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03.Nov.2001
Patric Klöter (ANF)


Users experiences with AMIGA OS XL
Patric Klöter wrote:
There's now an experiences exchange of users with Amiga OS XL on my Amiga homepage to be found in the rubric "User-Ecke". The users of AMIGA OS XL have here the possibility to get information regarding questions and possible problems concerning the "emulator" and can help each other. Experiences exchange is welcome. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.Nov.2001
Simon Neumann (ANF)


Amiga Speed still looking for speed testers!
Though the Amiga Speed has already found new speed testers there are still people missing who have a Mediator, a Prometheus or a G-Rex 4000D board. If interested please send an email to the author! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.Nov.2001
Amig@lien (ANF)


New Payback mailing list
Since recently there's a German Payback mailing list which is aimed at increasing the users communication as well as fixing possible bugs faster.

You can register to it on the German Payback site in the right column of the start page.

MfG
Ricco Clemens (Amig@lien)
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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03.Nov.2001
Marcus Neervoort (email)


AmigaPage update
On the website of Marcus Neervoort you can find next to many download possibilities the complete Amiga history from 1982 to 2001. New added are scanned advertisements for the Amiga and various Amiga fairs and a special regarding the WOA 2001. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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02.Nov.2001
Grzegorz "Krashan" Kraszewsk - Prometheus ML


Prometheus support site with new URL
The support site for Matay's PCI bridge 'Prometheus' can now be reached at http://prometheus.amiga.pl. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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


Filesystem: PFS3 UK dealer
FORE-MATT Home Computing has been appointed by GREat Effects Development in the Netherlands to become the new official UK dealer for PFS3.

The latest version of the Professional File System is a replacement hard drive filing system for FFS/AFS which brings much improved speed and stability to your system. PFS3 will be available to buy on the FORE-MATT Home Computing stand at the World of Amiga SE show this Saturday or you can now buy it direct from the 128Bit secure Amiga Online Superstore. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Nov.2001
Miscellaneous


Miscellaneous software updates
Exec V44.1 public beta4 by Harry 'Piru' Sintonen
Exec 44.1 is a patch which fixes some problems of the exec.library.
Download: exec44_1_beta4.lha - Readme

RealPlayerInfo 1.1 by Amigaharry
Shows info about Real-media files, bugfix 1.1
Download: realplayerinfo.lha

EnvHandler V1.13 by Stephan Rupprecht
HappyENV replacement
Download: envhandler.lha - Readme

EvenMore V0.59 by Chris Perver
Text viewer
Download: EvenMore.lha (300 KB) - Readme
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Nov.2001
Haage&Partner


H&P: AmigaOS XL: Further documentation
In the AmigaOS XL support area you'll find more information on the following topics:
  • Is my PC Amithlon-capable?
  • How do I install Amithlon to hard disk?
  • The first FAQ's on Amithlon and AmigaXL
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Nov.2001
dynAMIte


Game: dynAMIte - new website and updates
The makers of the online game dynAMIte, a Bomberman clone, have created a new website which has a very clean design now. Also some new styles and Polish translation can be found there. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Nov.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (up to 01.11.2001)
Games which were made for disk use only can be installed to harddisk thanks to WHDLoad. The following packages have been added or updated:

  • 01.11.01 improved: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) supports OCS version too
  • 01.11.01 new: The Flintstones (Grandslam/Teque) done by Bored Seal
  • 01.11.01 improved: Brat (Imageworks) minor change
  • 01.11.01 new: Altered Beast (Sega/Activision) done by Abaddon & CFOU! & JOTD
  • 01.11.01 new: Scorpion (Digital Magic Software) done by CFOU!
  • 01.11.01 new: Moon Blaster (Loriciel) done by CFOU!
  • 31.10.01 improved: No Excuses (Arcana) supports another version
  • 31.10.01 new: World Championship Boxing Manager (Goliath Games) done by Codetapper
  • 31.10.01 new: Dragon Breed (Irem/Activision) done by CFOU!
  • 31.10.01 new: Aquatic Games (Millennium) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Nov.2001
AIO


Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #52
Issue #52 of the online magazine 'Amiga Information Online (AIO)' was published. AIO uses their own viewer program which runs under AmigaOS.

Download: AIOV52.LHA (ps) (Translation: rh)

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02.Nov.2001
Dennis Lohr (e-mail)


Music: Schlachtfeld "2" - intro soundtrack release
The strategy game "Schlachtfeld" which is still in development and currently ported from the original AMOS game to a new C version of course requires a music soundtrack. Horst Diebel, leader of the project, has hired the musician Psyria for this task.

To get an impression of the game's soundtrack you'll find the final intro soundtrack exclusively as MP3 (about 3 MByte) in the download area of the Psyria homepage. Psyria produces music projects exclusively with the AMIGA.

You can find more information on the game Schlachtfeld at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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01.Nov.2001
Marius Schwarz (ANF)


'Object Oriented Programming for Anybody' entered first level
Marius Schwarz wrote:
The first wattle got taken, the project OOP4A: "Object Oriented Programming for Anybody" passed it's first functioning test. What is this all about? Well, I don't dislike JAVA, but on the Amiga it actually is "a bit" too slow and I would not be able to write that with my favourit programming language. So, what would be more clear than to develop a system for OOP in person.

Actually the concept is a quite simple one. With help of the oop.library one can create objects and use thier methods. A preprocessor translates the classes into extended Amiga shared libraries, which then become instanced to objects by the oop.library.

Since it is possible to use libs on the Amiga with any popular programming language, any language can also deal with objects. Writing a preprocessor for the language completes circle. And because there is a fixed format for objects the class files may be interchanged among one another.

What is required now are classes, masses of first class classes ;-) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Nov.2001
Maxime DOYEN (ANF)


HomeBank 1.9 is available
The new public release of that great tool. Many changes and improvements are there, a new complete filter, more flexibility for automated operations, a complete rewrite of reports, statistics with bars and pie charts, the last steps to Euro with Euro conversion, and few other things. Like a new icon set. Enjoy!

The German catalog is not provided, I will release it as soon as possible. (ps)

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01.Nov.2001
Amiga-Club Deutschland (ANF)


Event:Amiga 2001 - The AC-DE will be there!
The Amiga-Club Deutschland, short AC-DE, will have it's own booth on the Amiga 2001 in Cologne, Germany, and will introduce the club and offer an attractive supporting program:

We will inform those who will stay at home or are undecisive about what's going on on the show by a live webcam. We will organize IRC conferences with Amiga developers, and show the latest hardware and software, like Amithlon or the G-Rex-PCI boards for the Amiga 4000, from the user's point of view.

And of course we are hoping to again be able to answer all of the visitor's questions about the Amiga - the network at the booth with Internet access sure will be of great help for us.

More information about the Amiga 2001 are on our homepage under the title link, and of course on the official show homepage www.amiga-messe.de. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Nov.2001
Stefan Robl (ANF)


Amiga definition in dictionary?! ;-)
By searching about the English online dictionary dict.org of course I tried our favourit word "Amiga". And what a surprise, one will find an extended definition (see title link)! Also interesting is, that we seem to suffer by one disease that is to say the Amiga Persecution Complex. Get well soon and accordingly take it a bit more easy! :-) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Nov.2001
Amiga Page


Event: More pictures by Marco Lovera from the Pianeta 200
Under the title link you will find more pictures from the Italian Amiga show Pianeta 2001, which took place in October 2001. These pictures were taken by Marco Lovera. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Nov.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Special price - VisualPrefs and interview with Massimo Tantignone
Amiga Arena - Special Price Project for VisualPrefs
In cooperation with Massimo Tantignone the Amiga Arena make possible a special price for VisualPrefs. VisualPrefs enables you to indivually configure the GUI look of every application screen and the global GUI look as well.

Amiga Arena - personal concern.
The shareware fee is that cheap that I hope that users using VisualPrefs without being registered will register now by this project. VPresf gives us the most powerful tool to configure our Workbench as individual as possible.

Amiga Arena - Interview Project
After having available VisualPrefs version 41.29 the Amiga Arena talked to Massimo Tantignone, the author, about his work for the AmigaOS 3.9 and the future OS 4.0. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Nov.2001
Paul Cardwell (ANF)


GetBoinged reviews the Amiga DE Player 1.0
GetBoinged! reviews the recently released Amiga DE Player for Windows. Check out the "GB Site News" section of GetBoinged for the review. (ps)

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01.Nov.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)


GRex IRC chanel not available ?
Michael Göken wrote:
There have been requests if the GRex server was not available or if something was wrong with the IP address. That's why again I post the server address here to support those having problems to log in (from foreign countries as well).

Server: irc.phat-net.de Port: 6667 Chanel: #grex

I hope to have helped the users by this. This actually should allow anybody to access the chanel. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Nov.2001
Thorsten Schölzel (ANF)


Survey: What features shall MorphOS have ?
Thorsten Schölzel started a survey on his MorphOS news site asking what features MorphOS should have in your opinion. The survey takes place in his forum. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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01.Nov.2001
VWD


VWD: Met@box achieves first license contract
»Met@box achieves first license contract
As from the pridian general meeting the Met@box AG stopped manufacturing and distribution of set-top boxes in support of a license contract. Today, the company signed an initial technology license contract.« (ps) (Translation: mj)

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31.Oct.2001
Markus Lunk (E-Mail)


Movieplayer: SoftCinema version 0.15 (full release)
Version 0.15 of the shareware-movie- and animplayer for Amiga with PPC-support (PowerUP, WarpUP and MorphOS) called 'SoftCinema´ has been published. You can download the program under the title link or under the alternative address.

Changes: V0.15 beta 1
  • WOS and MOS versions added.
  • 30% faster divx;)/opendivx/3iv/h263/i263/intel indeo decoding
  • lot of bugs fixed
V0.15
  • added audio.device support, via directaudio.library
  • added NOAHI and AHIUNIT options
  • Bugfixes in AVI parser, QT parser and mpeg audio decoder.
  • Much faster AVI indexx loading, up to 1000%.
  • Bugfixed timing routines.
  • Fixed GRAY display on fullscreen.
  • Fixed RGB15PC and RGB16PC display routines.
  • Fixed mpeg audio decoder, should not crash anymore.
  • 10% faster mpeg audio decoding.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (E-Mail)


Tool: SRename 3.0.0 final
SRename is a program which has some more functions as the common 'rename'. Here are some features:

  • Can use wildcards.
  • Total control over recursion, the user can set the level of recursion, starting level of recursion and can even specify a different pattern for entering directories.
  • Can renumber filename sequences without the user having to care for the renumber order or filename clashes because these are taken care of automatically.
  • Can perform numbering of filename sequences.
  • Can modify the filename's comment and transfer the filename to the comment or the reverse.
  • Allows the user to build his/her own functions by providing a command set of selectors and actions that can be combined in many ways.
  • The number of actions that can be executed in one go is only limited by the command line length.
  • It is interface compatible with the OS Rename command.
  • Efficient memory usage.
Download: SRename3.lzx (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
Nico Barbat (E-Mail)


Event: Provisional list of exhibitors for AMIGA 2001 available
From now on there is a provisional list of exhibitors on the website of AMIGA 2001 (17.-18. November 2001, Cologne). Additionally you can of course find important information about the fair, updated news around Pegasos, AmigaOS 4 and AmigaDE. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)


Emulation: Playstation emulator FPSE for Amiga published
Mathias Roslund has published a new version of the Playstation-emulator FPSE. It is the first Amiga version which is based on version 0.09. You need a Playstation Bios-Rom for the emulation. There are some screenshots for the Amiga version. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
Solar (BAUD) (ANF)


Alan Redhouse corrects some rumours on ANN.lu
Of course there were some confusion after the message of Eyetech and it was discussed here as well as on ANN.lu. The opinions ranged from "It is OK" to "Cheat!". I think in this context the clearing statement of Alan Redhouse (Eyetech) in the corresponding thread on ANN.lu is important.

Quintessence: He has absoluely no problem with any decisions of Amiga Inc. and in their place he would have decided in the same way - and there was no reason to evoke a crises if there would be very real progresses made to a solution. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
H&P and Hyperion Entertainment (ANF)


Freespace supports virtual memory
The 68k-version of Freespace also runs on systems with 32 MB memory and virtual memory (you can use a freely available VMM-program for it) if there is at least 24.5 MB of free physical memory. In this case the reduction of speed is under 2%. The corresponding hints for the installation will be added to Freespace. With the help of it also users which have only 32 MB of memory can play Descent Freespace: The Great War.

Future games of Hyperion Entertainment will also support the Virtual Memory System of OS 4.0 to give users of PowerPC the opportunity to get along with a lower amount of memory. (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future: Homepage Update
Today the homepage of Amiga Future has been extensivly updated:
A completely reworked download section has been uploaded which is edited by Jörg Wernicke and which will be regularly updated.

Additionally the sites of "AGB", "Kontakt" and "Werbebanner" have been updated. Besides this new advertisement prices are online which run from issue 34.

In the forum the new fair information have been updated. Amiga Future asks the readers to write what is being expected of the fair. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA version 0.9435
Richard H. Poser has published betaversion 0.9435 of the AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with America Online Instant-Messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history where you can get the changes which have been made:

  • Hopefully repaired a problem with the single window mode. It doesn't exhibit the problem here anymore, anyway.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
AudioLabs


ProStationAudio's (realtime nl-editing for AmigaOS) new architecture for 2002
The ProStationAudio architecture has been enhanced to make this non-linear editing software solution for AmigaOS even more powerful. And faster. The new version based on this design, ProStationAudio Titanium, is ready and will be on sale in a few days.

While Amigas are wonderful systems, their main problem is lack of raw hardware horse-power: Titanium addresses this problem at design level, using optimizations independent on the host CPU, so that 68K (060 recommended), PPC, and emulated 68K hardware benefit.

Major new features include:

Signal path layout: stereo sends/returns
  • multiple sends per track, stereo.
  • multiple aux busses, stereo.
  • multiple DSP inserts for each return bus, stereo.
  • returns can be muted and/or soloed.
  • plugin sharing among multiple tracks reduces CPU load, with peak acceleration up to 1500% (when using 15 sends to the same aux bus).
Mixig console layout: 6 master inserts, stereo.
  • master DSP inserts have been extended to 6, for increased flexibility.
  • using track inserts, multiple sends/returns, and master inserts, now each track's signal can pass through up to 18 DSP processors.
Faast dsp, the new quick-preview mode
  • sustained 200% acceleration on mixing and effects processing, using bitrate reduction
  • modifies the bitrate of multiple streams in realtime during disk-streaming, no need to save audio files at lower bitrates for fast previewing..
  • fully transparent, original bitrate restored just before the signals reach the audio output hardware, providing full compatibility with fixed-rate devices such as external D/A converters over S/P-DIF.
  • quality drop is acceptable for most material.
  • any previously saved project benefits, no updates needed
  • automatically disabled when mastering and/or bouncing tracks, to preserve always perfect quality on the final work.
  • can be toggled on/off in realtime for comparisons
GUI
  • the channel bars layout has been optimized to display more tracks at once on screen.
  • the screen is public and palette-sharing friendly: use tools like calculators, notepads, or web browsers to view tutorials, directly on the ProStationAudio screen.
Titanium preserves the tons of features present in current versions: support for dual graphic cards, dual monitors, two CPU's, realtime operations, mixing automation, 30 DSP plugins, 24bit and MP3 import, read/write access to Amiga, Windows, Mac and Unix files, more...

Informations on pricing and upgrade options for current users will follow this week. As usual part of the service, buyers of the previous top version, Millennium, will upgrade free of charge.

All the best,

dr. Maurizio Ciccione
AudioLabs, Digital Audio Engineering
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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31.Oct.2001
Golem.de


Golem: AmigaOne does not start in 2001
»Development of AmigaOS 4.0 and of AmigaOne were momentarily stopped
According to Eyetech the AmigaOne will be not introduced this year because Amiga Inc. could not set on the development of the belonging AmigaOS 4.0 and could not pay its partners because of financial problems. But it seems that there is still some hope and the new Amiga computer based on a PowerPC-architecture is supposed to be marketed at the beginning of 2002.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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30.Oct.2001
Dieter Groppé (ANF)


MCP with new version
From 21. October I've taken over further development of MCP (MasterControlProgram). Since there was no development for more than two years and I must become acquainted with the code, at first, the first update isn't perfect, yet.

But many of the 'surrounding' things, like installer script, German Guide and catalog, icons, history, and of course MCP and MCP commodity have been updated and should work now. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Oct.2001
Mirko Engelhardt (ANF)


Amigaland having server problems
Amigaland.de currently has problems to really offer every game for download. The reason why is that two servers canceled their service. The Amigaland team now is searching for replacement servers. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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30.Oct.2001
Thomas Knäbel (E-Mail)


bplan: Pegasos-System: Official presentation at Amiga 2001
The Pegasos system will be presented to the public at the Cologne based Amiga 2001 event. Beside the presentation of the innovating hardware, our main show efforts will concentrate on software and system expansibility.

In the software field, the user gets an extensive overview on capacity and efficiency of the MorphOS environment. The perfectly smooth integration of present Motorola® 680xx applications and native PowerPC® programms with absolute transparency for the user is only one among many outstanding features of MorphOS.

In combination with the extraordinary capability of extension of the Pegasos system with standard PCI cards, users will already be able to take a look at the wide spectrum of supported hardware by the upcoming fair. Besides a variety of graphic cards of the manufacturers S3®,SIS®,3DLabs® and 3Dfx®, tv and network cards will round up the so far available spectrum.

The bplan gmbh would like to invite you to visit the Amiga 2001 in cologne. Our team is looking forward to your vivid interest and proud to be able to present you the Pegasos system, an innovation in the fields of personal computing. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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30.Oct.2001
Rudolph Riedel (E-Mail)


File manager: DiskMaster 2.5RC1
Rudolph Riedel wrote:
I have uploaded DiskMaster2.5RC1, DM2.guide and DM2_deutsch.guide on my homepage.

News in short:
  • 2.5RC1 (01-10-30) 71932 bytes
  • DM2 is now localised! German, french and dutch DM2.catalogs are included (english build in)
  • Translators wanted (DM2.cd also included)
  • COPY and MOVE have a WARN option, so DM2 ask before overwriting files.
  • SELECT knows a new option: COMMENT
  • OPENWINDOW has now a ZOOM option for alternative windowsize and -position
  • Many small improvements
  • Several bugfixes
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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30.Oct.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (bis 29.10.2001)
Thanks to WHDLoad games you normally only play from disk can be installed on HD. The following packages are added or updated:

  • 29.10.01 new: Amazing SpiderMan () done by JOTD
  • 29.10.01 fixed: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) install script corrected
  • 29.10.01 new: Carthage (Psygnosis) done by CFOU!
  • 28.10.01 new: Wanted (Infogrames) done by Codetapper
  • 28.10.01 new: Vector-Balls Demo (Tom Soft) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
  • 28.10.01 new: Major Motion (Microdeal) done by Codetapper
  • 28.10.01 new: Tennis Cup (Loriciel/Electronic Zoo) done by CFOU!
  • 28.10.01 new: Pro Tennis Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
  • 28.10.01 new: Obvious Disaster (Phenomena) done by Psygore (Info,Image)
  • 28.10.01 new: Mystical (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 28.10.01 new: Forgotten World (Arc Developments/Capcom) done by CFOU!
  • 28.10.01 new: Cosmic Relief (Grandslam) done by Bored Seal
  • 26.10.01 new: Sex Vens () done by JOTD
  • 26.10.01 new: Pub Trivia Simulator (Codemasters) done by Bored Seal
  • 26.10.01 new: Operation Wolf (Ocean) done by Codetapper
  • 26.10.01 new: Murders in Space (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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30.Oct.2001
Rene Hatje (ANF)


Chicago Tribune: Amiga is mentioned in issue about MacOS X
In the issue "Apple's best reason yet to pitch your Pentium" the Amiga is mentioned in very positive way. (ps)

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30.Oct.2001
Miguel Gonçalves (E-Mail)


New Portuguese Amiga-Website
At the title link you will find a new website in Portuguese whic provides the reader with news and informations about the amiga. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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30.Oct.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)


Betaversion of new FFE-Page
Michael Asse wrote:
From today the new reworked homepage of the AmigaFFE project is online (title link). It is a beta version, so if there are broken links or anything else, just send a mail to me.

In about two weeks the address of the domain will be adapted. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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30.Oct.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)


DCE: GREX Soundcard drivers are available for download
Now drivers for soundcards with the chipsets ESS-SOLO-ONE and FM-801 are available for download. For this highperformance AHI drivers we give you the equivalent soundmixer (needs gtlayout.library).

Soundcards from Terratec like the 128iPCI (ESS-SOLO-ONE) and 512i Digital (Fortemedia FM-801) use this chipset. The FM-801 chipset can only be used in the GRex 4000, the ESS-ONE chipset can be used in all GRex systems. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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29.Oct.2001
http://cloanto.com (ANF)


Cloanto licences Picasso96 software (Update 3)
Press release: Cloanto is proud to announce that it licenced both the "Picasso96" software from Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt, and Brian King's "UAEgfx" Monitor implementation, for use in Amiga Forever.

A shareware version of Picasso96 has been providing RTG (Amiga retargetable graphics) functionality to the emulation software which is part of Amiga Forever since 1997. With the new license Cloanto would like to acknowledge the precious contribution of the Picasso96 Team to the ease of use, compatibility and speed which made Amiga Forever so successful, and further contribute to the future development of the Picasso96 software. The new license replaces the shareware status of the Picasso96 software included in Amiga Forever. Support and upgrades will continue to be provided by Cloanto as part of the Amiga Forever product.

Thanks to the Picasso96 implementation in the Amiga emulation, when an Amiga program makes a function call to open an RTG screen, or to otherwise read or change its contents, that functionality is in most part executed as native and very fast x86 code. Furthermore, the Windows versions of the emulation programs included with Amiga Forever (i.e. WinUAE and WinFellow) fully exploit the latest versions of Microsoft DirectX, which is normally used by games and multimedia applications to provide maximum performance by providing low-level access to specialized hardware features, without having to re-write hardware-specific code. In practice this means that while other emulation programs only offer proper support for a handful of display cards, Amiga Forever has been running fine and will continue to run fine with hundreds of different display cards, including most graphics card currently available, and those which will be released with Windows drivers in the future.

The combination of Picasso96 and DirectX technologies provides palette-based, hi-color, true-color and multi-monitor screen modes well beyond the functionality and speed of the original Amiga hardware. Also, while other emulation packages do not even support simple peripherals such as a USB mouse, keyboard, joystick and speakers, DirectX includes DirectInput and DirectSound, which allow the emulation as included in Amiga Forever to support all popular input and sound devices.

The Picasso96 software is just one of the many components which have been carefully selected, preinstalled and tested for compatibility in Amiga Forever, to make Amiga emulation a simple one-click experience which works on the widest possible range of different PCs. Hundreds of other items, including for example GIF/LZW code used under license from Unisys Corporation (and not available in the version of Personal Paint included on Aminet), ColorFonts and AnimFonts by Kara Computer Graphics, and anything from entire software packages to single icons are carefully listed in the Copyright and Credits sections of the Amiga Forever documentation (which includes 8 KB of text only to list the individual third-party contributions).

In spite of increasingly difficult times Cloanto keeps improving its own software technology and licensing valued third-party contents to constantly improve Amiga Forever and offer continued support and compatibility to the Amiga community. Cloanto is grateful to all of its valued customers for supporting these efforts.

LINKS:
Picasso96 Home Page
Amiga Forever Home Page
Cloanto Home Page

Update: (04.04.2018, 14:30, cg)

Mike Battilana (Cloanto) asked us to add the following clarification: The new license discussed in this press release only covers the 2001 version and minor updates - no upgrade privileges for future major versions.

Update 2: (31.12.2018, 15:30, cg)

As requested by Mike Battilana, we replaced "the 2.x version" in the first clarification (refer to previous paragraph) with "the 2001 version". Also, the following paragraph was added to the original press release on amigaforever.com:

"At the time of this writing in 2001, the Picasso96 project was owned by its original developers Alexander Kneer and Tobias Abt. Updates released by a new Picasso96 ownership were neither envisioned nor intended to be included in Amiga Forever under this license."

Update 3: (18.02.2019, 23:00, cg)

To counter allegations made by Jens Schönfeld, Cloanto has added copies of their 2001 correspondence with Alexander Kneer and a scan of a cash transfer receipt. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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29.Oct.2001
Georges Halvadjian (ANF)


Paintprogram: PerfectPaint V2.75b
A new version of PerfectPaint V2.75b is now available. What's new:

  • New TOOLTYPE: 'CLASSIC', by default, this tooltype is disable. This Tooltype will change the WorkSpace of Perfectpaint. Disable 'Classic' will show you only the zoom window (like other Processing software). Enable 'Classic' will show you for each picture the main window (always 100%) and optionally the Zoom window (like other version of PfPaint).
  • PopUp menu can have transparency.
  • Improve palette buffer: Add Icons / Allow Drag & Drop / Show the Current stencil / See Doc for more info.
  • New Arexx Commands.
  • New Picture tool: Insert Picture.
  • New Processing tool: linked freeHand.
  • Redraw the anim control requester.
  • New effect Blur, Horizontal Blur, Vertical Blur and the Arexx Command.
  • New Wrap effect: Silver.
  • New text effect: Candy.
  • Redraw Font requester with a Bold option for CGfont, add a menu.
  • A lot of small improvements and some small bug corrected.
  • New tool under the boing icon: Alchemy: Here you can find all processing script with preview.
  • New Alchemy script: FlowerPaint.
  • Improve Density mapping requester with Load and Save Points.
  • Add two new item in Stencil menu: Density mapping and clear Stencil.
  • Improve 'Brush to Picture' and 'Picture to Brush': Stencil is respected.
Download: PfPaint-V275b.lha (1,9 MB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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29.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark


Virus Help Denmark: Virus Warning 'Harrier A'
A new virus is found. As far as we know, it has not been spread. But read more about is here . Also, new virus translations added to the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia.
VIRUS HELP DENMARK
Hi All....
A new linkvirus has been found a few days ago, but not in the wild. It was send to directly to Georg Hoermann (programmer of xvs.library) by the virus-programmer. Georg received the whole source code. This new virus, named "Harrier A" was able to disable the antivirus programs, but with the new xvs.library v33.36, this in no longer possible, due to the new security stuff in the xvs.library code. And maybe that is the reason why the virus-programmer send the code to Georg Hoermann.
We do not know if this virus was released in any way, so if you get a requester poping 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.... : Harrier A
Virus Type.... : Linkvirus
Virus size.... : 4.800 bytes (Uses polmorphic engine)
Infects....... : 020+ machines

In the decoded virus you can read:
.[ Harrier .A 1.02 virus, (c) by xxxxxxxxxxx..xxx ] .Markus! Come back!Hç..,z
(xxxxxxx = Programmers name, removed by Virus Help Denmark)
The xvs.library package will be released very soon.....
Thanks to 'Georg Hoermann' for sending the archive, and to Zeeball for the first test. (sd) (Translation: sk)

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29.Oct.2001
AMI Sector One


AMI Sector One wanting help for Perl/PHP/(My)SQL
'AMI Sectore One' is wanting help in enhancing theire website. Who is Perl, PHP or (My)SQL literate and interested in supporting the website might contact Bernd Gmeineder.

There are many suggestions how to enhance 'AMI Sector One' which could be realized using the mentioned languages.

'AMI Sectore One' among other things offers Amiga games for free download. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Tom Duin alias amigaharry (ANF)


Tools: RealPlayerInfo V1.1, MiamiDX2Phonebill V1.0
Tom Duin released version 1.1 of 'RealPlayerInfo' and version 1.0 of 'MiamiDX2Phonebill'.

RealPlayerInfo displays information about Real-Audio and Real-Video files.

MiamiDX2Phonebill converts the MiamiDX phone-log to the Phonebill program format to operate the data within that program.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Mod3mski/Darkage (ANF)


Demo party: Spoletium 4
On 24. and 25. November 2001 in Spoleto, Italy, the demo party 'Spoletium 4' will take place.

Like in the years before contributions for the competitions can be sent by e-mail. The prizes will be sent by post.

Darkage and Trinity are oganizing the party.

More information are available by following the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Digital Almanac III: Little error inside update
Unfortunately a little error happened to find it's way into the DA III update to V4.2, which mercifully has no consequences. A file containing the Internet links for planets is missing in the archive. That causes the program to always ask for the CD-ROM.

This missing file can be downloaded: http://members.tripod.de/achimste/download/url_planet.data and must be copied to the 'User' directory of DA III.

The Aminet archive will be corrected and replaced at the next opportunity. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Robert Williams (ANF)


Magazine: Clubbed #9
Clubbed Issue 9 Now Available
South Essex Amiga Link are proud to announce that the latest issue of Clubbed, our quarterly print Amiga magazine is now available.

Subscription copies have been posted and copies are available from stock. SEAL will be at the World of Amiga South East show next weekend selling the new issue.

The new issue has 44 A4 pages packed with Amiga news, reviews and tutorials. For issue 9 the main feature is on DTP with your Amiga, we cover the basics of publishing, describe the applications, old and new, that might suit your needs and discuss getting your work printed.

We review Metaview, the ArtEffect Plugins Collection, Epson's Stylus Photo 790 printer and take a first look at the PCI card drivers on the Elbox Mediator Multimedia CD.

On the games front you will find an extensive review of Shogo:MAD and a preview of Payback PPC/Warp3D. To go with our DTP feature we have a PageStream 4 tutorial on planning your pages and setting up for long documents. Also in issue 9 are tutorials on archiving and IRC. As usual there are many more items there wasn't room to mention here including news, comment, tips, and several other reviews.

If you'd like to know more visit our website at www.seal-amiga.co.uk for a full contents list and sample articles from previous issues. Clubbed is a not-for-profit publication.
(sd)

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28.Oct.2001
CyberGFX


CGX: Snapshots of CyberGraphX V4.3
Snapshot of RadioX on a CGX V4.3 screen [Friday 26-Oct-01] (585K)

Here is a snapshot of CyberGraphX V4.3 Workbench with most of the Multimedia software running. RadioX (under AmigaAMP), Visionary, TeleText software and the ForteMedia801 SoundMixer software. Click on the thumbnail to the left for the 1280x1024x16bit full size grab.

CyberGraphX V4.3 driving 2 screens: G-Rex [Wednesday 24-Oct-01] (492K)

Here is a picture of CyberGraphX V4.3 (not out yet) driving 2 17" Monitors. On the left is a Voodoo4 based card gfx with Workbench running Visionary with TV/Video in the background. A quick peek at RadioX. Screen #2 is on a ViRGE based card and has AmIRC and AmigaAMP running, with the same TV/Video in the background. Both screens are 1024x768x16bit and watching "The Arrival". Click on the thumbnail to the left to see the full shot. (sd)

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28.Oct.2001
Amiga Future


Workbench: WBStartEmu V45.2b
On 25. October 2001 Stephan Rupprecht has released version 45.2b of 'WBStartEmu' being an AmigaOS V3.9 version of the 'wbstart.library'. The following has changed since version 45.2:
  • Bugfix: Now all path problems (program not found, program cannot find own icon) should be solved. Thanks to Andreas Kürzinger for testing.
  • New: Spanish translation. Thanks to D.Dominguez.
  • Changed. New version of the wbrun command with a better deficons support: Note: This is the wbrun version from AmigaOS V3.9 which does not require both, neither AmigaOS V3.9 nor 'wbstartemu'.


Download: WBStartEmu.lha (8K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
ANN


Magazine: The Crypt #20
Issue 20 is our NEW edition of The Crypt, and it's our Birthday! 4 whole disks worth of the best material for you to enjoy. And our Online version as well.

So what do we have for you this time? Well, it seems as though the world has gone mad since we brought out our last issue So hopefully this one will bring some cheer back into your lives. As we have been back for a year now (Find out more about this in the "History" section. We thought it was time to have some fun, so this is what we have for you:- Ever wondered where the Haggis came from? Well we bring you the story. And find out why the Scots are thought of as miserly. Then we preview a forthcomming part of the Crypt for all the Steam Train enthusiasts out there.

Just before we released this issue, we heard of the closure of Amiga Active who have given us their support for the last year, so our esteemed Dungeon Master has written a few words and we thank them for all the work they have done for the Amiga community, and we wish them well for the future with their new venture of "Digital".

As usual we have a strong line up of Readers bringing you all the best (and some of the worse) jokes and articles for every taste, and the Riyan Production team have been busy scouring the world to great effect, and have once again done us proud with all their articles and pics.

Have you ever wondered how safe it is to buy things online? Well we give you the best advice on how to make sure you are as safe as you can be with some very good tips about the world wide web.

Dr. Jekyll writes about the MAS Player, and Craig gives us a review on MuLib. And did you know that someone has made a robot from an Amiga? We have the pics and a review from the man himself. Then there is our usual collection of jokes and pics, which will brighten up any party. And in our Dungeons section we have some real life accounts from people who have experienced our Haunted World.

At the time of writing this, we are just a week away from the WOA-se show, where we hope to see new things from Amiga, and I'm hoping to get myself a very fast emulator for the PC so I can run all my favourite programs on a fast machine. Ray Elf has submitted a load of cartoons and art work for you to enjoy, and then we have a look at a NEW CD called D.O.O.N. which is a great utilities CD for the Amiga which gives you everything you could want for Opus including a whole host of themes, there are also OS3.5 and OS3.9 icons and a REGISTERED version of Class Act!

But thats enough from me for now, as we have a lot of work to do, bringing you the Christmas edition, which is only a few weeks away now. Zola

You will need the "CrM.library" to read the Crypt Disk mag. Download the lib,unlha it,and pop it in your libs drawer.

Also this version is incompatible With Amiga's using RTG or a graphics card. So please go to Online so you can read the HTML version.

Download: (sd)

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28.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)


The amiNET.GUI has a forum again
The amiNET.GUI has a forum, again, available via the menu item [interaktiv].

There you can ask or answer questions and discuss with people.

Unfortunately at this time there's only a German version.

At last the Spanish, Italian, and French versions of the amiNET.GUI got the category descriptions and menu texts translated. The same for the English version.

The Recent-Uploads are available so far, again, and the amiNET full text search was implemented.

Any file now can be rated inside of the directories. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Martin R. Elsner (E-Mail)


Tools: ClassAction V4.3, Choowin V1.11, StopMenu
Martin Elsner has released new versions of the filemanager 'ClassAction' and the tool 'Choowin'. A new version of 'StopMenu' is being worked on.

ClassAction V4.3 - Poppping Uppp
The new version of the filemanager carries the sub-title 'Poppping Uppp', because of the new popup-menus like known from 'MagicMenu'. Those replace the old action-list, the main menu, and the drop-down list.

Additionally the following has changed:
  • Both lists of same functionality.
  • New edit menu.
  • Directory buffering.
  • Updating on disk change.
  • Path buttons.
  • Cut'n paste.
  • Search.


ClassAction is aware of more than 40 file formats (gif, jpeg, iff, mods, ...), what makes possible to automatically start operations by just clicking on a file - view, start, edit, translate. It is possible to define new file types and add operations.

Choowin V1.11
This little help tool can start programs, put windows to front and activate them - similar too the Task-Manager. You click on one of the buttons in one corner of the Workbench screen and chose the program or window title from the list displayed.

'ClassAction' and 'Choowin' both require AmigaOS V3.5+.

StopMenu
Development of the start menu 'StopMenu' progresses, but still needs more time. A release date within next week wasn't determined, yet.

StopMenu is a small help tool to start programs and put windows to front and activate them, similar to Windows' start menu.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Virtual Dimension (ANF)


Virtual Dimension: Video interview planned, Star Empire reservation possible
Virtual Dimension wrote:
On 17. and 18. November the 'AMIGA 2001' will take place in Cologne, Germany, and of course we will be there for you, again.

On this occation we are planning to make an interview with one of the Amiga VIPs on the show. Who to interview? That's up to you.

Write your wishes to interview@virtualdimension.de. Who is it you allways wanted to see in front of the camera? What questions would you like to ask him / her? We will collect all of the requests, chart them and then do what ever possible to get this person on tape.

By the way: Who is interested in participating the next StarEmpire round can pencil in from now on, and will contact you as soon as the registration phase has started.

Star Empire II is a round and text basined space strategy game by Christian Becker for up to 32 players. (sd)

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28.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Game: Graphics competition for Schlachtfeld
Horst Diebel wrote:
Since we are urgently needing new graphics for phase 2 of the Schlachtfeld development and our own recources are quite limited, we decided to start a graphics competition.

Since Eddy already eagerly designed units this competition is about creation of background graphics. Those patterns should be of 256+ colours at the size of 16x16, 32x32 or 64x64 pixel.

Different scenarios are needed for the backgrounds, such like swamps, grass or hill landscapes, craggy and rugged mountains, towns, deserts, ....

Partitipants are free to chose a subject - but we would be happy to get informed in advance just to have the chance to discuss our ideas.

As first prices two new A1200s are at our disposal, also there are several packages with Amiga software classics and Aminet CDs. Maybe the number of prices will increase, but we ask you to take into account that this project still is about creating free available software, which of course qualifys what we are able to give as prices :-(

Anybody can participate, the graphics must be free from third-party rights, and in the case of a price winning graphic we must get entitled to use it for comming versions of Schlachtfeld.

Ok, as usual we would be happy to get feedback.... To determine the winners in a way as neutral as possible we called up several representatives of the community to join the jury - but just have a look at the website..... Also there are more information and even more soon.

PS: As usual, of course we still are wanting people who would like to cooperate in this project; conceptional, as programmer or graphics artist. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Amiga Exotica Team (ANF)


ExoticA overloaded
The Amiga-ExoticA team wrote:
Please, use the mirror of Amiga ExoticA: http://hangar18.campus.luth.se/exotica/.

The main page cannot cope with the run on the server. Thank you for your interest.

The ExoticA website deals with the musical capabilities and history of the Amiga. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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28.Oct.2001
Søren Ladegaard (ANF)


History: The Commodore Billboard - Q1241 brochure
26 English Amiga adverts have been added to The Commodore Billboard. Several German brochures have been added too, including a brochure for the A1200 CDrom drive Q1241 from Amiga Technologies. Last but not least a 30 second Australian Commodore64 commercial has been added too. It was shown on Australian channel 10 back in 1985. (sd)

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27.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: "Uropa² HD" full version
With permission by Stephen Smith (Austex Software) the Amiga Arena makes the download of the full version of Uropa² (shareware version 2.0) available. Uropa² is a game based on isometric 3D graphics and lightsource vector graphics. The plot takes place on the moon of Uropa. Fight the evil Kapones and find their leading head that is responsible for their acts!

Available for download is the Aminet version of Uropa² as well as the Amiga Arena archive with the keyfile, German guide and catalogue files.

Hint: Exclusively can the Final Uropa² CD version 3.0, distributed by Vulcan Software, be found as full version on the Amiga Future readers CD 33.

Exclusive II: For all owners of the orginal CD are all Final Updates for Uropa² available for download, too! Including a new intaller for the CD version by Stephen Smith.

Special thanks go to Stephen Smith for the support as well as to Gerd F., who made the shareware version available. Enjoy one more commercial full version! With the best wishes from the Amiga Arena!

Next to Uropa² there are more commercial games available for free and legal download like Burnout, Blade and The Prophet. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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27.Oct.2001
Amiga.org


Amiga.org - roadmap
Under the title link you find a comprehensive roadmap, how Amiga.org will continue. Among other things a new server, new partner sites, an improved user login are planned as well as a new comments system. The forums system and the poll scripts are to be improved during this complete overhaul, too. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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27.Oct.2001
Bernie Meyer (email)


Amithlon.net now online with information
Bernie Meyer wrote:
As there seems to be the need for it I have gathered some information on http://www.amithlon.net/ and made downloads available. In particular there are:
  • a detailed guide how to boot Amithlon from the hard disk,
  • bootable CD and floppy images for testing existing hardware for Amithlon compatibility,
  • an up-to-date FAQ.
Some parts are still in development and some parts are missing just completely --- but regarding the discussions taking place at the moment I wanted to make the existing information available as soon as possible. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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27.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Astronomy: Digital Almanac III - update and further news
Promised is promised: the latest update for DA III (to version 4.2) was uploaded to Aminet. Users of the program can download and decrypt the program via in-built function automatically as soon as the update appears on the recent list. For this you need an already installed v4.0 or higher.

Here the most important changes:
  • Complete Bayer/Flamsteed data base (historical naming of stars)
  • The DA screen is now public.
  • The printer output can now be previewed in a browser.
  • Online information about several hundred stars.


The most important bugfixes:
  • Drawing Deep Sky objects into the printer output caused crashes.
  • The evaluation of the mouse position in the PPC versions had not always worked.
And a short notice regarding the OpenGL version of DA III (issue 10/2001 of the AmigaPlus): This project was cancelled already several weeks ago as there was no speed gain compared to the normal version.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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27.Oct.2001
Michael Göken (ANF)


IRC-Kanal for GRex users
Michael Göken wrote:
As already mentioned we want to set up an IRC channel that offers a possibility for the exchange of experiences to GRex owners. If we'd have some flatrate owners we could maintain an online channel.

I post the server I'll open the #GREXX channel on from time to time.

Server: 141.44.163.6
Channel: #GREXX
Port:6667
(ps)

Update 28-Oct-2001:
The name of the IRC channel was changed. It's now '#GREX' and it is set up on the server 141.44.163.6 (port: 6667).
(sd) (Translation: wk)

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27.Oct.2001
Volker Mohr (ANF)


New site about self built Amiga laptops online
Volker Mohr wrote:
For all interested I have finally put together pictures of all Amiga laptops built by me as well as some hints for assembling such on a homepage. I admit this page was overdue but better late than never :-) (ps) (Translation: wk)

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26.Oct.2001
Gerd Frank (e-mail)


New AmiATLAS website online
At the title link you'll find the new website of the route planner AmiATLAS 6. Alternately the website can be reached at http://software.freepage.de/iss. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with James Daniels (programmer of Payback)
There's currently perhaps only one commercial Amiga game which is maintained so well as Payback by James Daniels. Sadly, James' work does not reflect in the sales. Because of the download count (updates) which are much higher than the sales it has to be assumed that a huge amount of pirated copies endanger the further development of Payback!

In the interview with Amiga Arena James revealed what the update 6 will offer. Should the amount of sales not increase we will have to do without a very talented "young" developer for Amiga.

Special thanks to Christian B. who made it possible that the interviews are online in German and English. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
Michael Dittmar (ANF)


Blizkick - Bugfixed for the new (PCI)-Flash-ROM
A new update for the MAPROM tool Blizkick is available. Besides other bugfixes the new version now works with BlizzardPPC boards which have been flashed with the new (PCI-)flash ROM. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
eisblock (ANF)


DiCaTool V0.81
There is a new version of DiCaTool which you can download again this weekend (server is not online permanently). With DiCaTool you can configure your digital camera, load pictures from the camera or use it as a webcam. Have fun with it. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (ML)


Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.36
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. This is a major update and you should download the update right away, just read about the changes.

And what must be one of the best news in the anti-virus scene in 2001, the 'man' himself is back on the Amiga scene. Georg Hoermann, the original programmer of VirusZ III and xvs.library is BACK. Georg Hoermann and Jan Erik Olausen will work together on the update of xvs.library in future.

Info about the new update of xvs.library:

Name: xvs.library v33.36
Achive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 82,452 bytes
Release date: 25 October 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann

News for v33.36:
  • After several years on a journey the sourcecodes finally came back home;-) Yes, it's me (Georg Hörmann) again, still alive and kicking virus asses... Thanks must go to Alex van Niel and Jan Erik Olausen for keeping the project alive! This update was done by me alone, but in the future, Jan Erik and I will keep the library up-to-date together.
  • Rearranged and enhanced the security stuff inside the library for 100% detection of any (illegal) function patches. Programs like 'ZeebsVS' will no longer work with this version. Thanks must go to Zeeball for his demonstration of security gaps in the older versions.
  • Added support for 'IOZ (512 Bytes)' linkvirus. Thanks go to Zeeball for sending it.
  • Added support for 'Rexxfunc' trojan. Thanks must go to Zeeball and Jan Andersen for sending it.
  • Totally redesigned the scanner for virus tasks/processes. The new code scans all tasks/processes for every known virus in just one step and can even handle several running copies of one virus correctly (thanks Zeeball for the hint).
  • Checked ALL the stuff that has been added in my absence since xvs.library 33.18. See below for what I have changed/fixed. Thanks must go to Jan Andersen, Jan Erik Olausen and Zeeball for sending me the missing viruses and lots of other stuff. Special thanks to Zeeball for the ZeebsVS sourcecodes!
  • Fixed file recognition for 'Bastard Installer 1'.
  • Renamed 'Miami 4.0 Fake Installer' to 'MUI 4.0 Fake Installer', because that's what it really is.
  • Renamed 'CCCP Clone' bootvirus to 'Anal Rapes' (its real name), fixed its memory recognition and added it to linkvirus brain.
  • Removed recognition for 'Doubledensity' bootblock, this is just an intro boot.
  • Fixed longword access to odd address in 'Jode Capullos 2' file recognition. This caused crashes on 68000 systems.
  • Fixed memory removal code for 'Zakahackandpatch' and 'Zakapior'. The processes of these viruses might stay in memory up to one minute after they have been detected, that's not a bug, but their own call to Delay() that we have to wait for.
  • Fixed recognition for 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00 Installers' and added the plain version created by xfdmaster.library 39.13.
  • Renamed 'MadRoger Short' to 'NoName (248 Bytes)' to follow the guidelines of VTC Hamburg (idea by Jan Andersen).
  • Renamed '212 Bytes Link' linkvirus to 'NoName (212 Bytes)' and fixed its memory removal code.
  • Renamed 'Explode Trojan' linkvirus to 'Port 9876' and removed the repair code, we can use 'Fungus' code instead.
  • Renamed 'Explode Trigger' filevirus to 'Port 9876 Trigger'.
  • Renamed 'Port 4097 Installer' to 'Port 4097' and added memory removal code for the trojan's process. The process will stay in memory for a while without doing any harm, see explanation at 'Zaka...' above.
  • Fixed 'Hitch-Hiker 5.00' memory removal code. The process gets killed immediately, the patched stack addresses will disappear one by one after a while without doing harm.
  • Fixed memory and file recognition and the repair code for 'Motaba 3' linkvirus. Now it restores the correct library jumps and can repair even files that have been damaged by the virus (bad branch offsets!).
  • Fixed memory and file recognition and the repair code for 'Bastard' linkvirus. Now restores all patched functions (inside asl.library and VirusCheckerII) and repairs even big files with bad branch offsets.
  • File recognition for 'Bastard Installer 2' will now only detect the plain, uncrunched virus as xfdmaster.library unpacks this file correctly.
  • Fixed brain entry of 'Port 2421' linkvirus (wrong virus length) and added memory recognition. Moved 'Port 2421 Installer' from linkvirus to filevirus brain as it cannot reproduce itself.
  • Fixed 'Smeg 2a' and 'Smeg 2b' memory removal code. The processes get killed immediately and the patched stack addresses disappear one by one after a while without doing harm.
  • Fixed repair code for 'Penetrator 2001' linkvirus to handle both ways of infection and added memory removal code (removes the task and 2 of 3 processes, the other one usually should already have been run out or crashed because of bad coding!).
  • Fixed memory recognition for 'Bobek 2' linkvirus and tuned the file recognition/repair code. Thanks to Jan Erik Olausen for his bug report about the beta-release of this code.
TO DO:
  • Add some code to close TCP ports opened by several trojans.
  • Add Neurotic Death 1-5 linkviruses. These are highly polymorphic, but crash on my system if I try to infect some test files. I have received several infected files already from other persons and will try to find some solution for these viruses in the near future.
  • Try to get and add GlobVec linkvirus. The only one who has it is Heiner Schneegold (author of VT-Schutz) and VTC Hamburg, but Heiner doesn't give his permission to the VTC to send me the virus :(
Authors:
Currently we are developing xvs.library together, so for bug reports, other comments, new ideas etc. it's enough if you choose one of the following addresses:

Georg Hörmann, Martinswinkelstr. 16c, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
email: ghoermann@gmx.de or ghoermann@epost.de

Jan Erik Olausen, Rødsveien 5, N-1671 Kråkerøy, Norway
email: virusexecutor@c2i.net

Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm

Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)


GFX-BASE: New entries and review of Mira-WizARC
At the GFX-BASE you can once more read a new review. This time Kevin Hansen has tested the archive manager Mira-WizARC. Besides our vote (which ends in the next days) there are some new entries of games and scene demos which support graphics cards.

Also new is an improved layout as well as a new logo which is meant to illustrate a small change in direction of our magazine: the GFX-BASE magazine is now not only for graphics card users but for Amiga high-end users in general. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)


Game: AQUA distributed by FORE-MATT
FORE-MATT Home Computing have been appointed by Emerald Imaging as the new world-wide distributors of AQUA, the graphical adventure game in the style of Myst. The game can now be ordered direct from FORE-MATT Home Computing at the new Amiga Online Superstore. Trade enquiries are welcome by mailing trade@forematt.co.uk or calling +44 (0)8700 11 22 34.

John Wilson of FORE-MATT stated "FORE-MATT Home Computing are pleased to be working with a company who still believes in the Amiga platform. We are committed to selling and distributing great games from the past, present and future for the Amiga community. Emerald Imaging have shown that great original games can still be made for the Amiga and we hope to see this continue."

Kelly Samel from the Canadian company who developed AQUA had this to say "Emerald Imaging is pleased to be working with FORE-MATT Home Computing in the world-wide distribution of Aqua. Working with FORE-MATT will ensure that Aqua is available world-wide for all Amiga users. We look forward to Aqua being available through many Amiga dealers, including FORE-MATT Home Computing and directly from our website. It's all about opening up choice and offering quality software and service to Amiga customers and dealers. We feel we will succeed in this goal thanks to Aqua gaining a wide scope of availability and appeal."

For those not seen the game yet, it will be displayed on the FORE-MATT Home Computing stand at the World of Amiga SE Show on 3rd November. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


OSNews: Interview with Guillaume Maillard of the BlueOS team
There's an interesting article at OS-News about BlueOS, a BeOS clone based on Linux. In this article a BlueOS team member answers questions about the planned system. This article is also interesting from Amiga point of view for the following reasons:
  • BlueOS could become another alternative operating system for the bPlan PPC board
  • BlueOS could show that it's possible to build an alternative operating system on a Linux kernel which is compatible to an existing one (BeOS). Something similar would be possible for AmigaOS for example with AROS.
All in all the BlueOS project seems to be in a very early state. Interesting for Amiga fans are the aims of the project which read on the homepage as follows: "Call this project ´BeOS 8´ or ´AmigaOS 10, the revenge´ if you want, our dream is to make something better than these great OSes."
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
Chris Perver (ANF)


Textviewer: Updated plug-ins for EvenMore
Using the new plugin feature of EvenMore, it is now possible for anyone with a basic knowledge of any compiling programming language to create plugins for EvenMore. I have created AmigaGuide, HTML, MSWord and WordWorth conversion plugins to date. The possibilities are endless. If anyone wants to create a plugin, let me know. This will also help me to improve the plugin functions and expand the type and functions of plugins that can be created. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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26.Oct.2001
Andreas C. Schmidt (ANF)


Private G-REX 4000D performance tests by Andreas C. Schmidt
Last week I have promised in one of the comment threads to make real world tests on my G-REX 4000D. Now that I have my G-REX together with Voodoo3-3000 working the results are available at the title link.

Amidog's AMP sadly does not run with the G-REX-Voodoo combination and likes to crash on startup. I don't have a 100 MBit ethernet card yet since the drivers are still missing. As soon as the drivers are available I will do the tests.

One word on the 3D games: Heretic and Shogo run perfectly, Wipeout runs (on my system) only on Workbench and the glQuake status bar is mangled and unreadable. The main 3D graphic in glQuake is not affected, though.

Now a call to all Mediator users: I would *LOVE* to see my tests on the most powerful Mediator environment (603e-240, Voodoo3-3000)! With the help of my test notes it should be easily possible for anyone to execute them himself (except the ethernet test).
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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25.Oct.2001



Survey: Which system do you want to use 2002?
In our forum some asked when we would start another survey along with a precise suggestion to query for: "What system would you like to use in 2002?". Possible answers:
  • "Classic" Amiga / AmigaOS 3.x
  • "Classic" Amiga / Linux
  • AmigaOne / AmigaOS 4.0
  • Pegasos / MorphOS
  • Pegasos / LinuxPPC
  • x86 / AmigaOS XL / Amithlon
  • x86 / UAE
  • x86 / Windows
  • x86 / Linux
  • Macintosh / UAE
  • Macintosh / MacOS
  • Macintosh / LinuxPPC
Unfortunately our script does not allow multiple entries. Suggestions for other surveys are welcome.

Update: (30.04.2011, cg)

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

"Classic" Amiga / AmigaOS 3.x    327   (13.09%)
"Classic" Amiga / Linux           20    (0.80%)
AmigaOne / AmigaOS 4.0          1000   (40.02%)
Pegasos / LinuxPPC                15    (0.60%)
Pegasos / MorphOS                611   (24.45%)
x86 / AmigaOS XL / Amithlon      269   (10.76%)
x86 / UAE                         24    (0.96%)
x86 / Windows                     84    (3.36%)
x86 / Linux                       58    (2.32%)
Macintosh / UAE                    3    (0.12%)
Macintosh / MacOS                 55    (2.20%)
Macintosh / LinuxPPC               1    (0.04%)
Andere / Other                    32    (1.28%)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Dreamoler-Caps


Tool: ReqAttack Version 1.93
The tool to embellish system requesters programmed by Georg Steger and further developed by Jaca/Dreamolers-Caps now is available for download in version 1.93 under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Da SixK Port Page


Database: MySQL version 4.0.0 for 68040 CPU
In this archive you will find MySQL version 4.0.0 (alpha binary). Thus a corrected version of MySQL 4.0.0 alpha for the 68040 CPU has been released fixing the 'Create Database' error.

Download: mysqld-4_bin_create_db_fix.lzx (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Amiga Inc.


Amiga Inc.: Amiga announces first release of its AmigaDE Player
As already reported in August Amiga Inc. have released an AmigaDE player for Linux and Windows. You will find the official press release of Amiga Inc. under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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25.Oct.2001
Michael Garlich (ANF)


Video editing: New effect movies by Motionstudio
Titan Computer released two new effect movies for download in the 'Shot/Movie' section, which give a good impression of the plasma and fireworks effects. The Quicktime movies can be displayed using any Amiga QT player. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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24.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Society Updates
There are some new updates on Amiga-Society again. There are many new entries in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware. There are also new pictures on the software site. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
AmigaRealm (E-Mail)


AmigaRealm: Call for support of Amiga.org
Certainly you have already read that the website of the American news service called Amiga.org was hacked and the database destroyed. Under the title link AmigaRealm calls up everybody to support Wayne Hunt who is the maintainer of Amiga.org by contributing money so that he can bring the website online again. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail)


AMIGA-Magazine: Extracts from issue #11 online
As usually the print-magazine 'AMIGA-Magazin' makes some articles available for reading. This time the highlight is a basis article for XHTML 1.0. It shows how you can design HTML-documents future-safe. Additionally you can find an editorial and a preview to the next issue as well as a programmer-workshop to "Warp 3D V4". (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Paul Cardwell (ANF)


GetBoinged! an Amiga application listings website goes live!
GetBoinged! is a place where Amiga developers can list their applications on, be it for Amiga DE or Classic. It was developed by two Amiga fans, Paul Beel my friend and myself. We do not host the "actual" applications, we allow the developer to point to a location where the application resides (html links).

We invite you to check out GetBoinged.org at http://www.getboinged.org. If you cannot find the application you are looking for, feel free to sign up for an account and post the application.

We are currently in the process of gathering Amiga DE applications, Amiga Classic is basically done (both will be updated frequently). If you have a comment or suggestion, feel free to let us know, we want this site to be enjoyable!

We look forward to your visit and hope you enjoy GetBoinged.org.
Thank you,
Paul Cardwell
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Jens Schönfeld (ANF)


Software Update for Catweasel Floppy Controller
There is a new version of the multidisk.device in the support-area for download. The device works with all Amiga versions of the Catweasel Controller. On frequently request some new formats have been introduced which can also read and write hidden data on the disks. For the most common formats the track-line was extended and for PC-disks special formats with different sector sizes have been introduced.

The format for C64-disks has been extended on 40 tracks and a small bug has been fixed. Finally it should be now possible to write the disk-id in the sector-header correctly. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner


H&P: Upgrade: ImageFX 4.5 is now available
Nova Design has just announced that the current update to ImageFX 4.5 is available. This version adds some new functions to the most efficienty programm package for picture manipulation. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Golem - IT News für Profis


Golem: Slashdot interviewed: "Trying the impossible"
Slashdot-editor Timothy Lord reports about the work behind the site
Linux-boom to and fro: No open-source-website has such a big influence as the Slashdot-offer with its motto "News for nerds, stuff that matters". Ben Schwan talks about the work behind the site, the power of good communities and about the future of free software after the end of the Internet-Hypes with slashdot-editor Timothy Lord.
Have a look at the title link for the full interview. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
internet.com


internet.com: EU wants computer-programs under protection by patent this year
»The European Commission wants to set computer-programs under the protection by patent within the Union. This is reported by the 'Financial Times Deutschland' in its current issue. After disputing in the authority for months inland market commissar Frits Bolkestein pushed through his plan of patent regulation for software-programs. Still this year he wants to present a directive proposal to it. With it "an uniform protection by patent is supposed to be created to push innovations at developing software" says the Commission.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Eternity Hard- und Software


Eternity: AmigaOS XL-demonstrating system in shop
In order to introduce AmigaOS XL something more transparent from now on at Eternity hard- and software you can observe an Amithlon-demonstrating system in shop. At the same time some products will be set to an absolutely minimal price for three days.

Eternity Hard- und Software
Rosmarstraße 37
50226 Frechen

Telephon: 049 2234 / 272300
Telefax: 049 2234 / 271472

Mo. to Fr.: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (ps) (Translation: dr)

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24.Oct.2001
Access Innovation Ltd.


Mick Tinker takes leave of Amiga market
Well time moves on, nothing stands still... The Amiga does not make me a living, it hasn't for a long, long time and it doesn't look like it ever will make me a dime. I have moved on in my life and its time that I left the Amiga behind.

It has been an interesting time. I still love the concepts and elegance of the Amiga, many of those concepts will move forward through the experiences of all those engineers that have had contact with it. Amiga R.I.P.

Note of the editors board:
The Anti Gravity website, which have bought the BoXer project from Mick Tinker, is not available any more. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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23.Oct.2001
Markus Pohlmann (ANF)


Update of the project Crashsite website
The website www.projektcrashsite.de (title link) about the new role game of the same denominator has been updated. An initial test picture of the 16Bit Iso 3d engine, new music in MP3 format and the questions and answers so far are part of the new content.

Since the game's graphic artist Daniel Hartlehnert is searching for a new employer there are some examples for his work in the "Die Macher" section.

In the support section the programmers are asking for decision guidance regarding what should take priority - development for 68k od PPC. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)


Emulation: New version of Amigenerator released
The SEGA MegaDrive (Genesis) emulator Amigenerator is released in version V0.34. The changes in V0.34:
  • [VDP] Error in VSTAM removed (Pengo)
  • [VDP] Unnecessary code in sources etc. removed
  • [SOUND] Sound code reworked
  • [SOUND] Support of On/Off of psg/fm/z80 and sound added
  • [CORE] Welcome ROM added
  • [CORE] Saving is added again
  • [CORE] The saving of sound was reworked completely
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Digital Almanac III - Amithlon
Thanks to Harald Frank it was possible to present DA III running on "Amithlon" on the event which took place last Friday in Mutterstadt, Germany. There was greate positive responsiveness to that presentation. Calculation speed did not rank behind comparable PC programs. So, the only planetarium program left for the Amiga also runs under Amithlon without problems. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Tales of Tamar


Game: Tales of Tamar - Amiga Version 0.38R3
The Amiga version v0.38R3 of the Internet and round based game Tales of Tamar contains speedups on the map screen, and OnScreen animations for the trade- and diplomacy screen. The game is only available for beta testers. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner


H&P: AmigaXL: Selling since October 18th
H&P wrote:
23. Oct. 2001: On Thursday, October 18th sale of AmigaOS XL started. Delivery of the preorders still will take a few days. We ask you for understanding. Last weekend the new version was presented and up for sale on the Pianeta 2001 in Empoli, Italy.
(ps)

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23.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Carl Svensson (mp3Play)
The GUI "mp3Play" comes from Sweden. The developer Carl Svensson answered the questions of the Amiga Arena.

Olaf Köbnik: "The Amiga Arena is supporting the freeware and shareware market and I just can appeal you again and again to support the developers with feedback." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
m.w.VERLAG GmbH


amiga-news.de in the 'Book of the 6,000 Most Important Websites'
amiga-news.de has been recorded to the Internet guide "Das Web-Adressbuch für Deutschland - Die 6.000 wichtigsten deutschen Internet-Adressen" (The Web-Address-Book for Germany - The 6,000 most importandt German Internet Addresses). The editors board of the mv publishing company did a one year data-recall facility and tested about 250,000 web offers and read out the 6,000 best websites.

Base of this book is a concise structure, 19 chapters are partitioned into subject relating rubrics. It contains an extended headword index and e-mail register. The arrangement of sub-categories and the extended index enables the reader to quickliy find what he is searching for and the short comments simplify to decide the optimal address. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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23.Oct.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page


Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page: Anubis and xlHtml Update
Fr3dY has updated two of his tools. First is version 1.0.3 of Anubis, an anonymous mailer with many features, available for download. Also xHTML is updated onto version 0.3.9.1. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
OSNews


OSNews: Interview with Carl Sassenrath about REBOL (Update)
You will find a complete interview with Carl Sassenrath about REBOL under the title link. It especially has an eye on the possibilities that REBOL/IOS will give X-Internet ('executable' Internet), and the chances of REBOL in the market against .NET and other systems.

The interview was held by Eugenia Loli-Queru.

REBOL is a platform overlapping sytem from Carl Sassenrath (Amiga-Exec), that was released first in November 1997. The REBOL language lets you use the Internet easily including coding of CGI-scripts and the easy design of GUIs. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
The Amiga Alternative Audio Page


MPEG-Audio-Player: MAD for 68040 and MorphOS
Today we have a brand new port-release for you .. madplay, the best mpeg-audio player out there .. this will make a nice complement to the LAME encoder... The archive comes with binaries for 68040 and MorphOS... Please read the included amiga.readme for special instructions on usage!

From the MAD README:

MAD has the following special features:

  • 24-bit PCM output
  • 100% fixed-point (integer) computation
  • completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards
  • distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
Because MAD provides full 24-bit PCM output, applications using MAD are able to produce high quality audio. Even when the output device supports only 16-bit PCM, applications can use the extra resolution to increase the audible dynamic range through the use of dithering or noise shaping.

Because MAD uses integer computation rather than floating point, it is well suited for architectures without a floating point unit. All calculations are performed with a 32-bit fixed-point integer representation.

Because MAD is a new implementation of the ISO/IEC standards, it is unencumbered by the errors and copyrights of other implementations. MAD is NOT a derivation of the ISO reference source or any other code. Considerable effort has been expended to ensure a correct implementation, even in cases where the standards are ambiguous or misleading.

Download: madplay.lzx (220 KB) (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Pagan Games


Pagan Games: New game for AmigaDE - BLOBULA
Pagan Games proudly presents Blobula. The first next-generation platform independent game for desktop machines as well as personal digital assistants. Thanks to AmigaDE Blobula runs on most hardware but AmigaDE will at first be available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and the Sharp Zaurus PDA. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert (E-Mail)


Image processing: SView ImageFX Loader Update
The ImageFX plugins (loader/Saver) for SView are updated and are available for download (title link). (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Ottawa Amiga Show Team


Event: Ottawa Amiga Show - Changes
Against other statements the Ottawa Amiga Show will not take place on two days, only on 17.11.2001. Also changed has the location. Now it is the Routhier Centre, 172 Guigues Street, Main floor, Ottawa, Canada. More informations under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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23.Oct.2001
Kermit Woodall (ANF)


Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Nova Design, Inc. Releases ImageFX 4.5
Richmond, VA - Nova Design announced the immediate availability of the latest upgrade to ImageFX 4.5. This release adds even more features to one of the industries most powerful image editing and special effects package and the top package for the Amiga.

Nova Design has been a long-time supporter of the Amiga platform. Their software packages include ImageFX, Aladdin 4D - a 3D modeling, rendering and animation package, Millennium - the ultimate upgrade for Newtek's Toaster and Toaster/Flyer, and Cinematte - a blue-screening plugin for both Photoshop and Aura.

New Painting Features
The painting tools have been improved with the addition of several new Drawmodes. These Drawmodes allow a new range of compositing so you can composite brushes into your images will all the same tools that the composite tool offers you for full image compositing. When combined with the Drawstyles, which control where your pixels come from when using brushes, you have literally thousands of possible drawing options and combinations!

New Animation Features
ImageFX 4.0 introduced the concept of being able to load an animation and work on individual frames just like you would a layered still image document. ImageFX 4.5 takes this much further with the all-new Keyframe Manager.

The Keyframe Manager allows you to combine images, animations, or animbrushes onto any animation you have loaded. You can completely control the path of these images or animations by specifying precise positions at individual keyframes at any point in the animation. You can do this with single point keys, two point keys, or four point keys. You can scale during single point animations, use two points to make easy 'squash and stretch' cartoony effects, or use four points flip points around to make '3D' flying logos and other simulated perspective tricks. With a little artistic talent it's not hard to track something in an existing animation and add a new effect on it or replace it with something new.

The Keyframe Manager can also process simple scripts without bothering with compositing images or animations. You can track lightning into a scene or have a wizard cast a glowing light with a lens flare. The possibilities are enormous!

Ordering
Just call 1-800-IMAGE-69 or (804) 282-1157, fax (804) 282-3768 to order. (ps)

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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Exotica (ANF)


Amiga Exotica Update
This section provides complete unmodified rips with full credits for all Amiga game sound tracks regardless of format. Unlike other collections available elsewhere on the internet, UnExoticA's archive hasn't been defaced with rip credits, which often replace comments left by the original composer.

Huge thanks to all the people who have worked hard to make this section. Full credits for the area can be read on its Main Page. At the time of writing the area contains 3440 files packed into 615 archives. That's 269 different composers! Uncompressed there is currently 212 Megabytes of music! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: New packages for WHDLoad
WHDLoad gives you the possibility to install floppy-based games onto your harddisc. The following new or updated versions are available:

  • 21.10.01 new: Night Breed (Ocean) done by Bored Seal
  • 21.10.01 fixed: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) install script debugged
  • 21.10.01 new: Barbarian (Psygnosis) done by CFOU!
  • 20.10.01 improved: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) various changes
  • 20.10.01 fixed: Doofus (Prestige Software) highscore fixed
  • 20.10.01 fixed: Hudson Hawk (Ocean) no more problems on 68060
  • 18.10.01 improved: Star Wars (Lucasfilm/Domark) supports another version
  • 17.10.01 new: Megatwins (US Gold/SEGA) done by JOTD
  • 17.10.01 improved: Marble Madness () new icon (Info,Image)
  • 17.10.01 new: Geisha (Coktail Vision) done by CFOU!
  • 17.10.01 new: Space Ball (Rainbow Arts) done by CFOU!
  • 17.10.01 new: F1 Tornado (Zeppelin/Quex Development) done by Bored Seal
  • 17.10.01 new: Dark Fusion (Esprit Software/Gremlin) done by Codetapper
  • 17.10.01 new: Battle Storm (Titus) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Suite101 / John Chandler


John Chandler: AROS: Native AmigaOS For Your PC
John Chandler is dealing with AROS the native AmigaOS for PC in his current article, published at suite101. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Apex Designs


Game: Payback Update 5, new demo and map-update
Update 5, updated maps and a new demo of Payback are now available for download. Update 5 fixes all bugs reported since the release of update 4. If you still have some problems, please have a look at the FAQ. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Haage&Partner


H&P won't leave the Amiga market
Markus Nerding (Manager of H&P) wrote:
"There was a rumour at amiga.org saying that we would leave the Amiga market. This is not only complete nonsens but even hard to believe with reagard to the recently released AmigaOS XL and Freespace. Due to the fact that amiga.org is currently down I think that it was probably hacked by someone else." (ps) (Translation: sk)

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22.Oct.2001
Marcus Neervoort (E-Mail)


AmigaPage News - New pictures and fair movies
After a long time some new stuff, again. In the 'Amiga-Geschichte' (Amiga history) section some pictures have been added. Also the 'Messe-Werbung' (fair advertising) and 'Amiga-Werbung' (Amiga advertising) sections have been updated.

A few weeks ago Marcus Neervoort has put the 45 minutes Fleecy Moss log from the WoA2000 in Cologne in MP3 format at the download area. Have fun and so long until the next update. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Oct.2001
Salvador Fernandez (E-Mail)


New pictures of the Pegasos mainboard with MorphOS v0.8
Under the title link you can see the latest pictures of the Pegasos mainboard taken at bplan's on last Thursday. Short after this the machine traveled to Italy to the Pianete 2001. Michael Garlich, Titan Computer, picked it up in person last Friday.

Already now various Amiga applications and PCI hardware like graphic boards, network cards, TV cards, etc. are working full featured.

Until WOA 2001 about 10 developer systems of second generation - the PEGASOS2 design - will be available. This heralds the final lap to make the first fully working 'successor' of the latest Amiga generation definite reality. The new multiprocessing sysem and MultiOS machine will be available in different configurations and variations for endusers in 1Q02.

Soon we will make new announcements about this (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Oct.2001
Alexander Fritsch (ANF)


Webcam with VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or VLab-Parallel
There is an ARexx script enabling to use a VLabMotion, DracoMotion, Vlab or VLab-Parallel as a webcam available for download under the title link. Via Arexx a picture get's taken within Movieshop which then will be exported. After that this pictures will be loaded into ADPro where it get's scaled and date and time added to it. If a VLab is used the VLab-ADPro loader will be utilized. The picutre get's uploaded to the FTP server using "PutClient" (Aminet). The script is capable of setting MiamiDX online and offline automatically, if desired. Moreover it is possible to save all of the pictures taken. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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22.Oct.2001
Amiga Future


AMIGA 2001: Provisional exhibitors list
The editors board of the Amiga Future is busy in creating a preliminary report about the Amiga show in Cologne (17.-18. Nov.) and published a provisional exhibitors list under the title link. Up to now about 20 companies or grous approved to attend the show. (sd)

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21.Oct.2001
Alexander Kurtz (ANF)


amiNET.GUI: 'Message of the day' via WAP cell phone
The Aminet's "Message of the day" now also can be read using a WAP capable cell phone. The URL is: http://www.aminet-gui.net/wap/. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future


HTML: Preprocessor HSC V0.919
After a longe period of time a new version of the HTML preprocessor 'HCS' (HTML Sucks Completely) was released. To make this development of the tool previously programmed by Thomas Aglassinger is now being done by Matthias Bethke.

This preliminary version fixes some bugs and comes with new featrues.

Among other things HSC supports macros, qualified requests and expressions. The elder support page gives you a closer overview.

This version was released as source-only which should compile on all systems previously supported by HSC.

Download: hsc-source.tar.bz2 (376K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future


Mailer: Simplemail mailing list on new server
Due to intensive spams the mailing list regarding the e-mail client 'Simplemail' has been moved to freelist.org.

You can subscribe to this list by sending an e-mail to simplemail-usr-request@freelists.org. The archive is available via http://www.freelists.org/archives/simplemail-usr/.

More information about this list are available under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future


Database: MySqld V4.0.0 (Alpha)
On 18. October 2001 version 4.0.0 of the MySqld archive for Amigas with 68040 CPU was released on the 'Da SixK Port Page'.

Version 4 is about a definite enhanced version of this databench allowing to implement previously missing features like requests within requests.

This version was not entirely tested by the MySQL team yet, what makes it alpha status.

As a first new feature one can test union-queries, which work good.

With 'InnoDb' a new format was added, but which does not work in the Amiga version yet and therefore is disabled in the startmysqld script. Who is able to find a way to use this feature on the Amiga might contact sixk@ifrance.com.

Who would like to use special fonts, just have a look at the startmysqld script and the mysql:languages/charsets/ directory.

More information about the MySQL version 4.0.0 released on 15. October are to find at www.mysql.com.

Download: MySqld-4.0.0-Alpha.lzx (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
CodePoet


Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.17 R3 - private beta-test
Version 0.8.17 release 3 of the Amiga emulator 'WinUAE' currently is in private beta-tests. So this version is not yet available for download. The following has changed since the prior version:
  • FIXED: No longer crashes in windowed-mode on XP Themed-view.
  • FIXED: 68020+ bitfield instruction fix (stuck doors in Dungeon Master AGA)
  • FIXED: Fix garbage display on Venus the Flytrap and Nightbreed Interactive Movie. (Toni Wilen)
  • FIXED: Trying to delete a non-empty directory will now properly return ERROR_DIRECTORY_NOT_EMPTY. (Bernd Roesch)
  • FIXED: Increased the range of addresses checked for memory-mapping, in order to make JIT "direct" mode work on more systems.
  • FIXED: Selecting a Picasso96 8-bit mode in windowed-mode would complain about not matching your desktop's depth, and switch to full-screen. (Reported by Michael at Cloanto)
  • FIXED: Installer won't install when WinUAE is already running.
  • ADDED: AHI driver support. (Bernd Roesch)
  • ADDED: Option to disable use of overlays completely.
  • ADDED: Jose's modifications to the sound routines and GUI. (Jose Gil) NOTE: Read doc called "SoundSyncro Readme.rtf"
  • CHANGED: Floppy-disk emulation, including .FDI support. (Toni Wilen)
(sd)

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21.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News


Aminet-CD #45
Aminet CD 45, dated October 2001, contains almost 1 Gigabyte of (uncompressed) software in over 800 archives. Since the release of Aminet 44 numerous new software has appeared. The current edition includes the full Amiga Future Website. Read more (sd)

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21.Oct.2001
Jan Andersen (VHT-ML)


Virus Help Denmark: Antivirus poll 2001
Under the title link Virus Help Denmark ask "Who has done the most for the Amiga Antivirus scene in 2001 ?".

Until 31. December 2001 one can vote regarding this on the above page. The winner of this poll will receive about 100 USD which VHT drawed from antivirus disk sales (0.25 USD profit per disk). With your own vote you are possible to decide who will win that money.

The nominees are:
  • Alex van Viel - VirusChecker II
  • Jan Erik Olausen - VirusExecutor
  • Zeeball - Safe
  • Dirk Stoecker - VirusZ
  • Jan Erik Olausen & Georg Hoermann - Xvs.library
  • VT-Schutz - Heiner Schneegold
(sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Future


Tales of Tamar: Videos of the LARP I, the Ankou band
Around the 22nd of September the first LARP for 'Tales of Tamar' took place. Now, on the 19th of October a video of that meeting was published showing the beautifull landscape of the LARP area, some battles, the live in the tavern, and much more.

The video was done by Virtual Dimension, they made it up from several tapes. From their server the video is available for download in MPEG format at three different sizes.

On the LARP evenings an medieval band called 'Ankou' made music plenteously and thus cared for the proper ambience. Special was that the bard of the band made it to sing free-style for seven minutes. This piece of music was ripped off the video and is available for download as MP3 on the Tamar servers. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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21.Oct.2001
Amiga Page


Event: Short report about the Pianeta 2001
There were some highlights to sight on the Pianeta Amiga 2001. Haage&Partner presented AmigaOS XL running on an 1.4GHz Athlon. The Amiga software compatibility is said to be very good. For example there were MooVID playing two movies in two windows at the same time.

VirtualWorks showed both of the new PCI solutions G-REX4000D and Mediator 4000 PCI in a show-case, but not working.

An absolute innovation was presented at the booth of Titan Computer where one was able to gaze at Candy Factory Pro running on the Pegasos system by bplan GmbH with MorphOS version 0.8.

Furthermore a new Italian print magazine called Bitplane and done by Nicola Morcutti was presented. This magazine is planned to be published bimonthly including a CD and will be available to subscribers only.

Other exhibitors are Darkage Software, Digital Equipment, AGI, Il Piccolo Emporio, and Mirko Cipolla (CIP060) who presented an A1200 with MediatorPCI, Voodoo, SoundBlaster, and TV card. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Oct.2001
CUCUG


CUCUG: Status Register October 2001
The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. Dealt are current and important information regarding Amiga, Macintosh and PC as well as the computer industry. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Updates at the Amiga-Society
Again there are several new entries in the software area, and in the Big Book of Amiga Hardware had several articles been translated. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Ralph aka Elvis (ANF)


Game: new Angband compiles for Amiga
EyAngband 0.3.5
Eytan Zweig released a new version of EyAngband that solves the known problems in the last release and introduces a new birth-screen taken from ZAngband and the ability to use a dead character as template for a new one. It's available as source code, Windows version, Amiga version (by Bablos), PPC, and 68k Mac version (by "Gileba").

Amiga ports
Apart from the already mentioned EyAngband 0.3.5 port Bablos also compiled Angband 2.9.3 and Gumband 2.1.8a for the Amiga. (ps)

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20.Oct.2001
Timo Kloss (email)


Inutilis news: OctaMED plug-in for Inga
The first plug-in for Inga is now available and can be downloaded from the homepage. With this it is possible to start four-channel-songs created with OctaMED within an Inga adventure. So this is meaningful for all adventures that aren't supposed to be released on CD. In addition for the plug-in is the medplayer.library (v6) needed!

Inga is an engine for graphics adventures with a developer package on sales. Detailed information on the homepage. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Sebastian Beloch (ANF)


CyberGraphX v4.2 pre11 released
New drivers for the BlizzardVisionPPC and the CyberStormPPC make it possible to work correctly with the new flash version from 17. October. A new cgxsystem.lib is included with a new option (NOMOUSERATIO env). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF)


Software compatibility list for Amiga OS XL revised
On 19.10. got the software compatibility list for Amiga OS XL updated. Shapeshifter runs on Amithlon, some games under Amiga XL. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Daniel Orth (ANF)


amiga-topcool is back
After a longer period of "thinking" the Amiga print magazine makes its presence felt again: colored and round. That means, from the autumn issue on will the amiga-topcool be released as CD-ROM rather than a print magazine. This can be expected by the subscribers:

  • A colored layout that's orientated along the print layout but readable in HTML format.
  • More pages as we aren't depending on printing costs anymore.
  • The possibility to advertise one's Amiga club to the max - 10 MB memory is space available for free for every Amiga club.
  • The latest PD software as well as demo versions.
How many times the amiga-topcool will be issued in the future depends on the drive of the number of free-lance worker that will hopefully grow in the future. The CD will be subdivided as follows:
  • 10 HTML pages up-to-date (interviews, ticker, press releases)
  • 10 HTML pages application (previews, news, reviews, topic)
  • 10 HTML pages game and fun (previews, news, reviews, Classic reviews, cheats)
  • 10 HTML pages community (Amiga club list - with 10 MB memory space per club, retailer list - with web appearances on CD, readers reactions, etc.)
  • software (PD, demos, maybe commercial full versions, too)
Further information will follow in the next days on our Internet site that will get a new look, too. The price of the CD is 10,- DM (including packing). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Chris Hodges (ANF)


Full text Aminet search engine in alpha test
Some hours ago I've completed a somewhat finished version of my Aminet full text search engine. For now you find it on my local Amiga 4000 under the URL http://213.196.87.182/ (title link).

Full text means that the appr. 100 MB of the 70000 readme files will be searched through, too. Normally these search request need less than 2 seconds to be answered.

I'd like you to test it and give me suggestions for improvements asap. Happy alpha testing! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Mikey C (ANF)


Event: World of Amiga South East
So are we! On Saturday 3rd of November 2001 the World of Amiga Southeast show is taking place at Poplars Hall, Shenfield, Essex, UK.
This is the ideal opportunity for you to come along and show all those who that think the Amiga market is dead where they can shove it!

We have worked tirelessly to bring you some of the biggest names in the Amiga Industry to World of Amiga Southeast 2001

Amiga, Elbox, Eyetech, Cloanto, & Pagan Games are amongst those who are attending the show ready to see in the new era of Amiga Computing with the eminent launch of the AmigaOne/SharkPPC Zico Spec Machines and beyond. James Daniels, Paul Burkey and Fleecy Moss are just some of the Amiga Celebes will be in attendance at WoA Southeast.

However, all our hard work will be for nothing if we have a poor turnout.

We need every one to come along and show the world that we want an alternative to the dull and bloated OS that has afflicted the masses in the computing world.
Sick and tired of all the doom and gloom in the Amiga market?
In short we want a new Amiga, and just because an Amiga Magazine shuts down, it doesn't mean that the existing Amiga dealers have suddenly ceased to exist or have gone elsewhere.
So turn up to WOA Southeast and support Amiga, Fore-Matt Home Computing, Weird Science, Stellar Dreams, Elbox, Clubbed Magazine, Cloanto, Eyetech, 100%Amiga, VP, and many more by coming along on the day.
Many retailers need shows like WoA Southeast to keep their commitment and businesses going until the next generation Amiga takes off.

Let's make the doom mongers eat a big shitcake, turn up and do us proud!

For more details on advance ticket ordering, full list of exhibitors, discussion forums and how to get there please visit http://www.worldofamiga.com

Michael Carrillo (aka Mikey C)
World of Amiga Southeast, Exhibitor, Media and Public Relations.

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20.Oct.2001
eisblock (ANF)


DiCaTool V0.8
All owners of serial digital cams who want to use their cams as webcam with their Amiga can download the program DiCaTool during the weekend from my Apache server (title link). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
CD³²-Allianz (ANF)


Takeover of the CD³²Outside successful!
I may all those who are waiting for new issues of the "CD³² Outside" tell that the takeover by Henning Schlautmann had been successful. From 01.11.2001 on will now Henning Schlautmann continue the "CD³² Outside" resp. maintain. Address questions, critics and suggestions concerning the "CD³² Outside" please to him. The 4. issue of the "CD³² Outside" therefore has to be released until 01.02.2002! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)


Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS special price
Today it's the last time you have the possibility to preorder the route planner AmiATLAS 6 for a unique special price at the Amiga Arena. An "update special price" for registered users of version 5 is of course available, too. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Falke 34 (ANF)


CybergraphX V4.3 beta for G-Rex
Version 4.3 beta of the graphics card driver software CyberGraphX for G-Rex is available for download. This version contains a new cgxsystem.lib and the Voodoo as well as the Permedia2 drivers were updated. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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20.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (email)


Datatypes: new versions by Oliver Roberts
Oliver Roberts has updated his Warp datatypes. Since yesterday are the following versions available for download:
  • WarpJPEG.datatype 44.25 - JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
  • WarpPNG.datatype 44.21 - PNG picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
  • WarpTIFF.datatype 44.5 - TIFF picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
  • WarpBMP.datatype 44.6 - BMP picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)
  • WarpPSD.datatype 44.3 - Adobe Photoshop® picture datatype (68k, PPC/WarpOS, PPC/MorphOS)

All datatypes are freeware and serve for displaying different kinds of data in different viewer programs. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (e-mail)


Print magazine: Amiga Active Magazine Announces Major Changes
Fri 19 Oct Amiga Active Magazine Announces Major Changes
Amiga Active, the world's leading Amiga magazine, is undergoing significant changes to meet the challenges of a changed marketplace. With the first consumer version of the next generation Amiga environment, the AmigaDE player, finally available to the public, Amiga have stepped into the future, and Amiga Active magazine is following suit.

Issue 26 of Amiga Active magazine will be released on the 25th of October. This issue will contain the normal mix of forward-looking and "Classic Amiga" content, including the most detailed preview of the Amiga DE to date, revealing for the first time much of what is actually going into the next-generation Operating Environment which Amiga are building on top of the binary-portable intent JTE (Java Technology Edition) multimedia engine from Tao Group. This will be the last time that Amiga's journey into the next generation will be a matter of previews and predictions. The next generation has arrived.

Amiga Active has been preparing for this from the very beginning. Since the very first issue we have been covering the revolution taking place in computing, and over recent months our coverage has increased through our ever-expanding "Next Generation" section. We are now taking the magazine itself into the next stage with a change in focus, and a change in name - to digital.
Complete article see title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Matthew Kille (ANF)


Zeoneo website launched
The Zeoneo website is now online with details of its two new releases for AmigaDE: Convex and Planet Zed.

Until now, Zeoneo was a company that relatively few people knew about. Indeed, it may suprise many people to know that we have been working behind the scenes for well over a year now. In that time, experience and understanding of the systems that make up AmigaDE has been gained and used to develop our first two PDA-targetted titles.

Convex is an addictive puzzle game where the objective of each of the 25 levels is to remove all the marbles.

Planet Zed is a vertical scroll shoot 'em up game that borrows many of its features from the classic Bitmap Brothers game Xenon2.

Further information and screenshots of these products is available on the website. www.zeoneo.com (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)


New downloads at the NARR site
At the NARR site you can download a colorful imageset in GlowIcon style for MUIVideo (was released some time ago for the Amiga Arena).

In addition to some other small changes on my site, there's also a new skin (SolarCalc) for CoolCALC which was made by Klaus Licha. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Andreas Schmidt (ANF)


4,000,000th visitor :-)
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! You've just had your 4,000,000th visitor, that's me. With the help of a printout made with Netscape (PS file) I can prove it. Will there be a price? :-)

Comment from the team:
We currently have no prices, but maybe a company donates something :-). (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Scott Pistorino (ANF)


WWW.AmigaSource.com - Your NEW source for Amiga information
For your viewing pleasure. A new source of Amiga information has been created. After months of hard work www.AmigaSource.com has finally been released to the Amiga community. With 500 links and many more still yet to come this I hope this will be of much use to you all.
Thanks. Scott Pistorino (ps) (Translation: rh)

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19.Oct.2001
Bernd Lachner (ANF)


Sharp announces developer version of their SL5000 PDA for November
Sharp has announced the developer version of their SL5000 PDAs for November
In the article at the title link there is some concrete information about the operating system of the PDA for the first time. The PDA will use besides the already known Embedix Linux kernel by Lineo Qt embedded and the QT Palmtop Environment by Trolltech as well as the browser Opera. Further, a Java VM is integrated.

The article does not mention who provides the JVM. Probably TAO's Java VM won't be used but rather the Jeode Java VM by Insignia, at least this is mentioned on the Sharp developer page for the PDA. Then the Sharp PDA would use the system of the partners Lineo - Trolltech - Insignia - Opera already announced on the Lineo page.
Original article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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18.Oct.2001
Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)


Eyetech: Initial impressions of the design case for AmigaOne
Eyetech has released first impressions of the design case for the AmigaOne, exclusively developed for Eyetech by the French industry designers Naya.


Some of Naya's employees are still active Amigans who seem to have contacted Ben Yoris (Hyperion) who then arranged contact with Eyetech. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Stéphane Campan (E-Mail)


XTeam Software Solution: Geometry Studio Demo
In the section download is present a preview of Geometry Studio (need a mpeg player). (ps)

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18.Oct.2001
Markus Nerding (E-Mail)


Hyperion announce Haage & Partner to distribute "Freespace: The Great War"
18-October-2001: Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce that Haage&Partner will act as Publisher of the Amiga conversion of "Freespace, The Great War".

The eagerly awaited game which was originally developed by Volition and published by Interplay, is arguably the best space-combat simulator ever to grace the Amiga platform and offers an unparalleled mix of top-notch graphics, plot and gameplay.

Freespace will run on any PPC equipped Amiga with at least 64 MB of memory or a 68060 based Amiga with 3D accelerator (e.g. Voodoo 3, Permedia 2).

More information can be found at freespace.haage-partner.de.

Freespace can already be pre-ordered from the H&P online store at www.amiga-shop.de .

Users who pro-order their copy of Freespace will receive their copy before anyone else. (ps)

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18.Oct.2001
Paul Qureshi (ANF)


AmiMPC - Amiga in-car MP3 Player
The AmiMPC website is now available at: http://amimpc.world3.net. Check out the Amiga in-car MP3 player based on an A1200 and MAS Player Pro! (ps)

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18.Oct.2001
Thomas Dellert (ANF)


DCE: GREX 4000D shipping from today
From today the GREX 4000D is in stock and available. Today the first boards have been delivered to our distributor Vesalia Computer. The boards also are being offered by Virtualworks on the Pianeta 2001 in Empoli, Italy. Moreover we have created a new driver pack for free use (download: grexdriver2_2.lzh).

To make our board PCI compatible with the Pegasos board the CyberPCI library version 2.2 is available now (download: flash_20011012.lha). This new flash for the first time enables Voodoo3 users to display the 15KHz start screen directly on the Voodoo card after system start. For this new graphic boards drivers and new 68060 libraries are required and made available (download: GREX68K_libraryV2_2.lha).

Also new is the graphic board driver for the SIS 6326 VGA card supporting both of the RAM variants of this card. For sound support we are offering drivers for the approved Terratec sound cards PCI 128 and PCI 512. Compatible cards with the chip sets ESS SOLO ONE (PCI 128) as well as Fortem edia 801 (PCI 512) can be used, too. Both of the drivers support use with AHI. All of the drivers will be available for download from tomorrow. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


Digital Almanac III - update announcement
A new update for the Amiga astronomy program "Digital Almanac III" version 4.2 can be expected bevore long. A certain release date was not determined, yet.

New features:
  • Enhanced formula for the moon's brightness.
  • The DA screen now is puclic (public screen).
  • The Bayer/Flamsteed database has been enhanced.
  • Online information of several hundreds of stars!
  • Selection of different Internet sites for constellation descriptions via context menu in the star window.
Bugfixes:
  • Small bug in the accuracy matrix fixed (but did not affect due to low values).
  • URLs in the planet window called wrong Internet sites.
  • When opening a project file on program start (CLI or WB) accidently a screen mode request was done.
If Harald Frank will agree and there will be time enough DA III perhaps will be presented running on the new Amithlon/AmigaXL on the Amiga meeting of the Amiga-Freunde-Pfalz in Mutterstadt, Germany, on 19. Oktober to show the new emulator's performance by an scientific program. But this cannot be guaranteed at this time and cannot be checked before the meeting. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
T-Online Computer


Virus warning for Windows users: New virus "Anthrax-Info" (update)
»According to the US software company Kaspersky Labs a new e-mail worm "Anthrax-Info" appeared on Tuesday abusing the fact that Amerikan's are afraid of anthrax infection these a days, but did not do any damage up to now. «

Complete article see title link (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

Update 18. October 2001:
This link for our English speaking readers to find information about this new worm: www.kaspersky.com (mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: Interview with Rafal Kaczmarczyk (developer of XBaze)
Recently XBaze version 7 was released being a very flexible database with an easy field and display editor. The Amiga Arena talked to the developer Rafal Kaczmarczyk. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Oct.2001
Tao Group


Tao Group establish subsidary in Japan
»Tokyo, Japan, 17th October 2001: UK-based Tao Group today announces the establishment of its new subsidiary, Tao Japan K.K, headquartered in Tokyo. It will be responsible for continuing the growth that Tao's Japanese business has already enjoyed. It will also work closely with both Tao's partners and the Open Contents Platform Association (OCPA) - the open standards body using Tao's 'intent®' software platform as a core component for home and mobile connected appliances.«
Complete article see title link. (ps)

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17.Oct.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


Amiga Future: Homepage is being updated again
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
XBaze


Database: XBaze V7.01
On 14th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7.01 of the database called 'XBaze'. In this version a bug of the popup-menu in the view-editor has been fixed.

Download:
2b_XBaze-7.lha (539 KB) - Full archive
2b_XBaze-7.01-upd.lha (113 KB) - Update of V7
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
WHDLoad


Installer: New packets for WHDLoad (until 16.10.2001)
Games which have been previously made for disks can be now installed to harddrive with the help of WHDLoad. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 16.10.01 new: Synthesis (Underground) done by Psygore
  • 16.10.01 new: Torvak the Warrior (Core Design) done by CFOU!
  • 16.10.01 new: Thunder Jaws (Tengen/Domark) done by CFOU!
  • 16.10.01 new: Side Winder (Arcadia Software) done by CFOU!
  • 16.10.01 new: Scramble Spirits (Grandslam/Teque) done by Bored Seal
  • 16.10.01 improved: Project X (Team 17) automatic load/save highscores
  • 16.10.01 new: Joyride (Phenomena) done by Psygore
  • 16.10.01 new: Peter Beardsley's International Football (Teque/Grandslam) done by Codetapper
  • 16.10.01 fixed: Navy Seals (Ocean) graphics problem fixed
  • 16.10.01 fixed: Jumping Jack Son (Infrogrames) highscores and some gfx fixed
  • 16.10.01 new: Barbarian 2 (Psygnosis/Pandemonium) done by CFOU!
  • 16.10.01 new: Banshee (Core Design) done by JOTD
  • 16.10.01 new: The Last Sun Demo (Ackerlight) done by Psygore
  • 10.10.01 new: Vindicators (Tengen/Domark) done by CFOU!
  • 10.10.01 new: Vigilante (US Gold/Emerald Software) done by CFOU!
  • 09.10.01 improved: Zool (Gremlin) all disk versions supported too
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
SonicPulse


Music: SoundFX News
Stefan Kost writes: "There have not been information for a long time so I want to make up for it. Currently I rewrite a lot of code and I fix bugs. Without it a version 5 would be impossible. There will also be some nice new features." (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Golem


Golem: IBM introduces 1 GHz PowerPC-processor
»Power consumption lowered at 50 percent, efficiency incresed at 30 percent
At the microprocessor forum in California IBM has introduced its previously fastest PowerPC-processor called PowerPC 750FX. It is supossed to have a clock rate up to 1 GHz and for the first time is supoosed to unify copper cable, Silicon-on-Insulator-(SoI-) and low-k-dialectric-technologies in one chip.«
Have a look at the title link for the full article.

Another link to this topic:
Heise: PowerPC G3 with 1 GHz
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Jörg Brenner (ANF)


Lexsite: New update of hardware-website
Today Lexsite hase been updated. The following things have been added:

Description, photos and gallery-pictures of
  • Commodore A1060 Sidecar (XT-emulator for A1000)
  • Kupke Golem HD 3000 (ST-506-controller for Zorro II)
  • Datel Action Replay III A2000 (Freezer)


Photos and gallery-pictures of
  • GVP EGS 28/24 Spectrum (RTG-graphic adapter)
  • Village Tronic Picasso II (RTG-graphic adapter)
  • X-Pert Merlin (RTG-graphic adapter)
  • HK-Computer Vector Connection (interface adapter)
  • RBM IOBlix (interface adapter)


Description of
  • ArMax oMniBus (RTG-graphic adapter)


In addition all extensions which are supported by Linux and/or NetBSD have got a corresponding comment. By the way we are still looking for Amiga magazines from 1987 to 1993 especially from England and USA - we would be pleased if some poeple could give support to us. Generally scans of the according magazines are sufficient. Please contact us before sending it.

Last but not least: Thanks a lot to all which have sent us pictures of extensions! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News


Dave Haynie's Garage Sale
According to Czech Amiga NewsDave Haynie, Chief Technology Officer, Merlancia Industries (formerly working at Commodore), offers several Amiga hardware for sale under the title link. Different prototypes also belong to it: PIOS One-Board, A3000+-Board and Amiga-Gemini (Multiprozessor-Amiga based on A3000). (sd)

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17.Oct.2001
Amiga Inc.


AmigaDE Shop: New products
In the AmigaDE shop two new products can be found called 'BoXiKoN' and 'Solitaire Pulsar'. 'BoXiKoN' is a Tetris-clone and 'Solitaire Pulsar' is a packet of ten different Solitaire-variants. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
H. Ogino (ANF)


Japan Amiga User Group's (JAUG) homepage finished
JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP'S (JAUG) homepage has been finished today. Here you can find everything about Amiga in Japan. "Amiga history in Japan", "Amiga softwares in Japan", "Amiga games in Japan", "Amiga power users now in Japan" as well as "Say it in Japanese", "Japanese culture", etc. On "Event" page JAUG is planning to have event titled "simultanous interpret chat" between Japanese Amiga users and non-Japanese Amiga users. This is the first time project worldwidely. Please visit the homepage and enjoy Japan! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Richard H. Poser II (E-Mail)


Messenger: AmigAIM BETA Version 0.9433
Richard H. Poser has published beta version 0.9433 of the AIM-messenger AmigAIM. AmigAIM is a client for connecting with the America Online Instant-Messenger (AIM-service). It follows an extract of the history from where you can get the changes which have been made:

  • Fixed bug, I hope, having to do with some URLs containing the '&' replacement for '&'
  • Still working on new stuff in internal Alpha...
Download: AmigAIM_BETA.lha (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Jörn-Erik Burkert (E-Mail)


Amiga magazine: Article of issues 9 and 10 online
On the website some readings of the issues 9/2001 and 10/2001 are online. Among other things you can read the full MySQL-course and a workshop for programming sound. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Fun Time World


AMIGA 2001: Ticket advance-booking
From 17th to 18th of November 2001 the AMIGA 2001 will take place in MediaPark 6 in Cologne. From now on until 5th of November 2001 you can order your ticket in advance for this event under http://www.amiga-messe.de/kartenverkauf-d.html. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)


Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD V1.06
The MM CD 1.06 update for registered users of the Mediator Multimedia CD has been made available by ELBOX Computer.

The update includes the new TV card driver version:
  • tv.library ver.1.3
  • TV ver.1.2
Additionally, the driver supports TV backdrop functionality. See more: http://www.elbox.com/news_01_10_16.html.

Other driver updates in the MM CD UP1.06:
  • FastEthernet.device ver.1.1
  • MediatorNET.device ver.2.2
Important:
As the interest of programmers is really high, who would like to prepare graphic interfaces working with our TV drivers, we have decided to make available the appropriate tv.library developer's documentation.

The tv.library documentation is enclosed in the Mediator Multimedia CD UP1.06 in the DEV_TV drawer.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd) (Translation: dr)

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17.Oct.2001
Cyborg (ANF)


Instant Messenger: CIM V1.05 now with MultiUserChat
With the Instant Messenger it is now possible to have an encoded MultiUserChat together with PGP-support of CIM. Since the last version the expected rework of the GUI has been made.

As usual the updates can be found on the Amiga Security page which you can access over the title link. (sd) (Translation: dr)

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16.Oct.2001
ANN


Programming: ARexx- and AWNPipe tutorials
Bruce Steers has released tutorials for ARexx and AWNPipe on his homepage. The ARexx tutorial introduces you to the basics of ARexx. The AWNPipe tutorial describes how to use 'AWNPipe', with which GUIs and other stuff can be created. What makes AWNPipe special is the possibility to use it with any programming language offering read/write operations.

JavaScript is required to dispaly the page. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Oct.2001
Jürgen Lange (ANF)


Amithlon/AmigaXL: Compatibility list and release date
On 15. October 2001 Haage & Partner Computer GmbH have released a compatibility list for Amithlon and Amiga XL for QNX on thier website.

Furthermore it is being announced that the emulator package will start shipping within this week.

There will be an official presentation this weekend on the Pianeta 2001 in Italy. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Oct.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)


Elbox: TV as background
Elbox Computer is pleased to inform that Amiga with the Mediator busboard is from now on the first hardware, in which displaying the actual and moving at full speed real TV broadcasting picture in the backdrop has become possible.

Mediator PCI is now the only PCI busboard for Amiga, whose users may use TV cards. Apart from this fact, Mediator PCI is also a pathfinder for new quality standards in the way PCI TV cards are used in computers.

Displaying the full-quality TV picture with absolutely 100% system performance maintained (irrespective whether you use a turbo card with PPC/68060 or with 68030) is now possible with the special method of storing code for the video capturing processor.

The fast SDRAM/SGRAM memory of graphic cards, to which the TV card sends the digitalised television picture is used in Mediator PCI also to store program for the TV-card video and audio capture processor. This means that none of the operations related to generating the picture requires any operation outside the PCI bus.

Therefore, performance of TV cards is significantly enhanced when compared against other computers with PCI TV cards, in which the video capture processors must take their code from the computer's main memory.

Inventing this method of co-operation between TV cards and graphic cards has become possible due to the effort of our in-house team of programmers, who have written drivers for both graphic and TV cards.

Software for TV cards for Mediator, which now supports as many as 50 of the most popular PCI TV cards, enables a series of different methods of displaying television image.

The basic method is to display the image in the window of the pre-set size from the range of 96x72 to 768x576. Any size of window may be freely scalable at any time. Scaling the TV picture is executed in real time with the PCI graphic card's hardware.

When the TV image is displayed as a backdrop, the user may freely define the colour, which will be automatically replaced by the graphic card with the moving television image.

The enclosed screenshots show television picture samples in Amiga with Mediator PCI.

Software for TV cards in Mediator enables a number of other additional functions, which the TV card may perform.

For example: managing the radio tuner integrated with the card or using the TV card as a scandoubler / flickerfixer for displaying the AGA-generated image in the PCI graphic card screen.

The software to enable operation of any supported TV card in the backdrop mode will be made available today to all the registered users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package as an update, free of any charge.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd)

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15.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark


Virus Help Denmark: VirusExecutor V2.22
There is a new version (2.22) of 'VirusExecutor' available. This version contains the following bugfixes:
  • Fixed bug when renaming VirusExecutor. No more modified error.
  • If you have unknown patches, the patch window pops up twice at startup. Fixed.
  • If you have an unknown patch and then run a program with a known patch, the patch window pops up with the same unknown patches. No need for that. Fixed.
  • Got some complaint about the flashy check box around the clock when checking memory/patches. Fixed.
  • Added "real" name to Shell programs in 'Show tasks'. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for the code.
  • Fixed bug in dos.library LVO-names.
  • Added czech catalog. Thanks to Roman Brychta.
  • Fixed small bug in the install script.
  • Added 'Write to log file'-flag to the preferences.
  • Added an Iconify option to the project menu. See also the preferences if you want to iconify at startup.
  • Fixed Enforcer hit when KickTagPtr was zero. Thanks to Joerg Riemer for finding this hit.
  • Added recog for hidden executable files inside installer scripts.
  • Added hunk structure check of VirusExecutor.
  • Fixed hit in the memory monitor when RAM has no name. Thanks to Harry Sintonen for finding this hit.
  • If the xvs.libray somehow has been disabled, VE will tell you so. Thanks to Zeeball for this tip.
System requirements:
  • AmigaOS V2.04+
  • reqtools.library V38.11+
  • xvs.library V33.13+
  • xfdmaster.library V38.6+


Download: VirusExecutor.lha (298K), Readme (sd) (Translation: sk)

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15.Oct.2001
Housey (ANF)


Music: New OctaMED- and additional music forums
New OctaMED forum at aBSTRaCTaSS as well as many other music production related forums. Please register and give support. We would also like to add more Amiga music related forums if the interest was shown. (sd) (Translation: sk)

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15.Oct.2001
Alex Goedert


Draco: Interest in PPC and Grafikkarte?
Alex Goedert wrote:

Hello!

I am currently making some inquiries about how much you out there are interested in a new fast, high-resolution graphic board and/or a faster CPU-addon-card with a UW-SCSI controller for the DRACO-system.

A hardware developer must have some strong evidences that his developments will be bought after the release. I think that everyone knows that such a development is expensive and time consuming.

I would like to please everyone who is interested in these devices to mail me.

Please do not discuss if it is worth it.

Furthermore the follwing would be a great help:
  • wiring of the DRACO-tower or DRACO-cube
  • Volunteers that make theire DRACO-systems available for hardware-development
  • People able to give some programming aid


Thanks a lot

Alex (sd)

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15.Oct.2001
Martin Blom (Geekgadgets-ML)


Compiler: gcc-Crosscompiler für AmigaOS und MorphOS (update)
Martin Blom has released an initial version of a cross development suite for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC) running on Linux and created under RedHat Linux 7.1, but should also run on other Linux distributions. Beside of the compiler tools like 'fd2inline' and 'textinfo' are also contained. The adapted source codes are said to be released after about one week.

The several packets and more information are available by following the title link.

Update 18. October 2001
Displaced pior text due to that was not matching the content of the German message. (mj) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News


Project for a better datatypes system
Martin Machiels is planning a project to develop an enhanced datatypes system. Beside of other things the current one misses streaming support. Furthermore other features are missing in the library as well as in Multiview.

Beside of the enhancements to the basic system new datatypes (read and write) for currently not supported formats as well as for new formats like MPEG-4 shall be developed, too.

The new system should be backwards compatible and run on AmigaOS V3.x, V4.x, MorphOS, AROS, and Amithlon. The datatypes.library of the AROS project might be a starting point.

Regarding organization Machiels has a project at Sourceforge in mind.

People interested to participate in this project might contact Martin Machiels via e-mail: darklite@beer.com. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Virus Help Denmark:


Virus Help Denmark: xvs.Library V33.35
On 12. October 2001 Jan Erik Olausen has released version 33.35 of the virus checker library 'xvs'. Recognition of the Bobek2 virus installer from the 'CoolBall.lha' archive was added.

The xvs.library contains the recognition code to remove viruses previously part of VirusZ. The library was developed by George Hörmann and currently Jan Erik Olausen cares for it.

Download: xvslibrary.lha (58K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
AmigaArt


Magazine: Obligement #29
Issue #29 of the French online magazine 'Obligement' is available for download.

This issue contains current Amiga news, interviews with Richard Fhager (author of 'BabeAnoid'), and Jean-Jacques Boulet (leader of the 'Amiga Center'), a report about the 'Alchimie Meeting 2001', tests of Photogenics 5 and the Repulse sound card, an article about ADSL, and many other articles more.

This magazine utilizes a special program to display the texts which runs on Amigas with AGA or graphics board.

Download: obligement29.lha (888K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Czech Amiga News


ExoticA: SID collection updated and new logo
On 13. October 2001 the ExoticA website was updated. This site deals with the musical capabilities and the history of the Amiga.

ExoticA's Mirror, the 'High Voltage SID Collection' was updated to version 43. This collection now contains 16.986 pieces of C64-music.

Per HTML-Interface these are available for download in a big tar.gzip archive (HVSC.tar.gz).

What has changed in this archive can be taken from the announcement text. Detailed information about the changes are part of the update-logs in the DOCUMENTS directory.

There is a new logo by Yon Iris on the start page of ExoticA, which strongly differs in style from the previous one.

If other artists also would like to see their works on this start page please, contact buzz for further information. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


Amiga Arena: 'MUIVideo' V2.40 full version
In cooperation with Christoph Kirsch the Amiga Arena makes possible the full version of MUIVideo v2.40.

With MUIVideo you can comfortably manage video collections. MUIVideo offers a database system allowing various entries for each dataset. Beside of movie title, original title, list of characters, etc., it is also possible to rate the movies.

MUIVideo has very good printing features and an easy to use GUI. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Richard Kapp (ANF)


NARR Website: New Downloads and G4C-Tutorial
Richard Kapp wrote:
On my NARR website again some things have happened:

Beside of some new sections and an enhanced design the download section also was updated. Among other stuff there you will find a new image-set for Tinymeter, a logo for SimpleFind, an much more.

At the wallpaper section now you will find all of the CoolOS (several times part of the Aminet charts and ratings) and other background pictures for your Workbench.

Also new is a short (German) review of the easy to learn scripting language Gui4Cli (short: G4C) with which you easily can create nice GUIs and add functions to them.

Have fun while browsing and reading! (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


Amiga-Society: New units in Tarnblau (masking blue), graphics competition
Again there are new units in Tarnblau (masking blue) at the Schlachtfeld area.

The upcoming graphics competition will start on 21. October and last thru the end of this year. There will be detailed information during this week.

The software area also was updated. There are some new entries and more to come during this day. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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14.Oct.2001
Inutilis News (E-Mail)


Adventure-Engine: Inga V0.7/3
Now the update of the adventure engine 'Inga' is available for download on the website. This update contains the engine in version 0.7/3 with the following innovations:
  • The menu screen (quit game, save / load game, ....).
  • A plug-in-system for sound and music (no plug-ins available yet).
  • Small bugfixes with graphics output (no more blinking text scraps any more).
Inga is an engine for graphic adventures in the style of Monkey Island 3. The developer pack is available from the vendors. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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