
mapping, environment mapping (reflections), bump mapping, realistic
shadows, alpha-channelling (lens flares, explosions and shockwaves),
12 channel 3D sound and realistic physics. The game will also be
translated into several languages. This is a game that all Amigans can
be proud of.
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H T M L R E A D V 1 . 0 0 A V A I L A B L E
15 February, 2001
HTMLread V1.00 is released and can be downloaded!
What is HTMLread?
HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a wonderfull Mailer but it
is not able to handel EMails that are written from Netscape, Eudora or
Outlook in HTMLcode. HTMLread detect, convert and send this EMails to
youre favourit HTMLviewer.
Which HTMLviewer are supported?
All! HTMLread has a inbuild list of favourit HTMLviewers, but if you
want you can make youre own easily. In the list are follow
HTMLviewers: SimpleHTML, MultiView (with HTMLdatatype), OpenUrl,
HTMLview, Voyager, AWebSE (comes with OS3.5/3.9), AWeb and IBrowse.
HTMLread can start this HTMLviewers and if supported handle them with
ARexx.
Which type of HTMLmails support HTMLread?
o HTMLmails with text only
o HTMLmails with inbuild pictures
o HTMLmails with pictures in Web
with protection against EMail watching! (V1.0)
o HTMLattachmends
o and all mixed!
What need I to run HTMLread?
You need an Amiga, YAM 2.x, HTMLviewer and a runnig Rexxmast. The
other things are included.
How to (un)install HTMLread?
With the (un)installer. And some easy changes in YAM-Konfig.
Any payment?
No, HTMLread is PublicDomain Version V.1 - V.4 and Version V.45 and
above it is FreeWare.
http://www.htmlread.50g.com/
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T R O G L A D I T E A N N O U N C E M E N T S
6 Feb 2001
If you haven't seen it already on the news sites, then let me just
tell you that Trogladite Software has launched it's beta site. It's
very similar to the old one, but now has many new additions, including
the facility for us to start developing for new platforms.
I'd also like to stress that this does NOT mean we are leaving the
Amiga. Far from it. A lot of work has gone into the Amiga section, and
a lot of work has gone in to make sure it stays part of Trogladite
Software for as long as we can get people to work it.
For this reason, we are always on the lookout for new developers with
new ideas, so if any one of you has the skills and would like to
contribute them (and be helped along by our extensive team of artists,
musicians and testers) then don't hesitate to contact
neil@trogsoft.org.
Finally, check out the Puiblic Beta website at
http://www.trogsoft.org, and please let us know what you think.
Oh, you'll also notice, if you go to the new Trogsoft Notification
Centre (http://www.trogsoft.org/notify) that we have archives of
messages sent to you using this system, for future reference and
perusal by our visitors. Hope you enjoy this and all the other new
features we are adding to the site daily.
We are working on many different products at the moment. I can't go
into details, some for legal reasons, and others simply because we
don't want to release details just yet. Suffice to say, we have
programs coming out for file and directory management, advanced text
file operations, personal reminders and much more. Keep checking
http://www.trogsoft.org/amiga/previews for the most up to date
information.
Thanks for your support,
Neil Bullock
Trogladite Software
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X 1 1 P R O G R A M X A M I A T 0 3 0
15 February, 2001
Purpose
Xami is an X11 server for Amiga that can take advantage of hardware
capabilities of the graphic system for acceleration. It may be
launched from Workbench or CLI, uses the current keyboard mapping and
does not need any extra libraries such as ixemul. Owners of graphic
cards that have Picture in Picture capabilities with Picasso96 will
benefit to use the server in a PIP window.
So, if you have around you a machine with X11 capabilities such as a
Linux or a BSD box, this is THE software to have !
For more informations and release information on Xami, you may get the
documentation.
Release v030
o xami030.lha, the X server
o xfontmisc.lha, base misc fonts and cursors
o xfonts075.lha, 75 DPI PCF fonts
o xfonts100.lha, 100 DPI PCF fonts
o xfontspeedo.lha, Speedo fonts
o xfonttype1.lha, Type1 fonts
http://dspach.free.fr/amiga/xami/index.html
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E L B O X V O O D O O G R A P H I C S
Krakow, 13 February 2001
www.elbox.com
COMPLETE VOODOO GRAPHICS for Mediator
ELBOX Computer Development Department
is proud to announce today's release
of the new driver for graphic cards
working with the MEDIATOR PCI busboard:
=== Voodoo.card ver. 1.0 driver ===
As with all the production coming from ELBOX,
this is the best-quality product
to make your life easier and more efficient.
You have not seen such graphics performance ever before...
Major effort of ELBOX programmers
contributed to making this driver provide you
with all you may ever need.
Also, the new Voodoo.card ver. 1.0 driver
is fully compatible with the P96 graphic system.
The Voodoo.card driver supports the following chipsets:
* Voodoo Banshee 8 MB
* Voodoo3 2000/3000 16 MB
* Voodoo4 4500 32 MB
* Voodoo5 5500 64 MB
The Voodoo.card driver is a continuation of the Voodoo3.card driver.
It includes all the features of that release.
The following functions have been added in the Voodoo.card driver,
which were not supported in previous versions:
* Hardware clipping,
* Vblank interrupts,
* PIP,
* Overlay,
* Scaling,
* DPMS support,
* Big-endian 16 bit modes,
* Pixel clock extended up to 230 MHz (141 MHz for Voodoo Banshee).
The driver supports all the functions available in the P96 graphic
system for cards based around Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo3 chipsets.
Support for Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 cards is limited to 24-bit graphic
modes.
Little-endian modes are the main modes for all the PCI type cards
designed for PC computers. For full compatibility with future drivers
releases (TV tuners, Sound cards, 100 Mbps NIC cards, ISDN cards,
etc.) we recommend using little-endian modes. Big-endian mode support
was added for full compatibility with games prepared only for
big-endian modes.
DON'T WAIT, GO FOR IT!
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
PS. You may want to check the unofficial e-group on MEDIATOR:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amiga-Mediator
For subscribe mailto:Amiga-Mediator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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Amiga Update on the net:
All back issues available at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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Copyright 2001 by Brad Webb. Freely distributable, if not modified.
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21.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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News from the NARR Site
Unfortunately a wrong version of the PlayGUI update was on my homepage and on the PlayGUI-site. The right
one you can now find under the title link. There you can also find the GFX-games-database with a new
layout. There is a news-site, links, the sections were put on different sites and besides this you can
download the last registered games and graphic board patches.
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21.Feb.2001
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Exodus Update 1.1 Released
The update 1.1 for >Exodus has been released. The update contains the following changes/improvements:
- Saving is now also possible on alternative filesystems
- New mouse and keyboard routines added
- Double Buffering error in the first level cleared. Sometimes selected buttons did not work
correctly
You can again download the update at NoRiscNoFun officially.
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21.Feb.2001
Gregory Donner on ANF
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RiVA v0.40 MPEG Video Player for the Amiga
(Stephan Fellner asked me to share the following news on his behalf):
Stephan Fellner would like to announce the release of RiVA v0.40, a very fast
MPEG Video player for AGA, Picasso96, or CyberGraphX-based Amigas.
This latest version adds the following features:
- Audio Support (via mpega.library)
- CyberGfx VLayer support
- Fast High-quality Colour AGA modes DHAM6 and DHAM8 (registered version only)
- Now directly supporting all 15/16bit HiColor modes
- New faster and better AsyncIO routines
- More user-friendly, icon-starting, drag'n'drop, file-requester, tooltypes...
- Lots of nice new features, like zooming, audio saving, halfheight modes...
- Further speedups and bugfixes...
Stephan is actively improving it and adding new features (see the archive's
AmigaGuide documentation for details).
RiVA is shareware; your registration will encourage it's continued development.
The demo version of RiVA 0.40 is available for download from Aminet:
RiVA.lha
Stephen Fellner can be contacted at: sfell@xtra.co.nz
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20.Feb.2001
Borut Zivkovic on ANF
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Digital Dreams Entertainment - Changing Server
As I was noticed via e-mail by a DDE team member (Raymond) the DDE site currently
is offline due to changing server. Supposedly there are problems in holding the URL.
Also the business e-mail addresses are closed. DDE became known to the Amiga world from
games like 'Wasted Dreams' or recently 'Codename Hellsquad'.
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20.Feb.2001
amiga.org
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AIO - Amiga Information Online Moved
AIO - Amiga Information Online Magazine from now on is accessible under the new
URL http://www.aioworld.com/.
Please adjust your bookmarks.
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20.Feb.2001
Mark Wilson via eMail
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Welcome to Amiga Forums.com Preview
AmiBench,
Amiga Resource, and
Striatum Hosting together
have opened a new Amiga forum covering any category groups which
will be put online on the occasion of the Alt-Woa show in Huddersfield,
UK.
Here the original press release:
Press Release Dated 19/02/2001
Welcome to Amiga Forums.com Preview.
This site goes official for the Alt-Woa Show in Huddersfield, UK.
Amiga Forums.com is a joint effort between AmiBench, Amiga Resource and
Striatum.org.
Our main role is to provide support and information for worldwide Amiga users.
Currently we have the following forums available.
Classic Amiga Forums
- Software
- Hardware
- Gaming
- Dev
Next Gen. Amiga Forums
- Software
- Hardware
- Gaming
- Dev
AmiBench Forums
- AmiBench User
- Bargain Forum
Amiga Resource Forums
We would like to welcome you all to our forum, and hope you enjoy using
our Community based service!
With warm regards,
Mark Wilson, Tudor Davies, and Andy Mills - The Amiga Forums Team
Visit us now at http://www.amigaforums.com
NB: The Amiga Forums is a partnership of the following;
AmiBench - http://www.amibench.com
Amiga Resource - http://www.amigaresource.com
Striatum Hosting - http://www.striatum.org
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20.Feb.2001
Bob Scharp via eMail
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Amiga2001 Computer Show
Supplement: Next but one weekend sure was wrong. Corrected appointment. :-)
The Amiga2001 which will take place in St. Louis form March, 30th to April, 1st promises to
become really interesting. With the current press release Bob Sharp, organizer of the show,
submits a message from Bill McEwen announcing the following:
"... Amiga2001 is going to be exciting!
Amiga news you have never heard before.
Amiga products you have never seen before .
Amiga announcements you have been hungering for.
Whatever Amiga shows you have come to before,
whatever shows you missed, this is the Amiga
show you don't want to miss...."
Bill McEwen
President & CEO Amiga Inc.®
Producers of the Gateway Amiga Shows... the best Amiga
shows in the Americas! For more information, check out
http://www.amiga-stl.com
Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey
Sheraton West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO. USA
Friday March 30 thru Sunday April 1, 2001
Now featuring companies like: Amiga, FWD Computing,
Merlancia Industries, Compuquick Media Center, Dan's
Deals, Cloanto, individual computers of Germany,
the Gateway Amiga Club Inc., Bounce-back Videos,
Amigan-St. Louis, Mr. Hardware, the PC Journal,
G & G Publishing - producers of The New Amigan Magazine,
Brewster Productions, AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group,
Amiga Active Magazine of the UK, Nova Design Inc.,
NAG - Northwest Amiga Group, Charles Marks, a noted
artist of Claw Marks Productions. He is coming from
Jonesboro Arkansas to exhibit his lithographs at his
booth. Mr. Marks is also designing the limited edition
Amiga2001 show shirt for Amigan-St. Louis as well.
Other exhibitors are: Legacy Maker Inc., Downix, Inc.
Newest additions to the exhibitor list include
the St. Louis Computer User, AmigaZone (Harv Laser's
famous Amiga site) and SACC (the Sacramento Amiga Computer
Club). More exhibitors are being added each week, so
check the web site.
Bob Scharp
E-mail: bscharp@icon-stl.net
WWW: www.amiga-stl.com
Amigan-St. Louis
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
U.S.A.
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20.Feb.2001
Jens Troeger on ANF
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New InstallerNG Archive
Since there were some problems with the last InstallerNG archives I re-compressed
everything once again and made it available. Additionally two small errors have
been fixed, too (see history). Have fun..... Jens
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20.Feb.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF
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stormamiga.lib V.45.00 beta 5 for StormC
There is another new version of the stormamiga.lib with many big and small
enhancements.
Here a small overview on the most important changes:
- Completely new Level 1 IO functions
- Strongly reworked or partly completely new Level 2 IO functions.
- Some new Level 1 IO functions (fdopen, fileno, isatty, and tell).
- Some new or reworked include files improving compatibility with other
compilers.
- Some optimizations and error corrections.
- Reworked and improved versions of the installer script, manual, and user's thesaurus.
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19.Feb.2001
Michael Wilps on ANF
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Updates for All Warp Datatypes Available
New updates for Warp Datatypes by Oliver Roberts. For example some problems
with the OS3.5/3.9 Picture Dataype were fixed. The following datatypes were updated:
warpjpeg.html,
warppng.html and
warpbmp.html.
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19.Feb.2001
Markus Schmidt on ANF
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New Forum at the ICQ-userlist and ICQ-FAQ
Because the provider of the (old) ICQ-forums will stop his service soon I opened a new
one and moved all entries (unfortunately not that much) to the new forum. Additionally
the first version of the ICQ-FAQ is now available.
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19.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Install SAMBA 2.0 Beta is available at the file area of the
Samba-Mailing List
You have to be a member of the ML to access this area.
AmiATLAS
Because there were not many news about "AmiATLAS" in the last months
Thorsten Schölzel asked Andreas Regul,
programmer of AmiATLAS, about whats going on:
"You are right, there were no news about AmiATLAS lately. But now we found someone
who wants to develop the program. That is why I have the strong believe that there
will be a version 6 in the foreseeable future. But I do not know any details about
when or even if it will happen."
Everyone who wants to help the new programmer with the development can write to
amiatlas@gmx.de.
WorkbenchOnWin - WOW
The website of WOW has moved and is now available at
http://www.commodore-ale.com/wow/.
The topical version is 0.04a build on 11.02.2001. The program gives you the possibility
to add the look and feel of the Amiga to every Windows desktop.
vlink - pasm - wosdb
Frank Wille has updated some of his programs.
There are new versions of 'vlink' - a portable linker for several files -, 'pasm' -
a portable PowerPC assembler - and 'wosdb' - a simple WarpOS debugger - available.
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19.Feb.2001
Bob Scharp via eMail
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Amiga2001 - Press Release
PRESS RELEASE: Amiga2001 - February 17, 2001
Attention Exhibitors and Advertisers,
Bill Griffin of G&G Publishing Enterprises has informed us that he is
willing to extend the deadline for the advertising in the March issue
for Exhibitors at the Amiga2001 show. This is the issue coming out
just before the show. Make a big impact, let people know you will be
at the show, advertise in the NEW AMIGANS magazine. The new deadline
is February 21, 2001. So contact him immediately for ads or subscriptions!
Pricing is listed below in the press release number 4, dated January 6,
2001. Bill's phone is: at 219-315-2794, or you can email him at:
wd8izh@beanstalk.net
Bill Griffin, G&G Publishing Enterprises
Home of "the NEW AMIGANS" magazine
Ask about our new, US-based, Amiga Magazine
Check out our website at http://get.to/t.n.a
PRESS RELEASE: Amiga2001 - February 11, 2001
Attention Team Amiga members and interested Amigans,
David Stevens, of Team Amiga, has announced that Team Amiga
members will gather for a luncheon and get together on Sunday, at
10 am at the Amiga2001 show. Team Amiga members and anyone
interested in this Amiga association, will meet in the Lucerne
Restaurant of the Sheraton West Port - Chalet Hotel. This is located
just off of the main lobby of the hotel. David advises that this will
be an informal gathering, and is sure to be an event worth
attending. Individuals are required to pay for their own meals.
If you need more information, or you wish to advise David that you
will be attending the luncheon, please contact David at:
dstevens@cityscape.net.
Now featuring companies like: Amiga, FWD Computing,
Merlancia Industries, Compuquick Media Center, Dan's
Deals, Cloanto, individual computers of Germany,
the Gateway Amiga Club Inc., Bounce-back Videos,
Amigan-St. Louis, Mr. Hardware, the PC Journal,
G & G Publishing - producers of The New Amigan Magazine,
Brewster Productions, AmiTech Dayton Amiga Users Group,
Amiga Active Magazine of the UK, Nova Design Inc.,
NAG - Northwest Amiga Group, Charles Marks, a noted
artist of Claw Marks Productions. He is coming from
Jonesboro Arkansas to exhibit his lithographs at his
booth. Mr. Marks is also designing the limited edition
Amiga2001 show shirt for Amigan-St. Louis as well.
Other exhibitors are: Legacy Maker Inc., Downix, Inc.
Newest additions to the exhibitor list include
the St. Louis Computer User, AmigaZone (Harv Laser's
famous Amiga site) and SACC (the Sacramento Amiga Computer
Club). More exhibitors are being added each week, so
check the web site.
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19.Feb.2001
Thomas Unger on ANF
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THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-R v1.0.4
Since version 1.0.1 the following websites were added to the Kickstart Archive:
- The Commodore CDTV Information Center by Oliver Hannaford-Day
- The Official A-Max Home Page by "AmigaMax" Reginal Cross
Furthermore some sites were updated and some new parts and pictures were added
to the Amiga Patent History.
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19.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
Dohodnina00.lha biz/dbase 8K+Calculates income tax in Slovenia
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 54K+Polish locale for OS3.9 ver 1.2
DOpusCFG.lha biz/dopus 80K+DOpus4.x configuration V2.14, many featu
YAM22_no.lha comm/mail 23K+Unofficial Norwegian locale for YAM v2.2
streamer.lha comm/www 44K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
Moxxom_Raptor.lha demo/aga 41K+Funny AGA Demo by Moxxom
Rtx_Effe.lha demo/aga 911K+Stunning AGA Demo by Retax
UNL_Holkegi.lha demo/ecs 115K+ECS Demo named "Holkegi Golanke" by Unla
indent.lha dev/c 355K+ANSI C source code formatter
AmigaInfo.lha docs/hyper 353K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Febbraio 2001
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 31K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
jaoct00.lha docs/misc 50K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of
jasep00.lha docs/misc 96K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 20K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
Mystic_Island.lha game/demo 743K+Mystic island demo (GERMAN)
T-POT_G.lha game/jump 364K+Demo of 30 Level 2D Platformer V1.1
angband.lha game/role 725K+Angband 2.9.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
drangband.lha game/role 717K+DrAngband 2.9.7 - Roguelike solo RPG
eyangband.lha game/role 801K+EyAngband 0.2.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha game/role 952K+Gumband 2.1.2b - Roguelike solo RPG
ldmud-328-BIN.lha game/role 1.7M+Ldmud 3.2.8 driver binary
pernangband.lha game/role 1.3M+PernAngband 4.1.5 - Roguelike solo RPG
Anim2mpegB.lha gfx/conv 264K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
Anim2mpegS.lha gfx/conv 282K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
FujiGet.lha gfx/misc 11K+Download images from Fuji MX1200 digital
AMP2.lha gfx/show 148K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AC3 player v2.02 (010216)
BetaScan.lha hard/drivr 168K+Scan program for virtually any scanner
MuEVD.lha misc/emu 123K+MuLib driven ShSh driver for ECS,AGA,P96
imdbDiff010209.lha misc/imdb 1.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
HexCon.lha misc/math 16K+Simple Hex <-> Dec <-> Bin converter
stonefree1.lha mus/edit 303K+Full, free edition of StoneTracker (comp
stonefree2.lha mus/edit 707K+Full, free edition of StoneTracker (comp
stonefree3.lha mus/edit 577K+Full, free edition of StoneTracker (comp
stlouis.jpg pix/art 11K+Jpg picture made with fxPaint
TrooperFighter.jpg pix/trace 40K+Trooper Fighter at Starship Trooper
WiederUnterweg.jpg pix/trace 69K+Starship Enterprise-E in Space
Epson_400.lha text/print 34K+Epson Stylus 400/440/460 Driver for WB V
Epson_600.lha text/print 41K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.2
HP_Deskjet870C.lha text/print 42K+Deskjet 8x0C/9x0C Driver for WB V40.12
alba.lha util/boot 56K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
MuFastZero.lha util/boot 128K+MuLib Zero Page remapper, FastExec/Prepa
ModeProSrc.lha util/cdity 728K+Source code to the Screenmode Promotion
Type1Engine.lha util/libs 493K+PostScript Type1 font engine V2.0
idle1_2.lha util/moni 15K+A (working) cpu monitor
ClockCal.lha util/wb 52K+WB Calender/World Clock with 4 clock fac
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19.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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PlayGUI Update
A new update for PlayGUI is now available. The update (to version 3.c) fixes some bugs and
adds minor improvements. The correct installation of PlayGUI 3.0 is required.
PlayGUI offers you a GUI for some music players. The look & feel can be changed by using skins and themes.
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18.Feb.2001
Fun Time World
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Samba: Tango v1.1
Soeren Forsberg has released the version 1.1 of Tango, a GUI
for Samba and the SMB handler. Samba is a
Open Source implementation of the SMB protocol.
This allows accessing drives and printers of other computers via a network.
Since the previous version of Tango the following has been changed:
- Bugfix: Some Enforcer hits were removed. But after the first installation
there are still some hits until the preferences got saved for the first time.
- New: 'Share' utility.
The GUI offers the folowing features:
- Browsing the network.
- Searching for 'Microsoft Windows Network' compatible computers.
- Up- and download of files and directories.
- Easy point'n click usage of drives and printers that are accessible via the
network.
- Builtin file-handler or shell-/OS3.5-/Magellan support.
Download: comm/tcp/Tango.lha (115K)
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18.Feb.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Obligement #25
The issue #25 of the French Amiga magazine 'Obligement'
has been released.
This issue contains among other things reviews of Simon the Sorceror 2,
Bubble Heroes and Exodus The Last War. Some other articles add in.
Download: obligement25.lha (729K)
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18.Feb.2001
Czech Amiga News
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MPEG: Frogger v1.64b3
On 17. February 2001 Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has released a new beta
version of the MPEG players 'Frogger'. This is by name the version 1.64b3 of the
MPEG player.
The player supports MPEG-2 and runs on 68k and PPC Amigas with at least an
68030. The PPC versions are available for WarpOS and PowerUp. The download of
the single versions is possible on the download site.
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18.Feb.2001
Olaf Koebnik via email
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Amiga Arena News
Free AmiAtlas Italy map
The Italy map and the Italian by Umberto for AmiAtlas are ready for free
download.
The Amiga Arena is looking for more self-made add-on maps.
Commercial maps that were enhanced are of course NOT freely distributable.
The special discount action with AmiAtlas is only valid until 28.02.2001.
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18.Feb.2001
Robert Williams, editor Clubbed magazine on ANF
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Clubbed Magazine #7 Released
The issue #7 of the magazine 'Clubbed' by SEAL (South Essex Amiga Link) is now
available.
The latest issue contains 48 DIN A4 pages with news, features, reviews and
tutorials.
Under features a first glance is thrown on AmigaOS V3.9, the products fxSCAN
3.0, ScanQuix 5, ArtEffect 4 and EZMouse PS/2 had been tested and under support
'Back to Basics' handles the writing of shell scripts.
The complete summary
and extracts from previous issues have been released on the SEAL homepage.
Subscribers get the magazine sent in the next days. In addition this issue will
be available at the SEAL booth at the WoA show in Huddersfield, Great Britain on
February, 24th.
Via the SEAL site
you can subscribe to the not-for-profit magazine or order a test issue.
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18.Feb.2001
Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF
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Coyote Flux: 3d Engine Running and PPC680x0 v2.0
After long delays the 3d engine developed by Coyote Flux now works. It supports
antialiasing and very high resolutions. Two early
screenshots showing the
terrain renderer of the engine have been released today on the preliminary
homepage of Coyote Flux. Further pictures will follow soon.
The version 2.0 of the 680x0 to PPC assembler 'PPC680x0' is almost ready. It
offers a new conversion model, an internal cache for optimizations, full point'n
click porting and further features.
Further information can be taken from the Coyote Flux website.
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18.Feb.2001
Mirko Engelhardt on ANF
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8 New Games at AmigaLand
Because of the license of Lankhor there are immediately new games available at
AmigaLand.
These are by name the following classics:
- Mortville Manor (adventure)
- Der Landsitz von Mortville (adventure)
- G.Nius (action)
- Outzone (shoot'em up)
- Maupiti Island (adventure)
- Black Sect (adventure)
- Vroom + Data Disk (racing game)
Additionally a game by Ascaron: On the Ball (simulation).
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18.Feb.2001
NoRiscNoFun on ANF
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Official Exodus Update for Download at NoRiscNoFun
A new update of Exodus is available. Among other things it removes memory
problems with some SFS configurations. The update is offered with the friendly
permission of Sland Media. Have fun with while playing.
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17.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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NARR Site Reworked
Today the NARR site has been reworked graphically and several links
have been put to categories, so that hopefully it becomes more easy to
find the GFX lists, programs, reviews, etc.
There also is a gallery with some of my cartoons now, created with
Amiga drawing programs like PPaint or DPaintIV. Also the AGA demo
'Ayrton' by HITMAN is to find in the projects section, for which
I contriuted the music.
Furthermore I advice my anims section for those who like witty cartoon animations.
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17.Feb.2001
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Software News
Pagan Games has created a website
for the new strategy game Earth 2140 on which
press releases
and reviews about the game are to be published.
Amidogs Movieplayer
has been released in version 2.02.
Download: AMP202.lha
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17.Feb.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft Fires Contra Open Source
«How does the evil come to earth? With Open Source, if one wants to
believe Microsoft's chief for Windows, Jim Allchin. Open Source could
smother each and every innovation; it "destroys intellectual property",
said Allchin, and politicians would have to recognize this danger.
Open source would be the death of any inducement to invest in research and
development. Allchin "cannot imagine anything more worse for the software
business". Withal he equates open source like the free operating system
Linux with music exchange services á la Napster - an argument which immediately has
been intensely offended by the open source community.»
Complete article under the title link (German).
Does somebody suggest business competition facing him? Supposedly yes.
I wonder what you think about that. Personally I see great chances in open source to
realize great projects. The Internet is best evidence for that and Linux meantime
has got a huge community of rooters.
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17.Feb.2001
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Now Reading News Groups via Google
As reported before Google completely took over the news groups archive of
DejaNews. Under the following links you can access the old news groups entries,
but also find the current ones. This list does not claim to be complete; it
only contains news groups we found at first go.
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17.Feb.2001
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF
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Mekka Symposium 2001 Homepage Online
From today the homepage of the Mekka & Symposium 2001 is online!
The MS is one of the biggest demo parties in Europe and has 1,200 to 1,300
visitors yearly. Among other things there are demo competitions for Amiga, C64, and
PC, and the well known and popular party feeling (who's got big ***** ?).
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16.Feb.2001
Christian Effenberger on ANF
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Helpful Programs for Your Site Management
SiteWay 1.0 programs as a bundle (download at the title link):
The software deals with integrated site and content management.
The bundle consists of small window tools. All programs listed
here can be downloaded as single archives from the
Amclust site.
The partly required external resources (ixemul.library 48.x,
jpeg.library 5.1, jpegtool) can also be downloaded from the
Amclust site
or AmiNet.
Programs contained in this archive:
- IsoLatin2Html
Converts all characters in plain text files from 127 into
HTML syntax, where German umlauts as well as quotation marks
are written out in full and all others in numerical spelling.
- Html2IsoLatin
Converts all characters in HTML files back into the typical Amiga
IsoLatin 1 (iso-8859-1).
- SimpleEd
Complete text editor with ARexx port and many features.
- Finder
Complex frontend for the search command with many features.
- JS-MenuEd
Program to create entire site navigations.
Backwards compatible down to HTML 2.
- ListBuddy [requires SimpleHTML 0.11]
A program helpful for creating any type of lists. Mainly thought
for converting text lists.
- ResourceInspector
Lists all resources and links referenced with a HTML file.
- SyntaxChecker [requires ixemul.library 48.0 and Tidy]
Checks single HTML files or entire paths including subdirectories
via "HTML-Tidy".
- SiteChanger
Manipulates the contents, the format and the file names of entire
web sites (including subdirectories).
- SiteFiler [requires SimpleHTML 0.11]
A program helpful for creating variable sitemaps.
Mainly thought for CD-Roms and local web sites.
- TX-ButtonEd [requires jpeg.library 5.1 and jpegtool]
Program to create (anti-aliased) text buttons in
jpeg format via "jpegtool".
- WebColor
Tool helpful for creating and editing
HTML colors (clipboard support).
Programs NOT included in this archive:
- TableMaster [with extensive German documentation]
Extensive program to create complex tables in near-WYSIWYG.
- EasyAccess [with extensive English documentation]
Helpful tool for creating and editing CGI scripts.
With this local server you can test your sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI).
- ImageEditor [with extensive English documentation]
Extensive electronic image processing software
based on the NetPBM filters (incl. PPC support).
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16.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
An updated file of all available servers
for SMSEngineerMUI
(SMS = Short Message Service), with which you can send short messages to mobile
phones, has been released.
Version 5.2 of the compression tool XpkMaster for MorphOS by Sigbjørn
Skjæret is available for download on the MorphOS
website. Download: xpkmaster52_mos.lha - 183 kB
Oliver Roberts has version 1.5 of his compression library
xpkBZP2.library
available for download. Download: xpkBZP2.lha - 79 kB
Version 0.1735 of the Amiga ICQ client StrICQ can be downloaded at
the StrICQ support site.
The version was entirely recompiled and the executable is now only 360 kByte in size.
The bug that the chat- and filewindow did not appear was fixed, just as the bug
with the missing ICQ logo (flower).
Download:
stricq.lha - 128 kB (Programm)
stricq_cat.lha - 135 kB (all catalogs)
For registered betatesters of Tales of Tamar
there's version v0.33R3 for the Amiga client available with bugfixes regarding
the trade screen.
The FAQ on the
e-mail based turn game Star Empire was updated by Virtual Dimension.
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16.Feb.2001
Matthias Gietzelt on ANF
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New Version of Emperor Released
Emperor (download by clicking the title link) is an object-oriented programming
language which combines extensive features with a high level of user-friendliness.
Emperor opens up a higher quality of software development on Amiga computers
without having to deal with complex system structures.
The easy user interface provides a clear overview of the components of your own
program.
Emperor knows the most important system components like windows, requesters, menus and
ASL requesters, but also gadgets of many different kinds. All common Reaction and
GadTools gadgets are supported.
With Emperor, you can develop programs based on AmigaOS 3.5+, as well as for
AmigaOS 2.0. There's also the option to generate a program which contains both
parts (OS 3.5+ / OS 2.0) and adapts to the system booted.
Features of Emperor:
- Reaction/GadTools gadgets support
- creation of menus, requesters and many more
- support of asl.library and locale.library
- predefined, but changeable macros for all components
- immediate visualization for each element
- source code generation in C/C++ - (contrary to object files as in ReActor)
- programming help which is operated entirely through menus
- integrated text editor
- extensive German/English guide
- online help
- StormC connection
- FREEWARE
Version 3.6 of the program is available in the Aminet directory "dev/c"
(download at the title link).
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16.Feb.2001
Cinemaware (Sascha Köbner on ANF)
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CINEMAWARE Release old Amiga Games
The Amiga versions of "King of Chicago" and "Lords of the Rising Sun"
are now offered by Cinemaware for free download.
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16.Feb.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon Online: White House

The latest cartoon is online at karikatur.dudai.de.
Everybody is invited to give his comment and rate the cartoon.
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16.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
MTRechIII_1_09.lha biz/dbase 1.3M+MT-RechnungIII Invoice program V1.09
MTRIIIsrc_1_09.lha biz/dbase 411K+MT-RechnungIII Invoice program V1.09
DCPatch.lha biz/patch 36K+Some Bugfixes and improvements for DosCo
LW4UP.lha biz/patch 192K+CGX patch for LightWave4. (v0.95)
LW4UP060.lha biz/patch 193K+CGX patch for LightWave4. (v0.95) (060)
Cit_Docs_BA22.lha comm/bbs 572K+Citadel 68K Documenation
Cit_exec_BA22.lha comm/bbs 246K+Citadel 68K BBS Program
Cit_Util_BA22.lha comm/bbs 450K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Utilities
Babelfish.lha comm/irc 3K+Use Altavista's translating service from
AmyGate.lha comm/net 112K+THE Aminet download manager V1.1
GoFetch_Public.lha comm/net 1K+FREE Public Keyfile for GoFetch!
Tango.lha comm/tcp 115K+Samba/smb-handler gui.
SiteWay.lha comm/www 1.0M+A bunch of WebTools for your Site-Managm
BUtility.lha dev/amos 135K+Extension for Amos 1.3 users.
SNMAOptsMUI.lha dev/asm 31K+Modern SNMA assembler options GUI v1.0 (
lucyplayDevBas.lha dev/basic 57K+Using LucyPlay library from HBasic
Amiga-C-Jan01.lha dev/c 135K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Janu
Emperor.lha dev/c 570K+Object-oriented programming language
HowToReAction.lha dev/src 19K+ReAction GUI with ReActor
AutoMounter.lha disk/misc 17K+AutoMount tool for any changeable disk d
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 75K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Aminet-CD-41.lha docs/lists 23K+Aminet CD 41 index and description
WarpUp-Jan01.lha docs/misc 22K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in J
Toadies.lha game/2play 711K+A Real Worms Clone !
BrickFast_A.lha game/data 9K+Levelset replacement for BrickFast v1.00
BrickFast_D.lha game/data 10K+New levelset for BrickFast v1.00+
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 17K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
FlashNG.lha game/misc 67K+Small GPL Arkanoid clone with RTG suppor
FlashmandelPPC.lha gfx/fract 56K+The best fractal program for Amiga/WarpO
RiVA.lha gfx/show 34K+Very Fast MPEG Player for AGA/P96/CGFX
A2000tower.lha hard/hack 178K+A2000 tower project pictures
CGX2TV.lha hard/hack 8K+Very simple TVout for GFX card v0.3
Fred_and_Rose.lha misc/antiq 91K+Fred the Baker & Rose the Florist Demo
adt.c misc/unix 77K+Aminet Download Tool 2.6, minor update
Klangwelten.lha mods/atmos 476K+Dark Ambient/Trance track from Psycho/MO
Beginning_autu.lha mods/house 143K+House track from Psycho/MOODS
Trip_to_hell.lha mods/jungl 94K+Drum & Bass track from Psycho/MOODS
AcidFog.lha mods/techn 151K+ACID track from Psycho/MOODS
af-pulse.lha mods/techn 312K+DBM10ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 142bpm
af-something.lha mods/techn 233K+Ptmod ->Acid Frog<- techno 154bpm
Monotone.lha mods/techn 268K+Minimalistic Tekkno track from Psycho/MO
TheScene.lha mods/techn 186K+Old school Tekkno track from Psycho/MOOD
BlueXTC.lha mods/tranc 181K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
BrainInjection.lha mods/tranc 853K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
chill_out.lha mods/tranc 116K+Ambient Tekkno track from Psycho/MOODS
energy.lha mods/tranc 1.4M+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
Herzschmerz.lha mods/tranc 254K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
Hirnschlag.lha mods/tranc 230K+Hypnotic Trance track from Psycho/MOODS
Night_fear.lha mods/tranc 232K+Hardtrance track from Psycho/MOODS
Sehnsucht.lha mods/tranc 404K+Trance track from Psycho/MOODS
vdo_wav2.lha mods/vdo 986K+Wavelength of a day [xm 20ch]
BaxPlayerV2.2.lha mus/play 160K+Multi-format module player.
Skins125a.lha mus/play 13M+125 Skins (Amplifier/Amp/Eagleplayer)
Skins125b.lha mus/play 13M+125 Skins (Amplifier/Amp/Eagleplayer)
amigawarrior.jpg pix/back 113K+Amigawarrior.jpg (800X600X24)
brokenpromise.jpg pix/back 88K+Brokenpromise.jpg (800X600X24)
doomed.jpg pix/back 86K+Doomed?.jpg (800X600X24)
dopus5.jpg pix/back 60K+Dopus5.jpg (800X600X24)
hello_world.lha pix/back 300K+Blue Workbench Backgrounds in 1024x778x2
lauraNduke.jpg pix/back 75K+LauraNduke.jpg (800X600X24)
macscrap.jpg pix/back 82K+Macscrap.jpg (800X600X24)
pirates.jpg pix/back 75K+Pirates.jpg (800X600X24)
fomst17.jpg pix/henz 142K+Stra Trek-scene
fomst18.jpg pix/henz 394K+Klingon Bird of Prey in the Jupiter orbi
fomst19.jpg pix/henz 99K+Federation ship at Saturn
fomst20.jpg pix/henz 211K+Original Enterprise at Saturn
fomst21.jpg pix/henz 183K+Star Trek-scene, black/white
fomst22.jpg pix/henz 190K+Ferengi Marauder, black/white
fomst23.jpg pix/henz 202K+Vulcan Shuttle, black/white
fomst24.jpg pix/henz 290K+Enterprise C, black/white
fomst25.jpg pix/henz 238K+Work Bee
fomst26.jpg pix/henz 315K+Star Trek-scene
fomst27.jpg pix/henz 200K+Klingon Cruiser
diff01.jpg pix/misc 291K+Difference between Amiga and Windows
diff02.jpg pix/misc 193K+Difference between Amiga and Windows
IkeWB4.jpg pix/wb 116K+Screen Grab of OS 3.9 Workbench
html-php.lha text/edit 21K+Extended HTML,PHP,JavaScript,JSP parser
PLConverter.lha text/misc 42K+PLConverter V2.1, Text Converter for Pol
EvenMore.lha text/show 291K+V0.57 - Great textviewer! ANSI/AGUIDE su
SRename.lha util/cli 107K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program.
WoW.lha util/conv 38K+Free text converter (Html, Ww6, Rtf, Asc
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 280K+Report+ 4.24: Multipurpose utility
idle1_1.lha util/moni 16K+A (working) cpu monitor
xpkBZP2.lha util/pack 79K+Bzip2 xpk compression library (68k,WarpO
trackdisplaycl.lha util/time 37K+V1.14 Use hardware track display as cloc
Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v14.9 - virus dicovering system
QuickLens.lha util/wb 7K+A quick lens, any OS, source included
WB2000_Update.lha util/wb 9K+Update for Workbench2000 1.9
WorkON.lha util/wb 566K+WB-System Enhancer with nice GUI!
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16.Feb.2001
Amiga Inc.
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New Amiga Accessories
In the Amiga shop 'AmigaMall' you can now order accessories as for example
bags, blankets or t-shirts with Amiga logo.
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16.Feb.2001
Gunter Hinrichsen on ANF
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New HTMLread Version
A new HTMLread version (V1.00) is available for download at the support site
(titlelink).
HTMLread is an extension for YAM. YAM is a marvellous mailer, but it's not
able to display e-mails that have been written in HTML code as they are sent
by Netscape, Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these
e-mails to an HTML viewer.
Some changes have been made in the new version:
Installer, better support of status gifs, better <base> tag
handling with web graphics, nowebbug fixed, picturename bug fixed,
no picture bug fixed, better multi window support, only one HTML mail is
stored in t:, multiple ARexxPort support (AWeb), the binary is now compiled
with the stormamiga.library (smaller, faster, more secure). HTMLread has
now internal support against e-mail espionage (please read on that topic
»Espionage through HTML-E-Mails« in the documentation).
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15.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
On Peter's Amiga Homepage
a new printer driver for the HP Deskjet 870c (version 40.12) is
available for download. This new version now also supports 68040 processors
and the HP Prefs. Download:
HP_Deskjet870C.lha
Payback by Apex Designs is
ready on CD-Rom and thus suppliable. You can draw the game either from Apex Design's
online shop directly or from the vendor of your choice.
In this game the player takes the role of a young driver on the run and in this
tries to become a big gangster's boss. The game is completely non-linear. To finish a
level the player simply has to collect a certain number of points. It is up to the player
how to reach this. There also is a FAQ
available for the game.
Demo: PaybackDemo.lha - 2,94 MB
Jacek Rzeuski has made
DirOpus Version 4.15h (Beta) available for
download. Download:
DOpus415h.lzx - 362 kB
At Denis Spach's you will find a new version (release v030) of the
X11 server for Amiga.
Version 13.1 of WHDLoad,
the disk-game-to-harddisk-installer, has been released.
Download:
WHDLoad_13.1_usr.lzx - 116 kB
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15.Feb.2001
KOSH
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KOSH News
There were no news about the ´KOSH [Kommunity Orientated Software Hardware]´ organisation
founded by Fleecy Moss, since September 2000. The group reorganized and nominated the
following speakers:
- Red (developers) speaker, John Chandler
- Green (companies) speaker, greenboy
- Joint Blue (users) speakers, Marcus Petersson and Greg Webb
If you would like to join the group you can register
here
and if so support other speakers.
SVM
Many thanks to all who've contributed to the discussions on the SVM Simple
Virtual Machine. Even greater thanks to Timo Suoranta for getting the whole
thing rolling and Marcus Petersson for providing valuable feedback.
Information on the SVM proposal as it currently stands is available here -
please read, enjoy and contribute your thoughts. For those who missed the
beginning of this fascinating task, the original document is available here.
This isn't exactly a light discussion and some understanding of assembly
language coding would aid any participants - but don't be intimidated!
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15.Feb.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS V0.4 with WarpOS Emu
Version v0.4 of MorphOS, an emulation for PPC Amigas, has been released.
This version supports the AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 ROM update modules, but external modules,
too. Thus theoretically everyone may write and use his/her own ROM update modules.
Now also the WarpOS emulation is supported, so for example you can play
Warp3D supported HereticII under MorphOS, too. You will find an extended documentation
of the improvements in the
readme file.
Additionally the ´PPC MUI 3.9 Public Release 1´ is available which is the second
MUI archive for PPC for MorphOS. (MorphOS V0.4 suggested).
Download:
morphosuser-150201.lha - 1,7 MB
MUI_Release1.lha - 725 kB
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15.Feb.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF
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New Version (V.44.50 beta 1) of the HSMathLibs for MC68881/82
Again there is a new version for registered users of the HSMathLibs.
Some bugs have been fixed and some smaller optimizations have been done.
For sure the essential enhancement in this version is the complete
compatibility with OS3.9 and support of (hopefully) all of the special cases for
the mathe-libraries.
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14.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Of the tool Report+ with which you can
draft various reports (bug reports, Aminet readme-files, documentations, and something like this) version
4.24 has been released.
Download: report.lha - 279 kB
Richard Kapp has finished version 0.6 of WorkON and has provided it
for download. ´WorkON´ is a small system enhancer for AmigaOS. In the new version a lot of
bugs has been fixed, many improvements has been made, new images of Martin Merz has been integrated,
and the surface has been improved.
Download: WorkON.lha - 579 kB
On his website Andreas Kleinert has provided new versions of two of his datatypes
for download (which are available on Aminet since
04th February of 2001).
The akJFIF.datatype and the akPNG.datatype were updated which are available in different processor versions.
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14.Feb.2001
T.o.T.
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Tales of Tamar: New FAQ and Chronicle
There is a new FAQ in German and in English and the chronicle of the year 65 of the online strategy game
'Tales of Tamar' which is still in development.
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14.Feb.2001
Markus Holler
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Markus Holler: New Site at mp3.com
From now on there is a new site at mp3.com with music of Markus Holler. He works as a free musican
on various projects. First of all he composes soundtracks for computer games (for instance for
Tales of Tamar or Operation: Counterstrike),
but he also set videos to music (e.g. the presentation of the company
Visum Informationssysteme GmbH
or he set the fair reports of Virtual Dimension) to music,
and composing of music pieces is one of his work.
Markus Holler has made up his mind to remaster his last MODs (with EQing, panorama, effect, compressing, etc...)
to give them a studio-like quality. Under the title link you can certainly listen to some music in
the next time! Check it out!
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14.Feb.2001
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Amiga Future: Interview with Jacek Rzeuski (DirOpus)
There is an interview with Jacek Rzeuski on the homepage of Amiga Future who is the programmer of the
GNU-version of Directory Opus 4. The interview has been published in German in the area ´interactive´
of the homepage of Amiga Future. You can find an English version of the interview in the English part
of the homepage.
Besides this the Workbench-screenshot-site and the cheat-database were updated. Reports for the help guide
are being wanted and free jobs are available.
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14.Feb.2001
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF
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AmigaJoker Area at Kultpower.de Opened!
Because of the great demand the AmigaJoker Area at Kultpower.de was opened. There is a introduction-site
and four AmigaJoker-cover. This will be changed as soon as possible. Everybody who is interested in
building up the cover-area can contact me via email.
Beneath AmigaJoker there are still areas for Powerplay (over 150 covers, over 180 test reports), ASM (
over 50 covers and 50 test reports) and video games (22 covers).
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14.Feb.2001
Joachim Wolf (Channel-Operator)
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Also an Amiga-IRC-channel
An AmigaChannel at irc.euirc.net with the topics BBS, Amiga and mutual user help is possible. Can be also used
as Amiga market. Main emphasis of me is to build up PMBS for the help or at least clearing starting
problems. The channel #humpis is already available for a while and has some regular users.
- Data for the channel:
- irc.euirc.net
- #humpis
- Port: 6667
If you have questions or problems please send a mail to
Jochen@Humpis.insider.org or
humpis@t-online.de.
Remark of the editor:
We recommend all chatters to create a website about their channel and the main topic (which Amiga topic
is discussed mainly) as well as the data for logging in and then to enter this homepage in the category
"IRC/Chat" in our Amiga Link Directory. In this way interested persons can find their channels long-term.
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14.Feb.2001
Roland Wintgen via eMail
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Golem: The world of Voodoo-graphic Boards is Open to Amiga
»From now on all Voodoo-graphic boards in Elbox Mediator PCI busboard are usable for Amiga
The Amiga-hardware producer Elbox has completed the "Voodoo.card ver. 1.0 driver" for its Mediator PCI
bus boards. This driver makes possible the use of all obtainable PCI-Voodoo-graphic boards - up to Voodoo5 5500 PCI -
on Amiga-1200-computers which are extended with Mediator.
There has been a driver for Voodoo3-PCI-graphic boards and corresponding Mediator-bundles since the last year
but now also the other Voodoo-graphic boards can be used: Voodoo Banshee 8 MB, Voodoo3 2000/3000 16 MB, Voodoo4 4500 32 MB and
Voodoo5 5500 64 MB. The driver which has been developed by Elbox itself are supposed to offer full
hardware acceleration but which is restricted to 24-bit-graphic mode at Voodoo4-and Voodoo5-graphic boards.«
See title link for full article.
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13.Feb.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Google Purchases Deja.com's Usenet-Archive
»Google, carrier of the web searching machine of same denominator,
took over Deja.com's usenet archive. Beside of the usenet database of
the news groups in Internet Google purchased the names deja.com and dejanews.com, too.
Both of the partners keep silence about the price. Who tries to visit the Deja.com homepage
at www.deja.com is already forwarded to the beta version of Google's usenet search.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
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13.Feb.2001
Luca Diana via eMail
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New AmigaNG Site in Italy
Hi guys,
I wanted to let you know, that we have opened a new website in Italy
dedicated to the AmigaNG and future tecnologies. The site is called Quantum
Leap and contains the Italian version of Amiga Inc.'s AmigaWorld, this is
the only authorized Italian translation of AmigaWorld. The site is also
enriched by proprietary articles, interviews, news, authorized translations
from other Amiga sources of information, courses on the VP language and much
more. Very soon we will also have news in English to make the website
accessible to a wider audience. Thank you for your attention and best luck
with Amiga future.
Our website address is: http://ql.programmazione.it (title link).
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13.Feb.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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Elbox Press Release
With their today's press release Elbox announce that all of the Voodoo cards
work with the new driver 'Voodoo.card' version 1.0 in the Amiga. Read the complete
message under the title link.
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13.Feb.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Compaq Coming Up with a New Alpha Processor
»According to Compaq it's available from yesterday: the new Alpha processor
21264 with 833 MHz. By Compaq's account the
fastest industrial processor of the world runs in the new AlphaServer ES40. This
server was especially designed for database applications doing a high degree of
calculations, such like e-business solutions basing on Oracle Software.
According to Compaq in Oracle Application Benchmark the ES40 slapped the opposers
IBM H70 and Sun E450 with more than twice the results. Also in the case of other
benchmarks like the SAP Business Warehousing and the SPEC CPU2000 the new
admiral would be clearly ahead.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
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13.Feb.2001
Olaf Koebnik on ANF
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Mystic Island Demo and Interview Online
An extended interview with the developer of MI Martem is online at Amiga Arena and
a demo version is ready for download!
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13.Feb.2001
Stefan Martens on ANF
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#AmigaFun IRC Channel Moved
The #AmigaFun IRC channel has moved.
You can find us on the following servers, now:
- showme.altnet.org
- ollingrock.altnet.org
- phoenix.altnet.org
- ie.altnet.org
- allpurpose.altnet.org
Always use port 6667 for the channel #AmigaFun.
IMPORTANT: don't write irc. in ahead. The above servers are
complete, simply use them as they are for addresses.
The #AmigaFun homepage has been enhanced and updated.
Most important: the help pages have been enhanced. In particular
the English help pages included many errors which now hopefully
have been fixed. Just drop in at the title link.
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13.Feb.2001
Amiga SDK
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Browser Survey
Amiga SDK is organizing a survey regarding your favourit browser.
AWeb, Internet Explorer, Lynx, IBrowse, Netscape, Voyager, Mozilla,
Opera, AMosaik, and "others" are nominated.
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13.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
VirusHelp Denmark announce that
version 14.9 of the virus detector ´Safe´ has been released.
Here are the data:
Name: Safe v14.9
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 20.936 Bytes
Date: 12. Februar 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: needs xvs.library v33.24
The famous car racing game XTreme Racing
including data disk is available for free download. The authors would be pleased with
15$, anyhow.
For a littel foretaste to the upcoming
GeoWorld update 13
Beer Productions publishe a preview, today. The next update in main will contain an
enhancement of the nature and climate data for the countries. Release of the update is
to expect for end of March 2001.
Version 1.1 of SweetKiSS is available for
download. Download: SweetKiSS_v_1_1.lha - 36 kB
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12.Feb.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Napster Must Not (Completely) Go Offline
»Though the music exchange service Napster must not completely go offline, but
has to stop illegal copying of copyrighted music. The court, which had to decide about
the injunction in the context of the music industry's claim against Napster, confirmed
this injunction meaning that Napster violated copyrights, but wants to have it changed.
Because this decision to take Napster offline completely would have overshot. According
to the current decision Napster has to stop the exchange of songs in the case of violation
of copyrights. Until the injunction got changed it was delayed. But in fact this is about
to withdraw Napster's foundation - except for they will come to terms with the owner of
the copyrights before the injunction becomes effective.«
Complete article to find under the title link (German).
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12.Feb.2001
Amiga Impact
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Survey: Elbox - Picasso96
You can find a survey about the subject Elbox and Picasso96 drivers at the title link.
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12.Feb.2001
Martin Merz at ANF
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MI News - FlagsMI
FlagsMI is now available on the Aminet. The archive contents country and
keymaps images in the GlowIcons design for the Locale and Input Prefs of OS
3.9. If you think any country is missing please contact
Martin Merz.
Download: FlagsMI.lha
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12.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha biz/dbase 115K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4d)
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 43K+Polish locale for AmigaOS 3.9 ver 1.1
StarBase_SCR.lha biz/dbase 116K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v4.0d)
BondsV180.lha biz/misc 1.4M+New Release of the german Stocks-Softwar
Spot_GR.lha comm/fido 8K+Greek locale catalog for Spot
amirsay.lha comm/irc 63K+Speech for AmIRC (Loads of settings) V5.
Babelfish.lha comm/irc 2K+Use Altavista's translating service from
mailscan.lha comm/mail 50K+V1.2 - Clearing not neccesary informatio
showmail.lha comm/mail 42K+Clear and show (with multiview) mail-fil
Sashi89.lha comm/misc 42K+Link software between TI calculator and
Spitfire2.lha comm/misc 779K+Palm Desktop for the Amiga!
nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 182K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
simplehtml.lha comm/www 32K+V0.14 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
TsHTML.lha comm/www 13K+Put archive info to html code/clipboard
Use_Paradise.lha demo/aga 1.9M+Paradise, 3rd at Ukonx Y2K
asmonev146.lha dev/asm 251K+680x0/6888x/68851 Macro Assembler
AsmPro.lha dev/asm 164K+Asm-Pro V1.16g mc680x0 macro assembler
BlitzLstJan01.lha dev/basic 61K+Blitz mailing list archives for January
FinExe_OS.lha dev/e 49K+FinalExecute Opensource
FamAmigaUses.lha docs/hyper 41K+A guide about famous Amiga uses!
WlkngWthGod.lha docs/misc 10K+Devotional, combining 3 essays
FA_Levels.lha game/2play 504K+Extra levels for Frontal Assault
FA_Levels2.lha game/2play 415K+Extra levels for Frontal Assault
FA_Music.lha game/2play 479K+Extra tunes for Frontal Assault
FA_Music2.lha game/2play 608K+Extra tunes for Frontal Assault
FA_Music3.lha game/2play 660K+Extra tunes for Frontal Assault
FrontalAssauSr.lha game/2play 475K+Source code to Frontal Assault
PaybackDemo.lha game/actio 2.8M+Payback playable demo
Blockoutlvs.lha game/data 8K+A hard Levelset for Blockout,for hard gu
MattoniteSrc.lha game/demo 14K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
Mattonite_Src.lha game/demo 15K+Source codes of Mattonite and MattoniteE
breakstuff.lha game/gag 132K+Simple Shoot'em Up
T-POT_G.lha game/jump 360K+4 Level Demo of 30 Level 2D Platformer
Dwarf.lha game/patch 70K+The Cheating Utility
Connect4.lha game/think 55K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
SoftCinema.lha gfx/show 398K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.11
yav171.lha gfx/show 396K+PowerPC support. Shows bitmap pictures o
cnetdevice.lha hard/drivr 147K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.6
imdbDiff010202.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
32bc_b-sides.mpg mods/32bit 8.9M+New 32bit release - the b-side
munsters.lha mods/chip 7K+Chipptune by iN7RUdER/SRH
bitmodules.lzh mods/misc 2.7M+4chan music by B.i.T
payday.lha mods/misc 23K+Mod by iN7RUdER/SRH **
rno-r056.lha mods/misc 133K+Rno-records release no.56 by Roz/rno (ho
ronoeroo.lha mods/misc 3K+Mod by iN7RUdER/SRH
24bcolor.lha mods/tranc 15K+Trancy mod by iN7RUdER/SRH
vdo_brig.lha mods/vdo 545K+Brightness & darkness [xm 32ch]
ghosttownrobe.lha mus/play 25K+Ghost Town robe for Prayer 2.x (emailwar
PlayGUIUpd.lha mus/play 22K+PlayGUI Update 3.a -> 3.b
Boxer.lha pix/anim 91K+Unbelievable anim of 2 simpsonlike boxer
MAM_Lemmings.lha pix/anim 117K+Unbelievable bloody anims of lemmings
warp.jpg pix/art 10K+Jpg picture made with fxPaint
STRICQ-Icon.lha pix/icon 7K+An OS 3.5 GlowIcon for STRICQ
AmigaJedi1.jpg pix/misc 89K+Photo 1 of personal Amiga
AmigaJedi2.jpg pix/misc 103K+Photo 2 of personal Amiga
AmigaJedi3.jpg pix/misc 70K+Photo 3 of personal Amiga
AmigaJedi4.jpg pix/misc 79K+Photo 4 of personal Amiga
AmigaJedi5.jpg pix/misc 93K+Photo 5 of personal Amiga
AudioMI.lha pix/misc 13K+A GlowIconsSet for AudioMaster 2k
FlagsMI.lha pix/misc 49K+GlowFlags for OS3.9 Locale and Input
S35i_Amiga.lha pix/misc 2K+2 AMIGA-Logos for Siemens S35i handy
WOA2000_01.jpg pix/misc 74K+Photo 1 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_02.jpg pix/misc 74K+Photo 2 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_03.jpg pix/misc 74K+Photo 3 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_04.jpg pix/misc 72K+Photo 4 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_05.jpg pix/misc 92K+Photo 5 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_06.jpg pix/misc 68K+Photo 6 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_07.jpg pix/misc 81K+Photo 7 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_08.jpg pix/misc 75K+Photo 8 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_09.jpg pix/misc 76K+Photo 9 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_10.jpg pix/misc 91K+Photo 10 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_11.jpg pix/misc 90K+Photo 11 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_12.jpg pix/misc 63K+Photo 12 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_13.jpg pix/misc 58K+Photo 13 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_14.jpg pix/misc 92K+Photo 14 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_15.jpg pix/misc 92K+Photo 15 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_16.jpg pix/misc 100K+Photo 16 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_17.jpg pix/misc 77K+Photo 17 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_18.jpg pix/misc 82K+Photo 18 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
WOA2000_19.jpg pix/misc 59K+Photo 19 World of Amiga 2000 K ln
OFS042.jpg pix/wfm 746K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS043.jpg pix/wfm 507K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
TheConqueror.lha pix/wfm 267K+2 new graphics tell the story.
DSLT02.lha text/print 28K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 02 v1.
MC_Print.lha text/print 126K+Prints labels for your audio cassettes
Matrix.lha util/blank 53K+DPMS Matrix screen blanker (v1.6)
RBBE.lha util/blank 148K+V1.0 - RainBoot Based Blanker Engine
LoadModule.lha util/boot 9K+Install Libs/Devs reset-proof, ROM-Updat
MuProtectModul.lha util/boot 111K+MuLib ROM Modules Write Protection
LatinMap.lha util/cdity 20K+Special Character Input (FREEWARE)
clip.lha util/cli 5K+Manipulate the clipboard from shell (w/s
akTIFF-PPC.lha util/dtype 95K+AkTIFF-dt PPC plugin V44.90
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
cvs-1.11.lha util/gnu 1.5M+Concurrent version control system
extralib.lha util/libs 179K+Dynamic buffers, useful stuff (german)
lucyplay.lha util/libs 20K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
zlib-library.lha util/libs 48K+Shared library for zlib-(de)compression
aplustech.lha util/misc 25K+Computer Tech Study Program
SnoopDos.lha util/moni 132K+SnoopDos 3.6, the well known system moni
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 253K+SnoopDos 3.6 sources
TimeGuardianGR.lha util/time 4K+Greek locale catalog for TimeGuardian
DeftoolManager.lha util/wb 19K+Changes the Default Tool of many icons q
MemoryRemV1-14.lha util/wb 63K+Clock-Replace, shows actual RAM, date
QuickLens.lha util/wb 7K+A quick lens, any OS, source included
WB2000_19.lha util/wb 1.0M+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
WB2000_NO.lha util/wb 6K+Norwegian catalog for Workbench2000 1.9
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Diverse Sources
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Software News
Andreas Kuerzinger announces that a
preview version of his icon-collection "AKIconzGold" is
now available at his website.
The icons are made of 32 colors and are based on an
expanded MagicWB and RomIcons colors.
Beside of many icons for directories and programs there is an icon for the new game
"Payback" available. There are also two Amiga-logos for
the Siemens S35i cell phone available for download in "S35i_Amiga".
Version 0.04a of WorkbenchOnWin
is now available for download. WorkbenchOnWin can
give every Windows-desktop the look&feel of an Amiga-workbench.
Download: wow.zip - 744 kB
Version 1.1.2 of MAMEgui released.
Download: MAMEgui_1.1.2.lha - 178 kB
Nicholai Benalal ported his PC-emulator
Bochs to
MorphOS.
Download: bochs.lha.
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12.Feb.2001
Amity
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Amity News
The maintainer of ´Amity´, Janne Peräaho, made some old C-16 sounds
available as mp3-files. The following sounds are
available:
- Daley Thompson's Start Events
- Jack Attack
- Punchy
- Exorcist
- Minipedes
- Tutti Frutti
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12.Feb.2001
Greg Donner
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AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ Updated
Greg Donner updated his AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ (compatibility list and undocumented features).
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11.Feb.2001
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Amiga Future now also in English
On the Amiga Future homepage an interview with the programmer of Workbench
2000 has been released today. The interview can be found in the section
INTERACTIVE of the homepage (was AKTION).
Besides, the Amiga Future homepage is available also in English from today on.
The homepage has been translated 'by hand', not using a translator tool. Of
course, there's an English version of the interview in the English part of the
Amiga Future available. There's also a poll on the English start page and much
more.
For expanding the English homepage the editorial staff is still looking for
users which could translate the German texts every 1 - 2 weeks into the English.
In the English section there are two buttons: the first stands for the normal
and very up-to-date news of the Amiga Future that are translated online into
English using a translator tool, and the second leads to "real" English news,
powered by BoingWorld.
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11.Feb.2001
V3Portal
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V³ v3.3.79beta
On 11. February 2001 Oliver Wagner has released the beta version
v3.3.79 of the web browser 'V³'. It contains bugfixes, improvements and
enhancements. For using this version a keyfile is needed. Besides this, Oliver
Wagner points out that it is a beta version that contains several bugs and so
mainly serves illustrating the actual state of development.
Compared against the version v3.3.75beta dated 4. February the following has
changed (among other things):
- Bugfix: A serious bug in the scanner caused all numeric
literals without decimal point interpreted as a 32 bit integer number, thus
forced also numeric literals not being integers into this format. For example
the initializing of the dates was affected.
- Bugfix: Prefs - When all cookies were deleted, this state wasn't saved thus
causing all cookies to be present again after a restart.
- New: JS - It is now possible to set form.target and form.action
[www.teleauskunft.de].
- New: JS - New functions: date.toLocaleString(), date.toUTCString(),
date.toGMTString(), date.getMilliseconds() and date.setMilliseconds().
- New: Layouter - support of percentage declaration within WIDTH and HEIGHT
of the IMG and EMBED tag.
- New: Layouter - supports now transparency in the background image.
- Change: General - workaround for erraneous URLs of the kind:
http://www.theviking.net?blah=blubb (e.g. missing '/' after the host).
- Change: Rexx - OpenURL was changed into LoadURL and the old OpenURL version
is used again. ARexx scripts and the openurl.library should now work.
- Change: Net - When following a redirect the GET command will now be sent
with the original URL as referer instead of the forwarding URL. This fixes
problems with scripts that check the refer and depend on the behaviour of the
MSIE [www.lycos.co.uk SMS service].
The complete list of the changes is content of the readme.
Download: v_33_beta79.lzx (803K),
Readme
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11.Feb.2001
CyberGFX
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SharkPPC Delayed
In the beginning of October 2000 Elbox announced the G3/G4
card 'SharkPPC'. As release date for the developer version the end of November
was named and for the user version it was January 2001. On the
Shark PPC price site
of Power Computing the end of June 2001 for the developer version and the second
half of 2001 for the user version are given as release dates.
Supplement 12.02.2001:
Today the completion date for SharkPPC G3/G4 on the SharkPPC site
of Power Computing was changed to the end of March 2001.
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11.Feb.2001
Patrick Henz on Metalmoon ML
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CD-ROM: Amiga Toons
This CD-Rom contains all the known Eric Schwartz animations but also images by other
Amiga artists. Besides that there's the Holiday Gallery that contains pretty
pictures for Eastern, Valentine's day, Christmas and Halloween. For users of OS
3.5 and 3.9 there's a directory with toony Glow Icons. Furthermore there are the
comic adventures of Sabrina Online and the Simpson edition of Monopoly.
The CD-Rom can be copied for free and you can receive it from FOM, paying 5,- DM or
2,50 Euro:
http://surf.to/fom/
fom@3pyramids.zzn.com
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10.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Version 2.54 of 'AWNPipe' has been released.
Download:
AWNP_2-54.lha -
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10.Feb.2001
Opera
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Browser: Opera 5 Beta 6 for Linux Released
A free version for Linux of the browser 'Opera' is available, now.
This version is for free, because it is sponsored by advertising banners.
Two versions, one for Intel and one for PowerPC, are available.
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10.Feb.2001
Photogenics
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CNet Review of the Linux Version of Photogenics
CNet has done a review of Photogenics 5.0 for Linux and gave the program 9 of 10 possible points.
"This is a must-have program for graphic designers and users who appreciate high-end graphics software".
The complete review is to find under the title link.
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10.Feb.2001
Jens Troeger on ANF
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New InstallerNG
I just uploaded a new version of ´InstallerNG´ to the support site.
There are some little function fixes and the "Cancel" button for copying
works proper now (of course better than in the old Installer, which cut short
installation immediately....). Have fun!
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10.Feb.2001
ToT
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Tales of Tamar News
Version v0.33 of Tales of Tamar is available for download for registered beta
testers. If you also would like to become an alpha / beta tester, please send
an e-mail to this
address.
The necessary documents then will be send to you promptly.
In version v0.33 trading for Tales of Tamar has been enabled. Hence trading between
an unlimited number of players is possible, for the first time. Type, number, and
price of a country's produced goods are defined by that country's natural resources.
Those natural resources are defined by the player's estate.
Thus estate in the mountains automatically produce goods different from estate e.g.
in the woods. It can be dealt in weapons, raw materials, mercenaries, herbage, corn,
and ships. But you only can deal with people already known by you or you got to know
from your scout on the map.
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09.Feb.2001
AmigaOS3.9 Mailing List
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First OS 3.9 Updates Available
The first OS3.9 updates are available on the Amiga OS3.9 homepage.
One is the ReAction based preferences program for Genesis, and the other
one an updated locale files. Almost all languages were updated and
completed. The new Genesis preferences has a complete ReAction interface
and does not require MUI, any longer.
Download:
GenesisPrefs.lha - 140 kB
Locale3_9.lha - 2,1 MB
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09.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
A new version of WB2000,
a Windows98 like taskbar, has been released.
Download: WB2000.lha
The A/NES website has moved and can now be found at
http://hem.passagen.se/anescgfx/.
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09.Feb.2001
Christian Effenberger on ANF
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Develop External Libraries for CanDo?
Hereby I offer all programmers a development kit which allows the creation
of external function libraries for CanDo.
The library support was written in SAS/C, but can be adapted to
Maxon or Storm with little effort. Both, synchronous as well as asynchronous
function execution (by sub-task), are possible. An example is included which
illustrates the way it works.
The library gets opened from CanDo by the command...
OpenLibrary {library name} [,{buffer name}]
...and...
result=CallLibrary(buffer name,function [,arg1,arg2,...,arg10])
...will call the function.
Asynchronously executed functions are caught by the object "ExternalEvent".
The entire documentation and all comments are written in English. The archive
(280 kb) can be requested from youcan@amclust.de.
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09.Feb.2001
Trogladite Software
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TrogSoft: New Amiga Software in Preparation
Trogladite Software announce miscellaneous new software products for Amiga
for which descriptions can be found under the title link.
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09.Feb.2001
Eyetech
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Eyetech AmigaOne 1200/4000 News
The FAQ on Eyetech's AmigaOne website was updated and it was confirmed
that Warp3D, which
was developed by the Frieden brothers and Sam Jordan, will be present on
the AmigaOne.
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09.Feb.2001
AmigArt
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AmigaOne on Official Turkish Coca-Cola Website
A correct and positive article about the AmigaOne and AmigaDE was published on the
official Turkish Coca-Cola website. The website contains Flash, so here's a
screenshot.
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09.Feb.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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New Drivers for NetBSD
NetBSD-current, the development branch of NetBSD, was extended with drivers
for some more ISDN cards.
Currently are supported:
- BSC ISDN Master 2092/64 (1)
- ITH ISDN Master II 5000/1 (1)
- VMC ISDN Blaster 5001/1 (1)
- BSC ISDN Master II 2092/64
- Zeus ISDN Link 2189/3
- Individual ISDN Surfer 4626/5
(1) also in NetBSD-1.5 + isdb4bsd
These drivers are in NetBSD-current and thus will be shipped in NetBSD-1.6.
Testers are asked to test the new drivers on their experimental machines (as
far as possible); production machines should still run NetBSD-1.5 (with the
isdn4bsd package if necessary).
More information:
NetBSD/Amiga
ISDN configuration
isdn4bsd
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08.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
LocalePL_OS39.lha biz/dbase 43K+Polish localization for AmigaOS 3.9
BondsV180.lha biz/misc 1.4M+New Release of the german Stocks-Softwar
mailscan.lha comm/mail 42K+V1.1 - Clearing not neccesary informatio
nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 182K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
simplehtml.lha comm/www 32K+V0.14 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
Use_Paradise.lha demo/aga 1.9M+Paradise, 3rd at Ukonx Y2K
AsmPro.lha dev/asm 164K+Asm-Pro V1.16g mc680x0 macro assembler
BlitzLstJan01.lha dev/basic 61K+Blitz mailing list archives for January
FamAmigaUses.lha docs/hyper 41K+A guide about famous Amiga uses!
SoftCinema.lha gfx/show 398K+Ultimate Movie Player (PPC) V0.11
cnetdevice.lha hard/drivr 147K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.6
S35i_Amiga.lha pix/misc 2K+2 AMIGA-Logos for Siemens S35i handy
Matrix.lha util/blank 53K+DPMS Matrix screen blanker (v1.6)
LoadModule.lha util/boot 9K+Install Libs/Devs reset-proof, ROM-Updat
MuProtectModul.lha util/boot 111K+MuLib ROM Modules Write Protection
clip.lha util/cli 5K+Manipulate the clipboard from shell (w/s
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
extralib.lha util/libs 179K+Dynamic buffers, useful stuff (german)
SnoopDos.lha util/moni 132K+SnoopDos 3.6, the well known system moni
SnoopDos_Src.lha util/moni 253K+SnoopDos 3.6 sources
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08.Feb.2001
Oliver Gantert on ANF
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Lucy's New Versions
lucyplay.libray 4.0 and Dwarf 0.50 now are available for download on my page.
The library offers functions for loading and playing samples (only WAV a.t.m.)
via AHI, joystick control via lowlevel.library, and a best mode function for
CyberGraphX/Picasso96 or AGA/ECS/OCS. Dwarf is a TrainerMaker or Cheater like utility.
Soon updates of my other programs will follow, too, e.g. Orbit, UnLZX, UnRAR, and
of course news about Drake!
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08.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Version 1.4 of the Palm desktop
Spitfire²
by Ralph Torchia has been released.
Download:
Spitfire2.lha - 779 kB
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08.Feb.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback Demo Available
Playing Payback the player takes the role of a young driver on the run and
in this tries to become a big ganster's boss. A demo version of the game
is available from today.
Download: PaybackDemo.lha - 2,94 MB
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08.Feb.2001
Boingworld
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Amigas at the NASA
Boingworld discoverd a website summarizing on what occasions the Amiga is utilized
by the NASA, this very day. Though this isn't new, it's very interesting.
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08.Feb.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing via eMail
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100%AMIGA CD Magazine Published
The new and English Amiga Magazine called '100%AMIGA CD MAGAZINE', which is published on
CD-ROM only, is available form the vendors, now. The CD-ROM has got it's own graphical
surface guiding you through the magazine. More information under the title link.
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08.Feb.2001
Bob Scharp via eMail
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St. Louis Show - Amiga2001
On 30 March 2001 the biggest Amiga show of America will start, the Amiga2001.
The show will take place in the Sheraton hotel, West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO.
The organizer Bob Scharp told us that there will be many high-lights and interesting
news on the show, and he is inviting everyone to still take care to get a ticket for
the banquette. You will find more information under the title link.
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08.Feb.2001
Steffen Haeuser on ANF
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OpenDivX for Amiga
After implementations of the "state-of-the-art" video codec 3ivX available for the Amiga,
another modern video codec will come to the Amiga. Within the following days the opendivx.library
will be released, a mixed-binary (WarpOS and 68k support) library capable of decoding and encoding
OpenDivX animations. Player support already will be available. The opendivx.library along with
developer information will be to find at Aminet.
Note: OpenDivX is not DivX :-) compatible, but it is possible to convert both of those similar formats
one into the other on a Windows machine.
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07.Feb.2001
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Software News
AudioLabs now offers ProStationAudio
bundeled with AudioLab16.
On the TFA Homepage
you will find a small status report about the development progress of the
'ASM-One' assembler.
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07.Feb.2001
Suite101
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New Article by John Chandler
After a longer break John Chandler at Suite101 wrote a new article titled
´This Is Reality Control´.
In his new column John Chandler deals with a new low-cost PPC computer.
This computer is about the
RealityStation by
Ideas2Reality.
This is a A500 like device at £300 with the following features:
- PowerPC (200 MHz)
- Graphic system (OpenGL compatible)
- 5 USB-Ports
- 2 Firewire-Ports
- 16 MB FlashROM
- DVD-Drive
- Optional harddrive
For operating systems QNX RTP and Linux will be utilized. But the
company also is interested in other operating systems and for this
hands over to third-party companies the system documentations.
More information can be taken form John Chandler's text under the
title link.
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07.Feb.2001
V³ Portal
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New Pages in the V³ Portal
Oliver Wagner generated
two new pages in the V3·Portal. One page shows a list of supported
JS objects, and
the other one gives an overview of the
Voyager-readme´s.
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07.Feb.2001
Markus Schmidt
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The ICQ User List has got a Forum, now
Since there are more and more registrations from people apparently not knowing
what ICQ is about, Markus Schmidt has set up a
forum which
hopefully will be used lively.
It is planned to create an ICQ-FAQ from the postings but at the time being
time and information to do that is missing. Thence all ICQ users (and such about to
become one) are asked to drop by time by time and use the forum.
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07.Feb.2001
Telepolis
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Telepolis: Online Readers Are Less Informed
»- and Less Controllable by the Editorial Staff
An investigation on different behavior in reading of print and online issues
of the NYTimes complains about missing visual indicators and detention to
pure value of the new inside online media.
How does on read news? Contrary to a newspaper, which is bought as a whole and normally
you run over the pages in part at least, whereby you possibly occasionally recognize
something you originally maybe didn't want to read, you single out much more when you
read online. But this maybe also would mean that little by little your point of view
takes in more and more, even more by personalized offers.«
You can find the complete article by Florian Roetzer under the title link (German).
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07.Feb.2001
Virus Help Denmark
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VirusHelp Denmark: Survey Changed once again
Since the survey by VirusHelp Denmark regarding the mostly used anti-virus program
didn't work 100% with every browser a new survey was set up, which hopefully works
now. Follow the title link to participate.
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07.Feb.2001
AOG on ANF
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AmigaOnlineGames
4 new games, Armour Geddon 2, Flight of the Instruder, Global Effect, and
Powerdrome, have been added to the list. Have a look at the download area,
too.
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07.Feb.2001
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga, Inc.: New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
February 06, 2001
Executive Update - St. Louis and Beyond
Greetings to the Amiga Family:
In Melbourne this last year, I was able to surprise many of you with several announcements that were unexpected, and we delivered on each of those.
Now we have a new show coming up in St. Louis. In a few weeks we will all learn...
Where is the AmigaOne? Will Cringley finally eat his words about a new Amiga? What about AmigaDE on PDA's, Set Top Boxes, Internet Appliances, or even desktops? Will Tom and Nicole stay together or is it over? Is there life for the AmigaOS after 3.9?
Contrary to the rumors and what many people are saying about our demise, or that we are going to have the same fate of the others before us, we have a big surprise for all of them.
I look forward to visiting with all of you in St. Louis, and I look forward to taking over the Hotel, and the surrounding area with the Amiga Spirit, and Community.
I hope to see many of you there.
There is still time, and in 6 weeks, it will all be known.
Bill McEwen, and the rest of the Amiga Team
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06.Feb.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Screenshots
On the Airsoft Softwair homepage just some snapshots have been
released at the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" section from
programs published on this CD-ROM e.g. Rainboot v3.1, the CD32 Games Install
Kit 4, and RB2Exe 1.2. There also is the high resolution 1600x1600x24 cover
designed by Pixel Art.
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06.Feb.2001
Ray McCarthy via eMail
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Kicksoft present at the alt.WoA
Kicksoft announce to attend the alt.WoA
Amiga show, which will take place in Huddersfield, England, on 24 February 2001.
Kicksoft on the occation of the show is organizing a
contest
in which you can participate online, too. 2 x Drawstudio 2 are to win.
Any one who has previously had problems with valid registrations of
GoldEd 6 from other companies are urged to get in contact with Kicksoft.
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06.Feb.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project!
In cooperation with Bernhard Lindner Amiga Arena makes possible a special price
for T.U.M.M.Y! which is a little specialized database managing a big base of cards
of the card-game collection Magic The Gathering (>6700 cards).
The program's particular fortitude are the extremely powerful search functions
allowing to search for any card by almost any criteria imaginable. Many
enhancements are planned for the future, but strongly depend on number of
registrations.
Amiga Arena - AmiAtlas Special Price Project!
Still until 28 February 2001 AmiAtlas is available for special price.
Andreas Regul did NOT stop development of AmiAtlas! (But he just cannot continue
development himself.) He still is looking for a programmer for further development.
Also hobby developers are addressed by this! If interested please mail to
olaf.koebnik@online-club.de.
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06.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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New Version of WorkON Released
There was a new version of WorkON released on my homepage to be found
in the Amiga/WorkON section. WorkON is a littel 'system enhancer' for
the AmigaOS. Though it is not in beta stage any more, it wasn't finished, yet.
The final version will be released on Aminet, soon. But interested people can
already download the archive now and send bug reports to me.
The new features:
- Many, many bugfixes.
- Now you can call Exchange and Shell from the menu.
- Config can be deleted and restored
- Extended languages for the WB-Help section.
- User path's can have names.
- New GUI and new images exclusively by Martin Merz (MIcons)!
- Archive functions enhanced.
- The HTML documentation has been reworked, too.
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06.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
At the time being all of the elder versions of ArtEffect can be updated to
version 4 at a low unique price from Haage&Partner.
ArtEffect 4 is a flexible and easy to use painting program for Amiga.
The AROS project's website has been updated.
You can read about progress in detail.
Harry "Piru" Sontonen
has made version 1.6 of his PCMCIA network card driver available for download.
Download:
cnetdevice.lha - 147 kB
Version 0.11 beta of the shareware video animation player
SoftCinema
is available for download.
Download:
SoftCinema.lha - 400 kB
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06.Feb.2001
Roland Wintgen via eMail
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Golem: PDA with AmigaOS Raising?
»Amiga is looking for software developers for PDA applications.
After the SDK's for Amiga's upcomming AmigaDE platforms are available
the company now is looking for programmers to develop organizer applications
for a possible PDA with AmigaOS. But Amiga still is keeping silence about
details on the type of PDA.«
You can find the full article under the title link (German).
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06.Feb.2001
Alfred Faust on ANF
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FinalExecute as Open Source
By order of my son Matthias I've uploaded the last version of
the popular FinalExecute to AMINET including source code.
The source code is available for free, all rights remain with the
author. By doing this Matthias finally says good by to the AMIGA.
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06.Feb.2001
Sascha Koebner on ANF
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SPIEGEL: Jenny E. of the New Economy
In the current issue of the SPIEGEL (German magazine), in the context of
an article about the shady scheming of the former hacker Kim "Kimble"
Schmitz, on page 128 the following sentence is written:
"Already as a teenager Schmitz realized that one can do much more than
just playing "Pac-Man" with an Amiga computer. Pretendedly he invaded
the secure systems of the NASA, Pentagon, and Citibank. Soon he got the
aura to be a computer genius. But this version is vehemently mistrusted inside
the hacker scene."
A very interesting article making clear that genius and (megalo)mania
are very close neighbours.
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05.Feb.2001
Boingworld
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Desktop Replacement for Windows
The program "WorkbenchOnWin" (only 364kB) makes it easy to give every
Windows-Desktop the look'n feel of an Amiga-Workbench. The topical version is an
early alpha version and no emulation of an Amiga.
Download: wow.zip
I am very keen on the future versions. With some knowledge of the Windows
registry it is possible to completely replace the Windows-Desktop.
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05.Feb.2001
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ALD - We have a Winner!
As promised, the one who makes the 600. entry for the ALD, will get the game "Simon
the Sorcerer II". Now, we have a winner:
Mario Schroeder
Congratulations!
We are very happy about the great number of new entries and we are hoping that
this will go on :-).
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05.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DOpusCfg.lha biz/dopus 66K+DOpus4.x configuration V1.67, many featu
amirsay.lha comm/irc 58K+Speech for AmIRC (Loads of settings)
mailscan.lha comm/mail 41K+Clearing not neccesary information from
TruncateMail.lha comm/mail 10K+Removes unnecessary parts from e-mail fi
Sashi89.lha comm/misc 13K+Link software between TI calculator and
USE-Jam.lha demo/aga 1.6M+Jam by Universe! Winner demo at RTSY-99!
USE_Jam.lha demo/aga 1.7M+Jam, winner AGA demo at RTSY-99
8051.lha dev/cross 23K+An 8051 disassembler
Compact.lha disk/cdrom 870K+Very professional Amiga CDDA player 1.40
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 23K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Aakt0201GFX.lha docs/mags 305K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0201GUIDE.lha docs/mags 82K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0201HTML.lha docs/mags 257K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
nse1m1demo.lha game/data 403K+'Walkthrough' demo to Navy Seals
nsealsndfix.lha game/data 10K+Quake Navy Seal sound fix
bansheehd.lha game/patch 91K+HD Installer for Banshee V3.0
jst.lha game/patch 185K+JOTD Startup for HD Installs & Degrader
klaxhd.lha game/patch 7K+HD Installer & fix for Klax v1.2 (2 vers
sb2hd.lha game/patch 53K+HD Installer for Speedball 2 & fix V1.4
zoolcd32hd.lha game/patch 26K+HD-Installer for Zool CD32 V1.0
ADoom-1.3.lha game/shoot 426K+Amiga port of DOOM v1.3
ADoom_src-1.3.lha game/shoot 533K+Source code of Amiga port of DOOM v1.3
save_png.lha gfx/ifx 2K+Save files in png format. use in AutoFX
imdbDiff010126.lha misc/imdb 1.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
aztechrobe.lha mus/play 49K+Aztech Robe for Prayer 2.x (fixed archiv
nasciturusrobe.lha mus/play 56K+Nasciturus Robe for Prayer 2.x (fixed ar
Mac2PC.jpg pix/illu 140K+Mac-PC incompatibility a mere memory
MSDOS4.jpg pix/illu 180K+MS-DOS 4.0 original disk
MSWord2.jpg pix/illu 176K+Word 2.0 original disk
padilla.mpg pix/mpg 2.3M+Television commercial made with AMIGA
alba.lha util/boot 56K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
ToolsDaemon22.lha util/boot 15K+Patches for ToolsDaemon to work with OS
akJFIF-dt.lha util/dtype 232K+AkJFIF-dt V44.90 (JPEG, 68000-060, PPC/W
akJFIF-PPC.lha util/dtype 56K+AkJFIF-dt PPC plugin V44.90 (JPEG)
akPNG-dt.lha util/dtype 247K+AkPNG-dt V44.90 (PNG, 68000-060, PPC/WOS
akPNG-PPC.lha util/dtype 79K+AkPNG-dt PPC plugin V44.90
cvs-1.11.lha util/gnu 1.5M+Concurrent version control system
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 51K+Creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.14a)
LastGuru.lha util/wb 40K+V1.1 - Show requester with last logged g
VisualPrefs_DE.lha util/wb 59K+German catalog and guide for VisualPrefs
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05.Feb.2001
Diverse Sources
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Software News
Bright Light Software release a
new beta version 0.61 of Audiomaster2k by Frank Fenn.
Download: audiomaster2k.lha
- 246 kB
AmiSectorOne made some
elder games available for download again. For example Megaball has been added.
Antony announces that he is
still working on version two of 'Charon', a download manager.
The Dynamite-Website announces
that the Bomberman/Dynablaster-clone 'Dynamite' is still beta.
There is a new alpha version of the e-mail client SimpleMail available at
SimpleMail.
The mail-client has many new features, for example SMTP-Auth, and a
Forward-button.
Download: simplemail.lzx
- 92 kB
A new version of SimpleHTML, a offline reader for HTML-pages, by Sebastian
Bauer is available here.
Download:
simplehtml.lzx
- 30 kB
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05.Feb.2001
BBoAH
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'The Big Book of Amiga Hardware' Update
'The Big Book of Amiga Hardware' has some new and updated informations about
Amiga hardware.
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05.Feb.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Issue #6 of PLANET Amiga Released
Issue #6 of the french printmagazin 'PLANET amiga' were published. The 40
pages contains news about software, hardware and games; many test, for example
AMP2, Perfect Paint, OS3.9, Diavolo Backup 2000, Mediator 1200, Punchinello
MK2 and Powerflyer; and an interview with Bill McEwen.
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04.Feb.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Alpha Testers Wanted for 'Anim Maker'
'Anim Maker' is a software that makes it easy to create Anime animations. This
software is currently in early alpha stage and testers are wanted.
The testing will be held as some kind of competition. The 10 best alpha testers
get the possibility to become beta testers and the best beta tester will get the
software for free.
Minimum system configuration is an Amiga with cpu 68020+, AGA, MUI V3, toolbar.mcc
and some amount of memory.
Interested people may write to tumanyan@mail.ru.
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04.Feb.2001
Fun Time World
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EASys! Patch 4.8.4 Version 2
On 3. February 2001 a second patch for EASys! V4.8.4 has been released - the
first patch has to be installed before. Before installing the readme file should
be read.
The download of the patches is possible via the
service packs
page of EASys!.
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04.Feb.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Olaf Koebnik wrote:
Full version: Burnout - The Car Bashing Game
The Amiga Arena presents 'Burnout' by Mark Sheeky as free download.
System: AGA, MC68020+,~4MB Fast, 7 MB HD
Burnout has been published by Vulcan Software since 1996 and is freeware, now.
The developer, Mark Sheeky from Scorpions Software, has given the permission to
me to make 'Burnout' available for free download in the Amiga Arena.
In Burnout you have to try to defeat the enemies in the arenas with your car.
Special thanks go to: Juergen Beck from 'Back to the Roots', who made the disk
version available to me.
Further information in the section
Full versions in the Amiga Arena.
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04.Feb.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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GFX Lists Reworked
The lists of games and demos supporting GFX cards has been largely reworked. The
games entries are now subdivide to categories of name, genre, and - if possible -
size, download link, and URL. The demo entries now give also information whether
the demo runs on 68k, PPC or on both CPU's. Additionally the list has grown
strong because of the help of the Amiga users. Richard would be happy, if
still more entries would be contributed to the CPU list.
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04.Feb.2001
Mark Reestman on ANF
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ASM-Pro v1.16h + Source Code
On 4. February 2001 Mark Reestman has released the version v1.16h of the
assembler 'Asm-Pro' inclusive the source code. The bugfixes and enhancements can
be taken from the history.
Download:
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04.Feb.2001
amigagames on ANF
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Gameicons.info Extended
GameIcons.info has been extended with more than 100 new AmigaOS V3.5 icons for
Amiga games.
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04.Feb.2001
Olaf Köbnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Olaf Koebnik wrote:
Amiga Arena - offline
During the last days I couldn't dial up my provider so no updates were possible.
I hope that all runs as usual now .
Amiga Arena - redesign
The link collection in the Amiga Arena has been restructured and in the future
there'll be more ratings and info to be found.
Amiga Arena - UAC full versions
The strategy game "Belagerung", for two players,
is available for free download as is a tools collection.
- WorkbenchPictureSwitcher -
changes the background picture after every boot.
- Transformer -
for converting of binary, hexadecimal and decimal.
- SaverSave -
protection against memory and delete access on files.
- Jingle Machine -
managing and playing of jingles.
These are programs had been published in 1995 as shareware and are freeware now.
Amiga Arena - announcement
I hope to be able to offer special discount actions soon again.
For the time being I have the promise of two further developers of actual
shareware.
I hope you continue to make use of this possibility to register shareware
software for a special low price.
The special discount actions are no matter of course and I hope to be able to
still offer such in the future.
Amiga Arena full version
Talks about further full versions are in progress.
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04.Feb.2001
Thomas Eichler (E.T.)
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Programmers Wanted
Thomas Eichler (E.T.) wrote:
First, greetings to the community!
This way, I'm looking for 2-3 experienced C/C++
programmers on Amiga for our team. We want to produce a realtime strategy game, for now
exclusively for Amiga (PPC and AmigaDE).
Conversions for Playstation 2, Dreamcast and Nintendo are planned
(depending on getting a licence of the respective producer).
Interested people may apply here
via email.
A small description of existing programming experience would be advantageous.
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04.Feb.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Rumors about AmigaZone are Not the Truth
Harv Laser wrote, he was adviced to rumors from unknwon sources saying that his
online service "AmigaZone" would vanish. He puts theses rumors an end and
declares that AmigaZone will not disappear. AmigaZone, he wrote, is quite
healthy, works and serves its members, as it has been doing since 1985.
Supplement 02-04-2001:
Further information on this topic
have been released on ANN (Christian Kemp).
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04.Feb.2001
V3Portal
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V³ 3.3.75beta Released
There has been a new beta version 3.3.75 released for the version3 of the Amiga
browser "Voyager".
Information about this new beta are contained in the release note.
Among other things it is pointed out that the versions of the image decoders of
this new version are not downward compatible with older versions.
Download: v_33_beta75.lzx (945K)
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03.Feb.2001
Stephan Rupprecht
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Image2Icon
On Stephan Rupprecht's homepage there is a new version of his program 'Image2icon'
available for download, with which you can create thumbnail-icons from pictures.
Download:
Image2Icon.lha - 52 kB
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03.Feb.2001
Sven Droege on ANF
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Bonds V1.80 Available
The complete release of the current version of the stock exchange software
is available on the homepage and at Aminet from now on.
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03.Feb.2001
ANN
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Other Companies copy Amiga's and TAO's Ideas
Hendrik Mikael Kristensen
worte on ANN that on the pages of the Danish news service
SOL.dk his attention was called to the fact
that possibly other companies are desirous of copying Amiga's idea of the
"write once - run everywhere" philosophy, thus pushing Amiga out of the market even before
they get in there.
The article is talking about QualComm trying
to create a standard operating system called BREW[TM], Binary Runtime Environment,
to be used on cell phones. If you take away Wireless you (almost) have what
TAO Group is doing.
Due to QualComm's particulars this works with every device equipped with their DMA chipsets.
BREW[TM] sits between the chip system software and the application allowing programmers
to let their applications access the cell phone's functionality without having the
chip system source code or a relationship with a handset manufacturer.
QualComm want to electronically certify all BREW[TM] programs before they can run on
consumer products and ask a fee from every of those spreading such programs (cell phone
companies). Hendrik thinks this might be indicating how important this technology
will be for the future.
Read the complete article under the title link.
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02.Feb.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
TBol2DEMO.lha biz/demo 94K+V2.3.0 Material receipt program,(BOLLE M
YahooGpScan1_1.lha comm/mail 5K+Strips YahooGroup adverts. V1.1
nc_update_beta.lha comm/news 182K+NewsCoaster FULL VERSION, but beta (v1.3
WOC.lha demo/file 413K+World of Commodore (preview)
MWI-Overview04.lha demo/slide 2.5M+OVERVIEW #04 - party slideshow by Madwiz
MWI-Overview05.lha demo/slide 2.9M+OVERVIEW #05 - party slideshow by Madwiz
up-ep005.lha demo/sound 909K+UP ROUGH "Lowtech EP" feat. Qwan
up-ep006.lha demo/sound 1.2M+UP ROUGH "Technical Knockout EP" feat. E
AmiReadMeGen.lha dev/misc 281K+A GUI for Generating Aminet ReadMe files
RoboDocBuilder.lha dev/misc 213K+A GUI for the robodoc program.
HowToReAction.lha dev/src 15K+ReAction GUI with ReActor
TimedSerial.lha dev/src 14K+Serial I/O functions that time-out. Sour
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 646K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 01/
cd32outside3.lha docs/mags 679K+CD32 Outside No.3 - German CD32 magazine
mc0301.lha docs/mags 251K+German Metal Mag in HTML - March 2001 Is
up-herth.lha docs/misc 240K+Up Rough "The Hermano Theory" ascii by S
JP_Spider_1.2.lha game/board 173K+Solitaire Card Game, V1.20
A_Sweeper_NI4D.lha game/think 13K+Graphic set for A_Sweeper V1.05+ (NI4)
FlashMandelPPC.lha gfx/fract 50K+The best fractal rendering program for A
GVPIOPrefsFix.lha hard/drivr 11K+Fixes GVPSerial prefs for higher screen
SSOpticalPatch.lha misc/emu 3K+ShapeShifter patch for optical drives
SpaTra04.lha misc/misc 116K+Spanish Translations Pack 04 v0.7
up-crstl.lha mods/chip 3K+UP ROUGH "THX.crystal_cracktro" by Skope
np_chemg.lha mods/misc 919K+Noyz Phaktah '002 - Chemical Graveyard b
rno-r055.lha mods/misc 204K+Rno-records release no.55 by Lcr/Reason
andimeanit.mpg mods/mpg 9.0M+Minimal/exp/ambient composition for elec
wormhole.lha mods/techn 237K+Acid-Techno (OMSS) by Mippydi
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 49K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
Base64.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S
Base64Skin.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S
Normalize.lha mus/misc 325K+Adjust volume of WAV files, v0.4
Skin64.lha mus/misc 43K+Hot!! AmigaAmp 64Colored Original Base S
bluerobe.lha mus/play 65K+Blue Robe for Prayer 2.x (fixed version)
sg-strip_4.lha pix/misc 47K+[ancor] strip 4 of StarGround
sg-strip_5.lha pix/misc 42K+[ancor] strip 5 of StarGround
stipe.mpg pix/mpg 16K+Mpeg anima 250x100x60
WtchngSnsets.lha pix/wfm 169K+Watching Sunsets; Artwork&Literature
unpacker.lha util/arc 21K+GUI for CLI based unpackers (LHA...)
BlazeWCP.lha util/boot 31K+ULTRA FAST 32bit C2P patch for OS chunky
ToolsDaemon22.lha util/boot 5K+Patches for ToolsDaemon to work with OS
MMULib.lha util/libs 579K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
MuMin.lha util/libs 53K+Minimal MuLib archive for redistribution
zlib-library.lha util/libs 83K+Shared library for zlib-(de)compression
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 299K+Report+ 4.23: Multipurpose utility
SuperToto_New.lha util/misc 298K+Program TotoGol & TotoCalcio (only italy
68040Lib.lha util/sys 290K+A MuLib aware 68040.library, 68030.libra
Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v14.8 - virus dicovering system
lastguru.lha util/wb 39K+Show requester with last logged guru mes
VisualPrefs_DE.lha util/wb 59K+German catalog and guide forVisualPrefs
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Miscellaneous
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Software News
DirOpus 4.15g (beta) is available for download on Jacek Rzeuskis'
DirOpus support site. Download:
DOpus4beta.lzx - 320 kB
At J.F. Fabre's homepage you'll find
version 4.5c of his HD installer program 'JST', which makes many disk games
startable from harddisk. Download:
jst.lha
Thomas Wenzel has updated his AmigaAMP FAQ.
Microcode Solutions
announces once more the completion of iFusion.
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02.Feb.2001
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet 41 CD-ROM Available
Since today, the new Aminet CD-ROM 41 is available from dealers. The Aminet CD 41 -
February 2001 - contains more than 800 MB (uncompressed) of software in almost
a thousand archives. Since Aminet CD 40, numerous MB of news have been added. As
a special highlight, the Aminet 41 contains the full version of the beat'em up game
Capital Punishment.
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02.Feb.2001
Jens Larsson via eMail
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Unmoderated News at boingworld.com
This morning we activated the first test of our unmoderated news posting!
This means ANYONE can post news directly to Boingworld
for immediate display on the main page! The usual top left icon of the newsitem
will though be an "Unmoderated Icon" and the news item will only be visible for
the people that have chosen to activate this in their prefs.
We (the editors) will of course delete or moderate the postings asap.
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02.Feb.2001
Christoph Dietz
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Interview with Patrick Roberts
Christoph Dietz has done an interview with the programmer of 'zAMilo', the HTTP server
which runs on test.amigadev.net:
Amiga-News: Hello Patrick, can you describe yourself?
Patrick Roberts: Age: 32, Born: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Profession: Digital Effects Supervisor. I'm currently freelance and start a film for Dreamworks in a few weeks.
Amiga-News: What is your background whith Amiga?
Patrick Roberts: I started in 1987 with a dorm-mate's A1000, then got my own A500 shortly after. As next came an A3000, and now the AmigaDE. Before Amiga, I had a C=64, Vic-20, and used to program on a PET at a local library.
Amiga-News: I can't find a program from you on Aminet. Don't you released programs for the "classic" Amiga?
Patrick Roberts: The only programs I released for the Classic were some Playstation utilities - but did so anonymously to avoid any problems with Sony. (wotizpsx, tmd2lwo, and psximgtls)
Amiga-News: When and why did you start development for AmigaDE?
Patrick Roberts: I think it was last August. Right after the SDK 1.0 was released for Linux.
Amiga-News: We can see one of your products running on test.amigadev.net. It's the webserver. Did you use an existing webserver to port to AmigaDE or is this a complete new httpd?
Patrick Roberts: "zAMilo" was written from scratch, but was inspired by a micro-http server released by Ericsson for their mobile phones. I wanted to create a very small HTTP server for the AmigaDE that could be used for configuring an embedded system with a web browser. I'd like to someday use a browser on my PC to serve my VCR, tell my coffee maker when to have a cup ready for me in the morning, etc...
Amiga-News: What does "zAMIlo" stand for?
Patrick Roberts: The Ericsson server is called 'zilo', so for proper respects I kept their name and added in the standard Amiga "AM".
Amiga-News: What is the roadmap for this product?
Patrick Roberts: As I get time I want to add basic CGI and SSI support. I'm not sure beyond that.
Amiga-News: Is this your only project for AmigaDE?
Patrick Roberts: No ;P And that's one of my problems... not enough time for all of them :) Here's a list of my projects that are available from the Amigadev.net FTP archive:
- Artix Nettext (toollib)
- Artix Systools (toollib)
- Etick (Graphical Ticker app)
- zAMilo (web server)
- forecast (world-wide weather reports)
- AmiFlag (Minesweeper type game)
- cnvtools (convert image and audio formats)
- Elate-Winease (GUI management C header library)
- memmon (Machine-languge monitor)
Here's what's in the works:
- Artix Gfxtools (toollib)
- vIcons (Vector based icon toollib)
- madplay (port of MP3 player)
Amiga-News: What do you miss most in the AmigaSDK?
Patrick Roberts: Hmmm...hard question to answer since I know it will eventually exist, but: Hardware 3D graphics support Good text editor like nedit
Amiga-News: Are you using the AmigaSDK for Linux or Windows?
Patrick Roberts: I have both versions for testing, but I mainly use the Linux SDK.
Amiga-News: Do you think that OS4.0 for the classic Amiga's is needed?
Patrick Roberts: I don't have a classic any more (I own one, but have loaned it to a friend). I'm mainly looking forward to AmigaDE commercial release, but it would be nice if Amiga would continue to support all the classic users.
Amiga-News: You know about the amiga community. How do you think about it?
Patrick Roberts: I'm always amazed with the knowledge level of the Amiga community. I really happy to be a part of a community with so many geniuses that I can learn from.
Amiga-News: Your "last words" to our readers?
Patrick Roberts: All of us can make it happen!
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02.Feb.2001
Fun Time World
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Fore-Matt: New Amiga Magazine on CD-ROM
The English software dealer 'Fore-Matt' has published a new Amiga magazine.
It will be distributed on CD-ROM under the name '100% Amiga'. The CD-ROM will
feature an own user interface
to guide the reader through the magazine.
The magazine will be published monthly.
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02.Feb.2001
Oliver Roberts
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WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 Released
Oliver Roberts' WarpPNG.datatype version 44.11 has been released on the 1st of
February. The PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) is freeware.
Download: WarpPNGdt.lha - 133 kB
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02.Feb.2001
Gary Peake via eMail
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Amiga is Looking For Developers for PDA Applications
Gary Peake wrote:
Hello,
Several weeks ago, I promised you some exciting
announcements. As the first of those, I would like
to introduce Matt Fontenot, Amiga's Product
Manager.
Matt has been with us from the beginning and while
you may not have met him yet, he has been working
closely with many of our third party partners and
has been busy creating many new products, as you
will soon see.
Now for the announcement:
There is tremendous potential for distribution of
your applications, games and other content for one
of the world's largest manufacturers of PDA
hardware. The projection is for more than 7
million units to be sold by the end of 2001 and
there are already several million units on the
market at this time. There will be specific
requirements as far as style, type of
applications, distribution rights and
certification of content. Matt will have more
details on this in the near future.
If you are interested in developing PDA
applications and games for a specific manufacturer
who will use Amiga Inc. for content delivery,
please contact Matt as soon as possible. This is
a serious project for those with an interest in
providing content and we will open a new mailing
list for it - the particulars will be announced in
a few days.
This project is for both open source and
commercial content providers, so no matter what
your choice of development is, you are cordially
invited to apply. To get further details, though,
you must have a signed NDA on file with Amiga.
You can get an NDA form from
www.amigadev.net under the legal menu,
right hand menu bar.
Just fill it out and fax it to my attention at 425-396-5671. Then
send an e-mail to projects@amiga.com that says "I am
interested." You can also contact Gary at
gary@amiga.com or Matt at matt@amiga.com
Sincerely,
Gary Peake
Matt Fontenot
Suplement:
Amiga, Inc. asks you not to send the above mentioned e-mail to projects@amiga.com, but to add
your e-mail address at the bottom of this
original message and
then to send it in using the "I am interested!" button.
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02.Feb.2001
Thomas Wolf on ANF
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New AmigaLinkPage Goes into Test Stage
Amigakult.de goes into test stage. AmigaKult.de is a link page sorted by topics.
Every Amiga homepage, no matter whether private or commercial, can be listed
for free.
The aim is to become one of the most comprehensive link pages for the Amiga.
Please be patient if your page is listed some days after you submited it
as all pages are verified. Thomas Wolf will appreciate your help.
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02.Feb.2001
Harry 'Piru' Sintonen
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New Exec V44.1 Public Beta2 and New MapROM
Harry ´Piru´ Sintonen has made version 44.1 beta2 of
Exec available for download as a public beta on his webpage. It is a
non-official Exec version which is according to the author more
optimized and faster than the official version. Use at your own risk.
Also, Piru has released version 1.24beta6 of his MapROM tool ´BlizKick´
for phase5/DCE processor boards.
Download:
exec44_1_beta2.lha - 56 kB
BlizKick.lha - 247 kB
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01.Feb.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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New NetBSD Amiga Drivers
Drivers for Individual Computer's "ISDN Surfer" and Zeus Development's "ISDN Link".
The NetBSD Amiga driver for the Siemens ISDN chip-set got support for two more cards for the Zorro-bus
added.
- Individual Computer "ISDN Surfer", id 4626/5
- Zeus Development "ISDN Link", id 2189/3
Up to now already supported:
- BSC ISDN Master 2092/64
- ITH ISDN Master II 5000/1
- VMC ISDN Blaster 5001/1
The interrupt level for the ISDN Surfer is software managed, other cards must be
switched to IPL 2 by jumper setting.
Closer information about the isdn4bsd configuration are to find inside of the included
electronic manual pages (man isdnd) and
here.
Those drivers as well as the entire ISDN sub-system are content of NetBSD-current,
the development part of NetBSD, and will occur in the NetBSD-1.6 release. External testers
are asked to run a release of the 1.5 part until 1.6 has been published; for 1.5 the last
released isdn4bsd-0.96_BETA is available as additional
package (but without drivers for ISDN Surfer or ISDN Link).
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01.Feb.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Survey
At VirusHelp Denmark a survey regarding your favourite anti-virus program is taking place.
[News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 21:41] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2001
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The 600th wins
Shortly we will have 600 entry's in our "Amiga Link Directory".
For us it is a pleasure and the reason to give away one copy of
the game "Simon the sorcerer II" to the person whomes website will make
the 600th entry.
Of course also for this reason our policy to become part of the ALD
will be the same as ever. It's not possible to get an entry if you're
simply having an Amiga at home. To make an entry in the ALD your website must
concentrate on the Amiga subject, (too). E.g. presentation of programs,
developments or your own Amiga computer.
Telling us about your website will not automatically qualify for an entry.
Until the winner was determined no new entered websites will be published
in the ALD to prevent somebody from waiting for #599.
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01.Feb.2001
Virtual Dimension
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Virtual Dimension 10th Anniversary!
Yesterday was a day to party for Virtual Dimension: their 10th anniversary!
To duly celebrate this you will happen to see several things from VD during the year.
At first there is the show-video from the World of Amiga in Cologne, which
unfortunately took some more time to be finished this year due to technical
problems - but meantime the time is right for VD to go to the studios for
speech sampling.
Congratulations to the Virtual Dimension team :-)
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01.Feb.2001
Mark Wilson via eMail
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AmiBench News
Because of fresh server problems AmiBench isn't accessible at the
used address. Currently you can visit AmiBench at this URL:
http://amibench.shagged.org.
The problem should be fixed during the next few days.
[News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 17:45] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2001
AmigArt
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Report+ Version 4.23 Released
Report+ is one of those small but very useful programs to make user's life
easier. With Report+ you can easily create bug reports, Aminet readmes,
documentantions and similar reports. The program is freeware and basing
on ReAction and GadTools.
- It is an enhanced, reverse-engineered, 100% byte-compatible
replacement for the official Commodore bug reporting tool (40.2).
- It can generate Aminet-style readmes.
- It can administer the Amiga Certified Software Engineer 1.1 test.
- It can generate C-style autodocs.
- It can access the official manufacturer and product ID registries.
- It can access the official IFF FORM registry.
- It can convert between various end-of-line (EOL) formats, optionally
also detabulating.
- It can show directory byte usage for any path.
- It can edit A3000/A4000-type battery-backed memory.
- It can check your OS3.1/3.5/3.9 installation for missing or surplus
files.
Download: report.lha
[News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 13:40] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2001
AmigaSDK
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AmigaSDK Survey
At AmigaSDK.com the news all round the new Amiga source currently
there is a survey regarding your favourite news page online.
[News message: 01. Feb. 2001, 13:12] [Comments: 0]
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01.Feb.2001
Eyetech Group Ltd
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Eyetech Online Ordering now with SSL
The British vendor Eyetech Group Ltd. as enlarged their online ordering system
with SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to take care for the transfer of sensible data like
credit card numbers.
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01.Feb.2001
Albrecht Kinzkofer on ANF
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PicassoIV / ZorroIII Survey Project
- Who has got a ZorroIII Amiga A3000(T) or A4000(T) and a PicassoIV
graphics board and can use the PicassoIV only if it was
"forced" to ZorroII mode via jumper setting (Zorro auto detect off)?
- Who has got an A4000 with DMA capable SCSI card or an A4000T and
an elder PicassoIV with "bridge version $1" (see P4Info-Output),
running the PicassoIV trouble-less in ZorroIII mode (WITHOUT the ZorroII jumper set)?
Does one of the above apply to you? Then write to me! Contact address:
Albrecht Kinzkofer.
List as much details as possible about your Amiga hardware, even if it seems to be
unimportant:
Which model, when did you purchase it, which CPU board, which expansion boards,
which modifications done, which RAM equipment, "Buster revision, P4Info-Output, etc.
I have got such a ZorroIII problem and I'm working on a solution and looking
for "companions in trouble". If I was able to solve this problem
(assumedly by replacing two socket chips), I would try to help others concerned
(e.g. by centralized buying).
At the time being I'm doing some "basic research", hence write to me if one of
the above terms apply to you. Thank you very much. Albrecht Kinzkofer
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01.Feb.2001
Deftone on ANF
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Future of SMSEngineerMUI?
The program SMSEngineerMUI (SMS = Short Message Service) for sending
short mails to cell phones is to be enhanced. On the BlitzEngineers website
for this there currently is a survey online. In participating this survey
you can co-decide about how the future of SMSEngineer would look like and
what should be further implemented. The authors would be happy about every
participant.
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01.Feb.2001
SimonII
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SimonII Update 5
Update 5 for Simon the Sorcerer II is available now and should
fix the known sound and timig problems. But Paul Burkey urgently
suggests to install the game new, cause update 4 might have smashed
some of the data in the ´data/voices´ directory.
Download: Simon2Upd5.lha - 525 kB
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31.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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Safe Version 14.8 Released
VirusHelp Denmark announced the release of version 14.8 of the virus detector
Safe. The detector finds viruses, but cannot remove these!
Name: Safe v14.8
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 20.878 Bytes
Date: 31. Januar 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Needs xvs.library v33.24
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31.Jan.2001
Sven Droege on ANF
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Update of the Stock Exchange Software Bonds
Bonds is a financial software fitted for share management.
The software is in especially fitted for the financial market of Germany and
best handles shares traded within Germany.
Another update of Bonds will be released on weekend. Several small enhancements
have been implemented, again some bugs were fixed. New is a version check via
the Internet. The import filters have been reworked, a new filter allows to
import stock quotation data from www.stockwatch.de, where historic quotations for
German shares are to find.
Work on the depot manager proceeds, a finished version is expected for the next
weeks. Also the manual in PDF format is about to take shape, so the users will
have a properly manual at hand in the future.
[News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 18:56] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2001
Ray McCarthy via eMail
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KickSoft Established
The Kickstart Amiga Group have established a seperate website under
www.kicksoft.co.uk for sale of software.
On this site users can purchase commercial high-quality shareware software using their credit card.
At the opening there are 2 x DrawStudio2 for win in a contest.
[News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 18:49] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Shared ZLib-Library for PPC
At the Aminet there now is a shared library for the popular ZLib compression (gzip)
running on 68k as well as under WarpOS! The archive can be downloaded from Aminet
under
util/libs/zlib-library.lha.
The library is freeware, source code and developer stuff for the StormC compiler are
included for interested people.
I would be pleased if the library were supported by Xarc programmers and others.
According to the PPC used speed can reach about 5 MB/s (unpacking) or 1 MB/s (!!, packing)
at packing rates up to 75% (text)!
The zlib.library also will be utilized in the new version of Digital Almanac III, cause
this will give executables about 30kB smaller than before.
[News message: 31. Jan. 2001, 13:32] [Comments: 0]
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31.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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GFX Lists Update
Thanks to the help of many Amiga users the lists with Amiga games and demos
supporting graphics boards could be enlarged with many entries. The layout
of this site was enhanced and designed more predictable, too.
Moreover there is a new list on the site (Amiga section) listing programs
supporting multiple CPU's (on installation). Since one often doesn't remember
which programs offer an optimized version e.g. for the 060 after the computer
was accelerated this list might be helpful.
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31.Jan.2001
Apex Designs
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Payback in Progress
In the current status report #18 Apex Designs announced that the new game
'Payback' will be in trade in about two weeks. At the same time a playable
demo version will be made available for download.
In an interview with the Amiga-Future the programmer James Daniels described
Payback as follows:
"The player takes the part of young driver on the run and tries to become a
big gangsters' boss. The game is completely non-linear. To finish a level
the player simply has to collect a certain amount of points. How to achieve
this is up to him-/herself.
You can act on the local Kingpins' advice, uncover secret missions or join a
gunfight. There are a lot of hidden surprises to discover, so one must play the
game several times to find all of the extras. The game was inspired by Grand Theft Auto,
but I invested much effort into the game to make sure it will lick GTA in all respects."
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31.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Met@box in the Deep Red
»Sometimes things come more worse than expected: Recently in September
last year the Met@box AG from Hildesheim, Germany, announced to incur a loss
of around 15 Mio DM in the business year, instead of realizing profit. Now the
manufacturer of set-top boxes notified a loss of about 19 Mio DM.
According to preliminary calculations volume of sales was at 50 Mio DM the company
disclosed on this Tuesday.«
More details under the title link (German).
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31.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Golem: Sega Knells the End of Dreamcast
»After rumours around the end of the Dreamcast console looped the loop
during last days Sega now puts an end to speculations. In the context of a
corporate reorganisation the former Japanese video game giant wants to
focus on video games contents in the future.«
More details under the title link (German).
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30.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
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FSCP_Txt.lha biz/dbase 61K+Farscape StarBase-Text (51)
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tummy_060.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
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pmDevBas.lha dev/basic 112K+Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic
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adasrc1.lha dev/src 7K+Collection of simple Ada-Sources
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FBlitGuideGR.lha docs/hyper 26K+Greek translation of FBlit.guide (v3.73)
FSCP_Gde.lha docs/hyper 59K+Farscape Guide (51)
stccg.lha docs/hyper 1.7M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
Aminet-CD-40.lha docs/lists 28K+Aminet CD 40 index and description
AaktInt0101.lha docs/mags 206K+International infotainment magazine
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JumpingAround.lha game/demo 277K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Mattonite.lha game/demo 258K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
amicheats.lha game/hint 3.1M+28, Jan. 2001 HTML mirror of Ami Cheats
gse.lha game/patch 17K+Editor for Gunship2000 roster files
Tintin.lha game/role 356K+Tintin++ MUD Client, v1.84
TinyFugue.lha game/role 350K+TinyFugue MUD Client, v4.0s1
TinyMUSH3.lha game/role 1.1M+TinyMUSH v3 MUSH (MUD) Server for Amiga
Connect4.lha game/think 52K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
skulpt_060.lha gfx/3d 1.0M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 604K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
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skulpt_scn.lha gfx/3d 1.5M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 227K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
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FlashMandel.lha gfx/fract 4.1M+The best fractal rendering program for A
imaged.lha gfx/misc 136K+Add your own description to images ! (v2
vPNG.lha gfx/show 10K+Fast 68k PNG pictures viewer
IOBlixUsr.lha hard/drivr 294K+V37.17, IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 673K+V1.59 PSX MemoryCard Reader
TestGear3.lha hard/hack 262K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
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ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 136K+V0.78 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 75K+V0.78 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ShapeShiftr311.lha misc/emu 281K+Macintosh II emulator, V3.11
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ChemicalDB.lha misc/sci 79K+Periodic system with detailed infos
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alba.lha util/boot 56K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
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GhostBuster.lha util/cdity 10K+Commodity useful for people playing audi
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vPNGdt.lha util/dtype 10K+Fast 68k PNG datatype
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pmlib.lha util/libs 26K+PopupMenu.library for 68000 (.library on
pmlib020.lha util/libs 25K+PopupMenu.library for 68020 (.library on
pmlib040.lha util/libs 25K+PopupMenu.library for 68040 (.library on
pmlib060.lha util/libs 25K+PopupMenu.library for 68060 (.library on
pmuser.lha util/libs 52K+PopupMenu.library V10.8.6
tmathtrans.lha util/libs 2K+Faster FPU mathtrans.library v43.6b
Calculator.lha util/misc 28K+Fully functional scientific calculator
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 297K+Report+ 4.22: Multipurpose utility
WriteKickDisk.lha util/misc 11K+Makes Kickstart disk from ROM image
aibbcsppc_mos.lha util/moni 1K+AIBB module for CyberStormPPC604/233MHz
idle.lha util/moni 19K+A (working) cpu monitor
ral3p7.lha util/rexx 60K+RexxArpLib.library - open up some OS fun
ral3p7all.lha util/rexx 398K+RexxArpLib.library - open up some OS fun
rxmui.lha util/rexx 384K+RxMUI - MUI GUIs in ARexx macros
TransPrefs22_N.lha util/sys 5K+Norwegian catalog for TranslatorPrefs 2.
Safe.lha util/virus 20K+Safe v14.7 - virus dicovering system
choowin.lha util/wb 17K+Window activation utility
coolCalc_sk.lha util/wb 48K+2 new skins for CoolCalc
Easyreset.lha util/wb 12K+EasyReset - system reset utility
FinalExe_NO.lha util/wb 3K+Norwegian catalog for FinalExecute 1.2
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 58K+Creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.13a)
mainprefs.lha util/wb 66K+OS 3.5,3.9 Preferences GUI
RxTD.lha util/wb 32K+V1.2, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon prefs converter
VisualPrefs_PL.lha util/wb 10K+VisualPrefs: Polish catalog
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30.Jan.2001
Steffen Haeuser on ANF
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Descent 2 Port for Amiga
Some time ago I've started a Descent 2 port for the Amiga
(WarpUP and 68k version). Unfortunately I'm not able to
finish this port due to lack of time, cause among other things
I'm working on commercial games for the Amiga :-).
(And these are yet more important than porting an old game).
An interested programmer who would like to finish this port
may contact me at any time and receive the current source code.
Current stage:
- Crashes on leaving (and sometimes also on leaving a level,
I guess memory freed twice)
- Warp3D support comes miscoloured (but software renderer works)
- Network support doesn't work
- In case of the "Bobbing Movement" I'm not sure, if it looks like
it should do.
- Still a lot of debug output inside of the source
- Cockpit isn't displayed correctly
The code was compiled with StromC-gcc or gcc-WarpOS.
Contact:
Steffen Haeuser
SteffenH@hyperion-software.de
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30.Jan.2001
Amiga Impact
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Aliendesign with New URL
The website of Aliendesign (MCP, Scalos, and Repulse sound card) is accessible
under http://www.aliendesign-gbr.de/
from now on.
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30.Jan.2001
CGX
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CGX News
This site is a must if you would like to be informed about news all around
graphics boards.
- There is a small poll at the time being about which graphics boards Mediator should support.
- Steffen Haeuser is cited from a news group posting:
"Due to missing documentations there will not be any 3D hardware driver or Voodoo5."
- Elbox renewed the driver archive with MediatorUP 1.6, cause there was a mistake in
the old one.
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30.Jan.2001
Amiga Fire
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Amiga Fire Looking for Editors
The Amiga online magazine 'Amiga Fire' is looking for support by
people wanting to write news, previews, and reviews about Amiga games
for the magazine. If you are interested, contact
rune.keller@amigafire.com.
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30.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Forbidden to Despair ;-)
»Who wants to vent one's displeasure by the emoticon :-( risks a draconian punishment.
Wrongdoers have to write a thousand times: ":-( is a registered trademark of Despair, Inc.".
Albeit the punishment claimed already indicates the satiric character of this action –
reality beggars all presiflage. The Despair company
really has booked the trademark ":-(" – in dependence on the smiley ":-)"
pronounced as frowny – at the US patent office
in 1998. And the office in point of fact
granted this
application in May 2000.«
Complete article under the title link (German).
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30.Jan.2001
Crystal Interactive Software
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Poll by Chrystal Interactive Software
Crystal Interactive Software is a marketing company for games software (e.g. Bubble Heroes).
To be able to better estimate which genre is in demand a poll has been started in which
you can participate under the title link. JavaScript[TM] must be enabled.
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30.Jan.2001
Jan Devos via eMail
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3ivx, Ready for Global Television!
The video compression format '3ivX' is now officially implemented in
MooVId and
SoftCinema.
At the request of a reader here a link to a
3ivX test-movies page.
Following the complete press release:
January 29, 2001- Happy Machines releases the second preview of their
next generation video compression technology called 3ivx. Small file
size and high quality video is one part of the 3ivx advantages, the
other one is the truly multi-platform nature. This is great for video
conferencing, video-on-demand, broadband content providing,
interactive television but also for UMTS (or G3 mobile phones)
implementations.
True mutli-platform support means that it is available for
Windows: Windows Media Player plug-in or QuickTime plug-in
MacOS: QuickTime plug-in
Linux (x86, PPC) & Solaris: XAnim
BeOS: Media Player plug-in
Amiga: WarpUP (MooVId for 68k & PPC) and PowerUP (SoftCinema)
The decoder is available on the site
right now. For the moment,
however, the encoder is reserved for 3ivx partners.
"Quality and multi-platform is one thing, but particularly important
for the movie studios is encryption, watermarking and Digital Rights
Management" said Jan Devos, President of Happy Machines. "That's why
we made sure our 3ivx codec is standard compatible with most of the
encryption and DRM systems available"
"I was amazed by the quality" explained Mr. Alan Redhouse, Chairman
of the Eyetech Group.
"That's why we are bundling this codec with our
next generation AmigaOne hardware".
The current release is 5 to 20% better than the most efficient codecs
out there. In comparison with MPEG-2 that means a ratio of 1:12 while
near DVD quality. This indicates that the 3ivx video codec, while
still in development, is already one of the best.
There is a lot of interest in such a high performance codec. The 3
million page views on the 3ivx.com web-site after the first preview
release in December show that very well.
Happy Machines also referred to as the Think-Tank is a small Belgian
company representing an extremely creative team and a large
international network of inventors, software and hardware developers,
designers in various fields such as imaging, satellite
communications, artificial intelligence, machinery etc., which has
contacts with top-manufacturers worldwide. The company is also member
of the MPEG-group and is an Inmarsat partner. It is orientated on
project development and related intellectual properties.
Press Contact:
Happy Machines
+32-3-2816858
pr@3ivx.com
http://www.3ivx.com/pr/
© 2001 Happy Machines n.v.
3ivx is an international trademark
Jan Devos - Happy Machines n.v. - ICQ:4477062
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30.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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More Details on zAMilo
As already reported, "AmigaDE zAMilo V0.098" is running as http server on a test server at Amiga, Inc.. Christoph Dietz has asked Gary Peake and Götz Ohnesorge for more information about the http server 'zaMilo' utilized on test.amigadev.net:
Amiga-News: Hello Gary and Götz! It came to our attention that the webserver on test.amigadev.net is running an zAMilo. The testpage tells that the server is installed since november. Did you install it?
Gary Peake: Yes, we installed it here at Amiga Inc. on our Linux based servers running the Amiga SDK.
Amiga-News: On which OS is the system running? AmigaDE isn't running native, is it?
Gary Peake: We run Red Hat on the servers. AmigaSDK is being hosted there. zAMilo runs on AmigaSDK.
Amiga-News: What does "zAMilo" stand for? Is it a mixed up akronym for "Mozila" (with an "l" missing.)
Götz Ohnesorge: "zAMilo" is a http server written by Patrick Roberts from Atrix. You can find more about it in the programs readme:
"zAMilo is a mini-http server. The compiled lite binary is less that 4k and is very fast. It was inspired by zilo by Stefan Hellkvist which was created by Ericsson to run on their mobile phones.
zAMilo serves simple http GET requests, which is enough for most sites. It also has the ability to serve the stdout of any other tool as an html document. In this way it emulates rsh via http."
Amiga-News: The server was down on friday. Did it crash because of the attention it got? Or was it only deactivated for maintenence?
Gary Peake: We are doing a lot of changing to our servers at the moment and had to take it down for a bit. It will be up and down for the next week or two as we shift some things around.
Amiga-News: Thank you Gary and Götz for this informations!
Contact Information Amiga Inc.
World Headquarter
AMIGA, Inc.
34935 SE Douglas Street
Suite 210
Snoqualmie, WA 98065 (USA)
Phone +1-425-396-5660
Fax. +1-425-396-5671
email: gary@amiga.com
WWW: Amiga Inc.
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30.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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GFX Lists
On my homepage there are two lists showing an overview of Amiga games
ad scene demos running on graphics boards. I would be happy to be able
to continue the lists with support of the Amiga users. Moreover there
are 12 new skins for CoolCALC on my homepage and some news on
programs planned.
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30.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Head of Gateway Resigns
After Gateway beeing in the deep red
in 4Q/2000 Jeff Weitzen, chairman of the board of management of the PC manufacturer,
resigns. Ted Waitt, president of management, who founded Gateway in 1985, will line
up for succession.
More details are to find under title link in the official
press release from Gateway.
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30.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Chip: Napster to be Subscription Service in Summer
»The Bertelsmann e-commerce group (BeCG) wants to attach fees for the use of
the music exchange Napster from June or July, according to what the head of
Bertelsmann, Thomas Middelhoff, said.«
More details under the title link (German).
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30.Jan.2001
Goetz Ohnesorge via eMail
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New Amiga Emulation Mailing List
Since a couple of days there is a new mailing list 'Amiga-Emulation'
on Gary Peake's OWLNET.net-Server. Who wants to subscirbe may send a
mail to majordomo@owlnet.net
with subscribe emulation in the body of the mail (text field).
The mailing lists 'Team Amiga Mailing List', 'Sofa-list', 'STRICQ-list',
and 'Arexx-list' are also hosted there. More information are to find
in the Mailing Lists section under the title link.
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30.Jan.2001
Juergen Theiner on ANF
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Play!Amiga Needs Your Help
Soon the reworked version of Play!Amiga shall go online.
There are some data from Amiga users still missing! Please,
send the titles of three of your favourit games as soon as possible to
Juergen Theiner for creating
a chart list.
Very important: a ',Fist Aid Database' with tips and trick all around
installation and running of games is to be created. If you have a hint such as,
"to insall the game XY first you have to manually set the assign 'XY'",
please sent it quick. Thank you very much for your help.
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30.Jan.2001
Mikael 'XtaL' Fors on ANF
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GameSpy Interview with Bill McEwen
James Hill from Gamespy, Inc., the popular game portal, has done an interview
with Bill McEwen. Read this interview under the title link.
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29.Jan.2001
Horst Diebel on ANF
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Big Book of Amiga Hardware updated
'Big Book of Amiga Hardware' was updated. There are 20 more or less big
changes and additions. To be up-to-date Ian is always looking for new pictures and
informations! It would be grate if some of you could mail new material to
Ian (german or english).
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29.Jan.2001
Brad Webb via eMail
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Amiga Update - January 2001 Newsletter
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A L T . W O A I N H U D D E R S F I E L D U K
A M I G A 2 0 0 1 I N S T . L O U I S U S A
C S & E L A T E S T P U B L I C A T I O N N E W S
M A K E T O O L S D A E M O N W O R K W I T H 3 . 9
A M I G A Z O N E L O G O G O O D S
N E W M E D I A T O R N E T . D E V I C E R E L E A S E D
P U R E B A S I C 2 . 0 0 F R O M F A N T A I S I E
N E W S K U L P T V E R S I O N A V A I L A B L E
S E R V I C E M A N A G E R F O R F R E E
N E W S T O R M C D E V E L O P E R S ' P A C K A G E
V A P O R W A R E ' S M F T P I I 1 . 2 I S O U T
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
Over on Amiga.org, there's a lot of talk the last day or two about a
new "Coldfire" processor model from Motorola. Pegged at 100% 68060
compatible and running at 300Mhz, it's generating a lot of excitement
from Classic Amiga users. As nearly as we can tell, this isn't all
that new news, seeming to go back originally to an article that
appeared in "EE Times" on October 17 last.
Whatever the case, does it really matter? We don't think so. The
future of the Amiga is the new DE. The old 68K market is almost dead.
All you need do is look at "Amiga Update". We've cut back to monthly,
and the issues are smaller, because there just isn't much Amiga news
any longer (we could run more articles by reporting on announced plans
to develop software, or alpha releases, but we prefer to wait until
there's a reasonably finished product). Until the DE is really
established and growing, that's the way it will be.
Even if there's somebody left to make boards for the new chip, all it
will run is the older software. It might be handy for compatibility as
an add-on board for new DE based machines, but we really doubt that's
going to happen.
Now, if there'd been a fast, truly compatible Coldfire chip a couple
of years ago ...
Other Amigans are justifiably concerned about the persistent rumors
of money problems at Amiga Inc. We've been concerned as well. However,
we're not ready to panic and write them off. The collapse of the .com
investment market has made coming up with cash difficult for all
startups. But, as MooBunny reported recently after talking with Bill
McEwen, Amiga claims it's not failing to meet obligations and has
products ready to go, unlike the .coms which died. That may make all
the difference in the world, as long as Amiga can promote them and
sell some. The fact that they apparently can't afford to attend key
trade shows is quite worrisome, but doesn't necessarily signal the end
of the world. As we've said often, time will tell.
Meanwhile, there is still news in the Amiga community, as you can see
below. It's mostly positive news, and we hope you enjoy it.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:
26 Dec 2000
If possible, in a future newsletter, I'd like to see any info that
might be available concerning someo of the great Amiga software
products which seem to have dropped off the "Radar" during the last
few years.
Products such as the SuperBase database (Still the best database I've
ever used), Final Writer from Softwood (Again, the Best word processor
I've ever used), etc.
Are these products going to be part of the New Amiga? What happened
to them?
For instance, I read a report somewhere that the person who owned
SuperBAse had died and that his widow now owns the rights, but is Not
in a position, either financially or professionally, to do anything
with those rights. True? False? Is there a "White Knight" software
firm which could bring the product back??
Thanks for a great newsletter.
Jerry
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Jerry,
We'd love to run such information, and will if we get any stories or
press releases that cover these products. SuperBase - most recently
SBase 4 Pro or Personal - is still the database manager I use when I
want to get real work done. At last year's Amiga show in St. Louis, it
was possible to pick up an update disk from the current owner of the
software rights. Since then, I've not heard a word.
Brad
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A L T . W O A I N H U D D E R S F I E L D U K
This forthcoming Amiga show will be held on Saturday 24th February
2001 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Doors open at 12.00 noon and the
show closes at 5.00pm
The show is presented by the Huddersfield Amiga User Group (HAUG),
co-sponsored by Eyetech and in conjunction with Wirenet
The venue for alt.WoA is The Old Cornmill on the outskirts of
Huddersfield. This location is less than one minutes drive from
Junction 25 of the M62 Motorway. There is an onsite large free Car
Park and the Hotel boasts both Restaurant and Bar Facilities.
There is public transport access by Rail to Dewsbury then taking a
bus from Dewsbury Bus Station for Brighouse (via Clifton.). Buses run
every half an hour on the day of the show.
For those interested in accomodation for the Saturday night, pay a
visit to the website of CreativeTown.com for details of hotels and
guest houses in the area.
Exhibitors
o Eyetech Group
o Wirenet
o Classic Amiga
o Cartridge Club UK
o Forematt Computing
o Ram Jam Consultants
o Weird Science
o Epic Direct
o Trogladite Software
A number of Amiga User Groups are attending the show:-
o Huddersfield Amiga Users Group
o SEAL
o The Amibench Team
o Kickstart Amiga Users Group
o Amiga North Thames
o Glasgow Amiga User Group
http://www.alt-woa.org
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A M I G A 2 0 0 1 I N S T . L O U I S U S A
26 January, 2001
Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey - Friday March 30 through Sunday April
1, 2001 Sheraton at West Port-Chalet, St. Louis, MO. USA
Here are the latest highlights of the US's largest Amiga show.
Cloanto is coming! They've never appeared at the Amiga show here
before - making this a first! They will be exhibiting their latest
release of Amiga Forever: The Amiga emulator for Windows and
Macintosh. This cool piece of software allows you to actually run most
Amiga software titles on Windows or Macintosh computers.
Our friends at individual computers will be coming over from Europe
and will exhibiting and selling their unique lines of expansion
hardware for the Amiga.
Eric Schwartz, highly regarded Amiga artist and luminary will be
exhibiting and showing his wares at the Ami-Tech Dayton Amiga Users
Group booth. Eric is the creator of Amy the Squirrel, the cartoon
mascot of the Amiga, and the online comic Sabrina.
We're also excited to announce that Charles Marks, the well known and
noted artist of Claw Marks Productions is coming from Jonesboro
Arkansas. He will exhibit and sell lithographs of St. Louis and is
helping design the special Amiga 2001 show shirt that will be
available for sale at the show.
Confirmed exhibitors and name guests include: Amiga, FWD Computing,
Merlancia Industries, CompuQuick Media Center, Dan's Deals, Cloanto,
individual computers, Gateway Amiga Club Inc., Bounce-back Videos,
Amigan-St. Louis, G & G Publishing, Mr. Hardware, Jurgen Haage of
Haage and Partner, PC Journal, Brewster Productions, AmiTech Dayton
Amiga Users Group, AmigActive Magazine, Nova Design, Northwest Amiga
Group, Charles Marks, More exhibitors are being added each week, so
check the web site.
We also plan to have several exciting surprises - so don't miss out
on this show!
Specially priced tickets are available in advance by mail.
Two day admission tickets.....$17.
One day admission ticket......$12.
If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices are as
follows:
Two day ticket at the door....$20
One day ticket at the door... $15
Persons holding advance tickets will have a special line to reduce
waiting. No check(s) should be mailed later than March 10th or there
is a chance that they will not arrive at our office by the 17th, in
time for processing for the show and return to you by first class
mail.
Please note that we will accept one check for Admission and Banquet
tickets. Banquet price is $35 per person. Seminars are free. First
come, first serve. No reservations on seminars. Only classes are
ticketed.
Make your check or money order payable to "Amigan-St. Louis" Send
checks for admission and banquet* tickets to:
Amigan St. Louis
c/o Amiga 2K
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
http://www.amiga-stl.com
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C S & E L A T E S T P U B L I C A T I O N N E W S
27 January, 2001
CS&E Media is a not for profit division of Crystal Software and
Electronics Ltd, set up to provide a street publication for Oxford and
raise money for the homeless and underprivileged. With the lack of
advertising opportunities in the Amiga market, and our decision to
leave games publishing on this format, we are also pleased to be
supporting the Amiga and its companies with the first mass market
English language publication since Amiga Format. As fans of the format
we are offering our time for free and also hope to raise some money
for charity at the same time.
Currently European Amiga companies are starved of professional
advertising opportunities. Not only can we offer the highest quality
(as you can see from the attached previews), but also the best value
due to offering free distribution, using an international printer, and
of course being a not for profit organisation.
Amiga Survivor offers a captive audience of buyers, not browsers,
with English language copies being distributed for free across Europe
to customers who spend money either on the coverdisk or with one of
our distributors. Our distributors include Eyetech and Power who take
6,000 alone, but distribution is spread across Europe via the likes of
GTI and Amiga Future also. There are over 30 user groups and smaller
companies who are also distributors.
A coverdisk at 3.99 a month will see the likes of Max Rally, Cosmo's
Fun Class, Quake and Capital Punishment.
You can order a subscription directly from CS&E at
http://www.pc-software.com/store.html . We are currently operating a
special offer whereby you can claim a free trial by credit card over
the Internet or for 1 pound by cheque. Go to
http://www.pc-software.com/store.html and enter your details as usual
on the secure server, but you will not be billed and one issue will be
sent out with a note asking for your decision. This store is specially
set up not to charge the card, but of course regular subscriptions
will shortly be available at http://www.amigasurvivor.com .
Contact csande@csande.com if you have any questions or want to
provide your details by e-mail.
Due to the ever growing circulation figures, which now includes wide
arrangements in Germany in particular, we will be putting the
advertising rates up from Issue 10. These only reflect the costs of
printing all the new issues. Special offers still apply if you book
from Issue 9 which is coming out next week. You can find the old
advertising rates which still apply for a few days at
http://www.amigasurvivor.com . Look out for a website update very
shortly.
Due to the high entry costs to the market, Crystal Software and
Electronics has made a strategic retreat from retail publishing and is
now looking to work with more established publishers in this field, at
least for the time being. Development is coming along well with many
developers benefiting from our input into adding 'marketability' to
their creativity, and securing successful distribution deals.
Work is continuing on the http://www.pc-software.com website where we
will offer flexible pricing models such as pay-per-play and
rent-to-own on all titles. Several rent-to-own games and the
pc-software.com website will be included with each retail product.
David Connolly
Managing Director
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum
Oxford Business Park
Oxford
OX4 2JZ
http://www.csande.co.uk
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M A K E T O O L S D A E M O N W O R K W I T H 3 . 9
{One of the few real complaints about Amiga OS 3.9 is the failure of
the very popular program ToolsDaemon to work with it. ToolsDaemon is
among the best of the third party utilities available to add items to
the Workbench's pulldown menus. This freeware utility fixes the
problem and is simple to install. We've used it here and wouldn't be
without it. You can find it on Aminet. Brad}
Short: V1.0, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon prefs converter
Author: johnallan@forceofnature.f9.co.uk (John Nelson)
Uploader: johnallan@forceofnature.f9.co.uk (John Nelson)
Version: 1.0
Type: util/wb
Requires: OS3.9 (V45+), ToolsPrefs (From ToolsDaemon)
OVERVIEW
Converts ToolsDaemon prefs file into an Arexx script to add the
menus to os3.9 in a system legal way.
As a new legal version of a ToolsDaemon-type util (with pretty
prefs:)) is being worked on I don`t think this collection of scripts
will be developed much b4 they are replaced by an all in one
solution.
FEATURES
· Uses the nice simple ToolsPrefs
· Multiple selected files (including 'leftout' files)
· Multiple commands
· Hotkeys (set in ToolsPrefs... so it must have a menu item)
CHANGES
v1.0 - 11 January 2001
First public release
v0.4 - Last tested beta, this and the ones b4 are documented in the
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A M I G A Z O N E L O G O G O O D S
19 Jan 2001
{Perhaps our shortest press release ever, from the irascible Harv
Laser, long time Amiga GoodGuy and founder of the AmigaZone. Brad}
NEW! Buy Official AmigaZone Logo goods at:
http://www.cafepress.com/amigazone
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N E W M E D I A T O R N E T . D E V I C E R E L E A S E D
26 January 2001
Elbox Computer has released today a new version (1.2) of
MediatorNET.device for Mediator PCI for PCI Ethernet network cards.
The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several
PCI Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted with the Mediator PCI busboard.
Support of New Style Device (NSD) has been added and operation
procedures have been optimised in order to reach the maximum transfer
performance.
MediatorNET.device is a Sana-2 standard driver. This driver is
compatible with all the Amiga TCP/IP software packages which can
access a Sana-2 driver (e.g. Miami, MiamiDx, Genesis and AmiTCP).
PCI Ethernet network cards installed in Mediator PCI are the fastest
and the most cost-effective network cards for Amiga computers at the
moment.
Elbox Computer is offering PCI Ethernet cards with the following
parameters:
* RTL8029AS PCI local bus 32-bit single-chip Ethernet controller
* 16K byte SRAM built in
* Compliance with PCI V2.1
* Compliance with Ethernet II and IEEE802.3 10Base5, 10Base2, 10BaseT
* Support for the Full-Duplex function to double channel bandwidth
(20Mbps)
* Support for Flow Control (802.3x) to improve network performance in
the full-duplex mode
* Built-in data prefetch function to improve performance
* Built-in 10BaseT transceiver
* Auto-detect capability between the integrated 10BaseT transceiver
and AUI
* BNC and RJ-45 wiring connectors
* One LED on bracket providing LINK indicators
Suggested street price for PCI Ethernet card: EUR 25.00
Why do you need a network card in Amiga?
The ethernet card enables connecting Amiga with other computers.
With such a connection you may have access to the Internet with a
modem (regular modem, ISDN, SDI or commuted access) installed in
another computer.
With the SAMBA package (www.amigasamba.org), you may use resources
(files, printers, etc.) of computers working under Windows 9x, Windows
NT, DOS, OS/2 or UNIX connected in one network.
When you install 2 network cards in your computer and use support for
multiple interfaces available in the MiamiDx package
(www.nordicglobal.com), you may use a PPP dial-up line and an Ethernet
network connection at the same time; also, you may exchange data
between different networks. MiamiDx is also offering the opportunity
of protection networks by way of a built-in firewall.
Unofficial e-group on MEDIATOR:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Amiga-Mediator
For subscribe mailto:Amiga-Mediator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
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P U R E B A S I C 2 . 0 0 F R O M F A N T A I S I E
20 January, 2001
PureBasic is a new "high level" programming language based on
established BASIC rules. It is compatible with any other BASIC
compiler, whether its for the Amiga or PC format. Learning PureBasic
is very easy! PureBasic has been created for beginner and expert
alike. Compilation time is really fast. We have put a lot of effort
into its realization to produce a fast, reliable and system friendly
language.
The syntax is easy and the possibilities are huge with the "advanced"
functions that have been added to this language like pointers,
structures, procedures, dynamically linked lists and much more. For
the experienced coder there are no problems gaining access to any of
the legal OS structures or API objects.
PureBasic is a portable programming langage which currently work on
AmigaOS (680x0 and PowerPC) and Windows computer systems. This means
than a same code can be compiled natively for the both OS and use the
full power of each. There is no bottlenecks like a virtual machine or
a code translator, the generated code is an producing an optimized
executable. The external libraries are fully written in hand optimized
assembler, which produce very fast commands often much faster than
C/C++ equivalent.
The main features of PureBasic:
- Built-in arrays, dynamically linked lists, complex structures,
pointers and variable definitions
- Supported types: Byte (8 bits), Word (16 bits), Long (32 bits),
Float (32 bits) and also user defined (structures)
- Built-in string types (characters)
- Constants, binary and hexadecimal numbers supported
- Expression reducer by grouping constants and numeric numbers
together
- Standard arithmetic support in respect of sign priority and
parenthesis: +, -, /, *, and, or, lsl, asl, lsr, asr
- Very fast compilation
- Procedure support for structured programming with local and global
variables
- All Standard BASIC keywords: If-Else-EndIf, Repeat-Until, etc
- External library support to manipulate objects like BMP pictures,
windows, gadgets, DirectX, etc
- External libraries are fully written in hand optimized assembler
for maximum speed and compactness
- The Win32 and AmigaOS API are fully supported as if they were BASIC
keywords
- Assembler Inline
- Precompiled structures with constants files for extra fast
compilation
- Configurable CLI compiler
- System friendly, easy to install and to use
For 2.00:
About the compiler:
* Completely rewritten !
* Now, it's 4 to 7 times faster to compile
* Faster procedure handling
* Multi-dimensionned arrays are now supported
* Residents are now saved/loaded in one file
* PowerPC code have been removed (nobody want it ?)
* Some bugs have been fixed
* The switch MC68020 have been added to the command line
About the PureLibraries:
* Rewritten the Sprite library (50% faster) and added several
commands: SaveSprites(), LoadSprites(), RemoveCookie(),
FlushSprite(), SpriteHandle(), CopySprite(), GrabSprite()
* Added 'DisableDebugger' and 'EnableDebugger' to disable the
debugger for some part within a program.
* Added the debugger support for Sprite, Joypad, Chunky and
Sound libraries.
* Added the following commands: Processor(), MMU(), FPU(),
RectsHit(), Hex(), Bin().
* Fixed some commands: ListIndex(), FontID(), DrawingFont()
About the editor:
* Added a keyboard shortcut to close the error window.
Misc (Full version only):
* SpriteGrabber (Allows to get sprites from a picture)
* OpenPureBasic (C/C++ -> PureBasic convertor)
http://www.purebasic.com
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N E W S K U L P T V E R S I O N A V A I L A B L E
20 January, 2001
New version of sKulpt released
sKulpt is the successor of legendary 3D software "Sculpt Animate
3D/4D" by Eric Graham and Byte By Byte. The raytracing program used to
have many fans for years, because it was easy to use, good value for
money and efficiency. In amateur and professional circles many
pictures have been created with this software. The successor sKulpt
wird will be completely develloped by CdBSSoftware, and already
supports PPC boards and Warp3D.
At the moment, sKulpt is a project in development, yet supporting :
o RTG support (any screen compatible with Warp3D drivers)
o 060 and PPC versions (both compiled with StormC v3, waiting for
StormC v4 w/GCC to have a good optimization). PPC version requiring
WarpOS.
o use of 3D hardware (works well with both CyberVision 64/3D and
B|CVisionPPC)
o use of textures (any image file format supported by your installed
Datatypes).
Around 60 percent of its features are implemented and available.
You can find more interesting details on the CdBSSoftware hompage.
Requirements
To run sKulpt, you need :
o An Amiga (2000, 1200, 3000, 4000) with either a CyberVision 64/3D
or a BlizzardVision PPC or a CyberVision PPC (the only Amiga graphics
boards providing hardware 3D acceleration at the moment, respectively
with the S3 Virge and the 3Dlabs Permedia2 chips), running at least
OS3.0,
o A minimum of 8 megs of free memory
o Warp3D v3 installed and properly working with the provided test
samples (WarpTest and Engine), either the 68K or the PPC version.
o A shell window to launch sKulpt, in which you will have set the
stack to around 120 Kbyte ("stack 120000") before launching sKulpt. It
will look in the "gfx" and "textures" subdirectories for files (gfx
sub directory contents should not be modified otherwise sKulpt may not
work).
http://cdbssoftware.net/english/skulpt.html
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S E R V I C E M A N A G E R F O R F R E E
31 December, 2000
{The following item was found on the Czech Amiga News site. Brad}
Colin Wenzel: "I am just dropping a note around the net to let
everyone know that my 'Service Manager' program has now been released
as Freeware. It's a small business (appliance repair orientated style)
control program that I run my business & about 12 others around here
on... I have been keeping it under wrapps since I wrote it but I have
decided to release it (classic version) to the Amiga community in
anticipation of the new DE.
So if you're interested, you may download the install archive from
this URL: http://www.hotkey.net.au/~colstv/csm_dload/. There is also a
mailing list setup at egroups Amiga-CSM the URL is at the bottom of
the download page... Enjoy... Happy new year from Australia."
Colin Wenzel, Col's Home Page
ExiE
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N E W S T O R M C D E V E L O P E R S ' P A C K A G E
Dolgesheim, den 28.8.2000. Last Sunday, in the sub-division of the
company HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH in Dolgesheim, the new StormC
developers package was presented for the first time in a select
circle. During the yearly summer festival, a lot was discussed about
the past and the future. Among the many guests were employees of the
company Hyperion (Heretic II, ...) and ESCENA (PowerPC-Boards), who
showed enthusiasm after the presentation
The most important feature of the new developers system is the step
forwards towards the new AmigaOS. At the moment everything still runs
on the Classic Amiga, and that is how it will be presented, but
everything was developed anew with easy portability in mind.
A big step towards more up-to-date system has been made through the
decision to support the GNU-Compiler in a modified version. The
current Storm-Compiler is not less professional, but not easy to port
to other systems. The new StormGCC is very compatible to the StormC
compiler, supports known preprocessor symbols (for instance __FUNC__),
writes in 68K as well as in PPC the Amiga Hunk-Format in object files
and creates the same debug file format as StormC. The PowerPC version
of StormGCC supports the PowerOpen/WarpOS conventions.
In the new StormC the network capabilities are of very high
importance. StormC now can be used by a programming team working on
one project, without problems. An important utility in this respect is
CVS Concurrent Versions System. With the aid of CVS multiple
developers can work on one project or source code at the same time,
and link their changes in a controlled fashion. StormC shows in the
project version number and status of the files, and color marks files
that might give problems.
The network capabilities are rounded off by the now distributed Make.
In a network, multiple computers can be used simultaneously to compile
a project. StormC finds free computers automatically, and moves
compiling jobs to those. A Make Logfile keeps track of various
compiler commands, error messages, and allows for an exact error
diagnosis in complex projects.
Further novelties can be found in the project management and the
editor. With the aid of the global search the entire project or all
projects, including hierarchical projects can be searched with full
text search including AmigaDOS patterns. It is possible, by double
clicking the search result, to go directly to the relevant position in
the source code.
The user can now create his own sections, and decide what kind of
files should be put there, and how they should be edited, shown or
compiled. Sections can be sorted alphabetically and colored in
different colors A helpmeet gives extensive Online Help to StormC,
GCC, AmigaOS Includes and Autodocs. A bubble-help provides basic help
when required.
The new editor now also colorizes CVS-conflicts, installer- and
AmigaGuide-commands according to new dictionaries. When typing the
name of known system functions, the appropriate prototype is shown,
which makes further input of parameters for these functions much
easier. The double-click on a file path (for instance in an include
command) loads the file in a new . Furthermore the keyboard layout is
freely configurable.
A new addition is a program for documentation. With StormDOC one
creates ToDo-lists, bug reports, and program documentation. It keeps
track of all actions of the user, knows the various destination groups
and circumstances of the list, who can all also be configured as
search criteria.
The new debugger cooperates on 68K- and PPC WarpOS programs with the
StormCompiler and StormGCC. The debugging is now no longer limited to
one program - Tasks and Shared Libraries can now also be edited step
by step. When Enforcer-hits occur, the debugger immediately shows the
position of the source of evil in the source code.
All in all, StormC 4 is fully revamped and greatly enhanced tool,
that will once again speed up software-development on the Amiga, and
will create it more professionally.
The news of version 4 in an overview
Network capabilities / shared Make
modified GCC Compiler for 68k and PPC
CVS Concurrent Versions System
enhanced Editor (Shows Prototypes of Functions)
StormDOC to manage ToDo-lists, bug reports and so on.
enhanced debugger (for GCC also)
debugging of Tasks and Shared Libraries
global full text search
comprehensive Online-Help
Opinions
Steffen Häuser of Hyperion, responsible for the conversion of Sxx for
the Amiga, said about the new compiler: "The combination of the gcc
code generator with StormC's advantages of the debugger, the
comfortable IDE, the MixedBinaries and the possibility to create
Shared Libraries in an easy way looks like a very nice compiler
system.
The distributed-make facility to reduce compilation time and the
integration of CVS into the IDE are very welcome. We are looking
forward to employing the new StormC in future projects. Adaptions of a
first project from gcc to the new StormC worked flawlessly. Support
for Elate VP Code in a future version will also be very interesting to
us."
Availability
The price of StormC 4 is 498,- DM. Customers of older versions of
StormC can get an update for the price of only 198,- DM. The first
presentation was at WOA 2000 in December last year. StormC 4 is
available right away.
www.haage-partner.com
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V A P O R W A R E ' S M F T P I I 1 . 2 I S O U T
13 January, 2001
mFTP-II is a File Transfer Protocol client that allows the
transferring of files from one computer to another. Some sites may be
restricted, requiring the use of an assigned user name and password,
while most sites (such as business and corporations) allow anonymous
FTP, in which you will usually give your email address as the
password.
mFTP-II also allows you to upload files to any remote computer. This
is an ideal way to maintain your web page, uploading files and pages.
You can even open two FTP connections and then transfer files between
those sites!
Please remember, mFTP-II is shareware. If you use it, please register
the software and help support Amiga software development.
Requirements
o Workbench 2.x
o MUI 3.x
o TCP/IP compatible stack
Genesis, Miami, AmiTCP, ..
Features
o Multithreaded and object oriented design
o Connect to multiple FTP sites at once
o Site-to-Site transfer (via you)
o High speed async. transfers
o Batch download facility
o Resume partially received files
o Optional Contact Manager 'Phonebook' as GUI
o Download, DirTool and ADT GUI Layouts, per host
o ADT Support and filter feature
o Drag & drop GUI functionality
o ADT-Find search for Aminet servers
o AmFTP profiles import
o CHMOD support
http://www.vapor.com/mftp/
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29.Jan.2001
Stefan Popp via eMail
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Source Code of Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch v1.10
As reported in issue 02/2001 of c't (page 176), the source code of 'Star
Trek Voyager: Elite Force Holomatch v1.10' is available at
3D Downloads.
Ravensoft published the source code to make the development of add-ons easier.
The "Source Code Release" is only some kind of "Add-on-Source-Code". That means that
this release does not contain the 3d engine, but only parts of the game-logic to make
the programming of add-ons easier. To use these add-ons you need the windows or linux
full version of the game. These sources cannot be used to port the game to the Amiga.
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29.Jan.2001
Dietmar Knoll via eMail
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GAUHPIL Millennium Info
GAUPHIL is the biggest Amiga user-list available at the internet. Since 1994 Dietmar
Knoll is collecting the names of Amiga-users all over the world. He publishes these
names at his homepage. Today the list contains 995 users from 38 countries. If you
want to be a member of the list mail your personal informations to
dknoll@myokay.net
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29.Jan.2001
Markus Lück on ANF
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New Background Pictures for AmigaOS 3.9
Markus Lück wrote:
First of all I would like to say thank you for the positive reactions that
followed the release of os39wallp.lha (Aminet). Today the second archive is
available at the aminet (os39wallp2.lha).
Will there be a third archive? This depends on the quality of RealSoft3D and if
I have the money to by it. The raytracers I am using at the moment are old and
not very fast and especially Cinema4D has many bugs.
Download: os39wallp2.lha - 1,6 MB
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29.Jan.2001
Rene Stelljes via eMail
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AmigaHelpGuide News
AmigaHelpGuide is a list of active Amiga users. A HTML version is now available at the title link.
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28.Jan.2001
Chris Hodges via eMail
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MAS MPeg Device v1.0
Since today, Chris Hodges offers an MAS MPeg Device on his homepage for the
MAS3507D player by Dirk Conrad (which is connected to the parallel port).
This finally enables people to use all software which uses the standard
commodore mpeg.device, such as AMPlifier, Frogger or MPegMovie.
Download: MASMPegDevice.lha (6K),
Readme
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28.Jan.2001
Chris Hodges via eMail
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FormAldiHyd v2.0 Beta with WacomIV Support
On 1st of January Chris Hodges has updated his tablet driver software for
the Aldi/Tevion/Medion and AipTek/HyperPen tablets and included an
experimental WacomIV mode. As he does not own such a WacomIV tablet himself
and had no time to continue development due to lack of time, he depends on
the response and feedback of users with WacomIV tablets who test the new
driver and tell him what works and what doesn't.
Contact address: chrisly@platon42.de
Download: FormAldiHyd20beta.lha (48K),
Readme
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28.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Amiga: New Forums
On www.amigadev.net
are now different new forums
for AmigaDE users and developers online.
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28.Jan.2001
Kymon Zonias on ANF
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iFusion Tests go Into Final Lap
According to amiga.org Blittersoft has
received the latest beta of iFusion from Microcode Solutions.
According to Blittersoft iFusion has been successfully tested on 060/PPC
systems. Now just the 040/PPC combination (BlizzardPPC) is undergoing some
tests.
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28.Jan.2001
F1 Software
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F1: eBay Client and 2 New Games
F1 Software has released detailed information about their announced eBay client
'AmiBud'.
This runs on AmigaOS 2+ and faciliates the use of eBay.
Additionally two new games are announced. These will be developed in C++ and
shall come out for Windows, Amiga, MacIntosh and possibly for AmigaDE. Further
details regarding these games do not exist yet.
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28.Jan.2001
JST
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JST v4.5b
On 28. January 2001 the version 4.5b of JST has been released.
JST makes the installation of games on harddisc possible and offers patches that
improve the compatibility of games in relation to more up-to-date Amiga systems.
In this version was a bug fixed with regard to the Phase5 68060 libs and the
Silkworm loader updated (OS 3.5 icon and other things).
Download: jst.lha
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28.Jan.2001
eisblock on ANF
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AmigaOnlineGames Update
On 28. January 2001 three more games were added to the AmigaOnlimeGames site and
therefore the site comes to a number of 34 games that can be played on the Amiga
via different networks.
Hints to further games and information can be sent to
AmigaOG@web.de.
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28.Jan.2001
CD32 Allianz on ANF
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Searching for Retailers of CD32/CDTV Hard- & Software
The CD32 Allianz wrote:
As it becomes more and more difficult to get hard- & software for the CD32
& CDTV I'd like to ask those retailers who still have articles for these
systems in their stocks to contact me so I can let the users know it in the CD32
corner.
Contact address: CD32-Allianz@gmx.de
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