27.Jan.2001
Matthias Henze on ANF
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New Version (V.44.50 beta 7) of the HSMathLibs
Again there is a new version of the HSMathLibs for MC68040 and MC68060 for
registered users. Many bugs were fixed and some smaller optimisations were
done. The most significant enhancements in this version for sure are full
compatibility with OS3.9 and support of (hopefully) all special cases of
the math-libraries.
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27.Jan.2001
CUCUG
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CUCUG: Status Register January 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer
User Group. It handels current and important information regarding Amiga,
Macintosh and PC, as well as the computer industry.
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27.Jan.2001
AMIOPEN-ML/Jorge Pino on ANF
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Specifications for Handheld Software under SDK
Amiga Inc. released the specifications for developers to create software for Palm/Handheld/PDA computers
on the official AmigaSDK developer list [AMIOPEN-ML]. Following the data:
QVGA (240*320 Pixel)
16 Bit Color
16 Bit Stereo (audio available form SDK-Version 1.1)
Controls via 2 buttons (a+b) and one Game Boy typ
Directional Device
Shall be smaller than 2 MB.
Suggestions for game genres:
scramble/defender types
space invaders/galaxians types
platformers
puzzle games
sports stuff
To make this possible create a standard AVE window and add a
16 bit 240*320 pixmap.
Gary Peake thinks this also to be another way to get more
experience with the AmigaSDK.
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27.Jan.2001
AIO
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AIO Issue 43 Released
Issue #43 of the online magazine 'AIO' (Amiga Information Online) has been
released. Still more authors of articles and reviews are wanted.
Download: AIOV43.LHA
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27.Jan.2001
Hyperion Software
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Hyperion: Shogo: Progress Report
Thomas Frieden wrote in the status report that Shogo now officially has
entered beta test stage. This means that everything has been integrated to the
game and the only task left is to find possible bugs. Read the entire
report under the title link.
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27.Jan.2001
Christian Bauer
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ShapeShifter V3.11 Released
Christian Bauer has updated his Mac emulator 'ShapeShifter' and made
version 3.11 available for download.
Download: ShapeShifter3_11.lha - 281 kB
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27.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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SoftCinema and How to Get New Codecs
Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World did a summary of a Polish article
(see title link) which we review here by his agreement.
«Jacek Cybularczyk, author of SoftCinema, released an article about the origin
of new codecs for the video player on Amiga.com.pl.
This article was written in Polish, thus here only the most important details.
Meantime the program SoftCinema can read the two formats OpenDivX and
soon 3ivX, too. Still missing e.g. is MPEG-4 support and several other not
quite legal codecs. The problem about those is that sources of the formats are
not free available. But there are some possibilities to fix this problem, too.
Though there are codecs for MPEG-4 and DivX on Macintosh, but due to missing
documentations of the Macintosh resources and extensions this all might be
difficult, somehow. The authors also don't seem to have a PowerMac for disassembling.
In case of the second possibility the author wrote that many might think this to be
moronic, but the thing works. You take the Windows dll's for help. Work started about
two month ago. The technic used is called "binary translation". First the x86 code
gets prepared for the C preprocessor in form of a macro instruction. Much of the
work takes the program TX86 which can read the dll's (comparable to Amiga libraries)
and convert them to C code. This isn't done total automatically, so you still have to
correct much yourself. The this way created code is compiled and can be executed under
a Windows emulated environment called WIN32ENV. In this a part of Win32 and some
important libraries are emulated. This all works on a PowerPC native only. Though all
possible codecs run, but speed is at flabby 1 FPS.
To get things somehow faster the code, which contains about 17,000 lines of macro
instructions, must get optimized. Unfortunately without optimization 72 MB are not enough
to compile, thus the rest of the work were done under APUS with a 200 MB SWAP file. For
an optimized compilation a 1 GB SWAP file was needed. The procedure took about 13 hours.
But the effort was worth while, meantime everything runs much faster. Next the dll's
will be converted to assembler to gain even better speed. This is possible after
analysing the C codes and using what GCC has generated. Later on everything will get
optimized once more. After profiling often used program parts either will be re-written
or more heavy optimized.
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27.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net: Writing Race...
Since one might have to offer more than one Euro for 4 opinions Amiga-Community.net
decided to organize a small competition. Who will write the most opinions until
Thursday, 12:00 am MET will win a price:
1. price - Amiga OS 3.9 CD
2. price - Fondation Gold Ed. CD
3. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
4. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
5. price - Amiga-Online.com Capy
Important:
For the form item "Member" fill in your e-mail address. But this is only
applys to non-members! Members will fill in their membership number, cause
by this their points will be double credited.
Some days after the competition expired winners will be announced on
the site and informed by e-mail. Opinions will be rated in my discretion,
so don't write only 10 words. For more questions ask:
xandiy@amiga-vip.de.
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27.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark with New Mailing List
VirusHelp Denmark has created a new mailing list at YahooGroups, which will
replace the old ML at eGroups. The new mailing list will be public, so
everybody will be able to read it. Postings will only be accepted by VHT
themselves.
All members of the old mailing list at eGroups were already subscribed to the
new mailing list at Yahoo and should trouble-less receive the announcements via e-mail,
as usual. Though it's advisable to subscribe again at Yahoo to be able to
take part in e.g. polls.
More information on how to subscribe/unsubscribe can be found under the title link.
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27.Jan.2001
Andy Holzher via eMail
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New Exec V44.1 public beta 1 and New MapROM
Harry "Piru" Sintonen has made available for download version 44.1 of Exec as
official beta version on his website. This is about a non-official Exec version
optimized and faster than the official one, according to himself. Use at your own risk.
Furthermore Piru published version 1.24beta5 of his MapROM tool 'BlizKick' for
phase5/DCE acceleration boards.
Download:
exec44_1_beta1.lha - 56 kB
BlizKick.lha - 245 kB
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26.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
tummy_020.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
tummy_040.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
tummy_060.lha biz/dbase 872K+The Ultimate Magic Yard V1.00
TCom2DEMO.lha biz/demo 96K+V2.8.0 Amiga order program,(COMMESSE ITA
UidlRem.lha comm/mail 5K+Automatic daily YAM .uidl file deleter :
MWI-SDV30.lha demo/mag 1.3M+SAVE DA VINYL #30 - packmag by Madwizard
SamplesMaster.lha dev/amos 92K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
ASweeperSrc106.lha dev/basic 24K+Source for AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.
clockita.lha dev/basic 66K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
flstack.lha dev/c 11K+Fixed length stack ADT
select_gc.lha dev/gui 67K+BOOPSI pop-up, cycle and button gadget
titlebar_ic.lha dev/gui 24K+BOOPSI class of titlebar gadget images
amigatalk.lha dev/lang 464K+A GUI version of 'Little Smalltalk' (V1.
MCC_GLArea_Dev.lha dev/mui 408K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_GLArea_Usr.lha dev/mui 126K+MUI Custom class for StormMesa rendering
MCC_ImageDB.lha dev/mui 25K+MUI Custom class for loading images.
AutoMounter.lha disk/misc 15K+AutoMount tool for any changeable disk d
IoJazOS3.9.lha disk/misc 9K+Iomega Jaz 1GB DOS Drivers/Icons for Ami
FBlitGuideGR.lha docs/hyper 26K+Greek translation of FBlit.guide (v3.73)
stccg.lha docs/hyper 1.7M+AmigaGuide to Star Trek CCG from Deciphe
Amigo6_3.lha game/board 91K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
EgyptianWDC.lha game/data 19K+Egyptian landscape for Worms DC
Connect4.lha game/think 52K+Connect 4 game using MUI (with source)
FlashMandel.lha gfx/fract 4.1M+The best fractal rendering program for A
IOBlixUsr.lha hard/drivr 294K+V37.17, IOBlixZ2 and IOBlix1200 software
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 673K+V1.59 PSX MemoryCard Reader
breed_junk.lha mods/hardc 121K+A good acidcore DBM module by Breed
rno-r054.mpg mods/mpg 5.0M+Rno-records release no.54 by Earthstar (
breed_egg.lha mods/techn 232K+A minimal acid DBM module by Breed
3PMGUI_Skins1.lha mus/play 13K+8 Semi nice skins for 3PMGUI
OnePoWeRweek.jpg pix/misc 85K+ONE PoWeR WEEK Background by aMiGa=PoWeR
Blessings.lha pix/wfm 179K+Blessings; Artwork&Literature
alba.lha util/boot 56K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
WarpBMPdt.lha util/dtype 42K+Windows BMP datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 297K+Report+ 4.22: Multipurpose utility
coolCalc_sk.lha util/wb 48K+2 new skins for CoolCalc
mainprefs.lha util/wb 66K+OS 3.5,3.9 Preferences GUI
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26.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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WB2000 Images Update V1.5
Since the last archive about 90 new images for users of the startup tool
WB2000 were added - the archive now contains about 390 IFF images.
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26.Jan.2001
Markus Schmidt via eMail
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ICQ User List
The ICQ user list's sign-up form didn't work for some time. Sadly, this has
been noticed only just today because of a hint. The error was fixed immediately.
All those who have tried in vain to sign up, please try again.
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26.Jan.2001
Andreas Kuerzinger via eMail
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Andreas Kuerzinger HP Updated
Andreas Kuerzinger has made available version 1.1 of his
AKCatalogs (35 catalogs for various programs) on his homepage. Also the
Amiga links page was finished and many other pages updated.
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26.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox: Version 1.2 MediatorNET.device
Elbox has released a new version 1.2 of the MediatorNet.device for Mediator PCI
for PCI ethernet network cards, today. Changes in the new version:
The new version of the driver enables simultaneous using of several PCI
Ethernet cards in Amiga fitted to 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).
You can find further details at the title link.
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26.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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nectarine * looking for host
A regular listener of the demo radio station 'nectarine *' wrote:
"Hi and hello, as regular listener I have sad news which could still be turned into a
story with happy end until end of February.
What is Nectarine? At nectarine.ojuice.net/index.htm
you'll find a very special internet radio. They broadcast music of game classics
and well-known sceners. Further, you can upload tracks as a small home producer.
This all results in an interesting music mix which clearly stands out from the
usual droning.
Well and now, where's the problem?
Nectarine needs a new HOST... here's the original message:
Why Nectarine can close at the end of February
- For now, Nectarine is friendly hosted by the company where i work
(http://www.poliris.com) as Orange Juice
webserver etc.. They help us a lot with hardware, technologie and prices for
LTP (remember the travel for Amiga competition at LTP IV). They paid every
month for an Easynet 12 mb/s ATM line but in March they will pay only for the
bandwith that the company needs. So, as nectarine isn't a company project i
can't ask them to pay for us. Maybe you noticed that they didn't ask for any
adverts at all.
- Nectarine needs a new host (best is in Paris) where i can put the 2 computers
of Nectarine Radio. The total amount of bandwith needed could be a very stable
1.5~2mb/S or more and we can find relays everywhere to reduce the total amount.
In exchange we can promote the company who host us with banners, jingles etc...
If you think that you can help us then just send an email to me.
Every emails will be answered.
For now, those peoples try to help us: Scene.org ! Audiorealm ! SonicBox ! and lot
of Nectarine lovers ! thx
ciao THOMAS SiEGEL aka d!RT!e (Organiser of mOOdS.2xs.de)"
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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New TCP Trojan Found
A new 'TCP' Trojan was found in New Zealand. So far it isn't known what
installs the trojan, but Zbigniew Trzcionkowski, the programmer of Safe, has already updated
his virus detector so that the Trojan can be found in memory.
The TCP Trojan replaces "c:mount" by a 7484 byte long file and creates a new file "c:f".
The new file c:mount is a clone of the Vaginitis virus.
More information on the new TCP Trojan:
Virus type: TCP Trojan
Trojan name: Explode
Trojan size: 7484 Bytes (c:mount) - 232 bytes (f)
Archive name: ? (still unknown)
Archive size: ? (still unknown)
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26.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Safe V 14.7 Released
Version 14.7 of Safe has been released. Safe is a virus detector, the program can
only find, but not remove viruses.
Name: Safe v14.7
Archive name: safe.lha
Archive size: 20.853 Bytes
Date: January 26th, 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Requires xvs.library v33.24
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26.Jan.2001
Greg Donner
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Greg Donner's OS3.9 FAQ Updated
The official OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), maintained by Greg Donner, was updated.
The sections 'undocumented features', 'internet applications', 'known bugs' and 'miscellaneous'
were made up-to-date.
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26.Jan.2001
amiga.dk
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Winter Amiga Congress '01 in Denmark
The Amiga party 'Amiga Congress '01' takes place from March 2nd to 4th, 2001
in Hvidovre, Denmark.
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26.Jan.2001
Ina Sielaff via eMail
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Motorola COLDFIRE® Processor News
As the manufacturer was criticized continuously by the current 68k users because the
currently available COLDFIRE® processor has neither FPU nor (sufficiently 68k compatible)
MMU, the engineering team has designed a new ColdFire (4e) which contains both FPU and
MMU and is supposed to replace the 68k generation.
Motorola wants to take this step to "untie" their current customers from the (apparently
still sold in huge amounts) 68k processors. The soon to be released, ABSOLUTELY 68k compatible
ColdFire 4e is supposed to take their place and replace the old processor family in future.
Here you'll find further details on the
COLDFIRE4® processor.
Suplement:
More links on this subjects:
Technical description Coldfire4e
Coldfire Roadmap
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26.Jan.2001
(cd)
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test.amigadev.net Runs on AmigaDE
The test page created by Amiga Inc. test.amigadev.net/
runs according to a http:// request issued by telnet on a server "AmigaDE zAMilo V0.098".
Looks like the FTP server would be running on wu-ftpd (it's possible that it may be ported
to AmigaDE).
The server reacts to "finger", but nobody was logged in. www.amigadev.net and test.amigadev.net
are at least hosted in entirely different nets, not on the same computer.
The test page currently shows a logo which poses the question: "Can you write multimedia apps
that run in a dozen host environments?" and answers it with the 'Artix logo and "zAMilo http server"
powered by Amiga Digital Environment'.
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25.Jan.2001
Mark Wilson via eMail
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AmiBench.org - Domain Problems
AmiBench.org might be not accessible under the used domain amibench.org during next days.
The reason why is the change of the domain register station.
These days you can use the following alternative URL's:
http://www.amibench.com
http://www.amibench.net
http://ami.bencher.org
It is not determined by now how long the change will take.
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25.Jan.2001
Individual Computers
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Individual Computers News
MiamiDX lisences arrived, Lyra under production
From now on the X-Surf ethernet / MiamiDX bundle again is available form
all of the trading partners. Who already owns a X-Surf card can purchase
MiamiDX at a special price by presenting his/her bill - simple ordering by
e-mail. At the time being MiamiDX is the only possibility to use T-DSL
(German Telekom) with the Amiga and wasn't available from German vendors
for a long time.
The keyboard adapter Lyra is now under production. The first adapters in versions
for A2000, A3000, and A4000 will be available from all of the trading partners in the first
week of February. The Eternity company already verified Lyra to be the only adapter that supports
simultaneous pressing of several keys. This allows playing games also with a PC-keyboard connected
to the Amiga.
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25.Jan.2001
CD32-Allianz on ANF
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CD32/CDTV User List Published
Kindly supported by Henning Schlautmann recently the first
own CD32/CDTV user list has been published at the CD32-Corner.
Now I would like to ask users owning a CD32/CDTV or being interested
in this to enlist. You can enlist online.
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25.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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GlowIcons Update V1.5
From now on the update of the MiniGlowicons v1.5 can be downloaded from
our homepage. Since last version about 90 icons for start-bars supporting
icon.library v44.x were added.
The archive now overall contains short to 430 icons.
Note: The identical archive for WB2000 user with all of the
new IFF pictures will be available from our homepage from January, 27th.
Icons missing? Do you have suggestions or icons which should be converted
to the mini-format? Write to
info@synotec-newmedia.
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25.Jan.2001
Richard de Rivaz on ANF
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INET DIAL v3.838 Update
INET DIAL v3.838 now includes support for OS3.9 Genesis TCP/IP stack
as well as remote email retrieval. INET DIAL is an integrated Internet
and remote computer connection facility which handles 'dial-in' and
'dial-out' connections.
Genesis is provided with a simple installation facility. INET DIAL now
includes support for reading e-mails remotely which had been previously
automatically downloaded by INET DIAL to your home base computer.
Download: inet_dial.lha
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25.Jan.2001
Dietmar Eilert
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Distributed BASIC
Distributed BASIC is a BASIC-Interpreter released in form of a shared library.
A beta version is available for download. More details under the title link.
Download: basic.lha - 234 kB
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25.Jan.2001
T.o.T.
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Tales of Tamar News
Development of the e-mail strategy game constantly precedes.
As for Tales fo Tamar the players send their moves in form of e-mails
via the Internet to the Eternity server. This method allows
turns from tow to three days and thus a more dense game atmosphere.
Additionally a sort of online chat will support the feeling of togetherness.
The players can directly log-in there and chat with other users or
players.
On 01-19.2001 the chronic of the year 60 were added and today a corrected
version of the German FAQ was put online.
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25.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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SoftCinema Version 0.11 Released
Version 0.11 of SoftCinema is available for download for registered users.
The following changes and enhancements were done for the movie- and animation player:
- QuicktimeVR Bugfix.
- New AVI Codec: DIVX.
- New QT Codec: 3ivX (will not work until the 3ivX codec has been released,
which should happen in a few days).
- Some problems with displaying of HAM8 fixed.
- Some problems with AVI color palette handling fixed.
- For option 'GRAY' now a FULLSCREEN is taken, to utilize 8bpp screen
- Other smaller changes for codecs speed enhancement regarding.
Download: SoftCinema.lha - 400 kB
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24.Jan.2001
Tumult
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New MUI-class: ImageDB.mcc
All new MUI-classes are collected and registered at TUMULT. Yesterday, Bodmer Stephan has registered his
new MUI-class 'ImageDB.mcc'. With the help of it images can be loaded into databases using guigfx.library.
Further details.
Besides this there is an update of the GLArea.mcc-class (v0.9).
Download page
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24.Jan.2001
Blittersoft
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Blittersoft Website with New Design
The website of Blittersoft was completely re-designed. There is a seperate Amiga sector in the shop.
[News message: 24. Jan. 2001, 20:11] [Comments: 0]
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24.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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AmigaOne Website at Eyetech
You can find the new AmigaOne website of Eyetech under the title link which contains information to the
boards developed by Eyetech.
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24.Jan.2001
Amiga Impact
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muFS patch V45.10 beta
You can find a patch (betaversion 45.10) by Etienne Vogt for the multi-user-filesystem 'muFS' under AmigaOS 3.5
and higher under the title link. Please read the readme
for further details.
Download: muFS4510p.lha
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24.Jan.2001
AmigActive
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AmigActive goes Active Media
The English Amiga magazine 'AmigActive' has created a new online area called "Active Media". This area
will inform you about an outstanding selection of DVDs, CD-ROMs, books and other multimedia publications
and it is possible to buy them online. Besides this in "Active Media" there is an area in which you can read
former reviews.
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24.Jan.2001
AmigArt
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Nightlong Review from AmigArt
In the clickBOOM portal you can also find a 68k 1.2 beta version
which is to solve the RTG-Master problem. Registered users can download it there.
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24.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net News
Amiga-Community.net is looking for at least one sponsor in order to be able to double the bonus for written opinion
and to increase the incentive for the readers. Interested parties may please mail to
xandiy@amiga-vip.de.
Meanwhile the offer of assessments has increased to about 70 products/websites/dealers.
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24.Jan.2001
CGrX
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New Graphics Board Information
You can find new information about current graphics boards on the website of CyberGraphX.
Among others it is reported there that G3/G4 Power PC-cards (Shark), which has been announced by Elbox
for this January, will not be released before late March/early April. Elbox decided to re-designing the
cards in order to make them AmigaDE compatible.
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24.Jan.2001
Andreas Kürzinger via eMail
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Homepage of Andreas Kuerzinger Online
Andreas Kuerzinger wrote:
"Currently only the "About me" and the Amiga-sites work (in German as well as in English) but the rest
will follow soon.
Among other things you can download my projects like AKIconz, AKBackPix, AKTaskiSMS, some German catalogs
for several programs and something more (ScreenTab-images, WB-Screenshots, etc.) from the Amiga-sites."
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24.Jan.2001
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amiga-news.de Now in Japanese, Too
From now on the messages which are relevant for Japan in amiga-news.de will be translated into Japanese by
AmigaNut which is a Japanese Amiga dealer.
Thank you very much AmigaNut.
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24.Jan.2001
Newtek Germany on ANF
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AURA 2 for TVPaint User
Currently there is a special offer for former Amiga user of TVPaint. The original of Aura (PC) formerly was TVPaint.
More than 10.000 pieces has been sold of TVPaint in Europe (Amiga, Windows, SGI). All TVPaint user can
update to "AURA 2 for TVPaint user" to a special price.
Requirement: TVPaint serial number
This offer is valid till 31st of March 2001.
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24.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Heise: Corel Will Keep Linux Branch as Seperate Company
Following two extracts from the Heise article:
«Except of the new Linux strategy the already for a long time announced company strategy of Corel contains
no big surprises.
...[snip]...
It remains Linux. Corel will not abandon the Linux business as speculated in the last weeks. They still
want to offer a complete Linux solution to the customers. To do so Corel intends to outsource the Linux distribution
into a seperate company, but to continue to work on Linux versions of WordPerfect Office Suite and CorelDRAW themselves.
But there is nothing about .NET for Linux.»
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23.Jan.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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New Details about the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG
Due to great demand here a more detailed list of what has changed
in Install Kit v4.0:
- Install2001 supports RTG graphic mode for owner of graphics boards.
- There are both, a Gadtools and a MUI interface for the Install Kit.
- Many new games can be installed / emulated.
- Install2001 uses almost a half less memory, which especially enhances compatibility.
- Both interfaces were completely made over and now are much more user-friendly.
- There are more settings possible.
- CD-ROM support was enhanced substantially.
- The build-in emulator now supports more CD32 specific stuff.
Moreover of course there are many other enhancements as well as bugfixes done.
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 is exclusively available on the
'The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition' CD-ROM, which can be ordered from me.
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23.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - UAC Design Bonus!
"The Hunting Games" by Frank Abbing ready for download. There are
the following games:
'Plakat schiessen', which works similar to the Moorhuhn game principle,
cause one should shoot as much signboards as possible within one minute, but of course
not the hunters!
In the case of 'Scheiben drehen' you shoot on plates until all of them
face into the same direction. A plate hit will always do one quarter rotation more
than the others. Who will make the best time?
Amiga Arena - UAC Design Updates!
There are several updates online for games Frank Abbing from UAC Design made available
to the Amiga Arena. The quiz game Awaking AGA/ECS is now there as executable version.
The game can be played directly from harddisk, no longer .adf format. Risiko v1.7 is now
there as the freeware version.
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23.Jan.2001
Timo Kloss via eMail
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Inutilis News about Ermentrud
Ermentrud is a new adventure game under development at Inutilis.
More information and screenshots are to find under the title link.
Timo Kloss, programmer of the game, wrote:
'Ermentrud (Amiga)' accidently now has got an interactive 'dialog system' using
the common multiple choice method. Since also the inventory system is finished the next demo version
will almost (almost (almost (...))) show a completed engine, already. Unfortunately this demo doesn't
exist for now, but arguably will do somewhere down the road....
Originally we would have liked to already take the 'tavern scenes of the movie' last weekend,
but we didn't....
This weekend (or even the following Mon/Tue) we are to proceed, really!
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23.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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SimpleMail Homepage Moved
The website of the new e-mail program SimpleMail by Sebastian Bauer and Hynek Schlawack
was completely made over and is now accessible under
http://simplemail.sourceforge.net/.
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23.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
TProspEd.lha biz/demo 84K+V1.3.0 Form Editor For TurboFat (ITALIAN
TProspEd2.lha biz/demo 81K+V2.0.1alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
ddup-3.0.1.lha comm/net 21K+Dynamic DNS service client
ddup-3.0.1_src.lha comm/net 31K+Dynamic DNS service client
hserv.lha comm/tcp 286K+Hserv ARexx HTTP/1.1 c.c. server
rxsocket.lha comm/tcp 139K+Rxsocket.library - TCP/IP ARexx library
Cookie_Killer.lha comm/www 16K+AWeb cookie management (v1.1)
streamer.lha comm/www 43K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
A_SweeperSrc.lha dev/basic 24K+Source for AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.
DTView.lha dev/e 3K+Simple MultiView clone (incl.source)
AmigaInfo.lha docs/hyper 334K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Gennaio 2000
amigazette_03.lha docs/mags 254K+AMIGAzette 3rd iusse (26.12.1999) (itali
amigazette_04.lha docs/mags 133K+AMIGAzette 4th iusse (23.02.2000) (itali
amigazette_05.lha docs/mags 285K+AMIGAzette 5th iusse (080.05.2000) (ital
ascene12.lha docs/mags 1.0M+AmigaScene 0x12 - 11/99 (amigascene.com)
JumpingAround.lha game/demo 277K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Tintin.lha game/role 356K+Tintin++ MUD Client, v1.84
TinyFugue.lha game/role 350K+TinyFugue MUD Client, v4.0s1
skulpt_060.lha gfx/3d 1.0M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 604K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
skulpt_loc.lha gfx/3d 20K+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_scn.lha gfx/3d 1.5M+Sculpt3D clone (68060 + Warp3D)
skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 227K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
imaged.lha gfx/misc 136K+Add your own description to images ! (v2
vPNG.lha gfx/show 10K+Fast 68k PNG pictures viewer
TestGear3.lha hard/hack 262K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
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.
imdbDiff010112.lha misc/imdb 2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
3PMGUI.lha mus/play 161K+Skinnable MPEGA GUI-ideal for low CPUs!
ccalcskins.lha pix/back 184K+6 skins for coolcalc
jonty.jpg pix/irc 277K+JPEG of JoNty (JoNty-) from #AmigaIRC DA
TrooperFighte2.jpg pix/trace 40K+Trooper Fighter at Starship Trooper
WiederUnterwe2.jpg pix/trace 69K+Starship Enterprise-E in Space
BlssdWstlnd.lha pix/wfm 99K+Blessed Wasteland Art & Lit.
OFS041.jpg pix/wfm 461K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
ThBoundsfLv.lha pix/wfm 110K+The Bounds of Love Art & Lit.
Zoom.lha util/app 63K+The "do everything" appicon (FREEWARE)
LatinMap.lha util/cdity 20K+Special Character Input (FREEWARE)
Easyconvert.lha util/conv 23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
vPNGdt.lha util/dtype 10K+Fast 68k PNG datatype
Calculator.lha util/misc 28K+Fully functional scientific calculator
WriteKickDisk.lha util/misc 11K+Makes Kickstart disk from ROM image
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
Easyreset.lha util/wb 12K+EasyReset - system reset utility
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
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23.Jan.2001
amiga-hardware.com
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'Big Book Of Hardware' Updated
'Big Book Of Hardware' is a really extended hardware reference website. Here you can find
a whole lot of information about almost any Amiga hardware. Yesterday many sections of the website
were updated.
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23.Jan.2001
DOpus Support Page
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New DirOpus4 Beta Version 4.15f by Jacek Rzeuski
Jacek Rzeuski is working on DOpus4 again and has made available for download a new beta version
4.15f of DirOpus4 on his website.
DirOpus is a file manager programmed by Jonathan Potter and Greg Perry from
GP Software. In 1999 the source code of the program was
released under GNU Public License rules. Jacek Rzeuski then started to revise and enhance the
program.
Due to lack of time Jacek then wasn't able to work on it that intensive anymore, and
Paul Huxham published new beta versions. Now Paul decided not to cooperate with Jacek in
the running project, but has started his own DirOpus4 project. Paul's homepage is to find
here.
DOpus4beta.lzx -
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23.Jan.2001
The Spirit of AMIGA
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Quake Deathmatch by "The Spirit of AMIGA"
On Friday 26th, 2001, 'The Spirit of AMIGA' will organize their first
Quake deathmatch. This match will take place on an official server to see how the
response will be. 'The Spirit of AMIGA' wants to bring together AMIGA online players
and possibly later on to found a clan and/or open an own server. Everybody who would like
to participate is heartily welcome to this match. No special software is needed for this
server. Details on how and when you will find under the title link (German website).
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23.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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Interview with Bill McEwen
Christoph Dietz did an extended interview with Bill McEwen, president and CEO of AMIGA, Inc:
Bill McEwen
Amiga-News: In your latest Executive Update you announce that the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) would be a great fun for the Amiga community. But how would this be a great fun if Amiga Inc. is not a exhibitor there?
Bill McEwen: We were there. We had two companies showing Amiga enabled devices at the show. These meetings were private, but we were there :-)
Amiga-News: Can you tell us details about this devices and the companies behind?
Bill McEwen: No. We are under NDA with each of them. Announcements will follow soon.
Amiga-News: In an interview with Corinna Cohn you told the community that Amiga Inc. is low on money and our readers are now wondering if this means that Amiga Inc. is closing down. So why are you low on money?
Bill McEwen: We are far from closing down. It takes money to run this business, and we planned to raise money in summer of last year. Our timing was off, and the market had a big downturn. As of the time of the discussion we had not secured more funding.
Amiga-News: So I can assume that there is no financial shortness anymore?
Bill McEwen: We will continue to watch every dime very carefully, this is not a market to be crazy with your money.
Amiga-News: Can you tell us the names of Amiga Inc.'s investors?
Bill McEwen: The "Invisible Hand Corporation, LLC", and "Net Ventures, BV".
Amiga-News: What do these investors expect from Amiga?
Bill McEwen: To make money.
Amiga-News: They are not interested in the Amiga products to use in their own products?
Bill McEwen: They are investors not OEM's.
Amiga-News: Is going public an option for Amiga Inc.? Can we expect to buy stock options in the near future?
Bill McEwen: Public offering is not possible at this time. But you can expect to have opportunities to invest in the future with Amiga.
Amiga-News: Francis Charig told me (as published on amiga-news.de) that the AmigaDE will be ready in the first half of this year. Are you agreeing with this?
Bill McEwen: Yes. This is the plan.
Amiga-News: How and then (more exact) will AmigaDE hit the marked?
Bill McEwen: Initially in some OEM hardware platforms, and then it will get more functionality and be out in other hardware with software following.
Amiga-News: According to MeterNet they are only waiting for AmigaDE to release their Set-Top box. When do they get AmigaDE and will this version be the same as planned for release in the OEM hardware?
Bill McEwen: Yes, the initial release is for this type of hardware OEM.
Amiga-News: Also Francis spoke about memory protection and why TAO is not planning to implement MP into the operating system. But you already announced that Amiga Inc. is going to implement MP into AmigaDE. Is this plan up to date?
Bill McEwen: Tao is not, and they never were going to. This is consistent to what we have said since the beginning. Amiga is handling the MP. So the plan is the same that we have said since the beginning.
Amiga-News: Can we expect MP to be in the first versions of AmigaDE?
Bill McEwen: No, not in the first version. It has been planned for later.
Amiga-News: Why do you think MP is needed?
Bill McEwen: I personally think that this is better suited for the desktop and server market.
Amiga-News: What can AmigaDE developers expect to be added into the next SDK update?
Bill McEwen: Sound, 3d, and numerous other new tools and enhancements.
Amiga-News: When can they expect the next update?
Bill McEwen: Targeted for end of February - middle of March.
Amiga-News: More than 15.000 copies of SDK are sold. How many developers are registered? And how many of them are contributing software?
Bill McEwen: A little over 2,000 busy working.
Amiga-News: This means that at least 13.000 people only bought the SDK to support Amiga Inc. with some money or for to add the SDK to their treasury?
Bill McEwen: You asked how many are registered. We have thousands who are working and have not registered.
Amiga-News: Do you know a reason why they didn't register?
Bill McEwen: No. It is really up to them. We have also located two sites that have created SDK's that are pirated. I believe that we have shut them down now, but we know that several copies were downloaded before we stopped them.
Amiga-News: Which is the most amazing software contributed right now?
Bill McEwen: There are so many, I do not know where to begin. I would encourage people to look at the developer section of the web site to see many of the titles that are being worked on.
Amiga-News: While the "World of Amiga 2000" in Cologne Fleecy announced that about 1.5 Mio units of AmigaDE are already sold. What is the market and when will the AmigaDE based products show up?
Bill McEwen: Products will begin showing up in March of this year.
Amiga-News: A press release from Thendic Electronic Components just crossed the wire that tells that "in September 2001 Thendric will release a modified Handheld-PC for the consumer market under the label 'Amiga(TM)'." Are they only licensing the Name "Amiga"? Or will they use AmigaDE?
Bill McEwen: There is only ONE owner of the Amiga name and Trademarks, Amiga Inc. We own the worldwide exclusive rights to all of the Amiga properties, that were once in the hands of Gateway. Thendic has licensed AmigaDE for their devices. We were not supposed to say anything for another month, but since they have announced, then it is true they are one of many new licensors of AmigaDE.
Amiga-News: And are there other products?
Bill McEwen: Several in the works and all over the office.
Amiga-News: How many copies of AmigaOS3.9 are sold? How close are we to an PPC-Version of AmigaOS 4.0?
Bill McEwen: OS 3.9 I do not know right now. We had several thousand out by before Christmas, and I have not seen the reports of the sales since that time. We should have some numbers up on the site soon. As far as meeting the sales requirements for the OS 4.0 PPC version, we are not even close. We are still evaluating the market need for this product, and I hope that we can show that there is a true market and business for 4.0, and even other versions in the future.
Amiga-News: When can we expect that the decision is made?
Bill McEwen: Working on it now.
Amiga-News: What are the improvements in the classic AmigaOS to legitimate the version jump to 4.x?
Bill McEwen: Once the decision has been made, then you will see a targeted feature list and then we will all know.
Amiga-News: Do you know about the status of development at Eyetech and bPlan?
Bill McEwen: I have been focused on other funding issues, and Fleecy has been working more closely with these developments.
Amiga-News: Will the AmigaOne be available in Q3/2001?
Bill McEwen: That is the plan.
Amiga-News: How can the Amiga community support Amiga Inc. at best?
Bill McEwen: The best way to directly help is the purchase of SDK's and other products. And the more people creating product for Amiga the better. We have recently received several new games for AmigaDE and they are great. It is really encouraging to see all of the development efforts underway, and the more people that we have developing the better.
Amiga-News: Are these games only converted from other platforms or are they completely new? Are they cutting edge in graphics, sound and idea?
Bill McEwen: All of the above.
Amiga-News: Bill, thank you for this interview!
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: bill@amiga.com
WWW: Amiga Inc.
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22.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts
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WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.2 Released
Today Oliver Roberts released WarpBMP.datatype version 44.2. The datatype is
freeware and is available for different processors (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS).
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22.Jan.2001
AmigArt
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Earth 2140 Review by AmigArt
AmigaArt published a review of the new game Earth 2140.
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22.Jan.2001
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Earth 2140 Update
There is an update for Earth 2140 for Amiga users available at the download page
of Epic-Interactive. This update adds support for Voodoo3 graphic accelerators.
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22.Jan.2001
Innovative on ANF
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VHI Studio in "Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog"
Not only more and more Amiga users belong to the people convinced of our software's quality, but
recently also Kodak, who now included VHI Studio to the "Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog".
Here you can find the entry in the
Kodak Third Party Solutions Catalog.
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22.Jan.2001
Innovative on ANF
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Ultraconv NG now Available form Innovative Again
RBM Digitaltechnik handed the international sales-rights back to Innovative.
That's why Ultraconv NG 4.0 is now again available directly from Innovative.
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22.Jan.2001
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail
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ISDN now included in NetBSD/Amiga
The Zorro-bus connection for Siemens-chips (isic) are now included in NetBSD-current.
The subsystem is able to communicate with DSS1 (Euro-ISDN) mediate-stations. There are drivers for many PCI, PCMCIA,
ISA, ISAPNP, and Zorro-bus - ISDN devices.
At the moment there are drivers for the following Zorro-bus-devices available:
ISDN Master, ISDN Master II, ISDN Blaster.
We are still working on drivers for the ISDN Surfer and on tests with PCMCIA-devices for the A1200.
The subsystem will be available with release 1.6 of NetBSD. Additional help for configuration is available in
the documentation and from the manual
pages for isdn and isdnd.rc.
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22.Jan.2001
László Török
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MooVId Screenshot with 3ivX
László Török published a
screenshot of his AVI/MOV players MooVId showing
that the new format 3ivX is playable with MoVId. He didn't said when
a new version will be released.
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22.Jan.2001
Amiga Future [News]
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MainPrefs Version 2.05 Released
MainPrefs by
Martin Elsner is a program to configurate your Amiga under OS3.5. With the program
you can manage your assigns, edit the User-Startup, set environment variables, and
start the preferences programs. In v2.05 some bugs have been fixed, new tools and
Spanish, French and Turkey catalogs have been added.
Download: mainprefs.lha - 67 KB
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21.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Workbench 3.5 Guide by Peter Hutchison
On 20. January 2001 Peter Hutchison has released his
"Workbench 3.5 Guide" in Englisch language.
The guide covers the subject:
Reaction, preferences, Workbench, CacheCDFS, Internet, FastFileSystem,
ROM patches, printer drivers, PowerPC support, colour icons
and third party utilities.
Besides the online version (title link) there's an AmigaGuide version available
for download.
Download: AmigaOS35.lha
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21.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Auction tool: AmiBud for eBay
On their homepage F1
Software announces an eBay client for the Amiga. There are currently no details
released, but a screenshot.
Everybody who has questions or comments regarding the software might mail to
amigastuff@onemain.com.
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21.Jan.2001
ANN
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Finish user group 'Saku' with New URL
The WWW address of the "Finish Amiga Users Group", also known as 'Saku' which is the name
of their magazine, has changed. The address is now:
http://batman.jypoly.fi/~saku/english/.
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21.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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Review of the PC Version of Realsoft 3D v4
In the beginning of December 2000 Hyperion und Realsoft had
announced the port
of the 3D software package "Realsoft3D V4" for the Amiga
On 9. January 2001 a
review of the
PC version of Realsoft 3D V4 was released on
Planet3DArt that gives an impression
of the software.
(Real3D was originally developed for the Amiga. There was no update
since a longer period of time.)
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21.Jan.2001
Michael Haider on ANF
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News about Linux-APUS/LinuxPPC
Michael Heider wrote:
As reported at Heise some days ago new kernels in version 2.4.0 are ready for
download at linux-apus.sourceforge.net
As this server might probably be permanently overloaded, I will also make the
precompiled kernel available for download on my homepage.
New to report after reading the .config file is that the driver for the
Cyberstorm MK III controller is included in this kernel.
Furthermore, there are again new programs to be found in the download area that
I have shifted to LinuxPPC.
Among others UAE in the version 0.8.15 (new: 68040 cpu emulation) and
Quanta+, a very good HTML page editor with own preview function.
Besides, there will be new and shifted programs regularly appearing on my homepage,
taken from the Linux user magazine, .
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20.Jan.2001
gamespy.com
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Interview with Ben Hermans
James Hill of gamespy.com had an interesting interview with Ben Hermans of
Hyperion Entertainments
about their Linux ports.
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20.Jan.2001
Bernd Gmeineder on ANF
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Fire & Ice - Now Legal and Free at AMI Sector One
AMI Sector One has the following interesting news:
First of all the company 'Jester Interactive' which owns the copyrights of many older Amiga games,
has granted us permission to post many of the games from the cult company 'Graftgold' for free download on our site:
The first free game that is available is 'Fire & Ice' which should ring a bell to every Amiga-Fan.
Furthermore more commercial games and PD classics like 'Magic Forest 2', 'Seek & Destroy', 'Mayhem', and many more
have been made available. The first version of the new 'Amiga Applications Compendium' has been put online. This allows the
user to search for more than 300 Amiga applications, companies and developers.
Nostalgic disk magazines and cheat disks put a nice finish to this year's first update.
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20.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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'The Best Of The Amiga Scene CD' for Free at mp3.com
Fredrik, also known as ORG* of X-TRADE ^ BoB, and two friends compiled an Audio CD containing the best
Amiga Songs ever five years ago. The CD sold well but now there are only two left and so it was decided
to make the songs available for free download at MP3.
Not all songs are already available, but they will be as fast as possible. Enjoy!
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20.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Looking for AmigaDE-Developers
#Developer needs YOU! If you are a AmigaDE developer come to the IRC channel #Developer on
Amiganet (see title link). If you are sick of off-topic news in mailing lists, but like to
share your knowledge about coding, #Developer is the place to be. More information about IRC and
Amiganet can be found here.
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20.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Top 10 of the Games 2000 Determined
Every year the online gaming magazine 'Amiga Flame' starts a poll to determine the best games of the
year and then compiles a top 10 hit-list. The results of 2000 are now computed. Here now the games in
reversed order:
- 10. Virtual Ball Fighters by Xteam Software Solution
- 09. Tales From Heaven by Darkage Software
- 08. Code Name Squad by Digital Dreams Entertainment
- 07. Foundation: Gold Edition by Paul Burkey (Epic Interactive)
- 06. Exodus: The Last War by Blittersoft
- 05. Bubble Heoes by Arcadia Developments (Crystal Interactive Software)
- 04. Simon The Sorcerer II by Adventure Soft (Epic Interactive)
- 03. Earth 2140 by Topware (Epic Interactive)
- 02. Nightlong by Trecision (clickBOOM)
- 01. Heretic II by Hyperion (Titan Computer)
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20.Jan.2001
Extraterrestrial developers via eMail
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New Crusader-Clone in Development - Demo Available
The team arround 'Extraterrestrial Developing' is currently working on a Crusader clone.
The first demo version 0.2b of the game called 'Silencer' is ready for download.
The game runs on a 640x480 screen with 256 colors and needs 16MB RAM and 15MB on the harddrive.
The team is still looking for a distributor.
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20.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
'Weltendaemmerung' a new strategy game by UAC Design is online. In the game the user plays a character
called Robert Ungar. He must try to stand against the creatures of Dr.Coypu. To achieve this he must
gain control over a army of mutants...
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20.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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WB 2000 Preferences Pics / PlayAmiga Design
On the occasion of the release of WB2000 Images for applications and tools with more than
350 pictures, we have now posted the current archive for preferences with 40 images on our site.
Furthermore there is a preview screenshot in the gallery on our news page of the new design of
Play! Amiga.de.
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20.Jan.2001
Friedbert Baer on ANF
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Another Interview with MeterNet
Greg Wible, CEO of MeterNet held an interview with amiga.topcool. There he talks about
his collaboration with Amiga, amongst others.
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20.Jan.2001
MindIt on ANF
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New Firmware (v1.08) for Plextor PX-R820T
There is a new firmware version 1.08 for the Plextor CD-ROM 'PX - R820T'. Here are the changes in detail:
Added:
- Reading of over-burned Audio discs
Improvements:
- Read of CD TEXT data (Error detection added)
- Initialisation of CD-Extra discs
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20.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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Interview with Greg Wible of MeterNet
Christoph Dietz had an interesting interview with Greg Wible, the founder and CEO of
MeterNet Corp.. MeterNet is the company that delivers, amongst others, the
'SimpleBox'
Greg Wible |
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Amiga-News: Where are you born?
Greg Wible: I was born in Medina, Ohio - a small town in between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. I graduated from University of Cincinnati and moved to Southern California in 1980. BTW, I understand that one primary ancestor Frederick Wible (aka "Weibel") sailed from his home in Rhine Province through Rotterdam in 1751 to relocate and start a new life in Western Pennsylvania in the US... so my family roots can be traced back to your country, Germany.
Amiga-News: How old are you?
Greg Wible: 43...but most days I feel about 28!
Amiga-News: When and where was MeterNet founded?
Greg Wible: Founded in May, 1996 with registered office in Reno, Nevada and sales office in Long Beach, California (near Los Angeles). More company info found at http://meternet.com/mtabout2.htm.
Amiga-News: Your position at MeterNet?
Greg Wible: Founder and President.
Amiga-News: How many employees are working for MeterNet and in which department the most?
Greg Wible: A total worldwide team of 12, evenly divided in sales/admin & development. We also use contract programmers from US and abroad.
Amiga-News: This seems not to be much. How large is the army of contract programmers?
Greg Wible: We are a small company. at any time we use from 0 to 6 contract programmers.
Amiga-News: Is MeterNet a public company?
Greg Wible: Currently private, although in the last two weeks we have received an offer sheet from a public company to acquire MeterNet. If/when this acquisition happens, we will make official news release.
Amiga-News: Can you tell us about investors?
Greg Wible: These are private citizens.
Amiga-News: You just introduced the "SimpleBox wb7500" with "EnReachTV2". What is this EnReachTV2?
Greg Wible: We use the SimpleBox brand throughout our product line covering both entry level and mid-class devices: wb6400, wb7500 and wb8600. Specs for the entire line are found at http://info.simplebox.com. Our MeterNet "mid-class' SimpleBox wb8600 series will be powered by AmigaDE on an x86 platform designed for broadband connection. Our 'entry level' SimpleBox wb6400 series have been shipping since 1999. Its a basic browser device using analog modem on a PA-RISC processor platform from Winbond and a tailored browser SDK from Access in Japan. We are extending our entry level category with the new wb7500 series which is powered by a tailored version of the TV2 browser from Enreach running on a Luxsonor RISC platform with soft modem. Enreach is a Chinese company that has long experience in VCD and is also working hard to promote PVR technology for their next generation TV4. But we are using their proven TV2 solution for the 'entry level' segment. We have no current plans for PVR or other 'bleeding edge' features.
Amiga-News: Do you focus an using AmigaDE in the next future for the SimpleBox?
Greg Wible: Absolutely! Initially in the wb8600 series, plus on a new Internet Radio device slated to be released in late 2001. Bill, Randy, Fleecy, Dean and the entire Amiga team are very long term alliance partners that are crucial for the continued growth of MeterNet. We anticipate mutual success utilizing AmigaDE in our SimpleBox devices.
Amiga-News: When can we expect the SimpleBox with AmigaDE to hit the market and what is the business plan for the SimpleBox?
Greg Wible: Our overall plan is to always offer a series of devices to our US vertical and export markets. We hope to begin shipments of wb8616 in US market by late February, but this depends our DSL partners and on the v1.0 software being ready. In the US we will ship the wb8616 bundled with DSL service as part of the offering. However, our current DSL partner just announced a major reorganization and have pushed back our timeline. We are still studying the best bundle and channel strategy to market in Germany, Europe and other export markets. When we do we ship, all wb8600 series will ship with online update capability, so as the AmigaDE solution continues its development progress we will offer the ability to upgrade to latest version.
Amiga-News: So the consumer only can get the SimpleBox in a bundle with provider? Or can the Set-top box be available without a provider chosen to connect through a self chosen one to the internet?
Greg Wible: In US, it will only be bundled with one provider and user cannot change (like a mobile telephone). As mentioned, we are still studying best strategy for outside US.
Amiga-News: Do you know about the existing Amiga community?
Greg Wible: We continue to learn more and more about the worldwide Amiga community, which is really quite amazing and unique.
Amiga-News: Why do you think the Amiga community is amazing and unique?
Greg Wible: Active/durable/committed/some borderline raging fanatics... and much larger than we ever imagined--especially in Germany & Europe.
Amiga-News: Do you need the Amiga community? If yes, which part of the community is important?
Greg Wible: We recognize that a portion, but not all, of the Amiga user community will be interested in our wb8600 series bundled with broadband service. But we are also targeting other market segments who, while possibly familiar with the Amiga brand and long history, are not active Amiga users. Long term, we expect to offer external hard drive / CD-ROM drive via USB for wb8616 that will come preloaded with some of the rich Amiga content including apps and games. We hope this will appeal to more of the Amiga community, both users and developers.
Amiga-News: Your "last words" to our readers?
Greg Wible: Keep the faith...but never forget the only thing permanent is change.
Amiga-News: Greg, thank you for this interview!
Contact Information MeterNet Corp.
MeterNet Registered Office
100 West Grove Street #360
Reno, Nevada 89509
email: MeterNet Corp.
Long Beach
Telephone: (562) 989-8976
Fax: (562) 424-4964
Reception: 3633 Long Beach Blvd. Suite #207
Correspondence: 4450 California Place PMB#344
Long Beach, CA 90807
email: sales@meternet.com
WWW: MeterNet
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20.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
CNCD-KillerCGX.lha demo/euro 3.0M+CNCD: Killer (CyberGraphX version)
APX-TB3FIX.lha demo/mag 9K+Taboo #3 AGA/CGX - FIX (magazine by Appe
pmDevBas.lha dev/basic 112K+Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic
adasrc1.lha dev/src 7K+Collection of simple Ada-Sources
Aminet-CD-40.lha docs/lists 28K+Aminet CD 40 index and description
Mattonite.lha game/demo 239K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
zab-android.lha mods/hardc 1.3M+DBM 8ch -> Zabba <- strange gabba 266bpm
id3taglibgui.lha mus/edit 34K+MPEG Audio ID3Tag (V1.x and V2.x) Editor
SamX26.lha mus/midi 400K+Sample-X v2.6 (registered version)
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choowin.lha util/wb 17K+Window activation utility
VisualPrefs_PL.lha util/wb 10K+VisualPrefs: Polish catalog
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19.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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New CyberGraphX Mailing List at eGroups
A new mailing list on the topic 'CyberGraphX' was created at eGroups.
You'll find instructions for subscribing and unsubscribing at the title link.
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19.Jan.2001
Crystal Interactive Inc.
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'Aqua' Released by Crystal Interactive Inc.
As reported Crystal Interactive has become distributor of the new adventure
game 'Aqua' and today they announced it has been completed.
In this game you'll find yourself in a mysterious world and will have to find your
way out. More information and screenshots at
Emerald Imaging,
the programmers of the game.
Requirements: AmigaOS 3.x or higher, an 68020 processor (68030 or better
recommended), 8 MB RAM, AGA or graphics board.
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19.Jan.2001
ATC
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New AmiTradeCenter Beta Version Released
A new beta version of the FTP client AmiTradeCenter (ACT) has been released.
You'll find the latest changes here.
Download: ATC_beta_19012001.lha - 280 KB
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19.Jan.2001
Deftone on ANF
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SMSEngineer NEWS
SMSEngineerMUI has been available in version 1.1beta for about a week.
This version contains the beta tester keyfile which enables the full
functionality and the use of the beta version.
We're also looking for someone who maybe has created own SMS-Gateways
(gateway.dat) and could send us these preferences. The requirement is that
it must work. Servers that set cookies don't work with SMSEngineerMUI.
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19.Jan.2001
Martin Merz on ANF
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New Image Sets with GlowIcons Design
Some new archives were released on the MasonIcons homepage:
- 3PMguiMI - a new skin for 3PMgui based on AppMI
- AmiMDCMI - a GlowIcons toolbar for AmiMDC800
- AudioMI - a toolbar imageset for AudioMaster 2k
- DataMI - a complete set of icons and toolbar images for DataM-II
For more information please visit the "projects" page of Mason. Home at the
title link.
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19.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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First Screenshot of 3vix Encoder for Amiga
The Amiga version of the 3ivx encoder will be available soon.
A screenshot of a Workbench on which 3ivx is already running can be found
here.
Supplement 20 Jan 2001:
Christoph Meier wrote:
The author of Frogger
has published a screenshot
of the OpenDivX encoder displaying a movie on his Workbench at 352x288 pixels and 14 frames/sec.
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19.Jan.2001
News agency owi by fax
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Amiga Becomes Handheld PC
On video text page 632 of German TV station RTL2 there's the following news today:
«On the CeBIT the "Smart-Boy®", a new miniature PC in handheld format,
will be presented which is equipped with a touch-screen display, chip- and
credit card reader. A consumer device is supposed to follow this autumn which
will be distributed under the label "Amiga(TM)". In the eighties, the Amiga
was the first fully multimedia capable computer for the mass market.»
Manufacturer is the company Thendic Electronic Components GmbH
from Aschaffenburg, Germany.
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19.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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Simon the Sorcerer 2 - Update 4 Available
As announced, Paul Burkey has released another update of Simon the Sorcerer 2.
Especially in the German version, many bugs have been fixed. French language
support and the F10 feature have been added.
Download: Simon2Upd4.lha
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19.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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NVidia Survey on Preferred Operating System
Amiga wins the NVidia survey on the preferred operating system with 58,4%.
The question was: "Which is your preferred operating system".
4788 people voted:
58.40% - Amiga OS
13.05% - Windows 2000
6.79% - OS2/ Warp
6.29% - Windows 98
4.91% - BeOS
4.47% - Windows Me
3.17% - Linux
0.90% - MacOS
0.40% - Other
0.38% - DOS
0.29% - S-TOS
0.29% - Solaris
0.23% - Windows 95
0.17% - IBMs ROM Basic
0.04% - Windows NT
0.04% - VMS
0.02% - Windows CE
The Amiga vote would be surprising if it were for the fact that almost 60%
of all the voters were referred to the poll from Amiga fan-sites anyway.
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19.Jan.2001
polarBoing
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Creative Amiga Box
'Fisherking' has built his Amiga, after installing the Mediator PCI board,
in a really creative wooden box. Have a look at some pictures of this
beautiful Amiga at the title link.
Supplement:
In the comments to this message on our German page, Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler referred us to this
drawer computer
by Atroxis from Virtual Dimension.
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19.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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New Plugin for ProstationAudio Released
A new plug-in named 'Vinylizer' has been released for all versions of
ProStationAudio. The effects of a vinyl record can be applied to sounds.
Download: Vinylizer.lha
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18.Jan.2001
amigasdk.com on ANF
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Exploring MP-Like Solutions
Fleecy Moss (Vice President - Development - Amiga Inc.)
talks on the AMIOPEN mailing list about the subject Memory Protection (MP)
in the new Amiga. This discussion rose from the amiga-news.de
interview
with Francis Charig from TAO. Hereupon followed several discussions in the
MooBunny forum:
1. Thread Looks (to me) like AmigaDE will never have mp
2. Thread Tao's response to MP in AmigaDE
3. Thread Bill M's response to Tao's response to MP in DE
Also at ANN this subject has been discussed industrious
in a long Thread.
There were many comments at
amiga.org, too.
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18.Jan.2001
Frederic Laboureur via eMail
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PureBasic Version 2.00
Version 2.0 0f the compiler PureBasic has been released. It was completely re-written
and now is 4 to 7 times faster than before. For registered users there is an update
and a demo version for non-registered users available. The website has moved and now
is accessible under www.purebasic.com. Technical
details.
About the compiler:
- Completely rewritten !
- Now, it's 4 to 7 times faster to compile
- Faster procedure handling
- Multi-dimensioned 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)
The PureBasic web site has now moved to www.purebasic.com.
The Windows x86 version is available for free to any Amiga registered
users ! Just send us a mail to get it !/li
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18.Jan.2001
QNX
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New QNX Distribution
Today QNX Software Systems released an new QNX® distribution.
This one contains Version 6 of QNY RTOS with new Neutrino® 2.11 mikrokernel, as
well as Photon® 2.0 mircoGUI. Newly added was SCSI support, a packet manager allowing
to update the integrated browser VoyagerTM. The new distribution offers enhanced support for
audio streaming and video in the range of multimedia. More information is to find under
the title link.
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18.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Planet IT: Interview with Bill McEwen
Dave Johnson from Planet IT did an interview
with Bill McEwen, President and CEO at Amiga Inc. on
January 8th, 2001.
Here a small extract from the six-pages interview:
Q: It sounds like you have plans to do a lot of things. Where are you concentrating your effort?
A: In the home. Homes need set-tops, desktop computers, handhelds and cell phones.
Motorola even has a cell phone running the Amiga OS, by the way. The home is our target,
and I think you'll see us first in set-top boxes. We also have some reference designs for
some amazing desktops that we think will blow people away. We won't build hardware ourselves,
but we have reference designs for others to build.
Q: So there could be new Amiga hardware coming out. Will there also be shrink-wrapped
Amiga OS packages to run on Windows?
A: Yes, there will be, but I'm not sure what the timing will be. We're still finishing
up some of the last components, like the 3D renderers. That will all be finished up in
the next new months. Already, we can run very cool 3D animation on a Cassiopeia, and it
is very smooth.
The entire interview is to find under the title link.
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18.Jan.2001
MeterNet
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MeterNet® Press Release
At the bottom of the following press release MeterNet announced the
SimpleBox 8600 series (powered by AmigaDE) to be released late February 2001.
MeterNet® Selects EnReach Technology's Easy Internet Access Platform
for SimpleBox wb7500 Series
SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17,2001 PRNewswire --
EnReach Technology, Inc., a global
leader providing infrastructure software for enabling enhanced services on
television, announced today that MeterNet Corporation has selected the
EnReachTV2(TM) Internet access platform to power the new wb7500 series in
its expanding SimpleBox entry-level Internet appliance lineup.
The new SimpleBox wb7500 series will utilize a specially tailored version of
EnReachTV2 that integrates Webmail, TV Lists, and MeterNet's SimpleBox User
Interface. Each SimpleBox wb7500 will ship preconfigured with US Nationwide
access dial-up service for $19.95 per month. Multi-lingual English and
Spanish technical support will also be provided. Initial US shipments are scheduled
for March 2001.
"EnReach's interactive software solution and our new SimpleBox wb7500 series
is an easy to use, low-cost combination that targets 'Late Adopters' seeking a
simple preconfigured alternative to discover the Internet on their home
televisions," said Greg Wible, President of MeterNet.
The EnReachTV2 Internet access software offers companies like MeterNet the
opportunity to supply their customers with a low cost Internet access
solution optimized for television. Advanced smart-fit screen technology and an
embedded browser make this a strong contender in the device marketplace.
"We are pleased to be working with a solution provider like MeterNet, who
was identified as one of the six major stand-alone Internet on TV providers by
The Carmel Group," said Bo Wu, CEO for EnReach."
MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed
solutions to their embedded platforms that target vertical and export markets. Each
device incorporates a tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged
solid-state design hardware with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation
and operation, the SimpleBox UI offers optional integrated Web-based eMail and
TV Listings that are optimized for display on televisions. The new wb7500
series complements the wb6400 series that have been shipping worldwide for the last
18 months and the new broadband wb8600 series that will be released in
February.
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18.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts
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New WarpBMP.datatype Version 44.1
WarpBMP.datatype v44.1 by Oliver Roberts released. The BMP picture datatype
is freeware and available for download for the following processors:
68k, PPC/WarpOS und PPC/MorphOS.
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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Linux Worm Obviously Spreading Rapidly
«An Internet worm named Ramen is attacking servers running under
the Linux distribution by Red Hat and apparently is spreading quite quickly.
It's activities stood out by augmented scans on Remote Procedure Call Services (RPC).
The worm utilizes two security gaps known long before inside of
FTP-Server wuftpd
and the program rpc.statd, which obviously still not have been remove from
many Linux machines. Already in September 2000 the Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) gave warning of
augmented attacks
of this kind.»
See title link for the complete article (German).
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18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: DivX Successor "OpenDivX" goes Open Source
«The MPEG4 video codec successor "DivX", which derived some stardom from being in
operation for spreading piracy copied movies via the Internet, may hope to be widely supported.
To gain more programmers to participate in the so called "Project Mayo"
the developers around Joe Bezdek, "Director of Product Definition" of Project Mayo decided
to release the current en-/decoder core of the video format as
Open Source.
OpenDivX is only one step on the way to realize greater goals: a versatile video codec -
named "DivX Deux" by the programmers - offering high quality and being free available at the same time
»
See title link for the complete article (German).
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17.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
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AW2.20-Patch.lha biz/haage 1.0M+AmigaWriter Patch 2.x -> 2.20
BitchX-BIN.lha comm/irc 1.2M+Amiga port of BitchX (console only)
ABS-MIS.lha demo/euro 415K+"Miss" - By Absurd
APT-DM26.lha demo/euro 534K+"Dreams#26", an intropack from Apathy *
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PureBasic.lha dev/basic 557K+V2.00 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBas_Up2.00.lha dev/basic 537K+V2.00 - Update for registered users (fro
pmdev.lha dev/gui 339K+PopupMenu.library SDK V10.8.0
Edison.lha disk/cdrom 14K+Patches ISO-image headers from MakeCD/Bu
AmigaOS35.lha docs/help 11K+A guide on Workbench 3.5
saku35.lha docs/mags 1.8M+Saku #35 (1/2001). Finnish e-zine.
SwosGreece.lha game/data 8K+Greek datafile for SWOS 00/01
pmangband.lha game/role 393K+Pern mangband 3.0.9
skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 746K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 386K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
skulpt_wos.lha gfx/3d 1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (PPC (WarpOS) + Warp3D)
VHIStudio.lha gfx/misc 944K+V5.4: DigiCam & Videoboard-soft: Rec, Gr
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 197K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8a)
imdbDiff010105.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Ankhrapt1.lha mods/med 441K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
AntiqueDream.lha mods/med 342K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
Test2long.lha mods/med 84K+By ESSENTiAL SOUND (ex.ESTROGEN)
np_feub.lha mods/misc 684K+Noyz Phaktah '001 - Fuk 'Em Up, Buttercu
soo_line.mpg mods/mpg 2.8M+Soo Line Blues Rock Guitar Jam
vampirebride.mpg mods/mpg 4.4M+"Vampire Bride" by Zadoc...and the Night
EP_Swedish.lha mus/play 16K+Catalog files for Eagleplayer V2.01
astrons1.jpg pix/astro 232K+Onsala observatory telescope
astrons2.jpg pix/astro 238K+Another Onsala observatory telescope
OS39w800.lha pix/back 742K+800x600 OS3.9 Wallpapers (Backgrounds Pi
silverskin.lha pix/misc 23K+A smooth silver-skin for CoolCALC
DBrown.jpg pix/vehic 319K+A tractor (David Brown 995)
Fiat580.jpg pix/vehic 241K+A tractor (Fiat 580)
Monkey_Island.jpg pix/views 289K+A picture of Monkey Island
PanosWB.lha pix/wb 163K+Snapshots of my Workbench
VeloxWb.lha pix/wb 262K+My nice Wb with Blizzard Vision in 16bit
MyNotes.lha text/edit 28K+A simple MUI based QuickNote clone
Typeface124.lha text/misc 170K+Bitmap font editor
CDTVTools.lha util/cdity 446K+Original CDTV tools for your Amiga
GhostBuster.lha util/cdity 10K+Commodity useful for people playing audi
ModePro.lha util/cdity 248K+4.67 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
WarpJPEG.dt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 133K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
wavdt41.lha util/dtype 8K+Datatype for wave sounds (41.6)
pmlib.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68000 (.library on
pmlib020.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68020 (.library on
pmlib040.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68040 (.library on
pmlib060.lha util/libs 27K+PopupMenu.library for 68060 (.library on
pmuser.lha util/libs 54K+PopupMenu.library V10.8.0
WriteKickDisk.lha util/misc 10K+Makes Kickstart disk from ROM image
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17.Jan.2001
ANN
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Amiga Samba Installation Script
A new installation script for Samba is being developed. Samba is a software which enables connecting
PC to Amiga. The new installation script is to help amateurs to install Samba in a simple way. Please,
have a look at the title link for further information.
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17.Jan.2001
AROS-ML
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AROS News
- Since child windows seem to be patented, Stefan Berger has removed
the support for them again. :-( If someone knows whether this
technology can be used freely, we'd like to know :-)
- Georg Steger has written an ASL Font Requester
- Johan Alfredsson has implemented and improved C:Run, C:NewShell,
C:List, C:Dir, DisplayBeep() and some more.
- Adam Chodorowski has improved our Workbench and began to port
a TCP/IP stack to AROS (ping compiles but there is no code
for the stack, yet).
- Michael Schulz has begun to work on a new AROS i386/Native core
which can load the large AROS kernel. AROS needs GRUB to boot,
now.
- Flavio Stanchina has improved lots of header and build files.
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17.Jan.2001
Benny Kjær Nielsen via eMail
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Allan Odgaard Needs Help
Allan Odgaard, who is known from several MUI-classes, has a serious problem with his hard drive. In order
to solve this problem he needs an identical hard drive. The following type is needed:
Seagate ST3660A with the following parameter: 1057CYL-16HEADS-63SECT-545.5MB
Those ones who can place this hard drive at Odgaard`s disposal please mail to Allan Odgaard.
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17.Jan.2001
Reader on ANF
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Vulcan Software Alive
After a long period of abstinence there are some news from Vulcan Software. We remember: An English producer
and developer of moderate Amiga games.
The "Valhalla" series, which was not very successful for the Amiga already, will be continued for the PC.
For the Amiga this game could at least convince by its few spoken sentences, but the first screenshots
of PC-Valhalla makes suspecting a product PC users might gladly leave un-converted.
(ps)
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17.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Linux 2.4 with File-System ReiserFS
«The Linux-kernel v2.4.0 has just been finished at last, and development already goes on. The biggest
change which will be integrated in the next kernel-version 2.4.1 would be including of the Journaling File System
ReiserFS. Already at the beginning of October Linus Torvalds explained in an interview with c`t that he
will not include ReiserFS in kernel 2.4.0, but as soon as possible in the 2.4. line. Obviously the time is right:
kernel 2.4.1-pre7 contains ReiserFS.»
Have a look at the title link for the full article (German).
According to Sourceforge
Apus test-kernels are also available for Amiga Linux.
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17.Jan.2001
Frogger
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Frogger Version 1.64b2 Released
There is a new beta-version 1.64b2 of the MPEG video player 'Frogger' by Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz which
you can download in several processor-versions as usual.
This program is shareware and you can register via the website online (via RegNet) or via transfer of money.
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17.Jan.2001
Boing World
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DOpus4 Version 4.15.4 Released
Because Jacek Rzeuski is not able to go on developing
DOpus4 Paul Huxham will continue and
has finished a new version 4.15.4 which you can download.
Download: DOpus4154.lzx - 425 KB
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17.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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New Version of sKulpt Released
sKulpt is the successor of the legendary 3D software 'Sculpt Animate 3D/4D' of Eric Graham and Byte By Byte.
Some years ago the raytracing program has a lot of friends because it was simple, cheap and effective.
It was made many pictures with this program of amateurs as well as of professional.
The successor sKulpt will be developed completely new by CdBSSoftware
and supports already for now PowerPC and Warp3D.
Have a look at the title link for further interesting information.
Download:
Skulpt_exe.lha - 68K
skulpt_wos.lha - PPC
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17.Jan.2001
Amiga Active
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Amiga Active - Preview for Issue #17
Following an extract from the preview of issue #17 of the English Amiga magazine:
Amiga's Rivals - It's a technological re-rack - but who'll survive the
longest in the 21st century?
Develop on Windows - The latest Amiga SDK reviewed inside.
Linux on Amiga - We show you how.
Amiga Forever 4 - The ultimate Amiga on a PC?
Simon the Sorcerer II - The longest awaited Amiga sequel?
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17.Jan.2001
Amiga Future News
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'The Commodore Billboard' Needs Help
Amiga Future wrote:
'The Commodore Billboard' has a really big problem. The site has 17 new TV-advertising spots
and several other stuff, but has not any possibility to offer that amount to the users on their own server.
Because of that Soren is urgently searching for users to put some files on their servers. If you have
this possibility, please contact Soren via eMail.
Following the complete message:
«The 17 tv-ads require some 70 MB. This will generate more traffic than I'm
allowed to use on my server. I'm currently in contact with a guy who might
be able to host all the files for free. This is obviously the ultimate solution,
but if this fails, I would like to know if some of you die-hard Commodore fans
out there would be willing to help me?
Instead of one server hosting all the video clips, I was wondering if we
could spread the files over several servers. If 17 people would volunteer
and host 1 file each? You would have to provide between 2.2 and 5.5 MB
storage space each. Would anyone be interested? I order to make this work,
I guess it'll have to be all or nothing. If only 5 people volunteer, I think
I'll scratch this hosting idea. As you may have traffic limits on your
accounts I can inform you that The Commodore Billboard has between 30-40
visitors aday. This will of course be higher for a short while, when the
news about the 17 tv-ads reaches the Commodore news sites. But then again,
not all 40 will download 5 MB video clips. And with the audio previews
available, maybe people will be more selective and not just download the
whole lot. This might help decrease traffic. By the way, you have to provide
webspace on fairly decent servers. I wouldn't want people to download the
video clips with a speed of 0.2 KB/sec. ;-))»
Any help in solving the hosting problem is much appreciated.
eMail»
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16.Jan.2001
Christian Rosentreter on ANF
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Pictures from Oldie Party
Under the above title link you can find pictures from the "Oldie Party for Homecomputers" which
was organized by the HTWK Leipzig on Mai 4th, 1999.
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16.Jan.2001
Scalos
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Scalos Module Update
Mike Carter has fixed the path problem in his module 'Execute Command' for Scalos
and now made it available for download as version 1.1.
Scalos-Module_EC.lha - 24 KB
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16.Jan.2001
NewTecniques
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NewTecniques: Bonus
The bonus content of the graphic magazine 'NewTekniques' with many interesting
workshops, articles, and tutorials only accessible for subscribers so far, was now
made openly available. In the issue for Mai/June 2000 e.g. it is in detail describe how to create a
perfectly animated
Boingball
with LightWave.
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16.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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Virus-Help Denmark News
Jan Andersen from Virus-Help Denmark was often asked if he was able to provide
the website of Virus-Help in German and French language, too. Peter Schmidt called his
attention to the possibility to make use of "Translator.go".
So, now via Translator.go the website can be translated by request to German, French, Spanish,
Italian, and Portugese. Andersen is aware of this not to be the best choice, but
better than nothing at all. Base language of the website is still English.
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16.Jan.2001
Innovative on ANF
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VHI Studio 5.4 is Here!
A new version of the reference software in case of video cards and digital cameras on the AMIGA, VHI Studio 5.4,
has been released. The update is free for owners of VHI Studio 5.x. Since v5.2 there are the following
changes:
- Driver for Digita compatible digital cameras (optional).
- Driver for Sony MSAC-SR1 compatible reading devices (optional)
- Save series of pictures directly from camera to HD
- JPEG-Decoding now on PPC (if exists)
- MPEG Encoder now also capable of frame rates uneven 25 f/s
- Bugfix in the DC240/DC280 driver, Update to V1.5
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15.Jan.2001
Matt Sealey via E-Mail
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AmigaOS Change-Logs Release Campaign
Matt Sealey started a petition to find out how big the common interest
in the publishing of change-logs since AmigaOS 3.1 really is.
The change-logs contain changes and add-ons compared to the previous
versions of the AmigaOS. This could be helpful for the development of new software.
The logs for AmigaOS V2.0 up to V3.1 are available on every Developer CD.
According to Matt Sealey Haage & Partner declined publishing their changes on the Developer CD V2.1.
There is the possibility on http://www.starforge.co.uk/petition.html
to sign a petition.
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15.Jan.2001
Amiga-Mania 5
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Pictures of the Amiga-Mania 5
There are some pictures of the user meeting 'Amiga-Mania 5' in Toulouse (France) available at the title link.
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15.Jan.2001
Bright Light Software
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TIDesigner V1.22 Released
TIDesigner is a good help-tool for everyone who wants to create TealInfo folios
for the Palm Pilot easier. The program is shareware.
Download: tidesigner.lha - 34 KB
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15.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Plans for a New Elbox Voodoo-driver
Elbox announced the release of version 1.2 of the Voodoo-driver for the PCI-board for
this week. The new version should contain many improvements. Additional information
is available at the title link.
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15.Jan.2001
Amclust on ANF
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New HTTP-Daemon with Real CGI-support
EasyAccess is a small and stable HTTP-daemon with the following attributes:
- EasyAccess can be made resident
- supports GET and POST method and every kind of CGI (tested with CanDo, Perl, Python and Batch-files)
- support for automated creation of directory content-files, Auth-Scheme RFC 19452 "Basic", Server Side Includes and more.
Download: EasyAccess.lha
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15.Jan.2001
BTTR Team via eMail
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Back to the Roots Update
Back to the Roots is one of the best sources for legal game-downloads. This update contains the
"Championship Manager"-series, "Second Samurai" and "Emerald Mine".
Don't forget to take a look at the other games. There are new scene demos, pictures and sounds taken from Amiga-games.
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14.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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AAA Award Canceled For The Time Being
Since 1997 the AAA Awards were given to people out of the Amiga area, among
other things for their hard- and software products. Among the award winners
have been Holger Kruse, Dave Haynie, Marcel Beck, Kermit Woodall, Stefan
Burstroem and SoftLogik. Now the awarding of this price will be canceled for the
time being. The reasons for this are too little manpower and too low support. In
the future the award may be granted again. This depends among other things on
the community and Amiga. Everybody who wants to comment on this may write
to f98-msa@f.kth.se.
The actual AAA Award Homepage at
www.aaa-awards.org
will be offline in the near future. The new one can be reached via
www.amiga-cg.se/aaaa/.
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14.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Voyager: Supported Tags
On January 14th, 2001 Oliver Wagner
has updated the list
of the HTML tags supported by the WWW browser 'V³'. It now meets the level of
the version 3.3.69 of the browser.
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14.Jan.2001
Hynek Schlagwack via email
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Second SimpleMail Alpha Released
On January 14th, 2001 Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer have released the
second alpha version of the email client 'SimpleMail'.
Compared to the previous version the following has changed:
- New: image buttons.
- New: showing of HTML mails (using internal routines lent from SimpleHTML).
- New: mails with different mode possible.
- New: showing of mail threads.
- New: index files for folder.
- Change: better address book.
SimpleMail can be found under
http://www.schlawack.net/simplemail/.
There are also screenshots of the software on this site.
The authors hope for this second version receiving a little bit more feedback as they got for
the first one and point out that the alpha state refers to functionality, but by
no means to stability.
Download: simplemail.lzx (80K)
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14.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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News Regarding the Amiga in Norwegian Language
Under http://www.polarboing.com/
there can be found up-to-date news from the Amiga area in Norwgian language.
The site uses PHP-Nuke for the layout of the
content and offers among other things a personal login and a text box with the
latest files of the file area of amigadev.net.
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14.Jan.2001
ANN
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ANN Looking for Advertising Income
For financing the Amiga Network News
Christian Kemp is looking for companies to advertise on ANN. The
latest advertising banner showed only 5 US Dollars during 13 days while 50,000 page views
were counted. Costs appear to ANN among other things because of web space,
telephone (monthly around 100 US Dollars), and domain name.
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14.Jan.2001
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac III update v2.3
Achim Stegemann wrote:
A new update for Digital Almanac III to version 2.3 was sent to all online registered
cusotmers.
It mainly fixes some bugs in th PPC version with caused crashes in special cases.
More information about the update can be found on the homepage following the
title link.
The English version of DA III will be finished as planned in the next three to
four weeks.
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14.Jan.2001
Jorge Pino (taken from the newspaper Computerwoche)
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New Multi-Functional Chip
An interesting multi-functional chip was presented by people out of the
Commodore/Amiga area at the CES. The company Embedded Wireless Devices (EWD)
offers with the "Valhalla E8000" a chip that is capable of transferring several
wireless communications protocols like Bluetooth, 802.11 (wireless LAN) or Home RF
simultaneous. Panasonic will apply the chip in future products.
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14.Jan.2001
WHDLoad
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WHDLoad version v13.1
On January 14th, 2001 version 13.1 of WHDLoad has been released.
This version contains many bugfixes and improvements.
Download:
WHDLoad_13.1_usr.lzx
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14.Jan.2001
stephan Rupprecht on ANF
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WAV datatype v41.6
On January 14th, 2001 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 41.6 of the
WAV datatype. With this datatype you can play sound files encoded in WAV
format.
In this version defective samples shouldn't cause the RIFF parser to run
into an endless loop, anymore.
Download:
wavdt41.lha (8K),
readme
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14.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame News
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Ultra Violent Worlds released
Some time ago Crystal Interactive
has announced to offer Amiga games on dual format CD-ROMs, that would contain a
version for another computer system along with the version for the Amiga. Now, with
Ultra Violent Worlds the first game of this kind has been released for the Amiga
and IBM PC compatibles.
Ultra Violent Worlds is a 2D-Shooter with vertical parallax scrolling on three
levels, background animations in arcade quality, impressive explosions and
atmospheric sound FX inclusive a matching soundtrack. Next to the 1 player mode
there's the possibility to play with two people on one split screen at the same time.
The game was developed by the Australian company Vorlan Software. The
Amiga version was already released in 1998 and contained several bugs at that
time. These were fixed in this re-release.
The Amiga version runs on any Amiga with AGA, 2MB Chip-RAM and 2MB Fast-RAM.
The PC version runs on Windows 95/98 with 8MB of free RAM.
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14.Jan.2001
Alfred Strum
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New Aminet Uploads
amlog.lha comm/misc 100K+V2.2 - HTTP/FTP/MAIL adress database
streamer.lha comm/www 32K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
AAM-Demo.lha demo/aga 1.3M+AmigaAnimeManga AGA DEMO => First DEMO
kng-flow.lha demo/intro 127K+Winner 64kb at FuckYanica One, jan 6-7,
Anime-X.lha demo/mag 762K+H-Anime disk-mag from Carnage
Wishkah.lha demo/sound 821K+Music Disk by VORTEX
ADV-ITA.lha dev/amos 478K+Italian adventures creator
BUtility.lha dev/amos 134K+Extension for Amos 1.3 users.
BSMustek-src.lha dev/c 43K+Source for Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver F
lclint.lha dev/c 515K+A tool for statically checking C program
SegTracker_pch.lha dev/debug 13K+Patches SegTracker V37.73 to V37.74
ScalaHelp.lha dev/misc 623K+A little help script for scalamm - progr
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 134K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
hof-html.lha docs/hyper 255K+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame January 2001
xadclients.lha docs/hyper 18K+Guide to all the XAD clients
ademoinfo.lha docs/lists 355K+Amiga demo list
amiuserlist.lha docs/lists 66K+AmigaUserList V10.98 of Germany, Switzer
AmigaFuture28.lha docs/mags 736K+Great german paper mag preview
InterviewsAren.lha docs/misc 45K+Amiga Arena Interviews 2000
PBOBS_Setup.lha game/data 21K+PuzzleBOBS 1024x768x8 config file.
Mattonite.lha game/demo 316K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
SeekAndDestroy.lha game/patch 27K+HD-Installer for Seek And Destroy V1.0
colourlines.lha game/think 107K+Logical ball game
Seachess.lha game/think 9K+Tic-Tac-Toe; Source included.
CyberBugfiX.lha gfx/aga 9K+CGXAGA companion - new features & chipme
CGX-AGA.lha gfx/board 2K+Devs:Monitors/CGXAGA replacement with so
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 32K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 35K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V24.lha gfx/edit 1.3M+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
PBOBS_GfxE.lha gfx/show 337K+Guide to make gfx to PuzzleBOBS game (E)
PBOBS_GfxI.lha gfx/show 346K+Guide to make gfx to PuzzleBOBS game (I)
ICS.lha hard/misc 2.4M+V2.01b LE ICS - professional color corre
OliverK.lha mods/blkha 120K+HC PT mod by blakkhar
Beach.lha mods/med 260K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
Dreamer.lha mods/med 640K+Ukrainian Dreamer's MED-module
Happy.lha mods/med 273K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
Jangle.lha mods/med 290K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
Light_candle.lha mods/med 132K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
Mama.lha mods/med 267K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
Plasma.lha mods/med 226K+Good Vetal OCSS-remix on Demo-music
Rainy_day.lha mods/med 204K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
Shut_up.lha mods/med 383K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
Stop.lha mods/med 474K+MED-module by ukrainian Dreamer
SPL_HappyPhone.lha mods/misc 43K+SOPROL module called "Happy Phone"
BaxPlayerV2.2.lha mus/play 159K+Multi-format module player.
EP_FredGray.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Fred Gray" external replaye
OS39Wallp.lha pix/back 1.1M+Some AmigaOS3.9 Wallpapers (Backgrounds
swalps.jpg pix/views 194K+Scene from the Swiss Alps
lorys_SS.lha pix/wb 359K+My grab of shapeshifter on my A1200t Bli
Yod-WB1.jpg pix/wb 286K+(1280x960) OS3.9, CV PPC, Heretic II & m
Yod-WB2.jpg pix/wb 245K+(1280x960) OS3.9, CV PPC, WipeOut2097 &
OFS033.jpg pix/wfm 374K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS034.jpg pix/wfm 519K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS035.jpg pix/wfm 490K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS036.jpg pix/wfm 365K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS037.jpg pix/wfm 729K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS038.jpg pix/wfm 637K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS039.jpg pix/wfm 651K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS040.jpg pix/wfm 526K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
TheGateway.jpg pix/wfm 474K+The Gateway
ttfr.lha text/font 8K+Rename true type fonts file correctly
TurboVal.lha util/boot 18K+The best validator for FFS (v2.1)
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 104K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 132K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
boards229.lha util/libs 41K+Boards.library V 2.29 - 428 Expansion bo
WHDInfo.lha util/misc 12K+WHDLoad slave examiner for HD games V1.2
Safe.lha util/virus 19K+Safe v14.6 - virus dicovering system
CoolCALC.lha util/wb 122K+*skinnable* calculator for the AmigaOS
RxTD.lha util/wb 27K+V1.0, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon prefs converter
TextloaderNG.lha util/wb 494K+TextConverter V2.20 - Word,WPerfect,HTML
VisualPrefs_RU.lha util/wb 56K+VisualPrefs: Russian catalog and docs
VisualPrefs_SI.lha util/wb 36K+VisualPrefs: Slovenian catalog and docs
VisualPrefs_SR.lha util/wb 10K+VisualPrefs: Serbian catalog
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14.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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MacOS X Resembling Image Set
Under the title link you can download two MacOS X (Aqua) resembling image sets
for use with Opus Magellan 2. Additionally, to make the workbench look fresh and
stylish, there are several patterns for use with MUI and also for the workbench
windows with a similar refreshing look.
You can find screenshots and the archive sized 102 KB.
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14.Jan.2001
M. Lueck on ANF
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AmigaOS 3.9 Wallpapers (Background Images)
Hello Amigans, as there's the huge amount of 4 new background images on the
AmigaOS 3.9 CD since AmigaOS3.5 I have decided to do some myself. The first
archive is already available on Aminet under pix/back/os39wallp.lha (1024x800
24Bit). A 800x600 version was just transferred onto Aminet. The 800x600 version
is named OS39w800.lha
Both archives are freeware and I allow Haage&Partner to use these.
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13.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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Safe Version 14.6 Released
Safe is a virus detector which can discover viruses, but cannot terminate them.
Name: Safe v14.6
Archive Name: Safe.lha
Archive Size: 19.779 Bytes
Date: 13. January 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: requires xvs.library v33.24
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13.Jan.2001
Virtual Dimension
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EMail Game: StarEmpire II
01-31-2000 will be the official launch of StarEmpire II planned, the space strategy game!
This text basing game is payed via e-mail, so no flatrate is needed. There are still some
seats to take - who wants to can still log on.
There is also af FAQ page from
now on, in which the most important questions are again answered nin short. If there are still
questions to ask an e-mail to starempire@virtualdimension.de
will be adequate.
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13.Jan.2001
Greg Donner
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Greg Donner: OS3.9 FAQ Updated
Greg Donner has updated the pages "Known Bugs", "3rd Party", and "Utilities"
of his Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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13.Jan.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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CDTVTools v1.0 Published
CDTVTools v1.0 has been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
This package is a collection of programs using the CDTV base library
to give also normal Amiga users the CTDTV feeling. All of the included
programs are commodities which can be controlled via Exchange. So now
everybody can e.g. start the original CDTV screen blanker, CD player or
preferences program.
The tools are basing on the CDTV basie library "playerprefs" by Commodore
which is implemented in the CDTV's ROM. Since I discovered documentations on
this library on the Developer CD v1.2, I was able to develop these tools within
two days. Of course these tools are freeware.
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13.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net News
At Amiga-Community.net you can post your opinion about several products for
the Amiga. For each (rational) opinion of members one will get 1 (one) score.
For every 4 (four) scores one will get 1 (one) EURO credit entry. Credits can
be payed from 5 (five) EURO!
Unfortunately entries with AWeb don't seem to work and therefore there is
a special forum for AWeb users.
IBrowse and PC browsers seem to work. If someone has problem with other browsers, please
contact Xandiy@web.de.
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13.Jan.2001
Oliver Luehr on ANF
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Chip: C64 with New Garment
«The Internet magazine Hardwareguru has sighted a Commodore 64 at
the super market Kaufland as a surfing machine designed to be directly
connected to a TV set.
Web.It reissued the C64, but did not use the original hardware. The Web-C64
is equipt with a low-end AMD processor with 100 MHz, 16 MByte ROM, and 16 MByte RAM,
as well as two MByte flash memory.»
Entire article at the title link (German).
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13.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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NVidia OS Poll Online Again
The offline taken poll on the favourite operating system is now online again.
At the time Amiga is ahead with 57.91%. IP addresses of "multiple voters" are
logged and published in a black list!
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13.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Silicon Valley Pioneer William Hewlett Has Passed
«The legendary engineer and Silicon Valley pioneer
William Hewlett
has passed on Friday in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 87. He was co-founder of the technology corporation
Hewlett-Packard. Together with David Packard he started his business in a
garage in Palo Alto and lead it
to the computer age and to a high tech giant with 49 milliards US dollar volume of sales. Hewlett millionfold
got ahead of his initial target, "...to do anything to earn a nickle". The economy magazine
Forbes listed him on
position #26
of the richest men of America with fortune of nine milliards US dollars.»
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13.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Interview Action!
"Rags" the action game by Shades Production was a little sensation
at Aminet, not without a reason! For all of you still remembering "Beach Head II"
on the C64 it's to be said "obligation to download"! But read the preview
of "Rags" and the interview with Shades Production! at the "Aktion" area yourself!
Amiga Arena - Special Price Action!
PhotoAlbum/CyberShow, GeoWorld, and VPrefs are available at a special price only until
01-31-2001!
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13.Jan.2001
Amiga Future
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XBaze Website with New URL
The website of the database program 'XBaze' by Rafal Kaczmarczyk is
available under http://www.o.k.pl/~xbaze/ (title link), from now on.
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13.Jan.2001
Thomas Unger on ANF
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THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES - Release 1.0.1
In release 1.0.1. of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES beside of some smaller changes in particular
the PDF files of the patent history have been re-converted and can be read trouble-free
with Apdf v2.2, now too.
THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES due to quality problems in the beginning will be written on
blanks of the type TDK CD-R74CMEC and shipped in a bubble wrapped envelope.
Since all of the specimen copies are out, we can now care for the orders very fast.
Thomas Unger (Kickstart@nexgo.de) is always
all ears for hints on interesting websites still missing on the CD-R. If these match
the concept of the KICKSTART ARCHIVES, he will contact the owners.
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13.Jan.2001
Infomedia
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Infomedia Network News
Infomedia Network and the Tao Group signed an agreement to deliver TVision
products. Press release of
01-10-2001:
Infomedia and Tao Group Collaborate to deliver TVision Development Kit...
Press release of
01-12-2001:
Infomedia Network and Tao group have formed a closer relationship to deliver
Infomedia's TVision product for the Java embedded space...
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13.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts HP
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New Datatypes for WARP
WarpJPEG.datatype 44.16 of 12.1.2001, Freeware
JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpPNG.datatype 44.10 of 12.1.2001, Freeware
PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
Download:
WarpJPEGdt.lha - (103K)
WarpPNGdt.lha - (133K)
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13.Jan.2001
Haage&Partner
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The Quantum Leap: StormC 4
The latest version of the successful development system actually represents a
quantum leap: network capability, shared make, CVS, modified GCC compiler for
the Amiga hunk format, global full-text search, extended editor, debugging
of tasks and shared libraries, and the new StormDOC.
But the most important feature of this new development system is the step
it takes towards the new AmigaOS. Though still everything runs on the Classic Amiga
and will be published like that, but everything was developed with easy portability
in mind. Last but not least this was the reason for a modified version of the
GCC used as compiler.
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13.Jan.2001
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga.de - News About the Reorganisation
The renewal of playamiga.de comes to figures. The popular company
Synotec will care for the
re-design. Since there should not only be optical changes, but also changes of the contents
we need your help.
Some questions were worked out for a completely new rating system. If you would like to help
with this, just send an e-mail to Juergen A. Theiner
and you will get the questions in return. Many thanks in advance and already look forward to
the announcement of: 'playamiga.de becomes Play!Amiga'
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12.Jan.2001
Paul Nolan
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Photogenics Website with New Layout
Paul Nolan's website for Photogenics was updated and has got a new layout.
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12.Jan.2001
AmigArt
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mFTP II Version 1.3 Released
Version 1.3 of the FTP client mFTP II has been released.
Download: mftp_13.lzx
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12.Jan.2001
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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Scalos 1.2d Beta Released
A new beta version of Scalos, the extensive Workbench replacement, has been
released. The website hasn't been updated, yet. Please read the readme's
before installation!
Download:
Scalos-V1.2d.lha
Scalos-IconSystem.lha
Here the original mail:
All OS3.4+ owners will be pleased to know that a new Scalos exe has
been released! The fixes are a combined effort with the original
source from Juergen and the dedicated effort of Dave for sloggin' it
out through late nights! Until the website is updated later today you
can grab the new executable only archive from:
http://scalos.striatum.org/products/scalos/main/Scalos-V1.2d.lha
To install, simply copy the executable in the archive to SCALOS: path.
Please continue to read this email before installing anything new!
You will also need the latest (release 3) of the seperate icon system
archive
http://scalos.striatum.org/products/scalos/main/Scalos-IconSystem.lha
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THESE FILES ARE STILL CONSIDERED BETA STATUS
UNTIL IT *APPEARS* EVERYBODY IS HAVING NO PROBLEMS. We appreciate error
reports to the mailing list, share your problems regarding OS3.5+ icon
images with us so we can ensure all problems are fixed.
NOTE:
We are aware that the logo in the about requester does not remap to
the correct colours currently, this is a side effect of the new 'C'
ported code for portions of Scalos. This will not affect use and we
hope to have that fixed before the next release. Which should
hopefully feature some decent bug fixes.
Ensure you backup your OLD 'Scalos' executable file before replacing
it with this new one, just incase. Once everything is finalised all beta
files will become release versions and appear in the main Scalos
distribution archive. Hey, we might even upload it to Aminet too :-)
Have fun, and lets hope all is well.
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12.Jan.2001
Onlinekosten.de
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PC Manufacturer Gateway Cancels Every 10th Job
Onlinekosten.de wrote:
«The US computer manufacturer Gateway after unexpected deficit cancels
more than every tenth job. As the company announced on Thursday (local time)
in San Diego, California, job slashing would go off already during the first
quarter this year, Gateway employed 19,300 people worldwide in 1998. The offeror
specialized in direct shipping of PCs announced a deficit of 94,3 millions of
US dollar for 4Q/2000, because of diclined demand and risen pricing pressure.
»
Heise wrote:
«More than 10 % of staffers of the oppressed PC manufacturer Gateway will loose their
jobs: this is a consequence which Gateway drew from extremely base balance for the 4th quarter.
Balance was even worse than expected after the profit caution from late November when Gateway
stated to be in the red in the 4th quarter.»
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11.Jan.2001
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF
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WB2000 Images and MiniGlowIcons Update
Due to great demand now there is an updated archive of the Mini GlowIcons, and
an special archive for WB2000 users who can only use IFF-pictures with this program.
If number of downloads, which you can reach via "Aktuelles", will keep on this high level
there will be new icons added.
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11.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
Mishap: The recent number suddenly did not show any new uploads any more. Of course the new
number now gives in return the uploads of the last two weeks; but there is no other
option to get back to rotation, yet.
Videomanage.lha biz/dbase 398K+A Videodatabase
OpusMI.lha biz/dopus 1.3M+GlowIcon DOpus Images (7th Release)
OpusMIupd.lha biz/dopus 236K+OpusMI Update (6th to 7th Release)
HomeBank.lha biz/misc 201K+V1.8 The personal account manager (MUI)
AmBoS-Demo.lha comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive
AmBoS-Update.lha comm/ambos 1.2M+AmBoS-Update Rel. 2.98j (Wednesday 03-Ja
Cit_Docs_BA01.lha comm/bbs 571K+Citadel 68K Documenation
Cit_exec_BA01.lha comm/bbs 247K+Citadel 68K BBS Program
cit_src_BA01.lha comm/bbs 544K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Source
Cit_Util_BA01.lha comm/bbs 464K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Utilities
AInfoBOT.lha comm/irc 31K+Clone of the PERL InfoBOT
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
ON.lha comm/irc 12K+ON function for AmIRC
ClipWatch.lha comm/misc 181K+Tool to call Clip/WIT remote surveillanc
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 407K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 114K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
LCR-P.lha comm/misc 75K+LeastCostRouter Print-Tool
LCR.lha comm/misc 112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AutoTCP.lha comm/tcp 1K+AutoTCP, Autostart your favourite TCP/IP
samba_2.0.7.lha comm/tcp 6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
TaskiSMS_HU.lha comm/tcp 3K+Hungarian catalog for TaskiSMS 2.0
ApacheMI.lha comm/www 49K+GlowIcons for Apache Servers
Cookie_Killer.lha comm/www 14K+AWeb cookie management (v1.01)
RadarTA.lha comm/www 31K+Radar Transfer Anim for any web browser.
wpz-frozen40.lha demo/aga 1.3M+Frozen#4o - The Party Edition
Nature-Grid2fx.lha demo/intro 86K+Nature - Grid2, winner 64k at TP2000
nms-spaceqst1e.lha demo/intro 16K+Space Quest 1E. cracktro from Nemesis
pvt-cafe.lha demo/slide 2.3M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 1999-200
jrm-mm70.lha demo/sound 132K+DA JoRMaS: MonoMeno #70
BallMasterSrc.lha dev/basic 48K+Source for BallMaster V1.2
BlitzLstDec00.lha dev/basic 253K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
clockita.lha dev/basic 67K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
2b_TKLsort.lha dev/c 33K+This program sorting text files.
Amiga-C-Dec00.lha dev/c 122K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Dece
codestorage.lha dev/c 354K+Create & manipulate your own DataBase of
pgmasst.lha dev/c 77K+A GUI for various text editing & formatt
MuGuardianAnge.lha dev/debug 287K+MungWall superset, detect accesses to no
powerd.lha dev/e 723K+New powerful programming language v0.16
yaec.lha dev/e 287K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.2b]
yaec_fix.lha dev/e 0K+Fixes stupid archive error in yaec.lha (
catcheck.lha dev/misc 23K+Amiga catalog tester, v1.0
WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 500K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 130K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 81K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha disk/misc 68K+DVD-RAM RDB, MountList and DOSDrivers Ma
FindChanges.lha disk/misc 40K+Finds changes made to disk
msd95v16.lha disk/misc 40K+MS FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 Filesystem handler
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 582K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 12/
amiuserlist.lha docs/lists 65K+AmigaUserList V10.96 of Germany, Switzer
Aakt0101GFX.lha docs/mags 526K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0101GUIDE.lha docs/mags 92K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0101HTML.lha docs/mags 247K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
AaktInt1200GFX.lha docs/mags 336K+International infotainment magazine (gra
amigazette_00.lha docs/mags 81K+AMIGAzette (italian magazine)
amigazette_01.lha docs/mags 167K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (20.06.1999) (itali
amigazette_02.lha docs/mags 633K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (10.08.1999) (itali
mc201.lha docs/mags 183K+German Metal Mag in HTML - Februar 2001
Onkelz.lha docs/mags 72K+German Boehse Onkelz guide AG
starmag25_ht.lha docs/mags 1.3M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
WarpUp-Dec00.lha docs/misc 121K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in D
Snace.lha game/2play 273K+2pl. snake-like racing game, but in all
Rags.lha game/actio 2.4M+Violent and fast 1 on 1 combat game
amigo6_2.lha game/board 88K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
Blockoutlvs.lha game/data 6K+A hard Levelset for Blockout,for hard gu
Mattonite.lha game/demo 238K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
PBOBS_Demo.lha game/demo 586K+A Puzzle Bobble style game (demo).
Tankista_v0.3b.lha game/demo 105K+Buggy betaversion action game for 2 play
WormWars.lha game/misc 776K+WormWars 6.5: Advanced snake game
Powerdrive.lha game/patch 40K+HD-Installer for Powerdrive V1.0
Viz.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for Viz V1.0
WHDIDemos.lzh game/patch 1.5M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesA-B.lzh game/patch 1.5M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesC-D.lzh game/patch 1.3M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesE-F.lzh game/patch 820K+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesG-I.lzh game/patch 1.1M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesJ-M.lzh game/patch 1.3M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesN-R.lzh game/patch 1.4M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesS-T.lzh game/patch 1.8M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WHDIGamesU-Z.lzh game/patch 709K+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
WorldCricket.lha game/patch 33K+HD-Installer for World Cricket V1.0
eyangband.lha game/role 798K+EyAngband 0.2.1 - Roguelike solo RPG
gumband.lha game/role 930K+Gumband 2.1.2a - Roguelike solo RPG
A_Sweeper_1.05.lha game/think 128K+AGA Workbench MineSweeper V1.05
BallMasterAGA.lha game/think 1.4M+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
BallMasterECS.lha game/think 934K+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
Pishti.lha game/wb 106K+Popular Turkish card game. (v1.01)
centipede.lha gfx/3d 682K+Futuristic 3D font for Maxon Cinema 4D
chair.lha gfx/3dobj 130K+Steel Chair Object for Maxon Cinema 4D
jpeg2mov.lha gfx/conv 30K+Creates a QuickTime-Movie
SvIVFix916.lha gfx/misc 189K+*Fix* for SViewIV V9.15 (4.1.2001)
AMP.lha gfx/show 188K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AVI,QT/MOV,FLI/FLC,NSF pla
AMP2.lha gfx/show 147K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AC3 player v2.01 (010106)
RivaAudio.lha gfx/show 11K+Script for fast Mpeg-1 video+sound playb
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 75K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
CC-Tools.lha hard/drivr 36K+Download to C-Control/BASIC
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 59K+V1.3, Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aipt
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 665K+V1.56 PSX MemoryCard Reader
TestGear-Notes.lha hard/hack 4K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
ICS.lha hard/misc 2.4M+V2.01LE ICS - professional color correct
anescgfx.lha misc/emu 100K+A/NES CGFX v1.22 - Nintendo emulator
actors.lha misc/imdb 27M+Actors.list (29.12.2000)
actresses.lha misc/imdb 14M+Actresses.list (29.12.2000)
aka-names.lha misc/imdb 635K+Aka-names.list (29.12.2000)
aka-titles.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Aka-titles.list (29.12.2000)
alternate-vers.lha misc/imdb 490K+Alternate-versions.list (29.12.2000)
biographies.lha misc/imdb 21M+Biographies.list (29.12.2000)
business.lha misc/imdb 1.0M+Business.list (29.12.2000)
certificates.lha misc/imdb 678K+Certificates.list (29.12.2000)
cinematographr.lha misc/imdb 1.6M+Cinematographers.list (29.12.2000)
color-info.lha misc/imdb 1.8M+Color-info.list (29.12.2000)
complete-cast.lha misc/imdb 311K+Complete-cast.list (29.12.2000)
complete-crew.lha misc/imdb 116K+Complete-crew.list (29.12.2000)
composers.lha misc/imdb 1.6M+Composers.list (29.12.2000)
costume-design.lha misc/imdb 513K+Costume-designers.list (29.12.2000)
countries.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Countries.list (29.12.2000)
crazy-credits.lha misc/imdb 113K+Crazy-credits.list (29.12.2000)
directors.lha misc/imdb 3.4M+Directors.list (29.12.2000)
distributors.lha misc/imdb 1.6M+Distributors.list (29.12.2000)
editors.lha misc/imdb 1.2M+Editors.list (29.12.2000)
genres.lha misc/imdb 1.9M+Genres.list (29.12.2000)
german-aka-tit.lha misc/imdb 371K+German-aka-titles.list (29.12.2000)
goofs.lha misc/imdb 572K+Goofs.list (29.12.2000)
imdbDiff001222.lha misc/imdb 1.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff001229.lha misc/imdb 1.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
iso-aka-titles.lha misc/imdb 22K+Iso-aka-titles.list (29.12.2000)
italian-aka-ti.lha misc/imdb 434K+Italian-aka-titles.list (29.12.2000)
keywords.lha misc/imdb 2.5M+Keywords.list (29.12.2000)
language.lha misc/imdb 1.8M+Language.list (29.12.2000)
laserdisc.lha misc/imdb 932K+Laserdisc.list (29.12.2000)
literature.lha misc/imdb 1.1M+Literature.list (29.12.2000)
locations.lha misc/imdb 889K+Locations.list (29.12.2000)
misc-companies.lha misc/imdb 417K+Miscellaneous-companies.list (29.12.2000
miscellaneous.lha misc/imdb 7.9M+Miscellaneous.list (29.12.2000)
movie-links.lha misc/imdb 2.3M+Movie-links.list (29.12.2000)
movies.lha misc/imdb 3.0M+Movies.list (29.12.2000)
mpaa-ratings-r.lha misc/imdb 76K+Mpaa-ratings-reasons.list (29.12.2000)
plot.lha misc/imdb 8.5M+Plot.list (29.12.2000)
producers.lha misc/imdb 2.7M+Producers.list (29.12.2000)
production-com.lha misc/imdb 2.9M+Production-companies.list (29.12.2000)
production-des.lha misc/imdb 559K+Production-designers.list (29.12.2000)
quotes.lha misc/imdb 2.4M+Quotes.list (29.12.2000)
ratings.lha misc/imdb 796K+Ratings.list (29.12.2000)
release-dates.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Release-dates.list (29.12.2000)
running-times.lha misc/imdb 1.4M+Running-times.list (29.12.2000)
sound-mix.lha misc/imdb 943K+Sound-mix.list (29.12.2000)
soundtracks.lha misc/imdb 1.6M+Soundtracks.list (29.12.2000)
special-fx-com.lha misc/imdb 76K+Special-effects-companies.list (29.12.20
taglines.lha misc/imdb 504K+Taglines.list (29.12.2000)
technical.lha misc/imdb 1.3M+Technical.list (29.12.2000)
trivia.lha misc/imdb 1.0M+Trivia.list (29.12.2000)
writers.lha misc/imdb 3.7M+Writers.list (29.12.2000)
BD-MLBreath.lha mods/bladr 109K+"My Last Breath" by Black Dragon/Honoo+L
gettinwet.lha mods/jorma 87K+Gettin' Wet by Naks (Techno, from JRm-MM
Amigaska.lha mods/med 111K+Amiga is back Western style in Apr 1999
CriticalsPromo.lha mods/misc 31K+Custom module from Critical's "Promotion
32bc_drunk.mpg mods/mpg 6.9M+8 drunk Gods
HaleBob.mpg mods/mpg 4.4M+Spacy SSV1.03c MOD in MP3 Apr 1997 by Th
af-bassic_tune.lha mods/techn 231K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 143bpm
af-vklop.lha mods/techn 984K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 140bpm
GMP-G.lha mus/midi 123K+GUI for GMPlay V1.3(a)
SDT_MSR.lha mus/misc 4K+Sound Ripper
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 121K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EasyMOD.lha mus/play 14K+Simple shell-based MOD-player
EasyPlayer.lha mus/play 90K+The alternative music player, v1.04
EP_RiffRaff.lha mus/play 6K+EaglePlayer "Riff Raff" external replaye
Sid4Amiga.lha mus/play 417K+Plays C64 Sid Music Files - PPC/68K/GUI
AmiDoPat.lha pix/back 22K+Nice Images for AmiDock OS3.9
BoingRays.jpg pix/back 152K+Boing Ball peeking out of dark clouds
CGXBootPic39.lha pix/boot 164K+CGXBootPic.library for OS 3.9
TinyGICollectn.lha pix/gicon 49K+GlowIcons - size doesn't matter ;-)
jcIconsII.lha pix/icon 130K+Os3.5,os3.9 Icon package II
no_shower.lha pix/misc 189K+[ancor] a pic with Sarah and her sister
sg-strip_2.lha pix/misc 80K+[ancor] strip 2 of the comic
sg-strip_3.lha pix/misc 66K+[ancor] strip 3 of the comic
StarTrekX02.jpg pix/trace 58K+Romulan Warbird, E-Enterprise
StarTrekX03.jpg pix/trace 74K+Romulan Warbird, E-Enterprise
OFS028.jpg pix/wfm 758K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS029.jpg pix/wfm 536K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS030.jpg pix/wfm 320K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS031.jpg pix/wfm 485K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS032.jpg pix/wfm 578K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
AW-Filter.lha text/dtp 50K+AmigaWriter filter for PageStream
Word8-Filter.lha text/dtp 7K+Word 8 filter for PageStream
documentviewer.lha text/misc 67K+Show the User a directory of documents t
titleshadow.lha util/boot 4K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
MMULib.lha util/libs 578K+Library to ctrl the MC68K MMUs
sndfile.lha util/libs 296K+Library for reading/writing various samp
AslToRT.lha util/misc 11K+Asl/Arp/Req/Intuition requester to ReqTo
LC2.lha util/misc 184K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 101K+V1.43 Millenium - WB graphics benchmark
DosTrace.lha util/moni 24K+DOS monitor better than SnoopDos
PowerTools.lha util/moni 12K+Power failure logger
ReqCh.lha util/sys 7K+Bugfixed replacement for C:RequestChoice
TransPrefs22.lha util/sys 39K+TranslatorPrefs V2.2 (640x256 fixt)
Ver.lha util/sys 14K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version 40.1
LSClock21.lha util/time 35K+SHAREWARE clock utility - New Release v2
Safe14_5.lha util/virus 19K+Safe v14.5 - virus dicovering system
xvslibrary.lha util/virus 51K+External Virus Support Library v33.24
fastbar.lha util/wb 32K+FASTBAR1.07b, another screen-manager for
MemIcon.lha util/wb 13K+Memory/Screen/OS display for OS3.5/OS3.9
RunArgs.lha util/wb 8K+V3.0, WB 3.9 ToolsDaemon Menu Launcher
TMPlus.lha util/wb 87K+AddOnMenus to ToolsAppMenu(With-GUI-Pref
TransAGA.lha util/wb 32K+TransAGA, Transparent Workbench3x menu f
WB2000-Ger.lha util/wb 5K+German Locale for Workbench2000 1.8
WB2000_18.lha util/wb 673K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
WB2000_18_Ita.lha util/wb 3K+Italian Catalog for Workbench2000 1.8
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11.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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Nice Calculator for the AmigaOS
Who ever worried about the shop-soiled calculator of the AmigaOS
can look forward, now! On my homepage one can download the initial
version of CoolCALC. This one virtual offers the same functions as
the original program, but can be embellished with skins (one is part
of the archive) and can be iconified. Under the title link you will find
screenshots and also the download area. Have fun!
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11.Jan.2001
Xandiy on ANF
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Amiga-Community.net Looking for Sponsor(s)
Since finally a possibility was found to give bonus for written opinions one or more
sponsors (with banner) are wanted. Interested people may please contact
From now on there will be scores. Everybody who is registered for the Community will get scores.
First register and then wait until your member-number gets mailed to you, then you can score.
One score for every message. What one can do with his/her scores will be announced during the
following days.
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11.Jan.2001
Halvadjian Georges on ANF
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PerfectPaint V2.4
PerfectPaint v2.4 is available for download under the title link.
What's new?
- Improve some requester
- Improve Brush Mosaic
- Raylab Factory:
RayLab Factory is a powerfull and simple gui for RayLab.
With this gui, you can:
- Select a predefined shapes or 3D font.
- mappe you shape with predefined textures or a mapping image.
- rotate your shape, place your light ...
- and build you picture or brush directly in perfectpaint.
RayLab is a freeware raytracer made by Marcus Geelnard.
Include in PerfectPaint package, the raylab881 executable
and the documentation (with the permission of the author).
There is a Wos version of Raylab on Aminet (raylabwos.lha)
and a 'PPC elf' version, on the official
Raylab homepage
- fixed a bug while saving CMAP palette
- New tool: Rotated ellipse
- several bugs corrected with CMAP brush
- small bugs corrected with gradient effect, starfield effect, zoom,
TurboPrint and Symetrie
- Add Load and Save Stencil
- Use AsyncIO.library
- PPM picture can, now be loaded and saved.
- Fix a bug with the arexx command: pp_Render, the script for saving
Gif anim will works well now
- Animation can be croped.
- Improve PerfectPaint aspect: Desktop and Requester can have pattern
(in PPM format) (see prefs/Backgrounds)
- You can, now, manage 10 different brushes. With these brushes you can
create, loading and saving Albums.
- Little bug fixed with XPK requester
- New Color effect: Adjust levels and Auto levels.
- If you change depth of your picture, Current brush is automatically remapped
- Improve balance requester
- Improve Rubber stamp
- Improve arexx script: LoadPS (postscript)
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11.Jan.2001
LinuxToday
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Linux 2.4.0 Released
After almost 2 years of development on 01-05-2001 Linux 2.4.0 was released.
Download: v2.4 Directory
In the meantime even the first pre-patch has been released. Take a look at the message at
Pro-Linux.
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11.Jan.2001
AmigArt
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GUI History Since 1973
Under the title link you can read the history of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) since 1973.
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11.Jan.2001
EASys!
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Patch for EASys! 4.84 Released
On the 'Servicepacks' page there is a "patch" for the current version 4.8.4 (has to be installed!)
underr OS 3.9 available. Please, it is absolut necessary for you to read the
Readmefile before
installation!
Download: EASys!_patch_484.lha
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11.Jan.2001
Coloraid
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ICS Version 2.01b Released
Version 2.01 of the free available color calibration software for AmigaOS 'ICS' by
Wolf Faust was released. Download links for the program as well as diverse additions you
will find under the title link.
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11.Jan.2001
Greg Donner
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Greg Donner: OS3.9 FAQ Update
Greg Donner has updated his Amiga OS3.9 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) as well as
the compatibility list, installation tips, and the page with known bugs.
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10.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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"Die Welt": How The Chips Learned Being Noisy
"Until 1985 acoustical there was no alteration according to the standard of computer sound
which was introduced by C64. To this time Atari had the idea of producing an home computer Atari ST
equip with a MIDI-interface. This Musical Instrument Digital Interface made it possible to
control electronic music instruments like keyboards with the computer. Atari ST was the first computer
in series that used this possibility and made the data exchange between computer and music instruments
possible. The built-in 8-Bit-sound-chip had only the ability of producing three mono voices, but the
main processor worked perfectly together with the MIDI-interface. Musicians from all over the world
recognized the future of computer music and almost each sound studio connected its mixing desk with
an Atari ST. Since the early nineties a MIDI-interface was standard for sound cards.
Two years after the introduction of the ST, in 1987, Commodore set a new standard for music computers
with the Amiga 500 for the mass market: four-channel-stereo was the new standard. Programming of music
directly in the computer was now possible without expensive equipment. For a long time this was
the greatest advantage of the Amiga towards other computers. Because of that and because of its great
graphical abilities it was the game computer at all."
Also in the today`s `Die-Welt`-article Concerto Commodore
it is reported of the musical abilities of the C64.
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10.Jan.2001
Simon II
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Simon the Sorcerer II
As you can read on the homepage of Paul Burkey, who made the Amiga-port of Simon the Sorcerer II, there
will be a MAC-port soon. It also could have been solved the audio-problem. There will be an update
for the Amiga-version in a few days.
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10.Jan.2001
Boingworld
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NVidia OS Opinion Poll
There is an opinion poll at the NVidia news site in the left menu about the preferred operating system.
The Amiga is also on the list and is currently on the third place with 17,99 % after BeOS and Windows.
Supplement 11.01.2001:
The opinion poll has been canceled because the voting was falsified by scripts which vote again and
again. The script-kids do not have the faintest idea which harm they make!
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10.Jan.2001
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Epics News: Amiga-Version of Earth 2140 Available
From today Earth 2140 which is a for the PC developed real-time strategy game by Topware Interactive
is available for Amiga. Earth 2140 needs an Amiga with at least 68040 CPU, a 4 MB graphic board and
24 MB RAM. But in order to have the full pleasure of the game it is recommended a PPC Amiga with
32 MB RAM. On the website of Epic Interactive under the title link you can find a new demo-version
as well as further information about Earth 2140.
Download Demo: Earth2140_Demo.lha
You can find a preview for this game at No Risc No Fun.
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10.Jan.2001
Christoph Meier on ANF
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Futurezone: New Power Macs are Ready
The most efficient model of the new Macintoshs which is a 733 MHz G4 Power Mac surpassed a Pentium-4-PC [1,5 GHz]
with 12 seconds while rendering a 3D-graphic to the pleasure of the audience.
Other reports on this topic:
The Register: Moto G4 Plus makes it to latest Power Mac line-up
Slashdot: A Basket Full of Apple News
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10.Jan.2001
Oliver Roberts HP
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New Datatype for Warp
WarpJPEG.datatype 44.15 from 9.1.2001, freeware
JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
WarpPNG.datatype 44.9 from 9.1.2001, freeware
PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS)
Download:
WarpJPEGdt.lha - (104K)
WarpPNGdt.lha - (132K)
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10.Jan.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS News
Sigbjørn Skjæret has published a new VCDGear 1.6d at www.morphos.de.
"This Amiga-port of VCDGear (station-version) can make VCDs on your Amiga. You can find information
to the original project at www.vcdgear.com."
Please have a look at the VCDGear.readme (1780B).
Download: VDCGear16d.lha - (123K)
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10.Jan.2001
Amiga Inc.
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AmigaOS 3.5 Boing-Bag #2a Released
Because of some minor bugs at Boingbag #2 of AmigaOS 3.5 yesterday it was published an update #2a which
simply has to be installed over Boingbag #1 or #2.
Download: BoingBag2a.lha - 1,6 MB
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10.Jan.2001
V³ Portal
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V³ 3.3.65beta Released
It was released version 3.3.65beta of the Amiga-browser Voyager. This is the first version with a new
layout-engine. A keyfile is needed. you can find important information about the changes in
v_33beta65.readme.
Download: v_33_beta65.lzx - 889 KB
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09.Jan.2001
Bob Scharp
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30.3./1.4.2001 - Amiga2001, St. Louis, USA
The 7th Gateway Computer Show 'Amiga2001' will take place late March /
early April 2001 in St. Louis, USA. Organizer is Bob Scharp. On the web page
(title link) you will find unter "Next Show" an updated list of exhibitors,
which clubs and personalities will attend, and which events are panned.
If you would like to be exhibitor on the Amiga2001, please click on "Exhibitor?".
Contact:
Bob Scharp
Amigan-St. Louis
P.O. Box 672
Bridgeton, MO 63044
U.S.A.
E-mail: bscharp@icon-stl.net
WWW: http://www.amiga-stl.com/
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09.Jan.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG Released
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.1 NG has been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
But this update can only be downloaded and used by people owning the CD-ROM "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair
Gold Edition". In version 4.1 the integrated emulator's compatibility is strongly enhanced, and some
bugs are fixed. Owners of the CD-ROM "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" can download the
update using the program updater which is part of the CD-ROM.
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09.Jan.2001
Amiga-Community.net
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Amiga-Community.net now with Customer Portal
Amiga-Community.net perhaps is the only customer portal for Amiga. You can give your
opinion about products or websites for Amiga. One can enter anything dealing with Amiga,
e.g. shareware - freeware - hardware - software - .....
You can also suggest new categories and products. Some products are already in, these
just need to be rated, now. But there is no reimbursement as with similar services.
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09.Jan.2001
Heise Newsticker
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Heise: Corel Parts with Their Linux Branch
As it looks like Corel will do part with their Linux branch.
Heise wrote:
«Though Corel Corporation will publish their this year's strategy first on 23rd of
January, analysers estimate that corel will part with their Linux branch. In reply on these
notions in US reports Corel's share value rose at 7.5 % at the American technology stock
exchange Nasdaq, last Monday. Already in December speculations came up about Corel might take this step.
»
Entire article at the title link (German).
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09.Jan.2001
Mirko Naumann via eMail
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Picture Supplement regarding WoA 2000
Mirko Nauman has sent us a whole lot of pictures from the WoA2000. Unfortunately we cannot
publish all of these, cause 34 MB are simply way too much. We selected the nicest pictures
and made a little catalog out of these which you can find here.
This is how the pictures were taken:
Mirko filmed on the show with his MiniDV video camera SONY DCR-TRV8E and then
connected this camera via SVHS cable to his second Amiga with PicassoIV
and PalomIV TV module. As his camera takes 25 frames per second he had to
select and save the best pictures. Then he converted the pictures saved before to
JPEG using the picture format converting software GfxCon by Dirk Farins.
Amiga News |
APC&TCP |
Individual 3 |
ISDN Surfer |
KDH Datentechnik 2 |
Amiga suitcase |
Mediator A4000D |
Mediator PCI 4 |
Elbox |
Schatztruhe |
Messepix 4 |
Mr. Amiga |
Mr. Amiga Killing Linux 2 |
New Boards |
OS3.9 |
Police at the Mediapark |
Repulse Soundkarte |
Wildfire |
DreiEinHalb Computer |
WinTV |
Athlon-Amiga |
Avio |
BlizzardPPC&BVisionPPC |
Casablanca |
CD32 Playing StarWars |
Earth2140 |
EASys |
Elbox2 |
Elbox3 |
Elbox Tower |
Falke Verlag |
GRexPCI |
Haage&Partner |
Airbrush |
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09.Jan.2001
Chief via eMail
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Another Commander now Freeware
'Another Commander' is a buiseness simulation and stragety game in space. The game
was made available for free download by Rangonsoft.
Download: Ragon.lha - 1,88 MB
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09.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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CES: New Products and Pictures
Under the title link you can find the final report by Christoph Dietz.
He discovered many new products on the CES
which though are not necessarily Amiga specific, but not less interesting.
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08.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
OpusMI.lha biz/dopus 1.3M+GlowIcon DOpus Images (7th Release)
OpusMIupd.lha biz/dopus 236K+OpusMI Update (6th to 7th Release)
HomeBank.lha biz/misc 201K+V1.8 The personal account manager (MUI)
AmBoS-Demo.lha comm/ambos 1.6M+AmBoS 2.98 - Full/demo archive
AmBoS-Update.lha comm/ambos 1.2M+AmBoS-Update Rel. 2.98j (Wednesday 03-Ja
AInfoBOT.lha comm/irc 31K+Clone of the PERL InfoBOT
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 407K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 114K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
LCR-P.lha comm/misc 75K+LeastCostRouter Print-Tool
LCR.lha comm/misc 112K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AutoTCP.lha comm/tcp 1K+AutoTCP, Autostart your favourite TCP/IP
ApacheMI.lha comm/www 49K+GlowIcons for Apache Servers
Cookie_Killer.lha comm/www 14K+AWeb cookie management (v1.01)
wpz-frozen40.lha demo/aga 1.3M+Frozen#4o - The Party Edition
Nature-Grid2fx.lha demo/intro 86K+Nature - Grid2, winner 64k at TP2000
jrm-mm70.lha demo/sound 132K+DA JoRMaS: MonoMeno #70
BlitzLstDec00.lha dev/basic 253K+Blitz mailing list archives for December
2b_TKLsort.lha dev/c 33K+This program sorting text files.
Amiga-C-Dec00.lha dev/c 122K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Dece
codestorage.lha dev/c 354K+Create & manipulate your own DataBase of
pgmasst.lha dev/c 77K+A GUI for various text editing & formatt
MuGuardianAnge.lha dev/debug 287K+MungWall superset, detect accesses to no
yaec.lha dev/e 287K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.2b]
WHDLoad_dev.lha dev/misc 500K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
WHDLoad_usr.lha dev/misc 130K+HD-Installer for OS-Killer
FindChanges.lha disk/misc 40K+Finds changes made to disk
Aakt0101HTML.lha docs/mags 247K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
WarpUp-Dec00.lha docs/misc 121K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in D
Rags.lha game/actio 2.4M+Violent and fast 1 on 1 combat game
Mattonite.lha game/demo 237K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
WHDIDemos.lzh game/patch 1.5M+Harddisk Installs using WHDLoad
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08.Jan.2001
Trogladite Software
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Trogladite Software is Looking for Developers
Trogladite Software is looking for new software-developers and web-designers
for our website. If you are interested visit the title link for further informations.
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08.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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Safe V14.5 Released
Safe is a virus-detector that just looks for viruses but it will not delete them.
Name: Safe v14.5
Archivname: Safe14_5.lha
Archivgröße: 19.818 Bytes
Datum: 8. Januar 2001
Programmierer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Info: Benötigt xvs.library v33.24
Download: Safe14_5.lha
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08.Jan.2001
David Connolly via eMail
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Amiga Survivor
CS&E took over the well known printed magazine
'Amiga Survivor', originaly published by Robert Iveson. They are looking for
advertisers to finance the future of this magazin. Visit the title link or contact the
below address for further information.
David Connolly
Managing Director
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum
Oxford Business Park
Oxford
OX4 2JZ
http://www.csande.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481482
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08.Jan.2001
DirOpus
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DirOpus 4.15e (Beta) Released
Changes of this beta release:
- Fixed various Enforcer Hits
- Moved the code back to SAS/C, sorry GCC fans ;-(
- Added support for bigints (64 bit math) and changed code as required
- Removed all '#include's proto's and converted="" them to pragmas
- Added a smakefile that has dependencies
Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 455 KB
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08.Jan.2001
Joern Plewka, Support Katodev on ANF
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Audio Driver for New and Old Sound Cards
Katodev announce that the development-documentation for the X-Audio.device is still
available at the software page of their website. They would be glad if new cards would use it.
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08.Jan.2001
Freund on ANF
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Amiga Story at the ARIVA Stock Forum
The Amiga Story at the ARIVA Stock Forum.
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08.Jan.2001
HD Installer
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JST 4.4 Released
Version 4.4 of JST were released. If you want to use old games with new systems you will love JST.
Download: jst.lha
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08.Jan.2001
Eternity News
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Eternity News: MPG Video-card / USB for AMIGA
Eternity wrote:
We are looking for some developers for the realising of an MPEG-Video-card or a USB-card for
the Amiga in co-operation with Kato Development:
Programmers that develop drivers and host programs, based on Linux-sources, for the Amiga.
We consider the following suppositions:
- The intention to develop something 'New' for the Amiga.
- There has to be some time available.
- You have to know that you wont become a millionaire by developing for the Amiga.
- Will for co-operation.
- C and C++
- Know about the Amiga-hardware.
With the knowhow of Kato and some other persons we will try to develop one of the above mentioned products.
We make no promises!
Additionally we are looking for distributors that would like to support the investment and will get better conditions.
And last but not least we would like to come in
contact with other projects of this kind, cause if there are already projects like
this running, we will renounce ours.
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08.Jan.2001
Stéphane "SteaG" Campan
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New Graphic-Adventure
X-Team Software announce a new adventure game which they will develop together with
Hurricane Studios. You can find initial screenshots at the title link.
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08.Jan.2001
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CES: Interview with Grant Courville, QNX
At CES, Christoph Dietz has interviewed Grant Courville from QNX (English translation by Martina Jacobs):
QNX, also one of more than 1,500 exhibitors on CES in Las Vegas, is still in mind of the Amiga community
as a partner for the Amiga platform from the age of Jeff Schindler and later of Jim Collas. About that
time, development after that - and regarding this most of all about porting to PPC boards by phase5
taken in consideration - I talked to Grant Courville.
QNX presents Neutrino |
Neutrino not an a PC for once |
Darrin Fry, manager Photon development, proudly prensents how the Amiga operating system would have looked like, if there wasn't any change of direction. |
To Courville, former development manager and now manager of the "World Wide Sales Engineering",
after the end of development together with Amiga, QNX benefits from many users' and developers' feedback
QNX received. Those days QNX had placed "QNX on disk", their operating system with browser, TCP/IP
stack and some demos, on one single 1,44 MB disk. Also the neutrino's multimedia capabilities
made capital from the developments which - by the way - mainly were done by QNX. But also the
marketing effect would have been very fortunate for the company's further assignment.
The splitting of the Amiga community into QNX and Linux supporters, which rose Jim Collas' decision, he
regards to be the most negative effect imaginable. He will take a look at the AmigaSDK in any case,
cause "perhaps there might be another future for QNX and Amiga". He thinks porting to
QNX would not be a big problem.
As in July 1999 the porting of neutrino to the PowerUP boards by phase5 was announced
(see our message)
users started hoping, again. But there never was more to see than the press release. Unfortunately
phase5 never delivered any PPC board to enable QNX to use the Amiga computer available.
Contact to phase5 dropped away as time went by. Though there is the QNX operation system for
PPC processors in the meantime, but just not for PPC equipped Amiga computers, cause there is no
matching to the typically Amiga custom chips. Due to the minor number of existing boards chances
for porting are to estimate as very low, said Courville finally.
European Contact Addresses:
QNX Software Systems Ltd.
Voice: +44 (0) 1223 204800
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 204801
Email: qnx-uk@qnx.com
QNX Software Systems s.a.r.l.
Voice: +33 1 64 61 81 61
Fax: +33 1 64 61 81 62
Email: qnxfrance@qnx.com
QNX Software Systems GmbH
Voice: +49 (0) 511 94091 -0
Fax: +49 (0) 511 94091 -199
Email: info@qnx.de
(Translation: mj)
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08.Jan.2001
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon: Low Tide
(td) (Translation: td)
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07.Jan.2001
CyberGFX
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CGX auf Voodoo5
On the 4. January 2001 there was a
screenshot
released on the CyberGFX site showing CGX running on a Voodoo5.
The driver can use the complete 64 MB of the Voodoo5 and is aware of the duel
VSA-100 chips on the Voodoo5 5500 PCI card.
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07.Jan.2001
Black_Amiga News on ANF
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Black_Amiga Gives In
Black_Amiga wrote:
After days of considering hither and thither I have decided to abandon the
Amiga. That means that ATP will be released in its momentarily development
state (version 0.9 beta) and also that I offer my Amiga for sale. More about
this on the homepage.
ATP is a address book/organizer software.
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07.Jan.2001
Infomedia Network
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CES: Infomedia Network
TVision recognized as Industry's first Open JavaTM Programmable Set-top Box
LAS VEGAS-Infomedia Network was recognized today at the International
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as being the first TV set-top box
manufacturer to provide an open JavaTM Programmable Set-top box.
Utilizing a true real time operating system and JavaTM Virtual Machine,
Infomedia's TVision set-top box provides features and functionality that
content developers and service providers have been looking for in
programmable consumer electronics devices.
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07.Jan.2001
BlitzEnginners ML
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SMSEngineer Update
The software SMSEngineer, that is used to send short mails to cell phones, has been
released in version 1.0.9 (SMS = Short Message Service).
New in this version:
- Window is now re-sizeable
- Fixed Bug! Little things on code
- Fixed Bug! About Requestor for Mroocheck and Serial Mouse
- Added one new German Gateway
- Added library check for Main and Register executable
Download: SMSEngineerMUI.lha
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07.Jan.2001
Martin Merz on ANF
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Update of OpusMI
The 7. release of OpusMI is now available on Aminet and on the
MasonIcons homepage. The complete OpusMI archive contains meanwhile more than
450 GlowIcons for use in DirectoryOpus Magellan.
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07.Jan.2001
Richard H. Poser via eMail
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AmigAIM Beta Version 0.9407 Released
The new beta version 0.9407 of AmigAIM, the AOL Instant Messenger compatible
messaging software for Amiga is now available and can be downloaded from the
usual places.
New in AmigAIM 0.9407 beta:
- Modified network connection routines slightly, increased socket connection
timeout. Seems to have fixed the problems I was having with "Socket Connection"
errors.
- IO Packet Window shows a couple errors if problems occur during initial Auth
connection.(Host not found, etc...)
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06.Jan.2001
Maxime Doyen on ANF
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HomeBank 1.8 Update
Version 1.8 of 'HomeBank', the MUI Account-Manager has been released.
The fresh new release of this MUI account manager !! :-)
New features are:
- multi accounts in a same file (now called a wallet)
- transfer between accounts
- automatic cheque numbering
- security password for locking a wallet (file)
- print for statistics (numeric only)
- every images is now external and user configurable
- progression gauge for loads & saves
- a logo for about and at launching
- and so on...
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06.Jan.2001
Christoph Dietz
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CES: Interview with TAO's CEO Francis Charig
As already reported, Christoph Dietz flew to Las Vegas for amiga-news.de to
attend and report directly from the CES.
Here's the interview he had with the CEO of TAO, the software partner
of Amiga Inc.:
Francis Charig (Chairman TAO)
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Francis Charig (Chairman TAO)
Patrice Haftmann (Chairman/CEO Infomedia)
J.D. Ray (Präsident/COO Infomedia)
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Amiga-News: Good morning Francis and thank you for the opportunity of this interview.
Francis Charig: It's a pleasure for me either!
Amiga-News: Let's start with some basic questions. How old are you and where are you born?
Francis Charig: Unfortunately I'm 40 years old. I was born in Oxted by London.
Amiga-News: Sure you are married and have children?
Francis Charig: Yes, my wife is Japanese and we have two boys. One is six and the other will be three in February.
Amiga-News: When and where was TAO (pronounced: DAO) founded?
Francis Charig: TAO was founded in 1992 in Bracknell nearby Reading, England. Until 1995 it was a virtual company, located in a bedroom.
Amiga-News: How many people are working for TAO?
Francis Charig: About 70 people. More then 50 of them are in the software department. They are coming from three major groups: the Video games industry, the Blue Chip Industry and we selected the best directly from the universities, Stanford for example.
Amiga-News: What's your position at TAO?
Francis Charig: I'm the chairman of TAO. TAO is not a public company. Sony and Motorola together own 30% of TAO. If TAO would be a public company, its market value would be about $100.000.000. Nowadays Amiga Inc. is our most important partner.
Amiga-News: Do you remember your greatest success?
Francis Charig: Of course, it was to bring this exiting engineering team together. These people are incredible. We only had a fluctuation of two people in the last 2 1/2 years.
Amiga-News: What was the worst day in TAO's history?
Francis Charig: [Thinks long] it was to loose business with our investor from the blue chip industry in 1995 while we had no customers.
Amiga-News: When did you had "First contact" with Bill McEwen?
Francis Charig: It was in October 1999. We introduced him to investors after he decided to use our software for the new Amiga. In fact: TAO saved Amiga.
Amiga-News: Are you familiar with Amiga's history?
Francis Charig: Yes, I know about it all. I know about Commodore, Escom, VisCorp, Gateway and all these things. I still have my Amiga, but unfortunately it's standing in the attic. Also my nephew used the Amiga. I loved gaming on it, e.g. BrakeOut.
Amiga-News: Can you describe the new OS with only three words?
Francis Charig: Consumer Multimedia Stack
Amiga-News: When will the new Amiga-OS be ready, in Q3/2001?
Francis Charig: Of course not! Someone in the next half year!
Amiga-News: We are just a few days in the New Year. Do you have a wish for this year?
Francis Charig: *Joking* Retirement. No, I wish that TAO would be successful in all of the key markets.
Amiga-News: Is the existing Amiga community important for you?
Francis Charig: Yes. The Amiga community provides ones of the best engineers and artist. There is more multimedia skill in the Amiga community than in the PC-World. But there is a discussion if memory protection is needed or not. I want to explain TAO's point of view. For what is memory protection needed? To prevent bad programmed software from crashing the computer. That means that it leads into bad programming. But the software for AmigaDE will run on your desktop but also on your mobile or in your car. Mobiles for example don't have memory protection. Are they crashing? No, the software for them is well programmed. If we add memory protection we have to have a very, very good reason. Because it slows down the operating system. Our goal is to deliver the best multimedia-operating stack. This also means speed!
Amiga-News: Some words to the community?
Francis Charig: We can make Amiga great together. To be great we have to lead the world. Amiga is delivering the best content to the mass market. If we always remember that, we can achieve.
Amiga-News: Thank you for this interview and have a successful stay at the CES.
Francis Charig: It was a pleasure to me. Thank you!
Contact Information TAO Group
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06.Jan.2001
Dirk Baeyens via eMail
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amiga-news.de now also at amiga.nl
The dutch-flemish translation of amiga-news.de by
Dirk Baeyens has now been
intergrated to one more dutch Amiga-Site.
We are very delighted and heartily great our new readers :-).
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06.Jan.2001
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Election of the Top 10 Amiga-games 2000
The poll to elect the 10 best Amiga-games of 2000 at Amiga Flame is still
active. If you haven't voted yet, you can do it by following the title link.
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06.Jan.2001
Matthias Muench on ANF
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First meeting of the Amiga User Group 99 of the new year
The AUG99 is meeting on January 19th in Sinsheim at the Shooters (Citydom).
More infos as well as a city map can be found on our homepage. Everybody who
is interested in dropping by is invited.
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06.Jan.2001
AmiDog
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AmiDog's Movie Player Update to Version 2.01
AmiDog's Movie Player 'AMP' has been updated to version 2.01.
Changes since AMP v2.00:
- AMP used to free two never allocated signals, fixed.
- GUI: Now works when started from a partition with a space in the name.
- GUI: Added a version string to the .cfg file and placed it in S:.
- GUI: Added DEVS: as default path for the device drivers.
- GUI: Bumped version to v1.01 due to the changes.
Download: AMP201.lha
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06.Jan.2001
Greg Donner
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OS3.9 FAQ by Greg Donner Updated
Greg Donner created an extensive FAQ , which he updates
regularly,in English about the new Amiga OS3.9 on his homepage. His
compatibility-page, the page with known bugs, and the installation tips have been
updated also.
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06.Jan.2001
Heise Newsticker
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Heise: CES: The Computer Sector Deals in Entertainment Electronics
«On Saturday at 19 o'clock MET the Consumer
Electronic Show (CES), the world's
biggest annual entertainment electronics fair is opening its doors in Las
Vegas. One and a half hour before, Bill Gates will hold his keynote, which he
will - as known by now - change on the birth hour of his new favourite, the
game console XBox.
Though this will be no more surprise to anybody, but there are a lot more things
to discover at the CES: After all there are 1800 exhibitors at the start this
year and in addition to this there is a "frame program" at the fair with
over 100 presentations with about 300 experts. 110.000 visitors are expected
from over 100 countries. The fair was first held back 1967 with some modest
200 exhibitors and 17.500 visitors.»
Christoph Dietz of amiga-news.de has flown to Las Vegas to report to our
readers from the fair and to cover us with pictures. In addition he has
arranged for some interesting interviews. You can expect interesting news.
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06.Jan.2001
FTW
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Fun Time World: New forum in testing process
FTW writes:
«Nearly every Amiga-site has a forum, so why create one more? All of the forums
that are working at our place currently are based on very simple technology
can can hardly be expanded. The new forum is based on the Yet Another Bulletin
Board' in short 'YaBB' and is offering every imaginable comfort. The
forum will now be
tested for some weeks and later on we will decide whether we stick to the
system or remove it. The design is only partly adapted to out page. It will
change during testing. To participate you need to register during which you
can choose an appearance for yourself. If you wish so, your data will be
stored in Cookies, so you will register automatically on your next visit. The
new forum is really fun. We would be happy to find as many participants as
possible. We will the create more special forums on request.»
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06.Jan.2001
Stefan Instinske on ANF
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New Layout in the Amiga-Section of alternative-games.de
From today on the new layout of Alternative-Games.de is also online in the
Amiga-Section. Now we want to know what you think of the new design and
therefor we have started a poll which will be available until 02-01-2001. We
are looking forward to your visit!
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05.Jan.2001
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New Scripts Online and Move Completed
Dear reader,
we have finished our move to the new server and if everything works as we expect,
you can now see the scripts programmed by Sven Drieling in action on our German page.
The main change is that the entire news are now administrated in a database,
you can comment on every single news and can send individual news to friends
by e-mail. Also, you can view a printing and an ASCII version. If you prefer to
see the start page with titles only, you can control this with the menu above.
We are looking forward to your comments. Write us what you like and what we
could still improve.
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05.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
Videomanage.lha biz/dbase 398K+A Videodatabase
HomeBank.lha biz/misc 198K+V1.8 The personal account manager (MUI)
Cit_Docs_BA01.lha comm/bbs 571K+Citadel 68K Documenation
Cit_exec_BA01.lha comm/bbs 247K+Citadel 68K BBS Program
cit_src_BA01.lha comm/bbs 544K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Source
Cit_Util_BA01.lha comm/bbs 464K+Citadel 68K BBS Program Utilities
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
TaskiSMS_HU.lha comm/tcp 3K+Hungarian catalog for TaskiSMS 2.0
clockita.lha dev/basic 67K+Italian clock+alarm+source code (bugfix)
Aakt0101GFX.lha docs/mags 526K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0101GUIDE.lha docs/mags 92K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
AaktInt1200GFX.lha docs/mags 336K+International infotainment magazine (gra
Onkelz.lha docs/mags 72K+German Boehse Onkelz guide AG
starmag25_ht.lha docs/mags 1.3M+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
RivaAudio.lha gfx/show 11K+Script for fast Mpeg-1 video+sound playb
TestGear-Notes.lha hard/hack 4K+Test equipment projects, general notes.
anescgfx.lha misc/emu 100K+A/NES CGFX v1.22 - Nintendo emulator
BD-MLBreath.lha mods/bladr 109K+"My Last Breath" by Black Dragon/Honoo+L
32bc_drunk.mpg mods/mpg 6.9M+8 drunk Gods
AmiDoPat.lha pix/back 22K+Nice Images for AmiDock OS3.9
TinyGICollectn.lha pix/gicon 49K+GlowIcons - size doesn't matter ;-)
OFS028.jpg pix/wfm 758K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS029.jpg pix/wfm 536K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS030.jpg pix/wfm 320K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS031.jpg pix/wfm 485K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS032.jpg pix/wfm 578K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
sndfile.lha util/libs 296K+Library for reading/writing various samp
PowerTools.lha util/moni 12K+Power failure logger
TMPlus.lha util/wb 87K+AddOnMenus to ToolsAppMenu(With-GUI-Pref
WB2000-Ger.lha util/wb 5K+German Locale for Workbench2000 1.8
WB2000_18.lha util/wb 673K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
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05.Jan.2001
MooBunny Forum
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Corinna Cohn. Interviewed Bill McEwen
Corinna Cohn. called up Bill McEwen, to
clear up some rumors as much as possible. McEwen answered her some questions.
Here a summary of what Bill McEwen answered:
- AmigaOS 3.9 has upgraded Internet functionality that was missing from 3.5,
and it has multimedia players. Otherwise, most of the functionality is similar to 3.5.
Users will have to evaluate the features of 3.9 for themselves to see if there's
any value added.
- The last months were tight for Amiga Inc. from a financial point of view. They
are looking for more investors. McEwen named several sources, among them a tier one
company that would be interested in investing.
- Bill McEwen is sure to have a product that hopefully impresses investors
more than some of the ephemeral properties that other startups failed to sell.
- Money is low. Will Amiga Inc. become insolvent? McEwen replied to this question
that this is not true.
- Amiga Inc. will only exhibit at Amiga trade shows. Products will be made available
through vendors.
- Bill McEwen named some manufacturers of set-top boxes which should be available
soon. He is excited about other products appearing, especially something
that should please Amiga users.
- He reiterated that they (this being vendors using Amiga technology) had some
products ready to debut and that we should stick around to see them.
Corinna Cohn. analyzes Bill McEwens statements as follows:
"Amiga does not have a product that I as an Amiga user would necessarily want, but
that I as a computer geek might dig. We Amiga users are a technological launching
platform for a new, possibly cool technology, and Amiga wants us to continue to
pay attention to them until its ready. This explains 3.5 and 3.9, and it explains
the early appearance of the developers kit. Amiga is going to continue to blow us
kisses until they have something to impress us with or until they run out of money."
The computer industry is in an extremely hard competition. Even if it may be
difficult for us at times not to lose our faith that Amiga Inc. will achieve what
they have planned. It is worth acknowledging that they are obviously not willed
to throw in the towel even though it would be easier and more promising to
develop tools for another famous OS ...
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05.Jan.2001
MorphOS
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MorphOS: sndfile.library
Sigbjørn Skjæret has released version 1.22 of
sndfile.library for MorphOS. The library allows the reading and writing of different
sample formats which are used for example by AmigaAMP, DelfSF, Frogger and Lame.
More information here.
Download: sndfile1_22.lha - 252 KB
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05.Jan.2001
Dennis Lohr via eMail
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Music: Psyria
Dennis Lohr 'Psyria' has been making music as a hobby for six years.
he started with an A500 and Protracker 2.3a. Currently, he still creates his music
mainly on the Amiga, but he uses the Digibooster today. He expresses his
enthusiasm about the Digibooster like this: "For all Amigans who make music
as well: have a look at that thing! There probably is no better tracker
for the Amiga!"
Many of his songs (trance, techno, dancefloor, and pop) are available for download
on his website at the title link. The website was entirely reworked lately.
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05.Jan.2001
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: Update of xvs.library
Yesterday, an update to the xvs.library was released which can recognize
the trojans "4kIntro Trojan" and Dkg-Blum Trojan. If you're using VirusChecker,
VirusExecutor or VirusZ, make sure to update the library.
Some information on the release:
Name...: xvs.library v33.24
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archiv size: 52.734 Bytes
Date: January 4th, 2001
Programmer: Alex van Niel
News for 33.24:
- 4kIntro Trojan added
Thanks to Ryben Kozlak and Jan Andersen
- Dkg-Blum Trojan added
Thanks to Peter Gordon, Urban Müller and Jan Andersen
NOTE:
This trojan also replaces/deletes or adds a file called asi.library
XVS will not (yet) be able to detect this file because as far as I
could analyze it, it looked like a normal VideoTracker file.
If XVS would have to see this as a virus, more VideoTracker files
will be fake detected. If you have problems or want this added anyway
let me know.
STILL TO DO:
- Add Neurotic Death 2 and Neurotic Death 4. These two linkviruses are
polymorphic, but crash on my system if I try to infect some test files.
It seems that they haven't been spread to the public, I received them
anonymously from the author. So it's not that BIG danger at the moment.
- Try to get and add GlobVec linkvirus. The only one who has it is Heiner
Schneegold (author of VT-Schutz) and VTC Hamburg, but Heiner doesn't
give his permission to the VTC to send me the virus :(
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04.Jan.2001
AmigaActive
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AmigActive Poll
AmigActive is organizing a poll to find out about your hopes, dreams, an plans regarding the
new Amiga. If you would like to participate, you will find the form under the title link.
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04.Jan.2001
Opera
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Linux: Opera Version 4 Beta 5 Released
A new beta version v4b5 of the browser 'Opera' has been released for Linux.
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04.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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Netscape 6 like Image Set for Voyager
Under the title link you can download a Netscape 6 like image set for Voyager. The archive
contains the related buttons (each in 3 different colours), background patterns for MUI, and
a German description. The set is located on the Amiga/Projects page. There is also to find a screenshot.
Download: voyagerset.lha - 38 KB
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04.Jan.2001
AudioLabs
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New Plugin for ProStation Audio: Tube Pre Amp
For ProStation Audio, the audio software by AudioLabs, a new plugin called
'Tube Pre Amp' has been released, which will work for any version of
ProStation Audio.
Download: TubePre.lha - 10,5 KB
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04.Jan.2001
Markus Holler
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Markus Holler Music Page Updated
Beginning the new year Markus Holler, very well known to Amiga users by
very good music, has put a little audio pattern from the Merregnon soundtrack
on his music page, which you can find under the title link.
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04.Jan.2001
André Rief on ANF
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Eyetech News
An AmigaOne presentation, which can be displayed using a Scala player, is available for download
at Eyetech. It shows the presentation by Eyetech and Escena on the last Cologne show.
Furthermore Eyetech offers an EZCam PCMCIA digital camera memory
adapter
(Memory Stick, SmartMedia, CompactFlash) along with a driver allowing you to
use the camera as device on the Workbench. By this you can display or copy
pictures immediately.
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04.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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3PMGUI Update
3PMGUI gives the MP2 CLI player MPEGA a small GUI with the features needed most.
Since MPEGA as well as the GUI causes only low CPU load, 3PMGUI most of all suits
very well for Amiga users with slow machines.
New Features:
- drag'n'drop (just drag a MP2/3 file on the GUI to play it)
- Autoplay
- Button graphics can be exchanged / loaded via menu (some 'skins' are already included)
- Other small enhancements
Download: 3PMGUI.lha - 132 KB
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04.Jan.2001
Michael Pfeiffer on ANF
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VWP News
Due to moving our homepages to another server at the time being all services basing
on CGI scripts (as for downloads, statistics, links, boards, ....) are not available.
This concerns the domains
http://www.VirtualWorlds.de,
http://www.AudioCutter.de, and
http://www.AudioCutter.com.
The problems are known and we are working to solve.
AudioCutter Cinema V 0.99
Along with the again working CGI scripts the endmost preview version
(before final release) of AudioCutter Cinema will be available in a few days.
Then the versions for PPC-/x86-Linux, and Windows will be available for free
download, once more.
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04.Jan.2001
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Risiko full version!
The Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing (UAC Desing) present the
full version of "Risiko" as final v1.7, which is not available form Aminet.
Risiko Amiga in this conforms to the common game rules of the original board game by
Parker Bros. But Risiko also has included special rules as like uprisings, earth quakes, and
blitz! Both, German and English version! For all of the Amiga friends the best non-commercial
version for Amiga is ready for download!
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04.Jan.2001
Stéphane Campan via eMail
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ClickBOOM News - S-File #9
ClickBOOM wish a happy new year to everybody and tell with their new S-File that
the entire stock of 'Capital Punishment', and 'Quake' was sold to
the British vendor CS&E.
More on they tell that there are negotiations regarding new licences in train.
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03.Jan.2001
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF
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Cult Magazines
Because PC-Joker will be delivered for the last time I want to give you the hint that at
kultpower.de the PowerPlay-archives was expanded very much.
Current state: 281 test results, 113 complete test reports as scans, 35 scanned advertising for games,
57 PowerPlay-covers. You can search through the database of PowerPlay very comfortably.
Besides this you can admire 53 ASM-covers from the current software-market.
So you are right at kultpower.de if you want to indulge in memories and to read test reports of cult
games like Turrican, Monkey Island, Battle Isle or Lemmings.
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03.Jan.2001
Czech Amiga News
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SecondSpin Beta-Tester Wanted
You can transform audio-CDs to MPEG-audio 1,2 or 3 with SecondSpin. Additionally further formats like
AIFF and WAV are supported.
Author Lauri Ahonen has finished his military service and will now take care more intensively of the
development of SecondSpin. Because of that he is looking for some new beta tester.
Please contact him via eMail if you are interested in.
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03.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Mediator News: Soundblaster Driver for AHI
Mr. Wajda has posted in
Mediator mailing list that he
was informed by ELBOX that the Soundblaster-driver for PCI-board 'Mediator' will
make use of the sound system AHI. It is not known when the driver will come to release.
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03.Jan.2001
KDH
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Upgrade AWebIISE to the Full Version
Expand your limited special version of Amiga internet browser AWEBII SE which was
delivered with Amiga OS3.5 and OS3.9 to the full version.
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03.Jan.2001
Amiga Inc.
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AmigaOS 3.5 Boing Bag #2 Released
Today the Boing Bag #2 has appeared as update to AmigaOS 3.5.
Download: BoingBag2.lha - 1,2 MB
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03.Jan.2001
BlitzEngineers
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BlitzEngineers News
You can now access the website of BlitzEngineers (SMSEngineerMUI) under its own domain of
http://www.blitzengineers.de/. It was completely new rewritten.
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03.Jan.2001
Wolfgang Kalaene on ANF
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PC Joker Closes Down
You can read at Gamesmania.de the following lines:
PC Joker (note: successor of Amiga Joker) will be closed down
«Sad message for all Joker-fans. The PC-magazine will be closed down right before its
hundredth issue. The subscriptions will be taken over by IDG-publishing house`s GameStar. The deliveries
of these subscriptions contain a explanation of Joker-chief editor Michael Labiner. This is the second
magazine dinosaur after PowerPlay which has passed.»
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03.Jan.2001
Richard Kapp on ANF
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3PMGUI Released
You can download the first version of 3PMGUI under the title link.
(The program is stored in the Amiga/Projekts site).
3PMGUI gives the MP2/3 Shell-Player MPEGA a small surface with most important functions.
Because MPEGA as well as the GUI make use of the CPU very economically 3PMGUI is suited to
Amiga user which has got a small CPU.
Features:
- small, fast and easily configurable
- graphical button surface exchangeable
- Shell commands for MPEGA configurable<
- Help functions and possibility of saving of MP2/3s
Postscript to 3PMGUI: The error that 3PMGUI do not find the pictures at the beginning has been cleared.
You can download the new version (still always 0.1) under the title link. Sorry.
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02.Jan.2001
AmiBench
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AmiBench News
Mark 'tecno' Wilson, the maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international
free small ads, reports in his year summary about the adverse conditions capable to make
a webmaster's life really hard, sometimes. AmiBench was hunted by bad luck last year:
scripts which weren't finished; the service provider got hacked; the server played yoyo;
the web account was closed by mistake; no feedback from the readers; ....
I can comprehend well that such conditions are very annoying and motivation goes to zero sometimes.
Give Mark positive feedback to give his motivation a boost. :)
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02.Jan.2001
amiga.org
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Worm Wars Version 6.5 Released
Version 6.5 of the Game 'Worm Wars' has been released.
Download: wormwars.lha - 775 KB
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02.Jan.2001
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
ON.lha comm/irc 12K+ON function for AmIRC
ClipWatch.lha comm/misc 181K+Tool to call Clip/WIT remote surveillanc
samba_2.0.7.lha comm/tcp 6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
nms-spaceqst1e.lha demo/intro 16K+Space Quest 1E. cracktro from Nemesis
pvt-cafe.lha demo/slide 2.3M+Demoparty Computer Art Festival 1999-200
BallMasterSrc.lha dev/basic 48K+Source for BallMaster V1.2
powerd.lha dev/e 723K+New powerful programming language v0.16
yaec.lha dev/e 235K+Yaec - Yet Another E Compiler [1.1.1 Bet
catcheck.lha dev/misc 23K+Amiga catalog tester, v1.0
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 81K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha disk/misc 68K+DVD-RAM RDB, MountList and DOSDrivers Ma
msd95v16.lha disk/misc 40K+MS FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 Filesystem handler
NotizieAmiga.lha docs/hyper 582K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 12/
amiuserlist.lha docs/lists 65K+AmigaUserList V10.96 of Germany, Switzer
amigazette_00.lha docs/mags 81K+AMIGAzette (italian magazine)
amigazette_01.lha docs/mags 167K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (20.06.1999) (itali
amigazette_02.lha docs/mags 633K+AMIGAzette 1st iusse (10.08.1999) (itali
amigo6_2.lha game/board 88K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
Mattonite.lha game/demo 237K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
WormWars.lha game/misc 776K+WormWars 6.5: Advanced snake game
Powerdrive.lha game/patch 40K+HD-Installer for Powerdrive V1.0
Viz.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for Viz V1.0
WorldCricket.lha game/patch 33K+HD-Installer for World Cricket V1.0
gumband.lha game/role 930K+Gumband 2.1.2a - Roguelike solo RPG
BallMasterAGA.lha game/think 1.4M+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
BallMasterECS.lha game/think 934K+Addictive puzzle game with many levels
Pishti.lha game/wb 106K+Popular Turkish card game. (v1.01)
centipede.lha gfx/3d 682K+Futuristic 3D font for Maxon Cinema 4D
chair.lha gfx/3dobj 130K+Steel Chair Object for Maxon Cinema 4D
jpeg2mov.lha gfx/conv 30K+Creates a QuickTime-Movie
AMP.lha gfx/show 188K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AVI,QT/MOV,FLI/FLC,NSF pla
AMP2.lha gfx/show 146K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AC3 player v2.00 (001229)
FormAldiHyd.lha hard/drivr 59K+V1.3, Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aipt
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 542K+V1.56 PSX MemoryCard Reader
ICS.lha hard/misc 2.4M+V2.01LE ICS - professional color correct
imdbDiff001222.lha misc/imdb 1.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
af-bassic_tune.lha mods/techn 231K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 143bpm
af-vklop.lha mods/techn 984K+DBM 8ch ->Acid Frog<- min.techno 140bpm
GMP-G.lha mus/midi 123K+GUI for GMPlay V1.3(a)
SDT_MSR.lha mus/misc 4K+Sound Ripper
Amoralplay1.5.lha mus/play 121K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EasyMOD.lha mus/play 14K+Simple shell-based MOD-player
EasyPlayer.lha mus/play 90K+The alternative music player, v1.04
CGXBootPic39.lha pix/boot 164K+CGXBootPic.library for OS 3.9
jcIconsII.lha pix/icon 130K+Os3.5,os3.9 Icon package II
no_shower.lha pix/misc 189K+[ancor] a pic with Sarah and her sister
sg-strip_2.lha pix/misc 80K+[ancor] strip 2 of the comic
sg-strip_3.lha pix/misc 66K+[ancor] strip 3 of the comic
AW-Filter.lha text/dtp 50K+AmigaWriter filter for PageStream
Word8-Filter.lha text/dtp 7K+Word 8 filter for PageStream
titleshadow.lha util/boot 4K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
PowerTools.lha util/moni 11K+Power failure logger
fastbar.lha util/wb 32K+FASTBAR1.07b, another screen-manager for
TransAGA.lha util/wb 32K+TransAGA, Transparent Workbench3x menu f
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02.Jan.2001
ModePro
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ModePro Millennium Edition
A millennium edition of the screen manager ModePro has been released.
The program was completely recompiled in December.
Download: ModePro.lha
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02.Jan.2001
BoingWorld
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BallMaster Source Code Available under GNU
Damir Arh, author of several games for Amiga computers has released the
source code of the game BallMaster under GNU Public License. Also two versions of the game
itself are available for free download.
Download:
BallMasterAGA.lha - 1,4 MB
BallMasterECS.lha - 934 KB
BallMasterSrc.lha - 48 KB
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02.Jan.2001
Fun Time World
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Several Software Updates
In the new version of JST v4.3b a save error was fixed. With this program you
are able to copy many of the disk games to harddisk and then start the games from
there.
Download: jst.lha
Version 2.0.7 of the open source network software 'Samba' was released.
Download: samba_2.0.7.lha
powerd v.0.16 is a completely new programming language, but similar to AmigaE. You can find closer information
in the documentation.
Download: powerd.lha
'yeac' is the beta version of a completely new AmigeE compiler.
Download: yaec.lha
Two new plugins by Ruediger Hanke for the DTP software PageStream were released. The Word8 filter
allows to import even text saved with Word97 / Word2000. You can import documents saved with
AmigWriter using the AmigaWriter filter.
Download:
Word8-Filter.lha
AW-Filter.lha
With 'DVD-RAM' you can connect DVD drives to the Amiga. Using the DVD-RAM software
2.6 G and 4.7 G (per side) medias are recognized.
Download: DVD-RAM.lha
In the patch archive for the browser AWeb the installer was extended by installation of language.
A Russian catalog has been added to the catalogs archive.
Download:
AWeb3x34pch.lha
cats34.lha
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01.Jan.2001
CGrX
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Graphics Boards Page: 7th Anniversary
Congratulations! The graphics boards page where you can find informations
dealing with graphics boards for Amiga computers celebrates 7th anniversary.
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01.Jan.2001
AmiHoo
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AmiHoo Magazin No. 3
Issue number 3 of the AmiHoo magazine published.
This issue contains news, reviews and a contest.
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01.Jan.2001
Grasshopper LLC
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Grasshopper LLC
Grasshopper, publisher of 'Pagestream', wish you a happy new year and tells that
within the first week of the year phone calls will not be answered, but e-mails.
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01.Jan.2001
VaporWare
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AmIRC 3.5.6beta
Beta version 3.5.6 of AmIRC released for that v3.5.5 beta timed out on 1st of January.
Download: amirc_356.lzx
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01.Jan.2001
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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Some new URLs for amiNetGUI
I applied some new URLs for amiNetGUI:
http://aminet.x2.nu
http://aminet.cs.nu
http://aminet.cc.nu
http://aminet.wls.net
http://aminet.tiz.net
http://aminet.pc5.org
http://aminet.x15.org
http://aminet.0am.org
http://aminet.foren.org
http://aminet.home-page.nu
http://fly.to/aminet
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01.Jan.2001
Marcel Rohles on ANF
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New FreeCiv Beta Version
A new beta version of Freeciv, a 'Civilization II'-like multiplayer strategy game,
is available for download at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Jochen Rhein on ANF
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New Version of ICS Released
From ICS, the free AmigaOS Scanner Color Calibration Software is a
major new ICS upgrade V2.01 now available. Following new features have
been added to V2 of ICS:
- Now all ICS image reading and writing is done using the new IRW library
- ICSConvert can now write JPEG, IFF, and TIFF
- ICSConvert and ScanTarget now support 16 bit/channel image data
- ICSConvert can now read/write embeded ICC color and IPTC/NAA editorial
information
- Now includes tools to extract ICC and IPTC information from images (IFF,
TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- Spanish localization added
- ICSConvert can now be used as tool for image format conversion
- IRW does offer improved and localized error handling
- Error requesters now offer detailed information, hints and often also
a retry function
- Major speed improvement for loading certain files formats
- Also, memory requirement was reduced.
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01.Jan.2001
Allister Brimble via eMail
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Amiga Music Website
Allister Brimble published his own webside at mp3s.com. He is well
known for his work for Alienbreed, Project X, Bodyblows and Superfrog.
He is still working for the software industry and he is composing music for Driver,
Driver 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon. Some songs he did are available at the title link.
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01.Jan.2001
Elbox via eMail
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Elbox Wish Happy New Year
Elbox sent in new year greetings which should not be taken too seriously according to what they stated.
The Not-So-Serious Inside Story Announcement
Crack-off, 31 December 2000
The pi-pi-Castro Task Force is proud to promote the latest technique
of advertising.
The pi-pi Castro Task Force hereby authorise everybody to read
the secrets of their latest technology of collecting money
in advertising and to disclose this secret to enyone on the way:
- We, the world-famous pi-pi Castro Task Force,
produced the world-famous graphic system
for the world-dominant computer platform of the Ah-miga.
Sure, we did some work. Nobody paid us for that :-(
- Then we saw some people get big in the Ah-miga world.
- We thought: "Why don't take money from them?"
- We noticed Err-box produced their hardware (el mediatore).
- Err-box produced their software (the pi-pi driver).
- We did not help them (why should we?)
- So we thought we could ask Err-box for money for using
our world-famous name of pi-pi 96
- Therefore we are world famous. Proved.
- Err-box did not want to pay us.
- We asked other friends to persuade Err-box.
- Franco Mariacchi managed to get computers
and Special-Delusion-Kit documents
from Err-box - FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- Hi-period managed to get some hardware from Err-box
plus the same paperwork. FOR FREE!!! Success!!!
- We did not manage to get a single pfenig from Err-box.
And we need paper too.
- Franco Mariacchi and Hi-period are laughing at us.
- Therefore we are suckers.
And our friends are laughing at us. Proved.
- Aha. A painting family wants us to pay DM 6,000
for using the "Pi-pi-Castro" name.
- Therefore we wanted Err-box to pay it for us.
- As Err-box are discussing the issue behind the curtain,
and we need cash badly, we demand Ah-miga users
to register our pi-pi system immediately
and pay us for their being happy.
- If nobody pays us, we will cry out
that any other soap-ware worldwide is ill-egg-all.
(Apart from our pi-pi-castro, sure enough.) Proved.
Err-box Komm-puter was happy to find
the appropriate name for this
new method of advertising: the REVERSE ADVERTISING.
Danke mucho, err-boxie.
Please remember that you have to pay us DEM 5.00 or
USD 10.00 every time you use the word "advertising".
The Pi-Pi-Castro Task Force
Courtesy of Err-box Komm-puter
De-pression De-partition-ment
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There is a popular custom in Poland to make jokes
on colleagues and fellow people in the end of the year,
to summarise the most prevalent features
of their behaviour during the year.
Here is our summary of what has transpired
between the P96 team and ELBOX Computer during that time.
Please take it with a bit of reserve,
as we do not intend to offend anyone,
just to introduce a pinch of humour into the issue,
which seemed to be so tense and serious in the Amiga world.
Happy New Year!!!
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31.Dec.2000
Starmag-Team on ANF
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Jubilee-Starmag #25 is Online
Das Starmag-Team wrote:
Hello, dear people!
We wish the Amiga-News-team a happy new year and of course our
readers,too.
Issue #25 is out and ready for download and online reading on our
website.
Greetings,
Your Starmag-Team
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31.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail
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Graphics Tablet Driver: FormAldiHyd v1.3
On 31. December 2000 Chris Hodges has released the version 1.3
of the graphics tablet driver 'FormAldiHyd'. The driver supports the graphics
tablets Aldi/Medion/Tevion MD 9310. From the Readme
you can draw the changes against the older version. Among other things this
Millennium edition contains a fireworks demo.
Download: FormAldiHyd.lha (59 K),
Readme
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31.Dec.2000
ANN
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ANN Celebrates 4. Birthday
On 28. December 2000 the news service Amiga Network News
by Christian Kemp became 4 years old.
Under the title link Christian first lets the ANN year 2000 pass in review to
have a look into the future afterwards. Looking back he can reference to almost
2 millions registered page views this year with around 50 GB transferred files.
Against the year 1999 with 700 000 page views this is more than a doubling.
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31.Dec.2000
Andreas Wendorf on ANF
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Photos of 'The Party 2000'
Warp9 has put some photos of 'The Party 2000 / Denmark' into the web.
'The Party 2000' is a scene/demo party that attracts around 4,000 people every
year in Aars in northern Denmark.
Supplement: 01.01.2001:
Juergen Beck via eMail:
There were several new amazing Amiga demos and intros. Among them well done
demos of the demo groups Haujobb, and Ephidrena.
Download: demos
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31.Dec.2000
frost on ANF
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AOG-News with New Website
frost wrote:
The AOG site has been completely redesigned.
And we wish everybody a happy new year.
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31.Dec.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF
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News on the PlayGUI Website
Richard Kapp wrote:
As Rolf Roth has unfortunately no more time to attend the official PlayGUI site,
I (author of PlayGUI) have now taken over this task. The site shines now in a
complete new design and besides, there are again three new skins, a funny theme
and also other news. I wish you all a happy new year 2001!
(PlayGUI is a graphical interface for Hippoplayer, Play16, GMPlay
and MPEGA, that uses skins and themes. By this it is possible to play GUI, MODs,
MIDIs, MP2/3s and samples with one single (ex)changable GUI.)
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Payback Status Report #17
On 30. December 2000 James Daniels has released the status report #17 regarding
the game 'Payback'. The game now offers additionally a multiplayer deathmatch
mode for up to 4 players. To do this much had to be changed in the source code
and therefor much work had to be put into this mode as the game wasn't design
for supporting a multiplayer mode first. But the work was, according to James
Daniels, worth it. Screens of the multiplayer mode are released on the screenshots page.
The latest photos there also contain the improved textures.
Besides that the game now supports also the CD32 controller, and several bugs
have been fixed.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Scalos: Iconsystem, Updates of WB3.9 Plugin and VolumeGauge Plugin
The new iconsystem for Scalos supports the normal and the AmigaOS 3.5 icons as
well as the NewIcons.
Regarding the WB3.9 plugin and VolumeGauge plugin of Scalos updates have been released
which fix bugs. The WB3.9 plugin allows under AmigaOS 3.5+ the use of newer
features like 'AmiDock'. The VolumeGauge plugin equips all root volume windows
with a fill gauge in the left window border in the AmigaOS v3.5 style. This
plugin runs on AmigaOS V3.0+.
The following bugs were fixed:
- VolumeGauge: on iconifying of windows problems appeared.
- WB3.9: There are additional system checks so that the plugin runs now more
stable. Besides that the AmigaOS V3.5+ preferences are now loaded from workbench.prefs.
Download:
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Tales of Tamar: FAQ and Crincles of 55
Regarding the move based online strategy game 'Tales of Tamar' a German FAQ and the
chronicles of the year 55
were released. The FAQ answers the most important questions regarding the game
and gives a hint how to play 'Tales of Tamar' on the Amiga emulator 'UAE'.
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31.Dec.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Vote for the Game of the Year 2000
As in the past years you can vote for the game of the year at Amiga
Flame this year again. There are 12 games (adventures, real time strategy and
other genres) for voting.
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31.Dec.2000
Fun Time World
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Auctions on Fun Time World
Since several days there's the possibility to purchase resp. to sell soft- and
hardware by auction on Fun Time World.
Directly on the homepage there's also a text box listing the up-to-date version
numbers of the latest software titles or updates for the Amiga.
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31.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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CD-ROM: THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES
On 30. December 2000 Thomas Unger has released the CD-ROM
'THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES'. This CD contains plenty of texts taken from the WWW
that cover the history of the Amiga and give more information about the Amiga
in the areas persons (among others Jay Miner, RJ Mical),
official Amiga models, clones and emulators (among others ABox,
Draco, REC WonderTV A6000), Amiga operating systems,
accessories (Amiga Joyboard, The Big Book of Amiga Hardware),
support (among others The Dave Haynie Archives, Great Valley Products - M Inc.)
and specials (among others The Jay Miner Society, Amiga Juggler animation).
All informations regarding the content and the ordering of the CD can be found
on the homepage.
Thomas Unger thanks to all those who have made some contribution to the success
of the CD-ROM. Special thanks go to Gregor Franz who has finished his "DiCAS -
The Commodore/Amiga story" during the holidays.
And he wishes all readers and the makers of the Amiga News a happy and
successful year 2001.
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31.Dec.2000
Hans-Joerg Frieden in the Forum
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Warp3D and PCI Graphics Boards
Recently Hans-Jörg Frieden has expressed himself in our
forum regarding the topic driver
software for PCI graphics boards under Warp3D:
«Unfortunately the number of e-mails regarding Warp3D and PCI cards
accumulates for Thomas and me. Almost every time it is "I have purchased a card
of the brand XXX, when will you have 3D drivers ready?"...
Regarding this I want to say the following: Warp3D is and will continue to be a hobby project
that is cooking on smaller flame as for now, because of the time consumption
of Hyperion. If possible we'll write drivers. Nevertheless I will explicitly
point out, that the buying of a graphics card is no cogent reason for us to produce a
driver for it - as that takes quite some time. There will probably be no
driver for Voodoo 5 (V4 is questionable but more likely), none for GeForce, Riva TNT,
ATI Rage or whatever else, especially when there exists no chip documentation.
Neither we will attempt to recycle a Linux driver.
In the case that somebody could get some chip documentation (legal!) and make it
available for us the chances for a driver increase but this is no guarantee
either.»
Via email Hans-Joerg adds that this is no kind of arbitrariness but only a
hint that people shouldn't waste their money for graphics cards that can't be
supported simply because of the lack of time or documentation...
We are getting mails all the time from people asking for GeForce support or
Voodoo 5 but for those documentation isn't accessible. We have tried it even at
NVidia, without success, even not against NDA... :-(
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30.Dec.2000
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Happy new year from amiga-news.de!
© 2001 by Rolf Tingler (ps)
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30.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
MicroBase_500d.lha biz/dbase 830K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - GERMAN
MicroBase_500e.lha biz/dbase 439K+Database supports dBASE, HTML - ENGLISH
Videomat1.7.lha biz/dbase 56K+Video cassette management system
OS3.9NOupd.lha biz/misc 2K+Bugfix for Norwegian translation of Amig
yaec_fix.lha dev/e 0K+Fixes stupid archive error in yaec.lha (
Progr_Langs_v6.lha dev/misc 71K+Comparison of progr. langs
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
Mattonite.lha game/demo 234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
Tankista_v0.3b.lha game/demo 105K+Buggy betaversion action game for 2 play
MicroPaint208.lha gfx/edit 492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
Keyswitch.lha hard/hack 13K+Automatic keyboard&mouse switch (German)
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 133K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 72K+V0.77 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ECat01.lha misc/misc 15K+Spanish Catalogs Pack 01
psY_srY.lha mods/blkha 87K+REvENgE - Nachfolger PT mod by blakkhar
BoingRays.jpg pix/back 152K+Boing Ball peeking out of dark clouds
AP12Recto.jpg pix/misc 128K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Recto
AP12Verso.jpg pix/misc 74K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 12 Cover Verso
dau-cdrom.jpg pix/misc 29K+How might a CD-ROM for dummies look like
titleshadow.lha util/boot 3K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
iFlush.lha util/cli 13K+Flushes UnUsed MemBlocks() Librarys() ,
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 289K+Report+ 4.21: 10-function utility
MicroRexx202.lha util/rexx 50K+ARexx Intuition extension
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30.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Advertising at Amiga Future
Exactly as in the last two issues of Amiga Future the editor of the magazine
proposes a "commercial" advertising for "non commercial" products in Amiga
Future (1/8 page b/w) for a special price of DM 20,- VTA included to shareware
developers, webmasters and so on. We would like to ask all the persons that
are interested in this offer to contact the editor of Amiga Future as soon as
possible.
The whole editing team of Amiga Future wish a happy new year 2001 to all of
you.
APC&TCP wish a happy new year 2001
to all of the Amiga users. You can look forward to next year because APC&TCP
is planning to release a whole lot of new Amiga products next year.
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30.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail
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COOLbits Newsticker
We wish a happy new year to all of our customers!
Our shop will be closed until 07.01.2001.
Martin Strobl writes:
I have build the Elbox-Mediator PCI Board into my showroom tower and I am very
pleased with the VooDoo 3000/16MB graphicsboard I also build in, since this
duo is faster than my private CybervisionPPC.
(showroom tower: Blizzard 1260, Private: CyberstormPPC 233/060/50).
A question concerning this subject: Is there interest to buy the Mediator-PCI
Board/ PCI graphics board directly with a licensed version of the Picasso96
drivers? If you are interested please send an email to
martin@coolbits.de. If there is enough
interest I will contact the makers of the drivers to ask for the price of such
a deal.
By the way, here is a tip for all those who own EXODUS in combination with a
CybervsionPPC (maybe also other graphics boards:
The game ran extremely slow on my computer until I removed the program
"PREPAREMUL" of Shapeshifter from my startup-sequence.
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30.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke in ANF
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EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.6 Released
This millennium's final release of the classic edition of EZP@gerNG has
now also been released. It is as always available in the download section.
The changes of this release are similar to those of the full version 1.3 of
EZP@gerNG, as far as the CE-version supports the different features. All the
changes of
this release.
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30.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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playamiga Closing it's Doors...
Juergen A. Theiner wrote:
On 01.01.2001 I will close playamiga.de. But only to be back for you (at the
latest) in February. And then with a lot of new features:
- New layout
- More tests and previews
- Release list
- The possibility to order games directly on the site.
- Monthly column about the Amiga and its world
- Charts and, and, and ...
If you want to continue to participate actively in the creation of the page, I
would like to ask you to send me the names of your favourite games so I can
create the charts (eispirat@home.ivm.de).
Important: The Payback Work in Progress
Report will stay online and will be renewed soon.
Happy new year!
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30.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino in ANF
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News from Infomedia Network
Fun Time World wrote:
"The homepage of Amiga's partner has been completely reworked. There aren't a
lot of news, but the first pictures of the Set-Top-Bow TVision based on Amiga
technology have been released."
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30.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena - Special Price Deal
The special price deal of PhotoAlbum/Cybershow will be maintained until the
31.01.2001.
I wish everybody a happy new year and success for 2001!
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30.Dec.2000
AmiDog
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AMP2 Version 2.00 Released
Version 2.00 of the movie player AMP2 has been released. In this version there
are a lot of new features. The author tried to make this version as stable and
bugfree as possible. However if you have MPEG movies that don't work or make
AMP 2 crash, the author would be happy to receive a message from you by
eMail.
Download: AMP200.lha
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Amiga Sound Standards and How to Destroy Them (Part 1)
Joern Plewka wrote:
In the past Katodev had to fight the fact that internally there wasn't enough
menpower available. That's why it was impossible for us to participate in
certain discussions. The things that head towards us now (criticism about
AMPlifier) is from our point of view hard and "generated".
Katodev and others are trying to support all of the existing standards those
usable from concept. We'd like to point out that the mpeg.device has been
released 1993 by Commodore (picture and sound). All cards with hardware
MPEG-support that were released after that have used this driver. CD32-FMV,
Peggy+, Melody-Z2, Melody1200 series and also the Delfina series.
For the later even the source code is available on Aminet. Those who are
now still not capable of writing a correct driver for their hardware should
simply ask for help or make their hardware layout available for everyone!
AMPlifier supports this standard. Those who create a driver for their hardware
can use this software unlicensed. AMPlifier is part of OS3.9 or available on
our homepage (unrestricted shareware) in Rev. 2.21. Those who don't like the
software should write their own, but please support the standards!
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30.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF
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Silversurfer does NOT Work with Melody1200
Joern Plewka wrote:
Since the Cologne fair previous to this year's fair the Silversurfer in it's
original state doesn't work correctly with Melody1200 since the complete
clockport is blocked, which is in contradiction with what the manufacturer
states at his homepage. This information isn't even available to users when
they ask for support. Katodev is fed up with fixing Silversurfers without
complaining, by now. Currently it seems that even the software does NOT work
with Melody1200 anymore.
If Silversurfer and Melody1200 can't work together simultaneoulsy it means
that Melody can die from bus-collisions, sooner or later. Please get a guaranty
on purchase that Silversurfer does the things you require or use Twister1200.
This makes you preventing a lot of anger, port and time for you and us.
We have reconstructed the layout of the Silversurfer now. This shows that the
IRQ runs over a diode. Those having problems due to this "trick" should
replace the diode by a transistor (e.g. BS170).
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29.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail
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VirusHelp Denmark: New Informationen on New Trojan
I have received some new info about the new trojan that was found
on the 27'th of December. It is spread in an archive with the name
"dcs-4k.lha". But the demo group have nothing to do with this new
trojan. We have also been told that it is a guy from England and
that he also made the "dkg-blum.lha" trojan, his name and address is
known to Virus Help Denmmark. Thanks to Mikko for the new info.
Here once more the full information on the new archive (we had posted
these on 12/27/2000 already):
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will delete your
"sys:" if you run the program. At this time non of the anti-virus
programs can detect this trojan, but in the next update they will
be known.
The cure right now (If you have lost your SYS: to bad......), then
you will have to try and get the files back with eg. DiskSalv,
AB-Tools or VT-Schutz.
Here is some info about the infected archive:
Virus Type.... : Trojan
Trojan name....: 4KIntro.exe
Trojan size....: 4096 bytes (packed with StoneCracker 4.04)
: 6072 bytes (un-packed)
Archive name.. : dcs-4k.lha
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)
This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....
Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..
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29.Dec.2000
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Visitor #2,000,000 on amiga-news.de
Last night, the 2,000,000th visitor came to our website. Joe has sent us a
screenshot of the 'event'. A proud number for 27 months. This
turns out about 74,074 visitors per month, with rising tendency.
Currently, between 6,000 and 8,000 readers visit us per day!
This is the opportunity to thank you for this great acceptance. We are
very happy, especially about the fact that more and more programmers,
developers, and readers take the chance to enter news in our
Amiga News Forum (ANF) themselves.
As you certainly know, we are a team of Amiga users
who invest a large amount of their spare time in this project. That's exactly
why we are happy about your feedback and of course most of all about every support, as without all your
help, amiga-news.de wouldn't have emerged to what it is today: one of the best news services
for the Amiga :).
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29.Dec.2000
ANN
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Jay Miner Millennial Memories Video
A new video from Kermit Woodall is available for download at Nova Design.
Download: jayminermm.mpg - 23,4 MB
Also, there's a 30 second video extract at Nova Design, which was produced from a video for
Bob Scharp's Bounce Back Videos.
The idea behind the 'Bounce Back Videos' is to give Amiga user groups the
opportunity to convey background knowledge on several projects to the users.
Download: novacomm.mpg - 6 MB
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29.Dec.2000
Richard H. Poser II via eMail
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AmigAIM BETA version 0.9406 released
A new beta version 0.9406 of AmigaAIM, the client for Amiga to participate
in the AOL Instant Messenger Service, was released. It's available for download at the usual places.
Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
AmigAIM 0.9406 Beta (28 Dec 2000)
- Fixed problem with ARexx command "login", was supposed to use last logged in
name if user is not specified. Now acts as originally planned.
- Added Notes section for each buddy for user to keep private data about buddies,
accessed via Contextmenu (Edit Notes) in "Online" as well as Chat Menu in
Chat Window.
Download: AmigaAIM_BETA.lha
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29.Dec.2000
Lars Maschmann on ANF
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New AmBoS-Support-Homepage
A new support homepage is available for the Amiga mailbox program "AmBoS".
It can be found at http://ambos.regiodata.de
and contains information and downloads (current updates and a complete demo archive).
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29.Dec.2000
Carlos on ANF
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PalmBackup 1.9 Released
PalmBackup is the Amiga software for PalmPilot/Visor/ThinkPad (and derivatives)
users that allows backup/restore of databases held on your handheld computer,
new software installation, and advanced database management. Since 1.9 PalmBackup
was released as free software (the full source code is also available). The
project has a new homepage at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/palmbackup
where the latest news, and releases can be found.
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29.Dec.2000
S&R Raghoebardayal on ANF
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CoyoteSound: Early Beta Released as Freeware
An early beta-version of CoyoteSound has been released as freeware.
This version is still very limited but since development has continued
a little while ago, it might change very soon.
If you want to see more development on this program, please contact the
authors (coyoteflux@chello.nl) and tell
them why. CoyoteSound will remain freeware.
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29.Dec.2000
Rafal Kwasny on ANF
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New 16 Bit Amiga Sound Card under Development
A new 16 bit sound card called 'Martina' for the Amiga is under development.
Specifications:
- 1x stereo out 16bit, max 96kHz
- 2x stereo in 16bit, max 96kHz (sampler)
- expansion port for MPEG modules (MP3 layer decoding, MPEG-1 for clock port
version)
- no pass through (card is blocking clock port)
- AHI drivers, audio.device overtake function, MPEG decoder handling possible
in the future by mpga.library,
- mixing audio from Paula and CD-ROM devices
- 24bit, MPEG-2 ROM-mounted version (for BVision and FastAta users),
compatible with a4000 (a3000 possible)
More information and a screenshot of the prototype are to find at the title link.
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28.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF
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StrICQ v0.1734 Released
On the StrICQ support page v0.1734 has been released which should fix
some bugs in version v0.1733.
Download: stricq.lha - 222 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Tobias Abt via eMail
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Picasso96 Driver for Mediator
Sufficient demand for Picasso96 drivers for Mediator provided, that is about 300 registered
users (specify Mediator for purpose when registering), in case of need we will purchase
a complete developer- and test-system with our own funds, and then create own drivers
for diverse PCI graphics boards. This drivers will then be of quality known form
us.
But Elbox mentioned to us that they already would have shipped two systems to Germany for other
driver development (CGX). Well, it would be in our terms to provide us one of these. To charge
UPS with delivery cannot cost the world.....
Another problem would be accessing the API of the Mediator system's pci.library. Elbox provides
this only for NDA, though they don't feel themselves to be bound to such concinnities, see their
unauthorized Voodoo3-P96 driver...
If they would refuse us to access this, of course this would raise a certain problem which could
lead to slightly delays.
Supplement 12-29-2000:
Tobias Abt via eMail:
Afterwards we got the information that this developer system provided to the CGX team was
distributed by Vesalia, but financed by Elbox.
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28.Dec.2000
Amiga Club Steinfurt
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New SiteWay-Modul: EasyAccess
EasyAccess is a helpful tool in creating and editing CGI scripts. Using this local
server one can test his sites offline (incl. CGI and SSI). EasyAccess is part of
the SiteWay project.
Download: EasyAccess.lha - 405 KB
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28.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner
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MainPrefs Version 2.02 Released
Who wants to change environment variables, handily edit configuration files as like s:startup-sequence or
start OS preferences tools in a predictable way can do that using MainPrefs V2.02, now. The program
requires OS3.5 because of its Reaction-GUI.
Download: mainprefs.lha - 65 KB
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28.Dec.2000
B. van der Meer on ANF
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Amiga-news Now Also At AmigaScene.nl
We have integrated amiga-news.de in Dutch on our website, now. Our thanks to Dirk Baeyens and Petra Struck.
[News message: 28. Dec. 2000, 18:20] [Comments: 0]
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28.Dec.2000
Matthias Muench
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DCE with New Homepage
DCE has got a new homepage. There are also to find a few new information on G-REX for Amiga 4000.
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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VaporWare 2000: Winners Published
The US magazine Wired again has published the award winners for announced but not released
computer products. Hundreds of voters again participated. This year award seems to hit
Apple (a hard year for Apple since Steve Jobs had to concede profit caution and errors).
Another link on this subject:
Heise: Vaporware 2000: Die Gewinner (German)
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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New Roadmap for Mozilla
ProLinux wrote:
"Plans for future versions of Mozilla up to v1.2 has been published on the Mozilla project's
website".
Might become a subject for the future AmigaDE.
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28.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Amiga.com opens User Group Database
One can register for the database on the developer site of Amiga.com (see link).
Amiga dazu:
«We will also have a UBB message board, a searchable User Group database,
and mailing lists so that User Groups world wide may communicate
together. All of this will be available from links off this main page.
If you are a User Group member and have other suggestions, please send
feedback to: support@amiga.com».
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