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`12.Nov.2001` Markus Bonet (ANF)	MUI under Windows XP? Markus Bonet wrote: To find out about why Windows XP should be so great I looked around a little on the Microsoft website. I really was not aware, that MUI was released for Windows, too ;-)) "Multi-Lingual User Interface - MUI - allows to change the interface's language to display menus, help files, dictionaries, spell checking tools, ect. in the desired language." But this sure would mean something different, somehow. ;-) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Nov. 2001, 19:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Nov.2001` Wouter Derdeyn (ANF)	Amiga Demoscene Archive - Database of the best Amiga demos ever released I'm working on a site about amiga demos. Basically, I'm trying to create an archive for the best demos/intros ever released on the most stunning scene machine ever (the amiga ofcourse). It's still early days yet but I've got 123 demos and 900 screenshots online. Feedback is welcome! (ps) [News message: 12. Nov. 2001, 18:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Nov.2001` HCS Lange	Absolute rarity to auction (CMB 8296) HCS Lange on their website (title link, see hardware rubric) auctions an CBM 8296 machine from 1984. Here are the data of this collectible: CBM 8296 Release date: 1984 Processor: MOS 6502, 1 MHz RAM: 128 KByte ROM: 18 KByte with Basic V4.0 Operating system: own, LOS-96 Graphic chip: --- Text mode: 80 x 25 (monochrom) Graphic mode: --- Sound chip: --- Sound: piper Keyboard: typewriter, QWERTZ, 73 keys, seperate num-block, removable keyboard. Drive: none internal, (for 8296-D: CBM 8250), external any Commodore drive with IEEE488 bus can be connected directly. I/O: 1 x IEEE488, 2 x datasette Special: built-in monitor (12", green) This machine optical is as good as new and it's an absolute rarity. The lowest bid is at DM 100,-. Bids are accepted till 17. November 2001. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Nov. 2001, 16:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Nov.2001` Thomas Zahren (ANF)	Nostalgica: Amiga Graphics artist + programmer Jim Sachs While looking around the news pages of CHIP.DE I found a link to the aquarium screensaver in the news on the new Windows XP and it's "self-made plus package". This screensaver was programmed by Jim Sachs. Until then I had no idea of this name, but as I then looked at "About the Author" (title link) on the serenescreen.com website, some known pictures of the author from Amiga days turned up. A link on this page shows many pictures of his work history, too. With another link on the same site the Amiga is mentioned again in an interview. To smile: To the surprised interviewer's questions, how it comes that the download of this emotive Windows screensaver is just about 600k in size: RADEONIC: Probably one of the things that surprised me most was the size of the download. Did you spend a lot of time optimising the code, and did you have any special tricks for compressing textures? JS: No, I haven't really started to optimize the code yet. Coming from the Amiga, where everything had to fit on a 770k floppy, I am utterly amazed at how huge PC apps have become. What could these programmers possibly be filling up all those megabytes with? The whole ascii source code for the program? The phone book for their area code? It was a pleasure to me to accidently stumble upon this programmer and those Internet sites and thereby to learn, that he still likes the Amiga, allthough he changed the system. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 12. Nov. 2001, 07:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Nov.2001` Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)	AMIGAPage.de: CyberGraphX-BootPicLibraries, Amiga Advertising Marcus Neervroot updated the AMIGAPage.de website, today. As highlight this time there is a collection of CyberGraphX-BootPicLibraries available at the download section. Again some Amiga and show advertisings have been added to the Amiga history section (Amiga-Geschichte). Furthermore there are many small innovations...., links and pictures updated. AMIGAPage.de offers information about the Amiga's history, the AMIGA show 2001, several downloads (e.g. games), and more. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Nov. 2001, 19:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Amiga-Society Updates After a longer period of time there are some smaller updates on our site. For example the Amiga games list in the software section was extended, Psyira's initial Schlachtfeld intro music is available for download, and much more. The software page is being reorganized to use database, thus there will not be of much new stuff so far, but in any case we will be happy about any scan or screenshot, descriptions of any kind, etc., etc.... (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 10. Nov. 2001, 23:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Interview with Dieter Groppe (MCP) After more than two years delay of development the first update of the multi-function tool 'M.C.P.' was released in October. This tool originally programmed by Aliendesign now is being further developed by Dieter Groppe. The Amiga Arena talked to Dieter Groppe about how this further developement came to happen and how about the future of M.C.P.. Meanwhile M.C.P. became freeware, but one should register for free, however, to show interest. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 10. Nov. 2001, 22:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2001` Thorsten Gehler (ANF)	How to come to the Amiga 2001 in Cologne Thorsten Gehler wrote: One week before the Amiga fair we finally managed to set up our office for putting those wanting lifts in touch with those who can offer them. People looking for a possibilty to get to the fair or those who can offer such a possibility can place a message under (mag/Mitfahrzentrale) resp. search for such a possibility. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 10. Nov. 2001, 22:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2001` Matthias Münch (ANF)	DigiBoosterPro homepage update Matthias Münch wrote: There have been some changes on the DigiBoosterPro Community homepage. We have now installed a message board in addition to the forum as well as a form for wishes regarding the next DigiBoosterPro versions. Furthermore we will hold a seminar because of the Amiga fair 2001 on Saturday that will take place two times. In this seminar we'll deal with the program itself and also our goals. More details will be given during the next week. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 10. Nov. 2001, 15:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Nov.2001` Chris Hodges (ANF)	Aminet full text search engine with new URL Chris Hodges writes: The Aminet full text search engine is now reachable directly under http://home.in.tum.de/hodges/cgi-bin/amifind or indirectly (a little slower but easier to remember) under http://amifind.home.pages.de/ The availability of links to the official Aminet mirrors depends on Urban Müller and Matthias Scheler. All known bugs were fixed and several new features have been added (thanks once again to the testers!). Added have been the search for complete words, the search only in specific directories, the selection of different target mirrors and much more. There won't be an output of the found text passages as the computer operations group of the computer science faculty of the TU Munich partout doesn't want to increase my quota and the search engine with 181 MB uses already one third of it :-\ Suggestions are of course still very warm welcome. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 10. Nov. 2001, 00:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

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