amiga-news.de - Latest Amiga News

Amiga events
13.-15.06.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany)
01.-02.08.25 • Amiga/040 • Mountain View (USA)
11.-14.09.25 • Classic Computing 2025 • Hof (Germany)
17.-19.10.25 • Amiga40 • Mönchengladbach (Germany)
14.-16.11.25 • Flashback-Symposium #02 • Jößnitz (Germany)

`13.Oct.2001` Matthias Münch (ANF)	Amiga Club Guide: PHP system and new clubs The switching to the PHP system has been finished which eases the maintenance of the pages. Besides that the navigation through the pages has been improved and more clubs were added. (sd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 13. Oct. 2001, 20:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Oct.2001` Pro-Linux (ANF)	WWW browser: Mozilla V0.9.5 for Linux, MacOS, Windows Version 0.9.5 of the WWW browser 'Mozilla' has been released. New in version 0.9.5 are among other things index card support (like in Opera) and a plugin for 'gesture recognition'. For now there are no binary packages for Linux PPC, only for Linux x86, Windows and MacOS. (sd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 13. Oct. 2001, 18:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Oct.2001` Amiga Flame	Think game: 'Last In Line' by Kaliko Kaliko is a new founded developer team that is working on several games, especially for AmigaDE and the next generation of the Amiga computers as well as for Amiga classic, Windows, Linux and other platforms. Their first game 'Last In Line' will be released for AmigaDE compatible PDAs. This is a think game for one or two players with tactical characteristics and a strong computer opponent. Kaliko's looking for talented people for the development of games. Contact address: info@kaliko.net. With this has Amiga Flame updated the list of the Amiga PDA games, too. (sd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 13. Oct. 2001, 18:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`13.Oct.2001` see message	Amiga meeting Bad Bramstedt: Webcam, DCE, Amithlon Some new information abot the Amiga meeting taking place right now in Bad Bramstedt: The webcam there is now working. Going to www.amigameeting.de automatically opens a small popup window showing a new picture every minute. Important for AWeb users: switch off the function 'suppress banner window' in the browser settings/'1 options' as it won't work otherwise. Additionally will more pictures of the meeting be released on the homepage. Mister Dellert from DCE arrived at around 12.15 h and just puts up two computers with G-REX PCI board. People here are already eager about the things that will be shown on these systems later. There's also an interview with Mr. Dellert planned later that will be released, too. Torsten Gruner, Thorsten Hansen and Jörn Plewka from KATO Development are at the meeting and show Amithlon live. The interested user may take a picture of the power and the possibilities of the AmigaOS under Amithlon on up-to-date PC hardware. The Amithlon co-developer Thorsten Hansen, from KATO, will introduce his own developing system and is fond on answering questions by interested users. People who want to visit the meeting taking place until Sunday midday are very welcome. Sources: Sven Scheele, AmigaClub Schleswig-Holstein (email) Thorsten Mampel, 1. chairman Amiga-Club Hamburg e.V.(email) Harald Frank, VMC (email) (sd) (Translation: wk) [News message: 13. Oct. 2001, 15:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Oct.2001` Don Cox (Open Amiga-ML)	OSNews.com: Interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen on 'SHEEP' On October 12th 2001 an English interview with Wouter van Oortmerssen (Amiga E, SHEEP) on the programming language 'SHEEP' was published on OSNews.com. He was interviewed by Eugenia Loli-Queru. Oortmerssen has implemented more than 30 smaller and larger programming languages since 1987 with different focus. Among those counts for example 'Amiga E'. Currently he's working for Amiga Inc. on the language 'SHEEP'. In the interview he talks about the abilities of this language. (sd) (Translation: rh) [News message: 12. Oct. 2001, 22:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Oct.2001` Virus Help Denmark	Virus Help Denmark: Safe V17.3 On October 10th 2001 Virus Help Denmark released version 17.3 of the virus detector 'Safe' by Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' recognizes viruses in the computer's RAM and removes them if this is possible. Compared to version 17.1 the following has changed: small fixes added WatchDog 1.1 with very unknown bug fixed and improved security. added new versions of CHECK and COMP, now they support <CTRL>+C, so any wrong operation can be easily interrupted added warning: 'Safe' runs on AmigaOS V2.04 and above and requires the xvs.library. Download: Safe.lha (25K), Readme (sd) (Translation: rh) [News message: 12. Oct. 2001, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Oct.2001` amiga.org	Prometheus: prm-rtl8029 V0.24, NetMeter V1.1 Version 0.24 of the ethernet Sana-II driver 'prm-rt18029' and version 1.1 of the network monitor 'NetMeter' were released on the 'Prometheus support page'. The new version of the prm-rtl8029 driver is a bit faster (440 kB/s) and some small bugs were fixed. NetMeter has tooltypes for the window position added and the 'Mediator protection' removed. This network monitor works with a broad range of SANA-II drivers including the Amithlon NE2000 driver. With the Prometheus board version 0.24 of prm-rt18029 is required. Prometheus is a Zorro III PCI bridge for Amiga computers which is produced by Matay. Download: prm-rtl8029.lha (13K) netmeter.lha (22K) (sd) (Translation: rh) [News message: 12. Oct. 2001, 01:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`12.Oct.2001` Michael Rupp (ANF)	Workbench: TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation V0.8 TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is a pure JavaScript simulation of the Amiga Workbench 3.x for Win32 Internet Explorer 5 and higher. New in this version 0.8 are the following features: Moving of icons into and out of windows Scrolling of the visible window contents with the arrow symbols Language choice through preferences program English localization (is now the default) Workbench messages in the title bar, e.g. if you want to drag a drawer into its own window Support of the menu items 'Last Message' and 'Open Parent' Simulation of the original cycle gadget (incl. shift-click) for easier choice of pattern and language Smaller bugfixes and improvements here and there (sd) (Translation: rh) [News message: 12. Oct. 2001, 00:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Amiga-Society: Update of Schlachtfeld Horst Diebel wrote: At the Schlachtfeld area there are to see some units in 'TarnBlau' (masking blue) by Edgar Leidig (under "Instruktionen"). This masking colour was already determined for one party in Schlachtfeld Phase 2. Moreover we would like to announce a graphics competition about the subject Schlachtfeld. More to learn about after a few days. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 21:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` ANN	BBS: DLG Pro BBS reminder site Jeff Grimmett has put online on his DSL homepage a website DLG 'Memorial' about the BBS system (mailbox) of same denominator. This site contains the final DLG beta version including source code from the time when development was stopped. Before long additionally there will be available a commented source code as well as - if there will be enough time - a postscript version of the manual. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 20:56] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` amiga.org	AROS: IBM-PC/native on one disk from 10. Oct. 2001 On 10. October 2001 Matt Parsons has released a new version of AROS for IBM compatible PCs. Interested people can download and test it and report bugs and problems to Matt Parsons. This new version loads faster and contains many small demo programs for testing and playing around with. At the time there is no desktop, but is to come. Furthermore there will be some utility disks with a bundle of Aminet programs for testing. AROS is an open source project to implement a portable AmigaOS v3.1 compatible OS. Download: AROS-ibmpc-bin.zip (800K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 20:55] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` Norman Thiel (ANF)	Library: vapor_toolkit V15.11 On 7. October 2001 version 15.11 of the 'vapor_toolkit' library was released. The vapor_toolkit.library is a library of support functions which are used by most Vapor applications and thus can be shared to reduce individual application code size. Changes since version 15.8: more error checking in the library initialization (Zapek) optimized memory usage for some functions (Zapek) added "html" as built-in file extension (Zapek) rewrote MIME handling functions. Much faster and more efficient (Zapek) fixed a potential crash from VAT's ARexx handler (Zapek) fixed the saving path of MIME entries not being always set :o) (Zapek) fixed the ARexx handler task crashing when the library was flushed then reloaded again (Zapek) fixed MIME extensions list which would only add the first one of each mimetype :o) (Zapek) fixed screwup in the class dir handling :o) (Zapek) Download: vapor_toolkit_1511.lzx (54K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 18:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` Matthias Münch (ANF)	Event: Amiga Inside News Matthias Münch wrote: The countdown was started for the three days 'Amiga Inside' party from 19th to 21st October in Hirsau (near Calw), Germany and some seats are still to take. Thanks to the noble support by KDH Datentechnik we are now able to reduce the admission charge to 5DM. Furthermore in all foresight VMC/Harald Frank will attend the party and present the Amithlon project, which sure might be interesting so many people. Unfortunately DCE did not agree with us firmly until now and thus we don't expect current DCE products to be presented. More information under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 16:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` Alexander Kurtz (ANF)	Virus Alarm: CoolBall.lha The file 'pix/back/CoolBall.lha' in Aminet was infected with the Bobek-2 virus in the installer. This virus can be removed using util/virus/VirusExecutor.lha. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 16:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`11.Oct.2001` DCE (ANF)	PCI: World premiere USB for GREX DCE Computer Service and Vision Factory Development are proud to be able to fulfil a long term wish of the Amiga users, at last. Together with the GREX-PCI interface for the first time it is possible to use USB devices with the Amiga. On Saturday, 13th October for the first time we will present the functionality of the interface in our demo machine to the visitors of the Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt (Germany), which will be a world premiere. On our website regular we will keep you informed about other news. Moreover we will establish a special USB page within the next days. You will be able to find this page under www.dcecom.de and www.vgr.com/g-rex. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 11. Oct. 2001, 00:34] [Comments: 1 - 15. Oct. 2001, 21:07] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` Czech Amiga News	Database: XBaze V7 On 7th of October 2001 Rafal Kaczmarczyk has published version 7 of the database 'XBaze'. The English documentation, some bugfixes and some minor improvements have been added. You can read the changes at the download-site. The program offers an easy to use editor for the arrays of the data record and of the layout (drag&drop). You can send bug reports and proposals to the following address: rav@nowydwor.wroc.pl Download: 2b_XBaze-7.lha (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 20:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` ANN	Magazine: Amiga Power #XV Issue 15 of the French Amiga-magazine called 'Amiga Power' has been published. This issue contains tests of iFusion, Prometheus and ScanFx 3.0. Besides this it also contains hints to the configuration of Shogo and much more. You can order the magazine over the title link. The magazine is published by the French Amiga-association 'AFLE'. (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 20:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` William Bidgood (Open Amiga-ML)	AmigaDE: Tutorial-Site of William Bidgood William Bidgood has created a tutorial-site to the topic of AmigaDE. Presently it contains English tutorials to VP-assembler and Java. The VP-assembler tutorials give a basic introduction to the elements of the language. The Java tutorial contains hints to Java under AmigaDE. All those who find mistakes or problems in the texts please contact William Bidgood. (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 18:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` Aaron Digulla (AROS-Announce-ML)	AROS: Status report (MorphOS, Amithlon, H&P, Amiga) On the 9th of October 2001 Aaron Digulla, AROS, has published the following status report of AROS (which is an open source project for implementing of a portable, AmigaOS-compatible operating system) on the AROS-announce-mailinglist: «Hello, A long time since the last update but I can proudly reply that I keep the web site uptodate, now :-) Here is a short roundup what has happened since the last update: Parts of AROS are used in the MorphOS product. MorphOS gets some shared libraries which they need and we get patches to make Amiga software work :-) Two members of the MorphOS team, namely Nicholai Benalal and Emmanuel Lesueur have CVS write access and they have started to submit patches. All in all, a very good deal on both sides :-) Amithlon (Harald Frank) has also asked if they can use our sources and we gave them the same deal that MorphOS got. Still, no patches on this side. As I see it, Harald and Bernie are drowning in work :-) Good luck to them ! Neither H&P nor Amiga have asked to use our source in any of their products. I expect them to know what they do. The times when I tried to "enlighten" others are in the past :-) Good luck to them, also. On the AROS side, I can say that we have achieved a lot ! At the time of writing, the AROS CVS repository is 66MB and the contributed sources are 90MB. Commits are very frequent (in the last few weeks, there was almost no day when no one committed some of their work), so AROS is more healthy than ever. And the range of software which we have is also quite impressive: We have ported the version of DOpus which you can find on Aminet (yeah, that's old). We have Radium (http://www.notam.uio.no/~kjetism/radium/), a note editor which can also play the songs you edit with it. We have a CDROM driver, the editor XDME (which was written by me) was ported last Sunday in about 8h of work (mostly fixing ghastly code which DICE did compile for reasons unbeknownst to me ;-) and Python (http://www.python.org/), the first programming language for AROS. We also have a couple of prefs programs (Font, Locale, ReqTools, Serial) now. While AROS still lacks a lot of things and a lot of code is, well, doing only a fraction of what the original AmigaOS can do, it's still impressive to see how far we did get and that gives me a very good feeling what I look into the future. AROS Native/x86 is getting more and more stable and when a bug in the trackdisk.device is fixed (it's very slow) and a feature is implemented (it doesn't support the diskchange signal, yet, so you cannot run the demos on the contrib floppy disks), you won't only be able to boot into an AmigaOS-like system on your PC but you will at least be able to edit some prefs, save them to disk and write some texts with XDME. Our now home might lack fancy colors and designer chairs but it certainly begins to feel like Amiga :-) Have fun !» (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 17:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` Lionel Thillot (ANF)	Event: French website to AMIGA 2001 For people who speak the French language and who are going to attend the AMIGA 2001 which will take place on the 17th and 18th of November in 2001 a website has been created. This site offers the possibility of contacting each other in order to meet at the fair. You can get further information under http://www.woa.amedia-software.com/. (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 17:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` Alexander Kurtz (ANF)	amiNET.GUI also accessable under www.aminet-gui.net From today on you can access amiNET.GUI under the url www.aminet-gui.net, too. This url already refers to the new (beta-) version of amiNET.GUI. Shortly the url www.aminet-gui.de will also refer to the new version. (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 17:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`10.Oct.2001` Martin Bertelsmann in dcsau (ANF)	A600/A1200: PCMCIA - Compatibility list Martin Bertelsmann guides an AmigaOS-/Linux-/NetBSD-compatibility list of the PCMCIA-cards in Amiga 600 / Amiga 1200 under the title link. He asks for further test reports. (sd) (Translation: dr) [News message: 10. Oct. 2001, 17:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Czech Amiga News	Game: Test of Payback (PPC) at Amiga Extreme Amiga Extreme have already reviewed Payback, but they thought it was appropriate to post a short review for the PPC and Warp3D version of Payback. (sd) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 22:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Czech Amiga News	AROS: Floppies (FAQ), XDME, Python, FPU-Bug Aron Digulla extended the AROS-FAQ with entries about the use of floppy drives in UAE and AROS as well information about the IRC channell for AROS. Furthermore he has started to port the editor 'XDME' which was almost finished. 'XDME' gets compiled and linked successfully - but crashes after it was launched. This would be fixed soon. Thanks to Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen Radium is now playing. Adam Chodorowski corrected the installation of Python (programming language). The runtime modules were not copied. Georg Steger corrected the long existing FPU bug. The FPU wasn't initialized correctly and task switching between FPU and non-FPU tasks could crash AROS. There also was a certain error in the routine for removing a task. Steger added the missing character modes in graphics.hidd. The private field 'initialfont' of the IntWindow structure was removed (that's what IFont in the Window structure is for). Notification between slider and list-view gadget is more secure now. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 22:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)	Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD Update V1.05 Elbox Computer has made available the MM CD 1.05 update for registered Mediator Multimedia CD users. The update includes: THE NEW DRIVER: FastEthernet.device It is the first time when Amiga users may use the driver, which enables using 100Mb/s network cards. The FastEthernet driver enables using Fast Ethernet 100/10Mbps cards based on RTL8139 chipsets in MEDIATOR PCI busboards. Driver updates: TV tuner drivers ver.1.2 Voodoo 4/5 drivers ver.4.8 pci.library ver.4.2 Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department (sd) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 20:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (ANF)	Elbox: Mediator Update V2.5 und Warp3D Elbox Computer is happy to announce release of the long-awaited Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI busboards. The Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator support both modes of pci.library operation: MMU and NO_MMU. In the NO_MMU mode, Warp3D supports the PPC and 68k processors. In the MMU mode, Warp3D supports only the 68k processor. The Warp3D drawer contains full release of the Warp3D V4 for Mediator excluding the DEMO drawer. The DEMO drawer is enclosed in the Mediator Multimedia CD and at: http://www.elbox.com/download/Warp3D_V4_demo.lha The following files, apart from the Warp3D, are included in MediatorUP25.lha: pci.library ver.4.2 NEW Voodoo.card ver.2.7 NEW Mariusz Wloczysiak ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department contact: press@elbox.com (sd) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 20:43] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Amiga.org (ANF)	OS-News.com: Tao-Interview At OSNews.com an interesting interview about Amiga's role in their partnership with Tao can be found. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 19:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS project update Amiga Arena - Special Price Project Update Users of AmiATLAS version 5 owning at least five additional maps will receive version 6 at the special price of 79DM (+ shipping and handling), if they send in the original disks and Key disk. AmiATLAS6 is estimated to be shipping from 15. November 2001. The preoder form can be found at the 'Aktionen' section. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 19:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Zoltan Hunt (Amiga Open-ML)	Amiga: Interview about rumours with Bill McEwen On 8. October 2001 at 'Temple of Technology' an interview by Vidar with Bill McEwen, Amiga Inc., was published. McEween talks about several rumours. A short overview of what he said: «We have more money today, than we had 6 months ago, and we will have more money by the end of the month, than we had since we started the company.» The romours about and end of AmigaOS 4 are false. The AmigaDE update is being tested and will be released soon. The original interview is available under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 18:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Richard de Rivaz (ANF)	Home-Server: INET DIAL V3.847 Version 3.847 of the home server 'INET DIAL' was released. This version now supports Voyager v3.3.177, AWeb, and IBrowse. INET DIAL is a home server for the AmigaOS. It supports X-10-Control, automatic upload, and automatic e-mail download, access to your own computer via network as well as login in to distend machines using 'direct dial' or the Internet. More information and screenshots are available under the title link. Download: inet_dial.lha (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 18:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`09.Oct.2001` Mario Cattaneo (ANF)	Utility: Magic Menu V2.31 Beta On 9. October 2001 beta version 2.31 of 'Magic Menu' was released. This might be the last version by Olaf Barthel who continued Martin Korndöfer's project and now is wanting a successor. This archiv only contains the most required stuff: binaries and the guide. Download: MagicMenu_beta.lha (115K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 09. Oct. 2001, 15:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Oct.2001` CAPS-Team (ANF)	CAPS - The 'Classic Amiga Preservation Society' There is a new project to collect original disks of Amiga games called CAPS. These disks will be copied, including the copy protection, to a new memory device. It can also be used to restore destroyed original disks. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 08. Oct. 2001, 23:41] [Comments: 2 - 13. Jun. 2002, 08:14] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Oct.2001` Petra Struck	Holidays: 09. - 16. October 2001 (update) Due to the fact that I will be on holidays for the next week I please you to mail your news to Sven Drieling sd@amiga-news.de or insert them directly into the ANF. News mailed to me will not be published during my holidays. Update 11. October 2001: The e-mail address sd@amiga-news.de dosn't work properly a the time being. An alternative address to contact Sven Drieling is indy@olis.north.de. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 08. Oct. 2001, 18:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Oct.2001` DCE	DCE: GRex 4000 D production started The production of the GRex 4000D devices has started. DCE updated theire website and published a small picture series. Furthermore many details were added to the product description. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 08. Oct. 2001, 17:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Oct.2001` CUCUG	CUCUG: Status Register September 2001 The Status Register is the monthly newsletter of the Champaign-Urbana Computer User Group. It deals with topical and important news about Amiga, Macintosh, the PC and the whole computer-industry. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 08. Oct. 2001, 17:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Oct.2001` Bernd Lachner (ANF)	News about the Sharp SL-5000 PDA There is an article at the title link about the new Sharp-PDA. Informations about the new PDA by Sharp is also available here. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 08. Oct. 2001, 13:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Oct.2001` NetBSD (ANF)	Unix-command (NetBSD) "file" recognizes Amiga pictograms The NetBSD version (NetBSD-current) of the Unix-command 'file' is now able to recognize Workbench-pictograms (.info-files). This feature is available for all platforms supported by NetBSD. Furthermore the maintainer of the file-distribution for Unix Christos Zoulas was informed. That means that this feature will soon be available for other Unix-versions, too. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 08. Oct. 2001, 12:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`08.Oct.2001` Amiga.org	GUI for MP3-Player: mp3Play Version 2.0 Carl Svensson wrote a simple GUI for the MPEGA-library. Download. mp3Play.lha (13 KB) - Readme (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 08. Oct. 2001, 11:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2001` V3Portal	WWW-Browser: Voyager V3.3.117 beta Vapor released beta version 3.3.117 of the WWW browser 'Voyager' for AmigaOS (68k) and MorphOS (PPC) this time being a full archive including all required modules, libraries, and the installer script. If you're running MorphOS the AmigaOS version must be installed first. Then the MorphOS archive can be installed. The MorphOS contains a description of this. This beta version will run in demo mode without a keyfile. All changes since version 3.3.104 can be taken from the readme file. Download: v3_3_beta117_amigaos.lzx (992K), Readme v3_3_beta117_morphos.lzx (521K) Also there are several mirrors at the V³-Portal. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 07. Oct. 2001, 23:42] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2001` Stefan Blixth (ANF)	www.OnyxSoft.nu not available for some time Due to a problem with the Internet provider the normal domain 'www.onyxsoft.nu' of OnyxSoft (Cathedral) will not be accessible for some time. To fix this problem a site mirror was established available at http://onyxsoft.dhs.org/. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 07. Oct. 2001, 23:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2001` Olaf Köbnik	Amiga Arena: AmiATLAS, Bonds Amiga Arena - Special Price Project In cooperation with the AmiATLAS development team the Amiga Arena make possible a special price for AmiATLAS 6. Until and including 20. October 2001 you can preorder AmiATLAS 6 at the special price of only 99,- DM stead of 109,- DM at the Amiga Arena. Registering via the Amiga Arena can be done by filling in the survey form at the 'Aktionen' area . Note: Owners of AmiATLAS 5 might have even cheaper update possibilities since negotiations were not finished, yet. AmiATLAS - The Story continues When the Amiga Arena made possible version 2.0 to be released for free further development of AmiATLAS was not really sure to be done. Thanks to good cooperation of Adreas R. (Innovative Software Solutions) and the Amiga Arena it was possible to find Gerd F. to take the task of further development of AmiATLAS The more I'm happy about the AmiATLAS development team to able to present version 6 before long. By this I would like to make you aware that WE (developers, users meaning Amiga users!) with a bit personal initiative are able to move many a things. Feedback of any kind is very important to all developers. This issue should not be underestimated. The Amiga Arena wishes the AmiATLAs development team much success and hopes that the users will take this project. Olaf K. - Amiga Arena Amiga Arena - Special Price The special price for Bonds is still valid thru 31. October 2001. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 07. Oct. 2001, 19:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2001` AmigaArt	bplan: Pegasos - 1Q02 Sinan Gurkan, of AmigaArt collected information from the '"party on:-)" (R.S.)'-thread at ann: Q1 2002 is the planned release date for Pegasos EndUser boards. MorphOS Team has a contract from Amiga Inc. since May 2001, but they don`t want to sign it at the moment. MorphOS Team thinks that "AmigaXL/Amithlon for x86, AROS, MorphOS for PPC" are the choices for 2002 and beyond. There are more interesting postings in this thread with more than 180 comments (ca. 330K). (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 07. Oct. 2001, 19:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2001` Fun Time World	MP3: AMPlifier V2.33 On 6. October 2001 kato has released version 2.33 of the MP3 player 'AMPlifier'. Now the player also can be used under AmigaOS3.0/3.1 with the new functions, again. Instead of the ReAction classes AMPlifier 2.33 requires the current ClassAct library to run under AmigaOS3.0/3.1. Download: amplifier233.lha (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 07. Oct. 2001, 19:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Amiga-Society: Little Book of Amiga Software, Schlachtfeld The pages of the Amiga-Society were updated. Several updates to the Little Book of Amiga Software. Schlachtfeld: Casino established (with password only); third alpha version. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 07. Oct. 2001, 16:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`07.Oct.2001` Geoff Milnes (E-Mail)	Alt-WoA 2001: Report about the Amithlon presentation Geoff Milnes published a report about the Amithlon presentation by Bill Hoggett on 1. October 2001 in Blackpool, UK. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 07. Oct. 2001, 16:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Carsten Schröder (ANF)	Magazine: AMIGA aktuell 10/2001 released The October issue of AMIGA aktuell contains among other things an up-to-the-minute interview with AMIGA president Bill McEwen, many information regarding the Amiga emulators AmigaXL and Amithlon, including a preview and several comments, a final word titled »Is the PowerPC nearing its end?«, a review of the IDE-SCSI adapter »HighPerTEC SCSIDE-BR2«, the first part of a workshop about shared filesystems, a preview of the space game »Descent: Freespace«, and much more. AMIGA aktuell 10/2001 can be read online on our website or be downloaded in HTMl or AmigaGuide format. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 17:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Dirk Baeyens	Event: Amiga 2001 - website now online The website of the Amiga 2001, that will be held on 17. and 18. November 2001 in Cologne in the Mediapark 6 (KOMED), is now online under amiga-messe.de (title link). The complete exhibitors list will follow soon. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 17:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)	Elbox: Warp3D running on Voodoo3, 4 and 5 in Mediator Elbox Computer is humbly informing all the Amiga fans that Warp3D Voodoo drivers for Mediator PCI busboards are on the release now. Warp3D drivers prepared by Hyperion Entertainment for Mediator PCI busboards work flawlessly on PPC & 68k processors with the following graphic cards: - Voodoo3 2000/3000, - Voodoo4 4500, - Voodoo5 5500. Warp3D Voodoo drivers are now included in the software package bundled with all the Mediator PCI busboards. For all the registered users of Mediator PCI busboards Warp3D Voodoo drivers are available free of charge directly and exclusively from Elbox Computer. Update: Because of the different comments we have contacted Hyperion and asked for an official statement that was sent to us just now by Hans-Jörg Frieden via email. Here the official comment of the Warp3D team: First some facts: No member of the Warp3D team owns a Voodoo 4/5. We don't have any documentation about it. There were never talks about support for Voodoo 4/5. The drivers in their current form, no matter whether for Prometheus, G-REX or Mediator, was designed for a Voodoo3/Avenger and are functionally identical. In general it can't be excluded that the Avenger driver works with other chips of the Voodoo family. This includes the Banshee as well as the Napalm (VSA-100 of the V4/5). But it is out of question to take on support or guarantee for the operation in any way. Should it really work (that couldn't be tested by now) then it is pure chance. And it doesn't need to work with all existing boards or revisions of the chips. Should it come out that the drivers really work with the Napalm chips it will probably count the same for the Prometheus as well as the G-REX busboards. But: neither Hyperion Entertainment nor the Warp3D team can guarantee in any way the operating of the drivers with any Napalm based graphics board. As far as we are concerned we do only deliver support for Voodoo 3. Ciao, Hans-Joerg Frieden Senior Software Developer, Hyperion Entertainment Mail: Hans-JoergF@hyperion-software.de Web: http://www.hyperion-entertainment.com (ps) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 13:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Michael Burkhard (email)	Michael Burkhardt: Farewell to Hof Michael Burkhardt, known to many Amiga users by his company IOM Messefilme and the Amiga controlled video wall on exhibitions, wrote: » Dear friends, now it is official: I change from my lackluster autonomy to an employment. Already on Monday I'll move to Berlin 300 km from here, take a furnished apartment and work for the D.A.V.I.D. GmbH from Tuesday on. This decision was a hard step for me and required a great effort. Especially the last months when a management consultant was helpfully by my side showed that it would be much better to live and work in a real Media town. But to move my company would never have been to put through. I never would have taken this enormous risk. The more happy I was to have found a job now in the media industry. At the D.A.V.I.D. GmbH I'll ensure as project engineer planning, technical support, and network installations for radio stations. This software house is specialized in applications for radio broadcasting. More details about the company can be found at www.david-gmbh.de. I would like to thank all those who have helped me in my period of autonomy. Of course the company IOM will continue to exist, but I personally won't have the chance to deal with the management as my new job requires 100% of my time. Particularly during the beginning it will become very stressful and it likely will be hard to contact me. Of course my e-mail address, my mobile phone number (0171-3296371), and my ICQ will remain the same, but surely I won't be able to answer immediately in the beginning, however. In any case thanks to all people who always supported me in continuing my company. Of course I'm at your disposal for questions during this weekend. Best regards, Michael Burkhardt Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Medientechnik IOM Film- und Videoproduktion, Hof/Germany D-95030 Hof/Saale * Kornhausacker 56 Phone Contact: +49-9281-767102 Fax Contact: +49-9281-767103 Web Contact: http://www.messefilme.de Email: info@messefilme.de ICQ: 40465741« (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 13:16] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Cyborg (ANF)	Instant Messenger: CIM Update for IP-NAT Version 1.04ext CIM now also works when using an IP-NAT router. Besides that many GUI improvements had been done. Data transfer is now possible. CIM is a messaging utility developed by Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz on the basis of the small ICMP demo on the ASP (Amiga Security Page). PGP is already integrated. MrMarco (www.highantdev.de) has kindly made 'Traffic' available on his server. With this everything for a network similar to ICQ is given. Everybody who wants can log in. The program has been tested on several Amigas and runs stable. The installation is extremly easy, so no installation script is needed. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 13:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Chip	Chip: Exclusive: Radeon 8500 beats GeForce3 Ti/500 »ATI's Radeon 8500 is the high end competitor to Nvidia's GeForce3 Titanium 500. With a chip clock of 275 MHz and a memory clock of effective 550 MHz it offers powerful arguments.« Full article (German) see title link. (cm) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 12:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Andre Geisler (ANF)	Game: Payback PPC/W3D available Payback PPC and the Warp3D version for 68k and PPC is available at Apex Designs since today. In Payback the player is taking over the role of a young fleeing driver and is trying to become a big gangster boss. A new 68k version has been released, too. The following new features have been added: PowerPC support Warp3D support Gouraud shading Rotating 3D mode You can now add custom textures to user maps Map preview added to rampage and multiplayer setup screens Fonts and in-game images are automatically scaled up at resolutions of 640x400 and above Finnish and Dutch language support Lots of minor bug fixes (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 12:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Gerrit Timmermann (ANF)	Mailbox: Stardate-bbs temporarily not accessible via Internet Because of massive DSL problems is the Stardate bbs (Amiga mailbox for more than 10 years) for the time being not accessible via Internet. All Pollboxes/Points may please move over to the modem/ISDN dial in. The Telekom is working on the problem. The popular Dynamite server stardate.2y.net is affected by this, too. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 12:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Jürgen A. Theiner (ANF)	playamiga.de: new column The October is here. As in every new month we have a new column, "Quo Vadis, Amiga?". In the charts there have been not many changes as the participation last month was relatively weak. Please participate as you have in the beginning. THANK YOU. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 01:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`06.Oct.2001` Kilian Servais (ANF)	Disk magazine: NoCover issue 91 released As already announced last month many changes had taken place at APC & TCP. So is the NC, that of course continues to be issued at the beginning of the month, from now on available free of charge and the membership at the APC & TCP is now free of charge, too. People who want to get the NC sent on a regular basis via email just send an email to kilian@apc-tcp.de. Of course will the NC from now on be uploaded onto the Aminet (docs/mags), so that the interested ones can download the latest issue from there, too. At the moment we're looking for users who want to collaborate on the NC - we're always pleased about articles that can be submitted not only via email but also via snailmail (Kilian Servais, Feldkampstr.78, 44625 Herne). The NC #92 will, by the way, be released on the Aminet within the next 48 hours resp. can be ordered via email. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 06. Oct. 2001, 01:06] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` Thomas Steiding (e-mail)	e.p.i.c. interactive ports the Earth 2150 series to Mac and MorphOS! e.p.i.c. interactive entertainment has signed a contract with Zuxxez Entertainment (http://www.zuxxez.com) to bring 3D RTS series Earth 2150 to the Macintosh. EARTH 2150: ESCAPE FROM THE BLUE PLANET will lead the way and should be available for Mac gamers this winter. Sequels EARTH 2150: THE MOON PROJECT and EARTH 2150: LOST SOULS will follow at a later date. More information on EARTH 2150 can be found in the projects section. A movie trailer will soon be available. Additional information on EARTH 2150 can also be found on the official Earth 2150 homepage. A version for Pegasos/MorphOS will follow! (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 14:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` László Török	PalMooVId version 1.2 (demo) - AVI player for PalmOS If you want to expand your Palm handheld with an AVI player you'll find a demo version of PalMooVId at the title link. The program was written by László Török, known to many Amiga users from his AVI player for Amiga. The program will be shareware. New in version 1.2: ADDED OS version check (3.5 req) FIXED some minor bugs Download: PalMooVIdDemo.zip (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 13:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` KATO	AMPlifier V2.32 AMPlifier is mainly a convenient player program for MP3 (MPEG) audio, but it can also play a variety of 16 bit sound formats (AIFF, MAUD, WAV, RAW). AMPlifier supports hardware-based MPEG audio decoders as well as software decoding through mpega.library. The visual appearance can be adapted by the user through so-called 'Skins' to suit her own preferences. Since the same system as in WinAMP is used, thousands of complete skins are available. AMPlifier now has features requested by users: ReAction user interface works with packed skins (.wsz) ID3v2 tag support improved two new ARexx commands direct input of URLs for MP3 streaming saving of MP3 streams to harddisk Download: amplifier232.lha (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 13:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` AROS	AROS News: Mirror and IRC channel If you find the main server of aros.org too slow, you can alternately bookmark http://aros.planetmirror.com. '4play' created an official AROS IRC channel on EFNet which you can reach with /join #aros. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 13:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` Mikey C. (ANF)	Event: Exhibitors list of the 'World Of Amiga Southeast' Show Start planning! There are only four weeks to go! On Saturday, 3rd November 2001, Amiga Active will be sponsoring the World of Amiga South East Show, to be held in Brentwood, Essex, UK, From 12:00pm till 5:00pm. The World of Amiga Southeast show, Exhibitors list is finally here, and Amiga are coming! Please note, the layout and exhibitors list on the WOAse website is incorrect, please refer to this list for now. A correct hall layout and list will be posted sometime today at http://www.worldofamiga.com. List of Exhibitors... Space..............Company/Organisation 1-2................Kicksoft Ltd 3..................Pagan Games 4..................Huddersfield Amiga User Group /Blackpool User Group 5..................TBA 6..................Amiga 7..................Cloanto 8-14...............Eyetech 15-16..............Fore-matt Home Computing 17.................100% Amiga Magazine 18.................South Essex Amiga Link 19.................Amiga North Thames 20.................Kickstart 21.................Amiga Support Association 22.................Elbox (SharkPPC Premiere) 23-24..............Mediator Support Team 25-27..............Virtual Programming/Amiga Active Magazine (Show Sponsors) 28-30..............Weird Science 31-33..............Stellar Dreams 34.................Hyperion Games Arena 35.................Gloucestershire Amiga User Group Sadly, Analogic are unable to attend due to commitments elsewhere. On the positive side, Haage and Partner have confirmed their attendance and may take the last unsold space. Don't forget tickets can still be purchased in advance via our website http://www.worldofamiga.com and via telephone/mail order from Fore-Matt Home Computing on +44 (0)8700 112234 Other important announcements about the show including information on where to stay. will follow in due course. World of Amiga Southeast is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 12:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` Amigan Software	Tool: Report+ Version 5.06 With Report+ by Amigan Software bug reports, Aminet readme files, autodocs and similar reports can be easily created. The program is Freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools. Download: report.lha (426 KB) (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` TheLegacy	Game museum: TheLegacy news An improved search engine was built into the website of the game museum for C64, Amiga, Atari, PC and Schneider/Amstrad CPC which makes it very easy to find certain game descriptions or screenshots. An update with about 500 new games was put online on October 3rd, 2001 and a rotating "Top 5" built into the start page which contains three different themes. The data is created dynamically from the database. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: New packages for WHDLoad (up to 04.10.2001) Games which were made for disk use only can be installed to harddisk thanks to WHDLoad. The following packages have been newly added or improved: 04.10.01 new: Golden Eagle (Loriciel) done by CFOU! 04.10.01 new: Cadaver Demo Level (Bitmap Brothers) done by JOTD 03.10.01 fixed: Operation Stealth (Delphine) needs less memory now 03.10.01 fixed: Dream Tripping (Digital) install script corrected (ReadMe,Image) 03.10.01 fixed: Shadow of the Beast 3 (Psygnosis) intro in PAL version fixed 03.10.01 new: Slightly Magic (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal 03.10.01 improved: Fire Force (ICE) support for CD³² version added 03.10.01 new: Crazy Cars (Titus) done by CFOU! 03.10.01 new: Ballistix (Psyclases/Reflexions) done by CFOU! 01.10.01 new: Wayne Gretzky Hockey (Betchesda SoftWorks) done by CFOU! 01.10.01 improved: Tetrix (Markus Olinger/CT-Verlag) supports another version and a small fix 01.10.01 improved: Run the Gauntlet (Ocean) supports another version 01.10.01 fixed: Quest of Agravain (Codemasters) small change 01.10.01 new: Knight Force (Titus) done by CFOU! 30.09.01 improved: Kult/Chamber Of The Sci-Mutant Priestess (Exxos/Infogrames) supports another version (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 12:44] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` Japan Amiga User Group (ANF)	Japan Amiga User group's homepage soon finished Japan Amiga User Group's (JAUG's) homepage is soon finished. This website offers "Japanese Amiga Profile & History", "Japanese Amiga Power User now", "Japanese Amiga Newspaper", "Japanese Amiga books, videos & softwares", "Japanese Amiga Business movements", "JAUG'S BBS" & a lot of others. Here you can come to know all about Amiga status in Japan. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 11:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`05.Oct.2001` Tom Duin (ANF)	Bindassigns 1.2 and RealPlayerInfo 1.0 at Amigaharry corner released Bindassigns 1.2 and RealPlayerInfo 1.0 released at Amigaharry corner. Bindassigns replaces "MakeDir"s and "Assign"s in Startup-Sequence. It can also replace the "Assign"s in the User-Startup. RealPlayerInfo 1.0 shows information about Real-Audio and Real-Video files. Tom Duin alias amigaharry (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 05. Oct. 2001, 11:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` Gerd Frank (E-Mail)	AmiATLAS 6 - Release planned for 15. November 2001 (Update) Gerd Frank is being thinning an optimizing his 1.5 million of AmiATLAS code lines, and whiping into shape 50 MB of map data, hotel guides and city guides. In all foresight AmiATLAS6 would be finished for the Cologne show in November and available from the booth of KDH and maybe from the booth of APC & TCP. Changes since AmiATLAS5 (partial statement!). All of the previous additional maps included, now. Free updates (at least v3) until 30. June 2002, maybe even longer. Updated and extended data set. Extensive hotel guide, city guide, .... Extended rout calculation (brakes, traffic jam menace, ...). Functions speeded-up, some more than 30%. Menus and dock bar free configurable. GUI graphics (e.g. dock) easy to exchange. GUI and display optimized and extended. Phonetic search, e.g. for towns or street names. External data tools for AVON, post code, and car registration numbers (city code). External vehicle cost manager. OS3.5/3.9 Support Delivered on a coloured printed CD-RW in DVD-case with coloured cover. Price 109,- DM Possible to be ordered from: AmiATLAS Development Team c/o Gerd Frank Wölsauerhammer 51 D-95615 Marktredwitz E-Mail: AmiATLAS@gmx.net Or from the popular AMIGA stockists. For more information it is vital to have a look at he website for the prior version AmiATLAS5 at http://software.freepage.de/iss, but which is not topical! Gerd Frank established a mailing list for bugreports, suggestions, and other discussions all about AmiATLAS: amiatlas@freelists.org. To register to this list, please send an e-mail with subject subscribe to amiatlas-request@freelists.org. Update 05.10.2001: Price statement changed. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 23:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` dynAMIte	Game: dynAMIte Version 1.8 Version 1.8 of the network / online game 'dynAMIte' was released. This game is about a Bomberman clone. Download: dynAMIte_update.lha (154 KB) - changes.txt dynAMIte.lha (1,5 MB) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 19:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` AmigaOS XL	H&P: AmigaOS XL FAQ now in English, too The AmigaOS XL (FAQ) now is online in English language, too. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 19:05] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` Andreas Schaumlöffe	Programmer for unready MUI Gnutella client wanted 'Gnutella' is a free program which is preeminently suited to share and exchange any desired files (mp3, exe, mpeg, txt, jpg, etc.) with other users. Until a short while ago Jay Cornwall was developing a Gnutella client for the Amiga, but now released the sources to Aminet due to lack of time. Maybe this is the way to find a programmer interested to finish this project. More information can be found under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 18:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` Steffen Nitz (E-Mail)	New version of Regist II released Version 0.7A of Regist II (title link) was released in the Aminet. Regist II enables programmers to easily administrate and operate software registrations. Please send registrations, suggestions, and other feedback to: Steffen.Nitz@t-online.de. Changes in this version: Global-Prefs-Option for printer and text editor settings, etc.. Local-Prefs-Option for the respective data field with the following options implemented: Editing of the entries list in the main window for a better overview of data field entries. Basic currency and number format for the fees taken can be given, which e.g. will be displayed in the main window's title-bar. Currency list get's adjusted to the basic currency (currency conversion). Texts for the options of "Update", "Zugestellt" (delivered), and "Bezahlt" (payed) (on or off) can be edited and entered. Compressing-program and the file viewer for the text files given under "Sonstige Angaben" (other data) in the main window now can be given. Now a text file can be given under "Sonstige Angaben" (other data) and displayed with the external file viewer. This text file can be loaded into or adapted to the input field under "Sonstige Angaben" (other data). This text then can be edited using an external text editor given in the global settings. E-Mails and letters can be printed right after those were created. It is now possible to print entries using a self-created template. Reg.Nr. can be calculated, loaded from a file and the highest value can be calculated. Data filed loading up to 4 times faster! Entries can removed or deleted from the data field. New file samples "Aktuelles Datum" (current date), second and third address line and for the text under "Sonstige Angabe" (other data) added. The program can be controlled by tooltypes (e.g. a data field can be given to automatically be loaded when Regist II was launched). Progress bar when loading data fields is more precise. Other changes and optimizations. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 17:58] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox: PREMIERE: Fast Ethernet 100Mbps in Amiga ELBOX COMPUTER is pleased to announce that from now onwards Amiga computers equipped with MEDIATOR PCI offer the possibility of using Fast Ethernet 100Mb/s network cards. This has become possible with the FastEthernet.device SANA-II driver developed by Elbox for the MEDIATOR PCI busboard series. This driver enables using 100Mb/s cards based on RTL8139 chipsets in MEDIATOR PCI bus-boards. Fast Ethernet driver is now included in the MEDIATOR MULTIMEDIA CD collection. All the registered MM CD users are now receiving this new driver free of charge. Fast Ethernet RTL8139 card features: 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s operations Support for 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s N-way Auto-negotiation operation Half/Full duplex capability Support for Full Duplex Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x) 10/100Base-TX compliant PCI bus master data transfer capability Two large (2Kbyte) independent receive and transmit FIFOs Descriptor-based buffer management LED indicators for various network activity monitoring MEDIATOR bus-boards are at present the only PCI solution for Amiga computers with the exclusive support for: TV cards, Sound cards, and Fast Ethernet PCI cards. (ps) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 13:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` BTTR-Team	Back to the Roots Amiga-News 233 We enjoyed the summer a bit, but now it's finally time to update "Back to the Roots" (http://www.back2roots.org) again - and this is another massive update! With permission from "Reakktor Media" we can offer you "Subtrade", a brilliant M.U.L.E. clone. Other new games are e.g. Conquest of the Longbow, Zeppelin, Blastar, Seek and Destroy, Zool 1+2 (HD), Banshee (HD) and many more. Then we added 20 AGA demos, 20 ECS demos, 40 PC demos, 50 Amiga game tunes, 100 demoscene tunes and 70 scene pictures. A lot of stuff for you to download, isn't it? (ps) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 11:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` (ANF)	Filesystem: SFS V 1.193 (Beta) On 02. October 2001 Jörg Strohmayer has released version 1.193 of the SmartFilesystem. New in this version: ACTION_FH_FROM_LOCK didn't return an error for directories, fixed. Download: SFS.lha (40 KB) This is a beta version. Bugreports and runability confirmation can be send to Jörg Strohmayer. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 11:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`04.Oct.2001` Patric Klöter (ANF)	Commodore - Amiga: The devotee page has moved! From today the Commodore-Amiga devotee page is available at the new address http://www.commodore-amiga.de (title link)! Please, adjust your bookmarks. Beside of some optical changes the content was extended. Recently the rubric "Spiele-Klassiker" (classic games) was added containing pictures and comments of some classic Amiga games. I would be happy if you would drop in on this site. ;-) (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 04. Oct. 2001, 11:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2001` Wojtek Kozlowski (E-Mail)	Elbox: Mediator PCI 4000 Quick Installation Guide The Elbox Computer Website has been updated. The Mediator PCI 4000 Quick Installation Guide has been added in Support - Product Manuals. The manual illustrates installation of the Mediator PCI 4000 and PCI cards in Amiga 4000D in the E/BOX 4000 tower case (aka Power Tower 4000). To view the installation in html, click here. To download the pdf file manual, click here. (ps) [News message: 03. Oct. 2001, 14:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2001` flextron (ANF)	Overview of Amiga-Groups and Clubs As many as possible Amiga-groups and clubs are supposed to be found here. We want to report about the background of these groups and clubs. We especially want to focus on information about club-subscription and number of members. We also have forums where you can ask questions or write answers to different topics. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Oct. 2001, 14:29] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2001` FORE-MATT Home Computing (ANF)	New Amiga Online Superstore now open A new Amiga Online Superstore has just opened from FORE-MATT Home Computing. Hundreds of products are now available to order from the website with many hundreds still to be added. Featuring 128 Bit secure encryption when ordering your desired Amiga items. As well as our vast range of CD software currently on the site, you will also be able to purchase hardware, peripherals, books, magazines, and AmigaOne products as well as selected Amiga retro classic titles. Many titles can be purchased at a lower price than our catalogue or competitors price! FORE-MATT Home Computing is the largest stockist of Amiga software in the UK and many of the titles to be added will be exclusive to the Amiga Online Superstore. Also, to celebrate the opening, there will be FREE SHIPPING to anywhere in the world for all software purchases made through the online ordering system and received by 14 October 2001. (ps) [News message: 03. Oct. 2001, 14:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2001` Ralph Reuchlein (ANF)	Database: After a long time a new version of MUIbase published After one year of a break of development there is a new version of MUIbase again which is v1.6. MUIbase is a relationale database with several datatypes and trigger-functions. The Amiga-magazine assesses MUIbase 1.2 on issue 11/99 with 87%. The MUIbase-homepage has moved to http://www.muibase.de/ because amigaworld.com the provider till now do not work just fine. You can access the old site over http://old.muibase.de/ but which will be not updated any longer. Bit there you can still find old examples and some hints. On the new site download and registration works as usually but if there should be displaying faults then please say it to me because presently I have not an entirely working Amiga and I have no time for reinstalling. Bugfixes, ARexx-support and transactions as you know of other databases have been added. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Oct. 2001, 14:22] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2001` Michael Garlich (ANF)	MotionStudio for MorphOS announced Titan Computer announces MotionStudio which is a new videocut-software for MorphOS exclusively. Some of the outstanding features are e.g. particle effects free to define which can be applied on each b-w mask you like, 40 video effects, very intuitive GUI and much more. On the website you can already watch a Quicktime-film where Motionstudio has worked on a PowerPC G4 with 350Mhz. (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Oct. 2001, 14:19] [Comments: 1 - 04. Oct. 2001, 14:23] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Society: Hard- and Software-Updates NEW PICTURES Chaos Engine 2 thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Aladdin thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Alien Breed thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Agony thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Ambermoon thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Anstoß thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES 1869 thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Backstage thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Zak McKracken thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Wet thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Virtual Ball Fighters thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Civilization thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Coloniization thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Cruise for a Corpse thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Defender of the Crown thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Fightin Spirit thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Foundation thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Foundation DC thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Foundation Gold thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Lionheart thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES Primal Rage thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus NEW PICTURES PowerMonger thanks to Nico Barbat/Amiga Plus The Big Book of Amiga hardware has been already updated on 30th of September. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Oct. 2001, 04:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`03.Oct.2001` Michael Asse (ANF)	Wanted: AmigaFFE-Web-Updater Michael Asse wrote: Hello, because presently I have limited access to the Internet I am looking for an updater for my website concerning the AmigaFFE-project who might take care of updating the website. Mainly you might have to do copy/paste tasks and not to take care of the design of the site or project itself. I would send you mails which contain the site and the according changes as long as I got a better access to the Internet. If anyone would be interested in it then simply send me a mail. In addition to it I am still always looking for some interested people for the port of the game Elite-The New Kind. I have an unfinished version here which we might have to get to an end. Thanks a lot! (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 03. Oct. 2001, 00:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Oct.2001` T.o.T.	Game: Tales of Tamar Amiga-Version V0.37R6 'Tales Of Tamar' is a round based internet game from Eternity Entertainment Software available for all platforms. With this version 0.37 R6 for Amiga you can see for the first time OnScreen animations with full colour update. From now on one after another weapons and buildings will be integrated into the following versions. Very pleasant from the players. All animations are running even on a 68030 with AGA! Also on Amigas with gfxboards now animations with changing colourpalette per frame are no problem. A result of the extraordinary work of this Bindel :-). The latest version of the Battle-Lost-Screen is added. It is another piece of fine art from Dieter Zenteck. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 02. Oct. 2001, 18:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Oct.2001` Stefan Sommerfeld (ANF)	Soundcard: New Repulse Toccata-Emulation The latest version of the Toccata-Emulation for the Repulse soundcard is available. Thanks to Christian Haldenwang who placed us a VLabMotion and a Toccata at our disposal so we could fix some bugs. The Toccata-Emulation works now very fine with MovieShop. So the Repulse is the perfect replacement for the Toccata. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 02. Oct. 2001, 17:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Oct.2001` Brad Webb (E-Mail)	Newsletter: Amiga Update #010930 from Brad Webb Brad Webb publishes monthly his newsletter 'Amiga Update', he informs you about the most important events around the Amiga. Read the latest newsletter under the title link. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 02. Oct. 2001, 16:33] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Oct.2001`	Events: AmigaMeeting 2001 in Lodz (Poland) On October, 6th in Lodz, Poland, the AmigaMeeting 2001 will take place. The event is held by the University of Lodz (Banacha Street 22). Some of the exhibitors: ELBOX Computer (Mediator, G3 Shark) MATAY (Prometheus and software from Hyperion) eFunzine (Amiga e-shop) X-Soft (e.g. the books "Amiga na Infostradzie [Amiga on Infostrada], "Wordworth w praktyce" ["Wordworth in practice"] Fleecy Moss will visit the AmigaMeeting 2001, but this is not confirmed. The Organizers: X-Soft Mathmatic Section of the University of Lodz Matay Contact: Tel.: ++48 42 630 50 42, 0600 483 029 (Mobil) E-Mail: biuro@xsoft.w.pl Travel route: From PKP Lodz Kaliska or PKP Lodz Fabryczna Rail Station take the tramway 12 (look at map) All tickets (price: PLN 15 0 less than DM 10) will take place in a lottery. If you wish to present your Amiga, contact the Organizers - you get free tickets. (pp) (Translation: gf) [News message: 02. Oct. 2001, 12:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Oct.2001` Jan Andersen (E-Mail)	Virus Help Denmark: Safe v17.1 Virus Help Denmark has released version 17.1 of the virus-detector 'Safe' of Zbigniew Trzcionkowski. 'Safe' discovers viruses in the memory of the computer and removes them if possible. Changes since the last version: changed all text output to PutStr(), added security mechanism that will react in case of xvs.library deactivation, fixed installer script to avoid crashing WinUAE and to really replace old file with new one, added to package initial releases of my new AV tools which prospectively become components of new anivirus called MILL. Check them out as they already are functional. Please let me know how they work on your configurations. Special thanks to Soenke Freitag for letting me continue and release his private integrity checker! Name: Safe v17.1 Archive name: Safe.lha Archive size: 30.671 Bytes Release date: 1. October 2001 Coder: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski Download: Safe.lha (30 KB), Readme (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 02. Oct. 2001, 01:48] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`02.Oct.2001` Oliver Hummel (ANF)	Emulator: Jagulator is open Source With the Jagulator it is possible to emulate the Atari jaguar (the first 64-bit game console of the world). Now the Jagulator was released as open Source. Maybe somebody has time and joy to port the Jagulator for the Amiga. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 02. Oct. 2001, 01:13] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: New installers for WHDLoad WHDLoad lets you install floppy-based games onto your harddisc. The following installers were added or updated. 30.09.01 improved: Kult/Chamber Of The Sci-Mutant Priestess (Exxos/Infogrames) supports another version 30.09.01 new: Winter Camp (Thalamus) done by Codetapper 30.09.01 new: Quest of Agravain (Codemasters) done by Codetapper 30.09.01 new: Ray Of Hope (Majic 12) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image) 30.09.01 new: Barbarian 2/Axe of Rage (Palace SoftWare) done by CFOU! 30.09.01 new: Alien Breed 3D (Team 17) done by Psygore 30.09.01 improved: Trivial Pursuit (Domark) german version added 30.09.01 new: Purple Saturn Day (Exxos) done by CFOU! 30.09.01 improved: Drakkhen (Infogrames) some changes 30.09.01 fixed: Titan (Titus) AF removed 30.09.01 new: Plan 9 From Outer Space (Gremlin Graphics) done by CFOU! (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 18:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` László Török	PalMooVId Version 1.1 (Demo) - AVI-Player for PalmOS If you want to watch AVI-files with your Palm-device there is a demoversion of PalMooVId available at the title link. The program was developed by László Török, well known for his AVI-player for Amiga computers. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 17:46] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` Maxworld	Personal finance: Screenshots of HomeBank 1.9 HomeBank helps you to manage your personal finances as well as the monitor the costs of your car. There are some screenschots of the new version available at the title link. This new version should be released in the first days of October. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 17:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` GeoWorld	GeoWorld® Developer-Tool André Beer and David McMinn are currently working on the finishing of GeoWorld-developer-tool. With this tool you are able to change or extend the infos about countries or towns and international organizations. Data updates will still be released in the future. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 17:12] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` Oliver Roberts	Datatype: WarpDTPrefs Version 44.6a WarpDTPrefs lets you change the preferences of the datatypes by Oliver Roberts. Download: WarpDTprefs.lha (ps) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 15:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` amiga.org	Magazine: Amiga Information Online (AIO) #51 Issue number 51 of the online-magazine Amiga Information Online (AIO) is now available. AIO use their own viewer, available for AmigaOS. Download: AIOV51.LHA (sd) (Translation: sk) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 14:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	Eyetech Statement on AmigaOne/OS4 On the AmigaOne mailing list Alan Redhouse responds to requests regarding the AmigaOne / OS4.0 development status and to reclamations regarding the long period of time without any new announcement. >>The Eyetech timeline hasn't been updated for over a quarter (northern hemisphere tm.) ;) and as I see it, we are, in a way, partners with Eyetech and Amiga Inc. and so it would be courteous and helpful if they could give us some kind of update on the situation. Delays if necessary are fine (well, y'know what I mean) and I certainly don't want to add to the pressures that Alan and Eyetech etc are already under, but I think it would be reasonable to break the silence. >Would giving you / anyone on this list / me more information affect how many units they ship? Businesses aren't courteous because they're, well, because they're businesses I guess. It is about business, not about a lack of courteousness and, particularly, the A1 project is not a reality TV show or soap opera. This is a complex, specialist project that no large (sane?) company would undertake for a small and diminishing market. The end result has to be affordable, despite the small production runs so the whole development has to be done under very tight cost control. Of course in any complex project there are snags and solutions, holdups and breakthroughs almost daily, many of which are outside our and our partners control. However it is our collective jobs to sort them out professionally and not to conduct our daily business lives as if we were on Big Brother, Loft Story (or whatever its called in your country). This is also made more difficult by us trying to be as open as possible within the bounds of NDA's and the propensity of mailing lists to rumourmonger. We have deliberately kept this list open, but the commercial downside is that Bill Hoggett misses no opportunity to promote Amithlon and knock the whole PPC concept, Paul Qureshi doesn't love Eyetech (for some reason that I'm unclear about) and thinks Elbox's rumoured solution is best. And we know Ralph Schmidt is in the list representing the interests of bplan who are also intending to compete for the contents of Amigan's wallets. All that means that we have to be even more aware of the misinterpretation of any information that we put out. Its also common and public knowledge (ie Bill said it in his St Louis speech) that Amiga Inc are having difficulty raising their second round of finance since the tech meltdown earlier this year. This has inevitably had an effect on the level of resources that they have been able to put into the A1/OS4.x project, and there has therefore had to be a reallocation of financial and operational responsibilities within it across the other partners. This all takes time (and money) to sort out and so, yes there have been some delays. And it is obviously important to treat all the A1/OS4.0 work as a single project because it is clearly not feasible to sell the hardware in advance of the OS being ready - all you get then is a very expensive but not very functional paperweight. However OS4.0 is now well under way and looks like it will make a November release, but maybe not the 1st. So why has there been silence? - Everyone wants certainty in announcements, either to plan and be reassured, or to snipe and start rumours. There is no point in making announcements while negotiations are still proceeding and therefore some aspects of the outcome are still uncertain. - Amiga Inc has been on the verge (and still is) of obtaining a substantial funding package for the past few months, which would clearly change the resources available for the project substantially. We have all been hoping to make a joint news announcement incorporating this and its effect on the A1/OS4.x project. - There are many individuals providing input to the project and they all need to be consulted prior to making substantive announcements. In fact I'm probably breaking my own code of conduct in this respect by posting this note. Ok thats not a lot, but its all this list is getting from me today. I hope it helps. Alan PS Several people have commented that they think we have a monopoly supply position with the A1 board. Well we do have the only PPC product that will run OS4.0 (although we are pressing for OS4.0 to be released for the Cyberstorm PPC as well), but that is because OS4.0 needs an existing Classic Amiga chipset to run. In theory there would be nothing to stop someone (eg bplan) designing a pci card with the classic chipset on and using it as the basis of the classic compatibility on a CHRP-compatible board. But the economics of doing this just don't add up, particularly when A1200's are readily and cheaply available (the type - PAL or NTSC - doesn't matter) and there would be a significant amount of additional work in porting/testing OS4.0 to work on this new card. Given the small market size there is really only scope for one A1-type product. If someone else had been mad enough to decide to build one we would almost certainly have decided to drop out - so there would still have been only a single product to choose from. (ps) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 14:20] [Comments: 1 - 03. Oct. 2001, 02:07] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`01.Oct.2001` Jürgen Haage (E-Mail)	H&P answers questions about AmigaOS XL FAQ As reported H&P made a German online FAQ about the emulator AmigaOS XL available. After reading the FAQ I asked Jürgen Haage some questions concerning the point 30. Following you will find the answers. FAQ: 30. What about AmigaOS 4.0? The development is managed by Amiga Inc. Question to H&P: AmigaOS 4.0 should be exhibited with the AmigaOne in November this year. Does the follwing sentence mean that H&P is not currently working on AmigaOS 4.0 for AmigaOne? Jürgen Haage: As you may know the discussion started early this year. The first prototypes were planned for March. We planned the development of our part of AmigaOS4 according to this date. The first presentation was expected for the St. Louis Show in April... But up until know we still have no hardware to develop for. FAQ: It is mainly a porting of AmigaOS 3.9 to PPC. Only some few new components are planned for this release. They are also available for 68k and could be easyly used with Amithlon/AmigaXL. But this is a decision of Amiga Inc. Question to H&P: This means that it is only some political decision made by Amiga Inc. if OS4 will be available for Classic-Amigas? Jürgen Haage: There are some important assumptions to be able to make a political decision. I do not think that these assumptions are available at the moment. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 01. Oct. 2001, 13:45] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Thomas Igracki (ANF)	Audio: cddb.library With this library every programmer can integrate CDDB support in his/her programs without knowledge of cddb protokols or tcp/ip. CDDB is about a database of audio CDs from which one can draw title, track title, etc. of any desired audio CD. Download: cddb-lib.lzx (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 23:57] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Alexander Kurtz (ANF)	Aminet: Initial beta version of the new amiNET.GUI Alexander Kurtz wrote: The amiNET.GUI is being reworked completely to be changed from a static HTML site to a dynamic PHP script. This will bring much advantages to the users. Now I'm able to offer the dowload pages in several languages and can even add more languages without any problem. Moreover an automatic debriefing of the MOD (Message Of the Day) is possible. So the user immediately will be informed about trojans or viruses, if appear in the Aminet. Before long it also will be possible to automatically let create a message on the news page, if you upload using amiNET.GUI Soon I will be able to offer an operative version of AULA. An initial beta version of the new amiNET.GUI is online. This is far from containing all of the functions, but already views the direction the amiNET.GUI is going. My ambition is to get the amiNET.GUI off beta status until the Amiga meeting on 17. November 2001 in Bremen, Germany. I would be very happy to learn about your opinion and/or suggestions, cause the amiNET.GUI wasn't made for me only, but for you. (sd) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 23:09] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` AmigaArt	Audio: Betas of AHI V5.17 and paula.audio V4.27 Martin Blom released beta version 5.17 of the 'ahi.device' for PPC/68k, and beta version 4.27 of 'paula.audio'. This release contains bugfixes for AmigaOS, MorphOS, and Amithlon. Download shortcut: www.lysator.liu.se/~lcs/files/ahi/beta/ (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 19:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Amiga-News.net (ANF)	Ride agency to the show and other events xandiy wrote: Like all the other past years, again I offer a ride agency. This time at Amiga-News.net (has nothing to do with amiga-news.de). Me and other Amiga devotees would be happy about many offers and requests. xandiy (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 18:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Amiga Future	Amiga-Society: Software page extended, Schlachtfeld bugfix The Amiga-Society website was updated. New or extended articles were added to the software page, primarily by the help of Nico Barbat, Falke Verlag (AMIGAplus). The current archives for the strategy game Schlachtfeld were missing the sound files 6_24 to 6_28. On 30. September those missing sounds were included and released on the download page. Download: Schlachtfeld2_V2.15.lzx (1613K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 18:15] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Amiga Future	Event: AMIGA World 2001 on 17./18. November 2001 (update) Amiga Future magazine on their website report about the 'Amiga WORLD 2001' to take place on 17th and 18th November 2001 in the 'Mediapark 6' in Cologne. About 400 m² of exhibition space is available there. The Falke Verlag is organizer of this fair. Amiga Future established a thread on this show in their forum with topical news and discussions. According to AMIGAplus magazine the following exhibitors would attend this show: Amiga Inc. AMIGAplus Amiga Active Amiga Future APC&TCP bplan Cloanto COOLbits DCE Eternity e.p.i.c. interactive Haage & Partner Hyperion individual Computer KDH Datentechnik Matay Merlancia or Vesalia (sd) Update 01. October 2001: From today, on the website for this Amiga show it is mentioned that this show is called 'AMIGA 2001' and will take place in the KOMED in Cologne, Germany. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 17:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Oliver Förster (ANF)	Music: Sid4 Amiga Beta V3.34 On 28. September 2001 Paul Heams has released a new beta version of the SID-(C64-music-)player 'SID4Amiga'. New is a 'Reverb' routine which makes it possible to add a bit atmosphere to the good old pieces of C64-music. Download: S4AB_334.lha (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 15:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Olaf Koebnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Interview with J. Jalkanen and full version of Amiga Arena - Interview Project Janne Jalkanen, developer of the image editing software "PPT" answered the questions of the Amiga Arena and unveiled interesting stuff about his future and the AmigaDE. Amiga Arena - BladeHD After many users weren't able to run the Amiga Arena version of the RPG game "Blade" by Mark S., the final German version is available for exclusive donwload. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 02:37] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Soren Ladegaard (ANF)	More C= Commodore TV-commercials A 16 second videoclip (mpeg) showing "Commodore Amiga präsentiert - Seaquest DSV" recorded from German RTL television is now available for download at The Commodore Billboard in the "Commercials -> Amiga" section. Audio preview available too. (ps) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 02:28] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Tom,s Hardware Guide	Tom's Hardware Guide: ATi Radeon 7500: Class for the mass »ATi a bit precipitated made inroads into the editorial offices with prototypes of the Radeon 7500 and 8500. Now the final silicon was finished for the cheaper variant Radeon 7500 and it now is shipping to the vendors. Innately this board comes with dual monitor support and a TV out connector.« Complete article (German) see title link. More articles about this subject: Tom's Hardware Guide: GeForce3 Under Attack: ATi's Radeon 8500 Previewed Tom's Hardware Guide: SMARTSHADER - Up The Pixel Shader Ladder Tom's Hardware Guide: Matrox Launches The G550 Tom's Hardware Guide: More articles from the graphics boards field. (cm) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 02:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Hard Tecs 4U	Hard Tecs 4U: Prices for the new Athlon XP turned up »Initial information about prices for the new Athlon XP turned up at The Register.« Complete article see title link. (cm) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 02:08] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`30.Sep.2001` Tom's Hardware Guide	Tom's Hardware Guide: TFT prices still in downtrend »Market investigators continue to expect TFT screen prices to tend downwards. Near the end of 3Q01 prices for these handy displays will be about 20% cheaper than early this year. The analyzers all in all expect twice as much devices to be sold in 2001 compared to sales of the previous year.« Complete article (German) see title link. (cm) (Translation: mj) [News message: 30. Sep. 2001, 02:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Jens Henschel (ANF)	AMIGAplus forum online again Today at 14:30 h has the AMIGAplus forum gone online again. The bugs were removed and the design got a revision. Enjoy posting! (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 15:14] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page	Tool: giFT V0.9.6 giFT V0.9.6 is a generic interface to FastTrack, the Peer-to-Peer network that is used by Morpheus, KaZaA and Grokster for shared use of files. Available for download are versions for 020, 040 and 060 CPUs as well as a MorphOS version. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 14:54] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` programmed-excellence.de	Genealogy program for Amiga in the works Sven Dröge is working on a genealogy program for the Amiga. The idea for this program came him when Sven looked at his father-in-law who was doing some investigation about his family. That man entered personal data into some software on the PC. The PC software owns an export function into the GEDCOM format, the default data exchange format for family tree data. Sven Dröge asked his father-in-law to open such a file for him, and he got information about this format from the Internet. As further investigation showed that such software doesn't exist for the Amiga, the decision was made to program a genealogy program himself. ´Dynasty´ was born and the plan is to make Dynasty that genealogy program for the AMIGA. You can read about already realized resp. planned features under the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 14:03] [Comments: 5 - 04. Oct. 2001, 09:35] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Volker Grabbe (email)	Scanner calibration software ICS for AmigaOS 4? Volker Grabbe has asked Wolf Faust, the programmer of the scanner calibration software ICS, about the future development of this software. With permission by Wolf Faust we release the questions and answers: Volker Grabbe: Good day, Mr. Faust, as I use on my A4K Scanquix 5, I'd like to ask you a question. What about coming support of the AmigaOS 4.x from your side? May Amiga Inc. possibly have approached you because of your product to be integrated into the OS? Wolf Faust: No. AmigaOS 4 is at least for me rather far away. Neither was I asked about it. And even if so, right now there's simply a lack of time for something like this. And even if there would be time there had to be something happening financially to view OS 4 as development platform. In the end the investments into OS 4 have to pay back sometime. Many of the developments here in the last time are extremly expensive and would almost be not financeable even in the best of Amiga times. Volker Grabbe: I didn't want to embarrass you with my questions yet I am curious about the future. Wolf Faust: Quite clear: there'll be only developments that aren't Amiga specific. But Amiga users make profit of the expensive developments for PC/Mac. It would be inconceivable for example to realize the coming offer for transparency units only for Amiga users. The investments alone for the machine/working time are running into the hundreds of thousands. But when I look at the little number of accesses by Amiga users to my website etc. I'm beginning to doubt that even this makes still sense in the long run. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 13:35] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Stefan Blixth (email)	OnyxSoft: Cathedral v1.1 and updates New Program : Cathedral (version 1.1) Information : - This is a program made to create really phat reverb effects on audio samples. - Included engines : * 68020 (w/o FPU) * 68040 (FPU) * PPC-WarpOS * PPC-PowerUP Use your PPC to create "phat" echo-effects very quikcly :-) ---- New version : DECH (version 1.4) Information : - It can now be used for other compilers than AmigaE! - It's possible to save 5 different pre-defined command-lines for your five favourite compilers. - Plus other useful changes. --- New version : TheMPegEncGUI (version 2.08) Information : - Added a settable delay between the encoding of files in the list to let the filesystem save it's directory structure to prevent eventual loss of finished mp3's in case of a crash. - Added some modes for Lame. ---- And if you have some minutes over, please fill in our little survey at: http://www.onyxsoft.nu/survey.html (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 13:17] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Werner Lange (email)	HCS Lange: no calls possible until 1.10.2001 (Update) As the Amiga repair company HCS Lange has moved recently it cannot be contacted via phone because of the switching of the telephone number. From 02.10.2001 on should the line work again. HCS Lange AMIGA & COMMODORE SERVICE 32756 Detmold Phone and Fax 05231 - 34530 Update 30.09.2001: HCS Lange is available via email. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 13:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Florian Rehnisch (ANF)	Discussion about deleting of news:de.comp.sys.amiga.archive On news:de.admin.news.groups they are discussing at the moment the deleting of the newsgroup de.comp.sys.amiga.archive. The newsgroup was used for releasing announcements and archive lists of mailboxes and FTP sites, but is for some time now only used for daily upload statistics of the Aminet. The proponent of the process (Simon Paqet) is thinking that this can't be the meaning of a newsgroup that is distributed worldwide via many news servers. (Title link: 1.RfD via Google-Groups) (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 01:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Michael Göken (ANF)	Event: pictures of and report about the Amclust meeting Michael 'MCP' Göken wrote: The second Amclust meeting 2001 was again a full success. The Amclust and the AC Osnabrück met last weekend. On this occasion were many interesting views exchanged regarding the present situation of the Amiga market and its loyal users. As highlight Thomas Dellert presented his PCI-Board 'GREX'. All were very impressed by the new hardware, only the price is set a little bit too high in many users' opinion. In addition has our Guido Mersmann introduced his keyboard adapter which offers really many features, for example hardware password protection, multimedia keys, computer on/off, etc.. For this exists a superb software that is also already available on Aminet. On interest email to Geit@gmx.de. Apart from that people had been working for three days with the Amigas. We've taken some snapshots of this event (see title link). (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 01:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Achim Stegemann (ANF)	Digital Almanac III - news Good news for all users of and people interested in Digital Almanac III. After the sales of the astronomy software had to be stopped because of defective hardware it can go on again. There's hardware again, so the development and the sales of the CD-ROMs can restart. (ps) (Translation: wk) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 01:32] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`29.Sep.2001` Tao Group	Tao Group: Tao Strengthens Wireless Java Reading, England, September 27, 2001 -- Tao Group today announces it has acquired additional intellectual property software rights from ASCII Corporation in Japan to further strengthen its 'intent JavaTM Technology Edition' software suite. The Tao Java product, compliant with industry standards and Sun Microsystems-branded, has been developed over five years and is already being installed into an array of products including digital cameras, phones, pda's, digital televisions, set top boxes, personal computers and web tablets. The various specifications supported by the intent JTE are compact and robust, and run real world content many times faster than any alternative. Dr. Paddy Byers, Chief Technology Officer of Tao said: "Emphasis on the development of Tao's product has always been on enabling Java technology-based services that the operators and manufacturers must be able to deliver to the consumer to support their economic models. The agreement with ASCII makes our story stronger than ever." Francis Charig, Tao's Chairman, commented: "This is an excellent acquisition for Tao as we consolidate the technology on the intent media stack for both wireless and wired devices. Our Java product is part of a comprehensive multimedia, language independent solution which is uniquely helping companies take compelling and differentiated products to market both quickly and at low cost." The conclusion of the ASCII Agreement is the first of several key announcements by Tao in the wireless space over the coming months. The complete press release can be found following the title link. (ps) [News message: 29. Sep. 2001, 01:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` Markus Pohlmann (ANF)	New role-playing game for Classic Amigas in the works Project Crashsite - that'll be the name of the new role-playing game for Classic Amigas which is currently still under development. The role-playing game in the science fiction genre will require a CD-ROM, 68040 (minimum) and a graphics card. Here an excerpt from the description: »Mankind has reached for the stars and colonized a planet system. Far away from Sol, Future II develops into a self-sufficient economy system with own government. Not only has this government plans for Future II but the Sol government also. The third in the trio is McJevl, the space flight company who made the settling and terraforming possible. McJevl has plans too, and gets a big chance to make them reality. Here enters the player as member of the Future Security Corps, the system-internal police. With a team consisting of up to six characters, law and order must be preserved in Future II. A difficult task which gets even harder as a meteor hits one of the planets and an eye-witness of the event is being murdered before the eyes of the Future Security Corps. Investigations lead to the fact that this is not the only death ...« Up-to-date information on the game development are now available at projektcrashsite.de. If you want to get a first impression of what the Classic Amiga is in for you should surf by. Comments, suggestions and critics are welcome. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 22:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` AudioLabs	Audiosoftware: ProStationAudio compatible with G-Rex PCI bus boards ProStationAudio is compatible with G-Rex PCI busboards by DCE and Terratec PCI audio boards. Frank Mariak, DCE's software designer of drivers for the G-Rex, confirms that drivers they just made for the 128i and 512i Terratec models have passed preliminary tests for analog I/O with ProStationAudio. Drivers for the 512i are being extended with S/P-DIF support. G-Rex makers and AudioLabs are actively cooperating to provide the best compatibility between this new PCI busboard and ProStationAudio (a big thank you to Frank for his continued and accurate work). The G-Rex PCI busboard, available in two models for the A4000 and A1200 is a solution developed specifically for owners of P5/DCE CyberStorm and Blizzard PPC and/or 68K CPU cards. The G-Rex 4000D replaces the stock A4000 backplane, offering slots for PCI and Zorro cards. ProStationAudio takes advantage as well of PCI graphic cards installed on the G-Rex. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 22:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` dynAMIteXXL	Game: dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a dynAMIteXXL version 1.7a, a Bomberman clone, is available for download. dynAMIte requires from this version on the identify.library V13. This update contains many changes which are listed in the changes text. Download: dynAMIte.lha - dynAMIte.readme (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 22:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` Grzegorz Kraszewski (ANF)	Software update for Prometheus Matay has released small software upgrade for Prometheus - Zorro III to PCI bridge. It consists of new version of SANA-II driver for Ethernet cards based on RTL8029 chip, and small graphical network traffic monitor called NetMeter. These can be downloaded from Prometheus support page. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 21:03] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` Amarpreet Singh Munde (ANF)	Datatype: DocDatatypes V40.22 Amarpreet Singh Munde has released an update of DocDatatypes. DocDatatypes is a set of datatype classes for documents. The list of supported formats include: MS-Word (Windows, Mac, OS2), RTF, WordPerfect, Write, MS-Works, AmiPro, WordStar, WordStar 2000, Pocket Word, Quill, XyWrite III, Psion Word, Psion TextEd, Palm DB TEXt Doc (pdbdoc), First Word Plus, Mac Write and Mac Text. New for this version (40.22) is the support of writing Compressed Palm Docs and the fixing of the Mac Write, Mac Text, Mac TeachText and WordPerfect 4 descriptors. Also all datatypes have had some speed improvements and memory optimisations. There is also the latest version of FindFile in the archive. A new fast, easy to use file finder application that offers search by name, size, date, and even file type. Also, in association with Amiga Arena, DocDatatypes Lite is available for registration at a reduced fee for those who do not require support of all the exotic formats. Available to download only from http://go.to/docdatatypes (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 17:40] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` AmiBench	AmiBench celebrates 4th birthday Mark 'tecno' Wilson, maintainer of AmiBench, the website for international and free ads, celebrates the fourth birthday of the website with a quiz. Happy birthday. (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 15:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` AmiDog	AmiDog: AMP PPC-Movieplayer V2.04 Mathias "AmiDog" Roslund has made available version 2.04 of his movie player 'AMP' for PPC for download. AMP is a shareware program which can currently play the following multimedia formats: MPEG1/2 video with sound (optional) MP2/MP3 audio streams FLI/FLC AC3 streams Changes since AMP v2.03: Optimized the AC3 decoder, it's about 50% faster now. Added LORES option that will decode the MPEG at 1/4 of the original size (i.e. half width and half height). This is about twice as fast depending on bitrate and resolution. Fixed some bad init in the MPEGV decoder, should remove the jerky playback at startup. Fixed AC3 sync bug causing it to not work at all. Also, pausing may have caused any kind of strange effects. Made the subtitle decoder handle LORES as well. Fixed the "PPC Alignment Exception" problem. GUI: Replaced Gray with Mode and added options for Gray/Color with/without Lores. Download: AMP204.lha (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 15:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` Golem (M. Lunk by e-mail)	Golem: Vim 6.0 - new version of the free Vi editor clone »New version offers many new functions More than one year after the first alpha release, the finished version of the editor Vim 6.0 (Vi Improved) sees the light of day. The free Vi clone is still almost 100% compatible with the almost legendary Unix editor "Vi" but offers many extensions and is tailor-made for the needs of programmers.« Full German article at the title link. Update: Download Amiga version: Mirror Oldenburg (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 13:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`28.Sep.2001` Bernd Roesch (ANF)	Emulator: WinUAE version 0.8.17r2 WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K and WinXP, has been released in version 0.8.17 Release 2 (JIT version). At the title link you'll find a detailed listing of the improvements and changes. Download: WinUAE0817R2.exe (ps) (Translation: rh) [News message: 28. Sep. 2001, 13:30] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` Golem	Golem: Corel still with profits »Profit and sales declining In 3Q01 Corel gained sales of 34.2 millions USD which is slightly less than the 36.4 millions USD of last year and the 36 millions USD of 2Q01. Profit was at 500,000 USD or 0.01 USD per share.« Complete article see title link (German). Another message about this subject: The Register: Corel makes money shock! (cm) (Translation: mj) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 17:53] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` Ralph Ewers (ANF)	Hardware: Water cooling for Cyberstorm-PPC A do-it-yourself project which might be of special interest for overclockers, since water is known to cool better than air does. This is said to run trouble-free up to know - at this time the author has in mind to utilize a peltier element together with the water cooling. Even if one would not try this himself, it is vital to take a look at the picture of this reconstructed CSPPC on the page - somehow fascinating :-). (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 16:28] [Comments: 1 - 28. Sep. 2001, 19:45] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` CyberGraphX Homepage	CyberGraphX Homepage: Visionary site established Since early September the official CyberGraphX homepage is being regularly update again, after a small time-out, and the readers are provided with interesting information all about CyberGrahpX. At the title link you will find the newly established sub-site 'Visionary' with many screenshots of Workbenches running Visionary. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 14:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` Thomas Wolf (ANF)	AmigaKult: Graphic artist wanted! AmigaKult is wanting one or more graphic artist/s to create small logos and pictures for the AmigaKult homepage. If you are interested, please send a sample of your skills to Thomas. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 14:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)	Elbox approves software Elbox Computer is pleased to announce formulation of its new policy aimed at ensuring total compatibility of software written for Mediator PCI busboards by external developers with hardware and software designed and produced by Elbox. Medication by Richard Brooklyn is the first program for Mediator to obtain the status of "Approved by ELBOX." The "Approved by ELBOX" seal means that ELBOX guarantees this program to be fully compatible with Elbox hardware and software. Medication is a tool for every Mediator user. It allows configuring all the PCI cards installed in the Mediator busboard in one easy-to-use MUI based GUI. Medication allows configuring all of the supported PCI boards installed in Mediator. It enables setting of: tooltypes in the Picasso96 graphic system, graphic card parameters, AHI preferences and sound card settings, TV card settings and control over parameters of the screen displayed by the TV card. See the screenshots of the Medication program: http://www.geocities.com/richardbrooklyn/ More info about the Medication program: http://www.amiga-mediator.co.uk/medication/medication.shtml (ps) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 13:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` Markus Schmidt (ANF)	Update of the ICQ user list Due to other projects Markus Schmidt had less time to intensively care for the ICQ user list. Hence a lot of registrations retained of which the number of 26 now have been entered to the list. Six new post code sections were added by this. The number of 20 entries remaining will be entered to the list during the following days. Markus Schmidt: "By this I ask anybody, who might already have been missing his/her entry, to apologize and for a little understanding! The list is being maintained by me only and by hand, which sometimes leads to a longer delay before the next update. In the future I'll try to prevent longer queue times." (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 13:39] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` Oliver Does (ANF)	Vesalia: Blizzard-PPC changeover project Due to great demand for G-REX 1200 boards Vesalia Computer starts one-time and time limited changeover project for Blizzard PPC with 68040/25 to 68050/50. Prices contain changeover cost including flashROM update and of course the 68060 CPU. This offer is also valid for defective Blizzard PPC boards, but doesn't include cost of repair (time and material). More information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 13:31] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`27.Sep.2001` Christian Rosentreter (ANF)	Picture sequence "Commodore Amiga" released Photo session with an 'old girl-friend'; the model is about an Amiga 4000D built into a BigTower. As a homage to the community keeping this system alive since eight years Christian Rosentreter released an arty picture sequence. More information and the pictures are to find under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 27. Sep. 2001, 13:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` WHDLoad	Installer: New pakets for WHDLoad (until 25.09.2001) Games which are only made for floppy discs can now be installed on harddrive with the help of WHDLoad. The following pakets have been added or updated: 25.09.01 new: Heimdall 2 (Core Design) done by CFOU! 25.09.01 new: Dream Tripping (Digital) done by Psygore (ReadMe, Image) 25.09.01 improved: Defender Of The Crown (Cinemaware) small fix 24.09.01 new: Tetrix (Markus Olinger/CT-Verlag) done by Codetapper 24.09.01 new: Copper Master (Angels) done by Galahad (ReadMe, Image) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 21:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` Amigan Software	Amigan Software-Updates: WormWars V6.81 and Report+ V5.05 At Amigan Software there are updated versions of the game WormWars (V6.81) and of the tool Report+ (V5.05). Download: wormwars.lha (734 KB) report.lha (420 KB) (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 21:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` AudioLabs	Audio software: ProStationAudio version 4.20 Version 4.20 of the audio software 'ProStationAudio' has been published. The new version supports all ALPS-plugins. The update will be sent to registered users. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 21:02] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` Dirk Baeyens (E-Mail)	Amiga.org: Opinion poll for the most popular browser In the right menu of the Amiga.org-mainsite you will find an opinion poll which asks you for your most popular browser. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 20:50] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` Haage&Partner	H&P website with new layout H&P writes: From today on the new newssite is online. After some experiments with colours and the formation of the head-, bottom- and news area the current layout has been created. As the dominating colour you will find a dark red with white characters - based on the traditional Amiga-colours. On the right border the information column has been placed again. There are messages which besides the current news in the middle will have a staying importance. Up to now only the newssite has been renewed but the rest will follow little by little. The startpage of our Internet performance www.haage-partner.de or www.haage-partner.com has been also refreshed thus you can access on the current topics in a better way. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 19:25] [Comments: 2 - 27. Sep. 2001, 19:23] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page	Email-program: Anubis V1.0.2 Anubis is an anonymous mailsender which supports WinGate, encrypted TSL/SSL, anonymous remailing, news posting and much more. You can download the program as MorphOS-version, too. Download: anubis.lha - anubis-mos.lha (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 19:00] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` Markus Lunk (E-Mail)	Blittersoft sold to Virtual Programming Ltd. (update) Blittersoft has been bought out by Virtual Programming Ltd. As a result, VP will assume all rights to the product range owned or distributed by Blittersoft, as well as carrying other Amiga products. VP will be supporting both the Classic Amiga and new Amiga markets. All existing Blittersoft customers will be supported by VP and further development will continue. Update 29. September 2001: At Amiga Flame you can find an extended article regarding this subject. (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 16:34] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`26.Sep.2001` Bob Scharp (E-Mail)	Event: No more Amiga-shows in St. Louis Since 1994 Bob and Diana Scharp have organized a great Amigashow in St. Louis and have spent much of their spare time for it. Now they decided to adopt a child which of course will have supreme priority and which lead to the decision of organizing no more shows. Now please read the complete article: P.O. Box 672 Bridgeton, MO 63044 http://www.amiga-stl.com bscharp@icon-stl.net Fellow Amigans, Over the years, Amigan-St. Louis, (Bob & Diana Scharp), have brought you many years of Amiga fun and edification. Namely the Amiga shows we hosted in St. Louis, MO. U.S.A. Since early 1994, we have been involved with providing the Amiga community with some of the best Amiga shows ever put on. Eventually we formed our own company, Amigan-St. Louis, to run these shows as they got too big to handle with just volunteers. We have had many famous people and groups attend, exhibit, and showcase their products at our events. Some notable guests include a few Astronauts - Steve Nagel and Linda Godwin, a singing and dancing group - ANNEX, some celebrities - all of the various Amiga owners, presidents, staff. Notables such as Petro Tyschtschenko, Mitch Stone of Boycott Micro$oft, radio host Jim Singler, plus too many famous Amigans to mention. We have not only hosted shows, but held banquets that have become famous by themselves. Who would ever forget the reintroduction of Amiga with Gateway, or even better with Bill McEwen. Then there was the ROAST of Petro Tyschtschenko. We celebrated Petro's many years of service to the Amiga community and his retirement the day of the banquet at our show Amiga2001. That will live in our hearts for many years. Unfortunately, we cannot continue the shows for now. There will be no Amiga 2002© show, sponsored by us. The good news, is the reason why. Diana and I are adopting a child. Our lives will be even busier than usual this year and next, so we will have to pass the torch, at least for awhile, to others. Although we are not ruling out the possibility of a future show sponsored by us, we just can't possibly do any for now. We hope you will understand. We hope you will keep the Amiga in your hearts. Hey, we hope to see some of you at other shows and events. Maybe we will be able to bring our newest Amigan with us. So for now, we bid farewell to the show side of our business, but please consider purchasing some of our latest products from our company. "Petro ROAST tape".................... only $ 15 + $ 5 s&h "Amiga Antenna balls".................. only $ 3 + $ 1 s&h "Amiga Coffee Mug (no.2)............... only $ 12 + $ 5 s&h "Other Bounce-back video tapes......... see web site Petro ROAST tape will be available in a few weeks. For other products, see our web page. Mail your orders to: Amigan-St. Louis PO Box 672 Bridgeton, MO 63044 Please make checks payable to Amigan-St. Louis, in U.S. funds. Postal Money orders are also accepted. No credit cards or pay pal. You can also visit our web site for details, at: http://www.amiga-stl.com As a final note on Amiga shows in the U.S., I understand that Kermit Woodall of Nova Design is putting one together for the east coast. It is supposed to be held the last weekend of March 2002. For information, keep an eye on amiga.org and other news sites. It has been a great pleasure working with many of you, and showcasing the Amiga and it's capabilities. I wish all of you great success, and we hope to see you all again. Best Regards, Bob & Diana Scharp (ps) (Translation: dr) [News message: 26. Sep. 2001, 14:51] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2001` Richard Körber (ANF)	Tool: Identify-Update with AmigaXL-Support The Identify-package is now available in version 13.0. New is the AmigaXL support. The library does not only convert Guru- and Zorroboard IDs into a readable format, it also displays several data about the used system. Added tools like ListExp are very useful to create bugreports. Identify can be used by Assembler, C, Basic, Pascal, E, and ARexx and from the Installer. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 25. Sep. 2001, 16:47] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2001` Jörg Brenner (ANF)	Lexsite: Update of Hardware-Website Today the Amiga-Hardware-Website is updated. New released on the Lexsite are following expansions: Kupke Golem Turbo 1000 (Turboboard for A1000) DCE SX 32 Pro (CD32-Turboboard and general expansion) Commodore CDTV AmiTrix SCSI-TV (SCSI-Controller for CDTV) Breitfeld AccessX 500 & 2000 (IDE-Controller) California Access Malibu (SCSI-Controller for Zorro II) Commodore A570 (CD-ROM-Drive) Expansion Systems DataFlyer 500 Express (SCSI-/IDE-Controller for A500) GVP Impact A2000 (Series I) (SCSI-Controller for Zorro II) HK-Computer Vector SCSI (SCSI-Controller for Zorro II) Mainhattan Data Paradox (SCSI-Adaptor) M.A.S.T. Tiny Tiger (SCSI-Adaptor) Protar A500 HD (SCSI-Controller) Roctec RocHard (IDE-Controller for A500) Combitec S-RAM (Memoryexpansion for A500) CP-Computer CP500 Plus/Vario 3 (Memoryexpansion for A500+) CP-Computer MegiChip (ChipRAM-Expansion) DKB Mem 1200 (Memoryexpansion for A1200) Intelligent Memory Pro-RAM (Memoryexpansion for A500) MacroSystem Multi Mega Box (Meoryexpansion for A500) RBW RAM Fighter 2000 (Memoryexpansion for Zorro II) W.A.W. 2MB ChipRAM Adaptor W.A.W. BigRAM 25 (Memoryexpansion for A500) W.A.W. BigRAM 30 (Memoryexpansion for A500+) Also added are photos and/or gallery pictures for 15 expansions, more details here. Many Thanks to all who gave material for the Lexsite. The website will be continued so we are still looking for supplements and pictures (especially about the latest expansions). (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 25. Sep. 2001, 12:38] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2001` Markus Nerding (E-Mail)	H&P: AmigaOS XL Roadshow H&P will present LIVE the AmigaOS-XL on several events, because you can not imagine the increase of performance if you have not seen it with your own eyes. Here are the first dates: 20.-21. October 2001: Pianeta 2001, Empoli, Italy, Info 3. November 2001: World Of Amiga 2001, Brentwood, Essex, UK. Info 17. November 2001: Amiga-User-Club Bremen (Germany) More informations and dates will follow. (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 25. Sep. 2001, 12:11] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2001` Christoph Gutjahr (ANF)	AmigaFire: Pagan Games releases first AmigaDE game On AmigaFire.com the first AmigaDE game from Pagan Games (Earth 2140, Dafel:Bloodline) including Screenshots is presented. "It is based upon the principle of gravity is described best with `Tetris meets Pool - in Space'" (ps) (Translation: gf) [News message: 25. Sep. 2001, 12:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`25.Sep.2001` mp3Play homepage (ANF)	mp3Play v1.2 released Carl Svensson has released a new version of the minimalistic MPEGA GUI, mp3Play. The new version 1.2 contains a bugfix which removes the problems with playing files with spaces in their names. mp3Play now handles spaces in file names just fine, and furthermore it remembers the last visited directory between loading files. (ps) [News message: 25. Sep. 2001, 00:36] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Sep.2001` DCE (ANF)	DCE: VISIONARY Software for GREX 1200/ 4000 and BT 878 WINTV Visionary is some kind of a remote control with a modern graphical interface. It gives access to the wide range of possibilities of the Visual Reality System. With it you can use modern TV/Video PCI-devices with the interface you prefer. Visionary is made of modules. It supports a greate variety of chips and tuners. Support for new devices is easy to implement. Topicaly Visionary supports the following chips and tuners: BT878 BT879 BT848 Conexant Fusion 878a Conexant Fusion 879 Microtune Tuner Philips Tuner Visionary is not only easy to use but also skinable. You are not only able to watch TV on your Workebnch, Visionary also offers a cool way to do it. Additional information is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 24. Sep. 2001, 22:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Sep.2001` Oliver Roberts	Datatype: Update of Warp-Datatypes by Oliver Roberts Oliver Roberts released updated versions of the following datatypes: WarpJPEG.datatype 44.24 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - JFIF-JPEG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) WarpPNG.datatype 44.20 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - PNG picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) WarpTIFF.datatype 44.4 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - TIFF picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) WarpBMP.datatype 44.5 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - BMP picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) WarpPSD.datatype 44.2 - 24.9.2001 - Freeware - Adobe Photoshop® picture datatype (68k,PPC/WarpOS,PPC/MorphOS) (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 24. Sep. 2001, 19:59] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Sep.2001` Da Sixk Port Page	Tool: MySQL Simple Query Tool MySQT_0.1a MySQL Simple Query Tool is an utility that will let you to do queries to a MySQL database with an MUI Gui. MySQT is actually an early alpha version. That means, it has been programmed like some Kro$oft software and will only let you to do "SELECT" queries on small tables. Yes, I have not implemented dynamical memory allocation yet, but this will come. Before starting MySQT don't forget to edit icon tooltypes to fit your database access. Download: MySQT_0.1a.lzx (ps) (Translation: sk) [News message: 24. Sep. 2001, 18:49] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Sep.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena: Interview with Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz There is an interview with Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz, developer of Frogger/Softcinema, available at Amiga Arena. (ps) [News message: 24. Sep. 2001, 17:41] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Sep.2001` Matthijs Schonewille (ANF)	Website against terrorism - Stop this madness Hi, I am an ex-Amiga owner. Today I use linux. I know my message has nothing to do with computers, but I hope you'll visit my website anyway. It is a website against terrorism. Please visit it and sign the list. Thank you. I am still looking for a German translation. If you can help, please contact Matthijs Schonewille. (ps) [News message: 24. Sep. 2001, 11:10] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Sep.2001` Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)	Amiga Future: Interview with Back to the Roots Today, on the Amiga Future homepage a German interview with the Back to the Roots team was released. 'Back to the Roots' is a popular, extended and legal site to find authorized commercial Amiga software for free download on. An English translation of the interview will follow, soon. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 24. Sep. 2001, 10:24] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`24.Sep.2001` WHDLoad / Peter The Rat (ANF)	Installer: WHDLoad Version 14.5 and new packets (until 23.09.2001) Thanks to WHDLoad floppy-disk-only games can be installed to harddisk. Yesterday, version 14.5 was released and furthermore the following packets were added or updated: 23.09.01 new: Beneath A Steel Sky (Virtual Theatre/Virgin) done by JOTD 23.09.01 new: Titan (Titus) done by CFOU! 23.09.01 New WHDLoad V14.5, some fixes and changes 22.09.01 new: Neuromancer (Interplay) done by JOTD 22.09.01 improved: Elfmania (Terramarque/Renegade) misc changes 22.09.01 new: Blade Warrior (Jason Kingsley/Image Works) done by CFOU! 21.09.01 new: Into the Eagle's Nest (Pandora) done by Bored Seal (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 24. Sep. 2001, 10:07] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Thomas Wolf (ANF)	Amigakult established own IRC channel Thomas Wolf wrote: Today, the IRC channel for the amigakult.de homepage was established. '<<< pSYCHo of mOODs >>>' agreed to take the task of the full time channel operator. Server: irc.d-t-net.de Channel: #amigakult We hope for active participation and wish you much fun. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 23:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Amiga Future	Database: MySQT V0.1a Alpha version 0.1a of the MySQL GUI (MUI) 'MySQT' was released. The 'MySQL Simple Query Tool' in this early alpha version offers the possibility to make SELECT requests from smaller tables via GUI. The limitation for smaller tables follows from the fact that this early alpha version still has no dynamic memory management. It is required to enter your database's access data to the tooltypes before start. Download: MySQT_0.1a.lzx (alpha version) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 23:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Sebastian Bauer (ANF)	Mailer: SimpleMail Alpha V0.11 A new alpha version of SimpleMail was released. New features: UIDL Pop3 command supported to not download mails twice. Start time improved. Bugfixes. Download: simplemail.lha (233K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 21:20] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` irc.openprojects.net (ANF)	IRC: An Amiga #channel about the future.... Hello people! Since there just was advertising for #diehard, I would like to show an alternative: At irc.openproject.org there is a young channel (#amiga) that is said to be about Ami-OpenSource (AmigaDE). For the time being there isn't much up. Some don't have an Amiga anymore, some are Amiga Inc. employees, some develop similar projects coming from the Amiga world, some are active for the current Amiga scene or are people like you and me. So, who feels like dropping in is heartily invented. Meta-server: irc.openprojects.net Channel : #amiga (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 19:19] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Soren Ladegaard (ANF)	History: Amiga 1000 TV commercial The Commodore Billboard celebrates its 1-year birthday with an update that includes a 30 seconds Amiga 1000 TV-commercial not previously available on the internet. The new update includes: New Amiga1000 TV-commercial. Very rare! Three Brochures Not Aimed At Customers - Dealers Only! Two German Amiga Brochures! One German Vic20 Advert! Five Italian Commodore Adverts! Eight Danish Commodore Brochures! Eight Danish Amiga Brochures! One Italian PC Advert! New Italian Section! Five Danish PC Brochures! Tons Of New Stuff In The Miscellaneous Section! (sd) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 18:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)	Amiga Arena News: CDBoot; Schatztruhe products wanted Amiga Arena - Full Version With permission of Thomas Kessler, developer of CDBoot, and Richard Small (distribution by Schatztruhe) the Amiga Arena makes possible the release of 'CDBoot'. You can start almost any CD32 game on an A1200/4000 using 'CDBoot'. Following a short extract from the list of games tested. (More information are to find on the CDBoot disk.) Arabian Nights - Krisalis - ECS Banshee - Core Design - AGA Benefactor - Digital Illusions/Psygnosis - AGA Brian the Lion - Psygnosis - AGA Fire And Ice - GraftGold - AGA Gunship 2000 - Microprose - AGA Impossible Mission 2025 - Microprose - AGA Microcosm - Psygnosis - AGA; unfortunately runs with an PCMCIA CD drive only Rise of the Robots - Mirage - AGA RoadKill - Vision - AGA Superfrog - Team 17 - AGA Super Stardust - Team 17 - AGA Tower Assault & Alien Breed II - Team 17 - AGA Note: Of course Schatztruhe will not offer any support for 'CDBoot', anymore. Special thank to Thomas K. and Richard S. for their permission. Amiga Arena - Appeal The Amiga Arena is looking for other software from 'Schatztruhe'. Shareware and lowcost product field. Users still owning products from Schatztruhe might contact the Amiga Arena . Developers wanting to share their software as well as contact persons also are wanted. Many thanks! (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 18:27] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Czech Amiga News	Amiga Arena: Game 'Alibaba' wanted Olaf Köbnik, Amiga Arena, has got permission to release the game 'Alibaba' on his website, but up to now wasn't able to find any full version of this game. If anybody could help him searching, please write to olaf.koebnik@online-club.de. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 17:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` AmigaArt	Eyetech: Information about the AmigaOne Alan Redhouse, Eyetech, posted some statements about the AmigaOne regarding AmigaOS 4.0 and the boot sequence on the AmigaOne mailing list. «1. OS4.0 is based on OS3.9 which does need 3.1 ROMs 2. Backwards engineering/testing for OS3.0 compatibility would add weeks onto the already late OS4.0 3. Of course some of this stuff can be put in flashrom/hard disk but this would require a hugh effort in retesting/linking bits of code from various sources adding further to the cost/delay of OS4.0. 4. As I have said several times before on this list the boot sequence for the A1/OS4.0 is: PPC boots from flash ROM & initialises A1 main board, including any A1 graphics and any available A1 board boot devices (HD, CDROM, SCSI, USB, etc. drivers) PPC loads 68K emulator from flash rom and executes an emulator reset Emulator executes A1200 boot sequence which looks round for boot devices (A1200 HD, FD, PCMCIA & A1 HD, CDROM, SCSI, USB etc) Emulator boots OS4.0 from the highest priority boot device. 5. From OS4.2 the bootstrap loader (& main drivers) will be in the A1 flash ROM and the 68k emulator will only look on the A1 board for boot devices (inc USB floppies, CDROM's etc etc) Hope this helps Alan" - Eyetech» (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 17:23] [Comments: 2 - 24. Sep. 2001, 16:09] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Czech Amiga News	Library: vapor_toolkit V15.8 On 22. September 2001 version 15.8 of the 'vapor_toolkit.library' was released. This version fixes a bug which could cause the computer to crash, if several applications were started simultaneously. Download: vapor_toolkit_158.lzx (19K) (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 17:23] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Horst Diebel (ANF)	Amiga-Society: Several updates Again, there are some updates to the Amiga-Society: General: Link lists extended. Software: Some entries added. Schlachtfeld: First internal alpha version. (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 15:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Thomas Wolf (ANF)	amigakult.de: Special price project AmIRC Thomas Wolf wrote: Amigakult for all of it's registered users makes possible a special price for the current version of AmIRC. If there would be 50 purchasers, a 20% cut in price would be possible. To avail this offer you just have to register and then follow the instructions on the start page. I'm hoping for active interest and wish you fun! Thomas Wolf (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 15:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Ralph H. (ANF)	Role-Game: Pernangband V5.0.1 Version 5.0.1 of the role-game 'Pernangband' was released. This is about a 'NetHack' like role-game playing in a Tolkien world, while this variant especially regards to the Pern novels by Anne McCaffrey and bases on Zangband v2.2.0. This Angband variant - like many others - still is being compiled for the Amiga. (Also see: http://thangorodrim.angband.org/) Download: pernangband-501-ami.lha (sd) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 15:52] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Czech Amiga News	Event: Pianeta Amiga 2001 From October 21st to 23rd, 2001, the fifth Amiga trade show 'Pianeta Amiga 2001' will take place in Empoli (Palazzo delle Esposizioni) in Italy. The show will begin on Saturday at 10:00 AM and will be closed at 6:00 PM local time, while on Sunday the doors will be oppened from 9:00 AM, already. Both Italian and foreign hardware and software developers will attend the show as exhibitors. Admission charge is 10,000Lit. Empoli is a town in the middle of the beautiful Tuscan to lie in between of popular towns, like Pisa, Siena, and Florence. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 04:25] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Trizt (ANF)	A real Amiga IRC channel for real Amiga users Amiga Users! Tired of going to channels on net after net searching for some real amiga users who use real AMIGAs? Tired of being in channels where there seems to be an ongoing linux or windows chat? Tired of being ragged on by clone owners who think your silly to be on amiga still? Feel like trying a channel where amiga is the only topic and there is talk about everything from amiga hardware to software? Does the thought of an amiga emulator bother you? There is such a place, it's called #DIEHARD and its on arcnet! Feel free to stop in,and be sure your using your amiga! If you answer yes to the above questions, then maybe this is the channel for you. It was created by amiga users for amiga users who were tired of emulator, windows and linux being talked about in so called amiga channels. Below are some popular servers to get there: de.arcnet.vapor.com ch.arcnet.vapor.com se.arcnet.vapor.com uk.arcnet.vapor.com us.arcnet.vapor.com (ps) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 04:04] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]
`23.Sep.2001` Matthias Münch (ANF)	English translator wanted For our digiboosterpro.de site we are wanting a translator (German to English), HTML knowledge required. If you want to help us, please contact Matthias Münch. (ps) (Translation: mj) [News message: 23. Sep. 2001, 04:01] [Comments: 0] [Send via e-mail] [Print version] [ASCII version]

1 165 325 ... <- 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 -> ... 345 355 370 [Archive]

Recent Discussions

•	Amiga 4000(T)ower for sale
•	Calvin Harris - Amiga A1200
•	Amiga basic rewritten for Apple
•	Volker Wertich interview
•	Commodore Amiga MYSTYLE

Latest Top-News

•	7-bit: Bluetooth adapter for control pads (25. Apr.)
•	First stable version of a native 64-bit AROS (24. Apr.)
•	Print magazine: Amiga Future 174 - Preview and reading samples (24. Apr.)
•	Emulation: QEMU 10.0 / bboot 0.8 (23. Apr.)
•	Announcement and pre-order campaign: AmiGUS sound card (19. Apr.)
•	ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam440ep flex and mini-itx (15. Apr.)
•	Paint program: PolarPaint for all Amiga systems (11. Apr.)
•	ACube Systems: UBoot 2015.d for Sam460EX, Sam460CR and Sam460LE boards (09. Apr.)
•	Mining strategy game: The history of "Aminer" (07. Apr.)
•	Event: Start for ticket sales for "Amiga40" (05. Apr.)

amiga-news.de

•	Configure main page