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09.Jan.2002
Thomas Unger (E-Mail)


The Kickstart Archives V1.3
With permission of Alex Lupták, Gregory Donner and Ian Chapman you can now also browse through the newest versions of hardware reference Lex Site (ca. 80 MB), the Workbench Nostalgia and the Big Book of Amiga Hardware (ca. 90 MB) offline. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2002
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets (until 09.01.2002) (Update)
With WHDLoad you can install games on your harddrive which were originally made for use with disks. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 09.01.02 new: War In Middle Earth (Melbourne House/Synergistic) done by CFOU!
  • 09.01.02 new: Robin Hood: Legend Quest (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
  • 09.01.02 new: Kwik Snax (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
  • 09.01.02 new: Kwasimodo (Courbois Software) done by CFOU!
  • 09.01.02 improved: Invest (Starbyte) supports another version
  • 09.01.02 new: Fantastic Dizzy (Codemasters/Purple Haze) done by Bored Seal & Abaddon
  • 09.01.02 new: Carnage (Zeppelin Games/Warped Minds) done by Bored Seal
  • 08.01.02 new: Transartica (Silmarils) done by CFOU!
  • 08.01.02 new: Conan the Cimmerian (Synergistic/Virgin) done by CFOU!
  • 08.01.02 new: Bobo (Infogrames) done by CFOU! (Info)
  • 07.01.02 new: Wacky Races (PAL Developments/Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
  • 06.01.02 new: Yogi Bear and Friends in The Greed Monster (Hi-Tec) done by Codetapper
  • 06.01.02 improved: Pinball Dreams (Digital Illusions) supports two more versions
  • 06.01.02 fixed: Horror Zombies from the Crypt access fault removed
  • 06.01.02 new: Double Dragon 2 - The Revenge (Virgin) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2002
Patrick Beerhorst (ANF)


A.D.A. Demoarchive with new design and more functions
During the last days the layout of A.D.A. (Amiga Demo Archive) site has been substantially improved and the database has been changed. Besides this you can now find a search option which e.g. allows you to discover which graphic artist has created demos. Wouter who is the administrator of the database will upload several updates in the next days add reviews and further information to each demo. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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09.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian


Elbox: Mediator UP2.8
The MediatorUP 2.8 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users has been made available today. The update includes the latest versions of the driver for Voodoo card family:

- Voodoo.card ver. 2.11

The new driver release eliminates background graphics errors, which could appear in certain specific situations with the previous version. (ps)

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09.Jan.2002
Darek Dulian (E-Mail)


Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD 1.11
The MM CD 1.11 update for Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 1200 and Mediator PCI ZIV users, who are registered owners of the Mediator Multimedia CD, has also been released by ELBOX Computer. more ... (ps)

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09.Jan.2002
Sven Ottemann (ANF)


VideoCD: VCDImager version 0.7.12
Under the title link you can download the newest version 0.7.12 of VCDImager. VCDImager is a program for creating VideoCD-images. There are versions for 68020+ and WarpOS. more ... (ps) (Translation: dr)

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08.Jan.2002
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: AmiFIG 3.1 full version
With permission of Andreas Schmidt the registered version of AmiFIG is available at Amiga Arena. AmiFIG is a universal vector drawing program based upon the UNIX program Xfig of Supoj Sutanthavibul and other known ones. This version is nearly compatible to Xfig 3.1. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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08.Jan.2002
EnuZone.net (ANF)


New Amiga CD32 Emulator for Windows - Project32
A beta version (1.0) of the first non commercial CD32 emulator Project32 had been released on 22.12.01 - barely noticed by public - and supports about 20 games of the CD32. The author promises a new version in the next fortnight, that fixes some problems with Windows2000 and offers an english localization. The homepage demonstrates the features and abilities of the emulator with screenshots from Gunship 2000, Dark Seed and James Pond 2. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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08.Jan.2002
Harald Frank (ANF)


Amithlon-Tester for TV-card software needed
Harald Frank writes:
Michael Ulbrich is looking for testers for his Amithlon TV-card software. More information about the neede equipment you will find here. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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08.Jan.2002
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


AmigaOS XL: Revised compatibility list and new addendum
The addendum "Using PC floppy disks with Amithlon" describes the usage of PC floppy disks to transfer data from the Amiga to Amithlon. more ... (ps)

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08.Jan.2002
SixK


Webserver: Amiga Apache 1.3.20 + PHP 4.1.1
On the 'SixK Port Page' is the version V1.3.20 (incl. PHP V4.0.5) of this webserver for AmigaOS (version for 68040) to use with the official Amiga Apache archive available.

Download: apache1320_php411_040.lzx (ps)

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08.Jan.2002
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)


Elbox: VHI Studio - Mediator drivers
Elbox Computer is happy to announce availability of new drivers for the Mediator busboard. more ... (ps)

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08.Jan.2002
Helmut Hoffmann (ANF)


PhotoAlbum V6.6 und CyberShow V9.5a
Helmut Hoffmannrites:
After a longer break I have released new versions of my shareware programs "PhotoAlbum" and "CyberShow". The most important new features in both programs (PhotoAlbum 6.6 und CyberShow 9.5a) are functions to rotate pictures +/- 90° or 180°. For users of a Sony-CyberShot digital camera an automatical rotation detection is integrated. more ... (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Jan.2002
Cj-Stroker (ANF)


News on Amiforce
On Amiforce you can find:
  • At the download area you can find an Euro calculator and the gag program Speaker.
  • The dynAMIte.styles Alienoid and PacMan are updated.
The poll about Blitzbasic/Amiblitz is still running. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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07.Jan.2002
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


H&P: Freespace: at last available
Haage&Partner wrote:
At last we get the official permission to ship 'Freespace'. The advance orders are allready shipped.

Freespace was proted by Hyperion Entertainment and is surely the best the space-battle-simulation that was ever available for the Amiga. It offers a unique mixture of phantastic graphics, complex plot and an outstanding gameplay. more ... (ps) (Translation: sk)

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07.Jan.2002
Marcel Rohles (ANF)


Downloadmanager: Charon V1.98
Well, believe it or not, it's been released. Available from my homepage or from Aminet in a couple of days. more ... (ps)

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07.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Individual Computers: Old links re-activated, VarIO online manual
While analyzing our webserver-statistics, we have seen that there are a couple of hundred accesses to pages that have been renamed with the re-launch of the site in May 2000. These accesses are now re-directed to the corresponding URLs of the new site. more ... (ps)

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07.Jan.2002
SOL-Invictus (ANF)


Matay: New homepage
Matay, producer of the well-known PCI-bridge "Prometheus" from Poland, relaunched theire homepage with a new design. A new and easy to use navigationbar lets you faster find the information you are looking for. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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06.Jan.2002
Vapor


Library: vapor_toolkit V15.13
Version 15.13 of the "vapor_toolkit.library" was released for AmigaOS and MorphOS. This library offers support functions used by most Vapor applications to reduce code size. The library's functions include the procedure of registration and watching for new versions at vapor.com. Changes in this version: more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Virus Help Denmark


Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.7, Integrity V1.2
Version 17.1 of the virus detector "Safe" by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski was released. "Safe" recognizes viruses in memory and removes them if possible. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN


Unix: NetBSD-Port for Pegasos suggested
At the "Suggested Ports" section of the open source unix system "NetBSD" a NetBSD port for the Pegasos PPC system (bplan) is listed. Who is interested in such port might contact Allen Briggs (briggs@netbsd.org). (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN


FAQ Amiga Francophone
The current version of the "FAQ Amiga Francophone" is available under the title link. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN


Audio: Ogg Vorbis-Libraries for AmigaOS
On the Da SixK Port Page quick done ports of the libOgg and libVorbis were released. The Ogg Vorbis format is an open source audio format being an alternative for MP3. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)


Magazine: CD32 Outside No.4 released
The CD32 Outside No.4, German CD32 magazine, is available for free download. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN


Amiga: NDK V3.9 released
Since Friday the update of the native developer kit on AmigaOS 3.9 is available for download at the AmigaOS 3.9 area of amiga.com. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


USB: Poll about SUBWAY / HIGHWAY started
During preperations for the first line of SUBWAY or HIGHWAY cards unfortunately we happend to have some delays. We cannot fix delivery problems on the semiconductor market, but we would like to take the resulting delay to match our product with users' wishes, again. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Ingo Schmitz (amiga-forum.de) (ANF)


Amiga-Emulator: Sources of UAE 0.8.12 (WarpOS)
Ingo Schmitz of amiga-forum.de writes:
From today we are offering the specific source codes of UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS in addition to the binaries. But remember that you will need the original source codes of UAE, too. More information can be found under the title link. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future


Comic: Sabrina Online.de with Strips 181-184
The German issue of Eric W. Schartz's comic series "Sabrina Online" was updated. The following was added: more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Amiga Future


Magazine: Starmag stopped
The German disk and online magazine "Starmag" was stopped on 5. January 2002. The website is reading the following note: more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
ANN


Amiga-Emulator: Amithlon explained by Bernie Meyer
In August 2001 Bernd Meyer has visited the Amiga User Group in Australia and performed the third official presentation of the Amiga emulator "Amithlon" there (the first one was done in St. Louis (Bill McEwen), the second one with MAUG). He described the basics of the linux mini kernel and how AmigaOS was put on top. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)


amigapage.de: Amiga-History 2001
Marcus Neervoort has completed the Amiga-History of 2001 on his website. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future: Interview with Markus Pohlmann about "Projekt Crashite"
"Projek Crashsite" is about a science fiction role game in which the player takes the part of some kind of police force in a colonialized solar system. Beside of Markus Pohlmann there are Daniel Hartlehnert (graphic rendering), Denis Comtesse (music), and Fredrike Schmitt (character drawing) working on development. more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Kultpower (ANF)


Kultpower.de: Amiga-Magazin with Covers and more
There are additonal cover scans and editorials of the German print magazine Amiga-Magazin online at Kultpower.de. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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06.Jan.2002
Carsten Schröder (ANF)


Magazin: AMIGA aktuell 01/2002 published
Carsten Schröder writes:
The (German) January issue of the AMIGA aktuell magazine contains among other things:
  • test report about the new version 6 of the route planner AmiATLAS
  • test of the »Earth 2140 Mission Pack«
  • review of the facturing software MT-Rechnung III
  • background article about memory protection and virtual memory
  • second part of the C++ workshop
more ... (sd) (Translation: mj)

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05.Jan.2002
PCTip


PCTip: new Amiga computers - a myth on the way to its comeback?
Christian Bütikofer wrote in his (German) article extensively about the Amiga scene. »They still exist, the Amiga users. And soon they could start to become some more again. If all goes as planned, the Amiga, next to Atari THE cult home computer of the 80's and 90's, will celebrate a resurrection in the new year!«
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena


Amiga Arena: interview with Jürgen Reinert (TTime Deluxe)
With the version 3.19 the phone costs counter software "TTime-Deluxe" became freeware. Amiga Arena talked to Jürgen Reinert about the new version of "TTime-Deluxe" as well as about the future of the program "Dragon Tools" and about the features he likes most on the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Amig@lien (ANF)


Free-lance worker for Payback update CD wanted
Amig@lien has got the permission for a Payback update CD. Now we are looking for some map designers who'd like to invest some time. Interested people may mail to payback@amigalien.de. Thank you.

Ricco Clemens
Responsible at Amig@lien (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Nico Barbat (email)


barbat media and falkemedia: employees wanted
For several commercial and non-commercial projects are barbat media and falkemedia at the moment looking for the following staff:
  • Translator English - German
    - full time job with fixed salary
    - very good English and German knowledge
    - good knowledge of EDP and of the general games market
  • Editors
    - full time job or as free lance
    - very good knowledge of the games and /or Amiga area
    - good knowledge of language
  • Web designer
    - work on a voluntary basis on a new project in the demo scene area
For further information or if interested please contact directly Nico Barbat.

barbat media - AMIGAplus (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Heise newsticker


Heise: study is said to deliver ammunition against Linux
In the magazine The Register has an internal email of the Microsoft vice president Brian Valentine been released that caused a fuss as the mail reveals that the marketing strategy of Microsoft are obviously directed against Open Source.
Heise article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Kilian Servais (ANF)


NoCover issue 94 released
Kilian Servais wrote:
Today has issue 94 of the freeware magazine NoCover been released. This is available via Aminet (docs/mags), ACP&TCP homepage or via email from me. A free email subscription is possible any time. We're always pleased about feedback etc. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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05.Jan.2002
Dirk Stöcker (ANF)


XAD-System Version 11
After a long time again a new release of archive extractor system XAD. This system supports 93 filearchive, diskarchive and filesystem formats nowadays (LZX, LhA, DMS, CAB, Zip, Rar, Ace, Arj, Wrapster, HA, ADF, ...). The most important new formats may be StuffIt, MacBinary, BinHex, C64 filesystems and the SmartFileSystem. Thanks a lot to my three most active supporters. XAD is still (relatively cheap) shareware. And there is still a special price for OS 3.9 users wanting to update. (ps)

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05.Jan.2002
ANN


Payback Update 7 Released & Apex Website Redesigned
Apex Designs have released Payback Update 7. Amongst other things, the new update fixes several bugs and improves the appearance of the water when running under hardware acceleration. The 680x0 version is also significantly faster. more ... (ps)

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04.Jan.2002
WHDLoad


Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 03.01.2002)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 03.01.02 new: Terry's Big Adventure (Grandslam) done by Codetapper & Galahad
  • 03.01.02 new: Puffy's Saga (UBI-Soft) done by Codetapper
  • 03.01.02 new: WWF Wrestlemania (Ocean) done by Codetapper
  • 03.01.02 improved: Skweek (Loriciel) trainer added
  • 03.01.02 new: Round the Bend (Zeppelin) done by Bored Seal
  • 03.01.02 fixed: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) access fault removed
  • 03.01.02 improved: Panza Kickboxing (Loriciel/Futura) supports another version, fastmem support
  • 03.01.02 new: Off Shore Warrior (Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 03.01.02 new: Ninja Spirit (Mediagenic) done by CFOU! & JOTD
  • 03.01.02 new: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel) done by Abaddon
  • 03.01.02 new: Monty Pythons Flying Circus (Core Design/Virgin) done by CFOU!
  • 03.01.02 improved: Mega Phoenix (Dinamic) supports another version, trainer added
  • 03.01.02 new: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
  • 03.01.02 new: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) done by Abaddon & CFOU!
  • 03.01.02 new: Horror Zombies from the Crypt () done by Abaddon
  • 03.01.02 new: Hellraider (Atari) done by Bored Seal
(ps)

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04.Jan.2002
Stiftung Warentest


Stiftung Warentest: Computer monitors: Flat, good, expensive
»Flat screen or ordinary monitor? Modern flat screens mostly are better. The tested TFT displays provide pin sharp pictures. They are compact, eye friendly and save energy. Disadvantage: Flat screens are expensive. Price starts at 445 Euro. A good ordinary monitor can be obtained for a price of 255 Euro, already. «
Complete article (German) see title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Jan.2002
SPIEGEL online


SPIEGEL: Tops and flops of the year
In his article Jochen A. Siegle describes the tops and flops of the year 2001. Listed as a flop is Windows XP by Microsoft while the new website Wayback Machine, which allows a journey through time to websites from the beginning of the internet is highlighted as website of the year.
German SPIEGEL article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Dennis Lohr (e-mail)


Psyria: Defender of the Crown title song for mobile phones
Dennis Lohr of Psyria has received the permission of Jim Cuomo to convert the title song of Defender of the Crown for mobile phones. Everyone with a phone with note editor can now enter the melody of Defender of the Crown: more ... (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News


Golem: Gigabyte counts on ATI graphics chips - NVidia is out
»Graphics cards with Rage 128 Pro, Radeon 7000E and Radeon 7500LE announced
The Taiwanese hardware manufacturer Gigabyte has removed his graphics cards with NVidia chips - among them a GeForce2 Ti 200 and GeForce3 Ti 500 - from their program in favor of graphics cards with ATIs Radeon graphics chips of the 7000 series.«
Full German article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Heise [Newsticker]


Heise: Expensive free domains
Who has registered a free second level domain of Trinidad and Tobago (for example www.amiga-news.de.tt) at TopNic should read their terms and conditions more closely. According to them, in case of inactivity of 40 days a deactivation fee applies. If your domain generates no traffic over a course of 40 consecutive days, a deactivation fee of Euro 29,-- has to be paid immediately."
Heise article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Freedom For Links


FFL: Tim Berners-Lee: What is a link?
»Tim Berners-Lee is regarded as the inventor of the World Wide Web. 1990 he developed hyperlinks at the Swiss core research establishment CERN in Geneva hyperlinks - fast connections between a variety of documents. He wrote the first WWW client (a browser editor under NeXtStep) and the first WWW server in connection with the communication software which defined URLs, HTTP and HTML defined.«
Read at the title link his thoughts on the nature of hyperlinks. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Ralph Debusmann


Music player: EasyPlayer version 1.12
Version 1.12 of the music player EasyPlayer (EYP) has been released. With this program Ralph Debusmann offers a user-friendly graphical interface for shell-based programs such as mpega, GMPlay or SIDPlay. The program is universally usable for all shell-based music player software. more ... (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
dynAMIte


Game: dynAMIte SouthPark style improved
Oliver Tacke has improved his SouthPark style for the network game dynAMIte, a Bomberman clone, and made it available for download in the area "styl'o'rama". (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Simon Neumann (ANF)


Amiga Speed with new tests
New speed tests have been added to the Amiga Speed. For the first time there are tests with an A4000 equipped with a G-Rex PCI card and a Voodoo3. So have a look at the items Heretic2, Q***e and Voodoo3 (2D GFX). (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Jens Schönfeld (e-mail)


Individual Computers: website partly updated
Besides a new price list and payment conditions for customers from foreign countries there have been some cosmetical changes in the product descriptions (especially VarIO). (ps) (Translation: rh)

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04.Jan.2002
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future issue #34 released
Issue #34 of the German print magazine Amiga Future is shipping. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Dreamolers-CAPS


Tool: ReqAttack Version 1.96
This tool by Georg Steger to pretify system requesters is being further developed by Jaca/Dreamoler-Caps and is available in version 1.96 under the title link. This version comes with optimized code and a newly integrated PatchControl replacing CyReg. Furthermore images for nlisttree in RAPrefsMUI were added and a version for 68040 processors was compiled. more ... (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
ANN


Kerneltrap: Interview with Matthew Dillon
You can read an interesting interview with Matthew Dillon at Kerneltrap. He has programmed a lot for FreeBSD an is very well known by the Amiga scene from his C compiler 'Dice'. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)


Instant-Messenger: StrICQ Version 0.2106
new:
  • Released at The Party 2001 (MAJOR feature!)
  • Fixed the no expire ignore impossible bug.
  • Flowers are now selectable in the options-window
  • (Hopefully) removed the possibility to exploit NList etc by sending escape-codes in messages, no definet promises though.
(ps)

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03.Jan.2002
Golem - IT News


Golem: Foundation planned to revive the Atari/TOS software market
»xTOS-Team is about to establish "Atari/TOS Software Foundation" more ... (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Paul J. Beel (ANF)


Pagan Games Interviewed by GetBoinged!
Pagan Games was kind enough to take time from their busy schedule to be interviewed by GetBoinged! Go to title link to check out the interview! (ps)

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03.Jan.2002
Amiga Future


Amiga Future: Poll about the Amiga's future
On the Amiga Future homepage a poll was started about: "Where do you see the Amiga's future?". The results of the poll about the Amiga 2001 show were published. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Amiga Arena


Amiga Arena: Interview with Stefan Kleinheinrich (AmiDraw)
With "AmiDraw" a new 2D vector basing GFX program is being developed by Stefan Kleinheinrich. The software currently is at beta stage. The Amiga Arena talked to Stefan Kleinheinrich about the future of "AmiDraw" and more. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Jan.2002
Ingo Schmitz (amiga-forum.de) (ANF)


UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS
With permission of Sam Jordan we are now offering UAE 0.8.12 for WarpOS for download. An archive containing the source codes will follow later on. more ... (ps) (Translation: mj)

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