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Archive 05/2000

`15.May.2000` Martin Sahlén by e-mail	USA AAA Awards results For Immediate Release Permission Granted To Redistribute Without Alteration Contact: Martin Sahlén - director@aaa-awards.org, +46-8-673 73 23 - Director, The AAA Awards Bob Scharp - bscharp@icon-stl.net - Amiga 2k organizer Stockholm, Sweden - Sunday, May 14, 2000. The 1999 USA AAA Awards were presented at the Amiga 2k show in St. Louis, April 1-2 2000. The first USA AAA Awards went to Kermit Woodall (Community) and SoftLogik Publishing (Product). Please accept our sincere apologies for this late announcement. We hope to provide you with photo coverage of the event soon, available at www.aaa-awards.org/winners/1999.php. The Community award The AAA Award USA - Community 1999 went to Kermit Woodall of Nova Design. He was selected the greatest 1999 US Amiga personality by the US Amiga community in the public voting. The motivation given was: "For being an inspiration to the US Amiga community, with never failing commitment, by attending shows, involvement in initiatives such as ICOA and the AAC, and always giving appreciated support to the community and dealers." The Product Award This year also marked the launching of the first Product awards. The AAA Award USA - Product 1999 went to SoftLogik Publishing, represented by owner Deron Kazmaier. Their DTP package PageStream 4 was selected the best US Amiga product! The exact motivation given by the jury was: "Best product released for the Amiga, and certainly the best publishing package available in it's price performance class. SoftLogik has been a rock in the Amiga community, developing good products like PageStream for many years. It is without doubt that Amiga would not be able to hold even the position it does today, without products like PageStream 4." Still to come... ...is the AAA Award International, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom! Please check our homepage www.aaa-awards.org for up-to-date information on where & when. Acknowledgements The AAA Awards are organized by ACG's AAA Awards Committee in co-operation with AMIGA, Amiga-St. Louis, AmigaSOC, Amiga Users Club of Spain, Cloanto and Gateway Amiga Club. The AAA Awards are copyright © 1997-2000 Amiga Computer Group. The AAA Awards logo is copyright © 1997 Amiga Computer Group and Björn Hagström. [News message: 15. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.May.2000` Andreas Wendorf by e-mail	Pictures from the MekkaSymposium 2000 On our special site at the title link you will find a collection of pictures we made on the MekkaSymposium 2000 Demo Szene Party in Fallinbostel. Have a look! [News message: 15. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.May.2000` amiga-news.de	Bug in HomeLand demo - new version available Version 2.0 of the HomeLand demo contained a bug resulting in a wrong path. If you have troubles with the demo, you should download the bugfixed version. Download: HomeLand.lzx - 942 Kb [News message: 15. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.May.2000` Norman Thiel on ANF	Asimware with new website The great AsimCDFS seems to be gone! Asimware recreated their homepage, and there is nothing to be seen of AMIGA products! Only HotBurn! We asked Asimware about it, and yesterday recieved this answer from Richard Giannini: "We will have the downloads for AsimCDFS and MasterISo return shortly. The download code has to be rewritten to fit the new web site structure. I apologize for the confusion." [News message: 15. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.May.2000` Olaf Köbnik by e-mail	Amiga Arena News Amiga Arena CD-ROM News: The concept of Amiga Arena will be available on CD-ROM for the first time! The "Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition" contains an unique and comprehensive collection of homepages and their software! Special prices, full and SE versions and comprehensive homepage data released for the first time on CD! (Workshops, tutorials, plug-ins etc.). More details on the CD's contents will follow! Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition: The Amiga Arena CD-ROM Edition will be distributed by APC&TCP, and being presented to the public at the Amiga show in Neuss (June 10th/11th)! Survey: Since the feedback on the loss of the mailing list was less than low, there is a very small survey on Amiga Arena! Every submission encourages and supports the Amiga Arena service! [News message: 15. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`15.May.2000` Norbert Roth by e-mail	Tiny-GhostScript-Manager version 1.09 released The Tiny-GhostScript-Manager is available from my homepage in version v1.09, enabling to view and print GhostScript files comfortably from file managers (e.g. RO). Download: Follow the title link, in the bottom area there are the download links. Due to provider setup, direct links are not possible. [News message: 15. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` CD32 Allianz	CD32 Alliance News Who knows his stuff with CDXL? Since our next issue of the CD³² Outside CD³² Alliance is all around "CDXL", we are looking for users who know this animation format, perhaps even created their own animations for it or converted other animation formats like MPEG, AVI, Quicktime or Anim into a CDXL animation. We would be happy if some users would contact us on this. [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` Andreas Hippauf by e-mail	LightForce v0.8d availble Just a short note from the strange-worlds team: A new demo of LightForce is available (v0.8d of May 14th). This time with the long-awaited radar (press "3" to set range!), a graphical speed-meter and an integrated message system. And with sound support via AHI!!! So don't hesitate and download (title link)! Please send us a short note how the sound works for you. [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` Amiga Flame	Exodus under license Aside from Alien Nations, Titan Computer also licensed the realtime strategy game Exodus. This game is being developed exclusively for Amiga. The demo version is 5.93 MB (packed). [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` Czech Amiga News	clickBOOM: S-files #4 The adventure Nightlong, which spans 3 CDs, is going into final testing stage. At clickBOOM it was already successfully played under AmigaOS 3.5. The CDs contain the animation sequences in low and high resolution. The high one is for PPC and 060 systems, the small one for 040 and 030 Amigas. The Amiga port of the game classic "Z" by the Bitmap Brothers is 50% ready. The port is very difficult, since Z is written in Assembler, but the most difficult part is done. [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` Czech Amiga News	akDatatypes Updates On May 13th, Andreas Kleinert has released new versions of the following akDatatypes: akJFIF v44.79 68k/PPC (2000-5-13), akPNG v44.79 68k/PPC (2000-5-13), akTIFF v44.79 (2000-5-13), akNAIL v44.11 68k (2000-5-13). The 68k-, PPC- and WOS-versions can now be downloaded from the title link. [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` Stan Beck on ANF	New version of BlackUnZipGui released New: Info window showing what has been archived in a zip file password masking disabling the CLI output window German and English catalogs some bugs removed Download: BlackUnZipGui.lha [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` Alexander Kurtz on ANF	AminetGUI now with AULA (Aminet UpLoad Archive) The Aminet-GUI has a new feature! Starting immediately is AULA (Aminet UpLoad Archive). This is an archive containing the weekly upload lists. They can be sorted by date or directory. As a special service, I will also offer the so-called Top Aminet Uploads. These are uploads I described briefly. They can also be found on the AmigaFuture homepage, since I create them on their behalf. [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` amigagames.com on ANF	New OS 3.5 game icons released More than 100 new game icons for OS 3.5 have been released on GameIcons.info. The collection now includes almost 400 game icons. [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`14.May.2000` Markus Fellhauer on ANF	Amster version 0.6 released The Amiga Napster client "Amster"> is now available for Aminet download as version 0.6. Napster is a community for trading MP3 files using a special client featuring chat, search, download, announcement lists etc. The Amiga version offers multithread downloads with priority options, and more. The program requires AmigaOS 3.x, MUI 3.8+, MCC_NList 19.97+ and MCC_Lamp 11.1+. Download: Amster.lha, readme [News message: 14. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` Czech Amiga News	Atari-Lynx emulator: Handy v1.05 On May 12th, Mathias Roslund released the Amiga version v1.05 of Keith Wilkins' Atari Lynx emulator "Handy". With this release, the Amiga version closes the gap to the Windows version. The Amiga version is based on Handy v0.70 and offers high compatibility. It supports the CD³² joypad, running on CGFx screen modes with a resolution of 320x200. Some of the changes since the last version: Change: now uses ReadArgs instead of custom CLI subroutines Change: by pressing HELP, a screenshot can be saved in PCX format New: support for Nostalgia New: SCREENMODE parameter support Handy requires an Amiga with PPC board, WarpUP v4.0+, 16 MB RAM, AGA or CGFx. Additionally, the lynxboot.img file is required. The handheld game console "Lynx" (with color screen) was developed by R.J. Mical, Dale Luck and others for Epyx. Distribution was done by Atari. It was released at the same time as the Nintendo Gameboy, but was not successful due to the higher price and lower run time, due to the color display. Development system for Lynx games was the Amiga. Download: Handy.lha [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` James T. Steichen by e-mail	AmigaTalk v1.5 AmigaTalk version 1.5 is a GUI version of 'Little Smalltalk' (v1.0 by Tim Budd) for Amiga systems, enabling using almost all Intuition and some OS functions from SmallTalk. It is being worked upon supporting more OS functions, but AmigaTalk is far from being complete. However the system is stable, and additionally contains a collection of test files as well as a detailed documentation. AmigaTalk requires AmigaOS v3.5+, a CPU 68040+ and 2 MB free drive space. Additionally, DeckBrowser from InovaTronics is required. The author offers to send the CanDo libraries or the DeckBrowser upon request. Smalltalk is a programming language developed in the 80ies by Alan Kay at Xerox, and is considered being THE OOP language. Download: AmigaTal.lha (441K), readme. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` Klaus Burkert by e-mail	Submission: Interested in gfx module for DKB Wildfire? Since the "Inferno" gfx card for the 68060 accelerator "Wildfire" from DKB was not produced, and as a reaction to many discussions on the Wildfire mailinglist on possible alternatives, a survey has been started at the title link to judge how many are interested and which features are wanted. This does not come with a promise that something will be produced, or any company be contacted. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` Steven Flowers by e-mail	SWOS Euro 2000 probably won't appear SWOS Euro 2000 by ALIVE Mediasoft will probably not be released due to lack of time. A new version of SWOS is ready and could be released in time for Euro 2000, but ALIVE Mediasoft is lacking the time to get all the team and player names into the program. If there is somebody willing to help, perhaps the game could be released in time. Independantly, a new version will appear for the next UK season in August. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` ANN	TTF tutorial updated On May 11th, a new version of the TTF tutorial has been released. All known mistakes have been released and the layout as well as the offline version been improved. The content itself remained unchanged. The TTF tutorial shows how to use TrueType fonts on the Amiga using the TTF-Library. Additionally, it also contains links to the library and font collections. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` Czech Amiga News	Interview with Jim Drew The E-Maculation pages carry an interesting interview with Jim Drew, CEO of Microcode Solutions, about programming, emulation, Apple and FUSION. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` R. Kühn on ANF	Mr. Amiga Poll - with troubles Sadly there have been problems with the vote for Mr. Amiga. Everybody who already participated (or did not yet), again has the opportunity to do so and win a price. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` Alexander Kurtz on ANF	Aminet-GUI now banner-free again Alexander Kurtz writes: Due to me doing my military service in the Luftwaffe starting May 1st, 2000, only now I saw that Prohosting has changed their rules and is now placing a banner to every page ending on .html or .htm. These banners sadly destroyed the looks, if not the usability of the GUI. Due to my military service I was able to react only now. The GUI should be free again of Prohosting banners in all important frames. So it is again possible to navigate the page, and make use of it. I want to say sorry to all visitors of my site, and warmly invite you to visit my site again as frequently as before. Soon I will create an archive saving the upload lists, so they can be saved for reference. I can NOT check them for obsolete files, however, but would welcome hints. Again I want to stress that I am maintaining the GUI all alone, and that I am still looking for someone interested in assisting me, since my online time is right now limited to weekends. Please contact aminet@web.de. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` Jeppe Nielsen on ANF	HomeLand demo version v2.0 For the realtime strategy game Homeland, demo version 2.0 is available for download. This new version offers a faster conversion from chunky to planar for AGA, by using the CPU instead of the slower blitter. Also new are new buildings and technical devices including graphical effects like transparency, explosions and more. This is complemented by many other improvements. This demo version offers a campaign consisting of two missions. Download: HomeLand.lzx V2.0 (942 kB) [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.May.2000` Torsten Ketelsen on ANF	Confusion about ATC v1.1 While uploading the final version v1.1 of the FTP client AmiTradeCenter to Aminet there was a delay, giving the impression the archive was not uploaded successfully (while, in fact, it was successful). Due to this confusion, another beta version of ATC v1.1 (prerelease 8) was published on the program's homepage. Please simply think of this as prerelease 1 of ATC v1.2. [News message: 13. May. 2000, 08:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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