• Changed: Every character of an URL greater than 127 are regocnized as end mark. This should solve the AmIRC URL problem with the French catalog.
• New: URLs without scheme within quotation marks now are recognized ["www.blah.com"].
• Changed: Default memory needs of URL recognition reduced.

• vapor_toolkit_1513.lzx (20K)
• vapor_toolkit_morphos_1513.lha (42K)

• Bugfix: Fixed "mislooks" in VECS, SAVEMEM and DIS anyway, seems only I use these options...

• Safe.lha (19 236), Readme
• Integrity.lha (15.661), Readme

• 181: The porno stars are allways the first to know, somehow
• 182: mind games
• 183: Employees are to be attacted by taffy
• 184: Taffy continues

• test report about the new version 6 of the route planner AmiATLAS
• test of the »Earth 2140 Mission Pack«
• review of the facturing software MT-Rechnung III
• background article about memory protection and virtual memory
• second part of the C++ workshop

• Translator English - German
  - full time job with fixed salary
  - very good English and German knowledge
  - good knowledge of EDP and of the general games market
• Editors
  - full time job or as free lance
  - very good knowledge of the games and /or Amiga area
  - good knowledge of language
• Web designer
  - work on a voluntary basis on a new project in the demo scene area

• 03.01.02 new: Terry's Big Adventure (Grandslam) done by Codetapper & Galahad
• 03.01.02 new: Puffy's Saga (UBI-Soft) done by Codetapper
• 03.01.02 new: WWF Wrestlemania (Ocean) done by Codetapper
• 03.01.02 improved: Skweek (Loriciel) trainer added
• 03.01.02 new: Round the Bend (Zeppelin) done by Bored Seal
• 03.01.02 fixed: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) access fault removed
• 03.01.02 improved: Panza Kickboxing (Loriciel/Futura) supports another version, fastmem support
• 03.01.02 new: Off Shore Warrior (Titus) done by CFOU!
• 03.01.02 new: Ninja Spirit (Mediagenic) done by CFOU! & JOTD
• 03.01.02 new: Never Ending Story 2 (Linel) done by Abaddon
• 03.01.02 new: Monty Pythons Flying Circus (Core Design/Virgin) done by CFOU!
• 03.01.02 improved: Mega Phoenix (Dinamic) supports another version, trainer added
• 03.01.02 new: Lemmings 2 (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
• 03.01.02 new: Impossamole (Gremlin/Core Design) done by Abaddon & CFOU!
• 03.01.02 new: Horror Zombies from the Crypt () done by Abaddon
• 03.01.02 new: Hellraider (Atari) done by Bored Seal

The first number is the note type:
1= full
2= half
4= quarter
8= quaver
16= sixteenth

The letter stands for the note itself (long with a "." where necessary). The third number stands for the note height (octave). You are usually in octave 5 after starting the editor.

• Released at The Party 2001 (MAJOR feature!)
• Fixed the no expire ignore impossible bug.
• Flowers are now selectable in the options-window
• (Hopefully) removed the possibility to exploit NList etc by sending escape-codes in messages, no definet promises though.

SmileFonts.lha - SmileFonts.readme

Today I have uploaded the first version of the SB 128 Sound Mixer for Amithlon to my homepage. Currently ES1370, ES1371 and CT5880 chipsets are supported. AC97 onboard-sound support will follow. The program allows you to regulate the volume and balance of MASTER, AUX, CD, PCM as well as MUTE.

Channel: #AOS_XL-Help
IRC-Server: irc.belwue.de
Port:6667

• Bugfix: Port- and cx_priority arguments were not observed.
• New: Documentation extended with more FAQ entries.

• mcp1_36u.lha (45K)
• mcp1_35.lha (79K)

• Yamaha2100
• Plextor1210S
• Ricoh7200A+S
• Traxdata2410
• Yahama8824S

Support: Amiga Arena
Contact: Olaf Köbnik - olaf.koebnik@online-club.de

• updated DiAx plugin
• updated ICQ plugin
• updated Idea plugin
• updated EraGSM plugin
• updated PlusGSM plugin
• added 12sms plugin
• added VLF plugin

Now to the news part. A new update of "Safe" has been released today. Here is some info about the archive:

Name: Safe v17.6
Archive name : Safe.lha
Archive size : 40.427
Date : 27 December 2001
Programmer : Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Requires : OS 2.04+, xvs.library

Changes in the archive:

Safe v17.6: - nothing

WatchDog v1.5:
- Harrier generic memory removal
- Vaginitis clones generic memory detection

Integrity v1.0: - first working GUI-based version of integrity checker

• Report about Amiga viruses and antivirus software.
• Descriptions of Exodus, Payback and Chimera (music album by Amiga musician).
• Reports about the Amiga Meeting 2001, and the Symphony Festival scene party.
• Interview with Bernd Meyer - author of Amithlon.
• Poll results: what polish users think about the new Amiga and PCI cards and slots.
• Reviews of AminetCD and PurePasic.
• Some competitions for readers with prizes like Amiga games, books and CDs.

I released a new version (1.1) of WB-Tools.

WB-Tools is a collection of arexx-scripts for adding additional functions to the workbench. These scripts are described in my workshop "Komfortabel: Workbench mit ARexx erweitern" published in issue no. 1/2002 of the Amiga-Magazin. WB-Tools is a invitation for programming your own addons. It is easy to install and to use it.

Features:

• Simple keyboardfunctions via WB-Keys: DEL delets the selected object, Enter opens the selected object, Backspace moves to the parent window, Escape closes the current window, furthermore there are the arrow-keys at the numberblock (with and without the shift-key). I do not reveal theire functions but these functions make the Workbench complete.
• Menu-functionen via WB-Menus: fix all open windows, Store and restore the psoitions of the open windows, close all windows.
• AmiDock-functionen via WB-Toolbar: compression of selected items (lha, lzx, zip), display the content of a lha-, lzx- or zip-archive, create a new drawer, rename.

Available versions of HSMathLibs and stormamiga.lib:

• HSMathLibs 881/82 V.44.50 beta 1 (14.02.01)
• HSMathLibs 040 V.44.50 beta 7 (27.01.01)
• HSMathLibs 060 V.44.50 beta 7 (27.01.01)
• stormamiga.lib for StormC V.45.00 beta 6 (22.12.01)
• stormamiga.lib for SAS/C V.45.00 alpha 5 (02.03.01)

We wish Petra and the whole amiga-news.de team a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, too.

Changes:

• ARexx: added lots of commands.
• Signatures can now be stripped when replying.
• Folder names are now rendered in bold when containing new mail.
• Improved the wordwrap while quoting.
• Option to not quote empty lines.
• Your address is filtered out when replying a multiple recipient email.
• Modified the STARTTLS code following the suggestions from Jörg Strohmayer.
• Every folder can now have a default recipient address.
• Can now import address books from YAM.
• Implemented CC support in the Compose Message window.

ARABIC: Saiid yom al-milaad wa senat jadiida
ARMENIAN: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
AZERI-AZERBAIJAN: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
BASQUE: Zorionstsu Eguberri. Zoriontsu Berri Urte
BULGARIAN: Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo. Tchestita Nova Godina
CATALAN: Feliç nadal i bon any nou
CHINESE-CANTONESE: Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
CHINESE-MANDARIN: Kung Ho Hsin Hsi. Ching Chi Shen Tan
CZECH: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
DANISH: Glædelig jul og godt nytår
DUTCH: Prettige Kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
ENGLISH: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
ESTONIAN: Roomsaid Joulu Phui ja Uut Aastat
FINNISH: Hyvää Joulua. Onnellista Uutta Voutta
FRENCH: Joyeux Noel et heureuse Anne
GAELIC-IRISH: Nollaig mhaith Dhuit Agus Bliain Nua Fé Mhaise
GAELIC-SCOT: Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur
GERMAN: Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr
GREEK: Kala Khristougena kai Eftikhes to Neon Ethos
HAWAIIAN: Mele Kalikimake me ka Hauloi Makahiki hou
HEBREW: Mo'adim Lesimkha
HUNGARIAN: Boldog Karacsonyl es Ujevl Unnepeket
ICELANDIC: Gledlig jol og Nyar
INDONESIAN: Selamah Tahun Baru
IRISH: Nollaig shona diobh
IROQUOIS: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut
Ojenyunyat osrasay
ITALIAN: Buon Natale e felice Capo d'anno
JAPANESE: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
KOREAN: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
LATVIAN: Priecigus Ziemas Svetkus un Laimigu Jauno Gadu
LITHUANIAN: linksmu sventu Kaledu ir Laimingu Nauju Metu
LUXEMBURGHISH: Schéin Chrëschtdeeg an dudden
Rutsch an d'néit Joer
MANX: Ollick Ghennal Erriu as Blein Feer Die
Seihil as Slaynt Da'n Slane Loght Thie
NORSE-DANISH: Gledlig jul og godt Nytt Aar
POLISH: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia i szczesliwego
Nowego Roku
PORTUGUESE: Feliz Natal e prospero Ano Novo
RAPA-NUI (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi
Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
ROMANIAN: Sarbatori Fericite. La Multi Ani
RUSSIAN: Pozdrevly ayu sprazdnikom Rozhdestva Khristova
is Novim Godom
UKRANIAN: Veselykh Svyat i scaslivoho Novoho Roku
SAMOAN: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
SLOVAK: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
SERB-CROATIAN:Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
SINGHALESE (Ceylon/Sri Lanka): Subha nath thalak Vewa
Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
SLOVENE: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
SPANISH: Feliz Navidad y prospero Ano Nuevo
SWEDISH: God Jul och ett Gott Nytt År
TAGALOG (Filipino): Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
TURKISH: Yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun
WELSH: Nadolic Llawen. Blwyddn Newdd Dda

• New catalogs (Russian, Polski, Deutch,latvian, Norsk ...)
• New effects: Relief, Sharpen, Fiber, Stone, Glass.
• New text effect: Stamp, Stamp2 and FlatShade (from Markus Castro)
• New Arexx Box script: CreatePlanete.rx (from Markus Castro)
• New picture effect: Rotate any Angle
• New tools: Correct Picture Rotation
• New 'Movie factory' effect: Blur, Horizontal BLur, Vertical Blur
• Improve some effects: Much faster
• Improve antialiasing: Much faster and better aspect
• Improve Polar Coordinates
• Fix an EnforcetHit with the requester palette and PopupMenu
• Stone, Fiber and Liquid can use now Color Gradient with transparency.
• Fix some bug with animation.
• Improve Control requester: Much Faster, New mode: Maximum, Minimum, threshold, Multiply, Screen and Exclusion.
• Improve VisualPrefs compatibility (I think I fix the problem, on some configuration, about garbage in main window when you resize it from a reduced view to the original size)
• With the help of NewIcon.library, PfPaint can now load standard Icon; load and save NewIcon.
• You can change the amount of transparency of the popupmenu.
• Fix a bug with the TTF font (and the TTFlib).
• Fix a bug with the 'Page size' requester.
• All effects are now stored in an asynchron window, it's much easy to select an effect.
• Brush can be saved in PPM and sculpt format (separate raw alpha,red,green and blue file)
• In Zoom mode, picture is always centered.
• Saving with thumbnail newicon works well now.
• Arexx command to save Icon: pp_SaveIconFor file type.

• fixed deadlock problems with multiple PING responses
• improvements for dealing with the new V3 RIPE database
• improvements in WHOIS network prefix lookup tables

• netinfo_211.lzx (163K)
• netinfo_211.lha (198K)

• Fixed AGA display for YUV221111 based codecs.
• Fixed display scaling on CGFX for YUV221111 based codecs.
• Added support for MP3 hardware decoders, added MP3HW CLI/tooltype argument.
• Added PUBSCREEN CLI/tooltype argument.
• Fixed 8-bit window display for YUV221111 based codecs.
• DITHER is now default direct color emulation mode for 8-bit display.
• VIDEOCHANNEL and AUDIOCHANNEL CLI/tooltype arguments.
• Some speed improvements in DivX;-) codec.
• Added DEPTH24 CLI/tooltype argument for 24-bit output on fullscreen.
• Few bugfixes in QT parser.
• Fixed crash on last frame on animation.
• Fixed some problems in RainbowRunner codec.

• -- the "amigancp.library" providing all the network I/O functions.
• -- the AmigaNCP-FileSystem providing transparent access to Psion files from the AmigaDOS environment. Includes transparent charset translation feature and possibility to store icons on the Amiga side for full workbench integration.
• -- the AmigaNCP-FileServer providing transparent access to Amiga files from the Psion side with optional on-the-fly character conversion.
• -- a print server allowing to print directly from your Psion to a printer connected to your Amiga.
• -- full developer documentation and associated material to faciliate NCP services from within your own applications.

• -- AmigaOS 2.04 or better (localization supported).
• -- the IBM-PC version of the 3-Link cable.

• -- Amiga to Psion clipboard transfer now working (S5/EPOC32 mode only)
• -- fixed ACTION_SET_DATE and ACTION_SET_PROTECT for S5/EPOC32 mode

• All known errors removed.
• The functions getpid, flock, cot and pow2 added.
• The functions strtol and strtoul rewritten.
• Better support of StormC V4.
• Support of StormC V2 removed.
• Some changes in the include files done.
• Guide and installer script revised.
• Some other small things done.

• pci.library ver.5.0
• MediatorNET.device ver.2.4 (Ethernet 10Mbps PCI cards)
• Voodoo.card ver.2.10 (Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3/4/5 PCI graphic cards)
• Virge.card ver.1.4 (S3 ViRGE, S3 ViRGE DX PCI graphic cards)

• sb128.audio ver.4.5 (SoundBlaster PCI128 sound cards)
• Voodoo.card ver.4.11 (Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 PCI graphic cards)
• mixer.library ver.1.3 (SB128, FM801, SB Live!, SB Audigy sound cards)
• tv.library ver.1.5 (TV tuner cards)
• FastEthernet.device ver.1.4 (10/100Mbps FastEthernet cards)

• Three environment variables from ENV:ppclibemu will be recognized: IgnoreNOCACHEM68K, Debug, NoFreePatch and NoELFPatch (set != 0 to activate).
• Library init swaps to an own 16K stack, to prevent problems with limited ramlib stack size.
• Fixed bugs in __floatdidf, __floatdisf, __floatunsdidf and PPCDivs64/PPCDivs64p/__divdi3.
• PPCGetTaskAttr() supports more tags: PPCTASKTAG_NAME, PRIORITY, STACKSIZE, INPUTHANDLE, OUTPUTHANDLE, ERRORHANDLE, ELFOBJECT.
• New utility "ppclibemu_install" to load library into memory, replaces LoadSeg.
• PPCCreateTask() behaves like exec.library's CreateTask() now.
• PPCMsgPort is more similar to a real MsgPort.
• PPC task termination routine will no longer free all memory.

• Vehicles can now be added to custom maps.
• Added high score tables to rampage mode.
• Improved vehicle textures.
• In multiplayer mode, your kills will now go negative if you commit suicide with zero kills.
• Added sparks when two vehicles scrape against each other.

• The sound plugin now enables voice and sound output via AHI.
• RAM cache system reworked.
• CLI programs can be executed with the "Extern" command.
• Single character animations are only loaded if required.
• Animations now appear as fast as if the engine would run at 20 fps (no frames skipped)
• The scroll text in sequences now also moves with constant speed, independant of the actual number of fps.
• No more mouse pointer in sequences, anymore.
• Characters can be displayed that far on top of the screen, that e.g. only the feet are visible (this would have caused graphic erros in the past).
• Running characters will reach their target point accurate on pixel (previously only roughly).
• Animated objects can be displayed as still picture, whereas the single picture to be viewed can be set using Inga-Skript (see compendium under "Objekt-Standbild").
• Objects "bound" to the mouse pointer are now displayed along with thier animation.
• PlugIn system reworked (safer now).
• PlugIns can be disabled by thier options (tooltypes).
• Miscelleanous little bugs fixed.

• a) get the XAD package (remember this is shareware)
• b) install xadmaster.library and accompaning files
• c) place the c: directory files in c:
  there will be a file called 'c:xadunfile'
• d) start VirusChecker-II and go to the prefs
• e) add/edit for ZIP:
  Name: ZIP
  Offset: 0
  Data: PK
  Command: c:xadunfile "%s" "%s"
• f) save your settings, and you will be finished

• a) get the XAD package (remember this is shareware)
• b) install xadmaster.library and accompaning files
• c) place the c: directory files in c:
  there will be a file called 'c:xadunfile'
• d) start VirusZ and go to the archive options
• e) add/edit for ZIP:
  Name: ZIP
  Offset: 0
  Data: 'PK'
  Command: c:xadunfile %f %P
• f) save your settings, and you will be finished

• "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick succession to get a route overview very fast, then does accurate timings for the individual hops
• "ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host to measure network latency and stability.
• graphical display of hop min/last/max timings for TRACE
• graphical display of ping times for PING
• integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo determines the WHOIS host to query.
• automatically retrieves WHOIS network information for hosts
• automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP server versions
• history for all queried hosts
• integrated FINGER client
• integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
• ARexx port