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22.Jul.2000
Kickstart AUG


Kickstart News
On the Kickstart Amiga User Group website, there is now a sharewar registration service available. Interested shareware authors can contact ray@kickstart-amiga.co.uk.

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22.Jul.2000
Mirko Engelhardt on ANF


Three New Games at AmigaLand
After recieving the licenses from the company Ascaron (formerly Ascon), we now offer three games for free download. Those are "Der Patrizier", "Anstoss" and "Anstoss World Cup Edition". All games are available from our server in their German language version!

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22.Jul.2000
GoldED


GoldED Service Pack 18
There is an update (Service Pack 18) available for download for registered users. The update fixes minor bugs. Please have your registration number at hand for download.

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22.Jul.2000
Raven Games


Heretic II Siege Amiga News
Good news from the Amiga frontier. The Amiga Heretic II Siege files have been tested by an Amiga client connecting to the MONSTER server, and everything worked! The Amiga version of the multiplayer add-on "The Siege" will therefore be available soon.

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22.Jul.2000
ANN


Rogue 3D, the new page for 3D artists
Rogue 3D is for 3D artists from all platforms. The user are supplied with news all around the subject 3D, there are tutorials, textures and a gallery where artists can present their pictures.

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22.Jul.2000
Apex Design


Blittersoft takes over Payback distribution
Apex Design announces that Blittersoft takes over distribution of the game Payback. However the game can still be purchased from Apex Design directly.

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22.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


Czech Amiga News' second anniversary
We were very surprised to see that the original URL of the Czech Amiga News, www.realdreams.cz/amiga/, is now redirected to www.realdreams.cz/pc/. Here you find PC news and the following statement:

"Just two years ago we brought to you the first Amiga news. Many things happened and we feel it's time to move to the "real world". New Amiga is still nothing more than immagination but it is possible we come back sometime in the future. Thanks for your favour and bye bye..."

Strange, really strange... (ps)

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22.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Amihoo.com online
Amihoo.com, the new Amiga search engine, went online on Friday. Included is Amiga Rediscovery, where older Amiga games are reviewed and offered for download, and a magazine that will be updated monthly.

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21.Jul.2000
Haage & Partner


ArtEffect 4.0 Demo Available
Version 4 of the popular image processing and natural painting software offers many new functions and improvements. Special attention has been paid to the layer functions which are very flexible and powerful now. A new manual and a CD-ROM with fonts, cliparts and workshops round off the package.

Download: ArtEffect4-Demo.lha - 1,13 MB, ArtEffect4-Demo.readme

Currently, H&P offers specially priced software and hardware.

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21.Jul.2000
David Doyle on ANF


#AmigaWorld - The Friendly IRC Channel on Undernet for Amiga Users
AmigaWorld invites to a chat on Undernet.

The purpose of this channel #AmigaWorld is to be the most friendly and helpful channel on the Internet. #AmigaWorld was formed to escape from the insults and immature behavior often found in other Amiga-related channels.

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21.Jul.2000
Sami "letti" Ylönen on ANF


#Amiga on IRCNet
Here an invitation from IRCNet to chat about the Amiga.

Since (once again) the Amiga seems to be considered a platform which could do a Lazarus, we thought it would be good to remind all the Amiga users still out there that there is still a friendly user base at #amiga on IRCNet. There's always someone here to help Amiga users, discuss Amiga related topics, or anything else which is interesting at the time :) #amiga is usually the quickest place to find out whenever there's new software released, or the latest news on our favourite platform, and is generally a very pleasant channel.

A few IRCNet servers:
  • UK - irc.netcom.net.uk, irc.u-net.com, irc.webbernet.net
  • Finland - irc.funet.fi, irc.atm.tut.fi, irc.jyu.fi
  • Netherlands - irc.xs4all.nl, irc.nl.net, irc.sci.kun.nl

Hope to see you all there :), The users of #amiga

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21.Jul.2000
Carsten Schröder via eMail


AMIGA aktuell International Online
AMIGA aktuell International 07/00 is online. In addition to the latest Amiga news, latest software test and many more, there is a workshop about TCP/IP networking between Amiga and the Windows-PC. There is also a review about the »World of Alternatives«. Furthermore there will be a list of the available AmigaNG software in each edition of AMIGA aktuell International.

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21.Jul.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: loony bin




Torsten takes an aim at the prophets of doom who cannot stop themselves from flooding all forums with anti-Amiga propaganda...

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21.Jul.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail


Massive Support for Eurolinux-Petition
Follow the titlelink to read a summary of the great success of the Eurolinux-Petition. So far, 20000 citizens, among them 300 company executives, signed the Eurolinux petition for a software-patent free Europe since May 15th. The petition aims at the protection of innovation and competition in the European IT industry branch and opposes current plans of the European Commission to legalize patents for program logics in Europe.

An Englisch translation of the summary will follow as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience. (mj)

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20.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Photogenics 5 - beta release 95
Photogenics 5.0 beta (release 95) is now available for download. This version is nearly identical with the last Linux-Beta-Release. The only difference are the nice file requester with preview function. The most important enhances since version 4.5 are:
  • batch file convert
  • new file format for saving of Photogenics projects
  • many new loading and saving formats - PCD, EPS, Pict, Postscript, RAS, SGI, TIFF, XBM, XPM and XWD
  • Alpha-transparency at saving of PNG files is supported
  • a vignette effect for smoothing of special effects
  • enhanced "new picture"-requester, with many preferences
  • new paint modi like Remove RedEye, Sepia, Roll Blur, Rub Tiled, Cross Blur, Star Blur, and Plus Blur
  • dozens of little improvements


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20.Jul.2000
Olaf Köbnik via email


Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena Remark!
The shareware programs that are available for a special price at the Amiga Arena are still in development. These special prices are not a "sell out"! The Amiga Arena supports the ACTIVE shareware market! The Amiga Arena is a "non profit" Amiga support site, that is developed and supported by me, Olaf K., alone. A little history with some information about Amiga Arena is online!

Announcement
After last years full version of the shareware game Imperium Terranum II was available for a short time, this years summer action will present again a full version! Another game will be released at the Amiga Arena as freeware! Release date will be begin of August! Stay alert!;-)

More special prices to come!
30% off for the gfx-package Cybershow/PhotoAlbum!

Amiga Arena CD-ROM
The Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition can now be ordered at Amiga Arena! Order instructions and further information you will find at the rubric "cd version".

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20.Jul.2000
Amiga Aktuell


AMIGA president Bill McEwen answers questions of Community (Executive Update)
+++AMIGA-aktuell-Special+++
After some people of the Amiga Community are confused about the implementation of Memory Protection into the AmigaNG operating system, the consideration of the desktop market and the software license, Bill McEwen wants to say something about these points. Read the statement following the titlelink.

Addendum:
Bill McEwens talks about a discussion at the MooBunny forum in his statement. Interesting on this aspect is an article from Squid (07/19/2000): Natural Science

Bill McEwen's statement:

In Response to Community Concerns Posted on MooBunny

We are very excited at the response that we have received in the first few weeks of the Amiga SDK version 1 going out into the world. We have received lots of feedback, mostly good, some not so good, and three particular points have come up that we would like to address before they become common untruths.

Firstly, it is true that the Amiga Foundation Layer which ships on the SDK does not have memory protection. However, this does not mean that Ami™, the next generation Amiga Digital Environment will not have memory protection. A comment made in an article in the last AmigaWorld seems to have been interpreted in such a way as to suggest that this is the case when in fact the point being made was that Amiga is looking at many solutions for providing robustness and security. Ami™ will provide a robust, secure environment and we will use the most elegant and effective means to achieve this.

Secondly, the End User Licence Agreement that made it into the SDK is in error as a result of a legal misinterpretation. There is NO ROYALTY to be paid for any application either created with the SDK or which will run on Ami™. Amiga will be creating a scheme in which third parties can pay a royalty to Amiga in exchange for official Amiga certification, branding and promotion. This provides a revenue stream to Amiga and a value add for the third party. This scheme is entirely voluntary.

The third point has been drawn as a conclusion from the first two, namely that Amiga is abandoning the desktop market. Nothing could be further from the truth. The announced AmigaOne will feature processor options ranging from 600 Mhz to 1 Ghz, with other, even more powerful devices already on the drawing board. The conclusion to be drawn from this is either that Amiga is very committed to the desktop market or that we are going to build one mother of a cellphone.

We are committed to making the Amiga THE best computer system in the world. Yes we are also going to go into other markets, but that does not mean we are abandoning the desktop, the Amiga philosophy or the loyal Amigans who have stood by the platform through the good and the bad.

Amiga Frequently Asked Questions

Thank you,
The Amiga Team

><> Bill McEwen ><>
President/CEO
Amiga Inc.
Tel 425-396-5660
Fax 425-396-5671
bill@amiga.com

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20.Jul.2000
Bill Borsari via email


UGN AmiWest2000 press release
From:         Bill Borsari tekmage@amiga.org
Date:         Thu, 20 Jul 2000 01:36:54 -0500
Organization: UGN
Subject:      UGN AmiWest2000 Press Release

For Immediate release:

  The UGN in conjunction with Amiga Inc., AmiWest 2000 and
FortWaynemusic.com is proud to announce the second official live audio
broadcast from an US Amiga show:  July 29th and 30th!  Starting in 1998
from the Amiga International show, the UGN has provided live webcam and
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) from Amiga conventions world wide.  It has been
our goal to enhance our informational feeds to include audio since that
very first show.  At AmiWest 2000, the audio feed will once again become a
reality!

In the past we would ask our guests to join us on the IRC network to field
questions and deliver answers, but, due to the nature of IRC, efficiency
was greatly reduced.  To solve that dilemma, we decided to broadcast the
guests voice over the internet as an Mpeg 3 (mp3) Audio stream.
Furthermore, we decided on the mp3 Audio format due to popularity, and mp3
players are available for nearly every platform.  For the Amiga, we will
provide step
by step directions at ugn.amiga.org on how to setup the StreamMp3.rx, a
freely available mp3 Audio stream player, for Ibrowse, Aweb and Voyager.
 The minimum requirements to receive the audio stream live would be a 68030
at 50 MHz and a 28.8 modem.  It is also possible to use the AudioLabs
ProStationAudio software with iRec, see www.audiolabs.it for a demo version
and directions.

In order to give the Amiga community voice, questions will be accepted
through a webpage form on ugn.amiga.org up-until 2 days before the show,
and we will moderate an IRC channel for questions during the interview.  New
for AmiWest we will have ICQ and AIM ability as well. The guests will be
given 1 hour to answer questions and discuss important issues.  Our plan
involves
hosting guests during day and broadcasting the banquet on Saturday night.
Also, we have confirmation that Bill McEwen will be available to us during
the show.

Refer to ugn.amiga.org for the broadcast times and a schedule speakers.

Audio: http://redhat.tc3net.com:8000/listen.pls
ICQ: 82051339
AIM: AmiWest
IRC: #amiwest, Servers: whiterose.us.amiganet.org, linux.tc3net.com,
                        stay free.uk.amiganet.org, kth.se.amiganet.org

Bill Borsari
Director UGN


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20.Jul.2000
Sylvio K. at the ANF


DeepSilence Pre Engine
A pre engine of the manga action roleplaying game is released on the DeepSilence page! Also you can subscribe for a newsletter on the mainpage!

The Manga@Amiga page is also online again!

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19.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Outlook Virus Warning from MSNBC
Several virus warnings have clearly pointed out that Outlook is an unsecure mailing software, as in the begining opening an attachment was enough to give crackeres free entrance.

A bug in Outlook and Outlook Express as well, which occures when the software trys to read malformed datefields in which a long string of GMT is written too (Malformed eMail Header Vulnerability), leads to an overflow error (buffer overflow), which then can crash the application or - and this is much more dangerous - crackers can use this for execution of any program code by sending a suitable prepared mail. Recieving such a mail is enough!

Microsoft offers a patch for this problem. To use this patch the Internet Explorer 5.01 Service Pack 1 must have been installed.

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19.Jul.2000
Tom Neidhardt on ANF


EASys! Registration during my holydays
Hello prospective Easyans, during my holydays, which will last untill 07/25/00, I will not be online (except for this time). Registration codes for installation of the software EASys! during this time are to order at ea1909@fen-net.de

As far as possible software support will be available on the EASys! mailinglist. There you sure will find answers on your questions. easysystem-subscribe@egroups.com. Thank you very much!

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19.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


SeaSide Demo
From today a demo version of SeaSide is available on the homepage of APC&TCP or on Aminet.

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19.Jul.2000
Michael Pfeiffer via eMail


VWP News
Audio Effects for Casablanca
Together with MotionStudios VWP developed two software packs with audio effects for the video editing system Casablance. The "SoundFX" pack contains several effects for editing, adulterating, enhancing, and mutating the video sound. The "SurroundFX" pack has several features for sound surround decoding. Beside free positioning inside the perception space these effects allow editable and default sound movement, provided a surround decoder (Circle or dolby surround compatible) is connected to the Casablanca. More information here.

BeOS Developer Forum More of a littel experience is the newly set up forum for software developers using BeOS. The forum is to find at BeDeveloper.cjb.net - let's see how many "BeVelopers" already there are.

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19.Jul.2000
Amiga, Inc.


Amiga Inc. and KDH Datentechik Announce Strategic Distribution Agreement
July 19, 2000
AMIGA INC. AND KDH DATENTECHNIK ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - Amiga Inc. is pleased to announce their partnership with KDH Datentechnik of Horb/Stuttgart, Germany, to distribute the new d'AMIGA Developer Machine, the Amiga Next Generation product line as well as the AMIGA CLASSIC products.

"We are happy to ensure high quality standards in Europe for our recently announced d'AMIGA developer machine. Gunter has been a well-known and respected dealer for many years and has gone to great efforts to ensure that the d'AMIGA developer machine will be available to both developers and other dealers in Europe. We are pleased to be able to offer as economical a solution to our community and to be able to bundle additional support from Amiga for our developers. The d'AMIGA developer machine represents significant value to any member of our community. As we have stated in the past, we have bundled additional value to the d'AMIGA developer machine that will not be available elsewhere. If you machine does not have d'AMIGA developer machine badge, it will not be supported in the same manner. We encourage the community to investigate the d'AMIGA developer machine, which will only be available for distribution through KDH in Germany. We equally encourage the other dealers to contact KDH for availability for your customers. We all welcome KDH to our future," said Randy Hughes, Vice President - Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

KDH Datentechnik, a well-regarded name in the Amiga community, is ecstatic to be a part of Amiga Inc.'s plans for the future. They are excited to have been named the exclusive supplier of d'Amiga development machines in Europe and anticipate that sales of both SDK and Developers machine will continue to enjoy grow by leaps and bounds. Gunter Horbach, President of KDH Datentechnik, stated, "We are very proud to be a part of the new Amiga future and to be able to provide the current Amiga Classic line as well as the Next Generation products to the Amiga community in Europe. A close and fair relationship with our Amiga users as well as the Amiga dealers is the key to our future. Our base of satisfied customers make us one of the largest mail order retailers of Amiga products within Europe. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our customers worldwide for the opportunity to serve them as well as for their support of the current offerings from Amiga. We encourage the user community as well as the other dealers to investigate the excellent value of the d'AMIGA developer machine and welcome your queries. Our customers have encouraged us to support the Amiga platform over the years and remain vocal in their support of the Next Generation Amiga. Customer satisfaction, friendly and uncomplicated service in concert with the best technical expertise remain the hallmarks of KDH. These qualities as well as the vision of Amiga Inc. ensure a bright future for us all."

Amiga's mission is to provide THE platform, architecture and tools for the emerging Digital Content Universe. In doing so, we will uniquely empower our partners and customers to create products that will deliver on the promise of the Digital Age. The release of our first products, the Amiga software development kit (SDK) and now, the d'AMIGA developer machine, is enabling thousands of developers, tired of the old platforms designed for yesteryear's services, to come over to join with the tens of thousands of existing Amiga developers already working with Amiga to create the content of today and tomorrow, now. For additional information, please visit http://www.amiga.com.

For more information on KDH Datentechnik, please contact:

Randall P. Hughes
Vice President Sales and Strategic Alliances
Amiga Inc.
randy@amiga.com

Gunter Horbach
President
KDH Datentechnik
www.kdh-datentechnik.com
24Std Amiga Online Store

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19.Jul.2000
KDH on ANF


Test person for MAC-emulation needed!
We are looking for an Amiga expert who wants to test a MAC-emulation for use. Experiences with other MAC-emulations and a good knowledge in english are necessary. Please write to one of our known email-addresses. Except big honour and respect you can expect a little payment for your expenditure.

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19.Jul.2000
KatoDev on ANF


Melody1200pro Production Completely Sold to the Dealer
During the next days the full current production will be send to dealer in Europe (mainly Germany). Unfortunately there is a delayment of delivery of four weeks which is caused by a global lack of certain materials. KatoDev thanks for your patience. The homepage of KatoDev will be adapted during the next days because presently KatoDev is buzy with testing, dispatching and development.

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19.Jul.2000
Oliver Gantert im ANF


Orbit 0.7a (PPC) released
On my homepage the new PPC-version of Orbit is ready for download. Unfortunately there is no network support (contrary to the 060 version), but this will be changed within the next weeks.

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19.Jul.2000
Haage & Partner


AmiCamedia for Digital Cameras
Using AmiCamedia you are able to transfer your pictures of the Olympus didgital camaras to your amiga qucikly and uncomplicated. You just have to connect your camera to the serial port, start your software and you are ready. Features: Preview, transfer of one or all pictures, transfer with up to 230400 baud. Details at the titlelink.

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19.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Hyperactive: Interview with Martyn Brown from Team 17
In this exclusive interview Hyperactive elicits information from Martyn Brown which are absolutely new. Get all information about Worms 3D, Alien Breed 3D, Hogs of War, Stunt GP, problems of WormNet, strategies of Team 17, the X-Box, the Amiga, the wheel of pirates of Dreamcast, programming of PS2, the Lamborghini in the garage of Team 17, the origin of the name of "Team 17", soccer-rowdies and much more...

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19.Jul.2000
Brad Webb via eMail


Amiga Update Newsletter 000718
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                D ' A M I G A   I S   D ' T H I N G

                 U P D A T E   F R O M   A M I G A

        M A T H E N G I N E   T O   T A O   P L A T F O R M

   A M I G A   I N C .   &   S O F T W A R E   H U T   A G A I N

                 . . . A N D   C O M P U Q U I C K

           A M I G A F E S T   M O V E S   F O R W A R D

                    A M I W E S T   U P D A T E

       A M I W E S T   D E V E L O P E R S '   M E E T I N G

              A M I G A Z O N E   A T   A M I W E S T

         S E A L O R A M A   S O M E W H E R E   I N   U K

             O P E N   L E T T E R   F R O M   C S & E

         N O ,   N O T   _ T H A T _   D I G I T A   . . .

          D O C D A T A T Y P E S   U P D A T E   N E W S

                     D E V E L O P E R   N E E D E D !

          A M I G A   J O B S   S T A T U S   R E P O R T

                        G A U H P I L   U P D A T E

              A M I G A   S U R V I O R   -   D O E S

      A N D   A M I G A   F U T U R E   H A S   E N G L I S H

          M A S T H E A D   F O R   N E W   A M I G A N S

            D R Y   I C E   I N   D E V E L O P M E N T

            N O T E   F R O M   H O L G E R   K R U S E

Editor's Thoughts and Introduction:

 Fun things this time around. Lots of Amiga shows coming up and a
bewildering blizzard of annoucements and strategic aliances from
Amiga. Hope the items below help to make it all clear.
 First, some AU business. The contest for the Amiga 2000 is over. All
entrants should have received a notice from us by now. In case some
got lost in the mail, here's the note we sent to everyone who DIDN'T
win:

"Hello from 'Amiga Update'

 "I hate suspense, so here it is - the winner of the Amiga 2000
drawing is:

"Gerald B. Gibbons

 "Congratulations Gerald!! You should have already received a separate
note with information on contacting Pat Hammond, the generous donator
of the computer.

 "I'm sending this note to everyone who expressed interest, but will
do so without revealing individual e-mail addresses.
 "We received nine requests from readers who wanted to be included in
the drawing. All names were written on same sized slips of paper, and
placed in an old "AmiEXPO" hat (you have to have been around a while
to remember those shows). The winner was drawn by Mrs. Webb. We held
the drawing at "Amiga Update" World Headquarters on the 4th of July,
allowing a few days from the end of the month in case some late
entries might have been caught in the Internet mail flow.

 "We hope Gerald enjoys the Amiga 2000 for quite a while, and thanks
to everyone who participated.

"Brad Webb,
Editor/Publisher
'Amiga Update'"

 We'd like to give another big "thank you!" to Pat Hammond for making
the computer available!
 And while we're dealing in fun things, we've picked up on a
persistent rumor, which seems to have been repeated word for word in
several places, including supposedly the UK's entertainment industry
publication "MCV". Here are some quotes:


 "The long forgotten Amiga system is to make a comeback.

 "Amigas have been destined to the dustbin of time after the advent of
consoles, and after the ill-fated Amiga CD-32, it was thought that
Amiga would not be resurfacing.

 "However, a new Amiga games machine is on its way - and it's likely to
be some kind of handheld games unit. The machine will use the Amiga OS
but is unlikely to be manufactured by Amiga Inc themselves. Third
party manufacturers such as Dell, Gateway and IBM have expressed
interests in the minature Amiga handheld, while Amiga will supply the
badge and operating system.

 "A new Amiga desktop machine called Amiga One will also be launched in
November this year, and will be targeted at home users. We welcome
back the Amiga with open arms."

 We suggest you don't put too much faith in that "story" but it
certainly is interesting.
 Finally, word has reached us that Sun has announced today the source
for its "StarOffice" product will be made available for others to
port. "StarOffice is an office suite of productivity software much
beloved in the Linux environment and provides the closest thing there
is to Microsoft competition. Anyone out there interested in porting it
to the Amiga?
 We hope you enjoy this issue,
 Brad Webb,
 Editor

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E-mail to the E-ditor:


Dear Friends,

 I think, yours is a very good idea, please keep on and sign me on
too.

 The Amiga used to be my joy, a great machine, especially the A1200
which I bought after my first computer, the A2000.

 Great machines, super interface, the best.

 I left Europe in 1996 to do a 3-year contract on the island of Aruba
and because of my work, (I am an architect working with autocad on
pc`s) and the fact that nobody does the Amiga on that Island, I lost
some track of the Amiga.

 I hope to see a new generation Amiga on the market soon and I like to
keep in touch with some news on these developments. I will be joining
for sure.

Thanks for being Amigans. John
~~~~~~
John,
 Thanks for writing and welcome! There's a lot going on in at Amiga
Inc. as this issue shows. We hope to bring the highlights to you and
the rest of the Community.
 Brad

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              D ' A M I G A   I S   D ' T H I N G

 July 13, 2000 - Amiga Inc., Snoqualmie, WA, today announced
manufacturing and distribution agreements with Wonder Computers
International Inc. in Ottawa, Canada and Software Hut, Inc. in West
Chester, PA. These agreements will allow the manufacture of d'Amiga
Authorized Developer Workstations in North America.

 Both Software Hut and Wonder Computers are well known and well
regarded figures in the Amiga community. Their involvement dates back
well over a decade.

 Amiga, Software Hut and Wonder Computers share the same vision and
strategy to establish the Next Generation Amiga as the preeminent
media platform and operating environment for the future.

 ``It gives us great pleasure to have released the Software
Development Kit (SDK) on schedule and to follow up with such excellent
value to the community with the d'Amiga Developer Workstation. It
gives us equal pleasure to have the support of Software Hut and Wonder
Computers behind this release. Through this developer machine, we
achieve our goal of providing excellent value in superior hardware to
realize our cross platform binary compatibility promise for
developers. This will no doubt come as great news to those in the
community seeking value of their dollar as they develop for the great
number of target platforms that Amiga supports," said Randall Hughes,
Vice President, Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

 "We at Software Hut are extremely excited to have been selected as
the official US Distributor for the authorized d'Amiga Developer
Workstation. Many of our customers and dealer partners have been
looking for a machine with all the specifications to run the Amiga SDK
in one bundled package. Our combined efforts, along with Amiga Inc.'s
and Wonder Computers', will ensure that all developers will have easy
and affordable access to the tools needed to develop software that
will revolutionize computing as we now know it," said Joseph Muoio,
President of Software Hut, Inc.

 "We are proud to be a part of this quantum leap forward in computing
technology, and look forward to working closely with Amiga and
Software Hut on this project in the weeks and months to come. The
developer machine is more than just a tool. It represents the first
significant opportunity for Amigans and former Amigans everywhere, to
join forces and help bring about a real change in the way computers
work. The developers machine can also be configured to run Amiga
Classic software through emulation, adding further to its potential
value for anyone considering a purchase," extolled Mark Habinski,
President of Wonder Computers International Inc.

 The developer machine represents unparalleled value, uses brand name
parts of the highest quality, and is bundled with a comprehensive
warranty on hardware and an enhanced level of support from Amiga Inc.
The workstation also includes the Amiga SDK. "We at Amiga are proud to
have our name on the d'Amiga Authorized Developer Workstation," said
Mr. Hughes, in reference to its significant value and competitive
price. Such a price/performance achievement is not possible using
clone hardware. If it does not have the official Amiga Boing insignia,
it is not an authorized Amiga Developer Workstation. Please see
www.amiga.com for full details.

 Other d'Amiga information:

 The d'AMIGA represents outstanding value to our community in its
functionality and support. Feature for feature, it represents the most
affordable performance and comprehensive support available on a
standardized platform to Amigans and other Amiverse developers.

 The d'AMIGA developer workstation is available through your preferred
dealer via distribution of the following, in their respective
territories:

   o USA - Software Hut Inc.
   o Canada - Wonder Computers International Inc
   o UK - Eyetech Group Ltd.
   o Europe - KDH Datentechnik
   o Australia - Unitech Electronics

 Please contact your preferred dealer or the above mentioned
distributors to arrange for delivery and regional pricing of your
d'AMIGA Developer Workstation today!

Following are the system specifications:

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

   o Motherboard Gigabyte GA-5AX
   o CPU AMD K6-11 3D 500Mhz
   o Memory 128 Mbyte SDRAM DIMM PC100
   o Hard Drive 10 Gbyte IDE
   o CDROM 40X
   o Floppy 1.44 Mbyte
   o Sound Creative Sound blaster Live PCI-16
   o Video Matrox G400 Dual Head
   o Speakers 160 W
   o Network Linksys NC100 v2.0
   o Warranty 2 year 'Sealed Case' P&L

Software:

   o Redhat Linux 6.1 PreInstalled
   o AMIGA Software Development Tool Kit
   o Amiga Inc ADN Support Package Trailblazer Level. A $1000 value
      o 24 Hour turnaround on issues, requests, information, tools,
        documents and beta builds from point of availability versus
        7 days to community at large
      o Beta software accessible from the ADN
      o Faq-O-Matic
      o Developer conference discounts 15%
      o Discount on Printed and Softbound documents 15%
      o Searchable database of bugs, beta testers and developers
      o Full listing of issues, status of issues taken from Bugzilla
        and Faq-O-Matic, all maintained in a prioritized online
        database
      o Bugzilla
      o Code Samples
      o All developer materials, the online Developer Mall and other
        Web Accessible tools
      o Message Boards
      o Online developer docs
      o Mailing Lists
      o Internet Messaging
   o IRC with internal Amiga Inc. programmers and senior management
   o Monthly CEO feedback to developers- No more surprises!
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                U P D A T E   F R O M   A M I G A

{Note: yes this story carries a date of the 19th - tomorrow where we
are - but we really did obtain it on the 18th. We just bring you the
news really, really fast! Slightly edited for easier reading in the AU
format. Brad}

Update From Amiga Inc on AmiOpen
(19 July, 2000) - Gary Peake

 I would like to announce that Douglas McLaughlin will be writing his
own version of ICQ for the new AmiVerse.

 License Fees: Contrary to what the SDK says, there will be NO license
fees on any applications, tools, or ports in the year 2000. We are
reviewing this policy for 2001 and beyond and as soon as I have the
info I will post it here. Also, there is and never will be license
fees on open source apps or tools.

 Developer Web Site: Sorry about the delay with the web site. Part of
the delay was waiting to see which ways we would go with certain web
based applications and another part of the delay has been getting my
family situation worked out and all of my family up here to the great
Northwest. That accomplished, the web site updates will begin in
earnest now. Stay tuned for more developments there.

Thanks for your patience

Gary Peake
Director - Support
Amiga Inc.
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        M A T H E N G I N E   T O   T A O   P L A T F O R M

 Oxford and Reading, England - July 4th 2000, MathEngine PLC, the
leader in real time dynamics software - which allows complex,
physics-based interactive simulation - today announced it will make
its technology available on Tao Group's intentTM media platform.

 The intentTM platform is a lightweight, high performance media
platform for running systems and content across a broad range of
digital networked appliances from PCs and game consoles to set top
boxes and mobile phones. This means that developers can write code
that can be easily ported to run on many different current and future
hardware platforms. Example areas of use for MathEngine's libraries
include the creation of realistic physics behavior for next generation
consoles and PC games. By including MathEngine technology in the
intentTM platform, MathEngine is able to make its technology available
in a highly optimised form on this broad range of hardware platforms.

 "MathEngine is contributing a very important suite of high value
technologies to the intentTM environment," said Francis Charig,
Chairman of Tao. "Our recent range of announcements involving
multimedia partners is now further complemented by the immediacy and
reality brought by MathEngine's software. It is increasingly
recognized that only Tao can combine the enabling of true multimedia
content, across many different Internet appliances, with conformance
to global standards. Our partnership with MathEngine will make that
content both different and even more exciting."

 The new Tao environment, including MathEngine technology, will be
available on general release later this year but will be available to
selected partners in advance.

 MathEngine has found Tao to be an ideal partner in the Internet
appliance space. With MathEngine already running its software on games
platforms such as PCs and video game consoles, the relationship with
Tao is one way in which MathEngine can branch out to new markets such
as digital television, set top boxes and smart phones.

 Lincoln Wallen, Chief Technology Officer of MathEngine said,
"Integrating our technology into Tao's intentTM media platform allows
developers already working with our products on PC and game consoles
to make their titles available more easily on other emerging
platforms. The partnership will enable MathEngine to branch out into
new markets and design specific solutions for new consumer devices."
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   A M I G A   I N C .   &   S O F T W A R E   H U T   A G A I N

 Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - On June 17, 2000, Amiga announced a partnership
with Software Hut, Inc. of West Chester, Pa. USA for distribution of
the new Amiga SDK and Classic Amiga products. Software Hut, Inc., the
leading distributor in North America of Classic Amiga products, will
now make available existing Classic Amiga products as well as the next
generation SDK to all Amiga dealers, end users, and developers.

 "We are pleased offer easy access to all our products, both Classic
and Next Generation, through Software Hut. They have been a strong
supporter of the Amiga Community for the past 12 years and have the
widest selection of Amiga products in stock in North America," said
Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga
Inc. "Their enthusiasm and expertise will be of great help in
supplying our existing Classic market with products for years to come
as well as developing and expanding our ability to distribute our Next
Generation Products. We join the community in welcoming Software Hut
to our future."

 Gary Peake, Director of Support at Amiga Inc. said, "I am very
pleased to have Software Hut on board as one of our Regional
Distributors for North America! Joe and Trish have devoted the last
eleven years of their life to supporting the Amiga community with
friendly and knowledgeable service, good pricing, and ethical
standards that make doing business with them a pleasure."

 Software Hut, Inc., a well-known name in the current global Amiga
community, is excited about distributing the new Amiga line. Joseph
Muoio, President of Software Hut, commented, "We are extremely excited
to be able to offer Amiga products to the entire community. We have a
great relationship with our dealers and end-users worldwide, and we
hope to further our relationship with them. We thank everyone who has
supported our efforts to remain Amiga-specific in the past and ask for
your continued support as we unite with Amiga Inc. to distribute a
successful, revolutionary new Amiga that will take the by storm."

 Software Hut, Inc. began as a small, family-owned business in 1982,
specializing in Apple products. After the release of the AMIGA 1000,
Software Hut, Inc. realized the market potential of this superior
graphics system and has spent the last 12 years devoting all of its
efforts into promoting and selling the Amiga line of products. The
Amiga's popularity and incredible graphics applications has
transformed Software Hut from its humble beginnings to one of the
largest Amiga distributors in the world.
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                . . . A N D   C O M P U Q U I C K

June 28, 2000
 Snoqualmie, Wa. USA - Amiga Inc. is pleased to announce their
partnership with Compuquick Media Center, of Columbus, Ohio, USA, to
distribute the new AMIGA SDK (Software Development Kit), as well as
the AMIGA CLASSIC products.

 "We are happy to ensure high availability of our Classic and Next
Generation products through Compuquick. Mr. Jesrani has been both a
familiar and a highly regarded member of the community since 1987. It
is both our honor and privilege to be associated with Compuquick. We
aniticipate their continued commitment and expertise, knowing that the
community will be well served. We join you in welcoming Compuquick to
the future of Amiga," said Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and
Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

 Compuquick Media Center, a well-known name in the AMIGA community, is
excited to be a part of Amiga Inc.'s plans for the future. They look
forward to continued success in distributing the new AMIGA SDK as well
as any other products that may be contemplated by Amiga. Randhir
Jesrani, President of Compuquick Media Center added, "We are very
pleased to be able to offer Amiga products to the community and look
forward to helping the community grow. We have an excellent
relationship with our Amiga friends throughout the world and are keen
to hear from our many friends who have come back to Amiga. Once an
Amigan, always an Amigan."

 Compuquick Media Center has a 10 year legacy of satisfied clients and
is a constant fixture at all Amiga trade shows. Compuquick has devoted
their focus to the sale and service of Amiga systems, software and
peripherals and is the leading supplier of Video Toaster and Flyer
systems. Compuquick has demonstrated their expertise and is a leader
in the sales of Amiga products to the educational and to the graphic
artist communities and count animators at Disney and the suppliers to
the Armed Forces as just a few of their many customers.
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          A M I G A F E S T   M O V E S   F O R W A R D

03 July, 2000


 AmigaFest 2000, the show within a show at Dayton's Fall Computerfest®
is a go!

 AmigaFest will have its own area within Computerfest® and we will
have more control over the layout than last year. Last year we had
about 15 exhibitors and we hope to have many more this year.

 The Fall Computerfest® is Sat. & Sun. August 26 & 27 at Hara Arena on
the northwest side of Dayton, Ohio.

 This show has a big advantage for the Amiga Community because it will
give you access to several vendors who are Amiga specialists and also
well over a hundred vendors selling the general equipment you need,
drives, printers, memory, storage media, etc. at really great prices.
In effect, everything you need and want in one place.

 For Amiga vendors and exhibitors it give you access to a croud of
over 30,000 attendees, and, while most are PC people, an amazing
number of Amiga people will be there. Many are Amiga users who do not
buy the magazines and are not in user groups and are there for the
cheap goodies and will be really happy to have access to Amiga gear.
This also gives you access to a tremendous crowd most of who know
nothing about Amiga and many who once owned one and it will surprise
you how much interest having AmigaFest 2000 within the show will
generate. This is also an excellent forum to let the non-Amiga world
know what is happening. Most important, it is an inexpensive show to
participate in. The cost is $60 per 8 ft. table. This is really a
bargain for a show of this magnitude.

 Amiga, Inc. is providing two A1200s and a selection of other items to
be raffled at the show. We are also planning to have a get together on
the Saturday evening of the show at a restaurant so we can all relax
eat, maybe drink a little, socialize a lot, and generally have a good
time.

 If you are interested in more information on the show, directions, or
being an exhibitor, email me at schwartr@gemair.com or phone/fax at
937-434-2144.

 Ron Schwartz AmigaFest Coordinator/AmiTech-Dayton
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                      A M I W E S T   U P D A T E

05 July, 2000

 On June 6, Amiga Inc. and Eyetech Group Ltd entered into a strategic
relationship for Eyetech to manufacture the first release of the Next
Generation Amiga Development Machine. Eyetech will be coming to
Sacramento, California for AmiWest 2000 and will be showing off the
Next Generation Amiga Development Machine coupled with a Classic A1200
at the show.

 Eyetech is the leading UK developers and Worldwide mail order
retailers of Amiga technology products for the home and for industry.
They are the manufacturers and distributors of the EZDev-Plus and
EZDev-Tower Dev Boxes in the UK and Ireland under a partnership
agreement with Amiga Inc. and parent company of the Eye-Play
(www.eye-play.com) games publishing and distribution for the Classic
and Amiga OE platforms.

 Products at the show will include: EZRack 2U x 380mm 19" rack system
containing a full EZDev and Classic A1200 platform networked in the
same case; EZBoot silicon floppy disk allowing direct booting from
CDROM on all WB3+ Amigas; the AMON low distortion automatic monitor
switcher for the Cybervision64-3D and scandoubled AGA outputs; the
EZLink AREXX-controlled infrared controller 'learning'
receiver/transmitter for all WB2+ Amigas; the EZ-Net 5-click
Linux-Amiga, Win-Amiga & Amiga-Amiga networking software and
installer; the EZ-VGA range of scan doublers and flickerfixers and
much more.

 A rolling presentation under SCALA MM400 will show some of the
products that we physically couldn't bring with us, but regularly send
to the US by mail order. These include: the full range of EZDev
configuration options, the EZTower-Z4 A1200 tower system with Z4
expansion board (3 x Z2, 2 x hi-speed Z2, 2 x 19MB/s Z4, 4 x clock
port slots) and many more products.

 Special dealer and User Group pricing will be available at the show.
Eyetech can be reached on the web at http://welcome.to/amiga.world.

 Remember, AmiWest 2000 is being held on Friday through Sunday, July
29-30, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, in Sacramento,
CA. Classes and seminars will be held throughout the day on both
Saturday and Sunday with the exhibit hall being open on Saturday, July
29th from 10 A.M. - 5 P.M and Sunday, July 30th 10 A.M. - 4 P.M.

 Specially priced tickets for AmiWest 2000 are available in advance by
mail. Prices are: two day admission tickets, $12 and one day admission
ticket, $8. If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices
are: two day ticket at the door, $15 and One day ticket at the door,
$10. If you are ordering a one day ticket by mail, please specify
which day (Saturday or Sunday) you are attending.

 There will be a buffet banquet on Saturday evening, July 29th, with
Bill McEwen, President of Amiga Inc., as the guest speaker discussing
the progress made to date on the new Amigas. Price is $35 per plate.
Banquet tickets must be purchased in advance. They will NOT be sold on
Friday nor Saturday due to the hotel needing attendance figures for
planning the banquet.

 You can mail your requests for advanced admission and banquet tickets
to:

 AmiWest 2000
 c/o John Zacharias
 10004 Vanguard Drive
 Sacramento, CA 95827

 Make checks payable to "AmiWest".

 A form for ordering tickets can be found on the AmiWest web page at

http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/ where you can learn more about AmiWest
2000.

 Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director, Amiga Deutschland Inc., will
be joining Mr McEwen in attendance at AmiWest 2000. Special hotel room
rates are available at the Holiday Inn for those attending AmiWest
2000. Room rates are $ 79 (Single) and $ 89 (double) if reservations
are made by July 7. You must mention that you are attending AmiWest to
get the special rate. You can phone the Holiday Inn at 1-916-338-5800
or 1-800-388-9284 (Tool Free - Hotel directly) to make hotel
reservations.

 You will also be able to purchase the recently announced Software
Development Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000. The SDK is
being sold by several of the exhibitors at the show. This weekend
event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga Community.

 Hope to see you at AmiWest 2000 on July 29-30, 2000.

 John Zacharias,
chairperson AmiWest 2000
 jzachar@calweb.com
 http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/
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       A M I W E S T   D E V E L O P E R S '   M E E T I N G

17 Jul 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Developer's Meeting at AmiWest 2000!

 Kermit Woodall of Nova Design will be conducting an informal
developers meeting at AmiWest 2000 to discuss future development
trends on the Amiga. The meeting will be held during the vendor setup
period between 8 pm and 9 pm on Friday evening, July 28, 2000 on the
Terrace in front of the main AmiWest exhibit hall. Questions
concerning the new Amiga SDK will be entertained and hopefully
answered during this meeting.

 A special reception for vendors and developers with food and drink
and sponsored by AmiWest will also be held during the vendor setup on
Friday evening.

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            A M I G A Z O N E   A T   A M I W E S T


(17 July, 2000) - http://www.amigazone.com/

 For the third year in a row, AmigaZone will be exhibiting at the
AmiWest show. (Show location and hotel details and all the other
relevant poop about AmiWest is at http://www.sacc.org/amiwest ).

 Sign up for AmigaZone in person at the show with me and you will be
given a free AmigaZone logo baseball cap!.

 There is a glorious, no-expenses-spared, super 3D rotating
confetti-spewing Playmate-filled *multimedia presentation of the hat
at http://www.amigazone.com/images/cap.jpg *or maybe it's just a lame
picture ;)

 As a special "instant rebate" --> flashing neon --> BONUS <--
flashing neon <-- and while supplies last, to those who join AmigaZone
at AmiWest in person, along with your hat you will be handed a brand
spankin' new, freshly-minted, brilliant uncirculated year 2000 dated
United States "Golden Dollar." (Actual cash value of the dollar is one
dollar :) (For more info on what the new Golden Dollar is, visit

http://www.usmint.gov ).

 You'll be able to demo AmigaZone for your own self, live, online, at
my booth, on my 060 machine in glorious Cybergrafx, on a big monitor
with live modem connection, ask me all the questions you want to
(excet the ones I can't answer, like 'bout birthin' babies..) and just
have a damn good time at the show.

 Please, no pushing and shoving, stand on the throbbing blue line, and
keep your hands to yourself. Thank you! If you are already an
AmigaZone member and joined before I started this whole hat thang, you
may purchase a hat at my booth for $7.50. Non-members may purchase one
for $12.00 unless they ask really really nicely and then maybe they
can have one for $10.00. (See
http://www.amigazone.com/pages/disclaimers.html for the fine print).

 See you at AmiWest, Sacramento, July 29-30, 2000!

 Harv -- Founder of AmigaZone. Supporting Amiga owners since 1985!

Go here for info or to join: http://www.amigazone.com
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       S E A L O R A M A   S O M E W H E R E   I N   U K

 {The story we got didn't say where in the UK. We'll bring you that
information when we get it. Brad}

It's Here!!

 On Sunday September the 10th 2000, SEAL (possibly the most active
Amiga User Group in the known universe), is holding the first ever
SEAL-O-RAMA!

   o Buy Bargains!
   o Win Prizes!
   o Play Games!
   o See Demonstrations!
   o Meet Fellow Amigans!
   o Watch Exhibitions!
   o And So Much More!

 Amiga have donated two Amiga 1200s and loads of other branded goodies
for you to win!

Analogic Computers

 Analogic will be donating some great prizes for the competitions
running during the show. They are also offering free gifts and special
discounts to anyone who subscribes to Clubbed magazine at the show!

 Have a look at the exhibitors attending, and the funky stuff they are
hoping to show off to you. Some of it to be seen for the very first
time!

Times

 The show will open at 12:00 midday and will close at 17:00.

Admission

 Entry to the show will cost £1 per person, which includes entry to
win one of the A1200 Magic Packs.

See you there!
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            O P E N   L E T T E R   F R O M   C S & E

7 July, 2000

Dear friends,

 It won't come as a shock to most within the community that advance
sales of our forthcoming Amiga titles have been disappointing. On the
classic Amiga we are fighting with hands tied behind our backs due to
the lack of new hardware sales and in addition we are being hit below
the belt by piracy. It is with deep regret that I announce CS&E has
cancelled all future games development for this system. This was a
difficult decision for me to make but financially impossible for me to
ignore.

 More positively, remember we arrived on the Amiga scene in
anticipation of a new machine - hence we will develop for the new
Amiga and I have great pleasure in announcing that CS&E will be giving
away development kits free to all Amiga developers who pledge to
release their forthcoming titles through our network. In addition our
£1,000 competition will be carried over to the new Amiga so that
£1,000 will definitely be given away in advance to the developer of
what CS&E judges to be the best software offering, now extended to the
end of 2,000. By taking these steps CS&E is making development for the
Amiga pay and ensuring the best quality in gameplay and service for
our customers. Nothing has changed since we entered the Amiga market
on the back of successful PC releases last year, our quality,
originality and commitment to Amiga speaks for itself.

 Amiga Survivor will play a key role in being one of the most
respected sources of information for the Amiga community through the
launch of the new Amiga. AS has recently been put in the hands of an
independent team of budding journalists from all over Europe and is
the premier independent magazine for Amiga news and reviews. Issue 10
will be the first release in the new format on August 10th, after
which you will get regular bi-monthly release dates.

 Look out for more news at http://www.CSandE.co.uk coming soon!

 Kind Regards,

 David Connolly
 Managing Director
 Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd
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         N O ,   N O T   _ T H A T _   D I G I T A   . . .

27 Jun 2000

Innovative brings Digita(TM)-power to your AMIGA!

 Innovative has developed a driver for DigiCams running the Digita(TM)
Operating Environment. Digita(TM)-enabled DigiCams offer much more
flexibility and abilities than everything else currently on the
market. Digita(TM) is used in high-end-cameras of different companies,
runs on PowerPC- and Coldfire-CPUs and allows you to run scripts,
applications and games (incl. MAME!!) on your camera. The developers
of Digita(TM), Flashpoint(TM) (http://www.flashpoint.com/) wants to
make Digita(TM) the standard for DigiCams and specified a standardized
communication-protocol between computer and camera. With the now
available VHI-driver, AMIGA-users finally get access to these amazing
cameras and can download and rework pictures from these cameras.
Currently available Digita(TM)-enabled DigiCams are

        · Kodak DC 220, DC 260, DC 265, DC 290
        · Minolta Dimage 1500 EX, Dimage 1500 3D
        · HP PhotoSmart C500, C619, C912,
        · Pentax EI-200, EI-2000

P.S.: In this case, Digita(TM) has nothing to do with the developers
      of Wordsworth but is the name of a product by Flashpoint(TM).
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          D O C D A T A T Y P E S   U P D A T E   N E W S

12 July, 2000

 The latest version of DocDatatypes, v39.40, is now available. The
main changes from version 39.30 are that the RTF datatype and filetype
descriptor have been updated to support most if not all RTF file
types. A new datatype for First Word(plus) documents is now included
as is full support for WordPerfect 4, including file type descriptors.
A DocDatatypes mailing list also has been created. A working 68000
version of Orbit 0.7 (you'll need a 060) is available. You can also
download a version with networking enabled! The PPC version will get
network support soon.

 http://www.crosswinds.net/~internetpages/docdatatypes/

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                   D E V E L O P E R   N E E D E D !

13 Jul 2000

 APC&TCP search a c++ developer for work with our team on the game
Phönix. please write to: info@apc-tcp.de

thanks,

Andreas Magerl


APC&TCP
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            A M I G A   J O B S   S T A T U S   R E P O R T

28 Jun 2000

"Free Amiga Jobs" - Status Report, June 2000

 Cologne/Germany, 28-June-2000 - The Amiga market is moving. Just a
look at Free Amiga Jobs, the free employment agency service for the
Amiga, shows how many projects are planned or running right now by
established and startup-companies. You can make a contribution to the
development: work for the Amiga!

 Here are the known changes since the last status report:

new jobs (since last update): 18
filled jobs (since last update): 15
filled jobs (overall): 28
open jobs (currently): 36
open jobs (overall): 62

"Free Amiga Jobs" is hosted by Amiga plus and
Amiga-News.de at "http://www.amiga-news.de/jobs/".

Sincerely,

Nico Barbat, Amiga plus
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                     G A U H P I L   U P D A T E

16 Jun 2000

Hi Amigans!

 This is just to let you know about some changes on the Geographical
Amiga Users Home Pages Internet List (GAUHPIL). Most pages are now
bilingual (English & German) and the navigation links have therefore
changed on most pages:

        http://GAUHPIL.home.pages.de/

 I will be on holidays for the next three weeks. Please go on sending
me your updates and hints. I will check them all when I'm back home.
Thanks for your attention and support!

                                                    Dietmar Knoll
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             A M I G A   S U R V I O R   -   D O E S

 The magazine is now under new ownership and has a whole new team of
writers as well as an experienced Graphics designer and Webmaster.

   Issue 1 should be on sale from the 10th of August, priced at
£3.99.  To order your copy, e-mail csande@csande.com, putting "AS
Issue 1  Order" in the Subject line.

  In the meantime, we need readers letters for our "Letters to the
Editor" pages - send them to: editor@asurvivor.freeserve.co.uk.  We
also welcome all comments and suggestions for improvements to the
magazine.

 PREVIEW OF ISSUE 10 - Our "first" issue will introduce the team and
hopefully give you some idea of what to expect from future issues.
 We'll also have plenty of news, reviews of ArtEffect and Pagestream
(and possibly an Amiga Writer Exclusive!), interviews and plenty
 more!

 ISSUE 10 OF AMIGA SURVIVOR - ON SALE AUGUST 10th 2000!
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      A N D   A M I G A   F U T U R E   H A S   E N G L I S H

24 Jun 2000

Now in english.

 The german homepage from the print magazine Amiga Future now includes
a translation tool. The users can now read all our news, interviews
(every week 1-2 interviews) votes, and so on.


http://www.amigafuture.de
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         M A S T H E A D   F O R   N E W   A M I G A N S

16 Jul 2000

 The magazine, "the NEW AMIGANS" will soon be announcing the winning
of their "Masthead" contest. The contest (for subscribers only) is to
find a unique "Masthead" for the magazine and the winner will be
announced at the AmiWest show in Sacramento, California on July 30. To
find out more about the magazine see our website at
http://get.to/t.n.a

 Sorry, I forgot to put the initial contest announcement out through
all the channels. I've been trying to get things caught up to the
point where the magazine makes it out before the first of the month
each month.

Bill Griffin,

G&G Publishing Enterprises

Home of "the NEW AMIGANS" magazine
Ask about our new, US-based, Amiga Magazine
Or check out our website at http://get.to/t.n.a ..
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          D R Y   I C E   I N   D E V E L O P M E N T

{Information for this product is taken from its web site. You can
download "Dry Ice" from the site, but the author points out it's
really to buggy to be used at this stage. Brad}

18 July, 2000

About Dry Ice

 Dry Ice is a graphical web browser for the Amiga. It is being written
especially for the Amiga, there is no bloated code ported from another
platform. The intended features of Dry Ice is to offer full HTML 4.0
support, and full scripting support of whatever is the current
scripting language.


Progress and Current Features

(as of 17 July 2000)

Extensive Feature List
----------------------

Browser features

 + URL parser (complies with URI's in the HTTP/1.1 standard), can
distinguish between an URL and a local filename without the need for
"http://" or "localhost://..." etc.

 + Automatically caches all visited pages in memory, currently there
is no way to purge the memory cache, and no limits on the memory cache

 + When the browser window is resized the page is refreshed from its
cache, this operation is very quick

 + "Back" and "Forward" menu items, the items are disabled when
appropriate

 + "Refresh" menu item, will reload the document from its source
Browser window using BOOPSI gadgets allow for a complete
font-sensitive, resizable user-interface

 + Other windows use a font-sensitive GadTools interface

 + "About" window, displays free memory, and public screen, and TCP
stack

 + Public screen settings, the user can set gadget font, screen font,
any public screen to open on, or Dry Ice's own public screen -
settings are saved automatically on exit

 + The browser window position and size is remembered on exit

 + HTML Font settings, the user can set fonts for Normal, H1-H6, Font
size 1-7

 + Multi-browser windows, achieved through re-entrant code, and a
manager process, can open new browser windows, close them, when the
last is closed the browser quits

 + Multi-threaded HTML Parser, the parser and the layouter run
separately

 + Large pages (ones that are higher than the screen height) are
stored representationally in fast ram, this eliminates eating lots of
chip ram when it came to large pages (this doesn't work yet!)

HTML Support

Text
+ Bold (B)
+ Italic (I)
+ Underlined (U)
+ Headings (H1-H6)
+ Paragraph (P)
+ Break (BR)
+ Variable (VAR)
+ Emphasis (EM)
+ Strong Emphasis (STRONG)

Formatting, font styles
+ FONT
- size, color, face
+ BASEFONT
- size, color, face
+ BODY
- bgcolor, text, link, alink, vlink
+ Horizontal Rule (HR) (this is broken)
- width, height, noshade, align

Lists
+ Unordered lists (UL)
- type
+ Ordered lists (OL)
- start, type
+ List item (LI) (this is broken)
- value
+ Definition lists (DL) (these 3 are very broken)
+ Definition Title (DT)
+ Definition Data (DD)

 Images + IMG (does not support any image formats - will only lay out
the space) - width, height, align

HTML Attribute Values
---------------------

+ HTML 4.0 Multilengths

+ HTML 4.0 Colors

Known Bugs
----------

 + The first time you choose "Select..." from the open file window,
Dry Ice will access location 0 and display 4 bytes in the ASL file
requester

 + Block tags usually start on a new line, Dry Ice's block tags start
on a newline and throw a newline after it's done rendering, this tends
to leave a big gap when such tags are used straight after each other,
it looks particularly bad when nesting lists

 + The list item number on ordered lists is not displayed

 + Using Color values in a text format ("red", "fuchsia", etc..) only
works _sometimes_

 + There are a thousand other bugs

 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/andrewmarkwell/dryice/
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            N O T E   F R O M   H O L G E R   K R U S E

Ukiah, July 15th, 2000


 Some of you may have noticed that I have been rather unresponsive to
email recently. Besides by new job at REBOL, which is keeping me busy
around 60 hours per week, sometimes on weekends, there is also a
technical reason for this:

 In mid-June one of my network-grade uninterruptable power supplies
severely malfunctioned in a manner I still have not figured out, and
as a result three of my computers were damaged: my A4000T (main
development box) and two PCs, including my main Linux server which
runs DNS, email, mailing lists, registration etc. for Nordic Global.
So far the damage seems to extend "only" to the three power supplies,
one of the PC mother boards, two harddisks, and the contents of some
harddisk partitions.

 The good news is: at the moment it seems that no essential data (CVS
repository of Miami(Dx) sources, email database, registration
database) was lost or damaged, but I have yet to do exhaustive
integrity checks on all data.

 Over the last few weeks I have spent many nights and weekends
replacing defective equipment and swapping harddisks between
computers, testing/reconfiguring/restoring/reinstalling/backing up
many things etc., to at least keep the automated systems (DNS, email
reception, mailing lists, registration server, cgi backend of the web
site etc.) going as well as possible and prevent further damage or
loss of data. There have been some outages, but so far they have been
less than two days at a time each.

 This process is still not quite finished. Some of the past changes
were only stopgap solutions, and there will be several additional,
more permanent, hardware changes and reconfigurations over the next
week or two, as the ordered replacement parts arrive and are
integrated. As in the last few weeks, most of the changes will not
affect users, except for temporary outages of my servers, for up to
two days at a time.

 If you see warnings such as "could not send email for four hours" in
response to emails you sent, do not worry. I do not expect outages to
be long enough at a time for email to bounce, i.e. those warnings are
only temporary. Same thing if you get errors "connection timed out" or
"connection refused" trying to access servers: those outages are
temporary, so just try again later.

 On the up side, after the changes are completed performance should
improve significantly, in particular the turnaround time for mailing
lists. As part of the changes the main Linux server for mailing lists
etc. is moving from my old now-defunct Cyrix P-150/48MB box to a
Celeron-333/64MB box.

 For the time being I am afraid incoming email just keeps piling up. I
neither have the time to sort and respond to the over 800 emails that
have queued up, nor do I have enough access to my systems yet to
answer most questions, in particular questions related to
registrations or bugs/features in Miami or MiamiDx, dealer requests
etc. Most of my databases, scripts, etc. are still not operational
again yet.

 I WILL respond to your emails, but it will take some time. Please...

 - ... do NOT send emails repeatedly. This only gives me more work
later. I don't even get to start seeing emails again until (hopefully)
the weekend of July 22th. By then all repairs and upgrades should be
completed.

 - ... do NOT send emails to REBOL. Not only did some of you get my
email address there wrong (and thus unknowingly annoyed our sysadmin
with non-REBOL-related requests), but without access to my systems I
cannot respond to those mails anyway. They only get forwarded to my
main email account and added to the normal mail queue.

 - ... do NOT call me at home or at REBOL. My voice mail is already on
the verge of bursting, mostly with questions that I could not give
much information over the phone on anyway, without access to my
systems.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Holger Kruse
kruse@nordicglobal.com

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Amiga Update on the net:
 All back issues available at:
    http://www.globaldialog.com/~amigaupdate/index.html
Stop by and check out our archive!
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19.Jul.2000
Martin Kluge via eMail


Pascal-Compiler
There is an new version of the Free-Pascal-Compilers for various platforms, for the Amiga too (but not the newest one). For more information please follow the titlelink.

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19.Jul.2000
Gary Peake in AmiOpen-ML


Gary Peake about the Subject of Licences
Contrary to what the SDK says, there will be NO licence-fees on any applications, tools, or ports in the year 2000. We are reviewing this policy for 2001 and beyond and as soon as I have the info I will post it here. Also, there are and never will be license-fees on open source apps or tools. Here is Peake's full mail:

Sorry for the delay in posting any updates here. I have just returned from a 2500 plus mile trip in a Rental truck (24 footer) dragging my family and a 3 bedroom house full of furniture to Snoqualmie from Texas.

If I missed any posts, please feel free to send them my way.

If possible, can anyone currently porting an app or utility or whatever please send me an email? I would like to establish an online database for registered developers so these apps can be listed and thus avoid any duplications that may take place.

I would also like to announce that Douglas McLaughlin will be writing his own version of ICQ for the new AmiVerse.

License Fees: Contrary to what the SDK says, there will be NO license fees on any applications, tools, or ports in the year 2000. We are reviewing this policy for 2001 and beyond and as soon as I have the info I will post it here. Also, there is and never will be license fees on open source apps or tools.

Developer Web Site: Sorry about the delay with the web site. Part of the delay was waiting to see which ways we would go with certain web based applications and another part of the delay has been getting my family situation worked out and all of my family up here to the great Northwest. That accomplished, the web site updates will begin in earnest now. Stay tuned for more developments there.

Thanks for your patience

Gary Peake
Director - Support
Amiga Inc.

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19.Jul.2000
Dry Ice


Dry Ice Progress-Report
For a long time we have not heard something about the new browser "Dry Ice" by Andrew Markwell. Now there is a report of the current level of development as well as a alpha-version for download, but which still runs very unstable.

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19.Jul.2000
Amity


DelfInit Version 2.0 Released
The utility for initialising the Delfina soundcard was updated and released as version 2.0. The innovations in this version are three different patch-modi: no patch, patching the delfina.library concerning the procedure of initialising (default) or patching all of the library functions. Download:DelfInit.lha

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19.Jul.2000
Aminet Recent


New Aminet Uploads
MicroBase405.lha     biz/dbase  817K+German database supports dBASE, HTML
iris.lha             comm/mail  307K+Email client (SMTP/POP3) V2.1
T-Rexx.lha           comm/tcp    83K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
obligement19.lha     demo/mag   817K+Obligement #19 - Famous FRENCH fanzine !
obligement20.lha     demo/mag   607K+Obligement #20 - Famous FRENCH fanzine !
obligement21.lha     demo/mag   811K+Obligement #21 - Famous FRENCH fanzine !
UP-EP001.lha         demo/sound 975K+UP ROUGH "Tropical Fish EP" feat. RONNY
GFA_CLI.lha          dev/basic    2K+CLI support for GFA-Basic
ExtrasLib.lha        dev/c      319K+Link library
Progr_Langs_v5.lha   dev/misc    69K+Comparison of progr. langs
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   10K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (16 July
WHDPegasus.lha       game/patch  27K+HD Installer for Pegasus
WBPerplexity16.lha   game/wb    646K+The ultimate workbench puzzle game!
MicroPaint207.lha    gfx/edit   492K+Paint program w. effects / BMP support
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  65K+Mustek/Trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
SolarProbe.lha       misc/sci    48K+Shows planetary positions and info V1.5
amigaspeech.lha      mods/blkha 127K+Amiga voice Protracker mod by blakkhar
newsatinavmix.lha    mods/blkha  55K+Neverending Protracker mod by blakkhar
delirium_main.lha    mods/delor 151K+Main tune from and old Complex trackmo
housebrk.lha         mods/house 164K+Piano house by SD
quickmat.lha         mods/house  50K+Piano house by SD
berga.lha            mods/misc    2K+Bergakungens sal by SD
boko.lha             mods/misc   89K+Bo Ko by SD
linderosgris.lha     mods/misc  177K+Vocal tune by SD
nordman.lha          mods/misc  247K+Nordman vs. disktrasa by SD
paket.lha            mods/misc  264K+Fina paket - wicked tune by SD & Philip
sjuk.lha             mods/misc  196K+Old techno by SD - feat. my sister 
whiskas.lha          mods/misc   11K+Whiskas theme by SD
sd-hus.mpg           mods/mpg   2.3M+Old amiga house
sd-mappyland.mpg     mods/mpg   6.2M+Happy happy hardcore
sd-unreal.mpg        mods/mpg   6.6M+Dark drum and bass
tard.mpg             mods/mpg   432K+Mormor lambada
musli.lha            mods/sets  2.2M+Musli - 3 pieces of slow beats by SD
easter.lha           mods/techn  26K+Easter techno by SD
lionking.lha         mods/techn 250K+Sick tune by SD
PlayGUI.lha          mus/play   492K+Nice player-GUI using skins&themes V2.9
disiderata.jpg       pix/misc   136K+Desiderata (a text taken from a 14th Cen
SIL51_Wb2000-2.jpg   pix/wb     173K+Workbench Screen grab 4 on my PicassoIV.
WordCount-CED.lha    text/edit    1K+Fast line/word/character counting ARexx 
lucyplay.lha         util/libs   13K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
cookietool.lha       util/misc   48K+Clean up your fortunes database, V2.3
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   55K+Report+ 3.21: Multi-function utility
ReqAttackUpd.lha     util/misc  128K+Rel4: RAPrefsMUI 1.63, ReqOFF 1.0, ReqAt
ViNCEd.lha           util/shell 717K+ViNCEd, the final CON: solution. ^Z, TAB
xvslibrary.lha       util/virus  51K+V33.22 External Virus Support Library


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19.Jul.2000
Ingo Schmitz on ANF


Amiga-forum Temporary Offline
Caused by a change of the provider the Amiga-forum (http://www.amiga-forum.de) (German) is temporary offline. We do our best to get online again as soon as possible. Of course, several improvements will be done. In a few days we will go on. Stay tuned :-)

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19.Jul.2000
Volker Grabbe on ANF


Heise: Sun Officially gives StarOffice to Open Source under GPL
During the last days there was the rumour Sun was going to release their Office-packet source-code under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Even in-house this was called nonsense. But today Sun will be announcing the release of the source-code officially.
The release of the source code Sun will be announcing at the O`Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey. As the coordinator for the further development of the Office packet the organization OpenOffice.org is to be founded in which are participating Tim O'Reilly, Miguel de Icaza of the Gnome projekt, Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation and Andy Hertzfeld, and others. More members Sun will name during the day to which well-known companies belong. Besides the coordination of the sources Open Office is to be responsible for the definition of XML basing file formats, as well as for the programming of intersections. Full report at the titlelink.

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19.Jul.2000
Allexander Wachau on ANF


#AmigaQuake has Moved to QuakeNet
Because of the increasing popularity of Quake on the Amiga we want to point out the movement of our channel. Our small channel still exits since Quake of ClickBoom, but only on the IrcNet.This channel we have left, cause continuous NetSplits, Lags and user-restrictions. For more than one week you can now contact us on the QuakeNet.
Adresses of servers you can find at www.quakenet.eu.org. So, interested users should come there quickly. Newcomers are very welcome. We'll try to help everybody! Addtionally there are three bigger Quake Clans of TeamFortress in which numerous Amiga users take part. One of those Clans was founded by me...:) Hope to see you in the new #AmigaQuake.

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19.Jul.2000
Fore-Matt Home Computing via eMail


FORE-MATT Home Computing with New Website
The english vendor FMHC has completely worked their homepage which formerly contained only a firm profile and now presents a complete website with all software on hand.

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19.Jul.2000
Volker Mohr via eMail


Classic-Computing 2000 News
As already reported a meeting for all fiends of Amiga, Atari, other 68k-computers as well as 8-bit computers will take place on Saturday, 2. September 2000 in the tennis hall Wegmann in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, from 10.00am to 4.00pm. Today the manager of Amiga Germany Petro Tyschtschenko has promised his appearence. From afternoon he will answer all questions. Further information at the titlelink.

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19.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


Hyperion Interview und Completely New Layout for NoRiscNoFun
From today at the homepage of NoRiscNoFun you can find an up-to-date interview with Steffen Häuser and Thomas Frieden of Hyperion Software.
The layout of the homepage was completely reworked. A first version of the Amiga linklist is available. The linklist is to be getting a very detailed list for Amiga. Furthermore a games forum was established in which you can publish your own ideas of games. So, maybe there will be a developer to become busy to make your dreams come true.

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18.Jul.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn by e-mail


Six new Rainboot Configurations
Six new Rainboot boot configurations have just been released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. There is now a second Britney Spears Bootup by PixelArt, a Shadow of the Beast Bootup or the cool Workbench 85 and AmigaOS 3.5 bootups by Teknique. All are available as screenshots and for download.

If you are using Rainboot frequently, you should think about registering (DM 10 only).

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18.Jul.2000
ANN


ZDTV: The New Amiga


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18.Jul.2000
Nordic Global


Holger Kruse makes a statement
Whoever tried to contact Holger Kruse by e-mail, and did not recieve a reply, should click on the title link. Here, Holger explains why he could not reply to mails.

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18.Jul.2000
Mick Tinker


InsideOut/Siamese PCI on hold
Because the BoXeR is currently being worked on exclusively, the InsideOut/Siamese PCI is actually on hold.

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18.Jul.2000
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Amiga Fresh interviews with Bill and Fleecy
Gary Storm did an interview with Bill McEwen for AmigaFresh, which was posted in Clubbed Magazine #5. Also interesting is the short overview over a typical Fleecy workday in the Washington HQ.

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18.Jul.2000
Amiga Inc.


d'Amiga distribution rights assigned worldwide
The new Amiga developer system "d'Amiga" will be distributed worldwide exclusively by the following authorised dealers:
  • USA - Software Hut Inc.
  • Canada - Wonder Computers International Inc.
  • UK - Eyetech Group Ltd.
  • Europe - KDH Datentechnik
  • Australia - Unitech Electronics

For more information, a look at the technical specification of the d'Amiga is very interesting. Amiga specifies in detail how the development system will be equipped hard- and software-wise.

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18.Jul.2000
Sylvio K. on ANF


DeepSilence-Homepage - New URL
The homepage of the Manga Action RPG "Deepsilence - The Secret of my Soul" (German) can now be reached at soms.debox.de (title link)! Please adjust your bookmarks! The Manga@Amiga Page is currently offline due to server problems. We hope to get it back online soon.

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18.Jul.2000
John Zacharias by e-mail


AmiWest 2000 Press Release #8
There will be a developer meeting on the AmiWest 2000 taking place July 29th/30th in Sacramento. Kermit Woodall from Nova Design will host the meeting, and discuss future developments and tendencies:

From: John Zacharias jzachar@calweb.com
To: "Press Release List"
Subject: AmiWest 2000 Press Release #8
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:11:45 -0700 (PDT)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Developer's Meeting at AmiWest 2000!

Kermit Woodall of Nova Design will be conducting an informal developers
meeting at AmiWest 2000 to discuss future development trends on the Amiga.
The meeting will be held during the vendor setup period between 8 pm and 9
pm on Friday evening, July 28, 2000 on the Terrace in front of the main
AmiWest exhibit hall.  Questions concerning the new Amiga SDK will be
entertained and hopefully answered during this meeting.

A special reception for vendors and developers with food and drink and
sponsored by AmiWest will also be held during the vendor setup on Friday
evening.

Remember, AmiWest 2000 is being held on Saturday through Sunday, July
29-30, 2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, in Sacramento, CA.
Classes and seminars will be held throughout the day on both Saturday and
Sunday with the exhibit hall being open on Saturday, July 29th from 10 A.M.
- 5 P.M and Sunday, July 30th 10 A.M.  - 4 P.M.

Specially priced tickets for AmiWest 2000 are available in advance by mail.
Prices are:  two day admission tickets, $12 and one day admission ticket,
$8.  If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices are:  two day
ticket at the door, $15 and One day ticket at the door, $10.  If you are
ordering a one day ticket by mail, please specify which day (Saturday or
Sunday) you are attending.

There will be a buffet banquet on Saturday evening, July 29th, with Bill
McEwen, President of Amiga Inc., as the guest speaker discussing the
progress made to date on the new Amigas.  Price is $35 per plate.  Banquet
tickets must be purchased in advance.  They will NOT be sold on Friday nor
Saturday due to the hotel needing attendance figures for planning the
banquet.

You can mail your requests for advanced admission and banquet tickets to:

      AmiWest 2000
      c/o John Zacharias
      10004 Vanguard Drive
      Sacramento, CA 95827

Make checks payable to "AmiWest".

A form for ordering tickets can be found on the AmiWest web page at

    http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

where you can learn more about AmiWest 2000.

You will also be able to purchase the recently announced Software
Development Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000.  The SDK is being
sold by several of the exhibitors at the show.  Eyetech Group Ltd.  will
also be present at the show demonstrating the their Next Generation Amiga
Development Machine coupled with a Classic A1200

This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga
Community.

Hope to see you at AmiWest 2000 on July 29-30, 2000.

John Zacharias, chairperson
AmiWest 2000
jzachar@calweb.com
http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/


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18.Jul.2000
Markus Schmidt via eMail


ICQ-Userlist
The annoying popup windows inside the German ICQ-Userlist has been changed to several advertising banners. Now one can rummage in the list without always beeing forced to close or click away other windows. :-)

Currently there are 120 entries in the list sorted by postal code to be able to find users close to you. New entries are liked to be added and can be submitted using an online form.

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18.Jul.2000
Ben Yoris by e-mail


Multiplayer-Addon "TheSiege" for Heretic II
There will be an Amiga version of the Heretic II multiplayer add-on "TheSiege" by "The Shadow Lord". More details at the Siege Homepage. This will enable Amiga users to participate in tournaments soon.

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18.Jul.2000
LinuxInfo.de via eMai


Overview on Cluster Solutions for Linux
At the report section of the free Linux Information Service, LinuxInfo.de (German), from today there is an article on cluster solutions for Linux available. This article features possibilities to adjust Linux systems for high charge and to make them highly available.

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17.Jul.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


Lost eMails
Caused by a major problem of the email-service GMX I lost all of the eMails that reached me between July 9th and July 15th. Because I was on vacation I was not able to download them before they were deleted. If anybody had send me a mail and have not get a response yet, please write me again. Thanks.

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17.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta at ANF


New Possibility for Discussions at the No Risc No Fun Mailinglist
The AMIGA Club No Risc No Fun offers you the possibility to discuss AMIGA related subjects at their mailinglist. If you want to subscribe you have to send an empty mail to subscripe-nrfn@egroups.com. For joining the discussion you must send your mail to nrnf@egroups.com. Have a lot of fun while you are discussing. P.S. Once again we are planing many surprises for you.

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17.Jul.2000
Steffen Leistner at ANF


APUS, LinuxPPC and GeekGadgets - Mirror online
At http://www.ironbyte.de ir ftp://ftp.ironbyte.de/pub/ironbyte I installed my own mirrorserver for LinuxPPC, LinuxAPUS and GeekGadgets/Amiga. Due to some requests about HiSoftBasic for AmigaOS I also publish the includes there. The server is connectet to the internet through a 100Mbit-connection. I will update the pages nearly every week. The download-area actually contains 6.4GB of datas. An easy searchfunction helps you to find the file you are looking for. So, have fun.

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17.Jul.2000
Distributed.net


New RC5-Amiga clients available now
Distributed.net invites you to test the new betaversions of there RC5-Amiga-Clients. The following versions are at your disposal:
  • AmigaOS [m68k] v2.8010.463 2000-07-16
  • AmigaOS [PPC/PowerUp] v2.8010.463 2000-07-16
  • AmigaOS [PPC/WarpOS] v2.8010.463 2000-07-16

You can find these versions at the beta-download-page and the author would like to please you to report bugs.

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17.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


The Internet - Flatrates are changing the behaviour of the users
«The installation of all-included online-access's, so called flatrate, opens the way for a new kind of dealing with offers of the internet. Soon these flatrates will cause a fundamental change of the users behaviour. Some hours or megabytes more or less are no longer important if you use a flatrate. you can left the establishing and canceling of the internetconnection to your computer. Especially if you have an ISDN-connection, where the establishing-procedure just takes a few seconds, the borders between of- or online are vanishing.» You can read the whole article at title link (in german).

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17.Jul.2000
Exotica


Gallery updated
We have just updated the gallery and the Amiga Demo Scene Reference Manual of the Exotica-website. There are 30 new scans Every picture has a complete author information and if there is any music available you will find a link there. The gallery now contains 1016 pictures.

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17.Jul.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


Virus Help Denmark: New xvs.library
Name: xvs.library
Archivename: xvslibrary.lha
Archivesize: 52.521 Bytes
Releasedate: 17. Juli 2000
Programer: Alex van Niel
Program: VirusChecker II, VirusZ, VirusExecutor, Safe, CheckX, and others
Important notice: These programs need the xvs.library to find viruses. You have to update the xvs.library to have a up-to-date virus-protection.

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17.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Interview with Jeppe Nieson
You can find an up-to-date interview with Jeppe Nielson (homeland) at the AKTION-page of the Amiga Future website. Unfortunately he was not very communicative but nevertheless you can get some informations. :) Furthermore we have published the results of the Amiga-NG survey at the AKTION-page. At the startpage you can find a new survey dealing with PPC.

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17.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


APC&TCP: New Newsletter
APC&TCP established a new Newsletter (German) as an substitude for the old one. The new one is hostet by egroups and offers up-to-date informations about new releases, updates and much more about APC&TCP products. You can subscribe via an eMail to this address. (German Newsletter!)

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17.Jul.2000
Patrick Beerhorst via eMail


Small Listing
Patrick Beerhorst has scanned a small listing which he has found by surprise in an old computer magazin. It shows that Ali Goukassian (now the publishing house manager of the Falke-publishing house) was already involved with Commodore 12 years ago. :-)

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17.Jul.2000
Michael Ulbrich at ANF


Computer-Shop Ulbrich
After some problematic organizational and spatial reconstructions the Computer-Shop still exists. The new adress is Bornholmer Street 81, D 10439 Berlin, Phone +94 - 30-445 11 70 and Fax +49 - 30-44 650 726. The webpage is still under construction but I will be there for my existing customers with the new product range too, as before. I beg your pardon for any delay or other problems (caused by the move) you may have. You can find my private homepage here.

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17.Jul.2000
Jörg Thomas on ANF


Survey PPC/G3-Expansion Cards and OS for PPC
We (that is A4EP) just launched a survey about PPC at our Amiga-Society-Page. We want to find out how big the interest in PPC-Expansion Cards and OS's is. The main thing ist to unveil what power they should offer and how expansive they could be. Especially for a new Amiga-PPC-OS it would be interesting to find out what requirements you make on the new system. We hope that many of you will help us and we will publish the meanresults in regular intervals at our webpage.

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16.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


BurnIT: Master-Driver V2.72
Titan Computer has released version 2.72 of the Master-Driver for BurnIT. Support for the Teac54i and Ricoh8040 drives have been added.

Download: burnitmaster.lha

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16.Jul.2000
ANN


Mediator-PCI for A4000?
Pablo Peskin asked Power Computing by e-mail if the Mediator-PCI-Board will be released for A4000, too. Answer: In case of a success a version for A4000 will be designed. But, this will not be available before February 2001.

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16.Jul.2000
Paer Boberg via e-mail


Famous Amiga Uses
Paer Boberg has updated his list with famous amiga uses on July 15th 2000.

In this list you can see at which famous occasions, people, companies and movies the amiga is or was used.

Download: FamousAmigaUses.lha

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16.Jul.2000
René Hatje per e-mail


IBrowse in Browserwatch-List
On page 81 of the InternetWorld 8/00 is an overwiew of the Browserwatch-List of June 2000. Highest rank is given to Microsoft Internet Explorer with 25.837 accesses (58,2%). IBrowse is behind Opera on rank 5 with 547 accesses (1,23%).

Browserwatch shows the access for the own homepage. The latest list can be found at Stats Station.

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15.Jul.2000
Andre Gobet on ANF


New Virus Circulating
This infromation addresses all users who recently purchased The "Techno DataBase 00" CD. On that CD there are miscellaneous installscripts for different applications. Obviously with that a new and potential dangerous virus gets installed, too. After installation and rebooting the system it starts like hell. During loading the SetPatch command inside Startup-Sequence the system hangs all the time.

Affected files: datatypes.library - SetPatch - Installer

Presumably more other files on the system partition are affected. Unfortunatly I lacked time to check this out, so far. Trying to remove the virus with VT3.17 failed, cause VT could not find the virus. :-(

For those who are already affected the following advice:
Switch off your Amiga.
Hold down both mouse-buttons and switch on your Amiga to come to the startmenue.
Boot with no Startup-Sequence.
Edit your Startup-Sequence like follows:
;C:SetPatch QUIET

This causes SetPatch not to get executed during startup, whereby the system can be started in some degree, again. It is possible that that virus is not widely spread yet, due to the fact that the CD comes from the French part of Switzerland were it was burned, too.

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15.Jul.2000
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New Aminet Uploads
mlrx.lha             comm/mail   10K+Two german RexxScripts for YAM 2.1
AmiComSys.lha        comm/net   325K+V1.33 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MU
NetLink3.lha         comm/tcp    94K+Controls Miami/ISP and Calculates Call V
dft-sd2k.lha         demo/aga   1.1M+Summer Dream 2000 by Drifters - requires
SDSTCPLib.lha        dev/basic   34K+SDS TCP/IP Library
amiprodt.txt         docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Ami Pro Documents
firstworddt.txt      docs/anno    2K+Datatype for First Word Documents
msworddt.txt         docs/anno    2K+Datatype for MS-Word Documents
palmdocdt.txt        docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Palm Doc Documents
quilldt.txt          docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Quill Documents
rtfdt.txt            docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Rich Text File Documents
wordperfectdt.txt    docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Word Perfect Documents
wordstardt.txt       docs/anno    2K+Datatype for Word Star Documents
xywritedt.txt        docs/anno    2K+Datatype for XyWrite Documents
TV-Logo.lha          gfx/misc    66K+Small but capable logotype display
appe_v32.lha         hard/hack   37K+PSX pad adaptor (bug FREE)
PcF2AmF.lha          hard/hack   32K+Use 1.44 PC drive as 880k amiga drive.
DarcNES.lha          misc/emu   130K+NES/SMS/GG/PCE/SG1000/CV emulator v9a071
mamegui.lha          misc/emu    67K+MAME GUI
NeoMAMEGUI.lha       misc/emu    41K+NeoMAME GUI
LottoV2.01_BF.lha    misc/misc  434K+Play Lotto! (V2.01, req. 2.0) -Update-
forever.mpg          mods/mpg   4.6M+A dark, quasi-classical piano piece.
bO-024.lha           mods/techn 184K+#024 bOhema rec. release (Teo)
tek_dcell.lha        mods/techn  48K+Duracell - experimental elektro move
tek_ptype.lha        mods/techn  78K+Prototype - progress move (upd 2nd)
tek_sxmat.lha        mods/techn  40K+Sexomat 2000 - sexomatic bump move
amplifier.lha        mus/play   312K+Powerful multiformat audio player (V2.12
sdk-takeoff.jpg      pix/art     18K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
ArtistIcons.lha      pix/icon   112K+64 Colour icon set
SIL51_Wb2000-1.jpg   pix/wb     269K+Workbench Screen grab 3 on my PicassoIV.
Change.lha           text/misc   37K+V2.39 change text/data in all files
DirScanner.lha       util/wb     85K+V2.11: Small but powerful filefinder. (M
SNDMon2.lha          util/wb     35K+Monitor Sound Channels & Switch PIV


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15.Jul.2000
Trogladite Software


Trogladite Software News
TS's website was worked over completely, again. The new layout is predictable and good-looking. By turning down expendable graphics the side is now loaded more quick. The news are arranged predictable on the main site rounding the general view perfectly. :-)

The software-section comes up with news on PCTask - an new patch fixing the palette problem is available. Download: pctaskpatch.lha.
Furthermore "Ned", a brand new texteditor utility enhancing the Workbench "ED", was released.

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15.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Counterstatement on "c't repels 'Licence-Extortion'
The lawyer Freiherr von Gravenreuth lays claim on a counterstatement on the message of heise online released on 07/07/2000. With this he refers on that Heise releases with this article the following allegation:

"With comparable cases Gravenreuth succeeded to pocket long royalties, ...."

With his counterstatement von Gravenreuth stated that this allegation was incorrect, correct was that he would not have recieved any licence payments in conjunction with the Trademark "Explorer".

Heise on this:
«The liability to release a counterstatment exists regardless if its content is true or not. The editorial office does not mix the term "to pocket" with any allegation on were the payments remained, the more so as cashiers mostly do not recieve sums in person.²

I only can agree with Heise, because of course Freiherr von Gravenreuth did not collect the royalties in person but his manner to "make cash" consists of neat little fee-notes to the licensors whose cases he is pleading, and to the "royalty-violators" he warns or accuses.

The various forum articles at Heise are interesting.


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15.Jul.2000
Martin Strobl via eMail


COOL bits Newsticker
Annual closing of our store form 07/17/200 to 08/03/2000. We wish all of our customers (and of course everybody else too) having nice holydays and would be pleased to be able to wellcome you again after our vacation.

Announcement:
As we will focus more on our workshop in the future, we want to reduce our stock... (more on this at our homepage).

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15.Jul.2000
Stefan Falke


EZP@gerNG Classic Edition V1.1 available
At the SFXSoft homepage there is a new version of this paging software available for download offering the following changes:
  • Using an enhanched protokoll for Cityruf
  • ISDN number for TeLMI usable, too
  • Detection sensibility for faulty connections has been lowerd a bit to reduce the danger of unintentional disconnections.

Note: EZP@agerNG is meant only for use inside Germany with German services. (mj)

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14.Jul.2000
AMIGA, Inc.


AMIGA Inc.: New distributor for North America
The company Wonder Computers International Inc. in Ottawa, Canada, and Software Hut, Inc. in West Chester, PA, have made a deal with Amiga Inc. on the manufacturing and the distribution of the new developer boxes. They are authorized to manufacture and distribute the developer box in North America.

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14.Jul.2000
Michael Garlich via eMail


Heretic II update available
The first update for Heretic 2 is available. Some annoying bugs were fixed, for example it is now possible to save at all times.

Download: HereticII-Update.lha - 1,4 MB

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14.Jul.2000
Eternity via eMail


Eternity News: Exorzist 2000 and new Onlineshop
The Exorcist is available again from now on in several variations. Available is The Exorzist as A1200 in a tower-case with A4000 keyboard, Blizzard PPC 040/25 and PPC 200 MHz and BVisionPPC, alternatively with 060/50. As for a full system, we can offer the following: A1200 motherboard, BlizzardPPC 040/25 and PPC200 MHz, BVisionPPC (8 MB), Winner tower, A4000 keyboard, harddisk 20 GByte and 52x CD-ROM. Alternatively: BlizzardPPC 060/50 and PPC200 MHz.

Eternity is looking for support
We are looking for programming of Tales of Tamar and its ports for:
  • Developer (Linux)
  • Pixler
  • Raytracer (for smaller weapons and other accessories)
  • History writer (Writer of fantasy short stories for Tales of Tamar, creating a chronicle of the current events on Tamar. Must be tester at the same time.)

New online store
As frequent visitors of our website maybe already know, we have an entirely new online shop since a few day which is supposed to make shopping easier for our customers. Also, a new "Search" function was put on the site which should help in more comfortable shopping on our pages.

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14.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


APC&TCP looking for programmers
APC&TCP is looking for a good C++ programmer for our game Phönix. He is supposed to support our main programmer in his work. Further, another Cando programmer is sought for another game project, also to support the main programmer. Please contact info@apc-tcp.de.

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14.Jul.2000
Marion E. Wyatt on TA-ML


Merlancia's AJE project
Regarding some questions to Merlancia about the AJE project (Amiga Java Engine) for Classic AmigaOS, Marion E. Wyatt has received the answer that programmers are still sought how participate in the project so that it can be realized. For more information, follow the titlelink.

Here the original text of the mail:
«I got an email from the guys at Merlancia in regards to some questions I had about their AJE project (Amiga Java Engine) for the classic AmigaOS. My questions dealt with whether or not a "full" JVM included an AWT or not, and whether or not the JVM would be PPC optimised.

The answer was yes to all my questions: JVM with AWT and PPC optimised if I didn't misunderstand. They do need developers, though. If anyone wants to see a full Java2 VM with AWT for our current Amigas contact Merlancia ASAP. Contact info is available at http://www.merlancia.com/aje/»

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13.Jul.2000
Mario Cattaneo via email


New StrICQ
Contrary to the last news about StrICQ now there is a new version. This time at http://www.multimania.com/aubioane/stricqframes.html. It has not changed very much but a new version number and there will be someone that continues V1. The only thing missing are other catalog files for other languages than french.

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13.Jul.2000
Aminet recent


New Aminet uploads
IrisUpdate.lha       comm/mail   53K+Update Iris V2.0 to V2.1
YAM2AmIRC.lha        comm/mail   24K+V2.3. The interface between YAM and AmIR
Spitfire2.lha        comm/misc  674K+Palm Desktop for the Amiga!
dkg-wfnl.lha         demo/aga   628K+Welcome To Our World FINAL
SASC_Y2k_patch.lha   dev/c        0K+Year 2000 patch for SAS/C 6.58
ReCatItPro_SI.lha    dev/misc     3K+Slovenian catalog for ReCatIt Pro v1.0
fat95.lha            disk/misc   49K+Win95/98 compatible file system
STSCCHQ_Turbo.lha    game/actio 705K+Big name Hollywood avoid 'em up!
Orbit_68k.lha        game/shoot 141K+Space Combat Simulator [060]
dropoutkill_up.lha   gfx/board   64K+Update for Dropout-Killer V2.01 [Fianl 0
anescgfx.lha         misc/emu    91K+A/NES CGFX v1.19 - Nintendo emulator
mamegui.lha          misc/emu    75K+MAME GUI
twig_brea.lha        mods/med   175K+Bread and Butter, a tune by DJTwiglet
twig_card.lha        mods/med   278K+[We Live In] Cardboard, a tune by DJTwig
DelfSF.lha           mus/misc    27K+Sndfile player for Delfina DSP
MontecarloF1.lha     pix/illu   1.8M+Photos of  Montecarlo 2000 F1 race - Fer
QuickNote.lha        text/edit   31K+Notepad for scrap-notes (very handy)
eNote-SI.lha         text/misc   19K+ENote - Slovenian translation
CPointer_v2.2a.lha   util/boot   15K+Puts Mouse Pointer anywhere on screen
dev-handler.lha      util/sys     8K+Un*x like raw device access handler
PoolMem.lha          util/sys    70K+Memory defragmentizer/AllocP superset


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13.Jul.2000
Stephan Rupprecht at the ANF


Stephan Rupprecht now with his own domain
My homepage (PrintManager, SGrab, etc.) is now reachable at http://stephan-rupprecht.de without any commercials. The new email adresses will be available in a few days.

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13.Jul.2000
Jürgen A. Theiner at the ANF


Avoid Heretic II bug
There is a small bug at the Hell Caves of Heretic II. How to avoid it till the fix is released you can read at playamiga.de.

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13.Jul.2000
Richard Knapp at the ANF


PlayGUI Help Forum
For some time there is a help forum available on the PlayGUI website. If some questions appear about the new version of PlayGUI (v2.9), just have a look. Also a forum for Just4Fun has been set. It would be a pleasure, if you would have a look.

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13.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Power Computing: Mediator Busboard for Amiga 1200
Now you can preorder the Mediator PCI busboard for the Amiga 1200 from Power Computing. The board contains 4 PCI slots (PCI 2.1 compatible) and will have a transfer rate up to 132MB/s. The transfer rate between A1200 motherboard and PCI-board will be twice as fast as between A4000 and ZIII-boards. Two different version will be available:
  • MEDIATOR PCI 1200, for A1200 in a tower case without bus boards
    available from the middle of July
  • MEDIATOR PCI ZIV, for ZIV slot in A1200 in a tower case with ZORRO IV busboard
    available from August


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13.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Apache 1.3.12 Released
The new version of the Apache 1.3.12 webserver with mod_php, PHP version 4.0.1 patch level 2 released.

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13.Jul.2000
amiga.org


DocDatatypes Version v39.40 Released
With this datatype bundle many document formats like DosWord, WinWord, MacWord, WordPerfect, RTF and many more will be readable for the Amiga with Multiview. The datatypes are shareware.

Download demo: docdatatypes.lzx

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13.Jul.2000
Achim Stegemann at the ANF


Digital Almanac III News
The well-known astronomy program Digital Almanac in version 3 stands just before delivery to the beta testers. More details on the homepage. The first CDs will be delivered from the middle of August.

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12.Jul.2000
LinuxInfo.de via eMail


LinuxInfo.de: Antivirus Solution for Linux
From today in the service section of the free information and documentation linuxinfo.de there is an introduction of the antivirus program InterScan. Interscan offers a networkwide virusprotection by installing it on the internetgateway.

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12.Jul.2000
Hynek Schlawack via eMail


DirScanner version 2.11 released
Right before his vacation Hynek Schlawack has made an update to DirScanner.

Download: DirScanner.lha - 87 Kb

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12.Jul.2000
Steven Flowers via eMail


"The Pulse" Website now online
The new website of "The Pulse" was made with GoldED, TVPaint, ImageFX, Cando Factory and Personal Paint. On the homepage you can get news of the magazin "The Pulse".

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12.Jul.2000
CD³²-Allianz via eMail


CD³²-Allianz news
New update of the CD³²-Corner
First of all we want to point out the renewal of the CD³²-corner which now contains an up-to-date editorial (July/August). The history-site was updated.

CD³² Outside news
Furthermore we can announce the release of the second edition of the CD³²Outside on the 14th of August. The 12th of August is the last date for sending in the manuscripts. We still hope you will participate actively in the magazine.

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12.Jul.2000
Markus Schwarz on ANF


Report about Wolfenbüttel (German) ready
As pronounced before there is a report with more information and pictures about the Amiga-meeting on the last weekend. If somebody wants to have the original pictures in size of 1280x1024 or 1768x1380 please contact ma.schwarz@fh-wolfenbuettel.de

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12.Jul.2000
Rolf Roth on ANF


PlayGui news
From now on version 2.9 of PlayGui can be downloaded at the titlelink!

Some changes:
  • New Play16-preferences:
  • Better Info-window
  • Animated display of the vloume
  • Better display (with graphik for play and stop)
  • display of the progress of the Theme Creator
  • Improved GUI
  • Help for Miniplay and Quickinfo in the ledge of the title
  • Some bugfixe


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11.Jul.2000
Mario Nitschke via eMail


Amiga Times comming soon as printed magazine
Current they are working hard on the first printed issue of the German Amiga online magazine Amiga Times! This is an alternative to the otherwise available online issue and will cost about 5DM incl. postage and delivery (inside Germany). The content of the printed issue of the Amiga Times will allmost identical to the online issue, fully coloured and DIN-A5 in size!

It would be quite good for us, iff all interested people could inform us via eMail and eventually offer an issue! As the magazine will be produced by ourselfes, it is not important to us to have numerous orders save in advance - it will be printed on demand, but it will be better to calculate for us, if we would have concrete orders. The printed issue will allways be releasd about 3-5 days after the release of the online issue.

Details:
  • Format: A5
  • about 40-50 pages
  • fully coloured
  • expendable design
  • Price: about 5DM (inklusive postage and delivery inside Germany)

Content:
  • Show Report
  • Test report on HereticII, Joyride, EAsys, Amiga Arena CD, Digital MakeUp, Faces from Mars, fxPaint Version 1.5
  • Workshop Part 2 all about networking with Miami Deluxe
  • and many more

Supplement 12.07.2000:
If you want to order printed issues of Amiga Times (German), please sent an e-mail including your full postal address either to Niffi@t-online.de or to amigatimes@amigaworld.com! Please do not use the online orderform for ordering printed issues of Amiga Times, cause this one is meant for the HTML issues only!

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11.Jul.2000
amiga-news.de


Amiga Link Directory
Our Amiga Link Directory will soon become six months old, and in this time recieved 457 entries for up-to-date Amiga websites. However several homepages are still missing in the directory. We would be happy if all webmasters of Amiga sites would take the time to enter their site, because such a link directory is living on participation :-). Meanwhile there is an option to add HTML code to your website so visitors can rate your site.

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11.Jul.2000
Recent


New Aminet uploads
TCom2DEMO.lha        biz/demo    88K+V2.7.2 Amiga order program,(COMMESSE ITA
TFat2DEMO.lha        biz/demo   121K+V2.16.0 Amiga Invoice program,(FATTURE I
TGestDEMO.lha        biz/demo   407K+V1.1 TurboGest (PACHETTO GESTIONALE ITAL
TMagDEMO.lha         biz/demo   144K+V1.0.2 Amiga storage program,(MAGAZZINO 
TProspEd.lha         biz/demo    76K+V1.2.0 Form Editor For TurboFat (ITALIAN
AmiComSys.lha        comm/net   325K+V1.33 Personal Communicator like ICQ (MU
nah-speed53.lha      demo/mag   1.5M+Speed #53 by Nah-Kolor (remedy2k+otha)
ctags.lha            dev/c      229K+Generate tag files for source code
BetterString_E.lha   dev/e        2K+Module to use BetterString.mcc in AmigaE
dech.lha             dev/e       42K+Deniil's E-Compiler Handler v1.37
BackUp.lha           disk/bakup  27K+A simple backup tool.. v1.1
pfssalv.lha          disk/salv   16K+Save files from damaged PFS2/PFS3 partit
RDBrecov.lha         disk/salv   16K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
VWorksJuly2000.lha   docs/hyper  12K+Virtual Works pricelist July 2000
ACNews_23.lha        docs/mags   32K+E-zine focused on Amiga News: #23-July 2
jaapr.lha            docs/misc  210K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jaapr00.lha          docs/misc  108K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jaaug.lha            docs/misc  127K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jafeb.lha            docs/misc  243K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jajun.lha            docs/misc  275K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jajun00.lha          docs/misc  122K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jamay00.lha          docs/misc  131K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
jaoct.lha            docs/misc  181K+JUST-AMiGA mailing list msgs for all of 
dropout-killer.lha   gfx/board  156K+Update for Dropout-Killer V2.01 [Final 0
mamegui.lha          misc/emu    66K+MAME GUI
A-tiktok.mpg         mods/techn 3.5M+A nice minimal techno song with a twist
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc    75K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
DelfMPEG.lha         mus/play   149K+MPEG audio player for Delfina DSP
Tie.jpg              pix/mark   472K+A Tie-Fighter from Star Wars Episode IV
neerv_mwb.lha        pix/mwb    233K+Neervoort s MWB Game - Icons !!!
List2HTML.lha        util/conv   68K+Convert List to html Table V1.0
MultiRen.lha         util/misc  169K+Powerful multi-file renaming tool (with 
DRemind.lha          util/time  191K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.54b!
LSClock11.lha        util/time   22K+SHAREWARE clock utility - DEBUGGED!
ScreenSwitch.lha     util/wb     12K+Switch between screens quickly and easil
SNDMon.lha           util/wb     31K+Monitor Sound Channels & Switch PIV


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11.Jul.2000
Jürgen A. Theiner on ANF


SWOS-Tournier "Update"
There are new prizes for winnin at the big SWOS-Tournier at Playamiga. Additonally to the first prize "Heretic II", and several little giveaways from Amiga Inc. there are now "Eat The Whistle" and "Undiscovered Land" (mission CD for Foundation:DC) from Epic for winning.

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11.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


AmigaLand offering games for download
AmigaLand aquired new licenses, this time from Sunflowers and Max Design, and of course immediately offered their games for download (1869, Burntime and Oldtimer).

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11.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Krawall Gaming Network: Amiga - A Legend
On the Krawall Gaming Network Website an Amiga Special was release. Jürgen Beck wrote three interesting articles (German) about the theme Amiga. Those are about games and emulations, and about the history and the future of the Amiga.


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11.Jul.2000
Polarboing


New Norwegian news service
polarBoing is a new Amiga Online News Magazine.

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11.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Amiga Future: Interview mit Digital Visionaries
At the homepage of Amiga Future recent there is a intervie (German) with Digital Visionaries at the "Aktion" section. You will find out interesting details on their current game project.

Additionally the AmigaNG poll still is up for a short period of time on the startsite of Amiga Future. So, if there is someone you wants to take part, he should do this during the next 1-2 days. After that a new poll will be on this site (sent suggestions to Redaktion).

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11.Jul.2000
Nico Barbat by e-mail


Pen-M. looking for translators
Pen-M., a translation service for computer games, is looking for people willing to do occassional translations of exclusive texts from the game sector (online, onscreen, manuals) for payment. The texts have to be translated to German; original languages are English, Japaneese, French and Spanish, but translators from other countries can also apply. Please contact nico@barbat.de.

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10.Jul.2000
Berk Iybar


amiga-news.de in turkish :-)
http://amimaniacsworld.hypermart.net/ Under administration of Berk Iybar the turkish usergroup AmiManiacs will translate the amiga news into turkish. We are happy about this cooperation and are wishing all our turkish readers lots of fun with the news. :-)

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10.Jul.2000
Stefan Falke via email


EZPager turns to EZP@gerNG
After more than two years EZPager returns, now with the new name EZP@gerNG. You can send messages to pagers, mobile phones, and email addresses.

The first member of the EZP@gerNG family, the classic editon, is now available as freeware for download. You can use it for sending messages to the german pager services Scall, Skyper, Cityruf, Quix, and TeLMI.

At the homepage of SFXSoft you will find the latest versions of YGM.lha and SetDST.lha.

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10.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Amiga Fire
Amiga Fire is a new online magazine that deals exclusively with Amiga games. It will maintain you with the latest news, previews of forthcoming games and reviews of just released ones.

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10.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Trogsoft Award election about to finish
The Trogladite Software Awards 2000 elections are in the last phase. The winners of the five categories will be presented on July, 23th. Till then you can vote for your favourite websites on their homepage (titlelink). amiga-nes.de is nominated in the categorie "Website Awards".

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10.Jul.2000
Patrick Berhorst at the ANF


EASys! update 4.8 and new CD installer
The update of the latset CD V4.7.2 to V4.8 and a new installer script you will find on the EASys!-homepage. The installer script removes some problems with the original CD installer script. Please use this script only for a newinstallation of EASys!.

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10.Jul.2000
Oliver Roberts


WarpPNG.datatype (WarpUP PPC only) version 44.5 released
Download: WarpPNGdt.lha

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10.Jul.2000
StrICQ


STRICQ beta version 0.1727 of 06.07.2000 released
Download: StrICQ.lha

Addendum:
Mario Cattaneo explains:
"As far as I know all these new "betas" are not really new betas, the changing of the homepage depends of some scripts by the author. These scripts are uploading automatically when he gets online. There is no further development, as far as I know, of 0.1727, not from Doug so far.

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10.Jul.2000
Satanic Dreams Software


Satanic Dreams Software website with new layout
The website of SDS has received the eighth new layout and you can be sure it will be not the last one. The new design is graphically wonderful reworked and the navigation is clearly designed. Only one negative point: the blue font on a black background; looks nice, but is hard to read.

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10.Jul.2000
RC5


Amiga RC5 team effort
All sections of the RC5 website (setup/handling, FAQ and downloads) are updated and extended with the new, faster rc5 clients.

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10.Jul.2000
OpusGIBar


New icons
Mick has updated his OpusGIBar homepage. Many new drawer icons are added.

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10.Jul.2000
Andreas L. at the ANF


Another update of the 'Dropout-Killer'...
And there is another update of the "Dropout-Killer". The update from Version 2.01 [Final 01] to 2.01 [Final 02] contains the following changes:
  • a routine, that prevents succeeding listentries, was added
  • the routine for loading of project files was reworked. From now on the program is not interrupted when a defective file is loaded, it will show an error message.
  • the source code was reworked and optimized
  • the GUI file was changed

Remark: The update needs an installed version (Demo will do) of 2.01 [Final 01], because the archive only contains the changed files.

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10.Jul.2000
Dennis 'Hurrican' Pauler at the ANF


Video about "World of Alternatives 2000" finished!
It is done: the video about the "World of Alternatives 2000" is finally finished! Because the Home Electronics World will not happen, the "World of Alternatives 2000" was THE Amiga event of the year. We have made a short video about it (with music and spoken commentaries).

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09.Jul.2000
Werner Veit via E-Mail


Ten years S.A.U.G.eV.
The Saarbruecker AMIGA User Group (S.A.U.G.eV.) celebrates their 10th birthday. The president, Werner Veit, wrote:

Since April 1987 our Senior-Member Gerhard Seitz is organizing the first meetings of Amiga-Users. On July, 18th 1990 the S.A.U.G.eV. was founded.

The most important activities were the releases of the SAAR-AG disks (similar to Fred Fish) and the SAAR-AMOK-CD's. Under the the long-year presidency of Martin Schulze our Club grew up to the respectable size of more than 160 members. Regular User-Meetings, workshops, fair-journeys, and the organisation of the AMIGA-Bit were responsible for that about 70 members can celebrate our birthday in the context of a summer-festival on July 22nd - 23rd, despite the Commodore-Crash.

More information at: http://www.saugev.de/jubileum.html.

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09.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


MakeCD 3.2c and FlashRom V1.2
MakeCD version 3.2c and FlashROM version 1.2 are available at the MakeCD-Server for download. Version 3.2c contains bugfixes. In addition there is the betaversion 3.2d of MakeCD, that supports DAO with ATAPI-drives and offers Sony-drivers.

Download:


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09.Jul.2000
Torsten at ANF


Amiga-Report at PC-Magazin
Using the titlelink you can find a short report in the PC-Magazin concerning the new Amiga. Die report has the title "Amiga: Multimedia-Platform with Java-Technology". According to this article the Amiga is beeing liked especially by musicians.

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09.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


FDA V2.6 - Future Drive Accelerator
On July, 6th 2000 Martin Tauchmann has released the version 2.6 of the diskcache program "FDA" (Future Drive Accelerator)

By caching the data in the RAM FDA accelerates the access on files noticeable. Harddisks should be faster by faktor 2-20 and diskdrives by faktor 2-997. Other media like CD-ROM-, Zip-, MO-Drives etc. are supported, too.

The tool works with at least AmigaOS 2.0 and 2MB Fast-Memory.

Download: disk/cache/fda.lha (326K), readme

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09.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


New Beta of ATC
On July, 8th 2000 a new Beta of the FTP-Client "AmiTradeCenter" has been released, which contains bugfixes and expansions. All changes can be read in the Changes-File.

Download: ATC_beta_08072000.lha (263K)

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09.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


New requests at the Boxer-Supportsite
Two new requests can be found at the inofficial Boxer-Supportsite. The first asks how much you would pay for a G3-PPC-Card, the second wants to know the CPU with which the Boxer should be distributed.

As usual, the results are directed to Mick Tinker, Blittersoft and Antigravity.

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09.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta at ANF


Port hotlist and requests at "No Risc No Fun"
Fabio Trotta wrote:
We have added requests to our Homepage. At the moment there are two concerning Game-Ports and Online-Gaming.

I also want to point your attention at our Port-Hotlist, where you can enter the games from other systems you want to have ported to the Amiga. I believe, this info is also quite interesting for developers.

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09.Jul.2000
Pietro Lang at ANF


Amiga-Forever Homepage now with own forum
Pietro Lang wrote:
The Amiga-Forever Homepage has been updated. There is an own forum now and there are some other news, too. Just have a look at it!

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09.Jul.2000
Kevin Orme at ANF


Porting MySQL to Amiga
The Amiga University plans a portation of some suggested projekts. The first will be a port of the on webservers widely spread SQL-Database MySQL, which sourcecode is under GPL since a short time. It will be ported for 68K and PPC-Amigas, while Amiga University will take care of the organisation and the communication for this project and publish all questions, reactions and problems concerning it.

If anyone is interested and wants to take part the stable version of the SQL-Code can be downloaded at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-3.22.html. Then you can compile it for 68k and PPC with the compiler of your choice. The resultand of your experiences can be sent to Amiga University to be tested by others. In addition you should write down which compiler you used, the system you were running it on and for the machine you compiled it for.

On the site are some older PPC-Binaries for IBM AIX OS, too, that possibly can help you with a PPC-Port.

Contactadress: amigau@oz.net.

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09.Jul.2000
Andreas L. at ANF


Official final version of the 'Dropout-Killer' at Elastic Images
Andreas wrote:
Now everybody can download the final version of the Dropout-Killer for MovieShop using the titlelink. In addition to a complete rework of the sourcecode, that accelerates some of the routines, the program offers the following news:
  • A function, that adds the actual position of the Movieshop-Scenecontrol to the Listwindow.
  • The function 'Auto-Scroll&180; has been added to the Prefs.
  • Some additional internal error request have been implemented.
  • The Online-Help has been updated.

Important Note:
All Users, who use version 2.01 [Beta 3], should NOT use it, because of a bug that could DELETE THE WHOLE SCENE!!!

The bug is showing up mostly in the unregistered version, but in corresponding tests it also appeared in the registered version from time to time.

The bug has been removed in the updated version.

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08.Jul.2000
Recent


New Aminet Uploads
HomeCINEMA.lha       biz/dbase  127K+German Video Database - now Cardware
StarBase_CLI.lha     biz/dbase  104K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v3.7)
TBol2DEMO.lha        biz/demo    85K+V2.2.0 Material receipt program,(BOLLE M
TCom2DEMO.lha        biz/demo    87K+V2.7.1 Amiga order program,(COMMESSE ITA
TFat2DEMO.lha        biz/demo   104K+V2.15.0 Amiga Invoice program,(FATTURE I
TGestDEMO.lha        biz/demo   405K+TurboGest (PACHETTO GESTIONALE ITALIAN O
TMagDEMO.lha         biz/demo   143K+V1.0.1 Amiga storage program,(MAGAZZINO 
TProspEd.lha         biz/demo    76K+V1.1.0 Form Editor For TurboFat (ITALIAN
AmIRC35-ITA.lha      comm/irc    15K+Italian catalog for AmIRC v3.5
AtoZ.lha             comm/misc   77K+Easy Amiga/Z88 file transfer. v2.0
phonewizard16.lha    comm/misc  265K+Phone answer machine for voice modems
MassDL.lha           comm/www    38K+Less work on WWW pages file leching. (AW
wpz-frozen33.lha     demo/aga   1.8M+Frozen#33 - Remedy Party Edition
Amiga-C-Jun00.lha    dev/c      177K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in June
fda-upd.lha          disk/cache  41K+Uses whole free memory to speedup 1.8-2.
fda.lha              disk/cache 326K+Faster than PFS also installed V2.6
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
Euro2000_guide.lha   docs/hyper  15K+Guide about Euro2000
WarpUp-Jun00.lha     docs/misc   84K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in J
CoolInstaller.lha    game/patch 193K+Installs nearly every game to harddisk
appe_v31.lha         hard/hack   41K+Use any PlayStation Pad in your Amiga
Memo-Tec.lha         misc/edu   128K+MemoTec - simple mind trainer
Denise4D.lha         misc/sci    87K+Denise-MYTH 4.0 Artificial Intelligence 
fom2001.jpg          pix/trace  245K+Space Pod from the movie 2001
fomst10.jpg          pix/trace  470K+USS Independence (Star Trek - TOS)
fomst11.jpg          pix/trace  465K+USS Independence (Star Trek - TOS)
fomst12.jpg          pix/trace  480K+USS Independence (Star Trek - TOS)
fomst13.jpg          pix/trace  290K+Jefferies Shuttle (Star Trek - TOS)
lucyplay.lha         util/libs    9K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
FreeWheel.lha        util/mouse  72K+Tool for WheelMice + trackballs/3-button


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08.Jul.2000
Martina Jacobs


amiga-news.de looking for translators for Wednesdays and Sundays
We still need two translators who are willing to translate for free from German to English, once a week. Currently, Wednesday and Sunday are vacant. If you are interested in supporting us this way, please contact Martina Jacobs.

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08.Jul.2000
CS&E by e-mail


Welcome to AmigaSurvivor
With CS&E going back to the PC in the short term with our websites such as www.csande.co.uk - it seems that Amiga Survivor and some other important Amiga information should have a new home. http://welcome.to/amigasurvivor then! You can get news on the mag plus information about developing for the new Amiga with CS&E. I recommend that everyone takes a look at least once.

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08.Jul.2000
Amiga Inc.


Amigatainment
The game development area "Amigatainment" of Amiga Inc. has been reworked. New under development is the game Earth 2140.

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08.Jul.2000
Frank Meyer-Pfauder on ANF


YAM2AmIRC v2.3 available
YAM2AmIRC, the interface for YAM and AmIRC, is available in it's 2.3 version. New is the significant speed increase and several new functions. Also new is the software support site URL, which changed to fmp-online.net/software/.

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07.Jul.2000
Christoph Dietz


Contra position of Amiga Inc.
On 07/02/2000, we reported on John Wiederhirns critical reflections on the SDK.

Here is the answer from Amiga Inc:

From:    Bill McEwen bill@amiga.com
Subject: VP "Omissions" and problems re SDK...
Date:    Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:08:01 -0700

Answer to this posting from John Wiederhirn on comp.sys.amiga.misc

Regarding message from J.F. Wiederhirn,

There are some valid points, but you overemphasise the points significantly.
The extent to which you dismiss the platform is at odds with the reality of
the graphics and Java performance [for example].

> 1.  Efficient register usage...or the lack thereof.
>
> VP code allows (hell, suggests) you to registers whenever possible.
> They scope registers at subroutine limits (among others, the details
> aren't really relevent to the problem).
>
> The problem is that you cannot direct register usage, or even
> prioritize it.  You can scope it slightly, by indicating when a
> register is last-used.  Every register usage is in the end evaluated
> by the translator and handled based on it's algorithms. Since (and
> I'll avoid the extensive mathematical proofs involved) their optimizer
> cannot understand more than basic algorithms, that means it is very
> difficult to do tight register-based optimization on code.

You cannot direct register usage, just as you can't in C. So really you are
saying that you cannot write as efficient code in VP as you can by
hand-crafting native assembler. This is undeniably true and nobody pretended
otherwise. VP does give you, however, a means of writing low-level code,
sacrificing the minimum of efficiency possible with a portable solution. For
ultimate performance, certain operations would need to be written in native
but when you don't do this, you still get near-optimal performance in a
portable manner.

> 2.  MMX, SSE, maybe someday?
>
> The reason for the vague answers regarding how MMX and SSE were to be
> supported is now very clear to me.  They aren't supported from a
> programmer standpoint as far as I can discern.  Even the documentation
> for the PII interfaces leaves it unclear whether platform-specific
> code (more on that in a bit) can safely use those instructions, since
> there's no documentation as to whether those registers are state-saved
> in the current SDK.

As it happens, they are saved.

The CPU documentation details which native registers are used by the VP
environment. Development of PII tools such as the first level interrupt
handler is directly based on that information. For example,
sys/cii/arm6/cpu.html gives the information about native register usage for
anyone wishing to write an ARM PII.

> The VP in the SDK does not appear to support any mechanism for issuing
> MMX or SSE instructions.

To get ultimate performance you would need to abstract at a library level
and develop native MMX-based implementations. So MMX type instructions can
be used now. They have not been abstracted into VP as there is no
sufficiently common model across all processors with MMX-type operations to
get any degree of efficiency. However, as noted in this paragraph already,
an application that can make good use of these instructions on a particular
processor can contain some native tools containing the MMX type instructions
for that particular processor. These tools can be macro-ised and embedded to
get code that looks and behaves like the MMX instructions were fully
supported.

Would you suggest an abstraction that could be used? You obviously have some
good ideas in mind for you to have made such comments.

> 3.  Cache?  Hello?
>
> This omission appears to be the second-most glaring to me, from a
> low-level perspective.  VP code has neither any concept of cache, nor
> any way to actually control it.  While that makes some sense from a
> software interpreter/compiler standpoint, it totally ignores that
> under the VP there is a real CPU with real cache.  The idea that
> meaningful driver code can be written is VP code is laughable given
> that the VP has no way to actually handle cacheable vs non-cacheable
> contents.

Cache? Hi!

This is not a VP issue at all. Do any processors have native instruction
modifiers that allow cache usage to be modified on a per instruction basis?
I do not know of any. I would have thought that most of this work will be by
programming a CPU register(s) to control the cache usage (i.e. coarse: turn
off at start - turn on at end for all memory operations on a memory bank.
fine: declare a pointer type to be uncached so that any use of that pointer
is not cached.). Note that in your question 4 there is a reference to
declaring a memory area as cached or not cached, so that is the level of
cache management expected. So, that is clearly not a VP issue. In fact,
intent is uniquely placed to take advantage of an architecture where cache
lines are controlled by individual flags within the pointer. The trouble is,
again, there is no good abstraction for this concept. It is up to individual
platforms and drivers to have these concepts defined and used if required.
And this is all perfectly possible on intent. An example might be that two
memory objects are declared, one returns cached memory, one not cached.
These can even allocate from the same underlying pool, although you are
likely to find that the cache is turned off and on at larger boundaries than
the byte.

The kernel and tool loaders are cache aware in that they call
sys/cii/flushicache during tool loading and code relocation to allow a
platform to clean/flush caches if required. Although this is a CII tool, it
is actually implemented in the PII since cache details may differ on
platforms with apparently similar cores. The tool is directly accessible to
device drivers if developers wish to use it. Where DMA and cache interaction
is an issue, the PII implementer would write tools for the device driver
writer to use to e.g. clean/writeback a DCache.

The whole point of the PII is that there is a fixed set of tools required by
the OS on all platforms plus a "platform specific" optional set that need to
be written to address specific issues on the target platform. This maintains
the portability and encapsulates the "dirty stuff" in one layer. PIIs have
successfully been implemented on many platforms with caches and "take
advantage" of the cache just like any software.


> 4.  Memory-space attributes.
>
> I don't even know where to start with this.  The PII mechanisms
> offered, as far as I could discern (and the documentation on this is
> far from centralized) appeared to support the following ops:  You can
> map physical memory to Amiga memory, and unmap it.  You can obtain the
> physical address of mapped memory.  You can do a couple other usual
> mapping tricks with that memory.
>
> You CANNOT set any attributes for the memory range in question, such
> as cached/non-cached, write-combined/non-write-combined, etc.  Who the
> hell's brain-fart was responsible for that?  Jeez, Tao's been tooling
> on this thing for years and years, and they never once thought being
> able to set stuff as non-cached was valuable?

The cacheing issue has already been covered. Any other attributes fall into
the same category. Have you come across write-combined/non-write-combined?
Even if these exist, it wouldn't really change anything. If a need is
identified, functions can easily be added to the PII. It has been
constructed to be extensible.

The primary focus for intent has been on embedded systems where the MMU is
used to set up a fairly simple memory space with mostly 1:1 translation from
physical to virtual space. These mappings are set up at boot time. The
mapping tools you refer to were developed several years ago for the DOS
platform and are not used on any other platform.

> 5.  Cross-platform.  Well, kinda.
>
> The docs themselves suggest that tools (think of em as DLLs, they work
> almost exactly the same as Windows DLLs) can hold multiple versions of
> the same code for different environments.  In fact, they specifically
> mention that optimized versions of code for a given environment can be
> included in a tool, as well as a generalized VP version.
>
> So much for platform neutrality and cross-platform compatibility.
> Their solution is no different than JNI, and suffers precisely the
> same issues.

This isn't true. JNI is not portably defined across platforms.
I don't see really what the complaint is here.

> 6.  Interrupts
>
> I saved this for last because, well, "the horror, the horror...".  As
> I've already mentioned under VP your cache control is non-existent.
> To the issue of interrupt handling, well, I can only pass along the
> trauma and suggest anyone really interested buy the SDK.  You'll be
> impressed to see the mechanism documented on paper, if ya don't tear
> out your own eyeballs.

I expect here you are commenting on the efficiency of the interrupt handing
model. Not altogether a surprise, if someone's obsessed by these issues.

There is nothing wrong with the interrupt model for 'normal' usage
platforms. Those who are obsessed are at liberty to fit in their own
architecture here. Platforms with little hardware support for devices may
also need to do the same thing to be able to service interrupts at a very
low patency. The intent model does not precluse this at all.

> On a personal note, I just got stuck in a wheelchair after a spinal
> injury.  I _really_ wanted this to turn out as a review of cool
> technology because my mood was already dour.  I'm left after viewing
> the technology wondering what the hell Tao's been doing for the last
> few years, and why Amiga thought this technology was
> desktop-appropriate.  The VP, while totally appropriate for embedded
> and handheld concerns, isn't remotely appropriate for high-bandwidth
> desktop concerns.

Some things are undeniably true, nonetheless. The 2D graphics functionality
and performance is unparalleled. This is all done in VP. It shows that using
this technology it is possible to develop highly performing portable
software (near optimal, not completely optimal on all architectures). The
JVM and libraries are still be best available. It is true that the
superiority of the technology is greatest in embedded space but to suggest
that it is worthless is not realistic.

Finally, it is worth pointing out that it is impossible to refute bland
allegations that do not give any substance.


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OnyxSoft via eMail


Software updates from OnyxSoft
The following program were updated:


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07.Jul.2000
AC-Forum


Spiegel: M E T @ B O X continuous price rise at stock market
«Met@box, the stock market favorite of the last half year, climbs from all-time high to all-time high. The company can announce more and more large orders.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany - the price rally of the company from Hildesheim had reached its priliminary peak on Thursday. In only one day, the stocks climbed by 42.3 percent. On Friday, the stocks made another plus of 11 percent and is quoted currently at 209 Euro.» For full article (in German) follow title link.

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07.Jul.2000
Beauty of Indus3 om ANF


ssss - the retrospective of serbian scene CD
The CD will contain many demos from the entire Serbian scene. The authors are also looking for further demos they may put onto the CD.

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07.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Comeback of a Classic: News from the Amiga
«After the company Amiga presented a new multimedia operating system in connection with a fitting PC at the fair Amiga2000 in St. Louis, many developing and distribution cooperations were made in the last months. They are supposed to let the computer of the same name rise like the phoenix from the ashes. As known from old Amiga times, the announcements read very euphorical, the introduction of the new machines still takes its time.» For full article (in German) see title link.

Interesting are the comments, where the entire "anti Amiga league" seems to have gathered. I can understand that many people just lost their faith in a new Amiga, but I cannot understand the sometimes totally unqualified comments full of arrogance of some whippersnappers who probably worked in the end with an A500. Maybe some Amiga users should add more competent contributions :-).

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06.Jul.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via email


Da Cool Installer v 1.7 released
After two years there is a new update for Da cool Installer released on the homepage of Airsoft Softwair. For real it is a complete new program, because I coded the old Da Cool Installer new (for stability reasons).Version 1.7 should be nearly bugfree and I quote from the Voyager-readme "stable as a rock".

Da Cool Installer is a general installer for games/demos etc. It supports ECS emulation, trackdisk.device emulation, and several bootmodi. In theory you can install easily every AmigaDOS game to harddisk.

Da cool Installer v1.7 is from now available for download on the Airsoft Softwair homepage.

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06.Jul.2000
Comparade at the ANF


COMPARADE - Amiga- and C64-meeting
The Comparade is a scene meeting for Amiga- and C64-freaks and will take part from the Oct, 27th - 29th 2000 in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany. More details about the meeting you will find on the new Comparade-homepage.

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06.Jul.2000
Recent


New Aminet uploads
StarBase_SCR.lha     biz/dbase  110K+Star Trek Episodes Database (v2.1)
TAdesivi.lha         biz/demo    42K+V1.0.3 Ticket editor for TurboGest (ITAL
TBolDEMO.lha         biz/demo    71K+V1.3.1 Material receipt program,(BOLLE M
TProspEd.lha         biz/demo    59K+V1.0.5 Form Editor For TurboFat (ITALIAN
AmIRC35-ITA.lha      comm/irc    15K+Italian catalog for AmIRC v3.5
dc240wizard14.lha    comm/misc  116K+Tool for Kodak DC240 digital camera
MiamiDxWebCP.lha     comm/net    18K+MiamiDxWebCP 2.3 - a Web Control Panel f
SimpleFTP.lha        comm/tcp   258K+SimpleFTP v2.64 - Powerful and easy to u
BlitzLstJun00.lha    dev/basic  138K+Blitz mailing list archives for June 200
BlitzLstMay00.lha    dev/basic  106K+Blitz mailing list archives for May 2000
advlite20b7.lha      dev/misc   270K+Powerfull & neat AutodocViewer v2.0 BETA
Aakt0700HTML.lha     docs/mags  277K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
PD_Cheater_V25.lha   game/hint  447K+PD_Cheater, Cheats for PD Games (german)
pacman.lha           game/misc   98K+Pacman version 0.9B. 
Shuf2_upd.lha        game/patch 146K+Shuffle 2 - Mysted -> update to version 
Orbit_68k.lha        game/shoot 128K+Space Combat Simulator [040/060]
Orbit_ppc.lha        game/shoot 132K+Space Combat Simulator [WarpOS]
Orbit_src.lha        game/shoot 127K+Space Combat Simulator [Source]
GuessStress.lha      game/think 199K+GuessStress V1.5   
Shuffle3.lha         game/think 6.3M+Third part of a simple logical game, gre
CyberPiPView.lha     gfx/board   11K+Videolayer picture viewer (2.5)
amimdc800.lha        gfx/misc   131K+Mustek MDC800 Digital Camera Control
ChipEm.lha           misc/emu    71K+Chip 8 v0.3  Emulator by Balrog Soft
LottoV2.01.lha       misc/misc  434K+Play Lotto! (V2.01, req. 2.0) -Update-
LottoV2.lha          misc/misc  884K+Play Lotto! (V2.0, req. MUI)
NieMehrNachHs.lha    mods/smpl  4.0M+Nie mehr nach Haus! (8svx music sample) 
toccatamixer.lha     mus/misc    24K+Toccata sound card control program
AmigaAMPstart.lha    mus/play   164K+Welcome mpeg for AmigaAMP
UpRate.lha           mus/play     6K+Ensures top Paula samplerates always ava
PSI-Division.lha     pix/anim    36K+Splitting Greek
Trinity.mpg          pix/mpg     64K+This is first VHS demo created by Halluc
GED_Hexedit.lha      text/edit  235K+Hexedit Environment for GOLDED V1.40
wbstartup++.lha      util/boot   14K+Startup program launcher
WarpPNGdt.lha        util/dtype  48K+PNG image datatype (WarpOS/PPC) V44.5
asyncioppc.lha       util/libs   23K+Asyncio.library with WarpOS functions (V
lucyplay.lha         util/libs    9K+AHI Audio Player + Joystick Functions
calculator.lha       util/misc   25K+Fully functional scientific calculator
InstallerFXSou.lha   util/misc   34K+V1.10,InstallerFX Sourcecode(StormC).
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   54K+3.2: Multi-function utility
xpkGZIP-WOS.lha      util/pack   22K+XpkGZIP module for WarpOS (V2.1)
LSClock.lha          util/time   22K+SHAREWARE clock utility
rndwbpix.lha         util/wb     11K+Random wbpattern picture selector (39.7)
yerfawt.lha          util/wb      2K+Yer Fawt! fault strings for "your Fault"


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06.Jul.2000
Applefritter


"The Luggage" is going to be famous :-)
The self-made Amiga laptop of Volker Mohr (aka Dr. Zarkov) gave a lasting impression to Applefritter. In a detailed article Applefritter presents this laptop.

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06.Jul.2000
Volker Mohr via email


Classic Computing 2000
On Saturday, 09/02/2000 a market for all 8-bit computers, Amiga, Atari, and other 68k-computers will take part in Neukirchen-Vluyn (Niederrhein), Germany, in the tennishall Wegmann. Besides the possibilities to buy or sell hard- and software at special prices you can get in contact with other friends of "special computers".

You can play with old consoles and computers or take a look at the new Amiga SDK, the developing environment for the new Amiga computers.

Some of the "Celebrities" that maybe showing off are the team of amiga-news.de, Sascha Hoogen of the 8-bit-Nirvana and airbrush artist Rolf Tingler of the Airbrush Paradise Tingler. If you want to show your products on this event, please send an appointment to anmeldung@classic-computing.de. Because of the good terms of conditions and the limited space be quick.

The showdown of this event will be a big party in the afternoon. You can be part of it with appointment. More details and a description of route to the event you will find following the titlelink.

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06.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via email


Amiga Future: interview with Ancor
On the homepage of Amiga Future you can find an interview with Ancor, coders of "The Last Seal". For not german speaking users there is a button on the left frame of the main page to translate the page into english. You will find the interview in the "aktion"-section of Amiga Future. A actual poll about the AmigaNG you will find on the main page. You can say your opinion about the homepage of Amiga Future at the forum and a special action for online subscribing lasts for a few days.

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06.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Internet-TV via Metabox for France
«Met@box AG, the Settop-Box producer from Hildesheim, Germany, within a few weeks now got the third bulk order. This company both, develops and distributes so called Settop-Boxes basing on OS/2 that make a surf terminal out of the telly.

This time the French Worldsat S.A.R.L. form Aix-en-Provence signed a basic agreement on 500.000 boxes. Met@box terms the value of this deal with 400 million DM. Worldsat wants to distribute the boxes in France, as well as in three countries in northern Africa, and wants to organize a stage for e-commerce, at the same time. Together with this deal it was agreed to manufacture the devices in France from 2001. »

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06.Jul.2000
amiga.org


Gamespy interview: Bjorn Lynne
GameSpy has interviewed the music veteran Bjorn Lynne aka "Dr. Awesome". Bjorn talks about the Amiga and how it helped him to get where he is nowadays.

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06.Jul.2000
Eternity


The 30.000th visitor can win EASys!
Current there where 28.325 visitors. Furthermore Eternity announces the "Exorzist" to be available again as soon as the new PPC-accelerators will be available.

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06.Jul.2000
AmigaAMP


Stian Strøm's plugins updated
New versions of "The Trance Tunnel 2.1" with many new effects and of "Waves Of The Future" are available. These plugins are better than ever and compatible with WarpUP.

Download:
TranceTunnel21.lzx
WavesOfTheFuture31.lha


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06.Jul.2000
Ateo


Ateo serial device version 0.599 released
Download:ateoser.lzx - ateoser.readme

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06.Jul.2000
ANN


Eyetech releases specifications of their developer box
Overall they present four different systems at four different prices.

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06.Jul.2000
Dirk Konrad at the ANF


Amiga MAS-player version 2
The new software for the hardware based mp3-player "MAS_Player" is ready for download on my homepage. New features of the software: support of a palylist and random play. Aslo on the homepage you can find a forum where you can share informations about the hard- and software.

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06.Jul.2000
Andreas Magerl via email


Lost eMails
APC&TCP are looking for C++ coders to support the game projekt "Phönix". Some coders have answered the call, but due to a mistake nearly all the email adresses are lost :(. Please get in contact with us again (or if you want to apply for the first time) sending an email to Andreas@apc-tcp.de.

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06.Jul.2000
AmigArt


Third party programs for AmigaOS 3.5
A FTP-area for so called third party programs for AmigaOS 3.5 at Amiga Inc. has opened. You will find some useful programs there.

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06.Jul.2000
The Pulse via email


Pulse Super CD
Who subscribes the magazine "The Pulse" will receive a CD-Rom containing many gamedemos, updates, and the full versions of "Abduction" and "Charlie J Cool - AGA & ECS version" with the first issue:

From    Pulse Publishing thepulse@pulsepublishing.co.uk
To      Amiga News team@amiga-news.de
Date    Thu, 06 Jul 2000 01:32:02 +0000
Subject Pulse Super CD

Hello,

Due to the massive response for The Pulse Magazine from retailers/distributers
and the Amiga public, we have managed to take an idea we had for later down
the line and put it into action for the very first issue!

And so, *The Pulse Super CD* has now become a reality.

When you subscribe to The Pulse Magazine for 6 or 12 months, you will gain
automatic inclusion to receive all issues of the Super CD released during
your subscription period.

The Pulse Super CD is a brand new peice of software put together by the
writers of The Pulse filled with tons of glorious goodies to entertain and
benefit all types of users.

Unlike other cover CD's which seem to be full of the same old stuff, each
SUPER CD contains 640mb of brand new, completely different goodies to the
last including:-

- All the hottest game demos, previews and screenshots
- All the latest serious software demos
- Hints, tips, cheats & solutions
- Quality workbench tools and accessories
- Workbench backgrounds, themes and screensavers
- Reams and reams of glowicons for OS 3.5
- Art Gallery
- Brand new custom made Directory Opus themes
- Full commercial games
- Full commercial serious software

The Pulse Super CD is designed to be released when we feel we can fill a
complete CD with only the best, top quality products, and ensure that each
and every issue has entirely different contents to the last.

Below are the highlights of the first release:-

- Full commercial games including:
    Abduction
    Charlie J Cool AGA & ECS Versions

- Tons of great game demos including:
    Wolfenstein 3D
    Heretic II
     Joyride
    U.V.W.
    Hell Squad
    HexenWorld

- Tons of great game updates including:
    Quake
    Frontier Elite II
    Virtual GP
    Foundation DC
    SWOS

- Serious Software Updates:
   Wordworth Fonts
    Pagestream Fonts

- Demo Scene featuring the best Amiga demos from around the world.

Don't forget, all this is only available to subscribers of The Pulse Magaine,
so get your subscriptions in today!

Release date for next issue is mid July....

Kind regards
--
The Pulse
No Way Out.....

Email: thepulse@pulsepublishing.co.uk
http://www.pulsepublishing.co.uk
------------------------------------
If you ever subscribe to an Amiga mag again this should be it!


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05.Jul.2000
Fabio Trotta on ANF


No Risc No Fun AMIGA Club at own domain
The German Online AMIGA Club No Risc No Fun is now also available at the domain http://www.risc-amiga.de. Furthermore we are working to expand the club, and during the next days many innovations are to expect. On our sites you will find tests, tips, pictures, mods, news, lists of releases, and many more. I hope to hear from you, some day.

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05.Jul.2000
John Zacharias via eMail


AmiWest Press Release 7
Eyetech Group Ltd. will exhibit at AmiWest 2000. The AmiWest 2000 will take place on Juli, 29th - 30th in Sacramento, California. More information you will find at the titlelink or on the AmiWest 2000 Website.

From: John Zacharias jzachar@calweb.com

Subject: AmiWest 2000 Press Release 7
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 06:55:36 -0700 (PDT)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Eyetech Group Ltd will be exhibiting at AmiWest 2000!

On June 6, Amiga Inc. and Eyetech Group Ltd entered into a strategic
relationship for Eyetech to manufacture the first release of the Next
Generation Amiga Development Machine.  Eyetech will be coming to
Sacramento, California for AmiWest 2000 and will be showing off the Next
Generation Amiga Development Machine coupled with a Classic A1200 at the
show.

Eyetech is the leading UK developers and Worldwide mail order retailers of
Amiga technology products for the home and for industry.  They are the
manufacturers and distributors of the EZDev-Plus and EZDev-Tower Dev Boxes
in the UK and Ireland under a partnership agreement with Amiga Inc.  and
parent company of the Eye-Play (www.eye-play.com) games publishing and
distribution for the Classic and Amiga OE platforms

Products at the show will include:  EZRack 2U x 380mm 19" rack system
containing a full EZDev and Classic A1200 platform networked in the same
case; EZBoot silicon floppy disk allowing direct booting from CDROM on all
WB3+ Amigas; the AMON low distortion automatic monitor switcher for the
Cybervision64-3D and scandoubled AGA outputs; the EZLink AREXX-controlled
infrared controller 'learning' receiver/transmitter for all WB2+ Amigas;
the EZ-Net 5-click Linux-Amiga, Win-Amiga & Amiga-Amiga networking software
and installer; the EZ-VGA range of scan doublers and flickerfixers and much
more.

A rolling presentation under SCALA MM400 will show some of the products
that we physically couldn't bring with us, but regularly send to the US by
mail order.  These include:  the full range of EZDev configuration options,
the EZTower-Z4 A1200 tower system with Z4 expansion board (3 x Z2, 2 x
hi-speed Z2, 2 x 19MB/s Z4, 4 x clock port slots) and many more products.

Special dealer and User Group pricing will be available at the show.
Eyetech can be reached on the web at http://welcome.to/amiga.world

Remember, AmiWest 2000 is being held on Friday through Sunday, July 29-30,
2000 at the Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast, in Sacramento, CA.  Classes
and seminars will be held throughout the day on both Saturday and Sunday
with the exhibit hall being open on Saturday, July 29th from 10 A.M.  - 5
P.M and Sunday, July 30th 10 A.M.  - 4 P.M.

Specially priced tickets for AmiWest 2000 are available in advance by mail.
Prices are:  two day admission tickets, $12 and one day admission ticket,
$8.  If you elect to purchase tickets at the door, the prices are:  two day
ticket at the door, $15 and One day ticket at the door, $10.  If you are
ordering a one day ticket by mail, please specify which day (Saturday or
Sunday) you are attending.

There will be a buffet banquet on Saturday evening, July 29th, with Bill
McEwen, President of Amiga Inc., as the guest speaker discussing the
progress made to date on the new Amigas.  Price is $35 per plate.  Banquet
tickets must be purchased in advance.  They will NOT be sold on Friday nor
Saturday due to the hotel needing attendance figures for planning the
banquet.

You can mail your requests for advanced admission and banquet tickets to:

      AmiWest 2000
      c/o John Zacharias
      10004 Vanguard Drive
      Sacramento, CA 95827

Make checks payable to "AmiWest".

A form for ordering tickets can be found on the AmiWest web page at

    http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

where you can learn more about AmiWest 2000.

Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director, Amiga Deutschland Inc., will be
joining Mr McEwen in attendance at AmiWest 2000.

Special hotel room rates are available at the Holiday Inn for those
attending AmiWest 2000.  Room rates are $ 79 (Single) and $ 89 (double) if
reservations are made by July 7.  You must mention that you are attending
AmiWest to get the special rate.  You can phone the Holiday Inn at
1-916-338-5800 or 1-800-388-9284 (Tool Free - Hotel directly) to make hotel
reservations.

You will also be able to purchase the recently announced Software
Development Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000.  The SDK is being
sold by several of the exhibitors at the show.

This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga
Community.

Hope to see you at AmiWest 2000 on July 29-30, 2000.

John Zacharias, chairperson
AmiWest 2000
jzachar@calweb.com
http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/


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V3·Portal


Voyager with new Layout-Engine
Oliver Wagner is working on a completely new written Layout-Engine for Voyager, in order to make modern handling of websites with Voyager 3.3 possible.

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05.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


devicetop.com introduces the intent Mediasystem from the Tao-Group
With the title "Creating Digital Heaven" devicetop.com introduces the intent Mediasystem from the Tao-Group. intent was mentioned as a part of the new operating environment for the first time in a Live Chat with Tao Group and Fleecy Moss on 01/19/2000.

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05.Jul.2000
Pietro Lang on ANF


Amigatheme Update Release 4
The homepage of the German ACB "Amigatheme" got an update again, at last. More updates will follow weekly! Just have a look!

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04.Jul.2000
Tom Neidhard on ANF


EASys! Mailinglist online
Hereby I invite you to the EASys! mailinglist. Here, Easyans have the opportunity to talk about experiences (with me participating) and hear the latest on tipps and the current development status.

Group name: easysystem
URL: Start page
Posting address: easysystem@egroups.com


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04.Jul.2000
Carsten Schröder by e-mail


AMIGA aktuell 07/00 now online
Aside from the latest Amiga news, current software tests and many more, there is also a workshop on TCP/IP networking between Amiga and Windows systems. Also a detailed report from the "World of Alternatives" is included. Moreover, we will now post a list of available AmigaNG programs every month.

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04.Jul.2000
Recent


New Aminet uploads
F1db.lha             biz/dbase  100K+Store and manage Formula 1 results
Bippy.lha            biz/dkg     16K+Plugin for Extreme
Extreme.lha          biz/dkg    125K+New update for Extreme
xtm-Pa2k.lha         biz/dkg     30K+Additional texture for Extreme
ArtConvert.lha       biz/haage   20K+ArtConvert - Converts a bunch of picture
PalmBackup.lha       comm/misc  188K+1.8 - Backup/Restore/Install for PalmPil
T-Rexx.lha           comm/tcp    61K+Shows current TV-programs in Finland
PlaySidDevBas.lha    dev/basic   37K+Using PlaySid library from HBasic
pmDevBas.lha         dev/basic  122K+Using PopUpMenu library from HBasic
AsyncIOPPCdev.lha    dev/c        4K+Use asyncio.library under PPC (PowerUP) 
MPEGAPPCdev.lha      dev/c        2K+Use mpega.library under PPC (PowerUP) (G
MCC_Popph.lha        dev/mui     84K+V15.5 - Popup placeholder class (MUI)
MCC_Popph_Src.lha    dev/mui     34K+V15.5 - Popup placeholder class (MUI)
MCC_TipOfDay.lha     dev/mui     53K+V15.8 - 'Tip of the day' class (MUI)
MCC_TipOfDay_S.lha   dev/mui     54K+V15.8 - 'Tip of the day' class (SRC)
hof-html.lha         docs/hyper 1.1M+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame June 2000
Aakt0700GFX.lha      docs/mags  574K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
Aakt0700GUIDE.lha    docs/mags   99K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga
freeciv.lha          game/2play 891K+Amiga Version 1.12 => Freeciv 1.11.0
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   10K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (2 July)
WBPPenguins.lha      game/data   37K+WBPerplexity Penguins
ForgottenMine2.lha   game/misc   12K+23 Emerald Mine levels
VGP1.0d.lha          game/patch 498K+WORKING V1.0d update!!! Plus "Arcade" mo
dropout-killer.lha   gfx/board  170K+Update for Dropout-Killer V2.01 [beta 1]
MotionBlur_IFX.lha   gfx/ifx      2K+MotionBlur Arexx script for ImageFX
Minas.mpg            mods/elbie 469K+Minastir [Folklore] by ElbiE^t13n!
Muerig.ric.lha       mods/funk  221K+Funk with cool grooves by R.KAPP
SCL_Moments.lha      mods/house 391K+SCL! - 4channel Mod at trsac'00 (2nd pla
rno-r041.lha         mods/misc  423K+Rno-label release no.41 by roz (acid/det
blipbreak.lha        mods/pop    84K+ProTracker module by Joerg Winkler
dreamsong.lha        mods/pop    63K+OctaMED SoundStudio track by Joerg Winkl
effecthymne.lha      mods/pop    99K+ProTracker module by Joerg Winkler
hunger.lha           mods/pop    94K+ProTracker module by Joerg Winkler
icysong.lha          mods/pop    45K+OctaMED SoundStudio track by Joerg Winkl
tekkgroove.lha       mods/pop    67K+ProTracker module by Joerg Winkler
uhahuh.lha           mods/pop    55K+ProTracker module by Joerg Winkler
Vincent.lha          mods/pop    35K+OctaMED SoundStudio track by Joerg Winkl
info.lha             mus/edit    23K+Replacement for the  NFO -Rexxscript of 
sfx-bin_00.lha       mus/edit   1.3M+V4.00 Bin 68000 Soundprocessingsoftware
sfx-bin_20.lha       mus/edit   1.4M+V4.00 Bin 68020 Soundprocessingsoftware
sfx-bin_20m.lha      mus/edit   1.2M+V4.00 Bin 68020+FPU Soundprocessingsoftw
sfx-bin_30.lha       mus/edit   1.3M+V4.00 Bin 68030 Soundprocessingsoftware
sfx-bin_30m.lha      mus/edit   1.2M+V4.00 Bin 68030+FPU Soundprocessingsoftw
sfx-bin_40m.lha      mus/edit   1.2M+V4.00 Bin 68040+FPU Soundprocessingsoftw
sfx-bin_60m.lha      mus/edit   1.2M+V4.00 Bin 68060+FPU Soundprocessingsoftw
sfx-data.lha         mus/edit   149K+V4.00 Data Soundprocessingsoftware
sfx-dev.lha          mus/edit    71K+V4.00 Developer Soundprocessingsoftware
sfx-doc_eng.lha      mus/edit   127K+V4.00 Doc english Soundprocessingsoftwar
sfx-doc_ger.lha      mus/edit   133K+V4.00 Doc german Soundprocessingsoftware
sfx-goodies.lha      mus/edit    47K+V4.00 Goodies Soundprocessingsoftware
EP_PVP.lha           mus/play     4K+EaglePlayer "Peter Verswyvelen Packer" e
Babylon-1.jpg        pix/art     13K+Jpg picture with fxPaint
neerv_mwb.lha        pix/mwb    229K+Neervoort s MWB Game - Icons !!!
SuperSansSerif.lha   text/bfont   5K+Light and clean ScreenText Amiga Font
DSLT01.lha           text/print 129K+DrawStudio's Templates for labels 01 v1.
Next2.9.lha          text/show   80K+Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
cli2win.lha          util/cli     9K+Open a window to any path directly from 
HistoryCD.lha        util/cli     7K+CD replacement (wildcards, history)
TitleCD.lha          util/cli     7K+CD replacement (wildcards, window title)
ConvertIRCserv.lha   util/conv    2K+Converts mIRC's server list to AmIRC
easyconvert.lha      util/conv   20K+Easy Convert - converts miles - km, etc.
jAnimator.lha        util/wb    209K+Animate your public cgfx screen


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04.Jul.2000
Amiga Inc.


Amiga Inc. Faq-O-Matic available
At www.amiga.com, the FAQs are now available. This system allows submitting questions online, and answering them the same way.

Currently, there are FAQs on the following areas:
  • Amiga SDK FAQ
  • Amiga Graphics FAQ
  • Amiga Audio FAQ
  • General Amiga FAQ


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04.Jul.2000
Tao Group


MathEngine and Tao Group Announce Strategic Partnership


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04.Jul.2000
Oliver Roberts


WarpPNG.datatype PPC (WarpUP only) version 44.5 released
Donwload: WarpPNGdt.lha - 48 Kb

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04.Jul.2000
Haage & Partner


Amiga Writer 2.2
AmigaWriter 2.2 offers two new, important features and two bug fixes:
  • FinalWriter import (including paragraphs and font settings)
  • WordWorth import (ASCII only)
  • improved TurboPrint support
  • fixed Word import (tabstops and left indent)

On the H&P FTP server there are free patches for versions 2.0 and 2.1. Also available there is the AmigaWriter 2.2 demo.

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04.Jul.2000
AmigActive


AmigActive survey
The UK Amiga magazine "AmigActive" is doing a survey what can be improved, according to reader opinion.

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04.Jul.2000
apex Design


Payback status report
There are many requests when the game will be released, we estimate end of october, early November. In the new status report you can read that the author did spend much time on fixing annoying bugs, optimizing subroutines, implementing the on-screen map, adding new missions and vehicles, and optimizing vehicle movement.

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04.Jul.2000
Vesalia on ANF


BlizzardPPC 603e boards available again starting next week
Starting July 12th, BlizzardPPC 603e accelerator boards will be in stock at KDH, and Vesalia Computer, as well as other distributors worldwide.

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04.Jul.2000
Stefan Kost by e-mail


SoundFX 4.0 (final) released
I have released SoundFX 4.0 (final). It can be found on Aminet (mus/edit) and my homepage (title link or come.to/ensonic/).

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04.Jul.2000
Henk Jonas on ANF


MetaView mailinglist open
I have created a mailinglist on my program MetaView. If you want to get first hand news on the development, you are welcome to join in.

Group name: Meta View
Entry page URL: www.egroups.com/group/MetaView/
Posting address: MetaView@egroups.com

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04.Jul.2000
Oliver Gantert on ANF


Orbit 0.6 released
The new version fixes some bugs, and sound / joystick subroutines are available as shared library.

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04.Jul.2000
Bright Light Software


Alpha release: Audiomaster 2000 v0.45a
Audiomaster 2000, the sample editor, has been released as version 0.45a. The program by Frank "Fenny" Fenn will be released as Shareware, therefore this demo version does not allow saving.

Download: audiomaster2k.lha - 86 Kb

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04.Jul.2000
Czech Amiga News


Extreme version 2.0 released
Registered users can use their keyfile for this version, all others will have demo mode only. Bippy, the first Extreme plug-in was also updated.

DOwnload:
Extreme.lha - 128 Kb, Extreme.readme
Bippy.lha - 16 Kb, Bippy.readme

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04.Jul.2000
amiga.org


AmigaFest 2000 Update
At the title link, you can read details on the Amiga Fest 2000 taking place on August 26th - 27th in Dayton, Ohio.

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04.Jul.2000
Steven Flowers by e-mail


The Pulse magazine looking for european distributors
We are on the lookout for distributors of the new Pulse Magazine. We have several companies who have agreed to sell it in the UK, and would like to hear from retailers in Europe and around the world who would also like to sell it to their own customers.

As well as free delivery of the magazine to anywhere in the world, we offer a good trade discount, and as an added incentive we are prepared to give 50% off our advertising costs to anyone prepared to distribute for us. Interested parties should contact: The Pulse Magazine, thepulse@pulsepublishing.co.uk.

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03.Jul.2000
Alfred Sturm


New Aminet uploads
2b_XBase-6.6.lha     biz/dbase  298K+Very easy2use flexible and fast database
FLeagues_BB2.lha     biz/dbase  113K+Football Database For 50 Leagues (v1.2h)
MUIbase-1.5.lha      biz/dbase  1.9M+Powerful programmable relational databas
mwi-m12_fix.lha      demo/aga   1.3M+Mute12_exe - fixed exe file of our demo 
wpz-frozen28.lha     demo/aga   937K+Frozen#28 - Mekka&Symposium Party Editio
wpz-frozen29.lha     demo/aga   288K+Frozen#29 - Mekka&Symposium Party Editio
wpz-frozen30.lha     demo/aga   955K+Frozen#3o - The Gathering Party Edition
SettingsWin.lha      dev/mui      9K+French Catalog for Settingswindow_mcc
xfd_SZDD.lha         dev/src     15K+Sources of SZDD xfdmaster client
pfssalv.lha          disk/salv   12K+Save files from damaged PFS2/PFS3 partit
RDBrecov.lha         disk/salv   11K+Search lost PFS/SFS partitions on a hard
AmigaInfo.lha        docs/hyper 276K+ITALIAN ONLY Amiga Mags Luglio 2000
hof-html.lha         docs/hyper 508K+Amiga F1GP Hall of Fame June 2000
sharks.lha           game/actio 261K+Great Action-diving ECS V1.4
cassmaster.lha       misc/misc  211K+Manage your musiccasettes (FREEWARE) Ger
SSSeaShells.lha      mods/misc  1.7M+DBM Trance dance by Mr.Lou / Dewfall Pro
rNO-L040.mpg         mods/mpg   4.3M+Rno-label release no.40 by dj habit (tek
Remember.lha         mods/smpl  2.5M+Remember (8svx music sample) by 4 For U
WannaBeTheGirl.lha   mods/smpl  3.0M+I wanna be the girl 4 U! (8svx music sam
BlazeWCP.lha         util/boot   28K+ULTRA FAST 32bit C2P patch for OS chunky
CreateOutline.lha    util/wb      5K+No more OutlineFont-like patches (1.4)
IconHandler.lha      util/wb     34K+V2.3 Drop file on AppIcon to change icon
StopMenu.lha         util/wb    274K+Very nice startbar with many options
StopMenuUpd.lha      util/wb     70K+Updates v1.02+ to v1.03


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03.Jul.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: wide load




Like always torsten caricatures the present situation very accurate.

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03.Jul.2000
Markus Klemm at the ANF


Video of »Fun Of Computing NG«
The video of the »Fun Of Computing NG« can now be downloaded. You can see in this video for example the AmigaSDK, Tales of Tamar, SoundFX 4.0, the Lottery, and, of course, Petro Tyschtschenko. The length of the video is approximately 5 minutes.

Download:fun_of_computing_2000.mpeg - 14 MB

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03.Jul.2000
Thomas Tavoly via email


The Amiga RC5 Team effort client programs have been updated
Return-Path: rc5@amiga.cistron.nl (Thomas Tavoly)
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 02:46:19 MET
Subject: PR: The Amiga RC5 Team effort client programs have been updated

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 2nd 2000

The Amiga RC5 Team effort client programs have been updated


The Amiga RC5 Team effort's continued involvement in the Distributed Net
RC5 challenge (and others) is now, after a long silence in development,
bolstered by updated client programs that are again state of the art.

The new clients support RC5 encryption searching as before, but with
improved speed and features, plus distributed calculation of Optimal Golomb
Rulers or OGR for short. OGR is a mathematical algorithm useful for amongst
others engineering tasks. There are now also separate native clients for
68k (including 68000) AmigaOS, WarpOS and PowerUp. The GUI frontend Myzar
has been updated as well to cater for the new clients.

Apart from the updates, the development team has been extended with several
volunteer members to allow for more timely updates and continued support for
the future.

The Distributed.Net/RC5-64 challenge has searched about 27% of the
keyspace up until now and the rate is still increasing by bounds. The Amiga
team is a top 10 ranked team out of almost ten thousand teams with a total
of over 250,000 participants. Our cooperative effort still accounts for
more than one percent of the daily work being done.

The Amiga RC5 Team effort focuses on bringing exposure to the Amiga and
the community spirit and strives to achieve this by ranking high in
distributed computing projects such as the RC5 challenge, using otherwise
idle computing power only. This effort is also aimed at highlighting
privacy and security issues on the Internet and possibly changing outdated
encryption policies.

We need your help to achieve above goals and show the world the
Amiga is not dead, in spite of a total lack of support from parent
companies over the past, well, millennium.

Everyone is cordially invited to join, with any kind of machine, though
one Amiga at least is appreciated. For a full explanation of what the
effort is about, where we are heading, how to participate and everything
from statistics to member listings, please visit the Amiga RC5 Team effort
homepage at http://distributed.amiga.org.

The Amiga RC5 Team effort is also providing a mailinglist as a forum for
the discussion on above topics and the effort in general.


Sincerely,

Amiga RC5 Team effort coordinator
Thomas Tavoly - rc5@amiga.cistron.nl

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03.Jul.2000
John Chandler at suite101.com


Open Amiga Foundation update
John Chandler talks about the Open Amiga Foundation, that non-commercial organisation that deals with free convertable developments based on the AmigaOS. He has a special eye on the present project "AROS Lite".

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03.Jul.2000
Jürgen Beck via email


Back to the Roots - update
Today we present you after a long time an update of Back to the Roots. The last months were very stressful for us.

There are some new legal games for download at BTTR. One of the new companies supporting us is Vivid Image and they have produced the classic game "The First Samurai". But more interesting should be the cooperation with Vulcan Software for you. Every month Vulcan Software will present one of their games of their mini series for download. The debut game of Vulcan Software "Valhalla and the Lord of Infinity" will be the first one. Also there are many new games, demos, pics, and new mods. Have fun!.

Remark:
I know some of the Amiga users are wondering about the ADF-format of our games. For those who do not know there is a little tool named "TransADF" that you can use to rewrite the games onto a disk like with DMS. Through a Aminet-gateway you can reach the Aminet via BTTR. This gateway is not only a gateway it offers also some special features like for example a forum function so you can discuss about every single file on the Aminet.

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03.Jul.2000
Olaf Köbnik via email


Amiga Arena news
Neptune special price action!
The astrology program "Neptun", that you can buy for a special price via the Amiga Arena, is going to be developed again. Please support the shareware market!

Lottery
The lottery at hte Amiga Arena is online till 07/09/2000. Becaus of not so much participation in it the chance to win is high. The prizes you can win are: Foundation DC, Arena CD, Goal2000, Eat the Whistle, and Final Odessey.

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02.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


VHI Studio reads Sony® Memorysticks®!
From the Innovative Website:
With the new VHI driver (sony_msac_sr1.vhi) it is possible for the first time to to get access to the Sony® Memorysticks® with the Amiga. Doing this the driver leans on the seriell reading device "Sony® MSAC-SR1" comming with most of the cameras from Sony®.

The link "Press Release" on Innovative's website brings you to pictures giving a comparision of the size of Compactflash® cards with the size of the Memorysticks®.

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02.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


JOTD Patch & HD: IK+-Loader supports CD32 Version
The IK+-Loader of the JOTD Patch & Installer Packet now also supports the CD32 Version.

Download: ik+hd.lzx

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02.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Opinions on the SDK's VP from J.Wiede
J. Wiede has dealed with the VP from the point of view of a developer of drivers in particular and gives a very discerning opinion on the VP in the above usenet posting.

04 Jul 2000, Addition:
Andreas Kleinert and Olaf Barthel informed us about a surely interesting background of this: the author of this 'somewhat discerning' article about the AmigaSDK is a former employee of Commodore, who in those days operated at CATS for the Tech Support. His entire name is "John Wiederhirn". One shoul be aware of this backround while reading his articles in this discussion.

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02.Jul.2000
Andreas Neumann on ANF


Textviewer: Next V2.9
Jürgen Klawitter released version 2.9 of his textviewer "Next". Among other things, this new version has a definite improved "Word" import function, as well as support for additional packer formats.

Beside its function as a textviewer Next even suites as Amigaguide replacement, HTML Offline Browser, Datatypes Viewer, Decruncher, Archive Unpacker, Printer Utility, and some more.

The archiv with the programm will soon be released at Aminet and is straight away even available on a new (by now still somewhat provisional) Support-WWW-Site (titlelink) for "Next".

Download: Next2.9.lha (80K)

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02.Jul.2000
ANN


Appe V3 - Connecting Playstation Pad to CD32
With the above Aminet archive Benjamin Morente describes how to build a hardware interface that allows to use a standard digital Pad for the Playstation with all Amigas. This solution emulates a joystick with two firebuttons as well as a CD32 Pad and even works with other computers using a 9pol joystick port (e.g. Commodore 64, MSX, Spectrum (needs joystick interface), Amstrd CPC, Atari, and similar).

Download: hard/hack/appe_v3.lha (31K), readme

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02.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


Can you change your mind? - Part 2
Hassan 'Karajorma' Kazmi has started a series about past, present and future of the Amiga. The second part (titlelink) tells about that the new AmigaOS differs definite from the current OS and that therefore one should not rate it before he has realize the ideas behind the new AmigaOS.

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02.Jul.2000
Fun Time World


Lame V3.84 Beta
On June, 30th 2000 v3.84 beta of the MP3 Encoder "Lame" has was released. Lame now uses a shared library version of libsndfile. Other changes can be found inside the History.

Download: LAMEbeta.lzx (420K)

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02.Jul.2000
Amiga.org


Win a SDK by a question for McEwen
Mac Gorilla is looking for questions for Bill McEwen and raffles an AmigaSDK amongst all people who send in queries. Mac and Linux users can win a copy of the space simulation "Terminus".

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02.Jul.2000
Andreas L. on ANF


New 'Dropout-Killer' at Elastic Images
'Dropout-Killers' for Movieshop is available as version 2.01 [Beta 3].

Additional to some bugfixes the calculation routine was made faster, among other things. Now projects can be saved and of course reloaded. Though the programm still is in beta stage, it runs stable and almost error-free.

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01.Jul.2000
Sebastian Bauer


FreeCiv version 1.12 released
Freeciv is a turn-based multi-player strategy game, released under GNU General Public Licence. It can be compared to Civilisation II® by Microprose®.

Download: freeciv.lzx - 782 Kb

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01.Jul.2000
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: LinuxTag: Corel releases CorelDraw for Linux
"Corel, Canadian graphics software specialist turned Linux distributor, is sometimes good for a surprise other than bad sales reports. On the LinuxTag, Corel already presented its Linux graphics suite CorelDraw 9 (booth 5.1.1.9). While it was previously said the package will probably be released in autumn, Friday night the Corel HQ in Canada gave it's OK: CorelDraw 9 for Linux is now released, and will hit the shelves in two to three weeks, however not for free. The image processor Photo-Paint, on the other hand, is already free for download."

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01.Jul.2000
Michael Carrillo


Chrystal Interactive Software News - Part 1
Part 2
Michael Carrillo has visited C.I.S. and wrote a summary report with added screenshots, with news e.g. on the adventure games "Gilbert Goodmate" and "Mushroom of Phangoria".

Thomas Lorenz: It should be noted that Crystal will only port Gilbert Goodmate to the Amiga if their second project "Dark Millenia" is sold at least 1000 times (or at least 1000 people state their interest, e.g. by e-mail). It is also mentioned that a "desaster" as with FusionPPC can hopefully be avoided!

The current demo on Michael's website "Amiga Rediscovery" is "Hired Guns".

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01.Jul.2000
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The Status Register - June, 2000
CUCUG Status Register - June, 2000.

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01.Jul.2000
Forum [Gent]


Back To The Roots (BTTR) has moved
The BTTR website, download paradise for old Amiga games offered there for download with official permission, has been relocated and is now available at www.back2roots.org. Please set your bookbarks.

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01.Jul.2000
ANN


Vote for AmigaOne CPU at ArsTechnica
Because of the GamersDepot article, ArsTechnica put a poll for the new AmigaOne CPU online. You can choose between: Alpha - PowerPC - MIPS - x86 and Sony's Emotion Engine + GS combo. Currently the Alpha seems to make it.

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01.Jul.2000
Frank Wille


New ppclibemu
ppclibemu is an emulation of the ppc.library and the PowerUP kernel under WarpOS. An own ELF LoadSeg patch is included, and allows many (some?) PowerUP-applications to run just like in the original environment. Those apps that run show no feelable speed penalty. Some are even faster than with the original kernel.

New in v0.8: PortLists, PPCFindTask, PPCFindTaskObject, PPCSignalTask, PPCDeleteTask. Please try which of the two runs better with installed PowerUP software, A or B?

Download:
ppclibemuA.lzx - ppclibemu A v0.8 (30.06.00), latest version (libs only)
ppclibemuB.lzx - ppclibemu B v0.8 (30.06.00), latest version (libs only)

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01.Jul.2000
Marco Frischkorn on ANF


Update of the homepage, and new domain names
Not only the design has changed - our domain has changed, too. The old domain name www.amigadev.de will be transferred to Amiga Inc. in the next couple of days.

We decided to take this step because the domains amigadev.COM and amigadev.NET were already owned by Amiga Inc., and we therefore confused some users, who of course thought that amigadev.DE would be the German counterpart to amigadev.COM. To put an end to this confusion, and to give Amiga Inc. the opportunity to create German pages under amigadev.DE, some days ago we ordered our web hoster to transfer the domain name to Amiga Inc.

Our new domain names are now:

www.highantdev.de and www.highantdev.com.

The .DE domain will lead you to the German pages, and the .COM domain to the English ones. Since the English pages are not yet finished, both domains lead you to German pages for the time being.

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01.Jul.2000
Audio Evolution


New demo of Audio Evolution version v3.0624 released
The full version will soon be distributed by Computer City. New in this demo:
  • New is the expansion window with direct access to the 3-way EQ (screenshot) - requires PPC
  • Aux Return window (requires PPC)
  • 68k version (no realtime) of the ReverbPro effect
  • Some problems with AHI Filesave (Mastering) removed
  • ReverbPro plug-in adapted to improved handling with Aux
  • Some improvements added and bugs removed

Download: AE.3.0624.lha - 877 Kb

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01.Jul.2000
AmiTradeCenter


New ATC beta version available
Download: ATC_beta_30062000.lha

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01.Jul.2000
RC5 Amiga Team


New RC5 client
A new RC5 client for Amiga is available from the download area. Myzar has already been partially converted, but some features of the new client are not yet available.

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01.Jul.2000
Dirk Bayens


CNNfn: Amiga President & CEO, CNNfn
At the title link, you can find a preliminary transcription of Bill's appearance.

Kent Seaton created this MP3 version (1.2 MB) of the interview (source: amiga.org).

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28.Jun.2000
Haage & Partner


MegaFonts - 5000 True Type Fonts
MegaFonts is a unique collection of 5000 professional True Type Fonts for Amiga and PC systems. A big poster showing all the fonts is included.

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28.Jun.2000
Jean Holzammer via eMail


Rebol/Core 2.3 available
After several month a new version of Rebol/Core is available. The development stage of V2.3 is now again up with Beta4.1 of Rebol/View.

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28.Jun.2000
Christoph Kirsch via eMail


DataM II 0.7 beta released
On the homepage of the Amigaclub Steinfurt, Germany (titlelink) a new official beta of my new spreadsheet analysis DataM II was released. The broken view of spreadsheets with Picasso96 should be fixed.

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28.Jun.2000
Jens Schoenfeld via eMail


Insider Section at individual Computers
For programmers and such who wants to bekome one there now is a Insider Section on the support site. Reference texts needed for programming close at the hardware of individual Computers' products are made available there. Everybody who wants to write drivers for an alternative operatingsystem, such as Linux or NetBSD, will finde all necessary information there. Also, native PowerPC drivers are conceivable - I would like to answer your queries on the development, cause I know that hardware programming is not pure delight.

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28.Jun.2000
Nico Barbat


Free Amiga Jobs - Status Report
The Amiga market is moving. A look at Free Amiga Jobs, the free Amiga Job Stock Market, shows how many projects of established and new Amiga manufacturers are on thier way now or beeing planed. You can contribute something to this positive evaluation: Act for the Amiga - also you!

These are the known changes since the last update:
  • New Jobs since the last update: 18
  • Employed since the last update: 15
  • Employed altogether: 28
  • Current vacancies: 36
  • Vacancies altogether: 62

"Free Amiga Jobs" is an initiative of Amiga plus and amiga-news.de.

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28.Jun.2000
Andreas Kleinert via eMail


WinIFF
Andreas Kleinert is porting SView to PC. You can get first impressions at the titlelink.

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28.Jun.2000
Juergen A. Theiner at ANF


Heretic II for winning
playamiga.de arranges a SWOS tournament at the Amiga Meeting 2000. the prime winning is a full version of Heretic II. The meeting will be held on October, 27-29th in Bad Bramstedt, Germany. Well, if this is no reason to register, isn't it. ;-)

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28.Jun.2000
Felix Schwarz via eMail


Innovative brings Digita(TM)-Power to the AMIGA!
Innovative has developed a driver for digital cameras, which are running with the Digital(TM) Operating Environment. "Digita(TM)-enabled" digital cameras show a much higher performance than everything else on the market, this times. Not only that Digita(TM) is used with cameras from several manufacturers, but also these cameras are running with Coldfire- or PowerPC CPUs and make it possible to run scripts, programms, and games (incl. MAME!!) - what makes theses cameras particular interesting. The producer of Digita(TM), Flashpoint(TM), has set his target to make Digita(TM) the standard for digital cameras and therefor bets on a standardised communikation protokoll between computer and camera. With the VHI driver now available even Amiga users get access to these faszinating cameras, at last, and can download taken pictures in a comfortable way and edit them. The following "Digita(TM)-enabled" digital cameras are currently available:
  • Kodak DC 220, DC 260, DC 265, DC 290
  • Minolta Dimage 1500 EX, Dimage 1500 3D
  • HP PhotoSmart C500, C619, C912
  • Pentax EI-200, EI-2000

P.S.: Digita(TM) has in this case nothing to do with the developers of Wordworth, but is a productname for a product from Flashpoint(TM).

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27.Jun.2000
Martin Baute via eMail


Fourth BAUD Hardware Meeting!
On the weekend from September, 15th to 17th the Bielefelder Amiga Users & Developers (BAUD) will arrange their fourth Hardware Meeting. On Saturday September, 16th every interessted Amiga user to stop by. You can ask questions, admire at a "heterogenous networkt" (with Amiga superior in numbers of course), and in general at all BAUDies together at one place. You can eat pizza (no, not for free ;-)), have a look at the running AmigaSDK, etc., etc.

You will find further information at the titlelink. Though the "new" invitationsite is not finished yet (there the invitation of the last meeting still is to find), registration, way of arrival, and proposition are the same. An updated page will follow within this week! So, we'll meet in Bielefeld, Germany....

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27.Jun.2000
Ron Goertz


New Arexx scripts for FinalWriter
FWCalendar was released as V4.00, and FWCAddEvent as V3.82. The scripts are at "Apps" for download.

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27.Jun.2000
Fun Time World


CAD-Technologies - ACUP Status
The Imagine S.A.R.A. (Stand Alone Render Engine) has been send to the beta-testers. All render funcitons of Imagine are allready supported by this release. By the following updates client/server extensions, and PowerPC support will be added. PowerPC rendering allready works in the current version of Imagine V5.18 (beta).

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27.Jun.2000
ExoticA


ExoticA
ExoticA, the website full of musik, nostalgica, and many more round the Amiga, has been updated and is finally available at http://exotica.fix.no/. Please, update your bookmarks.

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27.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News


FusionPPC under final testing
According to Paul Lesurf from Blittersoft Fusion for PPC now is being under final testing and they anticipate to finish it shortly.

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27.Jun.2000
amiga.org


First Application for AMIE
At amigadev.net GZIP and TAR are there for download as first applications for the new Amiga plattform (AMIE).

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27.Jun.2000
AmigActive


AmigaActive Issue #10 on its way
Starting with June, 29th issue #10 of AmigaActive will be there to purchase. This issue contains reviews on Pagestream4, fxPaint, and Cedric. Other interessting topics are MorphOS, QNX2000, and Neutrino, whereupon a programmer's tutorial rounds off this theme. Additional to current news and many more items games, and picture galleries will be introduced.

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27.Jun.2000
ANN


Eyetech opens Amiga Games Area "Eye-Play"
Eyetech has opend an area dedicated to publishing and distributing of demanding games for Classic-Amiga and the AmigaNG. Details about "Eye-Play".

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27.Jun.2000
Stefan Martens at ANF


Amiga User Meeting Nord-Niedersachsen
The Saturday of the Amiga User Meeting in Nord-Niedersachsen, Germany, was over quickly. Now I would like to know, who would like to attend such a meeting once more. Of course those of you who did not take part of the meeting on June, 24th should write to me, however.

Please tell me too, which month (November 2000 to February 2001 is possible) would fit best. Do not vorget to tell me how you liked the room, and the rest of that event - especially with the meals (say if lunch and/or potluck). If all of you did not like the meals, this problem will be prevented or corrected, next time. Oh, and the people who did not attend on Satruday WITHOUT informing me might contact me, please (mail, phone, etc.).

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27.Jun.2000
Stefan Martens at ANF


Amiga User List (AUL) Info
Soon me and my comrade will restart working on the AUL! But I would realy like to know, how many of those who are NOT on the list (which exludes about 1000 Amiga users) are interessted in an Amiga User Database. 2 to 3 issues more will released for sure. If there will be more issues depends on the response. I would like to knwo too, whom of the people on the list is no lomger an Amiga user. I request for eMails on the respective themes.

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27.Jun.2000
Andreas Steup at ANF


Column updated
Two more weeks have gone, the Beachball Column has been updated!

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26.Jun.2000
Henk Jonas


Metaview Version 2.9 released
Download: MetaView.lha

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26.Jun.2000
amiga.org


The Forgotten OS - part 1
Hassan 'Karajorma' Kazmi has started a series of articles about the past, the present, and the future of the Amiga. Read the first part following the titlelink.

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26.Jun.2000
Height Anxiety


Charon version 1.3 released
Version 1.3 of the download manager Charon released.

Download: Charon.lha

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26.Jun.2000
AmigaAMP


Subspace Plugin for AmigaAMP released
Download: Subspace10.lha

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26.Jun.2000
Markus Klemm at the ANF


First impressions of the "Fun of Computing" in Ilmenau, Germany
The "Amiga User Club Bautzen e.V." has visited the "Fun of Computing" in Ilmenau, Germany, for the third time. You can read a short report about this year's event on our homepage. A detailed issue with some photos will follow!

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26.Jun.2000
Thomas Schulze at the ANF


New member for the Dreamworlds Team and new screenshots of Crossfire II
The Dreamworlds team has gained a new graphics artist: Sven Kahlbrock has joined the team to force the finishing of Crossfire II. On the new screenshots you can see his first works. Take a look, it is worth it.

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26.Jun.2000
Christian Gines at the ANF


Amiga software at http://www.downloadarchive.de/?
This I got from a newsletter as surftip:

"Downloads without end.
The downloadarchive.de offers many downloads in many sections. It does not matter if you are looking for freeware, shareware, or demos of comercial games or programs. Here you will find it. Every program is listed with description and details about system requirements, downloadsize and downloadtime, and so on. In short time downloads for Mac, Linux, and Amiga will be available."

Another interesting detail on the website:
"I you are looking for a spare time job we want your short application to jobs@downloadarchive.de! We need persons who are familiar with one of the sections Mac, Linux, and Amiga."

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26.Jun.2000
Andreas L. at the ANF


Update of the "Dropout-Killer" from V2.01 [beta 1] to V2.01 [beta 2]
It is now possible to download a bugfreed version 2.01 [beta 2] as an update from Elastic Images. You need the data of the original archives for the update (if necessary, download them, too).

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26.Jun.2000
Rolf Roth at the ANF


PlayGui website news
There are some news on the PlayGui website. From now on the PlayGui forum is online. Only some message boards are available for now but this section will be expanded soon.

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26.Jun.2000
Jürgen Müller


Report and photos from the "Fun of Computing"
Juergen Mueller - many of you know him from our newsticker - has visited the "Fun Of Computing" in Ilmenau, Germany, and made some nice photos and a detailed report (german) of it.

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26.Jun.2000
Ben Yoris via email


Hyperion: Shogo status report
The development of Shogo is under good progress and goes on very well. They are still thinking, if it makes sense to develop an AGA-version besides the gfx-board-version for the Amiga.

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25.Jun.2000
Igor Sereda at ANF


SoundFX V4 released
Stefan Kost makes SoundFX V4 with many new and powerfull features, and effects available for download.

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25.Jun.2000
Rudolph Riedel via eMail


New beta version of DiskMaster 2
At the titlelink a new official beta version of DiskMaster 2.5b along with the new DM2.guide, and the DM2_deutsch.guide is available for download.

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25.Jun.2000
Fun Time World


FTW: fxPaint 1.5 Test
Sebastian Brylka from Fun Time World die a extensive test of fxPaint 1.5 and was so excited, so that he gave this resourceful programm an award.

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25.Jun.2000
Juergen A. Theiner at ANF


playamiga.de: Heretic II Review
After a long time of waiting since WipeOut 2097 on 10 June 2000 the second high-end Amiga game entered the stage. In the time bevor there were much discussing on this game (mainly since the demo release). Do Heretic II worth those immense hardware requirements? Since playamiga.de allready with the review raised tempered diskussions, here now the test of the full version at last: Heretic II - Mispurchase of the summer or rescuer of Amiga's game future?

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25.Jun.2000
Andreas Magerl via eMail


Amiga Future News
At the Amiga Future homepage there is an interview with Q-Lab. Additionally we started two new votes on the site. If one begins at the start-site, now it is possible to make an English translation of the entire homepage. And of course our Abo Campaign with additional free Abo Bonus still is going.

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25.Jun.2000
Hynek Schlawack via eMail


DirScanner 2.10 available
At my homepage V2.10 of my DirScanner is avialable. I was forced to release this one, due to accumulating of double catalogs. :(

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25.Jun.2000
Thomas Hoppe via eMail


Free subdomains amiga-center.de
Now I have the permission of Gary Peake to offer subdomains with the syntax xyz.amiga-center.de, as long as there is no commercial content! If you want to upload a non-commercial Amiga site with the domain yourname.amiga-center.de, can apply for/register a free subdomain at the titlelink.

Other features:
  • Frame- or Refresh Forwarding
  • Catch-All Email-Addresse to recieve all your mails at your subdomain
  • Any desired eMail forwarding at your subdomain, e.g. yourname@cgi-corner.de
  • Any desired Meta-Keywords and Meta-Description
  • Any desired title for the site with frame forwarding

Nothing is asked in return. We would be pleased for a link back to CGI-NOW.de.

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25.Jun.2000
Matthias Henze via eMail


News of CyberdyneSystems
Now there is a version (V.45.00 beta 3) of stormamige.lib V.45.00 for AmigaOS/68k and StormC. This version contains many bugfixes and optimised functions.

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25.Jun.2000
Oliver Wagner via eMail


AmIRC V3.5 released
Version 3.5 of AmIRC was released, the Amiga client for chatting via IRC. This new version uses distinct less CPU recources, has a enhanced query command, and many more. For registered AmIRC3.x user this is a free update. AmIRC 1.x and 2.x users can get a low priced upgrade.

amirc_35.lzx - 703 Kb

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25.Jun.2000
Bernward Hofmann via eMail


MusiXTeX T.99 available
A message maby still interessting for some user. At least at the sites of Amiga-Club some queries occured about MuscTex, the precursor of MusiXTeX. This macripacket with ASCII files also runs with the TeX systems on Amiga (PasTeX and AmigaTeX=MaxonTex). The latest version of the author Daniel Taupin is available now. Since macro packets are from TeX ASCII code a porting to our Amiga - assuming a working TeX system - should not be such a big problem. I'm working since many years with MusicTeX (the precursor) and will have a look at MusiXTeX next times.

Download: musixtex.zip

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25.Jun.2000
Jan Andersen via eMail


Virus Help Denmark
A small update vor VT-Schutz has been released. IMPORTANT! To find linkviruses which are hiding BEHIND the 1. hunk FOR SURE, you MUST use FileTest!

Name: VT-Schutz v3.17
Archive name: vt317k.lha
Archiv size: 427.794 Bytes
Date: 24 June 2000
Programmer: Heiner Schneegold

Name: VT-Schutz v3.17 Doc.
Archive name: vt317dok.lha
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Date: 24 June 2000
Programmer: Heiner Schneegold

To find at the anti virus page of Dirk Stöcker.

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25.Jun.2000
Damilakis Nikolaos at ANF


Nationals Amiga Developers Networks
Greek Amiga Developers Network is calling all amigans to form nationals developers networks where programmers can help each other through mailing lists. When you form a national ADN please send us an e-mail to add you in our ADN's list.

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25.Jun.2000
Andreas L. at ANF


New Version of 'Dropout-Killers'
Ab heute kann die neue Version 2.01 des Movieshop-Tools bei Elastic Images downgeloadet werden. Das Programm ist um eine Vielzahl von Funktionen erweitert worden:
  • Own GUI (basing on the triton.library)
  • One can mark as many pictures as wanted and repair them within one calculation
  • Bubble help
  • The help guide can be shown in its own window directly on the Movieshop screen (Amigaguide or Multiview recommended)

Although the software still is in an early beta stage, it runs very stable and without errors, so far. There is a special campaign for this programm: registered users of the free version 1.xx can order thier personell keyfile at the prise of only 10DM (5EUR). But, this campaign only counts until 31 Jun 2000.

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25.Jun.2000
Oliver Gantert at ANF


Orbit 0.5
At my homepage there is version 0.5 of the 'Space Combat Simulator' Oribt for free download available, now. Additionally there is more information on Drake.

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23.Jun.2000
Scalos


Scalos goes "C"
LoadWB and the preferences.library was allready converted to "C" to make updating and fixing of bugs more easy. Sclaos shall be ported to "C" by and by. Since 560Kb of sourcecode has to be worked up porting may take a bit longer.

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23.Jun.2000
Ralph Torchia


Spitfire² V1.1
Spitfire is a Palm-Destop for the AmigaOS.

Download: Spitfire2.lha - ca. 700 Kb

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23.Jun.2000
Jean-Francois Fabre


JST v3.4d available
Who wants to make old games running on newer systems will appreciate JST, cause many programms will become playable again by little patches.

Download: jst.lha

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23.Jun.2000
Amiga Impact


Planning of World Of Commodore Amiga
For the winter season 2001 a combined Commodore/Amiga show (WOCA 2001) is planned. The show shall take place in western USA. Additonal informations will follow soon.

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23.Jun.2000
ATC


AmiTradeCenter website with new layout
The website of the neuw FTP client "AmiTradeCenter" comes with a new layout. This site is also available at http://amitradecenter.net/ from now on. Since the day before yesterday the authores of the programm are to meet at their own IRC channel: irc.uni-stuttgart.de, port: 6667, channel: #ACT

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23.Jun.2000
Rainer Benda via ANF


Closing down of the "Amiga shop"
Rainer Benda wrote:
The decision is made. As for the current stage of affairs 09/20/00 will be the last day of my active time with Amiga. After that day I will no longer offer Amiga articles. Discounts for the sellout I will negotiate individually. Please have a look at the website for current opening hours.

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23.Jun.2000
Met@box


Met@box News
At the titlelink Met@box answers a number of important queries about the AmiJoe project. Met@box stated that the AmiJoe project was not quit, even though there are romours telling this time and again. The developing department of Met@box, "CPU Upgrades", has other projects with higher priority. Additionally a serious bug turned up in the Memory/PCI Bridge Controller, which necessitates a redesign of the controller. Due to that the 68k emulation could not be creates as on schedule. They set clear too, that there will be G3 cards for Amiga1200 only, which will be finished at the end of this year or early next year, at the earliest.

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23.Jun.2000
Richard H. Poser via eMail


AmigAIM Beta V0.9372 released
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha

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23.Jun.2000
John Zacharias via eMail


AmiWest 2000 Press Release 5
Petro Tyschtschenko will be guest at the AmiWest 2000, which will take place from 29 July to 30 July 2000 in Sacramento, California:

From: John Zacharias jzachar@calweb.com
Subject: AmiWest 2000 Press Release 5
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:26:58 -0700 (PDT)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Petro Tyschtschenko to be at AmiWest 2000!

Petro Tyschtschenko, Managing Director, Amiga International, Inc., has
announced that he will be joining Bill McEwen, President of Amiga, Inc., in
attending AmiWest 2000.

AmiWest 2000 is the west coast all Amiga show which is being produced in
Sacramento, California, at the popular Holiday Inn, Sacramento NorthEast,
5321 Date Avenue Sacramento, CA 95841, on Saturday, July 29th and Sunday,
July 30th, 2000.  The Holiday Inn venue proved to be such a hit for last
year's show that we are again holding it there.

Show times are Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 10am-4pm.

Admission to the show is:

    $ 8 (One Day Pass if paid in advance by July 15, 2000)
    $ 10 (One Day Pass at the door)
    $ 12 (Full Show Pass if paid in advance by July 15, 2000)
    $ 15 (Full Show Pass at the door)

A buffet banquet will be held on Saturday evening, July 29th, with Bill
McEwen as the guest speaker discussing the progress made to date on the new
Amigas.  Banquet tickets must be purchased in advance and are $35 per
plate.  They will NOT be sold on Friday nor Saturday due to the hotel
needing attendance figures for planning the banquet.  Seating is limited
and tickets are available on a first come, first served basis.

A form for ordering tickets can be found on our web page at:

    http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

AmiWest is in it's third year and is the only all Amiga show produced on
the West Coast.  The show has proved very popular for Amiga enthusiasts in
the Western United States.

You will be able to purchase the recently announced Software Development
Kit (SDK) for the new Amigas at AmiWest 2000.  The SDK is being sold by
several of the exhibitors at the show.

Mr.  McEwen and the re-birth of the new Amigas were recently featured in an
article in the New York Times (June 22).

You can learn more about AmiWest 2000 by accessing our web page at:

    http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

This weekend event will again showcase the progress that IS the Amiga
Community.

John Zacharias, chairperson
AmiWest 2000
jzachar@calweb.com"
http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

     From: John Zacharias      Email: jzachar@calweb.com

                                 www: http://www.calweb.com/~jzachar/

     Charperson, AmiWest 2000    www: http://www.sacc.org/amiwest/

This message was composed and sent with AEMAIL
                                    (c) 1996, 2000 by John Zacharias


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23.Jun.2000
Christoph Kirsch via eMail


DataM II Beta released
At the homepage of the Amigaclub Steinfurt there is the first official beta release of the spread sheet software DataM II for download. DataM II, the new software project of Christoph Kirsch, the author of MUIVideo, is a spread sheet software which shall become embeded in a relational databank system. The main attention was focused on the user friendliness, and the printing function.

Download: DataM.lha - 592 Kb

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23.Jun.2000
Marco Frischkorn via eMail


Heise: Internet Surfing with the "Breadbox"
«Maurice Randall is developing an internet browser for the Commodore64 homecomputer. The C64, which was not manufactured since years, came in 1983 to the market and used 64KByte memory - a vast amount of memory for homecomputers in former times. The fist version of the C64 adopted the slightly roundish design of its precursor VC-20 and thus was also called "Breadbox". The second version, which turned up later, had got a more shallow case using the typical design of the 80th. There were more other designs, such as a portable variant with build-in coloured monitor.»

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22.Jun.2000
Innovative


New Buy- and Sell Exchange for VHI-cards and digital cameras
Due to many requests we have decided to open an exchange for selling and buying VHI-cards and digital cameras. It can be found on the VHI Studio homepage under Support. The VHI-forum can also be found there.

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22.Jun.2000
Patrick Beerhorst via email


EASys!-website now also available in English
Working on the english version of the EASys!homepage has been finished tonight. You can find information and features about the product there (as in the german version). In future you will be able to find servicepacks and addons there.
Of course you can order EASys! online from the homepage.

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22.Jun.2000
Harald Frank via email


Order of ISDN-surfer including VMCISDN in advance only available from VMC!
Harald Frank wrote:
As opposed to prior advertisements by Vesalia the new ISDN-card ISDN-Surfer is only available by order in advance from VMC. Owners or advance orderers of the VMCISDN-software/ISDN- Blaster will get a good upgrade offer from us.

If you are already offered this card by your dealer, that offer is unreliable. The first one to know when this product will be finished are we who develop its software and have produced every Amiga ISDN-card, from the ISDN-master-I/II to the ISDN-Blaster-Z2.

The reason that you can buy the card firstly only from VMC are the very high development costs for the software. In this time we are working day and night for new software updates of our products and some new great products. Priority has the VMCISDN-software that is used from Jens Schönfeld under licence for his ISDN-Surfer card.

In the next days we will celebrate the VMC-powerdays where we will present every day an update or a new product on our homepages.

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22.Jun.2000
Ralph Reuchlein at the ANF


New MUIbase version 1.5
Since the fair in Neuss, Germany, the version 1.5 of MUIbase is available. Due to minor problems with our website the "placing-in-the-net" of MUIBase was a little bit delayed. At the fair were Steffen Gutmann (author) and me (webmaster) present and felt well for the two days in the Amiga-community :-).
Download: MUIbase-1.5.lha.


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22.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News


AmiJoe for A4000 in the 3rd quarter
On Czech Amiga News you can find quote from Susan Elzingre (Met@box) about the JoeCard. It says that the card for the A4000 should be released at the end of the 3rd quarter. An expert is working on the finishing of this card.

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22.Jun.2000
Fun Time World


PPC-boards Poll Results
Fun Time World has started a poll about "Are you still interested in a PPC-board?" on their website. 636 Visitors have taken part in it with the following results:

210 Visitors own a PPC-board
30 are not interested in a PPC accelerator any more
180 are very interested in a PPC-board
90 are not quite sure
126 are waiting for the new Amiga instead

Now there is a poll "How many Games for the Amiga will you buy this year?".

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22.Jun.2000
Fun Time World


Experience reports about the Amiga SDK
Fun Time World has called to send in experience reports with the Amiga-SDK. The first one comes from Rüdiger Hanke (German).

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22.Jun.2000
Slawomir Milk via email


New polish printmagazin: Amiga Minus
For polish Amiga users ther is a new Amiga magazine available: Amiga Minus. Further information you will find under the titlelink.

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22.Jun.2000
Torsten Dudai


New cartoon: "At Mount Sinai"






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22.Jun.2000
Alfred Sturm


Aminet uploads
YAM21.lha            comm/mail  676K+MUI Internet mailer V2.1 (basic installa
YAM21con.lha         comm/mail  171K+MUI Internet mailer V2.1 (contributions)
YAM21cpu.lha         comm/mail  142K+MUI Internet mailer V2.1 (optimized for 
YAM21loc.lha         comm/mail  678K+MUI Internet mailer V2.1 (foreign langua
gegAIM.lha           comm/misc  110K+AOL Instant Messenger
Charon_Cze.lha       comm/net    19K+Czech localization for Charon v1.2
Charon_Pol.lha       comm/net    21K+Polish localization for Charon v1.2
Amster.lha           comm/tcp   428K+Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
HTMLdir1.2.lha       comm/www   129K+Recursively list content of a directory 
IBSearch.lha         comm/www     7K+V1.01 Search IBrowse cache hotlist GHist
WgetRexx.lha         comm/www    29K+Invoke Wget from WWW browser
cafe2000.lha         demo/aga    14K+Computer Art Festival 2000 demoparty. Of
Survive.lha          demo/ecs    89K+Demo by Boingmax
MWI-Overview02.lha   demo/slide 2.8M+"Overview #02" party slideshow by Madwiz
pl_selgad.lha        dev/e       19K+Select.gadget PLUGIN for NewGUI 
MCC_MonthNavi.lha    dev/mui    294K+MUI custom class V16.8
AaktInt0600.lha      docs/mags  288K+International infotainment magazine
AaktInt0600GFX.lha   docs/mags  253K+International infotainment magazine (gra
FrontalAssault.lha   game/2play 700K+"Excellent fun" - Amiga Format
Superdrive_dat.lha   game/2play 3.0M+Datas needed for SuperDrive.
Superdrive_exe.lha   game/2play 142K+A racing game, 4 human players possible 
F1GP_2000.lha        game/data   10K+2000 F1 season data for F1GP-Ed (19 June
gltron.lha           game/misc  1.0M+Amiga port of GLTron (PPC/040/060)
gltron_src.lha       game/misc  1.4M+GLTron source
Galactic.lha         game/patch  22K+HD-Installer for Galactic V1.0
InstallKit3_7.lha    game/patch 853K+The ultimate CD32 emulator/hd installer
PipeDream.lha        game/patch  20K+HD-Installer for Pipe Dream V1.0
CyberPiPView.lha     gfx/board   11K+Videolayer picture viewer (2.4)
PIV-MooVId.lha       gfx/board   89K+The Ultimate AVI/MOV player for PicassoI
AMP.lha              gfx/show   197K+MPEG1/2,MP2/3,AVI,QT/MOV,FLI/FLC,NSF pla
ShowGUI.lha          gfx/show   286K+Great pic viewer/browser/database! V.1.0
BetaScanMustek.lha   hard/drivr  62K+Mustek/trust Scanner Driver For BetaScan
ChipEm.lha           misc/emu    70K+Chip 8 v0.1  Emulator by Balrog Soft
1998_mods.lha        mods/blkha 2.1M+1998 Protracker mods by blakkhar
BubbleBath.mpg       mods/mpg   2.3M+Down beat psychedelic house with vocals
ShoreLeave.mpg       mods/mpg   2.6M+Electro-Tune created with MLine, pre-ver
mvp_0064.lha         mods/mvp   2.2M+MoPlayaz - darkness ep
mvp_0065.lha         mods/mvp   1.3M+MoPlayaz - badland ep
crs_neut.lha         mods/techn 1.4M+CRS00055: phase :: neutral
xm2med.lha           mus/misc    11K+Converts XM's to OctaMED modules
SpiderFX_Jump.lha    pix/3dani  3.6M+SpiderFX "JUMP" animation by EdUz
XavJapanIFF.lha      pix/art    509K+Xav Japanimation .IFF files
fom3p13.jpg          pix/trace  307K+Intergalactic Escort
fom3p14.jpg          pix/trace  320K+Intergalactic Escort
fom3p15.jpg          pix/trace  245K+A shuttle
fom3p16.jpg          pix/trace  362K+An ancient Martian face.
fombg03.jpg          pix/trace  400K+Colonial fleet (Battlestar Galactica)
Pris37.jpg           pix/trace  166K+Pris fish
SuperSansSerif.lha   text/bfont   4K+Light and clean ScreenText Amiga Font
eNote.lha            text/misc  159K+Electronical notebook
lexicon-multi.lha    text/misc  366K+Multi-Dictionary english2greek italian2g
BlazeWCP.lha         util/boot   27K+ULTRA FAST 32bit C2P patch for OS chunky
CPointer_v2.0.lha    util/boot    8K+Centres Mouse Pointer on Boot-up
FBlit.lha            util/boot  140K+V3.66a Use CPU in place of the blitter.
Ev.lha               util/cli    26K+Powerful expression evaluator - v1.3
redguy.lha           util/libs   48K+Support for some proggy's
QuickNote.lha        util/misc   29K+Notepad for scrap-notes (very handy)
RAWBInfo.lha         util/sys    84K+ReAction based icon information (1.15d)
TransPrefs17b.lha    util/sys    14K+Translator Prefs (German) 
DefIcons44.lha       util/wb     61K+DefIcons clone for os3.5 (44.5n)
rndwbpix.lha         util/wb     10K+Random wbpattern picture selector (39.6)

Update: (02.02.2015, 20:00, cg)

Added the uploads from the 19th of June, which were overseen during the database import:

DosControl60.lha     biz/demo   558K+DosControl V6.0 Demo (German only)
DC60_K_upd.lha       biz/patch   13K+DosControl Update from v6.0j to v6.0k
DC60_L_upd.lha       biz/patch   45K+DosControl Update from v6.0k to v6.0l
DC60_M_upd.lha       biz/patch   26K+DosControl Update from v6.0l to v6.0m
Citazioni.lha        comm/mail   12K+Frasi e citazioni per YAM 2.0
MLogBook.lha         comm/misc  376K+HAM Radio LogBook with CallBook (v0.20be
SimpleFTP.lha        comm/tcp   254K+SimpleFTP v2.54 - Powerful and easy to u
TView.lha            comm/tcp    74K+List TV-programs in Europe.
webnap.lha           comm/www    15K+PHP Napster Client, v0.4.1
wla_000_4.5.lha      dev/cross   56K+WLA - Game Boy Macro Assembler v4.5 (000
CatAmiNet01-37.lha   disk/cdrom 1.9M+CDCat Index Of AmiNet 01-37
DVD-RAM.lha          disk/misc   44K+DVD-RAM FFS/SFS DOS Drivers.
ripper11.lha         docs/mags  1.7M+Ripper Diskmag
Scenet33.lha         docs/misc  174K+SCENET - Sceners's internet database - #
SSMuiMine.lha        game/data    7K+Funny image set for MuiMine
WormWars.lha         game/misc  727K+WormWars 6.1: Advanced snake game
MahJong.lha          game/think 5.2M+Very nice Shanghai Clone
FujiControl.lha      gfx/misc    24K+Download pictures from Fuji Digital Came
netpbmsrc.lha        gfx/pbm    2.1M+NetPBM 9.4 source
netpbmwos.lha        gfx/pbm    6.3M+NetPBM 9.4 (PPC WarpOS)
atari800.lha         misc/emu    96K+V1.1 of the Atari 8-bit emulator
warpsnes.lha         misc/emu   544K+SNES Emulator for PowerPC (WarpUP) V5.0
Revolution.lha       misc/misc   14K+Convert French Revolution dates to grego
1997_mods.lha        mods/blkha 4.2M+1997 Protracker mods by blakkhar
1997_remixes.lha     mods/blkha 1.9M+1997 Protracker mods (remixes) by blakkh
TheMPegEncGUI.lha    mus/misc    71K+GUI 4 Ncode, MusicIn, Lame, BladeEnc, Pe
USS.lha              mus/misc     7K+MUI scope for use with playsid.library
tek_aos35.lha        pix/boot   305K+AmigaOS 35 - professional rainboot cfg
tek_pos35.jpg        pix/boot    29K+Preview of tek_aos35.lha archive
tek_pwb85.jpg        pix/boot    84K+Preview of tek_rwb85.lha archive
tek_rwb85.lha        pix/boot   839K+Workbench 85 - professional rainboot cfg
nsh-01.lha           pix/misc   1.4M+Not so heard mods volume 1
AlteEnterprise.jpg   pix/trace   54K+Enterprise-C and a Bird Of Prey
fom3p12.jpg          pix/trace  229K+Apartments on Mars
fomb518.jpg          pix/trace  250K+Duel: Starfury against Raider Fighter
fomel01.jpg          pix/trace  401K+Phace (Elite)
fomsw21.jpg          pix/trace  121K+Star Wars: Dagobah
NewArt.jpg           pix/trace   67K+Enterprise-E, for a Problem
MiniHex.lha          text/edit   21K+System-friendly little HexEditor
StemFont.lha         text/font    6K+A nice 12 point bitmap font for square p
ascii2jascii.lha     text/misc    9K+Converts ASCII to Japanese ASCII
Zoom.lha             util/app    54K+The "do everything" appicon (FREEWARE)
bzip2_src.lha        util/arc   497K+BZIP2 compressor 1.0.0 source
bzip2_wos.lha        util/arc   373K+BZIP2 compressor 1.0.0 (PPC WarpOS)
boards224.lha        util/libs   30K+Boards.library V 2.24 - 420 Expansion bo
mp3-2-html_22.lha    util/misc   31K+Converts MP3 directory to HTML.
RC5Control.lha       util/misc   11K+Automated RC5 client control (FREEWARE)
ReportPlus.lha       util/misc   50K+3.11: Multi-function developers' utility
updatelibs.lha       util/rexx    4K+Update your libs,devices(etc) from Amine
DRemind.lha          util/time  189K+Reminds you whenever you want.. v1.54a!


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22.Jun.2000
Steffen Jahn via email


"Der Clou" manual as guide with passwords
Steffen Jahn has converted the manual of "Der Clou" into a guidefile and build in the needed passwords. You can download the file via the titlelink.
Download: DerClouAnleitung.lha

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22.Jun.2000
Carsten Schröder via email


New York times: New Amiga will be released at the end of the year
+++ AMIGA-aktuell-SPECIAL +++
The statement in the New York Times says, that the first AmigaNG-computers will be available at the end of the year. The Computer with the name "Amiga One" is build under usage of available hardware components and will cost about 700 US-Dollar.

Further information are available in a detailed report under the URL http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/circuits/articles/22amig.html. To get to this link, you have to register for free.

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22.Jun.2000
Olaf Köbnik via email


Amiga Arena news
Special price event with Neptun
The Amiga Arena made it possible to present the horoscope- and astrolgy-program "Neptun" exclusivly for a special price! The special price is 15DM (normal price 30DM). Further information at Amiga Arena under "Aktion".

Special price II
Also it is possible to register for PureBasic and Boulderdäsh for a special price till the end of June.

Lottery
For the release of the Amiga Arena CD-ROM from APC&TCP Amiga Arena has arranged a lottery that will last till 09/07/00! You find this lottery at Amiga Arena under "cd version"!

Prizes
  • 1 CD Amiga Arena CD-Rom edition (APC&TCP)
  • 1 CD Foundation DC (Epic Marketing - Fair Cologne '99 version)
  • 1 CD Goal2000 (Alive Mediasoft)
  • 1 CD Eat the Whistle (Epic Marketing)
  • 1 CD Final Odessey (Vulcane Software)

The prices are sponsored by Amiga Arena! Special thanks go to Andreas Magerl of the APC&TCP for the Amiga Arena CD-ROM.

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22.Jun.2000
Kai Mache via email


Big Lottery for the - FUN OF COMPUTING NG -
The - FUN OF COMPUTING NG - will start next weekend and has to offer something for everybody! Besides to many news of the exhibitors there will be a big lottery with fantastic prices every day of this fair. Not only prices like joysticks, CDs or mouses are waiting for you. Other prices are:
  • 2 Amiga 1200
  • 1 BVision (gfx-board)
  • 1 Dreamcast
  • 1 MP3-player
  • 1 Paloma AV-module
  • SuSE-Linux
  • Linux-PPC
  • Heretic II
  • Candy Factory
  • Monzoom Pro
  • Amiga Writer 2
  • Art Effect 4
  • fxPaint
  • TurboPrint 7 ... and many more!

The winners will be presented daily from 15:00 h. Many thanks to the companies for the prices for this lottery. All sponsors are listed on the website of this event. Also the list of exhibitors is updated. Eternity can be found there, too. They will present "Tales of Tamar" and "EASys!" at the fair.This and many more of information you will find in the internet, if you follow the titlelink. We wish all of the visitors many interesting hours at the - FUN OF COMPUTING NG -!

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22.Jun.2000
Stefan Kost via email


SoundFX4.0 at the -FUN OF COMPUTING NG-
SoundFX4.0 will be presented at the Fun of computing.

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22.Jun.2000
Jan Andersen via email


Virus Help Denmark: new virus and new "Safe" update
A new linkvirus has been found, it is named "Motaba" at this time none of the big antivirus programs can find and remove this virus, But a new update if "Safe" has been released today (v13.5), and it can detect this new linkvirus. Here is some info about the new Safe:
Program: Safe v13.5
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 29.448 bytes
Release date: 21 June 2000
Programmer: Zbigniew `Zeeball` Trzcionkowski

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22.Jun.2000
Patrick Beerhorst at the ANF


MiniGlowIcons-set 2
As a supplement for all the GlowIcon updates on my server I present a package of 300 GlowIcons for OS3.5. Because of their size this icons can be used for startbars like DirOpus or Screentab. The icons have only a fourth of size than the original ones and are some new and many converted icons.

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22.Jun.2000
Jürgen Müller at the ANF


New mailinglist: A-Dream
I have founded a new mailing list at egroups for Amiga users. It is called A-Dream and should help get to know other users in person. You can talk about everything in this mailinglist. If you want to talk about something else than only Amiga, feel free to subscribe and be welcomed :-).

send mail: A-dream@egroups.de
subscribe: A-Dream-subscribe@egroups.de
unsubsscribe:A-Dream-unsubscribe@egroups.de Homepage: http://www.egroups.de/group/A-Dream

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20.Jun.2000
Richard Kapp on ANF


AMIGA Software in Vienna!
Austrian Amiga fans will be happy to hear that you can again buy Amiga software in Vienna, even while choice is still limited. The shop A&M in the Millenium City (subway station: Handelskai) already offers OS3.5, AmigaWriter, ArtEffect, and the games Tales from Heaven, Foundation DC, Games Classix (Collection) - and Simon the Sorcerer2, Foundation Mission Pack and Foundation Gold Pack will follow soon.

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20.Jun.2000
Pär Boberg by e-mail


Famous Amiga Uses
Pär Boberg again updated his list of Famous Amiga Uses. On this list, you can see which famous occassions, people, companies and movies employed / employ the Amiga.

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20.Jun.2000
Computer City


Computer City offers Amiga Developer Box
Netherland retailer Computer City offers an Amiga Developer Box based on an AMD K6/2 500 MHz. Further details at the title link.

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20.Jun.2000
Juergen A. Theiner via ANF


playamiga.de arranges a SWOS tournament
Within the scope of the Amiga Meeting 2000 playamiga.de arranges a Sensible World of Soccer Tournament. Interested people should visit the titlelink.

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20.Jun.2000
Alfred Faust via eMail


The Clou - list of passwords
The company Neo Software has recently released "The Clou". The game and the manual can be downloaded at the titlelink. Unfortunatly the password inquiry is not ready, yet. Alfred Faust was able to finde out some of the passwords using a HEX editor, and converted the Manual (German). amiga-news.de got permission from Mrs. Trofeit from Neo Software to post those passwords here. According to Neo Software after about two or three weeks there will be a complete list of the passwords released at www.clou2.de.
Here Alfred Faust's (still incomplete) list of
password for The_Clou! - AMIGA


s. r. w. password
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15 1  4  Workbench
19 1  2  Victoria
34 1  3
34 3  2
34 4  1
36 2  4  genug
38 2  4  Ausdauer
38 5  1
39 2  5  erster
39 4  1  Nerven
40 1  1  Elektronik
41 4  2  Zustand
42 2  6  Beschreibung
42 3  2
43 3  3  Polizeistation
44 1  3  Wachen
44 3  2  diese
46 2  3
46 3  3
47 2  6  Wagen
47 4  1
49 2  3
53 2  4
56 3  2
57 3  2
57 4  3
60 2  2
63 1  4
63 3  2


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20.Jun.2000
Sebastian Weimer on ANF


New JoeCard website from Met@box
The website presents itself in a new layout including Flash, but without new informations.

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20.Jun.2000
Milan Computer


Milan Computer looking for programmers and developers
Wanted:
  • About 30 programmers with knowledge in C/C++ (Assembler would be an advantage), to port several games and standard applications from the Amiga platform. Contact with the Amiga companies is established by us. As far as we know for know, payment will be a percentage of the sales.
  • Developers planning their move toward the Milan market, who want their software to be distributed professionally by companies.

If you are interested, contact:
Ali Goukassian
a.goukassian@milan-computer.de
Milan Computersystems
An der Holsatiamühle 1, D-24149 Kiel, Germany
Phone: +49 (431) 20 99 034
Fax: +49 (431) 20 99 035

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20.Jun.2000
D. Crawford by e-mail


UGN Times June issue released
Download: UGNT200006.lzx

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19.Jun.2000
Matthias Henze via ANF


stormamiga.lib for SAS
It took a long time but now it is official - the stormamiga.ib for the SAS/C Compiler is to come. Versions for MC68EC020+, MC68881+, MC68040+, and MC68060 are planed. Initial tests allready were very auspicious.

Please, send questions and comments on this issue to Matthias Henze..

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19.Jun.2000
Steven Flowers via eMail


Alive Mediasoft Press Release
Alive Mediasoft close down both the complete Amiga software and hardware area and intend to focus on the new printmagazin "The Pulse":

From: steven flowers steve@alive-mediasoft.co.uk
Amiga News <team@amiga-news.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:14:26 +0000
Subject: Alive

PRESS RELEASE -
Deutsche Übersetzung von Jens Petersen siehe unten

Alive Mediasoft 15th June 2000

As from today, the following changes are effective:

1. Alive mediasoft is closing it's Amiga retail company with no future plans
to sell software or hardware in the Amiga market.

2. Alive mediasoft will no longer publish games for the Amiga market either.
Current copyright ownerships are being discussed with individual developers
to arrange possible transfer of publishing rights so that the games can
continue to made available to the Amiga public via a third party if the
developer so wishes.  News about individual titles will be announced as we
have it.

3. Ongoing development of games like Elite 3 and Phantasmagoria are again
being worked out with the authors/owners so hopefully we can arrange
continuation of these exciting projects so they do not get dropped out of
sight.  We have had a phenomenal response about our ventures and give our
word to everyone who was anxiously waiting for the release of these games
that we are doing everything in our power to ensure that we find someone to
continue our work.

4. As issue 13 of The Pulse has only been out a few weeks, orders are still
pouring in and we'd like to assure everybody that we're not going anywhere
immediately as there's a lot of work to be done in fulfilling current
orders and pre-orders for our customers, and see that everyone including
customers and developers working for us on royalty basis are sorted
out prior to the final closure of the retail company.

Anyone with outstanding orders will receive their goods during the next
few weeks.  Any items out of stock or that were pre-orders for games due out
shortly will be contacted individually.

As there is obviously much work to be done
our phone lines are often busy or on answer machine.  We can
still be contacted as normal via post or email.

But the news is not all bad....

With the assistance from a third party,  Alive's flagship publication
THE PULSE is to be become it's own entity and be published as a fully
commercial magazine.
We have so many great things lined up for the future issues including the
games  we have exclusives on and the other Amiga companies involved
in backing The Pulse that I would love to ramble on about,
but I should tell you in detail in another mail.

A further press release will be issued separately by The Pulse very shortly
providing full details of the exciting plans lined up for the launch of
issue 14.

We would like to thank everyone who bought games from the Alive retail
company  for their support and dedication over the years, and
say to you not to worry as you're  not going to lose out on your games
chioce as we've secured some great deals within
the trade to ensure that you don't lose the variety we offered.  Watch this
space for details....


THANKYOU

Steven Flowers
Alive mediasoft.

TEL:    +44 (0)1623 467 579
Email: steve@alive-mediasoft.co.uk
http://www.alive-mediasoft.co.uk


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19.Jun.2000
AROS-ML


AROS Status Update
Again a another software was ported to AROS: the freetype.library (www.freetype.org), BGUI and SnoopDOS. The port of DOpus is getting more and more usefull, too. Many bugs of the gfx.HIDD have been fixed, and there is allready a version of the cybergraphx.library running. The first version of the x86 native IDE driver has been released. As the trackdisk.device exists now we can start porting the filesystem to AROS.

We are searching for someone to care for the Amiga version of BGUI. (As for BGUI, we would like someone who will keep it alive on Amiga (that is, make sure that our changes don't make BGUI unusable on the Amiga). If you want to help, please contact digulla@aros.org.

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19.Jun.2000
Carsten Schroeder via eMail


AMIGA aktuell international online
AMIGA aktuell International 06/00 is now online. In addition to the latest Amiga news, curent tests of software, and many more there is a workshop on building a network under AmigaOS and Linux included, too.

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19.Jun.2000
Schatztruhe


GlowIcon Collection II Preview
There is a free update for the GlowIcon Collection. It includes 200 new icons. This update features a preview of a possible second release of the GlowIcons Collection, too.

Download: GlowIcons_Update.lha - ca. 1 MB

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19.Jun.2000
Christian Herbst per eMail


#Miggy.De meeting
The +Miggy.De channel is paning a meeting on 07/15/00 in Bremerhaven. All chatters of that channel are hearty wellcome to the meeting! If someone not belonging to that channel wants to attend the meeting, please contact hansapils@businessnet.de

Registrations will be accepted until 07/01/00. Everybody registered will recieve a map describing your way starting from the point where you will leave the Autobahn.

Addition: You can find #miggy.de in the Arc-Net at de.arcnet.vapor.com or uk1.arcnet.vapor.com, as well as e us1.arcnet.vapor.com.

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19.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News


Amster V0.7
V0.7 of the napster client "Amster" for Amiga computer in now at Aminet for download. Napster is a Community for exchange of MP3 files using a special client which supports features like chatting, searching, download, announcement lists, etc.

Changes since V0.6:
  • Cannel list window
  • Hotlist
  • Improved messenger/chatter
  • More flexible transfer manager
  • Many bugfixes

Among other the Amiga version provides multithreaded downloads with the possibility to set priorities. The software need AmigaOS3.x, MUI 3.8+, and MCC_NList V19.97+.

Download: Amster.lha (428K), readme

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19.Jun.2000
Fun Time World<


PIV-MooVId V1.3
On 06/18/00 V1.3 of the video player "MooVId" was realeased. The player supports the Indeo-Codec from Intel inside the registered version.

Download:
PIV-MooVId.lha

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18.Jun.2000
Richard Kapp at ANF


New Picture viewer ShowGUI
On my website I now have thee first version of ShowGUI available for downloading. ShowGUI also supports external viewers, like MysticView, and Visage. ShowGUI is available at the titlelink and is freeware.

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18.Jun.2000
Amiga Inc.


Amiga Inc. and Software Hut reach agreement
Software Hut is now taking over the distribution of the AmigaSDK, Next Generation Amigas, and the Classic Amiga Products.

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18.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News


Impressions of Heretic II
Stefan Falke has published on Amiga Extreme his impressions of the Demo version of Heretic II. There are also 4 screengrabs of the game.

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18.Jun.2000
Czech Amiga News


Simple FTP 2.54
Rick Hodger has made on June, 16th version 2.54 of SimpleFTP available for download. It contains bugfixes and a few new features. More concerning that inside the file archive. SimpleFTP is a user-friendly FTP client that uses MUI for the GUI.

Download:
SimpleFTP V2.54 (LHA)
SimpleFTP V2.54 (LZX)
SimpleFTP Speed Graph

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18.Jun.2000
Amiga Inc.


Volker Mohrs "A1200" on Amiga.com
Volker Mohr not only upgraded his A1200, but also gave it a 10.4" TFT-LCD monitor and made his own aluminum case. He presented it in Neuss at the convention and now Amiga Inc. is featuring it.

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18.Jun.2000
Kai Mache via eMai


Only a few days until the - FUN OF COMPUTING NG -
Only a few days until the - FUN OF COMPUTING - begins in Ilmenau/ Thueringen, Germany. The Amiga Zentrum Thueringen invites all computer users to Ilmenau in Thueringen (June, 25-26th) to get infos concerning diverse platformas and operating systems.

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18.Jun.2000
Andreas Falkenhahn via eMail


CD32 Games Install Kit NG v3.7 available
Version 3.7NG of Install Kit is now available at the Airsoft Software website, since the one released yesterday contained a small bug. Many thanks to the users that reported the bug so quickly. There is also a HD patch for Guardian. The new version of the integrated subsystem Install 2001 can now also emulate Joypads (via Keyboard and Joystick). Also, a few new games are supported and older Installers were overworked. Version 3.6 is available for download.

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18.Jun.2000
Oliver Wagner via eMail


AmTelnet 2.4 published
AMTelnet II is an Internet Client to log into a remote computer via telnet and SSH Protocoll. New is the "Client Break" function that improves the interruption of commands that have a long output, such as LS -lR. The Text output has also been optimized.

Download: amtelnet_24.lzx

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