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04.Feb.2002 Marius Schwarz (ANF) |
Morpheus Security Bug at last public Once more Amiga users are informed faster and better than the PC world. As the Amiga Security Page is already reading since 24. August 2001, Morpheus clients can be spied using a simple web browser and avoid any file sharing settings of the client. This concerns all P2P clients using the Morpheus protocoll. See also description of Morpheus on the ASP.
BTW: Now there also is a topical virus / trojan list on the ASP sponsored by
Sophos Anitvirus. |
04.Feb.2002 OSNews/ANN (ANF) |
Running AmigaOS on a PC: Review of Amiga XL OSNews is running a review of AmigaXL, a system that allows you to boot AmigaOS on your PC in a way that resembles a regular-booting x86 operating system. Screenshots accompany the article show the latest version of AmigaOS 3.9 running on a Compaq laptop. With AmigaOS 4.0 coming out in March with lots of new features (antialias fonts, better memory protection etc) is AmigaXL the one true future of Amiga, a future that AmigaDE, QNX and Gateway failed to materialize through their involvement with AmigaOS? (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 04. Feb. 2002, 16:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
04.Feb.2002 Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail) |
Andreas R. Kleinert: References to pirate copies of my programms wanted Today, I read the article about shareware and pirate copies on amiga-news.de. Very interesting. Well, it is that from time to time people send me illegal keyfiles and/or key generators for my programs - sometimes refering to the source where to find those. This often enables me to deactivate the respective keys, which respond to a certain pattern. So there are faithful users too - who nevertheless stumble upon such things from time to time - and help program authors to embank pirate copying. I would like to offer the following to those users: Who will send me keyfiles for my programs (or the respective generators), up to now not recognized as "pirate keys" by those, will receive an original keyfile at a time. In especially fiddly cases I will charge even more. For multi-transmittal applies: "The first to send in, will win". Naturally data will be kept in confidence and anonymous if desired (the real name is only required for the keyfile).
P.S.: Dubious software gets tested under UAE,
insofar transfecting virsues is useless.
(ps) (Translation: mj) |
04.Feb.2002 Guido Mersmann (ANF) |
MMKeyboard Version 1.20 There is a new version of MMKeyboard available now. Besides many changes and improvements the archive now contains some Win95 keymaps compatible with the Euro. Older hardware is, of course, still compatible, Download: MMKeyboard.lha
A more detailed description of the funcionality of MMKeyboard can be found in the readme file included in the archive.
(ps) (Translation: sk) |
03.Feb.2002 GameDev.net |
Shareware: Bitwise Operator: The Plain Truth About Piracy In the above mentioned English article by "Ambrosia Software", a company that develops software for Apple computers, the company's experience with shareware and privacy is described. The change from a fully functional shareware to a more crippled version didn't cause people to register 5 times more often as mentioned in the article "Why Do People Register, Does Crippling Work, Does Anybody Really Know?" by Colin Messitt but it triggered off an increase in sales figures. A change of the registration procedure in the middle of last year showed that more than 50% of the people who had installed the update for the software "Snapz Pro X" were using a pirate code to activate the software. The article is available via the title link. (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 23:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Robert Reiswigh (G-Rex ML) |
G-Rex: SoloOne Mixer V1.2 On 3 February 2002 version 1.2 of the 'SoloOne' mixer was released on vgr.com. It supports sound cards with the SoloOne chip (e.g. Terratec 128iPCI). The ESS Solo1 mixer will now run under CGX V3 & V4 and contains a few other minor updates. Download: SoloOneMixer1_2.lzh (12K) (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 21:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 |
Amithlon: Update 3-Patches (Update) The text of this message was deleted. The Amithlon developers did not grant permit to release beta test drivers on the relevant website. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 20:52] [Comments: 1 - 04. Feb. 2002, 22:51] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Amiga Future |
Icons: PygmIconsGL Icons (Update) On 2 February 2002 the gamesicon collection "PygmIconsGL Icons" was published by Frank on the gamesicon.info website. It contains more than 250 icons for all games for the Workbench V3.5. Download: PygmIconsGL_G1.LHA (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 20:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Amiga Flame |
Amiga Flame: Amiga and AmigaDE - game of the year election 2001 Amiga Flame has published the results of the game of the year election 2001 for Amiga and AmigaDE. The first place for Amiga goes to Payback (Apex Designs), Shogo and Freespace: The Great War (both portings from Hyperion Entertainment). The first place for AmigaDE goes to Planet Zed (Zeoneo), Blobula (Pagan Games) und Boxikon (Zeoneo). All further rankings and additional information about the games are available via the links. (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 20:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 AROS |
AROS: Downloads, JanoEditor, PCI.hidd, DOS After the publication of AROS snapshots on SourceForge 475 downloads measuring 4GB were registered. Daniel Holmen published a Norwegian translation for JanoEditor. Michael Schulz has added a new PCI.hidd. It scans the PCI bus and enables the enquiry of application information via PCI tools. Besides he has started to write something which he calls "nvidia.hidd". Whatever this may be ;-). There isn't a lot of code available but it should run on all boards such as Riva 128, GeForce2 and Quadro. Georg Steger has removed a few problems in the DOS and Startup code which shouldn't try to examine the command line if the program was started from the workbench.library. He has also improved JanoEdit (catalogues are now created. Some small bugfixes for AROS). (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 19:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 ANN |
AmigaDE: mailing list for Technomages Technomages develops games for AmigaDE and has now installed a mailing list for their own news. This list can be ordered by sending a blank e-mail to announcements-subscribe@de.technomages.net So far Technomages has released 5 memory games for AmigaDE (Memory, Get To Work, Art Avenue Puzzles 1 und 2, Tikino). (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 19:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Czech Amiga News |
Alt.WoA 2002: car sharing On 23 February 2002 the Alt.WoA 2002 takes place in Huddersfield, England. A notice board has been added to the website of the fair in order to organise car sharing. (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 18:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Amiga Future |
Icons: new and updated MasonIcons Martin 'Mason' Merz has published in the project category of his homepage some new and updated 'MasonIcons'.
[News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 18:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Virus Help Denmark (E-Mail) |
Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.8 On 3 February 2002 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.8 of the virus detector 'Safe' developed by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognises any viruses that are in the memory of the computer and, if possible, removes them. Compared with the previous version, the following features have changed:
Archive name : Safe.lha Archive size : 18 855 Date : 3 February 2002 Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library Download: Safe.lha (18K), Readme (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 17:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 AudioLabs (ANF) |
AudioLabs: AHI driver for Sunrize AD516 Chris Brenner has released an AHI-driver for the Sunrize audio board "AD516" (Zorro II), available on Aminet. The Sunrize's AD516 has been one of the most interesting ZII audio boards. Unfortunately, until now, there haven't been any drivers of any kind for this card, leaving owners in need for realtime software with the only option to use Studio16, the application developed for this hardware by Sunrize and bundled with the product. Lack of detailed documentation, and the fact that Sunrize left the market, prevented people from taking advantage of more modern non-linear editing software, developed years after Studio16. Until now. Chris Brenner has just released his new excellent AHI driver, available on Aminet, that now allows AHI-compatible applications to access the AD516 A/D D/A converters (for SMPTE support, Studio16 is still the right tool). Several applications have already been tested and work fine. Early reports about ProStationAudio and this new development say that the driver exhibits low-latency, extremely important to allow using mixing automation and the 30+ realtime DSP effects for ProStationAudio. More information soon, as soon as they arrive. To download the driver, search for "AD516" on Aminet. Information about the developer is in the driver archive, don't forget to send him feedback. In the Dev-archive the hardware of the board is described. This description is incomplete but good enough to program drivers. Download:
[News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 17:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Suite101.com (ANF) |
John Chandler: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel On 31 January 2002 John Chandler published on suite101 a new English column about the Amiga in which he talks about AmigaOS 4.0. "One thing that anyone still using an Amiga has gained over the years is a sense of patience. No matter how tough things get, no matter how much the situation ups and downs, most Amiga users will remain fairly patient in the face of frustrations that would have owners of other platforms cursing and wailing. Yes we do get moments of despair, yes sometimes it does look bleak and you can be forgiven for losing the optimism and thick-skins built up in the post-Commodore years... but then things come along and suddenly everything looks bright again." ..... (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 16:57] [Comments: 1 - 03. Feb. 2002, 22:02] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
03.Feb.2002 Vim (ANF) |
Editor: Vim-6.0.160 VIM is an improved version of the editor "vi", one of the standard text editors on UNIX systems. VIM adds many of the features that you would expect in an editor: unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more. VIM runs on many operating systems: AmigaOS, AtariMiNT, BeOS, DOS, MacOS, MachTen, OS/2, RiscOS, VMS, and Windows (95/98/NT4/NT5/2000) In edition 1 vol. 1 of the Free Software Magazine there is an article which mentions amongst other things how VIM came into being. VIM was developed by Bram Moolenaar first for Amiga and was released for the first time on Fish #591 (November 1991). (sd) (Translation: sr) [News message: 03. Feb. 2002, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
02.Feb.2002 Golem - IT News |
Golem: Microsoft defends themselves against petition bundestux.de »In the discussion about the introduction of Linux in the German Bundestag Microsoft's speaking from official side. Kurt Sibold, chairman of the Microsoft GmbH management and Vice President EMEA, turns in an open letter to the politicians, that are counting to the first signers of the online petition (to be found under bundestux.de).« Full (German) article see title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 02. Feb. 2002, 21:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
02.Feb.2002 Olaf Köbnik (email) |
Amiga Arena - You never leave completely :) Amiga Arena - Update I'd like to thank very much all those who gave me so much positive feedback with their mails and comments! The Amiga Arena will stay online and the support for the game "PuzzelBOBS" is also guaranteed. In irregular intervals will smaller updates of the Amiga Arena be possible and still incoming interviews etc. will of course be released. A "time out" for an undefined period of time will come as announced, though. Thank you very much for your understanding. Yours Olaf Köbnik
Amiga Arena - Interview campaign
Interview in German
Shareware news
The new version 4.6 is from now on available for download on the homepage under
http://www.zoehner.de/scantek.html.
(ps) (Translation: wk) |
02.Feb.2002 Torsten Dudai (email) |
New cartoon: "IBM and Linux", cartoon gallery added Since June we have to get by without the wonderful and accurate cartoons by Torsten Dudai, as he's suffering from a lack of time aswell as a lack of motivation for further cartoons. The more we're pleased that Torsten found two nice pieces while searching through old backups that he wants to share with us. First there's a PDF version of the old Amiga park cartoon, perfectly suited for printing as a poster (to be found under the title link), and then there's a previously unreleased cartoon about IBM and Linux done about six months ago. Additionally, we created a gallery that contains all of Torsten Dudai's released cartoons, and we're inviting you to take a nostalgic trip browsing it. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 02. Feb. 2002, 18:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
02.Feb.2002 Mirko Naumann (E-Mail) |
CD-ReWriter Plextor: 40x burner for the ATAPI interface (E-IDE) The company Plextor now offers a 40x burner for the ATAPI interface (E-IDE). The PLEXWRITER 40/12/40A allows the burning of CD-R with the CLV process and the zone CLV process with max. 40x (6000 KB/s) as well as the rewriting of CD-R/W with max. 12x (1800 KB/s). CDs are read with the CAV process with 17x-40x (2600-6000 KB/s) speed. The burner has a buffer of 4 MB and is equipped with the proven BURN-Proof technology that almost completely excludes a burning of defective CDs.
For the time being there are no information about the price.
(ps) (Translation: wk) |
02.Feb.2002 Bernhard Wörner (ANF) |
Audio: Amplify Amplify is in the version 1.3 online. Compared to the version 1.2 nothing important has been changed. Just the code has been revised a little bit and Bernhard Wörner has fixed one or another small bug in the requesters. In the next version (probably next Saturday) will then the MP3 import be ready. In the current 1.4 beta (unreleased) it works already quite well. This version has just to be tested.
The homepage can from now on also be reached via www.amiga-amplify.de.vu.
(ps) (Translation: wk) |
02.Feb.2002 VaporWare |
Chatprogram: AmIRC 3.5.23beta This beta version is available for registered users only, and fixes some small issues. (ps) [News message: 02. Feb. 2002, 13:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
02.Feb.2002 Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail) |
Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9440 Richard H. Poser has released beta version 0.9439 of the AIM compatible messenger software AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client to connect with the America Online Instant Messenger (AIM service). Here's an excerpt taken from the history where you can find the changes made:
[News message: 02. Feb. 2002, 12:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version] |
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