Yesterday the following sections were updated:

• Europe
• List of new links
• List of lost links
• History 2002

• New tooltype 'PICASSO96'.
  Use this tooltype if you have problem while displaying brush or text in zoom window. PfPaint will disable the cybergraphics command scalepixelarray_.
• Improve Palette requester and gradient effect when you are using Voodoo and picasso96.
• Fixed a nasty bug with picture <16 pixels.
• New arexx commands:
  • PP_Verbose 0 or 1 (will enable or disable security requester).
  • pp_group N° x y w h stat (will draw box on requester).
• Improve pp_GetLocale.
• Improve Bridge tool, more security, improve tvpaint host, new host tvpaint_layer (by PixelArt).
• Improve Opacity mapping.
• TVPaint's user request: Density mapping can be use as drawing effect.
• Improve Undo-Redo.
• Fix bug with undo and some effect.
• Update PerfectPaint.cd and PerfectPaint.ct.

Actually the C64 is past because it is much too small and too weak for the high demands of the Internet-epoch. Nevertheless some C64 still run on Internet.

Here is the address of a WWW-server (title link) which works with a C64. The only extension being added is an interface card with unbelievelable 38400 bps data transfer rate.

• 04.03.02 improved: Whizz (Flair Software) supports another version, trainer added
• 04.03.02 improved: Vixen / She-Fox (Martech Games) supports another version
• 04.03.02 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) supports another version, some fixes
• 04.03.02 improved: Battle Toads (Mindscape) supports another version
• 04.03.02 new: Archon 2: Adept (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD

It fixes a major bug so please do not use older versions. Also now you can disable the Undo function, on slower machines you will increase the speed.

Download: STRICQv2.lha
Please read the important installation hints.

Changes since last release:

1. Type-4 messages are now parsed and displayed.
2. The menu bar has now been added. The Prefs window no longer opens by default.
3. The Debug window still opens by default (I need it) but it can be closed and re-opened with the menu.
4. The status in all message packets is now sent to the GUI as well.
5. Requesting offline messages doesn't seem to be working.
6. The program no longer crashes Amithlon. I don't know why, but I'm happy.

petra.struck@online-club.de.

Due to the above mentioned problem we are not able to send our newsletter.

Still we do not know how long the repair will take.

The company Klaus Schallhorn Omnisearch proved that Google indicates so-called secure servers (ssl), too. Although they say that they do not. Meanwhile there are more then 3.8 million secure sites indicated by Google.

Even worse: Google announced that they are fully compliant to the robots.txt-standard but they definitly do not when indicating secure servers. The Google-spiders have already executed over 161,000 cgi-programs one or more times.

If you check the search results of corresponding requests you can find servers that forbid via the robots.txt access to the cgi-bin directory even under the top 10 results.

The features:

• High-quality icons in GlowIcon and NewIcon formats covering subjects such as applications, games, drawers, etc.
• GlowIcon style toolbars for some of the most popular programmes (YAM, AmigaWriter, Art-Effect, Directory Opus, IBrowse, Voyager and others).
• GlowIcon style skins for AmigaAmp and CoolCalc
• Workbench backdrops suitable for the GlowIcon look

Download: STRICQv2.lha
Please read the important installation hints.

Changes since last release:

1. Fixed a major error that involved a race condition in the IPC. A receiving task could actually check for data on the message port before that data actually arrived. The IPC now blocks until the message does arrive.
2. Fixed an error in that some messages would actually not be NULL terminated.
3. Now requests offline messages. If there are any, they won't be displayed! Hehehe...
4. I still need enforcer/cyberguard hits!!

• #188: Survival talk
• #189: Double as many stories at the same price
• #190: Mixed characters
• #191: Where are my 5 gnats?

Here is some info about the update:

Name: VirusZ III v0.97
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 50.208
Date : 2 March 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

News in VirusZ III v0.97:

• Fixed bugs in window calculation code that caused the resizeable windows (Vector Check, File Check) to look ugly or to not open up at all. Thanks to Crown/Cryptoburners, DMX, Paracels/Placebo, Jan Andersen and Mad Roger for the bug reports...
• Moved size-gadget in resizeable windows from the right border to the bottom border (looks much nicer and takes less space on small screens) and re-fixed width of these windows.
• Re-added support for ALL disk-based devices to Bootblock Lab on special request from Mikolaj Calusinski. Are you happy now? :-)
• Added disassembler mode to the Bootblock Lab. This should help experienced users/programmers to analyse unknown bootblocks. Note: This feature requires 'disassembler.library' v40.x by Thomas Richter, you'll find it in Aminet...
• Made Bootblock Lab window resizeable as the disassembler output becomes quite big sometimes.
• Changed the file format for saving window positions. Sorry, but if you already had arranged your windows individually, you will have to position them all again and save the prefs afterwards.
• Started adding Sector Check (at least the device selector, the real check is not implemented yet, sorry for that :-(
• Added recognition for mmu.library patches to Vector Check and fixed some smaller problems.
• Finally wrote at least a short documentation for VirusZ III.

• Optimize File Check (output is much too slow, checking archives cannot be canceled at the moment).
• Add a fully working Sector Check.
• Add new features to Vector Check (eg. a brain for known ROMTags, a snapshot function for unknown patches [you can send me those snapshots and I add them to the brain]).
• Add disassembler mode to Memory Monitor.
• Add useful commands to ARexx port.

Furthermore has a new forum been installed. There's a poll in the Amiblitz area regarding this topic. The forum can be used as a place to go for Amiblitz programmers and for people who want to become programmers.

Further planned contents of the section:

• Complete users and reference manual in German.
• Tutorials and courses.
• An own distribution.
• Example source codes and much more.

Planned are extensions regarding the subject software troubles and of course for AmigaXL/QNX. The next thing I'll do is translating the review to English.

Required is much time as a game can take several hours and besides that one hould already know the game a little (or the old Civilisation game) as it is right complex.

The played version is 1.11.x as the 1.12.x for Amiga has too many bugs.

Downloadlinks:
Amiga: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/amiga/freeciv-1.11.0.lzx
PC: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/windows/old/freeciv-1.11.4-win.zip

• 28.02.02 fixed: Emmanuelle (TomaHawk) access fault removed
• 28.02.02 new: Phalanx (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 28.02.02 new: Campaign (Empire) done by Bored Seal
• 28.02.02 new: Railroad Tycoon (Microprose) done by JOTD
• 27.02.02 new: Karate King (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 27.02.02 improved: City Defence (KingSoft) supports another version
• 26.02.02 new: Vixen (Martech Games) done by Psygore
• 26.02.02 improved: Venom Wing (Thalamus/SoftEyes) some blitter delays added
• 26.02.02 new: Theatre Of Death (Psygnosis/Shed Software) done by CFOU!
• 26.02.02 new: Space Harrier (Elite) done by Psygore

Especially for "text processing" the Amiga is not up-to-date, any more. The Amiga Arena talked to Volker Grabbe, who established the "OpenOffice" project and set himself the target to put an end to this nuisance with the open source variant of Sun's "StarOffice 6".

This interview is available in English, too.

Because Volker Grabbe cannot implement such project on his own, he raised a little team and still relies on help from the Amiga community. Everybody wanting to participate in this project, please contact Volker Grabbe for more information.

If MusicCity will allow other Gnutella clients, there would be a better chance again for the Amiga to get MP3s and video files, than it is currently possible with Amster (with the navigator).

First there will be little but useful tools released. The DynDNS client ´AmiDynDNS´ was the first one and is available in version 0.9 at the download section. More sophisticated applications are scheduled.