23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaOS- and SDK-Update
Apart from the AmigaOne there were some additional announcements by Bill McEwen.
Czech Amiga News summed them up in a little article by Greg Thomas.
They say, that the PPC-Amiga-Device by Eyetech will be expandable with Mac acceleration boards.
AmigaOS V3.9 will be shipped with Workbench V3.9 and a kickstart-chip V3.9.
The new SDK-update will be released tomorrow and the next version in one month.
Furthermore Amiga will make 10% of the firm available for investments by Amiga-users.
Attention: Whether Amiga Inc. nor any other person did check this article.
Supplement: 23.10.2000:
Sjoerd wrote on ANF that he asked H&P
and they said that there will be no new Kickstart version for AmigaOS 3.9.
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23.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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akMPEG V4.50
The new verison 4.50 of akMPEG by Andreas Kleinert is available for download at the Aminet.
The MPEG-player needs AmigaOS V3.0 and supports CyberGFX, Picasso 96, AGA, 68k, PPC and MorphOS.
Download: gfx/show/akMPEG4.lha,
Readme
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23.Oct.2000
Amiga Inc.
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New Executive Update by Bill McEwen
A new Executive Update by Bill Mc Ewen is online. The EU is about the exhibition
in Melbourne and the new AmigaOS version 3.9 that will be released before christmas (take a look at the first Screenshot).
October 21, 2000 - Executive Update
Dear Amiga Family:
I am writing this as I fly back from a wonderful two days at the ACE 2000
Amiga show in Melbourne, Australia. It was indeed a great delight and
pleasure to meet with all the wonderful members of the Amiga Family Down
Under, and I already look forward to my next opportunity to visit
Australia.
I especially want to thank all the dealers, developers and end users who
attended the seminars and the hundreds of you who joined for the banquet
dinner. Amiga truly is a global family, and too much of an unknown
phenomena. It is the Amiga Family who has kept this amazing system alive
and growing.
I would like to take a moment to recognize the efforts of two people who
especially made my stay in Australia an enjoyable and educational
experience. Jeff Rose, of Unitech, the d'Amiga distributor for Australia,
and Basil Flinter the Secretary of the Amiga Down Under Group or ADUG. I
want to thank them both for taking the extra time to help me truly
understand what Australia and New Zealand mean to Amiga, and what Amiga
can do to help our its Family Down Under. I can certainly say that on my
next trip I will take the time to also visit New Zealand and say hello in
person.
Upcoming Products
There are many exciting things happening with Amiga and I wanted to tell
the entire Amiga community what the attendees of ACE 2000 learned at the
show.
Amiga will release an upgrade for the Classic AmigaOS! Version 3.9 of the
AmigaOS will be shipped and ready for the 2000 holiday
season. AmigaOS 3.9 is being developed in concert with Haage and Partner
GmbH. A new website devoted specifically to OS3.9 will be online shortly
and it will include an OS feature list and other bits of useful
information. OS 3.9 will be made available to classic Amiga users for the
affordable price of under $40.00 US. Watch our main website,
www.amiga.com, for more details of OS 3.9 and its new
website.
Because Amiga is still a Benevolent Dictatorship-and not a democracy or
even a republic-we listen closely to the feedback and input from the
community. Based on this feedback we strive to create products that you
want, need and enjoy.
We are pleased to announce to the community the first in a series of new
hardware that has been designed by Amiga and soon manufactured by Amiga
OEM partners. The first in our AmigaONE series of products are the
AmigaONE PPC 1200, and the AmigaONE PPC 4000 cards from Eyetech. These
products will become available to developers in December this year and are
designed to meet the specific needs of the Amiga Community. We have also
announced another partner, bPlan GmbH, who are creating a new AmigaONE PPC
based desktop computer.
More details will emerge shortly about bPlan, Eyetech and the new AmigaONE
products, so visit the AmigaONE web site at www.amiga.com/products/one/pr.php
to stay informed.
I would also like to announce new versions of the Amiga SDK. AmigaSDK
version 1.1 will begin shipping on October 24, 2000. In addition to an
upgrade for the Linux version, we are please to release the Windows
version of the Amiga SDK as well.
There was a mistake in the September 28 Executive Update. As erroneously
printed in the update, the Amiga SDK 1.1 does not include the sound, UI,
or 3D pieces. These will be found in version 1.2, which itself will be
released shortly. I am sorry for the error, but take comfort in the fact
that purchasers of an Amiga SDK receive free updates and upgrades for 12
months from the date of purchase.
Closing
It has been an amazing 10 months since we started Amiga Incorporated. The
community has seen the delivery of the Amiga SDK, an upgrade to the SDK,
an upgrade to the Classic AmigaOS, and now the announcement of three PPC
based AmigaONE products. We still have a long way to go and many more
battles to fight, but I am confident that with the community behind us,
and the enhancements to the product line continuing, there is a long and
exciting future for Amiga.
To the user group members around the world, it is time to start calling
the members who have drifted away and let them know what is happening with
the new Amiga. We want them to know they can again be part of continuing
the legacy that is Amiga.
Again thanks to Greg, and Michael, and the thousands of other Amigans Down
Under who made ACE 2000 such a great event.
Get Boinged!
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
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23.Oct.2000
Frogger-Site
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Frogger V1.6 beta for Linux/x86
Betaversion 1.6 of the MPEG-player "Frogger" for Linux/x86 is out now.
The player supports the playing of MPEG-1 and -2, and Audio-Layers 1, 2 and 3.
Download: frogger_linux_x86.tgz (65K)
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23.Oct.2000
aphaso
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NListtree V18.5
Version 18.5 of the NLosttree-class for MUI were released. The class presents listree entries in a tree structure
and it supports drag&drop, and multi-selection of entries. The changes are:
- Preparse-String-Pointer at MUIP_NListtree_DisplayMessage.
- Drop-Types are now public. It uses the same values then NList-Drop-types.
- When hiting return MUIA_NListtree_Doubleclick will be selected.
- NULL-pointer were replaced by the text "*** NULL POINTER ***".
- Multi-Test-Hook will be called in every case of multi-selection.
- New: MUIM_NListtree_PrevSelected.
- New: MUIV_NListtree_FindName_Flag_Selected - only finds selected entries in MUIM_NListtree_FindName.
- Bugfix when DoubleClicking: there are no effects if DoubleClick were set to something else then ALL
- New Doubleclick-value: MUIV_NListtree_DoubleClick_NoTrigger.
The class needs AmigaOS 2.x, MUI V3.8 and MCC_NList V0.89 (NList.mcc V19.97).
Download: MCC_NListtree.lha (169K),
Readme
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23.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
Videomanage.lha biz/dbase 1.7M+A Videodatabase
LPx.lha comm/net 3K+Print scripts for Samba, v1.0
MP-TelekomSI.lha comm/tcp 2K+Settings for MiamiPhone v1.5
wpz-fun.lha demo/aga 6K+4kb intro by Whelpz released on Astrosyn
wpz-info02.lha demo/aga 100K+Whelpz info issue #o2 (january 1999)
MWI-Overview03.lha demo/slide 2.1M+OVERVIEW #03 by MAWI. party slideshow an
fda-upd.lha disk/cache 70K+Fixed:OS35 checksums ViNCEd faster compa
fda.lha disk/cache 352K+Linux' buffer-cache v3.0
dblocate.lha disk/misc 21K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
AnnuaireAmiga6.txt docs/anno 4K+Announce for the new http://www.annuaire
WarpGIF-DT.txt docs/anno 2K+Datatype for GIF-Images with WarpOS (40.
VWorksPricelis.lha docs/hyper 23K+Virtual Works pricelist
3DWorldArc0600.lha docs/misc 104K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 06/00
3DWorldArc0700.lha docs/misc 48K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 07/00
3DWorldArc0800.lha docs/misc 36K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 08/00
3DWorldArc0900.lha docs/misc 10K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 09/00
3DWorldArc1000.lha docs/misc 20K+Archive of the 3D World ML for 10/00
FatePL.lha game/role 14K+FatePL - Ultimate Dice Simulator for RPG
nam.lha game/text 126K+Czech text adventure game
BStones.lha game/think 183K+BubbleStones 1.4, Bust a Move like
WBsteroids.lha game/wb 174K+Asteroids-clone in scaleable wb-window
akMPEG4.lha gfx/show 196K+MPEG player (CGfx/P96/AGA) V4.50 (68k/PP
ASpEmu.lha misc/emu 127K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
ASpEmu_NOROM.lha misc/emu 65K+V0.76 48K/128K/+2 Spectrum emulator.
stlist.lha misc/emu 24K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
imdbDiff001013.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
JochenHippelST.lha mods/chip 197K+Atari ST Mods by famous musicians
ThunderBlade.lha mods/misc 253K+Custom modules from "Thunder Blade"
rno-r049.mpg mods/mpg 1.9M+Rno-records release no.49 by Tarmslyng/l
atdt.lha mods/pro 291K+'ATDT' - a protracked MOD by &.
g-nainenjatotu.lha mods/pro 404K+'G-nainen ja Totuus' - a protracked MOD
jehovantodista.lha mods/pro 253K+'Jehovan Todistaja' - a protracked MOD b
mechno.lha mods/pro 377K+'Mechno' - a protracked MOD by &.
suurivalkoinen.lha mods/pro 251K+'Suuri Valkoinen' - a protracked MOD by
twinblade.lha mods/pro 811K+'Twin Blade' - a protracked MOD by &.
worthless.lha mods/pro 265K+'Worthless' - a protracked MOD by &.
EP_PaulSummers.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Paul Summers" external repl
plone.lha mus/play 450K+V1.6 - PlayList AddOn for PlayGui
AladdinBoot.lha pix/boot 510K+Aladdin Bootup for Rainboot3
BaaackBoot.lha pix/boot 455K+Baaack Bootup for Rainboot3
BeatboxBoot.lha pix/boot 227K+Beatbox Bootup for Rainboot3
LionKingBoot.lha pix/boot 142K+LionKing Bootup for Rainboot3
WSucksBoot.lha pix/boot 865K+WindowsSucks Bootup for Rainboot3
fomsw22.jpg pix/henz 9K+C-3PO and R2-D2 (Star Wars)
Rio91.jpg pix/views 90K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
Rio96.jpg pix/views 107K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
Rio98.jpg pix/views 156K+Rio de Janeiro - Take from the Photo-CD
guidecheck.lha text/edit 60K+V1.21 AmigaGuide syntax checker (and mor
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 35K+ASCII to Japanese ASCII (68k/ppc/wos)
r.lha util/cli 49K+V1.56 Just in time GUIs for every DOS Co
delfina4.16bet.lha util/libs 21K+Delfina.library version 4.16 (beta)
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 98K+V1.26 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha util/pack 22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
Scion2html.lha util/rexx 33K+WWW browser HTML's from Scion Genealogy
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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta on ANF
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Picture Gallery of the ACBB
The ACBB installed a picture gallery that
contains pictures showing the activities of the club.
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23.Oct.2000
Thomas Zahren on ANF
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Headlines on Amiga Inc. Press Release
The following reactions on the press release by Amiga Inc. were published in non-amiga (online-)magazins.
Slashdot: Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of
The Register: Amiga unveils next-gen hardware spec
MaximumPC: Amiga Plunges Back into Hardware
CNet: Welcoming back an old Amiga
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23.Oct.2000
dEFToNE on ANF
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SMSEngineer Update - v1.0.7
SMSEngineer version v1.0.7 released.
Changes:
- BugFix: The space-field now works
- BugFix: The space-field now works with the gateway.dat-file.
- Changing of the label of the remaining-space-field to "NochFrei/Möglich"
- New list view for the upcoming address book
- Some internal changes
- New tooltype for the position of the signature
- Signature fields will not be shown if you set SignPos=NOSIGN
The download is available at the title link.
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22.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New Cartoon Online: Highway Patrol

Together with a new there's a new homepage.
The layout was completely revised and Pearl is used to give it a more
interactive design.
You can now rate and comment on every cartoon.
Besides, there's now a service for Amiga clubs only. More about that
here.
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22.Oct.2000
Bastian Moritz on ANF
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New German Magazine - Triple-A
Bastian Moritz wrote:
Until some months ago I had created an Atari fanzine with some other people. But
as I am also an Acorn user and some of my colleagues Amiga fans we thought that
we could also put it all on a broader basis.
This resulted in Triple-A, a fanzine for Amiga, Acorn and Atari. The first issue
comes out on 29.10. From today on you can at least surf to our homepage.
At www.triple-a-mag.de
you get infos and a forum. In addition to this you can subscribe here or place
free adverts.
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22.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino via email
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AmigaOne Area at amiga.com
At the area products at
amiga.com is now a section specially for the AmigaOne.
There are news, information,
FAQs and a discussion forum at your disposal.
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22.Oct.2000
David Connoly via email
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CS&E: Software and Banner
CS&E will soon releae "Cosmo's Fun Class".
This is a education software package for children at the age of 4-9 years. It fosters
reading, calculating and the hand/eyes coordination and much more.. The software
runs on an A1200. It was developed by the team of
Electronics Dream Interactive.
In conjunction with an Amiga Survivor subscription the package is available at a special
price. To do a translation into German language CS&E needs 300 pre-orders. They expect 1000
pre-orders for the game "Carmageddon". All in all the people at CS&E hope to sell
5000 copies of "Carmageddon".
"Back in Time 2" however has been finished as is the English version of "Cosmo's Fun
Class", so they don't need any pre-orders for that. Details about pre-ordering are
available via email: csande@csande.com
and will be released soon in both, the print and online magazines of CS&E.
On the website of the Amiga Survivor
magazine is free room for small banners. Everybody interested may place
his/her banner there in exchange with banners by CS&E on their own
websites.
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22.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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ppclibemu v0.8c
Frank Wille has released the version 0.8c of the ppclibemu on 21. October 2000.
This software emulates the ppc.library by phase 5 under WarpOS and this way allows
the direct use of PowerUp-programs with WarpOS. This version patches the
Exec-functions FreeMem()/FreeVec() to avoid problems with bad coded programs
which free PPC memory using theses Exec-functions. This affects for example
TurboPrint.
Download:
The update contains solely the libraries. Everything else is included in the
complete archive of the version 0.7.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amiga Super Expansion System
The new company Fastech announces an expansion on their website with the
following features: 3 PCI slots, 3 Zorro-III compatible slots, 1 AGP slot, 1
SDRAM DIMM slot, 2 CPU expansion ports, 1 A1200 clock port, 2 x serial and 1 x
EPP parallel ports. As CPU modules are a G4 module with 400 MHz and a Coldfire
module with 333 MHz announced. The expansion shall be released first for
A3000/T- and A4000/T computers and is in the alpha test stage at present.
While the G4 module is delayed to reach a higher performance via a rework of the
design the Coldfire module is in the test stage. As the Coldfire is not 100%
compatible with the 68k line OS patches and library patches are needed. They are
working on these at the moment.
Editorial note:
Hints strengthen that this website and so the report may be a fake. We can't neither
confirm nor deny this at the moment, but we'll continue our investigations.
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22.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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StrICQ v0.1728 beta
After a long time a new beta version of the ICQ client "StrICQ" for the Amiga
was released on 20. October 2000. This beta version 0.1728 is dated on 18.
February 2000. According to Czech Amiga News this version is supposed to work
better together with ICQ2000. Though it tends to crash the ICQ2000 client during
the chat initialisation.
Download: STRICQ.lha
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22.Oct.2000
CyberGFX
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Mediator Drivers
Already on 19. October 2000 the following information appeared on the CyberGFX
website: Elbox has sent an updated driver archive to the registered Mediator
users. This archive contains the Mediator system files, a SANA-II network driver
supporting many network chip sets and the CGX Virge driver.Those belonging to the
registered Mediator users may contact Elbox
regarding the latest drivers. The latest CGX Mediator drivers can be found on
the CyberGFX Mediator page.
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22.Oct.2000
ANN
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English Amiga Board
AmigaMos and
rck-power have joint and set up the
English Amiga Board.
This one aims to be as good as the German Amiga Emu Board.
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22.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: Article concerning AmigaOne Games
Articles appeared regarding the games Europa Universalis, Echelon: The
Storm, Jagged Alliance 2, and Battle for the Globe at Amiga Flame.
The strategy game "Europa Universalis" will be ported by Hyperion-Software for
the Amiga. The games "Echelon: The Storm" and "Jagged Alliance 2" are listed on
the AmigaDE Software list
that was released by Amiga recently. "Battle for the Globe" is an
action-strategy game that is being developed at the moment by Nordicsoft for
PPC-Amigas and IBM compatible PCs.
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22.Oct.2000
Mirko Engelhard on ANF
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AmigaLand: 2 New Games
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Since today there are two new adventures on our site.
Beneath a steel Sky
and Lure of the Temptress.
Both games were made by the company Revolution Software Ltd.
who gave us the permission yesterday to offer these games for free download.
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22.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via email
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Screen Shots of Crossfire II
Stefan Schulze writes:
On our website are the latest screen shots of the action shooter Crossfire ready for
admiration. They are completely taken from the campaign mode.
Besides that it looks as if Jan Morgenstern (www.jm-music.de) will be supporting us as a
free lancer in the future. I'm really pleased that we don't have to rely on
Techno now. :)
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22.Oct.2000
ANN
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Nostalgia: Putty Squad Demo
On 20. October 2000 the demo of Putty Suqad was released in the Amiga
Rediscovery section of AmiHoo. This demo
was released as coverdisk. The game itself was never released by System 3 Software.
Amiga Rediscovery of AmiHoo has the conception
to rediscover some of the greatest Amiga games by playing the demo
versions which were released as cover disk years ago. So this site also calls to
share your thoughts about the games with others and to ask for help at comp.sys.amiga.misc.
Besides the demos of the recent months there's, among other things, a help file on
the page reachable on the page at the title link that explains how to unpack the DMS disk
archive.
Download: PuttySquad.dms
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22.Oct.2000
Schatztruhe
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Aminet Set 10
Schatztruhe announces the release of the 10. Aminet set by 2. November 2000.
This set contains all files that have been added since the 9. set and full
versions of Max Rally, Zombie Massacre, Personal Paint 7.1b, Pinball Dreams, Pinball
Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. The Aminet CDs 36 to 39 are included in
unchanged. Altogether the set contains more than 3G of software in
almost 4000 archives.
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22.Oct.2000
David Connolly via email
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CS&E: Amiga Future and Games at the Shops
The english issue of Amiga Future will be available by February 2001 at the
newspaper sellers in Great Britain and Ireland. The price will be £5,99. A
six months subscription including coverdisk costs £29,99 and can be ordered
at CS&E.
In Great Britain and Ireland CS&E now also offers Amiga games via retail
chains like Dixons and Electronics Boutique. PC games will be ported to the Amiga
(and vice versa) and released as dual-format-package by CS&E. So there
are three possibilities for the Amiga user to buy games. 1) At the local Amiga
retailer. 2) Via retail chains like Dixons. 3) As download liable for costs via the
soon opened website http://www.pc-software.com/.
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22.Oct.2000
Jochen Abitz on ANF
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Merlancia Comments on Criticism
Merlancia Industries announced
some hardware for the AmigaDE some days ago covering computers from Palmtop over
laptops to PC-towers. This announcement caused some doubts. In the above
statement, dated 22. October 2000, Ryan E. A. Czerwinski from Merlancia comments
on the criticism.
Among other things it can be read that the release of the TORRO website took
place to give the Amiga community an idea now of what is in development.
For the COMDEX, in Phoenix, Merlancia announced the introduction of a working
Hurricane prototype and invited to an arrangement for a private talk at the
exhibition. They are working on the Hurricane board for eight months now. As
expected release date for the Hurricane and the eClips they named the second to
third quarter 2001. This date also depends on the release of the AmigaDE.
The complete statement
caters to further nine subjects.
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22.Oct.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanach III Demo Bugfix
Achim Stegemann wrote:
Everybody having difficulties with the demo of the planetarium program Digital
Almanach III can download a bugfix from my homepage. Unfortunately there was an
enforcer hit in the first demo version which caused problems on some few Amigas (020,030 ??).
Download: DA3Demo.lzx (2,5 MB)
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21.Oct.2000
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Olliweb.de back online
olliweb.de provides information covering the Amiga - Linux subject. After
the website was offline for quite some time, due to logistic and technical
problems of the provider, olliweb.de is available again from now on.
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21.Oct.2000
Amidog
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AMP 2
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has posted some important comments about his
movieplayer "AMP 2" on his website. Among other things he points out that the
prefs-format has changed. Therefore all the former AMP.cfg files must be
deleted before you can use the new version. Some option were had, names of options were
changed or options have been removed, and may not be used in the old way anymore. More
informations can be found under the title link at the "AMP 2" section.
Download current version 1.33: AMP2pre6.lha
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21.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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EU-Commission starts Poll about Software Patents
"The European Commission has started a poll about patents on computer programs,
so-called "computer-implemented inventions". Prior to this is the EU's fear
that the lack of EU-standard provisions of law in this sector could slow down
economic growth, competitive capacity and development of the internal market.
The commission has asked concerned institutions, companies, the public, and
the member-states to express themselves about a
probe document
from the commission's departements. The commission will state its final
position concerning this subject around beginning of 2001."
Complete article under the title link. (German)
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21.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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Merlancia Announces New Products Running on the AmigaDE
Merlancia announced a new product line that will run on the AmigaDE.
From the Palmtop PC to tower and laptops everything is represented.
In this context, it might be interesting to point out
Merlancia's Collection of Amiga
and Commodore antiques and curios and prototypes and his 1974 AMX. There
are lots of pictures of the prototypes.
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21.Oct.2000
Alfred Faust via eMail
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BlueRibbon Soundworks Inc. Is Alive ...
Alfred Faust wrote:
Nearly 5 years after the take over of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc. by
Microsoft, I received the official permission from Todor Fay (the former boss)
to post all of Blue Ribbon Inc.'s products for download on my newly created
homepage. Until now, the software could only be (officially and
legally) acquired if you happened to be a member of Compuserve.com (USA).
I'm very grateful to Todor Fay (and surely every other musically interested AMIGA-user does so)
for this permission, because in my opinion programs even though
those have great functionality never have achieved this level of
user-friendliness. They fit so nicely into the AMIGA system that they
run on OS 3.1 and on graphic-boards (promote with NewMode) without any problem.
Bars&Pipes can be expanded by its tools and accessories to such an extend
that it is in a certain way "updatable".
My new homepage concerns:
- Bars&Pipes 2.5 (German online-manual which is also downloadable as
AMIGA-Guide)
- DB-50XG (my Hardware-Hack, online and downloadable)
- TriplePlay3.1 (the same)
also planned or in preparation:
- SuperJAM! 1.1 (z.Zt. only program and styles downloadable)
- Rules for Tools (Toolscoding for Bars&Pipes - only as download for
now)
- Inovatools1 (Intuition-expansion - used in Bars&Pipes,
SuperJAM! and The PachtMeister , only as download for now)
- My own music made with Bars&Pipes - SuperJAM! - DB-50XG
- and more
As mentionned above the site has a huge download-area where you can
_l e g a l l y_ download all of Blue Ribbon Soundworks Inc.'s products.
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21.Oct.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail
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Five New Rainboot3 Configurations
On October 20th, 2000 Airsoft Softwair released 5 new
Rainboot3-configurations. There are Aladdin Boot, Beatbox Boot, Baaack Boot,
Lion King Boot and Windows Sucks Boot by Werner Henkel. You can find them at
the download
area of the Airsoft Softwair homepage.
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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: BoardType V1.0
BoardType is a small tool which prints out the version of the BlizzardPPC board
in use. This information is needed to track bugs. The bug report
should mention the output of this tool.
Download: boardtype.lzh (1,6K)
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21.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS: CygnusEd Professional 4.21
An official PPC port of the text editor "CygnusEd Professional V4.21" has been
released for MorphOS. This port needs the original CygnusEd4-CD-ROM as a
basis. During the installation of the patch, the 68k version stays untouched
so that it can still be used in case one would like to install both versions
on the same partition. The updated frontend recognizes whether the editor has
been started under MorphOS or AmigaOS an then loads the corresponding binary.
This update can also be downloaded at Schatztruhe.
Download: ced_mos_ppc_upd.lha (211K)
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21.Oct.2000
Michael Heider on ANF
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Kernel Version 2.2.10 for Linux_m68k Available
Michael Heider wrote:
As announced, the Kernel-2.2.10 for Linux_m68k can be downloaded on my
homepage under the link mentioned above from today on. A comment how to
install this kernel is included in the archive.
I would also like to announce the following: After a call at SuSE I was told
that SuSE Linux 7.0 for PowerPC should be available from next week on.
Pre-orders are already accepted at this time.
In near future I will once again create an installation how-to and inform
about the innovations.
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21.Oct.2000
Thomas Nosutta nn ANF
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Nightlong problems due to bugs
Thomas Nosutta of ACBB writes:
Nightlong has been shipped and I received it today. Unfortunately the game
cannot be installed since there are no executable icons. As promised, Qu**e is
included but it can't be installed either, but there are nice videos on the CD.
Note from the editors office: Many users were able to run the game without any
problems. As we were told on the phone today, a wrong CD-filesystem might
cause this problem
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21.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF
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PlayGUI News
On the PlayGUI website there is a small update for PlayGUI (v3.a).
- PlayGUI now shows Playtime
- Playtime can be switched on and off
- Bugfix (no mod in memory caused problems)
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21.Oct.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Amiga Inc. anounnces the AmigaOne
Press release: October 21, 2000, Melbourne, Australia - It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce the first new Amiga hardware in over 6 years. The AmigaOne, our first consumer product, will be targeted at the desktop and workstation market. Further products to follow will cover the markets from Personal Digital Assistants and upwards. All these products will run a single piece of software, the revolutionary Amiga Digital Environment (DE).
We completed the AmigaOne specification three months ago, and dubbed it the "Zico". It is a specification and not a product because Amiga is a software company, not a hardware manufacturer. The ability of the Amiga DE to host itself on multiple hardware and operating system platforms frees us from hardware dependency and gives our partners and our customers the freedom to chose the hardware that best suits their needs and tastes.
The Zico specification is as follows:
- One AmigaDE friendly host processor (PPC, x86, Arm, SH4, MIPS)
- 64MB+ memory
- Next Generation Matrox graphics card
- Creative EMU10K1 based audio card
- 10 GB+ HD
- CD/DVD
- USB 1.0
- Firewire
- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
- 56k modem
- Spare PCI slots for expandibility
With the completion of the specification stage of the Amiga One, we contacted several respected hardware companies with a view to selecting partners who would be interested in creating AmigaOne products.
The AmigaOne process involves close co-operation between Amiga and our partners' hardware groups, the running of the AmigaDE on the hardware, and a thorough quality certification of the final product. Only then can the product be called an AmigaOne.
Whilst still in detailed negotiation with several companies, we are delighted to announce the first partner company and its initial set of AmigaOne products.
The Eyetech Group Ltd, of Stokesley, U.K. already has an excellent reputation in the Amiga community. They have done much to keep the classic Amiga alive during the last five years, and we feel that in the creation of the first new Amiga machines and the transitioning >from the classic to the next wave, that experience will prove invaluable.
Bill McEwen President of Amiga Inc commented: "This arrangement builds on and extends our existing partnership agreement with Eyetech, first announced in April of this year. Our experience during this period has shown Eyetech to be a no-nonsense company capable of delivering what they promise on time and this consideration also weighed heavily in our choice of a hardware partner for the PPC based AmigaOne."
Alan Redhouse, Managing Director of UK-based Eyetech, said; "I am delighted that we have been able to build on our existing partnership with Amiga and continue our close working relationship with them on both a technical and manufacturing level. Our decade of Amiga experience, plus our hardware and software efforts to push the Amiga forwards means that we are able to work with Amiga to deliver a proven upgrade solution to Amiga users which gives their existing 'Classic' applications an immediate and substantial performance boost whilst providing full forward compatibility with the new Amiga DE. Our work on the Predator line of boards means that we can help Amiga to fulfill its requirement of maximising the investment of the current community as it moves forwards."
Fleecy Moss, Chief Technology Officer, Amiga Inc added: "After talks with the hardware development staff of several companies I am convinced that working with Eyetech will allow us to offer an elegant solution that gives both an excellent level of backward compatibility and a powerful basis for the new Amiga Digital Environment. Top of our requirements list was to ensure that those Amigans who have spent considerable money in staying with the Amiga would not be left out in the cold. Whilst you can't please all of the people all of the time, we think we have come up with a set of products and solutions that will put a smile on as many faces as possible."
Eyetech is focusing on an immediate need in the existing Amiga market. Many have already invested considerable resources in their classic Amigas, both in terms of hardware and in terms of software. Whilst keen to move forwards with the AmigaOne, they also want to maximise their investment in the classic platform.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 is a custom board which uses Eyetech Predator technology with the "zico" specification to provide a perfect synergy of classic and next generation. It provides all the functionality of the standalone AmigaOne PPC, but has been extended to mate with a classic Amiga A1200. This allows customers who have a serious investment in the classic Amiga to continue to use their machines whilst also having a brand new Amiga at their disposal. The 68k processor in the A1200 will be emulated at a substantially increased level via the PPC processor on the AmigaOne, whilst the classic operating system can take advantage of the AmigaOne's next generation hardware resources.
The AmigaOne PPC 4000 machine is similarly designed to allow customers who have a significant investment in their classic Amiga A4000 to be able to move that investment forwards whilst also benefiting from the next generation capabilities of the AmigaOne.
The Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 1200 will be available as an upgrade for owners of towered A1200 computers, the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC 4000 as an upgrade for Amiga 4000 desktop computers in tower conversion cases. Options for producing AmigaOne PPC upgrade designs for other Classic Amiga designs (such as the A3000 and Amiga International A4000T) will be looked at (subject to demand) once the A1200 and A4000 products are released.
In order to implement all the features of the AmigaOne specification the, A1200 and A4000 upgrade versions will feature one AGP and six PCI slots, a user-upgradable G3/G4 (Macintosh-type) cpu slot, up to 512MB SDRAM and a high speed IDE/ATAPI interface. The system will be dual-bootable both into the Amiga DE and into Classic Amiga Workbench. This latter feature will allow purchasers to have the performance benefits of full G3/G4 cpu speeds and 512MB of SDRAM memory whilst running Classic Amiga software. Both these boards are scheduled to ship in 1Q01, with developer versions being available in December 2000.
Design of both the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC A1200 and A4000 products has been done with great sensitivity to the existing user and developer community.
"By releasing the classic compatible AmigaOne PPC products first," said Alan Redhouse. "We are providing a transitional path forwards for the existing community, enabling them to maximise their current investment whilst also leaping ahead with the new Amiga DE."
In order to facilitate this transition, the classic Amiga operating system will see its lifeline extended. OS3.9, to be launched before Christmas will add a raft of new features and functionality, and will be able to run on the Eyetech AmigaOne PPC classic products.
Eyetech are also keen to talk to existing hardware manufacturers about possibilities for licencing, manufacturer and other co-operation in order to ensure a smooth transition of the existing Amiga community from the present to the future.
Amiga is also very close to signing up partners for a standalone AmigaOne machine. The ATX form factor AmigaOne has been designed to run the full consumer version of the Amiga Digital Environment (DE) allowing the best of the Classic Amiga software which has been ported to run directly under the Amiga DE, and the use of a wide range of Amiga DE-based digital content - such as productivity software, content creation suites, development environments and 3-D games - to be used 'out of the box'.
All this work - including extensive testing of hardware and software components - is scheduled to be complete in time for end user deliveries 3Q01. Amiga Inc is currently in negotiation with several potential partner companies for the development and manufacture of the stand-alone AmigaOne and its related digital content/software. Companies interested in producing this version, utilising the PPC processor family include Eyetech, and bplan GmbH of Germany. We hope to have announcements to make on this within the next few weeks. Other companies and other processors are also under negotiation.
A new website is being set up, specifically to provide a focal point for news, questions, comment and discussion on the AmigaOne, and we encourage people to visit it and participate.
Supplement:
More links on this subject:
Slashdot:
Amiga, Inc. Announces AmigaOne Spec... Sort Of (German)
Golem: AmigaOne - New Amiga comes in late summer 2001
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21.Oct.2000
Alexander Kurtz on ANF
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AminetGUI - Update
Alexander Kurtz wrote:
The AminetGUI is once again free from commercial banners and PopUp windows.
The AminetGUI has also found a new server. I would like to thank Ingo Bowe
once more for providing his server.
During the move, AminetGUI has been restructured. The new structure permits to
provide new language versions of AminetGUI in a simple way. A developer archive
with a matching template in the download area will be available soon. Spanish
will be the first language to be added. Many thanks in advance to Tomás J.
Cantóy Diez. More translators are always welcome.
I would also like to thank Buster who send me the German version of the
Aminet-Upload.docs some while ago. Those can be reached at the Docs area.
Due to the move I also drop the Link area. Links are handled by the
Amiga-Gateway from now on.
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21.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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Malice: The better Q***e?
To shorten the waiting until the release of Shogo and Sin a bit, I provide a
test about Malice, a Q***e conversion. Is it really more than a mission pack?
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21.Oct.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
MCC_Guigfx.lha dev/mui 172K+Guigfx MUI custom class V19.2
BackUp.lha disk/bakup 31K+A simple backup tool.. v1.2
dblocate.lha disk/misc 20K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
ges3b.lzh game/hint 7.9M+Packet of solutions, cheats cards to gam
WHDShdWarriors.lha game/patch 23K+HD Installer for Shadow Warriors V1.1
Detris.lha game/wb 45K+Tetris for WB by Deniil 715!
MPEG_S_LAMEppc.lha mus/misc 232K+MPEG_S_LAME the MP3 Encoder for SoundFX
TheMPegEncGUI.lha mus/misc 81K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
DeliDecrunch.lha mus/play 9K+XFD/XAD DeliTracker Decruncher v2.1
MRQ.lha util/cdity 151K+The MUI requester improver, now OpenSour
Cmp.lha util/cli 4K+Nice and tiny binary file compare tool
HexShow.lha util/cli 5K+Shows files as Hex
SED.lha util/cli 13K+Amiga stream editor
MultiRen.lha util/misc 173K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with
DRemind.lha util/time 216K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.56!
CLICon.lha util/wb 161K+A versatile replacement for IconX
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21.Oct.2000
Ben Yoris via eMail
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Statusreport about Descent: Freespace 'The Great War'
Hyperion Entertainment Software is working on a port of "Descent: Freespace
'The Great War'". The game already runs in software-render-mode. The
engine still needs some optimization before work on the 3D acceleration can
begin. Furthermore Ben Yoris tolled us that there is still hope for a version
running on 060 or 040 CPUs with Warp3D.
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21.Oct.2000
Jens Schönfeld via eMail
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Kickflash under Production
After a long period of waiting a reworked version of Kickflash is finally under
production. First there will be a version for the absolute Amiga classics, the
A500 and A1000. Besides 1MB flash memory for Kickstart ROMs, there is also a
86 pin CPU-Slot for A2000 accelerator cards, and a Zorro slot. A version for the
A1200 will follow.
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20.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com homepage
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Results of the Top 10 SDK Wish List now made public
At the title link you'll find the results of the top 10 SDK wishes survey.
Among others, special wishes like an extended documentation on VP programming
(special tutorials and examples), USB and Firewire support, or even a
language translation routine were named.
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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF
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Earth 2140 Status Report Part 2
The second part
of the Earth 2140 status report is available at the "preview area" at Amigafire.
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20.Oct.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF
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PlayGUI Website News
Version 1.6 of the PlayGUI add-on PLone is finally ready and can be found on
the PlayGUI website. The following has changed since V1.5:
- New: PlayerControl
- New: DeliTracker support
- Fix: Saving now works correctly again
- Change: Small change made to the playlist format
- New: Support for the new PlayGUI functions (Midi/MPeg)
- New: Skin.txt support
- New: Internal (sample/midi) and mp3 suffix file check
- New: mp3 TAG support (currently no genre, though)
- New: Play16 support + prefs
- New: MPegA support + prefs
- New: GMPlay (midi) support + prefs
- Fix: Add Directory function fixed
- New: Images lv_pic and op_pic as default pictures.
That means that a skin can now be a single main image only.
- New: Starts Hip/DeliTracker by itself if required
- New: (Still) simple ASCII export function
- New: Samples can now have a comment
- New: There can be dividers inserted
- New installer script
- New skin
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20.Oct.2000
Thomas Dellert on ANF
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Press Photos of G-Rex Available
On our website you now can see a press photo of the G-Rex-PCI bridge.
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20.Oct.2000
Kamil Barczynski on ANF
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PSV Manager Available in English
Thanks to the help of 'Scanner' (webmaster of the Ami-Site),
our soccer management game 'PSV Manager' is now available for download in English on our new
website. There you'll also find further information on
'PSV Manager' and all other current and future projects.
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20.Oct.2000
AmiSpaTra
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A Coruna - Meeting of Spanish Internet Participants
About 600 internet participants from all over Spain will meet from
October 20th to October 26th in A Coruna at the Arroutada Party. This
year's Arroutada Party is held at the Coliseo of A Coruna, organized
by the "da Mocedade Informatica Galega de A Coruna (Amiga)" and
sponsored by the local town hall.
According to informations from the local town hall, this is the
eighth year of this party which was held until now at the Forum
Metropolitano, but was moved to the Coliseo due to the enormous
success.
At this multiuser event a network of 600 computers is formed
which are all connected to the internet. The technology is sponsored
by the R. Ademas company. A sound machine of 80,000 watt will be available
as well. Contests with prices of up to one million ptas will take place.
A huge projection screen will be installed as well on which animations,
roboter fights on Linux and other elements from the world of computer
science can be seen. Also, further activities will be organized which
are aimed at the entertainment of the participants.
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20.Oct.2000
CyberGFX Homepage
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Pictures of Phase5 PCI Board Prototype
A two year old picture was made available on the CyberGraphX homepage
which shows the prototype of a PCI bridge from Phase5.
The prototype served as a help for the development of graphics board drivers
for the Amiga based on Mac graphics boards. You can find the link to the
picture if you follow the title link in the second news bottom right
(Phase5 G-Rex PCI Bridge Prototype).
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20.Oct.2000
MorphOS Team
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MorphOS - Butterfly 1.1, Ghostscript 5.10 and SoX 12.17 Released
The MorphOS team announced the following product updates:
- Butterfly 1.1 is a graphical frontend for the MprphOS launch program.
The program can be started from anywhere, but the standard prefs file
assumes that Butterfly is in the user directory. Newly added was a
ResetLevel switch, as on some configurations the standard ResetLevel settings
did not work. Please read the Startup.doc file for more details. You'll
find the archive here:
Butterfly1.1.lha (38K).
- Ghostscript 5.10 was ported for MorphOS/PPC. The installation requires
the 68k mode as well as the IXEmul archive. The file is available for download
at: gs510.lha (690K).
- Sound eXchange 12.17 was ported to MorphOS. The program
converts 20 different sound formats. The download archive can be
found here: sox 12.17 morphos.lha (104K).
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20.Oct.2000
Mike Bouma on Slashdot.org
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Slashdot.org Reports on the Growing Success of Amiga
Mike Bouma wrote: «Already well over 15,000 developers have bought the Amiga SDK 1.0 and
soon there will be an update available (3D, Sound, GUI and performance improvements).
It will be downloadable freely for 1.0 buyers and a Windows equivalent will be available.
There is an enormous amount of activity going on within the Amiga community, ....» Read the full article
at the title link.
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19.Oct.2000
C. Huebner on ANF
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CrossUpdate from LW Amiga to LW6 Intel/Mac
The well-known raytracer "LightWave" is available at favourable conditions as a cross-update.
Any Amiga version of LW can be changed at special conditions to a full version of LightWave6
Intel/Mac. Please, visit the title link for more informations.
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19.Oct.2000
BGUI site
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BGUI v41.11 Final
On October, 17th 2000 the archives of BGUI v41.11 were released. BGUI is a GUI system
offering options similar to MUI. Further development of this
system was surrendered to the AROS-project. Who would like to
participate in development can obtain access to the source codes by AROS.
for this can get the sources via AROS.
Download:
Beside the listed archives many informations, the E-Developer- and the AREXX-Interface archives
are available for download on the BGUI site
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18.Oct.2000
Stefan Schulze via eMail
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Dreamworlds Development is Looking for One More Musician
Because Audun Evensen (our musician up to now) does not have enough time anymore we have decided to
engage another musician. She/He should get along with each possible kind of music, work on time,
be well up in editing samples and of course should be interested in games.
Having a sampler, good hardware (PPC) and knowledge in English are advantageous but not necessary.
Of course you are participated in proceeds from the sales.
First (and urgent) music for Crossfire II is needed. Here is Techno or something like that sufficient.
It`s all right if different kinds of music are used provided that it fits to hard action. :) I prefer
stirring classical music but it is hard to handle with the computer. Furthermore some intermediate
progression have to set to music (own format).
After finishing CF2 (if a further co-operation is desired) we need right music (medieval, atmospheric,
classical, sometimes rock music) instead of Techno for our next game called "Between The Lines", a
role-playing in real time.
Those ones who are interested in (or have any questions) please mail to
stefan@dreamworlds.de
with a demo work or state an internetaddress where I can find such a sample. A few information about
yourself and your hardware configuration would be useful.
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18.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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ttf.library V0.8.3b
Richard Griffith has published version V0.8.3b of ttf.library in Aminet (util/libs). This library
makes the use of Truetype-fonts on the Amiga possible. It is compatible to the bullet.library by
Commodore and is based on the work of FreeType project.
This pre-release has been hardly tested. In this version there are the following changes:
Bugfix: Enforcer-Hit/Crash in ttfmanager.
The library works on AmigaOS 3.0 upwards. There are optimised versions for each processor of
the 68k-family. You can find corresponding links, links on sources with Truetype-fonts and
information to the ttflib mailing list at the Hompage.
Download:
util/libs/ttflib68000.lha,
Readme
ttfsrc.htm
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18.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
On the next weekend from the 21st to the 22nd of October 2000 the Alternative Computer Expo takes place
in Melbourne, Australia. This fair is concerned with all alternative operating systems like
Amiga, Mac, Unix, OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS, QNX and some more.
Already on Friday the 20th of October there is a Geek-festival. A keynote will be held by Amiga CEO.
On the fair you can expect seeing the second version of AmigaSDK as well as getting information about
AmigaOne. For the first time in Australia you can look at the PCI-Mediator-Board. Besides this the
Mac OS X will be presented.
An IRC-Channel (for further information please mail to Paul Demark))
and a webcam, organized by CAUS, is planned
for the internet.
Seminars, conferences, meetings and workshops will take place during the fair. Last but not least there
is a museum of computers.
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18.Oct.2000
Spo³
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Spo³ Demoparty put off until 25.11.2000
The demo party which should take place in early November has been put off until the 25th of
November 2000 but will take place in Spoleto, Italy as planned.
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18.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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New Compuquick Website
At the end of June Amiga Inc. announced a strategic agreement of sales with Compuquick Media Center (Columbus, Ohio).
Compuquick Media has completely new designed its website and created an own area for Amiga.
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18.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK
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Amiga SDK Wish List
Patrick Roberts is going to create a list of wishes for the Amiga SDK. If your wishes should be
took down in the list please mail your favourite ten wishes to Top10.
The results will be published on Friday.
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18.Oct.2000
Amibench
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Amibench Quiz Canceled
Because of legal problems the quiz by Amibench was canceled.
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18.Oct.2000
Stefan Ossowski via eMail
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Aminet CD 39
The Aminet CD 39 - October 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (decrunched) of software in thousands
of archives. Since Aminet CD 38 over 790 MB of new software has appeared. All programs have described
in German; many ones contain a German documentation. The great highlight the Aminet 39 contains the full
version of Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions.
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18.Oct.2000
Thorsten Schoelzel via eMail
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Move of AmigaNG-Program-Overview
The "AmigaNG-Program-Overview" can be accessed under http://www.Thorty.online.de/AmigaNG-Liste.html.
Please change your Bookmarks.
As Thorsten Schoelzel said, there is the possibility of porting Macromedia's Shockwave "Flash4"
to the Amiga, and therefore he asks for your support for this project.
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18.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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Shogo-Demo for Mac
While Amiga users still have to wait PowerMac users already can have a first look at the 3D-Action-Shooter "Shogo: MAD".
Since a couple of days the 41 MB demo version is free for download.
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18.Oct.2000
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Interview with Frank Mariak
Author: Team amiga-news.de
Interviewpartner: Frank Mariak from Vision Factory Developments
Translator: Martina Jacobs (Interview in German)
amiga-news.de: If we understood right, there are two different kinds of drivers under development: CGX VIRGE V3 driver, and CGX Voodoo driver. What is the technical difference between those, and which driver is meant for which product.
Frank Mariak: Those drivers are designed for two PCI boards completely
different from each other. On the one side for the VIRGE/DX chip
set, which was already utilized on the CyberVision64/3D, but in
the meanwhile became somehow anterior. This still appears to be a
good and cheap compromise for Amiga considering 2D performance.
The Voodoo driver of course is meant for the Voodoo3 chip set by
3dfx. This one offers remarkable enhanced 3D performance in
comparison to the CVisionPPC/BVisionPPC boards (if used along
with a PPC processor), and even more 2D performance, than the
CyberStorm/Blizzard graphics accelerators with Permedia2 chip
set.
amiga-news.de: What will support of 3D capabilities be like?
Frank Mariak: There will be no special support from CyberGraphX. At all events
for MorphOS there will be a modulated 3D extension basing on Rave
for the Voodoo boards. The Warp3D team has said to be interested
in modulating the 3D hardware, but unfortunately I don't know
very much about the 3D development state.
amiga-news.de: Please, illustrate in some more detail the (alleged?) technical problems with developing Voodoo drivers for the Mediator board.
Frank Mariak: I have to admit that initially I programmed the Voodoo driver on
the PCI interface extension for my CyberStorm PPC board and then
just tried to make it running on the Mediator board. Originally I
used that PCI extension for developing Permedia2
CVision/BVisionPPC drivers more than two years ago, since the
prototype board of these boards was a PCI card for Apple
PowerMac. Due to this the current Voodoo driver worked with this
PCI extension port at first, the modulation for the Mediator
board then was done supplementary. The announced G-REX extension
rather is just a reworked 4 slot variant of this 1 slot test
board. Since I don't have that extended development system on the
ELBOX case as I have on my A4000T, I always only tested
functionality of the driver with the Mediator board. The
technical problems in the meantime have been discussed extensive
on miscellaneous nets. Basically one may say that the mystified
"bank-switching problem" doesn't cause any trouble, as long as
only one CPU (e.g. 68k) is concerned. Also a PowerPC-only
operating system (which emulates 68k-code) should cause no
problems.
amiga-news.de: Does the cooperation agreement with Elbox still exist, and if not, due to what reason and by whom was it canceled?
Frank Mariak: I definite did not cancel the agreement. After all one may not
forget that ELBOX products are covering a much bigger target
group than extensions like G-REX do, which are designed only for
the special LocalBus on the Blizzard/CyberStrom accelerator
boards. But I agree that the timing of the G-REX announcement was
quite disadvantageous. I'm already in contact with DCE since more
than one year, and since then to bring a successor graphics board
for the current Permedia2 products was looked ahead. DCE and me,
we set the seal on developing Voodoo3 driver signing a contract
now, so Thomas Dellert has planning reliability, and also I would
not come out of with with empty hands. There never has been such
a contract with Elbox, there has just been some kind of
declaration of intent on cooperation with an option of a possible
Voodoo driver, since in these days it was not to foresee if such
a driver really would work. This was meant to be that I would
create free limited CGX3 drivers which then would be delivered
along with the Mediator board. I then should be responsible of
"bringing in" my input myself by selling the CGX4 CDs. In the
meanwhile I ask myself, how I could agree with this. In the view
of stagnating software sells (CGX 4 CD), software pirates, and
continuous requests from ELBOX when at last a somehow working
Voodoo driver for the Mediator board would be available, I felt
extremely pressurized. In the end and moreover one should not
forget that at this time Mediator boards are alowed to be
delivered along with a free CGX3 VIRGE driver, and will be in the
future. Even after DCE's release there was an update for this
driver, so there should not be any talking about canceled
cooperation.
amiga-news.de: Why did you decide an exclusive agreement?
Frank Mariak: Only this way a really satisfying solution for customers can be gained. Only licensing makes it possible to support a product in an optimal way. In my notion that was never eligible with ELBOX.
amiga-news.de: Does the exclusiveness of the Voodoo driver concern GGX3 or CGX4 or even both of these?
Frank Mariak: I don't understand that panic about the current Voodoo driver, at
all. Is the Mediator board a slot for a Voodoo graphics board or
a 4x PCI slot adapter? People might better ask themselves where
are the announced drivers for the Yamaha sound card, the 100MBit
network card or the MPG decoder card. In place of focusing on
completion of this driver a PCI PPC G3/G4 extension was announced
wholehearted which virtually automatically converts the Mediator
board to a data-thruput-"high-achiever". The Amiga world has seen
themselves how long it took come to some state of being error
free on 603/604e processors with PowerUP or the subsequent
competitor WarpOS. A G3/G4 software solution shall suddenly
appear for Amiga within two months? I don't want to further
comment this, but I entertain some doubt.... I just can wish the
ELBOX company much success with that. They at least developed a
68030 accelerator board or have this under their present offer.
amiga-news.de: Does this agreement also mean that there will be no Voodoo CGX drivers for Predator by Eyetech? (Which seems to be quite similar to the G-REX.)
Frank Mariak: No, as a matter of principle nothing avoids respective license for the drivers.
amiga-news.de: Can the drivers be used with every standard board or only with tested boards (compatibility list provided)?
Frank Mariak: In the case of e.g. Voodoo3 the boards available are
substantially of the same assembly. But basically it is
recommended to use only tested boards since else function of the
drivers cannot be guaranteed. This is what I feel to be a
significant problem with the at this time available/released PCI
port extensions. When I purchase a PCI card for a PC, I will get
a driver adapted to this card along with this card. An Amiga user
doesn't have such opportunity if he purchases a PCI card in some
shop. Many people simply underestimate the software problem. Even
on a WindowsPC this is often solved dissatisfying and you get put
off with half done drivers. When I purchased for a ZorroII/III
extension I was able to call the manufacturer to account, if
hardware/software did not run as it should do, and the
manufacturer was able to respond if necessary. Thus also now only
tested products should be used or the respective board should be
ordered from an Amiga stockist right away to at least reasonably
play safe.
amiga-news.de: Does CGX v5 for MophOS represent a complete rewrite of version 4 with enhanced routines or is this a 1:1 port?
Frank Mariak: The drawing routines as well as the drivers where almost entirely newly developed, since CGX4 still uses assemlber optimesed 68k routines which of course can be used emulated only with a PPC.
amiga-news.de: Can CGX be further adopted to WarpOS or PowerUp or can it be further optimised for those? And if, is there hope for this to happen?
Frank Mariak: No, there will be no further adoption to or optimisation for PowerUp or WarpOS.
amiga-news.de: Will there be a 68k version of CGX v5?
Frank Mariak: No, the advantages/enhancements of version 5 only make sense along with a PPC OS e.g. like MorphOS. The 68k variant will stay to be version 4, and independent from V5 will be further developed/enhanced. CGX v5 in conjunction with the current MorphOS test version will be developed and enhanced continuously.
amiga-news.de: Frank, thank you very much for this interview and for your extended answers.
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17.Oct.2000
Stephane Campan via Email
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Bartman Software with new project "Fubar"
The english-american Bartman Software Team currently works on completing
the commercial action / strategy game Fubar. Almost 4 years of development
have already gone into this project. A new beta version is already
available from the Bartman Website
(here) in
exchange for a user registration. Minimum requirements are an Amiga with
MC68020 CPU, 12 MB RAM, AGA and a CD-ROM. More information and details
of technical features can be found at the title link.
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17.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News & Amiga-Club Forum
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Thomas Dellert of DCE talks about G-Rex PCI
AmigArt has a statement of Thomas Dellert about the G-Rex board.
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17.Oct.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak by e-mail
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Elbox Insider Report
A summary of the ongoings around the CGX driver for Voodoo3 from
Elbox' point of view:
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 19:16:48 +0200
From: ELBOX press@elbox.com
To: amiga-news.de ps@amiga-news.de
Subject: INSIDER REPORT
INSIDER REPORT
ELBOX COMPUTER
http://www.elbox.com
Krakow, 17 Oct 2000
In brief
In July 2000, ELBOX Computer and Frank Mariak (VFD) negotiated and
agreed upon writing drivers for MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
Frank Mariak agreed to write the software with hardware and technical
documentation provided to him by ELBOX Computer as requested by him.
He had never asked for cash reimbursement and never asked for making
cash-based contract.
Frank Mariak was to write drivers dedicated for ELBOX hardware,
to the order of ELBOX, based on an agreement between ELBOX
and himself.
Frank Mariak's long-term benefit was spreading and popularising
his commercial product: CGX4.
Ultimately, Frank Mariak sold rights to these drivers in exclusive
form to a third party, who are not affiliated with ELBOX Computer
in any way. This transaction, with the following use of confidential
ELBOX documentation within third-party agreements is clear-cut
breach of commercial law in any country in the world.
This step was thought to block developing highly-demanded software
for Amiga computers.
ELBOX Computer decided to clear this situation up in the following
report.
The last part of the report announces software solutions to make
good the damage caused by Frank Mariak's decisions.
On Saturday, 14 Oct 2000
community of Amiga users were informed that an agreement was signed
by virtue of which Mr. Frank Mariak (Vision Factory Development)
transferred exclusive rights to Voodoo PCI drivers written by
himself to a third party.
We, ELBOX Computer, feel obliged to make the entire situation clear
to Amiga users world-wide, as the circumstances around this event
are twisted again and again and give false image of the situation
to public opinion.
Please find the below report as the clarification of what has been
transpiring in the recent weeks behind the scenes.
Background
On 24 July 2000, Elbox Computer and Vision Factory Development
jointly released an announcement on concluding an agreement,
by virtue of which VFD undertook to develop support for PCI graphic
cards installed in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
(See http://www.vgr.com/mediator/pressrelease1.txt )
Before this agreement was concluded, both parties negotiated
and finally decided on some specific terms and conditions of
co-operation as follows:
The key point of the agreement was that support for PCI graphic
cards in CGX3 was to be devoid of hardware acceleration, which
was to be fully developed in the CGX4 commercial version.
The parties decided to make the following commitments:
1. ELBOX Computer shall make the developer's documentation for
the MEDIATOR PCI busboard available in order to complete the
agreed work.
The developer's documentation was transferred to
Mr. Frank Mariak on 14 July 2000.
2. ELBOX Computer will provide Vision Factor Development with
computer hardware for preparing drivers for PCI graphic cards
installed in the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, which Mr. Mariak
needed at that time.
ELBOX Computer sent the hardware: Amiga 1200 in E/BOX tower
with the developer's MEDIATOR PCI 1200 busboard, 1240 turbo
card, FastATA 1200 controller, a hard disk and other necessary
add-ons as well as S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 PCI cards to
Mr. Frank Mariak on 07 Aug 2000. Another computer hardware
set was delivered to VFD team last week.
3. Vision Factory Development shall develop support for graphic
cards operating in the MEDIATOR PCI busboard. Support for
S3 ViRGE and Voodoo3 chipsets was agreed upon as the minimum.
S3 Virge:
ELBOX Computer received a test version of an S3 ViRGE card
driver (enabling starting Workbench in the S3 ViRGE PCI card)
from Vision Factory Development on 18 July 2000;
S3 ViRGE drivers are currently available.
Voodoo3:
ELBOX Computer received a test version of Voodoo3 drivers
for MEDIATOR PCI for presentation purposes (allowing for
operation with Workbench) on 29 Sep 2000.
4. ELBOX Computer, after starting the production of the MEDIATOR PCI
busboard shall deliver a bundled free package of CyberGraphX v.3
along with drivers for all the currently supported PCI graphic
cards.
ELBOX Computer is now selling the MEDIATOR PCI busboard
through the network of its distributors world-wide.
CGX3 is bundled with MEDIATOR PCI. This is an excellent
advertising move for the commercial CGX4.
Before the agreement
ELBOX offered Mr. Frank Mariak that our programmers would prepare
drivers for various graphic chipsets, including Voodoo3 PCI, for
working with CyberGraphX. Such drivers would then be transferred in
the form of source codes written in assembler for Mr. Frank Mariak's
authorisation and distribution. We expected only making available
some developer's information related to CGX in return.
However, Mr. Mariak decided he would himself write the drivers
if we supported him with hardware and documentation. Which we did.
False information
in the announcement on selling rights to Voodoo drivers included
alleged expected technical problems related to implementation
of 3D drivers with our MEDIATOR PCI busboard.
Please note that none such problems exist. On our request,
Mr. Mariak was to report to us any possible problems related
to his development work… and he remained silent all the time.
Using Developer's Documentation
for MEDIATOR PCI and computer hardware (including Voodoo3 PCI card)
provided free of charge by ELBOX Computer as requested by Mr. Frank
Mariak for writing Voodoo3 drivers, as it turned out, for another
company is the clearest form of breaching rules of social life
and business honesty and integrity.
New business vision
On 13 Oct 2000, Mr. Frank Mariak signed an agreement on selling
the Voodoo3 drivers for benefit of another company. In contacts
with our company, Mr. Frank Mariak never mentioned any intention
of this kind on his part, never suggested such a possibility
and never asked for or negotiated any payment for his software
writing work. He never contacted us in this issue.
Then, out of the blue, he surprised us and all Amiga users with
making a "simple BUSINESS DECISION" (original quotation from
Mr. Mariak's response to our inquiry for explanation of the
VFD & DCE's announcement) on making an alliance with a third
party for selling the above rights.
We hope this explanation clarifies the situation.
Please make sure that we refrain from any comments of ethical
or whatever nature. The above are simple facts to make you all
aware of the plot behind the scenes.
ELBOX MOVES FORWARD
In the view of the circumstances described above, ELBOX Computer
hereby announces that our programmers shall prepare software
for supporting Voodoo3 cards in the MEDIATOR PCI busboards.
These drivers will be included in the software package for the
MEDIATOR PCI busboard. We expect completing work on the first
version of this software within two weeks.
ELBOX Computer
Mariusz Wloczysiak, Press Department
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17.Oct.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS Release #2
The second release of the Amiga PowerPC OS "MorphOS" has been released
today. If you want to participate in the public beta test, you can
download the archive from the
download page stating your
name, e-mail address and your system.
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17.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Europa Universalis for Amiga
The Canadian company TribSoft Inc.
has purchased the licence for porting the game
Europa Universalis
from Paradox Entertainment.
TribSoft already ported games to Linux - the current project is
Jagged Alliance 2.
The game spans 300 years - from Columbus to Napoleon. 60 countries
controlled by artificial opponents react to your actions and the ongoings
in the world. The player has the job to skillfully manage religion,
trade, conquest, discovery and diplomacy.
Note: Stéphane Campan
of AmigaImpact told us that the port will not be done by Tribsoft Inc.,
but by Hyperion.
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17.Oct.2000
AmigaImpact
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New UAE-JIT Version for Linux
On October 14th, Bernie Meyer has released a new version of his JIT
compiler for UAE running on Linux. While the stock UAE only interprets
the 68k Amiga software, the JIT compiler converts the programs to x86
code at runtime, making them run significantly faster. This version,
code-named "Everton", contains the following changes:
- FPU support.
- SIGSEGV handler for direct memory access. This option offers the
best performance and is highly recommended.
- Optimisations and according speed increase
- better timing
- many improvements in the source code
The title link leads to several archives for Linux to download,
including source code.
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17.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
XADopus_NO.lha biz/dopus 1K+Norwegian catalog for XADopus Module 1.2
Sashi89.lha comm/misc 13K+Link software between TI calculator and
MiamiPhone.lha comm/tcp 152K+V2.3 Miami phone.log time & cost (MUI)
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 216K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.6 - *
simplehtml.lha comm/www 32K+V0.12 of the simple HTML Offline Browser
wpz-frozen37.lha demo/aga 1.4M+Frozen#37 - Special October Edition
Python16.lha dev/lang 1.5M+Python language 1.6 (bin+lib)
xad_RPM.lha dev/src 9K+RPM xadmaster client
xad_Wrapster.lha dev/src 7K+Wrapster xadmaster client
dblocate.lha disk/misc 26K+A quick find util like locate on Linux
StarFighter.lha game/data 580K+StarFighter Source Code
WBPSanta.lha game/data 207K+Animated puzzle for WBPerplexity 1.5+
mangband.lha game/role 328K+Mangband 0.7.0 beta - client
simplepac.lha game/wb 74K+Version 1.3 of the simple WB Pacman Game
R4_Delta-Flyer.lha gfx/3dobj 466K+Delta Flyer (ST: Voyager) for monzoom
CGX2TV.lha hard/hack 9K+Very simple TVout for GFX card v0.2
atari800.lha misc/emu 187K+V1.2 of the Atari 8-bit emulator
TDMouse-1.1os.lha misc/emu 48K+Use a serial PC mouse on the Amiga! Vers
imdbDiff001006.lha misc/imdb 2.0M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
indamix2k.lha mods/techn 1.5M+Ultimate Club Megamix from Psycho/MOODS
DeliDecrunch.lha mus/play 8K+New DeliTracker Decruncher: XFD/XAD
Melbourne-show.jpg pix/art 16K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
FixNI.lha util/cli 13K+Fix NewIcons for OS3.5
IcoDT.lha util/dtype 11K+Dt for .ICO files (43.4)
ttflib68000.lha util/libs 253K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68020.lha util/libs 252K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68030.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68040.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68060.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 89K+V1.25 - Test and identify wb-program
extractico.lha util/wb 3K+Extract ICO files from exe and dll's (1.
Ico2Info.lha util/wb 5K+Converts .ICO to .info (44.7)
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 29K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.1
MUISearch13_NO.lha util/wb 2K+Norwegian catalog for MUISearch 1.3
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16.Oct.2000
Stefan Blixth via eMail
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New Updates for OnyxSoft Software
New versions of the following programs are available from OnyxSoft:
- BackUp Version 1.2
New cleanup function for automated display of updated files added.
- Detris Version 3.0
This game were completely rewritten and offers a good Tetris clone.
- DRemind Version 1.56
With the help of Alexander Doeller the program installer is available now.
- MultiRen Version 1.42
It is now possible to automatically rename #?.info-files by selecting this option
in the setup.
- TheMPegEncGUI Version 2.05
Options for Pegase and Lame added. The requesters now opens parallel to the TMPEGUI window.
Further informations: There will be some server changes in the near future. As soon as we know what exactly
will change we will inform you.
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16.Oct.2000
David Connolly via eMail
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Issue #9 of Amiga Survivor Magazine
According to informations from David Connolly, the publisher of the Amiga Survivor Magazine,
issue #9 of the printed magazine will be published at the end of October. This issue will
contain a version of Max Rally. Issue #10, published at the end of November, will be shipped
with the game Cosmo's Fun Class. Issue #11 will fusion parts of the Amiga Future Magazine
with the Amiga Survivor Magazine. This issue will have a 68 pages special, and one or two
secret gifts. Shortly there will be a webside at http://www.amigasurvivor.com. At the moment
you can subscribe to an Egroups-Mailing List.
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16.Oct.2000
SFXSoft
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Cross-Upgrade of EZP@gerNG for Registered EZPager Users
Special cross-upgrade offer for registered users of EZPager (V1.1 to V1.11 purchased before 10-31-1998).
Further informations are available at the title link.
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16.Oct.2000
Sebastian Bauer
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Software Updates by Sebastian Bauer
At the webside of Sebsatian Bauer are new versions of Atari800 (1.2), html.datatype (0.12),
SimpleHTML (0.12) and SimplePac (1.3) available.
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16.Oct.2000
JOTD Patch & Installers
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New JST Version 4.2 Released
Version 4.2 of JST released.
If you want to play old games on your new system you would appreciate JST, because
many disk based programs can be installed to harddisk with JST.
Download: jst.lha
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16.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
In co-operation with Denis Unger Amiga Arena offers FLM at a very special price of 10DM.
FLM is a program that can be used as a dictionary, as a text translator, and for vocabulary exercises.
FLM contains some English/German dictionaries with about 175000 entries.
An interview with Denis Unger is online too.
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16.Oct.2000
dEFToNE on ANF
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SMSEngineer V1.0.6
Version 1.0.6 of SMSEngineer released.
The changes since version 1.0.5 are the following:
- Changes: Some minor changes of the GUI.
- New: ToolType for setting default signature.
- Bugfix: The signature is sent now.
The program needs MUI V3.8+, a TCP/IP-stack, and some additional MUI-classes.
Which classes you will need is written in the
readme file.
You can find the program at the Aminet (comm/tcp) and on the new homepage
http://blitz-engineers.virtualave.net/.
Download: SMSEngineerMUI.lha,
Readme
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16.Oct.2000
Amiga Future
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Amiga Future Now in English
CS&E and Amiga Future signed an agreement on
publishing an English version of the German printed Amiga games magazine "Amiga Future".
At the beginning it will be published as a part of Amiga Survivor and after few issues
the new magazine will be published under the name Amiga Future UK.
The whole press release with further informations is available at the news pages of
Amiga Future-Website.
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15.Oct.2000
Michael Luense
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YAM AddOns
On 12. October 2000 Michael Luense has update his site with
YAM addons. At this time the following scripts are available:
attinfo V2.13
Creates a logfile from attachments; the logfile is subsequently attached to the e-mail.
MuYaReq V2.10
Editing an e-mail via requester.
listinfo V1.00
Enter the name of the list. Information via requester.
Expolder V1.3
Im- & export of folders.
Dogy V1.2
Toolbar for all four add-ons. Needs MUIRexx.
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15.Oct.2000
CyberGFX
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Elbox Drivers Updated
On October 15th, 2000 Vision Factory Developement has released an update of the
Virge drivers for the Mediator board from Elbox. The update contains small
changes and extends the driver with support for 2MB cards.
Download: CGXV3_Elbox.lzh (200K)
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15.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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V³, AmTelnet, Microdot-1-Source
Oliver Wagner has released on October 14th, 2000 in .plans on the V³ portal site
information regarding the current state of development of the web browser.
The V³ development proceeds well. Frames are supported again, and
the tuning of the deeper integrated layer- and cliprects-routines gave a
relevant speed boost for output and scrolling.
Soon there'll be a new release version after David Gerber has finished the
configurable popup menus.
Of AmTelnet there's a test version which is supposed to fix the problems with
Z-modem-transfers in conjunction with Miami - or maybe not.
Besides that Oliver Wagner has released the source code for MicroDot-1 (not 2).
Download: md1_src_01.lzx (391K)
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15.Oct.2000
Michael Heider on ANF
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Amiga Database for SuSE Linux PPC
Michael Heider wrote:
Using the title link you find some helpful texts and also some configuration
files in the newly installed Amiga data base for SuSE Linux PPC (both versions).
Among other things it is now possible to use SAX and YAST2 under SuSE Linux PPC
on the Amiga,too. The data needed for that are ready for download on my homepage.
I also want to announce that in the next few days there'll be a kernel 2.2.10 for
all Linux_m68k users ready for download which also works with the Linux_m68k CD I
created.
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15.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com
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Facts about AmigaDE
Gary Peake, Director Support Amiga Inc., has posted on October 14th, 2000
facts on the Open Amiga mailing list regarding the AmigaDE.
This posting summarizes different known information.
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15.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame Celebrates fourth Anniversary
The online game magazine "Amiga Flame" celebrates its fourth anniversary. Four
years ago it was introduced to the public for the first time to show that an
Amiga games market exists. Now, after the past years full of hard work they
foresight hopefully
thanks to the Amiga Digital Environment (AmigaDE), and the AmigaOne.
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15.Oct.2000
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio Tutorial for SMPTE sync.
On the website of AudioLabs a tutorial was released which deals with
synchronized audio output via an external SMPTE source
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15.Oct.2000
Richard A. Poser via email
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AmigAIM 0.9396 beta
On October 15th, 2000 Richard H. Poser has released the beta version 0.9396
of AmigAIM. This program makes it possible to use the AOL-Instant-Messenger-system
"AIM". Compared to the previous version the following has changed:
- I think I isolated the problems with the Password being saved improperly,
Capitalization and Spacing in ScreenName used for signon should no longer
matter - I found that an Earlier built in data conversion was attempting
a conversion anyway if spaces were used in the ScreenName in the Signon. I
call the problem, the "amazingly growing password"
- I also now restrict the length of the ScreenName and PassWord entry blocks
to a maximum of 16 characters (Longest AIM will allow anyway. Not sure why
I hadn't done this already)
Download:
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15.Oct.2000
Christian Bauer
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Basilisk II Homepage Reworked
The homepage of the Mac emulator "Basilisk II" has been reworked and newly
designed. The 68k MacIntosh Emulator is obtainable for AmigaOS, BeOS, Unix, Linux,
and Windows.
The Amiga binaries can be found here.
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14.Oct.2000
Dirk Baeyens on ANF
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ACG News
The Belgium Amiga Club ACG have a new version of the
Dutch newsletter "acgmail 86 Oktober 2000".
In the first article the club is asking for help from
the Belgium and Holland Amiga-users. Because there are
less and less Amiga users in the club they are considering
to stop the Amiga part of the club. If you want to help
you can e-mail us - vissers.erwin@altavista.net.
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14.Oct.2000
Thomas Dellert via eMail
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DCE Obtains Exclusive Rights for the Voodoo CGX Drivers
Vision Factory Development (VFD) and DCE Computer Service have signed an
exclusive contract on the usage rights of the "CGX Voodoo"-drivers. Contrary to
some declarations, this driver will only be available for the G-REX PCI
board.
Complete announcement at the title link.
In this context please check out the official announcement at CyberGraphX.
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14.Oct.2000
VMC
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VMC News
From now on, the VMC-ISDN and HyperCOM user-forums may again be used
without any problems. All of the links of our vmc.de domain have been
transfered to our usbhop.de until the definitive re-transfer.
Also, Mr. Frank of VMC asks Mr. Schönfeld of Individual Computers to expose
the true facts.
More infos at the title link.
Supplement:
Since amiga-news does not want to become the scene of such
conflicts, we would like to ask our readers, who want to be informed about the
process of this conflict, to get information directly on the websites of the relevant
companies: VMC ./.
Individual Computers.
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14.Oct.2000
H&P
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H&P: New ImageFX Offers
For a limited period of time we offer all of the ImageFX packages (also all of
the updates) including the PPC-Expansion PowerStation. You can get an overview
on the offers in the press release at the title link.
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14.Oct.2000
Juergen A. Theiner on ANF
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SWOS Tournament in Danger!
What a pity. It could have been so cool! Actually I had planned to host a SWOS
tournament at the AmigaMeeting. Sponsors had quickly been found. Now the whole
thing might not take place.
- My ride has jumped off: Persons from the region Aix-la-Chapelle/Cologne who want to go
there please contact me!
- Only 3 people (including me) have registered until now. All interested
people please register!
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14.Oct.2000
Frogger-Homepage
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FROGGER - New Beta-Version of the well known MPEG-Player
FROGGER a MPEG-Player for the AMIGA that allows acceptable replay
speeds even on slower cpus (68030).
The '1.62 beta 2' version of the program, a further development of the 68K-
and PPC-version, can be downloaded at the title link.
On the FROGGER download-site there is also a new FROGGER-Start-Pic.
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14.Oct.2000
AROS
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AROS: Development Status
On oktober 11th, 2000 AROS has released a status report about the current status of
this Open Source project. The changes concern mainly the AROS version for
x86 computers.
Cleaning-up of the AROS source tree by Bernardo Innocenti, simple hardfile
support of FFS formatted floppy disks (ADF) by Georg Steger, and better mouse
support for AROS native/x86 by Tobias Seiler (mouse buttons work now). Georg
threw in some additional code to change the position of the mouse pointer on
the screen, and now you can move the window around. Since VGA.HIDD doesn't
support the XOR drawing mode, yet there is still some graphics garbage when you move
the window, but that should be fixed, soon.
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14.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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StarOffice-Sourcecode Released
Sun has released the source code of StarOffice as Open Source on October 13th,
2000. This is the pre-release of StarOffice 6.0. The further development of
the package has been handed over to the OpenOffice-Project.
The source code is 400 MByte in size, and is available for download at the OpenOffice
website for download. It contains 35,000 files which count all together some
9 million lines of C++ code. A Pentium III computer with 256 MB RAM and Linux
would need some 20 hours to compile the package. The space required on the
harddrive will grow up to 2 GByte while doing this. Currently supported are
Windows, Linux, and Solaris. A version for Mac OsX, which is said to be still in an
earlier stade, should follow.
Sun themself will still participate in developing the Office package in the future
through their development department in Hamburg, and release official StarOffice
versions basing on OpenOffice. Those will also contain components which
Sun has acquired from thrid party companies and thus are not part of the
OpenOffice package. These components include the spell checker, the thesaurus
and the database Adabas D.
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14.Oct.2000
Martin "Mason" Merz in ANF
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MI News: AppMI - 5. Release
AppMI is a freeware collection of images and animations for toolbars with
GlowIcons design, which would perhaps become a standard for the Classic Amiga
System. The fourth update has been completed now.
The new archive contains 66 new or reworked images, 2 new animations and a
new HTML documentation for easier navigation. More informations about AppMI
are available here.
The archive for registered users will be sent to them by email soon.
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14.Oct.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail
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News about SView-Ports
SuperView is a well known graphics converting and viewing tool well knwon of the Amiga.
The author Andreas Kleinert is working on porting SView to other systems,
and publishes a status report:
The GUI preview of the planned WinSView tool kit still is
at alpha state while subject of intensive development. Hence it still is not available, but
by this you will get some initial impression on what it is about.
Development takes place on two levels:
- 1. The underlying C++ class library for image handling (loading, saving)
- 2. The program surface (GUI) in form of a MFC 4.1-based design
Both originally were developed using Watcom C/C++ - for the class library part
and for testing it we use the Watcom C/C++ V11 ability to develop 32 bit
software for the Win9x/NT character mode (DOS box), and for the GUI
part BlueSky's Visual Programmer is utilized.
But the design of the C++ classes is completely platform independent
(e.g. regarding endianess) and suitable to be ported for a wide range
of operating systems, e.g. certain Linux derives, BeOS or QNX. Additionally,
no compiler specific C++ specialities are used ("baseline C++") and utilization
from a clean C program is no problem.
More infos can be found at the title link.
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13.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet uploads
A-Fix_08102000.lha comm/ambos 77K+AmBoS-Fix Rel. 08102000 (Sunday 08-Oct-0
StrICQSnd1.lha comm/misc 86K+Sound's for StrICQ in WAV-format
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 10K+V1.2, YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 +
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 212K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.4 - *
CnS4.lha demo/mag 290K+CnS#4 - Diskmag with 4 new interviews!
BlitzLstSep00.lha dev/basic 349K+Blitz mailing list archives for Septembe
wla_dx_020_6.8.lzh dev/cross 298K+WLA DX v6.8 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502/6510/65816
Python16_Src.lha dev/lang 2.0M+Python language 1.6 (source)
SATKG2k-inv.lha docs/anno 920K+Satellite&Kindergarden-2000, invitation.
AmigaPoWeR.lha docs/hyper 69K+AMiGa=PoWeR French Amiga Magazine
StarTrekCONN.lha game/misc 588K+Play in the StarTrek:TNG Universe
Skulpt_doc.lha gfx/3d 746K+Sculpt3D clone Documentation (68k + Warp
stlist.lha misc/emu 13K+Lists Atari .ST diskimage content
Obitus.lha mods/misc 80K+Custom module from "Obitus"
Protector.lha mods/misc 30K+Custom module from "Protector"
VictoryRoad.lha mods/misc 6K+Custom module from "Victory Road"
brm_cook.lha mods/techn 400K+DBM by brm.
brm_prop.lha mods/techn 758K+DBM by brm.
brm_refu.lha mods/techn 251K+DBM by brm.
brm_sala.lha mods/techn 519K+DBM by brm.
VR-family.jpg pix/art 11K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
AP11Recto.jpg pix/misc 84K+AMiGa=PoWeR N 11 Cover Recto
Epson_600.lha text/print 41K+Epson Stylus 600/700 Driver for WB V40.2
AutoRunNG_NO.lha util/cdity 1K+Norwegian catalog for AutoRunNG
Find.lha util/cli 30K+Find utility with many options
DirMaid.lha util/misc 12K+Sort your directories automatically.
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 62K+Report+ 3.5: 9-function utility
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 55K+V1.21 - Test and identify wb-program
arc2arc28.lha util/rexx 5K+Convert any archive format easily
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13.Oct.2000
Haage & Partner
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STFax 4.5 Available
Now that Haage & Partner took over the distribution of STFax (the powerful
fax and phone answering software), a new version is available. It now supports
ELSA Office modems. For customers of version 4.x, a free update is available
on H&P's FTP Server.
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13.Oct.2000
Amster Website
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Amster Website has Moved
The website for the Napster client for Amiga, "Amster", can now be reached
at http://www.amiga.dk/amster/.
Please, change your bookmarks.
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13.Oct.2000
Mariusz Wloczysiak via eMail
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Elbox: SHARK ATTACK
Detailed information from Elbox
about their new PowerPC processor boards for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000. Announced
are PPC G3/G4 boards named SHARK with various processors which can be fitted
into the MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI A3/4000 bus boards:
Date Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:59:45 +0200
From ELBOX press@elbox.com
Subject SHARK ATTACK
ELBOX COMPUTER
Krakow, 12 October 2000
ELBOX COMPUTER is proud to announce the breath-taking new product: the
most powerful PowerPC accelerator for Amiga 1200, 3000 and 4000.
The new accelerator - SharkPPC G3/G4 board - is a pure PowerPC-based
processor card to be fitted in MEDIATOR PCI A1200 and MEDIATOR PCI
A3/4000 busboards.
SharkPPC G3/G4 cards give Amiga Classic computers the top performance of
the latest PowerPC technology and the power of the long-awaited next
generation computer.
New PowerPC750 processors installed in SharkPPC G3/G4 cards offer the
following performance: 17.4SPECint95@400MHz, 11.7SPECfp95@400MHz,
928DMIPS@400MHz, 22.4SPECint95@550MHz, 13.3SPECfp95@550MHz,
1276DMIPS@550MHz.
The SharkPPC G3/G4 design combines speed of PowerPC G3/G4 processors
with extremely fast on-board memory interface controlling two SDRAM
modules, up to 512MB each. The peak memory transfer rate reaches
582MB/s. The accelerator card takes control over the PCI busboard with a
66MHz PCI 2.1 compliant interface fitted with a two-channel DMA
controller.
Communication between the existing Amiga turbo accelerator and the
SharkPPC G3/G4 card is executed with the shared SDRAM memory and the
interrupt controller in the MEDIATOR PCI hardware. The new accelerator
offers excellent bandwidth to any PCI card: 264 MB/s (132 MB/s in the
system with 33 MHz PCI cards). This powerful performance in PCI graphic
cards enables development of new superb games/graphic applications in
the native PPC code.
All the currently available Amiga software may be executed in the 68k
processor with full use of all the PCI cards installed in the computer.
It is possible because both accelerator cards installed in the computer
access all the PCI cards independently.
On top of that, in new applications to be developed both accelerators
may enhance performance of each other just the same way as it is done in
advanced multi-processor systems. This is due to the fact that
processors in both accelerators (68k/PPC and SharkPPC) work fully
simultaneously, which is for the first time available for Amiga users.
The first SharkPPC G3/G4 cards for developers will be available by end
of November, with production planned to commence in January 2001.
When new speed versions of PowerPC processors are available, the
SharkPPC line will be expanded with more models.
The suggested retail price (VAT excl.) for the SharkPPC G3/G4
accelerators are:
SharkPPC G3/G4 750@400................ EUR 390.00
(PowerPC750@400MHz and 256KB@400MHz L2 Cache)
SharkPPC G3/G4 750@550................ EUR 520.00
(PowerPC750@550MHz and 256KB@550MHz L2 Cache)
Pricing of versions with other processors will be announced separately.
NEW
Please look for our further releases:
1. Development progress of PCI Sound and TV card drivers for MEDIATOR
PCI 1200.
2. MEDIATOR development line (A4000 and A3000).
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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13.Oct.2000
Thorsten Schölzel via eMail
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Amiga Shockwave-Player Support Page
Thorsten Schölzel writes:
Herewith I would like to announce the opening of the "Amiga Shockwave-Player
Support" page. On the support page, you will find a shockwave player for Amiga as
well as a configuration for the player under AWeb and IBrowse, so you can
finally see shockwave files through a browser.
Currently, the site is under construction, but more content will follow in
the next days.
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12.Oct.2000
tel. Harald Frank
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Heavy Domain Quarrel between VMC and Individual Computers!
Sure one ore the other usere already realized that the website of Harald Frank
VMC is taken by foreign content. The reader is
welcomed to a completely new pay system in the internet. As contact address
jens@jschoenfeld.de is given.
Calling Harald Frank provided clearness. A heavy domain quarrel between Individual Computers
and VMC is the cause. Until this is cleared up VMC will be accessible at
http://www.usbshop.de.
At the title link you will find the following statement by VMC:
«10-11-2000Unbelievable, www.vmc.de was stolen!
As we had to realize this afternoon the owner of our domain was, pretending wrong facts, renamed to
Mr. Schönfeld by the internet provider Schlund.
The internet pages viewed at the domain which was up to now our domain, have nothing to do with our
company, and also every e-mail to the addresses of VMC are sent to Mr. Schönfeld directly, by-passing
the mail secret.
Because of this we ask all of the customers to send their e-mails to our
usbshop.de domain which means to you, just to change the name vmc.de
into usbshop.de in the e-mail addresses for the next days.
According to information via telephone by Individual Computers Jens Schonefeld will use this campaign to force
a better position of him to the company VMC Harald Frank regarding wholesale prices for VMC driver software.»
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12.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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Get More Information about Amiga - The Next Generation Computing Platform
On the homepage of Amiga was an interesting article released about the past and future of
the Amiga. Included is a list of programs that will likely be ported to the
AmigaOne.
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12.Oct.2000
Jörg Dietrich at the ANF
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Opera Beta for Linux-PPC Available
Jörg Dietrich wrote:
And though it works: Opera runs on Amiga! Only on APUS, but better than nothing. The beta-version
of Opera, the commercial web-browser, is now for Linux PowerPC available (title link). It runs
on my Amiga 1200 with Debian Potato.
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12.Oct.2000
Pagan-Games
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"Earth 2140"-demo Released
Now there is a 13MB demoversion of the realtime strategy game "Earth 2140" available
for download. System requirements (min.) are a 040/25 processor (recommended: 060 or
PPC WarpOS), a gfx-board (CGFX & P96), 24 MB RAM (32 MB) and about about 20 MB space
on your harddisk.
You can download the demo version here.
Also Pagan-Games said the graphic for the game "Dafel:Bloodline" was nearly complete
so they can work now on the code for Classic Amigas, Mac and PC.
Supplement:
Thomas Steiding via eMail
Epic Interactive proudly announces
the release of the Amiga demo version of "Earth 2140", a port of a classic C&C clone.
You can find the demo at the download section. The complete game is about to be released
early November for DM 99,95. But you can preorder directly at Epic Interactive for
DM 89,95 (plus delivery and package). This offer is valid till October 25th, 2000. If the server is not accessible
you can download it here: http://www.pagan-games.com, the great boys who have ported
this game from PC to Amiga.
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12.Oct.2000
Peter Weigoldt
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Schlachtfeld V2.15
Due to some wrong set attributes during archiving problems appeared. The lha-archive
of the game "Schlachtfeld" was now completely new archived and was tested by Peter
Weigoldt.
Download: Schlachtfeld2_V2.15.lzx
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12.Oct.2000
Amiga Globe
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Drawstudio at Kickstart Amiga Group
The known paint-, illustrations- and presentation software
Drawstudio is from now on
again available at Kickstart. Because the developers have left the Amiga market
there will be no support and no updates for the product.
System requirements: Amiga with 68020 or better, Workbench 2.04 or better, 3 MB
free RAM, 2MB free HD space. FPU, gfx-board or AGA are supported but not necessary.
PPC is not supported.
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12.Oct.2000
Jorge Pino on ANF
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Interview with Fleecy Moss at "Temple Of Technology"
You will find an interesting interview with Fleecy Moss at the title link. Browser
without CSS-support (Cascading Style Sheets) can flush the background to be able to
read the article.
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12.Oct.2000
CGX
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CGX ViRGE V3 Driver tested with 4 MB ViRGE/DX
The free drivers CGX ViRGE V3 were tested with another two 4MB ViRGE/DX boards.
You will find the results on the Mediator page
and on the page of CGX supported gfx-boards.
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12.Oct.2000
CGX
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Elbox Website Update
On the website of Elbox (still under construction) are all dealers listed that
distribute Elbox products in several countries.
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12.Oct.2000
Peter's Amiga HP
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New Printer Drivers for Epson Stylus 600/800 v.40.20
New drivers V40.20 for Epson Stylus 600/800 printers with EpsonPrefs released.
Driver for Epson 400 will follow.
Download: Epson_600.lha
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12.Oct.2000
tecchannel.de
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MPF: Information Appliances
At the Microprocessor Forum 2000 in San Jose, USA, an all day opening lecture on the subject
information appliances took place given by Steve Leibson, chief analyser of MicroDesign Resources and
chief editor of the microprocessor report.
After main-frames, mini-computer, micro-computers, and PCs the fifth computer generation comes into
public view by the IAs. Appliances of this generation distinguish on application oriented design. Meaning
design and functionality of these appliances is styled for one application, e.g. in the case of web-pads
on the internet or in case of game consoles on easy gaming using your TV-set. This causes self describing
operation and hence easy use of this appliances.
The
article (German) on
tecchannel.de
summarizes the lecture in view of types of appliances, Connectivity (Bluetooth, IrDA, etc.), processors, as well
as displays, and gives a result at the end of the article. This result complains about that manufacturers tend to
implement too much features in their initial IAs. By this operation again becomes complicated, and prices increase
which automates failure, according to Steve Leibson.
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12.Oct.2000
Eternity via eMail
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A Lot of Eternity News
Some things are changing at Eternity, but in main everything will stay the same:
Eternity is and will keep being Amiga vendor, Amiga publisher, and distributor of
Amiga hardware and software.
This news is most important:
The URL has changed!
http://www.eternity-computer.de from now on is the new online home of Eternity. Please
change your bookmarks! Many thanks to Marc Albrecht for hosting the Eternity pages free
of charge for several years.
To make getting used to the new URL more easy for users we have raised another of our
popular special projects:
For orderings within the next two weeks the customer will get 1 DM discount on every of
his/her order already placed in 2000. With this we want to thank our many faithful customers
and want to give them a very special bonus.
EAsys! Servicepack 3
For the system enhancer EAsys! distributed by Eternity service-pack 3 was released.
This fixes many little bugs, and automatic creation of icons is implemented. Who wants to
learn about the other new features should get it soon.
MASplayer
The MASplayer which we distribute since early this month already sells well. Happily our
customers are not dumb, so we received some suggestions on additional possible use of the
MASplayer:
- MPEG-Movie-Player could surrender playing of sound completely to the MAS and thereby
would have to deal almost only with playing the movie.
- Internet-Phone would be possible with acceptable speed and quality also on Amigas.
- Internet-Radio via MASplayer is already under construction.
Interested software authors can contact us via e-mail to eternity@pride.de.
We heavily support developers.
Free co-workers wanted:
Eternity Hard- & Software is looking for a free co-worker who would independent deal with
project coordination around Eternity's activities. Good knowledge of English (speaking and writing) are
advantageous. Interested people would contact eternity@pride.de, please.
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11.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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New Previews at NoRiscNoFun: Sin and Exodus
You can find two new previews at NoRiscNoFun namely the 3D Shooter Sin, ported by Hyperion, and Exodus
the realtime-strategy game. And there is another pleasing message: From now on you can access NRNF without windows
of advertising.
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11.Oct.2000
Christian Sobotta on ANF
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A.C.SYS - News
The homepage of ACSYS (a Turrican-clone) has moved. From now on you can access this site under
http://www.paragram.de/acsys.html (title link). Because developers wonder if they should finish
programming this game there is a opinion-poll
If more than 500 people speak in favour of this project the programming will be finished.
The editorial stuff of the Amiga Future have made a closer
look at the game saying its worthy!
Demo-Download: acsys-de.lha - 620 Kb
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11.Oct.2000
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Radio Report about the Amiga
Next Saturday October 14th, there will be a report about the Amiga in the computer and internet programme
namely "Netradio" (title link) in the "Bayerischer Rundfunk".
Ruediger Engel will primarily report in an interview with
Claus Kruesken about the versatile abilities of the Classic Amiga in the year 2000 and will give a
perspective of the plans and the future of Amiga Inc.
Of course you can listen to the channel of Bayern 3 via antenna and cable in Germany, and in Europe via Astra Digital
Radio on frequency range of 11,14125 GHz, sound supply 6,48 MHz, and worldwide via Internet
as RealAudio-Steam for RealPlayer or Windows MediaPlayer.
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11.Oct.2000
Thomas Unger on ANF
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US-Patent 4,777,621
Twelve years ago, on October 11th, 1988, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) gave
the patent for issue "Video Game and Personal Computer" which was registered on July 19th, 1985 under
the patent number
4,777,621.
As inventors were named Commodore-Amiga, Inc., Los Gatos: Jay G.Miner, Joseph C.Decuir und Ronald H. Nicholson.
This patent is to be seen as THE Amiga patent.
At THE KICKSTART ARCHIVES CD-ROM coming out in December
there is the full history of "Amiga Patent Story".
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11.Oct.2000
Amiga Power
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Pictures of the AGA from Toulon
On the last weekend in Toulon, France, the "AGA The Blue 2" took place. Under the title link you can have a
look at some initial pictures.
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11.Oct.2000
Marius Schwarz on ANF
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New DirectDos Demo Available
Marius Schwarz wrote:
It has been announced for a long time: DirectDos (the new Workbench feeling) is available in a improved
version with many new functions and many bug fixes. The new functions are for example remember, iconifying,
new rename functions, and much more. Remember starts the DirectDos-tasks automatically again after rebooting the computer,
which helps you to continue to work no matter if the reset was your intention or a crash
of the system.
But the best of all is lower price: Instead of paying 50 DM for the program it now costs only
30 DM from version 1.02.
Please download the demo from the Aminet or my website. This one will move to a new server in the next
time. Therefore the programm is possibly not available all the time. The link will be the same.
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11.Oct.2000
Stefan Ruppert on ANF
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UniView V40.8 Update
Stefan Ruppert wrote:
At my homepage I have uploaded version 40.8 of UniView. UniView is a full replacement for MultiView.
It is now possible to open several files simultaneously. Each file will be displayed in a seperate
window. Furthermore I have improved opening a seperate screen which therefore works now with several
windows open. But this function is still improvable.
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11.Oct.2000
Milan Computer
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Statement on Milan II
Even other systems (in this case Atari user) have to face disappointments. Milan II was put on hold.
One now wants to make the operating system Atari-TOS (incl. MagiC) hardware independent by means of
Linux. Then programs will be coded for one time and will run everywhere, which sure appears to be
well known to Amiga users. Here some extract from the statement by Milan Computer, which is to read
as full length (German) at the title link:
«Perspectives today are good on the one hand, and disappointing on the other hand:
The Milan II was put on hold. Month of work eating thousands of Deutsch Marks disappeared as well as
the hope of many Atari users to have their own and fast Milan II soon. This is primary to assign to
technical difficulty. Moreover trying to find venture capital companies from Germany to increase fund
remarkable over month failed. In this country at this time primary internet buildings in the air are supported
and created, building fictitious million value from scratch to crash down as fast as it raised most of the time.
One of the realy seldom companies able to offer their own small operating system provided with much of software
unfortunately bears the big risc for the investors to provoke costs by matter manufacturing (main boards, etc.).
But this does not mean the end of the project, at all. Milan-Computersystems will continue to offer the
Milan I with 040 processor to all of the people wanting a Milan today. And also the upgrade board to the
060 processor is still available and stable in the meantime. In fact there is nothing in the way to a Milan
with 060 processor at this time.
Now the step which will be taken is to look towards Milan III.
Therefore at this time there are two scenarios to choose from all of them banking on that the Milan-TOS
(and with it the addon MagiC-Milan) to be able to be nearly hardware independent soon.
- A. One elects a Linux kernel adaptation to e.g. AMD hardware (Athlon, Duron) and standard board
peripheral equipment. Along with this a board will be chosen which just has to be imported
in this country. If requirement like a big flash eprom are fulfilled this can be a TOS basing
computer as before starting directly from chip. Performance with this solution would increase
proportional to the used processor and with a 400MHz would have a much higher performance than
a 060 processor.
- B. One uses a (in case of need own) PPC G3/G4 board which is more close to the 68060 processor, so that
from 350 MHz more than double performance would be gained.
To make TOS running on these processors an 68k interpreter will be integrated, in difference from a Windows or
MacOS emulation running independent native making high performance possible.»
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11.Oct.2000
Hellcoders Homepage
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Hellcoders Homepage Announces Game Project
On the Hellcoders' homepage a new game was announced.
The plot of the space game is described as the follows:
You have captured a small space vehicle which approaches other ships camouflaged. You can gain
points if you beam yourself into a ship, kill the crew and sell the whole equipment at the black
market.
The game would have nice inter-sequences. According to the news the graphics and movies are in progress.
One may be curious about the announced initial screen shots.
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11.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
mboxExtractor.lha comm/mail 11K+Mbox Extractor (extracts mails from an U
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 50K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
YAT.lha comm/mail 518K+Yet Another heap of Taglines for YAM
LCR-I.lha comm/misc 110K+LeastCostRouter for german Internet Prov
LCR.lha comm/misc 111K+LeastCostRouter for german Telephone Pro
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 7K+V1.1, YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 +
dct16_src.lzh comm/tcp 41K+DCTelnet 1.6 Source code in C
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 214K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.5 - *
js_umsrfc.lha comm/ums 140K+Umsrfc update (1.6)
GRH_Zillement.lha demo/aga 2.4M+Greuh!Zillement Beta (2nd
wpz-frozen36.lha demo/aga 574K+Frozen#36 - Kindergarden Party Edition
wpz-infernal.lha demo/aga 67K+Intro by Whelpz+Destiny - 1st at Fuck Ya
Amiga-C-Sep00.lha dev/c 112K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Sept
ConvertFDPlus.lha dev/lang 43K+ConvertFDPlus - A converter for Amiga FD
DigitalLibrary.lha dev/misc 19K+DigitalLibrary - An Amiga library with m
fda-upd.lha disk/cache 57K+Uses whole free memory to speedup V2.8 u
fda.lha disk/cache 330K+Faster than PFS also installed V2.8
fda_DviPS.lha disk/cache 407K+English documentation in DVI, PS & texin
fda_d_DviPS.lha disk/cache 444K+German documentation in DVI, PS & texinf
fda_d_GuidHTML.lha disk/cache 102K+German documentation in Guide & HTML
JsplitIt.lha disk/misc 47K+Split & join files between Amiga & IBM w
TurboDevice.lha disk/misc 58K+TurboDevice - An Open Source resident RA
Zip4mat.lha disk/misc 99K+Automatically prep & format your zip dis
VWorksPricelis.lha docs/hyper 23K+Virtual Works pricelist
tam4.lha docs/mags 2.4M+Total Amiga Magazine, issue 4
WarpUp-Sep00.lha docs/misc 30K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in S
DC-EMBond4_Lvl.lha game/data 366K+81 levels for Diamond Caves 1
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (8 Octob
TerrainEd-1.0.lha game/misc 45K+TerrainEd - A terrain editor for the gam
WormWars.lha game/misc 768K+WormWars 6.4: Advanced snake game
jst.lha game/patch 182K+JOTD Startup for HD Installs & Degrader
mkhd.lha game/patch 12K+HD Installer for Mortal Kombat V1.7
ruffhd.lha game/patch 16K+HD Installer & Fix for Ruff'n'Tumble V1.
slamtilthd.lha game/patch 26K+HD-Installer for SlamTilt V2.0
ultbbcd32hd.lha game/patch 23K+HD-Installer for Ultimate BodyBlows CD32
zouthd.lha game/patch 32K+HD Installer & Fix for Z-Out V2.0
mangband.lha game/role 328K+Mangband 0.7.0 beta - client
ADoomPPC.lha game/shoot 551K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.6
pairsw3d.lha game/think 1.0M+Simple pairs card game using W3D.
Skulpt_68k.lha gfx/3d 1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (68k + Warp3D)
Skulpt_ppc.lha gfx/3d 1.2M+Sculpt3D clone (PPC (WarpOS) + Warp3D)
Skulpt_src.lha gfx/3d 386K+Sculpt3D clone sources (68k / PPC + Warp
Anim2gif.lha gfx/conv 152K+Converts and rescales an amiga animation
Anim2mpegB.lha gfx/conv 264K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
Anim2mpegS.lha gfx/conv 282K+Converts amiga animations to mpeg animat
Anim2qt.lha gfx/conv 167K+Converts and rescales an amiga animation
Mp2anim.lha gfx/conv 272K+Converts & scales mpeg animations to ami
SmartScale.lha gfx/conv 11K+A CLI program used for graphics conversi
View.lha gfx/show 15K+Shows Pics via Datatypes
ATUtil-PCSide.lha misc/emu 279K+Some additional PC-side sources for ATUt
TDMouse-1.0os.lha misc/emu 41K+Use a serial PC mouse on the Amiga!
imdbDiff000929.lha misc/imdb 2.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
LottoPL.lha misc/misc 398K+Lotto for players. (Polish - Duzy Lotek)
BD-Dominator.lha mods/bladr 49K+"Dominator" by Black Dragon/Honoo+LED.
BD-Emperor.lha mods/bladr 35K+"Emperor" by Black Dragon/Honoo+LED.
Lame68k.lha mus/misc 148K+Lame 3.87, mp3 encoder
SIL51_Icons_r1.lha pix/icon 207K+Few icons in OS3.5 Icon format.
HowToKillAPC.mpg pix/mpg 21M+How to kill a PC
AKBackPix03.lha pix/mwb 418K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 03 (ROM-Icons c
AKBackPrv03.jpg pix/mwb 128K+Greyscale Fantasy WB pix 03 - Preview
AKIconz4.lha pix/mwb 274K+A MWB *GAMES* Icon Collection (Vol. 4)
LombiWB.lha pix/wb 261K+Two grabs of my WB, one with RTG & one w
ArialFont.lha text/font 36K+Microsoft Arial font
ViewDiz_NO.lha util/arc 1K+Norwegian catalog for ViewDiz 2.1
MiniMen.lha util/batch 97K+A GUI menu program with many application
Matrix.lha util/blank 40K+DPMS Matrix screen blanker (v1.4)
AHelp15_NO.lha util/cdity 2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp v1.5
AHelp_NO.lha util/cdity 2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp 1.5
ttflib68020.lha util/libs 252K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68030.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68040.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
ttflib68060.lha util/libs 251K+Ttf.library v0.8.3 truetype font engine
Dictionary.lha util/misc 5K+A very useful dictionary script
DirMaid.lha util/misc 12K+Sort your directories automatically.
LC2.lha util/misc 151K+Aussie Lotto checker/database.
ResetRun2.lha util/misc 10K+Resets your computer and runs a given pr
Widerstand.lha util/misc 50K+Decoding resistor color rings (german)
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 54K+V1.20 - Test and identify wb-program
CyberClock_mag.lha util/time 5K+Hungarian translation for CyberClock
CyberClock_slk.lha util/time 5K+Slovak translation for CyberClock
Fix.backdrop.lha util/wb 46K+A GUI to clean up .backdrop files
WB2000_NO.lha util/wb 5K+Norwegian catalog for WorkBench2000 1.6
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10.Oct.2000
AMI Sector One
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AMI Sector One Extended
Welcome to another update of AMI Sector One. Today there is something of interest for
both emulator fans and Amiga users. But first of all let us begin with the new features written by Bernd:
Microdeal - A resume: This article is about
the hardware and software company Microdeal which disappeared in 199?.
Amiga Games vs. Amiga Joker: Here I compare two
issues of these popular Amiga games related magazines.
The update continues with the new games Tanglewood
(thanks to the author Ian Murray-Watson who allowed us to upload it),
Tie-Break (thanks to the author Andreas Seebeck),
Wrath of Gwendor and the request
Wizzy's Quest (English version). Besides the
ADF of Wikinger 2 has been fixed (thanks to Hubert
Maier jr. for repairing it).
Users of real Amiga computers will hopefully appreciate the following HD versions which have been added
today: F/A 18 Interceptor HD,
Lethal Xcess HD,
Sword of Sodan HD. Most of these HD versions require
an installed version of WHDLoad.
There are also some new scans of Amiga games: Advanced
Destroyer Simulation, Cosmo Ranger, Outrun, Peter Beardsley's Internat. Football, Pyramax, Quartz, Raider,
Renaissance, Revelation, S.E.U.C.K., Space Gun, Speed Ball, Tie-Break, Titan, Treasure Trap, Triango,
Turrican, UN Squadron, Way of the little Dragon, XCopy. Thanks to the contributors Peter and Raffaele.
I have also added some new tunes of games: View the new additions by clicking
here.
Finally I have also added information to another 280 Amiga games. You can access the information by clicking
here.
I hope you enjoyed today's small update. AMI Sector One will soon be back with some great news.
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10.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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VMC-ISDN V3 Beta89 now including Mac-FreePPP Support
Harald Frank wrote:
After many days of hard work and several hundred dial-in tests, we are able to offer
an improved version of VMC-ISDN, which from the current version works with all Mac FreePPP versions
without problems.
VMC-ISDN is now the only ISDN card software for AmigaOS allowing the Apple Macintosh emulators
Shapeshifter of Fusion to build internet connections directly via ISDN and Sync-PPP. None of
the currently available Amiga ISDN card drivers offers such an option, but often have such
fatal errors in the protocols that make user-friendly operation impossible.
First tests showed that internet banking, requiring Java, can now be utilized with your Amiga
using an ISDN card and a Mac emulator like ShapeShifter or Fusion, installing NetscapeNavigator
or the InternetExplorer on your virtual Mac. Yes, the Amiga can do Java... ;)
Download Page
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09.Oct.2000
Amiga Inc.
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Amiga, Inc.: Executive Update
September 28, 2000
Executive Update
Greetings to one and all.
I know it has been a long time since I last had the chance to write to all
to all of you.
It has been very, very busy, and we have seen some great successes, and
some disappointments.
I have not been asleep, and to the contrary I have not been getting much
sleep of late. There is so much activity, and so little time that I have
been spending a great deal of time in other areas and not keeping everyone
up to date.
To my Friends in Italy, I apologize that I was not able to attend the
show. It was a real disappointment for me personally, as I wanted to
greet each and every one of you. The reason was not because we are broke,
or out of money as the rumors would state.
Simply, there were two companies in California that I have been
working with, and they requested a meeting that occurred over the same
period of time. With working with these OEM's we will be able to add
several million more Amigans, and the discussions went well and are
progressing quickly, these meetings were in addition to what is mentioned
in point 3 below.
Now with all the above fun stuff……
Here we go:
- The SDK for Amiga DE.
This has been very exciting, and we are really pleased with the number of
applications and the number developers using the product to create some
great products.
The next version of the Software Development Kit will be out in the next couple of
weeks. In
addition to the Linux version there is now a version available for
Windows. That's correct you are now able to develop for the new Amiga on
either Linux, or Windows.
It will feature a new raft of multimedia (Mesa, the SSEYO
Koan Audio
Engine, streaming) as well better development tools, a richer AVE and
enhanced performance.
- Amiga OS 3.5 and beyond
We are continuing taking a very hard look at the current Amiga and how we
can best move the platform forward. There are discussions on going for
some new opportunities and we will be able to share some announcements in
the very near future.
- Amiga DE business opportunities.
Wow, this is an area that is absolutely exploding. For developers this is
going to be great news. Not only will the applications you are working on
be used by your Amiga family members, but with the deals that are either
executed or in motion there will be millions more consumers joining the
Amiga family.
Now many of you began to speculate on the Meternet
announcement. Meternet
is offering a great product, and they are going to be making it available
to the Amiga community, but it is not the AmigaOne.
- The AmigaOne.
We have listened to a great many of you with comments, suggestions,
business ideas and technical ideas. Dean Brown has
been a
huge help,
especially that he is now here in Snoqualmie with the other members of the
team.
Because of this input we have begun negotiations for a brand new
design. Most of the details have been worked out, and I hope to have the
finished announcement ready by the middle of October. It is my firm
belief that you will all be very pleased and excited.
- Dealers/Distributors, and our friends in the Press:
The well of information for all of you has been too dry, and
inconsistent. To better provide information to each and every one of you.
Amiga has created two new mailing lists. Please go to:
http://www.amigadev.net/index.php?sid=&subpage=home&function=showmaillists
or to www.amigadev.com and select mailing lists on the right hand side of
the screen. Select either press or dealer, and fill out your
information. We will begin weekly feeds to these lists to better support
our press and dealers.
I know that many of you will read that this letter says nothing, and that
there is nothing happening, other than a new motorcycle for me.
Well you are very wrong. We are meeting directly with the heads of some
of the largest computer and consumer electronics companies in the world,
and not only do they see the value in what we are offering but they see
where the Amiga community, you, is the real value.
Now we still have a ways to go, but we are moving very fast, and I know
that you will all be very proud of Amiga as we continue to make things
happen.
The biggest challenge for Amiga right now is to stay focused on our core
strengths, and not make the mistakes of those who have walked before us.
The Amiga opportunity is huge, and sometimes overwhelming. There are so
many conflicting reports, and I have not done a very good job of being
able to communicate to all of you as well as I would like to.
We are getting much closer every day, and everyone of you are a major part
of the Amiga Family's success.
Bill McEwen and the rest of the Amiga Team
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09.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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"Exodus - The Last War" and Appeal regarding a New Game
At the moment there were four different versions of "Exodus - The Last War" released : a polish, a german,
an english, and a french one.
Soon the Czech version will be available for download.
APPEAL
There are plans for developing another game; code name "Husaria". In Polish this means a kind of heavy cavalry, soldiers
specialized for fast attacks, which were noted for their victories particulary during the 17th century. For example King
Jan III Sobieski who has supported Austria against Turkey in the battle near Vienna.
For this new project the programmers are looking for the following things:
- Maps of Europe from 16th and 17th century.
- Fotos of castles, palaces and buildings used for economic purposes of the above mentioned centuries.
- Fotos or pictures of armours and weapons of this time.
If possible, we need pictures of all 4 walls of the buildings,
because we need this for making 3d-models out of them. It would
be nice if you could tell us the name of the e.g. castle, and maybe send us a little map showing the location.
If you would like to help us, you can send your material via email to
darexodus@poczta.onet.pl.
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09.Oct.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail
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VWP News
AudioCutter Cinema V 0.91 for PPC-Linux
After versions for x86-linux and Windows a preview version of the AudioCutter Cinema for
PowerPC-Linux was released. This version contains bug fixes and some minor changes. The important
new feature is a function for 2-dimensional and spectral sample analysis.
The preview-version can be downloaded here.
For further informations have a look at AudioCutter.de.
AudioCutter needs Java. We recommend for PPC-Linux the Java Virtual Machine by
blackdown.org.
Unfortunately it is not very fast, but it runs very stable.
AudioCutter Cinema for PPC-Linux on Amiga
The PPC-Linux version were even tested on an Amiga and runs very well on it.
The only thing is that you need is a kernel with audio support (Amiga-DMA sound).
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09.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
There are new interviews with Christian Steiner (Sharks) and Roman Schaub (Ancor).
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09.Oct.2000
AmigaImpact
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Plans for a Central Amiga-Faq-Page by French Amiga Users
The French Amiga site 'Universe' plan to install a central page for Amiga-FAQs.
Because they would like to offer these pages in English too, hence they are looking for translators.
Further informations are available at the title link.
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09.Oct.2000
Michael Lange on ANF
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AWeb 3.4 Internet Browser with New Features
Michael Lange wrote:
An article published at the AWeb-mailinglist unveils some new features of AWeb 3.4:
- Enhanced JavaScript (supports some JavaScript v1.2 commands)
- Support for AmiSSL
- Option to disable banner-ads
- Designed SELECT-objects appear now as a popup-menu
- Context menus are using now the same palette as the system-menus
- Better navigation by support for wheel mice
- Function for displaying "tool tips" ('ALT' tags)
- Support for "FONT FACES" including the possibility of using different fonts in the same HTML-document
This is just a short overview of the whole article by AmigActive. The
new issue contains screen shots of the upcoming version 3.4.
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09.Oct.2000
Telepolis Online Magazin
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Inventor of the World Wide Web Contra Censorship
«Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the WWW ten years ago, speaks contra the content control in the internet.»
In a longer article Tim Bernes-Lee notes why he is speaking contra control by law in the internet, and shows his point of
view of the media internet as well as of it's evaluation. The talk between Tim Bernes-Lee and the Observer-News are to find
here.
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09.Oct.2000
Truetype for Amiga
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Fonts: New ttf.library V0.8.3
Version 0.8.3 of the Truetype-Font-Library were released.
The ttf.library adds the possibility of using TrueType compatible fonts.
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09.Oct.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail
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AmigAIM Beta version 0.9395
The new betaversion 0.9395 of the chat client for the AOL network "AmigAIM" is available for download now.
The changes:
- Fixed problems with showing of Auto Responses from an Away Buddy, as well as
now sending a real Auto Response message when supposed to when Away and one
is set (Was sending as normal message, automatically)
- Away window now shows nicks and number of messages received while being away,
as well as time of last message.
Download:
AmigAIM_BETA.lha - Complete archive
AmigAIM.lha - Update
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09.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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New interview with Hyperion Entertainment
There is an new interview with Hyperion available.
This time we spoke with Ben Hermans, the head of the entire group.
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09.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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Exodus - The Last War
As we reported in september, the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz"
will publish there game "Exodus - The Last War" very soon.
Now there is a demo version (14mb) available. The demo was split into 3 files.
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09.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank at ANF
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Update of the VMC Technical Library
The public informations in the Technical Library
were reworked, and links to our manufactores used were added.
Beside many smaller corrections some additional information on the products has been added. Furthermore
direct links to available data sheets of the components use by us were enclosed. All data sheets are
available as PDF files (Adobe AcrobatReader) and by this can be freely used by any interested person.
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08.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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SpeedCOM A1200 and PARalizer
The SpeedCOM 1200 is a serial interface board designed for use with the clock
port and can transfer up to 460 kbs. As the board address can be changed, it is
possible to use two of these boards simultaneously. It has been developed by Artur Gadawski.
Currently he's working on the PARalizer, a board with a parallel interface.
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08.Oct.2000
Thomas Wenzel on ANF
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AmigaAMP Homepage Moves
Thomas Wenzel wrote:
Since amiga-software.com understandably will close their current design soon, Marc
has kindly made it possible for me to continue my supply at amigaamp.de.
The mailing list will continue at amiga-software.com for the time being.
Unfortunately my CyberStormPPC presently is broken, so that I
cannot continue to work on AmigaAMP. Incoming e-mails can also be answered in a
limited way, because it's only half the fun without YAM :-)
As soon as my Amiga works again I'll attend to v2.8 final of AmigaAMP. Please,
be patient...
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08.Oct.2000
AmiSpaTra
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8. Internet Amiga F1GP Championship
On 15. October 2000 starts the 8. internet championship with the racing game
"Formula One Grand Prix" (F1GP) by Microprose. Here you have, thanks to the
internet, the possibility to prove your skills worldwide in competition with
the other participants.
The conditions for participation, the rankings of the past years, and further
informations can be accessed via the title link.
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08.Oct.2000
Amiga Active
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Amiga Active #13
Already on 28. September 2000 the 13. issue of the British Amiga magazine "Amiga
Active" has been released. With this issue the magazine celebrates the first
anniversary. Additionally the website is online with new design since October 1st.
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08.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via email
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Amiga Arena News: AudioCutter demo
AudioCutterDemo - World premiere!
(LinuxPPC version 0.91)
The Amiga Arena is proud to worldwide exclusively present
in cooperation with Virtual Worlds Productions
to all Amiga/LinuxPPC users the demo version
v.0.9.1 of the audio software "AudioCutter - Linux PPC" for download.
(The link is exclusively placed in the Amiga Arena!)
Furthermore a special price offer regarding AudioCutter will be made possible to
all Amiga Arena visitors.
Hint for the demo version: It's not possible to save with the demo version!
AudioCutter Informationen:
The AudioCutter Cinema is not an "ordinary" audio software, but integrates extensive
functions which make synthesizing, manipulating, converting and editing of
sounds possible. Additional to the editing and cutting functions there is an extensive
support for surround sound offered.
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08.Oct.2000
ANN
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AmiHoo Online Again
The Amiga specific web directory AmiHoo again is accessible at the known URL.
(http://www.amihoo.com/).
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08.Oct.2000
ANN
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ACE 2000 - The Alternative Computer Expo
On October 21st - 22nd, 2000 the Alternative Computer Expo will take place in Melbourne,
Australia. This exhibition deals with all current alternative operating systems
like Linux, AmigaOS, MacOS, UNIX, OS/2, BeOS, RiscOS, QNX and more.
Among others Amiga International, Red Hat, Vaporware, REBOL Forces, Amiga Technology Australia, and
some Amiga user groups belong to the exhibitors.
A preview
regarding the fair was released in the I.T. The Amiga is also mentioned in this
article.
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08.Oct.2000
Amiga Future
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The World Foundry No Longer Responsible for Maim & Mangle
The World Foundry LLC (TWF) don't have the rights for developing the
announced Amiga games "Explorer 2260", "Maim & Mangle", and the
"Collins Encyclopedia Galactica" (CEG, part of Explorer 2260), anymore. The developer
Chris Page now is responsible and continues to develope the games.
The website of TWF
is empty. Some quite obsolete information regarding "Explorer2260" can be
found here.
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08.Oct.2000
Andi Brandmair on ANF
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Comparade 8. - Amiga & Commodore Scene User Party
The Comparade is the Amiga and Commodore Party in southern Germany. It will take place from
October 27th - 29th at Emmering/FFB, near Munich. Entrance fee at 30 DM for all of the three days.
There will be an Amiga demo competition, and a C64 demo competition performed, and network,
internet, and many more things are to happen. More information and map are to find at the title link.
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07.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
OpusGIFlags.lha biz/dopus 171K++200 Flags NewIcons in OpusGIBar's forma
WW5spCatalog.lha biz/misc 10K+Wordworth5 spanish catalogs. Update 2
DalHelper.lha comm/irc 37K+Interface to Dalnet Services: (Chan/Memo
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
PSMail.lha comm/mail 93K+Prints YAM mails using GhostScript.
YerYamLogo.lha comm/mail 3K+YerYamLogo, quick and Fun Yam Logo
EZPagerNG_CE.lha comm/misc 357K+Send messages to german pagers (Scall,Sk
StreAmi.lha comm/misc 23K+Shoutcast/Icecast Amiga client
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 431K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
Lynx.lha comm/www 785K+Great WWW Browser,version 284dev10
SPO3-Invtro.lha demo/aga 115K+Invitation intro for SPO ! (Amiga-only d
UP-EP004.lha demo/sound 1.8M+UP ROUGH "Mixagrip EP" feat. Mortimer Tw
Emperor.lha dev/c 498K+Object-oriented programming language
advlite20b8.lha dev/misc 276K+Powerfull & neat AutodocViewer v2.0 BETA
MusicBox-2.1bi.lha disk/cdrom 421K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
NoDirCache.lha disk/misc 33K+Reset DirCache partitions to FFS or FFS
StarTrekCONN.lha game/misc 570K+Play in the StarTrek:TNG Universe
ADoomPPC.lha game/shoot 551K+Amiga PPC port of ADoom v1.5
ADoomPPC_src.lha game/shoot 532K+Source code of Amiga PPC port of DOOM v1
WBPacman.lha game/wb 49K+V1.10 BETA - Small workbench Pacman
RivaAudio.lha gfx/show 4K+Real Fast Mpeg video 1 Player with sound
BetaScanMustek.lha hard/drivr 71K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
likdamind_II.lha mods/blkha 330K+Digibooster mod by blakkhar with DSP-Ech
positron.mpg mods/elbie 3.0M+Positronic Robotique [Synth] by ElbiE^t1
rno-r048.lha mods/misc 300K+Rno-records release no.48 by Roz (Funkyh
Phm_Rmsc.lha mods/pro 141K+014: "Reminiscenes" [Dance]
XGToolset7.lha mus/midi 184K+Version 1.7 of the XGToolset for Bars&Pi
XGToolset7_src.lha mus/midi 303K+Source of the XGToolset7 for Bars&Pipes
DelfScope.lha mus/misc 51K+Oscilloscope/analyzer for Delfina DSP
MpegAnalys-r.lha mus/misc 41K+Checks Mpeg audio files for errors
EP_MikeDavies.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Mike Davies" external repla
EP_PSA.lha mus/play 5K+EaglePlayer "Professional Sound Artists"
PobreJoaquim.lha pix/anim 991K+The famous Joaquim anim. Now with sound!
Anabolic_Koala.lha pix/art 65K+Anabolic Koala
OS3.5-HQ-icons.lha pix/icon 263K+High quality OS3.5 icons for games P1
OS35InputImg.lha pix/misc 110K+OS3.5 Input Prefs remplacememt images
OS35LocaleImg.lha pix/misc 78K+OS3.5 Locale Prefs remplacememt images
Silver_Gate.jpg pix/vehic 96K+M/S Silver Gate
ttf2pfb.lha text/font 70K+Convert TrueType to Postscript Type1 fon
ttfr.lha text/font 16K+Rename true type fonts file correctly
DPMSManager.lha util/blank 13K+CyberGfx/P96 DPMS energy saving manager
AHelp_NO.lha util/cdity 2K+Norwegian catalog for AHelp v1.5
WbOpen1_11.lha util/cli 15K+Open WB-drawers/files using CLI/Asl-requ
RC5Control.lha util/misc 11K+Automated RC5 client control (FREEWARE)
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 39K+V1.15 - Test and identify wb-program
XPKPatch18.lha util/pack 22K+Unpacks XPK, PP & CrM files "on the fly"
y2four.lha util/sys 1K+Year showing with four digits for list-
DRemind_HU.lha util/time 9K+Hungarian catalogs for DRemind 1.55
Safe.lha util/virus 19K+Safe v14.5 - virus dicovering system
bc-machines.lha util/wb 390K+Stylish set for VisualPrefs and Birdie
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07.Oct.2000
AmigArt
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Amiga Inc. Looking for Developer
Amiga Inc. would like to employ a software developer for the Interface-Team.
Conditions for an application are experience with Ave, the SDK and
interface programming. People who have those experiences, and who would like to know more
about the job may contact Fleecy Moss
directly.
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07.Oct.2000
Allen K. on REBOL-ML
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REBOL: Article about Huffman-Compression
Ole Friis has released an article about compression with Huffman-Encoding in
REBOL on the REBOL Forces.
Thus he starts a series of articles about compression algorithms which are
coded in REOL.
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07.Oct.2000
Carl Sassenrath on REBOL-ML
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REBOL/Core 2.3 Manual
REBOL has released an obviously reworked documentation about REBOL/Core 2.3.
It has been restructured, former chapters were reworked, new chapters, and new
examples were added, as well as some diagrams that should illustrate the concept of
the series.
The manual is currently available for download as PDF file. A HTML version
should follow soon.
Download: core.pdf (4,5 MB)
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07.Oct.2000
diff.org
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Report about the Pianeta Amiga 2000
The highlight of the report (Italian) by Andrea Vallinotto is the presentation of the
new Mediator PCI-Board by Elbox, which is illustrated with different
pictures on a second page.
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07.Oct.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Amihoo.com Server Problem
The Webmaster of amihoo.com, Michael Carrillo, announced that Amihoo only is available at
the alternative address http://www.amihoo.u-net.com/ (titellink) due to server problem which he
hasn't any bearing on. He hopes that the problem can be solved as soon as possible.
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07.Oct.2000
Amiga Future [News]
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"Das Schlachtfeld" Update V2.15
"Das Schlachtfeld" (The Battlefield) is a strategy game for 1 to 4 players.
It is a mix of "BattleIsle" and "Battleforce" and has been written in AMOS
(The Creator) by Peter Weigoldt. You may download the updated archives at the
download area on the support page.
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07.Oct.2000
AmigaSDK.com
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AmigaSDK.com with New Layout
The layout of AmigaSDK.com, the website which provides you with information
about the new AmigaSDK, has been improved. The navigation is clear,
and the new look of AmigaSDK.com is well done.
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07.Oct.2000
The JOTD Patch & HD Installer Page
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HD-Installer JST Version 4.1 Released
With JST by J.F. Faber you may now also install pure floppy-disk games to your
hard drive and start these from there. The current version 4.1 includes many
updated "Loaders".
Download: jst.lha
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07.Oct.2000
Torsten Dudai
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New cartoon: Who's next?

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07.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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Apple: Decreasig Market Value
Financial Time Germany: "Apple: Different problems than the rest of the PC branch"
«From surprised to outraged was the reaction of financial analysts on the reduced profit forecast
of the US computer manufacturer Apple. Several influential banks changed their bargain recommendation for
Apple shares into warnings on weekend. Admittedly some of the banks mentioned Apple's problems not to
be typical for the branch.
Surprisingly Apple reduced their profit forecast for all business units on Thursday. The Apple market lost
52% of value, almost 9 milliards USD of market value were lost.»
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06.Oct.2000
Kamil Barczynski on ANF
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The Biggest (literally) Freeware Football Management Game
"PSV Manager" is a football management game extravaganza. Giant and
very playable program full of humor. After success of Polish version,
we have prepared the English edition. Why You should check out this
game? Because:
- only here You'll find 9 real/fantasy leagues and 40 generated,
- You can choose any of 46 teams in each league,
- You'll be playing in league and domestic cup competitions,
- all European cups are simulated (including Intertoto Cup and Cup Winners Cup),
- there are at least 10 ways to buy or loan player from one of approximately
1000 teams (maybe more),
- summer and winter breakes are full of options to choose from
(for example indoor-football tournaments, trips to foreign camps,
friendly matches, transfers, vacations, etc.),
- many options, statistics, hidden chances (or traps) gives that game
an unforgetable atmosphere thanks to funny samples commenting Your actual situation.
AND ALL OF THIS YOU CAN HAVE FOR FREE !!!
System requirements: any Amiga, 2 MB Chip, 4 MB Fast, HDD: about 300 MB of free
space for full version; about 48 MB of free space for basic version
(without samples).
IMPORTANT: We are looking for some ftp/web site, which could distribute our
game (about 200MB of free space is needed).
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06.Oct.2000
Fun Time World
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Shoutcast/Icecast Client Released for the Amiga
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has written a Shoutcast/Icecast Client for the Amiga
and called it "StreAmi". There are two very popular audio streaming systems called
Icecast and Shoutcast which are able to send MPG audio compressed audio data
through the net. StrAmi allows you to fetch these audio files from any server
and listen to them in real time.
This way, you can very easily listen to radio via internet. The program has a
MUI interface and requires nothing more than a TCP/IP stack like Miami or AmiTCP
and of course a fast internet access. You'll find lists of servers at
www.shoutcast.com and
www.icecast.org.
Download: StreAmi.lha -
StreAmi.readme
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact
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Image Engineer Online Again
After Marko Seppaenen, author of Image Engineer, has left the
Amiga market in the middle of September and taken the website off the net,
the website is now available again at the titlelink.
At Czech Amiga News, we found
a statement
of Marko Seppaenen.
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Realm
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Amiga Realm with New Layout
In time for its first birthday, the Amiga Web Directory service "Amiga Realm"
has completely redesigned the layout of their website and improved the
clarity. The navigation was improved and the categories rethought.
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06.Oct.2000
amiga.org
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Amiga.info - Developer meeting
On October 18th, Wonder Computers will present the new Amiga developer machine
"d'AMIGA" with the SDK software at a developer meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Those interested will find more details at the titlelink.
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06.Oct.2000
Grasshopper LLC
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PageStream 4.0.8c for Amiga and Windows Released
Grasshopper LLC, the new distributor of Pagestream, has made an update to
Pagestream (Version 4.0.8c) available for download in the secure downloads
area.
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact [News]
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DS Home Page with New URL
The DS Home Page
Denis Spach's DS Home Page, known for programs like VNC Viewer, VNC Server and
X11 Server for Amiga, can now be reached at http://dspach.free.fr (title link).
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06.Oct.2000
Amiga Impact [News]
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Amiga Impact Cooperates with Planet
Online magazines increasingly cooperate with print magazines. The French
online and news magazine "Amiga Impact" announces to cooperate in future
with the print magazine "Planet".
amiga-news.de for example cooperates with the German
Amiga Magazin.
These partnerships are very positive for both sides as resource sharing means
that the print magazines can concentrate on the editing of the news without
having to spend considerable time to look for news.
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06.Oct.2000
Welcome to Frogger
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AC3Decoder Version 0.8 for Frogger
The AC3Decoder (Dolby Digital Decoder) for Frogger is available in version 0.8
for Amigas with PPC and PowerUP. Frogger is a fast MPEG video player for Amigas
with 68040/60 CPUs or PowerPC and supports the MPEG-2 layer.
Download: ac3dec_pup.lha - 48 Kb
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05.Oct.2000
Dietmar Knoll via eMail
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AFD-Copyright News
Hello Amigans!
The "Standard Amiga FD-Software Copyright Note"(TM).
or shorter "AFD-COPYRIGHT"(TM) has been released for the fifth time
this year.
This Copyright Note is an offer for all Amiga developers who want to
release FD-Software, be it as Freeware, Giftware, Shareware or
whatever.
AFD-COPYRIGHT is now available in eighteen (18!!!) languages -
all in two formats, as plain text and as HTML-file.
After the releases of the Czech, Russian, Catalan and Brazilian
Portuguese translations the latest addition is the Hungarian
translation by Álmos Rajnai and Péter Kovács (again, from the ATO).
The files can now be downloaded from the Official Support Site
for AFD-COPYRIGHT. The address is: http://AFD.home.pages.de/
And of course, news sites are allowed to spread this message. Thanks
for your attention, interest and support!
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05.Oct.2000
Darkage Software
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Spoletium3 Demo-Party
Bella Italia - Felice AMIGA - is not the official slogan of the AMIGA only demo party in
Spoleto (middle Italy), but might it be!
The arrangers of the party are promising: a scenic place for the event, interesting contacts,
valuable prices...
Who wants to try this, and maybe would like to put a short leave in Italy through this demo party which
will take place on November 4th, 2000: all the necessary information (also a detailed way description)
is to find at the titlelink. You can also download an invitation intro there (about 200 KB / AGA).
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05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF
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A.C.T. Stops Amiga Sponsoring
From the end of October 2000 A.C.T. and the co-operating ISP will stop all sponsoring actions
for the Amiga area. This will also concern every sites hosted at "amiga-software.com".
Single developers or groups who are sponsored up to now have already been contacted via e-mail, but
many of the addresses don't seem to work any more or the people are no longer interested in
Amiga.
Hence A.C.T. asks all web admins whose sites are sponsored or hosted by A.C.T. to move these sites to another
provider by the end of October 2000.
For some of the sites - among them amigasystem.org - the web admins are looking for successors, because otherwise
these sites would be canceled outright. Also concerned by the sponsoring stop is the hardware and software
sponsoring: from now on A.C.T. will not deliver hardware or software products for free to "up-coming projects" or similar.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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First Details of the Matrox G800
By and by the first details of the new 3D graphics chip by Matrox are trickling though the net.
The G800 should be capable of an internal clock rate of 200 MHz, and was said to address the
DDR memory at 400 MHz. Three rendering pipelines should leverage performance of the by Matrox
introduced environmental bump mapping. Filling was said to range at 600 millions of pixels/sec or
20 to 30 millions of polygones/sec. Matrox is expected to introduce initial boards with G800 at
the CeBit in spring next year.
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05.Oct.2000
Trogladite Software
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Sender's First Module!
Sender's First module has been released today. It is for OS3.5
users only, and allows you to drag files, dirs and drives on to
the Sender appicon, and it will create "shortcuts" to these
files, dirs or drawers. Sender is a small freeware program to
move or copy any file to any directory from the Workbench.
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05.Oct.2000
Directory Opus 4 Support Page
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Directory Opus 4 Version 4.15b (Beta) Released
Jacek Rzeusik is permanently developing the source code of DirectoryOpus 4, which was enabled
by GP Software. A new beta version is ready for download.
Download: DOpus4beta.lzx - 242 KB
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05.Oct.2000
Christoph Kirsch via eMail
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DataM II 0.9 beta Released
On the homepage of the Amiga Club Steinfurt (Germany, titlelink) and at Aminet (/biz/dbase)
Christoph Kirsch has released a new beta version of the spread sheet program DataM II.
Beside numerous bug fixes this time in particular the possibility of viewing external files (via Datatypes) has
been implemented.
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05.Oct.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF
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NRNF: Pure Nostalgia ! Old Advertising, Show Flyers....
On the No Risc No Fun site now a nostalgia area has been created. On this page from now on you will find
Commodore/AMIGA advertising, show flyers, old articles, and many more, and more to come.
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05.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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New and IMPORTANT HyperCOM 2.96B4 Update
With this update smaller problems of being unable to print via HyperCOM parallel port under certain
circumstances are fixed. Additionally little changes has been made necessary to use our current VMC-ISDN software
along with the current HyperCOM drivers.
Download site
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05.Oct.2000
Marc Albrecht on ANF
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ACT: FAQ on Sponsoring Stop
- The domain names will not be canceled for the time being, but either will be released exempt from charges to the
sponsoring receivers or will be sold in early/middle 2001.
- I beg you to refrain from offering adoption of certain sites to me via e-mail. Contact persons are the web masters.
Since the domains will not be canceled, the web space could be hosted "anywhere". I would like to care for DNS changes.
- Our partners, and ourselves of course will continue to host sites at our usual conditions, if desired by the web masters.
It just doesn't match our future business plans to operate this special area for free.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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New Mailing List for Amiga Vendors
Amiga has started a new built-up mailing list especially for Amiga vendors. Vendors can register to this list on this
site.
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05.Oct.2000
The Bayona on ANF
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Pro Linux: Linux World Conference & Expo Starts
«The conference schedule makes reading like the "who is who" of the branch.
Beside popular speakers like Bob Young, Dirk Hohndel, and Arthur Tyde Jon "maddog" Hall from Linux International
will perform as keynote speaker. Exclusively for the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
Linus Torvalds will be guest at the event. This trade fair which will take place from October 5th to October 7th 2000 will be
the first business-to-business event focusing the Linux operating system, and Open Solutions in Europe.
About 10,000 visitors, and more than 100 attending companies on over 9,000 m2 exhibition space are expected for the
premiere.»
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04.Oct.2000
Adrian Siemieniak on ANF
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New Mentat 0.5.2 (english2english Longman dictionary)
There is a new version 0.5.2 of Mentat - english2english dictionary,
based on Longman Natural English dictionary. New in this release - search
options for single/group of words, localization, 2 languages guide and
plenty of fixes.
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04.Oct.2000
Michael Lange on ANF
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FUBAR - New War Simulation
The new game "FUBAR" by Rosande Ltd. is distributed by Blittersoft and will probably be released in November 2000.
But it can be ordered in advance in the shops from now on!
At Q-Lab you can buy a cd with musics of FUBAR.
FUBAR is a war simulation. The scenario of the game shows you what happens if a war begins, and forces you
as the player to take all necessary steps to finish the war. The conception of the game is to rule the
whole world, all countries, and all people. To be successful you can slip into different roles, because
ruling the world is not an easy task.
You will be the general of thousands of armies, the president of the whole mankind, but in addition the
leading scientist, manager, diplomat, and banker. Each of this roles is in touch with the military, civilians,
research, financial world, and has got connections to other competitors who are striking for the same goal as you do.
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04.Oct.2000
Michael Jurisch on ANF
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John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia-CD-ROM
The very extensive John-Sinclair-Encyclopedia by Bastei dealing with the most successful series of horror stories
of the world can be ordered on CD-ROM. Because this encyclopedia is fully based on HTML (optimised for IE, but can be
viewed using any other browser) AMIGA-Users are able to use this, too.
In addition the CD-ROM offers the radio-book "Daemonenhochzeit" for listening as mp3 file, a composed version of the JS-Comic,
short texts for each novel, pictures of the title of the magazins, and of the paperbacks, and much much more.
You can order the CD-ROM at the title link in the seperate Online-Shop.
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04.Oct.2000
Piotr Pawlowski
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Exodus - The Last War
As already reported on 26th of September the polish group "Zloty Skarabeusz" will publish their new
game "Exodus - The Last War", soon. You can look at some first screenshots at the titlelink.
The game is in the process of making and supposed to be finished within one week.
The company "SLAND MEDIA" is the publisher, which is directly connected to the group. Which company will
be responsible for sales in Europe has not been decided, yet.
For further information have a look at the provisional site.
This site is still completely written in polish. An own domain and English sites are likely to follow.
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04.Oct.2000
Jarmo Laakkonen
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Version 1.5 of ADoomPPC Released
Jarmo Laakkonen has published version 1.5 of ADoomPPC. The WarpOS version now supports Tooltypes,
too. Saving is now compatible to version 1.3 while it is no longer possible to use savings of version 1.4.
In order to increase the speed it was added a new option (nojoy), meaning without joystick.
Download: ADoomPPC.lha - 551 Kb
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04.Oct.2000
AudioLabs
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ProStationAudio V4.00 Finished
The new version of ProStationAudio V4.00 was finished. V4.00 now supports two CPUs (split interface on two
graphics boards and two monitors). There are two different versions for choice: Millenium
und Remix.
Download site
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04.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Initiative Bill against Internet-Patents in the USA
Howard Berman and Rick Boucher, two congressmen of the democrats, have introduced an initiative bill which
is supposed to restrict the possibility to patent business methods in the USA.
Above all the Business Method Patent Improvement Act addresses the rapidly increasing use of
patents for business methods.
Crucial point of the act is the declarative statement, that implementation of so called "Real-World"-business processes
on computers does not worthy being patented.
In addition the representatives want to establish the possibility of raising an objection against patents without being
forced to bring such action at law. See titlelink for full article (German).
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03.Oct.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: Microsoft Aquires 25 Percent of Corel
«By a 135 million USD investment, Microsoft supports the stumbling Canadian
software manufacturer Corel. As Corel announced on Monday, the
software giant from Redmond purchased 24 million non-voting shares at
5.625 USD each. Those can be converted into fully voting shares;
holding almost 25 percent of the entire capital stock would make Microsoft one
of the largest shareholder of Corel.»
Full article (German) at the titlelink.
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03.Oct.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
DataM_II.lha biz/dbase 777K+Spreadsheet using MUI (German only!)
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
uprc.lha comm/misc 80K+Generates Aminet upload readme files
speak_freely.lha comm/net 1.3M+Internet Phone application with source
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 297K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.3 - *
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 424K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
TRSI-DEAD.lha demo/aga 420K+Our 4th and final intro for TRSI
ExtrasLib.lha dev/c 366K+Link library
tox.lha dev/c 13K+Tokenizer for XML
GradientSlider.lha dev/gui 7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.6)
MultiDesktop.lha dev/gui 416K+An incomplete *Open Source* GUI library
MusicBox-2.1os.lha disk/cdrom 264K+Most powerful CDDA player and CD manager
VCDGear.lha disk/cdrom 79K+Create VideoCD images for burning or ext
DVD-RAM.lha disk/misc 62K+DVD-RAM FFS/SFS/CrossDOS/FAT95/Allegro D
RDBrecov.lha disk/salv 16K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
Aakt1000GFX.lha docs/mags 264K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000GUIDE.lha docs/mags 84K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt1000HTML.lha docs/mags 211K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
alem_0027.lha docs/rview 4K+ALEM's 1084 monitor guide v1.0 (FR)
TV-Logo.lha gfx/misc 73K+Small but capable logotype display
ATUtilities.lha misc/emu 919K+ATUtilities 4.0 - Replacement for the CB
TTU.lha misc/emu 5K+Create TAP images with Amiga
imdbDiff000922.lha misc/imdb 1.1M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
pie_dprs.lha mods/hardc 687K+Speedcore By Dj Pie / Lunatic 2k
Pegase.lha mus/misc 202K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
ltools13_demo.lha text/misc 76K+Dictionary and Document Translator
ltools_engwrd.lha text/misc 507K+Basic english word collection
ModeProSrc.lha util/cdity 691K+Source code to the Screenmode Promotion
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 38K+Test and identify wb-program
RAWBInfo_SI.lha util/sys 2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.18
aafont.lha util/wb 3K+Antialiased fonts on wb (1.0)
DirScanner.lha util/wb 74K+V2.12: Small but powerful filefinder. (M
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 27K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.1
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03.Oct.2000
Thomas Wuergler on ANF
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Earth 2140 Work-In-Progress Report
At AmigaFire, the new Online Game Magazine, you will find a detailed status report
about Earth 2140, the real-time strategy game for 68k and PPC Amigas, which is being
ported by Pagan Games and will be
distributed by Epic Interactive.
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03.Oct.2000
Dirk Schneider on ANF
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IFusion Soon with Screenshots
The homepage of Microcode Solutions has changed again. IFusion seems to be finished
shortly.
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03.Oct.2000
Pawel Filipczak on ANF
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TaskiSMS Update
Version 2.01 of TaskiSMS has been released. Some bugs have been fixed, and the
sending sub-routine was reworked and updated.
Download from Aminet: TaskiSMS.lha
or directly from the Taski FTP server (titlelink).
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03.Oct.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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VMC-ISDN Configurator To Come Soon, First Screenshot Online
The VMC-ISDN product site was a little bit reworked, currently a first screenshot
of the VMC-ISDN Configurator software has been added, which is currently being
worked upon.
Please write us if you have ideas or suggestions of what to add to this
configurator GUI, or to add to the product site.
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03.Oct.2000
Individual Computers
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Modification of Hypercom 3plus Module (Goldsurfer) for IOBlix Emulation Mode
The new Hypercom software (v2.96+) can emulate the IOBlix parallel ports, so parallel-port
scanners and ZIP-drives can be used with the Hypercom. The Hypercom Zorro cards are already
primed for this, however the modules for the A1200, Buddha, Catweasel and the X-Surf
(also sold as "Goldsurfer) need a minor technical modification. At the title link,
you will find a detailed technical description including pictures.
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03.Oct.2000
Jan Andersen via e-mail
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VirusExecutor Version 2.06 Released
Name: VirusExecutor v2.06
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Author: Jan Erik Olausen
Archive size: 223.630 bytes
Info: xvs.library (included), xfdmaster.library, reqtools.library
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03.Oct.2000
John Chandler at Suite101
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Of Set Top Boxes and Internet Devices
Once a month, John Chandler posts an article on subjects concerning Amiga at Suite101.
For October, he had a look at the current announcements concerning new hardware.
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02.Oct.2000
Eternity
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Eternity - New Distributor of the MAS-player
Since October 1st, 2000 Eternity took over the distribution of the MAS-Player in
cooperation with Dirk Conrad. The MAS-Player is a hardware MP3-player that can be used
with every Amiga parallel interface. The program plays MP3's in 18bit and
44kHz with very low CPU usage and is therefore the best and cheapes solution for playing MP3-files
with an Amiga computer.
A techpage will follow. Eternity will ask Thomas Wenzel if he would support the
MAS-Player with his AmigaAmp. Eternity will offer a 6 month guarantee.
Examples of Usage:
- Amiga 4000/A1200 with MAS-Player. Listen to MP3-music without using the PPC or
68k processor. Your processor is available for other tasks
- Amiga CDTV with MAS-Player could play MP3's directly from CD.
- Amiga 500/600 with MAS-Player could be a replacement for your hifi-radio. The
integrated MP3-player-software uses PAL. There for you can use a TV.
- Amigas located in professional soundstudios could encode MP3 (using the processor)
and play MP3's at the same time (using the MAS-Player)
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02.Oct.2000
Sonic Pulse
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SoundFX Status
What is build in and what is planed for SoundFX version 4.1?
- The MPEG-Saver were totaly rewriten (now with own presets)
- Enrico Meyer compiled the new version of LAME without using libSoundFile thats why
it works with SoundFX now.
- The author Stefan Kost encoded the first whole CD by using the batch-processor.
- The SoundFX-menu contains now a MRU-list (MostRecentUsed).
- And a lot more bugfixes (thanks to the SoundFX-mailinglist).
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02.Oct.2000
Alternative Audio Page
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New LAMEbeta Version 3.87
New LAME beta version 3.87! Ok, first off, since version 3.87 LAME no
longer works with SecondSpin without changing the code and recompiling,
thus LameSpin no longer works, and is no longer included, sorry! :/
On the good note this version is slightly faster, especially the PPC
version! ;) (Note, WarpOS still has problems .. this is most likely
either ppclibemu or WarpOS's fault since it works fine with PowerUP
and MorphOS) From now on the 060 and PPC version use LAME's internal
mpglib for decoding, so if you still want to use mpega.library (which
is much faster), use the 040 version...
Download: LAMEbeta.lzx - 500 Kb
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02.Oct.2000
Stefan Martens im ANF
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Completely New Homepage ONLINE
Stefan Martens revised and updated his homepage that contains the Amiga User List and #AmigaFun.
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02.Oct.2000
A. Laaser at ANF
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New CD-Rom for Movieshop
Starding today the 3rd issue of 'Space-Effects' is available from Elastic Images. The CD
contains video sequences that can be used in (mainly Movieshop) video productions. The scenes are
available as Movieshop's own sequence format and as single-frame-sequences, so you can use the clips with every
Movieshop version.
Every clip can be integrated in a currently opend Movieshop project directly from CD. A short
preview is available at the homepage at 'Software/Video-CDs'.
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02.Oct.2000
VMC: Harald Frank on ANF
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VMC-ISDN V3 Timefix Update
The recovering of a bug now proved our software being forward-looking. When current system time was set
via ISDN additional 25 years were added ;-). Thanks to an extended bug-report via e-mail this error
was located and fix very quickly.
Download page
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02.Oct.2000
Robert Wahnsiedler via eMail
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AmiWolfenDoom Website Moved, and one Appeal
The AmiWolfenDoom homepage has moved and is now available at www.antibyte.de (titlelink). Robert
Wahnsiedler is still on the hunt for a person that is able to modify the ADoom-engine for making
Ninja-, Simpson and Batman-Doom possible. According to the downloadrates of AmiWolfenDoom the
interest of the users is very high.
For the modifycations you must have C/Assembler skills and you have to read the docs. There are no
major changes to make but the DEH support must be revisde (patch of the internal
graphic/sound/textroutines by using a Ascii-file with commands). For example there is no
recognition of text. This causes games that use these kind of functions to crash.
appeal
Furthermore Robert Wahnsiedler is looking for someone who is willing to modify the game
Imperium Terranum II for the Amiga community. The sourcecode is public available and there
is an absolutely resourceful StarTrek addon available. The main problem is that it does not run very good
on graphics boards, the only way is to use a tool like NewMode, but this is a not very stable
solution. If you are interested, please contact Robert Wahnsiedler.
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02.Oct.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
The TextLoaderNG keyfile is now freely available for all Amiga users! Every visitor of Amiga
Arena can download the keyfile. After releasing it for Amiga Arena CD ROM users Pascal Gisin
agreed to release the keyfile for all users. I would like to say thank you for doing so!
TextLoaderNG is a Hex editor with many functions, for example:
- Filter for Word, Wordperfect, MSWork, ANSI, FinalWriter, Wordworth and many more
- HTML-code removing
- converter
- text encoding
The development of TextloaderNG will go on and the program will run without a keyfile in future.
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02.Oct.2000
Deftone at ANF
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New SMSEngineerMUI Version
Once again, there is a new version of SMSEngineer available at the Aminet.
Version 1.0.4
Supplement: 03 Oct 2000 - SMSEngineer Mailing-list
We are also organizing a mailing-list for SMSEngineer, now. Just send an empty e-mail to
bengineers-subscribe@egroups.com,
and then you will reveive further information. This mailing-list is meant for bug-reports,
comments, and exchange of information.
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01.Oct.2000
Arcadia
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New Demo of Bubble Hero
Arcadia released a new compilation of the Bubble Heroes demo as RTG version.
These demos require the rtgmaster-library version 40+ which can also be found on
the Download-page
of Arcadia.
Download:BHRTGDemos.lzx (4290K)
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01.Oct.2000
CyberGFX
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Voodoo3 Driver is Pre-Release for now
The present Voodoo3 drivers, by CyberGFX, are pre-release show versions, which are
not thought for daily work. A date for the complete drivers is at present
unknown.
The Virge- and VirgeDX drivers are ready for delivery and the archive will be
released before long.
Lists with the supported boards can be seen on the Mediator Page and on the CGX supported graphics boards page.
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01.Oct.2000
Olaf Köbnik via email
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
Free TextloaderNG Keyfile online
With the permission of Pascal Gisin the keyfiles for Textloader and TextloaderNG
(registered for Amiga Arena) are available for free download for all users of
the AMIGA ARENA CD Rom Edition!
Amiga Arena - free keyfiles and full versions!
The Amiga Arena presents:
Imperium Terranum II keyfile
Space strategy economy simulation
BallMaster full version
Puzzle game like Logical!
SHARKS! - full version
Save treasures from the ground of the sea, but beware - sharks make life hard!
Matrix Hunter - full version
Little shooter!
MusicmanIII - registration free!
Complex data base to manage CDs, MCs, LPs and more.
TextLoaderNG - keyfile
Complex texteditor with filters for converting different formats!
Free for all users of the Amiga Arena CD Rom Edition!
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01.Oct.2000
Hynek Schlawack at ANF
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New Version of DirScanner
Hynek Schlawackhas released the version 2.12 of the file search program
"DirScanner" on September, 30th. the program allows any number of search paths
and offers name, lenght, comment, date and content as search criteria. This
version contains internal changes which make the program faster and smaller.
Download: DirScanner.lha (75K)
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01.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame
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Amiga Flame: new articles
On weekend several texts appeared on Amiga Flames which deal with the
Amig's future.
The Future of the Amiga
handles the question why this time everything should be different.
Future AmigaOne Game Releases
lists the games announced for the AmigaOne. And in two interviews
Fleecy Moss and
Gary Peake have the floor.
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01.Oct.2000
Amiga Flame
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Majesty for Amiga
The strategy game Majesty
by Cyberlore will be ported to the AmigaNG.
The licence has been acquired by Titan Computer. The conversion of the game will be
done by Hyperion Software. The release is set for 2001.
The message of Amiga Flame
contains graphics and a game description.
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01.Oct.2000
ANN
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ImageFX Filters by Andrew Buckle
The website of Andrew Buckle's ImageFX filters has been integrated into
Amiga Resource.
The 62 sets with more than 1000 filters can now be download there.
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01.Oct.2000
Richard H. Poser via email
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AmigAIM Beta V0.9393
On September, 26th 2000 the version 0.9393 of the chat client for the AOL network
"AmigAIM" has been released on September 26th, 2000. The following changes have
been made:
- Bugfix: It seems that AIM had been changed so that the online-timer-system
had to be adjusted.
- New: The bubble help, the Buddy List, has been extended with a capability
display.
- Change: No auto-deny file requests anymore, at the moment such even can't be received.
- Change: A small change at the socket connection, which should not be
noticed.
Download:
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01.Oct.2000
Trogladite Software
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DreamCDguide Update v0.98 Released
The AminetCD navigation system has been released as version 0.98 which now
contains, besides some error corrections, the German localisation and
documentaion.
Download (65 KB)
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30.Sep.2000
Eyetech
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Eyetech: Website and eMail Problems
From September 22nd to September 29th both, website and mail server of Eyetech were down time to time.
If you have sent e-mail to Eyetech within this period, you should send your mail once more.
The following e-mail addresses are available:
Sale Requests sales@eyetech.co.uk
Technical Support tech@eyetech.co.uk
Other Requests info@eyetech.co.uk
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30.Sep.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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Missing VMC-ISDN Archive Online now, too
Unfortunately by a little mistake the VMC-ISDN archive wasn't copied to the
VMC server, which now was corrected and the new software was tested and is ready
for download.
Download site
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30.Sep.2000
Trogladite Software
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SENDER V1.0 - AMIGA Program with Windows Touch
'SENDER' is a small freeware program to move or copy any file to any directory from the Workbench.
It leans on the WINDOWS send menue, but uses a handy AppIcon.
'SENDER' is easy to install (I just tried it successfully) and one can further configure it for his needs after
the basic installation.
The titlelink leads you to a short description of the program, and to the download link (80 KB).
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30.Sep.2000
Stéphane Campan on ANF
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Interview with Ben Yoris from Hyperion
At Amiga Impact there is an interview with Ben Yoris, PR manager at Hyperion Entertainment, in French language.
It can be translated to English language using GoTranslator.
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30.Sep.2000
Stefan Falke via eMail
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EZP@gerNG V1.1 Available
The full version of EZP@gerNG is available now. Contrary to the classic edition the full version
is also capable of sending short messages to mobile phones (SMS) directly beside many other additional
features.
Other features of the full version:
- Support of the German mobile radio networks D1, D2, EPlus, VIAG Interkom
- Sending e-mails via internet
- Sending messages via CLI-/WB arguments possible
- Active ARexx port with 20 commands
- Futher information
The unregistered version is available for download from now on.
Registrations are possible via online SSL connection, telephone, fax and (snail)mail.
Several possibilities of payment are available.
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30.Sep.2000
Horst-Uwe Kroll on ANF
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Astrology & Chess
New to the Amiga market is the online chess magazine "Chesschecker".
In this magazine even friends of chess will find anything about chess and
board games. Issuer of Chesschecker is Horst-Uwe Kroll. (Website in German only.)
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30.Sep.2000
VMC Harald Frank on ANF
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VMC-ISDN V3 is now Online Officially!
Thanks to the many friendly beta-testers we now are able to offer an official
version for the new VMC-ISDN software for all of the interested, and each
owner of an Amiga ISDN board.
Though this version still doesn't has all the features VMC is currently working on,
but it fits to make users realize there is no faster driver for ISDN boards for the Amiga.
This version also contains complete example configuration files for every German Call-by-Call
internet providers, and Miami or MiamiDeluxe.
Since like all the time users have been asking for prices, functions or limitations
of the drivers an extensive AmigaGuide document was included, which hopefully
answers all these questions.
Download site
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30.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
FSCP_Txt.lha biz/dbase 51K+Farscape StarBase-Text (40)
REDD_Txt.lha biz/dbase 16K+Red Dwarf StarBase-Text (52)
DOpus4Plus.lha biz/dopus 42K+The ultimate AddOn collection for DOpus4
UnrealIRCd-bin.lha comm/irc 486K+Advanced IRC Daemon Based On Dreamforge
AKTaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 6K+YAM-like Toolbar for TaskiSMS 2 + better
Chronos.lha demo/euro 637K+A nice demo by T. Hoyssa
EuroChart41a.lha demo/mag 692K+The Official Eurochart #41 by DEPTH & IR
EuroChart41b.lha demo/mag 831K+The Official Eurochart #41 by DEPTH & IR
PureStyle.lha demo/track 310K+Demo Pure Style by Arise
TCS.lha dev/misc 684K+Fast 8-bit Chunky TrueColor on AGA
AmigaInfo.lha docs/hyper 298K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Settembre 2000
BuffyGuide.lha docs/hyper 323K+Buffy The Vampire Slayer Guide v2.2 (79)
FSCP_Gde.lha docs/hyper 51K+Farscape Guide (40)
hof-html.lha docs/hyper 1.2M+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame September 2000
hof_html.lha docs/hyper 1.2M+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame September 2000
STEP_Gde.lha docs/hyper 263K+Star Trek Guide (620)
AaktInt0900.lha docs/mags 302K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0900GFX.lha docs/mags 459K+International infotainment magazine (gra
AFD-Files1-18.lha docs/misc 161K+Standard Copyright Note in 18 languages
BruceLee.lha game/2play 559K+BruceLee V1.2
jb_pace.lha game/data 1.2M+Hip Hop gfx/sound patch for James Bond.
NapalmSG05.lha game/hint 72K+Napalm Saved Games 05 - Missions 10 & 11
NapalmSG06.lha game/hint 66K+Napalm Saved Games 06 - Missions 12 & 13
NapalmSG07.lha game/hint 74K+Napalm Saved Games 07 - Missions 14 & 15
PD_Cheater_V26.lha game/hint 822K+PD_Cheater / Cheats for PD Games (german
amiram.lzh hard/hack 309K+An idea of how to get A4000 RAM to STAY
distance.lha misc/sci 13K+A program to compute the distance betwee
VartiMods2.lha mods/chip 6K+4 new AHX tunes by Varthall
lnsM28_ClorEp2.mpg mods/mpg 6.4M+After we have gone - slowbeat techno (Cl
TIM_0035.lha pix/3dani 251K+TIM's rendered animations (Cinema4D)
TinyGICollecti.lha pix/icon 39K+GlowIcons - archive size doesn't matter
Amiga5kpics.lha pix/illu 356K+Official pics of the new Amiga 5000
JaseDarren.jpg pix/irc 53K+Dave and Jay (D from #Wasteland, UNet)
recoilwb01.jpg pix/wb 218K+*recoilBENCH 2000* 1024x768x16bit Picass
ltools_cdct.lha text/misc 6K+Catalog description for LangTools
CAF_10.lha util/rexx 4K+CommentAminetFiles v1.0 - Rexx script to
RAWBInfo_SI.lha util/sys 2K+Slovenian catalog for RAWBInfo v1.17
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 17K+PatchBrain v1.19 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
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30.Sep.2000
javosoft Computer
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New Mroocheck Driver Version 15f21
For the PC mice adapter for Amiga, Mroocheck, a new driver version 15f21 was released.
The archive contains the freeware program "FreeWheel 2.1" by Alastair M. Robinson.
Download: Mroocheck15f21.lha - 91 KB
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30.Sep.2000
Heise [Newsticker]
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County Court Cologne confirms "Explorer"-Dissuasiveness against Heise
«In the quarrel about the use of the "Explorer" term the county court Cologne
confirmed their dissuasiveness against the Verlag Heinz Heise by a just pronounced judgement.
The publishing house will immediately appeal to this not so surprising judgement by the
county court Cologne, and they intent on having better chances of success at the next
instance, especially at the background of the recently "Explorer"-decision in Duesseldorf.
Furthermore the Verlag Heinz Heise in the meantime applied at the German office for
patents and trademarks the erease of the disputed trademark "Explorer".»
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30.Sep.2000
Markus Holler
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New Songs by Markus Holler Online
Markus Holler, known by his musics for Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity,
has published two of his never before released songs for download at mp3.com.
These are "Heart of the Jungle", and "The Dark Ages".
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30.Sep.2000
Felix Schwarz via eMail
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fxSCAN SE No Longer Part of ScanQuix 5
RBM decided some time ago not to purchase serial numbers for fxSCAN SE versions
from us, any longer. As a result of this the at this time delivered and long before
produced ScanQuix CDs admittedly come with fxSCAN SE, but without a serial number
cause RBM no longer owns a license for these. Due to this we beg you to refrain from
asking us for free serial numbers, cause these were not payed by RBM and will not
be deliverd by us afterwards. Because of that fxSCAN from now only can be purchased
as a full version. Please, refrain from using serial numbers from other people, cause
this would be unlawful.
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30.Sep.2000
Darek Smietana via eMail
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Voodoo3 is Coming!
At the at this time in Empoli, Italy, occuring Pianeta Amiga 2000
you can see the MEDIATOR PCI 1200 bus-board working with Voodoo3 PCI graphics board using CyberCrahphX at the booth of
Power Computing.
Mediator PCI 1200 can be purchased at this booth.
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29.Sep.2000
Amiga Inc.
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New License Agreements
The redesigned license agreements of Amiga Inc. regarding the use of Amiga Inc. resources,
copyright, and trademarks are now available online and for download in various formats.
The documents are:
- Amiga Inc. License Agreement
- Amiga Inc. Trademarks Usage Guidelines
- Amiga Inc. Code of Conduct
- Privacy Statement
- Procedure for Claiming Copyright Infringement
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29.Sep.2000
Active Technologies
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Active Technologies surrenders STFax and Genesis to H&P
Active Technologies and Haage & Partner have made an agreement that the
distribution rights of Active Technologies' fax software STFax Professional and
the internet software Genesis will be given to Haage & Partner.
In the press release which you will find at the title link, Jürgen Haage comments:
"Genesis and STFax are strategically important products for H&P and we are glad that we can care
for their future development and porting. A first result of our efforts
will be the release of a new update of STFax by next week. We are also
planning a new look for Genesis - you will be surprised."
Supplement:
Please also read the press release
by Haage & Partner.
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29.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding
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Earth 2140
Paolo D'Urso from Darkage and Thomas Steiding
from epic interactive will present the demo
of Earth 2140 for the first time at the Pianeta Amiga 2000
which takes place in Empoli, Italy, this weekend.
Earth 2140 is the conversion of one of the most successful realtime strategy games for
PC up to this date. The original PC version was released by Topware. Earth 2140 requires
an Amiga with graphics board, an 68040 minimum, and 24 MByte RAM. PPC and more RAM
are supported of course.
In two weeks, the 25 MB large demo will be available for download on the epic interactive
website.
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28.Sep.2000
Olaf Koebnik via eMail
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena exclusively presents two more special price offers.
Both of these tools are proper indispensable for every Amiga user.
Please, support the developers!
xadmaster.library at Special Price!
In a co-operation with Dirk Stoecker Amiga Arena makes possible xadmaster.library
at a special price valid until 10-31-2000. By the use of xadmaster.library you
can unpack any feasible data files, and disk archives. With a GUI, e.g. Vodoo-X,
xadmaster.library is indispensable for the dayly use of archives.
VisiualPrefs at Special Price!
In a co-operation with Massimo Tantignone Amiga Arena makes possible VisualPrefs
at a special price. VPrefs is the system tool to prettify your Workbench, and
offers numberless possibilities to design windows, buttons, etc. Without that tool
the Workbench appears "old-fashioned".
Amiga Arena Interview Project!
A new interview with Massimo Tantignone (VisualPrefs) is online.
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28.Sep.2000
MorphOS
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NetHack 3.3.1 for MorphOS Released
Teemu Suikki has ported the game NetHack
3.3.1 to MorphOS.
Download: nh331mos.lha - 1,5 MB
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28.Sep.2000
Jens Troeger on ANF
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New Version of InstallerNG
On the "Official InstallerNG Site" there is a new version for the
well known Installer replacement, the InstallerNG, available for
free download. A number of small bugs were fixed, and a new function
was added. Attention: the support for MEDIA functions basing on
datatype still is under development and therefore might be buggy.
Furthermore the example scripts were worked over, and the manual was
adapted.
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28.Sep.2000
amiga.org
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AMIGA-RC5-Team-Effort News
Who ever is interested in the OLYMPIC GAMES? There is no AMIGA team after all.
They are to fight brave in the thrilling competition of cracking the
RC5 secure keys.
Who wants to learn more about this project, who wants to know percentage of already
calculated keys, and who wants to know the AMIGA team's position - click on
titlelink and surf the website!
And who doesn't know what this competition is about at all, will find all the
necessary basic information there.
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28.Sep.2000
H&P
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Haage & Partner Reachable Again
During works on the company building telephone line was damaged. Due to this from Thursday to Monday
H&P wasn't fully reachable, and most of all they could not receive e-mails. Now everything
is working again and H&P now has a DSL connection, too.
H&P used the "free time" to do some changes of their homepage. Impressum, copyright, and data secureness
are new sections accessible via text links in the footer. Many other pages have been overworked and
updated, e.g. most of the FAQ pages giving answers to frequently asked questions.
On the start page of the shop from now on is to find the bargain of the week.
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28.Sep.2000
amiga.org
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ImageFX at Special Price
The award winning graphics software for Amiga, "ImageFX" by Nova Design, at this time is
available at an extreme attractive special price. Further information are to find at
the titlelink.
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28.Sep.2000
Comdirect
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Metabox Share Free Falling
Metabox, once stock jobber' favourite in the new market, were not able to fulfill
their volume announced early this year.
One was talking about orders amounting to millions, that time - in fact just
declarations of intent by anonymous, but bulk purchasers from foreign countries.
After that the Metabox share shot up, and was the favourite of every risk loving
investor, all summer.
Since several days share is in the red continuous, and today for some time went below -50%
after the company from Hildesheim, Germany, released a profit caution. The initial
volume forecast of 198 Mio. DM was audited to 70 Mio. DM. At this time the share is
at a price of 7,- EUR. Top price was converted into euros (due to share split)
45,80EUR in July.
Metabox beside internet boxes for TV-sets also produces G3 boards for the Mac,
and had announced an Amiga version of these boards, the "AmiJoe". If AmiJoe
ever will be released is doubtful, now.
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28.Sep.2000
KDH-Datentechnick
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Business Plays Trickily ;-)
Selling of both, Amiga soft and hardware is stagnating - that's nothing new.
But new is an idea of KDH-Datentechnik to bridge this depression in trade with
party-gags. What is being offered? This things ist called "Orgasmatron", looks
like a big beater, and should knead the scalp catering for unstressing, and
a sense of well-being.
"Hushes while waiting for PPC boards, new Amiga games, PCI boards, AmigaOne, etc.",
concludes KDH - what at least is evident for the proper portion of humor they own.
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28.Sep.2000
Hellcoder
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BruceLee Update
Hellcoder has released an enhanced version of the C64 classic "BruceLee" with 1-4 player mode for
68030+ and AGA computers. Instead of two, now 12 opponents are possible.
Download des Previews: BruceLee.lha - 572 KB
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28.Sep.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Amiga Future: Backing Wanted
Amiga Future (German Amiga print magazine on games) urgently are looking for backing of their team.
Wanted is someone who will energetic support our layout designer from the first issue, already.
Please contact the editorial office as soon as possible.
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28.Sep.2000
ML AmiOpen
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Problems with Amiga SDK in conjunction with RedHat 7?
There seem to be some smaller problems with this distribution in conjunction with the
Amiga SDK. Details are to find at the titlelink.
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28.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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Free Advertising for Your own AMIGA Site!
Andy Mills, carrier of AMIGAResource (on the internet since the end of '99),
offers free web-space for advertising, banners, etc. pointing to AMIGA related
sites, commercial or private (AMIGA related HomePages).
More information, terms of use, and contact at the titlelink.
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28.Sep.2000
Carsten Schroeder via eMail
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Amiga aktuell International 09/00 Online
AMIGA aktuell International 09/00 is online (http://www.aakt.de).
In addition to the latest Amiga news, software tests and many more there is
a detailed summary of the current edition of AMIGAs online-magazine «Amiga
World», as well as the results of the survey from AMIGA aktuell
International 06/2000. Furthermore as it is in each edition of AMIGA
aktuell International there is a list with the available AmigaNG software.
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28.Sep.2000
Bayona on ANF
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Gary Peake: Statement on the AmigaSDK for Windows
We have, as our first concern, developers. Developers need to be able to
make money or they stop developing for a platform as we have all seen.
Windows currently holds 85% of the desktop market.
Having said that, envision a run-time environment that is so small you can
sell a CD of YOUR applications, games, etc along with this run-time
environment and know that it will load and run on Windows, Linux, etc.
How valuable is this to a developer?
Once the AmigaDE takes hold and as market share increases, then we have
even more opportunity for our developers (who are all hungry or should be
after a 9 year drought).
On the up side, there is this list, where new Linux SDK users may get
the assistance they need to remain un-shafted, and Amiga Inc.
continues to work and partner with more factions of the Linux and Open
Source communities.
And our commitment to open source won't waiver. It takes BOTH kinds of
development to enhance a platform.
--
Gary Peake
Director Support
Amiga Inc.
http://www.amigadev.net
http://www.amiga.com
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28.Sep.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF
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Heise: Motorola shrinked the G4
«Motorola introduced
an new version of the G4 PowerPC with smaller structure and lower needs of power. The new
one is called MPC 7410, is equiped with AltiVec as well as the the MPC 7400, alias G4, and should also be
fully multi-processor capable (SMP). With the new system bus, MPX, transfer rate is up to 6.4 GBit/sec.
The L2 cache can alternatively be used as high speed memory (Private Memory Mode).»
Entire article at the titlelink (German).
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28.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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WarpGIF: Rectification
If many voices are emphasing the same suggestion, so you start to believe this suggestion, even
if it isn't true. If fell for this well known phsycologic phenomenon myself.
Contrary to the opinion of many users the gif-subclass of the picture.datatype is not capable
of viewing animated GIFs within browsers. Many users claimed the original OS3.5 gif.datatype
to able to do that. Unfortunately I cannot validate this.
Therefore also with the WarpGIF.datatype only the first image of an animated GIF is viewed!
The animation only can be viewed by the respective PlugIn of the browser.
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27.Sep.2000
KDH on ANF
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Movieplayer MooVID Pro 2 Available from Today
Version 2 of the popular movie player MooVID Pro 2 is available at KDH Datentechnik
from now on. The new version of this program supports PPC accelerators.
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27.Sep.2000
Alfred Sturm
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New Aminet Uploads
STEP_Txt.lha biz/dbase 251K+Star Trek StarBase-Text (620)
OpusGIFlags.lha biz/dopus 144K++180 Flags NewIcons in OpusGIBar's forma
XADopus.lha biz/dopus 23K+XADopus.module 1.2 - browse XAD archives
eGroupsScanner.lha comm/mail 4K+Strips eGroup adverts, with GUI. V0.13
MuYaReq.lha comm/mail 31K+Info Req about selected YAM e-mail
MLogBook.lha comm/misc 509K+HAM Radio LogBook with CallBook (v0.40be
SMSEngineerMUI.lha comm/tcp 246K+SMS via Amiga - International V1.0.2 - *
SRTG.lha comm/tcp 58K+Simple Router Traffic Grapher for MiamiD
TaskiSMS.lha comm/tcp 385K+Sends SMS to GSM phones (MUI). New plugs
JavaSScrollTex.lha comm/www 1K+JavaScript Scrolling Text Aweb3.3 IBrows
Tidy.lha comm/www 133K+Tidy your HTML - fixes common HTML error
WebYAM.lha comm/www 13K+Web interface for YAM
nebula.lha demo/aga 19K+V1.01 - Real-time creation of galaxies a
TRSI-Ear.lha demo/aga 229K+Ear Brothers Promo-tro by TRSI in the ye
TRSI-Porky.lha demo/aga 474K+Porky's Disco promo by TRSI in the year
TRSI-Shane.lha demo/aga 234K+Shane-tro by TRSI in the year 2000
wla_dx_020_6.6.lzh dev/cross 209K+WLA DX v6.6 - GB-Z80/Z80/6502 Macro Asse
adfblitzer.lha disk/misc 23K+A program to write & read adf-files!
DVD-RAM.lha disk/misc 61K+DVD-RAM (2.6, 4.7 GB) FFS/SFS/FAT95 Driv
BuffyHTML.lha docs/hyper 403K+Buffy Guide HTML edition v2.2 (79)
AIOV39.lha docs/mags 1.2M+Amiga Information Online, Issue 39 (Sept
FunnynessRel6.txt docs/misc 26K+Funnyness release 6. Some jokes and comp
Fnurr2000.lha game/actio 137K+Simple game by DawnBringer
amigo5_7.lha game/board 81K+A "Go" board and player for the Amiga. v
AMono_source.lha game/board 770K+Source code for AMonopoly
ChaosLite.lha game/board 5.4M+World's Best Board Game! 1-8 players! Fa
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (25 Sept
PiH.lha game/think 39K+People in History Revision
GfxCon.guide-i.lha gfx/conv 16K+Translation into Italian Language of the
mccontrol.lha hard/hack 413K+V1.51 PSX MemoryCard Reader
TestGear1.lha hard/hack 325K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 1.
TestGear2.lha hard/hack 330K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 2.
TestGear3.lha hard/hack 194K+Simple test equipment projects, Disk 3.
vtxthack.lha hard/hack 6K+At the I C BUS adapts the signal lengths
Juggler.lha misc/antiq 241K+The famous Juggler ray-traced animation
RoboCity.lha misc/antiq 44K+The famous "Robo City" animation demo
DarcNES.lha misc/emu 136K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9a091
cutquotes.lha misc/imdb 12K+Patch 'quotes.list' for MovieMUI 3.5a (1
imdbDiff000915.lha misc/imdb 3.3M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
TheSender.lha mods/atmos 411K+Orchestral DBM with guitar by R.KAPP
asphmix.lha mods/blkha 153K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
crazyphasemix.lha mods/blkha 93K+Remix Protracker mod by blakkhar
getrennteZeite.lha mods/blkha 559K+Protracker mod by blakkhar
likdamind.lha mods/blkha 210K+Digibooster mod by blakkhar with DSP-Ech
Str_elec.mpg mods/elbie 7.5M+Stripped Electronique [Synth] by ElbiE^t
sbf_ls2k.lha mods/misc 20K+Little Song 2k - sbf/phx
crs_brd.lha mods/techn 2.5M+CRS00056: hardcorrosion :: brain damage
tek_vacum_mmx.lha mods/techn 64K+Vacuum mmx - minimalistic stomp
SampleZ.lha mus/edit 117K+16Bit HD-Edit SampleEditor successor of
Timidity270.lha mus/midi 1.9M+TiMidity++ 2.7.0 -- MIDI to WAVE convert
BileLeague_Rai.lha pix/boot 535K+BileLeague Rainboot config
Bile_Rainboot.lha pix/boot 433K+Bile Rainboot config
ALEM_0032.lha pix/misc 2.2M+ALEM's ScalaMM Digitized Backgrounds
HexShow.lha util/cli 5K+Shows files as Hex
EasyConvert.lha util/conv 21K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
ReportPlus.lha util/misc 60K+Report+ 3.4: 9-function utility
ReqAttackUpd.lha util/misc 200K+Rel6: ReqAttack1.3, RAPrefsMUI 1.64, Req
NewSearch.lha util/sys 7K+Open-source replacement for "C:Search".
VEPatchBrain.lha util/virus 17K+PatchBrain v1.18 for VirusExecutor v2.xx
VirusExecutor.lha util/virus 218K+VirusExecutor v2.05
MagicUser.lha util/wb 552K+MultiUser System for the Amiga Workbench
WB2000_16.lha util/wb 411K+Win98 Menu & Task bar (MUI)
Workbench2000N.lha util/wb 4K+Norwegian catalog for Workbench2000
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27.Sep.2000
R. Kuehn on ANF
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Help Wanted
Robert Kuehn is looking for support for graphics for, and programming of his AmiGay-Website to
whip it into shape again in some degree! People who are interested may contact
webmaster@amigay.de4all.de.
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27.Sep.2000
Individual Computers
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X-Surf Ethernet Driver for Linux
In the news section of Individual Computers Jens Schönfeld announced:
Geert Uytterhoeven from Belgium has coded
a patch for his Ariadne II driver. With this patch the driver can be used for
X-Surf. The patch has not been tested, yet. Thence we ask you for a short message
from everyone who has tried the patch! The patch is to find at the Support-Area.
Geert recently had a knee surgery and therefore cannot work at the computer on the next
days. We wish him to get well soon!
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27.Sep.2000
DirOpus Support Page
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DirOpus 4 Plus (AddOns) Available
Jacek Rzeuski has continuous developed the source code of DirectoryOpus 4, which was made disposable
by GP Software. Now he has made DirOpus 4 Plus available
for download. The archive contains a collection of AddOns for Directory Opus 4 consisting of
20 ARexx scripts for several uses, and two CLI tools.
Download: DOpus4Plus.lha - 40 KB
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27.Sep.2000
Achim Stegemann on ANF
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Digital Almanac and WarpGIF News
Digital Almanac:
Due to low demand for DA III production of an English version is doubtful, at this time.
The final decision on this subject will not be made until the end of this year along with
the decision if DA III will be further developed or this project will be completely stopped.
Every soled CD from now on will come with the enhanced version 1.2.
WarpGIF:
At this time support for animated GIF images on OS3.5 (picture.datatype V44) is being worked on.
This should then make viewing animated images with AWeb possible.
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26.Sep.2000
Torben Mueller on ANF
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GUI for AMOS 1.3
A versatile graphical interface is available for the AMOS 1.3 programming language.
This way, AMOS programs can be quickly developed using a GUI. All functions are
included as AMOS procedures, so they can be adjusted to every program. Informations
and screenshots available at the titlelink.
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26.Sep.2000
Arexx Scripts - Ron Goertz
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FW and Pagestream Applications
Creating calendars with FinalWriter v4+ or PageStream v3+? No problem - this
link leads directly to the macros.
This very interesting site by Ron Goertz moreover offers numerous other ARexx
scripts and applications for the Amiga, e.g. the "family tree". Try it!
Download: FWCalendar.lzx
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26.Sep.2000
Paul Nolan
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Photogenics 5.0 Release Candidate 2 for Linux
Photogenics - THE graphics and image manipulation software, first developed for the
Amiga, has also been ported to Linux by the author Paul Nolan.
A manual for the installation, in addition to screenshots and a detailed description
of the new features, is available at "Paul Nolan's Photogenics" (titlelink).
Download Linux version 5.0 Release Candidate 2:
PhotogenicsB101Setup.tgz - 1.8 MB
Tutorials.zip - 1.7 MB
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26.Sep.2000
Andreas Etzrodt on ANF
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ADFBlitzer Verion 2.0 Available
Since yesterday, version 2.0 of the popular ADF program ADFBlitzer is available from
my homepage. Magnus Lundin, author of the first versions (up to v1.2) gave me the source
code and permission to continue development.
Currently there are mainly visual improvements. However, since almost everything has been
turned upside down internally, it might not run as expected. Therefore I ask for your
e-mail feedback if it works - or doesn't work.
Sorry but currently the only way to download the program is by the direct link (titlelink),
because my homepage has not yet been updated.
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26.Sep.2000
LinuxInfo.de
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RedHat Linux 7.0 Available
Since yesterday, the latest Linux distribution is available from
RedHat, Inc.. A first review
is available at www.linuxplanet.com.
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26.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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QNX Real-Time Operating System for Free Download
get.qnx.com is the download site for the QNX Realtime Platform
(RTP). You can now download QNX RTP free for non-commecial use. There are a self-installing exe
file for Windows (24MB) or a CD-ROM image (91MB). Or you can also order QNX RTP on CD for $29.95 US.
Don't forget to consult the Supported
Hardware section for a full list of platform-compatible hardware.
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25.Sep.2000
Andreas Rief on ANF
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AsimWare Stops Support for Amiga
Asimware announces at the titlelink that they will discontinue the development of,
and support for Amiga-products and that Software Hut
still has some Amiga-products by Asimware on stock.
«All Asimware Amiga products and technical support have now been
discontinued. Asimware announces, with great regret, that they immediately
discontinue all sales and development of all its Amiga-related
products. There will be no more product patches or updates for Amiga
products. Technical support for Amiga products will come to an end on
September 6th, 2000. All remaining information for Amiga products can
be found at: http://amiga.asimware.com
If you are still interested to purchase of any of Asimware's Amiga
products, Software Hut http://www.softhut.com still has some left on stock.»
At the Asimware contactpage you can find the following hint:
«Questions or problems with an Amiga Product?
Asimware Amiga products and technical support are now
discontinued. This does not affect our product line for
the Windows platform. amigasupport@asimware.com <- not for HotBurn 2»
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25.Sep.2000
Andrew Elia on ANF
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AmigaSoc Activ Again
«After several months worth of unscheduled silence, AmigaSoc is back! In
fact, we were never really gone! The primary reason for our apparant
absence was lack of time.
The company two of AmigaSoc's founder members are shareholders of has
grown from a staff complement of five to nearly fifty and has recently
received first round investment. Squeeze in the purchase and
renovation of houses, and a bit of marriage and you might begin to see
where we've been! Our user group mailing list (and a couple of others)
had to be shut down at very short notice owing to security issues beyond
our control.
Rest assured that we haven't given up and we'll still support the Amiga
community the best we can in the future.
The plethora of unanswered E-Mails and lack of updates to the website
are now being dealt with (including our popular "Lookalikes" section),
and we will aim to be back on form as soon as possible. We'd like to
thank those who have demonstrated understanding and patience
throughout this time and we look forward to once again making our
contribution.»
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25.Sep.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail
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AmigaAIM Beta Version 0.9392
The new betaversion 0.9392 is available now and downloadable at the wellnown locations. The changes are the following:
- Finally located and removed a tough to find bug which would occur when the
Directory Info on the Server and Client didn't agree. It now only asks for a
decision if the data on the Server isn't empty. Otherwise it just sends the
current data to the server.
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25.Sep.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail
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Graphics Artist and Musician Wanted
APC&TCP is looking for a graphics artist and a musician for a game developing project that are able
to do the following things :
The graphics designer has to paint 21 maps of towns showing buildings, streets and parks depending
on the dimensions. One version with 256 colors for AGA and graphicboards and one version with
32 colors for ECS (resolution: 640x480). Furthermore he has to paint backgroundpictures for windows and the screen.
The musician has to produce at least 4 modules of the type protracker matching the genre of tradesimulation.
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25.Sep.2000
Thomas Steiding via eMail
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Epic Interactive Website with New Layout
The Epic Interactive homepage was completely redesigned. The webside is graphicly
more attractive and more open now. Altogether it is a great improvement.
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25.Sep.2000
Thorsten Schoelzel via eMail
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AmigaNG Programs Overview Updated
The AmigaNG Programs Overview was updated and contains now 74 programs for the new Amiga.
All the programs are downlaodable directly.
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25.Sep.2000
AmiDog
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AMP 2 Version 2 pre 5 Released
Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund released a new prerelease of his program AMP2. Some parts of the
MPEG audio decoder were rewriten and the MPEG video decoder were optimized.
Download: AMP2pre5.lha
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25.Sep.2000
GoldED Studio 6
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Last Week of GoldED Specialoffer
If you are looking for an editor with special addons, for example for programming or HTML-design purposes,
you are maybe interested in GoldED Studio 6. Until the 09-30-2000 there is a specialoffer for upgrading
from the publicversion 5 to the new version 6. By following the titlelink you can find out more details on the specialoffer.
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25.Sep.2000
Manuel Weinert on ANF
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Amiga NG - Microsoft is Planning this for Years.
Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
Microsoft is developing a technic called IL (Intermediate Language) for years. The underlying concepts
are amazing similar to the AmigaNG! There is no JustInTime compiler but the IL-modules were preloaded
and compiled into native code at runtime (with corresponding hardwareoptimizations). All is integrated
in Windows and will be released with VisualStudio 7.0 and C# in 2001 or 2002. This is another way for
MS to other hardwaresystems like mobile phones or handhelds. Even games will be available for different
hardwaresystems by using IL and a core-kernel.
Annotation of the author: AmigaNG still have chances: it is smaller, does not depend on a special OS,
faster available for different devices and not a product by Microsoft.
Further informations are available at the titlelink.
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25.Sep.2000
Deftone on ANF
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Aminet Upload Problems
SMSEngineer v1.0.2 was not uploaded due to some reasons. I uploaded it again and I am hoping,
that it will be in the recent area. Once again I bag your pardon.
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25.Sep.2000
Amiga Update
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Amiga Update Newsletter (23.09.2000)
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/ \\_ | \/ ||_ _||_ \__// / \\_|| (An Occasional e-mail
"SO THE WORLD MAY KNOW" || News Source)
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AMIGA and the Amiga logo are trademarks of Amiga, Inc.
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000923
M E T E R N E T A N D A M I G A T E A M
A S D O A M I G A A N D H Y P E R I O N
C O N C E R N O V E R P E T R O B U S I N E S S
P L A N S S T A R T F O R A M I G A 2 0 0 1
F I N N I S H U S E R S G R O U P A N N U A L M E E T I N G
T E X A S G R O U P F L E A M A R K E T
A C E I N A U S T R A L I A
N E W S F R O M C R Y S T A L I N T E R A C T I V E
H A A G E & P A R T N E R N E W S
E L B O X A I R S C O M P L A I N T
I N N O V A T I V E M O V E S O N . . .
. . . A S D O E S E P I C M A R K E T I N G
. . . A N D A S I M W A R E ?
M R . M Y S Z A M O U S E A D A P T E R
T H E P R E D A T O R F R O M E Y E T E C H
Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:
There's a stong dichotomy in this issue's stories. There are a number
of items showing a clear move forward on Amiga's part into the future
with its new generation of software and hardware standards. There's an
equally clear picture presented by other stories of the Classic Amiga
market shutting down.
We don't think there will be any problem with those of us dependent
on classic machines surviving until there are new computers with new
software to move to, so there's no reason for panic. There is,
however, every reason to see the transition as real and happening now.
It's about time, but we can't deny it's always a bit frightening to
move into a new existence and see the door to the old closing behind
you. Keep in mind it's an entire community making the transition, and
we're all in it together. You will also find in this issue many
stories showing just how strong our Amiga community remains.
Brad Webb,
Editor
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E-mail to the E-ditor:
27 Aug 2000
Brad,
I was glad to see that some users out there still have the A2000 and
A3000! Mine are not in operating mode at present. No fault of mine. An
expensive tradesman repair gone sour. But perhaps there is hope. I
loved those Amigas! I thought these old favorites would be left in the
dust of the 1200, and the new products I saw displayed by Bill McEwen
on The Screensavers TV show on ZDTV! Quite an impressive introduction
to the new Amiga.
Lee
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Lee,
Hang on, things are just starting to roll out for the new Amiga. As
noted in my comments above, you can really see the transition from the
old Amiga to the new taking place right now. At the moment, though,
the A2000s, A3000s and beyond are still working very well for many
Amigans, including me.
Brad
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28 Aug 2000
Tell Johan that we're working on getting up more Music-x stuff, there's a
bit up on our site in the meantime in the Music section:
http://www.amigau.com/
Kevin Orme
amiga university
www.amigau.com
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Kevin,
Message delivered, and we've included your note for the benefit of
anyone else interested in Music-x.
Brad
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28 Aug 2000
Thank you for the continued newsletters. I'm still an active Amiga
user and any Amiga news is greatly appreciated. My "other computer" is
a MacIntosh and news/tips having to do with Mac/Amiga interaction
would be of interest. (File exchanges via Consultron's CrossMAC
program allows some things on a Mac and Amiga to work very well with
each other).
Has anyone used Castlewood's Orb drive on an Amiga? I hadn't found
any information regarding that yet and was wondering if their
headerless approach presents special problems for developing an Amiga
driver, or what special considerations might exist for implementing an
Orb drive on a SCSI-equipped Amiga (like my A3000UXD).
My experience with the Orb drive on a MacIntosh system is positive so
far. It seems to work equally well on the Mac's standard SCSI or from
an Ultra SCSI card. The price of the drive and the media are certainly
reasonable enough to make it an attractive option for Amiga owners if
it could be made to work on one.
Thanks for any information you may have.
-- Dave --
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Dave,
As I do with any topic I'm not fully familiar with, let me throw this
one out to the readership. Can anyone help Dave?
Brad
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27 Aug 2000
I have an A4000/060 with an internal CD-ROM drive and an A500/030 and an
external ZIP drive (now, also a 2Gb Jaz drive).
I just copied the OS 3.5 data onto a ZIP disk, moved the drive over
to my A500 and installed from there.
Gary
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Gary,
Thanks for the suggestion. We hope this information can help some of
those at least who've asked us about installing OS 3.5 on systems
without CD/ROM drives. It'll require finding someone else with an
Amiga, a CD/ROM drive and a Zip or similar, but looks like it can be
done fairly easily.
Brad
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M E T E R N E T A N D A M I G A T E A M
Snoqualmie, WA - Reno, NV-September 20, 2000 - Business Wire - Targeting the
millions of computerless and offline consumers worldwide who will soon be
broadband enabled, Amiga and MeterNet have teamed to develop and deliver a
series of broadband SimpleBox Internet Devices powered by the next generation
Amiga.
MeterNet's SimpleBox Program is dedicated to bringing best of breed solutions
to their embedded platforms and target markets. Each device incorporates a
tailored SimpleBox User Interface (UI) on top of rugged solid state hardware
with no moving parts. Along with providing simple navigation and operation,
the SimpleBox UI offers optional feature-packed integrated web based eMail
that is optimized for display on TV and VGA screens.
The initial Mid Class product to be released powered by Amiga is the
SimpleBox Java Internet Device (JID) model wb8616JID. The Simplebox wb8616JID
is value packed with a robust v4. browser, audio/video streaming, instant
messaging and fast ethernet for easy broadband connection via cable, dsl,
satellite and local area networks.
Unlike other currently available devices from America Online (AOL), Microsoft
(MSFT), Ravisent (RVST), Web-2U (MUCP) and others, the SimpleBoxJID powered
by Amiga contains a Sun Authorized Virtual Machine, a very high performance,
memory efficient solution for running JavaTM technology based media content
MeterNet and Amiga are also developing a low cost Internet Radio Device for
worldwide consumer markets targeted for release early 2001.
Amiga Incorporated is the emerging leader in multiplatform, multimedia
Operating Systems. The Amiverse offers a multi-media digital environment that
provides developers with a true write once run anywhere opportunity. Amiga
has both leveraged and expanded upon its rich 15-year history of industry
leadership in the development of what we know as multi-media.
MeterNet Corporation develops and markets broadband Internet devices,
turn-key services and tailored integrated programs. Past satisfied clients
include Ziff-Davis, America Online, Alta Vista, Shopping.com and IBM. Since
12/99 we have shipped our SimpleBox Entry Level wb6400 series worldwide.
Phase One SimpleBox wb8616JID production is limited to 10,000 units with
shipments to commence in early December.
For more SimpleBox JID program information and to place an email order
reservation visit: http://world.simplebox.com
All Trademarks are the Property of their Respective Owners.
All Rights Reserved. ##
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A S D O A M I G A A N D H Y P E R I O N
Snoqualmie, WA. Aug 30, 2000
Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment are pleased to announce a
long-term alliance to bring Hyperion's impressive list of award
winning games to the Amiverse.
Hyperion's games are a testament to the high standard set by the
Amiga community. Much like the New Amiga, Hyperion has raised the bar
to a higher level. We are proud to include Hyperion in our future. We
are equally pleased to see such a steady stream of notable developers
validating our platform.'' Said Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and
Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.
The initial list of titles being developed for the Amiverse include:
Heretic II: Already released for Classic Amiga PPC, Heretic II is a
gothic-style first-person shooter.
Sin: A super realistic ego shooter in a not-too-distant future with
an intriguing plot to solve and many levels to "clean-up". Sin is due
in Q3 2000.
Shogo: Fight with your Mobile Armor Division Mech through futuristic
cities and natural sites. Face a civil war in Mech mode or Soldier
mode in this award winning ego shooter, written with the famous
LithTech 3D Engine by Monolith. Shogo is also slated for Q3 2000.
Freespace: Development has already begun and is to be completed in Q4
2000. Freespace offers many space flights combats and mission for this
space opera among stars and nebulas. A great simulation for a great
story of space war.
Alien Nations: Development is just under way. In the style of Age of
Empires II, Alien Nations will allow you to lead your people to
survive attacks from your enemies. Live long and prosper in the levels
of this great Real Time Strategy game.
Soldier of Fortune: The highly acclaimed ego shooter of the year will
come to the Amiga. Designed with the help of SEAL people, SOF is one
of the most realistic ego shooter. Experience fights against
terrorists and criminals, train to be better and always remember to
shoot first.
"Hyperion will announce new games in the near future, as we negotiate
deals with new licensors including some of the industry's biggest
names. We want to bring the Amiga the hottest and most recent games,
as it was the case in the great Amiga gaming times. With the arrival
of new hardware such as faster graphics cards, the Amiga will enjoy a
new level of performance allowing the Amiga to keep up with bigger and
better games. Keep your Amiga updated, stay tuned and roll on the
Amiga One!" said Ben Yoris, PR Manager of Hyperion.
About Hyperion
Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian company founded in
April of 1999. Hyperion aims to bring top-class entertainment software
to leading alternative platforms including Amiga. Hyperion
Entertainment has license agreements with many of the top names in the
industry including Interplay, Activision and Monolith with more deals
to be made public soon.
Whilst Hyperion's primary expertise is in the field of 3D engines
(LithTech, Quake 2), the company has recently been working with its
publisher Titan (www.titan-computer.com) on expanding its line-up with
strategy and RTS games as well as RPG's and simulators. The results of
these efforts will be announced over the course of the next few
months. Hyperion Entertainment is also investigating the possibility
of applying its expertise in the field of 3D graphics to
non-entertainment related areas. For additional information, please
see www.hyperion-software.com .
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C O N C E R N O V E R P E T R O B U S I N E S S
A recent posting on the Amiga-news.de website created a mini-uproar
in the Amiga community. The posting stated that Petro Tyschtschenko,
long time bastion of the Amiga community and head of Amiga
Deutschland, had founded a new company in partnership with a Frank
Basta. The company, called Power Service BmbH, appears to be a
supplier of tempory workers for software firms.
A response from Petro posted on the Czech Amiga News site indicated
no intent to leave the Amiga community or Amiga itself behind:
"Sorry but I have no plans to quit. I have only invested 50 % in Power
Service, which is a company I believe in. It is no Computer Company and no
competition... Power Service is a Job agency for IT Specialists. I will
continue with my beloved AMIGA. Best regards and thanks for your
mail...Petro"
Several web sites carried the following quote from Amiga Inc's CEO
Bill McEwen at the time the original announcement was made:
"I would be shocked and personally hurt to find out that Petro has
not been making Amiga his first priority, and that he has been using
his Amiga paid trips to India for his own personal gain. We pay him a
wonderful salary, we pay for his Mercedes, his cell phone, and his
beautiful offices. He has never spoken to me about any issues or
problems, and if he has truly been using our money and time to promote
his own company I will be extremely disappointed. I hope that
Amiga-News is wrong in their findings."
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P L A N S S T A R T F O R A M I G A 2 0 0 1
28 Aug 2000
Amiga Fans everywhere,
Amigan-St. Louis is proud to announce that the next Gateway Computer
Show... Amiga2001, will be held on March 30, 31 and April 1, 2001.
This exciting event, Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey, will be our best
yet. Due to the demise of the Henry VIII hotel, it's being torn down,
we had to move our venue to a new location.
The good news is that this place has lots to offer. The show will be
hosted at the Sheraton Westport Plaza. This Sheraton has the same old
world charm that the Henry VIII did, but offers much more. It has
parking for over 3,000 cars. It's location, at West Port Plaza is
really terrific, as that puts it in the middle of entertainment,
restaurants, pubs, shopping, eateries, movie theaters, live theater, a
jazz club and much more. Under cover parking is available too.
We'll be posting something on our web site by the end of September,
so keep an eye out. In the mean time, get your vacations lined up for
March 30 - April 1. Perhaps you'd like to come early or stay longer
and arrange a little fun in St. Louis. This is an exciting town, and
your family would be certain to enjoy it if you bring them.
http://www.amiga-stl.com
Amiga2001 - An Amiga Odyssey
Sheraton at Westport, St. Louis, MO. USA
Friday March 30 thru Sunday April 1, 2001
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F I N N I S H U S E R S G R O U P A N N U A L M E E T I N G
ESPOO, FINLAND - September 21, 2000 - Finnish Amiga Users Group will
host its annual user group meeting on Saturday September 30th from
14:00 to 17:45 in Espoo, Finland. The event will start with a formal
meeting, and an informal part will follow after 15:30 o'clock.
An Amiga dealer will be present with various Amiga items for sale.
The user group will also demonstrate the Amiga Software Development
Kit on Linux. Other highlights include various Amiga magazines for
reading, demonstration of licensed Amiga mobile phone covers and
plenty of good company. Admission is free of charge and free soft
drinks will be available.
Please visit http://batman.jytol.fi/~saku/ or our mirror site
http://tzimmola.tky.hut.fi/saku/ for instructions on how to get there,
latest news, IRC coverage, webcam and more. E-mail inquiries may be
sent to Anu Seilonen (thoriel@sci.fi).
About Finnish Amiga Users Group
Finnish Amiga Users Group (Suomen Amiga-käyttäjät ry.) is a
non-profit organization for promoting Amiga computing and helping
Amiga users in Finland. Also known as Saku, after its e-zine, the
group is trying to accomplish its goals by organizing meetings and by
publishing an e-zine. Since 1993 the Finnish Amiga Users Group and its
predecessors have released over thirty issues of the magazine and held
several public gatherings. Other accomplishments include the Web site
and Sakunet, a national Fidonet style network of Amiga related
bulletin board systems.
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T E X A S G R O U P F L E A M A R K E T
18 August, 2000
Flea Market Extravaganza '00
Where: The Brookside Convention Center, Hurst, Texas
When: Saturday, October 14, 2000
Time: 12:00 to 4:00pm
Admission: Free
Background
This year we are putting on our fourteenth annual computer Amiga
show. So come and join us and show your support for the Amiga.
Amiga Computer Flea Market
Hardware and Software for Amiga computers, from members and
non-members, will be for sale. The flea market will be open to members
for a fee of 5% on items sold. A fee of 10% will be charged to
non-members on items sold.
This year tables will be available to rent for the show to
individuals. The cost for one table will be $15.00 for members and
$20.00 for non-members. Please make arrangements in advance, space is
limited.
o Sellers:
Items for sale must be turned into a club representative. Prices are
set ahead of time and sales are handled by club representatives.
Arrangements MUST BE MADE IN ADVANCE. Items will NOT be accepted on
the day of the show. There will be no exceptions. For further details
please contact the club or one of the club's representatives. Items to
be sold at the flea market may be turned in at one of the chapter
meetings or you may make arrangements with one of these club
representatives:
Mark Stodola Cedar Hill (972) 299-6824
Ned Kelly Arlington (817) 277-5825
David Owens Fort Worth (817) 847-5486
Dan Stockelman Dallas (972) 985-8522
o Buyers:
Cash and checks accepted from members.
Cash only accepted from non-members.
Prices will be reduced at 3:00 pm.
Door Prizes
A drawing will be held at the end of the day. You must be present to
win.
Amiga Computer Dealers
Space is available to rent for dealers, companies or user groups.
Please inquire on rates.
MCCC Amiga Library
The entire MCCC library of Amiga computer disks, over 2,000 disks,
will be available.
Special Membership Offer
13 months for the price of 12. This offer is good for new or renewed
memberships.
Jay Miner Memorial Tape
The MCCC will be offering a two hour VHS tape of highlights of past
METCOMs and a short club history. The centerpiece of the tape is Jay
Miner's speech and question and answer session at METCOM 89. The cost
will be $9.00 for members and $15.00 for non-members. A PAL version is
also available at a slightly higher price. A limited number will be
available at the show, but if the response is good orders will be
taken.
Directions & Parking:
The Brookside Convention Center is located at 1244 Brookside Drive in
Hurst. To get to the Convention Center get to Highway 183/121 and take
the Precinct Line Road exit and drive south on Precinct Line Road.
After approximately 0.3 miles turn left (east), on Bedford Euless
Road. Drive 0.4 miles to Brookside Drive. The Convention Center is on
the southeast corner. There is plenty of parking space, and parking is
free.
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A C E I N A U S T R A L I A
Alternative Computer Expo
Including:
Linux - ACE
Amiga Computer Expo
Apple Computer Expo
Acorn Computer Expo
Australian Connectivity Expo
ACE is about Alternatives.
ACE is about Connecting people.
ACE is about Enhancing the user experience.
It's about using computers.
It's about solutions.
It's about the best operating systems.
When:
Saturday 21st October 9am - 6pm
Sunday 22nd October 9am - 5pm
Where:
The Grand Prix Pits, Aughtie Drive Albert Park Lake, Albert Park (in
the middle of the park!).
The show makes provision for families, children and those on lower
incomes.
Entry fees:
$10 General
$7 Students & concession
$20 Family
Children under 12 free
Globally the largest Amiga participation.
While ACE 2000 is being well recieved by the computing public of many
platforms. It is particularly significant for the Amiga community. ACE
2000 is now expected to have the largest Amiga participation of any
show this year. This is easily larger than any Australian Amiga show
of recent times. All Australian dealers of Amiga products are planning
to attend! A number of overseas dealers are also in the process of
confirming.
Power Computing (UK) expected to attend.
ACE to host OS/2 install-fest!
Apple's new OS X to be on display.
Linux install-fest proposed for ACE.
Dozens of flavours of unix to feature at ACE!
The Australian newspaper published a large article about the show in
their IT section.
IRC
IRC conferences are planned at regular intervals. Keep an eye on this
site for times and dates. Paul Demark has offered to moderate the IRC
sessions. Email lanky@connect.net.au for more info.
http://www.ace2k.net/
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N E W S F R O M C R Y S T A L I N T E R A C T I V E
19/09/00
Crystal Interactive Software are please to announce that we have
chosen Blittersoft for world wide distribution of our Amiga game
software.
Blittersoft being an established and well respected company within
the Amiga community will take on exclusive distribution of all Amiga
games we produce.
Blittersoft can be contacted on +44 (0)1908 225454 or email
sales@blittersoft.com
13/09/00
Crystal Interactive Software are please to announce our merger with
fellow Hertfordshire based games developers Clearwater Interactive.
This merger expands Crystal and Clearwater game developments to
almost all computer and console platforms
More information on Clearwater can be found at www.cw-i.com
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H A A G E & P A R T N E R N E W S
14 September 2000
ArtEffect Workshop reworked
Due to the development of ArtEffect there were some inconsistencies
in the old workshop, but those are settled now. We also redesigned the
complete website. In 12 chapters you experience the amazing functions
and effects of ArtEffect. Workshop
28 August 2000
Storm C Announcement
The new version of the well-known development system will be a
quantum leap: Network capabilities, distributed Make, CVS, modified
GCC compiler with Amiga Hund format, global full text search, extended
editor, debugging of tasks and shared libraries and the new StormDOC.
06 September 2000
H&P increases personnel
In October of the past year, we already hired a new programmer,
namely Markus Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on
AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker was found, Ute
Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robl
has just finished a practical period for his computer studies, in
which he created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the
beginning of September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two
new co-workers. Their main concern is support, and managing of new
projects.
06 September 2000
Further co-workers wanted
For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we
are looking for an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge
of English grammar etc. is essential. Surprisingly we already got
about 18 applications, but we only need one or two people to help on
this. Thank you very much.
www.haage-partner.com
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E L B O X A I R S C O M P L A I N T
Elbox Computer
Krakow, 21 Sep 2000
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
We, Elbox Computer company, the company involved with microcomputer
technology for over 18 years, the company with the principles of
reliability, honesty and care for our clients, feel obliged to release
this announcement to protect interests of Amiga users.
For several weeks now, the Eyetech company has been involved in a
propaganda action against our breakthrough product for Amiga
computers: the MEDIATOR PCI. Eyetech publish and disseminate untrue
views on MEDIATOR, the exceptional busboard, and compare this high-end
product with their announced device.
It is not our way to comment on others' activities, yet under the
current circumstances we feel obliged to explain this situation and
Eyetech's accusations to Amiga users and to comment on the idea
indicated by Eyetech (or any other company behind the Eyetech
nametag).
BLIZZARD PPC LOCAL BUS LIMITATIONS:
Eyetech announced releasing a product they called competitive to our
MEDIATOR high-end card. Technical specification of this product has
been announced in such a way that Amiga users would have to misread
it.
The idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to Blizzard PPC
cards gives worse performance than MEDIATOR because:
1. This solution is only for owners of Blizzard PPC accelerators.
You have to stick with your Blizzard PPC 603e for ever.
No change, no open structure, no versatility.
2. Practical average data transfers over the busboard connected
directly to Blizzard PPC cards will not be higher than achieved
with MEDIATOR - due to technical limitations of Blizzard PPC
cards.
3. Connection of a busboard to the connector used for inserting
a BVision card renders further use of the BVision card
impossible.
MEDIATOR OPEN SOLUTION:
The MEDIATOR high-end busboard is the best solution for Amiga
computers to offer high-speed support for PCI cards.
The MEDIATOR busboard is a well-thought product, with long-standing
history of design development and a vision for its lasting evolution,
to give Amiga users power they have not had so far.
Our basic idea is that MEDIATOR is an OPEN solution, capable of
hosting ANY turbo cards from the Amiga market. MEDIATOR is not reduced
to a Blizzard PPC-bound concept. MEDIATOR gives you the possibility to
have any turbo card you want.
MEDIATOR has been designed specifically for all the available cards
and each and every turbo card works with MEDIATOR at the maximum speed
available for the given card.
MEDIATOR PCI may offer transfer of data from/to any Amiga turbo card
at the maximum speed of up to 132 MB/s. The only practical limitation
lies in the design of the specific turbo card.
MEDIATOR is expandable, even more: it is ready for any new Amiga
cards that will be available in the future - this gives you freedom
that you have never had before.
You can use MEDIATOR with any turbo cards: Blizzard 1230, Blizzard
1240, Blizzard 1260, Blizzard PPC, Apollo 1230, Apollo 1240, Apollo
1260, Elbox 1230, MTec 1230, etc. and with any future concepts like
Amijoe and more...
MEDIATOR ADVANTAGES:
MEDIATOR has been designed optimised for any turbo card type, so that
the maximum possible performance is obtained in the given hardware
configuration.
MEDIATOR automatically recognises the turbo card type and executes
the best procedures to guarantee the highest performance possible in
this configuration. This is an unrivalled feature.
This approach is much more time- and effort- and money-consuming than
the concept of supporting Blizzard PPC cards only.
Besides, the idea of connecting a PCI/AGP busboard directly to
Blizzard PPC cards does not give you, the Amiga user, any additional
speed gains when compared with MEDIATOR - you will only feel that
Eyetech's design is simpler and possibly definitely cheaper.
We feel very sorry that Eyetech in this context is apparently
discrediting MEDIATOR's performance while being well aware of their
fallacy.
ABOUT ELBOX:
We have been developing and producing electronic equipment since 1982.
Our superb Amiga designs include:
* E-BOX tower systems and ZORRO busboards for A1200 and A4000
(also known as Power Tower in the UK and Winner Tower in Germany);
* Elbox FastATA controllers for A1200 and A4000 (known also under the
name of Power Flyer in the UK and Winner HighSpeed Controller in
Germany);
* Memory expansion cards for all types of Amiga computers and many
other minor accessories, e.g. PC Mouse interfaces (Mroocheck,
Punchinello), others.
Elbox is also the owner of Twin Spark Soft, a company producing
software for Amiga computers (in the Polish language only).
Besides Amiga devices, we design and produce industrial controllers
(e.g. for injection moulding machines) and many other high-end
devices in the fields of radio- and telecommunications (e.g. call
systems, pagers, speech coding devices).
NEW:
Please look for our further releases about ELBOX products for Amiga
computers to be on sale by the end of this year:
1. MEDIATOR evolution line (A4000 and A3000);
2. The TOTALLY NEW breakthrough turbo cards for Amiga computers
(A4000, A3000, A1200).
Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
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I N N O V A T I V E M O V E S O N . . .
11.9.2000 Innovative announces future plans
Innovative, known as the developers of popular AMIGA®-titles such as
fxPAINT, fxSCAN, VHI Studio and Ultraconv today announced the future
plans of the enterprise.
fxSCAN 3.0 with intelligent OCR-engine (OCR = Optical Character
Recognition) fxSCAN will soon be available in version 3.0. It will
be a major update including the following new features:
· intelligent OCR-engine
· Support for free BetaScan-drivers
· comfortable Copymachine-function
· reworked user-interface
· JPEG-files are now loaded via PPC
· many small improvements
The price for V3.0 will be at 69.- DM/35 EURO/35 US$. An update from
V1.0/V2.0 will cost 59.- DM/30 EUROR/30 US$. We won't offer updates
from V1.0 SE (ScanQuix-special edition). fxSCAN 3.0 can already be
ordered from Innovative's online-shop (http://www.innovative-web.de/)
and will be delivered as soon as the final product becomes available.
A completly new fxSCAN-website will be online at the time the new
version is introduced.
The present
Innovative regards the AMIGA®-market as too small to further exist
only from revenues of this market. The enterprise doesn't see any
tendencies towards improvement, as key-enterprises have either left
the AMIGA®-market or went out of bussiness and important hardware-
products are only available as long as they are still in stock.
Faster, more up-to-date or completly new hardware doesn't seem to be
within reach and major improvements of the current Classic-AmigaOS®
are not to be expected in near future. The AMIGA® SDK is a highlight,
but it is not a garantor for the future existance and maintenance of
the new AMIGA®-Operating-/Computersystems.
The current situation forces Innovative to look for new markets and
to no more _exclusivly_ work in the AMIGA®-market.
The future
After the availability of fxSCAN V3.0, Innovative will intensify work
on a new technology (details are not available due to reasons of
protecting Innovative's intellectual property). Programs developed
with the aid of this new technology (Codename "InNT") will be more
comfortable to use and will have an even more spectacular optic.
Furthermore programs developed with it will be highly portable to
other platforms and CPUs. Indeed porting an application is expected to
take only a few days, cutting down both the amount of development-time
and -money that has to be spent for that task. As soon as the first
version of this new technology is finished we will start porting
already known Innovative-titles to the new technology and a variety of
different platforms. Besides the AMIGA®-market, the Windows®- and
Linux®-market will be target of the developments of the company. It's
also planned to hand out licences for this new technology, but this
still has to be decided. The result of the decision will be announced
in a later, seperate press release.
The AMIGA®-conversions
We regret to say that our new technology will most probably not be
able to run on 68K-PPC-Dual-CPU-Systems as it is currently used in
some AMIGA®s, as a seperation of the GUI and the program will be hard
to perform and a 68060 definatly seems to be too slow for fluid and
comfortable work. Once the development of the first version of the new
technology is finished, Innovative will evaluate the possibilities of
a portation to MorphOS and APUS Linux and is currently planning a
portation to these platforms. The Tao® Elate®-based new AmigaOS® will
be supported by Innovative as far as it is available. This way,
AMIGA®-users will be able to continue enjoying the high-quality and
highly innovative software by Innovative.
The current products
It can't be denied that future plans are in conflict with the further
development of the current product-line for AMIGA®-computers.
Nevertheless the currently existing products will be developed further
and updates will be available at a regular basis though not as often
as in the past. As soon as the versions developed with the new
technology are available, users get an update-offer. So everybody
buying an Innovative-product today, buys a product that will be
developed further in future and that he will be able to use even after
switching to other OSes like Windows®, Linux® or "Amiga® NG" as well.
The webservices
We will stop offering webservices, as the amount of time and money
spent can in no way be justified with the resulting revenues. Existing
contracts will continue to exist for a yet undefined time whereas we
won't do any new contracts. Of course we will continue to offer
special solutions for companies in the future and we'll also keep
updating the "Amiga Link Directory".
Frequently asked questions
Question:
So you'll stop development for the AMIGA ?
Answer:
No. Please read the paragraphs "The AMIGA-conversions" and "The
current products" carefully.
Question:
You're always talking about a new technology, what is it ?
Answer:
Our intellectual property. Therefore no information on this will be
made available to the public on request (please don't send us EMail,
letters, call or fax us) but exclusivly on our own initative via our
website. Any information not found on our website isn't true.
Question:
When will you have finished works on the new technology ?
Answer:
As we don't want to put us under pressure with this strategically
important development, we won't release any time-table in near
future.
Question:
Which products do you plan ?
Answer:
Our information policy doesn't foresee the announcement of new
products
at this time.
Question:
I'd like to license this new technology. How much is it for a license
?
Answer:
We think about handing out licenses at a later time, but we haven't
come
to a decision on this yet and therefore can't give you prices..
Question:
I'd like to betatest. Simply send me a beta!
Answer:
We won't send out betas.
Disclaimer: AMIGA® is a registered trademark of Amiga, Inc. Windows®
is a registered trademark of Microsoft. Linux® is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. Elate® is a registered trademark of the
Tao Group. All informations are subject to change without notice. You
can not derive demands/rights from this piece of information.
2.7.2000 VHI Studio reads from Sony® Memorysticks
Thanks to a new VHI-driver (sony_msac_sr1.vhi), AMIGA®-users finally
can access Sony® Memorysticks®. The driver uses the "Sony®
MSAC-SR1"-reader for the serial port, that is shipped with most
Sony®-cameras. If you want to see Memorysticks® and
Compactflash®-cards compared regarding their size, visit our website
and click on "Press release" below to see some pictures.
EMail: info@innovative-web.de
WWW: http://www.innovative-web.de/
Phone: +(0)049 (0)9132/735163
Fax: +(0)049 (0)69/791247970
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. . . A S D O E S E P I C M A R K E T I N G
12 September, 2000
Epic Marketing Germany waves goodbye after 4 years on the Amiga
market, our company is set to close on septembre 30. But this is no
reason for despair. After October 1 there will not be one but two new
Epic companies in the market.
Epic Interacticve Entertainment software will primarily focus on the
development and distribution of top notch games for the Apple
Macintosh market. The Amiga One and the Atari Milan computers will be
supported once they see the light of day.
Epic Multimedia will enter the market in October too. You will find
information on their products, which will include games, infotainment
and edutainment for various computer systems (Apple Mac, Windows,
Linux, Amiga One, Milan) on our webpage from mid octobre.
For the Classic Amiga Epic Interactive will develop and distribute
the titles "Simon The Sorcerer 2", "Earth 2140" and Dafel: Bloodline".
Whether they continue to support the platform in the future is
heavily dependant on the success of these titles. "Earth 2140" can now
be preordered for DM 89.95 until October 15th. After that it will cost
99.95.
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. . . A N D A S I M W A R E ?
{The following item was found on the Czech Amiga News site, a
resource which can be counted among the most reliable. Brad}
22.9.2k Asimware discontinues Amiga Support
Len Carsner: "After recently purchasing MasterISO 2.6, I emailed
Asimware with a question concerning a problem I was having. I received
a form letter which stated "Effective September 6th, 2000 all
production, development, and support for Amiga products is
discontinued. Sales of MasterISO will still be available through
Software Hut. Our Amiga products will NOT be released to the public
domain. Thank You for eight great years." At the end was a statement
promoting their PC software."
Len Carsner via ANN
ExiE
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M R . M Y S Z A M O U S E A D A P T E R
3 September, 2000
Merlancia Industries is pleased to announce the upcoming release of
the Mr. Mysza PS/2 Mouse adapter. Finally! After all this time, all
Amigans can now share in the world of PS/2 devices made for IBM/PC
compatible systems! From the super-cool Crystal Trackball to the
Kensington optical mouse, you now have a full range of up-to-date,
current, mice and mice alternatives.
Specs:
The Mr. Mysza also supports up to four buttons and the scroll mouse
(utility drivers included) for additional ease of use. The Mr. Mysza
is fully "plug and play". Just plug in the Mr. Mysza, and your choice
of literally thousands of PS/2 devices and you are set to go! All you
need is the adapter and a PS/2 mouse device to get up and going. There
is no need for additional software to use Mr. Mysza! (Except to use
features such as the scroller on scroll mice.)
Price:
The Mr. Mysza will be be at about the $25 mark, much less then the
current serial mouse converters. There will also be bundles of Mr.
Mysza and the Crystal Trackball available for about the $50 mark.
Availability:
The Mr. Mysza will be available in about 7 to 14 days. The first
batch of Mr. Myszas is almost complete...
What is included?:
Included in the package is the Mr. Mysza adapter, a disc containing
the software to use the scroller on scroll mice and additional buttons
on 3+ button mice, and a manual.
Also upcoming is the RedBoard adapter, and infa-red keyboard adapter
for Amiga computers. A separate press release will follow with
information about the RedBoard.
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T H E P R E D A T O R F R O M E Y E T E C H
3 September, 2000
From The Eyetech Group Ltd
The Predator: 3xPCI + 1xAGP + SDRAM expansion with direct PPC
processor interface for the A4000 desktop and towered A1200
As part of our ongoing discussions with top end games developers, one
of their major concerns is how to get sufficiently fast graphics cards
on the installed base of A1200 / A4000 PPC machines. The Permedia 2
chipset, although still the best graphics solution currently available
on the A1200, is now quite dated in its 3-D performance. The Elbox
Mediator is a partial solution, but is severely hampered because all
A1200 accelerators - including the Blizzard PPC - only bring 24
address lines out to the edge connector meaning that all data transfer
has to be carried out within the 8MB Zorro2 address window. For modern
graphics cards this will inevitably involve 4 fold or greater
multiplexing thus crippling the transfer rate between processor and
graphics card. In addition, PCI graphics cards themselves are now
increasingly hard to obtain and will be obsolete in a few months time.
So what are we doing about it?
The Predator expansion bus will come in separate versions for the
A1200 and A4000 desktop (an A4000 tower version will be produced later
if there is sufficient demand). Each will come equipped with 3xPCI
slots and 1xAGP (graphics card) slot (with an additional regular A4000
video slot in the A4000 version). In addition there will be a single
SDRAM (PC100 DIMM) socket for up to 256MB. As the bus is fully PCI 2.1
compliant, including bus mastering and DMA facilities, this SDRAM can
be used directly by either or both of the PPC CPU and the AGP graphics
card.
By directly connecting to the expansion connector on the BlizzardPPC
and CyberstormPPC the expansion bus has the full 4GB of address space
of the PPC CPU without the penalties of any existing Zorro 2 conflicts
or address space multiplexing. The bus itself runs at 66MHz x 4 bytes
wide for unprecedented transfer rates (for a classic Amiga) both
between cards (using bus mastering and DMA) and - more importantly -
between the AGP connector and the PPC CPU.
The board has been designed as a full multilayer PCB with 2 ground
planes and signal path length equalisation. Work on porting the
Voodoo-5 3D drivers (to be shipped with the board) is already
underway. And the best news of all is that this state-of-the-art
expansion bus will be available ub late September / early October at a
target price of just £169.95 including VAT.
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Amiga Update on the net:
All back issues available at:
http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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DocDatatypes V39.60
A new version of the DocDatatypes by Amarpreet Singh Munde were released on 09-22-2000.
A new datatype for Mac Write-files were added. The MS-Word-datatype were updated and supports
now older Word-fileformats (before version 6) better then the former version. A new feature
is the now included Filefinder supporting searches by name, size, date and filetype.
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25.Sep.2000
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H&P: Telephone Line Damaged
The damage were caused by some works in the Haage&Partner-building. Because of this
they had no connection to the internet since thursday last week and they were not able to
receive Emails and could only offer a limited telephone support. H&P hope that the Deutsche Telekom will
solve the problems until tuesday or wendsday.
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CUCUG
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The Status Register - September 2000
The Status Register issue 09/2000 by
CUCUG is available online now. It contains some Amiga related news and a SEAL-O-RAMA-report by Gary Storm.
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NullTCP.lha comm/tcp 6K+Amiga<->Win9x TCP/IP using null-modem.Up
T-Rexx.lha comm/tcp 105K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
TcpSpeed.lha comm/tcp 23K+Measure the TCP throughput of a TCP chan
UMSLaberFilter.lha comm/ums 16K+Filter out uninteresting messages
GuiSGML.lha comm/www 79K+SGML/HTML Templating Tool, Graphical Mar
Lynx.lha comm/www 790K+WWW Browser,v.284dev9 (works with m68k)
wpz-frozen32.lha demo/aga 616K+Frozen#32 - Fuck Ya Party Edition
wpz-frozen35.lha demo/aga 941K+Frozen#35 - LTP4 Party Edition
znn_lowb.lha demo/aga 123K+Short intro by khaos of zenon
ltx-intros.lha demo/intro 245K+Bugfixed intros from Latex (a must for C
qtz-SMOS.lha demo/intro 2K+Quartz-Sensible Moon Of Soccer cracktro
DLL.lha dev/basic 42K+Dynamic Linked List Sources for Blitz
PureBasic.lha dev/basic 572K+V1.60 - Brand new powerful programming l
PureBasic_Upd.lha dev/basic 523K+V1.60 - Update for registered users (fro
ShapesFix.lha dev/basic 18K+Replacement for buggy shapes commands
Emperor.lha dev/c 491K+Object-oriented programming language
65816_20.lzh dev/cross 189K+65816 (SNES) assembler & disassembler
checkstack.lha dev/debug 33K+CheckStack tool for WarpUP including Sou
audio_in_e.lha dev/e 17K+Audio examples using audio and ahi devic
mpega_in_e.lha dev/e 5K+Example how to use mpega.library with Am
ColorWheel.lha dev/gui 27K+Hi-/truecolor colorwheel.gadget (44.7)
GradientSlider.lha dev/gui 7K+Hi-/truecolor gradient slider (44.5)
Regina.lha dev/lang 111K+Alternative REXX interpreter, major upda
FD2Pragma.lha dev/misc 126K+V2.112 creates pragma, inline, ... files
mrq_library.lha dev/src 79K+Fast C2P + CGX procedures for games, dem
xad_ar.lha dev/src 9K+Ar(1) xadmaster client
xad_bzip.lha dev/src 14K+Bzip xadmaster client
xad_CAB.lha dev/src 43K+Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
xad_DImp.lha dev/src 11K+DImp xadmaster client
xad_MSA.lha dev/src 7K+Magic Shadow (MSA) xadmaster client
xad_ZAP.lha dev/src 9K+ZAP xadmaster client
reindeer.txt docs/anno 1K+A distributed rendering project
BuffyHTML.lha docs/hyper 393K+Buffy Guide (HTML) v2.1 <FIXED> (79)
gadget45.lha docs/mags 429K+German Freeware Magazine
Starmag23_HT.lha docs/mags 424K+German Amiga-Online-Magazine HTML-Versio
EuroChamp.lha docs/misc 33K+Statistics of soccer Euro Champs '60-'00
F1Champ.lha docs/misc 59K+Statistics of Formula One '50-'00
jaaug00.lha docs/misc 78K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of
jajul00.lha docs/misc 71K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of
WorldCup.lha docs/misc 115K+Statistics of soccer World Cups '30-'98
AtomicTetris.lzh game/2play 198K+AtomicTetris PC clone
F1GP_2000.lha game/data 11K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (11 Sept
JB_HellRaiser.lha game/data 2.0M+Hellraiser total conversion for James Bo
SWOSpl_11.lha game/data 16K+SWOS - Polish League AND some advertisin
xfirelevels.lha game/data 272K+Alternative levels for the game Crossfir
Mattonite.lha game/demo 216K+BreakOut demo game, working in progress
NapalmSG01.lha game/hint 62K+Napalm Saved Games 01 - Missions 2 & 3
NapalmSG02.lha game/hint 68K+Napalm Saved Games 02 - Missions 4 & 5
NapalmSG03.lha game/hint 65K+Napalm Saved Games 03 - Missions 6 & 7
NapalmSG04.lha game/hint 71K+Napalm Saved Games 04 - Missions 8 & 9
bauer.lha game/misc 85K+Farm simulation (German necessary)
KC.lha game/role 93K+Create your hero for RPG Krysztaly Czasu
LordIII.lha game/role 2.4M+Lord of Alcandria - chapter III
PureBrain.lha game/think 162K+Put back the symbols in the right order.
SameGame.lha game/think 15K+Addictive puzzle game with coloured ball
simplepac.lha game/wb 74K+Version 1.2 of the simple WB Pacman Game
WBArmy.lha game/wb 211K+Like Scorched Tanks, but in WB window.
vlab_macro.lha gfx/conv 52K+VLab-Macro V 1.1 Convert YUV + VLAB to I
PfPaint_ENG.lha gfx/edit 29K+English documentation for PerfectPaint V
PfPaint_FRA.lha gfx/edit 32K+French documentation for PerfectPaint V2
PfPaint_V22.lha gfx/edit 900K+Paint,Anim from 1 to 24bits
PhotoMI.lha gfx/edit 21K+GlowIcons toolbar for Photogenics
cnetdevice.lha hard/drivr 134K+PCMCIA Network Card driver. V1.4
pcmser.lha hard/drivr 14K+PCMCIA modem driver. V0.15. PD w/ src.
Mentat.lha misc/edu 199K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
Mentat_data.lha misc/edu 842K+Mentat 0.5.2 english2english Longman dic
ChipEm.lha misc/emu 71K+Chip 8 v0.4 Emulator by Balrog Soft
GBE.lha misc/emu 79K+GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulator for WarpU
Nostalgia.lha misc/emu 201K+THE Multi-Emulation system (1.8)
cutquotes.lha misc/imdb 9K+Cuts 'quotes.list' entries down to Movie
imdbDiff000901.lha misc/imdb 4.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
imdbDiff000908.lha misc/imdb 2.4M+Diffs for the Internet MovieDatabase
lotto-v8.lha misc/misc 94K+UK National Lottery Database v8 inc.
ArtiAmiga.lha misc/sci 693K+Artificial Intelligence simulator
DA3Demo.lha misc/sci 2.6M+Demo of Digital Almanac III
rno-r045.lha mods/misc 562K+Rno-label release no.45 by kure&stefan (
Eldorado.mpg mods/mpg 5.1M+Eldorado County by Vincent & McGahey
rno-r046.mpg mods/mpg 3.3M+Rno-label release no.46 by FarFar (Chill
tek_mtone.lha mods/techn 57K+Monotone - minimalistic stomper
tek_pnoia.lha mods/techn 227K+Paranoia - psycho intelligent drum
tek_vacum.lha mods/techn 58K+Vacuum - minimalistic move
Pegase.lha mus/misc 203K+VHQ MPEG audio encoder (68k/PPC)
rsss.lha mus/misc 75K+Realtime Sound Synthesis System (preview
EP_MFP.lha mus/play 10K+EaglePlayer "Magnetic Fields Packer" ext
PlayGUI.lha mus/play 574K+GUI for HIPPO,MPEGA,PLAY16 AND GMPLAY!
Granade.mpg pix/3dani 6.1M+Animation of a hand granade
shoot.lha pix/anim 2.3M+Working on our latest film.
tek_aos35.lha pix/boot 516K+AmigaOS 35 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_aos35_prv.jpg pix/boot 33K+Amigaos 35 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85.lha pix/boot 1.4M+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 config (upd2nd)
tek_rwb85_prv.jpg pix/boot 90K+Workbench 85 - rainboot2 pview (upd2nd)
crazyGranny.lha pix/mpg 529K+Mpeg anim of my granny playing football
scene3.lha pix/mpg 2.1M+Scene from the set of an upcoming film.
SarajevoNight.jpg pix/views 54K+768x512, Sarajevo at night (2000)
Zagreb.jpg pix/views 71K+768x512, Zagreb (2000)
FreeEd.lha text/edit 190K+This is a simple text editor. (It has a
ascii2jascii.lha text/misc 17K+Converts ASCII to Japanese ASCII
Kill0D.lha text/misc 2K+Remove PC CR+LF End-Of-Lines and replace
DSLT02.lha text/print 20K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 02 v1.
AntiBlanker.lha util/blank 9K+A tool that disables your screen blanker
PPS.lha util/boot 48K+Password Protection for your WB / No mor
Rainboot3.lha util/boot 864K+Multimedia Has Got A Name v3.0
RandomScenery.lha util/boot 15K+More than just workbench backdrops
TurboVal.lha util/boot 17K+The best validator for FFS (v1.9)
Scheduler.lha util/cdity 33K+Schedule manager and viewer, v1.8
DiskLED1.2.lha util/cli 15K+DiskLED V1.2 + Source(asm), Moves the LE
HexShow.lha util/cli 4K+Shows files as Hex
InitPPCLib.lha util/cli 2K+InitPPCLib: brings ppc.library back
SED.lha util/cli 13K+Amiga stream editor
ilbmdt44.lha util/dtype 8K+Improved ilbmdt (44.21)
RGFX-DT.lha util/dtype 126K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (43.14)
RGFX-DT35.lha util/dtype 51K+Datatype for IFF-RGFX-Format (44.2)
WarpJPEGdt.lha util/dtype 103K+JFIF-JPEG datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
WarpPNGdt.lha util/dtype 131K+PNG image datatype (68k,WarpOS,MorphOS)
muitoolkit_src.lha util/libs 48K+V1.1 - The MUI Toolkit library SRC (FREE
Resistor.lha util/misc 50K+Code&Decode the color rings at resistors
AmiGOD.lha util/moni 28K+Identifies your Amiga
arc2arc27.lha util/rexx 4K+Convert any archive format easily
cdmp.lha util/rexx 22K+Helps to create mp3 from CD's (german)
Dev-Handler.lha util/sys 22K+Un*x like raw device access handler plus
StringSnip.lha util/sys 12K+Much better editing features in string g
TransPrefs171.lha util/sys 15K+Translator Prefs (German)
simpleclock.lha util/time 17K+Version 1.5 of the analog clock (OS3.5)
Safe.lha util/virus 18K+Safe v14.2 - virus dicovering system
vht-vg31.lha util/virus 85K+VirusWarning.Guide v3.1 (VHT-DK)
BosnianLocale.lha util/wb 27K+Bosnian AmigaOS 3.1 localization v2
CopyIcon44.lha util/wb 6K+CopyNewIcon clone for os3.5 (44.3)
DefIcons44.lha util/wb 64K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.6a)
Dynamite.lha util/wb 57K+Start button and explorer in one. Fast.
Ico2Info.lha util/wb 5K+Converts .ICO to .info (44.5)
IconLink.lha util/wb 23K+Creates Links to icons (OS 3.5 only!)
Image2Icon.lha util/wb 19K+Creates thumbnail icons from images (1.8
tv-prog.lha util/wb 306K+(PL/CZ) TV programe on computer! [v0.80]
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25.Sep.2000
Tom Duin at ANF
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BindAssigns Released
BindAssigns is a little shell-program that can replace the MakeDir and Assign entries in the Startup-Sequence.
Furthermore it can replace the MUI-assign entries in the User-Startup.
Download: BindAssigns.lha
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25.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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VirusExecutor V2.05
Jan Erik Olausen released version 2.05 of "VirusExecutor" on September 23rd, 2000. It is easy to use.
It analyzes unknown bootblocks automaticly and checks the memory, executables and LHA-, LZX- and ZIP-archives for viruses.
The program runs on all Amigas using AmigaOS 2.04 or higher, reqtools.library V38.11, xvs.library V33.13,
and xfdmaster.library V38.6.
Download: VirusExecutor.lha (223 114 Bytes)
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25.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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ARexx.com is Looking for Scripts
ARexx.com is about ARexx. For their Script-library they are looking
for Arexx-scripts. You can send them to scripts@arexx.com. The sections
available at the moment are Stricq, Final writer, Voyager, Yam, Cloanto Personal Paint, and misc.
Additional they want to offer tutorials, and to establish a projects-page.
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24.Sep.2000
Timm S. Mueller on ANF
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www.neoscientists.org Online again
The website of Neoscientists is online again.
In the section "binary distillery"
there are freeware tools and libraries ready for download. Among others the
latest versions of render.library, guigfx.library, mysticview.library and
neuralnet.library. Smaller updates exists for the picture viewer
Mysticview (1.04) and the mosaic renderer Flickwerk (0.0.4).
The group is now developing more intensively for the new operating system
and has established a subsection
where first downloads, announcements and developer support is offered.
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24.Sep.2000
ANN
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AIO Issue 39 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 issue 39 of Amiga Information Online
has been released.
Download: AIOV39.LHA
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24.Sep.2000
ANN
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Amihoo Magazine #2 Released
On September, 23rd 2000 the second issue of the
Amihoo-Magazine
has been released. It covers the following topics:
- Review: Bubble Heroes from Crystal Interactive Software.
- Report: SEALORAMA Show Report.
- Editorial "Half of Amiga Owners are tight fisted misers"
- Ross Vumbaca. (Australian Correspondant) Talks about the forthcoming ACE 2k Show in Australia
- Talkback Let off Steam about the anything Amiga. We want your views! Win £20 for it too!
In addition to this there's a poll regarding the subject
"Are the Majority of Amiga Owners
tight fisted Misers?".
Amihoo is a link directory especially for the Amiga.
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24.Sep.2000
David Connolly via email
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Amiga Survivor Update
There appeared technical problems for the Amiga Survivor Magazine:
Amiga Survivor update
Unfortunately the delicate machinery which hosts Amiga Survivor
was severely damaged in transit when it was on its way to our layout
artist. The result of that is an unavoidable delay while the A4000
that hosts Amiga Survivor is patched up. We are trying to arrange the
layout files to be sent to our experienced graphic designer as soon
as possible, and two issues are ready to go out when the machinery is
repaired. They are Issue 9 (scheduled for August 10th) and Issue 10
(October 10th issue). We are also working on a Christmas special at
the moment.
I am happy to have Amiga Survivor on the books and I'm looking
forward to producing many fine issues. As soon as is humanly possible
we will begin to release issues of AS.
To help the Amiga games scene I am pleased to announce Amiga
Survivor will be carrying a coverdisk every issue with a free copy of
a recent hit, all for the same price of £3.99 UK, £4.99 Europe
or £5.99 Rest of World. We hope to help the existing Amiga games
market by working with current publishers and offering them a good income
when sales through the conventional routes may have dried up. As a
former Amiga games publisher CS&E will offer Max Rally with Issue 9
and the previously unseen Cosmo's Fun Class with Issue 10.
Single issues of Amiga Survivor will be available from all good
Amiga dealers, while subscriptions are exclusively available directly
from CS&E.
Kind Regards,
David Connolly
Publisher, Amiga Survivor.
http://welcome.to/amigasurvivor
Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum, Oxford Business Park, Oxford, OX4 2JZ, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 481 421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481 482
http://www.CSandE.co.uk
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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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AmigaWatchDog now at Amiga Realm
AmigaWatchDog is now part of Amiga Realm. AmigaWatchDog makes it possible for
users to rate retailers, so it is easier to find a good retailer using the
collected data. AmigaWatchDog was founded by Daniel Hutchinson.
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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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BlueBlackSolution is Looking for Speakers
BlueBlack Solution is looking for speakers for their real time strategy game "Operation
Counterstrike". In detail the following voices are needed:
- man: russian accent, english and/or german language
- man: english/american accent, english language
- woman: english/american accent, english language
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24.Sep.2000
Czech Amiga News
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New Amiga Games Site
Epic Direct Ltd., not to mix up with Epic Marketing, offers on
www.amigagames.co.uk
games news which are also sent via mailing list, a data base including a search
function with a multitude of games and more than 500 games on disc and 250+
games on CD for sale.
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24.Sep.2000
Olaf Koenig via email
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Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena Interviews!
New interviews with Peter Arman (Legend of the Elves)
and Elmar Plischke (Klotz) online!
Amiga Arena - Burning Business!
The following shareware programs can be obtained for a special bargain at the
moment.
The special bargain is valid until 30.09.2000
Software: JST
Developer: Jean-Francois Fabre
Price: 10 DM
The special bargain is valid until 31.10.2000
Software: PhotoAlbum/Cybershow Paket
Developer: Helmut Hoffmann
Price: 35 DM
The special bargain is valid until 28.02.2001
Software: AmiATLAS
Price: 79 DM
The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: SHARKS AGA and Multi
Developer: Christian Steiner
Price: 5 DM
Software: SHARKS CD32 Version
Price: 20 DM
The special bargain is valid unlimited!
Software: Boulderdäsh
Developer: Guido Meresmann
Price: 10 DM
The Amiga Arena doesn't gain any fee from the developers etc.
Only for You - Amiga Arena NON Profit Shareware Support!
New actions to follow!
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24.Sep.2000
Manfred Rauer on ANF
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The AccM Asks for Your Help
Manfred Rauer wrote:
The AccM is not only a simple computer club where technic enthusiastic computer
freaks meet to talk about games. We rather make an effort to develope useful
software (and games) and to put them to everybody's disposal.
The club has only one small big problem. They don't have enough capacities in
the areas of programming, music, graphics & animations, and 3D modeling.
Therefor we're searching all the time for capable people, who want to support
us. But we also want to offer something for this. Everybody who has an idea
regarding a project may register it here. It will be presented here, and others
not involved have the possibility to take part in it.
It shall be a kind of a meetin-place where as many as possible shall take part.
It's free and nobody is forced to aquire a membership.
It would be sad and also a big loss for us if nobody could be won over this cool
idea. This would mean "Say good bye" to this plan, and again a good thing and a
main part of our base idea of which our club is the result would disappear from
the scene.
Everbody with questions may write to the POI (Manfred Rauer)
and ask for more informations.
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24.Sep.2000
The BaYona on ANF
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Meternet - Press Release from Amiga
Regarding the Simplebox by Meternet there's a longer press release from Amiga
Inc.
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24.Sep.2000
Stefan Martens at ANF
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Official HBMonopoly Online Gaming at #AmigaFun
Stefan Martens wrote:
On #AmigaFun IRC channel a HBMonopoly online gaming is taking place on Oktober, 1st.
The programmer himself will be online too, and he's very interested in
your ideas.
Everybody interested in taking part in the game should get by on Sunday
evening at around 18:00 h.
Please download the latest verion of HBMonopoly from
http://hbmonopoly.home.pages.de.
It may well be that V2.5 will be released in the next few days.
This one is a must then to take part. And you should also already have a look at
HBMonopoly and possibly play it OFFLINE against the computer.
All further things we'll tell you on Sunday on #AmigaFun! #AmigaFun is to
find at:
- irc.germany.net
- #AmigaFun
- Port 6667
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24.Sep.2000
Paplo on ANF
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TaskiSMS V2.0
A new version of TaskiSMS has been released. Many new functions are added in
version 2.0. Now the program can send SMS to 826 cellular telephone networks in 120
countries worldwide thanks to new plugins.
Download: TaskiSMS.lha,
readme
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24.Sep.2000
David Cross on ANF
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Amiga auctions: AmiBid Version 2.0 online |
AmiBid is an auction platform free of charge specially for the Amiga and now
online in version 2.0 - the first version made some problems and some features
were missing.
The following has been changed:
- improved layout.
- improved cathegories.
- improved information concerning the pieces on auction.
- improved forum.
With this update the URL has also been changed. AmiBid can now be accessed at
http://server2039.virtualave.net/amibid/cgi-bin/auction.cgi and should be accessible with every browser.
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24.Sep.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF
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Manga@Amiga-Page with New Layout
The Manga@Amiga-Page is engaged in Manga connected with the Amiga. So there are
not only graphics and wallpapers ready for download but there's among others a
list with Amiga games within the bounds of Manga.
Now this site has got a complete new layout and is accessible via a new domain.
It's: http://amiga.2xs.net/.
Because of the move there may be some empty links caused by the server.
Because of this Sylvio asks to
inform him about such links.
To suppress advertising windows Sylvio suggests switching off Javascript.
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23.Sep.2000
Deflone on ANF
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SMSEngineerMUI is now E-Mailware
SMSEngineerMUI 1.0.2 has just been uploaded to the Aminet.
We have decided to let people register our software for free, because we
believe that coding should be fun, now shouldn't it? The same is true for
SMSEngineerMUI :), it is fun; and why should anybody have to pay to have some
fun.
We are still looking for translators for our software, so please contact us.
Comments and ideas for improvement are welcome of course.
Download: smsengineermui.lha
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23.Sep.2000
Schatztruhe
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Aminet CD39 - 10/2000 to be Available soon
Aminet CD 39 - Oktober 2000 - contains nearly one gigabyte (unpacked) of
software in thousands of archives. Since Aminet CD 38 over 500 MB of new
files have been added. As a special highlight, Aminet 39 contains the
fantastic pinballs Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions.
The three pinballs can be run from CD or harddrive.
News since release 33 and once more updated: The popular News-Archive
amiga-news.de by Petra Struck is now part of every Aminet-CD (in german and
english) and may be directly viewed from the readme-file with the included
browser. We thank all of their participants for their great informational
work for the Amiga-Users worldwide.
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23.Sep.2000
Amiga Impact
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A-Zone CD magazine Nº 1 to be Available soon
The first CD-magazine of our french partner-site Amiga Impact will be
available for end of september. A complete overview of the contents, which is
full of french news, reviews, workshops, demos and much more can be found
at the titellink.
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23.Sep.2000
Blittersoft
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Bubble Heroes was Finished
Bubble Heroes, a game distributed by Crystal
Interactive Software was finished and is available at the stores.
What is this game all about?
Once upon a time... The magical world of Radya is in serious danger. The
peacefullness and the joy of this realm is threatened by a dark, evil knight
named Gonzul and his bunglers, arrived on floating islands from unknown parts
of the universe. Gonzul's aim is to conquer and enslave the world: to gain
this objective he abducted the four Nimphs, sources of power and pillars of
peace and richness, bleeding their energy and life. The Queen of these Nimphs,
Adora, during her kidnapping had spread by her mental powers a message to
all the heroes of Radya: to rescue the Nimphs.
All together, the four Nimphs can unite their forces in order to activate a
magical weapon, which is the only hope to destroy Gonzul and his floating
realm saving the entire world from his evil shadow. Will you be able to follow
the heroes in this desperate mission?
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23.Sep.2000
MorphOS
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MorphOS News
There are new archives available for MorphOS, an emulation for
Amigas equipped with PPC. In detail:
- Update: ixemul-dev.tgz
- New release: dvidvi-1.1-bin.tgz, wget-1.5.2-bin.tgz, unixtex-6.1b-bin.tgz, texinfo-3.11-bin.tgz
- IXEmul Tools and Programs: IXEmul Directory. Make sure
to read the IMPORTANT.README file!!
NOTE: This section is PPC only files. You must read the
IMPORTANT.README file.
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23.Sep.2000
Ron Goertz
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FWCalendar Update Version 4.05
Ron Goertz has overworked his Arexx-scripts for creating calendars with
FinalWriter.
Download:
FWCalendar.lzx and also
Installation tips.
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23.Sep.2000
Richard H. Poser by eMail
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AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9391 Available
The new betaversion 0.9391 of AmigaAIM, the AOL Instant Messanger for Amiga,
is available for download. Changes are listed in the following list:
- Added Menu Item for starting another copy of AmigAIM
- Modified Mail Window for Context Menu to select Individual or Several Addresses to be checked or cleared.
- Mail window can now be set to not open and/or pop to front while Away
- Added Script capability for Mail checked with Mail on Server
- Removed problem with receiving one Mac AIM version's Instant Messages
- Removed bug with ScreenName prefs, should modify on first start after upgrade
- Added Prefs item to keep Buddy List on top, if open and a Requester isn't opened
(Buddy List on top would prevent the Requester from ever being seen)
- Removed bug with receiving IM from Buddy not on Buddy List, shouldn't crash now.
- Removed bug with the Idling prefs being totally unused.
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