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22.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (email)


 Virus Help Denmark: Safe version 17.0
Of the virus detector 'Safe' has version 17.0 been released. Here the details:

Name: Safe v17.0
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 21.110 bytes
Release date: 22. September 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski


News in v17.0:
  • fixed PatchWork hit at EasyRequest()
  • added another security mechanism that should be able to detect actions of packet based stealth engines. Thanks to Jan Andersen (for HANF).
  • signed the most important stuff with PGP. My pubkey will be on VHT-DK/VHT-CA sites, but as for the first time it is also in bonus directory. Thanks to Charlene McNulty for idea, help, and especially for the DiskMaster menus.
  • My new Aminet uploader is Jan Andersen.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Sep.2001
Kultpower.de (ANF)


 Kultpower.de - server move and new AmigaJoker reviews
Kultpower.de is now placed on a much bigger server (resp. in a bigger package at the provider), this should solve the problems with shortage of webspace and restricted data transfer for a longer period of time. Therefore can all review articles, that will be released from now on, be made available in better quality (less compression).

There are also at once 22 new AmigaJoker reviews taken from the issues 9-12/1991: Abandoned Places, Apidya, Battle Isle, Blues Brothers, Bundesliga Manager Professional, Cruise for a Corpse, Die Kathedrale, Eye of the Beholder, Gunboat, Hunter, James Pond 2, Kings Quest 5, Knights of the Sky, Life and Death, Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, Magic Pockets, Manchester United Europe, Mega lo Mania, R-Type 2, Silent Service 2, The Return of Medusa, Thunderhawk, Utopia. With these there are now already 79 AmigaJoker reviews of Amiga classics.

Besides that you can now find in the AmigaJoker database for every game a direct link to the details of the game at the games museum "The Legacy".

For all fans of non Amiga classics there are new PowerPlay reviews taken from the issues 11/94 and 1/95: Colonization (MS-DOS), CreatureShock (MS-DOS CD-ROM), DawnPatrol (MS-DOS CD-ROM), Earthsiege (MS-DOS), Ecstatica (MS-DOS), HellonEarth (MS-DOS), IronAssault (MS-DOS CD-ROM), KingsQuest7 (Windows CD-ROM), Lemmings3 (MS-DOS), Lollypop (MS-DOS), MasterofMagic (MS-DOS), PoliceQuest4 (MS-DOS CD-ROM), SystemShock (MS-DOS), U.S.NavyFighter (MS-DOS CD-ROM), UnderaKillingMoon (MS-DOS CD-ROM), Warcraft (MS-DOS CD-ROM).

The complete number of Powerplay reviews is now grown to tidy 349. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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22.Sep.2001
#ac.de (ANF)


 Logo competition of AC-Deutschland in final round
The Amiga-Club Deutschland e.V. i.Gr. thanks all the senders for their logo creations for the new Germany wide Amiga club.

The meanwhile more than 20 members were very happy about the good participation and would be even more pleased with a similar great interest in the public voting.

Everbody (those not being members, too) may vote for his/her favorite creation and so contribute his/her share to the look of the AC-DE. We would be pleased if one or another would give reasons for his/her decision in the discussion forum. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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21.Sep.2001
AudioLabs


 Music: ProStationAudio Millenium
September 2001: ProStationAudio Millenium, T8 and Remix compatible with SoundBlaster PCI boards.
ProStationAudio is successfully working with Creative's SoundBlaster PCI boards installed on Mediator busboards, under AmigaOS.

The software has just passed tests at an audio production facility, under daily working conditions. The test setup includes a Mediator PCI busboard, SoundBlaster 128 PCI, and VooDoo graphic card for displaying the ultra-hi-res PSA GUI.

Mediator 1200 PCI busboard

Audio hardware is accessed via AHI, drivers for additional Creative's models are due soon (SoundBlaster Live! to start with) by the busboard makers.

Elbox, makers of Mediator, confirm also that the PCI busboard supports installing two PCI graphic cards. ProStationAudio can take advantage of two display cards (and two monitors) for increased productivity. This feature, already supported for Zorro graphic cards, is now available also for PCI boards.

ProStationAudio is the reference audio editing/mastering software for AmigaOS. With this new developemnt on PCI hardware the range of supported hardware now includes:
  • Draco
  • Amiga with one or two CPU, up to two graphic cards, two monitors and any AHI-compatible audio card or stock audio chip. Graphic and audio cards can be on Zorro or PCI busses.
ProStationAudio supports also non-AHI pro cards such as the SoundStagePro DSP and provides direct access to NewTek Flyer, Sunrize Studio16 and Digidesign SD audio files, beside standard Amiga, Apple, Windows and Unix audio files includig MP3.

Informations on other PCI busboard options, such as the G-Rex specific for PPC accelerators owners, will be published as soon as audio drivers will be released by hardware makers. ProStationAudio is fully hardware independent and will work with any audio board, PCI or Zorro, provided AHI drivers are available from hardware vendors. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)


 CD32 Games Install Kit v4.5 released
The CD32 Games Install Kit v4.5 was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link). This is the first public version of the program since version 3.9. Until now, versions 4.0 to 4.5 were only available for owners of the The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition but now the InstallKit is available as Shareware again. The demo version can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage.

Since version 3.9 many things have been changed:
For example there is now a MUI GUI, the stability of Install2001 was increased and much more games are supported now, for example Simon the Sorcerer with talkie soundtrack. Also the integrated emulator which runs games straight from the CD was greatly improved. Additionally the InstallKit can now be ordered by credit card through RegNet. And finally there is now an own section on the Airsoft Softwair homepage which covers information about the program (in the products section). (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Sep.2001
Heise [Newsticker]


 Heise: Gilmore fears ban of strong crypto software
The co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), John Gilmore, fears that cryptography software may be banned in the USA because of the terror attacks and calls on people to mirror American cryptography software on foreign servers.
German Heise article at the title link. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Sep.2001
Spiegel online


 Spiegel: Q33NY
Like probably many others I have just received a private mail which points out something truly macabre: if you open a new document in Microsoft Word, enter the alleged flight number of one of the machines which were steered into the World Trade Center, Q33NY, and set font 'Windings' in size 48, something incredible could be seen. I have made some investigation on the web and found an interesting German article by 'Spiegel online' which you can read at the title link. The flight number Q33NY is wrong, and it is no hidden message but black demagogy. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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21.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)


 Saku 2001 - Cloanto's speech and webcam in Aminet
The speech of Cloanto's Michael Battilana at Saku 2001 and Saku 2001 webcam animation are now available from Aminet:
saku2001.mpg (10 MB) - saku2001cam.mpg (5 MB)

For more info, photo report and Fleecy's greetings read this english summary.

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20.Sep.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


 DigiBoosterPro Community starting survey
Matthias Münch wrote:
The DigiBoosterPro community page is starting a topical survey, today, to learn how much are interested in DigiBoosterPro being further developed. This survey has a 30 days duration. We then will analyze the data and contact the developers. Thus I ask for your active participation. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Matay


 Matay: Network card driver for RTL 8029 version 0.22
Version 0.22 of the driver for the chip based network card RTL8029 is available at the download section of the Prometheus support page. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Amiga.org


 Errorwear: Guru Meditation (Amiga) T-Shirt available
The Amiga Guru Meditation t-shirt announced by Errorwear is available now and can be ordered under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Amiga.org


 Amiga.org: New winnings for demo competition
As already reported the English news service Amiga.org is organizing a demo competition for the AmigaDE with categories for 64k and 4k demos. Amiga Inc. is giving away some merchandising products like the Amiga watch, mouse pads, coffee cups, and hats for this competition. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - new packets (until 20.09.01)
Thanks to WHDLoad floppy-disk-only games can be installed to harddisk. The following packets have been added or updated:
  • 20.09.01 new: Road Kill (Vision) done by JOTD
  • 20.09.01 new: Chuckie Egg 2 (Pick and Choose) done by Codetapper
  • 20.09.01 new: Chuckie Egg (Pick and Choose) done by Codetapper
  • 19.09.01 improved: Maniac Mansion (Lucasfilm) supports another version
  • 19.09.01 improved: Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (LucasFilms Games) supports another version
  • 19.09.01 new: Eswat (U.S.Gold) done by CFOU!
  • 19.09.01 improved: Perihelion (Psygnosis) misc changes
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Frogger


 MPEG: Frogger in Russian and with new Argue-GUI
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz is offering for download a Russian translation of the Frogger.guide on his website, now. Furthermore the Argue-GUI was updated.

This MPEG player supports playing of MPEG-1/2 videos with MPEG layer I, II, and III as well as AC3 audio formats. The program is available in versions (1.66) for PowerUp, WOS, and 68k, while audio output is disabled for the 68k version due to a bug which could not be located, up to now. A version with audio output will be released after this bug was fixed. Als the MorphOS version was almost finished.

Download of the different versions is possible via frogger.rules.pl and highantdev.de/frogger. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Amigan Software


 Tool: Report+ Version 5.04
With Reoprt+ by Amigan Software bugreports, Aminet readme files, autodocs, and similar can be created easily. The program is freeware and supports the GUI systems ReAction and GadTools.
Download: report.lha (376 KB) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page


 Fr3dY's Software: Ixemul Libs V48.2 and more updates
  • 20/September/2001: Updated Ixemul Libs to v48.2
  • 19/September/2001: Added Anubis v1.0.1
  • 19/September/2001: Added /var/tmp to IxEnv (tip by Jean Holzammer)
  • 18/September/2001: Updated SoX to v12.17.2
  • 13/September/2001: Updated wvWare to v0.6.7
(ps)

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20.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Radoslav Marusa
Radoslav Marusa, developer from the "Ablaze Entertainment" team and known by games like "Strangers" (distributor Vulcan Software) and a realtime strategy game for ClickBOOM as well as the program "ACommander2" for the AmigaDE SDK answered questions of the Amiga Arena. Ablaze Entertainment is developing for the AmigaDE SDK only, at the time being. Read the interview at the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Thomas Nosutta (ANF)


 ACBB: ComBär pictures online
From now on pictures from the ComBär are available at the web-gallery. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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20.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)


 Saku 2001 Pictures and Fleecy's Greetings Online
Following the tradition of the Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku events, Saku 2001 generated a lot of material in the form of pictures, sounds and text, which is now available online. All material, including Fleecy's letter to Saku 2001, can be found via the official page of the Saku 2001 event at http://saku.amigafin.org/saku2001. (ps)

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19.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (email)


 Elbox: Mediator Multimedia CD update 1.04
Elbox Computer has made available the MM CD 1.04 upgrade today for registered Mediator Multimedia CD users. The update removes a bug, which led to incorrect settings for the Sound Blaster PCI128 playback frequency. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
Markus Nerding (email)


 H&P: news about AmigaOS XL
Markus Nerding (H&P) wrote:
Discussion forums
19. Sept. 2001: with the beginning of this week we created two discussion forums at Yahoogroups. First you have to register at Yahoogroups (groups.yahoo.com or groups.yahoo.de) and than subscribe to the group. The subscribing is only possible via groups.yahoo.com (just enter there amigaxl or amithlon in the search field) because the national access doesn't know these groups. A real stupid error of Yahoogroups. Important hint: we recommend to discuss all questions in the group amigaxl as most of the people certainly can't know which emulator they'll use. More comprehensive instructions will follow tomorrow.

The dealing with the questions runs at full speed.
19. Sept. 2001: We are right now dealing with the countless questions that were asked. Using these we'll create further texts regarding the products Amithlon/AmigaXL to make the advantages and limitations more apparent. Please give us 1-2 days time for this ;-)
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - new packages (till 18.09.01)
Games that are thought to run only from disks can be installed to hard disk thanks to WHDLoad. The following packages were added or updated:

  • 18.09.01 improved: Control (Oxygene) better performance
  • 18.09.01 new: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (LucasFilm Games) done by JOTD
  • 18.09.01 new: Demons Are Forever (D.O.C.) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
  • 18.09.01 new: Tune Disk 1 (Concept) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
  • 18.09.01 new: Hardcore (Anarchy) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
  • 18.09.01 new: Super Cauldron (Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 18.09.01 new: Quik (Stywos/Titus) done by CFOU!
  • 18.09.01 new: Maupiti Island (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
  • 18.09.01 new: Kult (Exxos) done by CFOU!
  • 18.09.01 new: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (tyne Soft) done by CFOU!
  • 17.09.01 improved: Zak Mc Kracken (Lucasfilm) supports another version
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
GoldED / Czech Amiga News


 Discussion forum for GoldED
A discussion forum has been created for visitors of this site to share comments and opinions with other users of our software. On occasion of opening the forum, the first week's visitors will get a 50% rabate on all prices in our shop (while stock lasts). To claim your discount, log-in to the forum and register your e-mail address during the process. (ps)

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19.Sep.2001
AROS


 AROS status: 76,62 % finished and 6,68 % in the works
The development of AROS steadily continues. Right now, already 76,62 % finished and 6,68 % in the works. This means 16,7 % work still to be done. AROS is an Open Source reimplementation of the AmigaOS 3.1. Next to the source code executable versions for Linux/i386, Linux/m68k, FreeBSD/i386 and the standalone version for IBM compatible PCs have been released. On the AROS main site you can find further details regarding this project. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
Mario Cattaneo (ANF)


 MagicMenu searching new home
Mario Cattaneo wrote:
Olaf Barthel, the actual programer of MagicMenu, is leaving. Unfortunately he hasn't enough time anymore for the project as other works take too much time (e.g. the programming on AmigaOS 3.9...). For this reason Olaf has sent me all sources of MM with the request to find a successor. So, everybody with interest to continue the project may send me his/her application. ;-) This week there'll be an update to version 2.31. This will probably be the last update done by Olaf. Further information should follow soon on www.magicmenu.de (title link). (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
ANN


 ANN reactivated
Christian Kemp, the maintainer of Amiga Network News (ANN), is working on version 3 of the scripts for ANN and had therefore stopped the possibility to post news at short notice. As the new scripts now do demand more time than supposed first this function has been reactivated. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
AmiBench


 AmiBench will soon be aged four
AmiBench, the refuge for small advertisments in the Amiga section, can soon celebrate its fourth birthday. For this reason there'll be a birthday quiz where among other presents Photogenics, the known image processor for various platforms, will be raffled.

Besides that, Mark ´tecno´ Wilson, the maintainer of AmiBench, bannounces that Neil Caunt will support him in the task of managing the site by doing the daily work. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
ALiENDESiGN


 ALiENDESiGN: CD read errors
Some CDs, that were delivered with the Repulse Gold soundcard, have read errors. Affected are CDs that were delivered with Repulse Gold soundcards with a serial number between 51-32-2-0000 and 51-32-2-0069. We will exchange these CDs. Should you have such a CD then please contact ALiENDESiGN. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
WinUAE Homepage (ANF)


 Emulator: WinUAE 0.8.17 release 1
Since yesterday is in download area of the WinUAE homepage the WinUAE 0.8.17 release 1 available.

Changes made in version WinUAE 0.8.17 release 1:
  • FIXED: Various AGA and chipset-related fixes. (Bernd#1, Toni Wilen)
  • FIXED: .GZ support in floppy dialog doesn't cause corruption. (Timothy)
  • FIXED: Updated sprite-collision logic which fixes Leander, Archon 1 and 2, Menace, etc. (Toni)
  • FIXED: Updated disk-emulation code, for higher compatability. Also now supports .fdi and high-density .adf images. (Toni, Adil Temel)
  • FIXED: 60Hz support in Dynablaster and BC Kid (Toni Wilen)
  • FIXED: BSD-Socket emulation is mostly working, although bugs still exist. (Bernd#3)
  • FIXED: Picasso96 screens smaller than their display-mode would have crap in their left-hand-border if you grabbed the screen's title-bar and moved the screen to the right.
  • FIXED: Updated copy of rtg.library, including more patches. (Bernd#3)
  • FIXED: You can set the WinUAE resolution in full-screen to whatever you desire. Especially useful so that you set your full-screen size to match your desktop size, and it will prevent all your desktop icons from moving around after exitting WinUAE. (me, Georg)
  • FIXED: Stupid sound_channels=0 stuff in config-files works properly.
  • FIXED: Stupid gfx_center_xxx=yes/no stuff in config-files works properly.
  • FIXED: Selecting an item in the Hard Drives page of the GUI and then moving its position in the list now leaves the item highlighted.
  • FIXED: Detect OS version early, and inform the user appropriately instead of crashing. Windows NT is no longer a supported OS for WinUAE.
  • FIXED: Various little off-by-one pixel errors in the GUI.
  • FIXED: MIDI in/out lists in the Ports page of GUI were behaving strangely.
  • FIXED: Floppy-disc emulation change to allow Shadow of the Beast Trainer to work. (Toni Wilen)
  • FIXED: Small change in MIDI support so that closing MIDI and then reopening it will work properly. (Bernd Roesch)
  • FIXED: Call ahi_install in main.c. No Amiga-side AHI driver yet.
  • FIXED: MIDI-input doesn't have the concept of a "default device", unlike MIDI-output. Changed the GUI and programming accordingly.
  • FIXED: MIDI-output now does the right things with the serial-port after each written byte, which allows some other programs to finally work (MusicX, Deluxe Music, etc.)
  • ADDED: New hook function in uaelib for checking on removable drive state.
  • ADDED: Disk-change status is now tracked via WM_DEVICECHANGE notifications which allows "run >nil: uaediskchange cd0:" in the startup-sequence to work properly. Eject a CD-ROM, and the Amiga knows about it. Insert a new CD-ROM, and the Amiga knows about it. Woo-hoo! NOTE: Probably really buggy.
  • ADDED: New collision-modes, fast-copper mode (not save-able with config).
  • ADDED: State-save support. (Toni Wilen)
  • ADDED: Option in Sound page of GUI to enable/disable synchronized sound.
  • ADDED: Printing of DDCAPS info for display-driver, to help diagnostics.
  • ADDED: FDI disk-image support (Toni Wilen)
  • CHANGED: Tweaked the sound-code yet again, hopefully will get less out of sync. (Jose Gil, myself)
  • CHANGED: Add PC Drives no longer adds the floppy-drives. If you want access to A:, then you'll have to add it manually in the GUI.
  • CHANGED: Added ability to allocate larger amount of ZorroIII memory. (Bernd#3)
  • CHANGED: Added ability to allocate larger amount of RTG (Picasso96) memory. (Bernd#3)
  • CHANGED: Removed Vertical Blank Synchronization (VSync) support in Flip calls. This should increase synchronization and performance in full-screen mode, but may introduce some tearing/artifacting.
  • CHANGED: Use the system "hand" cursor when pointing at web-links in the About page (if available). (Oscar Sillani)
  • CHANGED: Use Tahoma font in About page of GUI.
  • CHANGED: Use up/down icons in the HardDisk page of GUI. (Oscar Sillani)
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
Thomas Steiding (email)


 Strategy game: Knights and Merchants (Mac) shipping
Realtime strategic economy simulation Knights and Merchants is now shipping for the Mac. Knights and Merchants recreates the era of the Middle Ages. The player takes on the role of an ordinary captain in the king's Palace guard who finds himself responsible for the defense of the last loyal province. You, the player, must win back all those provinces which once belonged to your king. You have to manufacture different products, making use of numerous buildings and producer goods of the Middle Ages period. One result of your productive labor is the manufacturing of weapons and armor. But your success or failure depends mainly on the structure and organization of your economy. An efficient organization increases production, while a badly organized structure will cause non-stop delays.

Features:
  • about 25 different types of buildings , including horse stables, farms and schools
  • over a dozen different types of characters such as serfs, miners or winemakers
  • 10 different types of military units including archers, Knights and pikemen
  • realistic landscape display using complex Gouraud Shading techniques
  • production processes portrayed in detailed animation (watch your horses grow)
  • rendered cutscenes
  • german localisation
  • onscreen hints and tutorial mode provide easy guidance to get started
  • multiplayer Mode for upto 6 players in LAN
  • 20 singleplayer missions
  • 10 multiplayer maps
Knights and Merchants comes in fully localised english, french, german and spanish versions. The distribution in Germany is done by the company Arktis. More Information about Knights and Merchants can be found in the project area on our pages (title link) or under http://www.knightsandmerchants.de. (ps)

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19.Sep.2001
Peter Sander (ANF)


 AS-WebShop online again/ server problem fixed
Peter Sander, manager, wrote:
The SGH-Hildesheim (provider) seems to have solved the server problem. I could upload the webshop again - inclusive env variables - and run it. All is (hopefully) in best conditions. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
Amclust "Amiga Club Steinfurt" (ANF)


 Amclust & AC Osnabrück hardware event with (DCE) PCI board presentation
On the next weekend Amclust and the AC Osnabrück meet for a "Amiuser" weekend in Rheine. The meeting is taking place from 21.09. to 23.09.2001 in Rheine in the TV-Jahn Haus, Germanenallee 4.

Following are the activities planned:
  1. Computer check
  2. Software hints
  3. Cando programming with Ch. Effenberger (support)
  4. Discussions with Frank Mariak and Thomas Dellert
  5. Hardware presentation of the GRex PCI boards in A1200, A4000D/T with Thomas Dellert
  6. Presentation of CyberGraphX (native) under MorphOS with Frank Mariak
  7. Hardware presentation of the keyboard adapter for multimedia keyboards (SuperFeatures).
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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19.Sep.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Future: PC monitors and your Amiga
Someday there'll be the day all fear. The monitor stops working! Amiga monitors aren't built anymore for several years now. And now? Or your monitor is still working but you're looking enviously at PC and Mac users with their 17 or 21 inch monitors. In both cases this short text, written by a reader of the Amiga Future, helps. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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18.Sep.2001
Jazzy (ANF)


 Boing-ball on Microsoft's website
I was just looking at some screenshots of Windows XP and found a boing-ball in some demo step. :-) (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Sep.2001
Henning Thielemann (ANF)


 Sound card: Realtime effects for Delfina
Who's owning a Delfina sound card will receive some nice realtime effects with "DelfLuxe", such like filters (band-passes, low-passes, flanger, allpas-phaser), reverberation, distorter, similar to the effects of my sound synthesis program Assampler. Who additionally has a MIDI interface can access the parameter from MIDI devices, too, e.g. the claviature, the pitch-bender or the modulation-wheel. Furthermore it is possible to combine the software modules of the card using "DelfSetPipeMui", which has a MUI interface. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)


 World of Amiga Tickets can now be purchased ON-LINE!
We are happy to announce that our show sponsors, Amiga Active Magazine have set up an online service for you to buy WOA southeast tickets in advance via their secure server.

Why queue outside in the cold November weather whilst you can waltz straight in with your pre purchased ticket?

Remember if you purchase 5 or more tickets, you pay the reduced fee of just £3.00 per ticket!

Alternatively, tickets can still be purchased via our exclusive Telephone/Mail order, sales re-seller, Fore-Matt Home Computing on +44 (0)8700 112234.

Visit our website for ticket purchasing information http://www.worldofamiga.com (ps)

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18.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


 Virus Help Denmark: xfdmaster.library Version 39.13
Dirk Stöcker updated his xfdmaster.library which is very important, since almost any antivirus software requires it for unpacking and archiving before and after virus tests. Here are the details:

Name: xfdmaster.library v39.13
Archive name: xfdmaster.lha
Archive size: 163.510 Bytes
Release date: 17. September 2001
Programmer: Dirk Stöcker

Xfdmaster.library info:
The XFD system is for single file decrunching. It can be compared to XAD system, which is for file extraction from archives! They do different work, but are used together often.

This software package allows you to decrunch almost every packed file known on the Amiga. It consists of the xfdmaster.library as the brain and a couple of programs that offer certain functions to the user.

The xfdmaster.library is a standard Amiga shared, runtime library. It works with Kickstart V33+ and offers applications the possibility to directly support any crunched files.

Other than the predecessor decrunch.library, the xfdmaster.library has a more flexible interface, offers the possibility to decrunch already loaded program segments, supports external decrunchers, is able to unlink 4EB9/4EF9- and text-linked files and can scan for crunched data in any memory area.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Sep.2001
NetBSD/Amiga (ANF)


 NetBSD-1.5.2 released
The NetBSD project announce the release of NetBSD-1.5.2.
NetBSD-1.5.2 is a "pathc release" building on the NetBSD-1.5 branch and basically containing corrections.

For example a problem with the installation procedure for NetBSD/Amiga was fixed, which creeped into NetBSD-1.5.1.
Furthermore secure problems in sendmail, telnetd, openssl, dmuplfs, fts, dhcp, and the size test parameter with some kernel calls were fixed.

Please, take more datails from the original announcement (title link). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


 Virus Help Denmark: Safe Version 16.9
Version 16.9 of the virus detector 'Safe' was released. Here are the details:

Name: Safe v16.9
Archive name: Safe.lha
Archive size: 18.371 Bytes
Release date: 14. September 2001
Programmer: Zbigniew Trzcionkowski


News in v16.9:
  • cosmetic changes
  • removed most of offending texts Thanks to Charlene McNulty for paying attention.
  • removed ZeebsVS as I have shown what I had to Thanks to Dirk Stoecker for paying attention, thanks to Georg Hoermann for reaction!
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Sep.2001
Apple


 Apple Expo 2001 in Paris canceled
Yesterday, Apple announced cancelation of the Apple Expo which was planned to take place from 26th to 30th September in Paris, Porte de Versailles, France.
"Under the clouds of last week's tragical and disastrous incidences we feel impelled to cancel the Apple Expo", said Steve Jobs, CEO Apple. "We are sorry to disappoint our customers and exhibitors, but your security takes priority." (ps) (Translation: mj)

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18.Sep.2001
entwickler.com


 entwickler.com: Trend Micro obtained US patent for scanning Java viruses
Trend Micro, known by extensive antivurs sofware solutions, patented their Trend-Mirco technology for scanning Java viruses as patent number 6.272.641 for the USA. The company considers viruses to be dangerous also outside of PCs and networks, due to the increasing distribution of Java in the mobile phone field.
See title link for the article of entwickler.com (German). (ps) (Translation: mj)

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17.Sep.2001
Reader (ANF)


 Sourceforge: Internet C++ - Build One Program - Run It Everywhere
A reader wrote:
There is a new project at sourceforge (follow the title link). This project has the following description: "Build One Program - Run It Everywhere". I think that I know this concept. Slashdot called it an alternartive for Java.

It will be a hard struggle for Amiga if this becomes a common thing. It is released under the GPL and supports OpenGL, Java and much more. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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17.Sep.2001
The Register


 The Register: Motorola completes 1.6GHz PowerPC G5
According to 'The Register' the new PowerPC 8500 (G5) will soon be available as 800 MHz, 1 GHz, 1.2 GHz, 1.4 GHz an 1.6 GHz versions. The processor is a 64Bit one and will support multiprocessor systems. The new processor will be shipped early next year.
The whole article is available at the title link. (cm) (Translation: sk)

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17.Sep.2001
Hugo Hoekstra, GREat Effects Development (E-Mail)


 GREed Website: new URL
The website of "GREat Effects Development", developers of the "Professional FileSystems" (PFS), has a new URL (http://on.to/greed). Please change your bookmark. (mj) (Translation: sk)

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17.Sep.2001
Christain Rosentreter (ANF)


 New cartoon by Eric Schwartz
The new cartoon by Eric Schwartz deals with the topical situtation in the USA. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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16.Sep.2001
amiga.org


 Logo competition of AMIGA Center
The French Amiga specialist 'AMIGA Center' is organizing a logo competition. You can win an A1200 Magic. More detailed information in French are available via the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Sep.2001
amiga.org


 MP3: mp3Play V1.1
On 16. September 2001 Carl Svensson has released version 1.1 of his 'mp3Play' GUI for the MP3 player 'MPEGA'.

This GUI distinguishes by the player being started with the respective options set in a way that only 25% of the CPU time given is used on a 68060/50 (according to Dashboard). The GUI was written in ARexx using ReqTools. Changes since prior version:
  • Bugfix: Pressing 'Cancel' now brings you back to the GUI with a 'no file' display, as with pressing 'Stop'. In v1.0 always a file requester was show first.


Download: mp3Play.lha (38K) (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Sep.2001
Amiga Future


 Game: dynAMIte V1.7
On 16. September 2001 version 1.7 of the network capable Bomberman clone 'dynAMIte' was released.

This version fixes some small bugs and comes with many smaller changes, a lag'O'meter was added and sprites handling was completely changed to make the sprite routines use less CPU performance.

All changes in detail can be taken from the changes text.

Download: (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Sep.2001
Milan Pollé (ANF)


 Game: Genetic Species for Gameboy Advance
Some time ago Milan Pollé started a petition to learn how much are interested in a Gameboy Advance port of the Amiga ego-shooter 'Genetic Species'.

Many interested people vote for such a port (http://www.dreamcast.ca/gameboyland/gs/gs.htm) and there where even more Amiga users for such port than people from the 'IGN Gameboy Advance'-Forum.

Now Milan Pollé received an e-mail from 'Marble-Eyes' anouncing the porting in cooperation with the Danish games developers 'Entale'. Those introduced the game to publishers on the ECTS 2001 by screenshots and tests:

«Hi,

Marble-Eyes has recently started cooperation with Danish game developer Entale on porting GS to Game Boy Advance. Armed with sales documents, screenshots and rave reviews, Entale representatives have attended the ECTS 2001 show in London to meet publishers and show them the potential of GS.

We are all very excited and looking forward to a possible revival of GS on the GBA console. GS and Amiga lovers out there, thank you for the great support!

For future news on the progress of GS Advance, please visit www.entale.com.

For any questions or encouraging words, feel free to write Entale at geneticspecies@entale.com

Regards
Martin Halberg, Marble Eyes Development» (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Sep.2001
Achim Stegemann (ANF)


 Digital Almanac III - News
Distribution of the astronomy program 'Digital Almanac III' must be put on hold for an undefined period of time due to the Amiga computer being defective.

Because of occupational reasons also further development of DA III was stopped for the time being (lack of time).

At this time no decision was made regarding a possible OS 4.0 port for the AmigaOne board.

Support and mailing list is being continued without any cutback. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Website for card reader / writer almost completely online
Carsten Siegner put online a website about the use of the card reader / writer 'PCD47' by Microtech with the Amiga.

Already some information about this device can be found there and some material and programs can be downloaded. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Sep.2001
amigadev.net


 AmigaDE: Requester - fjm V1.2
On 13. September 2001 Claudio La Rosa has released version 1.2 of the requester tool 'fjm' for the AmigaDE SDK. This is about an Intent-Secondary-Tool which emulates the AmigaOS-EasyRequest() function.

Download: dev/tlib/fjm.zip (28K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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16.Sep.2001
amigadev.net


 AmigaDE: Tool - devinfo.00 V1.0
On 14. September 2001 Robert Kocher has released version 1.0 of the 'devinfo.00' tool for the AmigaDE SDK. This is about a replacement of the original devinfo tool from '/app/sdtio', with some extensions.

Those extensions are coloured output and the output of descriptions of all devices, and more.

Download: util/moni/devinfo.00 (3K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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15.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)


 DeepSilence News
News about DeepSilence - SOMS
On the homepage you can now subscribe to a newsletter that sends the latest news regarding the game project.

For the moment is the forum inactive. As soon as it works again we'll inform you via the newsletter. Besides that, the email address of the leader Sylvio Kurze changed to Sylvio.K@gmx.de. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Horst Diebel (ANF)


 Amiga-Society: minor updates
Today several updates had been uploaded. For one, some new entries have been added to the software page - some will follow later this evening. Besides that, there are now surveys for news, hardware and software where links corresponding with the subjects will be entered in the coming time, and of course you can pass on links regarding all subjects to us. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (email)


 Amiga Arena News
Amiga Arena - special discount campaign
In co-operation with Sven Dröge the Amiga Arena makes a special price available for "Bonds". Bonds is a finance software for the managing of securities of all kind. The main focus are shares, though. The software is specially adapted for the finance market Germany and handles best securities that are dealt in Germany as it uses the security identification number system of the Deutsche Börse.

Some features in overview:
  • Management of objects of different cathegories
  • Cathegories are: shares, fonds, subscription warrants, indices or currencies
  • Graphical display of the price data as lines chart
  • Opening, closing, maximum and minimum prices as well as traded volume
  • Several chart levels (complete, 30 days, 1 year, etc.)
  • Several gliding averages like 7, 38, 200 days lines
  • Free scalable charts
  • Graphically displayed function for comparing two charts in percentage
  • Draw function for own technical chart analysis
Olaf Köbnik: "I'm once again pleased to be able to offer a software for the Amiga for a special price that shows that the Amiga still covers versatile areas!"

Amiga Arena - interview campaign
Amiga Arena made a detailed interview with Sven Dröge, developer of Bonds. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Inutilis News / Timo Kloss (email)


 Developer kit: Inga on the shelves
The Inga developer kit for graphic adventures is from now on available in the shops. This system is already used for the adventure "Ermentrud" that is in development right now and can shine with the following features:

  • Graphics: 640x480 pixel in 256 colors (CyberGraphX required)
  • Voice and sound output via AHI possible
  • Music from audio CD possible
  • Easy usage without classical verbs list
  • Easy to use developer tools
  • Script language for flexible story design
The package contains three installation disks and a comprehensive printed manual.

System requirements:
  • CPU: 020 (060 recommended)
  • Graphics card with CyberGraphX or compatible (P96)
  • AmigaOS 3.0 (3.5 recommended)
  • Hard disk
  • Also successfully tested on UAE with P96!
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Amiga Future


 Amiga Flame article about AmigaPDA translated by Amiga Future
Following the title link you'll find the German translation by Markus Castro (Amiga Future) of the article Amiga's Role in the PDA Market by Amiga Flame. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Amiga.org / Dirk Baeyens


 The question for the future of MUI
Remco Komduur, editor of the Dutch Amiga magazine AmigaScene, has written an interesting English article about the future of MUI (Magic User Interface, by Stefan Stuntz). You can find the article using the title link.

Amiga.org has furthermore started a poll dealing with MUI as subject. You can find the poll on the main page of Amiga.org in the right menu.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Card reader/writer news
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Today, slightly delayed, I have now tested my card reader/writer with Sony memory sticks. These run as expected very good and I can access them like a hard disk.

Some users say that the device would be too expensive. These users have to consider that they'll own a universal key for all mobile digital devices. These are among others digital video cams (especially those of Sony), digital photo cameras (all cameras with card slot) and MP3 players (with card slot). Additionally, I can imagine that in conjunction with IBM microdrives these drives may be used for data exchange between laptops and Amiga. (Because of a lack of money I wasn't able to test this yet).

A user asked whether compact flash cards would work, too. This can be answered clearly with "YES".

Boot ability of memory cards:
Not tested yet but theoretically possible as I use mount lists to access the memory cards. A RDB block cannot be written on the cards as they have always to be formatted in photo cameras or MP3 players. This is absolutely necessary because of compatibility reasons though you may probably be able to format these memory cards with an Amiga file system, too.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001



 H&P: AmigaOS XL for x86
Under the title link you can find the promised details regarding AmigaOS XL, two new Amiga emulators for x86 computers that are offered in a double pack. Here's an exerpt:

AMIthlon - The fastest Amiga ever

Insert the CD-ROM, switch on your PC and boot into the fastest Amiga ever. There is no complicated and boring installation. The development team of Harald Frank (VMC) and Bernd Meyer even implemented native support for nVidia and Matrox graphics cards providing maximum graphics performance. Opening windows on the Workbench is so fast that you can barely watch it anymore.

With AMIthlon you can even use your old Amiga hard-disk in your PC. Simply connect it to your PC, start AMIthlon and that's it.

AmigaXL for QNX - The most functional Amiga ever

The host operating system for AmigaXL is QNX 6.1. It is included in the package. QNX has many similarities with the AmigaOS. It has a micro kernel and the drivers are separate processes. Like devices and handlers in AmigaOS these can be dynamically started and stopped. This makes the system extremely light weight and resource efficient.

Features that QNX provides can directly be used within the emulated Amiga. This includes network functionality and multimedia features. QNX applications like the web browser Opera® can be started directly from the AmigaOS screen. One can say both operating systems work together seamlessly.

System requirements:

Athlon-, Duron, Pentium-, Celeron-CPU with 500 MHz or more. AmigaOS XL supports usual graphic, sound and network cards. A complete list is available on our homepage amigaxl.haage-partner.de or www.amithlon.com.

Availability: The delivery will start about 41st week. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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15.Sep.2001
Sven Dröge (ANF)


 Stock exchange software: Bonds V1.83 available (update)
The version 1.83 of the stock exchange software Bonds is available. Some smaller bugs have been removed. Major improvement of the package is that there exists finally an installer script. The NewInstaller by AirsoftSoftware is used to get an appropriate scale. The tool "KursUpdater" is from now on not needed anymore as Bonds now contains the shell option "JUSTUPDATE", and therefore makes the updater needless.

Update 15.09.2001:
Sven Dröge wrote:
Unfortunately had the archive Bonds.lha on my webpage a CRC error. I apologize for any inconvenience. In the meantime there's a corrected archive available.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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14.Sep.2001
Richard Kapp (e-mail)


 GFX-BASE: Interview with Spot (member of Up Rough)
Richard Kapp writes:
Again we have a new interview for you. This time we have talked to Spot, member of the scene demo group Up Rough who have made the 9th place at the Mekka Symposium 2k+1 with their demo 'April in Paris'. We have asked him some questions about his group, but have also talked about the situation of the Amiga scene and of course we haven't forgotten about the topic scene demos and graphics cards (we also wanted to know which coder he currently considers to be the best).

Other than that, our vote is still running and some new entries (such as a couple of scene demos not available on Aminet) have been added as well.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (e-mail)


 Elbox: SB Power in Mediator
ELBOX COMPUTER - Krakow, 13 September 2001


SB POWER IN MEDIATOR

Elbox Computer hereby announces availability of the software update for the Sound Blaster PCI128 sound card for all the users of MEDIATOR PCI busboards, who have registered as users of the Mediator Multimedia CD package.

This update expands the list of supported operation modes of the AHI drivers with the '++' modes and introduces support for the Sub_Update AHI function used by tools software for edition of music.

The Sound Blaster PCI128 card working in the DMA mode loads the Amiga processor when playing back uncompressed music files much less than any other sound card connected through Zorro II or the clock port. This feature, combined with high playback quality and flexibility of configuration resulting from the number of mixed inputs/outputs makes Sound Blaster PCI128 the best sound card offered at any time for Amiga computers.

Mariusz Wloczysiak
ELBOX COMPUTER, Press Department
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Sep.2001
Sylvio K. (ANF)


 DeepSilence-SOMS is back
Sylvio K. writes:
The game developer team DeepSilence is back with their game ´The Secret of my Soul´.

For a long time, the developer team DeepSilence did their name great credit. Due to the lack of personnel we had to put our activities for some time on ice. Now we have found a new programmer as well as a new storywriter for our game. Also, our page is back online with a new exclusive demo of SOMS. The demo comes with PPC and graphics card support, as well as new effects and brand new graphics. You can reach our page at http://soms.fanhp.de (no advertising) or at http://soms.debox.de.

Sadly we have to say that our newsletter does not exist anymore. We thus ask the subscribers for some patience. There'll soon be a new newsletter.

Also the IRC channel #Amigafun at ie.altnet.org is now the official SOMS chat channel. Here you can chat with some of us (Sylvio K. = MangaClub and Markus B. = Trojan) and ask questions. Details are at http://amigafun.stefan1200.de.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Sep.2001
Cyborg (ANF)


 Instant Messenger: CIM improved to current version 1.03_10
Cyborg's Instant Messenger in version 1.03_10 now supports PGP encryption so that a communication cannot be read by others without huge efforts. A recognition of the transmission by the system administrator is still ensured. No hidden message is sent, it thus can hardly be considered a hacker method. The preferences window can now be enlarged and the problems with some installations are fixed. The next improvement should be the file transfer, but due to my job I won't have the time to work on it in the next weeks except for some bugfixes.
Cyborg
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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14.Sep.2001
PCWelt download area (ANF)


 Clock as Amiga ball for Windows
This tool is basically a "desktop improvement" - an analog clock which is shown without window and frame. The background can be chosen from a list of provided graphics. Of course there is a possibility to create own graphics for the background.

An individual color can be set for hour, minute and second clock-hands to achieve an optimal user-defined design.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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13.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 SCSI card reader for Amiga, too (update)
Carsten Siegner wrote:
Two days ago I recieved hardware from Michrotech, which is able to read and write SmartMedia 8-128MByt, Flashpath cards 8-256MByte, and PCMCIA type I-III cards. By now I've done tests with SmartMedia and Flashpath cards, which worked terrific with the Amiga. On Friday I will test Sony memory sticks, too.

As far as I can see now also Amiga users can use mobile MP3 players with the Amiga (the Amiga can write to the cards!). This magic device is called "ICS-47-BH" and is to be a CFA, SM, PC card reader with a SCSI-II interface.

The cards are accessed using a mountlist, as like with harddisks, at the speed of 4MByt/sec (read and write). I will create a website with more detailed information including pictures.

Update 14.09.2001:
Changed title. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Sep.2001
Andy Mueller-Maguhn (E-Mail)


 CCC argues against attacks against communication systems
Chaos Computer Club, 13.09.2001

CCC argues against attacks against communication systems

- International understanding more important than ever before

As a reaction on the unbelievable murder attacks in the USA there is an appeal circulating in the hacker scene to destroy websites and other communication systems in Islamic countries or organisations available in the Internet.

The Chaos Computer Club arguments against this appeal and asks to ignore this or similar appeals. As a galactic association it is unimaginable for us to split the world in good and bad now and to take religion as the measure of all measures for such separation.

These incidences are hard to operate in the global village for every human on this planet. But as hackers we should try the world processing at issue now to handle in the sense of human race. "We helplessly face the power of destruction. But we believe in the power of communication, which eventually always turned out to be positive and more powerful than hate", said Jens Ohlig, speaker of the CCC.

"Electronic communication structures like the Internet right now can make an important contribution to international communication. In this understandingly tense situation it may not happen that communication lines get broken giving more foundation for the lack of understanding.", summarized Any Müller-Maguhn, speaker of the CCC.

The Chaos Computer Club, this time celebrating it's 20th anniversary, according to it's statue pleads for freedom of information and a human right of at least world wide untrammelled communication.

Already in 1999 the CCC together with a coalition of popular hacker groups (Cult of the Dead Cow, 2600, L0pht, Phrack, Pulhas, Toxyn, !Hispahack, and members of the Dutch hacker community) argued against the utilization of networks as an electronic battlefield: "Don't participate in warlike action in the so called 'cyber war'. Keep the networks alive, which are for communication. These are the nervous system of human progress."

The original Infopeace statement can be read under http://www.ccc.de/CRD/CRD19990107.html. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources


 Different software updates
On the Da SixK Port Page you will find version 3.23.42 from 11.09.2001 of the MySQL database ported for Amigas with 68040 CPU.
Download: MySqld_32342_040_base.lzx

Since 10.09.2001 on the Fr3dY's Amiga Web Page, a homepage with many small and useful tools, you will find updates of IxEnv (Ixemul environment required for Fr3dy's programs) and the text based browser Lynx now available in version 2.8.5dev.2. There is also a MorphOS version of Lynx.
Download: ixemul.lha - lynx.lha - lynx-mos.lha

Since 10.09.2001 a Spanish guide version for the MPEG1/2 decoder Frogger is available for download.
Download: spanish.lha (40 KB)

REBOL announce REBOL/IOS (Internet Operating System) for twelve different platforms including the AMIGA.
"IOS lets people work together in real-time from anywhere in the world. It transforms physically separated groups into productive, unified teams by providing a direct, secure, and responsive environment for collaboration and sharing."

Since 11.09.2001 on the website of the Alternativer Computerclub a new version of IFFAnzeiger, a shareware IFF-ILBM viewer by Ralf Berg, which can display even extremely big pictures directly from harddisk. With this for example picture at the size of 200 MB can be displayed with only 0.5 MB of Chip RAM. Parts of the latest version of IFFAnzeiger are assembler optimized.

With Stephan Rupprecht you find a fast alternative move command version 37.10, since 11.09.2001
Download: move37.lha

At Peter's Amiga Home Page there is an updated printer driver for HP Deskjet 870C.
Download: HP_Deskjet870C.lha
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Sep.2001
Diverse Sources


 More websites offline by solidarity (update)
Due to the terror attacks against the USA more websites decided to go offline by solidarity or to change their main page:

Ian Chapman - The Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Bernd "Bernie" Meyer - JIT/Amithlon
FreedomForLinks
Amiga User Liste
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Sep.2001
Matay


 Matay: survey results
Under the title link you will find the results of Matay's survey regarding their products line. The results are displayed as clear graphics. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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13.Sep.2001
Frank Fenn


 Frank Fenn: Development of Amiga programs stopped
"Because my Amiga 3000 died and I haven't found a replacement yet all further development is suspended. Registrations are also not possible. Donations to revive the A3k are always welcome. In the meantime I've started some development for MacOS X." (ps)

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13.Sep.2001
Trinity (ANF)


 Amigan FX for Winamp (AVS plugins)
I have recently found a neat Winamp plugin on winamp.com. Its called AMIGAN FX. I assume this demo-style AVS plugin is created by a former Amigan, Daniel Joe Tandiman. Unfortunately, it works only for Windoze and requires Winamp 2.76. You can grab it here. (ps)

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12.Sep.2001
Ricco Clemens (E-Mail)


 Amig@lien: Our site will be offline until 18.09.2001
Ricco Clemens wrote:
Until 18.09.2001 our site will be offline to protest the attacks against the USA and to commemorate the victims. Only our forum will be accessible. We hope that many other sites will follow our suit.
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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12.Sep.2001
Marco Miljak (Horst Hug, via E-Mail) (ANF)


 SmartBoy with AmigaOS isn
Earlier this year announced the company Thendic GmbH the SmartBoy, a new handheld terminal that should be equipped with AmigaDE. Since then nothing had happened and the company was silent. Today I got (finally) the answer from Horst Hug, who's working for Thendic, via email in which he wrote about the SmartBoy as follows:

  • The SmartBoy is indeed in development.
  • Pictures of the device can be accessed from the company's website (title link) under "Entwickler".
  • In the B2B version (Business-to-Business) the SmartBoy will be equipped with Windows CE 3.0.
  • In the B2C version (Business-to-Consumer) the SmartBoy may be equipped with the AmigaDE, at the moment we are testing the available software, at the end of the year a decision will be made.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
Andre Sommer (ANF)


 Amiga User Baden-Württemberg with new URL
The Amiga User Baden-Württemberg have a new homepage address and can be reached from now on via http://www.amigauser-bw.de/. Please edit your bookmarks.

The old address: http://amigafreak.webjump.com isn't valid anymore as webjump has ceased their service. The page is still incomplete but will be finished in the next days. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
Bianka Burmester (ANF)


 Event: Only a few days more until the AmigaMeeting
The countdown's running...

On the 12.10. it's starting! Everybody still not being enroled has the opportunity to do so using the title link. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
Michael Burkhardt (ANF)


 Lightwave update for Intel platform
The company Newtek offers a limited update for registered Amiga users to the latest and just released full version of Lightwave 7.0.

This "Lightwave 7.0 (Win) upgrade special AmigaW is valid until the 30.09.01. After that date this cheap update price will increase remarkable.

Everybody owning an old Lightwave version with dongle should take the chance. The version number of the dongle is needed. (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
Hudson (ANF)


 Updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware
Since today there are again several updates for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware available. Among other things Ian Chapman is building up a driver site! (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
H&P


 H&P: AmigaOS XL announcement postponed because of the events in the USA
H&P wrote:
Since the beginning of the incredible events in the USA we are speechless watching the pictures that are transferred by German TV stations. Our sympathy goes to the victims and their relatives.

Due to these events we also cancelled the planned announcement of AmigaOS  XL. We will do this the next days. Thanks for your understanding.

Markus Nerding
Manager
(ps)

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12.Sep.2001
amiga.org


 clickBOOM: digital remake of "Defender of the Crown"
clickBOOM (title link) and Cinemaware announce a digital remake of the Cinemaware game "Defender of the Crown" for PC and Mac.

As already reported on 10.08.2001 Cinemaware has made the Amiga version available for free download.
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
Oliver Hummel (ANF)


 Emulator: AmiGenerator version 0.33
The Sega/Genesis emulator AmiGenerator is available in the version 0.33. More information on Amidog's homepage.

Download: AmiGenerator033.lha (ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
Amiga Inc.


 Amiga makes statement about events in New York, U.S.A.
Today is indeed a difficult day for America and for the world.

We at Amiga lift up in prayer the families of those who were killed and injured in the attacks today.

It is truly a sad day for all of us, and our thoughts and prayers go out to our nation's leaders, as they must now deal with this situation.

God Bless us, and may we be ever mindful of our blessings.

Bill McEwen
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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12.Sep.2001
Matthias Münch (ANF)


 AUG99 show their solidarity with the USA
We are shocked by the new terror wave in the USA, where thousands of innocent people had to die. We like to show our solidarity and at the same time strongly condemn this kind of force. Because of this our homepage won't be accessible for one day. We ask for your understanding.

The AUG99 team
(ps) (Translation: wk)

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11.Sep.2001
Michael/Cloanto (E-Mail)


 Event: Saku 2001 - pictures and report from Cloanto
You will find pictures of and a report about the Amiga show Saku 2001 under the title link, which took place on 01. September 2001 in Helsinki, Finland. Both pictures and report were put online by Cloanto. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Emulator: Screenshots of Akiko (CD32-Emulator)
Informations and screenshots of the new CD32 emulator Akiko for Windows were just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. (http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/) Akiko runs with the help of an adapted version of WinUAE. Owners of the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition CD-ROM" can download a first version now. This version already supports over 80% of the CD32 games including CD audio and joypad emulation. (ps)

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11.Sep.2001
Andreas Magerl (E-Mail)


 Amiga Future: Interview with Bjorn Lynne
Today, an interview with Bjorn Lynne was published on the Amiga Future Homepage. Lynne might be known by most of the users by the name of "Dr. Awesome" of the "Crusaders". He composed all of the music for the Crusaders demos, Megademos, and EuroChart.

As usual the English version can be found at the English section of the site. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Sep.2001
Thomas Steiding (E-Mail)


 e.p.i.c. interactive: Status Update
Empire builder Knights and Merchants is in dublication and will be shipping on september 19th. You can find more information on this real time strategy game in the projects section.

RPG/strategy mix GORKY 17 is finally coming along nicely. Here is a longer report on what is done and what still needs to be finished:

Conversion of the game data was among the toughest things with this project. One reason for this was that a Little Endian engine was required; the other was that the engine requires filemapping which is not available in Mac OS. These problems are now fixed (only some minor endian problems in the Load function need attention).
Gorkys 3D engine is running fine except for some colour problems as you can see from the screenshots below. The Zoom function also has a couple of minor problems. Porting of the engine was extremely difficult, because the original developers used a lot of Intel ASM routines. The remaining problems with the 3D engine are currently worked on and should be fixed within the next couple of days. The speed of the game is great even at this stage. On a 350 Mhz G3 it ran at the same speed as the PC version on a 700 Mhz machine. The game logic seems to be working fine, but intense beta testing on this part is set to start this week. Sound and video playback is not yet implemented. The other remaining problem is memory usuage. The game currently requires a lot of memory, especially under MacOS 9 where you will need about 200 MB to start the game . These problems do not exist with the MacOS X version.
Below you will find the first public screenshots from the Macversion. Note that they have been taken from the german version of the game. The first public presentation of GORKY 17 will be at the Paris show later this month.

Another project that is in the final stages of development is an arcade fun shooter. This is our first original release and it will come as a budget title to MacOS, Windows and MorphOS. Expect more information on this title in our projects section soon. (ps)

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11.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 SimpleMail Alpha 0.10
Version 0.10 of SimpleMail was released. Changes since last version:
  • configurable headers in the reading window,
  • Message/rfc822 content type support,
  • encrypted mails can be read now (pgp 2.6.x),
  • enhanced filter,
  • automatic linefeed in the writing window,
  • other smaller enhancements.
(ps)

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11.Sep.2001
Anu Seilonen (ANF)


 Event: Saku 2001 Displayed New Amiga Products
Saku 2001, the biggest Amiga event in Finland and organized by the Finnish Amiga Users Group, gathered about 300 visitors around Finland on September 1st. The venue was organized completely by volunteers and it proved that there is still a dedicated following of the Amiga in Finland.

Y One of the highlights of Saku 2001 was the demonstration by Cloanto's Michael C. Battilana. He showed the latest JIT compiler version of Amiga Forever emulation software, which will be available as a free upgrade to all Amiga Forever users. Michael also hinted that Cloanto will soon release a completely new software to the Amiga emulation community.

AmigaDE Party Pack was demonstrated with three computers, two if which also ran the AmigaDE Player demo version, which was supplied for Saku 2001 by Amiga Inc. Other programme included an Amiga demo marathon in the auditorium, a Payback game competition, Mediator PCI demonstration and a popular Vaporware registration service. ImageFX, Aladdin 4D, Shogo and AmigaOS 3.9 were also available for testing. The event also generated interest among the media.

Finnish Amiga Users Group wishes to thank all the event contributors and visitors for joining Saku 2001 and making it a memorable event. A photo report and an IRC log will be published later this week. A webcam picture collection will also be available soon. (ps)

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11.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)


 New design and status update "Amiga FFE - Project"
At last a reworked version of the homepage is online, from today. This now (hopefully ,-) ) is more clear and more tidy than the last version.

Moreover the soundtrack can be downloaded in midi format (to have a try with Amidi) and all of the sound effects in wave and 8SVX format.

A little late, but nevertheless the project definition now was determined, so the basic frame of the project was set up.

As a next step now the IS analysis will come. For this anybody can send information about FFE to me. To prevent a "Yes, but what information shall I send?", just have a look at the (finally added) job list.

But many sections still are "under construction". Should there be any mistakes already now (dead links, typing errors, etc.), just send an e-mail.

Short summary: The AmigaFFE-Project is an "everyone's invited" project which shall lead to an Amiga port of the game Frontier First Encounters. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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11.Sep.2001
Ralph Ewers (ANF)


 Offtopic: World Trade Center and Pentagon target of terror attacks
Even though this is off topic:

I just heard from radio and TV that both towers of the World Trade Center in New York, USA, tumbled down. At least two airplanes directly crashed into those. Also the Pentagon is on fire - probably by a car bomb or even another airplane (crash). New York looks direful. Any transatlantic flights to the USA have been stopped. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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10.Sep.2001
Tao Group


 Tao Group: Tao Receives $18 Million Investment
»Tao Receives $18 Million Investment From Bowman Capital Partners, NEC, Sharp & Sony
Bowman's Cameron to Join Tao Board of Directors

Reading, England, 10th September, 2001 -- Tao Group, Ltd. announced today that it has received an equity investment of approximately $18 million from a team of investors led by Bowman Capital Partners. Tao has developed intent®, a binary portable, language independent, high performance, multimedia platform that is now used by many of the world's leading OEMs in their client products for home and mobile networks.

Hazel Cameron, general partner at Bowman and who heads up the firm's European operations, will serve on Tao's board of directors.«
The complete press release is available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - new packages
WHDLoad lets you install floppy-based games to your harddisc. The following packages were changed or added:

  • 10.09.01 new: Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom (Lucasfilm/Atari Games/Mindscape) done by JOTD
  • 10.09.01 improved: Gobliins 2 (Cocktel Vision) supports another version
  • 10.09.01 new: Aaargh! (Arcadia Systems) done by CFOU!
  • 09.09.01 new: Drakkhen (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 09.09.01 improved: Volfied (Empire) supports NTSC version too
  • 09.09.01 new: Ooops Up (Demoware) done by CFOU!
  • 09.09.01 new: Black Sect (Lankhor) done by CFOU!
  • 09.09.01 fixed: RanX (UBI-Soft) wrong slave in archive fixed
  • 09.09.01 fixed: IK+ (Archer MacLean) highscores and demo fixed
  • 09.09.01 new: Vector Exterminator (Shining) done by Psygore (ReadMe,Image)
  • 09.09.01 new: Kick Off 2 (Anco Software) done by Galahad
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


 Stephan Rupprecht: Software Updates
Stephan Rupprecht released the following updates on his homepage:

envhandler.lha - 14K - 09-08-01 - a happyenv replacement (1.12a)
prtman39.lha - 195K - 09-08-01 - Printmanager for AmigaOS3 (39.33a)
Image2Icon.lha - 67K - 09-08-01 - creates thumbnail icons 68k+WOS (1.19a)
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
Amigan Software


 Game: Worm Wars Version 6.8
Version 6.8 of Worm Wars released. OS2.4+, PAL/DblPAL and MC68020+ are assumed. There are a new creature (a bird), support for a CD32-gamepad, animations, turbo mode, and some bugfixes.

Download: wormwars.lha (734 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
ANN


 ANN: new scripts
Christian Kemp, maintainer of Amiga Network News, is working on some new scripts for the page. He plans to use PHP and MySQL and to integrate old archives. Due to this reason the full service of ANN will not be available for some days. Christian Kemp will inform on the homepage about the actual progress of the transformation. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
AmigArt


 Event: ITExpo/COMDEX Show Report
Tony Mulvihill summarized his impressions of the ITExpo/Comdex, in Melbourn, and published this show report at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (E-Mail)


 Amiga Arena: Interview with Felix Schwarz (Innovative)
Amiga Arena - Interview Project
One the few active developers in the commercial software market is Felix Schwarz of Innovative, known by fxPaint, fxScan, and VHI Studio. Amiga Arena asked Felix Schwarz about the current development status of is products and their future. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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10.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)


 World of Amiga south east
Only two spaces remain and the entire exhibitor's area will be sold out for this year's show!
If you are an Amiga dealer and would like to take the opportunity to retail at one of the worlds largest Amiga shows, please send an email to exhibitors@worldofamiga.com
Due to a cancellation, both spaces can be purchased for £50.00 ukp.
Note to Attending dealers, your information packs will be sent out this week. Please act upon receipt and return as soon as possible.

Tickets for this year's event are £3.50 (ukp) and are limited. To avoid disappointment please contact our exclusive telephone/mail order dealer, Fore-Matt Home Computing, on +44 (0)8700 11 22 34. Don't forget if you order more than 5 tickets you only pay £3.00 (ukp) for each ticket.

All this plus the WOASE discussion forums from www.worldofamiga.com

World of Amiga southeast is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Event: Amiga Fleamarket Extravaganza '01
The 15th computershow, organized by the Amiga Metroplex Commodore Computer Club (AmigaMCCC), will be held on the 20.10.2001 at the Brookside Convention Center , Hurst, Texas (Dallas/Forth Worth Area). Further details are available at the title link. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
H. Ogino, Amiga Nut, Inc. (ANF)


 JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP organized
On September 8th, 2001 JAPAN AMIGA USER GROUP (JAUG) was organized by H. Ogino, owner of the only Amiga dealer in Japan named "Amiga Nut, Inc. (formerly namded: Systcom Limited and then after Tokio Trading Co., Ltd.) since 1990, JAUG hope overseas' Amiga users and developers to know that many powerful Amiga users are still existing in Japan and waiting for Amiga's new computer to be out soon.

JAUG also hope to contribute Amiga community in a way. All activities of JAUG now or later would be uploaded as JAUG news on amgia-news.de, JAUG's homepage with online magazine and a lot of other tips would be available soon in English and Japanese (The title link's URL is temporarily adopted). It is our hope that all the Amiga users and developers would support us accordingly. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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10.Sep.2001
Ralf Himmel (E-Mail)


 Event: Pictures of the Sharp exhibiton at the IFA-Berlin
Ralf Himmel visited the IFA and made a small movie. Due to the fact that this movie has a size of 15mb he extracted some pictures and wrote some lines about what is depicted.

The special thing about the AmigaDE seems to be that the whole control panel fly into the visible screen area from the left picture 1 (48 KB).

The controls of a game are looking realy cool. Picture 2 (64 KB) shows a megaball version. The blue background and the board came from the left side of the screen.

A program can be started by touching on a graphic of the controlpanel. Picture 3 (73 KB) shows a tetris clone. Apart from the costs it could become one of the most beautiful gameboys ever.

Picture 4 (82 KB) depicts the device running a 'normal' application that needs more power of the cpu then the AmigaDE (at least in my oppinion). This picture also shows that the display is still readable even if your point of view is not vertical above the device. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net


 AmigaDE: memory_profiler_0colon2
On 5. September 2001 Fleecy Moss released an update for the memory profiler for the AmigaDE SDK.

In this version the macros were moved to '/ami/sys/inc/', since the '/ami' directory was supposed to contain anything regarding Amiga, including programs and files coming from Amiga, third-party developers, and users. '/ami/sys/' will be the basic directory for any Amiga in-house development.

Tao extended the ami_get_tmem macro with the possibility to determine the array.

Download: dev/vp/memory_profiler_0colon2.zip (5K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Sep.2001
amigadev.net


 AmigaDE: shapes - Sprites with C++
On 7. September 2001 David White released the sprite example 'shapes' for the AmigaDE SDK, which was written in C++.

This example opens a window with 50 sprites using the three pix-maps - one for the sprite, one for the background, and one for a copy of the background in order to restore the overwritten area.

Download: demo/ave/shapes.lha (31K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Sep.2001
tamar.net


 Tales of Tamar: LARP meeting, Amiga and Atari update
From 21. to 23. September 2001 the first medieval 'Tales of Tamar' meeting will take place near Kassel, Germany.

On that weekend a LARP-Con (a mixture of adventure, entertainment, fun, and suspense) will take place in a comfortable and romantic ambient. LARP means LiveAdventureRolePlaying and gives the Tales of Tamar players the chance to put their game character from the game into reality. Everything will be of medieval style. The players will have to wear proper clothing, they will talk medieval, there will be fights between the Draks and some players and in the evening they will discuss the current political situation on Tamar and drink Met (medieval honey wine).

Among others a medieval band will be there and even the radio station EinsLive ! This radio station has several millions listeners each day and they want to do an one-hour broadcast about the Con and Tales of Tamar.

Since the Amiga show planned for that date was canceled especially Amiga users are heartily invited to attend that meeting. Detailed information about the LARP-Con are to find here.

A new race was put to the world of Tamar in the AMIGA version V0.37 - the Orks.

So the ancient war between Orks and humans is blazing again. The Orks are a non-human race and controlled by the ToT-server, only. Usually they come from the mountains and try to create their own realms. They strictly start to fight against human players and will leave nothing undone to displace the humans from Tamar, again.

Now it's the players' turn. They might have to put aside their quarrels in order to be able to have the armies available required to fight the Orks.

Time will show if they will succeed.

The following was entirely ported from the Amiga version to the ATARI version V0.24:

the town, the tavern, the online chat, the mail editor, rune stone, the rain, the green triangles (vacation mode).

This makes the Atari version becoming more and more interesting. Also for that section still testers are wanted. The Tales of Tamar team welcomes Atari users. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Magazin: MicroMart regulary with news about the Amiga
The British magazine 'MicroMart' now has a section regulary containing news about the Amiga. The magazine is published every Thursday.

Issue #660 from 23. August 2001 already contained an article about the AmigaOne, which now can be read online, too. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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09.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Virus Help Denmark: Safe V16.7, Encyclopedia extended

Safe v16.7

A new update of Safe v16.7 has been released today. Safe is a small CLI command to detect linkviruses in Your system. readme
  • added possibility to change name of safe on installation. It was necessary - new viruses like HH50 and SMEG2b refuse to infect Safe file. This trend will surely remain, so now Safe gives the user the easy way avoid that. Big thanks for Antonio Noguera, who did this improvement! This is piece of good work - even better I expected!
  • removed some outdated info from html documentation Note that the most useful information is here and in NewShit.guide. Thanks to Michael Hendren for paying attention.
  • removed SMEG2/PENETRATOR removals as xvs.library recognizes them now
  • added analyze of HitchHiker5.00 the most advanced polymorphic bastard in the Amiga universe
Download: Safe.lha, Readme

Amiga Virus Encyclopedia

New virus translations added to the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia. (sd)

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08.Sep.2001
Irseesoft


 Printer driver: Turboprint version 7.20
Turboprint 7.20 with Canon S600/800 and other Canon- and Epson drivers was released yesterday. This version contains many new printer drivers:

  • Canon BJC 1000, 2000, 4400
  • Canon BJC 3000, 6000, 6100, 6200, 7100, 8200 with full support for photo cartridge
  • Canon S 400, 450, 600, 800, 4500 with full support for photo cartridge
  • Epson Stylus Color 460, 660, 670, 760, 860,880, 900, 980
  • Epson Stylus Photo 750, 790, 870, 890, 1200, 1270, 1290 with full photo ink support
  • HP DeskJet 810, 812, 815, 830, 832, 840, 882, 930, 950, 970, 98x, 99x
Irseesoft asks for your understanding that the new drivers cannot be made available as a free upgrade. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Sep.2001
Marco Frischkorn (ANF)


 German SoftCinema mirror
From now on a mirror for the product 'SoftCinema' (movie/anim player) is available. The server has a high-speed connection to the Internet and should please users who had a slow connection to the original server.

The mirror can be reached at http://www.highantdev.de/softcinema/.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Sep.2001
Olaf Köbnik (e-mail)


 Amiga Arena news
Amiga Arena - special price offer
In cooperation with Ronny Schütz the Amiga Arena makes a special price for XTrace possible. XTrace is an image processing program which allows to trace pictures in bitmap format and save them in a vector format.

This is very useful for the use of pictures in DTP programs. Some basic knowledge on desktop publishing, especially technical terms, are required to make full use of the possibilities of XTrace.

The pictures can be processed before and after tracing in a variety of ways to achieve as good results as possible. Some features of XTrace:
  • change of color
  • digital filter sequences
  • support of color curves
  • internal list of about 400 colors with own names
  • histogram view, stretching and equalization
  • conversion between different color types
  • powerful palette editor
  • aspect / DPI change
  • rotation (three-dimensional)
  • full transparency support
  • full clipboard and XPK support
  • CyberGraphX/Picasso96 support
  • fullscreen and font sensitive user interface
You'll find more information at the XTrace-Website.

With this special price offer you have the chance to show the developer Ronny Schütz that there's still interest in XTrace. He'd be happy about feedback and suggestions.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Sep.2001
amorel (ANF)


 Amoralplayer v1.6 now also plays Sid songs
This is a multiformat songplayer which now supports C=64 Sid songs. Other than that it will play Octamed SoundStudio, Octamed 8 ch., Meds, Mods and Digibooster songs, plus 8 bit iff samples. Also it features playing playlists (also randomly) and can unpack xpk and powerpack files. This program has regular development and updates.

It is fully functional, but shareware. Costing only $5,- Donations are very welcome :-)

Download it here and check the readme for details. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Sep.2001
Boing! International


 Event: Pictures from ITExpo/COMDEX in Melbourne
Currently the ITExpo/COMDEX is held in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Amiga usergroups participate with their own booth. At the title link you'll find pictures of the third day of the show.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)


 Tool: PlayMOD v1.8 released
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
PlayMOD was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. PlayMOD plays, as the name says, Protracker and Noisetracker modules however with a slight difference from all the other players: PlayMOD is primarily meant for playing MODs by double-clicking the icon of the file. So it's useful for CD-ROMs with a lot of MODs with icons which have PlayMOD as the default tool. PlayMOD was also used on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM.

Additionally it plays IFF-8SVX files of any size. PlayMOD is a small, system-friendly program and runs either with or without a GUI (user-configurable!). PlayMOD is Freeware and can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link).
(ps)

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08.Sep.2001
DCE


 DCE: First pictures of GRex 4000 T
The first pictures of the GREX 4000T are now online. The board has three DMA-capable PCI slots and is suitable for the A4000T with Cyberstorm PPC. The board is available from Vesalia Computer from 20th September 2001. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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08.Sep.2001
Steffen Häuser (ANF)


 WarpSNES V7.0 released
Steffen Häuser writes:
I have released WarpSNES V7.0 today. The archive will appear on Aminet and hopefully soon on the WarpSNES homepage at http://raistg4.free.fr/warpsnes.

New in this version:
  • Adaption to SNES9x 1.37c, the newest SNES9x source, a lot of games run much better with it
  • auto frameskip implemented
  • sound code completely reworked (thanks to Peter Annuss for the faster sound code :) )
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Sep.2001
Idruna Software


 Photogenics nominated as "Best Graphics Software"
Photogenics was nominated by 'Pocket PC Magazine' in the category "Best Graphics Design/Drawing Software". If you want to participate, you can vote here. More information at the title link.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Sep.2001
PerfectPaint


 Image processing: ARexx script for PerfectPaint 2.7
Georges Halvadjian has made a little ARexx script available on his Perfect Paint website for inserting pictures in Perfect Paint 2.7.

Download: insertpict.lzx (1 KB)
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Sep.2001
AROS


 AROS news
AROS is an open source project to implement a portable version of AmigaOS V3.1. Read here how the project advances:

Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla has updated the credits. Still not everyone is mentioned but it's better than before :-) He also fixed the URLs which were broken by the new web site scripts.

Georg Steger fixed the strange keyboard problems (holding the right Win key down for a while would suddenly print /'s on the screen). He also added some printer- and datatype-specific header files. They are needed in the DataTypes.class. And he fixed a bug in the EOF handling of the console.handler.

Fabio Alemagna improved flushing of Output() and Error(). The shell will now print the boot and other messages only when needed. PIPEFS: supports AbortIO() now. He also added <Ctrl-C>-Handling to a lot of DOS functions so that they will abort a pending IO if the task receives a signal while waiting for the IO to complete.

Stefan Berger fixed two bugs in layers and intuition. Child windows can now be moved with opaque running. He also implemented a helper function which checks if a layer is the frontmost among the layers that have the same relationship to the root layer and another one which checks if a layer is hidden by any other visible (or invisible) sibling with the same priority. And he fixed typos in rand48-functions in c.lib. (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Sep.2001
Constantinos Nicolakakis (e-mail)


 Tool: SRename V3.0.0 beta 2
Constantinos Nicolakakis has made available another public beta version of his program 'SRename'. It is a 'Rename' for AmigaOS 3.0+ with extended functionality. Please send possible bug reports to cnicol@ath.forthnet.gr.
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Sep.2001
FORE-MATT Home Computing (e-mail)


 World of Amiga tickets and group discount
FORE-MATT Home Computing have been appointed exclusive reseller for telephone/mail order sales of World Of Amiga South East tickets. Tickets cost £3.50 each or a special group booking price of £3.00 per ticket is available for groups of 5 or more people. Tickets for the show are limited, so call now and order using a Visa or MasterCard on 08700 11 22 34. Full contact details are available on our website at www.forematt.free-online.co.uk (title link) or www.worldofamiga.com.

FORE-MATT Home Computing (Dept e)
PO Box 835
Wootton Bassett
Swindon
SN4 8RX
(ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Sep.2001
Mikey C (ANF)


 The Future Draws Near
Mikey C. writes:
We are proud to unveil the opening of the new World of Amiga southeast Discussion Forums.
  • General - for discussions about the forthcoming show.
  • Wanted - After a particular bit hardware/software? Want to buy it at the show and save postage?
    Then log on and post your requirements. If an attending dealer has it, they will reply to you on the forum.
  • Travel. Need further information on getting there by road/public transport?
    What about overnight accommodation? Are you willing to Car share? Then post here!
  • Games Arena. The forum for discussing any aspect of the gaming arena which is sponsored by Hyperion Entertainment.
The World of Amiga Southeast show is sponsored by Amiga Active Magazine, taking place on Saturday 3rd November 2001 in Brentwood Essex.
Visit http://www.worldofamiga.com today! (ps) (Translation: rh)

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07.Sep.2001
Ingo Bowe (ANF)


 New Amiga link page planned
Ingo Bowe writes:
I'm in the process of building a new Amiga link page, but sadly I'm currently lacking time and money to search for Amiga pages in a search engine. That's why I ask you, dear Amiga community, to get a link collection as large as possible.

If you know a couple of good pages or your bookmarks spill over, simply send me your personal link collection by e-mail I will systematically categorize them. You'll find a small preview at the title link, but the page is still under construction! (ps) (Translation: rh)

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06.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Tool: LaunchHTML v1.0
Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:
LaunchHTML was just released on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. With LaunchHTML HTML files can be displayed by just double clicking their icon on the Workbench. LaunchHTML opens then the system's default browser and displays the file. The system's browser is determined by the OpenURL library which LaunchHTML uses. LaunchHTML is extremely useful for use on CD-ROM.

It was also used on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM to display the HTML files. LaunchHTML is freeware and can be downloaded from the Airsoft Softwair homepage (title link). (ps)

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06.Sep.2001
Tao Group


 Tao and Terraplay Announce Partnership to Advance Real-Time Entertainment
»Reading, United Kingdom, September 6th, Tao Group, a leading multimedia software and open platform provider for home and mobile networks, today announces a strategic partnership with Terraplay, leading specialists in enhancing the quality and performance of network-based applications. The combination of Tao's intent® media platform and Terraplay's networking system will provide a fast, accessible, and reliable solution for real-time entertainment.
The partnership will enable unique end-to-end solutions in such areas as networked gaming, entertainment and multimedia.«
Complete press release see title link. (db)

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06.Sep.2001
AudioLabs


 AudioLabs: Update pack for ALPS realtime plugins
There are new plugins for ProstationAudio. Read the original message:

Apparently some graphic board models don't handle masked images correctly. A update pack for ALPS plugins is now available to fix display problems with images placed on plugins' front panels. It uses a different masking method, now working with any model. Updating is as simple as decompressing the archive to the plugins drawer and rebooting.

ALPS is the name of a well-known European chain of mountains, situated not far from here. ALPS is also the acronym for AudioLabs Plugin System, a data exchange protocol for software DSP modules designed to let ProStationAudio users expand their systems without limits.

Download: ALPSPatches120.lha (ps)

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06.Sep.2001
Finanzial Times Deutschland / Volker Grabbe (ANF)


 FTD: US government contra divestiture of Microsoft
The US government no longer wants the world biggest software group to be split. No new law suite shall be started.
Complete article see title link (German).

More links on this subject (German all):
Heise: US-Regierung verzichtet auf Microsoft-Zerschlagung
Golem: US-Justizministerium will keine Aufspaltung Microsofts
ZDNet: US-Justiz verwirft Aufteilung Microsofts
Spiegel: US-Regierung verzichtet offiziell auf Microsoft-Zerschlagung
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


 Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.34 and VirusExecutor v22.21
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. The code for removal of the virus "Hitch-Hiker 5.00" should be there now. We got a helping hand from a former antivirus programmer (Georg Hoermann, known from VirusZ & xvs.library). We know that there have been a lot of updates of the xvs.library in the last 14 days, but the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus was very tricky, and Georg Hoermann wrote this to me:

> - Quote start
It's never nice to see such ugly viruses, and the polymorphic code was definitely the "finest" I have seen so far. With the knowledge of several years, you can handle such a beast much easier, but Jan Erik will certainly learn a lot about those things when he continues with xvs.library.
> - Quote end

And I was the one that 'draged' the programming of the xvs.library over Jan Erik's head, when Alex van Niel did not have the time to update anymore. VHT-DK needed a programmer they could trust 100% with viruses, and there was only one, so I used all my 'charm' to talk Jan Erik into it. And I'm happy that we have Jan Erik to update the xvs.library....

Info about the new update of xvs.library:

Name: xvs.library v33.34
chive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.341 byteses
Release date: 6 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen

News for v33.33:

- Replaced the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 detection/removal code. Thanks to Georg Hörmann for writing a better code ;)

- Cleaned up some code. Got some tips from Georg. So the library is a bit smaller now...

- For developers: Added XVSLIST_DATAVIRUSES to xvsCreateVirusList() so that you can view data viruses as well.

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

Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....

Also a new update of VirusExecutor, here is the news:

Name : VirusExecutor v22.21
Archive name: VirusExecutor.lha
Archive size : 285.082 bytes
Date: 6 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen

News in v2.21:

- Fixed font problem in the memory monitor.
- Fixed some gfx out of range when using VE on a Workbench screen with a display width < 645.
- Starting to write a disassemble function in the memory monitor. It don't know all the commands yet, but it will ;)
- You can now use the arrow keys or the numeric key pad to scroll in the monitor window.
- Added 'Show data virus' to the menu. Requires xvs.library v33.34+

Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/ve/ve.htm
(ps)

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06.Sep.2001
Michael Heider (ANF)


 New Linux_m68k kernel and programs for Linux APUS
Michael Heider wrote:
Under the title link a new kernel for Linux_m68k as well as a new kernel and programs for Linux APUS are available for download. The programs are about a script to configure sound under Linux APUS in case of sound drivers generated as kernel modules. Most kernels downloaded from the developers page have such.

On my homepage you can download kernels up to version 2.4.8 each as both IDE and SCSI versions. On this occasion I would like to thank Mario Frenzel for his effort.

One short note:
I ask the users to access the homepage using my old URL http://home.germany.net/101-109037/index.html, since there are some problems with the domain offeror at this time. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
Idruna Software


 Job: US Channel Sales Manager for Idruna Software (Photogenics) wanted
Idruna Software is wanting an experienced sales manager on commission basis for the US market to distribute Photogenics there. Interested people may please contact Paul Nolan via e-mail. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
Stefan Sommerfeld (ANF)


 New Repulse sound card drivers
From now on new Repulse sound card drivers are available for download. These contain also the initial beta version of the new Toccata emulation. This new emulation for the first time allows to use MovieShop (software for VLabMotion). Furthermore an update for SoundFX is available for download enabling unlimited use of this software with the Repulse sound card. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
Boing! International / Harald Frank tel.


 Event: First pictures from the ITExpo/COMDEX in Melbourne
ITExpo/COMDEX is taking place in Melbourne, Australia, where also Australian Amiga user groups are present with their own booth. Bernie Meyer, co-author of the 'Amithlon' emulation, really is excited about the great interest and the wondering eyes of the visitors while they have been presenting Amithlon.
You will find first picture taken by Boing! under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
AmiLIVE


 Event: AmiLIVE! IV in Sao Paulo on 16. September 2001
The Brazilian Amiga user group AmiLIVE will organize a meeting on 16. September 2001 on which among other things the Amiga 4000 Toaster Flyer and miscellaneous Amiga computers running OS3.5, OS3.9, MorphOS, and iFusion will be shown active. Take a look at some pictures from the last meeting on 17. June 2001 for some impressions. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
Amiga.org


 Amiga.org Demo Competition'01
The news service Amiga.org organize a demo competition for AmigaDE with categories for 64k and 4k demos. Conditions of participation and more information are available under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
Stephan Rupprecht


 Tools: Printmanager V39.33 and EnvHandler V1.12
Stephan Rupprecht updated two of his tools. Printmanager, a printer spooler for AmigaOS3, is available for download in version 39.33 and his ENV-Handler in version 1.12.

Download:
prtman39.lha - Readme (195 KB)
envhandler.lha - Readme (14 KB)
(ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
amiga.org


 Editor: EDWord Version 6.01 now freeware
Martin Reddy has released the full version of his editor for Amiga computers EdWord version 6.01 as freeware and is about to make available the source code, too. More information under the title link. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
Golem - IT-News for Professionals


 Golem: Free PowerVR SDK for Kyro and Kyro II available
»PowerVR Technologies published new documentations and development demos
PowerVR Technologies now also offers free available developer information at www.pvrdev.com intended to support the Kyro and Kyro-II graphics chips manufactures by STMicroelectronics. Programming examples, documentation, and drivers are offered.«
Complete article see title link (German).

Another message about this subject (German):
Chip: Hercules: Neue Kyro- und Kyro-II-Grafikkarten (cm) (Translation: mj)

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06.Sep.2001
AmiBench


 AmiBench will be four years old soon
Press release:
Did you know that AmiBench will be 4 soon?

Alot's happened over the last 4 years.....

I still remember the day that AmiBench went live, September the 26'th 1997. I remember very vividly on christmas day of the same year, clicking on the refresh button in Ibrowse and seeing new adverts everytime I hit it.

I couldnt even begin to re-count how many emails I've had from well wisher's over the year's and how many friends I've made for life through AmiBench being what it is.

I guess there's alot to be said for the Amiga Community. I am sure that some of you know that I've not used a real Amiga in about a year (I just kept blowing them up..), Even through I dont have an Amiga, I'm still here... AmiBench still goes on, and I live in somekind of vain hope that maybe this year We'll be able to release version 2 of AmiBench...

I've long since given up guessing on when (if?) AmiBench 2 will go live, I don't know. All I do know is that We try our best, but not having the resources that we need to dedicate ourselves to making it happen in 3 weeks means it takes ages to finish. All I can say is sorry guys!, it'll happen one day...

Ugh, this little post sounds really depressing... Sorry :(

Anyway, We usually celebrate AmiBench's birthday by holding somekind of Quiz. This year I've sadly not had time to approach anyone and arrange anything. Is anyone interested in giving away some gifts for us to use as birthday prizes?

If so please do drop me a mail as soon as possible!

--
Mark 'tecno' Wilson : Team Member of AmiBench
Web: http://www.AmiBench.org
Email: mark@amibench.org
ICQ Number: 39814816
(ps)

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06.Sep.2001
Sébastien Jeudy (E-Mail)


 French User List: Annuaire Amiga Francophone
Sébastien Jeudy updated his user list 'Annuaire Amiga Francophone'. At this time there are 563 users from France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Quebec on the list. You should register to the list, too, and come in contact with users near you. (ps) (Translation: mj)

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05.Sep.2001
Andreas Falkenhahn (E-Mail)


 Tool: Search v1.2 published
Andreas Falkenhahn writes:
On the homepage of Airsoft Softwair Search v1.2 has been just published. This program enables you to search through text files but especially CD-catalogs with a small GUI. You can configure the program in the way that you can e.g. use it as a search program for whole CDs.

So it was used e.g. on the "The Best Of Airsoft Softwair Gold Edition" CD-ROM. Besides this the program supports several languages and presents the results in practically formated AmigaGuide-file. Search is Freeware and is downloadable from the homepage of Airsoft (title link) from now on.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2001
(ANF)


 Amiga-Vip.net and Amiga-Info.net close down
Because of a lack of interest of the Amiga-users Amiga-VIP.net (consumer portal), Amiga-Info.net and Amiga-FAQ.net have been closed down! If there will be new possibilities to create a sensible database Amiga-VIP.net will go online again with a slightly changed concept! (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2001
Mariusz Wloczysiak (E-Mail)


 Elbox: From tomorrow Multimedia CD on the market
Elbox reports that from tomorrow the announced Multimedia CD will be on the market via the authorized distributors. The CD contains the following drivers: Original extract:

MEDIATOR TV TUNER Drivers

Mediator Multimedia CD provides support for
TV tuners based on the chipsets: Bt848A,
Bt849A, Bt878A, FUSION 878A, FUSION 879A.

Here is the complete list of currently
supported models of TV cards:

ADS Technologies Channel Surfer TV
Aimslab VHX
Anubis Magic TView CPH051/061
Askey Magic TView CPH051/061
AVEC Intercapture
AVerMedia TVCapture 98
AVerMedia TVPhone
CEI Raffles Card
Chronos Video Shuttle II
Diamond DTV2000
Dynalink Magic TView
Eagle Wireless Capricorn2
Fly Video II
FlyVideo '98
FlyVideo '98/FM
GrandTec 'Grand Video Capture'
Hauppauge new (bt878)
Hauppauge old
Imagenation PXC200
Intel
Intel Create and Share PCI
iProTV
Leadtek WinFast 2000
Leadtek WinView 601
LifeView FlyKit w/o Tuner
Little OnAir TV
MATRIX-Vision MV-Delta
MATRIX-Vision MV-Delta 2
MIRO PCTV
MIRO PCTV pro
Newer Hauppauge WinCam
Phoebe Tv Master + FM
Pinnacle PCTV Studio Pro
Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Rave
Pixelview PlayTV
PixelView PlayTV pro
Sigma TVII-FM
STB
STB2
Terratec TerraTV+
Terratec TV-Boostar
TurboTV
TView99 CPH063
Typhoon Magic TView CPH051/061
Typhoon TView RDS / FM Stereo
Typhoon TView TV/FM Tuner
Vobis TV-Boostar
Zoltrix TV-Max

This software will be developed further on
and the list of supported cards will be
expanded.


MEDIATOR SOUND Drivers

The Mediator Multimedia CD offers support
for ALL the models of Sound Blaster PCI128
cards based on the chipsets: ES1371, ES1373,
CT5880, EV1938.

The enclosed sb128.audio driver supports the
following AHI modes:

SB128: 8 BIT MONO
SB128: 8 BIT STEREO
SB128: 16 BIT MONO
SB128: 16 BIT STEREO
SB128: HiFi 8 BIT MONO
SB128: HiFi 8 BIT STEREO
SB128: HiFi 16 BIT MONO
SB128: HiFi 16 BIT STEREO

SB128_1: 8 BIT MONO
SB128_1: 8 BIT STEREO
SB128_1: 16 BIT MONO
SB128_1: 16 BIT STEREO
SB128_1: HiFi 8 BIT MONO
SB128_1: HiFi 8 BIT STEREO
SB128_1: HiFi 16 BIT MONO
SB128_1: HiFi 16 BIT STEREO

The Sound Blaster PCI128 card is the first
sound card for Amiga, which has two
independent DAC chips on board. You can use
them simultaneously, as if they were two
sound cards.


MEDIATOR GRAPHIC Drivers

The Mediator Multimedia CD includes the
complete 2D support for ALL the models of
the following graphic cards:

Voodoo4 4500 32MB
Voodoo5 5500 64MB

This support covers the following graphic
modes:

8 bit     (CHUNKY)
15 bit     (R5G5B5)
15 bit PC  (R5G5B5PC)
16 bit     (R5G6B5)
16 bit PC  (R5G6B5PC)
24 bit     (B8G8R8)
32 bit     (A8R8G8B8)
32 bit PC  (B8G8R8A8)
Y4U2V2
Y4U1V1

Full hardware 2D acceleration, resolution
of up to 2048x1536x32 @ 75.
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05.Sep.2001
Marius 'Cyborg' Schwarz (E-Mail)


 Amiga Security Page: DDOS with the Amiga?
Cyborg writes:
After yesterday the firewall section and the first steps with Miami's IPFW have been upgraded now a first application for this upgrade is ready to demonstrate what DDOS-technology is, how you can find it and where it has its disadvantages.

The presented program could also be an enrichment of the Instant Messager scene on the Amiga if anyone would write a GUI.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2001
Jens Langner (ANF)


 Developing-Tool: CVS 1.11.1p1 AmigaOS-Port bugfix-release
Jens Langner writes:
After in the last weeks I have not got any new bugreports to the current CVS 1.11.1p1 AmigaOS-Port today I have released this version which has a small bugfix concerning the handling of the wildcard.

Thus all known bugs in the AmigaOS-port of CVS have been fixed. In spie of it if anyone should find a bug he you can directly contact me via email.

You can download the today published version under http://amcvs.light-speed.de/.
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2001
Stiftung Warentest


 Stiftung Warentest: Internet-searchengines: Google hits best
»Currently Google is the best searchengine in the Net. Google found ten times the suitable answer to ten questions. It follows Altavista, Lycos and Metager with nine hits. STIFTUNG WARENTEST tested 20 searchengines and catalogs. 13 are only sufficient and one is inadequate. The weak point of most of the searchengines: The results are falsely weighted. More than a half of the founded hits had nothing to do with the searched topic. test-online gives hints how you search and find.« Look at the title link for the complete article. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2001
Golem - IT-News für Profis


 Golem: Novum: Motorola connects silicon with group semiconductors
»Light-issueing semiconductors and silicon circuits on one chip
Motorola has announced an important breakthrough at developing of semiconductor-materials: The producer succeeded in putting gallium-arsenid-transistors in a narrow gallium-arsenid-layer which grows on a silicon-wafer. This breakthrough is supposed to enable new chip generations with combined silicon- and light-issueing transistors - with it cheap optical fiber-network-solutions are supposed to be enabled.«
Look at the title link for the full Golem-article.

Further links to this topic:
Spiegel: Motorola will clear up the market
Heise: Motorola reports breakthrough at producing chips
ZDNet: Motorola presents new chip-technology
Wired: Motorola's Blazing-Fast New Chip
Motorola PR: Motorola Creates Revolutionary Semiconductor Materials
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2001
Atroxis


 Music: Markus Holler - New pictures of his studio
Markus Holler which is known to many Amiga-users by his music titles of Tales of Tamar, Operation: Counterstrike or The Holy Trinity gives his fans an insight to his studio and introduces his equipment. Currently he works on project called 'Dreamwalker' which is a cinema advertisement. (ps) (Translation: dr)

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05.Sep.2001
Darkpage


 DeTeMedien retracts dissuasiveness against darkpage.de
Darkpage.de reports on its newssite that yesterday DeTeMedien written confirmed that DeTeMedien has retracted its dissuasiveness of 20.08.2001 concerning of the danger of confusion "yellow pages" and "the black pages".
(ps) (Translation: dr)

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04.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen (E-Mail)


 Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library v33.33
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. There was another big bug in the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus removal.

Info about the new update of xvs.library:

Name: xvs.library v33.33
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.782 bytes
Release date: 4 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen

News is v33.33:Short:
  • Fixed 2 bugs in Hitch-Hiker 5.00 removal + improved checking. Thanks to Thomas Klein for reporting the bugs.
  • Removed Sinister Syndicate 1/2 and French from the bootblock recog. They were harmless. Thanks to Dirk Stöcker for telling me.
Download shortcut: http://home4.inet.tele.dk/vht-dk/amiga/xvs/xvs.htm

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

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04.Sep.2001
Carsten Siegner (ANF)


 Repulse Soundcard does not support Movieshop so far (update)
Carsten Siegner writes:
As you can read in the amiga-news.de news from 30.08.01 a new Toccata-emulation was announced as the only emulation to work together with Movieshop of the VLab-Motion.

Unfortunately I have heard from Alien Design today that the 'Repulse' does not work with the program Movieshop. Because the developers do not have a VLabMotion you need to test the functionality.

I have offered help to test the software so it could be done in some time.

Update 06. September 2001:
Stefan Sommerfeld, programmer of the Repulse Toccata emulation, posted in a comment to this message:
This message is wrong in some sense. The MovieShop support was almost finished and will be available on our homepage this very day. Since a couple of weeks tests with MovieShop have been done and except for some little features every thing works quite good, already.
Anybody wanting to test the new Toccata emulation now, should download the new drivers. Of course bugreports are very much welcome.
(ps) (Translation: gf)

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04.Sep.2001
Etienne Alaurent (REBOL-ML)


 REBOL: REBOL-Site for
Etienne Alaurant has set his REBOL-Site for his 'VIRTUAL Office' online. You can reach it via 'REBOL.com > Sites > Etienne'. There you will find inside the 'V.O.'drawer a presentation of te project.

'VIRTUAL Office' is a personal, virtual office everyone has access to from around the world via Internet. In this office you share rooms and areas together and can share information and data. (sd) (Translation: gf)

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04.Sep.2001
Andreas R. Kleinert


 Datatype: akPNG V44.123
Andreas R. Kleinert has released version 44.123 of his akPNG datatype. As usual different processor based versions are available (title link). (ps) (Translation: gf)

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04.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Warp Emulation Suite: WES Version 1.0
Hitman/Code HQ is pleased to announce the release of WES v1.0. WES (Warp Emulation Suite) consists of a master controlling program, WarpKickstart, and a suite of emulation engines, which allow you to emulate a large number of machines. As time goes by, more and more engines will be added to the suite. It currently supports six, most of which are currently related to MAME, as follows:

WarpMAME - Based on v0.37 Beta 16 of the PC sources
WarpMAME Classic - Based on v0.37 Beta 5 of the PC sources
WarpNeoMAME - Based on v0.37 Beta 16 of the PC sources
WarpNeoMAMEClassic - Based on v0.37 Beta 5 of the PC sources
WarpMESS
WarpNeoPocott

The reason for there being two versions of MAME in the Suite (WarpMAME and WarpMAME Classic) is that MAME is getting bigger and slower all the time, and is moving to a 16 bit only screen mode system. This will make it too slow for our old Amigas. So WarpMAME Classic was born. Play your old favourite games using WarpMAME classic and the latest MAME games using WarpMAME - probably quite slowly until the AmigaOne comes along! :-)
WarpNeoPocott is an early and quick port of a Neo Geo Pocket emulator. (ps) (Translation: gf)

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04.Sep.2001
Amiga Active


 Print Magazine: Amiga Active 2. Anniversary
The english print magazine celebrates it's second anniversary and for this reason has started a survey to fit for it's readers' wishes (title link).

Congratulations to your 2nd Anniversary from the amiga-news.de team! (ps) (Translation: gf)

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03.Sep.2001
Jörg Strohmayer


 Filesystem: Smart Filesystem 1.192 BETA
Jörg Strohmayer released version 1.192 (Beta) of the Smart Filesystem. The following changes were made:

  • "findextentbnode: findbnode() can't find key 4711!" bug in defragmenter fixed.
  • Added timeout to some requesters.
  • Check for correct number of free blocks is now only done in about 1 out of 25 initdisk()s instead of each one.
This is a beta version! Please report bugs and success-stories to Jörg Strohmayer.

Download: SFS.lha (40 KB) (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Sep.2001
Sebastian Bauer (ANF)


 Mailprogram: SimpleMail Alpha 0.9
Release of verison 0.9 alpha of SimpleMail. Changes:
  • improved addressbook
  • periodical maildownload
  • needs the Popplaceholder Mui Custom Class
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Sep.2001
WHDLoad


 Installer: WHDLoad - new releases (until 02. Sept. 01)
Thanks to WHDLoad, you are able to install floppydisc based games onto your harddisc. The following packages were added:

  • 02.09.01 new: Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk (Code Masters) done by Bored Seal
  • 02.09.01 new: Trivial Pursuit (Domark) done by CFOU!
  • 02.09.01 new: Castle Warrior (Delphine Software) done by CFOU!
  • 02.09.01 improved: Project X - Special Edition (Team 17) supports CD³² version too, automatically load/save highscore
  • 02.09.01 improved: RanX (UBI-Soft) supports french version too
  • 02.09.01 new: New York Warriors (Arcania Systems) done by Wepl
  • 02.09.01 improved: Battle Isle (Blue Byte) program to display/merge highscores added
  • 31.08.01 new: Victory Road (SNK/Imagine) done by Bored Seal
  • 31.08.01 new: Paramax (KingSoft) done by CFOU!
  • 31.08.01 new: La quête de l'oiseau du temps (Infogrames) done by CFOU!
  • 31.08.01 new: Extase (Cryo/Virgin Losirs) done by CFOU!
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)


 AmigaShell for Unix
"AmigaSHELL makes your boring gray on black colored bash shell revive like in the old days. Just like on Amiga(tm), blue, white, orange, black at its finest. With a nice informational bar at the top."

Annotation by Jazz_Rabbit: HOT! (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Sep.2001
Michael Asse (ANF)


 Amiga FFE-homepage back online
Michael Asse wrote:
The AmigaFFE-homepage is online.

I'll try to improve the side in the next days and integrate a joblist. (ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Sep.2001
Jazz_Rabbit (ANF)


 Article: CNN ... Amiga isn't dead
CNN: "Surprise: The Amiga isn't dead... technically. Although Commodore is defunct, an Australian company called Amiga Inc. is still updating the Amiga operating system and has created specs in hopes of finding friendly manufacturers to release the first new Amiga hardware in six years. A small but loyal fan base of Amiga nuts is holding its breath."

An Austrialian Company?
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Sep.2001
Robert Sterff (ANF)


 Event: Party: XzentriX 2001 - 7. - 9. September
Hello computer users,
There are only some days left until the 4th Xzentrix computer-party for alternative computer systems in Seeshaupt.

Additional information is available at the title link.

Ciao
Robert Sterff
(ps) (Translation: sk)

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03.Sep.2001
amiga.org


 MPEG: Frogger V1.66
Frogger can be downloaded from http://frogger.rules.pl or http://highantdev.de/frogger/.

Please note, that audio is disabled in 68k version, due to bug I could not find. As soon as I've fixed it, version with audio enabled will be released. MorphOS version is also almost finished.
  • Video layer 1/2 decoding.
  • Audio layer I, II and III decoding. Now also with very fast decoder in 68k version (through mpega.library)
  • AC3 Audio decoder.
  • Fast video & audio playback.
  • Intelligent frame skipping.
  • Overlay support.
  • Fast C2P for AGA.
  • Direct CGFX video memory access routines.
  • Asynchronous disk reading.
  • Video scaling on both CGFX and AGA.
  • Support for reading VideoCD disks.
  • Support for PSX movies and audio.

Look here for all current known bugs and on the future-page for features to come up.
1.66 pre 1
  • fixed deadlocks after seeking. (damn, seems like this bug is still there)
  • optimized video decoder (up to 10%). on the other hand, there was some changes in demuxer, which causes slowdown. overall result: 0%.
  • added TRACKSELECTION option (shows gui to vcd track selection, default no gui - start playing first track immediately).
  • changed minimal window size. it is now calculated based on system gadget size.
  • fixed bug in vcd code, which caused crash if specified device could not be opened.
  • fixed problems with slider (small know size at beginning, and slider movement).
  • changed mpeg-audio decoder. completly new routines, layerII is as fast as before, layerIII is 2x faster. there is no FREQDIV 4 (if specified, 1:2 division is used, ie. FREQDIV=2).
  • AUDIOQUALITY works with this decoder (previous versions supported AQ only in 68k version). default is HIGH. LOW and MIDDLE are the same. This decoder fixes also some problems with LayerIII decoding.
  • new ac3 decoder. faster, more reliable.
  • fixed problems with multiple tracks vcds (lost of synch when starting new track). the same bug appears on movies joined with join or mpegjoin, seems to be cured also).
  • If user tried to play finished movie from beginning (SPACE key) deadlock occured if audio was enabled). fixed. Hoppefully this also fixed deadlock with LOOP when audio is enabled.
  • Slider size/position was wrong, when movie was on VCD/CDI media. fixed.
(sd) (Translation: sk)

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02.Sep.2001
CyberGFX


 PCI: Grzegorz Kraszewski about the Prometheus bus
Grzegorz Kraszewski, Matay, talked about the status of the Prometheus bus on the Prometheus mailing list. The current firmware is unidirectional, meaning that the Prometheus can act as PCI master and Zorro-III slave, only.

After a firmware update the bus can be bidirectional. Then the master PCI board can access the Amiga hardware. That means that the Amiga hardware acts like a PCI board for a G4 PPC card.

Follow the title link for the original text. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Magazine: The Crypt #19
Issue #19 of The Crypt magazine contains topical news about Amiga Inc. including an interview with Gary Peake, Amiga. Craig Daines deals with the subject 'port attacks and online protection' in his article. Dr. Greg Perry was asked about Directory Opus and more in an interview. There are articles about 'how to back-up your PC' and 'how to properly re-install Windows OS' at the IBM compatibles section of the magazine. Moreover there are many more articles and graphics about fun and stories and more. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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02.Sep.2001
Czech Amiga News


 Newsletter: Amiga Update #010831 by Brad Webb
Monthly Brad Webb releases his English newsletter 'Amiga Update' reporting about the most important ongoings all about the Amiga. Read the current newsletter under the title link. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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02.Sep.2001
MorphOS


 MorphOS: Installation, MorphVNC Client
In the Italian online magazine Amigazette an Italian installations guide for MorphOS was released.

On 31. August 2001 Mark Olsen released the VNC client 'MorphVNC' for MorphOS supporting encodings like raw, copyrect, RRE, and CoRRE.

VNC means 'Virtual Network Computing'. VNC allows to control one computer from another via the Internet by transfering the GUI of one machine to the other, not constrained by the systems used.

Download: MorphVNC.lha (sd) (Translation: mj)

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02.Sep.2001
Jan Andersen


 Virus Help Denmark: xvs.library V33.32
A new update of the "xvs.library" has been released today. There was a big bug in the Hitch-Hiker 5.00 virus removal

Info about the new update of xvs.library:
Name: xvs.library v33.32
Archive name: xvslibrary.lha
Archive size: 58.666 bytes
Release date: 2 September 2001
Programmer: Jan Erik Olausen

News is v33.31:

Argh... Fixed major bug in Hitch-Hiker 5.00 removal.
The virus was removed, but the file was not fixed.
Thanks to Jean Holzammer for reporting this bug.

Remember if you use VirusZ, VirusChecker, Safe and VirusExecutor you must update the xvs.library to have recog for the latest viruses.....

Download: xvslibrary.lha (57K) Readme (sd)

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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future


 AMI Sector One: DOpus 4, OctaMED 1.0, Adventures through Time, Covers...
AMI Sector One was extended with tools, games, demos, and cover scans.

With permission of GP Software now 'Directory Opus 4' is online on 'AMI Sector One'. Information about newer versions and version 6 for PC are to find on the GP Software website.

Many users asked for more tools on 'AMI Sector One', so there is new content for this section: 'OctaMED Soundstudio 1.0' is a tracker for the Amiga. Note: This is about a commercial product now being freeware according to the publisher.

With 'F.R.A.C' a program to create fantasy and role games was added.

'Absolute Adventurer' is a floppy disk containing walkthrus for adventure games.

'The Bible' consists of 4 disks and contains both the old and the new testament.

Keith Golden and Laurent Arditi allowed 'AMI Sectore One' to offer their games for download at games area: 'Adventures through Time' was one fo the first point'n click adventures for the Amiga. 'Skweek' and 'Super Skweek' are about two Arcade / puzzle games with cute characters by Laurent Arditi. 'Cyber Man' is a very joyful 3D Pacman clone.

'Giddy 2' is Phillip Ruston's prior 'dizzy licenceware game' 'Giddy 3' for IBM-PC compatible, released on his site.

'Grand Prix Simulator' is a realistic Formula-1 manager.

At the demo section with 'Ripped Gems' only one music disk was added, this time.

The following cover scans were added: Accordion 1.1, Arcade Pool, Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh, The Art of Chess, Atomino, Ballistix, Calculation 1.1, Distant Armies, Eye of the Beholder, Eye of the Beholder II - The Legend of Darkmoon, Fantasy World Dizzy, Flight Path 737, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 1, Hoyle's Book of Games - Volume 3, Inertia Drive, Las Vegas, Lemmings 2 - The Tribes, Magicland Dizzy, Mouse Trap, Obliterator, PP Hammer and his Pneumatic Weapon, Project X - Special Edition, Protector, Seahaven Towers, Skweek, Super Skweek, and Turn It. (sd) (Translation: mj)

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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future


 Printer-Spooler: PrintManager V39.32
PrintManager v39 is a so called printer-spooler, it intercepts all printer. device calls to the parallel-/serial.device and saves the printer specific raw data to a file. This way, programs sending data to the printer don't have to wait for the slow printer to continue. PrintManager also gives you some control over the data sent to the printer. You can even print files directly from inside PrintManager using the datatypes-system.

'PrintManager' also can be configured to make the spooler catch printing commands directly sent to the parallel or serial device.

Changes:
when changing the screenmode or screenfont of the workbench screen, PrtMan closes and reopens its window, now. This feature requires OS3.9.

Features:
  • caches only printer.device calls
  • can cache all calls to parallel-/serial.devices
  • allows to exclude certain tasks from spooling
  • nice gui which works with proportional fonts
  • files can be printed from inside Printmanager (uses datatypes.lib)
  • works with datatypes.library v45 (v45 recommend, not required!)
  • own FAST parallel.device (registered version only)
  • localized
  • after reset/crash unfinished printings are recovered
  • delayed printing
  • print count function
  • allows to redirect printing to another device
  • upto 10 devices can be spooled
Download: prtman39.lha (192K), Readme (sd)

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02.Sep.2001
Amiga Future


 File Manager: DirOpus V4.16 Beta 4
This is the latest beta release of DirOpus4. This archive contains only the files that changed since the last public release, so you have to install the latest public release before installing the beta version.

Watch out for serial debug data. Use Sushi/Sashimi to redirect it from serial port to WB window.

Changes:
  • Supports "Copy archive bit too" option from ConfigOpus.
  • Filesize column in lister has auto-calculated width.
  • Fixed some display bugs in listers.
  • Fixed few Enforced hits introduced in 4.16b3.
  • ConfigOpus: "Copy archive bit too" option in Operation/Copy to fully control A bit.
  • Dopus_Print: fixed directory printing introduced in DirOpus4.16b3.
Download: DOpus416b4.lzx (330K), History (sd)

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02.Sep.2001
amigadev.net


 AmigaDE: Tool - memprof V1.0
On 01. September 2001 Fleecy Moss released version 1.0 of the memory profiler 'memprof' for the AmigaDE SDK.

This tool does some crude but useful memory profiling. It works only for VP apps at the moment and only profiles application memory (i.e. memory that a developer asks for and frees). It does not cover system memory such as pixmaps, etc.

Download: dev/vp/memprof_1.zip (5K), Readme (sd)

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02.Sep.2001
Jochen Terstiege (ANF)


 Game: ADOM V1.0.0 for Amiga
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) Version 1.0.0 is available for the Amiga, now.

Download: (sd)

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02.Sep.2001
Halvadjian Georges (ANF)


 Graphics: PerfectPaint V2.7
PerfectPaint V2.7 is available

What's new:
  • New Script (Arexx Box): Carve,Coral, OilPaint, FastPaint, OldMosaic, PatchWork, Pointillisme.
  • New Arexx command
  • At least PfPaint is Localised, Include the french catalog (98% made)
  • Can be found in the Catalogs drawer
    • PerfectPaint.cd
    • PerfectPaint.ct
    • PerfectPaint_Start.cd
    • PerfectPaint_Start.ct
    • New catalogs are welcome.
  • Change the name of the Xen.font to PfPaint.font (Many users ask me for that) this font is now in Perfectpaint:FONTS, add a new size '7', for the progress indicator. You have to copy this font in your Workbench:FONTS directory.
  • Zoom Window now have Realtime scrolling when you use scrollbar.
  • Improve gradient effect with Wheel and linear options.
  • New Keyboard shortcuts
    • F6 - Pointer can be changed with Precise pointer (Prefs/Cursors or F6) Precise pointer never show current brush or pen.
    • F7 - Will open prefs of the current effect.
    • F10 - Will close the toolbox window.
  • Progress indicator for arexx script
  • Improve control animation window:
    • Asynchron
    • New gui
    • New option: Direct disc (PfPaint try to playback animation directly from the disc, if you choose to store your animation on disc)
    • Fast tools button.
  • Improve buffers requester
    • Always open at startup
    • Color indication of the current buffer.
  • When PfPaint Quit, it will save on disc some prefs like position of some windows, current save format, state of the buffer window...
  • New Painting effect: Median, Maximum, Minimum.
  • Improve Brushes requester: Add color indication of the current brush.
  • Move opaque window is much faster.
  • Improve 'clone anim': mush faster.
  • New 'Brush Tools': Convert to Picture, Reset Transparency.
  • New Picture effect: Clone Picture, Scroll, Convert to Brush, Polar Coordinates
  • New Color effect: Scroll RGB, Swap RGB.
  • Improve some window.
  • Improve Window detection (again)
  • New processing tools option: Fade (RMB on icon).
  • Improve gradient editor: Add Opacity, Increase number of gradient color to 10
Requirements
  • Minimum 68030 + FPU
  • Minimum OS 3.0
  • Graphics card (Cybergraphx min cgxv41 r71 or Picasso96)
  • Render.library
  • Jpeg.library
  • XPKmaster.library
  • AsyncIO.library
Download: PfPaint_V27.lha (1,7M) (sd)

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02.Sep.2001
Vapor Amirc Mailing list (ANF)


 Instant-Messenger: AmIRC V3.5.19 Beta
Beta version 3.5.19 of the IRC client 'AmIRC' was released on 01. September 2001.

Download: amirc_3519beta.lzx (171K), Readme (sd) (Translation: mj)

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02.Sep.2001
AmigArt / Frank Gutschow (ANF)


 Game: Earth 2140 Update
"Some people reported problems running the game from CDROMs connected to their BlizzardPPC/CyberStormPPC SCSI controllers, getting "phase mismatch" errors. This version fixes the CDDA code to support those controllers too. In addition to that we have fixed some problems regarding the speed setting within the game. So if the game is too slow now, just move the speed gadget up again - it's better than the other way around, as before."

Download: E2140_English_020401.lha (sd)

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02.Sep.2001
(ANF)


 Swiss local store AMIGALAND closing down
Marianne E. Vokinger wrote:
For health reasons I, Marianne E. Vokinger, holder of AMIGALAND in Switzerland, unfortunately have to finally close down the local store AMIGALAND after 9½ years of business.

I will appeal to keep existing contacts and to go on working for the dispatch. But until the entire liquidation was done and I'm of somehow stable health again it quite sure will be October 2001 for me to able to be active again. I'm very sorry to not having another option and I'm often remembering the 'GOOD OLD TIMES', these days.

I would like to thank all of my customers both at home and abroad for they have been faithful for many years, as well as my distributors! Also a special thank to you, Petra, for you already let me off the hook on the Neuss show :))

Who knows, maybe we will meet again on some show :-) I wish you much success further on.

Marianne E. Vokinger / AMIGALAND (sd) (Translation: mj)

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