• TheCrypt22.lha
• CrM.library.lha

• Offline messages are now requested, displayed, and cleared from the server.
• When a message window opens, it will no longer grab the current window focus.
• Message history is now saved. No GUI support for this yet, soon, of course.
• Login packets now match the latest ICQ2001b build 3659 release.

• You cannot add contacts manually yet. If you have never used ICQ2001b, don't bother using STRICQ V2 at this time.
• If you have used ICQ2001b before, STRICQ V2 will import your contact list from the server
• If you get an enforcer hit, please forward it to Douglas F. McLaughlin on the message base. You should use <pre></pre> tags.
• You will need the latest versions of NList, NListtree and TextInput. Links for download are available at STRICQ-Homepage

Name: VirusZ III v0.98
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 54.288
Date : 9 March 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

News in VirusZ III v0.98:

• Fixed bug in vector check kickmem brain that caused all patches to be recognized as 'AmigaOS ROM Update'. Sorry for that!
• Designed a new display format for the vector check. This one looks better and is more informative than the old one.
• Added brain for kicktags to the vector check. This one currently only recognizes 'AmigaOS ROM Update' and 'ramdrive.device'.
• Added the 'Snapshot' function to the vector check (as I promised). Now you can snapshot every unknown patch that causes alerts on your Amiga and send me the results. This makes it possible for me to even add patches that I cannot install on my computer. Read the manual for detailed information!
• Added recognition for ppc.library v46.37 to the vector check. Thanks to Jean-Michel Chapron for the handmade snapshots.
• Added disassembler mode to Memory Monitor. This should help experienced users/programmers to analyse unknown vector patches.

For questions and discussions on personal basis, though, they are still at your disposal.

Here's the complete message in English in which they explain their move:
Recent events have given me the impression that it has become impossible in the Amiga community to speak up in self-defence without someone taking offence in it. Thomas and me have therefore decided (in in fact already did so) to unsubscribe from all amiga-related public mailing lists, newsgroups and web forums, and we have deleted all our Amiga bookmarks.

Work on our projects will not be affected by this. OS 4 will still be developed in the same way it used to be. We're just pulling out of the public.

I'm sorry we have to take such drastic measures, but it simply doesn't work otherwise anymore. You can still contact us personally, we're open for discussion, but no longer in public. Fact is that everything we say will end up on some web page or forum, being dissected to death and commented with all sort of nice wording, so the best solution is obviously to say nothing at all.

Thanks for reading this.

In Payback you are taking on the role of a young driver being on the run. The goal is to become a big gangster boss.

The AMIGAplus 03/2002 that was to be released on March 13th will be delivered because of this printing delay about three days later than planned. We ask for you to excuse this.

That's why I decided to change to YahooGroups. As far as I know not everybody is satisfied to be stored in a YahooGroup so I deleted the old subscriptions completly.

• 07.03.02 improved: Xybots (Tengen) supports another version, minor changes
• 07.03.02 fixed: Disposable Hero (Euphoria/Gremlin Graphics) SMC removed
• 07.03.02 updated: Street Racer (Epic) misc changes
• 05.03.02 new: Crack (Linel) done by Psygore

Ian Greenway:
This version has a small amount of code changed in the Z80 core which I was hoping would offer some small speed increase. Despite the fact it is shorter code, fewer clock cycles to execute, and cleaner, it seems to actually run about 5% slower on my '060. :-( Still, the code was optimised for '030, so maybe it will help there!

WinUAE 0.8.21 Release 2 (07.03.2002)
====
- FIXED: custom chipset emulation fixes (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- FIXED: JIT FPU (Bernd Roesch)
- FIXED: filesystem emulation (Bernd Schmidt, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: PC joystick 2 (me)
- FIXED: mouse 2 emulation (me)
- FIXED: multiple CD32 CDROM and uaescsi.device updates (me)
- FIXED: bsdsocket (Bernd Roesch, Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: configuration GUI memory leak fixed (Stephan Riedelbeck)
- FIXED: keyboard problems (me)
- FIXED: CD32 pad button emulation
- FIXED: serial port updates (Bernd Roesch, me)
- CHANGED: sound emulation (me, Bernd Schmidt)
- ADDED: CD32 media eject/insert support (me)
- ADDED: CTRL-AMIGA-AMIGA-ALT resets and clears chipmemory (me)
- ADDED: "pause emulation while minimized"-option to misc-page (me)
- ADDED: FDI-support is back (me)

Important notes, known bugs and workarounds:

• WinUAE freezes before GUI appears? Delete Configurations/default.uae.
• Check your CPU speed settings, they may not be correct if you load old configuration file.
• Sound buffer size is not comparable with old versions. 3 or 4 is usually the best size.
• When using CD32 emulation, keep "Hard Drives"-tab empty.

Included with the LINUX (FOR PLAYSTATION 2) kit is the PlayStation 2 Linux software, an internal hard disc drive (40 GB), a 10/100 Base-T Ethernet Network Adaptor, and a USB mouse and keyboard. You will still need to purchase or supply a PlayStation 2 console, a 8MB memory card (for PlayStation 2) [preferably a new memory card -- once formatted for Linux use, your game data will be erased and you will not be able to save new game data] and a VGA monitor with sync-on-green capability [check your monitor's user manual to see if it meets this requirement].

While it's exciting to see tremendous interest in this new PlayStation venture, there are a few things for you to note before purchasing. LINUX (FOR PLAYSTATION 2) is a tool for Linux enthusiasts and programming hobbyists. Basic understanding of the Linux operating system is strongly suggested for installation and use. Also, be advised that this accessory will NOT enhance your PlayStation 2 games. The hard disc drive formatted for Linux cannot be used with HDD-compatible PlayStation 2 games, and the included Network Adaptor (Ethernet) does not include a modem, which the upcoming standard Network Adaptor will. Be sure to consider all of these factors before making your decision to purchase.

For more information about LINUX (FOR PLAYSTATION 2), please visit the official PlayStation 2 Linux Community site FAQ at :

http://playstation2-linux.com/faq.php

However, this problem should be fixed within the next two days. If anyone needs to send an e-mail urgently, there is another address that can be used: sharwin@thendic-France.com.

• "The Secret of Monkey Island" is 100% functional.
• "Indy 4" can be completed. The "necklace bug" was eliminated.
• The copy-protection used by "Day of the Tentacle" was overcome, and now the game may be played to the end.
• Progress was made in supporting "Sam & Max," which is now playable through Bumpusville. Just don't look at the dragon heart and don't switch off the alarm
• The format for save-games has been changed, so best to start the adventure from scratch.

One thing we would like to mention is that JMiner and the 3D engine are two completely different projects: The 3D objects are compatible with both engines but the renderer is by no means the same. The FPU-based J Miner runs slower when more polygons are added, the integer-based 3D engine will always run at one speed.

AuroraRadio is now officially online and is a Shoutcast radio station dedicated only to quality music. Every style and age of music is played, including Amiga modules and C64 SID music. Currently, the radio station is in its test phase, which means that sometimes the server is down, but under normal circumstances it should be available 24 hours a day...!

Yesterday the following sections were updated:

• Europe
• List of new links
• List of lost links
• History 2002

• New tooltype 'PICASSO96'.
  Use this tooltype if you have problem while displaying brush or text in zoom window. PfPaint will disable the cybergraphics command scalepixelarray_.
• Improve Palette requester and gradient effect when you are using Voodoo and picasso96.
• Fixed a nasty bug with picture <16 pixels.
• New arexx commands:
  • PP_Verbose 0 or 1 (will enable or disable security requester).
  • pp_group N° x y w h stat (will draw box on requester).
• Improve pp_GetLocale.
• Improve Bridge tool, more security, improve tvpaint host, new host tvpaint_layer (by PixelArt).
• Improve Opacity mapping.
• TVPaint's user request: Density mapping can be use as drawing effect.
• Improve Undo-Redo.
• Fix bug with undo and some effect.
• Update PerfectPaint.cd and PerfectPaint.ct.

Actually the C64 is past because it is much too small and too weak for the high demands of the Internet-epoch. Nevertheless some C64 still run on Internet.

Here is the address of a WWW-server (title link) which works with a C64. The only extension being added is an interface card with unbelievelable 38400 bps data transfer rate.

• 04.03.02 improved: Whizz (Flair Software) supports another version, trainer added
• 04.03.02 improved: Vixen / She-Fox (Martech Games) supports another version
• 04.03.02 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) supports another version, some fixes
• 04.03.02 improved: Battle Toads (Mindscape) supports another version
• 04.03.02 new: Archon 2: Adept (Electronic Arts) done by JOTD

It fixes a major bug so please do not use older versions. Also now you can disable the Undo function, on slower machines you will increase the speed.

Download: STRICQv2.lha
Please read the important installation hints.

Changes since last release:

1. Type-4 messages are now parsed and displayed.
2. The menu bar has now been added. The Prefs window no longer opens by default.
3. The Debug window still opens by default (I need it) but it can be closed and re-opened with the menu.
4. The status in all message packets is now sent to the GUI as well.
5. Requesting offline messages doesn't seem to be working.
6. The program no longer crashes Amithlon. I don't know why, but I'm happy.

*1-4 channel*
Haavat & Arvet          3:47 min
my1.4chdbm              5:09 min
Track Him !             4:00 min

*5-16 channel*
Commercial Pianopower   7:17 min
Design Schranz          5:11 min
The Digital Machine     4:13 min
Digi Boosts             5:00 min
Hidious                 3:46 min
Interferences           5:29 min
Partikelstrom           3:44 min
Shooting Star           4:58 min
Trip256                 2:16 min

*17-32 channel*
Death Vision            4:24 min
JazzyBeat               4:14 min
Long Journey            5:40 min

petra.struck@online-club.de.

Due to the above mentioned problem we are not able to send our newsletter.

Still we do not know how long the repair will take.

The company Klaus Schallhorn Omnisearch proved that Google indicates so-called secure servers (ssl), too. Although they say that they do not. Meanwhile there are more then 3.8 million secure sites indicated by Google.

Even worse: Google announced that they are fully compliant to the robots.txt-standard but they definitly do not when indicating secure servers. The Google-spiders have already executed over 161,000 cgi-programs one or more times.

If you check the search results of corresponding requests you can find servers that forbid via the robots.txt access to the cgi-bin directory even under the top 10 results.

The features:

• High-quality icons in GlowIcon and NewIcon formats covering subjects such as applications, games, drawers, etc.
• GlowIcon style toolbars for some of the most popular programmes (YAM, AmigaWriter, Art-Effect, Directory Opus, IBrowse, Voyager and others).
• GlowIcon style skins for AmigaAmp and CoolCalc
• Workbench backdrops suitable for the GlowIcon look

Download: STRICQv2.lha
Please read the important installation hints.

Changes since last release:

1. Fixed a major error that involved a race condition in the IPC. A receiving task could actually check for data on the message port before that data actually arrived. The IPC now blocks until the message does arrive.
2. Fixed an error in that some messages would actually not be NULL terminated.
3. Now requests offline messages. If there are any, they won't be displayed! Hehehe...
4. I still need enforcer/cyberguard hits!!

• #188: Survival talk
• #189: Double as many stories at the same price
• #190: Mixed characters
• #191: Where are my 5 gnats?

Here is some info about the update:

Name: VirusZ III v0.97
Archive name : VirusZ.lha
Archive size : 50.208
Date : 2 March 2002
Programmer : Georg Hoermann
Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

News in VirusZ III v0.97:

• Fixed bugs in window calculation code that caused the resizeable windows (Vector Check, File Check) to look ugly or to not open up at all. Thanks to Crown/Cryptoburners, DMX, Paracels/Placebo, Jan Andersen and Mad Roger for the bug reports...
• Moved size-gadget in resizeable windows from the right border to the bottom border (looks much nicer and takes less space on small screens) and re-fixed width of these windows.
• Re-added support for ALL disk-based devices to Bootblock Lab on special request from Mikolaj Calusinski. Are you happy now? :-)
• Added disassembler mode to the Bootblock Lab. This should help experienced users/programmers to analyse unknown bootblocks. Note: This feature requires 'disassembler.library' v40.x by Thomas Richter, you'll find it in Aminet...
• Made Bootblock Lab window resizeable as the disassembler output becomes quite big sometimes.
• Changed the file format for saving window positions. Sorry, but if you already had arranged your windows individually, you will have to position them all again and save the prefs afterwards.
• Started adding Sector Check (at least the device selector, the real check is not implemented yet, sorry for that :-(
• Added recognition for mmu.library patches to Vector Check and fixed some smaller problems.
• Finally wrote at least a short documentation for VirusZ III.

• Optimize File Check (output is much too slow, checking archives cannot be canceled at the moment).
• Add a fully working Sector Check.
• Add new features to Vector Check (eg. a brain for known ROMTags, a snapshot function for unknown patches [you can send me those snapshots and I add them to the brain]).
• Add disassembler mode to Memory Monitor.
• Add useful commands to ARexx port.

Furthermore has a new forum been installed. There's a poll in the Amiblitz area regarding this topic. The forum can be used as a place to go for Amiblitz programmers and for people who want to become programmers.

Further planned contents of the section:

• Complete users and reference manual in German.
• Tutorials and courses.
• An own distribution.
• Example source codes and much more.

Planned are extensions regarding the subject software troubles and of course for AmigaXL/QNX. The next thing I'll do is translating the review to English.

Required is much time as a game can take several hours and besides that one hould already know the game a little (or the old Civilisation game) as it is right complex.

The played version is 1.11.x as the 1.12.x for Amiga has too many bugs.

Downloadlinks:
Amiga: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/amiga/freeciv-1.11.0.lzx
PC: ftp://ftp.freeciv.org/freeciv/packages/windows/old/freeciv-1.11.4-win.zip

• 28.02.02 fixed: Emmanuelle (TomaHawk) access fault removed
• 28.02.02 new: Phalanx (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 28.02.02 new: Campaign (Empire) done by Bored Seal
• 28.02.02 new: Railroad Tycoon (Microprose) done by JOTD
• 27.02.02 new: Karate King (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 27.02.02 improved: City Defence (KingSoft) supports another version
• 26.02.02 new: Vixen (Martech Games) done by Psygore
• 26.02.02 improved: Venom Wing (Thalamus/SoftEyes) some blitter delays added
• 26.02.02 new: Theatre Of Death (Psygnosis/Shed Software) done by CFOU!
• 26.02.02 new: Space Harrier (Elite) done by Psygore

Especially for "text processing" the Amiga is not up-to-date, any more. The Amiga Arena talked to Volker Grabbe, who established the "OpenOffice" project and set himself the target to put an end to this nuisance with the open source variant of Sun's "StarOffice 6".

This interview is available in English, too.

Because Volker Grabbe cannot implement such project on his own, he raised a little team and still relies on help from the Amiga community. Everybody wanting to participate in this project, please contact Volker Grabbe for more information.

If MusicCity will allow other Gnutella clients, there would be a better chance again for the Amiga to get MP3s and video files, than it is currently possible with Amster (with the navigator).

First there will be little but useful tools released. The DynDNS client ´AmiDynDNS´ was the first one and is available in version 0.9 at the download section. More sophisticated applications are scheduled.

DynDNS Client AmiDynDNS v0.9
AmiDynDNS is a command line based client or the DynDNS.org service. The new version fixes some bugs and implements many new functions.

• Complete DynDNS support (DynDNS, StatDNS, CustomDNS, and all options).
• SMC barricade router support (IP directly from DSL router).
• New config file format (optional), to take all the new options.
• Local IP addresses are scanned now.
• Current hosts will not be updated again (prevents hosts from being locked by DynDNS).

1. New beta version driver for scanner Primax Colorado Direct 9600 - PrimaxCD9600 v1.2 beta1. PrimaxCD9600 is driver for ImageFX, and use support for devices paralizer_epp.device (PARalizer card) and amth_epp.device (Amithlon)
2. Public beta version driver for Amithlon - amth_epp.device v0.5 beta 1. amth_epp working in EPP mode parallel port.

What sets AuroraRadio apart from ordinary radio station is that its aimed at a musical perspective, this means that infantile commercial efforts such as Britney Spears, Limp Bizkit and Eminem will not be broadcasted. Music with more or less modest attitude and at creativity's beauty. Not aimed at 1 genre but for those who agree each genre whether it's classical music, rock, jazz or house or whatever other can be beautiful when well done. Think in the direction of Ken Ishii, Massive Attack, Studio K7 Dj's, Bjork, Future Sound Of London, Beanfield, The Beatles, Richie Hawtin, Tricky, Tori Amos, The Doors, Vangelis, Sade, The Orb, Sneaker Pimps, Oasis, Sun Electric, Everything But The Girl, Squarepusher and Amiga/c64 artists such as Muffler, CNCD, Matt Gray, Martin Walker etc.

The offer is very varied and covers every timeframe in musical history and mat not suit the genre aimed taste of the mainstreamer. The website will be online in 3 weeks, but before that it's best to search for "auroraradio" on the shoutcast website.

The whole ID3 informations are displayed in a HTML list. "MP3-2-HTML" has many more features, it is a very useful program.

Amiga Arena has talked with the young developer Gareth Griffiths, who is also working on a PD game "ShootOut". How important feedback is and which influence it has on further development of software is shown in this interview.

You can get it from the Aminet or from the title link under "other stuff".

• 25.02.02 new: Venom Wing (Thalamus/SoftEyes) done by CFOU!
• 25.02.02 improved: Times Of Lore (Origin) install package fixed
• 25.02.02 improved: Test Drive (Accolade) better compatibility
• 25.02.02 improved: Lotus 3 (Magnetic Fields/Gremlin) access fault removed, decruncher speed up
• 25.02.02 improved: Little Computer People (Activision) supports another version
• 25.02.02 new: Fireblaster (Paradox Software) done by Psygore
• 25.02.02 updated: Defender Of The Crown (Cinemaware) reworked, access fault removed
• 22.02.02 improved: Thunder Blade (Sega) supports another version
• 22.02.02 new: P.O.W. (Actionware) done by CFOU!
• 22.02.02 new: Mad TV (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
• 22.02.02 new: Excalibur (King Soft) done by CFOU!
• 22.02.02 new: Emmanuelle (TomaHawk) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 new: Times Of Lore (Origin) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 new: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) done by JOTD
• 21.02.02 improved: Last Action Hero (Psygnosis) misc improvements
• 21.02.02 new: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East) done by CFOU!

Some features:

• capable of changing Delfina Lite's internal clock speed
• displays external and internal clock frequences and DSP frequency ratio
• supports any external clock (crystal) frequence in addition to standard 4 MHz external clock
• available frequency range with standard Delfina Lite: 4 MHz - 16.4 GHz!

These are the main points:

• There will be detailed information published at the homepage of Amiga Inc. as well as off Eyetech this week.
• The AmigaOne was developed in Asia on behalf of Eyetech.
• The motherboard contains a Openfirmware compatible BIOS. TurboLinux is currently running on it.
• The production will be started as soon as the betatests of OS4 are successfull. The board will then be available six weeks later.
• The price for the entry-model will be: 350 UKP / 600 Euro (without tax and shipping.)

Message-ID: <012d01c1be23$5d895a60$2501a8c0@cix>
An: 
Von: "Eyetech Group Ltd" 
Datum: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:37:58 -0000
Betreff: Re: [amigaone] Re: Finally the A1

>
> As far as I know, there won't be any on the Show site as none us knew  
about
> the new arrival until Alan arrived at the venue and, following that, none  
of us
> had any time to take any pictures!
>
> I would imagine these will appear on Eyetech's site once Alan has  
recovered
> from snow blindness / tiredness!
>  

First of all thanks to everyone on this list for their patience. We have
been working very hard to get something demonstrably working rather than
just announcing more promises. Ideally on Friday we would have announced
that the A1 was going to be at the show, but at that point the board was
locked up in British customs. We didnt pick it up from UPS's Durham depot
(120 miles from the show) until 7:30 saturday morning and had no idea
whether it had survived the journey from the other side of the world until
we configured it at the show and switched it on.

Secondly, Fleecy and I were plannning to sit down and make sure that we
issued a jointly acceptable, coordinated, news release on the A1. But he got
snowed in in Cumbria, so we cant now do that until later in the week. Expect
a major web site update on both our and Amiga's sites next Monday.

But in the meantime I'm going to repeat here some of the things I said at
Alt-Woa as some of the 'authoritative' postings on this list (& ann) have
been off in the realms of fantasy and bear little if any relationship to
what I actually said.

But first a bit of of background.

Yes I do read this list and try to filter out and take note of what is said
(apart of course from the rude postings). The main feedback that has come
out over the last year can, I think, be summarised as follows:

CPU speed concerns
Memory speed concerns
Provision of legacy peripherals (FDD/Serial/Parallel/kb/mouse)
Provision of integrated peripherals
AGP speed
Will it run Linux?
But I dont have/want/will never buy an A1200
Will it fit in in an EZTower mk1-5/RBM/xyz tower?
It costs too much (interesting this one as the price has never been
announced)
and, of course
Where is it?

In October 2000 when we laid out the design for the A1, there was no
commercially available 'northbridge' chip (the interface between the CPU,
memory and PCI bus) at the relatively small quantities that we needed at an
economic price. 'Southbridge' chips were available (these handle the system
timing, interrupts etc and, traditionally also embed the lower speed
peripheral functions such as IDE, USB etc), but clearly these do not come
with a built in A1200-PCI bridge - which would have to be built in custom
logic. It therefore made economic sense to build a custom southbridge chip -
but without the integrated peripherals (these were available on separate
chips at low cost anyway) which incorporated the A1200-PCI bridge. Things
were going nicely until May/June . . . . and you know the rest, or most of
it anyway.

By the time OS4 development had been signed off in early November the world
had moved on. Commercially available PPC northbridge chips were available,
and coupled with off-the-shelf southbridge chips, were able to deliver
better price performance than the original A1 custom chip design, and (since
the big boys had already been using them successfully) without the risk of
bugs intrinsically present in any custom logic implementation. This meant
that the only custom logic function needed was the PCI to A1200 bridge.

Alongside this many people had expressed a wish only to have a stand-alone
A1 board, without the need (or ability) to run hardware-hitting
applications. In addition Hyperion have been making better than expected
progress in decoupling the chipset dependancies in the OS with a result that
it will cease to be reliant on the Amiga chipset quite soon now. (Of course
hardware hitting applications will still to a greater or lesser degree need
access to a genuine Amiga chipset). Given this, we thought it would be
sensible to try to provide Amiga chipset availability as an a option, so
that the main A1 board would not have to carry the cost of providing this
connection - in terms of PCB and component real-estate and in requiring a
custom tower to mount it in. The upshot is that Escena has come up with a
solution which allows the bridge to the A1200 chipset to be made from a PCI
card, via ribbon cable, to the A1200 edge connector. The use of a ribbon
cable also solves the 'will it work in an xyz tower' problem, as there is
(within limits) quite a wide range of A1 & A1200 relative board positioning
that can be used. Theis A1200 bridge will be an additional cost item for
those who need it.

So with Escena concentrating their efforts on the bridge card, and us
deciding to use off-the-shelf north and south bridge parts for the main
board it made sense to subcontract the design and manufacture to experts in
this field, who, surprise, surprise, are far east based (hence the problem
with customs on Friday). The board (currently) runs an open
firmware-compatible bios and runs PPC linux (which is how we know that the
hardware works properly before OS4.0 is released).

In terms of timeframes the board is now ready to go into production, with a
lead time of 4-6 weeks. However we will not press the button until we can be
sure that OS4 will be ready to run on the board in the same timeframe. OS4
is scheduled to go into beta during March, and we will make A1 boards
available to help with this process. When we get the thumbs up from Hyperion
we will start production and they will be with your local dealer around 6
weeks later.

In terms of specification the entry level board will run a 600MHz G3 CPU and
will come with this soldered in place, thereby keeping the costs as low as
possible. After the first production run we will be producing boards -
obviously at a higher cost - with a cpu carrier so that cpu's can easily be
interchanged to suit your speed and pocket requirements. As G4's fall in
price we may also offer a soldered in place G4 cpu option as well. What
happens if you buy an entry level board and want to upgrade it in a  year or
so's time? Well exactly the same as when you bought a similarly priced
accelerator a couple of years back and want to upgrade to a faster one. You
either sell it privately or trade it in to the dealer where you purchased
it. In fact in the PC market, depite all processors being socketed, hardly
anyone ever changes the cpu to improve the computer - they nearly always
have to buy a (at least) a new motherboard as well. We're just being upfront
about it!

So lets revisit that feedback list again:


CPU speed concerns   -- G3/G4 to their current clocking limits

Memory speed concerns  --  133MHz FSB (DDR doesn't help PPC's I am told)

Provision of legacy peripherals (FDD/Serial/Parallel/kb/mouse)  - On board

Provision of integrated peripherals - 2xUSB (motherboard) + 2 more on
headers; LAN; AC97; MC97; UDMA100

AGP speed - 2x (although this is still a red herring in my view)

Will it run Linux? - Yes

But I dont have/want/will never buy an A1200 - Fine by me

Will it fit in in an EZTower mk1-5/RBM/xyz tower? - Yes (subject to xyz
definition - not sure about wooden towers)

It costs too much (interesting this one as the price has never been
announced) - A1 including 600MHz G3 cpu at current component prices and
exchange rates GBP 350/USD500/Euro 600 excluding local taxes and shipping.
And before anyone (who probably has no notion of real manufacturing and
development costs) pipes up that they can buy a xzzz PC motherboard for
$2.49 from Walmart remember this is for a board being manufactured in the
(very?) low thousands, not by the million. (And don't forget that a 240MHz
603 ppc blizzard with 060 cost around ukp550 ex tax when they were last
available - those were the days ;-) )

Where is it? - In my office running Turbo Linux at the moment. In your
dealer as soon as OS4 is ready.

More on the website next week



Thanks for your patience

Alan

The registration fee will be 5 UKP.

Further information is available in the archive.

2.5RC2 (02-02-24) 72852 Bytes

• New arguments for 'Font': DIRWIN, MENU, REQTEXT, REQBUTTONS and DIRGAD
• Added font args ("F" & "FS") to NewScreen.
• Replaced arrow-gadget's vector drawings with BOOPSI images.
• Special thanks to Mario Roberto Gruber for providing some example code that made things a bit clearer!
• Added simple but speed-adaptive copy-progress display.
• Various smaller improvements and fixes

Compared to the last version a random play function has been added.

1. Payback
2. Earth 2140
3. Shogo
4. Descent : Freespace The Great War
5. Dynamite
6. Puzzle Bobs
7. Land Of Genesis
8. Aqua
9. Lego Blast
10. Toadies

• Dynamic fullscreen dissolution.
• DATs are now dynamically fed in.
• ISO support.
• Improved NVRAM emulation.
• Joypad emulation can now be completely configured.
• New DATs for:
  • Gulp!
  • Roadkill (revised, has now "full collision")
  • Simon the Sorcerer
  • SubWar 2050
  • The Big 6
  • The Lost Vikings
  • Total Carnage

• A lot of bugfixes. Most of them concern P96 support, GUI and parsing of AVI data files.
• Optimization of AC3-, divx;)- and OpenDivx decoders.
• Support of the ISO-MPEG-4-Codec.
• Subtitles.

• up to 4 channels, maximum file size 2 MB unpacked
• between 4 and 16 channels, maximum file size 3 MB unpacked
• between 16 and 32 channels, maximum file size 4 MB unpacked

• Permedia 2, Voodoo 3/4/5 and Matrox G450/G550 drivers;
• cooperation in good faith with other OS 4 developers to produce a PPC native version of P96;
• development of the OS 4 version to be kept in line with other versions for other licensees.

Last night Toni Wilen released his first version, WinUAE 0.8.21R1.

The WinUAE homepage is available under http://www.winuae.net/ and it is hosted by back2roots.org.

The driver includes a new pci.library:
- pci.library ver.5.1

From version 5.1 on, the pci.library enables simultaneous functioning of the THOR's MMULib package in both modes of pci.library operation (NO_MMU and MMU).

The update includes a new version of the S3 ViRGE driver:
- Virge.card ver.1.5

The new driver accelerates all the main blitter functions. Overlay support has been added.

The update includes the latest versions of the driver for Voodoo card family:
- Voodoo.card ver. 2.12

The update includes the a new version of the following drivers:
- tv.library ver. 1.8

Support for S3 ViRGE DX has been added. The list (http://www.elbox.com/mediator_driver_guide.html#TV_TUNER) of cards supported by the tv.library has been expanded. Now tv.library supports 93 TV card models.

Some time ago I read an article about IDE for SCSI bridge adapters and I bought a couple of them instantly. It's the top model of 'ACARD Technology', the AEC-7720UW (title link) which transforms UDMA 33/66/100 drives in UW-SCSI models (40 MB/s). To make it worthwhile, I bought a 100 GB discdrive for each of my Amigas from Western Digital (Caviar WD1000BB).

The installation wasn't really difficult if you're good at English and if you know a little about Jumper and IDs. As to the drives you have to be careful not to overheat them. Therefore harddisc coolers are necessary in any case.

When everything has been connected properly, you can use the harddiscs for AmigaOS without any problems. They are recognised as if they were UW discs. Since Westen Digital calculates 1 KB with 1000 instead of 1024 bytes, it's no surprise that only 93,1 GB are available. This is to be expected. Formatted with PFS-3 V18.5, only 88,4 GB remain.

As to the speed: SysSpeed V2.6 calculated for CreateFile 25.93, WriteFile 32.74, ReadFile 20.91 and RawRead 25.40 MB/s. Compared to my Quantum Atlas 10K and Atlas V this is 2-3 times faster and the discs make hardly any noise.

Conclusion: I can recommend the adapter to anybody who wants capacity and speed. And it's hardly possible to find a SCSI disc for a better price. As to the price: The discs are available at 236,-EUR each, the adapters for 92,- EUR and the disc cooler for 15,-EUR. That comes to 343,- EUR for a 100 GB disc. In comparison: A 73,4 GB U160-SCSI disc costs 1089,- EUR and isn't much faster.

"I've just returned from Alt WOA in Huddersfield.

It might interest you that Alan Redhouse received a fully functional AmigaOne motherboard this morning, which he presented at the fair.

It seems that Escena had Linux run on this board (until OS4 is ready). The motherboard seems to be working fine although Alan only managed to get the booting process up-and-running up to the BIOS in the short period of time that was available to him.

The specifications have really been improved compared to earlier versions.

The production of the motherboard begins in six weeks.

The announced (estimated) price was really reasonable. I think that Alan will let you know the details very soon."

Further news from AmigaOne
Further statements of fair visitors include the following details: (the statements have not been confirmed officially)

• Ethernet, Parallel, Seriell, USB and Sound all on-board
• Vier PCI-Slots
• AGP2, 133MHz RAM Interface
• The connection to A1200 is now on an optional PCI card

But I have changed two issues about the MorphOS part:

• The "original" mouse pointer reappears when mouse is moved outside the window, so you don't have to click blindly somewhere to know where your mouse is ;-)
• Timing has been fixed a bit, so CPU load should decrease and the mouse pointer movements will be less abrupt. It's not perfect, but next version (see below) will have much improved timing handling.

Functions are the recognising and colored highlighting of: program blocks, brackets, special characters, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, JSP, ASP and HSC. The colors can each be set up in the GoldED preferences.

In addition have many bugs of the orginal version and the last version been fixed. The Aminet upload can take some days. On my homepage there's of course always the latest archive available for download.

The port folio contains the PC illustration program XaraX and the PC webgraphics programs Xara Webstyle and Xara3D.

• Moved a few login routines to a new order, may work better for the Search service being started at login. (No idea, really)

This version fixes some issues in WarpSCUMM. Chances in detail:

• Reworked some bits and split up the code into more functions.
• Fixed two OS related issues reported by PatchWorks.
• Fixed a tiny memory leak.
• Subtask signaling tweaked and modified to work better.
• Priorities are now set correctly for WarpOS mirror-subtasks also.

Additional information about ScummVM is available here.

Download: WarpSDL_0.3usr.lha

1. Our STB partner - Nokia, and their new Media Terminal. Yes, the same Nokia that you all know and love. Amiga will be pre-loaded on these products and we will begin shipping on them before summer this year. More information will be made available soon.
2. I often get messages asking when we are going to let the rest of the world know what is happening. Well for all of you who have asked - Amiga will be at the Embedded Systems Show in San Francisco, CA, March 12 through the 15th. We will be in booth #1602, located in the South Hall of Moscone Center. We will be showing the new Amiga technology, and some exciting new features never before seen in any other product. We will also be making at least one announcement there at the show.
3. We have two more new members added to the team and there are many more that will be announced soon. The first two are part of our sales team. Both are dynamic and excited to be part of the Amiga family. Liz Barnick and David Brott joined us in January, and are establishing themselves quickly with regards to new business, and great ideas. I have included information about them both in a separate document that is attached to this update.
4. AmigaOS 4.0 is moving ahead very nicely and I could not be more pleased with Hyperion and their ability to get things done. We will all be very proud of their efforts, and I know that many of you will be rewarded with what they have already accomplished, and with the product that they are building.

• 21.02.02 new: Times Of Lore (Origin) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 new: Test Drive 2 - The Duel (Accolade) done by JOTD
• 21.02.02 improved: Last Action Hero (Psygnosis) misc improvements
• 21.02.02 new: Joe & Mac (Caveman Ninja) (Data East) done by CFOU!
• 21.02.02 improved: Into the Eagle's Nest (Pandora) supports another version
• 21.02.02 improved: Elvira - The Arcade Game (Flair Software) supports another version
• 20.02.02 new: Turrican 2 Demo (Rainbow Arts) done by Psygore
• 20.02.02 new: Misery Dentro 2 (TRSI) done by Psygore
• 20.02.02 new: Darius+ (The Edge/Taito) done by CFOU!
• 20.02.02 improved: Blastar (Core Design) misc changes

Warp3D Voodoo are being released today for the following Mediator models: Mediator PCI 3000D, Mediator PCI 4000, Mediator PCI 4000D, Mediator PCI 3/4000T and Mediator PCI ZIII.

Warp3D drivers prepared by Hyperion Entertainment for Mediator PCI busboards work flawlessly on PPC & 68k processors with:

• Voodoo3 2000/3000,
• Voodoo4 4500, and
• Voodoo5 5500 graphic cards.

MediaPoint RTG
There is a special offer for visitors of tomorrow's Alt-WoA show in Huddersfield, UK. Buyers of MediaPoint at the show will receive a full free upgrade to the upcoming MediaPoint RTG, which will feature RTG support through Picasso96, RTA support through AHI, support for Matrox' Dual-Head capabilities, and much more!

Audio Evolution 4
AE4 will be demonstrated at the Alt-WoA show. More information is also available on the newly opened (but still partly under construction) support website for Sultan Systems & Software, Computer City's software-brand. Of course, more information on Audio Evolution can also be found on the official site. Audio Evolution 4's planned release-date is April 2002.

These changes were necessary as I need scripts and programs in future which my current web hosting service does not offer in a normal hosting package.

• analogue modem
• ISDN
• xDSL
• a different way
• I don't have Internet at home

• GeoWorld, a geography program
• PhotoAlbum/CyberShow, picture management
• DocDatatypes (for MSWord, Wordperfect..)
• Siteway, site and content management
• AMPlifier, hardware based decoder

Two minutes after 8 pm we will have the following date:

20:02 20.02.2002

This is a register with a perfect symmetry and is called "Palindrom".

This has been happened at

10:01 10.01.1001

more than thousand years ago. This will not happen any more because the maximal digital marking of a day is 23:59. On 30.03 3003 this will not be possible because we do not have 30 hours!

See you!

Scenery is a scene-guide which contains data about scene-groups, events and publishments of the demo-scene.

• 19.02.02 new: Holiday Maker (PM Entertainment/Software 2000) done by Wepl
• 19.02.02 new: Elvira - Mistress of the Dark (Horrorsoft/Accolade) done by Wepl
• 19.02.02 fixed: Stunt Car Racer (Microstyle) install script corrected
• 19.02.02 improved: Power Drift (Activision) supports another version and other enhancements
• 19.02.02 improved: Fire And Forget 2 (Titus) supports another version
• 18.02.02 new: Test Drive (Accolade) done by JOTD
• 18.02.02 new: Armageddon Man (Electronic Pencil/Martech) done by Codetapper
• 18.02.02 new: Taekwondo (Anco) done by CFOU!
• 18.02.02 new: Stunt Car Racer (Microstyle) done by Codetapper
• 18.02.02 new: Scrolling Walls (KingSoft) done by CFOU!
• 18.02.02 new: Savage (Probe Software) done by Psygore
• 18.02.02 improved: Rampage (Activision) hiscore saving support added
• 18.02.02 fixed: Kwasimodo (Courbois Software) access fault removed
• 18.02.02 new: Impossible Mission 2 (Epyx) done by CFOU!
• 18.02.02 new: Hägar (KingSoft) done by CFOU!

Whats new:

• English menu updated
• Update-Function added
  (thus you can update from an older version)
• Output of a protocol file
• Minor bugs fixed

Owned and operated by Terry Fike out of Midland, Texas, USA, Turtle Lightning Amiga Software has finally decided to go out of the Amiga business.

Until now you have seen the last update of the news there.

> -- email start --
I already received lots of those bug reports, and I have already found the bug. Dirk increased the window size and didn't test it on plain 640 pixel screens, so VZ 0.96 refuses to work on that resolution. I didn't notice that because I use a 800x600 screen :-
The bugfix is on the way, but I maybe add some other features to VZ first..
- Georg....
> --- email end ---

• Canon S500/630/6300
• Epson Stylus C60,C70,C80, Photo 810
• HP DeskJet 92x, 94x, 96x

"Vollgas - Fullthrottle" and "The Dig" are already planned for the Amiga-version and will probably be included as beta in one of the upcoming versions. There will be a special 256 color version of "Zak Mc Kraken" available, too.

WarpSCUMM is amiga port of ScummVM. With ScumVM you can play LucasArts-adventures like Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.

Additional information about ScumVM is available here.

Download: WarpSCUMM_0.1.0r2.lha

• capability to select multiple source files
• an equalizer
• a player