• Ray of hope 2/Majic 12
• Extension/Pygmy Projects
• Full moon/Virtual Dreams

• ASpV082b_exe.lha (34K) - Program only
• ASpV082.guide - Documentation (AmigaGuide)
• Minimal MuLib distribution archive. V43.6 (60K)

• Barbie - Action for the Game Boy
• The Game of Life
• Space Gun - Flop of the month
• Total Eclipse - 3DO review
• Wing Commander - Amiga

• Civilization - Game of the month
• Mag! - Haven't your always wanted to be a games editor?

• Wing Commander - 3DO review

• optional lower case output
• support for undocumented instructions can be turned off
• authentic TEDMON hex dump output
• enhanced program statistics
• support for non-CBM files
• an ARexx script called Souw for creating full source codes

• 17. June 2002 fags v0.2.2devel3
• 14. June 2002 muhstik v3.9.5
• 14. June 2002 Anubis v3.1.0
• 14. June 2002 cURL v7.9.8
• 14. June 2002 dsbl v0.9.4
• 14. June 2002 neoBOPM v1.1
• 14. June 2002 speex v0.3.0

• First review: Amiga Anywhere Entertainment Pack #1
• PDA special: Compaq iPAQ, Sharp SL-5000 and Palm IIIc
• Interview with clickBOOM: of knights and demons
• QNX dances Samba: monster workshop to link to
• Online auctions: we show you where the hammer hangs
• File sharing: AudioGalaxy client AmiSAT reviewed
• Movie special: Amiga at the Movies, part 2
• Scenish: the Who is Who of the demo makers
• Interactive: small adverts and readers forum
• a. m. m.

Here is some info about the archive:

Name: Safe v18.0
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 18.658 bytes
Date: 20 June 2002
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski
Requires: OS 2.04+, xvs.library

Changes in Safe v18.0:
- small fixes

• 20.06.02 improved: Dyna Blaster (Hudson Soft) misc changes, new icons, new install script
• 19.06.02 new: Dune 2 (Westwood/Virgin Games) done by CFOU!
• 19.06.02 new: Darkseed (CyberDreams) done by CFOU!
• 19.06.02 improved: James Pond 2 - Robocod (Millennium) supports AGA version too
• 19.06.02 improved: Great Courts / Pro Tennis Tour (UBI-Soft) supports another version
• 19.06.02 new: Walker (DMA Design/Psygnosis) done by Codetapper
• 19.06.02 new: Trained Assassin (Digital Magic Software) done by CFOU!
• 19.06.02 improved: Scorpion (Digital Magic Software) new install script
• 19.06.02 improved: Nippon Safes Inc (Dynabyte) new install script
• 19.06.02 new: Megademo (Dragons) done by Psygore
• 19.06.02 improved: 1000 Miglia (Simulmondo) new install script
• 12.06.02 improved: Arcade Pool (Team 17) supports CD³² version too

• HTTP/1.0 200 OK.
• HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found.
• Simple logging of Inquiries.
• Display of the contents of directories, if no index document is available.
• Execution of ARexx commands of webpages.
• Execution of exeternal ARexx scripts with a query string as argument.
• Query String/URL unescaper.
• Complete parsing of external ARexx CGI scripts (.xgi files).
• Fancy Files (Support for unsafe characters in file names).

On the website of the Danish Meteorlogical Institute you can have a look how often lightning has struck in this region between 15 and 19 o'clock.

Angus (and others)
First, please do not forget that this is a public list and anything published on it gets read by non-A1 enthusiasts, misinterpreted, severely mangled and reposted to the gossip lists almost immediately. This then takes a disproportionate amount of our valuable business time to try to rectify. We (I) have been open in the past and have learnt lessons the hard way!

Secondly anyone who ordered a developer board - dealer or end user - was subscribed to a closed list under NDA. This allows us all on the list to be very open, even democratic, in the way the boards are shipped and packaged. Several people on this list are on the closed a1g3dev list have boards and some - but not all - of them have boards. I certainly have not had any adverse feedback from them either in private or public as to how things are being handled from the dev board perspective.

What I will say is that inevitably some people on the list have far more experience than others when it comes to installing linux. Since the dev group voted to initially standardise on SuSE PPC Linux - and the A1 boards are NOT the same as the Teron CX boards (which run Turbo Linux) - the group decided to let a select few of the real experts to make an easily installable distribution of SuSE Linux PPC and UAE-PPC first.

Given this - and although the remaining dev boards have already been manufactured - it was/is in my view, unfair to ask the remaining, less Linux-centric developers to pay for their dev boards until this SuSE/UAE release is finalised. Progress has been very good and this is expected to take place - without fanfare - shortly.

In parallel with this Hyperion are making good progress with sorting out the OS4 boot process, and the help that they have received form the Linux experts on the A1G3 dev list has been significant.

Oh yes, and the release by Gentle Eye was strictly speaking outside the A1G3dev list NDA, and I will be having a word with them about this today.

A new section has been added: COMMUNITY.
SUPPORT and DOWNLOADS sections are updated.

The new COMMUNITY section (http://elbox.com/community.html) offers information on discussion groups related to Elbox products, links to websites dedicated to our designs and the section on feedback from users. In SUPPORT the Resources section is added for our partners and developers.

New in this version:
+20dB MIC / dynamic 3D enhancement slider if supported / show&hide of every mixer / ARexx / Surround support VIA onboard sound (beta)

• added a ddbg tool to debug Your sources
• fixed assembler error when EXCEPTDO without Raise() occured in ppc code generator
• fixed eight enforcer hits
• when compiling a library, the library is placed in source's directory
• a bit fixed line statement in error reporting
• prohibited JUMPing to another procedure
• renumbered warnings, now starts with 900
• fixed IF <constant> for ppc
• fixed some structure scanning, added new error messages
• debug file do at last support (not yet finished) debugger :)
• END do now check, if allocation (NEW) was successful
• added error message, when SUB is called and not found
• fixed [~CONST]:x (CONSTants with single operators in lists)
• and much much more

• AWeb3.4APL020.lha (515 KB)
• AWeb3.4APL030.lha (515 KB)
• AWeb3.4APL040.lha (515 KB)
• AWeb3.4APL060.lha (515 KB)

• Updated: Games list
• New entry: Bundesliga Manager professional
• New entry: Obsession
• New entry: Super Monaco G.P.
• New entry: FIFA International Soccer
• New entry: Rock'n Roll
• New entry: Battle Command

• AWebPPC-bin.lha (622K), Readme
• AWebPPC-src.lha (1536K), Readme

In addition has OnyxSoft opened a special page for beta versions where you can find the latest beta versions of Detris and Graphica (Stefan Blixth). All programs but Graphica are written by Daniel Westerberg.

Other news: it's now possible to sort the complete demo list by year (just select "view by release date" and press "refresh view"). Thanks to pVC on ANN for this idea. And we are working on a comment/vote system. It's not finished yet but it is already possible to register, vote and comment. So now it's in your hands to make this site much more interesting!!! More additions to the voting/comment will be added (like top demo charts,...).

• AmigaOS 3.0 or higher
• 68030-50MHz Processor or better
• mpega.library (Aminet:util/libs/mpega_library.lha)
• asyncio.library (Aminet:dev/c/AsyncIO.lha)
• AHI audio system (Aminet:mus/misc/ahiusr.lha)

European Digital Rights:

An international civil organisation for the Internet

European Digital Rights (EDRi) which is an international civil organisation for the Internet has been etablished on 8th June 2002 in Berlin. Ten organisations from seven countries from the European Union have bundled their forces to defend the human rights in Europe in the digital era of the information and communication technology. The residence of EDRi will be Brussels.

These are the foundation members: Bits of Freedom (Netherlands), Chaos Computer Club (CCC, Germany), Digital Rights (Denmark), Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFi, Finnland), Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR, United Kingdom), Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG, Germany), Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire (IRIS, France), Privacy International (United Kingdom), Quintessenz (Austria) und Verein für Internet- Benutzer (VIBE!AT, Austria).

• Modify the Solo's clock
• Turn call monitoring on/off
• Switch answerphone on/off
• Set number of rings before answerphone answers
• Set number of rings before the Solo automatically switches the answerphone on (should it be switched off)
• Toggle power saving mode on/off
• Display detailed statistics on your last modem connection
• Display all the calls in the CallerID log
• Erase the calls in the CallerID log

At least the bang - who does'nt catch one now will have it already: Arteffect 4 together with the AE collection for a super discount price.

Gary suffered a heart attack over the weekend but is now back at home and on the way to a full recovery. He is following doctors orders to get plenty of rest and stay away from email.

He has asked me to thank you for keeping him in your thoughts and for your best wishes. He hopes to be back on email towards the end of the week.

• cdtv.org.uk
• cd32.amiga32.com

• Created a very basic work in progress IXML plugin (See Ix-Guide, www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/hudson/187.
• Amended EvenMore's escape code interpreter. Not sure if these codes are in use already, if they are, someone let me know. I have 2 new codes, *e[50;0;0;0m and *e[51;0;0;0m. Both take 3 arguments after them to allocate a pen for text (R,G,B). 50 changes the Pen colour, and 51 will change the background colour, thus giving you multicoloured text.
• Rewrote RTF plugin from the ground up with full colour support.

• bibcursed v2.0.0 - Editor for BibTeX
• Anubis v3.0.2 - Mailprogram
• barkix v1.0.2 - Barcode generator for PCL without the need for font cartridges

Also an update for the greetings program ´Bekuna´ Version 1.9R4 from Kuno Naumann is available for download. The program has many features like greting depending on daytime, display of date, time, summertime, moonphase and sign, and reminder of birthdays and events.

The new port is one of the climaxes of the Computex. More and more manufacturers of mainboards, controllers, and hard drives have products with the successor of IDE and E-IDE (up to UDMA-133) in the program. Serial ATA should replace the parallel ATA complete until February 2003.

The advantage of SATA is the easier and more stable connecting. Timing problems are history. Also the new cables with 4 to 8 poles ease the circulation of air inside the tower because they are not blocking the stream.

SATA uses up to 4 direct point-to-point connections between controller and one device per connection. This doubles the maximum of possible devices. Problems with jumpers and bus-termination are no longer expected, because every wire is terminated at both ends in the chip. A defective device will not effect the others.

SATA is designed for using period of 10 years with two duplications of performance up to 600 MB/sec. At start a transfer rate of 150 MB/sec is supported, slighlty less than LVD-SCSI with 160 MB/sec. Some of the other features are the break through of the 137 GB limit of harddrives, "hot-plug"-abilities, and 1st-Party-DMA.

The first devices will maybe available in third quarter 2002, but some manufacturers of mainboards have started to implement it into their chipsets.

• 11.06.02 new: M1 Tank Platoon (Microprose) done by JOTD
• 11.06.02 new: Killerball (Microids) done by JOTD
• 11.06.02 new: Guy Spy (Ready Soft) done by JOTD
• 11.06.02 improved: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) supports another version, new icons
• 10.06.02 new: Dream Web (Empire Software) done by Dr.Zarkov
• 10.06.02 new: Invasion (Sector Software) done by Codetapper
• 10.06.02 improved: Deuteros (Ian Bird) supports another version
• 10.06.02 new: Blasteroids (Tengen/Image Works) done by Psygore
• 10.06.02 improved: Super Cars (Gremlin) now compatible with emulators, manual included
• 05.06.02 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) minor changes

editors note:
We are not able to say something about the differences between the above version and the one reported by Amiforce on 08.06.2002. If you anything about it feel free to tell us.

Update 12.06.2002:
David McMinn explained us the difference:

I saw your note on the AmigaNews site, that you could not see the difference between the different AmiBlitz distributions, so I thought I would clarify.

First of all, Bernd Roesch has updated the editor and compiler greatly, and convinced Acid software to release Blitz Basic 2 for free, under the name AmiBlitz2. However, Bernd did not provide a ready-made package for users to download and use, only updates.

I decided to create an user distribution which would provide everything a person needs to start programming in AmiBlitz as I have been maintaining the Blitz2000 site for a few years. Of course, since AmiBlitz is free, anyone can do this if they choose, such as CJ Stroker has done on the AmiForce site.

The differences between the distributions on the Blitz2000 and AmiForce sites are that they have different contents and are aimed at different people. For example, the distribution provided by AmiForce does not seem to have the acidlibs and deflibs files, so you already need a working installation of AmiBlitz to use it (they might have it in other archives on the site though, I have not looked through all of them). The AmiForce site is also more useful for German speaking programmers, as a lot/most of the documentation they have is available in German (for example, the AmiBlitz manuals). The distributions on the Blitz2000 site are available in different sizes and have all the documents for the libraries included in the archive, as well as useful tools and the library files mentioned above.

The only thing which would be nice to keep the same between all distributions is the default set of libraries that are provided. Bernd suggested this as it makes everything easier from the viewpoint of everyone has the same libraries to start off with.

Sorry for the long mail, but I hope this clears the situation up :)

• Dillo--a Web Browser as Fast as Lightning, by Matthias Arndt
• Cracking open proprietary envelopes, by Adrian J. Chung
• Help Dex, by Shane Collinge
• Compiler Design with Python, by Dinil Divakaran
• A Linux Fax Server for a Windows Network, by Pedro Fraile
• Writing Your Own Toy OS (PART II), by Krishnakumar R.
• The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers, by Mike Orr
• Improving Hard Disk Performance with hdparam, by Piter Punk
• Qubism, by Jon "Sir Flakey" Harsem
• Getting started with PIC 16F84 on GNU/Linux, by Jerry Sebastian
• A Framework For Writing Application Servers In C++, by Rob Tougher

• mcp1_39.lha (912K)
• mcp1_39u.lha (450K)

• Screenmode requester
• GadTools user interface
• Most requesters operable via keyboard
• CAMD library
• New 32 colour design
• Localisation
• German catalogue included
• and much more

• Goal!
• Dizzy Dice
• Beam
• Police Quest 2
• Starball
• Night Dawn
• Streetgang
• Khalaan
• The three Stooges
• Silent Service II
• Seek & Destroy
• Their finest Hour
• Christoph Kolumbus
• Jurassic Park

1. Scans of software, of which there are no pictures available yet.
2. Supplemental informationen about software in the Little Book of Amiga Software.
3. Information about software not yet mentioned on the pages.
4. Software instruction manuals.

The game by Ventzislav Tzvetkov requires an Amiga with 1 MB RAM and is available for download on Aminet.

The start make some cosmetic changes that had taken most of the time. Many errors had been removed and especially the selected colours got a change after some criticism. Whether it looks better now may be judged by everybody on his/her own. ;-)

Amiblitz:
There's now a new, error reduced version of Amiblitz 2.26 in the Amiblitz section. It's again an update archive that contains next to the English version also the German one. A new Image.res that enhances Amiblitz with further graphical possibilities is also included. GlowIcons are now used and bring the boring old fashioned look to an end. As the old archive contains the new one bilingual docs.

Download: amiblitz2.26.lha (658 KB)

Furthermore there's a little 3D tutorial in the Amiblitz section included. This will be removed in the near future again, though, as it will be completely revised and expanded with example sources. Soon will a beginners course be started that will then lead to different areas. The 3D part will be done by Sterix (a programmer and my best guy) who is training at present on Amiblitz. The first sources look really great. In this direction there'll come quite some things. ;-) Some examples (demos) that could make people very interested in Amiblitz will follow, too.

Softguide:
The softguide section had been opened, too. The beginning is done with Amisat. For this there'll be soon a detailed manual in the helpguide rubric released. The other sections will be updated again, too.

Forum:
Amiforce has now a new forum, too. All interested are invited to enter. Almost all contributions of the old forum had been taken on. So it's not a start at zero. Thanks go to Matthias Münch for his support.

New for this version (40.40) is the support of MacBinary MS-Word files.

There is also the latest version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type.

All customers who have entered their names in our new product registration will get the access to the current version and files. Customers who still did not register can make up for it: Registration.

Because PageStream 4.1 now finally is complete including the German documentation, German localisation (except the Mac-version) H&P presents a special for new customers. For a limited time the full version of PageStream will be available to a special price for all versions. PageStream is one of the few products which is available for three platforms (Amiga, Windows, Macintosh) with the same version number.

• HP Deskjet 6x0C (now with compression and installer script) version 40.12
• HP 870C (now with installer script) version 40.21
• HP 900C (now with Installer script) version 40.12

• Adding objects
• Determining start position
• Controlling the editor

• Adjustments of traffic lights
• Pedestrians
• Route modus
• Barring roads
• Transmission ways

• Own textures
• Area defenitions
• Allocation of textures
• Change of rise

So these data may become representative if the program will be distributed as much as possible. Because of that I decided to put this program on my homepage for download. Please directly send the data to Olaf (please read the documentation before!).

The last possible data for sending in it is the 16th June 2002. Please do not send any reports after this day. This day is the deadline and then all reports which I have got up to this date will be analysed. Please join numerously...
Thanks a lot in anticipation, Mario.

PS: For all those who doubt that this program is "clean" I added the source code to the program. So you can see what it makes.

The comment function can be found under the screenshots in every demo. For the voting you must register (username and password). In the future we'll make the user data editable, so if a user would like to express more about his interests (email address, homepage, system specs) he can do that.

If you have not yet signed the petition, then please do so now! Please help spreading the word by linking to AmigaPOP.8bit.co.uk. It's not too late to save our favourite OS and a unified POP-based hardware market!

1. (3) Payback - 164 Pts.
2. (2) Napalm - 135 Pts.
3. (1) Quake - 130 Pts.
4. (9) The Settlers - 100 Pts.
5. (4) Earth 2140 - 100 Pts.
6. (10) Heretic 2 - 97 Pts.
7. (5) WipEout 2097 - 84 Pts.
8. (19) Freespace - 74 Pts.
9. (17) Worms / Worms DC - 73 Pts.
10. (7) Sensible World Of Soccer - 66 Pts.
11. (12) Shogo - 64 Pts.
12. (8) Foundation - 61 Pts.
13. (6) Slam Tilt - 55 Pts.
14. (45) Beneath A Steel Sky - 48 Pts.
15. (27) Cannon Fodder - 47 Pts.
16. (11) Civilization - 45 Pts.
17. (31) Dune 2 - 44 Pts.
18. (24) Wasted Dreams - 40 Pts.
19. (96) Another World - 39 Pts.
20. (38) Flashback - 39 Pts.

• Scud Buster
• Spacewar
• ZapTris

Changes since version 0.59:

• Created a basic RTF plugin.
• Removed Printer settings from the preference GUI. Instead of opening the printer device, it will now open a file using the PRT: device instead. The other method was causing problems with TurboPrint. Please use the Workbench printer preferences instead.
• Fixed a bug. Was updating menus while they were still in use when loading or closing a file. Thanks Jean Marie :).
• Images within EvenMore, e.g. Hand image when you quit EvenMore, will now be loaded through icons in the icon folder you are currently using. They will support NewIcons/GlowIcons as usual.
• Created a basic Becker2text plugin.
• A new PowerArt ASCII plugin has been created by aGGreSSor of team PowerAmiga, along with a new Russian locale!

Download: aiffdt41.lha (6 KB)

Download: angband-300-ami.lha.

• Titanium (contains ProStationAudio Titanium, 30 ALPS plugins, complete technical support and a free version of AudioLab16 R3)
• Titanium, as before, but only basic service (installation), no free updates and no free version of AudioLab16 R3
• Older ProStationAudio Millennium Version (contains ProStationAudio Millennium, 30 ALPS plugins, basic service (installation), no free updates

• Buffy2 cardset from Vegard Krog Petersen
• JulieKSmith and Zoe from Joe Pineapples
• New AS-Solitaire version from Andreas Sauer
• MogwaiMen7 cardset
• 3 Dorian cardsets from Allan Rasmussen
• Link to Vegard's Website

• 04.06.02 new: Plutos (Micro Value) done by Codetapper
• 03.06.02 new: Dogfight (Microprose Ltd.) done by Dr.Zarkov
• 03.06.02 new: Vyrus (Amiga Fun) done by Bored Seal
• 03.06.02 improved: Marble Madness (Atari/Electronic Arts) support for the splash screen added
• 03.06.02 new: Hellrun Machine (Amiga Fun) done by Bored Seal
• 03.06.02 improved: Dune (Cryo) diskfile release, shitty original installer not necessary anymore
• 03.06.02 improved: Dark Side (Incentive Software/Domark) also supports the Rob Northen series 1 copylocked version
• 03.06.02 new: Crystal Palace (Amiga Fun) done by Bored Seal
• 03.06.02 improved: Arcade Pool (Team 17) fixed ECS slave, reworked install script

He talks about this great tool and all its new features in the coming version. He has also added an exclusive screenshot.

• ahi.device: Re-enabled optimization and removed all 64 bit kludges for the Amithlon version. It's still just using the C version of the mixing routines, but is already about 2.5 times faster native (compared to the JIT-compiled 4.180 version). I like it.

• paula.audio: When opening timer.device (used in the DMA mode), I didn't clear the flags parameter and opened UNIT_MICROHZ instead of UNIT_ECLOCK. [Sigbjørn Skjæret]

Newly added complete mirrors:

• amidemos.org (Amiga demos as DivX videoformat),
• amigascne.org (a lot scene material)
• aros.org (the source compatible AmigaOS clone),
• geekgadgets.org (ports of many GNU/FSF programs for Amiga),
• funet.fi [amiga] (many old Amiga programs, +Fish disks 1-999)
• uu.net [amiga] (only few but very old Amiga programs :)
• AMOK (Amiga Modula & Oberon Club, disks 1-105)
• UAE (Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, source- and binary archive)
• WinUAE (Main-FTP of winuae.net)

If somebody wants to add other freeware (floppy-)disk series and owns a flatrate, please feel free to contact us. ADF, DMS and lha archives are welcomed, too.

Furthermore we would like to publish other freeware CD's. So if somebody owns such a thing and has a broadband connection available do not hasitate and contact us, too. Our ftp-server can be accessed at:

• http://ftp.back2roots.org
• ftp://ftp.back2roots.org