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16.Dec.2001
John Harris (Amiga Open-ML)


 AmigaDE: VP Starter code
On 14 December, 2001 John Harris released the current version of his VP-Starter-Codes for AmigaDE. This update contains bug fixes and improvements.

The archive contains examples and helpful routines in VP. They are supposed to help you get started with the VP applications or they might provide further support for those of you who are already experienced.

Apart from the examples it contains routines to set up the AVE and application window, manage events and cycling processes, embed 16-bit compressed graphics, and draw graphics and text on screen.

Download: VP_Starter.zip, Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Basil Flinter (amigaone-ML)


 Fair: ADUG-Stand planned at the IT COMDEX in Sydney
Following the great success of the Amiga Downunder (ADUG) Stand at the IT/Expo + COMDEX mainstream IT exhibition in Melbourne last September the Sydney Amiga User Group (SAUG) is now planning an ADUG Stand at the IT COMDEX & NetWorld+Interop Exhibition to be held in Sydney fom 5-7 March, 2002.

Just as in Melbourne, The ADUG Stand in Sydney is supposed to present products which are relevant to Amiga, including Amithlon and AmigaOne.

We need help urgently. No matter where you live you can become involved in the project by means of running the stand or by financial and/or product support. If you are interested, please contact one of the following addresses: secretary@amigadownunder.org, www.amigadownunder.org.

The complete press report with additional information in the original version can be found via the title link. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 WWW: SiteWay-Bundle "Web-Tools" V1.01
On 14 December, 2001 Christian Effenberger released version 1.01 of the SiteWay Bundle "Web-Tools". SiteWay is a content management system and a collection of tools for the creation and maintenance of web sites.

In the archive various tools have been put together. A list of the tools including descriptions and screenhots is available via the title link.

Download: SiteWay.lha (1,2M) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Aminet


 Aminet: New Interface
There is a new WWW-Interface available on the Aminet site US-Site.

The Interface has a white background. On the left-hand side there's a narrow blue command panel and on the right-hand side the chosen information is presented. On the homepage these are the uploads of the last seven days.

In the command panel you'll find the search option, links to information about Aminet as well as links to each single category. After having clicked on a particular category, its content will be shown on the righ-hand side and at the top the subcategories will appear, by which means a quick search is possible. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Chaos Update (Mailingliste)


 CCC: 18. Chaos Communication Congress
The CCC writes:
Hi,
The 18th Chaos Communication Congress is about to take place: as usual at 'Haus Am Köllnischen Park' in Berlin from 27 until 29 December 2001

The 18th Chaos Communication Congress
"18C3: Hacking Is Not A Crime"
Haus Am Köllnischen Park
Am Köllnischen Park 2-6
Berlin Mitte

All information about the congress is available at the following web site address: www.ccc.de/congress/2001/.

We're still working on the schedule Congressfahrplan, but it will soon be available on the web pages.

Whoever would like to take part in the congress Hackcenter, should quickly register on our pages about the 'Hackcenter'. Only the people who register and receive a confirmation via e-mail will be able to participate.

The Congress is an event which is organized by volunteers. As a so called 'chaos angle' everybody can get involved. If there's anybody out there who would like to become a 'chaos angle', please contact us under: www.ccc.de/congress/2001/engel.

Have fun
Chaos (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: CLMV V2.1" Full Version
In cooperation with Steffen Nitz Amiga Arena has released the full version of the data bank "CMLV V2.1".

CMLV manages CDs, MCs, LPs and such media. For each entry within a project it's possible to state per CD/MC/LP the name, a comment, the date of purchase, the category, the type of music, up to 4 pages with 30 songs each time (e.g. a pack of four CDs), the length of the songs and their musicians.

Olaf Köbnik wishes everybody a nice Sunday in Advent- Amiga Arena (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Oxygenic (E-Mail)


 Audio: AudioCutter Cinema V1.1, 3D-Chat
The "AudioCutter Cinema" of Virtual Worlds Productions is now available in all the variations of version 1.1.

The AudioCutter Cinema HOME for non-commercial use can be downloaded free of charge. For commercial use the AudioCutter Cinema PRO is now also available in version 1.1. All variations have been tested on the various hardware platforms (Intel-compatible, PPC based Amiga, Mac). In addition the compatibility of the Linux versions with the weakest Window managers has been tested (fvwm2, KDE, KDE2, Gnome).

The AudioCutter, a tool for the adaptation, generation and manipulation of the sound and, in particular, of the sourround sound, is as usual available in versions for Windows® and PPC as well as x86-Linux. You can find further information and downloads under: www.AudioCutter.de.

3D Chat: Shaman- und Guardian-Bot can be downloaded free of charge
For the 3D-Chat, which is based on ActiveWorlds®, the Bots "Shaman" and "Guardian" can now be downloaded free of charge. The operating instructions are only available in German at the moment. You can find information about these Bots, the 3D-Chat and the download options under www.VirtualWorlds.de/3DChat/ (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
amiga.org


 MP3: mp3Play V2.01
On 15 December 2001 Carl Svensson published version 2.01 of his minimalistic GUI "mp3Play" for the MP3-Player "MPEGA".

The GUI has been made with ARexx and the rexxreqtools.library. It calls up "MPEGA" in such a way that the player needs only 25 per cent of the CPU time on a 50 Mhz 68060 CPU, according to DashBoard.

Compared to version 2.0 a standard C= installer script and the ID3 tag viewer has been added.

Download: mp3Play.lha (14K), Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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16.Dec.2001
Czech Amiga News


 CDTV: "C= CDTV Information Center" 1 year old
On 15 December 2000, exactly a year ago, the website "The Commodore CDTV Information Center" went online. This site gives detailed information about the history, the possiblities, new developments and the software of the CDTV.

Just in time for its anniversary, the site has been redesigned, 90 per cent of which has been finished. The new site "Using a CDTV" can't be uploaded yet, as there're still some things missing. 15 per cent of the CDTV-User-Clubs site, which is also new, has been finished (Icons, background) and 50 per cent of the upgrades section has been completed. Therefore you can still find the previous sites in some places.

The CDTV-User-Clubs site contains CDXL files, installation guides, trouble fixes and a monthly electronic magazine. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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15.Dec.2001



 amiga-news.de poll: Which hardware broke last?
On proposal by Deepsilence (Silvio Kurze) we have started a new poll in which we ask for your hardware that broke last. We'd be very pleased about big participation.

Update: (30.04.2011, cg)

For archiving reasons, the results of the survey are added to this news item: 
Damage                               Votes

Netzteil - power supply              48     (8.42%)
Festplatte - hard disk               70    (12.28%)
Hauptplatine - mainboard             33     (5.79%)
Turbokarte - accelerator card        24     (4.21%)
Grafikkarte - graphic card           11     (1.93%)
Tastatur - keyboard                  16     (2.81%)
Maus - mouse                         36     (6.32%)
Diskettenlaufwerk - floppy           24     (4.21%)
Monitor - monitor                    26     (4.56%)
Kabel - cable                         7     (1.23%)
A3000                                 7     (1.23%)
Bhudda A4k                            1     (0.18%)
nix Glückspilz ;-)                   39     (6.84%)
CD Brenner                           15     (2.63%)
RAM                                   5     (0.88%)
CDROM, ZORRO BOARD, BUDDHA            4     (0.70%)
CONTROLER, A1200 MOTHERBOARD
Daughterboard                         1     (0.18%)
Hauptplatine - Eigenverschulden       7     (1.23%)
Scanner                               2     (0.35%)
A4000                                 9     (1.58%)
Nothing!                             19     (3.33%)
A1200                                 8     (1.40%)
ZIP-Laufwerk                          5     (0.88%)
PPC 604                              20     (3.51%)
Flickerfixer A3000                    1     (0.18%)
iMac                                  1     (0.18%)
FlickerFixer A4000 von COMP SERV      1     (0.18%)
Glühbirne                             4     (0.70%)
Zorro IV-Board                        3     (0.53%)
catweasel zorro2                      1     (0.18%)
Uhren-Akku                           14     (2.46%)
silversurfer                          1     (0.18%)
CDROM                                14     (2.46%)
G-Rex 1200                            2     (0.35%)
Grafikkarte-Eigenverschulden          3     (0.53%)
Hypercom 3+                           3     (0.53%)
PC-Mainboard                          1     (0.18%)
Drucker                               4     (0.70%)
X-Surf                                2     (0.35%)
A2000 Mainboard (Eigenverschulden)    2     (0.35%)
Floppy-Disk                           2     (0.35%)
BlizzPPC Flashrom                     2     (0.35%)
floppy buffer chips on A4000 mboard   1     (0.18%)
IOblix 1200PAR                        1     (0.18%)
IDN-Blaster durch Blitzschlag         2     (0.35%)
Idefix...                             3     (0.53%)
BlizzPPC Board                        7     (1.23%)
Mainboard 1200 + FastATA              1     (0.18%)
(mit BVision kurzgeschlossen)
CyberstormPPC                        11     (1.93%)
Lyra Tastaturinterface                1     (0.18%)
Ariadne2                              1     (0.18%)
serial device - Blitzschlag           1     (0.18%)
zukunft des AMIGA                     7     (1.23%)
CPU FAN for 604                       1     (0.18%)
Mroocheck                             1     (0.18%)
keine                                 7     (1.23%)
Trackball                             4     (0.70%)
Mein A4000/40 machte nie Zicken       1     (0.18%)
seit Jahren kein Hardwareschaden     11     (1.93%)
Hardwareschaden? Was ist das?         4     (0.70%)
2 A500, 1 A1200 + 1 A4000PPC -
alles funktioniert immer noch
problemlos! (Verschleißteile
wie Joysticks & Mäuse nicht
mitgerechnet)
Wackelige Joystick-Buchse             1     (0.18%)
im A2000 hat aufgegeben...
A4000 Paula                           1     (0.18%)
Interface Ateo for keyboard           1     (0.18%)
A590                                  1     (0.18%)
Oktagon SCSI (Hitzetod)               1     (0.18%)
Tandem CD+IDE-karte                   1     (0.18%)
Iomega Jazz 1GB SCSI                  1     (0.18%)
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
David Brunet (E-Mail)


 Magazin: Obligement 30 is now out (Special 5 years birthday issue!)
Issue 30 of the famous french e-zine is now available. You can read in this issue: latests Amiga news, interviews of Gilles Bourdin (ex-Amiga Technologies) and José Grilliere (from Amigazette), report of the Koln Amiga Show 2001, article about MorphOS and Pegasos, review of Earth 2140 Mission Pack and lots of others interestings articles! Download it from the website: http://obligement.free.fr/. (ps)

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15.Dec.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (email)


 Datatypes: new akPNG, JFIF, TIFF and NAIL datatypes V44.131
On the website of Andreas Kleinert you can find version 44.131 of the following ak-datatypes: PNG, JFIF, TIFF and NAIL. These datatypes were also uploaded to the Aminet. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Daniel Miller (ANF)


 Call: vote for setting up of comp.sys.amiga.morphos as newsgroup
Daniel Miller is right now establishing a new newsgroup in comp.sys.* for MorphOS as comp.sys.amiga.morphos. For this are some votes still needed. Normally, the language spoken in comp.sys.* groups is English but in the statutes of comp.sys.amiga.morphos is written that articles in other languages are allowed, too, when (d) for German, (f) for French etc. is named in the subject. Please give us your vote! You can participate in the vote until 20.12.2001.

If you want to know more about the vote's details you find them here.

If you want to participate directly in the vote you should follow these steps:

  1. Write an email to vote@Lugoj.com
  2. Enter the following in the first line of the text field:
    "I vote YES on comp.sys.amiga.morphos"
  3. Enter the following in the third line of the text field:
    Voter name: [your first name and surname]
  4. Send email


Please don't enter the quotation marks or the brackets. As subject you may enter for example "comp.sys.amiga.morphos Ballot" (again without quotation marks). After some hours you'll receive a confirmation via email. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Tel. Alan Redhouse


 Eyetech site hacked
On the website of Eyetech is written today that Eyetech will go into bankruptcy from tomorrow on. That is wrong, the site has been hacked. Alan Redhouse is already on his way to the bureau to get the site right. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Logain (ANF)


 Netscape for AmigaDE in the works
Logain wrote:
While searching through the Mozilla site I came across two interesting pages. The first one can be reached via the title link and is the page of the AmigaDE port of Mozilla that is developed by James Russell. The project is in a very early state and he is still looking for strong support.

The other one's here, the site about the new "revolutionary" browser engine of Netscape that is said to have a platform independant architecture and is the main part of Netscape 6.1. As possible platform for a port they mention, next to several Unix systems, BeOS and OS2/Warp, the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik


 Amiga Arena: Full version of 'Bürgermeister V2.78'
Amiga Arena - "Bürgermeister v2.78" full version
In co-operation with Steffen Nitz the Amiga Arena makes exclusively the download of the full version of the economy simulation "Bürgermeister v2.78" available. The goal of the game is to reach as many points as possible within 10, 25 or 50 years or to become the capital city. It's a registered full version exclusively for the Amiga Arena. Steffen Nitz has ceased the development as the source code got unfortunately lost.

Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena talked with Steffen Nitz, the developer of "Bürgermeister II", "CMLV II" and "Regist II" about his software products and about the possibility of new developments in the future. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
Bernhard Wörner


 Bernhard Wörner: new website
Bernhard Wörner introduces on his new website his self developed programs. For the time being you can find there for example a program with which you can split big files into several smaller ones. Or Amplify, with which you can edit audio files.

As his website is quite new the author would be very pleased about feedback and suggestions. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
EvenMore


 Textviewer: new plugin for EvenMore version 0.59
Chris Perver has programmed a new plugin for his freeware text viewer 'EvenMore' with which documents created with the word processors 'FinalWriter' and 'FinalCopy' can be converted into pure text documents. EvenMore is right now available in version 0.59.

Download: finalwriter2text.plugin - EvenMore.lha (585 KB) (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 14.12.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 14.12.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) key to display codes added
  • 14.12.01 new: Prime Mover (Psygnosis) done by Psygore
  • 14.12.01 improved: Great Courts 2 (Blue Byte) another version added, save player fixed
  • 14.12.01 new: Alfred Chicken (Twilight/Mindscape) done by Codetapper
(ps)

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15.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: New xsurfadsl.device and appp.device
A new archive with the PPPoE-drivers for our networking card X-Surf can be found in the support-area of our website. The CPU-load has been lowered, and some parts of the appp.device have been prepared for further debugging. The performance is already a bit more stable on some setups, so we can release this last version before Christmas for a public test. (ps)

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15.Dec.2001
IrseeSoft


 Printer drivers: Turboprint version 7.21 beta
Version 7.21 beta of the printer driver package 'Turboprint' has been released. It contains updated drivers for:
  • Canon S500/630/6300
  • Epson Stylus C60,C70,C80, Photo 810
  • HP DeskJet 92x, 94x, 96x
Download: tp721beta.lha (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Dec.2001
tarbos (ANF)


 Registration site for Pegasos developer system online
On the website of bplan GmbH exists since yesterday the possibilitiy to register as developer for the first series of the Pegasos mainboard via a form. The developer system contains the Pegasos mainboard including CPU card + MorphOS developing environment. The shipping will probably start in January 2002 and will take place in order of the registration. The needed additional equipment is not included (casing, power supply, memory, keyboard, mouse, harddisk, CD Rom, floppy, graphics card).

Information about the price and the CPU of the developer system are unfortunately not publicly available but will be sent to the interested developers via email.

The registration is no order of the above listed developing environment but an inquiry. After successful and accepted registration you'll receive an offer via email that contains price, date of delivery and conditions. This must be returned within 14 days after receiving via mail or FAX back to bplan GmbH and then counts as non transferable order. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Dec.2001
Jörg Rebenstorf (ANF)


 Repulse sound cards: price reduction
ALiENDESiGN lowers the price for their Repulse sound cards. Orders for the new price are possible in ALiENDESiGN's online shop and soon also from your dealer. Merry Christmas! (ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Dec.2001
Jim Steichen (ANF)


 AmigaTalk V1.8 (Update)
An updated version (1.8) of AmigaTalk, the best port of Little Smalltalk for the Amiga was uploaded by the author Jim Steichen on 14-Dec-2001. AmigaTalk is a little smalltalk interpreter that utilizes more of the AmigaOS than any other smalltalk dialect for the Amiga. There is a large amount of documentation included with the distribution, so check it out!

Download: amigatalk.lha
Attention: Archive not yet available on Aminet! (ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Dec.2001
ANN


 Hyperion: Ben Yoris no longer PR manager
PR manager Ben Yoris is leaving the software company Hyperion Entertainment for personal reasons. The PR will be managed in future by the owner Ben Hermans. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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13.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Emanuele Cesaroni (PuzzleBOBS)
The Amiga Arena talked to Emanuele Cesaroni, Nexus Development, about his current game "PuzzleBOBS".

"PuzzleBOBS" is a puzzle Bobble clone being completely configurabel and having a very funny game mode and more. One game mode of cooperative style, where two players stay in the same level and shoot at the same bobbles.

The interview.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Amiga.org


 NAG: AmigaOS XL Review
Rick Ruge of the user group 'Northwest Amiga Group' from Oregon, U.S.A., has written a review of AmigaOS XL, which you can find in the "December 2001" rubric. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Michael 'Das MCP' Göken (ANF)


 GRex IRC Channel closed for the time being
Michael Göken, who presented DCE's PCI board GRex on the Amiga 2001 show, has established a support channel for GRex users on 27. October 2001 (we reported about). Now, after about six weeks this channel was put on hold until further notice.

Michael Göken: "I neither have the time nor the money to perform support while DCE does not support me in doing this. After hundreds of miles and masses of sparetime spend on it, I still haven't got a run capable A4000T beta board from DCE.
Thus for the time being I will not answer any questions regarding the GRex PCI board, any more. Please, if you have questions contact T. Dellert in person." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Chaos Computer Club


 CCC: 18. Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin - 27./29. December 2001
From 27. to 29. December the 18. Chaos Communication Congress will take place in the 'Haus Am Köllnischen Park' (HAKP) in Berlin, Germany. The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual symposium of the Chaos Computer Club e.V. (CCC). This three-days congress will be about technology, community, and utopias. The congress will offer lectures and workshops about a variety of subjects all around information technologies, computer security, Internet, cryptography, the discerning and inventive use of technogies, and discussions about how technological progress effects society.

The congress can be attended as permanent or one-day guest. The admission charges are staggert. A standard one-day ticket will cost 30DM. More details under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
Blitz 2000


 Programming language: AmiBlitz Version 2.21
Blitz2 has been updated and is now released under GPL. It's now called AmiBlitz2 and has lots of new features including optimisations, faster compiler, PPC and FPU assembly and many bugfixes. A full distribution will be worked out soon, but for now you will need to get this and use some files from a previous Blitz installation (the demo might work).

Please, send bugreports for the program to the Blitz mailing list, rather than to the uploader, to prevent double reports.

To subscribe to the mailing list send an e-mail to blitz-list-subscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. To unsubscribe send an e-mail to blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Dec.2001
SonicPulse


 Sample Editor: SoundFX - Status of V4.2
SoundFX is an editor for digitized audio data (samples). SoundFX was built modular and has a comfortable GUI. You can add digital effects (which are unique on the Amiga) to samples and edit them. Currently the programmer is working on version 4.2 and gives the following status report:

Stefan Kost: "The changes of the saving API were finished, so one now also can save to areas. Now I will adjust the savers. Furthermore I have added some new menu items (help menu). Of course some bugs had to bite the dust, too, and the documentation is progressing as well (FAQ almost finished)." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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12.Dec.2001
Vapor-ML


 AmTALK II Version 2.3
AmTALK is a combined server/client for the TALK-protocol of the Internet which allows chatting between two users. It follows the full message to the new published version 2.3:

AmTALK II is a combined server/client for the Internet TALK protocol for point-to-point online chatting.

AmTALK II has the following features:

  • fully multithreaded for several talk sessions at once.
  • auto answer facility to accept talk requests and store incoming messages. Can be triggered manually or by a user-definable timeout. Optional auto answer information icon on workbench displaying number of new and unread messages.
  • "Locate" function to locate an AmTALK II user on a dynamic IP address even if you don't know the exact IP number he is using right now.
  • history of last used talk addresses for easy access.
  • user configurable sounds for notification of incoming talk requests and successfully established talk links and more...
  • userlist to store frequently used talk partners, with aliasing for easy talk start and specificable access privilleges (override auto answer, refuse/ignore always, locate always etc.)
  • can be started from inetd, or reside resident in the background, activated by hotkey.
  • supports clipboard Copy & Paste from talk windows.
  • keeps a full log of incoming talk requests.
  • supports session log save in ANSI or plain text mode
  • nice and friendly GUI to start talks, control operation and configuration
  • handles incoming talk requests with "wrong" usernames gracefully.
  • keyboard resethandler to gracefully close active talk requests upon a soft reset.
  • works with Genesis, AmiTCP, Miami and as225r2-derived TCP/IP stacks.
NOTE: the provided Installer script doesn't work with the old OS 1.3 1.24/1.25 versions of Installer. Please get Installer-43_3.lha from AmiNet (/util/misc) or from ftp.vapor.com, /pub/misc/Installer-43_3.lha.

AmTALK 2.x uses different keyfiles than AmTALK 1.x; however, the upgrade is totally free. New keyfiles have already been mailed out to everyone who registered AmTALK 1.x, if you didn't receive yours, please mail to keyfile-update@vapor.com, stating when and where you originally registered. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2001
Da SixK Port Page


 Game ports by SixK basing on the SDL Library
During last week it was often reported about the SDL library port for AmigaOS and MorphOS. The SDL library allows platform comprehensive programming of games and other multimedia products. SixK now published five game ports on their website (title link), which base on this library.

Note: These is about a beta versions, which in part were not tested for run capability, yet.

Details:
  • Xrick - A Rick Dangerous game using SDL. Work for 68k and Mos (Except if you have a Mediator + P96 like me for Mos).
  • Supertux - A platform game using SDL. Don't remember if it works, but it should.
  • Sdlroids - An asteroid clone game using SDL.
  • Mangoquest - A GL game using SDL - not fully tested.
  • Glaxium - An openGL game using SDL.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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12.Dec.2001
Amiga Information Online


 Magazine: AIO collecting Christmas greetings for next issue
The English online magazine AIO (Amiga Information Online) accept Chritsmas greetings to be published on their website in the coming issue #54. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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12.Dec.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 10.12.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 10.12.01 improved: Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin) requires less memory
  • 10.12.01 new: Raffles (The Edge/Softek) done by Bored Seal
  • 10.12.01 improved: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) support for another version added
  • 08.12.01 new: Santa's Xmas Caper (Zeppelin) done by Codetapper
  • 08.12.01 improved: Total Football (Domark/Acclaim) minor changes
  • 08.12.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) more compatibility
  • 08.12.01 improved: Operation Thunderbolt (Ocean) highscore saving, trainer added, several other changes
  • 08.12.01 new: Joe Blade (Players Software) done by Codetapper
  • 08.12.01 fixed: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Lucasfilm Games) stuck in students class
  • 08.12.01 improved: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small fixes
  • 08.12.01 new: Abandoned Places 2 (ICE) done by JOTD
  • 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
  • 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
  • 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
  • 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
  • 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
(ps)

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12.Dec.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)


 MPEG-Player: Frogger Version 1.67
Today the new version 1.67 of the MPEG-video-player called Frogger has been published and fixes many bugs of the previous version. You can download Frogger as WarpOS-, PowerUp- and 68k-version under the title link. But you can also try the following mirror: http://highantdev.de/frogger/. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


 Emulator: Bochs version 1.3 for AmigaOS / MorphOS
Version 1.3 of the PC-emulator called Bochs has been published. As you can read on the homepage Bochs now also support AmigaOS / MorphOS. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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12.Dec.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Interface card SER/PAR: Delivery date for VarIO
The last acknowledgments of orders from all suppliers arrived today, now it's only a matter of parcel services if pre-ordered boards arrive on december 24th or 27th. Our international partners shall most probably not receive the boards until next year. (ps)

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11.Dec.2001
ANN


 Event: Amiga Expo call for exhibitors and usergroups
Amiga Expo's currently discounted booth and table rates will be going up at the end of December, 2001 - if you're a developer, reseller, or user group planning on exhibiting at Amiga Expo please get your reservation in before the end of this month in order to take advantage of these low-low rates!

If you're planning on attending Amiga Expo the advance-ticket prices for the show will be going up as well! Please call and order your tickets soon. Buy 'em Christmas gifts for all your Amiga friends too! While you're at it - be sure to book your hotel room reservation before they run out!! (ps) (Translation: gf)

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11.Dec.2001
ANN


 Amiga Inc.: AmigaDE Shop - Christmas Special
Now through December 24, 2001, our existing AmigaDE Player Customers will receive a discount on participating applications purchased through the AmigaDE Shop. Customers who have not purchased the AmigaDE Player will receive a free AmigaDE Player for the platform of their choice with the purchase of regularly priced applications through the AmigaDE Shop. (ps)

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11.Dec.2001
VMC Harald Frank (ANF)


 AmigaOS XL/Amithlon Poll about Graphic and Network Cards
We apeal every AmigaOS XL/Amithlon user to participate in our poll. We hope that the results will enable us to faster realize what cards raise problems, and then will try to enhance the respective product /driver support.

The results play a certain role in deciding driver priorities and therefor are very important for us.

Thank you in advance to all who will participate and with this will help us to further enhance our products.

Best regards,
VMC Harald Frank

Direct link to this poll
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Dec.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)


 Financial Software: Bonds Version 1.84 - corrected version available
Sven Dröge: "After I've checked the last version once more, it now should run stable, meaning the share price update works again. Now a backup (optional) is done on import to have your old data available in case of an error. There also were problems with the date. I released the archive on the site, again."

Bonds is a financial software for bonds management of any kind, but mainly focuses on shares. This software is specialized for the financial center of Germany and best handles German bonds, since it uses the bond ident number system of the German stock exchange. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Dec.2001
The Legacy


 The Legacy: Games museum updated about 800 game infos
"The Legacy" contains screenshots, cover-scans, and informations about the developers of older games for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC. Now the latest news about 800 game infos and new search features are added. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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11.Dec.2001
Grabriele Greco


 Library: SDL V1.2.3 Beta for StormC 4 and SDL Mixer V1.2.0
On December, 9th Gabriele Greco has released the beta version 1.2.3 of the multimedia-Library "SDL" for StormC 4 (68k, PPC/WOS). New added is the SDL Mixer Version 1.2.0 for 68k and MorphOS. With this program different sample formats, MIDI-songs and several MOD formats can be played.

Download:
SDL_123_beta_sc4.lha
SDL_Mixer-Amiga-1.2.0.lha (ps) (Translation: gf)

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11.Dec.2001



 neo Award: Countdown running - currently position #18
As already reported amiga-news.de is nominated for the Internet award neo, category "favourit webiste". Currently we are on position #18 of 636 nominated websites in this category, which already is a very good result! Tank you very much to our readers!

The countdown has stared, cause there are only two days left to vote (thru 13. December). Everybody has another vote this week and can participate and support us again. Will we make it a bit closer to the top? (ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: "Siegfried Software" Projects
Sure there are many knowing the software company "Siegfried Software" and still today "Siegfried Software" offers full customer service for their Amiga products. Very positive is to say that the company would like to take NEW products or reactive further development of their existing products for the Amiga, but which is of too much risk and too expensive in the current situation.

Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena: "I hope those reliable for AmigaOS' future will take note of this and support such companies in good time to ensure NEW products to be available along with the release of a new AmigaOS!" More information can be found at Siegfried-Soft.

Amiga Arena - "Siegfried Software SE" Full Versions
The programs "Siegfried Antivirus Professional 1.6" and "Siegfried Copy 1.8" from the traditional Amiga company "Siegfried Soft" are available for free download. These are SE versions registered for the Amiga Arena. Both programs are fully updatable!

About "SIEGFRIED Antivirus Professional"
Main part of SIEGFRIED Antivirus Professional is the linkvirus too for searching file- or linkviruses on any kind of divce.

About "Siegfried Copy"
Functions:(extract)
  • Simple and clear graphical user guide.
  • Automatic bootblock virus recognition.
  • Settings can be saved to preferences file.
  • Multitasking capable.
  • Automode: efficient and fast copying.
  • Copying via remote data transmision.
  • Backup your software on HD or similar!
  • HD floppy disks are accessed like DD floppy disks.


Amiga Arena - Special Price Project
In cooperation with SIEGFRIED Software the Amiga Arena make possible special prices for the following products (for prices see title link):
  • SIEGFRIED Copy 1.9SE -> 2.2
    • Update with manual in AMIGA-Guide.
    • Update with printed manual.
    • Update with printed manual + passive copying hardware.
    • Update with printed manual + electronic copying hardware FLASH1.
  • SIEGFRIED Antivirus Professional 1.6SE -> V1.8
    • Update with manual in AMIGA-Guide.
    • Update with printed manual.
The update of the SE version contains an automatic registration, full customer service and the right to update to possible future versions of Siegfried Copy and Siegfried Antivirus Professional.
Note: Currently no new versions are under development.

Amiga Arena - "BangBoo" Full Version Update
The "BangBoo" archive has been replaced, due to an error during the first upload. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Dec.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


 Handheld: Intent for Sharp SL5000D
The Development Department of Sharp offers Intent for the developers version for its latest PDA for testing. The system replaces the whole system in the FlashROM of the SL 5000D. This means you can not use Qt embedded and Opera for example.

A link to a new developer page for Intent / AmigaDE is also shown. This page is reachable here: http://intent-sharp.amigadev.net (ps) (Translation: gf)

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10.Dec.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


 AmigaOS 3.9: More locale files
Haage&Partner has just uploaded the latest collection of locale files for OS 3.9 including:

  • Bosanski
  • Catala
  • Czech
  • Dansk
  • Espanol
  • Francais
  • Italiano
  • Magyar
  • Nederlands
  • Polski
  • Portugues
  • Portugues-Brasil
  • Russian
  • Slovensko
  • Srpski
  • Suomi
  • Svenska
  • Turkce
The files are named "39locale_name". Please download the files you need from this FTP-drawer. (ps)

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10.Dec.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 Journal File System "JFS" von IBM für Linux-APUS (PPC)
As already announced in the forum some time ago, the Journal File System by IBM is now available for Linux-APUS from my homepage. Among other things the download contains a precompiled kernel (2.4.8) and a kernel-patch that can be used with version 2.4.xx of the APUS-kernel-sources.

There is still some work to do for porting ReiserFS and Ext3. The release will be announced too. Futhermore there are some important information about the new Bootstrap (23.06.2001), by the APUS-development-team, available. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Dec.2001
Manfred Tremmels Homepage


 Invoicing: MT-Rechnung III Version 1.11
There was an update released for MT-Rechnung III version 1.11. This program is freeware under GPL. MT-Rechnung is being an invoice processing program by Manfred Tremmel managing addresses (offices, employees, customers, and suppliers), goods, different kinds of delivery, goods receipt and issue records.

Automatic stock recording is impelemented (from v1.04 including inventory) as well as an automatic price accounting. Prices can be scaled regarding number of units, shipping and handling regarding wheight. An accounting function is being worked on, accounts and account groups can already be created from v1.04.

MT-Rechnung III builds on a database especially developed for this, crashes don't cause any loss of data anymore, several users can use the same dataset simultanously via network.

Printing forms are not integrated in the program, but are external PostScript fiels, so it is no problem to add new or adjust existing forms. If no PostScript capable printer is available a PostScript interpreter like HWPost or GhostScript can be used for printing.

Becaus of the acute lack of time the programmer Manfred Tremmel can only work very few on MT-Rechnung III, thus he is hoping for active cooperation to not let the project drop off completely. The source code is available for donwload.

Download:
MTRechIII_1_11.lzx - 736 KB
MTRIIIsrc_1_11.lzx - 324 KB (ps) (Translation: mj)

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10.Dec.2001
Pär Boberg (E-Mail)


 Famous Amiga Uses
I just wanted to let everybody know that Famous Amiga Uses page has moved to a new server, at: http://www.pboberg.2ya.com and has a new email address: p.boberg-amiga@telia.com. The previous web and email address's stops working sometime in January. A new update of the Famous Amiga Uses list is coming within two months! (ps)

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10.Dec.2001
MAGIC WAVE


 Music: AMIGA-hymn by MAGIC WAVE
MAGIC WAVE, a trance-/techno-project, presents their own AMIGA-hymn. Because they are using AMIGAs for producing their music they decided to write a song about the AMIGA.

This song is available via the Aminet or at their homepage.

MAGIC WAVE
Amiga-Anthem.mpg - (3,9 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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09.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 Workbench: Scalos V40.16 Beta
On 9. December 2001 the beta version 40.16 of the Workbench replacement "Scalos" was published. This version rectifies quite a few of the reported bugs.

Download: ScalosBeta.lha (200K) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)


 User: Annuaire Amiga Francophone #11
The edition 11 of the "Annuaire Amiga Francophone" has been sent to the subscribers. This is a list of French speaking Amiga users all over the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec,...), which is sent out monthly. At the moment this list cites 621 users.

Via the title link you can find further information and you can add your name to the list. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Michael Böhmer (ANF)


 USB: HIGHWAY for Zorro II (Update)
The web pages for the SUBWAY USB controller card for the clockport of A1200, which was introduced at the Amiga trade show in Cologne, have been completely revised. Additionally, the HIGHWAY, a Zorro II based USB controller card, is presented.

The test results regarding the compatibility of SUBWAY and Zorro based clockport solutions are available now. (sd)

appendix 10.12.2001:
A mirror page is available under http://www.vmc.de/usb/ (ps) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Sascha Brandt ("The last Seal")
Olaf Köbnik writes:
Amiga Arena - Interview Action
1999 a demo version of the adventures "The last Seal" was published, developed by the Swiss team "Ancor".

Since a lot of things were announced, yet never realized we're now even more pleased to hear that "The last Seal" has been further developed throughout 2001.

Half of the game has supposedly been rewritten in "C" and "The last Seal" seems to promise a downright crazy adventure. (Let's hope that it will be finished).

The Amiga Arena held a short interview with the developer Sascha Brandt.

Further information is available under Ancor. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
amiga.org


 Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.37
On 9. December 2001 Georg Hoermann and Jan Erik Olausen published the version 33.37 of the virus scanner library "xvs".

Compared to the previous version the following changes have been made:
  • Once more added some new security features to the library. It will now try to self-defend after alien attacks, only if these efforts fail, the library gets disabled.
  • Added recognition for 2 demo files that I call 'Anti-UAE Trojan'. Their code checks for UAE systems and in case it finds one will delete important files. Thanks to Jan Andersen for sending the demos to me.
  • Added recognition for a MS-DOS strain of 'Bastard Installer'. Thanks to Jan Andersen for the file.
  • Added recognition and repair code for 'Bobek 3' linkvirus. Thanks to Zeeball for sending me an infected file, even though it was accidentally :-)
This virus scanner library can be used together with VirusExecutor, VirusChecker II or VirusZ.

Download: xvslibrary.lha (79972 Bytes), Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
ANN


 Magazine: Amitopia
The Amiga magazine "Amitopia" in Norway is still looking for further 23 subscribers from Norway or Sweden in order to publish the current edition. Orders are possible via the title link.

In Sweden the magazine will finally be available from 15. December 2001.

In addition, the publication of the magazine in Denmark has been planned for next year. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
ANN


 Programming Language: PowerD V0.19 Alpha3
On 9. December 2001 Martin Kuchinka published the alpha version V0.19 Alpha3 of the programming language "PowerD". In this early alpha version various bugs were rectified.

Modifications:
  • announced support for OOP4A project
    (more: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/5737/)
  • on some occasions (when no external references used), phxass produced executable directly without the intermediate object file, that PowerD requires
  • all the LIBRARY definition only modules made an error, fixed
  • bugfixes reported by Michel Bagmeijer
    • pr2m: some string fixed and at last translated from E to D :)
    • removed few enforcer hits


Download: alpha.lzx (157K), Readme (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 Game: Walkthrough for Myst
In the interactive section of Amiga Future Olaf Bathke has published a walkthrough (German) for Myst.

The Amiga Future Editorial Department would of course be happy if even more users would write solution paths in order to publish them on the Amiga Future Homepage. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
x-cellence (ANF)


 Games: x-cellence redesigned, Amiga-Team sought for
Jens [bruZard] Henschel writes:
The web page of the game development team "x-cellence" has been completely redesigned. Our latest project, the RPG "God's Light", has made this necessary.

Unfortunately, we can only work on PC-titles at the moment. For this reason we're still (and have been for a year now) looking for a qualified Amiga-Team which will work together with us on the implementation of our titles for Amiga.

This mainly means the implementation of the X-Fire-Engine in Warp3D or OpenGL. On this basis, it would be relatively easy to develop our titles for Amiga and at the same time support this fantastic platform. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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09.Dec.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


 Magazin: NoCover #93
On 8. December 2001 the APC&TCP published the edition 93 of the disc and online magazine 'NoCover' in German.

The magazine can be read online and can be downloaded.

Download: nocover93.lha (1,7M) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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08.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)


 Amiga Arena: full version of Bangboo
With permission by Michael Taupitz is the game "Bangboo" available for free download in the Amiga Arena. "Bangboo" is a game mixture needing skill and puzzling. "Bangboo" is playable from disk/HD and really recommendable for long winter evenings. Special thanks go to Michael Taupitz and Andreas Magerl. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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08.Dec.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)


 100%AMIGA CD Magzine issue 19
The Christmas issue of 100%AMIGA is out now. Inside the magazine this month we have a totally festive theme for Christmas including some free Xmas games and a whole bunch of seasonal clipart, music and animations. We also show the results of last month's readers survey of the future of Amiga and take a light hearted look at some future Amiga products (mostly fictional) sung to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas. You can also listen to the out-takes in the 100%BLOOPERS drawer. The new Directory Opus/OS3.9 utilities collection D.O.O.N. is shown in the Hot Off The Press section and of course we bring you the top Amiga news stories in the only magazine that has News Presenter reading them to you. More details available from Amiga Online Superstore or 100%AMIGA website.

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08.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


 Collect points in the new topcool club
The magazine amiga-topcool has brought from this day on a new loyalty club into live. The membership is free. Members can collect points for various actions and then change these into CDs. You get points for sending news, writing articles, participating in polls or enlisting new members. (Translation: wk)

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08.Dec.2001
Jan Andersen (ML)


 Virus Help Denmark: two new viruses discovered
1.
Two archives found on Aminet contain a new trojan. They are said to be AGA demos but if you run these demos on a PC using 'WinUAE' your system will be deleted. These demos come from a Polish demo group. Why they would program something like this, I don't know.

This is some info about the two archives:

Trojan name... : AME-DSD Trojan (name might be changed later)
Trojan file... : dsd-main
Trojan size... : 93.924 bytes
Trojan archive : AME-DSD.lha
Archive size.. : 6.927.166 bytes
Archive info.. : Dog Star Descends by Amnesty (CGX&AHI compatible)

Trojan name... : PSL-KMJ Trojan (name might be changed later)
Trojan file... : main
Trojan size... : 49.308 bytes
Trojan archive : PSL-KMJ.lha
Archive size.. : 5.530.365 bytes
Archive info.. : Kiss My Jazz by Pic Saint Loup (AGA/CGX)

In the code for these archives you can read:

------------ Code start -----------------------

Warning!!! UAE System for lamers detected!!! - System will reboot after mouse button... run c:delete s:startup-sequence force quiet >NIL:

------------ Code end -------------------------

It is not legal to release destructive programs to the public, and we will see what we can do with this. In almost every country the programmer of such destructive programs can go to jail for this kind of programming.

The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....

Thanks to 'Urban' for the info about the archive.


2.
A new linkvirus has been found a few days ago, we are not sure if this virus is in the wild. It was send directly to Zbigniew Trzcionkowski (the programmer of Safe). Zbigniew received one infected file. This new virus is a clone of the "Bobek-2" linkvirus and is named "Bobek-3". This is able to disable the antivirus programs.

We do not know if this virus was released in any way, so if you get a requester popping up, telling you that something is trying to disable the xvs.library, please let us know.

This is what we know of the virus:

Virus name: Bobek-3
Virus Type: Linkvirus
Virus size: about 2.000 bytes (uses polmorphic engine)

Well, it looks like the Polish virus group is back in action. But maybe not for long. Things will happen very soon.

Thanks to 'Zbigniew' for sending the archive. (ps)

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08.Dec.2001
Hynek Schlawack (E-Mail)


 Mailer: SimpleMail Version 0.13
Yesterday was released SimpleMail Version 0.13. The changes are:

  • Included a real manual at last. Thanks to David Rey!
  • SMTP over SSL.
  • POP3 connections can be made secure with the STLS command now. (RFC 2595)
  • Primitive ARexx-port.
  • Support for playing sounds.
  • Taglines, the last %t in the signature will be replaced by a tagline.
  • Folders holding unread mails are hilighted now.
  • Localization.
Please note: if you downloaded your archive before 2001/12/08, 0:30 am, there were informations about the taglines missing in the guide so the guide has been replaced just now. If you don't want to download the whole archive again, here is the changeg paragraph:

Tick this box if you want SimpleMail to automatically add a random tagline to every email you write. Simply insert a %t in the signature and it will be replaced by a random tagline found in .taglines when composing a mail.

Sorry for the inconvience.

Download: simplemail.lha - 306 KB (ps)

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07.Dec.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses
"The OOP4A-Project joins forces with PowerD and WizardClasses"
"Stefan Robl, author of OS 3.9's AmiDock, has agreed to support the OOP4A project by providing his class system 'WizardClasses' which is extensively used in all of his programs. The class system also contains - among many other classes - a GUI class system. We hope to release a first package sometime in Q1, 2002 - this will enable programs using OOP4A to use GUI in a truly object oriented way as well.
Martin Kuchinka, author of the PowerD programming language, agreed too to support the OOP4A-Project within PowerD.

New features in this weekend's release of OOP4A are argument types and method overloading. These are the last basic oop functions which had to be implemented, so that the next releases will concentrate on building new classes."

OOP4A stands for Object Oriented Programming for All and offers full oop support to nearly any programming language used on the Amiga. Project start was the around the 5.10.2001. German Pages see title link.

English Pages

Marius Schwarz (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Elbox Computer / Wojtek Kozlowski


 Event: Amiga 2001 pictures by Elbox
At the title link you'll find images from the Amiga 2001 fair by Elbox Computer. The images are subtitled in English. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Ralf Steines


 Back2Roots.org: Friday, 7th december offline
On Friday, 7th December 2001, at about 11:00 GMT Back to the Roots will temporarily go offline, since we upgrade the server's harddisks, memory and operating system.

If all performs well it should be back online in less than one day, and should allow our future updates and services to be even more massive :)

Sorry for the inconvenience. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Amiga Inc.


 Amiga board elects Frank Wilde as Chairman of the Board (update)
Update:
Carsten Schröder of Amiga Aktuell explains in a special the following terms:
"First of all for clarification: in American companies the "chairman" is the head of the "Board of Directors", some sort of administrative council which is elected by the company shareholders and decides on the basic company politics as well as announcing the "Executive Officers" who are responsible for daily business. Thus the chairman has - at least formally - a higher influence as for example the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a company."

Wilde brings 18 years of experience in the personal computer industry to Amiga's Board of Directors

(December 6, 2001) The Board of Directors for Amiga Inc. have elected Frank Wilde as its new Chairman of the Board. 

Mr. Wilde will bring his many years of experience and leadership to Amiga to help expand its business into new markets while releasing new products.

Mr. Wilde joins Amiga from Ravisent Technologies where he was President and Chief Executive Officer. Frank was appointed Chief Executive Officer of RAVISENT Technologies Inc. in April of 1998, a year after joining the company as Director and President.  Wilde brings over eighteen years of sales, marketing and business development experience in the computer industry holding key industry positions at IBM, Dell Computer Corporation and Memorex Telex Corporation. He has over 15 years P&L experience and is a veteran of six startup companies and has led or been a team member of companies that have raised over 300 million in venture funding. He strongly believes in developing highly competitive and fast growing organizations that enable individuals and teams to grow and develop their professional capabilities in such a way that shareholder value is maximized. Wilde was instrumental in the planning and execution of the company's transition from a hardware company to a software Intellectual Property licensing company. Under his leadership, RAVISENT was able to raise $18 million in private funding in June of 1998. Wilde also led the company through the IPO process, taking the company public in July of 1999, raising $61.4 million.   RAVISENT's flagship product family, CinePlayer, offers consumers a single look-and-feel PC solution for interactive playback of a wide variety of multimedia formats - including CD Audio, MPEG audio, MPEG video, DVD, Dolby Digital audio, MP3 audio, LPCM audio, digital television (DTV), analog (traditional) television, high definition television (HDTV), and "time-shifted" television broadcasts (so-called digital video recorder files or DVR).

“I had many choices on where I wanted to go next and where the best opportunity for the future was.  Bill McEwen and I had been speaking for many months on business plans and other issues, and after meeting with the team, and viewing the technology and their partners, there was no better choice for me than joining Amiga" said Frank Wilde, Chairman of Amiga, Inc. "The Amiga has an amazing past and is well known at Ravisent, but seeing what I have seen of the technology, they have even a brighter future, and I am pleased to be here".

"Frank brings a level of expertise and knowledge that is second to none. His level of excitement and dedication to Amiga, will be seen shortly as we continue to build and release new products" said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga, Inc.   "I look forward to working with Frank, and the two of us working with the community and our partners on building a very solid future".

Over the years, Wilde and RAVISENT received recognition from numerous business and technology organizations. Most recently, RAVISENT was recognized as the #7 in the 2000 Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. He was also recognized as a Technology Pioneer, an award that is developed jointly by the World Economic Forum and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu to recognize the world's fastest growing, most technologically innovative companies. In 1999, RAVISENT was named the #1 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in Eastern Pennsylvania. Also, RAVISENT was recognized as the #9 in the 1999 in the Deloitte & Touche Fast 500 - Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the United States. In April of 1999, RAVISENT was ranked #8 in the Electronic Business list of Top 20 Small Electronics Companies. Frost & Sullivan granted RAVISENT the 1998 Marketing Engineering Competitive Strategy Award because the company was able to create and implement an effective competitive strategy. 

Wilde received a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Seton Hall University. He is a member of the American Management Association, American Electronics Association, USA Reserves Officers Association, Special Forces Decade Association and the Army Aviation Association of Aviators and Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity. He has also been named to Who's Who in International Business and awarded the Republican National Committee "Businessman of the Year" award for 1999.

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media operating system which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com.   Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Dec.2001
Joachim Schmid (ANF)


 Freespace demo update 4 released
The fourth update to the demo version of the game Freespace has been released for download on the Hyperion homepage. It removes several smaller bugs (like the bug in the third statistics table) as well as a new option to allow switching voicestreaming on and off.

Also included is a description how you have to connect an analog joystick. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena/Fun Time World: Puzzle BOBS Website online
After the game "Puzzle BOBS" was for the first time presented to the audience on the "Amiga 2001" show, an own website for the game was created at Fun Time World.

Puzzle BOBS was successfully tested under "UAE" and "Amithlon". More and topical information on the game you can find at Nexus Development. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with the Scalos team und special price project
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
With the Workbench replacement "Scalos" a good alternative for the Amiga and your very own desktop. The acitve and steady further development or support makes "Scalos" getting more and more extensive and multifunctional. The Amiga Arena talked to the entire team of "Scalos" about past, present, and future.

Amiga Arena - AmiATLAS 6 Update Special Price
From now on all registered AmiATLAS 5 users can take the special price for AmiATLAS 6 (wihtout the term of the registered additional maps).

The programs "X-Trace", "MicroPaint", and "MicroBase" are available at the respective special price thru 31. December 2001.

Amiga Arena - The fire still burns
After hardware problems and an internal rework of the hompage, now it should not be a problem to display the "Amiga Arena" with the "Voyager" browser, any more. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
A.S.Munde (ANF)


 DocDatatypes Version 40.30 Released
DocDatatypes is a set of Datatypes classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text.

New for this version (40.30) is the support of reading and writing TEAL Docs and RichReader Docs. MS-Word XP (2002) is also supported. Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes. (ps)

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06.Dec.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


 Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - Update
Just in time for Santa Clause day there is a tasty thing for all astronomy fans and DA III owners! From today a new version 4.6 was released on Aminet to be installed by every DA III user. This update fixes some more smaller bugs from the prior version and offers the possibility to move the star map with the joystick as a new feature (little marginal gimmick). This is to be the last update for Digital Almanac III for this year. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Innovative (ANF)


 Drawing- and imagemanipulation: fxPAINT Christmas-action from Innovative
Just in time for christmas time we now offer fxPAINT 1.0 for an incredibly low price (see title link). We hope to allow many users a look at the power of fxPAINT at a low price and want to shorten the waiting time for those users that are waiting for Version 2.0 that is currently under development and will again set new standards.

fxPAINT 1.0 is fully updatable to the current V1.5 and Version 2.0 at a low price. This special offer is valid until 31th December 2001 and only as long as enough fxPAINT 1.0 are in stock. You can place your order directly via our online-shop. (ps)

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06.Dec.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)


 Financial software: Bonds Version 1.84 available
Bonds is a financial software for bonds management of any kind, but mainly focuses on shares. This software is specialized for the financial center of Germany and best handles German bonds, since it uses the bond ident number system of the German stock exchange.

The current version again fixes some of the bug, of which a lot still exist, and some innovations have been implemented. The following items are enjoyable:

  • Enhanced installation script, which now asks in advance if the exsample charts shall be installed.
  • The depot manager now got its final form, you can already buy and sale, more actions are planned (share splits, etc.).
  • Slightly enhanced design, more detailed program messages.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
AROS-ML


 AROS News: Success and reverse
»I just got a mail from the kind guys who provide us with free web and ftp space. AROS finally seems to have made it. We had over 10GB of downloads last month and that means, I have to take the FTP space down... (What kind of smiley is suitable for this ???).

So if you have lots of bandwidth to spare, call me :-) Until then, FTP is down. I'm in contact with Urban Mueller of Aminet but I guess he won't want to check in AROS images every night ;-) So maybe there will be an update just once per month or so.

Thanks go to the tireless AROS developers who have made us so attractive and to all the fans who still hold on to their beloved system :-) The images will come back, promised. And you will see the V1.0 of AROS :-)« (ps)

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06.Dec.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: DSPSpeed Version 1.02
AudioLabs have released a benchmark tool for ProStationAudio. This tool named DSPSpeed is avialable as version 1.02 and measures the performance of ProStationAudio on 68k Amigas with AmigaOS and on emulated Amigas as well. More details under the title link.

Download: dspspeed.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Amiga.org


 Event: Amiga Inc. attends the 'University of Washington Career Fair'
From the participants list of the 'University of Washington Career Fair' event one can learn that Sanjay Menon, VP of Engeneering, Amiga Inc., will attend the show, which will take place on 11. April 2002 for the students of the University of Washington. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)


 amigaland.de: Server Problem fixed, Games available again
Mirko Engelhardt wrote:
Just two games are still missing. All demos, programs, and emulators will be available again within the next days. Special thank to Birdy, webmaster of amigahistory.de, who supported me with his webspace. (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
GameIcons.info


 Icons: New Game Icons by GameIcons.info
The icon packets #09 and #11 by Dr. Zarkov have been restructured and put together and there are many new icons, too. More icon packets under the title link.

Download: GameIcons-2001.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Dec.2001
GFX-BASE


 GFX-BASE: Report about the O.A.S.E. Event
Last weekend most of the members of GFX-BASE have visited the O.A.S.E. (Open Amiga South East Europe) in Graz, Austria. Jürgen Schober, the organizer, has shown an official Scala presentation of the promised AmigaOS 4.0 features in his Amiga shop point.design. Furthermore other Amiga highend products were shown like G-Rex and Mediator PCI boards, the AmigaOS XL packet, some new games, and much more.

You will find the report by GFX-BASE in form of a picture gallery with detailed subtitles. Click the thumbnails to read the subtitles. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Dec.2001
SomS Newsletter (E-Mail)


 Game: Deep Silence news to SomS
The team of the action-adventures 'SOMS' has a new member. Her name is Rei from Japan. She is from the Manga-RPG-source at all. For SomS she will compose a part of the music and will synchronize voices. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2001
morphos-news.de


 morphos-news.de: Interview with Ralph Schmidt
The team of morphos-news.de interviewed Ralph Schmidt who is the head developer of MorphOS. Today a summary of the interview has been published. You can read it under the title link. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2001
Gary Peake (ML)


 Amiga names Sanjay Menon as vice president of department engineering
press release:
Amiga names Sanjay Menon vice president of engineering

Menon brings 10 years of experience in delivering software solutions to Amiga's hardware agnostic multimedia platform.

Snoqualmie, WA - December 3, 2001 - Amiga Inc., a provider of multi-platform multimedia content solutions, today announced the hiring of Sanjay Menon as their Vice President of Engineering. As Vice President of Engineering, Mr. Menon will be responsible for delivering Amiga solutions on a multitude of platforms.

“Sanjay has several years in the software industry and has a track record of successes with projects he has worked on or managed” said Bill McEwen, President and CEO of Amiga Inc. “We look forward to having him deliver many different types of solutions both to consumers and developers alike”. “His leadership will help make our Amiga developers be more successful in their roles toward the completion of our vision for the digital world”.

Menon brings more than 10 years of development and management experience to Amiga and is adept at planning and executing development strategies ensuring quality product releases in a timely fashion. His most recent accomplishments were at Microsoft Corporation where he spent 5 years in various management positions. His responsibilities there included shipping portions of the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine which was delivered in the Internet Explorer browser. Previous to his experience at Microsoft, Menon was a Lead Developer for Connectsoft Corporation where, among other things, he delivered advanced communication applications and protocols.

“I am very excited to have this opportunity with Amiga” said Menon. “I believe that Amiga is poised to deliver quality solutions across a wide number of market segments that are in growth areas of communication and computing. I look forward to working with both our Amiga developers and the developers in the Amiga Community who are going to deliver leading edge solutions for numerous different devices”.

About Amiga

Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multimedia operating systems which is hardware agnostic. AmigaDE is a joint development effort between the Tao Group of Reading, England, and Amiga Incorporated. AmigaDE based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The AmigaDE can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX4. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com/. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com/. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Dec.2001
Heise News Ticker (ANF)


 Heise: Programming competition for Linux-PDA
Sharp is looking for some applications of the sectors games, entertainment, business-programms, utilities and communication for its LINUX PDA Zaurus SL 5000 and therefore has started a programming competition. You can gain attractive prizes.
Have a look at the title link for the full Heise-article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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04.Dec.2001



 neo Award: Intermediate Result - Position #23
As already reported amiga-news.de was nominated for the Internet-Award neo, category "favorit website". At the time being we rank on position #23 what we think to be a huge success. We thank all readers who voted for us! Since you can vote every week, you can vote for amiga-news.de using your password again, this week. Put please, keep being fair and vote only once per week, cause otherwise we would disqualify ourselfves.

One word about data security: The organizer assures explicit that your registering data will be treated strictly confidential. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Dec.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Future: Interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' Team
Andreas Magerl did an interview with the 'Schlachtfeld' team for the 'Amiga Future' magazine. Schlachtfeld is about a strategy game. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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04.Dec.2001
W.F.M.H. (ANF)


 Electronic Teacher 5 - special offer + new site
W.F.M.H. has launched a new internet site for one of its flagships: Electronic Teacher 5 CD. The multimedia language tutor home can now be found at http://eteacher5.com . Besides, the package can now be ordered at promotional price (even 50% off)!

As publishing house informs, the software is still under heavy development and among tons of new features (including even animation support) then new release will bring us, the two new language data CD are expected to be released as well, with lessons of German and French! Electronic Teacher 6 is expected to be released at the end of April 2002. (ps)

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04.Dec.2001
Christian Hujer (ANF)


 Adobe SVG Viewer for Unix
Since a couple of days Adobe is offering the SVG Viewer for downlaod on the page for unsupported versions as version 3.0 beta 1 in English for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Solaris 8.

The SVG Viewer is a web-browser plugin for displaying vector images of the XML basing W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (see Heise's articel, German). The Windows and Mac versions have an ActiveX interface for the Internet Explorer and a Netscape plugin interface for Netscape 4.x (and by this it is supposed to run with Konqueror and other browsers supporting the Netscape interface at 100%). Contrary to that the Linux version has a Mozilla interface and does not support Netscape's plugin architecture which is poorly documented, anyway.

In a first try this plugin could not be used under SuSE Linux 7.2 with Mozilla 0.9.5 RPM, it was not recognized, but Mozilla 0.9.5 and the plugin still are beta versions. For the final versions a better cooperation of both may be expected.

With the Adobe SVG Viewer available for Linux and Solaris the popularity and use of SVG might increase very much.

Of course the Linux port is available as binary only unfortuantely, meaning that it mainly contains of .so files (libraries) compiled for x86 Linux. That is, though there is a x86 Linux port now, an Amiga port is as far away as ever. Even the efforts of Mozilla.org are promising more remedy. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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03.Dec.2001
Dennis Lohr (E-Mail)


 Music: DBPro Mod-Compo - Rules
Plans about a DBM-Compo by the Digibooster Pro Community. But they do not want to make the according rules without requesting the ideas and opinions of the users. Proposals can be made until Friday (7.12.2001) by posting them at the DBPro-Community forum at the title link.

It would be grade if as many as possible users would participate in this discussion and in the upcoming competition. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New Packets
WHD-Load lets you install your floppy-based games on to your harddisc. The follwing packets were updated or newly included:

  • 02.12.01 new: Woody's World (Vision) done by Codetapper
  • 02.12.01 new: Wings (Cinemaware) done by JOTD
  • 02.12.01 new: Kikugi (Image Tech) done by CFOU!
  • 02.12.01 fixed: Future Wars (Delphine Software) small bug fixed
  • 30.11.01 new: The Three Stooges (Cinemaware) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) joypad support added
  • 30.11.01 improved: Rocket Ranger (Cinemaware) supports another version
  • 30.11.01 new: Road Wars (Arcadia Systems) done by Psygore
  • 30.11.01 improved: New York Warriors (Arcadia Systems) supports another version and some fixes
  • 30.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) supports another version
  • 30.11.01 improved: Guardian CD³² (Acid Software) joypad support added
  • 30.11.01 new: Friendish Freddy's Big Top'o Fun (Gray Matter/Mindscape) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 new: Death Bringer (Empire) done by CFOU!
  • 30.11.01 new: Black Crypt (Raven Software) done by CFOU!
  • 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Amiga.org


 Amiga.org: Interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion
There is an (English) interview with Ben Hermans of Hyperion Entertainmet available at Amiga.org (title link). (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Håkan Parting


 Instant Messenger: AmiComSys Version 2.1
Håkan Parting released version 2.1 of his program AmiComSys.

Changes:

  • BUGFIX: When all the checkboxes in the Client list settings/Show which information were checked the computer crashed. So if you had that setting in v. 1.34 and tried 2.0 the computer just crashed.
  • BUGFIX: It didn't work to install plugins directly from the plugin installer, by setting the environmental variable ACS_INSTALLPLUGIN.
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)


 DCE makes "Visionary" TV-Software online available
The TV-software "Visionary" for the G-Rex PCI-board is now available at the homepage of DCE. This release includes the skins for this program. A driver for 100MBit network adapters (based on RTL8039) is still beta and will soon be available at the DCE-supportpage. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Oliver Wagner (ML)


 Vaporware: New Regtool with Euro-support
The offline-regtool 'Regtool' by Vapoware is now available with Euro-support and contains all new Vapor-products. All prices can be converted with the help of MUI (short help system). Products can still be paid and registered online by using a credit card and with the help of Silicon Circus Ltd. (UKP).

Download: regtool.lha (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Dec.2001
Martin Strojek (E-Mail)


 AMIGA in the media: 'Bild am Sonntag' of 02.12.2001
In the yesterday's issue of the German newspaper "Bild am Sonntag" the Amiga was mentioned in the special column "VIVABamS" on page 3. There is a draw with ATB (André Tanneberger, musician), mentioning the Amiga. Tanneberger said that his first computer was an Amiga on which he made electro songs. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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02.Dec.2001
Andreas Steup (ANF)


 Emulator: Amiga Forever 5 Benchmark
Andreas Steup writes:
In the stated URL you can find a few short Benchmark-Tests for WinUAE-Emulators from the Amiga Forever 5 package.

Result: A 300MHz Pentium is almost enough to emulate a 68040 Amiga with 80MHz, which means double the speed.

The English version of the tests are available. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
ANN


 Workbench: Scalos with new Domain
You can now get access to the website of the Workbench Replacement "Scalos" under the new domain www.scalos.co.uk. This means that all the e-mail addresses have also changed as they now end with "@scalos.co.uk".

We've got outselves a new domain because the previous one Domain expired and was taken over by namezero.com. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Gabriele Greco (sdl-amiga ML)


 Library: SDL V1.2.3 Beta
On 2. December 2001 Gabriele Greco published the Beta-version 1.2.3 of the Multimedia-Library "SDL" for AmigOS and MorphOS. All the improvements and bug fixes of 1.2.3. should have been implemented in this version.

The following amiga-specific improvements have been made:
  • Completely compatible with libnix (the 68k as well as the MorphOS version). Some demos (testsprite, testpalette) show that the libnix-version is 30% faster than the ixemul-version
  • Bugfix: A crash or a corruption of the memory list was possible in the hardware-accellerating and full-screen mode.
  • Modification: General clean up of the CyberGFX-Codes. Maybe this has also removed the Colors-Bug of Picasso 96 (wasn't tested).
Gabriele Greco is hoping to finish the final version by next weekend in order to add the new sources to the official Source and Development-Package on the official site SDL-Site.

The archive contains: include, docs, gcc 68k lib, SAS/C 68k lib and gcc MorphOS PPC lib.

The SDL enables the platform-independent programming of games and multimedia products.

Download: SDL-1.2.3-Amiga.zip (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
V3Portal


 VNC: zvnc V1.0
On 1st December 2001 David Gerber published Version 1.0 of VNC-Clients "zvnc".

This is a small VNC-Client without Display-Support which is supposed to controll a second PC with monitor.

The advantage of "zvnc" is that only minimal data is transferred through the network since there are no graphics. In this way the mouse and keyboard input is very direct.

"zvnc" applies to AmigaOS V2.0 (68000), AmigaOS V3.0 (68020) and MorphOS (PPC).

Download: zvnc_1.0.lha (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Aminet


 XML: Expat as Shared-Library
The porting of the XML-Parser-Library "expat" for AmigaOS was published by James S. Perrin in Aminet. This version is available as Amiga-Shared-Library.

Expat is among other things used by the Web-Browser "Mozilla" for parsing XML-documents.

"Expat" was originally developped by James Clark, who also was technical manager of the XML Working Group of W3C for the drawing up of the XML 1.0 specification.

Download: (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
ANN


 USB: Information about "Subway" (USB about Clockport)
KDH Datentechnik has published Information about the USB-Controller "Subway" for the Clockport of Amiga 1200:

  • compatible with USB 1.1 and 2.0.
  • integrated 4 Port-HUB.
  • all ports are protected against over-tension and over-burdening.
  • integrated Power-Management for all ports.
  • energy is saved due to 3,3V Technology.
  • compatible with all 68030/40/060 and PPC-Turbo Cards.
  • no technical problems with Amiga 1200-Busboards.
  • compatible with all Amiga 1200 Tower Casings.
  • Standard Amiga 1200 Clockport-Connection.
  • Highspeed-Clockport-Connection for a quicker transfer of data.
  • Works on every Amiga 1200 compatible clockport.
(sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
ANN


 IRC: AmIRC V3.5.21beta
Oliver Wagner published the beta-version 3.5.21 of the IRC-Clients "AmIRC" on the 30th November 2001. This version solves various little problems.

This update can only be used by registered users. The package contains text input V29.3.

Download: amirc_3521beta.lzx (222K) (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


 amiga-topcool: Free classified advertisements relaunched
Daniel Orth writes:
Apart from the new design of our webpage for the Amiga-Magazine "amiga-topcool" we have also designed the section for the classified ads in a new way. The advantage is that you don't have to wait that somebody inserts an advert since this is now done by a small CGI-Script.

It's also now possible to buy advert space by means of an auction. Offers from 1 DM onwards are accepted. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Ralf Hasemann (ANF)


 Trade fair: Amiga Expo announced (Update)
The trade fair "Amiga Expo" takes place in Baltimore, MD USA in the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn on 29th until 31st March 2002.

Further information about the trade fair can be found under the title link.

Appendix 02.12.2001:
date corrected as follows: 2002. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Jens Henschel (ANF)


 BASIC: AmiBlitz User-Site now also for Amiga-Browser
Jens [bruZard] Henschel writes:
I have completely changed the design for the Blitzbasic-Site (www.blitz3d.x-cellence.de) since Amiga-Browser wasn't able to bring it up. From now on problems won't come up any more. Should it nevertheless come to some incompatibilities here and there, please inform me, so that I can solve the problem. Contact address: bruzard@x-cellence.de.

The site and the forum have been enlarged by an AmiBlitz-Section because of wide-spread interest. This will be filled up over the next few days. First, a tutorial for beginners will be published so that the Blitzbasic-Community might increase after all.

happy programming,

Jens [bruZard] Henschel (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Amiga-Society.de: It's all over
Horst Diebel writes:
1.12.2001 - This is the end of the Amiga-Society.de. Why should we create such a site that is of no use at all and that only causes trouble?

This question has occurred to me over the last few weeks more and more frequently.

After our relaunch we had more and more attacks on our site and in particular on my PC, that is to say my e-mail address. A week ago it finally happened that I gradually switched off the e-mail addresses because only virulent e-mails were arriving.

The initiators will know what I mean.... maybe they have reached their objective in this way.

By the end of the year I will have the site switched off! The competition will of course be finished - relevant addresses will be available before the end of the year and approximately until the 6th January 2002. The announcement of the lucky winners will be around mid-January 2002.

After this event I will retire completely. The project "battlefield" will certainly be continued by some of the participants - alternative Internet addresses will probably be announced very soon.

BI would like to thank all the people who have helped create the site.

Bye....

Horst (sd) (Translation: sr)

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02.Dec.2001
Alexander Pfau (ANF)


 Amithlon.net now also in German
Bernd Meyer's Website "Amithlon.net", which accompanies the Amiga-Emulator for x86er-Systems, is now also available in German.

It was translated into German by Alexander Pfau. (sd) (Translation: sr)

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01.Dec.2001
Michael Ulbrich (ANF)


 Amithlon-"Party" in Berlin
An Amithlon event is being planned to be held in a little local Internet Café in Berlin.

More information (German) can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Dec.2001
Virus Help Denmark


 Virus Help Denmark: Interim results of the vote
The survey of Virus Help Denmark about the anti-virus programmer who has done the most against viruses is still running for a month. Here are the current results:

  • Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor: 169 votes
  • Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - xvs.library: 168 votes
  • Zbigniew Trzcionkowski - Safe: 18 votes
  • Alex van Niel - VirusChecker II: 9 votes
  • Heiner Schneegold _ VT-Schutz: 4 votes
  • Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ III: 3 votes
Who hasn't participated so far can still vote at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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01.Dec.2001
(ANF)


 Preordering the Show Video CD
Due to not only a few users showed me their interest in my video CD within a short period of time I've put an order form on my homepage, with which you can preoder the CD online. Just enter your name and address an you will receive the CD for free. You'll have to pay postage, only.

If you happen to have problems submitting the order, please send an e-mail with subject 'Video-CD' to me. Of course names and addresses will be treated strictly confidential and deleted after this project.

Best regards,
Falcon (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Dec.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


 C't reports extensively about Amiga
The German computer magazine c't reports in its current issue (issue 25/01 on Monday at the newsstands) extensively on a full page (page 46) about the Amiga 2001 show and the Pegasos board! Also mentioned are AmigaOS XL, Hyperion, PCI boards and the USB port. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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01.Dec.2001
amiga.org (ANF)


 Apex Designs: Payback being ported to AmigaDE and Macintosh
Apex Designs' 'Payback' will be ported to Intent/AmigaDE and Apple Macintosh. The port to the AmigaDE will be done by Apex Designs, the port to MacOS by Vitual Programming. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Martin Kuchinka


 Programming language: PowerD V0.19 Alpha2
Martin Kuchinka has released an update for the alpha version 0.19 of the programming language 'PowerD'. In this version some bugs were fixed and the possibility to insert local objects was added.

Download: alpha.lzx - alpha.readme (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
KDH News (ANF)


 KDH advent calendar with draw (Update)
Between December 1rst and December 24th we will offer you a daily highlight at a special low budget price. Just click on the appropriate door on our KDH advent calendar and enjoy our daily highlight.

We recommend a daily visit to our site and you may see a item you always wanted at an affordable price. Each highlight is valid for two days. All orders submitted via our advent calendar with take part in a draw. The 1rst winner will receive a copy of Descent Freespace, 2nd winner Shogo, 3rd winner Wipeout.

Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik

Update 03. December 2001:
Dear customers, since the draw we have been planning on occasion of our KDH Advent calendar possibly would violate the rules of the competition rights, as it already was pointed out to us, we decided to stop this draw in the interest of a fair and justly unobjectionable competition. Currently it is being investigated to find a legal form to continue the draw.

Günter Horbach
KDH Datentechnik
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Nov.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: Aggressors put Hompages at Freenet on hold
Due to a hacker's offense currently all user homepages at Freenet.de are not accessible. Freenet is investigating how this attack was done and will try to fix the possibly existing security gap, hence it is not clear when the user websites will be available again.
See title link for Heise's article (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Nov.2001
bruZard's blitzbasic[3D][bbb3D] (ANF)


 BlitzBasic PC & BlitzBasic AMIGA
For some weeks the site www.blitz3d.x-cellence.de (title link) is now online. It deals with the topic BlitzBasic on the PC. Since I come from the Amiga BlitzBasic I would like to create a section on this topic as well. Especially now that the development of BlitzBasic for the Amiga continues. It only justifies the efforts though if there are interested people who would appreciate that. So: who has interest in a BlitzBasic AMIGA site should show it by leaving a comment.

There already exists a bulletin board on the site which would also be extended by an Amiga section. I'd like to thank you already for your interest.

Jens [bruZard] Henschel (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: ProStationAudio Titanium finished
The full version of the audio software ProStationAudio Titanium is now ready and is currently distributed with all plugins for a special price. Also AudioLabs announced a ProStationAudio benchmark tool for next week. The tool measures the performance of ProStationAudio on 68k computers with AmigaOS as well as on emulated Amigas. More details at the title link. (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
Matay


 Matay: S3 Virge PCI graphics cards driver (beta)
Matay today published a beta version of the S3 Virge chip based PCI graphics cards driver for Prometheus. His author, Alexander Kneer, bewares it can still be not fully functional (some overlay problems can appear), yet should work.

Download: Prom-s3.lha (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
ANN


 Programming: JumpED Version 5.0
Bruce Steers today released version 5.0 of his tool JumpED. Jump to functions in your editor via MUI listview. By default it translates source code for ARexx, Amiga_E, AmigaGuides, Javascript/PHP and Perl/CGI. JumpED has editor support for BED, TurboText, GoldED and Quill.

Download: JumpED.lha (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)


 Magazine: Clubbed total Amiga magazine
The trial issues as well as full subscriptions to CLUBBED/TOTAL AMIGA magazine can now be made at the store using our 128 Bit Secure online ordering system (Amiga Online Superstore). (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
Prelude Software (ANF)


 Prelude.library V5.3 released
V5.3 of the prelude.library was released by Thomas Wenzel. Some Enforcer hits were removed.

Download: prllib53.lha (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Gabriele Greco (E-Mail)


 SDL-Amiga mailinglist created
Gabriele Greco has created a new mailing list: SDL-Amiga. This list is dedicated to Amiga SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) programmers. The list will be used mainly to discuss problems of the SDL amiga implementation or related with the development or the porting of SDL applications for Amiga (68k, WOS/PUP, MorphOS).

To subscribe the list you can send an empty e-mail to: sdl-amiga-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to the following URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sdl-amiga/join. (ps)

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30.Nov.2001
Macwelt Online / Jorge Pino (ANF)


 Macwelt Online: Bugfixes and G5 speculations
»Bugfixes and G5 speculations:
Due to a report of the British website The Register, Motorola has released two new CPUs. The two chips PowerPC 7451 and PowerPC 7441 are the successors of the G4+-named PowerPC 7450 and the energy-saving PowerPC 7440. The specifications of the CPUs do not differ from their predecessors, according to The Register there were only some bugs fixed in the chips.«
Full article in German at the title link.

More links on the topic:
Heise (German): Apple wants to join the Gigahertz club
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Der Standard / Suka (ANF)


 "Der Standard" reports on Amiga show O.A.S.E.
The online issue of the Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard" reports about the Amiga show O.A.S.E. taking place this weekend in Graz/Austria. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001



 amiga-news.de is nominated for the neo Award

neo Award amiga-news.de is nominated for the neo Award (German internet award)! If you want to participate in the awards and support us, please click here. You'll find amiga-news.de in the category "Beliebteste Website" (most popular website). To vote you'll have to register in order to make sure you only vote once.

We are very happy that we were nominated by our readers for this award :-). For voting some nice prices can be won, of which the first prize is a Smart. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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30.Nov.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Future: Interview with Jürgen Schober of point.design
Anton Preinsack interviewed Jürgen Schober of point.design. for Amiga Future. Jürgen Schober is Amiga dealer in Austria and organizer of the Open Amiga Southeast European Show O.A.S.E. taking place this weekend for the first time. The point.design home show takes place on 1st and 2nd December 2001 in Graz. Anton Preinsack talks with Jürgen about the show and how you struggle through life as the last Austrian Amiga dealer. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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29.Nov.2001
OnyxSoft


 OnyxSoft: DRemind V 1.58 and MultiRen V 1.46
Onyxsoft updated the reminder tool DRemind to version 1.58. MultiRen, a tool for renaming files, now is available as version 1.46. Both of the tools have been programmed by Daniel Westerberg.

Download: dremind.lha - multiren.lha (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Bernd Lachner


 Emulator: SDL extension for UAE
On Bernd Lachner's homepage at the "Amiga Software / UAE - SDL" section you can find the UAE SDL being an extension of the Amiga emulator UAE to let it use the SDL library (Simple DirectMedia Layer) for graphics output and keyboard and mouse input.

Advantages of the SDL version:
  • Display of the UAE Amiga screen in fullscreen mode possible trouble-free for ordinary users, too.
  • Display of the UAE Amiga screen even possible on the frame-buffer console of Linux, that means without X-Windos.
Detailed information (German) and download links are to find under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Amiga Demoscene Archive


 A.D.A.: New Demos from the Demo Scene online
The new website A.D.A. (Amiga Demoscene Archive) containig scene demos for download was completely switched to PHP. Currently the 'Amsterdam Blessing/Mawi' demo was added, which made it to position three on the Mekka Symposium 2001. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Hyperion / Steffen Haeuser (ANF)


 Hyperion: Freespace Demo - Update 3 available
Today, the third update of the FreeSpace demo version was released on our WWW-site, which now fixes the "freeze bug", at last. So there is nothing left to prevent the full version from being released, soon.

We are still busy to fix some little things (also in reply to feedback for the demo version), but this should be finished, soon.

Additionally I will upload the demo version including all bugfixes to Aminet within the next days.

Steffen Haeuser (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


 Event: Big Christmas Festivity of the ACBB
The ACBB is organizing an Amiga Christmas festivity to take part on 16. November 2001. They will take care to have coffee, cakes, Advent songs (MP3) and atmospheric Workbench backgrounds at hand. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
AIO


 Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #53
Issue #53 of the online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was published. AIO uses their own viewer program which runs under AmigaOS.

Download: AIOV53.LHA (ps)

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29.Nov.2001
MorphOS News


 MorphOS-News: RageHard Infos about Multiplayer-Game for MorphOS & Mac
Jürgen Lucas, MorphOS News, talked to Michael Garlich, Titan Computer, about their new multiplayer game (up to 32 players) 'RageHard'. You can find the interview (German) under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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29.Nov.2001
Kevin Orme (ANF)


 Amiga University site updates
We have added more than 150 new links, link-checked the entire site, as well as added new pages on Amithlon/AmigaOSXL and Amiga DiskMags (online archives of The Crypt as well as Amiga Information Online).

We have also added a major new site mirror, that of Gareth Knight's Amiga Interactive Guide, as well as the newly replaced mirror of the Blitz Basic 2000 site (David McMinn just redid their entire site, as he announced about 1.5 weeks ago here on ANN). In short, a lot of 'new' and plenty of 'old' for your use and enjoyment.

Kevin Orme
Amiga University
AmigaU (ps)

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29.Nov.2001
AmigaSDL-Pages (ANF)


 Library: SDL V1.2.2 for AmigaOS with OpenGL-Support (StormMesa/Warp3D)
Beta version 1.2.2 of the 'Simple Directmedia Layer' library now is available as versions for Amiga PowerPC/68k with and without OpenGL support (Warp3D/StromMesa). The Amiga port was done by Glenn Hisdal.

The SDL library by Sam Lantiga is available to various other platforms including MorphOS, BeOS, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows. It offers fast access to the graphics and audio capabilities of the respective system. With this it allows platform comprehensive development of games and other multimedia products like MPEG players and emulators. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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28.Nov.2001
Kjell Breding (E-Mail)


 Event: AmiGBG 2002
AmiGBG 2002. That's the name of the first Swedish Amiga fair since 1998. AmiGBG 2002 will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The fair will contain both swedish and foreign exhibitors, both companys and user groups.

At AmiGBG 2002 you will get a glimpse of the future Amiga system, both of Amiga OS 4 and Amiga DE. You will also see existing and coming systems with modern hardware from different manufacturers.

Welcome to Gothenburg in 2002! (ps)

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28.Nov.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


 Individual Computers: New xsurfadsl.device with appp update
A new version of the xsurfadsl.device, the PPPoE driver for our networking card X-Surf, can be found in the support-area of our website. For the first time, the archive also contains an updated version of the appp.device that has been licensed from Haage & Partner (see article from November, 12th).

The source code of version 2.7 that we got from Haage & Partner was different from the binary that is being sold with the Genesis package in OS3.9 (V2.3). Questions about the changes between the two versions could not be answered until now. The new version provided by us (V3.1) has been updated mainly on internal structures: The device-base code (the interface to the OS) is completely re-written, so opening up to eight units, and freeing all resources after closing them (especially memory) is ensured. Therefore, we also recommend installing the new appp.device, even if you do not own an X-Surf Ethernet card.

At this point, we want to draw your attention to the ISAcatweasel.device, which allows using the PC-Catweasel under Amithlon. Since we have not been able to run Amithlon on any of our computers, we depend you your help in testing. The new archive is now packed with LHA, so difficulties with unpacking the ARJ archive are eliminated. Adapted Catweasel mountlists should make the installation a lot easier. (ps)

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28.Nov.2001
MorphOS


 Library: SDL V1.2.2 Beta for MorphOS (Update)
On 28th of November 2001 Gabriele Greco has published a beta version 1.2.2 of his MorphOS port from the multimedia-library 'Simple DirectMedia Layer'.

This library is available for a wide range of platforms - AmigaOS, BeOS, Linux, Macintosh and Windows belong to them. The library offers a fast access to the graphic and audio abilities of the corresponding system. It therefore enables to develop games and other multimedia products like MPEG players and emulators at several platforms.

Download: libSDL.a.gz (sd) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2001
Kultpower.de


 Kultpower.de: 12 new ASM-test reports
Kultpower.de has the following 12 new ASM-test reports and the editoral of the ASM 12/89 online:

  • Blockout (Amiga)
  • Chambers of Shaolin (Atari ST, Amiga, C-64)
  • M1 Tank Platoon (IBM PC, XT, AT)
  • Might & Magic 2 (C-64, IBM, Amiga, Apple)
  • North & South (Amiga, ST, PC)
  • Powerdrift (C-64, Amiga, Atari ST, CPC, Speccy) inkl. Werbeanzeige
  • Rings of Medusa (Atari ST, Amiga)
  • Scapeghost (Atari ST, Amiga, Schneider CPC, Spectrum, Apple II, C-64, IBM)
  • Shufflepuck Cafe (Amiga, ST, Apple II, Mac, PC)
  • The Untouchables (C-64, Spectrum)
  • Their finest Hour (IBM)
  • Tiger Heli (PC Engine)
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2001
Andreas Kleinert (E-Mail)


 PNG- and JPEG-generator (V4.50) for SuperView
Yesterday Andreas Kleinert has uploaded version 4.50 of PNG-box and JPEG-box to the Aminet. With these tools you can convert graphic-files either to PNG or to JPEG by the help of SuperView-library. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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28.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Cloanto Releases Amiga Forever 5.0
Cloanto released today version 5.0 of Amiga Forever, the official Amiga emulation and connectivity package for PCs. New features include just-in-time (JIT) compiler technology to dramatically increase execution speed, new ROM and operating system files to emulate not only the Amiga computers but also Commodore's CDTV and CD³² game consoles, and Software Manager, a content delivery and management system for one-click news, updates and downloads.

An experimental version of the revolutionary Disk2FDI software, which makes it possible to read Amiga floppy disks on the PC, is provided for the technically inclined. Other improvements include support for new Windows XP and DirectX features and new Picasso96 technology to better map Amiga graphics calls to low-level DirectX functionality and native x86 code, in order to achieve maximum performance without sacrificing compatibility. Cloanto publicly benchmarked the new version of the emulation software to be 30 times faster than the previous version (which already matched the CPU performance of the fastest Amiga 68060 silicon).

Amiga Forever can be installed or run from CD-ROM (no installation or reboot required), and is also available in a downloadable Online Edition. In either case, Amiga application can run side by side with the host operating system and its applications, while taking advantage of features such as virtual memory, advanced power management, digital rights management, NTFS filing system, wireless networking, and thousands of past, present and future drivers for peripherals, specifications and gadgets which the Amiga would otherwise not be able to support. For additional information please refer to the Amiga Forever home page at amigaforever.info. (ps)

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27.Nov.2001
Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)


 Play!Amiga: Test of both Quake-Mission-Packs
Though there are no new games for the Amiga, Jürgen Theiner from Play!Amiga has tested games for you. This time it were the Mission-Packs for Quake. Also the new charts are available. You can take place when you send an eMail with your favourite game. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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27.Nov.2001
Simon Neumann (ANF)


 Amiga Speed Update
Amiga Speed has now integrated Bubblefish, a new poll, and some new speedtests. The Heretic2- and the Quake-test were updated and the Actionhit Payback was taken in the 3D game area. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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27.Nov.2001
AmigArt (ANF)


 Hyperion Gives More Info about Amiga OS4
"First of all, the idea is to get the AmigaOS from 68k to the PPC. Of course, there's a lot of code in the system, and lots of code that's beyond our reach (hardware drivers in ROMs, for example). So one of the core components is of course the 68k emulator. The JIT version is already very fast, if you have a 040/25 and a fast 603e, you'll actually be able to run some programs faster than on the physical 040/25...

The second core component will be Exec SG. This is a reimplementation of the original Exec, written in C and placed onto a hardware abstraction layer so that it ports easily from one hardware to the other (remember, we intent to support a lot of different hardware, some of these will not have the Amiga chipset anymore). New features (compared to the old Exec) will be virtual memory. Don't worry, you'll not have to select "Shutdown" from the "Start" menu, you can just switch off ;) We also want to introduce some weak form of memory protection, like protecting code from being overwritten.. Later version will also include resource tracking.

The third mayor (new) building block is the new-style library interface. The cool thing about this is that it enables old 68k libraries to act as new OS4 libraries. To OS4 applications, 68k libraries will look like PPC native libraries. OTOH, new PPC only libraries will look like old 68k libraries to emulated 68k programs. This is achieved by the new library loader: Whenever a library is loaded, the "missing" part of the interface will be generated on-the-fly (by creating so called "stub" functions). So, even though a library is not yet ported to PPC, it can be used as if it were a PPC library, and as soon as it's ported, the program using it will use PPC code, even without recompiling the program (sorry if that comes out a bit complicated....)

For the initial release, we want to have at least the new Exec SG (otherwise, the whole system wouldn't work, anyway), a PPC native DOS, the TCP stack, new file system, and some devices. If there's still time, we'll port as much as possible to native PPC.

I think we have around 20 developers working on OS4.

A solution we're thinking about is loading a kernel image from the hard disk's boot block. The Amiga's disk structure allows arbitraty sized boot blocks, so theoretically, a whole kernel could fit there. We will in any case offer the possibility to use something like SetPatch (including the dreaded reboot). This means that you do not have to reformat your harddrive or even repartition or something like that. As another possibility, we will try to offer the bootblock loading.

We discussed the possibility to include a UAE in the system that will kick in when binaries are executed that require the chipset. That way, running old games could be made transparent

We will apply for BPlan Pegasos developer program, but we will not get special treatment.

We will make as much information as possible available as soon as possible. This includes documents as well as pre-release version of OS 4 for developers. Of course we want as much stuff on OS 4 as possible, so this is going to be a high priority."

- Frieden brothers (ps)

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27.Nov.2001
Matthias Henze (ANF)


 HSMathLibs and stormamiga.lib will be updated
Because I got well again I will develop on HSMathLibs and the stormamiga.lib again. But do not expect wonders, I have not worked on these projects for over eight months and need some time to get back into the source codes. Also there are other important things for me to do. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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27.Nov.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - New packets (until 26.11.2001)
With WHDLoad you can install games which were formerly meant only for use with disks on your harddrive. The following packets have been added or updated:

  • 26.11.01 new: Out To Lunch (Mindscape) done by Abaddon & JOTD
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Syndicate (Bullfrog) install script corrected
  • 26.11.01 fixed: Trivial Pursuit Genus 2 () install script corrected
  • 26.11.01 improved: Lethal Weapon (Ocean) many improvements
  • 26.11.01 new: Fire And Forget 2 (Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 26.11.01 new: Drivin' Force (Digital Magic Software) done by Psygore
  • 26.11.01 improved: Buggy Boy (Elite) supports another version, more icons
  • 26.11.01 new: Buck Rogers (TSR) done by JOTD
  • 25.11.01 new: Trivial Pursuit Genus 2 () done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 improved: Mortville Manor (Lankhor) supports another version
  • 25.11.01 new: Metal Masters (Incal Product/Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 new: Logical (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
  • 25.11.01 new: Iron Lord (UbiSoft) done by CFOU!
  • 23.11.01 new: Hostages/Operation Jupiter (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 23.11.01 improved: Future Bike (HiTec Software / PAL Developments) keyboard handling fixed
(ps)

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27.Nov.2001
polarboing.com (ANF)


 Interview with Tomas 'Tjomp' Jacobsen
The Norwegian Amiga news site polarBoing has an interview with Tomas Jacobsen, one of the guys responsible for AmigaDE's first 4k demo. (ps)

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27.Nov.2001
Cloanto (ANF)


 Pictures from Spoletium 4
On November 24-25, 2001, Cloanto attended the Spoletium 4 event in Spoleto, Italy, providing a wireless webcam service. Pictures are now online at http://cloanto.com/news/20011124spoletium4.html

In a computing world in which hardware and software have exploded beyond imagination, where lone pioneers have been displaced by billion-dollar investments, where programming manuals that used to ship with affordable home computers have been replaced by multi-volume and constantly changing SDKs which are beyond the reach of the average user, the demo scene continues to remind us that writing software can still be a sublime fusion of expression and creativity, of technology and art, a medium in which the germ of talent can be discovered and nourished, where individuals exchange ideas and compete with others, but, as they build universes of which they are to be in full control, are also confronted most of all in an intimate challenge with their inner selves. Thank you, friends at Spoletium, for keeping the flame alive! (ps)

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26.Nov.2001
ISIS


 ISIS comments blocking of websites
On 22. November 2001 the Chaos Computer Club published that the Internet provider ISIS is practicing censorship (we reported about) by blocking particular websites. This was stopped this morning, as the company became aware of this situation. They said, that those blockades were a result of some experiments of one of thier technicians.

The company pointed out, that whatever they would do, they would be the fool, anyway. If they block sites people will complain about censorship, if they don't they are supposed to support radical right-wing content. ISIS declines this technical solution, which offers so much backdors that the expense can't be justified. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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26.Nov.2001
Anton Preinsack (ANF)


 Open Amiga Southeast European Show (O.A.S.E.) in Graz/Austria
The "Open Amiga Southeast European Show (O.A.S.E.)" will be held on the 1.12. and 2.12. in Graz/Austria. The show will open at 10.00 and close at 18.00. This show is organized by point.design. Some of the highlights:

Amithlon, various AMIGA-PCI-devices and maybe a fully useable Pegasos-system. Furthermore there will be a presentation (made with Scala and designed by Ben Hermans) of the upcoming AmigaOS 4.x. The admission is free. Further information is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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26.Nov.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Amiga Society News - LBoAS / Schlachtfeld
There are some minor updates of the webpage, for example the 'little book of amiga-software'-page - Horst Diebel would like to say thanks for the provided help.

The work on Schlachtfeld is still proceeding. And there will soon be an update of the homepage and some new pictures.

The ICQ-number, published when the graphics-competition started, is no longer valid due to the spaming of the according email-address. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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26.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


 Programming: OOP for All with new Featurs
Marius Schwarz wrote:
Another week is over and again there is a new version of OOP for All (Object Oriented Programming for All or OOP4A). New possibilities now are statistical contexts and methods synchronisation. The compiler backend was enhanced and the documentation got one more page. You can find all this under the above link.

OOP4A offers an OOP interface to non-object oriented programming languages and it's language comprehensive. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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