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Archive 09/2000

`09.Sep.2000` AmigArt	AmigArt with New Layout The Turkisch news-site in English "AmigaArt" has got a new and pleasing layout. Many parts of this website has been rearranged without loss of the already good navigation. Every important link is to reach from the main page. If would have to mark it, this would be a B+ :-) [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 11:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Czech Amiga News	LinuxPPC 2000 - Installer Available The LinuxAPUS team announces the LinuxPPC 2000 installer to be available. Please click inside the title bar of the Linux-Apus site on "Install" to download the files. This archive contains the most recent 000815 kernel image. Amiga PPC users with this will get an alternative OS that runs superb on their hardware. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 10:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` amiga.org	Remembering AMIGA's Glory Days Time for nostalgia? Well, then read this article about the younger days of AMIGA (1992) by Wayne Martin. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 10:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Harald Frank	The fastest Driver for ISDN-boards ever! Harald Frank wrote: Many did not thought it to be possible, any more. After 1 1/2 years there is a new update for the ISDN-boards driver software VMC-ISDN for any Amiga ISDN-board. Due to the partly loss of source code, and some small technical problems we could not release a new version for the ISDN driver over a long period of time. Some customers even suggested that we would have stopped working on it...., but once again we are able to offer to you a masterly achievement of Amiga software, which is only to describe using the words better, faster and turbo. Please, prove us that did not spend so many month full of work for this costly software for nothing, and if you know another one owning an Amiga ISDN-board, so tell him of the new driver, cause we depend on every support from you. It would be a pitty, if would not be able to finace this software any more in default of interest. So, come on and register for the new beta test, now. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 08:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Jeppe Nielsen on ANF	HomeLand Demo Version 3.0 A new demo version (3.0) for the realtime strategy game "HomeLand" was released. This version has many new features. At the titlelink you can find screen shots, and more details. Blittersoft will be distributor of the game. Download: HomeLand.lzx - 1,06 MB At the download area of the website (titlelink) there is a music section at first, where several music can be downloaded. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 08:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Sebastian Bauer's Homepage	SimpleClock (1.5) by Sebastian Bauer Most recent version for the configurable analog clock (OS3.5) by S. Bauer. Special feature of SimpleClock: The transparent clock face (optional). [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Alfred Sturm	New Aminet Uploads Amiga-C-Aug00.lha dev/c 117K+Postings to Amiga-C mailing list in Augu Aakt0900HTML.lha docs/mags 276K+AMIGA aktuell - German infotainment maga WarpUp-Aug00.lha docs/misc 86K+Postings to the WarpUp mailing list in A DiamondBOX.lha gfx/edit 356K+Layer based 24 bit image editing V1.04 chippendale.lha mods/chip 7K+DBM 4ch mod by Tripper^Stx^Moods years_ago.lha pix/misc 71K+[ancor] Sandra and Sarah young V1.1 [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 06:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` individual Computers	Take Part in the Developement of Lyra! Lyra is the joungest child of individual Computers. This is an adapter to use Windows-Keyboards with the Amiga. Though some thing like this alreay exists, but none of the up to now introduced interfaces fulfilled our personel needs. Either some of the key were not used, or others had absolutely insane seizures, and again other had problems when more then one key were pressed at the same time. This interface for the "Bigbox" Amigas (2000, 3000, 4000 and tower-case) easy gets pluged between keyboard and computer. In the case of A1200 it gets impressed to the keyboard processor, which is to find on the A1200 main board. We have spent as much effort as possible to get the seizures very similar to the original Amiga keyboards, and to give reasonable seizures to additional keys. Though, we want to hear the opinions about the seizures of as many users as possible befor we cannot change anything, any more. So, take your time to have close look at the key seizures, and mail us your opinion. The best suggestion will be honoured with some little surprise! Release is planned for the end of October. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 05:26] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Sep.2000` Aminet Games	Aminet Games Schatztruhe released "Aminet Games", a special-CD of the Aminet series. Within more than 1500 archives there are the best of Aminet games. Almost every game can be started from CD and do not need to be installed. Furthermore on "Aminet Games" there are more than 70 commercial games, e.g. "Gloom3", "Max Rally", "XTreme Racing" & "Gamer's Delight 2". Information on other content to find at the titlelink. [News message: 09. Sep. 2000, 02:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` APT Rolf Tingler	New Amiga Design for Nokia 3210 Mobile Phone Rolf Tingler has already created designs with Amiga look in airbrush for several mobile phone models. Now there's also a shell available for the Nokia 3210. For the Nokia model 8210, a new Amiga design is in the works. The design is a bit complicated as this phone is really small and thus there's only very little space for the design. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 11:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` B. van der Meer by eMail	New issue "AMIGA SCENE" The September/October issue of the Dutch/Flemish print magazine "AMIGA SCENE" has a huge article on the Macintosh emulator "Fusion". [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Fun Time World	AddOn-Programming for PageStream Grasshopper LLC, the distributor of PageStream, published the documentation of IFF and links to the Application Library SDK on their pages. The release allows third parties to write plug-ins for PageStream. Interested developers can find more information here. Supplement, 09-09-2000 by Ruediger Hanke: There is a problem unfortunatly mentioned nowhere as it is. The SDK at the time beeing works solely with SAS/C! If one tries to compile the includes using StormC, he will get a lot of error messages and an endless loop in the compiler, if lucky. The includes also are not the only wattle, the enclosed linker-libraries are too SAS/C specific, too. Fortunatly Deron is very helpful, he promised me to send me the sources of these linker-libraries, so that I can port them to StormC. This is not mentioned on the website. At the end one might take the effort (quite a few) to adapt the includes, just to finde out at the end that the needed linker-library doesn't match. If Deron sends me the sources, and I would manage to get them running with StormC, I will make up a SDK version for StromC programmers. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 10:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` SonicPulse	SoundFX 4.1 Preview at the BAUD Meeting At the BAUD meeting in Bielefeld, Germany, an exclusive preview of SoundFX 4.1 will be presented. The new version contains many bugfixes and improvements in the user interface. Another new feature is the new batch processor. For more information and a first test version, follow the title link (German). [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Oliver Roberts	New Warp-Datatypes Oliver Roberts released new versions of his WarpPNG and WarpJPEG datatypes. The WarpPNG.datatype is now available also for 68k Amigas and there's also a native MorphOS version, now. The new version of WarpJPEG.datatype has some bugs fixed and a 4% speed-up for the 68k version. An extensive feature list can be found at the title link. Download: WarpPNG.dt.lha WarpJPEGdt.lha [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Czech Amiga News	REBOL/View pre-beta 5 Released An experimental pre-beta of version 5 of REBOL/View was released. There are especially new features in the VID (visual user interface) and the network functions. Download here. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 09:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` playamiga.de	"Middle City" preview and interview Juergen A. Theiner of Playamiga.de has talked with the Italian programmers of the new adventure "Middle City" and created a preview with many screenshots. Here a small excerpt: "Middle City is a classical adventure in the vein of Monkey Island. The setting is a remote village. The goal is to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Linda Patton whose arm was found in the river. Main character is the (not really intelligent) FBI agent Cox who has to work closely with the good-looking Ellen Dow from the local police. All characters are very excentric and thus suspicious. The end will be a huge suprise." [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 05:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Thomas Steiding via eMail	Epic News After a long time, there's some news from Epic: Virtual Ball Fighters, the action game for the Amiga is finally available. VBF requires an Amiga with AGA or graphics card, a 030 CPU and 8 MByte RAM. PPC and soundcards are supported. The successor to MooVID Pro is coming soon: MooVID Pro 2 will be shipped from September 18th on. Beside many optimizations, MooVID now supports the PPC (WarpUP and Power Up). Owners of the previous version get a cheaper update from epic. [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 05:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Thomas Frieden on ANF	Hyperion News Follow the title link for a new progress report on Shogo, including some screenshots of the OpenGL version. Hyperion has from now on a support mailing list: EMail subscription: hyperion-support-subscribe@egroups.com or on the web at eGroups [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 03:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Sep.2000` Christian Busse	Transcript of the Coyote Interview with Bill McEwen Christian Busse has taken the efforts of creating a transcript from the 2.1 MB MP3 file of the Coyote Flux interview with Bill McEwen: Bill McEwen: Here's Bill! Coyote Flux: Well, good day Mr McEwen, you're speaking with Sharwin - I'm from Coyote Flux, an Amiga only software team and I would like to ask you a few public questions - is that possible? Bill McEwen: Certainly. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you - first of all: I heard a rumour from some magazines that the German office is about to close after the inventory sales of the Amiga 1200 - is this true? Bill McEwen: No...? Coyote Flux: No - OK, thank you. What could you tell me about the AmigaOne? Bill McEwen: Well, nothing publicly at this time - other than this is a new desktop replacement machine. Coyote Flux: OK. Then there was another question: Since half a year the Amiga market has started to shrink a little bit in comparison to what it was before, especially because there are a lot of companies and sceners that rather stay with the original Amigas - we spoke to you at the show in Neuss, the World of Alternatives, about porting the current Amiga OS to PPC, we will have to add the following question: You asked for the business proposal at the show... Bill McEwen: Yes? Coyote Flux: ... and we would like to know: We want to do the Amiga OS PPC port together with a few others at our own cost together, and we would like to know if that is possible as we think that the Amiga makes a bigger chance of surviving when the older machines get a chance as well. Bill McEwen: Yeah, no, again, if you send me the information we're happy to take a look at it - we've been in conversations with Haage & Partner about this, we have received their timing, their proposal how long they think it will take... Coyote Flux: Yes Bill McEwen: ... we've been looking at market trends and designs, so I'm happy to take a look at what you have - we've not made a final decision on that Coyote Flux: OK, so there hasn't been a final decision yet about if an Amiga OS PPC port can or will be made? Bill McEwen: Correct. Coyote Flux: OK, what do you think about the Boxer? Bill McEwen: I don't think it will ever ship. Coyote Flux: And if it WILL be shipped, would you be supporting it? Bill McEwen: Oh, we already have, publicly! Coyote Flux: OK, so it won't ever be a problem, the Classic Amiga range will proceed, and the Amiga will, like, go two seperate ways or something? Bill McEwen: No, I don't see that, because you'll be able to run your Amiga Classic on the new system! Coyote Flux: Aha, I see, but surely the speed will not be as fast as an original chipset... Bill McEwen: Actually it will be FASTER with what we're doing - we're not doing it through emulation. Coyote Flux: OK, cause now it's with the Virtual Processor I suppose? Bill McEwen: U-huh Coyote Flux: Cause I have a copy of the SDK at home, but, taking a look at modern CPUs, taking a look at all the parallel processing units and the caching and memory management, I have the feeling that the Virtual Processor will not be running at the speed it SHOULD be... Bill McEwen: Actually since it's not... the Virtual Processor, since it translates it into native code... Coyote Flux: Yes... Bill McEwen: ... and the overhead is to a minimum, there is, what, a two percent performance hit Coyote Flux: Yes, I understand, but by using a lot of registers that should be emulated or mapped in memory before they can be used, I suppose... Bill McEwen: Exactly translated on the fly. Coyote Flux: It's translated on the fly - but where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Bill McEwen: I'm sorry I didn't hear you. Coyote Flux: Where are the registers taken from if I may ask? Are they taken from memory, or are they taken from hardware registers? Bill McEwen: It depends on the implementation... Coyote Flux: Yes Bill McEwen: ... if there is hardware available, we will utilize the hardware directly... Coyote Flux: Yes Bill McEwen: ... and if we can catch it that way, otherwise if it's not available we will do it in software. Coyote Flux: OK, I see - but that will slow down, I suppose? Bill McEwen: Depending on the application - in a desktop environment in most cases you'll have the proper hardware to utilize it, but in a handheld device you might not have the hardware, so we'll have to do it in software. Coyote Flux: OK, I see, thank you - finally I had a question concerning the SDK: Is it a big success? Bill McEwen: Yes, actually the sales are ahead of schedule and as of this week Red Hat will begin selling it also. Coyote Flux: OK, and how many approximately sold in the time it has been on market? Bill McEwen: Well, we shipped fifteen thousand so far. Coyote Flux: Fifteen thousand. Bill McEwen: Yep. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much! That's actually all I wanted to know! Bill McEwen: Great! Coyote Flux: OK, thank you... Bill McEwen: Yeah, I look forward - in fact I was speaking to someone about you in Sacramento... Coyote Flux: Oh! Bill McEwen: .. that it looked like you might be the team that might have the best opportunity for us, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you very much... Bill McEwen: OK? Coyote Flux: I will contact you then in the near future, supplying you with the information you might need about how we can port the Amiga OS to PPC, and... Bill McEwen: OK. Coyote Flux: ... yes, please keep up the good work then. Bill McEwen: I thank you very much for your call. Coyote Flux: OK, thank you as well - bye! [News message: 08. Sep. 2000, 03:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Andreas Falkenhahn on ANF	Public-Opinion Poll at www.zophar.net At www.zophar.net, supposed to be the biggest emulators-site online, there is currently a public-opinion poll to find at the top of the right menue board, on what useres would wish to see on the page in future. Among other things there is also the possibility to vote for "Emulators for the Amiga". If you are interested in this, you should set your vote there, cause there are only about 10% of votes for Amiga at the moment. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 10:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Rudolph Riedel via eMail	New DiskMaster Beta Version 2.5b8 Available For the known filer DiskMaster there is the next Beta Version 2.5b8 available, after some problems. New with this version: 2.5b8 (00-09-07) 68744 Bytes "Parent" still did not work correctly with assigns "LoadConfig" released it's buffer too early Uppercase/lowercase is no longer discerned when Auto-Commands compare contents [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 09:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Olaf Koebnik	Amiga Arena News JST V4.0 at half price. JST V4.0, the game installer by Jean-Francois Fabre is available at half price at the Arena. JST makes it possible to start almost every game from HD, and to save scores. Amiga Arena Interview Project New interviews with Damir Ahr (Ballmaster) and Felix Schwarz (fxPaint) online. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 09:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Heise [Newsticker]	Heise: The Mac inside the PC - for nothing «Anybody who always wanted to check out if Mac OS indeed makes less problems than Windows now can test this directly on the PC: Emulators Inc. offers the Macintosh emulator Fusion PC for free download, from now on. Emulators too over this sofware, which only runs under DOS (Window's DOS-Box does not fit), last month. Next month they want to release the entire source-code, due to their own statements. This shall become content of a tutorial on emulator programming.» For full article, see titlelink (German). As already reported here on 05-24-00, Microcode Solutions gave Fusion PC license to Emulators, Inc. to have more free developer recources, and more fund available. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 08:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Amiga, Inc.	Wildfire at First - and now Taifun As already reported, Taifun is the successor product to the award-winning video and animation special effects software Wildfire7\PPC. The new software product is currently being developed using the Amiga Software Development Kit (SDK) and is making great progress. Read the press release of Amiga, Inc. at the titlelink. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 08:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Richard Kapp on ANF	Linux Format Reports on AmigaSDK In the new September issue of the 'Linux Format' magazine there is to find an article on both, the Amiga SDK and Elate. Among other things the multimedia platform 'intent', and functionality of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) is suggested. Nick Veitch reminds his readers on the Amiga SDK even inside the editorial. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Sharwin & Rakesh Raghoebardayal on ANF	Coyote Flux interviews Bill McEwen At the titlelink you will find an interview with Bill McEwen done by Coyote Flux. This intervies is provided as a MP3-file at the size of 2.1MB to find for download at the download-area of the temporary website of CF. Further on there is a new example for PPC680x0 available: The freeware program "The Guru" was ported to PPC using PPC680x0 within less than 30 minutes. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Ingo Musquinier on ANF	New AmiTradeCenter Beta Available Once again it happend, a new beta version for the FTP-client AmiTradeCenter was released. 05.09.2000 public beta Added a "t" to one of the "direcory" strings which was missing. [ExoBuZz] Fixed a bug when pressing the local "parent" button while connecting which caused garbage in the local string gadget. [ExoBuZz] After a transfer the transferred file, bytes, filelength and the cps are now displayed in the ftplog. [Roland "Ronni" Hopfer] Double entries in the .batchtmp are now filtered, so the list won't replicate itself several times after several crashes. [Roland "Ronni" Hopfer] Reselection of files when revisitting a directory is now done by comparing the filenames with the list instead of just selecting the files by numbers, which could have led to wrong selected entries, when a directory was reloaded after an upload. [Roland "Ronni" Hopfer] The trader now won't try to reconnect to a server, when the servermanager is quitted and therefore also all traders (depends on "auto reconnect" and "closemethod of servermanager" settings). Loginwindow which is opened if neither the username or the password is given didn't work. Fixed. [Ingo Musquinier] Download: ATC_beta_05092000.lha [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Sven Dröge on ANF	BondsV1.78 on Aminet, at last After some upload problems now the most recent archive with the stock-market software is available for downlaod at Aminet, at last. New with this version: Group editor for creating object lists after your fancy New conception of the depot manager Extension of the default objects, many new shares, subscription warrants, as well as European indizes (thanks to Wolfgang Bauer, too!) Complete adaptation to the "GlowIcons" style (thanks to Martin Merz!) Many bug-fixes Known bugs: The DEPOTMANAGER is not ready yet, but one can already "play around" with it a little bit. The group editor was newly implemented; there still might occure errors while using it. Download: BondsV178.lha [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Jan Andersen via eMail	VirusHelp Denmark: Safe Version 14.0 Released Name: Safe v14.0 Archivname: Safe.lha Archivgröße: 20.665 Bytes Releasedatum: 7. September 2000 Programmierer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Info: Braucht xvs.library v33.23 New with v14.0 : v13.4 - 7000, RENRAM parameter renames Ram disk: to Ram: now (requested by Oscar Hdez) NOTE THAT SAFE IS VIRUS DETECTOR - NOT FILE CHECKER OR CLEANER! IT ONLY INFORMS ABOUT ATTACK AND REMOVES VIRUS FROM MEMORY IF POSSIBLE! [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Andreas R. Kleinert via eMail	TWinIFF Version 1.03 Released TWinIFF 1.03 for AmigaOS, Win9x/NT/2k and Linux/x86 is available, now. Download: twiff103.zip [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Markus Nerding via eMail	Haage & Partner News H&P increases personnel In October of the past year, we already hired a new programmer, namely Markus Poellmann. He mainly cares for StormC, and also works on AmigaWriter. At the beginning of 2000, a new co-worker was found, Ute Gottschalk, who takes care of accounting and datatyping. Stefan Robel has just finished a practical period for his computer studies, in which he created a new and portable version of StormRexx. At the beginning of September, Alexander Bramm and Simon Neumann brought two new co-workers. Their main concern is support, and managing of new projects. Further co-workers wanted. For proof-reading of our website texts, press releases and manuals we are looking for an additional English native speaker. A good knowledge of English grammer etc. is essential. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Andreas R. Kleinert	Computer-Zeitung: Politicians supporting Linux in the fight against patents The German Computerzeitung issue 36 from 09-07-00 is carrying the subject of software patents: They are titeling (small): "Software Inventions" (big) "Politicians are supporting Linux with the fight against patents" This all is to find big and not ot overlook pivotal on the front page citing Joerg Tauss, MdB (member of the Bundestag) contra, and Dai Rees pro SWPAT. Additional a big picture along with the subtitle "The [EPA] in Munich denys any private financial interest [...]" At the left another contra SWPAT comment (German) of an editor, and at the lower right the Intel/Broadcom quarrel is suggested. So, about half of the front page today only on the subject of patents. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Sep.2000` Stefan Robl via eMail	AmigaMPEG-Player 1.02 and writepixel 1.05 For all SDK users: AmigaMPEGPlayer is now up to 25% faster (!) than the initial version, and has got a file-requestor in addition, too. writepixel was completely overworked, is now definite faster than previeous versions, and has got a scalable window. Furthermore the colour fade now changes corresponding to mouse position and time. [News message: 07. Sep. 2000, 07:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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