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27.Dec.2000
Martin McKenzie on ANF


CAD Technologies Website Update
Website redesigned with a fresher look. Added a large number of links to the tutorial section. Added renders to the gallery pages.

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27.Dec.2000
Ralph Debusmann


EasyPlayer Version 1.04 Released
Version 1.04 for the music player 'EasyPlayer' by Ralph Debusmann has been released.

Download: EasyPlayer.lha.bin - 92 KB

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27.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
ksmED.lha            comm/irc    55K+Edit/Create Kuang11 '.ksm' files for /sa
StreAmi.lha          comm/misc   38K+Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client (v1.24)
samba_2.0.7.lha      comm/tcp   6.3M+Port of the free SMB client and server
streamer.lha         comm/www    27K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
APL-JOIN.lha         demo/euro   25K+"Jointro" by Apollo - December 1995
APT-A500.lha         demo/euro    4K+"A500 Gourad" - A 4K Intro From Apathy (
APT-BYO.lha          demo/euro    8K+"The Byoot" - A 4K Intro By Apathy
APT-GRO.lha          demo/euro   78K+"Groovey" - A 64K Intro From Apathy (The
APT-OFF.lha          demo/euro   36K+"Offshore#1" - Messagebox by Apathy (Aut
APT-SBS.lha          demo/euro   72K+SBS by APATHY - Released at The Gatherin
APT-ZEE.lha          demo/euro    4K+Zeebeeking (4K) By Apathy At Kindergarde
ITC-REW.lha          demo/euro   11K+"Rewired" - Winner 10K Intro From Kinder
ITC-SWP.lha          demo/euro   54K+Swappers Paradise - Old Swaptro By Insti
SPT-BUB.lha          demo/euro  126K+"Bubble" - An intro by Specter from Dece
VOD-VOY.lha          demo/euro  224K+Voy-Voy - Demo By Void For Kindergarden 
FuriousReply.lha     demo/slide 982K+An unreleased manga slideshow by BoyzOut
SFSTools.lha         disk/optim  34K+Some tools for optimizing SFS file syste
AIOV42.lha           docs/mags  327K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 42 (Dece
BigSouthNP.pdf       docs/misc  311K+Fantasy novel in pdf format
FormAldiHyd.lha      hard/drivr  41K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
imdbDiff001215.lha   misc/imdb  2.5M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
aa2001.lha           misc/misc  1.6M+Astrologic texts, german and HTML (DEMO)
rEvENge.lha          mods/blkha 147K+REvENgE PT mod by blakkhar
LifeSinus.lha        mods/misc  1.1M+XM Acid Jazz by Mr.Lou / Dewfall Product
Protector.lha        mods/misc   31K+Custom module from "Protector"
TheFight.mpg         mods/misc  4.9M+MP3 Dance by Mr.Lou / Dewfall Production
NMS_BXmas.lha        mods/pro    82K+Black Christmas - By Nemesis/Zenon
bo-102.lha           mods/techn 497K+#102 bOhema release - SPEKTRA (mod).
bo-103.lha           mods/techn 533K+#103 bOhema release - TZX (mod).
bo-104.lha           mods/techn 251K+#104 bOhema release - KLINTON (xm).
crs_qwe.lha          mods/techn 706K+CRS00057: speaker for the dead - qwe
vdo_alt2.lha         mods/vdo   380K+Alternative auto 2 [xm 10ch]
MMV8_Disk_2.lha      mus/edit   425K+MusicMaker V8 Version 3.0
AmigaAMP.lha         mus/play   577K+MPEG audio player with GUI (68k/PPC)
EasyPlayer.lha       mus/play    90K+The alternative music player, v1.03, Xma
EP_ChipTracker.lha   mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "ChipTracker" external repla
EP_DSS.lha           mus/play     6K+EaglePlayer "Digital Sound Studio" exter
WB13Icons.lha        pix/icon    43K+Some old icons for 640x256 screens
woa2k-walk.mpg       pix/mpg    4.6M+MPEG-Video of the walkaround at WoA 2000
woa2k-webcam.mpg     pix/mpg    4.9M+MPEG-Video of the *AC#-Webcam at WoA 200
Impact.jpg           pix/wfm    272K+Impact
InTheClover.jpg      pix/wfm    351K+In The Clover
LghtnngStrk.jpg      pix/wfm    306K+Lightning Strikes
OFS018.jpg           pix/wfm    744K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS019.jpg           pix/wfm    653K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS020.jpg           pix/wfm    552K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS021.jpg           pix/wfm    403K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS022.jpg           pix/wfm    566K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS023.jpg           pix/wfm    546K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS024.jpg           pix/wfm    502K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS025.jpg           pix/wfm    259K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS026.jpg           pix/wfm    446K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
OFS027.jpg           pix/wfm    453K+What Hubble might see in Fractal Space
MirrorCopy.lha       util/cli    21K+Create/maintain exact copy of dir (V1.6)
TransPrefs21.lha     util/sys    41K+TranslatorPrefs V2.1 (bugfixt)
Ver.lha              util/sys    14K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version 40.1
VisualPrefs_HU.lha   util/wb     10K+VisualPrefs: Hungarian Catalog file


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27.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


VirusHelp Denmark: New Trojan Found
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.. : ? (Not known yet)
Archive size.. : ? (Not known yet)

This archive has been send to all the antivirus programmers.....

Thanx to Ryben Kozlak for the info and sending the archive to us..

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27.Dec.2000
Piotr Pawlowski


New Distributor in Poland
Quedex is a new Amiga distributor in Poland authorized by Amiga Inc. The Polish Amiga market emerges well.

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27.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena - Free Games
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Frank Abbing enables all of the shareware / freeware games developed for Amiga by UAC Design to be offered for download! These games are not available from Aminet!

Olaf Koebnik is especially exited about the full version of board game port "Risiko" to be available for the first time at Amiga Arena. Appropriate to the quiz fever the game "Awaking" makes the opening! Awaking is a quiz game such as 'Jeopardy&180;, 'Riskant' or 'Der grosse Preis'.

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27.Dec.2000
ANN


Scalos: Compatibility to OS3.9
Since the release of AmigaOS 3.9 some OS tool are using new functions not available in Scalos. With a new plugin for Scalos of Juergen Lachmann these new functions are now available enabling you to make use of tools of OS3.9 like "AmiDock".

Download: Scalos-Plugin_WB39.
For further information please have a look at the link.

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27.Dec.2000
AmiSectorOne


New Games and More at AmiSectorOne
There again are new classic games at AmiSectorOne. Among others you can download A-Train, Ambermoon, Amberstar and Sim City 2000 (English and German) there. Furthermore the demo area was completely re-established. Therefore most demos are accessible again and you can also find some new pieces of music in the areas of "Game Music" and "Scene Music".

AmiSectorOne thank all of the visitors for their support.

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27.Dec.2000
tpec.u-net.com


FBlit v3.73xms
It was published a new test version of FBlit v3.73xms on 22nd of December 2000. FBlit patches some OS functions normally using the blitter, such that these can use the CPU and don't have to operate inside chip-mem.

The patched functions are also faster and non-interleaved data will suffer less from colour flickering .

Additionally non-displayalbe bitmaps can be put in fastram for named tasks. The new version contains various minor changes to v3.69b.

Download: fblit373xms.lzx.

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27.Dec.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF


New (final) Amiga User List Published
Right now the new AUL went online and is also on the homepage for download. Soon on Aminet, too.

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27.Dec.2000
Thomas Heyer on ANF


And Max Rally does Work..... ;)
Do you also have the game Max Rally from Aminet Games, Aminet Set 10 or Aminet 36, and it just doesn't work? Here is the solution: On the above mentioned CD-Roms explode.library is missing! This can be downloaded e.g. from Aminet (util/libs/explode-7.lha) and unpacked to your own libs directory. Good playing.

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26.Dec.2000
Jan Hendrik Mangold on ANF


AWeb 3.4 Update for Registered Users
From now for registered users of the browser AWeb v3.x an update for the latest version v3.4 is available. Amitrix wish merry Christmas.

Download: aweb3x34.pch.lha

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25.Dec.2000
TFA


ASM-One V1.46
Today version 1.46 of the assembler-compiler 'ASM-One' was released. Some minor bugs were fixed and a cursor for the monitor was added.

Download: asmonev146.lha (257 KB)

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25.Dec.2000
VMC


VMC News
VMC would like to wish all of their customers a merry Christmas (the whole thing is available at the title link).

VMC-ISDN 2.99B100 Christmas update released
Attention! This is a commercial update. All features are available without a VMC-ISDN-license but the connection time is limited.

We will make a special offer to the owners of the original ISDN-Blaster-Z2. The following changes were made:

Speed-up of the interrupt-system witch made the whole thing a lot more stable. Problems with FUSION were removed and things like vlink.device are no longer necessary.

At the moment we are working on the next generation of VMC-ISDN. We will build in some interesting features like message transport over the D-channel and much more.
There are some screenshots of the new X-Phone version available at our VMC-ISDN product page.

HyperCOM 2.98 Christmas update
The new last non-commercial update for HyperCOM are available now. Two minor problems were fixed and the speed were increased.

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25.Dec.2000
Richard H. Poser II via eMail


AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9405 Released
As a Christmas Present - sort of, anyway...

The latest version has been uploaded to the normal locations, on the webpage and descriptions on the links section of the mailing list have been changed.

Extract from History of AmigAIM since Public Release...

History of AmigAIM since Public Release...
AmigAIM 0.9405 Beta (25 Dec 2000)
  • Added "Temporary" class of Buddy. If a message is received from someone not already on Buddy list, they are added to temporary status. If not moved from Temporary status to main list, Buddy is not saved when program is exited.
  • Colors for different types of messages in Message list added. (Incoming, Outgoing, Auto-Outgoing, Auto-Incoming, and System)
  • Prefs have capability of default color on Left or Right, or use of special colour on Left and Right for each Message.
  • Activity window now has the capability of having prefs set colors for display of status changes (Online,Offline and Away)
  • Single Window mode appears to work better now, as I have the window closed, changed than reopened after a change in prefs.
  • Issuing an ARexx command of QUIT FORCE now causes the client to close under most conditions without putting up any requesters (Even if prefs, etc haven't been saved)
  • Documentation in form of AmigaGuide document and MUIA_HelpNodes finally added to program, including documentation of part of ARexx interface.
  • Modified text input history system, now keeps history of last entry while cycling up/down through history. (Modification or reuse of old history entry will replace last entry)


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25.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch at ANF


WHD-Load v13.0 and JST v4.3 Released!
Update of the installation programs for old, disc-based games.

JST v4.3 offers a higher compatibility with WHD-Load-Installer-Slaves and contains an expanded OS-emulation.

WHDLoad v13.0: Still working on bugfixing and adding new features for WHD-Load-Slave-programmers.

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25.Dec.2000
Tom Duin im ANF


BindAssigns 1.1 and WIN95 Keymap Update
Updated the BindAssigns archive to 1.1. New, code cleanup and how to replace the Assigns in the User-Startup. New for Windows95 keymap for PC-keyboards: notes about the place of the different key's, including the Help key. And installation with AmigaOS3.9 notes.

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24.Dec.2000
Mark Wilson via eMail


Wishing you all a Merry Christmas
I would like to wish you all Merry Christmas on behalf of the AmiBench Team.

We wish you and your loved one's all the very best for 2001 and we hope that you get what you wished for this Christmas!

Please visit http://www.amibench.org/ for our E-Christmas Card!

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24.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges via eMail


XMas Edition of FormAldiHyd V1.2
today is XMas eve and therefore the day of presents. So quickly grab the new version 1.2 of FormAldiHyd from my homepage.

Changes:
  • V1.2 (24-Dec-00): (28860/13144 Bytes)
  • Released to my homepage and AmiNet.
  • Fixed the bugs with relative mouse movement (Cinema4D) and FlipX and/or FlipY enabled (thanks to Roger Petry for giving me the hint).
  • Reduced lower LMB Threshold limit from 13% to 1% on users request.
  • Added a second usable area slider for mouse only, so you can change between mouse and stylus on the fly and have a suitable acceleration for the mouse movements.
  • Range for the tablet was 1 pixel off set (minor flaw).
  • Iconify on startup did not work as stated in the manual (lazy me never tried it, sorry), so I added an option to iconify in the prefs.
  • Changed the GUI layout a little bit.
  • Added a FAQ to the guide.
  • Painted a nice MWB icon for FormAldiHyd. Does anyone want to design a NewIcon or GlowIcon?
  • Added a niffy logo to FormAldiHyd (sorry :) ).
  • Formalin now parses the ToolTypes and therefore can be started from Workbench without problems now.

Just a few minutes ago, Gerhard Müller sent an email to me, telling me that he has managed to get the Tablet working in conjunction with his MFCIII. Moreover, he has supplied me a patch that is included in this mail (thank you so much, Gerhard!). All users with MFCIII should try out this patch and see if it's any good and solves the problem.

So this will be the last update for this millennium. Enjoy your xmas holidays and happy new year! See you in 2001 :) And let's see who will notice a slight change in my geek code in a few days :-D

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24.Dec.2000
Torben Mueller on ANF


New Screenshots und Amos-Graphic-Interface Downloads
The homepage of AGI (graphical interface for AMOS V1.3), Airline 2, and the Depotmanager have moved. The new address is: http://home.t-online.de/home/harry500/Index.htm (please, take care of lower/upper capital).

Screenshots of Depotmanager, and download of the AGI (Amos Graphic Interface) have been added.

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24.Dec.2000
frost on ANF


AmigaOnlineGames
AmigaOnlineGames took the task to list all Amiga games working in any network. Who knows other online/network games may sent the titles via e-mail to Frost.

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24.Dec.2000
Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer on ANF


Initial Alpha Version of SimpleMail Released
SimpleMail is a new e-mail program being developed by Hynek Schlawack and Sebastian Bauer. We have just released the first alpha version on the website. It requires MUI and several additional MUI classes. SimpleMail still is at a very early level, but it is already usable and the most important features are implemented.

SimpleMail is to be an open source project at SourceForge. Here the URL of the project's page.

Download of the alpha version: simplemail.lzx

We wish all of you merry Christmas an a happy new milennium.

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24.Dec.2000
Martin Merz on ANF


MasonIcons News
Martin Merz wrote:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

There are some news on MI:

In general
- please, vote for me for the Trogsoft Awards.

Homepage
- the new MasonIcons homepage now is online
- please, rate this page on ALD
- a new counter system
- ATTENTION! This page is coloured, now ;)

AppMI
- a new update is available (version 5 to 6)
- AppMI is now free for download without registering
- registered users have been added to the newsletter

OpusMI
- OpusMI is to be continued

Other projects
- ApacheMI - an image collection for the Apache server
- PPaintMI - a default icon collection for PPaint
- MicroDotMI - update including all of the images
- VoyagerMI - update including all of the images

I wish you all merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF


The Secret of Mount Monkey - a Canceled Devotee-Adventure
Sebastian Beloch wrote:
This project was started in 1998, but was canceled in the meantime. This demo version includes complete intro and parts of the first level (not playable). THE SECRET OF MOUT MONKEY is an adventure game in style of the old classic adventures by Lucas-Arts (e.g. Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Day of the Tentacle, ....). The game combines the characters of these games building a new adventure game.

Guybrush Threepwood's daughter accepts the bid of Simon The Sorcerer to save the world, and has to supply several ingredients for his magic potion. She travels to foreign islands (MONKEY ISLAND), visits the Maniac Manison (DAY OF THE TENTACLE), stumbles into the comic strip worlds of Sam & Max as well as Leisure Suit Larry...

The demo in graphics strongly abutes to the old adventure games and is a must for all those who loves adventures.

The demo and screenshots are to find at the project section "Software-Projekte" on http://www.sebel-interactive.de/.

Download: MountMonkey.lzx

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24.Dec.2000
Igor Sereda on ANF


Merry Christmas - Voyager V33 Alpha 56
Vapor wish all of you a merry Christmas and has released for the Christmas season a new version of Voyager for registered users. Notes on this version can be taken from the Release Notes. Furthermore there is an update of the VSSL library and of the VSearch plug-in.

Download:


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24.Dec.2000
Maik Schultheis on ANF


Christmas Greetings from ACCD
ACCD wish all Amiga users a reflective Christmas feast and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac EGroups-Mailing List Closed
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Since there were no new entries to the mailing list for about half a year, the list is closed, from now.

Support still is open via normal e-mail address of the author (achimste@gmx.de) or via hotline. Questions, suggestions, a.o. should be sent to the author directly.

From now on announcements and circular letters are exclusively sent to all registered DA3 customers or published on Amiga news sites.

I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millennium!!

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24.Dec.2000
Thomas Wenzel via eMai


AmigaAMP V2.8 Final
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
At last, short before the holidays there is the full version of AmigaAMP 2.8. shoutcast streaming now definite works better, and some bugs could be fixed, too. Along with AmigaAMP v2.8 also a new version of the Plugin Development Kit is released. Now it is possible to get information on the AmigaAMP window for example to 'dock' your own plug-in graphics to it.

Download:


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24.Dec.2000
Gojira on ANF


Christmas Greetings from ACBB
Gojira wrote:
Stress-free Christmas and a clean slip into the next year (millennium)... ... to all Miggies and most of all to the "amiga.news" team from the members of the Amiga Club Berlin & Brandenburg (Germany).

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24.Dec.2000
frost on ANF


Christmas Greetings from the "Hummelkanal"
frost wrote:
The "Hummelkanal" wish all "Hummel-Chatters" & Amiga users merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Earth 2140 Finished
Pagan Games has finished Earth 2140. The game will be available within some days. There was also released a new demo version of the game which fixes several bugs.

Download:


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24.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


A.C.T.: Prelude Z2 und Samplitude
Due to problems shipping of Prelude Z2 sound cards by A.C.T. delayed for some time. But now the card is shipping. In additional Samplitude is available for download on A.C.T.'s homepage. This version has many features disabled which can be enabled by purchasing a keyfile in the A.C.T. shop.

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24.Dec.2000



The amiga-news.de Team Wish All Of The Readers Merry Christmas!
ARABIC: Saiid yom al-milaad wa senat jadiida
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ENGLISH: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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LITHUANIAN: linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu
LUXEMBURGHISH: Schéin Chrëschtdeeg an dudden
               Rutsch an d'néit Joer
MANX: Ollick Ghennal Erriu as Blein Feer Die
      Seihil as Slaynt Da'n Slane Loght Thie
NORSE-DANISH: Gledlig jul og godt Nytt Aar
POLISH: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego
        Nowego Roku
PORTUGUESE: Feliz Natal e prospero Ano Novo
RAPA-NUI (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi
                          Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
ROMANIAN: Sarbatori Fericite. La Multi Ani
RUSSIAN: Pozdrevly ayu sprazdnikom Rozhdestva Khristova
         is Novim Godom
UKRANIAN: Veselykh Svyat i scaslivoho Novoho Roku
SAMOAN: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
SLOVAK: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
SERB-CROATIAN:Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
SINGHALESE (Ceylon/Sri Lanka): Subha nath thalak Vewa
                               Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
SLOVENE: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
SPANISH: Feliz Navidad y prospero Ano Nuevo
SWEDISH: God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År
TAGALOG (Filipino): Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
TURKISH: Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun
WELSH: Nadolic Llawen. Blwyddn Newdd Dda


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24.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
ArcDir_xad.lha       biz/dopus   16K+ArcDir_xad for Opus5
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha   comm/irc   766K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
GoFetch12_Src.lha    comm/net    65K+Amiga E Sourcecode to GoFetch 1.2
AmFTP_GR.lha         comm/tcp     6K+Greek locale catalog for AmFTP 
JavaSRand.lha        comm/www    12K+JavaScript random routines on HTMLpage A
hlm-virtuakart.lha   demo/intro   3K+Virtua Karting cracktro from Hoodlum
obligement24.lha     demo/mag   599K+Obligement #24 - Famous FRENCH fanzine !
Emperor_v3.5.lha     dev/c      505K+Object-oriented programming language
stormamiga_lib.lha   dev/c      224K+Small and fast linker lib for StormC (de
Wipeout.lha          dev/debug   64K+Traces and munges memory and detects mem
2b_CrtvE_src.lha     dev/e      183K+AmigaE compiler [sources]
OptyCDPlayer_G.lha   disk/cdrom   1K+Greek locale catalog for OptyCDPlayer
SFSTools.lha         disk/optim  16K+Some tools for optimizing SFS file syste
AaktInt1200.lha      docs/mags  207K+International infotainment magazine
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cathangband.lha      game/role  721K+CathAngband 2.9.1.3 - Roguelike solo RPG
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gsn2band.lha         game/role  768K+GSN2band 1.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
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gumband.lha          game/role  918K+Gumband 2.1.1f - Roguelike solo RPG
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ingband.lha          game/role  641K+Ingband 0.2.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
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pziband.lha          game/role  939K+Pziband 1.1.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
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rangband.lha         game/role  729K+Rangband 1.05a - Roguelike solo RPG
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sbfband.lha          game/role  1.0M+SBFband 0.2.2 - Roguelike solo RPG
yinyangband.lha      game/role  656K+Yin-Yangband 1.0 - Roguelike solo RPG
BStones2.lha         game/think 288K+BubbleStones 2.1, Bust a Move like, AGA,
CreateIndex.lha      gfx/conv    71K+Make HTML picture index with ImageStudio
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SCSI_PCMCIA.lha      hard/drivr 125K+Driver for SCSI PCMCIA SmartMedia/CF
DZY-Distant.lha      mods/med   2.0M+Distant suns - Trance mod by Dazzy of So
DZY-Lust.lha         mods/med   1.1M+LUST - Trance mod by Dazzy of Soundforce
DZY-Oblivion.lha     mods/med   893K+In Oblivion - Trance mod by Dazzy of Sou
DZY-Perfection.lha   mods/med   1.3M+Perfection - Trance mod by Dazzy of Soun
DZY-Seduction.lha    mods/med   1.4M+Seduction - Trance mod by Dazzy of Sound
Project_love.lha     mods/med   221K+Good OCSS-remix from Vetal.
Untalented_mus.lha   mods/med   466K+Cool MED-module from Dreamer.
SPL_Sanxion.lha      mods/misc   28K+SOPROL module called "Sanxion"
drumshit.lha         mods/techn 137K+Techno tune
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EP_SOPROL.lha        mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "SOPROL" external replayer
XmasSkin.lha         mus/play    30K+X-MAS skin for PlayGUI!
Bounce.lha           pix/anim   369K+Some DP ECS animations "Bouncing Ball" A
fom3p21.jpg          pix/henz   270K+A Space Liner trapped at a black hole
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pris40.jpg           pix/trace  360K+Pris Zato in black/white
AntiBlanker.lha      util/blank   9K+A tool that disables your screen blanker
oudar.lha            util/boot   25K+Dopus device-lister a like, for AmigaOS3
boards227.lha        util/libs   36K+Boards.library V 2.27 - 428 Expansion bo
ReadClip.lha         util/rexx    2K+Clipboard Viewer
TransPrefs2.lha      util/sys    41K+TranslatorPrefs V2.0
mainprefs.lha        util/wb     63K+OS 3.5,3.9 Preferences GUI
oudar_wb.lha         util/wb     28K+Dopus device-lister a like, for AmigaOS3


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24.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Christmas Greetings from APC&TCP
APC&TCP wish all Amiga users merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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24.Dec.2000
Daniel Reichen via eMail


December issue of Web-Naj Northwest Amiga Group Journal Released
The December issue of the Web-Naj Northwest Amiga Group now is online as web-version. The magazine is filed with interesting subjects all around the Amiga.

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24.Dec.2000
Daniel "NX_LOKI" Schulz via eMail


Christmas Greetings and News from ANNEX
ANNEX wish all of you merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Contrary to some rumours the group would have parted I would like to tell, that we are still there. We are well and waiting for strating shot for us to come back with new songs, a new performance and hopefully a great come-back of the Amiga next year.

Publishing a track on the new OS 3.9 hopefully was a clear sign that we are NOT to leaving behind the Amiga, but rather we are waiting for the things to continue. OS 3.9 also was a noticeable sign for a generative co-operation happened, at last.

I wish all Amiga users and most of all the programmers merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for everything. Daniel "NX_LOKI" Schulz

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24.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition Site
The support sites for the The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM are now online on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. You can get much information and soon also screenshots on that page and additionally the CD-ROM can also be ordered from there.

The The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM is out now for a price of 29.95 DM ($20 USD).

Finally, Airsoft Softwair wish all Amiga users a merry Christmas and a succesful healthy new year 2001!

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24.Dec.2000
Charlot Cobben via eMail


Merry Christmas from C&C
!!Merry Christmas and a wonderful Amiga 2001!!
From all of us to all of you.. loving; adoring; worshipping and most of all Using their Amiga!
Martina, Sjef, Willem, Steven, Debby and Charlot

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24.Dec.2000
Sebastian Beloch on ANF


StrICQ 0.1733 Released
On the StrICQ support page StrICQ v0.1733 was released! The new version contains bugfixes and the client has been graphically enhanced. So there now are status icons in the main window (the known ICQ flower), and the preferences window has got nicer icons.

Download: stricq.lha

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24.Dec.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


NoRiscNoFun Wish Merry Christmas!
We wish you and your families merry Christmas.

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24.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


Also playamiga.de Wish Merry Christmas
I'm already looking forward to a new and eventfull Amiga year. Hopefully we all will be aboard again.

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24.Dec.2000
Joern Plewka on ANF


Christmas Greetings and Gifts from Katodev
It is Christmas at KATODEV, too. Over the month users' wishes cumulated here. It is hardly possible to fulfil all of those, but at least some hopefully interesting things for you are to find on our table with gifts. But, details will not be released before the days after Christmas; and now at last also a somehow newer webpage. Well, stop working now, it's time to have a break....

Merry Christmas to all of you! Also greetings to China, where a third of the current Kato team is located now. Joern Plewka, Thorsten Hansen.

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24.Dec.2000
André Beer on ANF


Merry Christmas from GeoWorld Team
The GeoWorld team wish all Amiga users merry Christmas, reflective holidays, and a happy new year 2001!

For of you still not aware: "GeoWorld - Geography for your Amiga" is available at an abolute special Christmas price until evening of 12-25-00. All information on our homepage.

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23.Dec.2000
H&P


Merry Christmas from Haage & Partner
The Haage&Partner team wish all of the AMIGA devotees a merry Christmas and .... a happy new year!

From 25th of December to 7th of January 2001 our office will be closed. From Monday 8th of January we will be there again for advice and deed.

Within this time the OS 3.9 support will only be available on 27th and 28th of December, 16:00 to 18:00 h MET.

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23.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Makers of Exodus Taken In by Swindler
Fun Time World wrote:
«The makers of the game "Exodus - Tha Last War" apparently were taken by a swindler. Mariuz Samson (Exodus) voiced on this problem in an article on the homepage of the Polish magazine eXec. The person in question, whose name wasn't mentioned, has also been responsible for the server problems due to which it partly was very difficult to download the demo version from the page. Similar problems also happened with e-mails which didn't always arrive. For the alleged hacker attack also the person in question has been responsible. Unfortunately the swindler was also able to read the e-mails sent to the group and possibly answered some of those.

If you happened to receive an e-mail with a reply-to address different from the following, so this one might be sent by the person in question: samsonm@poczta.onet.pl, darexodus@poczta.onet.pl, sland@skrzynka.getin.pl, and maybe also slandsales@go2.pl. Now you can reach the group under the following e-mail address: samson10@box43.pl

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23.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Christmas and new year wishes from Stefan Robl
Under the above title link Stefan Robl (AmiDock, AmigaMPEGPlayer) does not only wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year, but also recalls his Amiga year 2000.

During his internship at Haage&Partner he developed the speed optimized ARexx interpreter "StormRexx" which but isn't finished, yet. For AmigaOS V3.9 he developed 'AmiDock', and for the AmigaSDK he released the MPEG player 'AmigaMPEGPlayer'. At the Neuss show he was able to present his "AmiCamedia" driver for digital cameras by Olympus.

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23.Dec.2000
amiga.org


Amiga.org V7.0 Now Online
The newly designed website of amiga.org now is accessible directly under the known URL http://amiga.org/. Among other things this site provides actual Amiga news on which you now can comment directly. Additionally there are among other things several discussion forums, a login for members, and immediate display of the latest uploads to the AmigaDE software archive at Amiga Inc..

The rss- and ultramode-Backend allow developers of web-tools easy to access the current headlines.

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23.Dec.2000
amiga.org


Official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ
On the AmigaOS V3.9 pages at Amiga Inc. there is to find a link to the official AmigaOS V3.9 FAQ by Gregory Donner. This English FAQ contains a.o. the topics installation tips, icon operation, compatibility, internet applications, undocumented features, 3rd party utilities, and known bugs. Beside of the online version there is the HTML version as both, LHA and ZIP archive available for download.

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23.Dec.2000
Innovative


Merry Christmas from Innovative
We wish all of our customers and friends a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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23.Dec.2000
AIO


AIO Magazine Issue #42
Just in time for Christmas issue #42 of the AIO magazine has been released.

Download: AIOV42.LHA

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23.Dec.2000
Jens Schoenfeld via eMail


Individual Computers: ISDN Surfer Driver V1.938
At the download area from now on the new capi20.device, and the new isdnsurfer.device are available for download. The only change: capi20.device does no longer claim to be a demo version. This expiry of the software was meant to remind of updating. Unfortunately the deadline for further development was set too short.

By this we want to wish all of our customers, suppliers and business friends a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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23.Dec.2000
Eyetech Group Ltd.


Merry Christmas from Eyetech
Merry Christmas from Eyetech.

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23.Dec.2000
HiSoft Systems


iBrowse News
Middle of December on the support forum of iBrowse, which was hosted by www.senduptheflares.com/ and now doesn't exist no more it was to read that Stefan Burstroem, author of iBrowse has got a full time job, cause he wasn't able to exist from what he gains from iBrowse, any more.

Here the original message form the HiSoft forum:

«Unfortunately, after many, many years of hard work on iBrowse, Stefan Burstroem (the author of iBrowse) has been forced to get a full-time job. The revenues coming in from iBrowse sales simply are not enough to support worldwide marketing plus a salary for the author.

Although Stefan remains committed to iBrowse and the Amiga, it is difficult to see how he can take the product forward without help. And, even then, I cannot see how enough revenue will come to pay the people involved.

Please let me know if any of you have any ideas how this problem can be solved. David»

On the iBrowse product page at Hisoft (see title link) it is mentioned that it is absolute necessary to have a look at the demo version of iBrowse before registering, to be sure that the browser fulfils your needs. According to Hisoft so much changes have happened to the internet, that Amiga browser cannot keep up, any more.

Here the original text:

«The latest version of the Amiga's premier web browser.
Note that the Internet has moved on and the Amiga has not kept up, so some modern websites are not accessible on the Amiga because they require software that is not available for the Amiga. Therefore, before you purchase an iBrowse 2 keyfile please ensure that you have downloaded the evaluation version and satisfied yourself that iBrowse 2.2 is suitable for your requirements.»

Conclusion: At this time further development of iBrowse is not to expect. But at eGroups still a discussion forum for iBrowse users is available: http://www.egroups.com/group/ibrowselist.

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23.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail


COOL bits Newsletter
We wish all of our customers a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

After our stocktaking an update of the homepage will be put online. Due to stocktaking and holiday our shop will be closed from 12-27-2000 to 01-07-2000.

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23.Dec.2000
Ralph Debusmann via eMail


EasyPlayer Version 1.03 Released
Ralph Debusmann wrote:
I've just uploaded the Christmas release (version 1.03) of my music player "EasyPlayer" to Aminet, now with "be quiet" option. Who cannot beat waiting until it appears there, will find the version on my homage under the title link.

Greetings, merry Christmas and a happy new year!

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23.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail


Merry Christmas
Elbox Computer Team wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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23.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Merry Christmas from Amiga Future
Amiga Future wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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23.Dec.2000
utopia on ANF


Amiga Mall Now Open
Vince Pfeifer (Amiga Inc.): "The Amiga community is now able to purchase the same goodies that we here at Amiga wear!"

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23.Dec.2000
Peter Sander im ANF


Season Greetings from AS-WebShop
We wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year 2oo1. Along with our wishes we want to thank for the great reception in the year 2000. The AS-WebShop will continue to available for everybody in the year 2001 with it's offerings all around the AMIGA.

We also want to thank for laud and criticism of many kind. With the soon to come new version (v3) of the WebShop software we will take care of many of these. Extra thanks to: Heiko and Lars, as well as all of the #AmigaClub-BTX. - Some of it wouldn't not be possible without your help. Special thanks to: Family Horbach from KDH-Datentechnik - their sovereignty to master our whims is admirable. - Thank you! - Danke!

Finally one note: Our office will not be available by phone between the holidays. FAX (05121-39586), EMail (info@as-webshop.de) or the online shop of course will be accessible.

PS: I want to thank you Petra (and of course the amiga-news.de team) for daily suppling us with news, tips, and information all around AMIGA and similar subjects. Great performance - Thank you!


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23.Dec.2000
AMItac on ANF


Amiga Emulation and More to Come
AMITac wrote:
We are a young NetTeam among other things dealing with emulation of Playstation and Amiga. We've started doing the manual for the UAE emulator, which will be finished at latest in a week (HTML manual). Later on more classic stuff will be added. Who would like to can contact AMItac or RamireZ or put a link to our site.

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23.Dec.2000
Peter Merfeld on ANF


Voodoo 5 CyberGraphx Driver Finished
DCE Computer Service GmbH, Oberhausen, Germany, is exited to announce the Voodoo 5-5500 graphics board to be supported by CyberGraphX driver in time for the upcoming release of the G-REX PCI interface end of January 2001.

The following drivers are finished:
  • Voodoo 3 - 2000 - 3000
  • Voodoo 4 - 4500
  • Voodoo 5 - 5500
  • 10Mbit PCI Netcard (Realtek Chipset)
  • S3 Virge

End of January 2001 also the initial beta version of the new Warp3D driver will be available. This driver will support Voodoo 3-2000-3000.

DCE wish all of the readers a merry Christmas and a happy new millennium.

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23.Dec.2000
utopia on ANF


Holiday Executive Update from Bill McEwen

December 23, 2000
Executive Update - Looking Back

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to one and all:

Wow, have we been a blessed company. On December 27, 1999 we executed our agreement with Gateway, and January 3rd 2000 was our first day of business.

In one year we have been able to release an upgrade to the AmigaOS (3.9, with our partners Haage and Partner), we have announced and released two versions of the SDK for the New AmigaDE (Digital Environment), we have released the AmigaOne specification and announced two partners in building these new machines, (bPlan, and Eyetech).

Yes this has been an amazing year.

As we look back upon these last 12 months, there have been many lessons learned, and it is with these new lessons that we will be moving into 2001, with clear focus, and numerous new announcements and deals. Yes, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be great fun for Amigans around the world, for it is here that the rest of the world will begin to learn what you already know! :-)

At this time of remembrance and thanks, we are also reminded of our friends that we have lost. Coz, Bob Cosby is very missed and we think of him, and pray daily for his wife Marsha. It has been the most sobering event for Amiga, and it helped us to remember that Family is what makes Amiga great. We are looking to add many new members to the Amiga family this year.

This year has been hard for us in other ways also: the stock market has certainly hindered our ability to raise the capital we wanted to accelerate our plans, and many of us have had to endure financial hardships making the dream of Amiga a reality. The Amiga team is together, and moving ahead quickly towards this new and exciting year.

I want to thank each and every one of you for your continued support and for everyone hanging in there with us.

We are truly a blessed company.

I want to personally wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, and a very Happy New Year.

God Bless,
><> Bill McEwen ><>
President CEO Amiga, Inc,
bill@amiga.com.

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22.Dec.2000
Benjamin Yoris by e-mail


Merry Xmas from Hyperion
The Hyperion Entertainment team would like to wish all of you a very happy holiday season and a merry Xmas. Rendez-vous in 2001 with even more outstanding games and new deals to come.

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22.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF


IRC-Server runs on Amiga 500 :-)
I've just noticed that the information text of the EFnet IRC server irc.gigabell.de says: "Running on AmigaOS, Kick 1.3". If you want to see it yourself, just log into this IRC server of the Gigabell AG and have a look at your Whois.

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22.Dec.2000
Thomas Würgler on ANF


Christmas gift from e.p.i.c. and Pagan Games
You should remember to look at the Pagan Games site on the 23rd of December for an early Christmas gift to all Amiga gamers. Merry Christmas from Pagan Games and e.p.i.c. interactive.

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22.Dec.2000
Stefan Falke on ANF


EZP@gerNG Christmas release
The latest version 1.3 is immediately available - it can be downloaded from the download area.

The unregistered version is free as always. All registered EZP@agerNG users find an update archive there which they can use to update their registered version 1.2 to version 1.3.

The most important changes in this release:
  • Different backfill images are supported for the EZP screen, the main window and the requester.
  • toolbar graphics are evaluated a lot more flexible so that the creation of own toolbars is much easier now.
  • Shell and ARexx scripts to install toolbar and service images more easily.
  • New ARexx command SENDMAIL to make the sending of e-mails through ARexx easier.
  • Arguments can be passed to the ARexx menu item scripts

All changes of this release. A merry Christmas to all Amiga users and a happy new year 2001!

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22.Dec.2000
2IDs on ANF


Happy X-Mas
With this entry in the amiga news, we would like to thank you for the many visits and the great support.

The last year has brought quite some changes to those working on the web. Even at us, the PC and thus Flash5 have made their entrances - which doesn't mean that we will leave or neglect the Amiga sector. On the contrary: there's something planned in the Amiga sector for next year, you'll be pleasantly surprised!

A special thanks to the AMIGA-NEWS-TEAM. Always reliable and latest informations. Thanks also to Stefan Kost (SOUNDFX) and Patrick Meng (SYMPHONIEPRO) for the uncomplicated co-operation.

We wish all who read this pleasant Christmas days and a successful and purposeful year 2001. Your 2IDs.TEAM

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22.Dec.2000
Matthias Henze on ANF


New beta version (V.45.00 beta 4) of stormamiga.lib V.45.00 for StormC
After a long time there's a new version of stormamiga.lib as a Christmas gift from Matthias Henze. The most important improvements in this version are certainly the new, very fast and exact math functions for the MC68040 and MC68060. Other function were also rewritten from the scratch up. Furthermore, there are many optimizations and some bugfixes.

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22.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Amiga Extreme takes a break
«Amiga Extreme will be closing for a while. This is because I feel that I don't have the motivation to continue the site, and the fact that there's almost nothing to post, I don't see much of a point in updating. There are better sites for that (Amiga.org and Czech Amiga News for example).

Once again, this is not the end, it's just the end for Amiga Extreme on the classic platform. The next time Amiga Extreme will open is when the AmigaONE release is closing in on us and when there's some real news for the new platform. I'm already working on a new design and have lots of ideas for the new AE.

Also, the e-mail addresses will still be up, so you can mail me at syke@amigaextreme.com. More info will be posted when it's time. I have no plans to leave the Amiga platform, and I'm confident that the new Amiga platform will be successful. Your sincerely - Stefan "Syke" Falk - webmaster@amigaextreme.com.»

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22.Dec.2000
Stefan Robl by e-mail


FMdriver V1.14 BETA released
Stefan writes:
On my homepage is now an official beta version of my driver system for the FrameMachine video card. New additions include a GrabbingCenter, hardware drivers were moved into a library (68k and PPC), slight speed improvements, localisation of the most important programs and a couple of little things ... :)

I can only offer limited support until February 2001 as I will put all my projects "on ice" to allow me more time for my studies. Thanks for your understanding!

Christmas is soon ... what's missing? Of course, my annual "Christmas letter" ;-), here in English.

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22.Dec.2000
BTTR-Team


Back to the Roots Amiga-News 226
Christmas is near and again another year has passed. Therefore "Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) brings you some nice presents in form of some wonderful classic Amiga games - as always for free and with permission!

The companies Dynamix and Digital Integration are supporting our project now, too so the flight simulations Red Baron, F-16 Combat Pilot and Tornado are now online. Also the great adventure games Space Quest 1 (the remake!), Colonel's Bequest, Code name: Iceman and others like Thunderhawk, Wonder Dog, Vroom and Warhead!

There are interviews with the legendary Scene-musicians "Jester/ Sanity" and "Clawz/Bomb" online, too! Both are telling some interesting news, not only for music lovers. As usual there were also tons of Scene-demos, pictures and modules from Amiga games and the demo scene added.

We'd like to thank all our visitors for their support during the last year and send greetings to all companies and people who helped us to keep the classic stuff alive. We wish you all a merry X-mas and a happy new year.

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22.Dec.2000
Frey United Software on ANF


PSV Manager v1.41
Updated version of our freeware football management game "PSV Manager". Added:
  • French league
  • Finnish league
  • samples to end of career
  • different "dan" background-pics for different leagues.
  • Fixed: two samples after chat with the chairman.
  • Fixed: few spelling mistakes.


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21.Dec.2000
Timo Kloss on ANF


Ermentrud-Demo Update
For those who find the Ermentrud demo too fast, now the speed is adjustable with a small update. The update is available for download under the title link.

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21.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Heise: AOL is testing accounts for standard protocols
The online provider AOL allows their customers to connect to net the only with a special connection software, so far. This might change soon. See title link for complete article (German).

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21.Dec.2000
Matthias Gietzelt on ANF


Christmas Version of Emperor Released
Emperor is an object-oriented programming language allowing even users without knowledge of C/C++ to become master of AmigaOS 3.5 and to programm for it by a programming help. Emperor provides variegated macro elements for menus, requesters, etc., which put aside dealing with complicated system structures. Emperor can create source code for AmigaOS 2.0 as well as for OS 3.5.

Advantages of Emperor:
  • Direct visualising availabel for every macro element
  • C/C++- source code generating
  • Integrierated text editor
  • StormC connection
  • Extended guide (German / English)
  • FREEWARE

Innovations in Emperor version 3.5:
  • Display of scroll- und slider gadgets reworked
  • Finnish catalog support
  • Program environment for configuration of version, author, program name, stack, memory check, and much more added
  • GadgetHelp for own programs: easily connect a gadget to configure this feature
  • Function [delete menu-edit-list] added
  • GadgetHelp for almost any gadget (more than 600 online help files)
  • Editing of the include list possible
  • New startup picture added (thanks to Janne Peraäho)

The program is available as version 3.5 from the Aminet directory dev/c.

Matthias Gietzelt wishes the entire Amiga community a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium.

Download: Emperor_v3.5.lha

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21.Dec.2000
Martin R. Elsner on ANF


MainPrefs 2.0 Released
For those who want to change environment variables, easily change configuration files such as s:startup-sequence or start the OS preferences programs in a predictable way, now can do all of this with MainPrefs V2.0. New in the program is the possibility to change assigns, and an Italian catalog by Arturo Franzin.

The program requires OS3.5, cause it has a Reaction GUI. It shall be available from Aminet from the next update, but from now also on the homepage under the title link. The programmer Martin R. Elsner makes efforts to further enhance the program and is open for new suggestions.

Download: mainprefs.lha - 64 KB

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21.Dec.2000
amiga.org


3ivX.nu: Poll
3ivX.nu poll: On which operating system would you like to run the new video format 3ivX ? Beside of Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, Linux, and BeOS also Amiga is one of the possiblities to vote for.

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21.Dec.2000
Stephan Rupprecht


SGrab Version 1.14 Released
Version 1.14 of Stephan Rupprecht's screen-grabber with graphical GUI was released.

Download: sgrab.lha (51 KB) - readme

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20.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet uploads
FSCP_Txt.lha         biz/dbase   55K+Farscape StarBase-Text (47)
XFLS_Txt.lha         biz/dbase  256K+The X-Files StarBase-Text (168)
BestOfASGold.lha     biz/demo   406K+Demo of Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold CD
AmIRC_GR.lha         comm/irc    13K+Greek locale catalog for AmIRC 3.5
amlog.lha            comm/misc   99K+V2.1 - HTTP/FTP/MAIL adress database
dvbcontrol.lha       comm/misc  315K+V1.31 D-Box/Mediamaster Settings Editor
MPackMUI.lha         comm/misc   50K+V1.01 MUI interface for MPack V1.5
HTTPResume.lha       comm/www   117K+Resume interrupted HTTP downloads
2b_CreativE.lha      dev/e      112K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar
CreativE.lha         dev/e      112K+CreativE - AmigaE compiler/linker [binar
BestOfASGold_A.lha   docs/anno   32K+Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold announceme
FSCP_Gde.lha         docs/hyper  56K+Farscape Guide (47)
XFLS_Gde.lha         docs/hyper 259K+The X-Files Guide (168)
Fireball_3.lha       docs/mags  841K+German Entertainment Magazine
Onkelz.lha           docs/mags   67K+German B hse Onkelz guide AG
amigo6_1.lha         game/board  87K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
NewWorms.lha         game/data  2.8M+New Worms-Samples for WormsDC
Fate1.21.lha         game/role   16K+Fate - Polish Version of Dice Simulator 
Frotz.lha            game/role  256K+Frotz 2.40R14 Infocom game interpreter
MUIReversi_GR.lha    game/think   2K+Greek locale catalog for MUI Reversi
CreateIndex.lha      gfx/conv    71K+Make HTML picture index with ImageStudio
AmiCAD_2.07.lha      gfx/edit   660K+Schematics vectorial electronics program
h8ilbm.lha           gfx/show    24K+HiQuality-HAM8 IFF-24bit image viewer
clock_port.txt       hard/hack    6K+A1200 Clock port info, updated
pario15.lha          hard/hack   21K+Parallel Port access routines
ShapeShifterGR.lha   misc/emu     3K+Greek locale catalog for ShapeShifter
imdbDiff001208.lha   misc/imdb  6.2M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
rno-r053.mpg         mods/mpg   3.4M+Rno-records release no.53 by FarFar/lns 
downtime.lha         mods/pro   273K+'Downtime' - a protracked MOD by My&.
ikava.lha            mods/pro   438K+'Ikava' - a protracked MOD by My&.
rats.lha             mods/pro   164K+'Rats' - a protracked MOD by My&.
vauva.lha            mods/pro   197K+'Vauva' - a protracked MOD by My&.
y2k.lha              mods/pro   419K+'Y2k' - a protracked MOD by My&.
sakuvk00.lha         pix/misc   1.8M+Pics from Finnish Amiga UG 2000 meeting.
OS3.9Grab.jpg        pix/wb     137K+OS3.9 Screengrab running on Voodoo3 (Med
BareED.lha           text/edit  214K+A simple text-editor for the use of non-
BurnGUI_GR.lha       util/arc     3K+Greek locale catalog for BurnGUI
SystemPatch.lha      util/boot    6K+Speedup patch for 68020+
titleshadow.lha      util/boot    2K+Add shadows or outines to your window ti
MCP_GR.lha           util/cdity   8K+Greek locale catalogs for MCP and MCPPre
ModePro.lha          util/cdity 240K+4.66 Screenmode Promotion & Public Scree
DevsList.lha         util/cli     2K+V1.0 - Devices lister
WBStartEmu.lha       util/libs    2K+Os3.9 version of wbstart.library (45.1a)
FindChanges.lha      util/misc   40K+Finds changes made to disk
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc  286K+Report+ 4.2: 10-function utility
Snapper.lha          util/misc   40K+V1.0 Snapshot any window's position
PowerTools.lha       util/moni   10K+Power failure logger
Ver.lha              util/sys    13K+Bugfixed replacement for c:version
IconMaster1_0.lha    util/wb     19K+Icon copier with some nice features V1.0
tv-prog.lha          util/wb    310K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.82]


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20.Dec.2000
Michael Wurstwasser via eMail


ANN: Fleecy Discussing
Michael wrote: «Each one who is not perfectly aware of the intentions and attitudes of Amiga Inc. might be interested in the long discussion at ANN (see title link - ca. 350 kB).

Even if it might never happen and MorphOS assumedly would be the better choice, so it might be interesting with Fleecy Moss' statements there in mind for once to consider the "50,000-copies"-edge to be the promise of a solid 4.0 PPC under active headship by Amiga Inc. Contrary to the suspicion this might only be an unsocial lure to gain more income, cause I initially took it by this, too.

It's a pity that always only hard discussions and impeachment generate clarifying answers from Amiga Inc. or other companies. In this case regarding the 50,000 copies promise.»

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20.Dec.2000
Amiga Resource


Amiga Resource: Contest
You can win an AmigaOS 3.9 in the contest at Amiga Resource if you know a feature which was introduced by OS 3.0.

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20.Dec.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Background details: Microsoft are Stricken
«Crippled due to the cartel case, tantalized by cracker's attacks, and trailed by the general downwards trend of the PC branch the software giant from Redmond now starts to paddle hectically. Because the signs are indicating storm: For the first time after ten years and for the second time in the company's history at all Microsoft had to call out a profit caution for the current quarter. PC sales in the otherwise so opulent Christmas business are stagnating worldwide, thus the best income source stops bubbling the way Bill Gates' crew was used to. After all, almost a third of volume of sales Microsoft draws from the fact that vendors sell PC's along with Windows or other products by Microsoft.»
Complete article under the title link (German).

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20.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Andreas Kleinert makes it possible to sell SView IV with PPC-modules and the AK datatypes at a special price. SView IV is a program for converting, showing and formating of pictures in a fast and comfortable way. This special price is valid until 15th of January 2001. You can find further information under the title link or to SView IV and AK datatypes (PNG,JFIF,TIFF) under ar-kleinert.de.

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20.Dec.2000
Rolf Tingler via eMail


Cellular Phones Top Shells with Amiga Design
From now on top shells with Amiga design for Nokia 3310 are available. You can have a look at the top shells on the website of Airbrush Paradise Tingler. Orders can be placed at the shop of Airbrush Paradise.

Furthermore APT is looking for distributors within the EU. If you are interested in this, please send an e-mail to the sales manager Gabi Tingler.

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20.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software


Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
As already reported Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games, hardware, developer, and websites every year. Under the title link you will find a summary of votes after the second week.

For applications 'YAM 2.2' still is far ahead; for games &180;Heretic 2' still is ahead followed by &180;Foundation'; for hardware with 'Mediator' ahead followed by 'AmigaOne' also nothing changed; for development 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' are still close up. The only change appeared for websites with amiga-news.de ahead followed by Czech Amiga News. At this occasion I would like to thank the readers for voting!

Did you already vote? If not, we would be very happy about you voting for amiga-news.de.

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20.Dec.2000
Gregory Donner


AmigaOS 3.9 Review by Gregory Donner
Gregory Donner has put an extended review of AmigaOS 3.9 online on his website.

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20.Dec.2000
Stephan Rupprecht


WBStartEmu Update for OS3.9
Downlaod: WBStartEmu.lha - readme

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20.Dec.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


VirusHelp Denmark: Virus Warning
Today we received a new 'lame' trojan. This trojan will only execute it self if you have named your hard-disk "DH0" & "DH1". The trojan is spread in and archive with the name "DKG-BLUM.LHA". If you run the "DKG-BLUM.exe", the trojan will replace your c:loadwb with another loadwb (size: 3560 bytes) and replace c:assign with another assign (size: 2408 bytes), and the screen will tell you that there is not enough memory, and you will have to restart, then it looks like the trojan will delete DH1:.
The trojan also adds or replaces 2 other files, "LIBS:asi.library" & "DEVS:ASI.device".

The cure right now (If you have lost your DH1: to bad......), then replace the trojan files with clean ones, here is the trojan sizes:

c:loadwb ( 3560 bytes) c:assign ( 2408 bytes) libs:asi.library (24548 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file) devs:asi.device ( 2408 bytes - delete if you dont have clean file)

Here is some info about the infected archive:

Virus Type.... : Trojan
Archive name.. : dkg-blum.lha
Archive size.. : 28.535 bytes (lha packet)

This archive has been send to all the antivirus programers.....

Thanx to Peter Gordon & Urban for the info and sending the archive to us........

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20.Dec.2000
BoingWorld


BoingWorld: Mediator PCI 1200 Review
A Mediator PCI 1200 review has been posted to BoingWorld.

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19.Dec.2000
AmiBroker


Stock Exchange Sofware: AmiBroker 3.42 Released
Version 3.42 of the stock exchange software ',AmiBroker' has been released. This version contains important bugfixes. Issue #7 of the AmiBroker newsletter is online, too.

Supplement: Sebastian Brylka noted that this is just the version for Windows. Sorry, I overlooked that. The current version for Amiga is AmiBroker/Amiga 3.37 beta from 24.11.2000.

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19.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Arcadia: New Bubble Heroes Patch
A new patch for the game 'Bubble Heroes' by Arcadia was released. This patch fixes a bug that caused the random function to produce too much yellow bubbles on some machines, enhances sound output, and makes the game a little faster.

Download:


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19.Dec.2000
Carsten Scholling via E-Mail


MUI: NListtree V18.6 Beta 5
Carsten Scholling released beta version V18.6 Beta 5 of the MUI class 'NListtree'. This class displays data in a tree structure. For this time the update contains bugfixes and useful enhancements.
  • Bugfix: Multiselection bug fixed, which allowed entries to be dropped on thier children entries (crash!)
  • Bugfix: Position calculation rewritten. No more accidently deleted entries.
  • Bugfix: Drop-Typ "Sorted" never occured
  • Bugfix: Renaming the user field wasn't possible.
  • Bugfix: MUIV_NListtree_Insert_ListNode_ActiveFallback (see Autodocs).
  • Bugfix: Inserting open nodes into one closed leaded to wrong position calculation (reported by Luca 'Hexaae' Longone, thx)
  • New: Second find method implemented (user field). This searching function is rather meant as a backup to have different searching possibilities, if needed. (Hooks must not always be set again).
  • New: MUIA_NListtree_ShowTree implemented (tree on / off). Useful for different sorting orders for which a tree structure maybe isn't wanted.
  • New: Spanish localisation by Javier de las Rivas.
  • New: New Trigger-Attribute: MUIA_NListtree_SelectChange.

Download: MCC_NListtree18.6b5.lha (306K)

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19.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT


UAE-JIT: Service Pack for 'Ipswich Town'
On December 15th, 2000 Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a service pack for the 'Ipswich Town' version of 'UAE-JIT' for Linux/386, which is an Amiga emulator. This Update in general fixes bugs of the previous version. Particulary it was made more stabel, and portable while speed did not change. So this update in general addresses those who had problems with the previous version in using or compiling it. A detailed list of changes made are to find in the WHATSNEW-JIT-Text.

This version is available as Linux/x86 binary for glibc V2.1 or glibc V2.0 in form of complete source code or source code patch for the UAE V0.8.15 Source code. In the source code archive the file 'dirct_access.c' is missing, which should be downloaded separately in addition.

Download:


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19.Dec.2000
Alexander Wachau on ANF


TechReview: Ten Passed Technologies
«Not every disappearing technology deserves that fate. Sometimes the "losers" have an elegance and simplicity the "winners" lack. Here are ten examples.»

In the article Amiga is mentioned as third along with the picture of an Amiga 1000. Nick Montfort talks about the Amiga's good multitasking - but now which is being implemented in MacOS X - and other good features we don't want to miss on our computers. It is also mentioned that an new Amiga is already under construction. New Ermentrud Demo Released ! Timo Kloss on ANF mailto:Timo@inutilis.de http://www.inutilis.de Inutilis Software has released an new demo version of the adventure game "Ermentrud" for CyberGfx. This demo is ready for download on their website. There are many innovations compared to the initial demo version due to the entire story control system working now, too.
  • Three locations (screens)
  • Two dialog partners (shoes)
  • Intro pictures


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19.Dec.2000
Jens Troeger on ANF


New InstallerNG
I have uploaded a new version of InstallerNG to the support page (and to Aminet). A stupid bug in the message system of the built-in BOOPSI GUI has been fixed, and new is the CALL-PLUGIN function which allows the user to implement own functions in InstallerNG by a typed API and to use it from a script. Example source code for this as well as for all of the other API modules are included.

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19.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena in co-operation with Guymay presents version 2.1 of Bubble Stones, the freeware "Bust a Move" clone! New in this version 2.1:
  • New game modes "Hot"
  • Keyboard Support
  • English manual
  • Enhanced gameplay

Now you are able to design the look of the field yourself! If you have own fields, please send them to me to create a Bubble Stones hompage for fields and high scores. Please, send suggestions for the game to GuyMay, the develper of Bubble Stones!

Merry Christmas!
Amiga Arena wishes a merry Christmas and all the best for 2001 to all Amiga friends. Keep The Flame burning!

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18.Dec.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Competitor to Microsoft's new Video Format
«3ivx is to be made available for every platform as there are Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, Linux, Amiga, and other. A related player is planned as open source project. Already for now there exists a delta version 1.0d1 of the 3ivx decoder for MacOS Classic and Windows at the download area of the 3ivix pages. To play the example videos Apple-Player from version QuickTime 4.0 is needed. Initial tries to use this decoder with the QuickTime player under Windows leaded to less successful results - the format wasn't recognized.»
Complete article at the title link (German).

3ivx Homepage for more information about the project.

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18.Dec.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


The Best of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM
From now on the successor of the 'The Best of Airsoft Softwair' CD-ROM, which was released by APC&TCP last year, is directly available from Airsoft Softwair. The Gold Edition is fully filled with 650 MB of data and contains all of the releases by the user group Airsoft Softwair, again including some full versions exclusively, e.g. the CD32 Games Install Kit v4.0 NG, and Rainboot v3.1. The other shareware applications of course are there as full versions, too.

The CD-ROM costs just 29.95 DM (20 USD) and can be ordered now. Owners of the Best of Airsoft Softwair CD-ROM Vol.1 can even upgrade for only 19.95 DM (15 US$). More information under the title link.

Airsoft Softwair Homepage

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18.Dec.2000
Marc Oberst at ANF


Science Fiction Encyclopaedia for Amiga
The PKD-Guide, a freeware-encyclopaedia by the American sience fiction author Philip K. Dick, started in 1994, now has it's 'own' homepage. They are looking for help to publish an international version of the guide.

They are urgently looking for translators and collectors of informations all over the world. But people who wants to read the newsletter or talk to others are also welcomed. The guide is already available in the AmigaGuide-format and a HTML version will be available, too. Version 4.0 beta is already available form Aminet.

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17.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac III - Christmas Update
Achim Stegemann wrote:
The Christmas update for DA3 is ready and can be downloaded on the homepage. There had some adaption regarding the new OS 3.9 to be done (because of the new math-libs). During the installation pay attention to the hints by all means!

Besides that I wish all Amigans a merry Christmas and a happy new millenium!

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17.Dec.2000
Sven Droege on ANF


Bonds v1.78 BETA3 with New Homepage
Sven Droege wrote:
The users of the financial software Bonds had to count on long waitstates for updates. Since today there's a new homepage under the known address www.programmed-excellence.de online. Through a server change the access probabily should be improved drastically. Besides that there's a new update v1.78 BETA3, which only contains some small bugfixes. Additionally for registered users there's now the tool "quotations updater", that can be used to update quotations also without Bonds.

The email-address of the author has also changed. It's now Sven.Droege@programmed-excellence.de.

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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


ppclib.emu v0.8e
On 16. Dezember 2000 Frank Wille has released the version 0.8e of the 'ppclibemu'. This library makes it possible to run PPC programs, that use the ppc.library made by p5 directly under WarpOS. Added in this version is the support for DoMethod, DoSuperMethod and CoerceMethod, so that now the Voyager Flash-PlugIn does also run with the ppclibemu.

Download:


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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


MorphOS: MUI class - NList v19
On 16. Dezember 2000 a PPC version of the MUI class NList v19 for MorphOS/PPC has been released. This class is used for example by the email client YAM. The PPC version speeds up the building of the lists.

Besides the PPC archive you need the 68k version of NList. This is ready for download on the NList-Homepage.

Download: NList_19.lha/PPC (141K)

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17.Dec.2000
Gunter Hinrichsen on ANF


HTMLread v.48
Gunter Hinrichsen has released an update of 'HTMLread' on 17. December 2000 and an update of the Genesis plug-in for HTMLread on 14. December.

HTMLread is an extension for the email client YAM that allows reading HTML mails. YAM can't display e-mails written in HTML for now, as they are sent by Netscape, Eudora or Outlook. HTMLread discovers, converts and sends these e-mails to a HTML viewer.

Some changes have been made in the new version: Two bugs were fixed, it's become smaller, condition images are supported, the download manager now doesn't open his condition windows anymore when you're offline, the downloadmanager now knows the option QUIET, better looking condition GIFs and some more changes.

The Genesis plug-in toggles Genesis automatically on- and offline again for the download of web-images. Download:


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17.Dec.2000
Marcus Neervoort on ANF


Marcus Neervoort with New URL
Marcus Neervoort's homepage is now reachable under the new URL http://amigapage.de/. On his site there are among other things informtion about the history of the Amiga, Fleecy Moss' speech on the WoA 2000 and pictures of the WoA 2000 to be found.

The move became necessary as the web-space Neervoort needs to keep the page running wasn't sufficient anymore at T-Online coupled with other providers of web-space.

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17.Dec.2000
Stefan Martens on ANF


Stefan Martens with E-Mail Problems
Stefan Martens wrote:
Freedoms causes probs.

All those who have sent me an email from Thursday on to xy@stefan1200.de, xy@amiga-user-liste.de or amiga@alternative-games.de, please send this mail once again to Stefan1200@gmx.de. And please use this email address at least until Tuesday. As soon as the normal e-mail addresses work again I'll announce this.

For the time being there are also problems with the related homepages, these are partly not accessible! If there will occur any problem, please use: Stefan1200/AUL: http://die.hotcity.de/stefan1200/
Alternative-Games.de: http://die.gamecity.de/alternative-games/.

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17.Dec.2000
Kurt Geens via eMail


www.amigasdk.com with New Layout
www.amigasdk.com is presented in a new layout and uses now PHP-Nuke for generating the pages as Amiga.org already does.

The site informs comprehensively about the AmigaSDK. The actual editoral by James Russell with 'Why Linux Needs Amiga' as topic covers the running-anywhere feature of AmigaDE regarding games for Linux.

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17.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Office package 'Papyrus' for Amiga
The office package 'Papyrus' by the company R.O.M logicware shall be ported to the Amiga. Until now the package was available for OS/2, TOS(Atari) and Windows. Responsible for the prot is Titan Computer. For the next issue of Amiga Plus it is planned to print more information. In the issue 11/2000 of the 'st-computer' there's an interview with the manager of R.O.M. logicware. Fun Time World had already released the following quote on 11. December: «For all the love for the Amiga, but very important for us are a Macintosh and a Linux version at the moment..... As we have just come together for a cooperation with an important company in the Amiga market, that also supports us heavily on doing the MacIntosh version one can count indeed on three more supported platforms: Mac, Linux and also Amiga.»

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17.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Online shops of Epic Direct Ltd.
The shops AmigaGames.co.uk and AmigaUtils.co.uk of Epic Direct Ltd. are online. The former offers games and hardware like joysticks, the latter applications like office and developer software.

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17.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Status of the AmigaOS v4.0 Petition
On the website of Amigart there's a form made available a little bit to the bottom which can be used to show one's interest for Amiga v4.0. For the time being 825 people have subscribed to this petition. For now it is planned to run it until 1. January 2001 and then hand them over to Amiga Inc.

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16.Dec.2000
Simon II


Simon The Sorcerer II - Update 3
Paul Burkley has released Update 3 of Simon II for download. This update solves problems with loading and saving with the adventure game while running AmigaOS 3.9.

I just tried it myself and now the game runs without any problems under AmigaOS 3.9..

Download: Simon2Upd3.lha - 79 KB

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16.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Aqua - New Adventure-Game
Crystal Interactive will retail the new adventure 'Aqua' . At Emerald Imaging you will find information and screenshots of this game.

In this game you'll find yourself in a mysterious world and you must find a way to leave it.

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16.Dec.2000
Frank Carlos on ANF


Amiga Expands the Linux Community through Cross-Platform Architecture
Here's an article/demo about the Amiga's revolutionary VP (virtual processor) assembly code, the heart of the new Amiga's Digital Environment. It takes you through an in-depth look at an an Amiga demo written in VP (virtual processor) assembly code. Also take a look at this Interview with Bill McEwen (President) and Fleecy Moss (VP of Technology), to learn more about the technology behind the new Amiga Digital Environment and why it's so revolutionary and so damn cool! And here's an article, that covers more advanced Amiga topics about the new Amiga SDK.

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16.Dec.2000
Andre Beer on ANF


GeoWorld - Christmas Offer for People Interested in Geography
There is an abslolutely special offer of the newest version of GeoWorld for all who quickly decide to buy it. The offer is valid until 24.12.2000 (date on the stamp or email order). A demo version and an order form and more information can be found under the title link.

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16.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  116K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.4b)
StarBase_SCR.lha     biz/dbase  116K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v4.0)
streamer.lha         comm/www    24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
d4-bullp4pp3r.lha    demo/ecs    76K+D4rkn3ss - Amigademo from Dreamhack 00
SamplesMaster.lha    dev/amos   108K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
BlitzLstFeb00.lha    dev/basic  383K+Blitz mailing list archives for February
BlitzLstMar00.lha    dev/basic  179K+Blitz mailing list archives for March 20
BlitzLstNov00.lha    dev/basic  140K+Blitz mailing list archives for November
Amiga-C-Nov00.lha    dev/c       89K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Nove
amiga12.lha          dev/cross   71K+LUnix SDK (binary distribution)
WarpUp-Nov00.lha     docs/misc   97K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in N
Snace.lha            game/2play 308K+2pl. snake-like racing game, but in all 
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  234K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
DiamondBOX.lha       gfx/edit   390K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.XMAS
mccontrol.lha        hard/hack  522K+V1.55 PSX MemoryCard Reader
LocaleCS_cats.lha    misc/misc  1.7M+Czech and Slovak Locale - catalogs
OS39-Boot.lha        pix/boot    88K+CyberGraphX-BootPic.library for OS3.9
HideWB.lha           util/boot   17K+HideWB is a nice util that shift up WB s
EasyConvert.lha      util/conv   23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
GuiSplatch.lha       util/misc   31K+Split and join files with easy to use GU
ShootTheScreen.lha   util/misc  502K+It's main task is doing series of Screen
GoodTime.lha         util/time  410K+GoodTime is a WB clock showing time usin
TacyCacy.lha         util/wb    469K+Display citation on WB in very nice way.
VisualPrefs.lha      util/wb    459K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!


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16.Dec.2000
Thorsten Schölzel via eMail


CD³²-Allianz News
On the CD³²-Developer-Site there are new information about coding including the Akiko-GPU. Furthermore you can find three more documents there. These texts are only available in English and therefor we are searching for somebody who could translate them.

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16.Dec.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF


aminetGUI is NOT offline
In some forums there is a rumor that says the aminetGUI and even the whole AmiNET were offline. This is not true. he AmiNET as well as the aminetGUI are online. Only the URL www.aminet.de is offline since the domainprovider has problems. The current URL is www.amiga-gateway.de/aminetgui/index.html. All services of the GUI can be reached under this URL.

Alexander Kurtz, webmaster of the Aminet-GUI wrote: "I do not intend to give up on this project. Currently I lack the time to make all the changes I imagined to make, but I am still working on it! I owe this to you, the Amiga community."

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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier


Chip: Nvidia buys 3dfx: Spectacular 3D-Company takeover
The moment has finally come: 3D graphics pioneer 3dfx closes its doors - and sells the company to its hardest opponent: Nvidia. You can find the complete report under the title link.

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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


EASys! Update 4.8.4 and bugfix with OS 3.9
The update to version 4.8.4 of EASys! will be ready for 20.12.2000 at the latest. User who bought the 4.8.4 CD-R package at the fair in Cologne don't need that update anymore. But following things should be arranged with 4.8.4 CD-R package so OS 3.9 runs completely.
  • rename the file EASys!:config/OS39_with_toolsdaemon to OS39_with_rexxmenu
  • in file SYS:StartSys/e_WB/2_Toolbar (or 2_ToolManager_EASys) add one line before the startup of the toolmanager:
    wait 10
    this is required because an asynchron simultaneous start of AmiDock and ToolManager causes a bug.


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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Interview with Paul Nolan
GraphicsBoard.com did an interview with Paul Nolan, the author of Photogenics. You can find the complete interview under the title link.

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16.Dec.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF


New Sample-Set for WormsDC
Since Hyperion are taking their time for "Worms Armageddon" for the Amiga, I have created a new sample-set with up to 90% of German samples for the old "Worms - The Directors Cut" (try the "Suizid-Oma" or atomic bomb;)). This puts the fun back into WormsDC :-). Caution: the set is approximately 3 MB large (you need a lot of Fast-Ram to use the samples).

Download: NewWorms.lha

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16.Dec.2000
Patrick Beerhorst on ANF


Mini-GlowIcons 1.3 including OS3.9 Updates
The current MiniGlowincons archive with over 400 small icons for start-bars or small VGA desktop is now available on our homepage. Included are among others icons for OS 3.9 (UnArch, AmiDock, Action...). In the download area there are also some desktop backgrounds and MP2/MP3 sound files that where created with the Amiga.

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16.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Heise: Speculations about Corel's Linux-business
As formerly announced, Corel sold its Linux area. Here are more links concerning the subject: ZDNet: Scoop: Corel to sell its Linux arm
The Register: Corel Linux selloff nearly a done deal
The Register: Corel responds to Linux sale speculation

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15.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF


Trouble with Defective Crusoe Processors
NEC calls back notebooks
Shortly after notebooks with the Transmeta processor went on sale, they make negative headlines. Because of defective chips, NEC calls back the sold notebooks.

NEC shipped the new notebooks La Vie XM. 284 in Japan for only a few days, now they were called back because of defective processors. According to Transmeta, the fault has already been fixed, the devices run without problem. Probably a reaction to the defective chips: the stock market value of the processor manufacturer dropped by 5.06 US$. Apparently, defective chips have also been built into the new Sony Picture Books Vaio PCGCi VE. Other than NEC, the Japanese company does not plan to call back the computers. An exact number of affected devices is not known yet. US media speak of about 13,000. Sony offers free exchange of the notebooks if difficulties with installing Windows appear.

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15.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF


SEGA in the red
(Irina Srebot) - Since the introduction of the Dreamcast console, the former hope becomes a millstone round the company's neck. The Japanese company faces a financial dilemma. Sega expects for the current financial year a loss of 193 million Euro. Despite price reductions to stay competitive with Sony's Playstation 2, there's no hope for a change. Analysts recommend Sega to concentrate on developing software. Since March 2000, Sega sold profitably 30.2 million games.

Supplement 12-16-2000:
Accidently we coughed an elder message. On 12-12-2000 Heise reported that contrary to what many experts expected Dreamcast sells very well after the release of Playstation 2. So according to the manufacturer around Thanksgiving sells increased of 85% percent compared to sells of the week before. Also Sega would profit from Sony's delivery problems in the case of Playstation 2, said Peter Moore, president of Sega USA, in an interview with the news service CNET on the Jupiter Entertainment Conference in Los Angeles, yesterday.

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15.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


ZDNet: Scoop: Corel to sell its Linux Arm
According to unconfirmed rumors, Corel wants to get rid of its Linux arm. You'll find the full article at the title link.

Slashdot link on this topic:
Slashdot: Corel To Sell Linux Arm

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15.Dec.2000
IKE on ANF


Unofficial AmigaOS 3.9 Mailing List
An inofficial AmigaOS 3.9 mailing list was created at eGroups. The discussion group is a forum for all questions regarding AmigaOS 3.9. To subscribe,please send an e-mail to AmigaOS39-subscribe@egroups.com.

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15.Dec.2000
Deftone on ANF


BlitzEngineers with new domain!
The BlitzEngineers Homepage has moved. The new address is http://www.blitzengineers.de. There you can download the latest version of SMSEngineer.

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15.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Frogger 1.64b1 released
The MPEG 1/2 decoder 'Frogger' is now available for download in version 1.64b1.

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15.Dec.2000
Eternity via eMail


Eternity is waiting for Visitor #40,000
As Christmas time is the time of presents, we will give the person who e-mails our webmaster Patrick Beerhorst at patrick@synotec-newmedia.de with a screenshot and mentioning of approximate time and date a Tornado 3d 1.5 worth about 200 DM!

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15.Dec.2000
J.R. Wilson via eMail


Amiga Extravaganza Delayed
The show 'Amiga Extravaganza' which was planned by ARCUG for early January 2001 in Indianapolis was postponed for indefinite time because of too little interest.

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14.Dec.2000
SimonII


SimonII - Update
Paul Burkey has released an update for the game Simon The Sorcerer II. This update among other things should fix the ASL requester problem.

Download: Simon2Upd1.lha

Supplement: 12-15-2000:
Update #2 is online, cause update #1 didn't fix the ASL requester problem.

Download: Simon2Upd2.lha - 89 KB

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14.Dec.2000
Maciek Binek via eMail


Elbox - WoA 2000 Pictures
You will find show pictures by Elbox under the title link.

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14.Dec.2000
ANN


Show Videos by Elwood
Elwood did many smaller videos of the Cologne Amiga show and provides them for download as MPG files under the title link.

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14.Dec.2000
Microcode Solutions


iFusion PPC News
iFusion, an iMac emulator for PPC Amigas, has entered beta level. When to expect a final version isn't mentioned. On the website some screenshots of a working iFusion are to see.

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14.Dec.2000
SpawnPPC on ANF


AmiWorld On-Line
The Italian online magazine 'AmiWorld' is online again.

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14.Dec.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail


Alchemy Laboratory Junior by XTeam Software available
Chrystal Interactive took on stock 'Alchemy Laboratory Junior' by XTeam Software, an education software for chemistry. With the CD you can learn about chemistry in an easy way, can watch experiments as 3D simulations and the interactive teacher. Necessary materials are included. Existing localisations: Italian, English, German.

Requirements: A current version of Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer. Compatible to Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Amiga, and BeOS.

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14.Dec.2000
Amiga Impact


Project Amiga Java Engine looking for Programmers
Merlancia Industries is looking for programmers wanting to participate in developing the Amiga Java Engine for AmigaOS. Interested programmers might contact amiga@merlancia.com.

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14.Dec.2000
Virtual Dimension


Virtual Dimension Show Pictures
To shorten waiting for the show video by Virtual Dimension a bit on the "Vor Ort" page there are already some photos of the World of Amiga in Cologne.

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13.Dec.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis via eMail


NetBSD-1.5
As reported before NetBSD 1.5 is available for download.

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13.Dec.2000
Bob Scharp


Amiga 2001 - Website online
We already have several exhibitors listed in this first listing of our web pages. More will be added each week. Be sure to keep posted on this the biggest Amiga show in the Americas.

St. Louis is centrally located in the heart of the U.S., and is served by several airlines, including TWA, which has a hub here. Check the web page for the phone number of our official travel agency, Best Way Travel. They can help you get your travel arrangements made to attend the show.

Amiga2001 - an Amiga Odyssey, will be hosted at the Sheraton West Port Hotel, located in St. Louis, MO. The hotel is physically located in the city of Maryland Heights at:

Sheraton West Port Hotel
900 West Port Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63146

For reservations contact them at 314-878-1500 and ask for the reservation desk. Reservations is open from 8 AM until 10:30 PM CST. Be certain to tell them that you are attending the Amiga2001 show, so that you get the special rates. Stay at the Sheraton West Port, get special rates, and help the show. The Sheraton has 17 Restaurants, 6 Bistros, a Comedy Night Club, a two screen Cinema, the West Port Playhouse, and several snack shops, magazine shop and speciality shops all available and within a one to five minute walk. Convenient undercover parking for guest as well.

While your viewing the web page, be certain to send in your money for tickets to attend and tickets for the Amiga2001 Banquet to be held Saturday evening. The show is Friday, March 30 thru Sunday April 1st, 2001. Friday is the Developers Conference with classes and the vendor setup Friday evening. Saturday and Sunday are the exhibit floor displays with lots of exhibitors showing off their latest Amiga products and offering good prices to boot. Classes are also available on Saturday and Sunday for those not quite up to the more challenging ones on Friday.

Check out the Amiga2001 web pages and come enjoy the show and say happy retirement to Petro Tyschtschenko, who will retire while at the show on Saturday, March 31.

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13.Dec.2000
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Met@box introducing Set-Top Boxes
In time for start of production Met@box AG today introduced to the public their new generation of set-top boxes. The modular built met@box 1000, which can be connected to any TV-set, enables interactive TV watching, and by the integrated digital TV-standard (DVB) is capable of the future TV broadcasting standard.

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13.Dec.2000
Petra Struck


Nursery School ?
As I learned the IRC conferences organized by UGN and conducted by the Amiga-Club didn't went off as without a hitch as I said in my show report. Script-kiddies didn't have better things to do as to flood the channel with multilating scripts, so some of the panned IRC conferences had be interrupted or could not take place, at all. UGN was already thinking of never again to organize conferences from shows.

To people not able to attend a show the IRC conferences always were an appreciated possibility to get actual information, and most of all the only opportunity to address their questions directly to the VIP's of the branch.

Therefore I appeal to the scrip-kiddies to grow up at last and to stop their nursery school behavior.

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13.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
StarBase_CLI.lha     biz/dbase  104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.8)
TProspEd2.lha        biz/demo    81K+V2.0.0alpha Form Editor For TurboFat2 (I
AW20-francais.lha    biz/haage   14K+AmigaWriter 2.0 - Francais (french) loca
tf02.lha             comm/net   255K+TinyFugue MUCK client for Amigas.
AmftpSp.lha          comm/www   188K+Amftp sound Spanish
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streamer.lha         comm/www    23K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
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FastIEEE.lha         util/sys   138K+Speed up your mathieee libraries!


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13.Dec.2000
Xandiy on ANF


Free Advertising Banners at Amiga-Community.net
Amiga-Community.net Christmas special: Free advertising banners on the main page without link! (Editor's note: An advertising banner without link might be pretty useless.) Send your logo (max. 120x120) to xandiy@web.de.

All of the logos sent in up to 12-23-2000 will be put on the site. The logos will appear rotatory where at this time the pictures of the WoA2000 are shown. It would have to be a pretty definite logo, cause there will be no linking! This action will start if enough logos will be there and will last until 01-06-2001 incl..

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13.Dec.2000
2IDs GRAFIX DESIGN MUSIX and more


Flash version finished of the gallery "The man as subject of art"
Well, now it is the time, at last: also the flash version today did the jump to the net. Beseide of the HTML version now the optically more extended pages, but of same content, are online. Under the title link all of the render-workes / grafix-people and artists are invited to exhibit their art works. Of course copyright will stay with the relative artis.

Subject of the pictures is "THE MAN AS SUBJECT OF ART".
We are looking forward to your contributions. So, get to your AMIGA or PC or even MAC and start creatively. Let the artists know what you think about their art work, and use our guest book to do so.

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13.Dec.2000
Martin Baute on ANF


Pictures from the WoA
Also the Amiga user & developers from Bielefeld (Germany) were at the show, and we even took photos with us! (Unfortunately I wasn't there myself, hence the comments to the pictures are somewhat scanty.)

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13.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt on ANF


With Amiga to the Diploma
By this I would like to officially thank everybody who guided and supported my during my studies to become a graduate engineer for media technics. To everybody who suffered from my lack of time I would like to say thank you for your understanding.

As my final year project substantially deals with Amiga I would not withdraw it from the public. It is available for download on my homepage (German):

un-archived as pdf file(1,8 MB)
lha archived (1,2 MB)

The subject of the project is:
Conception and implementation of an automated control for a monitor-wall under technical and marketing political aspects. Automation bases on an ARexx script controlling several applications running non an Amiga 1200. For creation of software my special thanks go to:

Rico Schreckenbach
Stefan Robl
Karlheinz Marks
Stefan Steppat

To continue this project placing of some hardware for MPEG video display would be necessary. As e.g. the related module for the CD32 isn't available any more, for this new projects as like as Mediator might be addressed as a solution.

With this technic and our software an arrangement could be designed and delivered that would be unique in the event branch.

- runs stable and reliable
- optimized software
- well-priced hardware
- easy editing
- arbitrary expandable

With this the most efficient and moreover cheapest device of it's kind would be created. Well now, dear hardware developers: don't let them detain or discourage you. THANK YOU.

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13.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF


Think-pad without Crusoe
IBM will not bring note-books with the Crusoe processor by Transmeta to the market. On detailed reasons the company keeps silent.

The official statement from IBM said the processor would not fit to the current marketing concept. The decision not to equip think-pads with this processor is a bad blow for Transmeta. An unfavourable timing, because from November the company's shares shall be deald in Nasdaq. Senior analyser Peter Glaskowsky from Microdesign Resources assumes that IBM wouldn't like to use the processor due to the bad performance. Testings with Sony note-books would have turned out that a Crusoe processor 700MHz would not be faster than an Pentium 233MHz, Glaskowsky added.

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13.Dec.2000
Dirk Baeyens


AmigaOS 3.9 registration
At the title link you will find the registration form to register your copy of AmigaOS 3.9.

Supplement 16 Dec 2000
You will need SSL installed to access this page. If you don't recommend secure data transfer you might use this page for registration.

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12.Dec.2000
Suite101


John Chandler: Making Way In The Universe
In his new article John Chandler gives an interesting overview of the work done by Amiga in the year 2000.

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12.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software


Trogladite Awards - Subtotal
Every year Trogsoft gives an awards for each of the categories application, games, hardware, developer, and websites. Under the title link you will find a summary of the votes given in first week.

In category application at this time 'YAM' is ahead, 'Heretic 2' in games, 'Mediator' in hardware, 'MorphOS' and 'Hyperion' close up in development, and in websites 'Czech Amiga News' is ahead closely followed by 'amiga-news.de'.

Die you already vote? If not, would be happy about your vote for amiga-news.de.

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12.Dec.2000
AmigaGlobe


AmigaGlobe WoA 2000 Report
A WoA 2000 report by AmigaGlobe.

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12.Dec.2000
MorphOS


MorphOS: CGX Update
cgxsystem.library.elf version 42.5 was released. The library now contains SuperLayers for PPC, and some speed enhancements for MagicMenuPPC.

Download: cgxsysppc_20001210.lha - 156 KB)

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12.Dec.2000
AROS


AROS News
In December again a number of things happened at AROS. Stefan Berger did a complete rewrite of the layers.library, hence it is much faster, but easier than the old one. Georg Steger contributed further files for ReqTools, and Adam Chodorowski started working on the workbench.library. Johan Alfredsson has enhanced the ReqTools file requester, and the drive requester now works. A PS/2 Mouse.HIDD was added by Michael Schulz. More details are to find under the title link.

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12.Dec.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF


Merlancia with new specifications for hand-held?
Amiga.org reported about that Merlancia already put specifications for the Hurrican system (hand-held computer) as well as it's interface on their website.

Links for this:
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/
http://www.merlancia.com/MISEL/torroindex.html

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12.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Golem: IBM introduced progressive technology for chip production
«The first chips with CMOS 9S technology form early 2001
IBM for the first time unifies copper wiring, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transitors, and the enhanced "low-k delectric" insulation in circuits with 0.13 mikron by their new technology named CMOS 9S.»

Further messages about this subject:
The Register: IBM reveals 10GHz, .13µ PowerPC chip tech
3DNews: IBM unwraps world's most advanced chip-making technology
ZdNet: IBM, Intel chips: Smaller and faster
Slashdot: IBMs CMOS 9S


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12.Dec.2000
Rainer Benda on ANF


boeder - no salvation at sight
Some still remember this company from old Amiga days (disks, joysticks, a.m.m.). The "Computer Partner 43/00" wrote, that the company already in October made application for insolvency. Negotiations for takeover failed, so the company faces the off. At the time being the Vivanco AG only is interested in the name, but even this only if the price is right. Insolvency procedures are planned to be started between December, 15th and 20th.

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12.Dec.2000
BoingWorld


BoingWorld - WoA 2000 Report
BoingWorld has published a WoA 2000 Report.

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11.Dec.2000
Jens Larsson on ANF


Boingworld WoA 2000 Report
Boingworld.com published the WoA 2000 show report with some wonderful photos.

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11.Dec.2000
Ingo Musquinier on ANF


dynAMIte Server
We distributed a free preview of the game dynAMIte among the visitors of the WoA 2000. Normally you find the addresses of the game-servers on our support-side. Unfortunately the server is out of order at the moment.

You should use pulp.2y.net (port 6318) as the default server. This one is the official dynAMIte-server (TDSL-connection). Normally this server is available after 7 p.m. As soon as the web-server is back again you will be able to find the addresses of the other server on our support-page.

If there are any problems with the game you can discuss them with us at the IRC. We are daily available at the euIRCnet (irc.hes.de.euirc.net:6667 channel #AmigaZeux).

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11.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF


TIDesigner (Addon for TealInfo Developer Kit)
For everyone who wants to be able to increase the speed of the editing of TealInfo Folios for the Palm, TIDesigner is a good help. The program is shareware.

Download: tidesigner.lha

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11.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


Payback Preview-Update (Nightlevel)
There is a update for the Payback-Preview. This time Juergen A. Theiner put the focus on the Nightlevel.

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11.Dec.2000
Michael Burkhardt via eMail


WoA Pictures by IOM
IOM published some WoA pictures.

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11.Dec.2000
Yoris Benjamin via eMail


Realsoft 3D V4 - Press release
As mentioned in the exhibition-report, Hyperion will publish a AMIGA-version of there 'Realsoft 3D'. Here's the press release:

From: Yoris Benjamin
Subject: Realsoft 3D V4 press-release
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:32:54 +0100

Hello World !

Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment team up to bring Realsoft 3D to the
Amiga.

Cologne, December 9, 2000.

Realsoft and Hyperion Entertainment have entered into an agreement to bring
Realsoft's critically acclaimed and highly advanced 3D modelling and
rendering package to the Amiga.

'Realsoft 3D' is a full featured modelling, rendering, animation and
simulation software tool. Its predecessor, Real 3D, originated on the Amiga
all these years ago and was renowned for its powerful and innovative tools.
Now the new, rewritten 'Realsoft 3D' provides even more power and introduces
dozens of exciting innovations, all accessible through a very carefully
designed, intelligent, and user-friendly interface. This new interface
adapts to the skills of the user and helps him/her to master advanced 3D
techniques with surprising ease. Realsoft 3D is designed to meet the
requirements of today's 3D artist who requires extreme performance through an
easy to use, productive user interface.

Commenting on the agreement, Realsoft's managing director Vesa Meskanen
remarked: "The success of our 3D product line started on the Amiga platform.
This opportunity to port our latest product generation back to Amiga is
therefore very welcome. The platform independent design of Realsoft 3D
together with Hyperion Entertainment's knowledge about the latest
developments of Amiga OS entails that after the initial porting work is done,
all our new software releases will include the Amiga platform without further
porting delays."

"We were extremely impressed by the feature-set of Realsoft 3D. This package
truly represents unbelievable value for money", said Ben Hermans, managing
partner of Hyperion Entertainment. "Through our activities in the field of
entertainment software, we have acquired enormous expertise in the field of
3D graphics. We were looking for a way to leverage this expertise and apply
it to other areas. Given Realsoft's Amiga background, it seemed natural to
approach them. We are very excited that we can play a role in bringing back
Real 3D's successor to the Amiga."

Realsoft 3D will be available for Amiga OS 3.x and Amiga DE in the course of
2001. Requirements and further details to be announced.

About Realsoft Graphics Oy

Realsoft Graphics Oy, a Finnish corporation founded in 1989 as Realsoft Ky,
has been pushing the cutting edge of 3D visualization for over a decade. For
more information about Realsoft Graphics and its products, visit the
company's website at www.realsoft3d.com

About Hyperion Entertainment VOF

Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian-German corporation
founded in April of 1999 with the stated aim of porting AAA entertainment
software to Amiga, Linux (x86/PPC) and Mac. The company has signed license
deals with industry leaders such as Activision (ATVI), Interplay (IPLY) and
Monolith.


Regards,

Ben Yoris

Hyperion Entertainment Software
PR Manager
Web: http://www.hyperion-software.com


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11.Dec.2000
Wolf Faust via eMail


ICS V2 released
After more than a year of work, the free scanner color correction ICS V2 was released. Following 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.
  • Many new small enhancements....

Download the new software from http://www.ics.coloraid.de

-- Wolf Faust
Tel: +49-69-5486556
e-mail
Fax: +49-69-95409598
homepage
Mobile: +49-179-6924769


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11.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena special offer
Together with Helmut Hoffmann, Amiga Arena offers a special Christmas price for PhotoAlbum/Cybershow inclusive all additional modules. The price will be 35,- DM. This offer will be valid until 12-31-2000.

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11.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai


OS 3.9 - Presentation by Juergen Haage and Martin Steigerwald
Torsten Dudai did a report about the OS 3.9 presentation on the WoA:

Though there was "US-Amiga-News / Bill McEwen" an item of the agenda, neither Bill McEwen - who stayed in America - nor Fleecy Moss - who was at the show - were available at that time, so Juergen Haage had to stand in. In a direct dialogue with the users he tried to collect their worries and sorrows for Amiga Inc. to be able to estimate the current mood. But the discussion (due to the lack of facts on the subject AmigaDE) very soon resulted in the new OS 3.9, in which every attendant of the seminar was very interested. So, Juergen Haage was able to seamlessly led over to the following seminar.

Besides of individual problems (one elder man was especially "persistent") also much of the known subjects were addressed, as like as the condition of "50,000" sold copies of OS3.9 (Fleecy Moss), and the "license quarrel" around AmiTCP. In both cases Juergen Haage was able to quiet the devotees' minds: the number "50,000" would not be meaningful at all, because it even isn't combined with a date. Later one just would have to able to estimate if or if not OS 3.9 has been a success. For example only 40,000 (or less) sold copies already would be a big success. About the license quarrel Juergen Haage just said, "There is no license quarrel". Haage & Partner obtained the license for AmiTCP correctly and is allowed to distribute the TCP stack along with Genesis (no MUI, but Reaction GUI) on the CD-ROM.

Then together with Stefan Robl, the programmer of AmiDocks, the new OS3.9 tool-bar, (almost) all of the features of the new Amiga operating system were presented. During the presentation again ideas, criticism, and suggestions were given by the viewers. Juergen Haage put an implementation in parts into prospective for a coming "Boing-Pack 2". But the limits of what can be done are almost reached with this update. Without a change of the KickROMs not much further can be done, any more.

But about one subject he could not give any clear statement: Amiga DE. Haage & Partner still didn't decide whether or not they would port their own products to the new system. In parts this depends on the availability of a sophisticated GUI system, which isn't available at the time being.

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11.Dec.2000
Petra Struck


Show Report by Petra Struck

World of Amiga - Gleanings - 10.12.2000
Autor: Petra Struck (German version)

More amiga-news.de Links

Pictures by Petra Struck vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Torsten Dudai vom 1. Tag
Pictures by Petra Struck of the 2nd day
OS3.9 - Presentation by Torsten Dudai - in German

Exteral links to reports and pictures

Fun Time: Eyetech - AmigaONE/AmigaDE Timelines
(Pictures of the Eyetech diagramms)
Fun Time: World of Amiga 2000 - Die ersten Infos
IRC: Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc.
IRC: Elbox
Pictures by Marcus Neervoort (4,1 MB)
Marcus Neervoort: Fleecy Moss's lecture on Dec., 9th
Tom's WOA 2000 Pictures (Thomas Wenzel)
No Risc No Fun
Fun Time World
WoA 2000 pitctures by Salva
Amiga-Community.net
Videos from Elwood
Report from amiga.topcool.de
Pictures from Virtual Dimension
Pictures from Elbox
Pictures from BAUD
Report from Amiga Globe
Report from Boing World
Report from IOM

Show report by Petra Struck

The World of Amiga 2000 from December, 9th to 10th, which was organized by Haage & Partner, was branded by the vending start of the new AMIGA OS3.9, which according to the vendors sold brilliant on the fair.

The show took place inside the really imposing building of Cologne's Mediapark 7 on about 300 m² room. For this show were organized within shortest time this event was attended very well with an amount of about 1500 visitors (note: own estimation). Seminars were held in the opposite building Mediapark 6. The first day of the fair Saturday was stamped by active crowd, while on Sunday it was rather unhurried, cause of only half as full as on the day before.

Before I start describing the highlights of the show I want to put across to every reader that I personally again liked this fair very much. I'm always exited about the cheerful and personal atmosphere. As already in Neuss an amazing amount of international attendants had come to the show. I've met and spoken to people from England, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, France, and Spain. The visitors had visible fun and where impressed by the many different presentations. Everywhere crowds of interested viewers got together.

Disappointment only dispersed caused by the fact that Bill McEwen didn't attend the show; short- termed and insuspendable deadlines kept him from coming to Cologne. Fleecy Moss, Vice President and Chief of Development, but provided for incredulous astonishment by stating there must be at least 50,000 copies of AMIGA OS3.9 sold, to be able to do OS4.0. As for this time nobody thinks this to be possible his statement was taken for a clear No for OS4.0.

As already in Neuss amiga-news.de together with the Amiga-Club im BTX & Internet was present with an own booth. From our editorial staff were on the fair: Dirk Baeyens, Tomás J. Cantó, Torsten Dudai, Ruediger Engel, Guido Fehst, Eric Gillé, Martina Jacobs, Rolf Tingler, and me truly. Nico Barbat was also on the show, but of course was very busy at his own booth (Falke-Verlag). Rolf inspired the visitor with his airbrushing skills.

We enjoyed to get in close contact with the readers and numerous dialogues convinced us to have high acknowledgment for our work, and encouraged us to continue to spend our free time for this project. Especially intensive and interesting were the dialogues with editors of other news services, as like Andrea Vallinotto from diff.org (ItalY), Adrian Sweeney from amigaglobe.com (Irland), Ian Maack from amiga.dk (Denmark), Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World (Germany), and Mark Hinton and Russell Trent from AmigActive (England). Along this I would like to say thank you very much for the many kind compliments regarding our news service.

The Amiga-Club provided the people not able to attend the show with actual pictures from the fair, and cared for trouble-free UGN IRC chats. Traditional the club members answered our questions, and helped solving one or the other user's problem.

Also this time Michael Schaefer and Dennis Pauler from Virtual Dimension were busy with their video camera to create informing show videos. They did many interviews, and over and over made the microphone sure to work, cause on the last fair the microphone failed completely, which sure was half a disaster.

Trade and the big ones of the branch were present with their own booths - as a matter of fairness this time in alphabetical order or vice versa:

In talks with the exhibitors it became clear that - almost unisonous - they all came with mixed feelings, but against what they expected the visitors were joyfully buying. Trade overall voiced positive about sales.

Almost at all of the above mentioned booths presentations of different software and hardware took place which I will describe without special order. So for example Peter Hoffmann, Stefan Sommerfeld, and Juergen Rebensdorf from Aliendesign introduced their new sound card 'Repulse', which can be used with every Amiga with Zorro-II expansion. The sound card offers sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz, including 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz S/P-Diff, and supports 16, 18, 20, and 24 Bit (S/P-DIF) sampling frequence in mono or stereo.

New at individual computers was the ISDN-Surfer Zorro card which was to purchase either with or without OVP. The announced products 'Lyra' (adapter to use WindowsTM keyborads with Amiga), and 'Buddha Flash MK2' unfortunately were not finished, but probably will be available before Christmas.

Dirk Conrad introduced his MAS-Player which is distributed by Eternity. The MPEG-Player is a small piece of hardware looking like a serial plug. The player can play MP3 files already on a machine only equipped with a 68000 68k processor. HiFi quality is around 18 Bit / 44 kHz. Since the WoA 2000 AmigaAMP is supported.

At the booth of Hyperion the attendants were able to admire a prototype of the G-Rex PCI board by DCE with Voodoo3 graphics board on action. With this system Heretic II really looked smooth, it was fast and the lightning effects were wonderfully visible. Users can look forward to better speed and nice graphics. The boards are planned to be finished end of December 2000.

Of course we yet asked for the projects under construction at Hyperion, and summarized the answers as follows:
  • Shogo: Hans-Joerg and Thomas Frieden are working on the Amiga version which presumably will be finished end of January 2001.
  • Freespace: On the port of this space shooter Steffen Haeuser and Matthias Roslund are working. It is planned to finished 1Q/2001.
  • Majesty: Stephan Rusdorf and Thomas Frieden are busy porting this fantasy strategy game which includes roll game elements. It is expected to be finished 2Q/2001.
  • Die Voelker (Alien Nations): Harry Sintonen is working on the port of this popular build-up and strategy game, which is a big success similar to Siedler.
  • SIN: Steffen Haeuser and Peter Annuss are working on the port of the 3D shooter. The game will presumably be finished 1Q/2001.
  • Hyperion will also port the 3D software 'Realsoft 3D' by Realsoft to the Amiga! With this software comparable to 'Cinema3D' or 'Reflections' the Amiga users will get a 3D modelling tool more extended and modern than anything else released before.

Eyetech together with Martin Schueler from Escena introduce the plans for the AmigaOne machine. It was shown on diagrams how the system will look like. The 68k emulation is being developed by Haage & Partner.

At Eternity Tales of Tamar was presented - Martin Wolf's favourite project. In the meantime the world map and cities have been enabled. Still intense online tests are running and the beta testers are really sold on the game. Initial bigger beta test are planned for 2Q/2001.

Also at Eternity EASys! by Tom Neidhardt was presented. The current update offers improvements like e.g. a built-in start menu, OS3.9 menu support and alignment. Other changes: the archive manager now supports XPK; the menus are structured better, and extend of menus is scalable, and moreover the buggy installation of the previous version has been fixed, hence a trouble-less installation is possible,yet.

Eternity moreover presented a PC (Eternity 1) basing on 1 GHz (Tunderbird processor by AMD), equipped with gigabyte board, 128 MB DIMM -133, Ge-Force II graphics board 32 MB DD-RAM, Catweazel controller, 52x CD-ROM drive, 20 GB Quantum HD, two PC floppy drives (one of them connected to the Catweasel), as well as a sound card 128 Bit PCI. The gag of this PC is a perfectly pre-installed UAE under Windows. This way one gets a fast PC, and an AMIGA at the speed of 68040/60.

During an interview with Andreas Magerl and Georg Breitsprecher from Amiga Future and APC&TCP Mr. Magerl stated that financing of the now self-produced print magazine 'Amiga Future' finally is safe. Number of orders still isn't 100% satisfying, but a huge layout enhancement would attract more orders. I've seen the new layout and I can confirm it to be a difference like night and day. :-)

Andreas Kuessner from WK-Artworks presented 'Taifun', the successor of 'WildFire'. Taifun is being developed for the new operating system 'Amiga DE' using the Amiga Software Developer Kit (SDK). KDH-Datentechnik will be distributor of Taifun.

At epic interactive Paul Burkey introduce 'Simon The Sorcerer II'. The game will be at the vendors form the middle of next week. Also presented was 'Earth 2140', a real-time strategy game has been ported to the Amiga by Pagan Games on demand of epic interactive. The master volume is on its way to production.

Still under development is Dafel:Bloodline. Status: Thomas Wuergler continues to work on this game, but when it will be finished cannot be estimated at the time being. 'Converting games' currently has a higher priority.

The ATC team handed me a disk containing a preview of the reworked classic game Dynamite. This one will be to play via internet. I promise to have a look at it soon. :)


My quite personal summary: The AMIGA is anything but dead! There are innovative developments in hardware and software taking place. There is unfractured engagement and unrestricted attendance to continue. In many dialogues it got clear that we are facing a future which though is undetermined, it's not hopeless. Tenor from the exhibitors' commercial point of view was, "Though one is able to make enough money with the Amiga, one cannot 'line his pockets'". Already from just this solitary point of view I rate this fair as a success. I had a lot of fun, anyway, and to have been there really pushed on my motivation. :-)

In terms of this....
Petra Struck

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10.Dec.2000
Salva via email


WoA 2000 pictures by Salva
WoA 2000 pictures by Salva.

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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
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10.Dec.2000
Petra Struck


Woa pictures
The first exhibiton day was gut visited and as could be read in the different announcements there were interesting presentations of hard- and software all over the place. As usual we'll supply you with comprehensive information about all details in our exhibition review.

You can get a first impression through our pictures. Besides the photos by Petra Struck under the title link Torsten Dudai has also captured his impressions.

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10.Dec.2000
Thomas Wenzel on ANF


New public beta of AmigaAmp
Just in time for the end of the WoA'2000 there's a new version of AmigaAmp. Originally Thomas Wenzel had planned to release the final version 2.8 these days. But there are two features he didn't want to psh back for later releases:

MAS-Player Support
The MAS-Player is an external MPEG-audio-decoder for the parallel port and can be used with EVERY Amiga. The support in AmigaAmp exists in the form of a new driver system developed by Paul Qureshi together with Dirk Conrad and Thomas Wenzel. With the combination AmigaAMP and MAS-Player it is possible to play MP3-files in full quality even on 68030 Amigas. Dirk himself offers a special highly optimised software which makes playback of MP3 even on a 68000. The MAS-Player is distributed by Eternity (Martin Wolf).

Shoutcast Streaming
Shoutcast is a protocol for live broadcastings of radio transmissions via the internet. >From the today released version on AmigaAMP doesn't need an external program for receiving such transmissions. The necessary protocol is directly integrated.

The two named features are still in development and don't run 100% stable. For a first impression it is enough though. The new version of AmigaAMP is downloadable from www.amigaamp.de.

Download: AmigaAMP28b9.lha (573K)

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10.Dec.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF


Digital Almanac III Xmas update
Because of illness the release of the Xmas update for DA3 may be delayed some days. Because of the same reason a preview of the new features was only possible just now.

Under the title link you can find a summary of the new features including screenshots.

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10.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


WOA: Eyetech - AmigaOne/AmigaDE-Roadmap
Together with the partners Escena (Martin Schueler) and Hyperion Software (further partners are Haage&Partner (68k-Emulation) and Michael Rock(PCI/AGP-Resource Libraries and other things)) the company Eyetech has presented their plans regarding their AmigaOne computer. Fun Time World has released diagrams of this presentation.

The AmigaOne 1200 from Eyetech is a PPC-PCI-system plus Amga hardware and 68k-emulation for use with Amiga Classic and AmigaDE software. The PPC system is based on the project Brainstormer by Escena.

Via the WestBridge of the system the A1200, IDE, 1 AGP- and 4 PCI-slots are connected. Via the NorthBridge the PPC-cpu, the SDRAM, USB and two more PCI-slots. The PPC can access the Amiga-system (custom chips, Chip RAM, Amiga I/O).

On starting the system the FlashROM is copied into the SDRAM, then the 68k-emulator respectively the AmigaDE is activated and the Amiga Classic' booted. The Amiga Classic software now runs on top of the 68k-emulation on the AmigaOne-board (PPC) and uses the Amiga specific hardware of the integrated A1200-board.

The emulation only emulates the command set of the 68k-cpu-line but no Amiga specific hardware like AGA which exists as real hardware. The emulation is memory intensive and therefore needs a fast memory access. For a step-by-step adaption of the software 'in-line'-PPC-code is supported.

The following planned schedule is given in the diagrams.

Amiga Classic
  • 12/2000: developer system
  • 01/2001: Classic OS-drivers
  • 01/2001: 680x0-emulator
  • 02/2001: system for betatesters
  • 1. quarter 2001: finished version of the AmigaOne A1200 for use as extended Amiga Classic (PPC, PCI/AGP-Slots)

AmigaDE
  • 07/2001: AmigaDE for end-users
  • 07/2001: AmigaDE graphics, drivers and so on
  • 08/2001: AmigaDE port for (every) AmigaOne possible
  • 1. quarter 2002: availability of ready-to-use applications especially for AmigaDE


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10.Dec.2000
Alfred Faust on ANF


Open source: Bars&Pipes Pro 2.0
Alfred Faust has released an email of Todor Fay, the former chief programmer of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc., on ANF that is dated 9. December 2000. In this email Todor Fay announces the release of the source code of Bars&Pipes Pro V2.0. Besides bugfixes this will make the continued development of the sequencer possible.

For now Fay is collecting together the source code. For this he needs help from one or more Amiga developers with an up and running Amiga developer environment.

«I think we can work towards a better solution:

I've gotten clearance to release the source code for Bars&Pipes to the Amiga community. This means several things:

1) Known bugs can be fixed.

2) Perhaps y'all can create special hooks for real time services (timer, midi in and out) in the Amiga code so it can connect more directly with the services in Windows. It's pretty amazing that timing works at all, given that it is running on an emulation of the audio interrupt (kudos to Brian King!). 'Course that would require changes to WinUAE to support this.

3) Port Bars&Pipes to Windows. If people want to collaborate on such a project, I will very gladly provide advice and assistance.

At this point, I'm collecting together the source code. I need to work with one or more developers who have Amiga dev environments up and running to help put this together. We need to make sure everything is there and compiles correctly.

Any volunteers?

Todor»

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10.Dec.2000
André Siegel on ANF


BlueBlack Solution websites gets revamped
André Siegel wrote:
Our net presentation gets momentarily reworked, please have therefor some days patience until we can give you again access to our complete web offer.

You like the new design of our website? You recognised deficiencies? Show courage, write us an email and help us to improve our offers furthermore.

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10.Dec.2000
Richard de Rivaz on ANF


INET DIAL v3.833
The internet management system 'INET DIAL' now offers a German localisation and is in general prepared for translations. Everybody who wants to do a translation may apply to the developer.

Download: inet_dial.lha (528K)

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10.Dec.2000



WOA: Pictures and reports
pictures

reports

IRC-conferences


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10.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Obligement #24
The 24. issue of the french e-magazine 'Obligement' for Amigas is ready for downlaod. This issue contains among other things an interesting article about the AmigaOne, an interview with the graphical artist Eric W. Schwartz, reviews of Nightlong and MooVid 2 and much more.

Download: obligement24.lha (598K)

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10.Dec.2000
James Russell on Open Amiga-ML


AmigaDE: James Russell manages Mozilla porting
James Russell is the leader of the Mozilla-engine-porting for AmigaDE. Mozilla is the open source browser project emerged from the Netscape browser.

To begin with Russell has contacted mozdev.org about the possibility of hosting the necessary infrastructure (webspace, CVS, mailing list) for the project. It would then become accessible under mozamiga.mozdev.org.

Everybody who wants to help in porting, give constructive ideas or feedback may post on the Open Amiga-Mailingliste or address directly to James Russell. He is to find on the IRC-channels #mozamiga at irc.mozilla.org and #developer at irc.whiterose.net.

He suggests to interested people to have a look at the NSPR-Video on http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/brownbag.htmlfor now, which informs in a comprehensive way about the NSPR module. This module presents the biggest hurdle for the Mozilla-port for AmigaDE.

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09.Dec.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail


BoXer Board Status
On the Anti-Gravity page there is a press release dated November, 29th 2000 concerning the BoXer mainboard.

Current BoXeR prototype main-boards feature the emulated AGA chip-set on three single chips. The final revision will integrate the AGA into one single chip. The redesign has been completed and it is ready for build up. It is planned to make this board with one single AGA chip available for the AmigaActive magazine for testing purpose end of December.

The distributor network is growing. According to the latest survey there are currently more than 500 distributors of the BoXer.

Our employment survey also got great and worldwide response. Anit-Gravity is hoping to be able to contact everyone who replied to talk about possibilities to enable all of them to take part in developing this system.

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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


WOA: Fun Time World - information
Sebastian Brylka released first information about the fair.

Bill McEwen didn't attend the fair - his place was taken by an unprepared Fleecy Moss. Heretic II has been presented as a Voodoo version. The graphics board was plugged into a G-Rex PCI prototype in an A4000. The G-Rex board for A1200's has also been presented. This version is ready and in progress. It's said to be released early 2001.

More information are available in the Fun Time World announcement. Photos and more information have been announced.

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09.Dec.2000
ANN


Amiga in Berlin Scene Club
Under the title link at the upper left you can see an Amiga 1200 in a Scene Club in Berlin.

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09.Dec.2000
ANN


Open Source Campaign planning to create a Counsil
The 'Campaign to Open Source the AmigaOS' campaign created by Steve Crietzman is making efforts to release the AmigaOS sources as open source. In recent times it has been quiet around this campaign. This was due to the fact that Crietzman had taken a longer break, because work had gotten to much to handle. Now he regrets to have been absent for so long without any explanation.

The current plan involves the creation of a transition plan for the Open Amiga Foundation. Therefore they are looking for participants. Persons interested in this initiative might contact OpenAmiga@aol.com.

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09.Dec.2000
André Beer on ANF


GeoWorld V1.12 - New demo version of the geographical software
We of Beer Productions are happy to announce the release of a new demo version of our geographical software for the Amiga. This demo version is based on the current GeoWorld Version 1.12 and contains a foretaste of the extensive data and many features that make this software unique on the Amiga.

The demoversion can be downloaded on our homepage as well as on the Aminet (misc/edu). Currently GeoWorld can still be ordered for a special price at Amiga Arena.

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09.Dec.2000
ANN


WOA: IRC with Elbox
Under the title link you will find a log-file of ab IRC conference with Elbox.

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09.Dec.2000
Patrick Roberts in Open Amiga-ML


AmigaDE: Etick V0.86 Beta and Ewinease V0.63 Alpha
On December 9th, 2000 Patrick Roberts released beta version 0.86 of the ticker 'ETick' and alphav ersion 0.63 of the GUI-Kit 'Ewinease'

Etick is a graphical ticker with plug-in support that can display miscellaneous information like headlines of news services. The archive contains the files that are necessary to develop plug-ins. Currently the following sources are supported:
  • Amiga.org: Headlines
  • Amiga.com: First page headlines
  • Amigadev.net: Headlines of the news, Top 10 Downloads, the last 10 uploads
  • Time and date
  • Weather forecast (needs 'forecast.tgz')
  • Stats of the web-servers 'zAMilo'

The program further needs Clip and Artix_Nexttext by Richard Collier. These packages have to be installed before 'Etick'.

There is a small update for 'Ewinease'. This kit simplifies the programming of AVE-GUIs in C. This update is an alpha version. The product is not completed and may contain bugs. More detailed information are in TODO_HISTORY.doc.

Download:


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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


AmigaOS 4.0 PPC theoretically possible
In the IRC of the WOA 2000 Fleecy Moss of Amiga Inc. stated that AmigaOS 4.0 PPC is possible to be. Condition for this is that enough copies of AmigaOS V3.9 will be sold to show that there is a valuable market for this product. The required number of sold copies is 50,000.

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09.Dec.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF


KICKSTART ARCHIVES
The homepage of KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM has moved and can be reached under http://home.nexgo.de/kickstart/. This page contains among others a wide collection of texts about the history of the Amiga.

Release date of the CD-ROM is 12-31-2000. You can find all the necessary information at the homepage.

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09.Dec.2000
xandiy on ANF


Pictures from WOA 2000
At Amiga-Community.net there are first pictures of the WOA.

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09.Dec.2000
Bernd on ANF


Fireball Issue #3
Issue #3 of Fireball is ready for download under the title link.

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09.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


ASM-One V1.45 R454c
As announced on December 5th, 2000, version 1.45 revision 454c of the assembler 'ASM-One' has been released. In this version many bugs have been removed and some functions added. The RTG version (for gfx boards) only made it to a beta version since there has not been enough time to remove bigger bugs.

The normal version needs at least AmigaOS 2.x. The RTG version AmigaOS 3.x. Both require reqtools.library and asl.library.

In the first archive there is also the ASM-One Guide, which contains ASM-One source rescuer and the history

Download:


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09.Dec.2000
CyberGFX


Mediator, G-Rex and P96
Several news have been released on the CyberGFX pages in the last few days.

In the channel #amiga(irc.whiterose.net), a collaborator of Hyperion, voiced positively about the design of the Mediator board. To keep costs low the people from Elbox only use one logic chip which is used as many times as required. This way they have managed among otheres to create their PCI bus without having to use expensive Glue- chipsets from third party companies.

«On #amiga (irc.whiterose.net) one of the guys from Hyperion was chatting about the design of the Mediator: "They've shown some really clever ways to keep their costs down in design, certainly.... All of their hardware consists of ONE logic chip which they use repeatedly, as many as necessary.", "They design all their own components, so no need to buy expensive external glue logic.", "Their PCI bus, for instance, is entirely their own implementation, no glue chip-sets from a 3rd party manufacturer.", "For instance there was a bug in the FastATA 4000 hardware, and they had to send out replacement chips to fix it. FPGA could just be reprogrammed.", FastATA 4000 is "EIDE controller for Z3. The ONLY one." "Umm it implements the fast ATA modes. like PIO-4, etc. So I get better performance out of IDE drives.", "Again, like all their other products, their IDE implementation is their own, using the same chip they use on all their products. :-) Pretty cool." "Well it also does PIO-5 but Z3 has trouble with it."»

The vendors.txt has been updated on November, 25th 2000 updated. 18 new boards have been added respectively updated. There have been no particular changes related to the Mediator itself.

Pictures about the G-Rex with 5 PCI slots, and about CyberGraphX running on a VooDoo4 4500 have been released..

About Picasso96 concerning Elbox there has been a new article released from the P96-Mailinglist.

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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


PDF-Version of AmigaWorld #4
Beside the Online-Version there is now also the PDF version of the AmigaWorld #4 by Amiga Inc. with information about the new system available.

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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


RxMUI V3.95
Alfonso Ranieri released version 3.95 of RxMUI. This ARexx-Library makes it possible to create GUIs using MUI in ARexx.

Download: rxmui.lha (362K)

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09.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Price of the 'Martina' sound card
On December 5th, 2000 Czech Amiga News announced the approximate price of the 'Martina' sound card by Michal Kluczewski. The clockport version will cost about 180,- DM(90,- EUR).

The MPEG decoder modul will be available seperately. Prices for this modul and other card versions have not been fixed yet.

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08.Dec.2000
Christoph Dietz


NSDi on AmiTCP/IP licensing and Genesis rights
Press release:
NSDi PRESS RELEASE 2000/12/08 22:45 EET, 21:45 CET, 20:45 UTC

The Issue About AmiTCP/IP Licensing and GENESiS Publishing Rights:

Since the World of Amiga (WOA) show begins tomorrow, Saturday, December 9th 2000 and Haage&Parther is expected to start selling their AmigaOS 3.9 and NSDi and Haage&Partner is not yet in agreement of the licensing of the AmiTCP/IP software, NSDi is forced to publish this information:

Happened so far:

AmiTCP/IP was licensed to be part of Amiga GENESiS Networking System with a license fee of $5 per AmiTCP/IP Copy. No later licensing agreement has been done between NSDi (The AmiTCP/IP Copyright Holder) and any AmiTCP/IP licensee.

The latest moment any license payments for NSDi has been made January 1999, with amount of about EUR 4000. 1st quarter of year 2000 AmiTCP/IP source was provided for one of the GENESiS developer so he could add some missing features. At this time, however:
  1. NSDi or respective NSDi personnel has not given any immaterial property rights of AmiTCP/IP software away.
  2. No right for further redistribution of AmiTCP/IP source to anybody.
(both of these has been violated, either by incompetence to follow the copyright laws, or just unwillingity to obey it -- hopefully it is the first case)

At fall 2000, without any prior notice to NSDi, publishing rights of GENESiS has been transferred to Haage&Partner. I (Tomi Ollila) at NSDi was informed this when the press release about 4 weeks after this has happened, was sent to one of the vaporware mailinglists.

At that time, since such a radical change in GENESiS rights I asked our current licensee when our payments are due. I basically got an answer that there is no money since all has gone to publishing cost or lost when the company that made the CD:s went bankcrupty. That is an answer I could live with. I did not want our licensee to get into more trouble, as he had done so hard work with it. I just thought I then ask Haage&Partner that at a later time -- as publishing rights were transferred, all the licensing issues should have come with it. But, I also have an ordinary work -- with EUR 1000 one just cannot manage in modern western country very long -- I have been pretty busy working so I forgot to ask that just then.

Note that that does not lessen our immaterial property rights of the software of ours: It is responsibility of the people who are going to sell the software further the figure out under what copyright the sofware is bound of.

But, at the end of November 2000, I heard that Haage&Partner is going to include GENESiS in their forthcoming AmigaOS 3.9. The genesis package included AmiTCP/IP, and NSDi has had the previously mentioned licensing agreement effective with it. However, NSDi was never contacted of such an arrangement.

I was forced to take a quick action: I sent an e-mail to Haage&Partner explaining the situation using quite strong words just to get attention.

After a few e-mails sent back and forth, I was asked to make an offer with a fixed sum for unlimited use of the AmiTCP/IP software. I come first up with a market price of some TCP/IP stack I've heard, and that was EUR 15000. That was way too much what the Haage&Partner representative say they could handle. Since this was so close to the beginning of WOA and we don't have much time to negotiate (even it is not my fault that I did not know earlyer), I come up with much lesser price in my next e-mail...

I sent that email yesterday morning, about 11 EET (10 CET, 9 UTC), and I have got no answer to that e-mail up to now.

So, now we are in situation, where Haage&Partner does have publishing rights to GENESiS software, but has no license to sell the included AmiTCP/IP. It might be so, that Haage&Partner has been so busy that they have had no time to answer my latest proposition -- that I don't know. Anyway, If they start selling AmigaOS 3.9 with GENESiS and AmiTCP/IP included, they are selling unlicensed software.

At the time being, we are still willing to come with AmiTCP/IP licensing agreement with Haage&Partner and therefore we don't want to forbid sales of AmigaOS 3.9 at WOA -- mainly since there is so many Amiga users who don't want to wait any longer before getting the new Amiga Operating System. Also, taking such a drastic move don't help our efforts to come with a positive end result in discussion with Haage&Partner. However, my unfortunate duty is to declare unlawful to sell products that contains AmiTCP/IP without valid licensing agreement with NSDi on other sales channels.

At the time being, we continue licensing discussions with Haage&Partner to get the lisensing issue in order. We will keep the media informed of the progress of the discussion.

If you have any supportive comments, critisim to throw, or some more information what I should know, please send e-mail to the address shown below.

If there is doubt of the authenticity of this information, this text is also included in my homepage at

http://www.iki.fi/too/amitcp.txt

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila@tfi.net (*) Network Solutions Development, Inc. Helsinki, Finland

(*) @nsdi.fi -address no longer active due to poorness of the company.

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08.Dec.2000
GoldED


GoldED - WoA 2000 special offer
Dietmar Eilert offers visitors of the WoA 2000 GoldED for half price. To get the special price, please send your WoA ticket or a written confirmation that proves your presence at the fair to the GoldED support.

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08.Dec.2000
bplan GmbH


Specifications of the PowerPC mainboard
bplan GmbH releases the specification of the dual G3/G4 microATX mainboard with codename PEGASOS.

With its PEGASOS development pblan GmbH of Germany brings the unleashed PowerPC performance to the users.

By using a modular system design, the mainboard could be easily user upgraded to the individual demands. With todays standard interfaces already designed onto the PEGASOS mainboard, the users will be able to easily connect standard components (like harddrives or CD Roms) and a wide range of high-end devices such as digital video cameras to the system.

While PEGASOS itself is widely scaleable to the users needs, it's a easy task for retailers or OEMs to configure the system for their demands. By hitting the best price/performance point for the chosen configuration, systems starting with one CPU (at entry level) up to multi PPC G4 based cluster computers could be build using the same hardware.

For technical details follow the title link.

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08.Dec.2000
Petra Struck


WoA 2000
I was shortly at the fair this morning to take some things there and to get a first impression. The Mediapark consists of several architectonically imposing buildings. The fair is held in the building Mediapark 7 (1st floor), while the seminars are held in the building Mediapark 6 (also 1st floor). The fair exhibitors are work like beavers on their booths and there's a bustle as in a beehive.

Supplement:
In a talk with Juergen Haage, I have learned that Fleecy Moss will attend the fair, too.

If you come by car, here a little tip:
A57 to Cologne-Centre, then follow "Innenstadt" until (very small) signs directing to the MediaPark appear. The entrance to the underground bypass is directly after the railway bridge. You drive from there either directly to the building or down into the underground car park MediaPark. At the "Cinedom", the entrance to the car park forks to the car park entrance and tunnel bypass. You can also park in the underground car park Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring. Have a good trip and until tomorrow :-).

More driving tips.

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08.Dec.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: Petracell






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08.Dec.2000
Nico Barbat via eMail


Scenet opens new areas
Scenet has been founded in 1998 as the first web-portal for the legal computer demoscene, based on a project back in 1994. It offers a huge collection of web-links, e-mails and icq-numbers of former and active members of the demoscene on all platforms, just like Amiga, PC and C64 as well as Atari, Acorn, Mac, CPC and ZX. Since the end of 1999 Scenet has been enlarged by a big articles- and interviews-section.

Since December 6th, 2000, Scenet contains an internal and interactive script-system with news items updated every day.

Contact: dire@scenet.de

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08.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Light over Mars CD-ROM released
Light over Mars CD-ROM (LOM) has been released and can be ordered from now on at APC & TCP. The "Lights Over Mars" CD contains a huge archive with objects of the best-known science fiction visions. All objects are copyrighted by the original movie companies. They are for private use only. You'll find more information in the support area of the APC & TCP homepage (title link).

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08.Dec.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF


NetBSD 1.5 is here!
After some weeks ago, the last patch release of the NetBSD 1.4 branch has been released with NetBSD 1.4.3, some days ago NetBSD 1.5 has also been released.

NetBSD is a complete open source operating system and is shipped with system administration and user tools, as well as the X window system. New in 1.5: IP version 6, IPsec, integrated OpenSSL, -SSH and Kerberos.

New for the Amiga architecture and hardware are: improved FPU emulation for Amigas without FPU, support for media with large sectors for ADOSFS (reading) and for Linux partitions, SVR4 (AMIX) emulation; drivers for parallel ports on HyperCOM 3+/4+; a first version of the PCMCIA support; the IDE support can use the NetBSD code instead of the Amiga-specific solution if the user wishes (and will be converted in future to this option).

Support for ISDN is available for Master, MasterII, Blaster with the isdn4bsd packet, and in preparation for ISDN surfer.

System requirements: 8 MB fast mem; 68020+68851 with/without FPU, 68030 with/without FPU, 68040, 68060, Phase5 PowerPC+68k boards in 68k mode (but with SCSI host driver!). First attempts at a PPC support are available as source.

You can find more information and suppliers at the title link.

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08.Dec.2000
Chris Hodges on ANF


FormAldiHyd -- driver for Aldi/Medion/Tevion/Aiptek graphic tablet
Chris Hodges writes:
Here you'll find a new version of my driver for the graphic tablets by Aldi and Aiptek. there is a MUI version as well as a CLI version. The day after tomorrow, the new version 0.9ß should also be available on AmiNet.

The driver is freeware, but it would be nice if I'd get some feedback. Maybe it's also compatible with Summagraphics, but I couldn't test it.

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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier


Amigart: Earth2140 will be presented on the WOA in Cologne
According to Jason Hayman von Pagan Games the full version of Earth 2140 Amiga PPC/68k will be presented on the WoA 2000 in Cologne. The master CD is already on its way to production.

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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Simon The Sorcerer II is ready
Simon The Sorcerer II is ready and all who pre-ordered it at epic-interactive will receive it from December, 14th. After many month of work and many problems Paul Burkey and Peter Mulholland have made it, they have ported one of the best cartoon adventures to the Amiga.

AGA or a gfx board is required. A 68030/50 with 8 MB RAM is minimal requirement. The english game has subtitles in English, German, and Italian. It is delivered in a DVD case with printed manual. You can preorder here.

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07.Dec.2000
Bill Borsari via eMail


UGN-IRC from Cologne
The UGN is happy to announce the presentation of live internet chat with some of the biggest names in the Amiga industry today. The conferences will begin on Saturday 09.12.2000 at 12:00 CET (GMT +1h.) There will also be a live webcam from the show at http://ugn.amiga.org/webcam. You can join the conferences on the AmigaNet family of IRC servers on channel #woa2000. Here is a list of servers and the port:
  • Server (Port always 6667):
    • whiterose.us.amiganet.org
    • thule.no.amiganet.org
    • kth.se.amiganet.org
    • linux.us.amiganet.org
    • spod.uk.amiganet.org
    • fullcomp.au.amiganet.org

For more information about IRC please visit http://ugn.amiga.org/irc.

We have put together a perliminary schedule as a reference:

Participant        Company           Time
Darek Dulian.      ELBOX             12:30:00    CET
Mick Tinker        BoXer             13:00:00    CET
Ralph Schmidt      MorphOs           14:00:00    CET
Allan M. Redhouse  Eyetech           15:00:00    CET
Bill McEwan        Amiga Inc         16:00:00    CET
Juergen Haage      Haage & Partner   17:00:00    CET


Hope to see you there!

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07.Dec.2000
amiga.org


News from Fleecy Moss
Fleecy Moss, Technical Director of Amiga, Inc. sends the message, that Amiga, Inc. about to release in a few weeks the first part of the AmigaDE technology.

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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


WayneCam is now online
Wayne Hunt of the Amiga.org team has installed a webcam on his working place. If you want to watch him work you can do this here. It is updated every 30 seconds.

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07.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


WebCam on WoA
Ruediger Engel of the Amiga-Club has installed a webcam on the WoA2000 and shows the pictures on his homepage: WoA Webcam or the picture directly.

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07.Dec.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail


MEDIATOR PCI for Amiga 4000
MEDIATOR PCI 4000 features:
  • PCI busboard for Amiga 4000D in: E-BOX (Power Tower, Winner Tower) tower cases
  • 5 PCI slots - PCI 2.1 compatible (DMA, Bus-mastering, etc.)
  • 7 ZORRO III/II slots
  • 1 Video slot
  • The fastest possible PCI design for Amiga, 66 MHz, 32-bit
  • Transfer rates between PCI cards up to 264 MB/s
  • Ready to run with all the existing Amiga 4000: 68k and PPC accelerator cards
  • Ready to run with SharkPPC G3/G4 cards

MEDIATOR PCI 4000 is made up of two devices:

a) MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card b) ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI busboard

The PCI to Amiga bridge is a PCI 2.1-compliant implementation for connecting PCI devices, thus allowing expansion of Amiga with all kinds of industry standard hardware products.

DRIVERS for MEDIATOR 4000 add-on PCI cards:
  • Graphic cards based on processors:
    3dfx Voodoo3 16MB (ready)
    3dfx Voodoo5 32MB (in development)
  • Network cards:
    Ethernet 10 Mb/s (ready)
    Fast Ethernet 100/10 Mb/s (in development)
  • Sound cards:
    SB 128 (in development)
    SB 1024 Live (in development)
  • TV tuner (in development)
  • MPEG-2 hardware decoder (in development)
  • USB Controller (planned)
  • ISDN cards (planned)

Availability:
ELBOX A4000 ZORRO III/II PCI will be sold as a complete set with the E-BOX 4000 (Power Tower, Winner Tower), beginning with 9 December 2000 (during the WOA 2000!). The MEDIATOR 4000 core logic card will be available in January 2001.

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07.Dec.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail


e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment present on the Cologne Show
Also e.p.i.c interactive entertainment will be present on the Cologen Show. At the booth of Falke Verlag Paul Burkey will present the finished Amiga version of "Simon The Sorcerer II". Thomas Wuergler from Pagan Games, which ported the real-time strategy game "Earth 2140" by our order to the Amiga, will present the final version exclusively at the Falke booth. Look forward to two great PC ports, which you can play already this year.

Furthermore we will offer our games at special fair prices on the fair.

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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Wired: Forever Amigos with Amiga
Wired reported about Amiga Forever 4.0 by Cloanto. You can find the article under the title link.

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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


G-Rex with 5 PCI Slots will be presented on WoA
According to DCE the board was completely new designed and the production has already started. The board will be presented on the WoA in Cologne. Two new pictures of the board were published at CyberGFX-homepage. You can also look at a picture of CyberGraphX on a Voodoo 4-4500 there.

Besides this there are news of the P96 team:
On Saturday the programmer of Picasso96 probably will be present on the WoA2000. Tobias wrote:
"Hi! Alex and I will probably attend the WoA 2000 in Cologne on Saturday. If you want to meet us (register Picasso96 or complain about our greed) just look out for us. The pictures on the Picasso96 home page should be good enough for that. :-) C ya! :-))" .....click on their pictures for a better view:
picture 1 and picture 2.

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06.Dec.2000
Christian Sobotta on ANF


ACSYS canceled
After a last telephone call with programmer it is now official that the development of ACSYS (Turrican-clone) will be canceled. In our opinion for 86 interested people (result of a opinion poll) it is not worthy continuing the development.

If the development will be continued by a third person the following applies:
The complete code will be released as open source. Only the engine will be given as an object file. If a commercial publication is planned percentage share of the profit have to be given to us. The level has to be negotiated with the developer. If the game is going to be published as freeware we will waive the financial claims. PD,- shareware or something like that are not allowed. The level of development is at fifty percent. If there are competent programmers we would continue working on pictures if desired.

We regret this decision and hope you show understanding of it. If you want to write something to this topic please mail to the programmer because I have no influence on it no longer. The homepage will be online during the next time. I will complete the list of interested people if I will get mails with this content. For further questions we are at your disposal via eMail: Code: Joerg Belger
Graphic: Christian Sobotta

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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet uploads
ET60DemoEnglis.lha   biz/demo   2.5M+Multimedia language tutor - English ver.
ET60DemoGerman.lha   biz/demo   2.4M+Multimedia language tutor - German ver.
DOpusCFG.lha         biz/dopus   60K+DOpus4.x configuration with many feature
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha   comm/irc   764K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
iris.lha             comm/mail  326K+Email client (SMTP/POP3) V2.3
IrisUpdate.lha       comm/mail   36K+Update Iris V2.2 to V2.3
Haracz.lha           comm/misc  350K+Calculate fee for internet provider
jl_update.lha        comm/tcp     2K+Script for updating your ip at Justlinux
rxsocket.lha         comm/tcp   139K+Rxsocket.library - TCP/IP ARexx library
streamer.lha         comm/www    25K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
APX-ITBM.lha         demo/aga   3.7M+I Want To Be Machine by Appendix,release
APX-MAYHEM.lha       demo/aga   1.7M+Mayhem by Appendix, released at Satellit
ays-atyp.lha         demo/aga    31K+"A-Type 32k Game by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-crsn.lha         demo/aga    36K+"Cruisin 40k Intro by Dexter/Abyss!"
ays-dis4.lha         demo/aga    78K+DISISSID #4 by ABYSS (THX songs)
SPO3-Photos.lha      demo/aga   232K+Official photos from Spoletium3 demopart
wpz-frozen39.lha     demo/aga   430K+Frozen#39 - Spoletium Party Edition
WT_intros_1996.lha   demo/intro 1.4M+Wanted Team cracktros from the year 1996
hla-ap14fix.lha      demo/mag    24K+Amiga Positive no.14 FIX, new executable
modifile.lha         dev/amos    67K+File modifier written by AMOSPro
SamplesMaster.lha    dev/amos   107K+Creates IFF and RAW samples (italian)
blitzgtfix.lha       dev/basic   45K+Blitz2 fix for many Gadtools problems
clockita.lha         dev/basic   73K+Italian clock with alarm + source code
libiconv_src.lha     dev/c      3.4M+Src for libiconv.a
xad_ar.lha           dev/src     12K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha         dev/src     19K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha          dev/src     54K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_COP.lha          dev/src     12K+COP xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha         dev/src     13K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha          dev/src      8K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_RPM.lha          dev/src     10K+RPM xadmaster client
xad_Wrapster.lha     dev/src      9K+Wrapster xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha          dev/src     13K+ZAP xadmaster client
splatch.lha          disk/misc   20K+CLI command to split and join files
BB.lha               docs/hyper 285K+The BLACK BIBLE (Russian version) in Ami
Aakt1200GFX.lha      docs/mags  336K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   79K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1200HTML.lha     docs/mags  215K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
mc0101.lha           docs/mags  234K+German Metal Mag in HTML - Januar Issue
JumpingAround.lha    game/demo  158K+JumpNRun demo game, working in progress
Mattonite.lha        game/demo  276K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
LOS_ED.lha           game/hint   99K+Save Editor for game Legacy of Sorasil
AllTerrainRaci.lha   game/patch  25K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing V1.0
AllTerrainXmas.lha   game/patch  23K+HD-Installer for All Terrain Racing Xmas
BatmanReturns.lha    game/patch  24K+HD-Installer for Batman Returns V1.0
ColonizationPL.lha   game/patch  78K+Polish translation for game Colonization
Microbes.lha         game/patch  31K+HD-Installer for Microbes V1.0
pab3d1_1.lha         game/patch  56K+(1.1) A Patch for Alien Breed 3D.
PuttySquadDemo.lha   game/patch  30K+HD-Installer for Putty Squad Demo V1.0
Quartz.lha           game/patch  28K+HD-Installer for Quartz V1.1
Fate1.2.lha          game/role   16K+Fate - Polish Version of Dice Simulator 
stefadv2.lha         game/text   68K+2nd little italian text adventure
Frogger.lha          gfx/show   932K+Ultimate MPEG video player (MOS|PUP|WOS|
VideoMPEGA.lha       gfx/show   343K+Fast Mpeg video play 1&2 + sound 68k/AGA
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  73K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
PrimaxCD9600.lha     hard/drivr  56K+Primax Colorado Direct 9600 Scanner Driv
Mentat.lha           misc/edu   223K+Mentat 0.6 english2english Longman dicti
stlist.lha           misc/emu    25K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001124.lha   misc/imdb  2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
Budzet2000.lha       misc/math  431K+Budzet 2000. Calculates your expenses an
ALEM_0018.lha        misc/misc  696K+ALEM's ScalaScript 'GeneaBook' Demo (FR)
divert12.lha         mods/midi   37K+Divertimento12, GM song by Stefano Regat
divert3.lha          mods/midi   59K+Divertimento3, GM song by Stefano Regatt
felicida.lha         mods/midi   35K+Felicidad, GM song by Stefano Regattin
rno-r052.lha         mods/misc  258K+Rno-records release no.52 by Tang (tekno
dzy-inafantasy.mpg   mods/mpg   5.2M+MP3 Tune by Dazzy of Soundforce
win95crash.lha       mods/smpl   91K+Windows95Crash.wav : very famous sample 
ac3dec.lha           mus/play    73K+AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoder. (68k 
DeliDecrunch.lha     mus/play     8K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.2
WOA-2000.jpg         pix/art     14K+Made with fxPaint and Cinema4D
AVK.lha              pix/misc   2.0M+X-Mas Calendar
Jack01.lha           pix/trace  950K+7 trace-pictures of Ford Mustang by JACK
a500_wb2000.png      pix/wb     203K+Amiga500-WB w/WB2000 in 724x566x4
Textloader.lha       text/edit  738K+TextEd 8.2 german/english SuperED!!
adTOag.lha           text/hyper  17K+AdTOag - Autodocs TO Amigaguide. V1.3
ascii2jascii.lha     text/misc   35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
eNote.lha            text/misc  161K+Electronical notebook
UnLZX2.lha           util/arc    95K+UnLZX with new args (68k/PPC/i486)
xadmaster000.lha     util/arc   248K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68000)
xadmaster020.lha     util/arc   250K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68020)
xadmaster060.lha     util/arc   256K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (68060)
xadmasterdev.lha     util/arc   141K+V9.0 Powerful unarchiving system (DEVEL)
alba.lha             util/boot   50K+Lock your Amiga with a password ITA-ENG
ALeXcompare.lha      util/cli    67K+Compare files/dirs/trees & display diffe
makedict.lha         util/cli    39K+MakeDict - Creates dictionary from ANY (
SRename.lha          util/cli   107K+Advanced rename/renumber CLI program.
EasyConvert.lha      util/conv   23K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
ppclibemu.lha        util/libs  229K+Ppc.library emulation under WarpOS
Calculator.lha       util/misc   28K+Fully functional scientific calculator
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   83K+Report+ 4.11: 10-function utility
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni   98K+V1.42 - Graphics benchmark program
AmiLogVis.lha        util/moni   36K+RC5 Log Visualizer (for distributed.net 
dofile52.lha         util/rexx   43K+Nice datatype based processfile script
rmh.lha              util/rexx   54K+Rmh.library - Rexx Must Have library
LSClock20.lha        util/time   31K+SHAREWARE clock utility - New Release v2
Gurus2000_18_G.lha   util/wb    178K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
Gurus2000_HTML.lha   util/wb    642K+Shows infos about Gurus (German + Engl.)
TweakWB18.lha        util/wb    117K+Workbench 3.5/3.9 commodity & icon conve
VisualPrefs.lha      util/wb    458K+Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
WB2000_17.lha        util/wb    386K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
WB2000_17_NO.lha     util/wb      5K+Norwegian catalog for WorkBench2000 1.7
yStart.lha           util/wb     19K+Start menu for standard WB icons (v1.2)


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06.Dec.2000
Alfred Knoetig via eMail


Digital Albums
Alf's Corner present "Digital Albums" for Amiga. Digital - Albums are photo CDs of Brasilia, Mexico Argentina and Toscana. Each of the above mentioned CDs contain several hundreds of pictures of landscapes in high quality. Everybody can start dreaming here.

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06.Dec.2000
Guvenc Kaplan via eMail


AmigArt: AmigaOS 4.0 petition
AmigaArt wants to submit a petition with their wishes to AmigaOS 4.0 to Amiga Inc. It is an opinion poll where you can express your opinion concerning the development of the Amiga Classic OS to a PPC-native-OS.

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06.Dec.2000
Paer Boberg via eMail


List of famous use of Amiga updated
Paer Boberg has updated his list of famous use of Amiga available now in version 1.6.

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06.Dec.2000
Falk Lueke via eMail


Eternity News regarding Cologne Show
Eternity will present at the "World of Amiga 2000" which takes place this weekend in Cologne the following products:
*! EASys will be available in new version !*
  • Important features of OS 3.9 are supported...
  • Tom Neidhardt has added an important complementing which lacks in the modern operating system of OS 3.9.
  • Converting of ToolsDemon-Prefs -> OS 3.9-menu added
  • Adapting of the toolbar. Pre-configured for vertical and horizontal positions...
  • Starting improved ans fastened...
  • Choice between big ans small WB-menu...
  • Menu itself was improved.
  • Scripts of converting of icons do no longer need OS 3.x-CD...
  • DEF-icon-fixing via point&click.
  • Genisis connection improved...

You can buy the update as CD for 15,- DM at the fair. After the fair the update can be downloaded from the internet for free...
*! MAS-Player goes AmigaAmp !*
As already promised during the last weeks we have worked on getting as many as possible software support for MAS-player. A first step has taken now:
  • The MAS-player will be supported right from the fair by AmigaAmp. Thanks a lot to Dirk Conrad, Thomas Wenzel und Paul Quershi. Therefore MAS-player is the most effective, compatible and favourable MP3-player on the Amiga...
  • The current version of AmigaAmp at our booth will be presented with internet-radio support for the first time.

*! Eternity presents Eternity-One !*
As a real alternative to the current Amiga-computer-systems we offer a computer with Amiga-emulation for the first time. There are the following advantages:
  • You can chose each Amiga!
  • OS 3.x compatible
  • OCS, ECS AGA and graphics board compatible
  • Save protection in Amiga-box
  • Speed as Amiga-Exorzist with 68040/68060 processor
  • Access to Amiga-disks possible
  • Amiga-sytem with 128 MB RAM
  • 100% compatible to Windows-systems and all Windows-programs
  • All Amiga & PC-games playable
  • Network between Workbench and Windows
  • Network to other Amigas over TCP-IP possible
  • Cheap because of standard-pc-hardware
  • MAc-emulation usable
  • Linux usable
  • Independent of Amiga-level
  • Independent of Amiga Inc.
  • Amigs-SDK usable und compatible for the future
  • All Amiga 68k programs usable
  • Kickstart 1.3-3.1
  • Period of guarantee of hardware-producer longer
  • No unnecessary long repairing time
  • Compatible to OS 3.9
  • Convince yourself of this system. It offers a good solution concerning the current Amiga-problems. We point out that this computer is a starting system.

*! Tales of Tamar !*
We also present Tales of Tamar in the current beta-version at the fair. Convince yourself of the progress and have a look at the things approaching you.

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06.Dec.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail


Aminet CD 40 available
Aminet CD 40 - December 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of software in nearly thousand archives. The very special highlight on this CD is the full version of TurboCalc 4.0 with a attractively priced possibility of updating to TurboCalc 5.0.

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06.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier on ANF


Haage & Partner publishes new functions and pictures of OS 3.9
You can find the complete list here: OS 3.9 features. Here you can find some pictures of the new programs and of the preferences: OS 3.9 screens. Who has made OS 3.9? Here you can find the list of the involved poeple: OS 3.9 Who did it.

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06.Dec.2000
Xandiy on ANF


Getting to Cologne
Everybody who wants to visit also the fair and needs a driving possibility, please join here.

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05.Dec.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF


News about DeepSilence - The Secret of my Soul
The DeepSilence team is looking for a gifted story writer to cooperate in case of the game's story and actions. Good knowledge of orthography is recommended. Contact: sylvio.kurze@oberland.or.at.

At the time being the SOMS homepage only is accessible at http://suse.unixcity.de/mangapic/index.html due to a failture of redirection. Moreover the DeepSilence team would like to mention alternative-games.de where a poll is up about which game you are most of all looking forward to. Everybody looking forward to SOMS, please click DeepSilence-SOMS.

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05.Dec.2000
Trogladite Software


Trogsoft Awards 2001
Trogladite Software will overall place five awards in categories application, games, hardware, developer, and website. Trogladite Software spend a lot of time to simplify the procedure of voting compared to last year.

If your favourite website for one of the categroies isn't on the list, you have the possibility to nominate this website.

amiga-news.de is nominated for the category "website". If you would like to vote for us, please click the following link:

Vote for amiga-news.de in the TS Awards 2001

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05.Dec.2000



amiga-news.de present at the WoA 2000, too
Of course also the amiga-news.de team will not miss the this year's Amiga show WoA 2000 in Cologne's Mediapark, which will take place this weekend. As usual we will inform you about the novelties presented at the fair by extended reports and pictures, and we are already looking forward to meet our readers in person.

As already traditional our graphics artist, the airbrush artist Rolf Tingler, will decorate your hardware live as wanted. He will also bring along the popular mobile phone shells with Amiga design, among others for the brand-new Nokia 3310, too.

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05.Dec.2000
Andreas Weyrauch via eMail


IRC-Logfile (revised version)
Andreas Weyrauch, who organized the Jochen Becher chat, has revised the log file and removed all 'join', and 'left'. You will find the result (mixed, German and English) at the title link.

Furthermore he says thank you to all of the attendants for the good replies, which encourage him to go on.

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05.Dec.2000
Peter Merfeld on ANF


G-REX driver for Voodoo 4-4500 finished
Peter Merfeld, PR manager at DCE Computer Service GmbH, wrote:
DCE Computer is excited to be able to announce that Vision Factory have finished the CyberGraphx beta drivers for Voodoo 4-4500 boards. The technical data of the Voodoo 4 are really impressing. With an impressing filling rate of 333 megapixles per second, and 32 MB of graphics memory the Voodoo4 4500 will bring your PPC Amiga near to industrial workstations.

Here are the technical data of the fastest graphics board ever used in an Amiga:
  • 32 MB Graphics Memory 128-bit Interface
  • 166 Mhz Core Clock
  • 350 Mhz RAMDAC
  • 60Hz-160Hz Vertical Refresh
  • 32-bit Color Rendering
  • 32-bit Texture rendering pipeline
  • 24-bit floating point depth buffer
  • 8-bit stencil buffer
  • 2048*2048 Texture Support
  • Full 128-bit 2D engine


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05.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


It's done: Payback-Work in Progress starts!
Jürgen A. Theiner of playamiga.de wrote:
From now on I will report about the current status of Payback development irregulary. Because the programmer himself supports me in doing so, I think by now that there may be many interesting news. It starts with the update to beta 8, which I already released on November, 30th. The reports will not stop after the final release of the game, but later changes will be reported (Mission Disks, Updates, Payback 2...), too. So, have a lot of fun on the other side of the law.

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05.Dec.2000
Stefan Sommerfeld via eMail


Repulse News
Who would like to see this board live - BTW: which is available at reduced price - can come to Individual Computer's booth on the World Of Amiga in Cologne, which will take place in the Mediapark this weekend. We still need some preorders to be able to start production of the board.

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04.Dec.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Amiga Future started webring
Amiga Future started a new webring today. Every webmaster is invited to join the ring.

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04.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail


Voodoo3 Graphics accelerator-review
Elboy made a new Voodoo3 graphics accelerator review online available.

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04.Dec.2000
Christoph Meier at ANF


MPEG 4 available for Amiga soon
Let me inform you about our new MPEG-4-based codec called 3ivx. You probably heard of DivX ;-) as a movie compression format. And indeed it's great. But we (the whole 3ivx.com team, under the supervising eye of Mr. Stux who has created the DivX ;-) Player for Mac) want to go a bit further. Our goal is to optimize compression so that the file size is smaller, of a higher quality and fully streamable. Moreover the codec will be supported on all platforms (Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, *nix (inlcuding Linux), Amiga ...). To accomplish this the code of the player will become an open source.

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04.Dec.2000
KDH Messe-News at ANF


KDH releases X-Surf/Miami-DeLuxe Bundle at WOA
KDH will offer a bundle that contains the netwotkadapter X-Surf and Miami-DeLuxe. Miami-DeLuxe will only be available in this bundle (at the WoA).

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04.Dec.2000
KDH Messe-News at ANF


KDH will make a short glimpse on the future of the Amiga
Andreas Küssner of WK-Artworks will demonstrate Taifun on Saturday. Taifun is the successor of 'Wildfire' and it's being developed for the new OS 'Amiga DE'. 'Wildfire-for-Movieshop' will be available, too.

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04.Dec.2000
Carsten Schröder via eMail


AMIGA aktuell 12/00 Published
The new issue contains Amiga news, software reviews and a summary of the latest issue of »Amiga World« by Amiga Inc. Additional you find informations about the »World of Amiga« in Cologne next weekend.

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04.Dec.2000
André Beer at ANF


GeoWorld - Update 12 released
We, Beer Productions, are proud to announce the release of an other GeoWorld update. The main feature of the new version are the revised history data. The data now reserve 50 times more space (400kb).

The update is available at our homepage and from the Aminet (misc/edu). A new demo will be available soon.

I would like to put you attention on the Amiga-Arena special offer.

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04.Dec.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail


COOLbits at WoA2000
The exhibition-page of COOLbits is online. Apart from a new version of FX-Scan they will present EaSys and Tales of Tamar at the exhibition. For all video-freaks there will be a stand-alone video-editiong-system CASABLANCA AVIO.

We agreed with Irseesoft to sell there products at our booth. These products are Turboprint7.x and Picture Manager5.5. If you bring your old Turboprint discs with you you can update to version 7.16.

The MAS Hardware MP3 Player will be demonstrated too.

We will present the new Eternity-One computer. It is a PC with installed Amiga-emulator.

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04.Dec.2000
Michael Lange at ANF


CyberGraphX V4.2 'pre8'
A CyberGraphX V4.2 'pre8' - update is available at the title link. Especially the MorphOS-Support was improved.

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04.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens at ANF


Server Problems
Because our server is overloaded we would like to please you to use the following addresses:
http://buerger.metropolis.de/riccoclemens oder http://www.ev.2xt.de

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04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail


Vesalia Computer will attend WoA 2000
Vesalia Computer short-term decided to attend the WOA 2000. A new stall-plan is available at the WoA-pages of Haage&Partner.

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04.Dec.2000
Jürgen Haage via eMail


Haage&Partner: There are no problems with Genesis
This morning a report comes up that blamed us for not having a valid license for shipping Genesis with the new AmigaOS.

We strictly reject this charge. We have all rights that are needed to sell Genesis.

We bought these rights from the manufacturer Active Technologies this August. We announced all of this 4 weeks later. We are very surprised about the campaign just one week before the start of the shipping of AmigaOS3.9.

As planed, Amiga Inc. will start shipping it next Saturday. Bill McEwen will attend the exhibition at Cologne. I hope you will be there.

Jürgen Haage
Geschäftsführer - HAAGE&PARTNER Computer GmbH

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03.Dec.2000
Anton Rolls on REBOL-ML


Hosts with REBOL Support
On the basis of reports on the REBOL mailing list Anton Rolls has listed hosts supporting REBOL. There the language REBOL can be used for example for the generating of websites via CGI. For the time being the list contains 8 entries.

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03.Dec.2000
TFA


ASM-One v1.45 on December, 5th
The release of the version 1.45 of the assembler ASM-One was originally planned for the 30. November 2000. This date postpones on the 5. December 2000. The reason for this is that Boussh has begun implementing pasting to the clipboard. As the clipboard support is a feature that is requested since long by many he has decided to take some extra days to complete the clipboard support (copy to clipboard). This time will additionally be used to improve the RTG version of the package and to update the documentation. For the 5. December is the release of the standard and the RTG version of ASM-One 1.45 planned.

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03.Dec.2000
IrseeSoft


Exhibition prices for IrseeSoft's Products
At the fair 'World of Amiga', happening on the 9. and 10. December 2000 at the Mediapark Cologne, products and updates of IrseeSoft will be available for favorable exhibition prices at the booth of CoolBits.

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03.Dec.2000
David Gerber via eMail


Genesis Rights Controversial
On 28. September 2000 Haage&Partner released a note in which the company announced to have obtained distribution and copyrights for the TCP/IP-Stack 'Genesis' from Active Technologies (Chris Wiles). Through this acquisition H&P received the possibility to integrate an own TCP/IP stack into the new AmigaOS Version 3.9 without any complications.

Note: The Genesis package is continued development of the AmiTCP/IP package by Network Solutions Development, Inc. (NSDi).

On 2. Dezember 2000 David Gerber, who is working by order of NSDi on AmiTCP, released a press note by NSDi. According to this Active Technologies didn't possess the rights for the AmiTCP part of Genesis and hence couldn't sell these rights to H&P.

In this message NSDi among other things were written that they regard a distribution of AmiTCP/IP without a direct contract with NSDi as an act of piracy.

To avoid misunderstandings with actual valid license contracts NSDi further withdraws all for the time being valid licence contracts. Due to NSDi' own representation this is possible as Chris Wiles (Active Technologies) didn't observe his part of the license by not paying any licensing fees since early 1999.

H&P is anxious to solving this problem friendly.

The exact wording of the press release of NSDi is available under the title link.

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03.Dec.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF


playamiga.de: Review of 'Codename: Hellsquad' online
On 3. Dezember 2000 Juergen A. Theiner has released a comprehensive test of the action aventures 'Codename:Hellsquad' by Digital Dream Entertainment on www.playamiga.de.

A work in progress report about "Payback" will follow soon. A first update of the P"Payback" review has been already released.

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03.Dec.2000
Amiga.org


Amiga.org: Tools for Headlines and AmigaDE Update
Since 27. November 2000 Amiga.org offers the possibility to show the headlines of this website automatically on the own homepage or directly on the AmigaDE-Desktop. For this programs for JavaScript, PHP and AmigaDE(ETick V0.8) are available. Besides the amiga.org headlines ETick can additionally show the actual date and time, weather forecasts and the statistics of an own zAMilo webserver.

On the website itself the actual uploads and top downloads of the AmigaDE archive of www.amigadev.net are now also shown.

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03.Dec.2000
Ricco Clemens on ANF


Amiga--------easy-PRINT Release (with a small delay)
On the 04. Dezember 2000 appears the new issue of Amiga--------easy-PRINT which may be delayed by 2-3 days because of illness.

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03.Dec.2000
ANN


Amiga has Installed their own Online Shop
Amiga has installed their own online shop under the above title link. As for software AmigaOS V3.9 and AmigaSDK V1.0 are available.

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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


SecondSpin v2.12 beta
On 02. December 2000 Lauri Ahonen has released the beta version 2.12 of "SecondSpin". This is a tool to convert normal audio CD tracks into MPEG audio files (layers 1, 2 or 3). Additionally more formats like AIFF and WAV are supported. A modified version of LAME v3.87+ is needed for MPEG encoding.

With this update several bugs were removed and the error handling has been improved. This update is a very early beta version.

Download:


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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Sound card "Martina"
Michal Kluczewski has released some information about the upcoming sound card "Martina" with the permission of the developer. This card shall be released within already this year, at first for the clock port of the A1200 and later in addition for ZorroII (Amiga 3000/4000). It offers two 16bit channels each for in- and output with maximum 96 kHz and an expansion port which can be used for a MPEG decoder. The website for the card shall go online soon.

Specifications:
  • Input: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
  • Output: 2 channels with 16 bit, maximum 96 kHz.
  • Full duplex.
  • FIFO 512 bytes.
  • Soundmixer, for example of Paula and CD-ROM output.
  • Expansion port. This enables a MPEG decoder enhancement (MP3, MPEG-1 in der Uhrenport-Version) that is in the testing phase.
  • Card in clock port version block of this port.
  • The card will be delivered with AHI drivers. These take over the function of the audio.device.
  • The MPEG decoder will be library compatible to the mpega.library.
  • Version under ROM stand (it doesn't dash with BVision and FastATA) will be 24 bits (making possible trouble-free decoding MPEG) and full compatible with A4000 (and probably with A3000).

Contact:


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03.Dec.2000
UAE-JIT


New UAE-JIT Version
Bernd Bernie Meyer has released a new version of UAE-JIT. This version with the name "Ipswich Town" contains a pci.library emulation and several improvements inclusive optimisations and bugfixes.

the PCI emulation enables the usage of the CGX3 Virge drivers of the Mediator board under UAE. Besides that UAE-JIT may be compiled with some luck with other compilers than the, this wasn't tested yet tested.

Compared to the previous version the following has been changed:
  • Bugfix: the saving of the settings should work now.
  • Bugfix: Many more bugfixes. Quark runs now perfectly.
  • New: pci.library emulation. This allows the usage of the free CGX3 Virge drivers (for the Mediator board) with UAE-JIT. As bonus up to four 4 PCI cards may be used (Mediator offers one slot).
  • New: Further FPU support and aliasing support for the FPU registers.
  • Lazy cache flushing.
  • Lazy FPU-flag-evaluation.
  • Lazy Register Updates for adding of offsets.
  • Change: Many optimisations and therefor speed increasements. The performance is now clearly better then that of the Executor 68k-JIT-Compiler.

In the sourcecode the following has been changed:
  • Complete overhaul of block book keeping code.
  • Bugfix: decisive bugfixes in the noflags-code of cpuemu.c.
  • New: support for the saving of registers goes beyond the calling of JIT-compiled code.
  • Change: removing of gcc specific code. The sour cecode should get compiled with other C-compilers.
  • New: The JIT-compiler supports now many more 68k-commands.
  • Largely eliminated updates of regs.pc_p; Instead, there are now direct block-to-block jumps.
  • New: Optimisation of the cycle-handling in events.h.
  • Much more.

This version is available as Linux/x86-binary for glibc V2.1 respectively glibc V2.0, as complete source code and as source code patch against the UAE V0.8.15 source code.

Download:


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03.Dec.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail


Amiga Arena News
The Amiga Arena releases for the first time 'Bubble Stones2' in an own Design
Bubble Stones2 is a 'Bust a Move'-clone and is now available in the 256-color version. This version has been exclusively developed for the Amiga Arena. The field was created by the Amiga Arena and is probably the first own development the Amiga Arena is involved in.

Amiga Arena - Schlachtfeld v2.16 world premiere
The Amiga Arena presents exclusively in cooperation with Peter Weigoldt Schlachtfeld v2.16.

The version 2.16 is a registered Amiga Arena edition with map editor. The map editor is exclusively contained in this archive and will not be available on Aminet or on the homepage of Schlachtfeld for the time being. Schlachtfeld 2 is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players. It is a mixture between "BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" . Here some "highlights":
  • Max. 4 Teams can fight against or together
  • Teams can be controlled by the computer
  • Round and action based
  • Many different fighting units
  • More than 50 different weapon systems
  • Victorious teams can continue fighting in the next battle
  • Save game option
  • From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on voice output
  • From Schlachtfeld2 v2.1 on nullmodem game

Schlachtfeld is shareware (20 DM) and Olaf Koebnik appeals to all users who play Schlachtfeld intensively to get registered by Peter Weigoldt and/or give feedback.

Amiga Arena interview action
An interview with Peter Weigoldt (Schlachfeld) is in the section 'Actions' online.

Amiga Arena lottery
The deadline for the lottery is the 06.12.2000.

Amiga Arena special discount offerings
The Amiga Arena has the following limited special discount offers still online: FLM, GeoWorld, VisualPrefs, AmiATLAS, Siteway, Apano Sin, SHARKS AGA und Multi.

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03.Dec.2000
Nikolaos Damilakis on ANF


Greek RC5 Team
The Hellenic Amiga User Group has set up a webpage for the greek members of the Amiga-RC5-team. This contains information about the greek competitors such as the ranking and the numberof the blocks. The usergroup suggests to other Amiga-groups to set up similar pages.

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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Payback Status Report
On the 3. Dezember 2000 James Daniels from Apex Designs has released the 16th status report about the game 'Payback' inclusive new screenshots.

The game similar to GTA nears completion, so there were added many new levels during the last month, besides that, the following has been done:
  • Resolutions up to 1280x1024 are now supported.
  • Graphic cards are now supported. On a 68060 a smooth animation is reached using a resolution of 640x480.
  • There is now support for different languages. The Amiga Translation Organisation(ATO) is at translating the game into the following languages: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Czech, Slovenian and Serbian. Besides that English and Swedish are supported.
  • PSX controllers are now supported. All buttons are used so that the navigation can be done completely over the game pad. The keyboard will then only be needed to enter the filename for saving the game and similar things.
  • Various bugs were fixed, among others a long standing bug which allowed the it to the player walking on the water.
  • New screenshots of the night level were released. The textures will be improved until the completion of the game.


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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Tales of Tamar v0.32r6
For alpha testers the version 0.32 r6 of the "Tales of Tamar"-client for Amiga computers has been released on the 30. November 2000. This update contains many bugfixes regarding the map.

Tales of Tamar is an internet-based round based game for Amiga and IBM compatibles by Eternity Entertainment Software.

Download: (1,4M)

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03.Dec.2000
Fun Time World


Short review of fxScan3.0
On Fun Time World appeared on the 29. November 2000 a short review of 'fxScan3.0' by Innovative. The program offers among other things text recognition (OCR).

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03.Dec.2000
Czech Amiga News


Server Problem at Amiga Resource
Because of a server problem the website "Amiga Resource" can't be accessed for now. On request you can be informed via email (by using the title link) about the time the site will be online again.

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02.Dec.2000
Danny Ramsey in REBOL-ML


REBOL/Core User Guide V2.3 released as book
Until now, the user guide was only available as PDF-file at the size of 4,5 MB. You can now buy the guide as book at REBOLpress. The book has got 574 pages which are divided into 14 chapters and 3 appendixes which describe the elements of this programming language.

There is an index and a sample chapter of the book on the site. The PDF-version of the guide can be downloaded at REBOL .

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02.Dec.2000
Frank Fenn on ANF


Palm Pilot - TealInfo Developer Kit
At the homepage of Frank Fenn the TealInfo Developer Kit for the Palm Pilot Program 'TealInfo' by Tealpoint Software is available for download from now on.

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02.Dec.2000
Michael Ufer on ANF


Amiga-Christmas Calendar
Michael Ufer coded a Christmas calendar some time ago and now adapted it for the year 2000. Each day a virtual door can be opened and there is a little surprise behind it. Have fun and no cheating :-)

Download: AVK.lha - 2 MB

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02.Dec.2000
Stefan Instinske on ANF


Alternative-Games.de now online
Today a new games site for Amiga and other alternative computer systems, "Alternative-Games.de", went online. In the Amiga section current test reports are awaiting you ("Bubble Heroes", "Virtual Ball Fighters", "Wipeout"), a preview of the GTA clone "Payback", an interview with the leader, coordinator and art director of the SOMS-Team "Secret of my Soul") and much more.

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02.Dec.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet Uploads
F1GP-Theme.lha       biz/dopus  1.7M+F1GP theme for Magellan II
Toolbar4YAM.lha      comm/mail  201K+YAM replacement toolbar
YAMGenesis.lha       comm/mail   17K+Start & stop Genesis from YAM2. V1.01
facts.lha            comm/tcp    89K+V4.3 NTP clock synchroniser AutoDST/GUI
streamer.lha         comm/www    24K+Internet radio - Shoutcast player
dcs-tb31.lha         demo/aga    39K+DCS: Tourbus 31 (1st at TRSAC'00.5)
SPO3-4KbIntro.lha    demo/aga    17K+Spoletium3 Amiga 4Kb Intro compo entries
SPO3-64KbIntro.lha   demo/aga    69K+Spoletium3 Amiga 64Kb Intro compo entrie
SPO3-Demo.lha        demo/aga   2.2M+Spoletium3 Amiga Demo compo entries!
SPO3-Graphics.lha    demo/aga   2.2M+Spoletium3 Graphics compo entries!
SPO3-Module.lha      demo/aga   3.4M+Spoletium3 4Channels Module compo entrie
SPO3-Results.lha     demo/aga     1K+Spoletium3 Results!
DKG-Shine.lha        demo/intro   4K+Shine! 4Kb Intro by DARKAGE
BlitzLstOct00.lha    dev/basic   64K+Blitz mailing list archives for October 
libmpeg_src.lha      dev/c      178K+Source for mpeg (video) link library 
bonk.lha             dev/lang    13K+New programming language
MCC_NListt_SP.lha    dev/mui      6K+NListtree.mcp 18.2 spanish catalogs v1.0
HDWrenchTester.lha   disk/salv   59K+Tester program for hdwrench.library
NotizieAmiga.lha     docs/hyper 527K+ITALIAN ONLY comunicati NotizieAmiga 11/
AaktInt1100.lha      docs/mags  268K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt1100GFX.lha   docs/mags  473K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AIOV41.lha           docs/mags  378K+Amiga Information Online, Issue 41 (Nove
Magazineindex.lha    docs/mags   63K+TEXT indices of magazine articles
ALEM_0024.lha        docs/rview 259K+ALEM's SilverSurfer Serial Card Doc (FR)
DC-EMBond15Lvl.lha   game/data  376K+81 levels for Diamond Caves 1
GermanUnits.lha      game/data    4K+German names of units for NAPALM 
GoalBrasil2000.lha   game/data   14K+Brazilian league update for GOAL
FormAldiHyd.lha      hard/drivr  22K+Tablet driver for Aldi/Tevion/Aiptek/...
1571to1541.lha       misc/emu     2K+1571 to 1541 v1.0
imdbDiff001117.lha   misc/imdb  2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
3DHome.lha           misc/misc  333K+3D interface for X10 modules and EZHome.
aa2001.lha           misc/misc  1.2M+Astrologic texts, german and HTML (DEMO)
Lotto_Upd.lha        misc/misc  220K+Play Lotto! (V2.03, supports german Sa.-
AMP-Info.lha         mus/misc   1.1M+(A)miga (M)usic (P)reservation infofile
Amoralplay1.5.lha    mus/play   120K+-amorel- No fuss multiformat audio playe
EP_ImagesMusic.lha   mus/play     5K+EaglePlayer "Images Music System" extern
EP_SpeedyA1Sys.lha   mus/play     6K+EaglePlayer "Speedy A1 System" external 
Viereck.mpg          pix/anim    15M+Animation made with Cinema 4D by MadMan/
NOW_1.lha            pix/art    317K+"Now that's what I call Schming #1",  Ne
fomb519.jpg          pix/henz   244K+Heavy Narn Cruiser (Babylon 5)
fommisc01.jpg        pix/henz    99K+Bridge
fommisc02.jpg        pix/henz   444K+Mars Attacks!
fommisc03.jpg        pix/henz   433K+Mars Attacks!
fomsw30.jpg          pix/henz   258K+Sith Infiltrator (Star Wars - Eposode 1)
fomsw31.jpg          pix/henz    88K+Skybus (Star Wars - The Return of the Je
fomsw32.jpg          pix/henz    22K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
fomsw33.jpg          pix/henz   101K+Corellian YT-1300 (Star Wars)
veinepower.jpg       pix/misc   156K+Amiga PoWeR Therapy. Keep the Fresh PoWe
Hyperion1.jpg        pix/trace   62K+Hyperion (Babylon 5)
myvoodoo.jpg         pix/wb     203K+Voodoo3 Grab -- Not OS3.9
warpvers07.lha       util/misc    2K+Reports WarpOS/3D/Mesa libvers+env setti
AmiGOD.lha           util/moni  156K+V1.41 - Graphics benchmark program
cdmp.lha             util/rexx   22K+Encode CD to MP3 with Arexx (german)
VEPatchBrain.lha     util/virus  19K+PatchBrain v1.24 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha    util/virus 252K+VirusExecutor v2.08


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02.Dec.2000
AmigActive


AmigActive issue #15 Released
The december issue of the English print-magazine 'AmigActive' is available. Under the title link you will find a complete index of issue #15. Highlights of the current issue are, among others, an article about the future of the Amiga, an article about Nightlong, and AmigActive takes a close look at the games list for the AmigaOne.

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02.Dec.2000
MorphOS


MagicMenuPPC 2.30beta for MorphOS/PPC
MagicMenu has been ported to MorphOS. Version 2.30beta of MagicMenuPPC is available for download.

MagicMenuPPC230.lha - (147 KB)

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02.Dec.2000
Scalos


Scalos News
The website of Scalos, a Workbench replacement, can be reached at own domain scalos.com from now on.

Mick Carter is currently busy creating a Online-Help for Scalos.

SnapDesktop BETA has been released. The program memorizes the status of Workbench windows at shutdown and reopens them again after a reboot.

Scalos Developer Kit Version 3 has been released. The archive contains updated includes and supports Amiga E.

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02.Dec.2000
Matthias Henze on ANF


New Alpha Version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib for SAS/C
There is once more an alpha version (V.45.00 alpha 4) of stormamiga.lib V.45.00 for SAS/C. In this version some functions have been added, some functions have been reworked, and some bugs removed. This version is for beta testers only.

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01.Dec.2000
Elbox via eMail


Elbox PR: Total Graphic Mania
Elbox announces in their new press release that the developers of the Elbox development department have implemented a new version of Voodoo3 drivers for the Mediator PCI bus board.

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01.Dec.2000
Alex Kazik via eMail


Version 2.0 of cmp (ALeXcompare) Released
cmp is a program which compares files in two directories (or trees). That can be very useful, e.g. to examine in a backup, which files have been changed / are new. AmigaOS 2.1 is required.

Download: ALeXcompare.lha - ALeXcompare.readme

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01.Dec.2000
Gary Peake on Team Amiga-ML


AmigaOne Discussion Board Remains Open
On November 24th, amiga-news.de reported that Amiga Inc.'s AmigaOne discussion board will be closed on December 1st. The reason was a huge number of insults which were published there.

On November 28th, Gary Peake of Amiga Inc. has announced in the Team Amiga mailing list that the AmigaOne discussions won't be closed. He doesn't know where the remark originated from, at least it didn't come from Amiga.

So the discussion board can still be accessed, but now only for registered users, which wasn't explicitly mentioned by Gary Peake.

If anyone asks, we are NOT closing the AmigaOne forums on www.amiga.com
Somebody must have been playing on their Momma's computer and got loose and posted that remark.
It did NOT come from us. [...] (Gary Peake)


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01.Dec.2000



AmigaOS 3.9 - a well done surprise?
In fact we would have liked to write an article about the new AmigaOS 3.9 on our own, but found the article by Martin Steigerwald in the AMIGA Magazin 01/2001 so much perfect that we asked Joern-Erik Burkert, member of the editorial staff at Amiga Magazin, to allow us publising it on amiga-news.de in both, German and English. Thank you very much for consent.

AmigaOS 3.9 - A well done surprise?
© AMIGA Magazin - Author: Martin Steigerwald
Translation by Martina Jacobs
This article in German

The announcement of the AmigaOS 3.9 came by accident for many people. Only a few dared to think of having a new version of the AmigaOS in their hands within this year, already. Nevertheless Haage&Partner together with many partners developed the new OS. Read in this initial overview which new features it offers, and come to your own conclusion whether or not this surprise was well done.

AmigeOS 3.9 is shipped on CD-ROM. Who is not satisfied by the operating system's online help might order a printed version (German) from Haage&Partner, which is a tips&tricks book describing what's new in AmigaOS 3.9 in a comprehensive way.

AmigaOS 3.9 contains big and completely new implemented features, e.g. the dock program »AmiDock«, as well as many enhancements in detail and bugfixes, too. Additionally proved third party tools are integrated: features formerly only available as patches, such as like the FontCache or the configuration of asl file requesters, now are firmly integrated into the OS, tools like »RAWBInfo«, and »ViNCEd« simplify the daily work. The description of new features in this article does not claim to be complete and bases on a pre-version of AmigaOS 3.9. But the features described here are already implemented and supposed to be for sure.

Simplified Installation

Compared to AmigaOS 3.5 installation has been simplified distinctly. It is no longer necessary to install AmigaOS 3.1, at first. Also there is no need to restart the system, any more. There are two kinds of installation: the update installation updates an existing AmigaOS 3.5, and only copies icons which are new since OS 3.5. The full installation installs AmigaOS 3.9 - including all of the necessary files of AmigaOS 3.5, and AmigaOS 3.1 - including all of the GlowIcons.

Full installation also allows a fast new installation of the system, if booted from a before created emergency disk. This way AmigaOS 3.9 can be re-installed easy and fast even in case of a complete harddisk failture. As with AmigaOS 3.5 the emergency disk also supports RTG systems and AGA 31KHz screenmodes. Due to this also in case of emergency no 15KHz monitor is needed, any more.

Well Docked?

»AmiDock« simplifies working with the Workbench in a enormous way. To start programs usually one has to click down to the related directory and then double click the program's icon. But with »AmiDock« you are able to easily create button strips, which allow to open programs and directories by one single mouse click.

Contrary to most of the other tools like this AmiDock fully supports the new coloured icons. And - maybe the most important feature - it is extremely easy and fast to use. If you would have to open a configuration window for other programs, with »AmiDock« you just drag the icon of the desired directories and programs into a dock. If you drop the icon, it will automatically be included.

This way docks can be created as fast as the wind, cause you don't have to configure each single switch. Moreover this, there are default configurations for certain directories: e.g. AmiDock just reads the »Prefs« and displays all of the preferences in one dock.
Also the adjustment of the dock's size is conceivable intuitive. Instead of being forced to declare the number of lines and columns inside a configuration window, you just drag the dock to the desired size. Then the dock will be fixed at the related width and height. AmiDock shows this by a small handle bar. By clicking on this the size will be released, again. Or you just drag the dock to a new size.

Beside of calling programs AmiDock also supports opening directories on the Workbench, as well as calling programs using arguments: so e.g. you may drag'n drop a text on the switch which for example will start the editor »EditPad«, and just lets EditPad insert this text.

More comfortable Workbench

Also in other parts working with the Workbench became more comfortable: many new assistants are supporting the daily work. »RAWBInfo« offers a Workbench information window with a nice ReAction GUI which really has got many features. E.g. you even can give an icon a different picture which is loaded via datatypes.

To make the Workbench deal with files which don't have an icon in a reasonable way there is »DefIcons«. This program gives files without an own icon a default icon according to the file type. This way pictures and texts without an icon can easily be started via double click. DefIcons can be configured via it's own preferences program.

Who - a bit envious of Apple or Windows - always was wishing a trashcan directly on the Workbench, will get this feature in OS 3.9. With »BenchTrash« this is no problem. This program either just will delete files dropped on the trash or will move them to a certain directory. But that's not all of it: who always wanted to eject a CD-Rom like it is done on the Mac can do that now. Just drag'n drop the CD's icon on the trash, and there you go! Also handy is the feature to clean up the trash regularly and to delete every file older than a certain amount of days.

It has also been cared for a new clock. »WBClock« displays itself as an animated AppIcon on the Workbench. It even is optionally transparent, which looks very good sometimes.

Also very handy is the search function of the Workbench. This is done by a external program called »Find« which can be started via the Workbench menu »Window/Search« or as a single task. According to how it was started and configured it allows to search in the current Workbench directory or in one or more harddisk partitions. It cannot only be searched for file names, but also for contents (e.g. keywords). Double clicking on a file found tries to start a reasonable action on it: this way e.g. a seldom used file can be searched and started directly from Find.

LhA, LZX, but also archive files of other formats (see »Features«) can be unpacked by a simple double click, thanks to the implementation of »xad« in AmigaOS 3.9. »xad« supports many formats. This way the user only seldom will happen to meet an archive which cannot be unpacked, if any. Related programming knowledge assumed one can write an own unpacking routine. »xad« can also be addressed via shell commands.

More Multimedia

But also some has happened in the case of multimedia. PlayCD, the somehow bare appearing CD player from AmigaOS 3.5 has been started up thoroughly: the program now supports skins. Another advancement: PlayCD as a rule doesn't need to be configured any more, but itself looks for a suitable CD-Rom drive, if necessary.

»ACTION« plays Quicktime and AVI movies optionally on an own screen or inside a window on the Workbench.In doing this it's very fast. Even on not that good equipped Amigas acceptable results are to accomplish. Control buttons allow to start and stop the movie, to adjust volume, as well as to well directed »skim through« the movie using a scroll bar.

»Amplifier« beside MPEG-3 music files also plays AIFF and WAV files. It has got play lists which can be both, loaded and saved. The program as well supports skins and is capable of playing music either via the Amiga sound chip Paula or via a sound card. With this the standards AHI and X-Audio are supported. A X-Audio driver for the Paula sound chip is included. On the Workbench music files can easily be drag'n dropped into the play list to add them to this.

»AWeb SE 3.3« which came with AmigaOS 3.5 has been updated to the new version of »AWeb«. This version now also supports »FONT FACES«. So you can let it display websites nicer and more true to original with suitable fonts. Support of JavaScript has been enhanced, too, and much more. And to be able to start surfing immediate AmigaOS 3.9 contains the full version of »Genesis« with ReAction GUI. Only the Genesis preferences program could not be transposed to ReAction in time, because of it's scope. Who has MUI installed can use it however - otherwise MUI must get installed. But the enhanced Genesis Wizard compensates for that, which makes it very easy to configure an internet account on the basis of the provider database.

Powerful Console

Beside of the extensions to the Workbench and the players also shell enthusiasts will not miss out with the new update: as console handler for shell windows now the powerful »ViNCEd« is used.

From now on all of the console windows are having scrollbars to re-display text which scrolled out of the window. But it also has been thought of the shell users which don't like typing in: using the TAB key incomplete file or directory names can be completed now. With this »ViNCEd«, according to it's settings, not only searches for suitable entries inside the current directory, but e.g. also inside the assign list or inside the command search path. If »ViNCEd« finds only one entry the string immediately gets completed, otherwise an asl requester will open to choose from the suitable entries found. Handily the completion also works multileveled: if needed the given string gets completed up to the first char from which multiple entries are possible. By entering a character or pressing the TAB key and selecting an entry the procedure can be continued. »ViNCEd« is very versatile configurable and offers many other features.
  • complete ANSI emulation
  • supports graphics boards
  • Macros - with these e.g. it is possible to use the F keys for often used commands and functions.
  • configurable keyboard control
  • Job control, as known form Unix shells

And what else?

Moreover there is a nice set of interesting and useful features: so the new »diskfont.library« with integrated FontCache cares for faster display of font requesters. This features has been implemented completely transparent for applications, but also can be disabled for single directories. New installed or deleted fonts are automatically recognized and the cache file gets updated accordingly.

Also »asl« has been extended. Using the preferences program position, size, and sorting order of asl requesters can be set. Also this is not a patch any more, but is »officially« controlled by the new »asl.library«, and the new »IPrefs«. The »text.datatype« now supports searching inside of the text, as well as marking parts of the text. Marked parts handily are automatically copied to the clipboard. Also the »string.gadget« has been extended: so now you can mark char by char or undo the last change inside of every text input field.

The new »test« function of the screenmode preferences program is a nice detail, too. You no longer have to tapper in the dark and maybe reboot, if the newly chosen mode accidently cannot be displayed contrary to what you've expected.

New Features
  • AmiDock: completely new written and extremely easy to use dock program. The fast way to easy start programs or to open certain directories.
  • Integration of Workbench extensions: »RAWBInfo« offers a nice done and rich of functions Workbench information window, »DefIcons« a default icon system
  • More compatibility: »newiconemu« allows to edit the new coloured icons (»V44-GlowIcons«) with NewIcon capable programs, too.
  • New Tools: »BenchTrash«, the free configurable trashcan on the Workbench; »WBClock« , the clock being an icon; as well as »IoMegaTools«, the tool for ZIP and JAZ drives.
  • Extended PowerPC support: WarpOS V5 is included, new »picture.datatype« supports PPC
  • More multimedia: new versions of »PlayCD« with skin support and many bugfixes; QuickTime and AVI movie player »ACTION«; player for MPEG3, AIFF, and WAV »Amplifier«
  • Genesis: the TCP/IP stack for local area networks and internet connection - already widely with ReAction GUI.
  • xad: the archive unpacking system. unpack archives from the Workbench by just double clicking it. Supports LhA, LZX, ZIP, RAR, ARJ, DMS, and many other formats.
  • ViNCEd: new console handler with scrollbar, file name completer, ANSI emulation, and many other handy features.
  • AWeb 3.4 SE: the in AmigaOS 3.5 included browser has been updated. »FONT FACE« support, enhanced Javascript support, and much more.
  • Find: allows searching for file names or file content on multiple partitions. Can be called directly from the Workbench menu.
  • Asl requester: there is also a preferences program for setting the size of, and the sorting order inside of requesters.
  • text.datatype: now allows searching inside of the text, and copying of marked text parts into the clipboard.
  • New gadgets: the colour wheel (»colorwheel.gadget«), and the gradient slider (»gradientslider.gadget«) now support screens with 65000 or 16 millions of colours; the new »string.gadget« offers marking char by char, undo, and much more.
  • New FontCache: faster display of font requesters.
  • rexxmathlib.library: new math functions for ARexx.
  • Many bugfixes: new mathe libraries with important bugfixes, bugfixes in ReAction, Workbench, and many other.


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30.Nov.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


Elbox Interview at No Risc No Fun
At NoRiscNoFun you can find an interview with Mariusz Wloczysiak from ELBOX. Find out all about the drivers and by MEDIATOR PCI board supported cards.

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30.Nov.2000
Warp9 Editorial Staff on ANF


wARPgATE to be in German only
Due to editorial reasons wARPgATe is to be continued in German only from 01. Dec. 2000.

Background: Because of rather low response in spite of much efforts, and recently number of vistors per day on the WarpOS news pages decreased to 300, unfortunately our editor left the wARPgATe project. Also the future of WarpOS rather is unsettled with view on the change to a new Amiga era whith the AmigaOne. Not to completely shock the users we decided to continue the site as it is from 01. Dec. 2000, and to expand it as the case may be. But we are only able to do that in German, so the site will not be continued in English after it's 21 month lasting existence. We ask you for your understanding.
Warp9 Editorial Staff

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30.Nov.2000
Oliver Gantert on ANF


UnLZX 2.16 Released
UnLZX 2.16 (68k/PPC/x86) is available for download on my homepage. A percentage display, and some more speed has been added.

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30.Nov.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail


Hyperion on WoA 2000, too
Also Hyperion Entertainment will be present with their own booth at the WoA 2000, which will happen on 9th and 10th of December 2000 in Cologne's Mediapark 6 and 7. Hyperion will not only place some fantastic announcements, but even will present Heretic 2 in a way never seen on an Amiga computer.

The games 'Shogo:MAD', and 'Freespace: The Great War' will be presented at Hyperion's booth. The Hyperion team will be available for any kind of questions, and they will accept pre-orders of Shogo, and they are hoping to meet you in Cologne within less than two weeks!

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30.Nov.2000
BTTR-Team via eMail


Back to the Roots Amiga-News
Back to the Roots worte:
It's not necessary to mention that we are making more scene demos available for download, but it is to mention that our legal and free available Amiga software mission now also is supported by Acid Software. With Skidmarks we are able to offer a real highlight. Furthermore there are four adventure rarities by Infocom, and a lot of other games for download.

We are happy to be able to provide a review on the music CD "Merregnon", a truly astonishing CD offering a sound experience of special kind thanks to musicians like Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican), Allister Brimble (Superfrog), oder Markus Holler (Tales of Tamar).

Moreover there is an interview with the Amiga demo group Reason expressing their misgivings on how the demo scene might look like on AmigaOne.

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30.Nov.2000
Markus Lunk via eMail


IRC-Log Jochen Becher - 73 KB
Markus Lunk has sent us a log file of the chat with Jochen Becher. You can download it using the title link (mixed, German and English).

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30.Nov.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF


aminetGUI Not Available at www.aminet.de at this time!
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
Because of technical problems at my domain provider aminetGUI unfortunately is not available at www.aminet.de. At this time it is only accessible via http://www.amiga-gateway.de/aminetgui. I will look for a new and reliable hoster, to make such and other problems belonging to

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29.Nov.2000



ALD Problems Solved
Today we accidently noticed that Amiga Link Directory worked, but it was not possible to make new entries. Caused by the move the rights have still not been set completely right. We have corrected this error, and now we are hoping for many new entries.

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29.Nov.2000
Haage & Partner


WoA 2000 News
Haage & Partner, which is the organizer of this year's WoA 2000 taking place on 9th and 10th of December 2000 in Cologne's Mediapark six and seven, has made a special news site with all fair highlights.

Hendrik Höner informed us that he is doing to prepare a IRC-conference for UGN again. The IRC-conference will take place on Saturday the 9th December of 2000 between 1 pm and 6 pm. Here the provisional speakers list:

ParticipantCompanyTime
Mick Tinker BoXer 13:00:00 CET
Ralph Schmidt MorphOS 14:00:00 CET
Alan M. Redhouse Eyetech 15:00:00 CET
Bill McEwen Amiga Inc. 16:00:00 CET
Jürgen Haage  Haage & Partner17:00:00 CET


The channel will probably be #WoA2000 on AmigaNet. You can find further information and changes at http://ugn.amiga.org, soon.

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29.Nov.2000
Amster


Amster V0.8 for MorphOS Available
Guerer Oezen has ported Amster to MorphOS.

Download: Amster-MorphOS.lha


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29.Nov.2000
BlueBlack Solution


Work on Operation: Counterstrike in Progress
You can read on the new designed website of BlueBlack Solution that the first unplayable and not official demo version of Operation: Counterstrike will be ready to be given to the press, soon.

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29.Nov.2000
Amiga Inc.


November issue of Amiga World Published
November issue of the magazine Amiga World of Amiga Inc. has been published. In this issue you can find a summary of first impressions of the AmigaSDK.

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29.Nov.2000
Raymund on ANF


Metabox: Big order from UK
ZDMet: "Metabox International, which is a subsidiary of the company Metabox in Hildesheim, will deliver at least 100,000 set-top-boxes to UK from May 2001. It is planned that the devices will be placed at british household's disposal for the use of a T-Commerce-platform from the third quarter of 2001, said the company. The partner to the contract was not mentioned by the company." See title link for full article (German).

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29.Nov.2000
ANN


osOpinion Article about Amiga
osOpinion have posted an article about Amiga which you can find under the title link. The title is called: "Wanted: A Modern-Day Amiga".

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29.Nov.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail


Schatztruhe GmbH on the "World of Amiga" in Cologne
In this year Schatztruhe GmbH also will be represented at the wintry fair event in Cologne from 9th to 10th of December. As known from former fairs we will offer interesting products again and will offer them at our low fair prices.

We will have the fresh burned Aminet 40 which you can buy directly at our booth. Until this time the new OS3.9 also will be available, and you will be able to buy it at our booth.

It will really be worth visiting the fair, because Bill McEwen will be present and will inform us about the future of Amiga, as the management of the fair said.

The fair will take place from 9th to 10th of December from 10 am to 6 pm on each day. Location is the MediaPark six and seven in Cologne (not the fair halls in Cologne!). For more information, please have a look here. You can also find detailed information on how to go there (also by public means of transport) there.

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29.Nov.2000
AmCluSt


TX-ButtonEd Version 1.1 Released
The programm by Christian Effenberger helps to make (antialiased) text-buttons in Jpeg-format via "jpegtool". TX-ButtonED is part of the project SiteWay. TX-ButtonEd is now able to use the full Workbench palette instead of merely using the fixed pen-entries. In addition to this there is an own outline colour and the possibility of reflecting the pictures around the horizontal and vertical axis. Requirement: cando.libary and jpegtool.

Download: TX-ButtonEd.lha - 99 Kb

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29.Nov.2000
AudioLabs


ProStationAudio T8 Released
T8 includes all the features of Millennium in an 8-stereo-track/16-channels layout. Support for dual CPU, dual monitor, dual graphics cards, realtime multitrack disk-streaming and DSP processing (multiple plugins on multiple tracks), mixing automation, faders control from external MIDI mixers and hundreds of other features.

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29.Nov.2000
Sebastian Eichholz on ANF


Big update at www.kultpower.de
In the last weeks many extensions happened at www.kultpower.de. Meanwhile there are 52 PowerPlay-Covers, 26 ASM-Covers, and 14 VideoGames-Covers online. Presently in the PowerPlay-data base you can recall 229 test results, find 30 scanned test reports, as well as 35 advertising announcements of games from old Powerplay issues. Who is looking for a certain test report of a game can use the search function. Who participated in the golden Powerplay- and ASM-times will be interested in the new opinion polls. Have fun!

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29.Nov.2000
Adrian (Sauron) Siemieniak on ANF


Longman dictionary Mentat 0.6 - New Version
There is new version of english2english Longman dictionary for Amiga called Mentat 0.6.

New in this release:
  • ARexx interface (4 commands)
  • ARexx scripts to connect Mentat with CygnusED, AWeb, IBrowse
  • Printing
  • Spanish and Czech localization
  • Visual improvements
  • some tiny opimizations


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28.Nov.2000
Stéphane Campan via eMail


AmigaImpact: Interview with Ralph Schmidt
Our French partner site Amiga Impact made an interview with Ralph Schmidt, which is available at the title link in English, and here in French.

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28.Nov.2000
Dirk Baeyens


AmigaOS 3.9
The Amiga Inc. website now has a subpage dedicated to the new AmigaOS 3.9.

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28.Nov.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


VirusExecutor v2.08
Update v2.08 of VirusExecutor has been released:
Name: Virus Executor v2.08
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size: 258.161 bytes
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen
Date: November 26th, 2000
Info: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library


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28.Nov.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF


New Updates to narr.tsx.org
There are two minor updates to my projects 'ShowGUI' and 'WorkON'. Installation of ShowGUI requires the ShowGUI v1.0 archive.

ShowGUI is a picture viewer (with database) utilizing datatypes, which can be configured to use existing external viewers. New in v1.1:
  • bugfix (config file)
  • bug with too large fonts fixed
  • required fonts included in update

WorkON is a small System Enhancer. New in v0.5:
  • bug with too large fonts fixed
  • minor code bug fixed


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28.Nov.2000
CamX Audio / Video


Camd-Player Update
Martin Endress has reworked his OPL3 Camd-Player for PicassoIV, since sound playback with OPL4 was buggy. The new version Opl3 player v1.2 is available for download.

Download: opl3_12.lha

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28.Nov.2000
SEAL


SEAL Meeting Report
A pictured report of the SEAL meeting on November 23rd, 2000, is available at the SEAL website.

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28.Nov.2000
CCC-ML


17th Chaos Communication Congress - 27.-29.12.2000
For the 17th time, the Chaos Communication Congress will take place. Hosting the event, as in the last two years, is the "Haus Am Koellnischen Park" in Berlin. Date is, as always, December 27th to 29th.

All Congress information is available in two languages this time. The website uses your preset language - if you want to switch, there are buttons on the page which you'll find intuitively. The website has everything you have to know, and will be successively extended in the weeks till the Congress. For spreading the news by mail and news, again there is a detailed HOWTO/FAQ in ISO-ASCII.

The Congress has some entertaining on schedule again, which is summarized in this event overview. If you are planning to participate in the Hackcenter this year, you should have a look at the changed requirements. Moreover, a registration is necessary.

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27.Nov.2000
Darkage


Darkage News
The webpage of Darkage were completely redesigned. There are 3 new photos of the Pianeta Amiga 2000 online.

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27.Nov.2000
Stefan Instinske on ANF


Alternative-Games.de will start on December 1st, 2000
Lately there were an increasing number of cooperations and joint-ventures of firms that only released for one of the alternative computer systems until now. We want to support the activities of these firms by establishing a portal for users of every alternative system. This portal will contain news, reviews and much more.

From the start there will be an Amiga and a Macintosh section. For additional sections we are missing people who are willing to help us to make the project a success. We are looking for section managers for Linux, BeOS and Milan (Atari). But we still need some persons for the Amiga and Mac sections. If you would like to help us with reviews and reports, please mail to info@alternative-games.de.

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27.Nov.2000
Gunter Hinrichsen via eMail


New YAM-extension: HTMLread
YAM is not able to handle mails written in HTML-code. It is very difficult to read these mails with all the tags.

HTMLread fixes this problem. It automatically recognizes such mails and sends them to the HTML-viewer of your choice. Every HTML-viewer is supported. You can choose from a predefined list or make you own one. The predefined list contains: MultiView (mit HTMLdatatype), SimpleView, HTMLview (Demo), OpenUrl, Voyager, IBrowse, AWebSE (OS3.5) and AWeb.

HTMLread will easily be installed using the installer. HTMLread is freeware.

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27.Nov.2000
2IDs at ANF


DigitalArGrafix - The GayArt Galery
From now on there is a GayArt Galery available at the title link. Pictures, paintings, drawings or DigitalVideoArt are welcomed. We are focusing on "the men as an object of the art". Please mail your contributions for the gallery to INFO@2IDs.de. The copyright of the exhibited art remains with the artist.

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27.Nov.2000
Ignatios Souvatzis on ANF


NetBSD-1.4.3 Released
The NetBSD-project announced the release of NetBSD-1.4.3. This release fixes problems known from former versions, increases stability and adds support for additional hardware.

NetBSD-1.4.3 is a patch release of the NetBSD-1.4-branch. The new 1.5-branch will be released as a main release soon. The 1.4 release contains some new features imported from the NetBSD-development branch:
  • Support for Lucent Wavelan (Orinoco) IEEE 802.11 radio-ethernet-card.
  • A potential "CPU-Hog"-problem concerning big input-output operations were fixed. Look at SA #2000-005.
  • The danger of a denial-of-service-attack were removed. Look at SA #2000-004
  • A problem with /etc/ftpchroot were fixed. Look at SA #2000-006.
  • A problem with the reserving of semaphor-resources were fixed. Look at SA #2000-006.
  • The DHCP-software were updated (ISC 2.0pl3).

Many more bugs were fixed - altogether about 70 problems.

A complete list of the changes from NetBSD-1.4.2 to -1.4.3 is available at: CHANGES-1.4.3. Please read the INSTALL-guide for your system; there you can find out more about the supported hardware, installation, and known problems with this release.

Further informations are available at:


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