The Federal Safety Bureau for Child-endangering Publications has decided against a ban of the game Counter-Strike. The chairperson of BPjS, Mrs. Monnsen-Engberding, clarified that although she was uncertain, she was in personally ready to be against the ban, in light of modern times.

Click on the title link for the complete article (German).

The Club Guide has been brought to an up-to-date state and refined somewhat. The IRC lists were removed, because there was not too much interest in that. At this time there are 36 clubs with 847 members registered in the guide.

http://www.amidog.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.pl

Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly. For all programs from AmiDog discussion boards have been put up, to wit:

• General Board
• Test
• AmiDog's Movie Player
• TrueReality
• AmiGenerator
• DarcNES/Amiga
• Handy
• GBE
• Frodo
• SOPE
• MAME
• MESS
• FPSE

To make this easy you'll find a workshop specially covering the topic at the CD-32 Allianz homepage, a workshop that leads you through the steps to make such a bootable photo CD: the LISTFILES, the startup-sequence, as well as how to burn the recordable CD-ROM.

But not only the webpage has changed:

1) Our search to replace to loss of our designer has come to an end, and we'd like to welcome Sue to our team. Sue will be drawing the characters of our game. 4 examples of Sue's work may be viewed in the screenshot area.

2) The battle routine has been changed to a new design, and now runs completely with 16 bit graphics. Two new screenshots show the new interface, which is now offered during battle.

• 15.05.02 fixed: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) slave was missing
• 15.05.02 new: Gainforce (Infernal Byte System) done by Bored Seal
• 14.05.02 new: Tetris (MirrorSoft) done by Psygore
• 14.05.02 improved: Marble Madness (Atari/Electronic Arts) install script and keyboard fixed
• 14.05.02 improved: Elvira 2 - The Jaws of Cerberus (Horrorsoft/Accolade) protection removed

Changes since 5.5:
Bug report editor, ACSE test: converted to ReAction.

And I am still looking for a coder that can continue on development and fixing some bugs.

neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin auf 3sat

One subject of the show will be the Pegasos Hardware Platform developed by bplan GmbH in conjunction with MorphOS.

During this period there won't be any news and translations, the commentary function and the ANF (possibility to post news online) will be disabled. The forum will be kept enabled. We will announce a talk master who will be responsible for its content.

We discussed this issue thoroughly and controversial if, and if so in which kind, we could/should realize such a summer break. A short break will not result in any recovery and a longer break comprises the risk to lose readers. A stopgap for urgend news seemed to be possible but difficult, who wants to be responsible to decide wether a news item is urgent or not? Further more this wouldn't be a real recovery, say nothing half, nothing whole. We trust in the hope that our readers will not have forgotten us after such a long break :).

However we will go back to work after the summer break with a whole new motivation. We ask for your understanding and therefore announce this break that early.

Among others, new features are a strongly enhanced and accelerated OCR-engine (based on gocr 0.3.5, now also PPC-native and with the ability to export embedded pictures and HTML), the all-new PDF-export, an enhanced copying function with preview and correction features, support for Turboprint® and an all-new documentation (in German and English) with many illustrations in HTML- and PDF-versions.

A detailed list of all new features, first screenshots, a list of supported scanners and much more can be found on the fxSCAN 4.0 site.

New features (since the last CVS snap, not 0.1.0!) include:

• first non-Scumm games supported: Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2
• in addition to the games that could be completed before, Loom CD-ROM version, Zak McKracken 256 color and Simon 1 are fully playable now
• 32 color Amiga versions are supported
• choosable sound driver (Adlib, Midi, Midiemu)
• updated PDF manual (please read, because some command line options had to change!) including compatibility chart

Update 15.05.2002:
bplan: Pegasos and MorphOS on German TV (3Sat)
The bplan GmbH would like to inform you about the Computer Magazine taking place on the 27th of May at 9.30 pm.

neues - das Computer- und Telekommunikationsmagazin auf 3sat

One subject of the show will be the Pegasos Hardware Platform developed by bplan GmbH in conjunction with MorphOS.

Features:

• new dynAMIte Version
• all maps, all styles + exclusive new styles for the CD-release!!
• new "dynAMIteAI.library" for 68k and PPC (MorphOS)
• 3D-Intro-FMV-Sequence
• Audio-Tracks
• detailed HTML-documentation
• many Extras, Backdrops, early-Intro-tests, first test-versions of dynAMIte, and many more!!
• in contrast to the normal version, you require about 93 MB of free harddisk space this time!
• The first 50 discs are limited, an "extra"-feature is included

If you now think "dynAMIte is becoming commercial!" you aren't right since the game itself will stay freeware.
We just want to give the fans of that nifty little game we all love the chance to purchase a
"bigger, better, faster, more" edition which is even a way to say "thank you" to the programmer.
The price is as low as possible, we think every Amiga user nowadays can afford 15 Euro for a good game and its extras.

It's available for:
Germany: EUR 15,-
Great Britain: GBP 11,-
Europe: EUR 18,-
USA: USD 15,-
All prices including shipping-costs

• 13.05.02 improved: Warzone (Paradox Software) supports another version, another icon
• 13.05.02 new: Jouster 3 () done by JOTD
• 13.05.02 new: Goblins 3 (Coktel Vision) done by JOTD